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November 30, 2009

Seriously, you have to pay your taxes

Filed under: Alex Jones, What could possibly go wrong?, Zeitgeist — Special Ed @ 18:47

I've gotten several emails regarding my various articles that mention the IRS, Income Tax, and actually paying your taxes (Zeitgeist and The Obama Deception for instance). Even if you disagree with me that it's legal for them to tax you, one thing never changes:

If you don't pay your taxes, the IRS can still throw you in jail, no matter how much you defend yourself on the basis that they have no legal right to.

It's just not movie stars, rappers, and crime bosses that get arrested on tax evasion, but regular people do too. That's why companies like Tax Masters (the one with the fat guy in the commercial) even exist, because if "well, it's not constitutional!" was a real legal defense when it came to not paying income taxes, far more people would do it.

Let me hip you to a little piece of information regarding the State. The State doesn't give a damn whether or not something is legal (see COINTELPRO), it only cares whether or not it can get away with it. So, even if I'm 100% wrong on my articles regarding income tax, if you don't pay, you can get into some serious shit, and prison isn't the best place to be if you're some kind of minarchist tax hero.

To clarify things, as far as the State is concerned (and they're the ones who enforce the laws), income tax is perfectly legal and you have to pay it. And anyone who tells you that income tax goes to pay the Federal Reserve debt is wrong, and should stop listening to idiots like Ron Paul's brother Wayne Paul and Alex Jones who don't know the first damn thing about taxes or government, just what gets people fired up.

If you're in trouble with the IRS, from what I've read/heard over the years, negotiating a payment with the IRS, even if it's far lower than what you owe, sometimes gets them off your back all together. If you think "income tax is unconstitutional" is going to work, go ahead and give it a shot, I'm sure Wesley Snipes didn't consider it at all.

A related article to read is "Can you go to jail for not paying your taxes?" on Debtprison.com, just so you're aware I'm not the only person saying this.

November 21, 2009

Weekly Digest - November 15 to 21

Filed under: Site, Weekly Digest — Tags: , , — Special Ed @ 13:06

This is a part of a new series every Saturday which will review my work on the site for the past week:

HPV (in Health)
Myths, conspiracies, and general stupidity from parents surrounding HPV.

Herpes / Fever Blisters / Cold Sores (in Health)
Myths, conspiracies, and general confusion surrounding herpes / fever blisters / cold sores.

Jeff Rense
An article to help cover Jeff Rense. There isn't much in this section at all, it mostly exists as a place holder for the meantime.

Ten new crazy predictions (on Blog)
Watch a woman fall apart right in front of your eyes as her insanity becomes quite clear.

HIV/AIDS (in Health)
This article is dedicated to the many myths and conspiracy theories surrounding HIV / AIDS as well as AIDS denialism.

Conspiracy Science on Infidel Guy Show (on Blog)
I announce that I'm going on the Infidel Guy radio show.

November 18, 2009

Ten new crazy predictions

Filed under: America, Anti-Semitism — Tags: , , , — Special Ed @ 19:42


Yesterday I was reading my messages I get from all of my fans out there (i.e. hate mail) and someone sent me this video where this woman is explaining how the new Olympic Games logo -- which says 2012 -- really are the letters Z, O, I, N but crudely drawn. If you rearrange those letters, of course you get ZION, and it was all a big plot by Zionist conspiracists.

She then goes on to tell you to not trust anyone who says the Protocols of the Elders of Zion are anti-Semitic or a fraud, despite the fact it's been proven time and time again that they are.

I went on to look at this woman's web site, and she makes a fair amount of predictions wrapped in the utter craziness that is her site. Being the gentleman that I am, I had to include her predictions on my site, and in this post I will go over them.

She talks a lot on her site about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and she keeps reintegrating the point that Jews shouldn't be blamed for Zionism. She's right that not all Jews are Zionists, but for the most part when it comes to the conspiracy community and their use of the term "Zionism", it almost always refers to all Jews, especially in the Rense community.

However, I don't think she's an anti-Semite; I believe she's just a complete idiot. Not just because of her full-faith belief in the Protocols, but also because she believes in the Law of Attraction and 2012 conspiracy theories, and... well just look below:

Prediction #1 - Barack Obama's past will come back to haunt him
In short: she's a birther and it seems as though she believes in the "Obama is a Muslim" stuff as well. She predicts between now and 2012 it will all come crashing down for Obama.
Prediction #2 - The U.S. dollar is about to collapse; Rise of the NAU; Civil Unrest
The same North American Union stuff we've been hearing since the conspiracy theorists got ahold of Robert A Pastor's book. She predicts it will happen this year! She also didn't appear to notice that the SPP project was shut down a while ago.
Prediction #3 - Prince William will be crowned King of England and the UK in 2009 and World Ruler in 2015
This is my favorite prediction by far. It completely ignores Prince Charles being next in line and the fact that Queen Elizabeth is still alive, as well as a whole host of other things.
Prediction #4 - Princess Di Didn't (die)
This isn't really a prediction, but rather a conspiracy theory that makes no sense at all. She claims that Sophie Rhyss-Jones and Princess Diana could be the same person, but at the end of her "prediction" she then claims she's not saying that at all -- so I'm not sure what she was trying to say in the article. I guess she figures every one in Sophie Rhyss-Jones' past was paid off either to make up that they knew her, or ... something else, it's really incoherent.
Prediction #5 - Obamavilles
She predicts by 2012 (or maybe 2015 when she think Prince William will be World Ruler) there will be Obamavilles much like the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression.
Prediction #6 - The Beast
By 2012 or 2015, we'll find out that Hillary Clinton and Obama are working hand in hand for the anti-Christ, or that Obama is the anti-Christ.
Prediction #7 - The Real Terrorists Unmasked
That is to say, by 2012 it will become apparent that she was correct about the vast Zionist conspiracy to dominate the world.
Prediction #8 - New World Order / Protocols of the Elders of Zion
She uses the vague "predictions" of anything bad happening in the world is a result of a Jewish conspiracy as proof of her belief in a Zionist conspiracy. In the original prediction she even had an abridged text of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. This really wasn't a prediction.
Prediction #9 - Higher Consciousness
If you didn't think the apocalyptic Christianity and pseudoantiZionism were enough, she now goes on to talk about the Universal Law of Attraction, that is the utter bullshit covered in books like The Secret. She links this with the Mayan calendar and believes it will happen by the end of 2012.
Prediction #10 - The Ma-Tricks
In the original prediction she included two David Icke clips, but the article itself doesn't mention him, but rather a bunch of stuff about the Internet, "the grid", the anti-Christ, and so forth. Again by 2012 or 2015 we will see this all come to light.

November 17, 2009

Conspiracy Science on Infidel Guy Show

Filed under: Features, What could possibly go wrong?, Zeitgeist — Tags: , , , — Special Ed @ 01:51

This coming Thursday at 8 PM ET, I'm going to be on the Infidel Guy Show discussing my Zeitgeist debunking. So tune in and maybe you'll hear something you haven't already read on the site. I'm not 100% sure on the exact content of the discussion just yet, and I'll update with more details once I have an idea.

The Infidel Guy is an outspoken atheist and advocate for freethinking, just like myself, and his show covers related topics... and you know what, I'm just going to copy/paste his own description:

Since 1999, The Infidel Guy show has brought you uninterrupted freethought and science-minded guests such as Michio Kaku, Dan Barker, Ken Miller, Michael Shermer, Asia Carrera, Richard Dawkins, Massimo Pigliucci, James Randi and many others. At our site and on our show we take a truthful and investigative look at religious beliefs, political systems, social issues, economic systems, the paranormal, pseudo-science and scientific claims.

November 7, 2009

How Alex Jones sees public policy

Filed under: Alex Jones, Zeitgeist — Tags: , , , , , , , — Special Ed @ 18:29

I often hear Alex Jones and others (such as his friend Jesse Ventura) talking about how politicians interact with each other and for the cameras. Their belief seems to be that because they're polite to one another that therefore must mean that they aren't really enemies, but rather working behind the scenes to do evil.

Just because international or even national policy summits don't look like this:

alex-jones-malkin

Doesn't mean they're working secretely to dominate the world. To put it in terms that would make more sense to most conspiracy theorists: when is the last time you saw Ron Paul or Peter Joseph spitting on, shoving, or screaming at people from a few inches away when they disagree? I'd be hard pressed to find anyone who thinks that Ron Paul is in on the NWO as well, but apparently him having some level of manners must mean he is.

November 3, 2009

Site updates coming, seriously this time

Filed under: Alex Jones, Anti-Semitism, Site, Upcoming Movies — Tags: , , , — Special Ed @ 04:49

I know I promised to update more but then I disappeared for almost a month except for popping in the Forums and Facebook from time to time. What happened?

A couple of weeks ago I was having some network problems at work, and as both head programmer and network administrator, that made me a very busy person - I got a lot of overtime. In short I'll tell you that dealing with AT&T and their "Managed Internet Services" is a real pain in the ass. As it turned out the box where our four T1s come in had a bit of water leaking into it, but I couldn't check it myself as it was two floors off the ground. That wasn't the only problem though, there was also mail server issues, web site issues, reverse dns issues, and so forth - in fact those still aren't completely cleared up.

After all that started to calm down a bit, I had a hard drive failure, luckily I had my computer on a RAID1, which is basically two disks that are mirrors of each other. After one disk failed I rebuilt the array, which took about 5 hours - I don't honestly know because I went to sleep while it was happening, oh wait, it never finished. That's right, while I was rebuilding the array the other drive went bad, leaving me with a drive with about half of my information on it.

I managed to get about half of my stuff off, but lost a lot of great things, saved articles, screen captures of crazy conspiracy theorist comments, and more. I do make backups, but only of my most important things, not things I can redownload or find again - I was relying on the mirror to save that.

I guess I should have used a RAID6 so I could lose two disks at once...

Anyway, I'm going to try to start updating regularly again, and also I won't be starting on my review of Fall of the Republic until probably next week. So, if you're waiting on it, please wait longer (really, I guess you don't have a choice.)

Thanks a lot to Mike Denino for getting me the full transcript!

In other news, I've got a new On The Conspiracy Circuit article up and running:
I'm not an anti-Semite, but Alex Jones is a Jew lover!