"Iron Man 3" As Conspiracy Narrative

The new movie "Iron Man 3" has pulled in the second-highest opening weekend in the history of cinema. It also boldly incorporates popular conspiracy narratives that the mainstream media normally condemns.

Spoilers for "Iron Man 3" ahead.


Mandarin Is The Fake Bin Laden

The "twist" of the entire movie is that The Mandarin, a villain that looks like a cross between Fu Manchu and Osama Bin Laden, is a complete fake. He is an actor, hired by A.I.M., an Illuminati-type terrorist organization created by scientists and working with traitors within the government. A.I.M. purposely manipulates the public by having this actor and his pseudo Al-Qaeda type group take responsibility for terrorist attacks.

In case it needs to be made any clearer, at one point in the movie it is stated that Mandarin is a fake "just like Bin Laden and Gaddafi."

The idea that Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are "fakes" created by the C.I.A. (CIA/AIM), the Illuminati, or another such organization, has been made by many high-profile people within the conspiracy theory community, most notably Alex Jones. From Jones' Infowars website:

The real Osama bin Laden is a Western-trained CIA asset with the declassified code-name “Tim Osman.” He was chosen to lead the Mujahideen / Taliban in Afghanistan, in part, because his wealthy family has been a long-term business partner to key families in the West, including the Bush family (Carlyle Group). In fact, George H. W. Bush, the father, had been meeting with one of Osama bin Laden’s brothers on the morning of 9/11. The real Mujahideen has been used for a variety of Western-backed political purposes, namely upheaval and regional-destabilization.

Further, Jones/Infowars alleges that many of the Bin Laden videos we have seen are fakes, complete with multiple actors playing the terrorist leader:

"Admittedly fake videos with bad look-alikes and audio recordings supposedly sent by bin Laden surfaced routinely just before elections (Tom Ridge later admitted that terror threats were elevated to help Bush’s re-election bid) or when the American people needed a reminder of the threat of terror. Prior to the admissions, analysts correctly suspected that al Qaeda video logos matched the signature of the CIA-linked Intel Center, revealing an unholy connection at the source of the video-taped threats."

Again: this is the crux of the entire "Iron Man 3" movie, its big surprise: basically, that an allegorical Bin Laden is a fake and a smoke-screen. And if Bin Laden is a fake, it makes the Seal Team 6 stuff quite questionable.

The question must be asked: if conspiracy theorists are supposedly hated so much, their ideas so crazy -- why was this the central idea of the film? Further: why did the American public so readily accept it by going in droves to watch this movie?

It is significant to note that there is also a nod to the MSM/government suspicion of Libertarians/Constitutionalists -- in the backdrop of The Mandarin's videos are the words, "We The People."


Boston Bombing Parallels

There are creepy parallels between the terrorist bombings in "Iron Man 3" and the recent Boston Marathon Bombings. In the movie, bombs seemingly go off in several high-traffic civilian areas. When Tony Stark's assistant Happy is caught in one of them, the tableau is extremely similar to that of the aftermath of the bombings.

Everybody thinks that the Mandarin (representing Bin Laden/Al-Qaeda) are related to one of the bombings. Another bombing is blamed on a "domestic terrorist" -- a returning army veteran. As Infowars has mentioned many times on their site, returning vets are being "profiled" by the U.S. government as potential terrorists: "The government seems to be obsessed with targeting disgruntled veterans with pre-crime and other unconstitutional forms of surveillance, demonization and harassment..."

The focus on people missing limbs -- including one haunting image of a little girl -- also subliminally bring up memories of the Boston Bombings.


Army Vets Given Mind-Control To Become Human Weapons

Tony Stark finds out the that real culprit is not Mandarin or the vets, but A.I.M. -- who targets injured army vets and makes them undergo painful experiments to literally become human bombs!

These vets are essentially Manchurian Candidates and "sleepers," who can "go off" at any moment. Jones and other theorists have openly wondered if the Boston Bombing suspects might also be "mind-controlled" agents of a shadowy group that were sent to commit the attacks. From an article on Examiner.com:

The fact that the CIA successfully trained unsuspecting individuals to place and explode bombs and to serve as assassins while under hypnosis back in the 1950s raises serious questions. Could the Boston Marathon bombers and even the Newtown, Columbine, and other school shooters have been programmed to carry out these destructive deeds?

Interesting to note: one such "human bomb" introduces herself to Stark as an agent of "Homeland Security" before attacking him.


Tony Stark, "Domestic Terrorist"

One of the most eyebrow-raising sequences of the whole movie is when Tony Stark, on the run from A.I.M. and the "human bombs," has to essentially turn to an "Anarchist's Cookbook" of home-grown weaponry to defend himself. This includes a lingering camera shot of a big bag of fertilizer he buys at a Home Depot-type store. I am surprised he did not buy a pressure-cooker as well.

Further: when Stark uses his "low tech" weapons to infiltrate A.I.M., he wears a hoodie and sunglasses...making him look like the Unabomber!

Why is Stark being show embracing the "tools" of "domestic terrorists" in order to save the day?


Traitors Within Government

A key reveal at the end of the film is that the Vice-President has been covertly working with A.I.M. to help them on their terrorist missions. This plot includes killing the President.


Conclusion

So here is what we have learned from "Iron Man 3":
* Bin Laden was a fake, used in continuing "False Flags."
* Veterans and Constitutionalists/Libertarians have been purposely targeted by "Homeland Security" as potential "domestic terrorists."
* Injured vets and other American citizens are used in MK-Ultra type experiments to create literal "human bombs" who are then used in terrorism.
* Factions of the government are working with a shadowy Illuminati/C.I.A. type organization in order to create "False Flag" terrorist situations and eventually conduct a takeover of the United States.

They say that every blockbuster movie sort of encapsulates the zeitgeist of the people who watch it; these films are inevitably a reflection of our very world. What does this all say about "Iron Man 3?"

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Watch Alex Jones Do An Impression Of Cobra Commander

This is one of the best crazy Alex Jones rants of all time, in which he makes an extended G.I. Joe analogy --  complete with a pretty dead-on Cobra Commander impression:

You work for Cobra!
You dress like Cobra!
You have the tactics of Cobra!
You are Cobra --
HAIL COBRAAAAA!!!

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Anti-Anonymous/Libertarian Imagery In "The Purge," "The East," and "The Following"

I wrote in November and December about The Year Of The Mask -- and mask imagery is still going strong in our popular culture. But while this all started as a riff off the Guy Fawkes "Anonymous" mask, it has taken a very cult-like, Manson-like, serial-killer turn.

Exhibit One: The TV show "The Following," about an Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed cult led by a charismatic, Charles Mansonesque leader. Here's a visual of the masks the followers -- who are in "sleeper cells" and could be anybody -- use:

Apparently the show -- which is incredibly disturbing and visceral -- has made concrete connections between the Poe cult and the Tea Party/Libertarian movement, as seen by this still from an episode where the "Don't Tread On Me" flag is displayed:

Next, we have the recent trailer for the movie "The East," about an Occupy-type group who targets big corporations. Here is a sample of their mask imagery:



While the corporate "Bad Guys" in the film have all the standard "Illuminati" imagery like a Bohemian Grove type get-together and a company name like "Hawkstone" (Horus-Stone, Horus-Mason), we find a quick cut from the trailer where one of the "rebels" is wearing a Baphomet symbol:

Who are really the "bad guys" in this movie? More than likely, The East will be revealed to be a Manson-like violent "cult" that should never have been trusted.

Lastly, here are images from the upcoming film "The Purge," about the beleaguered government announcing a 12-hour period where any crime is legal.

The trailers also have a strong "America Reborn" theme that is reminiscent of Alex Jones-type rhetoric and graphics:



"The Purge," then, features mask-wearing gangs that seem at the same time Anarchistic (Occupy, Anonymous) and Tea Party/Libertarian.

What we can glean from all this? No matter what political extraction of the mask wearer, the message is CLEAR -- these are dangerous people who need to be stopped. That is the message of all this -- that they are all cults, no different from a Manson/Waco type scenario. It is taking the Guy Fawkes symbology and consciously turning it "evil."

Good thing, perhaps, that the next major superheroes to grace our silver screen either have armor (Iron Man = military tech) or are maskless (Superman = Ubermensch, Thor = Aryan ideal).

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Is "Oblivion" The New "Matrix?"

I haven't seen this level of buzz within the alternative media about a movie in a good long while.

"Oblivion" is not only a box-office success, but is being cited by many as, simply, the new "Matrix" -- a study of revolution against the "Illuminati". (possible spoilers for the film to follow):

Like the classic film by the Wachowskis, "Oblivion" is about a dwindling humanity being exploited and oppressed by a machine-like "alien" force. As I've written before on this blog, movies like this and the upcoming "Elysium" speak to a future dystopia where the elites live "offworld" and the masses are left to fend for themselves in squalor. Ideas like outer space colonization and transhumanism are "pushed" by the mainstream, but the result could conceivably be a nightmare for humanity.

But two things really shock me about the box-office success, and alternative media embracement, of "Oblivion":

1) Tom Cruise is pretty much hated, both for his connections to Scientology and his oft-strange behavior (the infamous "Oprah's Couch' incident and his relationship with Katie Holmes being the two biggest examples). And yet, "Oblivion" has not been the first film Cruise has starred in that illustrates a struggle against sinister alien/elitist forces. I mean, he was in "Eyes Wide Shut," for Christ's sake!

2) The Scientology connection in general. Let's face it -- any movie Cruise stars in is going to be scrutinized as having symbolism related to the religion. And in the end, both "Oblivion" and Scientology are about humanity being oppressed/exploited by alien forces. Important to remember who actually inspired Scientology, however: Aleister Crowley, who has been repeatedly demonized (if you will excuse the pun) by some sectors of the alternative media community.

The most vocal supporter of "Oblivion" at the moment is current mainstream media darling villain Alex Jones, who calls the film an "Anti-Illuminati tour de force." In the video below, he goes into detail about the very symbolically-loaded design of the main baddie:

"The main alien spaceship called the Tetrad obviously represents the pyramid of control, the Illuminati power structure, centered in Rome. Note throughout the film the Tetrad pyramid spaceship, is shown upside-down to the way a pyramid is normally. This is just like satanist turning the cross of religion upside-down to disrespect it, so the inversion of the pyramid is showing disrespect to the Illuminati power structure. Also inverting the pyramid now places the people who were at the bottom of the pyramid above those who used to control them, showing the gaining of power by the awakened people."

"Stench Of Truth" has also recently reviewed it (noting especially its portrayal of drones as evil), and many mini-documentaries have popped up online analyzing its symbolism. "The Matrix" had a huge impact on the alternative media community in the late Nineties, almost tailor-made for a post-9/11 society -- David Icke has literally based a lot of his philosophy on the movie, basically co-opting the name.

Is "Oblivion" the next major "Anti-Illuminati" film? And is the Scientology "connection" (as thin and tenuous as that may be) significant at all (especially in light of the fact that the strangely-similar upcoming film "After Earth" features yet another celebrity connected to Scientology, Will Smith)?

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Rabbit-Hole News: Oblivion/After Earth Syncs, Subway Gases, Prophet Sponsoring

SYNC: 

Are "Oblivion" and the upcoming "After Earth" movies part of the same pseudo-Scientology narrative?

At least it's a step up from "Battlefield Earth".


PROPHETEERING

Does the CIA and Google "sponsor prophets?" And where can I get in on that sweet-sweet moolah? Pravda reports:

"Not only ordinary citizens and scientists are interested in looking into the future. Intelligence agencies cannot remain on the sidelines when it comes to predictions. Google and the CIA have invested in the company engaged in prediction of future events based on the monitoring of the World Wide Web."

It only makes sense that the military/industrial complex would attempt to close the "prophet gap."



WAR ON TERROR:

The NYPD, in conjunction with a national laboratory, will be releasing "tracer gases" within the New York City subway system to study the trails of chemical and biological weapons. Subways in all five NYC boroughs will be part of these tests, which start in July.

Um...yay?

NAZIS:

Vice reports on the secret Neo-Nazi past of the early Nineties pop band Ace of Base. A sample of AoB founding member Ulf Ekberg's punk band lyrics:

"Men in white hoods march down the road, we enjoy ourselves when we're sawing off n******’ heads/ Immigrant, we hate you! Out, out, out, out! Nordic people, wake up now! Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot!" 

He "saw a sign" all right...and that sign was a swastika!


ALEX JONES:

Disinfo.com links to a video called "45 Failed Alex Jones Predictions." At least Jones has a better track record than Harold Camping.

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Was The Boston Bomber An Alex Jones Fan?

You have to hand it to Jones, he uses pretty much every chance for publicity -- good or bad -- to try and generate more publicity.

The AP (you remember them, they were recently hacked and reported that the White House was on fire) ran a story yesterday called "Bomb Suspect Influenced By Mysterious Radical." While the radical in question was a shadowy figure called "Misha," the subtext is that the radical is actually Alex Jones -- whose website the article says Tamerlan Tsarnaev read:

"Tamerlan took an interest in Infowars, a conspiracy theory website. Khozhugov said Tamerlan was interested in finding a copy of the book 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,' the classic anti-Semitic hoax, first published in Russia in 1903, that claims a Jewish plot to take over the world."

Noted news site "Buzzfeed" then interviewed Jones about the article -- and the response was classic Jones:

"It's just standard. Anyone you talk to is familiar with my show. When I go out in public, half the people I meet in this country and in other countries too say they listen to my show. The show is bigger than the mainstream media admits."

Wow. I guess he is just a victim of his own success.

Jones is currently pushing the theory that Tamerlan and his brother were "patsies" for the government and are really innocent. He says this recent revelation from the AP was orchestrated to discredit his site:

"I've seen this before. The federal government trying to connect me to tragedies. That's the media and the government's own conspiracy theories."

As much as I think Jones' reporting of the Boston tragedy was incredibly ill-timed, unsubstantiated, and damaging to the alternative media community as a whole, he may have a point here.

Look, yesterday he was running video of him interviewing Tamerlan's aunt who said this is all a coverup and that her nephews were innocent. It's one thing to declare as "news" and "fact" (without any solid proof) that the Boston bombing was staged by the government. It's another to then get the suspect's family involved in your theories and your "cause." That, as they say, is the "big time."

Whether or not the Tsarnaev brothers acted alone, acted with an outside agency of one stripe or another, or were complete patsies -- don't you think their family (with the possible exception of cranky Uncle Ruslan, of course) wants to believe they're innocent? If this guy -- who, as far as they know, is sort of like the mainstream news -- presents this elaborate theory that their own flesh-and-blood didn't do the crime, don't you think they'd embrace it?

But that complicates things immensely for the government. So was the story about the suspect reading Infowars true, or was it "planted?" Or: could the story have been true, but purposely launched yesterday in order to "counter" the family's claims on Jones' show?

If anybody "wins" in this entire matter, it's Alex Jones -- who, for better or for worse, is now top-of-mind for the mainstream public. But the manner in which he is insinuating himself within this particular news story -- in a sense, not just reporting it but trying to become part of it -- is sort of a dangerous game, in my opinion. Regardless if he is wrong or right (or, as I think happens a lot in these cases, some vague area in the middle).

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Rabbit-Hole News: Nike Boston Sync, Crowley's Cult, Dzhokhar Groupies

SYNC:

Nike pulls their blood-splattered "Boston Massacre" shirt, an item of clothing made BEFORE the Boston bombings last week; the phrase refers to a 1978 Yankees/Red Sox game.

ALEISTER CROWLEY:

Occultist, mountain climber, poet, yoga practitioner, and AIWASS channeler Aleister Crowley has had a long, rich history of being called a "satanist" and other such scandalous things in various news rage; this article in The Daily Mail manages to connect him and the OTO to the Illuminati, Jay-Z, the possible human sacrifice of "an intelligent young boy," and Peaches Geldof.

In other news, Peaches Geldof is apparently a member of the OTO.


DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV:

According to Wired, there is now a cult of admirers/apologists for Boston Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, mirroring other cases such as the James Holmes "Holmies" groupies and Columbine Kidz afficonados. Dzhokhar fans -- who use the Twitter hashtag #freejahar -- seem to be the place on the Venn diagram where Boston bombing False Flaggers/Deniers, teenage girls, and angry men in their early 20s who smoke pot all meet.


VIGILANT CITIZEN:

Vigilant Citizen would like to remind you that April is "Illuminati Human Sacrifice Month." Have a nice day.


ALEX JONES:


Is this an emo 16-year-old's gloomy video or the latest rant/tone poem by Alex Jones against the New World Order? You decide.

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7 Things About The Boston Marathon Bombing

I'm at a loss to compose a full article about all the things I feel and think about the recent Boston Marathon bombings. So I'm going to just list them, so at least these ideas can be sorted.

1. Are the Boston Bombings the "New" 9/11?

The Boston Marathon bombings are NOT the first case of "real" terrorism on U.S. soil since 9/11. Americans have been continually terrorized by highly publicized mass-killing incidents -- especially since the Aurora CO "Dark Knight" shootings, after which we seemed to have been treated to one gory tale every week. How is what happened at Newtown not terrorism? When Lanza said to be inspired by Norway's Anders Breivik -- a TERRORIST?

That said, the trend in the media seems to be to officially make this the "second" 9/11. Which, no matter how tragic the Boston bombing was -- and I am not minimizing the tragedy -- it was not a "second 9/11." In a sense, 9/11 has never stopped; it does not seem to be a finite event, but one whose ripples through time informs everything that has happened (certainly domestically in the U.S.) since.

2. News Media Amplifies Horror

The news media unnecessarily amplifies the horrific impact of the terrorist acts in question, using such methodology as endlessly repeated video loops of destruction, and needlessly gory photos for their newspaper headlines.

For example, one news station kept playing the same "Vine" video clip of the initial bombing as B roll over and over again while their talking heads blathered. We are talking a clip less than 30 seconds long, capturing the very moment that lives were horribly changed forever. Seen a few times, it is a historical document of an event; played 20 times in a row, it is mind-warping pornography, its ultimate purpose not to inform, but to numb into accepting a "new normal."

News photos of gore have been around since the Civil War, but placed front-and-center of a daily newspaper they form a mosaic of horror and hopelessness, further accelerating the numbness to violence. Take the front page of Tuesday's "NY Daily News":

A handsome "foldout" cover (perfect for commemorative framing), the front image is of a beautiful blond woman splattered -- SPLATTERED -- in blood. One must wonder what the editorial process was to pick this image. How is this image different than sensationalistic VHS box art from the 1980s, depicting gore + a pretty lady? It's an instant seller. Endless copies of this image gets distributed all over the city -- a city still haunted by its own terrorist attacks -- and a population grows more numb and hopeless. (Update: turns out, this photo was doctored)

3. Social Media Misinformation/Disinformation

Once again, we see how frighteningly easy it is to use social media like Twitter and Facebook to send fake stories and viral ideas to the masses. What happened to the NY Post's story about the "Saudi" who was a person of interest in the bombing case? Was it even a fraction real? No matter, and no additional sourcing necessary; already the lynch mob against Muslims gets put together within a matter of minutes. It's easy. If it turns out to be not a scrap of truth to the Post story, you have to wonder what the real purpose of it was...

So then you have rumors like the Saudi suspect twinned with fake "glurge" stories about victims of the bombing -- like the photo of a little girl (much alive, it turns out) who "died" in the attacks that was all over Twitter. So here is a two-pronged approach to manipulation: false/unsourced info on the (Muslim) suspect, plus a heart-tugging tale which turns out to be a fake. It's an ancient technique, worked great for the Nazis.

4. Alex Jones

Good GOD. He really needs to STFU. I mean, at least wait until the bodies are cold before declaring this was a "False Flag." Even if you think it is a false flag, at least wait a few friggin hours to mourn the dead before publicly launching into these diatribes. It's like the Newtown thing -- how in god's name do you expect people to take your position at all seriously when you do not even have the common decency to wait a whole goddamn day before yelling "THE GOVERNMENT DID IT! THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE OUR GUNS!"

I'm all for getting to the truth of matters, regardless how uncomfortable those truths are. But if you yell "FALSE FLAG! OUR GUNS!" immediately after a tragedy such as this -- rather than take a moment and meditate on the loss of life -- then you look like an asshole. Seriously. You look like you don't give a shit about anything but your own theories. It's a lack of social grace so egregious that it's no wonder the public looks at the antics of someone like Jones and then points and declares: "Conspiracy nut!" and then suggests anybody questioning the govt. story be locked up. Because look who has made himself de facto "mouthpiece" for the alternative news community: Alex Jones.

Further, it is completely disingenuous for him to go on his show and talk about how this is an act of the "Shadow Government" and all this crap and not admit ANY culpability in "home-growing" the sort of maniac that would take what he says literally and possibly blow shit up. Because it's looking every day more and more that a domestic terrorist did this; and if it is, I can guarantee you they are going to shut his show down on YouTube, which his recent video on "If this is my last message" might be presciently about.

Look: if you tell people over and over again -- in the most charismatic, over-the-top, inflammatory way possible -- that they need to "take back the government" and there needs to be a "Second American Revolution," what the hell do you think these people are going to do? How exactly are they going to have this new American Revolution? Will they get together little "action groups" that sends letters to various Senators? Well yes...I guess if you count ricin-laced letters, sure (and surprise: President Obama has just received one as well).

Go read the comments on Jones's YouTube and Infowars, and then think about how the fine individuals who wrote them would go about carrying out instructions to start a new revolution and "take back" the govt. That's the problem right there. And Jones is partially responsible for creating the Frankenstein monsters that are the result. And it looks like he's going to take the whole alternative news/history community -- a broad, broad spectrum of people from numerous reality tunnels, methodologies, ideologies, etc. -- down with him.

5. Family Guy Hoax

From what I can gather, this "viral" clip supposedly showing Peter Griffin blowing up the Boston Marathon is actually edited together from two unrelated sequences from the episode "Turban Cowboy."  Still, that the two sequences are there containing this imagery -- a death at the marathon, and blowing up a bomb using a cell phone -- is kind of creepy. I have no doubt that there are "echoes" of what happened in Boston to be found in all sorts of pop-culture. I think this is what happens preceding any major event of this magnitude.

Recent comic books, at any rate, are FILLED with stories of domestic terrorists attempting to "take back" the country by blowing stuff up. Also, the TV show "The Following," about a "sleeper cell" type cult who carry out grisly crimes for their guru, might be of interest here and bears a closer look.

As for Seth MacFarlane's declaration that he finds the Family Guy edit "abhorrent" -- well that's pretty rich coming from a person who makes a living continually putting out "over the top" offensive material.   Heat, kitchen, and all that.

6. Unanswered Questions

It's obvious that there are a whole host of unanswered questions at this point about the bombing -- I mean, as of this writing they don't seem to have a solid lead at this point.

However.

Some weird stuff to keep an eye on:
* The stories that there were bomb-sniffing dogs at the marathon before the explosions, and that there might have been a bomb threat called in beforehand.
* The story about a homeless/crazy/old/etc. woman allegedly warning people days before to not go to the marathon, or they would die.
* Did the thing about the JFK library ever get sorted? Where officials said that the "fire" at the library was "unrelated" to the other bombs?
* All the Patriot Day/Waco/Oklahoma City Bombing etc stuff, which can be read about over at the Twilight Language blog.
* A weird sync: the Earthquakes of Oklahoma and Iran/Pakistan happening shortly after the bombings. I'm not claiming any causation there, but it seems like these are the two areas "resonating" the most regarding the possible perpetrators of the crime.

7. What Happens Now?

Well, if it turns out to be a person of Middle Eastern descent, we are probably going to go to war with Iran -- regardless of whether the person is Iranian or not. This is just the way the "narrative" is going to go, dovetailing nicely with the ramping up of "The New Patriotism" meme currently being played through pop-culture. The war will provide a nice distraction from America's economic woes, and hey -- it might even goose the economy a bit!

On the other hand, if the perp is a home-grown conservative/libertarian/"they won't take our guns" type -- which I think is most likely, though certainly it's not set in stone -- things are going to change in our country. Free speech is going to be more difficult. Being an alternative news/history theorist is going to be more difficult. Publicly questioning the government is going to be more difficult. White Christian conservatives and libertarians are going to be more profiled as potential "dangers" to the U.S. In fact, all the things Alex Jones has "predicted" on his show will probably start to happen -- in part because HE HELPED CREATE THE SITUATION!

This means that ALL alternative/fringe thinkers in the U.S. are going to be screwed and lumped together as "part of the problem." Which means that, whether or not we go into Iran, the "New Patriotism Narrative" is going to move forward -- "True Patriotism" being defined as never questioning the media, government, or various "authorities." And so we go back to a 1980s/post-9/11 viewpoint, which I've already written about.

This also means that the extra pressure applied to the already-volatile Jones contingency will only make them more paranoid and crazy -- ironically, completely validating what Jones has said. And thus the cycle continues.

POSTSCRIPT: As of today, Alex Jones has totally stepped up the rhetoric, telling listeners/viewers that "this is a life or death situation" and "it's time to pick a side":

"WE'RE IN TROUBLE, FOLKS! THEY GREASE LITTLE KIDS (makes a gun gesture) BOOM! RIGHT IN THE HEAD! TO GET OUR GUNS! ISN'T IT OBVIOUS?!"

This is starting (starting?) to look like a cult leader type scenario. And it's really unfortunate, because this is somebody who can and does bring up important topics to people who might not otherwise encounter them(GMOs, laws that limit free speech, just the idea of doing research in general) -- but also is dragging scores of "followers" (the "awakened") down with him, stirring them up in a "spirit" of unspecified "rebellion" that, in their inarticulateness, some can only understand with violence.

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