The New World Order: A Visual Guide
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You're probably spending time with family, or reading a book, or even worshipping. I've been spending my Easter holiday looking into the New World Order, and the people who would warn us of its impending takeover. I have seen many things on YouTube, and I feel I need to share them with you.
Anyone who follows this stuff will know about the "Tea Parties"; would-be citizen tax revolts evoking the Boston Tea Party, and editorially marketed by the likes of Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds and Fox News Channel, the latter most notably via its newest star, the genuinely deranged Glenn Beck.
Problem is, some of the people involved got a bit carried away and came up with slogans like "Teabag the White House!" and called themselves "teabaggers".
You don't even have to know that Wikipedia defines "teabagging" as "a slang term for the act of a man placing his testicles in the mouth or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion as in irrumatio," to sense that the name is a little unfortunate. And you certainly don't need to know what "irrumatio" means. Easy laughs don't come any easier, as MSNBC's Rachel Maddow gleefully demonstrates:
Oh, and then there's the Crazy. Some fairly odd people are turning up to the Tea parties: white power and militia groups, Ron Paul fans, flat-out paranoids. This clip from a Tea Party, uploaded in all good faith by one of the teabaggers, has attracted quite a bit of attention.
It was too much for even Little Green Footballs' Charles Johnson, who offered the following account:
At a “Project 912 Glenn Beck Tea Party,” an unnamed speaker rants about “infiltration by the Communist Party” (a John Birch Society talking point), says that digital cable boxes are “brainwashing machines” planted in our homes by the government, and swears to stop paying taxes. The rant begins at about 1:58. This is some really deranged stuff, and the audience is eating it up.
And notice the comment about evolution at about 5:00:
Woman: [Shouts] “Burn the books!” [applause]
Man: “I don’t think you were serious about that, were you?”
Woman: “I am too.”
Man: “Burn all the books?!”
Woman: “The ones in college, those, those brainwashing books.”
Man: “[laughs] Brainwashing books?”
Woman: “Yes.”
Man: “Which ones are those?”
Woman: “Like, the evolution crap, and, yeah...”It would be easy to see this as simply a bunch of deranged ultra-right-wingers. Johnson's observation about the John Birch Society influence is on the mark. But there were placards decrying the same impending New World Order (henceforth: NWO) in the London G20 street protests. Some of the protesters shared with the teabaggers their great anger that their money as taxpayers had gone to bailing out big banks. Some of them take the extra step into a global financial conspiracy.
The beyond-left-or-right centre of gravity is The Obama Deception; two hours of manipulative editing and wild-eyed talking heads (KRS-1 among them, sadly) that seeks to demonstrate that the shiny new president is merely a stooge for the financial cabals who really run things. Its producer, radio host Alex Jones, was a key player in the infamous Loose Change films alleging the 9/11 attacks were an inside job.
Across hundreds of websites, you can read this warning from Jones:
We have reached a critical juncture in the New World Order's plans. It's not about Left or Right: it's about a One World Government. The international banks plan to loot the people of the United States and turn them into slaves on a Global Plantation.
After a short while it's like being trapped by a bore at a party, but the whole of The Obama Deception is available in high quality on YouTube:
You might prefer the "trailer" -- also impossibly-long-winded at 10 full minutes:
These kinds of beliefs have, of course, been around for a long time. But there probably has not been a time in the mass-media age when so many factors have combined to nourish them: a focus for resentment in the bank bailout, a President with mythic qualities, the unfocused anger of the Republican grassroots -- and the very considerable assistance of Fox News.
Clearly, Roger Ailes has a brilliant feel for his market. He's seen this crazy populist thing emerging, and he's given it Glenn Beck.
But it's not just Beck. Here's Sean Hannity and the loathsome Dick Morris seriously discussing the way the G20 meeting advanced the NWO agenda:
And Fox has had plenty of time for "trends" forecaster Gerard Celente, one of the talking heads of The Obama Deception:
Here's Celente again, this time with Beck:
And an extremely crazy episode where Beck eagerly explains the secret signs on the back of a particular 10 cent piece.
And a Beck compilation. Bear in mind that all of it is from this year:
Beck is mentally unbalanced, and he doesn't mind letting you know. His clowning, his theatrical wiping away of tears ("I just love my country") and his jumbled declarations seem merely to amplify his constant internal voices. In his way, he's brilliant.
But it does appear that Fox management has some boundaries. Beck went on Fox's asinine group show Fox and Friends and started blathering about the secret network of internment camps retained across America by FEMA. "We can't debunk them," he declared, adding, reassuringly, that "there are more of us than there are of them" and "we just have to be honest about this."
The secret what, you say? Here's some information. And a video:
You'd have to guess that Beck tainting some of Fox's other stars with this stuff set alarm bells ringing. So he had to back down on that expose he promised:
And then he had to interview James Meigs of Popular Mechanics, one of the authors of the definitive demolition of Loose Change 's claims, and claim that he'd never believed the camps were real, while Meigs explained that the buildings in the pictures and videos were not prisons of any kind, rather, things like Amtrak repair sheds.
Part 1 is here:
And Part 2 is here.
There's also a transcript here
For the true believers, though, it all confirmed one thing: that Beck had been heavied by the New World Order.
Yet it doesn't seem that Fox (along with the odd outlier like CNN's Lou Dobbs) is going to stop marketing this thing any time soon. Media Matters made this compilation of TV talking head fearmongering.
And Crooks and Liars pointed out that the same paranoid rhetoric -- Obama will take away our guns! -- has already served to motivate one triple murder of policemen.
It actually seems reasonable that someone should ask Rupert Murdoch himself he long he plans to let this go on.
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If you didn't find that funny, perhaps you'd like these. Andy Cobb on teabagging (somewhat NSFW).
And … an anti-gay marriage lobby has called itself "Two Million for Marriage" and chosen an acronym for short 2M4M. Rachel Maddow explains why that would be funny:
We all need a laugh in troubled times.
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The Daily Show and Colbert have been having a gleeful time over Mr Beck in recent weeks.
Beck's "I love my country" speech, where he completely loses the plot, is probably one of the finest moment in US comedy history.
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ScottY - Who's on first?
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Here's the speech, the launch of Beck's incomprehensible 9/12 Project:
With Chuck Norris!
Should've been in the main post, I suppose.
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This is actually worrying. It's like a whirlwind of madness, all coalescing around WorldNutDaily. What worries me is that these people are the sort who see Left Behind as a kind of documentary, and who might easily be persuaded that the right thing to do would be to give Angry Jesus the hurry-up. And there are enough of them in power, as well as in the media. I seem to remember reading that Michelle Bachmann had proposed a Senate bill (or something similar - I can't find the original article, so correct me if I'm wrong) against forming a North American Union and abandoning the dollar, not that anything like that is on the cards.
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ScottY - Who's on first?
Note - one of the finest moments
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Too many nuts!
Here's Samantha explaining to breathe through your nose.
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Wow. Just wow.
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A couple of weeks ago Bill Maher had an interesting discussion about how batshit crazy and paranoid Beck and the other right-wingers are now that they're out of power.
And this being Zombie Jeebus day, I'd just like to give thanks for the fact that we don't have anyone close to Beck or Hannity on our televisions here. I mean Paul Henry really doesn't compare on the grand scale of things, does he?
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I loved Anna Marie Cox: "Who wouldn't want to teabag John McCain?" with such a straight face.
I agree Dick Morris is loathsome - odd that he thinks the IMF is run by Europeans, but par for the course.
And, for all of those people who think spelling doesn't matter? I offer you "marshall law".
Looks like you had a real fun day, Russell. Where should we send the valium?
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Looks like you had a real fun day, Russell. Where should we send the valium?
I took the precaution of obtaining some Talisker, which has a similar effect -- along with Braveheart hallucinations if you do it right.
$85!
But I'd have to kill you if I told you where ...
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There is something disturbingly familiar sounding about this alleged New World Order run by bankers.
Put the word "Jewish" before "bankers" and its the 1930s all over again.
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But I'd have to kill you if I told you where ...
Brown, you Talisker-hogging bastard. I'll be sending my cousin Vito over to suasively extract that piece of information.
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But I'd have to kill you if I told you where ...
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American politics breeds disgruntled voters who are a significant set of issue voters. They have unreasonable demands that are unlikely to ever be met, but a good slice of getting elected is the opposition putting in face time with the disgruntled in the hope that the disgruntled will get riled enough to vote against the incumbant.
Oppostion activists rile the disgruntled by calling the incumbant an evil, machiavellian, mad, genius, moron who can't tie his own shoelaces and is conniving with (insert large monolithic ill defined entity here) to sell out America. Over the last two terms the then empowered party was accused of a raft of evil machinations like illegal wiretapping, running a blackhole prison that disallows habeas corpus, being entirely too partisan, making war of no reason and hideously unbalanced budgets. The opposition tapped this groundswell during the campaign by hinting these things might be changed by electing the opposition candidate for President. Their candidate was elected and now the disgruntled voting block is being courted by the new opposition.
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sending my cousin Vito over
Seconded - stocks can't be that limited, surely?
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I blame Internet. In the Analogue Age, media came to us mediated. We received our news and opinions from professionals. Now opinions are transmitted by amateurs through Internet, unmediated. People form groups to share information and opinions. In doing so, they insulate themselves from mediating influences. Their conspiracy theories develop, unhindered by contrary opinion or fact.
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Jon Stewart made an excellent response to all this lunacy last week:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=223862&title=baracknophobia-obey
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Can I just say once again that the people who thought that the Daily Show would be in trouble after the election of Obama were completely out of their minds?
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But who would have throught the nutjobs could get any nuttier?
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Are you kidding me? They were angry when their guy was president, imagine now that Brownie McMuslimname is in charge.
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But who would have throught the nutjobs could get any nuttier?
That Glenn Beck is a piece of work. I was less impressed with his acting abilities - that was some of the most fake shit I have ever seen - but his everyday demeanour is scary simply because he sounds so reasonable and level-headed (okay, that's in comparison to Hnnity and O'Rielly, but I think you get my point)
I've long held the opinion that real evil is completely banal in its appearance (like the lists of the Disappeared in South America, or the meticulous death camp records). Beck exemplifies this.
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I've long held the opinion that real evil is completely banal in its appearance
You and Hannah Arendt.
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That Glenn Beck is a piece of work. I was less impressed with his acting abilities - that was some of the most fake shit I have ever seen - but his everyday demeanour is scary simply because he sounds so reasonable and level-headed (okay, that's in comparison to Hnnity and O'Rielly, but I think you get my point)
I confess to finding him fascinating in a way that Hannity and O'Reilly aren't. They're just pompous asses, where he's actually really crazy.
Even the play-acting is oddly interesting: he's expressing what he presents as sincere feelings in what anyone should be able to see is a mechanically insincere fashion.
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"... sending my cousin Vito over ..."
Seconded - stocks can't be that limited, surely?
Oh, alright. The tasty Talisker price is from my local Super Liquor franchise, which is a, er, colourful place.
The same price probably pertains at all the others, but I do fret that it's only that shop ...
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Is that the same place that sold you stale wine?
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