NWO marching on!

My brother sent me an e-mail that was sent to him by a friend concerning the new movie, “The Obama Deception.” It’s made by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and really isn’t so much about President Obama but instead the New World Order that supposedly controls him.

My response:

Dude, it’s talk like that that’s going to get you and your family thrown in one of those FEMA camps!

Yeah, I’ve seen most of this already. Pretty interesting and very well done and I have got to give Alex Jones props. Unlike so many other conspiracy theorists he doesn’t just pimp his books and movies for money. Instead, he’s out there on the “frontlines” raising hell.

Still, I can’t get behind the whole One World Government conspiracy for a few reasons:

1. Those behind the OWG killed President Kennedy, but they can’t kill Alex Jones or Ron Paul?
2. Those behind the OWG must not be too bright. After orchestrating the 9-11 terrorist attacks they had a nation, I’d actually say most of the world, ready to follow President Bush into the bowels of hell and back. Americans would have goose-stepped into FEMA camps and cheered as the government declared martial law. Instead we were urged to shop. Any group that can’t take advantage of a situation like that can’t be too dangerous.
3. According to conspiracy theorists the OWG group is in total support of the North American Union. If President Obama is their puppet, it seems rather odd that his administration put the kibosh on Bush’s cross-border trucking program and that they’ve hyped a new “Buy American” movement in his new budget.
4. I have never heard a logically sound explanation for what the OWG is ultimately after. Alex Jones says that they want power, but don’t they have nearly unimaginable power already? They can buy and sell nations, collapse economies and I really don’t think it would be a stretch to say that they can kill with impunity. What more is there? Alex Smith and many OWG theorists talk about the OWG’s shadowy links to Satanism or some quasi-Egyptian religion. Umm, yeah…that’s just silly.
5. What is a OWG going to do with China , India and Pakistan ? Why did they let them become world economic powers in the first place? Wouldn’t they have been more controllable if kept peasant farmers? What about Saudi Arabia , Israel , Iran and other places driven more by religious dogma than maximum profit?
6. If I remember correctly, there are about 90 guns for every 100 citizens in the United States . The OWG folks should have nipped that in the bud a little earlier.

Anyway, that’s just a few things to think about. I’m much more worried about our more concrete problems: sky rocketing national debt, bank failure, lost nuclear material, punks shooting cops in Oakland , Mexico ’s encroaching drug war, and so on.

Time enough for Harry Potter

Man, I’ve been sick for almost 2 weeks. I actually missed two days of work and had to have my Mom come and drop me off some food and drink. I must have slept for a good 50 hours in 4 days. When I wasn’t sleeping I was reading the last Harry Potter book.

I was a bit disappointed with it, but that’s not a surprise as I was never as in to them as the rest of the family. The first few books were definitely aimed at children and it was pretty easy to see what was coming. Still, they were fun and enjoyable. The middle books were my favorite, as they had some definite character growth and they slowly became darker as Potter’s world became more dangerous. The last one though just had so many Dues Ex Machina plot moments it was distracting. How many times can Harry and his pals be saved by invisible ultra-powerful benefactors…apparently, quite a few.

Overall, I had one big problem with the series, the physics and infrastructure don’t make any sense. The books focus a lot on the actual workings of what they call the “wizarding world” and by inviting us into these aspects of the world were forced to examine them and they are found lacking. Spells that are introduced in one book aren’t ever mentioned in the previous volumes. Extremely important points are forgotten from book to book and the citizens of Harry’s world are more illogical then anything you’d find in the real world. The plots raise so many questions that never have answers. Are their leaders elected? How much power does a wizard actually have? Why don’t wizards use computers? Why don’t wizards cure cancer? Does every country have wizards? Do they fall under the control of the wizarding leaders in Harry’s area?

However, they are children’s books set in a fantasy world so I’m probably an idiot for having so many questions.