Is Alex Jones a LaRouche Kook?

Okay, this is coming a little out of left field, but after forcing myself to watch a little more of Alex Jones' fruitcake mockumentary Endgame, I was stunned to see that old leatherlungs is a Queen Elizabeth crackpot. In a bizarre segment beginning at about 1:20:40, Jones intones over a video of the Queen greeting some folks:

"It is important to add that the President is merely a puppet of the global crime syndicate and may not use the new powers, but simply pass them on for use by future puppet administrations."

The clear inference is that Queen Elizabeth is part of the global crime syndicate. Alex is hinting she may be running a puppet administration in Washington. This is of course LaRouche writ large.

Jones goes on to present courageous segments against Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Hitler and Idi Amin. Somehow Idi doesn't make the final Rogues' Gallery, though:



Now that is just plain weird, and it's weird in a Lyndon LaRouche way. LaRouche has always had a fixation on the British royalty, as is well-documented, claiming that Queen Elizabeth heads up the international drug trade. Now, just as it is dawning on Truthers that LaRouche is inside the house, Alex Jones puts out this obvious appeal to the LaRouche kooks.

Update: Good backgrounder on the LaRouche Movement here. Hat tip to commenter James Cooper.

Kennebunkport Fiasco Continues to Divide the Kooks

I enjoy this rundown of the entire nonsense over at Winter Patriot. It appears to be for the most part factual if deranged. For an example of the latter, WP describes the dustup between the 9-11 crackpots and the Peace Movement as involving one side which he calls the "Paranoid Lunatics". Now you and I might say, oh, that's obviously the Troofers, right?

Nope.

You just can't put the Paranoid Lunatics in with the Conspiracy Theorists and expect them to stay there. As a matter of half-joking convenience, I refer to the anti-Iraq-war people, the election-reform advocates, and every other single-issue or narrow-focus dissident group which doesn't want to talk about 9/11 as Lunatics because they think if they play their cards right they will be granted serious credibility by the mainstream media any day now. And I call them Paranoid because of their apparent belief that they will jeopardize such imminent credibility if they consort with Conspiracy Theorists, those disreputable types who don't believe the official government explanation of what happened on 9/11.

Like I say he does run down the issues well, but obviously with an axe to grind as well. Webster Tarpley does no wrong in this version of events. And that whole Lyndon LaRouche thing gets swept under the rug:

[A]s I've said all along, who cares who he used to work for? What matters is what he's saying now, and whether it makes sense. We don't have time to argue about who people used to work for. We have to consider what they're saying and doing right now.

And of course at least two other figures in the middle of the whole Kennebunkport mess are also former (or present) LaRouchees:

Bruce Marshall who actually collected the supposed signatures cited LaRouche's foreign policy nuttery when he was running for Congress as the Green Party candidate from Vermont. In 2006, not in 1997, when Tarpley claims he was forced out of the LaRouche organization.

Laurie Dobson was a LaRouchee who ran for the Connecticut Legislature in 2002. Dobson claims to have an email from one of the women in question in which she admits that she may have signed the document without reading it.

So okay, now we've got three LaRouche kooks at the center of this incident, including two of fairly recent vintage and one who claims to have been booted out of the organization a decade ago.

Hat Tip to Nico's bloglines which divulges some information about our old buddy Jenny Sparks, like her real name. Jenny also draws one of the inevitable charts showing who's connected to whom. For what it's worth I think Jenny's been basically right throughout this affair but like all kooks she mistakes some fellow kooks (Fetzer and Nico for example) for operatives.

How Many Cults Are Involved In 9-11 Denial?

I am continually amazed at the number of kooky cults that you find involved in the 9-11 Denial Movement. We've covered in some detail the URANTIA ties of Les Jamieson and Byron Belitsos, one of the founders of 9-11 Truth Dot Org. The Lyndon LaRouche Movement is well-represented with Webster Tarpley, a former spokesman for LaRouche in Europe, and a number of members in the NY 9-11 Deniers group, according to Nico Haupt and confirmed in the video of Nico's dustup with Les Jamieson at St. Mark's.

And those cults seem positively normal when compared to the reptoid alien believers. David Icke is of course the most famous. Less known but equally nutty are the Cassiopaeans of Laura Knight-Jadczyk. Knight-Jadczyk's contribution to the 9-11 bookshelf is called 9-11 The Ultimate Truth.

9/11: The Ultimate Truth makes a strong case for the idea that September 11, 2001 marked the moment when our planet entered the final phase of a diabolical plan that has been many, many years in the making. It is a plan developed and nurtured by successive generations of ruthless individuals who relentlessly exploit the negative aspects of basic human nature to entrap humanity as a whole in endless wars and suffering in order to keep us confused and distracted to the reality of the man behind the curtain.

Richard Heinberg is a Peak Oil theorist. We have not spent a great deal of time going over the Peak Oil folks here. Basically their theory is that we are already pumping as much oil out of the ground as possible and that inevitably oil production will start to decline, causing a big spike in prices. Some of the Peak Oil folks believe that the government plans to kill off 80% of the world's population so that the survivors have plenty of oil. At any rate, Heinberg is a self-admitted former cult member:

"For a time he lived in Colorado's Sunrise Ranch, an intentional community that served as the headquarters for an organization called "Emissaries of the Divine Light" It was "a sort of benign cult." he says.

Note: It is easy to assume that there are so many people from other cults in the 9-11 Denial Movement because if you're nutty enough to fall for one kooky idea, you're probably nutty enough to fall for another. Which would be fine if these people were just followers of 9-11 Denial. But in fact, they are leaders, authors and important people in this movement.

Anybody aware of more cult ties to 9-11 Denial? I have heard that Alex Jones often has Scientologists on his show, but denies any personal involvement in Scientology.