Conspiracy Theories, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking

" To-day I may tell you that our goal is now only a few steps off. There remains a small space to cross and the whole long path we have trodden is ready now to close its cycle of the Symbolic Snake, by which we symbolize our people. When this ring closes, all the States of Europe will be locked in its coil as in a powerful vice. " It's not pedantic to point this out because it's contradictory to the claim that Cooper has been making in this book thus far. Our Jewish elder speaks of locking Europe in a vice, but Cooper has been discussing a conspiracy against the United States, the nations of Earth, and in some cases the planet itself. That we would know by reading something specifically about Europe tells us that Cooper is just padding out this book.  This is not to say that I am giving him a pass on the inclusion here, far from it. It's just now I kind of get what is happening here. He is cramming anything he can into this book that furthers the conspiracy worldv

Just to recap for new readers, this is the infamous anti-Semitic plagiarism and forgery being published in Cooper's book. His only caveat is that we should read "Zion" as "Sion" and "Goyim" as "Cattle." It doesn't make the work less anti-Semitic. See the last post for what I think is happening. " It is indispensable for our purpose that wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains: war will thus be brought on to economic ground, where the nations will not fail to perceive in the assistance we give the strength of our predominance, and this state of things will put both sides at the mercy of our international agentur;" There's a story that Nathan Rothschild was present at the final defeat of Napolean. Upon learning of the defeat, he took the fastest horse (or hired the fastest messenger) to the coast of France, hopped on a ship, took it to England then ended up at the London Exchange where his downtrodden

We begin our journey into another chapter that Cooper didn't write (I think this is five so far, and I'm not counting the interview because Cooper actually did that). This is a very anti-Semitic work that one cannot divorce from the racism. What Cooper could have done was rewrite the entire thing, eliminate all references to race and religion, and then claim that the Illuminati wrote it. It would still have been bad, but it would have been better. He could have found the original document by Maurice Joly, which essentially does that, and reprinted it. Instead, Cooper is telling us to replace the word "Goyim" with the word "Cattle," the word "Jews" with "Illuminati," and the word "Zion" with "Sion."  Two things about this approach: the first is that he could do this. Instead, he tells us to do it while reading. When Alex Jones interviewed Kanye West last year, you could tell by listening to it (and the Podcast Knowledge

We enter into a bit of a problem with this chapter. Cooper has this habit of "borrowing" other people's work and then claiming that the work is evidence of the New World Order takeover of the United States. We saw this in the very first chapter "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars," he was claiming that the document was a training manual for new recruits that was left in a copy machine subsequently purchased at a government sale. So it's someone else's document, but at least Cooper was adding something to it. Throughout this book, he cribbed documents but then added commentary. When adds commentary, he's done something to make it "his." Whether he's copying Executive Orders he doesn't understand, or UN charters that he also doesn't understand, he's made some effort. Even the last chapter where he took two long editorials and copied them exactly, it was in service to the larger point he was trying to make about the UN.  Here, we ha

We've finished with Cooper's strange foray into the UFO world. I call it strange because that overly long chapter was supposed to be about the secret government of the world and instead, it was only tangentially about that. What we did get was Cooper's belief in the UFO conspiracy, which undoubtedly inspired the X-Files; a very odd and impossible JFK assassination, and then the secret government which supports the rest of it.   We begin a new chapter this week titled:          "Treason in High Places: The United Nations Treaty and The United Nations Participation Act vs. The Sovereignty of the United States of America"  And then there's an apocryphal quote from Benjamin Franklin about having created a Republic, "if you can keep it." It's possible that Franklin said this, but it's just as likely that it is a good story. Cooper does this thing that conspiracy theorists cannot help themselves from doing: word blasting at the very outset. Part o