Conspiracy Theories, Skepticism, and Critical Thinking

 “ In our hands is the greatest power of our day—gold: in two days we can procure from out storehouses any quantity we may please.” We wrap up our discussion of economics that the plagiarist clearly doesn’t understand with this sentence. This has to be an odd read for Cooper because Cooper sold gold on his radio show. He was one of the first people on the conspiracy right to really push the idea that gold was going to get us through the coming apocalypse. Here, the Elder is telling us that gold is their servant. This means that any transaction involving gold benefits the Cabal, and Cooper supports this. Now, of course he doesn’t, he hasn’t read this but rather inserted it into his book. I say this not to defend him but to attack him. He just knows that his fans like the Protocols so he put it in (though I doubt that they’ve even read it). The gold is the last straw for me, there’s no way that he’d include this and jeopardize his revenue stream. As I said though, we are done with econom

Protocol 21 We're still on economics, even though I was sure we'd be done with it now. This protocol deals strictly with internal loans because, according to the elder, " they have fed us with the national moneys of the goyim, but for our state there will be no foreigners, that is, nothing external." I understand what the elder is claiming here: that because "they" control the world, there is no outside, there is nothing to be really considered "foreign." A country loaning to them is really just them shifting money around. However, this doesn't gel with what they said last week when there were clear differences between the states. The seemingly permanent problem with this book's consistency is that it wants to make the reader think that the plan is already complete but also that it can be stopped. Listen to Alex Jones now (well don't actually do that), he's both lost and about to win. The nonsense is the point of all of this because

Protocol 20: Part II We are still in Protocol 20 and we are still discussing financial stuff. Last week I mentioned that this Protocol was going to shift subjects. We're still talking money but we aren't talking "money." The new demon that our plagiarist concentrates on is the gold standard.  Remember how to read this: everything the cabal recommends is what we are supposed to hate.  I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the plagiarist is in way over his head here. There is nothing in Serge Nilus's background that would indicate he has any kind of expertise or even competence in economics. What we do know is that Nilus has some financial troubles. When people who are conspiracy theorists run into financial problems, they always run to one thing--gold.  They love their gold because gold would have gotten them out of their troubles, but also because they understand gold. Gold is a thing you can touch. It's pretty, it's shiny, and if I tell you that

Protocol 20 After the shortest of Protocols I think we come to the longest. This Protocol is six pages long and it is predictably unfocused. This week we'll focus on the tax plan set forth by the Elder.  I think my favorite thing about when conspiracy theorists get into financial conspiracies is that they have no idea what they are talking about. We saw this when I covered None Dare Call it Conspiracy; as soon as Allen attempted to dive into financial ties it he was lost. Economics is never as simple as balancing a checkbook, but it is an easy way to enrage people who pretend to be concerned about deficit spending and that sometimes "the poors" get stuff for free.  The conspirators here are going to redesign an entire economic system from the ground up. They are going to do this in order to hide the fact, that in the real world, the Russian Tsar is out of money but that we shouldn't worry about that because the Jews are behind it.  The elder begins oddly, well oddly f