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The Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe

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The Rise Of America's Lunatic Fringe





















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Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:03 | 3201217 TahoeBilly2012
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Right. Count me in. My Mom forwarded me the link to Project For New American Century back in like 2002 or so and as many who viewed it like me, predicted just about everything that happened in the Mid East since. This guy is a wanker. I don't think every theory is true, but way too damn many agenda's stink to high heaven.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:06 | 3201220 Everyman
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What a crappy article.  ZH is better than this.  We are a much more enlightened "Lunatic Fringe".


The "Founding Fathers" were also "Lunatic Fringe".  What a crappy crappy article.

The reason such beliefs are gaining favor is because many Americans have lost faith and lost trust in the government and in America’s elected leadership.  Given what has happened over the last decade, this is not only understandable, it is even, in an odd way, reasonable.

Reasonable is "odd" in this moron's mind?




Then there is a need for revolution and protestations either peaceful or non peaceful.  There is another issue when some group like DHS needs 7000 fully automatic rifles, all the while the congress criminals want to take my semi auto and 30 round mags???  Silver is out, 5.56 ammo is out, and AR-15s are sold out, what does that tell you?

The "Lunatic Fringe" is not the "Fringe" they are the majority, and the "real Lunatic Fringe" in currently in control of the Government, and they are corrupt criminals and all need to forfeit there lives for the damages they have done to this country and the idea of a Republic of libverty..


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:22 | 3201581 DoChenRollingBearing
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My guess is that this is what you see as people wake up.

+ 1

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:44 | 3201810 jeff montanye
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i think so, mr. bearing.  this may actually be his honest thoughts.  he has moved some.  may move some more.  this from his article is positive (call it the fringe, call it the vanguard):

When the trust is gone the Fringe becomes the mainstream.









Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:07 | 3201226 A Lunatic
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So the NSALQAEDA gets to publish their drivel here now too?? Must be part of that Fairness Doctine bullshit.......

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 20:23 | 3204526 mkhs
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Talk about lunatic fringe...

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:07 | 3201227 Poor Grogman
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About the only thing useful the government has done is create a growing awareness of how corrupt the world actually is.

The only ones not in the lunatic fringe these days, are those still profiting from the final days of the global debt ponzi.

Oh by the way the article didn't mention the " GLOBAL DEBT PONZI"!!!

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:08 | 3201228 fonzannoon
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i'm not a fan of this article but "Chindit" is a frequent commentor on here right? I think it's awesome that Tyler frequently hands over the mic to his viewers.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:21 | 3201265 astoriajoe
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When i searched for comments from chindit, i didnt see any at all. Just sayin. Maybe big sis should go quick create some.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:50 | 3201340 UP Forester
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Haven't been many lately.

He's obviously been at (re-education) camp.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 12:43 | 3202763 TheFourthStooge-ing
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The link would be

but you won't find any comments if they were made prior to December 2012. You used to be able to search for comments going back as far as 2009, but something changed recently (a couple weeks ago or so) and now the search results only go back to December.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 14:11 | 3203106 akak
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I also noticed that almost all of Chindit's past comments have been mysteriously and suspiciously deleted.

It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:05 | 3201378 brown_hornet
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Look under chindit39

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 07:02 | 3201856 fonzannoon
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or maybe I am delusional. It's certainly possible.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:59 | 3201700 delacroix
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chindit 13   ?

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:07 | 3201229 NoDebt
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Trust is what took the real hit in '08.  It is not regained by doing more of the same (corrupt) thing that got you in the situation in the first place.

The magic trick only works if you can't see how the magician is doing it.  I keep wanting to ask Bernanke, BLS, DOL  and others "do you think I can't see what you're doing?"  Wall St. trying to convince me THEY believe the trick the whole time, so I should too. 

I'm not fooled, yet you ask me to trust you that it will eventually make me believe it.  It won't, no matter how many times you pull that rabbit out of your hat.  I'm not fooled.  I can see you doing it.  So can WAY too many other people.  And more than that, I can see those same entities trying to fool me not believing it either.

You're done, gentlemen.  Exit the stage.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:09 | 3201231 ReptilianSlaveMaster
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ZeroHedge should start selling guns on their site, my commune and myself are stocking up against Obama's debt brother liberation army

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:08 | 3201388 Freddie
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ZeroHedge should start selling guns on their site..

LOL!  Well the Tyler(s) are smart and resourceful but good luck finding a supply of guns to sell.  Ammo is probably worse.  :-(

Hope & Tyranny.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:23 | 3201442 RebelDevil
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A more practical alternative is to have ZH link up sites that host open-source gun designs that aren't hard to make.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:25 | 3201235 otto skorzeny
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why should I care if somebody "launders"(whatever in the fuck govt doublespeak that is) $ for Iran? as far as i can tell we still owe them for getting rid of their democratically elected prez and putting that torturing POS CIA puppet Shah in power. but hey-as long as Hebeywood and Ben Asslick can put out propaganda like "Argo" so lazy Americans can learn world history by watching 120 minutes of garbage-it's all good

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:27 | 3201285 Gimp
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"Torture" is so 2000. It is "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" now.

A wet towel over the mouth and nose is still a wet towel...just saying

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:14 | 3201244 Cabreado
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Awareness and lost trust does not drive one to lunacy.

The lunacy comes in the lies and debauchery phase.
Fostered, encouraged even, at best overlooked.

This is a strange article.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:19 | 3201418 mayhem_korner
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This is a strange article.


Agreed.  I wonder how many posters here who are condemning it realize they are affirming what it says?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:00 | 3201537 RebelDevil
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From the viewpoint of MSM and it's followers - Yeah, this article is a 100% confirmed!
Maybe that was the point of this.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:14 | 3201564 mayhem_korner
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Maybe the point was to say "hey all you MSM and sheeple that think that people who believe this or that are "looneys" - take a look at what you're spewing!"  Maybe the mainstream is the intended audience here - that they are becoming the Lunatic Fringe because their "stories" are less credible than the "conspiracies" they dismiss.

If you ever read the comments on a CNBC post, the commenters rip 'em to shreds & call 'em out on all the slant, lies, and bad assumptions in their "journalism".  The MSM is not blind to their weaknesses.  Their tactic is to pretend those weaknesses don't exist.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:54 | 3201639 RebelDevil
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True. I also agree that MSM doesn't give a shit about truth, even if they are aware of their fallacies. If they did, they may be dead or unemployed; that is since our own enemies own them.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:15 | 3201248 astoriajoe
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Worst article I've ever read on ZH. Just sayin.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:23 | 3201278 A Lunatic
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The Only way to evade the Lunacy is to run off to Bangladesh and start an ostrich farm. -Simon Black-

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:44 | 3201327 e_goldstein
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and a watch collection (sorry, that never gets old).

On a similiar note:



Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:17 | 3201251 flacorps
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When we refuse to listen to "reason" this will be declared a "hate" site and google will stop indexing it. The post is a trojan horse.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:27 | 3201287 astoriajoe
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Does anyone come here from a google search?

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:44 | 3201328 Harbanger
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One day I just happened to google "fuck you bernanke" and I've been here ever since.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:42 | 3201491 Freddie
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F Google - they support The Matrix for Oba-MAO. 


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:03 | 3201544 Harbanger
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Hi Freddie, I agree, and somehow we need to disassemble their matrix.  BTW- Weren't Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn from the Weather Underground considered "lunatic fringe" 50 years ago?  Now they have direct ties to the WH.  So who's crazy?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:58 | 3201699 Renfield
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<Renfield hands Freddie a "U", a "C", and a "K", in case he feels like expanding on the above.>

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:40 | 3201615 Vendetta
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welcome to the fringe.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:15 | 3201253 Room 101
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Here's some more "lunatic fringe" stuff from Market Ticker:

"Jack Lew MUST NOT Be Treasury Secretary

Bet you didn't know what's hidden in The Gun Control Act of 1968.

The Treasury Secretary is vested of the right to ban importation of any firearm he finds "does not have a sporting purpose."

While this authority is "currently" delegated to the BATFE, it doesn't have to remain delegated. In fact, there is nothing legislative about that delegation to the best of my knowledge, which means it can be revoked by pure fiat.

Jack Lew, the person most-likely to be nominated to replace Geithner, is Obama's current Chief of Staff.  As such it must be presumed that he will do whatever Obama wants, within the limit of his statutory authority.

And that authority includes the ability to ban the import of any gun."

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:36 | 3201304 Iocosus
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Ironically, the 1968 bill plagiarizes the Nazi bill of 1938 introduced by Friend's of Angelo's dad.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:42 | 3201323 A Lunatic
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Well they haven't managed to ban poverty, drugs, stupidity, terrorism, illegal immigration, or anything else. In fact most who fall into one (or more) of those categories are rewarded for their unlawfulness through many means such as free healthcare, free food, better jobs, free phones, money, weapons, political appointments........The list goes on I'm sure. So Hell yes, ban my guns, it's about time I got sumpin 2...........

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:17 | 3201256 EmmittFitzhume
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Cell phones produce radio waves that they DON'T cause cancer.  Obama may NOT have been born in Hawaii.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:36 | 3201306 max2205
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There are 300 alquida. Sp. and we've been fighting them since Clinton.

Guess what, we still have not killed them all

Dod spent 3 trillion and still have not killed off this fictional enemy

How's that truth

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:16 | 3201257 Godspeed You-Se...
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If you're not a conspiracy theorist than you're just a coincidence theorist.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:13 | 3201400 palmereldritch
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One person's conspiracy theory is just another (less lazy) person's understanding of the importance of due diligence.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 04:52 | 3201778 All Risk No Reward
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The Tricium is the method used my Socrates to determine fact from fiction.

1. Grammar - Get relevant data and understand the context that surrounds it.  Who, What, Where When in Context.

2. Logic - Apply logic to the data and identfy and remove both contradictions and fallacies.  Why.

3. Rhetoric - Logically and rationally explain grammar, logic and the resulting conclusion.  How.

The research must come before the conclusion.

Most people have been duped into falling for one of a myriad of fallacies that convinces people they know things without doing the research.

All conspiracy theories are not conspiracy facts that are easily provable.  But some are - like the Federal Reserve lying about a fictional dual mandate to hide the face they criminally took credit exponential to GDP contrary to the Federal Reserve Act's Section 2A requirement to keep the two commensurate with each other.

That's a bullseye conspiracy, but this author won't pick it up.  He's scared of it.  Frightened to even entertaiin the idea of this fact being real.

He's not alone - most people can't handle the truth.

But that doesn't change the truth - and that's a bitter lesson the wilfully ignorant will learn indue time.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 06:13 | 3201827 UP Forester
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Um, I think you mean "Trivium"....

Sat, 02/02/2013 - 23:31 | 3210302 All Risk No Reward
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Yes - thanks for correcting the typo.

Search "Trivium Binder"

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:17 | 3201259 adr
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What the hell? I would say the lunatic fringe is every analyst and talking head that appears on CNBC. Not the guy that says flouride is essentially mind control.

What is more plausible? That stocks can go up forever and profits don't matter because you can make it up with revenue, or that the defense department added flouride to the water to dumb down people so they could be eaiser controlled during the atomic scare?

That increasing margins is good even if your profit went negative, or certain elected officials were assasinated for attempting to out the practices of the central banks?

Seriously, yes there are lunatic consipiracies, but just open a dman history book. Most conspiracies were proved to be correct years later. There's know way the government would fire on a US Navy ship to start a war, well it happened. Washington didn't know about Pearl Harbor, yes they did. Lucitania, ferry boat sinkings, and dozens of other examples in the past 100 years all told to be agressive atacks by the enemy, all found to be planned by the governments involved to start conflicts.

Lunatic fringe? Maybe if you still believe George Washington chopped down a cherry tree, Ben Franklin invented electricity, and Johnny Appleseed planted trees across America, and some black guy tunnelled through a mountain faster than guys with dynamite.

Who wrote this article, Cramer's ass boy?

Nearly every 8th grader in America believes that crap and is told its true over and over again. Many graduate high school still thinking a dude with circle glasses put a key on a rope and flew a kite in a thunderstorm.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:29 | 3201290 Everyman
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I need to write that one down and SO DOES EVERYBODY ELSE.  Tht is the most sane thing NOT said by Sanitelli


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:07 | 3201787 All Risk No Reward
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2.5 PPM is correlated to a 7% reduction in IQ and a 3.5 PPM is correlated with an increase in mental retardation from 3% to over 22%.

That's a Harvard study, people.  If you want to see the actual results, Google Scholar the title of the article and the first link should be a ",doc" file with the relevant data I cited above.

The gang bankster minions in government approached the EPA and asked them to approve 4 PPM!

Read the document.  It is fascinating and well documented.

Compare that document to anything presented by the trillion dollar "establishment" and its efforts to promote fluoride.  They can't put together a document like that because their case is based on fallacies, not reality.

Funny how "conspiracy theorists' cite the research and present their sources while the "non conspiratorial" establishment rely on logical fallacies like appeal to authority and appeal to popularity to support their views.

Learn the fallacies, people.

42 Fallacies

You can't identify what you don't know exists.

Perhaps the most important lesson I learned in government social engineering camp was in 3rd grade.  I answered a math problem with the answer and submitted my work.  My teacher returned the paper and marked the answer wrong.  I was stunned because the answer was right.  She responded...

"I don't care what your answer is, I WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU ARRIVED AT THAT ANSWER."

When you start asking people HOW THEY ARRIVED AT A GIVEN ANSWER, you will find out that many people know absolutely nothing about it other than some "authority" (well financed and promoted by the money defining and creating class, no doubt) told them it was true.  In other words, they know nothing.

I'll close quoting Eisenhower:

"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money (money defining and money creating class is the pinnacle of the "power of money" that is to be gravely regarded) is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded.


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:15 | 3202150 tip e. canoe
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i had a 2nd grade teacher like that.    best education i ever received.   interesting how certain small apparently insignificant events resonate in the consciousness.    i bet ya there's a bunch of adults running around NYC that have similar memories about Mr. Gatto.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:34 | 3202451 Dapper Dan
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Critical Thinking


Even the Schools do not encourage Critical thinking. For Science Fairs they don't want new ideas, they want you to do something from a book or a web site.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:14 | 3201664 Non Passaran
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As far as I can tell chindit doesn't deny the manipulation.
He denies the existence elaborate & contradictory conspiracy theories.
The politicians and banksters sure manipulate the market.
Who wouldn't? They're doing it because they can. It's simple.
In order to get reelected, why wouldn't I sell my services to the whoever?
That's a no brainer choice for psychopaths. Still, not a conspiracy.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:24 | 3201280 Gimp
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FutureWorld - "If  you have an opinion or a single thought, you're probably a terrorist, turn yourself in now"

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:32 | 3201282 Dr. Bonzo
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Yo ZH... if I wanted to read Huffpo, I'd just go read Huffpo. Who the fuck is in charge of editorial content around here, cause you jus dun drop the motherfucking ball son.

I'd be really interested to hear from someone in-house what the justification was for posting this fucking claptrap here.


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:19 | 3201417 ZeroAvatar
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Dr. Bonzo sed:  "what the justification was for posting this fucking claptrap here."


People are always searching for new ideas to write about.  Denninger steals at least 1/2 his ideas for his content from ZH.  This particular clown may have read the thread yesterday about 'Thrive' and 'Thrive Debunked' (I went immediately to the latter) and decided to write a piece on 'debunking'.


I can give specific examples that I have noticed that looked like 'lifted' ideas, but, you get the point.


Original material and ideas are getting ever-increasingly hard to come by.  A lot of stuff I read anymore is just the same old shit, rehashed.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:40 | 3201808 ebear
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Basically, everything's disappeared.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:26 | 3201284 Son of Loki
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Bend over (again) taxpayers and grab the Vaseline:


For some homeowners, March 1 will be Liberation Day. That’s when Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will start allowing some homeowners who have been stuck in their homes—unable to move because they owe more than the property is worth—to relinquish the houses and cancel their debt.


Who gonna pay for all this?

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:28 | 3201288 Neethgie
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i have to say its about time zerohedge did this, for the sake of the information it imparts, many of the lunatic fringe (if thats now a term, i prefer conspiracy theorists - doesn't imply mental illness) ruin these comment pages with pure rubbish that detracts from the articles, and makes zerohedge seem unreliable as a source.

Look if you want to know something, know only this, conspiracy theorists are getting robbed and abused by people like alex jones its a very easy scam..

"psst you are smarter than everyone else" thats all they have to say, to get people of below par intellect to want in on their material as it gives them an illusory superiority.

and honesty its not crazy to think conspiracies with how far away government has gone from peoples control, i know im going to get red flags for this, but im glad this article got wrote if you want lunacy go back to alex jones.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:45 | 3201334 DavidPierre
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" glad this article got wrote..."

chinshit wroted it good!

A Conspiracy Theory



Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:52 | 3201345 Neethgie
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go back to alex jones, you don't belong here

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:34 | 3201465 Braverdave
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You go back to sleep.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:56 | 3201528 KIPPY KAPPSLOCK

Neethgie.  You don't know shit from shinola, so you telling people where to go may not be our best use for you.  How long have you been here?  As a pathetic newb that is still just waking up it might be best if you were to shut the fuck up.   The list of guest on the Alex jones show that were warning people prior to the crash and long before my favorite web site ZH, is a long list indeed.  You are afraid of the truth or you are a gatekeeper like our old friend chindit.   

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 03:44 | 3201733 Neethgie
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Ive been here ages, and ive never seen anyone outside the comments talk about alex jones, hes not a reliable source on anything.

What he is is entertaining and appealing to some tinfoilers, they buy his shite and he keeps going.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:15 | 3201794 All Risk No Reward
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>>hes not a reliable source on anything<<

He's right on fluoride - the EPA scientist union opposes water fluroidation and Harvard came ot with a study showing a correlation between 2.5 and 3.5 PPM lfluoride in the water and serious neurological damage... from 7 IQ points vaporized to a 700% increase inmental retardation.  I posted the links in a previous post - search my name and you'll get the links.

This sourced fact makes you, sir, a proven liar.  Your use of ad hominem logical fallacy is deceptive and dishonest.

Alex is right on some things and he's wrong on others.

For example, he never predicted the President would claim the right to murder American citizens without any evidence or a trial.

Alex was simply "too extreme" to be able to predict such a reasonable and logical change in law was coming down the pike.

That was sarcasm, BTW, just in case it wen tover your head.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 21:04 | 3204640 mkhs
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Damn.  Someone hacked the records.  They changed ages to 29 weeks.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:08 | 3201789 All Risk No Reward
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Speaking of fallacies, this, ladiy and gentlemen of ZeroHedge, is an example of ad hominem logical fallacy where the person is attacked and not the argument itself.

Sometimes it is done of ignorance and sometimes it is done to try and avoid the argument itself because it can't be attacked on its merits.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:48 | 3202283 Tall Tom
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Cool. You point the FALLACIOUS attack out and use it as a demonstration. Good method.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:44 | 3201497 RebelDevil
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Great point. So we can say that the "lunatic fringe" dicussed in the article are really just Randroids, the extremely paranoid (Alex Jones), the fantastists (David Icke), and the fraudsters (Benjamin Fullford).

There's a big difference between them, and rational conspiracy theorists.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:34 | 3201289 SamAdams
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I know you're out there!  You're in hiding, but you won't get too far...

Remember when you first heard that song?  You never thought it would apply to your well mannered American self.  Welcome to Amerika...  I, with your help, intend to take it back!

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 04:59 | 3201782 Disenchanted
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For those who haven't heard it...

Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe


Along those same lines, another prescient song from the 1980s:

Mike & The Mechanics - Silent Running


Teach the children quietly

for some day sons and daughters

will rise up and fight

while we stood still

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 21:29 | 3204711 mkhs
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Don't believe the church and state, ...

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:29 | 3201292 agrotera
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Keen work Chindit! Hope all is well for you and yours!


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:05 | 3201383 DavidPierre
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SmokeyQuinn, chinshit !!!

"This is dedicated to the ones I love"!

9/11 Is the Litmus Test!


Both just TOOLS !



Thu, 01/31/2013 - 16:23 | 3203733 chindit13
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It's a litmus test.  About that we agree 100%.  And there I'll leave it.

Fri, 02/01/2013 - 01:08 | 3205230 chindit13
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agrotera, good to see some of the old souls popping up!  All is well.  I have left my former residence for a place that makes that old post seem like a 5th Avenue apartment with a concierge.  A wonderful challenge, which is (in my opinion) what life is all about.  I'm not sure even Voyager 1 has reached here yet.  In fact, I'm two bus transfers further out than Zerohedge's Honest Ann and enjoying the spoils of war.  And truth be known, I have as much desire to steer clear of the vocal membership here as I do the PTB.  I find both equally exasperating.  Tyler, however, remains The Bomb (I'll bet that term is out of style).  I still get in my fifty good belly-laughs per day.  It's the best prescription for an enjoyable life.  Take care.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:30 | 3201293 Prairie Dog
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Er, isn't this their web site?

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:33 | 3201295 Cheyenne
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Here is what that “Conspiratorialist” Catherine Austin Fitts, a partner and board member at Dillon Read and the Asst. Sec’y of Housing under Bush 41, had to say--fully 10 years ago--about articles like this one:


“We do not have time to pay attention to people who use smears like ‘conspiracy theorist’ to waste our time. Money, budgets, finance—these are all facts. If something does not work, and it continues to not work, there is a reason. Systems have a logic. They have a rationale. Money helps explain and illuminate that rationale. 


“Anyone who would smear a serious researcher or writer for trying to understand where a great deal of money is disappearing to as a ‘conspiracy theorist’ is someone who would never be taken seriously or associated with in the circles in which I travel. The exception is if the person doing the smearing is a professional being paid to smear those who have the scent of ‘the real deal’ - Cointelpro or related public relations.


“The number of people paid to do such things are many and growing.”

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:32 | 3201296 Fix It Again Timmy
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Speaking of the government and how they ALWAYS have our best interest in mind - prior to WWII, the Soviet Union required that all short-wave radios had to be registered.  On June 23rd, 1941 the day after Germany attacked Russia, government agents were sent out to confiscate short-wave radios. REGistration, yeah right - hahahahaha, stop it, you're killing me....

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:33 | 3201297 Cdad
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The trust of the American people shall not be restored...until such time as the bankers responsible for the criminal looting of this nation's assets, as well as the debasement of its currency, are prosecuted and jailed.  Until such time as this occurs, capital formation is dead.  This is a logical response to the facts at hand.

Is it any wonder that the criminal syndicate known as Wall Street requires $85 billion per month in debauched USDs?  The banking system of this country must be allowed to fail, finally.  Stop the printing presses, Mr. Bernanke.  Perverting both the equity and bond markets with this continued intervention is not a solution...but rather it is theft.

Fringe Cdad

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:20 | 3202393 Tall Tom
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We will NOT have a sustainable recovery without TRUST. My wealth has been extracted and will remain so until I see a substantial movement toward restoration of that trust. I am certain that I do not act alone.


I think I wrote that yeasterday on this blog.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:35 | 3201302 Prairie Dog
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You forgot to mention the Bernanke-Geithner-Krugman conspiracy to Destroy The US through irresponsible money creation, the imminence of hyperinflation and gold going to $5,000 tomorrow.


Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:40 | 3201314 tony bonn
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thank you for my daily dose of goat shit from the cia...i am glad to see that they are sufficiently alarmed to send some pea brained hack out to tell me that i am lunatic....but the lunatic, my dear spooky control freak, is in your mind....go fuck yourself cunt...

Fri, 02/01/2013 - 05:34 | 3205461 chindit13
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Profoundest apologies for striking a dissonant chord in the echo chamber.   Big Mama Tyler will come by in a jiffy to tuck you under your tin foil blanket and give you your David Icke Bobble-head to cuddle.  And just remember, everybody who doesn’t dream all of your dreams cannot possibly be awake.  Repeat after me ten thousand times---though in point of fact it must now be up to a full lakh on this site---“Anyone with more than two brain cells knows 911 was an inside job”.  And let not one voice, not a one, state the opposite in return.  That would be….arrogantly shillish.  Echoes only, please.


Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:41 | 3201318 Prairie Dog
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Oh sorry, gold going to $5,000 tomorrow is in another article. So we're covered.


Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:41 | 3201321 rlouis
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Left out that Al Gore is a reptillian alien.


PS Can I get one of those tin foil hats on ebay?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:52 | 3201812 ebear
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Probably, but I wouldn't recommend it.  Tinfoil hats actually concentrate the mind control rays - they don't shield against them at all.  Look no further than the people wearing them for proof of this.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:27 | 3202418 Tall Tom
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Gold Foil hats are much more effective. You ought to try that. Gold is such a good Electromagnetic Radiation Reflector. It is the most efficient shield. Seriously. You have to get one. Shape it like a Faraday Cage.


Turn off the damned Television while you are at it.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:42 | 3201322 gould's fisker
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I'm not going to be coy like alot of the posters above--where do i order my tinfoil hat, I'll pay for it.  Cause it'll be alot easier to do that than swallow the prevailing view (i.e., reality) being peddled by the msm outlets or the fed--like the economy just lost a little momentum because there was a percentage drop in the tons of fed-zirped-qe'd liquidity being fed into the markets.  And most everybody just nods and shuffles forward like the invasion of the body snatchers, instead of wondering, geeze what happens when the other trillion annually being pumped in gets shut off, I wonder.  When did they start growing us all in the back yard, huh? Like if we're quiet we'll all get our social security or other fed program pay off because the other guy won't--he'll be the one that gets fucked.  We'll all be fucked or in tinfoil hats eventually.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:48 | 3201338 A Lunatic
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People are a lot like chickens. Once darkness falls you can actually walk around picking up chickens by hand. They won't even try to get away. I've see the stupid fucking things sit there quietly while a weasel walks around in the coop sniffing out the best one to eat. Darkness is falling............

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:35 | 3201469 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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You can also pluck them.


Ravi Zacharias, Can Man Live Without God, (Word Publ., Dallas: 1994), pp. 26-27

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:54 | 3201641 akak
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That is a great story --- aside from the fact that it is essentially impossible to pluck a live chicken.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 04:20 | 3201758 Likstane
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Have you ever tried it?  It sounds reasonable.  I'm just askin'

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 04:40 | 3201766 akak
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Inadvertently, yes I have --- and it is no fun at all, for either the plucker or the pluckee.

However, I have plucked my share of chickens in the usual manner, which necessarily includes a thorough dipping into near-boiling water in order to loosen the feathers from the skin.  Even then, if the (dearly departed) chicken is not dipped long enough or thoroughly enough, one will have feathers that are VERY difficult to remove --- and some, such as the wing feathers, will always be quite difficult to pluck even with this hot-water treatment.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 04:45 | 3201769 Likstane
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I will never again question your chicken-pluckin' prowess.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 04:53 | 3201776 akak
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Plucking the feathers is the most tedious part of butchering chickens, but believe me, disemboweling them is certainly the least fun part (especially when you forgot to not feed them the day before and their intestines are still full of .... stuff.)

And yes, when their heads are cut off, they DO "run around like chickens with their heads cut off" --- although it is more of a spastic jumping-and-flopping-around kind of thing than actual running.  The blood that (initially) sprays several feet out from their severed necks is an added bonus (at least, my husky thinks so).

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:04 | 3201785 Likstane
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I'll drive one up from Anchortown this summer and you can show me.  I'm too squeamish to try it myself without seeing it done first!

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:22 | 3201801 akak
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It's really not all that bad --- if you can clean a salmon, you can butcher a chicken.


(But, I am not particularly squeamish.)

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 06:18 | 3201838 UP Forester
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Just don't do it on a hot summer day (damn batch-flies).

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 05:37 | 3201807 Poor Grogman
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Damn chicken

I bet he realised too damn late that he should never have let em have that semi-auto assault rifle...

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:31 | 3201460 ZeroAvatar
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DAMN, gould's fisker!  That's some good shit right there! More comments, sir!  Bravo!  Bravo!

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:39 | 3202466 Tall Tom
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Take One Ounce of Gold. Hammer it out. It is the most mallable metal in the World. Make a Gold Foil Hat. Shape it into a Faraday Cage. It is a much better Electromagnetic Reflector, the most efficient type. Get rid of your Television Set. I am in my Gold Foil Hat...Thank you.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:45 | 3201331 chump666
Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:47 | 3201336 UGrev
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Yeah, because NO ONE is trying to confiscate our guns...   ç this one is the video you really want to pass ç here is the document that was posted by the Assemblyman himself. 

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:50 | 3201342 Al Huxley
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I'm trying to keep an open mind, but this article just comes across as way too fucking patronizing - 'See, trusted government servants, the proles are feeling mistreated, and now they're questioning everything'.  Like a MSM apology for the bad behaviour of those who won't step in line, shut the fuck up, and do as their told, or better, just watch Dancing with the Stars or whatever the fucking Kardashians are up to now.


You know, it might be hard to believe that sociopaths with power and no conscience will stoop to extreme levels to extend that power, with total disregard for things like truth, justice, morality, etc. but the evidence is the fucking evidence.  Just because some of these things seem way too evil to be conceived of doesn't mean you just ignore the evidence.  Fuck, the more I think about it the more I really hated this fucking article.  It's actually WORSE than the routine 'ignore the fucking crazies' because there's that underlying thread of condescension that seems to suggest that TPTB need to be more CONSIDERATE, if they want to regain peoples' trust, rather than that they need to STOP BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW, STEALING AND KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:50 | 3201426 akak
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After scrolling through all the responses to this "article" by Chindit (sorry, Chindit, but it WAS an egregious hit piece, and if you have any honesty in you you would have to admit as much), I liked yours the best, Al.

Chindit, I am utterly confused by where you were trying to go with your diatribe against just about every "non-mainstream" thinker (which, in reality, pretty much means every thinker --- and yes, some crazies too --- as being in the "mainstream" today just about automatically precludes any real thinking).  If your goal was to attack the minority of anti-semites, bigots, and just plain nutjobs who frequent this forum, then you may have had some justification.  But whether you realize it or not, you implicitly attacked anyone and EVERYONE who does not hold a "mainstream", pro-status-quo, pro-contemporary-authority viewpoint.  It is THAT for which I have to condemn your piece here.

You make me sad, Chindit, because you generally if not almost always came across as quite reasonable in your comments here on ZH.  But this piece was utterly unworthy of that record, and frankly, of serious consideration.  If I have misread your intent here, then judging from all the comments here it appears to have been an almost universal mistake, and an explanation (if not also an apology) on your part would be in order.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:51 | 3201513 Al Huxley
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Thanks Akak, I share your confusion (or diappointment, maybe) - I've  generally thought highly of Chindit's comments here as well.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 04:23 | 3201759 Likstane
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Neither one of you missed the intent.  It was perfectly obvious. 

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 09:54 | 3202059 Bob
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Chindit13 hasn't been around much for awhile and as his participation tapered off I recall noting increasing frustration about what he regarded as a growing groupthink of histrionic paranoia. 

This could be fairly considered a "hit piece," I think, to the extent that it begins by devaluing the specifically named "conspiracy nuts" without apology and it cannot be surprising that it brought the overwhelmingly negative response it did on that basis alone (and I say this just from reading the article and comments up to this point in the thread.)

At the same time, though, he did then qualify his observations with a more nuanced and respectful analysis of the very real basis for what he lays out as a more generalized social phenomenon.  This made sense to me and will give me something to think about that is worthwhile, I believe. 

Most of us recognize, I am sure, that among the various and inherent downsides of cyber-life is the "echo chamber" effect.  It is evident just about everywhere on the internet.

To that point, it seems to me that we have something to appreciate in someone pissing in our punchbowl, in addition to the offensive act of betrayal we are so much more easily inclined to see (justified as that might be.) 

Just my 2 cents. 


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 12:06 | 3202266 tip e. canoe
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maybe he's still around bob, just wearing a mask (upon a mask)?

agree with your analysis.   we all need to be very wary of those who speak what we want to hear (or write what we want to see), especially when they appeal to our emotional centers more than our rational ones.   this is especially important now that "moonbattery" has gone mainstream and bigger bubbles are appearing in the pot.  

beware of those waving fringed flags screaming & shouting about the false ones.

our dear compadre has simply employed this tactic in reverse to expose a deeper sociological phenomenon currently in process.   whether it was done for our benefit or whether we were "tricked" into providing the footnotes for a thesis meant for another audience makes nary a difference in the larger scheme of things.

well played, sir chindit, extremely well played.   looking forward to your installment in the bat cave.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:51 | 3201346 Fedaykinx
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attention, lunatic fringe!  i know you're out there!  you're in hiding, and holding your meetings, but i can hear you coming and know what you're after!

uh huh.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:55 | 3201349 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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We might as well have a cool theme song. Tinfoil hat tested and approved.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:14 | 3201406 joego1
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Cool I'm going to try to talk my band into this one.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:55 | 3201350 Rusty Diggins
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sheesh, fuck this guy.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:34 | 3201604 Rusty Diggins
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 And I have two dry fingers for the stinker of those down votes.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:56 | 3201351 booboo
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So the author believes that his government can be this fucking inept for so long on so many issues? They can read my lips from 3 mile up in the sky and cannot stop an illiterate mexican from walking across the border? They can tell me how much money I deposited in the bank today but they cannot figure out how John Corzine vaporized billions? They can finger your daughter at an airport in full view of the public but they say they have no logistical way to put an armed guard at a school entrance? They can build large cities in the desert complete with Taco Bells in a month but they cannot...ahhh fuck it.

I would rather be governed by 445 mildly Autistic children then the current group of common criminals.


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:32 | 3201458 Non Passaran
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Well, did you read the entire fucking article?


You don't need a big plan for world domination in order to steal and neither do the politicians.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 11:58 | 3202551 Tall Tom
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You really think that the theft of Billions is about MONEY? Really how much loot can you spend in a lifetime? That is what the theives are banking on. You small thinking.


IT IS ABOUT POWER. Why desire that power if it were NOT to DOMINATE? It makes no sense otherwise. There is no purpose for it otherwise.


It is not about the money. Money is easy. It is just a Dream Away. Double entendre intended.

Wed, 01/30/2013 - 23:57 | 3201353 Jim in MN
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So in order to build a bridge between chindit and many of the pissed, let's redirect our ire to where it belongs for a moment.


Corruption delegitimizes authority.


There.  That's it in a nutshell.  It doesn't really matter how people choose to express their rejection of deligitimated authority...well, OK, it does matter, but not as much as the initial corruption matters.

When do you hear the word corruption in the MSM today?  Never?  Maybe in China, or perhaps local politics in Chicago or Philly where they still bust aldermen wearing wires in Italian restaurants and such.

Chindit is pointing to a symptom, really the colorful expression of many interwoven interpretations of the phoney and fundamentally evil system that has developed in the global elite kleptocracy.

Sure, even in a legitimate, beautiful or at least tolerable political system there would still be those who play the moonbat role.  And, handled well that might make for interesting reading.

But we are far, far beyond that.  Indeed, that is what chindit is saying.

So, fringe away folks.  Have a fringy 2013.  Just, you know, try to adjust your filter so that if leadership comes from an unexpected quarter, and breaks YOUR taboos, you might be able to get on the new bus when it rolls.

Cuz that rabbit hole, it just gets deeper.   Even the good stuff, if there is any, gets weirder too.  So, go pro.  Don't panic.  Stay frosty.  And be ready for anything.  Maybe it'll be just the person you thought you should hate who pulls your ass out of the mudhole. 

Just sayin'.  Come to ZH to think, not to jerk your knees (in any direction).

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:20 | 3201423 Cdad
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Corruption delegitimizes authority.

Well said.  And it is pretty tough to top the level of corruption in both our banking system, and via the military industrial complex.  That is world class corruption.

It's downright funny how many ZH brethren seem to have misinterpreted Chindit here.  

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:45 | 3201499 agrotera
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Chindit is always right on the mark! 


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 15:20 | 3203450 Raymond K Hessel
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I got the sense that many people ripping on chindit read his essay wrong.  

The way it scanned to me was that the government is acting in such a manner that proves the fringe element to be correct.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 15:31 | 3203498 akak
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If most of those commenting here apparently read his essay wrong (including myself), then it would be logical to conclude that it was not very clearly written in the first place, yes?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:02 | 3201538 Braverdave
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I like the bridge that Jim built too.

Even if some might say he didn't build it.

But I don't think 'many of the pissed' misinterpreted what he wrote so much as resented the way he wrote it.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:28 | 3201597 Cdad
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I meant to infer that they "misinterpreted Chindit"...not his words.

I agree that "they resented the way he wrote it."  However, this is just so damn pansy as to be laughable, as well.  Since when did it become the norm to expect someone writing an article to be sensitive to our individual feelings on certain matters?  It is pretty much a hallmark of this ridiculous culture we now live in.  Everyone roams around the world of ideas constantly needing to be affirmed BY EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING.  The average American has gotten just disgustingly self involved in this way.

So some ZH brothers' feelings got hurt by what Chindit wrote?  Well...piss off already! 

Good grief! [and by that I mean grow the hell up, stop feeling everything...and think instead]

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:42 | 3201617 Braverdave
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Understanding and understood.

I agree sensitivity isn't required or desired. I do like to be polite to others and certainly that extends to chindit as well. I expect that he will appreciate the criticisms, good and bad, offered up here to his thoughts. I know I always do.

Yeah, piss of all you hurt feeling pussies ;)


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:21 | 3201429 tip e. canoe
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mighty fine bridge you built there jim.  

mind if i stand on it wit' ya while i hunt for rabbit holes?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:34 | 3201471 Fedaykinx
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hi i am also of the inclination to stay out of those really deep rabbit holes.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:08 | 3201557 tip e. canoe
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au contrare, my friend, i'm looking for a good spot from which to jump.   

if i get stuck in the mud, would you lend me a hand?

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:40 | 3201614 Fedaykinx
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certes, so long as there's room on the bridge. 

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 12:10 | 3202608 tip e. canoe
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mucho gracias, will be happy to do the same when you're ready

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:35 | 3201473 mayhem_korner
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well said, Jim.  I've been a little surprised by the unabated knee-jerk from many of the commenters.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:00 | 3201358 jballz
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The lunatic fringe is the people who aren't screaming and hollering that the new world order has enslaved the world through the corrupt monetary system that gives elites unlimited power and forces the masses into so many cattle yards of submission, fight bogus wars with contrived enemies, and obey the laws the privileged few can ignore. Democracy is dead, authoritarian central planning controls all, those who step out of line are imprisoned, killed, or politically and financially ruined depending on their level of offense to the anointed ones and their position in the heirarchy.

This is rreality 2013. If you believe otherwise you're beyond the lunatic fringe, you are just fucking stupid. You have Google, there is no more excuse for failure to comprehend. You either get it, or you're fucking stupid.


Stay away from my tinfoil hat.


Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:02 | 3201366 deKevelioc
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This is a masterpiece.  Don't change one damn word of it!

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:08 | 3201369 which way weste...
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I would expect something like this in Newsweek or yahoo!, not ZH

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:14 | 3201569 IamtheREALmario
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Lol ... or Forbes, which has turned into a paid-for propagandist rag.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:04 | 3201376 mayhem_korner
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Conspiracists don't see the obvious contradiction between the required, grandiose scheming & high-order calculating and the daily demonstration that TPTB are bumbling idiots who are only good at rationalizing the irrational to the sheep.

I would nominate GW as kingpin conspiracist around these parts. 

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:15 | 3201410 Non Passaran
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GW: yes!!!

Does anyone know how there can be so many mutually exclusive theories regarding the secret organization that rules the world?
I order to improve on the current theories the believers should start working on discrediting the theories they do not believe, in addition to trumpeting the soundness of their own. I think that would help.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 02:39 | 3201688 Fedaykinx
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Lest we forget Heinlein's admonition: ""You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity" - Logic of Empire

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 09:59 | 3202101 Urban Redneck
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or for the more pop-culture oriented-

It's alive!

Should be required reading for anyone who wishes to seriously explore the rabbit hole, in addition to a good grasp on evolution.

Unfortunately the beast is alive, and it has evolved.  The number of people of who confuse or incorrectly identify the name of the beast is truly mind boggling.



Thu, 01/31/2013 - 16:24 | 3203738 chindit13
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Bingo! If malicious intent walked hand in hand with a high degree of competence, there would be no hope.  Lucky for us, there is hope if we concentrate on what is real and push the malicious to their failure point.  We are getting close.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:06 | 3201384 PhilofOz
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Another smart arse desperately trying to throw those that are finally waking up off of the scent. 



Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:22 | 3201435 mayhem_korner
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That's not the point of the article.  The post is saying that in absence of truth and trust, surrogate explanations gain life, and they are further fostered when the government does more to feed the mistrust.  It is neither encouraging nor discouraging conspiracists - it is a commentary about how a mistrusted regime can be replaced by any logical set of beliefs if it perpetuates the lying long enough.  If the author had to take some shots at some well-developed theories to get people's attention, so be it.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 01:46 | 3201572 Braverdave
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Yeah, I can see it that way, and I am all for commentary that makes you think, and to share what you think, and I do it all the time, here there and everywhere.

I do wonder if our brother chin was maybe drunk or stoned or both when he wrote this ;)

But if it was meant to be a rant then it was okay. The first bit especially, then it got a bit messy in the middle and and ended kind of lame. It needed a bit more bang at the end.

Agitprop isn't always so easy ;)


Fri, 02/01/2013 - 05:03 | 3205443 chindit13
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I think you are chasing your own tail, and that scent is, well, you must know.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:13 | 3201390 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Way this tinfoil hat wearing nutjob sees it, at least on the Federal level our Justice system went from being a prosecutor of law to persecution of dissent and our regulatory agencies went from supposed to protect the integrity of the system to being used to strangehold the system and regulate undesirable rights to the point of unobtainabilty. Well color me crazy then for drawing my conclusions strictly on what all my senses tell me. 

For entertainment these days I go out to the bar with a baseball cap lined with tinfoil. People should try it sometime, you'd be surprised how much of a conversation starter it is.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:12 | 3201395 Dr. Engali
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It's unfortunate that the author chose to dismiss people who think there is some sort of " grand plan" as lunatics in the first part of the post, because I absolutely agree that people have lost faith and are looking beyond government for truth. I see this as a good thing because the lies are being exposed, and the more people lose faith in government the less they will look to them to solve problems.

Thu, 01/31/2013 - 00:25 | 3201444 mayhem_korner
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Good doctor - the author is doing anything but dismissing people who think there is a grand plan.  He's doing the opposite.  (Now he takes a shot at some theories as being questionable, but that's not the purpose of the article).
