NWO

New World Order is a documentary by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel that was released in May. They also made a documentary about LARPing (not bragging or anything but I used to work with one of the guys responsible for inventing LARPing). The documentary is pretty good, it's basically just about the culture of conspiracy theorists. They follow a few different guys around, though it's mostly Alex Jones. Alex Jones is really annoying to me, as I've expressed before, because I find him agressively boring. It's just the same shit over and over again, same quotes, same "facts," same footage, same crazy rants. He's just getting a little too mainstream and has too much material for me to be interested in him anymore. It annoys me that he's become the face of conspiracy theorists. They follow a few more interesting dudes, but other than this one kid from Brooklyn, Luke Rudowski, they don't really develop them much. But they do a good job of keeping themselves out of the documentary. There's no bias and no editorializing, and I think it's a pretty faithful representation of the lives of conspiracy theorists, which are, to say the least, weird.

Anyway, I'm feeling lazy, so I'm just going to upload the images I took while watching the movie on my computer in the order that I saved them and comment on some of them.
















Alex Jones yelling on his radio show. Some caller is trying to ask him a question, but can't a word through because Alex is obsessed with this creepy southern policemen impression he seems to be doing.


















This quote is from the scene where Alex Jones and his film crew are in the hotel where the Bilderberg group is supposed to be meeting the next day and then a fire alarm goes off and he starts freaking out because he thinks the government is coming after them. He says that when they checked in the hotel guy told him that sometimes the fire alarms just go off, which he thinks was a warning or something. He also keeps yelling "I'm in command." It's pretty scary.


















This is Geraldo flipping Alex Jones and other protesters the bird because they showed up to his outdoor filming and yelled "Down with the New World Order" or something through a bull horn.


















Here's Bill Clinton. He's giving some speech and the kid from Brooklyn starts yelling about the New World Order and 9/11, and Clinton says something like, "This is one of those guys that thinks it was an inside job. It wasn't an inside job. It was nineteen men..."

















Joe Biden. The Brooklyn Kid starts asking him tough questions at a press conference and be begins to argue with the kid before smiling and saying, "Get a life." I love Joe Biden.

















Young Alex Jones. Not a bad looking guy.


















The Brooklyn Kid getting kicked out of Clinton's press conference.
















This is an old ass dude named Jack McLamb who started a like separate society or something, where a bunch of old Christian people live together and don't like the government. He also believes in having a militia and says things like, "If you have not bought ammunition, if you have not bought guns, buy them now."

















Old couple that lives in John McLamb's thing. They sang a song about Jesus. One thing I learned is that a lot of conspiracy theorists are Jesus people too. But specifically the New World Order ones. I think they just don't like the government or something. Their basically reactionary conservatives. They're cute, but terrible.

















This kid is really upset about the New World Order.
















Clever.
















Give me liberty of give me death.
















A lot of New World Order people also have southern accents. This guy is actually crying.
















He was my favorite one. He was very sincere. I felt sympathy for him.
















This douche bag in the Hawaiian shirt claims that he was working in the Pentagon when the plane hit on 9/11 and then makes fun of Seth Jackson, the southern guy that I like, while he was handing out literature in New Orleans. Hawaiian shirt guy comes off as a total dick while Jackson very sincerely tries to tell him about what he's doing, but then he seems sort of discouraged because this douche bag is so relentless.
















Another Alex Jones quote.

Other non-image based hilights:

The Brooklyn Kid on Alex Jones: "He has sort of like a charisma, he has a very loud voice, and he's not afraid to say what's on his mind."

Irish New World Order film maker describing his obsession: "It's like an oyster with a piece of grit in it. It can't get rid of it and then it makes a pearl."

















"We will bring the darkness into the light."

I saw this episode of The Simpsons last night, which is a spoof on the Da Vinci Code. I actually read that book when it first came out, I think I had to for some reason, but I've never blogged about it or it's influence on the current popularity of conspiracy theories in tv and the internet and stuff. Oh, and National Treasure apparently, that Nicholas Cage movie, which I should probably watch, even though it looks terrible. The Simpsons does a good job with it though. Most of it is just a parody of the creepy catholic shit that happens in the Da Vinci Code, but they throw in this sort of NWO theory that George Washington, Ben Franklin, and the Kind of England staged the American revolution to cover their search for the gem that Lisa and a bunch of nuns are after. I guess it's not that funny.

alex jones/obama deception

I lazily titled my last post "Obamathon" in anticipation of watching a bunch of shit about Obama, and then put it off for a few days. I finally finished The Obama Deception, which is probably the worst conspiracy movie I've ever seen. More than any other I've seen, it's a haphazard collage of theories loosely tied together by the idea that Obama is just the latest installment of puppet leadership put in place by the banking elite in order to distract the masses from what is really going on. Though you have to give them credit for figuring out a way to include the Green movement into the New World Order. This is going to be inaccurate, but I think it has something to do with controlling energy resources or making people afraid or something. They even have one of those guys who scientifically explains why the current global warming is normal or something, after saying, "I'm not a scientist, but..." There's a lot of footage of Alex Jones. He's not exactly not charismatic, but his whining/yelling thing is just a little too much. Also the fact that he's made ten films that are all essentially the same thing. When I see this guy making his face blue behind a bull horn I really wonder what it is that makes him do this. His political position is so radical that no one takes it seriously (there was one cute girl at one of his rally's though), yet he plugs on, film after film. I mean, I assume he's making a living off of it. It's hard to believe that the whole thing could just be a gimmick. But it's not like it's hard. Anyone could come up with his theories, anyone could shoot and edit these terrible films. I still have to watch that New World Order movie, which I thought was a documentary about conspiracy theorists, but is apparently just another stupid New World Order film, but it has given me the idea of making a documentary about Alex Jones, trying to figure out what is really up with this dude. Too bad that would be a huge waste of my time. Anyone, onto the images and videos.




Apparently Richard Linklater likes Alex Jones, or at least thinks he's interesting. I vaguely remember this part of Waking Life. This is the second time I've talked about that movie on this blog. I tried to find out if Linklater actually buys into Alex Jones' theories and stuff, and while I think he sort of does*, he probably really doesn't. A Scanner Darkly is about technology and surveilance taking over modern life, but it's definitely not about the whole planet being turned into a prison as Alex Jones theorizes.




*article is from Alex Jones' own site

This is funny. I also tried to find out if there is any criticism or even acknowledgment of Alex Jones by anyone else, but I didn't find much, other than people who are actually crazier than he is, and kind of scary, like this anti-Semite.































My favorite part of The Obama Deception is the Jesse Ventura interview. Looks like it's from the first section. Ventura compares American politics to professional wrestling. It's all a show, he says, and behind the scenes they're all friends. I wasn't really paying attention, but when did Jesse Ventura stop being the governor of somewhere and become a weirdo who apparently lives in a trailer?















Professor Griff was also in this movie. He didn't make any sense. There were a few celebrities. KRS-One was in it a lot. I guess this happened. KRS was pretty outrageous, but also adept at using metaphor, hyperbole and synecdoche.
















Alex Jones uses a few aesthetic motifs over and over. Like all the other conspiracy movies. I wonder if he even bothers creating new source material for new films.















Aren't these guys menacing:
















I also like how he aped MySpace:















Is he trying to appeal to the younger generation? I'm pretty sure that's his only audience.

So I guess I'm saying don't watch this movie. I'm not sure if that's really what I'm supposed to be doing while I blog about conspiracy theories, but if it is, then I should say, don't bother watching this movie. Just watch Zeitgeist again.

Fuck the New World Order

Ha ha. Actually I'm getting really sick of the New World Order thing. All the conspiracies in the world leading to the same thing is boring and stupid. I'm watching Wake Up Call which is pretty disappointing, because it's entirely made of clips from other conspiracy movies. And The Matrix. The whole first section is just taken from Zeitgeist, like actually fifteen minutes straight or something, and it makes several more appearances. I'm sort of skimming through the sixteen YouTubes now. The creator, John Nada, also borrows from Loose Change, Monopoly Men, The Capitalist Conspiracy, and just about everything Alex Jones has ever done. Considering that it appears he has done almost no actual research aside from watching other people's conspiracy theory movies, I seriously question his motive in making Wake Up Call. Though his MySpace page does describe him as a "Researcher, writer, video editor, graphic/website designer, truth-seeker, free-thinker, dreamer." So I guess that makes sense.

This shit is like two and half hours long. What the fuck.

More Zeitgeist. I've already seen all of this shit.

Well, I have learned one thing.
















This guy, Louis McFadden, is quoted by Dylan Avery as being one of the few US Congressman who stood up against the Federal Reserve Act (which according to New World Order conspiracists is how the banker elite have turned the american people into slaves). But I just read McFadden's Wikipedia page, and apparently he believed that Jews controlled the banking system and secretly controlled the American economy and government. He also supported Hitler's anti-Jewish policies. So... Not exactly an upstanding guy. This is also funny considering Zeitgeist's portrayal of the Bush family's association with Nazi later in the film.

It's scary that these conspiracy theories often converge with anti-Semitism and other freaky shit. I guess the whole point is that these guys are crazy and paranoid. I see it is as fiction and they see it as reality. But it would be so much more entertaining to me if they would come up with some interesting shit. And a lot less frightening and depressing.

Oh, also, this guy, Jason Burke, apparently claims there's no such thing as Al Qaeda, which I've never heard before:

















I also really can't get over how stupid this whole RFID/gps chip thing is.

















I don't even feel like talking about it. I can't watch this anymore. Maybe I'll have energy to watch that Obama one and the Alex Jones one later.

















"That you are a slave Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind."

Also:

Wake Up Call/The Matrix

I also found this. I don't know anything about it yet, but it contains the entire blue pill/red pill scene from the Matrix, as it's introduction, which is amazing.

I've never talked about the Matrix at all, because I saw it when I was fourteen, enjoyed it, and then never thought about it again, but it is kind of the ultimate conspiracy, or at least it's a metaphor for all other conspiracies, the paranoia of knowing or believing that some secret thing is actually controlling reality. And the idea "taking the red pill" or seeking the truth is heroic is interesting to consider when talking about a dude like Alex Jones or any of the YouTube conspiracists.

New Documentaries to Watch

It's been a confusing day on YouTube.com for this blogger. I've been reading a lot recently, which sort of means that I haven't been watching conspiracy movies, but I did find a book called The Rough Guide to Conspiracy Theories, so I remembered about this whole thing.

That Obama movie is by Alex Jones, who I've been aware of for a long time, but was never really that interested in. He's a journalist who might be considered ever so slightly more respectable to mainstream journalism than say, whoever that guy who made YouTube about Masonic architecture in DC, using white text on a blue screen. But he has a big website and is probably pretty influential within the actual conspiracist community (which still hasn't reached out to me). Anyway, I got confused because I found this movie, which features Alex Jones, but isn't actually about him or made by him:



Which I only really figured out by reading the user comments on the YouTube, so that's not exactly a reliable source. Anyway, I'm excited about watching both of them (full versions also on YouTube), and possibly blogging about them.

Also, I'm excited about this movie, because while watching most of the trailer, for some reason I had the idea that it was a documentary about conspiracist "film makers", which would have been awesome, and something I probably should have thought about doing, but I think it's actually just a movie about the New World Order.

Alex Jones' site.