07.10.11

Caught spamming: EMP Crazies and/or Fiat money kooks

Posted in Crazy Weapons, Extremism, Fiat money fear and loathers, Imminent Catastrophe at 9:32 am by George Smith

Perhaps it’s the heat.

In any case, the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy has been getting caught in the DD blog spam filter this week, first for its Internet radio show.

And now for a techno-thriller posted on-line, written by someone who cleaves to the “Ludwig Van Mises Institute,” an eye-rolling place dedicated to promoting goldbuggism and persuading assorted nuts plutocrats to hide their money in tax-dodge banking nations like Switzerland and Lichtenstein.

Here’s the spam synopsis:

“A short story showing how powerful elite Washington & London interests and central bankers could manipulate American foreign policy using a black flag event in order to guarantee the American dollar remains the world’s reserve currency. Follow what could be the next Middle East conflict in the Persian Gulf region involving the US, UK & Iran over the dollar and oil reserves and the resulting [electromagnetic pulse attack] attack and world financial crisis starting in the Middle East.”

Yeah, I know, I can’t follow the logic, either.

Be that as it may, there are threads connecting the Cult of EMP Crazy and the fiat money kooks. They mostly have to do with extreme right philosophies about imminent catastrophe linked to conspiracy from the Middle East and the collapse of American civilization. And, of course, the dollar.

DD spent a couple minutes reading the story, or what there is of it.

A poor man’s piece of Tom Clancy fan fiction, it’s a tale of a provoked war with Iran. Iran retaliates by launching an electromagnetic pulse attack on the oil fields, rather than the usual target — the United States.

The price of gold soars, the dollar “dies” and that’s the end of the installment.

There’s a stalwart old general, set up to be the hero, who doesn’t do anything in the first chapter but worry about US currency and sovereign debt.

A sample. so you get the drift (no link — Google it if you must):

Later following the 2008 financial crash [the general] delved even into finance and politics with Wood’s Meltdown book and then Ron Paul’s End the Fed. Although he didn’t vote for Ron Paul in 2008 because he thought it improper to mix politics with military service, he had begun to get a thorough education in what had happened to the Constitution and his country he had sworn an allegiance to defend.

He privately attended several Mises Institute events and when at home logged on to read The Mises Blog, LewRockwell.com and The Daily Bell almost every day. He read Hayek and Ludwig von Mises including even Human Action.

That’s draw-you-in stuff.

I also leaned William Forstchen’s One Second After is Mahmoud Ahmedinejad’s favorite English-language book. Presumably because it’s about the end of American civilization after an electromagnetic pulse attack.

If you dig around enough in this type of material, eventually you find the Ludwig Van Mises fiat money kooks are, like the Cult of EMP Crazy, very fond of videos with high production values.

For example, here’s one (do go see it for a titter) that illustrates the world view of the paranoid follower of Van Mises nicely, while also advertising other spell-binding video tales with titles like Dollar Death Blow, Freedom Assassins, and Internet Kill Switch.

I was hoping for some stuff on achieving and preserving wealth through Bitcoins. But alas, not obviously among the titles.

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