I certainly agree with Menkit that this is an excellent article.
In regard to Alex Jones, I find him a courageous and likeable figure who is highly credible in most regards and certainly far more credible than almost any high profile corporate or government journalist that anyone can name. However, my mind remains undecided about some aspects of the global conspiracies of which he talks.
I take strong exception to his dismissal of concerns about population growth. Part of the conspiracy by the world's elites, according to Alex Jones is a plan to wipe out most of the world's current population. Whilst I wouldn't rule that out altogether, I need to see the evidence.
Unfortunately, those of us who argue, on the basis of the best available evidence, that the earth's human population has most likely badly overshot the earth's carrying capacity and therefore we stand a serious risk of having the world's population decline catastrophically unless we act very quickly and decisively to stabilise the world's population, are at risk of being tarred with the same brush by Alex Jones and likeminded people such as those who operate Truth News Radio Australia. This unfortunately happened to Sustainable Population Australia (SPA) President as a consequence of her statement that Australia's natural capacity was likely to be 7 million, rather than the current 21 million as Tim Flannery has also argued. The podcast dated 30 Apr 09 can be downloaded from here.
After the broadcast, I posted some comments in defence of Sandra Kanck on that page and a brief discussion ensued.
RMS Titanic is still taking passengers, and will sink faster
The electorate are being silenced by "political correctness". It is not "nice" to criticise population growth as people must reproduce, and it is "racist" to suggest that we stop immigration that is boosting our numbers! We hear little about environmental or biodiversity concerns from the growth lobby. On one hand, we are supposed to be reducing greenhouse gases, but on the other hand the growth lobby want to continually "grow" our economy through population growth and continual building and land developments. We can't swim against the tide! More people means more natural resource plundering, more jobs needed, more energy needed, more logging and more mining and wildlife threats. The RMS Titanic, our mother-Earth ship, is still taking on passengers but will sink faster when it hits the iceburg of ecological collapse!