(Melchizedek Communique, MC021010) Various kooks and kookery is in the news, beginning with one Rabbi Kook (image, left). Rabbi Kook is not an actual kook, apparently. It's just that "Kook" is his name.

Newsweek reports, as of February 9, 2010, "Never mind Sarah Palin and the tricornered hats. The tea-party movement is dominated by conspiracist kooks." President Barack Obama and his environmentalist minions; the rightward strain of the "9/11 Truth" movement; a new currency called the Amero; "birthers" who doubt Obama was born in the United States: These are some of the tea party beliefs uncovered by Newsweek reporter Jonathan Kay. [1]

"I rolled my eyes at this one-off kook," describes Mr. Kay in his Newsweek report. [1]

Michael Jackson was an obvious kook in his last years. And now, Jackson's father reportedly claims a conspiracy in his son's death. Dr Conrad Murray has been made a "fall guy" for what is just one part of a bigger conspiracy, Joe Jackson reportedly believes. "Joe told US TV talk show host Larry King: 'He [Michael Jackson] was afraid to even do all of these shows, because he was afraid that he wouldn't get a chance to finish all of them. He couldn't do all those shows back-to-back. Even his kids say that he had told them that he would be murdered.'" [2]

Mother Jones magazine reports, "A Conspiracy Theory About a Secret Police Force Has Ignited a Firestorm of Right-Wing Paranoia." The right-wing blogosphere is fuming about Executive Order 12425, signed by Obama in December 2009. Interpol is granted special privileges within the United States. The kooky fear is that Obama intends to use Interpol as a "secret police" with the power to knock down doors and arrest law-abiding American citizens. [3]

Let us be clear: The Melchizedek Communique editor himself is a kook, and proud of it.

In the previous Communique was reported how an upcoming World War III is the true "jobs creation plan" being advanced in Washington, DC. (Background: "If You Had a Friend Like Ben (Bernanke)", http://www.shout.net/~bigred/mc020910.html). Now, another kooky fellow seems to agree that a war between Iran and the United States, Europe and Israel is on the horizon. Sean Hyman, writing at Moneynews, foresees Obama needs an image overhaul and war escalation would do the trick. Reportedly, "there’s a Senate bill (S. 2799) that could help to speed up a war between the U.S. and Iran." [4]

One man who is obviously not a kook is Rush Limbaugh, since he keeps calling everyone else a kook. (If you call other people "kooks" then you, ipso facto, are not a kook.) But how will the controversial radio host handle World War III? Nothing kooky about war, is there? So Limbaugh will have to support our Commander-in-Chief, Barack Obama.

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[1] "Black Helicopters Over Nashville", by Jonathan Kay. Newsweek, Feb. 9, 2010
http://www.newsweek.com/id/233331
[2] "Jackson's father claims conspiracy in son's death", Ireland Online, Feb. 9, 2010
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/jacksons-father-claims-conspiracy-in-sons-death-445472.html
[3] "A Conspiracy Theory About a Secret Police Force Has Ignited a Firestorm of Right-Wing Paranoia", by Stephanie Mencimer. Mother Jones, Feb. 9, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/news/145590/a_conspiracy_theory_about_a_secret_police_force_has_ignited_a_firestorm_of_right-wing_paranoia
[4] "Winds of War Could Fuel Dollar Rally", by Sean Hyman. Moneynews, Feb. 8, 2010
http://moneynews.com/SeanHyman/sean-hyman-dollar-iran/2010/02/08/id/349287