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Paranoid? Don't Worry; It's All Under Control

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By Peter Carlson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 19, 2008; Page C01

Have you seen the latest issue of Paranoia magazine?

No? Well, that's not surprising, is it? There's a very good reason why
you haven't seen it: They don't want you to see it. They know that
Paranoia exposes them and their secret conspiracies to control every
aspect of human life.

Who are they? Good question. That's exactly what they don't want you
to know. And it's exactly what Paranoia reveals in every issue. They
are the secret government. They are the Freemasons, the CIA, the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, the New World
Order, the Secret Council of Ten. They are the people who killed JFK,
who covered up the truth about UFOs, who plotted the attacks of 9/11.
They control the world and everything in it, including your mind
unless you've got a tinfoil hat like the one I'm wearing right now to
prevent them from bombarding my brain with secret mind-control rays.

Wait a minute . . . where was I? Oh, right, Paranoia magazine. It's an
incredible magazine, founded in 1992, circulation 15,000, published
three times a year and packed with the kind of information that the
mainstream media won't tell you because they are part of them.

The latest issue reveals a secret Pentagon plot to control the weather
with radio signals. It also reveals the secret connection between the
JFK assassination and "the contamination of the polio vaccine with
cancer-causing monkey viruses."

This issue of Paranoia also reveals that David Icke, the British
conspiracy theorist who disclosed in a previous issue of Paranoia that
the queen of England is really a shape-shifting Satanic reptile, is
himself funded by money that comes from the Rockefellers, who Icke had
previously identified as "reptilian full-bloods." It kinda makes you
wonder about Icke, doesn't it?

And that's not all. The new issue of Paranoia also has a story about
Lt. Col. Tom Bearden a "microphysics wizard" who has revealed that "1)
Nothing contains everything" and "2) we can get something for
nothing." Bearden is a genius who knows how to get unlimited free
energy but his knowledge is suppressed by what he calls "an agency
with a three letter acronym."

Now, I know you're thinking "that sounds crazy," but the article on
Bearden wasn't written by some nut. It was written by Iona Miller, who
is a "hypnotherapist" and "multimedia artist" who describes her work
as a combination of "new physics, biophysics, paramedia, philosophy,
cosmology, healing, creativity, qabalah, magick, metaphysics and
society." So obviously she knows her stuff.

But one thing bothers me: Why do the editors call their publication
Paranoia? Doesn't that sort of suggest that you'd have to be, you
know, crazy to believe the stuff they print?

I decided to ask the co-editors, Joan D'Arc and Al Hidell. I called
and Joan D'Arc answered. Well, I wasn't born yesterday so I knew that
name was fake -- a subtle reference to Joan of Arc. So I asked her:
"What's your real name?" She refused to tell me.

"You must surely realize that there are people out there who hate us
and would want to harm us."

She told me that editing Paranoia was not a full-time job so I asked
her what she did for a living.
"I'm not at liberty to discuss that," she said.

Apparently, when you're exposing the secret government you can't be
too careful. D'Arc told me that Paranoia was born in 1992 in
Providence, R.I., where she ran an alternative bookstore called
Newspeak, which hosted weekly meetings of the Providence Conspiracy
League. The league started collecting conspiracy information and
storing it in a big loose-leaf binder with a picture of Lee Harvey
Oswald on the cover. And the binder led to the magazine.

I asked her why the magazine is called Paranoia and she said that her
co-editor, Al Hidell, named it and I should talk to him. She added
that Al Hidell was not his real name.

I called Hidell, who confirmed that Al Hidell is a pseudonym that he
chose because it was one of Oswald's aliases. He also wouldn't reveal
his real name or his day job. "I work a nondescript office job," he
said, "but I can't say anymore."

So I asked why he gave the magazine a name that seems to cast doubt
on, you know, the sanity of its writers and the readers.

"I thought of it as a kind of preemptive war of words," he said. "I
knew that people would call us paranoid so I kind of embraced the
word."

Are you paranoid? I asked him.

"I'd describe myself as a suspicious person," he said, "but not
paranoid in any clinical way."

Hidell and D'Arc represent different wings of the conspiracy theories
movement. "She's more into the speculative paranormal end of things,"
he said. "I'm more of a meat-and-potatoes politics, international
relations and secret societies kind of guy."

Together, they attempt to publish a "provocative, unpredictable mix"
of conspiracy theories. "We try not to have a house conspiracy style,"
he said.

Hidell admitted that he doesn't believe all the conspiracy theories
advanced in the pages of Paranoia. For instance, he's a little
skeptical of Icke's theory that the queen of England and the
Rockefellers are really shape-shifting Satanic reptiles from outer
space. But then he adds this about Icke: "For all we know, he's
putting all that in purposely so people think he's just a nut and he
can keep publishing."

Whoa! I never thought of that! Heavy, man!

Since he and D'Arc founded Paranoia 15 years ago, Hidell said, the
mainstream media has become very interested in conspiracy theories. He
mentioned the TV show "The X-Files" and the History Channel's
documentaries on secret societies, and, of course, "The Da Vinci
Code."

"Why are 'they' allowing conspiracy theories to go mainstream?" he
asked. "If there is a group that controls the world -- and I'm not
saying there is -- they're probably not going to allow movies to be
made about themselves, are they?"

He chuckled when he said that. But after I hung up, I got to thinking:
What if he's right? And if they don't want movies made about
themselves, they probably don't want to see their evil deeds exposed
in Paranoia either. Does that mean that Paranoia is . . . part of the
conspiracy? Could Paranoia be printing false conspiracy theories to
throw us all off the trail of the real conspiracies?

Oh, man, thinking about all this stuff makes my head hurt. I'm gonna
stop now and go put another layer of tinfoil in my hat, just in case.

I don't know what's going on at the Post, but they seem to be coming
around, .... Or maybe getting ready for a little bit of MB street
theater?]

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