The newest conspiracy theory is a doozy! This website is ‘reporting’ that Russian sources say the US cut the Internet affecting much of the Middle East and S. Asia because the Saudis ‘threatened’ to decouple oil prices from the dollar. The ‘meme’ of the US causing the outage is rippling around the fringes of the Internet. This is sheer lunacy.

It just so happens that there’ve been a series of posts at Volokh Conspiracy on the issue of political ignorance. One of the most recent posts, by Prof. Ilya Somin, bears directly on the topic of political ignorance and conspiracy theories. I recommend strongly that you take the time to read Political Ignorance and Belief in Conspiracy Theory. If you’ve a bit more time, search that site for other posts in the series, using ‘Political Ignorance’ as your search term.

US Crashes Internet In Middle East After Saudi Threat, Russia Responds With Air Forces
Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

Reports circulating in the Kremlin today are painting a grim picture of just how desperate US War Leaders have become as their economy continues its freefall towards total bankruptcy by their crashing of Global Internet access for the Middle East’s banking centers in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Iran, UAR, Turkey and Kuwait.

These reports state that the Americans became ‘enraged’ this past week when the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) rejected US demands for an immediate increase in oil production.

Further angering the Americans this past week was Turkey’s rejection of US demands for them to sever banking ties with Iran’s Bank Mellat, and which allows Iranian continued access to Global banking resources.

But, these reports state, the greatest fears of the United States were raised this past week when Saudi Arabia ‘warned’ the United States to ‘back off’ of its threats against Iran or face the Saudi’s decoupling the US Dollar from its enormous World oil trade transactions.
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