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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2011, 09:57:43 pm »
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I'd much rather believe the whole Prince connection before the Sickert evidence.

 
Heck, I'd believe Queen Victoria herself did it before Sickert.


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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #16 on: September 17, 2011, 01:00:58 pm »
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I think her evidence was along the lines of "his paintings creep me out so he must have sliced and diced at least one prostitute."


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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2012, 09:24:44 am »
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How many do you know? What are they?


Let us not forget the Big Brother theory ....
While I'm sure the government could watch my every move if they wanted to (and I have reason the believe both the Secret Service and Massad have check me out at least once), I doubt very much that they would find me interesting enough to spend much man power on  

But I think the best one I've heard is about the alien race, from Andromeda, no less, that is going to flood our skies with UFOs if Congress doesn't admit the reality of their existence :eek:
I find it difficult to believe that the universe is so boring that a race with intimate knowledge of such a vast region of space would take more than a passing interest in our political wranglings

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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2012, 04:50:28 pm »
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I've always been fascinated by the whole "aternative theory" stuff. I only know of one, though. (The second gun man on the grassy knoll.)

How many do you know? What are they?


Well, my older sister is a complete conspiracy buff. Not only she believes every stupid theory she reads on the Internet, but she also has the need to share her views on the matter with other family members.
Not that she's paranoid, she's more the gulible type I guess.
 
That said, I have already heard that:

-Ancient Gods are really aliens and ancient monuments are really a way/ portal/map/device to comunicate with them.

-Vaccines can kill you or render you autistic, because this is a ploy from big pharmaceutical corporations to keep making cash.

- Every powerfull person on earth (politicians, kings, big corporate directors, etc) are in fact evil aliens (reptiles?) and are here to make us their slaves.

- The 9/11 was an inside job intended on deploying the war on terrorism...'cuz you know all Americans really want is Oil.

- I also heard the one about Diana being murdered by a lackey of the Queen.

- Then there's the ultra secret group made of super secret powerfull masonic orders that want to rule the world.

- The one about Obama being a radical muslim in disguise.

- That Tesla actually had the plans to make HAARP.

- HAARP being a real thing.

and... that's all I can remenber right now.
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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2012, 05:38:45 pm »
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HAARP being a real thing.


Well, HAARP is a real thing, but whether it is powerful enough to make any noticable change in the weather (let alone earth quakes) is doubtful

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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2012, 05:43:40 pm »
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Well, HAARP is a real thing, but whether it is powerful enough to make any noticable change in the weather (let alone earth quakes) is doubtful

 
That last part was what I meant. I mean yes, HAARP is real and yet, I have my doubts that it caused the tsunami that wrecked Japan last year...which was what I was trying to get at.
I forgot to elaborate, because sometimes I assume people know what I'm talking about. Sorry. :o
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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2012, 06:03:45 pm »
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I forgot to elaborate, because sometimes I assume people know what I'm talking about. Sorry.


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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #22 on: January 25, 2012, 06:21:13 pm »
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Every powerfull person on earth (politicians, kings, big corporate directors, etc) are in fact evil aliens (reptiles?) and are here to make us their slaves.

 
Look at it this way:
If the alien race in question is capable of Faster Than Light travel, they have mastered technology we aren't even sure is possible ....
If they are not capable of Faster Than Light travel, then they will have been coming for a very long time with no intention of going home empty handed, and will probably have brought an armada to ensure their success

Either way, their conquest is unlikely to be subtle ....
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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #23 on: January 30, 2012, 02:23:16 am »
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I've always been fascinated by the whole "aternative theory" stuff. I only know of one, though. (The second gun man on the grassy knoll.)

How many do you know? What are they?


Oh man I know a ton...  Expanding Earth theory, which I think is pretty interesting... and in turn... Hollow Earth theory which states that the earth is hollow and there is a interior sun and intelligent life.  

The Philadelphia Experiment....  perpetual motion exists.... Planet X or Nibiru.... Bob Marley was assassinated....  JFK was assassinated because
 he wanted to either...
 a.)  Wanted to tell the American people about alien contact
b.)  Wanted to change the monetary system from the Fed (which is corporate) to a national bank.  
c.) He pissed off the mob
d.) was going to tell people about alien bases on the moon.

Also that he was assassinated by the vice president....  whose name is completely escaped me right now...  (Johnson?)
 
Finally the Zeitgeist movies I wouldn't necessarily call this last one a conspiracy theory but worth checking out.

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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #24 on: May 14, 2012, 09:48:40 am »
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The only one I can think of off the top of my head is that the Queen had Princess Diana killed to stop her from marrying a muslim and embarrassing the Royal Family.

I believe the Royal Family were responsible for Diana's death. I'm not sure about the reason behind it, or the involvement of the Queen, but I definitely wouldn't put it past Charles...
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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #26 on: May 25, 2012, 04:22:55 pm »
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I don't want to start an argument, but I wouldn't mind hearing the premise behind them...

 
I have some.  I'll do one for now, but there's another major one if you're interested.  If I put them both at once, this post will end up the length of a thesis!

I'm always somewhat reluctant to mention the first.  Simply because it involves Bin Laden/al-Qaeda and I don't want to be lumped in with the Troofers.  (To be clear, I do think that al-Qaeda carried out 9/11 and I don't believe it was in any way a 'false flag' operation, let alone the theories about controlled explosions, hologram planes etc.)  But I do think there's a strong chance that CIA funding, and possibly even training, went to al-Qaeda in the 1980's via Operation Cyclone.  (Along with funding from MI6, the SAS, Saudi Arabia & China).

There's several reasons for that.  I find the official line that the funding (which was massive, approximately $630 million a year at its height) only went native mujahideen and none went to foreign fighters highly unconvincing.  Apart from anything else, how can you possibly be sure of that?  Especially when you consider that the CIA favoured Islamist mujahideen over the more non-ideological ones.  Partly because Pakistan did and they were closely cooperating with them.  

There's also the Gulbuddin Hekmatyar issue.  Hekmatyar undoubtedly received a disproportionate amount of the US aid provided, via the ISI (Pakistan's intelligence services).  He also received much of the aid provided by Saudi Arabia, who liked his Islamic fundamentalism.  Now, according to studies on Hekymatyar, he had very little grassroots support within Afghanistan during the war.  Not only does this mean he was more reliant on the foreign funding then other militia leaders, it also makes it likely that at least some of his fighters weren't local Afghans.   It's a matter of record that camps were set up by Pakistan, with US, Saudi and UK backing, to train his militia.  So even if foreign fighters weren't being directly trained (which seems unlikely to me), the aid and training that went to Heymatyar's Hezb-i islami is going to have ended up having had an effect there.

And there's a significant body of evidence that Heymatyar had links with Bin Laden and al-Qaeda, although that's complicated by the fact that he (in my view) is fond of making fantastical claims to puff up his own significance.  Still, in 2002 US intelligence sources said he'd been trying to join al-Qaeda.  In 2003 the US requested that the United Nations Committee on Terrorism declare him a "global terrorist" and an associate of Bin Laden.  In 2007 he claimed that his fighters had helped Bin Laden escape from the Tora Bora mountains five years earlier.  So I think it's clear that he does have al-Qaeda links, it's simply a question of whether these are all post Afghan Civil War or if they actually started while he was being funded by the US.

The final factor I'd put forward is the strange case of Ali Mohamed.  It's known now he was a double agent for both the CIA and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad as well as being an FBI informant. He was a major in the Egyptian army, but was discharged in 1984 for suspected fundamentalism.  He then entered the US on a visa-waiver program, that was sponsored by the CIA for those people that were believed to have performed important services for the US.  From there, he married an American woman and got citizenship.  Then he signed up for the US army in 1986 and joined special forces.    In 1988, he told his superiors that he was going on leave to fight Soviets in Afghanistan.  According to his then commanding officer, Lt. Colonel. Robert Anderson, he reported this to intelligence services and was ignored:

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I think you or I would have a better chance of winning Powerball (a lottery), than an Egyptian major in the unit that assassinated Sadat would have getting a visa, getting to California . . . getting into the Army and getting assigned to a Special Forces unit," he said. "That just doesn't happen. "

It was equally unthinkable that an ordinary American GI would go unpunished after fighting in a foreign war, he said.

Anderson said all this convinced him that Mohamed was "sponsored" by a U.S. intelligence service. "I assumed the CIA," he said.


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While this was all going on, Mohamed took maps and training manuals off US military bases, which he later used to train al-Qaeda fighters and to write their training guides. Eventually, he was charged with involvement in the 1998 US Embassy bombings and entered a guilty plea in 2000.  

So far, this would look like a classic, if tragic, double agent case; of someone who took in his intelligence handlers.  Apart from one important factor.  While there's a record of Mohamed's trial, there is no record of sentencing or even a conviction.  According to his wife, Linda Sanchez, he still hadn't been sentenced in 2006.  Since then, he's just gone off the radar completely.

So, to recap, we have someone who worked for US intelligence and definitely did have al-Qaeda links, where it looks like his trial for terrorist offences is simply never going to happen.

There are two main arguments against the suggest of CIA training of al-Qaeda.

The first is that both the US government and al-Qaeda deny it.  My response to that is, well, they would.  For separate reasons, both parties there have strong motivation to deny any links, if there are some.  Obviously, they would also deny it if there weren't any in the first place.  So my view there is it's neither evidence for or against my theory.

The other is the suggestion that there wasn't any US (and other western interests) funding/training of al-Qaeda, because all money was given out by the Pakistani government.  That I think is a half-truth.  Certainly, I think that's where the bulk of the money was channelled through.  It's missing the point deliberately though, it still leaves the question of what the SIS were doing with their resources.  What I do find very unconvincing is the related argument that it wouldn't have been possible for the CIA to train mujahideen, because the Pakistanis were only prepared for them to have a handful of agents in the area.  We're talking about an agency with high levels of experience and skill in covert operations.  It would be entirely possible for them to operate against the wishes of the Pakistani government.

To conclude, I'm going to move firmly into the realms of speculation.  So what do I think happened?  My current view is that there was definitely funding and weapons, and probably direct training, that went to some of the mujahideen that later went on to become al-Qaeda.  (It's worth remembering that al-Qaeda is a loose network of Islamist terrorists, not a centralised organisation).  At the time, this would have seemed sensible.  In the context of the Cold War, Islamists weren't seen as the priority by those making foreign policy or the intelligence services.  So funding them to undermine the Soviets would have been relatively uncontroversial and the time.  Whether that went to Bin Laden directly or not is difficult to say- there's little evidence either way.  I also don't think there's the evidence to back up some of the wilder claims about him having been a CIA asset himself.  Instead, I suspect that Bin Laden and al-Qaeda largely slipped off the radar once the Afghan civil war ended.  And then 9/11 happened.  At which point, there was a lot of people suddenly realising that this was not something that they wanted to come out.  So, really, as much cock-up as conspiracy.

The one issue that doesn't really answer is the case of Ali Mohamed.  I'm still working out what I think about that; the information's a lot newer to me than the other stuff.  Provisionally, what I suspect is that he has information too important to pass up and so has been able to plea bargain his way out of a prison sentence.  He's almost certainly in the witness protection scheme now with a new identity, although he can expect to be under full surveillance from the FBI/CIA for the rest of his life.
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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2013, 03:47:18 pm »
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Well, HAARP is a real thing, but whether it is powerful enough to make any noticable change in the weather (let alone earth quakes) is doubtful

 
Well, you know HAARP is really supposed to be a weapon to psychically disrupt the mind waves of entire armies - or nations - and thereby making them easier to control...

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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #28 on: January 24, 2013, 12:54:17 am »
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I've always been fascinated by the whole "alternative theory" stuff. I only know of one, though. (The second gun man on the grassy knoll.)

How many do you know? What are they?


1) The latest one I keep hearing is that the Sandy Hook shooting was staged.
2) JFK was killed by the CIA. (due to something to do with equal rights or something...)
3) Reality is actually The Matrix. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2216189/Do-live-Matrix-researchers-say-way-prove-do.html
4) The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were done for Oil, not to overthrow a dictator or for anything else.
5) 9/11 was an inside job.

Those are what I can think of. :p
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Re: What Kind of Conspiracy THeories Do You Know?
« Reply #29 on: August 01, 2013, 02:56:45 pm »
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I've always been fascinated by the whole "aternative theory" stuff. I only know of one, though. (The second gun man on the grassy knoll.)

How many do you know? What are they?

1. 9/11 was an inside job. Okay guys, forgive me for I was young and in college, but I actually did a paper for one of my classes where I drew parallels between the events leading up to and following 9-11 and those leading up to and following The Reichstag Fire. I remember getting an "A" on the paper, but I think that was because it was technically sound (grammar, spelling, structure, citation) more than anything else. So there, I've admitted my sin.

2. The Nation of Islam's creation "myth." I like to think I'm a fairly tolerant person but this story (and I use that very lightly) isn't taken at some kind of allegory but as truth. I call it conspiracy since it leads those who believe in it to create wild spins of history that make NO SENSE what-so-ever and are downright offensive like;

a) Jews were responsible for the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade. (And not, you know, the Scottish family/clan whose last name I STILL carry.)
b) AIDS was created by Europeans to wipe out all of African civilization.
c) The struggle of African Americans was foretold in the Bible. (The pedantic angst of the Silver Surfer is also in the Bible but the references are just as vague.)
d) Jews control banking and finance and make it their personal mission to continue the degredation and oppression of the black race. (My husband and I get a good laugh out of this one. Now when he says it's my turn to feed the cats, I yell at him to stop oppressing me and he yells at me to stop blaming him for all of my problems.)

3. All of the founding fathers were part of an elite secret society that worshipped Santa Satan.

4. Jay Z and Beyonce are part of the Illuminati.
a) So is Barack Obama
b) Most musicians actually.
c) And maybe your mom.

5. Fema concentration camps.
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