Following on from our popular Top 10 Conspiracy Theories list, we are now presenting you with another 10. While the theories on this list may not be as well known as the first list, I think many of them are a lot more interesting. So, without further ado, another 10 conspiracy theories.
10. Paul is Dead
“Paul is dead” is an urban legend alleging that Paul McCartney of the British rock band The Beatles died in 1966 and was replaced by a look-alike and sound-alike. Evidence for McCartney’s death consists of “clues” found among the Beatles’ many recordings, most of which are treated as if they were deliberately placed by The Beatles or others. Literally hundreds have been cited at various times by various people. They include statements allegedly heard when a song is played backwards, symbolism found in obscure lyrics, and ambiguous imagery on album covers. A few of them are well known, such as the fact that McCartney is the only barefooted Beatle and is out of step with the others on the cover of Abbey Road.
9. Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways’ third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London’s Heathrow International Airport to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. On Wednesday December 21, 1988, the aircraft flying this route—a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas—was destroyed by a bomb. The remains landed in and around the town of Lockerbie in southern Scotland. A theory for which no evidence has been produced suggests that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had set up a protected drug route from Europe to the United States—allegedly called Operation Corea—which allowed Syrian drug dealers, led by Monzer al-Kassar (who was involved with Oliver North in the Iran-Contra scandal) to ship heroin to the U.S. using Pan Am flights, in exchange for intelligence on Palestinian groups based in Syria. The CIA allegedly protected the suitcases containing the drugs and made sure they were not searched. On the day of the bombing, as the theory goes, terrorists exchanged suitcases: one with drugs for one with a bomb. Another version of this theory is that the CIA knew in advance this exchange would take place, but let it happen anyway, because the protected drugs route was a rogue operation, and the American intelligence officers on PA 103 – Matthew Gannon and Maj. Charles McKee – had found out about it, and were on their way to Washington to tell their superiors.
8. Peak Oil is a Lie
There are theories that the “Peak Oil” concept is a fraud concocted by the oil industries to increase prices amid concerns about future supplies. The oil industry supposedly is aware of vast reserves of untapped oil, but does not utilize them, so that they can maintain the illusion of artificial scarcity. Parallels are drawn between this and the diamond industry, where it is recognized that a monopoly cabal maintain an illusion of artificial scarcity of diamonds, in order to increase their value.
7. AIDS is Manmade
There are claims that AIDS is a man-made disease (i.e. created by scientists in a laboratory). Some of these theories allege that HIV was created by a conspiratorial group or by a secretive agency such as the CIA. It is thought to have been created as a tool of genocide and/or population control. Other theories suggest that the virus was created as an experiment in biological and/or psychological warfare, and then escaped into the population at large by accident. Some who believe that HIV was a government creation see a precedent for it in the Tuskegee syphilis study, in which government-funded researchers deceptively denied treatment to black patients infected with a sexually transmitted disease. It has been claimed that the CIA deliberately administered the HIV virus to African Americans and homosexuals in the 1970s, via tainted hepatitis vaccinations. Groups such as the New Black Panther Party and Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam assert that this was part of a plan to destroy the black race. Others claim that it was administered in Africa as a way of crippling the development of that continent.
6. Water Fluoridation
Fluoride is commonly added to drinking water in the United States and other countries. It is usually justified by drawing attention to the positive benefits to teeth, reducing tooth decay. There is evidence to suggest that fluoridating the water supply may be harmful for those using it, particularly children. There are conspiracy theories that this information is known and recognised by those responsible for adding the fluoride, but that they continue the practice regardless. Drug companies have been targetted as possible beneficiaries, as they will profit from a population with ill-health. Another motive that has been suggested relates to the evidence suggesting that fluoride lowers mental ability: that fluoridation is, by design, used to “dumb down” the population.
5. Drug Company Deceptions
A popular conspiracy theory suggests that drug companies are intentionally not producing cures for a variety of diseases (such as AIDS and cancer) because they profit so heavily from the drugs used to treat the symptoms of these illnesses. Additionally, other medical conspiracies charge that the pharmaceutical companies are in league with some medical practicioners to ‘invent’ new diseases, such as ADD, ADHD in order to increase the userbase of their medications. While most people consider the drug companies to be the primary drivers in this deception, some believe that there is also government involvement due to tax revenues.
4. Chemtrails
The Chemtrail conspiracy theory claims that some trails left behind jet aircraft are different in appearance and quality from those of normal contrails, may be composed of harmful chemicals, and are being deliberately produced, and covered up by the government. These unusual trails are referred to as “chemtrails” (a portmanteau of “chemical trails”). The term specifically refers to systematic, high-altitude dumping of unknown substances for undisclosed purposes, resulting in the appearance of these unusual contrails. Chemtrail advocates say these trails are often laid down in patterns, such as grids, Xs and crosshatches.
3. The Everlasting Light Bulb
Almost since the beginning of the light bulb there have been theories that state that technology relating to an everlasting light bulb is being suppressed in order to keep a strong hold on the profit margins of the bulb manufacturers. This theory has been given some weight due to the Phoebus Cartel which was a cartel of, among others, Osram, Philips and General Electric from December 23, 1924 until 1939 that existed to control the manufacture and sale of light bulbs. The cartel reduced competition in the light bulb industry for almost twenty years. The cartel has featured in fictional works which makes the line between fact and fiction difficult to discern.
2. Iraq – a War for Oil
In recent times, wars in the Middle East such as the Gulf War and the invasion of Iraq have been described as wars for oil. In many cases, critics have accused the U.S. of engaging in realpolitik in the cynical sense of political action without regard for principle or morals. It has been suggested that war is a perfect way of distracting citizens, as an electoral tactic, from difficulties facing the then current administration. This premise is the basis of the film Wag the Dog, and the Orwell novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
1. The New World Order
This popular conspiracy theory claims that a small group of international elites controls and manipulates governments, industry and media organisations worldwide. The primary tool they use to dominate nations is the system of central banking. They are said to have funded and in some cases caused most of the major wars of the last 200 years, primarily through carrying out false flag attacks to manipulate populations into supporting them, and have a grip on the world economy, deliberately causing inflation and depressions at will. The people behind the New World Order are thought to be international bankers, in particular the owners of the private banks in the Federal Reserve System, Bank of England and other central banks, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group.
Afterword
No one really knows what causes people to become so fascinated with conspiracy theories. What is known, however, is that they can become so popular as to be considered a form of mass hysteria. Use the comments below to tell us if you believe in any of the theories suggested here.
This article is licensed under the GFDL because it contains quotations from the Wikipedia articles: Phoebus Cartel, Pan Am Flight 103, Paul is Dead, and Conspiracy Theories.
@devon
Maybe because Sadam could have got more powerful with all of that oil? Because oil companies which financed Bush would lose large part of the world’s oil cake?
or do you think they attacked Iraq because they care about people that live there? or because of the chemical weapons which were never found? And they even said that America didn’t have any real proof to believe that Iraq had been working on those weapons.
Today who controls oil, controls the world.
If they went there to free Iraq from Saddam’s dictatorship then why don’t they help those state in Africa where they are killing each other for last 50 years in stupid civil wars? Why don’t they bring peace there?
Badass – “Richard Clarke was Bush and CLINTON’s Cheif Counterterrorism advisor. The same one who advised Clinton to track Bin Laden because there was a growing Al Qaeda threat in Iraq. Bush kept him around to pacify those loyal to the previous administration and Clarke turned on him when it was politically expedient.”
Once again, you are talking nonsense. You try and undermine Clarke’s credibility by inferring that he was a Clinton hanger-on that Bush retained for political expediency. You seem to ignore the fact that Clarke was also a senior figure in Reagan’s and Bush Senior’s administrations.
And as for advising Clinton that there was an Al Quaeda threat in Iraq – Clarke has made it clear his concerns about Al Quaeda extended to the Middle East as a whole, and that any reference to Iraq was ancillary to this (eg. the mere passing on of filtered intelligence from Iraqi informers).
As I stated earlier – do some research. There are reputable independent news sources out there who were also of the view that the White House tried to subject Clarke to a deliberate smear campaign in order to discredit him.
kiwiboi – your mom was Clinton’s ‘advisor.’ And by ‘advisor’ I mean. . .
So much for no personal attacks.
none> Have a happy pill dude. The vast majority of people will never “wake up” to anything because their world views and perceptions of reality won’t allow it.
A now deceased president has been quoted as saying “There is nothing to fear but ‘Fear’ itself.” (It’s been a long time since I’ve thought about this one, so I may have it quoted incorrectly. If you know the correct information, feel free to correct me.)
That being said, fear in general is the greatest and most prolific motivator of people. Go ahead, think it through, you will find not a single solitary situation where the ultimate motivator for action or inaction is not fear.
bucslim – I am immune to your momma jibes
Shadow, you sound like Patrick Swayze in Donnie Darko
none: if you don’t have anything intelligent to say don’t say anything at all…
Interesting list there were a few on here that I hadn’t heard about.
As far as the everlasting light bulb theory, wasn’t there a lightbulb that Edison made that was lit for over a hundred years or something like that. I remember hearing that it was in a museum or something along those lines.
One of my favourite theories at the minute is the Diana one. The inquest is getting so much coverage and has become an enormous farce.
Personally I find it very interesting that the conspiracy theorists credit the conspirators with the astonishing power and intelligence to perform these acts and get away with it, yet not enough to stay undetected by people spending most of their time in a basement with tin foil on their heads.
bucslim> Patrick Swayze was in Donnie Darko? I must confess, I don’t really watch much TV or very many movies, so I’m certain not to be affected by jibes from folks further down the evolutionary ladder, such as yourself.
And yes, that was a personal attack. If I need to dumb it down for you, by all means, ask.
I really liked this list, great job!
I’ve always been interested in conspiracy theories
P.S. I found a site earlier, similar to this one..
I think that conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories. They are designed to keep us from realizing what’s really going on which is the takeover of the world by ducks.
True…I saw a documentary once which will back me up.
@ Kiwiboi
Yeah! Your mom! Just kidding. I find it odd that Richard Clarke is as pure as the wind driven snow because he was part of Bush’s cabinet and turned on him, yet others who are part of the same cabinet who speak otherwise are ignored and viewed as lackeys. And it also seems that whenever the truth is told about someone who disagrees with the Bush admin and in turn hampers our intellegence/war effort it is labeled a smear campaign. If we want to discuss smear campaigns, let’s talk about the mulitudes of music, movies, books, websites, protests, etc who lie about what happened these last eight years.
And if I hear that “there were no WMDs in Iraq” one more time I’m going to scream. There were MASS GRAVES full of men, women and children who were gassed by Saddam. What more proof is needed?
OK i know a few things about some of these.
i spent a number of years in the aviation industry and i can tell you that contrails or vapor trails are caused when air is compressed around edges and curves on the aircraft. winglets, vortex breakers, engine nacells and prop tip for example. after the air is compressed by the aircraft it rapidly decompresses and the moisture in the air is disassociated causing a cloud, nothing more. the length of time this cloud will be visible is dependant on mainly atmospheric conditions relating to dew point.
this vapor can be seen all the time when military fighter aircraft turn sharply or go supersonic, the only difference is that at low altitude the cloud that is left behind reassociates with the atmosphere easily due to the low depoint at low altitudes.
therefore every contrail will look different just the same as aircraft vary by design and atmospheric conditions change.
it amazes me people can look up see a contrail that looks a little bit weird and decide that it must be the government poising them. paranoid delusion anyone.
as for #8
i now work for one of the major oil companies in production and i have spoken to a number of people that actually know how world oil prices are set and what creates the price fluctuations, it is there job.
the conspiracy is half right, in a nut shell the reason oil is so expensive is that while oil demand is increasing at an unprecedented rate due to the rapid development of countries such as china and india. the infrastructure for producing oil and oil products is not maching that rate thus oil available decrases and price soars.
could the oil companines reduce price by building more wells, refineries and improving distribution? yes probably, BUT oil companies just like other businesses (they are trying to make money that is what businesses do) they have a budget for new infrastructure. in the west a vast amount of that budget is spent on upgrading existing equiptment to meet new govenment requirements, environmental requirements mainly. also even if they wanted to reduce the price of world oil they probably couldnt keep up.
if any of you conspiracy idiots would like any further explanation ask nicely and i will clarify my points
and explain that not everythings has a sinister plot behind it.
Paul IS dead
11. The Earth is flat. The Flat Earth Society not only “still” believes that the Earth is flat, but they also believe in a worldwide conspiracy since who knows when to cover up this fact and make the whole world think the worls is round for no apparent reason. The Flat Earth Society believes that NASA is part of this conspiracy carried out by all of the world’s nations, and they create footage and “fake” pictures of the Earth and universe to fool us. Oh yeah, also the ‘flat Earth’ is covered by an ice wall in the Antartica covering the circumference of the disc shaped Earth to keep the oceans from flowing out which is guarded by the American government. Check it out; http://theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=11211.0
Jess,
well now i heard it all.
how do they think it up, i think they should be writing books (fiction of course) or movie scrips or something. they obviously have a tallent, science and reasonong just isnt it.
“it also seems that whenever the truth is told about someone who disagrees with the Bush admin and in turn hampers our intellegence/war effort it is labeled a smear campaign.”
Badass – you are sounding naive. There is very little doubt that Clarke was smeared by Bush supporters. You will remember, for example, that Dick Cheney in a silly attempt to marginalise Clarke’s service to the Bush administration stated that Clarke was never in “the loop” on terrorism matters. LOL..he is talking about Bush’s Chief Counterterrorism advisor!
Here’s the embarassing reaction from Condi Rice to Cheney’s words, courtesy of the NY Times :
“Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, took exception to Vice President Dick Cheney’s assertion that Richard A. Clarke, the administration’s former counterterrorism chief, was out of the loop. On the contrary, Ms. Rice said, Mr. Clarke was very much involved in the administration’s fight against terrorism.”
and this is from *within* the Bush inner circle !!
Also, let me add eminent economist Paul Krugman’s views (courtesy of wikipedia) :
“NY Times columnist Paul Krugman was more blunt, calling the (Whitehouse) attacks on Clarke “a campaign of character assassination.”
You also state that “If we want to discuss smear campaigns, let’s talk about the mulitudes of music, movies, books, websites, protests, etc who lie about what happened these last eight years.”
That sounds like paranoia…but at least this list is about conspiracy theories…do you have any viable examples of the above, Badass ?
“And if I hear that “there were no WMDs in Iraq” one more time I’m going to scream.”
Then here’s an especially good reason for you to scream. Straight out of GW Bush’s own mouth and courtesy of the Washington Post :
“In a speech before the World Affairs Council of Charlotte, NC, on April 7, 2006, President Bush stated that he “fully understood that the intelligence was wrong, and [he was] just as disappointed as everybody else” when U.S. troops failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq”
And we are talking about the cause of the invasion of Iraq here; gassing of civilians and/or other atrocities were *never* a factor in this. We already knew Sadamm was a tyrant.
Badass…wake up and smell the coffee !
Most of these seem a bit ridiculus. Most people start these because they want start a rumot that gets them attention. However, I myself do believe that the Iraq war is very likely to be because of oil, and also I believe that the everlating, or certainly very long lasting, lghtbulb is possible, but because it is not economically benificial for the companies, it is not released to the general public.
i think my sisters boyfriend thinks these are all true…i remember him telling me stuff about 9/11 being a set up……he thinks the government is suppressing us all and that’s why he doesn’t work…..knows how to make babies but wont work….
What about the conspiracy theory for 2012…the end of the world…….it is said that the world is gonna end(proved from planet x and maya calendar)……and scientists are not gonna reveal it cause only the top of the societies are planning to survive underground…….and it is not possible to save all the people…..
Ok, the one that sounds most believable(sp?) is the drug conspiracy one. I mean come on. The money is in the medicine not the cure. If they cure AIDS, think of all the $$ being lost in the products that help you “live” with it for years. Its sad that things always boil down to money. Some CEO out there doesn’t have enough. They’re not happy making 60 million a year because they want 70 million. You can only drive one car at a time buddy. I bet when some guy out there comes up with an engine that gets 200MPG, exxon and all the others will be in a huge bidding war for the technology so they can shelf it. How the hell can all those Saudis drive their custom Bentleys if we’re not filling up on $3/gal every few days?? Oh, and BTW, I’m pretty sure Paul is alive. He’s still making music. But then again, so is Tupac.
NR 7: South Africa on AIDS. The former vice president, who got fired by the way, which is coincidently the next president, had extramarital ***** last year or 2 years back with a woman he knew had aids, so he took a shower.
The current president stood strong on the (in some ways) to the aids theory, and the health minister said to eat some beetroot, lemons and garlic to cure aids.
Do a search on google under aids: South Africa, (or http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__national/&articleid=288029) and be surprised by the South African leaders’ views on aids (in this day and age). Luckily those views are at last changing.
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There are some wacky theries out there. Therefore you can shoot down any conspiracy theory by saying that it’s justs a crazy conspiracy theory, case closed. Theories that have may have some truth in them don’t have a chance.
If you think oil had nothing to do with Iraq war, you must be pretty ignorant.
We now know the WMD scare and Iraqi 9/11 connection were lies.
The war being about oil is a conspiracy theory on a par with Chemtrails and Paul is Dead?! That’s pretty ridiculous. I personally find a resource war a lot more believable than a war against a nebulous concept like “terror”.
Most Are True
Fluoride is a well known neurotoxin.
http://www.fluoridealert.org/news/2616.html
Google it, people.
This is a great discussion. JF, you should just make a blank comments page and see how long it takes the discussion to turn to how much everyone hates Bush. Opinion pages are liberal magnets…and the people defending the conspiracies are totally playing the part…you know: “It’s all real! You conservative morons haven’t read what I’ve read! You’re just ignorant!” Anyway, it good to have a well-rounded site that asks for peoples’ opinions.
5. True, with caveats. Not all drug-makers are that hard up for profits that they would reject a cure were it to come along. However you can be certain the Board of Directors doesn’t favor cures over treatment when they allocate the budget for research.
2. Though oil may play a part, the real reason we went to Iraq was to create profits for the Military Industrial Complex. Cheney’s Halliburton stock options for instance, skyrocketed in value in the last 5 years. If anyone wants to dismiss this as liberal ramblings remember the farewell address by famed Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower:
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”
1. The New World Order exists, but it is not necessarily as sinister a thing as you might think. A previous comment stated that “hubris” is the downfall of that theory, this is partially true. The ‘elites’ are merely groups of people with much greater means to influence the world at large than many of us here. They could be old-money families, dynastic aristocrats who have had hundreds of years to accumulate wealth. They could be large religious organizations, the Catholic Church (one of the largest land-holders in the world), Mormon Church, Scientology, etc. They could simply be large corporations with interchangeable boards and stockholders. Even the U.S.A is a group of elites, a group who’s misplaced trust in a crooked leader now threatens the balance of power in the world.
Naturally some groups are more effective at concealing their efforts than others.
To think that those who possess power don’t exercise it is extremely naive.
Messomorto: good thoughts until the end…listening to the message of Eisenhower (which has haunted me for months just thinking about it), George Bush has much less influence than everyone thinks. I’m assuming that’s who you meant by “crooked leader.” Things as big as a war are over and above him. And to all the other American democrats…if you think the war will suddenly end if Obama or Clinton gets in, you’re being naive.
Perhaps I was being much too specific, I should have said “leadership”, and it is just that. The circumstance the United States now faces is a loss of supremacy in the world, and it was greed and mismanagement from the highest echelons in power that caused it. The fact is we are in Iraq, and the only reason we will continue to stay there is not because fear for the well-being of the Iraqi people, but rather the 100+ billion a year we are funneling into the coffers of the military industrial complex. Don’t think for a second the war has anything to do with ‘terrorism’ or ‘public safety’ or ‘freeing those people’ but rather the tens of thousand dollars of YOUR tax money to pay for munitions that various companies have thus far collected and shall collect so long as people support the war. Doesn’t sound very ‘conservative’ to me. I imagine the subprime mess and gas prices wouldn’t sting so much if you had that money rather than Halliburton.
A few give me enough reason to believe once looked into like the NWO and fake high gas prices. The idea you need to understand is that people in power can and do misuse their power for personal gain. I had a friend once who said “But that doesn’t happen. It can’t.”
“Why”
“Because there are people in place to make sure that doesn’t happen”
“Everybody has a price. Those people have a lot to gain protecting powerful people.”
He was speachless
THEORY NUMBER 1: Sure people with power manipulate. By and large the more power, the more manipulation. But not just a few bankers. Politicians and religious leaders are at least as effective. Not many would regard Tamurlaine, Genghis, Alexander the Great and a whole host of other historical warmongers as banker-led. Nor all those religious wars, either. There’s plenty of such historical evidence to suggest we can get on with messy wars and manipulation with or without merchant bankers (rhyming slang for *****ers, by the way). A world network of these merchants? Who knows? Perhaps unlikely, given the inability of any group of people to agree together for long when there’s a lot at stake. Harold MacMillan was once asked how much he thought deliberate political intervential could affect the tide of human affairs and I believe he replied by not much more than 10% no matter how hard anyone tried (I guess he was ruling out the likes of Hitler, though even Hitler was a result of the aftermath of WWI). Another factor: there were and are so many lunatic loose international screwball cannons like Idi Amin and Saddam Hussein around, to name just two minor cases among many, that I doubt whether anyone could deliberately manipulate world affairs. Just remember too, Hitler got into power because powerful German industrialists and bankers thought they could handle ‘the little idiot’ like a puppet! However, think on this. You cannot have cannot have a world civilised order with vast cities, nations and industries without powerful leaders. So put together Catch-22 and Animal Farm and Bingo, here we are. On the other hand, to paraphrase Winnie the Great Churchill, democracy is crap, but its the best crap we’ve got because it at least sets one power seeker against another and helps to neutralise their excesses, as anti-monopoly laws and competition do for industry. Otherwise, what price Rupert Murdoch for World Emperor, folks!
PERSONAL AD.: In case anyone’s interested, I also just commented on a few of the first 10 theories over on the earlier site.
Can we have corn circles in the next 10, please?
Has anyone brought up the C.Th as to whether or not M.M. was assassinated yet (rather than popping her clogs via an accident or suicide), and if so, by whom? If not, surely that ought ot be in the next 10 too?
By the way (just to keep the pot boiling), ongoing conspiracy theories seem to work a bit like Russian dolls, don’t they?
In other words, where there is an inquiry or other’official’ investigation which finds there was no ‘conspiracy’, it is immediately branded as part of the same ‘establishment’ cover up? And so on, however many inquiries are held.
In the Diana case, for example, the French police and judicial services were part of the cover up, ditto all the inquiries in Britain, no matter by whom. A huge number of Brits plus Al Fayed sr. (who is not a Brit), believed and go on believing she was done in by the Royal Family, and would probably accuse God of being part of the cover-up if He sent her eternal spirit back to declare it was not so.
This is perhaps because a conspiracy is so much more exciting and stimulating than the dull alternative, and is actually more like ‘real life’, i.e. soap opera, video games and such like on the big and little screens. Except that is for Al Fayed who simply hates the Royal Family full stop.
The wish to believe in aliens probably has a more profound, quasi-religious basis. Once upon a time, as fairy stories go, we humans on our flat earth believed we were the centre and reason for the universe and creation. All those little points of light in the sky were a comfortingly near and revolved around us. The sun was a nice fire in the sky put there to keep us warm and allow us to see. Now we know we live in a vast, freezing emptiness, punctuated by black holes, red dwarfs and who knows what else, where even the bit we know about is measured across in billions of light years, and we are tucked away in an insignificant corner. Thanks to the late lamented Douglas Adams, we know that the answer to everything is 42, but we still don’t know what the question was!
Under the circs it’s comforting to believe we are not alone, and THEY can even interact with us.
So why are aliens nasty most of the time? Two reasons offered. Firstly take terrestrial life. Slugs, mice and deer and other harmless creatures are boring. We get more hyped up by pokey sharks, tigers, dinosaurs and killer bees. Secondly, if we launched off into space and started colonising other habitable planets, what might WE do to their ‘rightful’ occupants?
Long live green alien slime lizards.
Most of these are silly, but the New World Order one is definitely a possibility. It’s coming closer and closer to being a reality due to our global banking systems. Just read what Woodrow Wilson said after he created the federal reserve. Rockefeller even admitted that there were plans for a new world order.
Gee, thanks, Brad, I was beginning to worry I’d killed this site off!
Fiscal control of the planet by few certainly looks feasible, but I think there will always be a lot of feedback from back down the line, and that would probably tend to dampen its power considerably.
The other doubt I still have is: how far does the network extend globally? I don’t know. But China will soon equal and perhaps overtake the U.S. as world Nº1 power. Is she dependent on Western banking (as opposed to Western trade agreements), or independent? What about Russia? What about India? These either are, or are potentially, very big players indeed, quite capable of inventing their own ball games.
As a personal view, if global over-heating (see first site: Top 10 Conspiracy Theories) isn’t sorted out in time, and soon, I think world banking and economic systems are likely to become completely irrelevant, to say the least. I know plenty don’t agree, and some even consider climate change a conspiracy. All I can say is I hope and pray they are right, but fear from my professional knowledge of the natural world that they are seriously mistaken.
The one I can believe of the above the most has to be the drug companies. I mean, really, most of the evil done in this world at some point boils down to greed. Logically, why would they want to see something that could wipe out destructive diseases when that would mean an end to the very products they are marketing? They would lose massive profits and that would mean an end to high prices and depending on their products. So, common sense tells me that there is probably some truth to that one. I don’t know how far it goes, but I think they wouldn’t want to put too much money into research that would cure their pot of gold.
I smell Bullsh$T!!!
And so indeed you should, God,
You invented bulls, *****, and noses.
i need to no more on the jewish theory that they are gunna take over the world
So what if the Jews made as good a job of running the world as they have of setting up Israel. Might that be such a bad thing for the rest of us?
looks like a chemtrail on the fluoride picture.
ADD doesn’t exist for sure. And does anyone still think America is fighting for freedom, really?
I think it’s really deceptive to put point 2 (Iraq was about oil) as a ‘conspiracy theory’. This is a widespread opinion and is hardly as implausible as saying Paul McCartney is dead or the government is trying to kill us with fluoride. Are we on Listverse or Fox News here? That’s not to say I don’t think political debate is healthy but don’t try and paint legitimate, mainstream criticism of the worst foreign policy blunder/ president in US history as a conspiracy theory.
CSimmons, ref to #69 and the later comment on Monkey *****- the theory some scientists hold about AIDS having origins from a species of monkey had nothing to do with beastialty- as the infected species are a cheap source of meat they are eaten in Africa, persons who slaughter, skin and cut up for cooking (& some folks don’t even cook monkey, particularly the brain tissue) can be exposed to infected blood- being a developing, mostly third world region you can’t expect slaughter to include gloves and sanitary conditions.
As for whether HIV can “jump” species – doesn’t it occur in felines and dolphins too?
Conspiracy theories are a human phenomena based on ignorance. The vast majority of conspiracy believers have a high school education or less…
i think that, another huge conspiracy is the death of tupac shakur, a lot of people still think hes alive
The Orwell novel was written in 1948 and published on 1949. In fact, “1984″ is the inversion of “48″ in “1948″. The basic premise of Orwell for this novel is the totalitarian nature of some states in the european continent in the 1940′s, specially the russian stalinist state. It has nothing to do with oil conspirancies. Orwell died around 1950 and he could never write about a so called “middle east oil war”. The book deals with totalitarianism and how a totalitarian and vigilant state can subdue and play with our minds.
I wonder how many of you who debunk these conspiracy theories and say that they are the fodder of the unintelligent still believe in God or Allah? Thankfully we all have the right to believe what the hell we like and form our own opinions one way or the other. I would pay good money to see the looks on some of your faces on the occasions that you’re proved wrong; for example JFK was killed as he was a greater threat to the world than Hitler ever was, Elvis is alive and well servicing businessmen behind a motel on route 66 and maybe the people who elected George Bush for a SECOND term as POTUS really have no valid opinion whatsoever.
Here’s my two cents, whether you like it or not.
1, Metal Gear Solid 2 is not in anyway based on the concept of #1, It involves diplomats and military leaders controlling the leaders of several if not all important nations.
2, There is, in fact, a system of the so-called “Important” people (aka. the rich) and they control almost everything in the military ond political world. They take advantage of the lack of intelligence as well has the poor education systems to keep us in the dark and keep retards like some of you above believing in religion when clearly there isn’t one.
3, Metal gear is a great series
oh, and what ever happened to the letter “z”. Are we just frsaking that now?
Love a good conspiracy theory….
How about the Denver Airport conspiracy? Never heard of it. Search…lots out there.
paul is left handed so that is why he would be out of step with the others…..
Paul is dead. He was singing a song to me and told me not th breathe the air because the government poisoned it with an everlasting light bulb. The oil is at a peak and I never brush my teeth because I drink the water.
I better go take my antipsychotics and destroy more brain cells. In the forest the crop circles grew money so I picked it.
I hear voices. Then god made a twirl with the sugar tree. It is all a conspiracy, they will come to get you! The government is behind the sugar trees. Oh di ba lo ca ta.
Okay, now can I go?
I fully believe the drug company one and the war for oil… but who doesn’t? I have NEVER heard the “paul is dead” nor did i notice the album cover! That is crazy… can’t be true though right? RIGHT?
I believe in the war for oil and the new world order I’ve heard of the aids being man made but I can’t fathom why it would be done
Government just has too much power now a days