"If you are a first time visitor to this website and are also unfamiliar with the subject matter presented, then the concept that there is a purposeful drive by a powerful world elite who are working behind the scenes of world events to instill a One World Totalitarian Socialist Government will most probably seem like foolishness. If you hold this view I would encourage you to do some research of your own to see if any of the information I present on this web site is in fact true. Please let go of any bias or opinions and read the following and honestly think about it. As you read through the following please take your time and think carefully on every topic I present. The following is a very brief summary of what is actually really going on in the world and why it is happening. Everything I have written here I have crossed checked and confirmed from multiple sources including primary sources to ensure accuracy. It is not my intention to mislead anyone. It is also not my intention to convince anyone but merely to open the door and present the path, it is up to each individual person to come to the truth as they may see it."
"What have they got to gain?"
"Why would they keep this a secret?"
"Why would they do it that way?"
"Could they really keep this a secret?"
"What have they got to gain?"
-- Several million reais/dollars/Euros each.
Seems plausible.
"Why would they keep this a secret?"
If they do, they get million reais/dollars/Euros each.
If they don't, they're likely to go to prison or be killed by their associates.
"Why would they do it that way?"
All details seem plausible -- no huge stretch of imagination required.
"Could they really keep this a secret?"
Eight or ten participants, plus a few stray family members, close friends, etc, over the course of a few months -- doesn't seem unbelievable.
"[I]t is a great mistake to suppose that the only writers who matter are those whom the educated in their saner moments can take seriously. There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people, who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility. And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history."
Warrant for Genocide:
the Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy
and the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
by Norman Cohn, p. 18
A cut direct from
Cosma Shalizi's page on Cohn
The Mother of All Conspiracy Theories, at least in the West, goes something like this:
There is an ubiquitous secret society in our midst, alien to our religion, which aims to seize control of the world, or at least the only part of it which counts, i.e. ours. They are everywhere; they are ruthless and powerful (often, supernaturally powerful); they are sexually corrupt (often, incestuous); they preform the very worst of crimes, perhaps as rituals (often, infanticide, cannibalism and religious desecration).
"The problems are apparent in your review in the May issue (of Culture Wars magazine) of Daniel Pipes' book, Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From.I have added emphasis and paragraph breaks -- ed.
For one thing, I am at a loss to understand what you mean by a "conspiracy." You cite the litigation thirty years ago to remove prayer from public schools as the product of a conspiracy "confected by Jewish organizations." There follows a quote from the Catholic bishops' attorney, William Ball, in which he lists the numerous Jewish organizations that supported the other side.
Mike, it's not a conspiracy when you organize to change public policy. It's especially not a conspiracy when your advocacy is not a secret.
The Rockefeller Foundation no more "conspired" to legalize abortion than Operation Rescue is "conspiring" to end it. I object as a citizen to the use of the courts to promote abortion and contraception because it is a kind of judicial coup. However, the misuse of the courts in this fashion is a chronic problem in the American constitutional system. "Conspiracy" does not explain Roe v. Wade anymore that it explains Dred Scott or Schechter Poultry (the Depression-Era case that made FDR try to pack the Supreme Court). ...
I am not aware of any serious historian who thinks that secret societies as such are the key to any period of history. When they are politically important, it's because they are not much of a secret. <-- (This depends on the meaning of "secret". Does "secret" mean that the deliberations and mechanisms of a group are kept from the public eye? This would apply to much of the activities of corporations, politicians, and advocacy groups. Most people accept a good deal of secrecy from such groups. Or does "secret" mean that the existence or at least true purpose, of a group is kept secret?) --> ...
The chief argument against your attribution of the 1960s to a Grand Conspiracy to impose "social control" is that the time was most marked by the freezing up of control systems. Serious policing stopped in many cities. Crime went through the roof. Governments lost control of their budgets. Public school systems disintegrated. Manufacturing standards declined. You say that what was really happening was the implementation of the Masonic program as described by Pope Leo XIII: '...the multitude should be satiated with a boundless license of vice, as, when this has been done, [the multitude] would easily come under [the] power and authority [of crafty and clever men] for any acts of daring.' What "acts of daring" did your controllers have in mind? If you are talking about the decline in the birthrate, that was not engineered: it happened from Sicily to Japan, quite without the aid of the US Supreme Court. (Oh, but of course that's because the conspiracy is an international conspiracy.) License is not an instrument of control: licentious people are useless to the very extent that they are licentious. (I'm not familiar with the entire discussion in question [Pipes, Jones, and Reilly], so you can take my comments with a grain of salt, but what's being discussed here is general conspiracist theory: The conspiracy wants greater control of society in general or of some aspect of it [furthermore, according to the usual formulations, they're trying to do this in secret]. How to convince the public to give it to them? One obvious way is to convince the public that greater control is needed, and one obvious way to do that is to convince the public that the current level of control is inadequate, and indeed dangerous. After the public has been made sufficiently nervous [by crime, juvenile misbehavior, economic problems, terrorism, infidels, demonic activity -- human nature being what it is, we can extend the list almost indefinitely] the [more or less secret] agents of the conspiracy can offer to "save" them if only they will relinquish control. "
"The single most important change taking place in the world is undoubtably the transformation of independant sovereign countries into what the United Nations describes as nation states. Countries that had grown from Dominions or Colonies of Great Britain to become Nation States or Sovereign in their own right, are now divesting their statehood along with the right to determine their own economy and future, in favour of the One World Government of the United Nations."
Fair enough, but then comes --
"The Coming One World Government has been foretold in the book of Daniel. It should be of no surprise to anyone as tyrants have dreamt, schemed and worked towards this end for centuries."
"Lastly I would just like to mention that the one book that details a conspiracy to form a world government is the Bible. This often neglected book contains truths which are far ahead of anything ever written by man."
"At Lammas he decided to Crown a High King at Tara. At this point we decided to draw the line. We felt that this would be an insult to the Republic and those that fought for Ireland's independence over two hundred years. So we went up to Tara. ... we weren't alone in our opposition - there were members of the Druid Clan of Danu (FOI), Ancient Order of Hibernians (Republican equivalent to the Orange Orders), Society of Irish Re-enactors ('the Clans') and several others."
"... all the symbolism that is apparent in the layout of the new Denver airport says that it is a control center for world control. There is a lot of "secret society" symbology at the airport. We started researching all of this to find out what it all means. It's all very scary. ...
... I woke up and there is this "thing" standing over my bed. He had wrap-around yellow eyes with snake pupils, and pointed ears and a grin that wrapped around his head. He had a silvery suit on, and this scared the living daylights out of me. ... I have seen that kind of being on more than one occasion. ... he had a hooked nose and he was very human looking, other than the eyes, and had kind of grayish skin.
Later on in 1991, I was working in a building in a large city, and I had taken a break about 6:00, and the next thing I knew it was 10:30 at night, and I thought I had taken a short break. I started remembering that I was taken aboard a ship, through four floors of an office building, and through a roof. There on the ship is were I encountered Germans and American's working together, and also the Grey aliens, and then we were taken to some other kind of facility and there I saw the reptilians again ... the one's I call the "baby Godzilla's", that have the short teeth and yellow slanted eyes, and who look like a veloci-raptor, kind of. ...
Has anybody ever killed one?
Phil Schneider did. He killed several of them. When he was involved cutting some tunnels at Dulce, he was lowered down a shaft and ended up in a nest of these things. He and some of his team were in there, and some of the Delta Force came in. They had a shootout with these aliens, and he killed a couple of them before they got a round off and shot him with some sort of laser weapon. He used to pull his shirt up and show me where they darned near blew a hole in his chest with whatever kind of laser weapon they were using."
"Winning wars is sometimes as costly as losing them, and in deeper and more enduring ways. For decades, the United States has spent tens of billions of dollars a year for reasons known only to a handful of people in Washington. Although this is the antithesis of the open, participatory democratic system conceived by Jefferson, Paine, Madison, Franklin, and others, it has been going on so long that it hardly seems controversial any more, except in popular culture. ...
Long after World War II and the Cold War have ended, we still spend billions of dollars on a secret government, while the president magnanimously promises to spend $100 million annually for five years - a fraction of the NSA's and CIA's reported monthly budget - to "wire" the country's classrooms. ...
In a world where people are left to depend for information on a news media almost completely absorbed by giant corporations run by venerated, greedy, and valueless monomaniacs, paranoia seems sometimes not to be a personality disorder but a reasonable precaution. "
"The United States was born out of a profound distrust of government. The founding fathers had had a belly full of monarchs and their self-proclaimed divine right to rule. That fundamental suspicion underlies the modern nation like a geological fault, which breaks to the surface intermittently and unpredictably as a reminder of the country's uneasy relationship with federal power."
"... IF this is supposed to be a face, then either:
- The work was done very badly,
- it was meant to cause confusion and arguments,
- it was supposed to seem like a face only with the correct angle and lighting or
the sculpture has been damaged after it was made or most likely
the erosion is responsible for the deterioration of the original shape
Since all of these options are only speculation, I can only say there is not enough reason to claim this is a sculpture of a face. Based on this we should regard the resemblance as a coincidence."
-- and, just on the other side of the divide, Rusell Grigg, author of several articles on "Answers in Genesis".
I strongly disagree with the AiG mindset, but Grigg is to my mind one of the most reasonable fundamentalists I've run across.
I particularly like The Galileo ‘twist’
(First published in:
Creation Ex Nihilo 19(4):30-32,
September–November 1997)
"It had to happen. Almost anything popular will be taken by the conspiracy fans out there to be a scheme for bringing about the end of he world and/or the extermination of our species. Nothing seems to happen for ordinary reasons. Nothing is just what it seems. Nothing is without sinister origins."
"I've been studying what little information I can find about the new occultic Denver airport. ...
What are my suspicions?
. . . that it will be a kind of vortex to siphon off "enemies of the state" in as much as your bathtub drain siphons off the used, soapy water at the end of a bath.
"As a long-time admirer of the United States, I am appalled to hear that a recent poll suggests that 20% of Americans are ignorant fools: I hope the figure is grossly exaggerated, as no other term is strong enough to describe anyone who believes the Moon landings have been faked. ...
Remembering how quickly Watergate unravelled, how could any sane person imagine that a conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of people over more than a decade would not have done the same?"
"Everything does not have to be a conspiracy. It is just that we don't know what is and what is not..."-- includes a bib reference thusly:
"Start to think yourself. Don't always believe what others say. Don't accept being spoon fed with ready answers to these questions. If you start seeing and contemplating what is really happening a whole new view opens up. You start to realize the truth behind all the lies and propaganda. It can be painful but you have to in order to protect yourself. Both in this life and for the hereafter. I hope these web pages can be of use also for non Muslims. ...
Once you start to believe in the Conspiracy you must understand that much information true, false and distorted about the Conspiracy is spread on purpose by professional liars. It serves the purpose of confusion, fear and registration of honest people who want to know more. It also is a part of The Hegelian principle:The information is taken from Internet, books, magazines and directly from some experts. It is up to each and everyone to make up their own mind if they want to believe it or not. And what you want to believe if you believe in parts of it. I spread the information as a warning since obviously something is going on. We just don't know exactly what and when. ... It does not matter if a whole book is written about the subject. The book can be written to put us on the wrong track. ...- First step to create the problem
- Second step to generate opposition to the problem, (fear, panic, hysteria)
- Third step synthesis to offer the solution to the problem.
We are created for the hereafter. This world is just a test."
"Evolution Deceit. Author: A Muslim author, 1998 A whole book available on the Internet incl. color pictures with extremely good information. NOTA BENE! However the religious explanations in the last chapter of the book about the "nature of Allah" and the "nature of our existence" is absolutely not to be pondered upon. The author seems to have been influenced by Ibn Arabi who explained Quranic Ayats without explanations in the Sunnah. Compare what Bilal Philips says in his short speech about this kind of Tafseer of the Quran. Part 1, Part 2. Concentrate instead of the authors extremely well written parts about the proofs for creation. And Allah knows best."
Apparently this, also here.
Author is Harun Yahya.
Or in print from Amazon.com here
This site is also a good reminder that the Christians don't have a monopoly on conspiracy theories!
"My intention is not to insult anybody of any race, religion or culture. Muslims must help all people not only Muslims as long as they are not clearly enemies of Islam. Just because somebody says he does not like Islam does not mean he is an enemy of Islam. Many non Muslims have not had the opportunity to learn about the true Islam."By all means, learn the truth about Islam! As I am not myself a Muslim I can only refer you to the Quran itself, to Want to know more about Islam? link on the "Conspiracy" site itself (nicely done capsule introduction, by the way), to the Introduction for Non-Muslim Visitors at islaam.com, and to the category Islam on Yahoo!
"History, like graft, tends to operate on two sets of books. There's the "legitimate" ledger for public consumption, and then, of course, there are the messier truths that don't often show up in the glossy annual reports.
'History is the memory of states', is how Henry Kissinger put it, inadvertently suggesting why states are so susceptible to amnesia. And perhaps also why doubters of the official verities are often stigmatized and their dissenting views suppressed. ...
Scott describes the disturbing effect of being "marginalized" as 'a sense of being defined as crazy because you keep saying something nobody else wants to hear. It's almost as if the truth marks you as a kind of plague-ridden person to be avoided'. (Hmm. Well, saying crazy things that nobody else agrees with [except maybe your crazy followers] marks you as a person not to be taken seriously, yes. The question is whether the things you are saying are really "the truth" or not.)"
"An interesting trick is to take a shiny, polished butter knife and lay it horizontally across the words "LONELY HEARTS" on the drum on the cover of Sgt. Pepper.To the BELIEVER, all things are possible. . .
The top half of the words, combined with their mirror image, spells out "1 ONE 1 X HE ^ DIE", with the arrow pointing up towards McCartney and saying 3 Beatles are left and the X is without Paul."
Fnord.
Because it had to be so.