Source: New World Order Report
By Jonathan Elinoff, New World Order Report
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In the 1st installment of the film, I cover the grounds that the
attacks of 9/11 had complicit parties that have not yet been charged
with the crime and the United States is largely unaware of the fact
that the attacks on 9/11 were the result of a much larger network of
terrorists that go unnamed and are not being pursued. These
terrorists include complicit figures from with powerful establishments
and governments. Evidence has mounted that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan,
Israel and even the United States have a small rogue element from
within its intelligence community, namely the counter-intelligence
community, that may have had some involvement in the financing,
training or carrying out of the attacks. I know it sounds crazy at
first, but watch my documentary on 9/11 and I think you will see the
overwhelming evidence for this case.
After reading the article released by Cracked.com, I decided to
update and revise their work. The article gave me a chuckle because it
lacked many famous and much larger conspiracy theories that became
known. Their article had only listed seven. I can name 33 and I am
about to release a revised list soon with 75. The article I read at
cracked can be viewed here, but don't waste your time, all of that is in this article and more.
Most people can't resist getting the details on the
latest conspiracy theories, no matter how far-fetched they may seem. At
the same time, many people quickly denounce any conspiracy theory as
untrue ... and sometimes as unpatriotic or just plain ridiculous. Lets
not forget all of the thousands of conspiracies out of Wall Street like
Bernie Madoff and many others to commit fraud and extortion, among many
crimes of conspiracy. USA Today reports that over 75% of personal ads
in the paper and on craigslist are married couples posing as single for a
one night affair. When someone knocks on your door to sell you a set
of knives or phone cards, anything for that matter, do they have a
profit motive? What is conspiracy other than just a scary way of saying
“alternative agenda”? When 2 friends go to a bar and begin to plan
their wingman approach on 2 girls they see at the bar, how often are
they planning on lying to those girls?“ I own a small business and am
in town for a short while.Oh yeah, you look beautiful.”
Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral
descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy.
However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory
which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret
plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning. To
conspire
means "to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act
or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end. "The term "conspiracy
theory" is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to
identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at
stealing power, money, or freedom, from "the people".
To many, conspiracy theories are just human nature. Not all people
in this world are honest, hard working and forthcoming about their
intentions.Certainly we can all agree on this.So how did the term
“conspiracy theory” get grouped in with fiction, fantasy and folklore?
Maybe that’s a conspiracy, just kidding. Or am I?
Skeptics are important in achieving an objective view of reality,
however, skeptism is not the same as reinforcing the official
storyline. In fact, a conspiracy theory can be argued as an
alternative to the official or “mainstream” story of events.
Therefore, when skeptics attempt to ridicule a conspiracy theory by
using the official story as a means of proving the conspiracy wrong, in
effect, they are just reinforcing the original “mainstream” view of
history, and actually not being skeptical. This is not skeptism, it is
just a convenient way for the establishment view of things to be seen
as the correct version, all the time, every time. In fact, it is
common for "hit pieces" or "debunking articles" to pick extremely fringe
and not very populated conspiracy theories. This in turn makes all
conspiracies on a subject matter look crazy. Skeptics magazine and
Popular Mechanics, among many others, did this with 9/11. They
referred to less than 10% of the many different conspiracy theories
about 9/11 and picked the less popular ones, in fact, they picked the
fringe, highly improbable points that only a few people make. This was
used as the "final investigation" for looking into the conspiracy
theories. Convenient, huh?
In fact, if one were to look into conspiracy theories, they will
largely find that thinking about a conspiracy is associated with lunacy
and paranoia. Some websites suggest it as an illness. It is also not
surprising to see so many people on the internet writing about
conspiracy theories in a condescending tone, usually with the words
"kool-aid," "crack pot," or "nut job" in their articulation. This must
be obvious to anyone that emotionally writing about such serious matter
insults the reader more than the conspiracy theorist because there is no
need to resort to this kind of behavior. It is employed often with an
"expert" who will say something along the lines of, "for these
conspiracies to be true, you would need hundreds if not thousands of
people to be involved. It's just not conceivable."
I find it extremely odd that the assumption is on thousands of
participants in a conspiracy. I, for one, find it hard to believe any
conspiracy involving more than a handful of people but the fact remains
that there have been conspiracies in our world, proven and not made up,
that involved many hundreds of people. It's not a matter of opinion,
it's a matter of fact.
One more thing to consider, have you noticed that if the conspiracy
is involving powerful interests with the ability to bribe, threaten or
manipulate major institutions (like the mafia, big corporations or
government) then don't you find it odd when people use one of those as
the "credible" counter-argument? What I mean is, if you are discussing a
conspiracy about the mafia, and someone hands you a debunking article
that was written by the Mafia, it doesn't seem like it would take rocket
science to look at that with serious criticism and credibility. This
is the case with many conspiracies. In fact, I am handed debunking
pieces all the time written in many cases by the conspirators in
question. Doesn't this seem odd to anybody else but me?
While intelligent cynicism certainly can be healthy, though, some of
the greatest discoveries of all time were initially received (often with
great vitriol) as blasphemous conspiracy theories -- think of the
revelation that the earth was not the center of the universe, or that
the world was not flat but actually round.
What
follow are some of the most shocking modern conspiracy theories that
turned out true after thorough investigation by our society. Some of
them were proven through congressional hearings; others, through
investigative journalism. Many, however, were just admitted to by those
involved. There is a long list, of which just 33 appear below. Many
of these are listed with references to original and credible news clips
on the matter, as well as to documentaries.
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