Conspiracy Theories

[Park Life 71]

HAARP patent from way back in 1985 when it was unheard of in the conspiracy community. Manipulating the upper reaches of the atmosphere and so on...HAARP is now the de facto key talking point in conspiracy forums with regard to covert weaponisation of the upper atmosphere and weather manipulation.

 

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?...RS=PN/4,686,605

[ChezGiven 0]

I think that people who believe the world is exactly how it appears to us through our media are as mad as the maddest conspiracist.

 

Looking forward to this top 10.

[adios 717]

Thinking of doing an official top ten for the woefully underinformed in here...

bet you won't even have witnessed half of them

[Monkeys Fist 43057]

Thinking of doing an official top ten for the woefully underinformed in here...

bet you won't even have witnessed half of them

We know someone who will have though

[Kid Dynamite 7167]

Surprised nobody's mentioned this one yet...

 

He's been dead for years.

 

Replaced by this guy. No shit. Apparently this is true.

 

They look the same to me!

[Monkeys Fist 43057]

That's what they want you think.

 

[Gemmill 45993]

Parky, stick your top ten up, I'm interested. Have you read Fingerprints of the Gods btw?

 

Thriller just came on in the pub. Oh dear.

 

I've read most of the Von Danniken stuff. These have historically been the gateway books for peeps who venture, inspired head first into the rabbit hole.

 

Think his books are very entertaining, but are essentially stories yet with a just enough truth or historical context to make one think.

 

One of the best things about our history and our planet is that so little is still understood about our past and origins.

 

*Will do the top ten a bit later.

 

Parkster, I was talking about Graeme Hancock's book. I think this bloke you're on about has a book called Chariots of the Gods, which is maybe where the confusion is.

 

Howay, get your top 10 up!

[Kitman 2207]

Surprised nobody's mentioned this one yet...

 

He's been dead for years.

 

Replaced by this guy. No shit. Apparently this is true.

 

I believe this. Wings. The Frog Chorus. Say no more.

[Meenzer 15716]

I think that people who believe the world is exactly how it appears to us through our media are as mad as the maddest conspiracist.

 

I think most people just aren't really that bothered either way, which is different to blindly believing everything they're fed. Life's too short.

Edited July 3, 2011 by Meenzer

[ChezGiven 0]

I think that people who believe the world is exactly how it appears to us through our media are as mad as the maddest conspiracist.

 

I think most people just aren't really that bothered either way, which is different to blindly believing everything they're fed. Life's too short.

To anyone with half a brain, truth is important. I take what you are saying but I would say it's not most people, it's more like around half i.e. the unthinking, the unengaged and those who dont have access to information.

 

Do you think if it became known that global food prices were being deliberately manipulated upwards by western global corporations that the millions of starving people in the developing world wouldn't get bothered because 'life is too short'?

 

What a ridiculous thing to say.

[Gejon 2]

We don't and more than likely will never know everything but conspiracy theorists tend to have a 'more intelligent that you' attitude and can be very patronising despite not knowing themselves and believing 'everything'* just to keep them on top of that very high horse.

 

It's very similar to religion actually.

 

That said, most that I have read/watched are still very interesting and despite not going along with the vast majority of them it's still been a worthwhile read/watch.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*The conspiracy theories.

[Meenzer 15716]

I think that people who believe the world is exactly how it appears to us through our media are as mad as the maddest conspiracist.

 

I think most people just aren't really that bothered either way, which is different to blindly believing everything they're fed. Life's too short.

To anyone with half a brain, truth is important. I take what you are saying but I would say it's not most people, it's more like around half i.e. the unthinking, the unengaged and those who dont have access to information.

 

Do you think if it became known that global food prices were being deliberately manipulated upwards by western global corporations that the millions of starving people in the developing world wouldn't get bothered because 'life is too short'?

 

What a ridiculous thing to say.

 

I'm not saying they'd not be bothered at all, but they'd have more immediate and pressing concerns, like surviving to see the next day and all that. This is where that high horse Gejon describes comes into things - of course the truth is important, but truth and reality don't always mean the same thing. Then again, the fact that I feel like a lot of conspiracy nuts pursue the truth they're after to such an extent that it obstructs them from engaging with life in a normal way is pretty high-horsed of myself, so I'm probably as bad as anyone else.

[StevenL 0]

I want to see this top 10. If one of the top 10 mentions 9/11 Park Life is on ignore.

[Kitman 2207]

That Top 10

 

1. Aliens

2. Aliens

3. Aliens

4. Aliens

5. Aliens

6. Kennedy

7. The Jews

8. The Govt

9. The Capitalists

10. Erm The Govt again

 

Is that enough?

[Monkeys Fist 43057]

The Illuminati are going to be seriously pissed they didn't make the 10.

[Kitman 2207]

The Illuminati are going to be seriously pissed they didn't make the 10.

 

The illluminati are aliens innit. Big hairy time travelling lizards or something

[Kitman 2207]

Top 10 from some website or other

 

 

Everyone enjoys hearing about a good conspiracy theory and many people enjoy coming up with new ones. You can spend an incredible amount of time reading about theories and wondering if there is any truth to them. This list is the top 10 conspiracy theories. If you feel that I have left off your favourite, or have proof that any of these are not just theory but fact, post a comment, just remember: don’t be cruel!

 

1. 9/11 was Planned by the US Government [Wikpedia]

 

Many conspiracy theories have been presented concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks, many of them claiming that President George W. Bush and/or individuals in his administration knew about the attacks beforehand and purposefully allowed them to occur because the attacks would generate public support for militarization, expansion of the police state, and other intrusive foreign and domestic policies by which they would benefit.

 

Proponents point to the Project for the New American Century, a conservative think tank that argues for increased American global leadership, whose former members include ex-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and several other key Bush administration figures. An 1990 report from the group stated that “some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor” would be needed to budge public opinion in their favor.

 

2. UFO Recovered at Roswell [Wikpedia]

 

 

The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, in July 1947, which have since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, questioning and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened, and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed.

 

By the early 1990s, UFO researchers such as Friedman, William Moore, Karl Pflock, and the team of Kevin Randle and Don Schmitt had interviewed several hundred people [11] who had, or claimed to have had, a connection with the events at Roswell in 1947. Additionally, hundreds of documents were obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, as were some apparently leaked by insiders, such as the disputed “Majestic 12″ documents. Their conclusions were that at least one alien craft had crashed in the Roswell vicinity, that aliens, some possibly still alive, were recovered, and that a massive cover-up of any knowledge of the incident was put in place.

 

3. John F. Kennedy’s Assasination [Wikpedia]

 

The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST (18:30 UTC). Kennedy was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife Jacqueline in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. The official investigation by the Warren Commission was conducted over a ten-month period, and its report was published in September 1964. The Commission concluded that the assassination was carried out solely by Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository in Dealey Plaza.

 

A number of conspiracy theories exist with regard to the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Such theories began to be generated soon after his death, and continue to be proposed today. Many of these theories propose a criminal conspiracy involving parties such as the Federal Reserve, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the KGB, the Mafia, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Fidel Castro, George H. W. Bush, Cuban exile groups opposed to the Castro government and the military and/or government interests of the United States.

 

4. Global Warming is a Fraud [Wikpedia]

 

The suggestion of a conspiracy to promote the theory of global warming was put forward in a 1990 documentary The Greenhouse Conspiracy broadcast by Channel Four in the United Kingdom on 12 August 1990, as part of the Equinox series, which asserted that scientists critical of global warming theory were denied funding.

 

William Gray, phD (a pioneer in the science of hurricane forecasting) has made a list of 15 reasons for the global warming hysteria. The list includes the need to come up with an enemy after the end of the Cold War, and the desire among scientists, government leaders and environmentalists to find a political cause that would enable them to ‘organize, propagandize, force conformity and exercise political influence. Big world government could best lead (and control) us to a better world!’ In this article, Gray also cites the ascendancy of Al Gore to the vice presidency as the start of his problems with federal funding. According to him, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration stopped giving him research grants, and so did NASA.

5. Princess Diana was Murdered by the Royal Family [Wikpedia]

 

In 1997, Princess Diana (Princess of Wales) and Dodi Fayed (son of Mohamed Fayed, owner of the Ritz Hotel and Harrods) were killed in a car accident while trying to get away from press photographers in Paris. The scandal surrounding their relationship (Dodi was Muslim whilst Diana was the mother of the future head of the Church of England) has led many people to speculate that they were actually killed in order to prevent further scandal to the throne of England.

 

Polls suggest that around a quarter of the UK public, and a majority of people in some Arab countries, believe that there was a plot to murder Diana, Princess of Wales. Motivations which have been advanced for such a conspiracy include suggestions that Diana intended to marry Dodi Fayed, that she intended to convert to Islam, that she was pregnant, and that she was to visit the holy land. Organizations which conspiracy theorists suggest are responsible for her death have included French Intelligence, the British Royal Family, the press, the British Intelligence services MI5 or MI6, the CIA, Mossad, the Freemasons, or the IRA.

 

6. Jewish World Domination [Wikpedia]

 

This theory, in recent history, extends mainly from the booklet The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which are widely considered to be the beginning of contemporary conspiracy theory literature. The Protocols are considered by some to be an anti-Jewish literary forgery that purports to describe a Jewish plot to achieve world domination. Numerous independent investigations have repeatedly proven it to be a plagiarism and a hoax, yet numerous independent investigations have shown it to be a factual document.

 

The text was popularized by those opposed to Russian revolutionary movement, and was disseminated further after the revolution of 1905, becoming known worldwide after the 1917 October Revolution. It was widely circulated in the West in 1920 and thereafter. The Great Depression and the rise of Nazism were important developments in the history of the Protocols.

 

7. Apollo Moon Landing Hoax [Wikpedia]

 

Apollo Moon Landing hoax accusations are claims that some or all elements of the Apollo Moon landings were faked by NASA and possibly members of other involved organizations. Some groups and individuals have advanced alternate historical narratives which tend, to varying degrees, to state that the Apollo Astronauts did not land on the moon, and that NASA created and continues to perpetuate this hoax.

 

Moon hoax proponents devote a substantial portion of their efforts to examining NASA photos. They point to various issues with photographs and films purportedly taken on the Moon. Experts in photography (even those unrelated to NASA) respond that the anomalies, while sometimes counterintuitive, are in fact precisely what one would expect from a real Moon landing, and contrary to what would occur with manipulated or studio imagery. Hoax proponents also state that whistleblowers may have deliberately manipulated the NASA photos in hope of exposing NASA.

 

8. Pearl Harbor Was Allowed to Happen [Wikpedia]

 

This theory states that President Roosevelt (FDR) provoked the attack, knew about it in advance and covered up his failure to warn the Hawaiian commanders. FDR needed the attack to sucker Hitler to declare war, since the public and Congress were overwhelmingly against entering the war in Europe. It was his backdoor to war.

 

Theorists believe that the US was warned by, at least, the governments of Britain, Netherlands, Australia, Peru, Korea and the Soviet Union that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was coming. All important Japanese codes were broken. FDR and Marshall and others knew the attack was coming, allowed it and covered up their knowledge.

 

9. The Third Secret of Fatima [Wikpedia]

 

The Three Secrets of Fatima are said to be three prophecies that were given by an apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary to three young Portuguese shepherds, Lucia Santos and her cousins Jacinta and Francisco Marto. From May to October, 1917, the three children claimed to have witnessed this Marian apparition, which is today popularly described as Our Lady of Fatima. On July 13 the Virgin Mary is said to have entrusted the three secrets – in the form of prophecies – to the young visionaries. Two of the secrets were revealed in 1941 in a document written by Lucia to assist with the canonization of her cousins, while the third was to remain secret, although the bishop of Leiria commanded Lucia to put it in writing and to present it to the Pope.

 

A Catholic priest who has apparently seen the original text of the “third secret” of Fatima disputes the official interpretation of the secret released by the Vatican. Furthermore, he has asked key people in the Vatican about the text and has gotten no response. While the Priest’s comments are somewhat radical, they are not without merit, as he has seen the secret with his own eyes. Moreover, while the first 2 secrets are fairly obvious and clear, leading some to wonder why the third one is required to be examined by a team of experts because of its complexity.

 

10. The Philadelphia Experiment [Wikpedia]

 

The Philadelphia Experiment was an alleged naval military experiment at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, sometime around the date of October 28, 1943, in which the U.S. destroyer escort USS Eldridge was to be rendered invisible to human observers for a brief period of time. It is also referred to as Project Rainbow. The story is widely regarded as a hoax. The U.S. Navy has stated that the experiment never occurred, and furthermore, details of the story contradict stated facts about the Eldridge. It has nonetheless caused a significant ripple effect in many conspiracy theory circles, and elements of the Philadelphia Experiment are featured in many other government conspiracy theories.

 

According to some accounts, the experiment was conducted by a Dr. Franklin Reno (or Rinehart) as a military application of a Unified Field Theory. The theory, briefly, postulates the interrelated nature of the forces that comprise electromagnetic radiation and gravity. Through a special application of the theory, it was thought possible, with specialized equipment and sufficient energy, to bend light around an object in such a way as to render it essentially invisible to observers. The Navy considered this application of the theory to be of obvious military value (especially as the United States was engaged in World War II at the time) and both approved and sponsored the experiment. A navy destroyer escort, the USS Eldridge, was fitted with the required equipment at the naval yards in Philadelphia.

[Park Life 71]

3.

 

It is thought JFK was assasinated because he wanted to reveal to the general public what the Govt knew about UFO's and that there had been close contact with various ET races and aspects of the U.S. Govt and military beginning in the 40's and 50's. Kennedy was one of the presidents to have seen alien bodies and this was at Tindall US airforce base. The president to know most about it was Bush Snr mainly due to his CIA days.

 

You can research the 3 tramps arrested at the Grassy knoll and one of their identities is most interesting.

 

Happy hunting.

[Gejon 2]

Ah go on Parky, i'm lazy but interested.

[Park Life 71]

Ah go on Parky, i'm lazy but interested.

 

"It was also claimed that Harrelson, Rogers and Chauncey Holt were the three tramps arrested in Dealey Plaza on 22nd November, 1963. It was not until 1992 that the Dallas Police Department revealed that the three tramps were Gus Abrams, John F. Gedney and Harold Doyle."

 

One of these boys had a most interesting background.

 

Edit: These names were changed later in 2002 to add E Howard Hunt and Crisman was added and later taken off the official list.

Edited July 10, 2011 by Park Life

[Park Life 71]

(6) John Harlow, Sunday Times (8th April, 2007)

 

THE bloody family secrets of Woody Harrelson, the Hollywood actor, are to be revealed in a prison memoir written by his father, a professional hitman.

 

Charles “Chuck” Harrelson, who died in a Colorado maximum security jail last month, left a bundle of papers to his three sons with a plea to clear him of murdering a judge. But he admits in the memoir that he was involved in dozens of killings stretching back to the early 1960s.

 

Woody Harrelson, who played a psychopath in Oliver Stone’s 1994 film Natural Born Killers, has not yet decided what to do with the papers, although he has already challenged the final conviction that landed his father in a “supermax” high-security prison.

 

His father, who wanted his life story to be published, first went to prison when Woody was seven and was jailed for life when his son was at college, but said he always hoped that one day they would have a “straight, no bull” talk about his past.

 

Chuck Harrelson’s death at 69 following heart trouble meant that conversation never took place. However, the papers are expected to answer questions posed both by his family and by the relatives of his many supposed victims.

 

Prosecutors said Harrelson, a violent thief and killer for hire in his twenties, was unusual because he used a sniper rifle rather than a handgun. “Charles Harrelson damaged everyone he came in contact with,” said the prosecutor at his last trial.

 

Harrelson even boasted — probably to impress potential employers — that he had shot President John F Kennedy in Dallas in 1963. He claimed to have been one of three men dressed as tramps on the grassy knoll close to the Kennedy cavalcade and said that Lee Harvey Oswald, the presumed assassin, was too far away from the president to get a clear shot.

 

If the grassy knoll story was a self-promoting fabrication, it seems to have worked. In 1979 he was allegedly paid $250,000 to shoot a Texas judge preparing to sentence a drug dealer. The plot backfired. The judge died but the dealer was arrested and claimed to have hired Harrelson, who received two life sentences.

 

In 2003 the dealer recanted, saying someone else had shot the judge. Woody Harrelson stepped up pressure for a retrial, but his father died before lawyers could get him out of jail. “My father was no saint, but a lot of sources led me to believe it was not a fair trial,” he said recently.

 

Woody Harrelson, 45, who rose to fame as the slow, sweet-natured barman Woody Boyd in the TV comedy Cheers, has generated more recent headlines with political stunts. He scaled the Golden Gate bridge to unveil an antilogging banner and, as a vegan, has protested against factory farming.

 

He will appear next in a film called Battle in Seattle, set amid violent protests against the World Trade Organisation summit in 1999. “It’s to make up for not being there myself,” he joked.

 

Harrelson has had his own misadventures. He once admitted to “sex addiction” and in the early 1980s was fined after dancing in traffic and jumping out of a moving police van. He remains unsure how his life was influenced by his father’s criminal career.

 

“I suspect it’s a mixed influence — it made me think outlaw, but I would not want to hurt anyone,” he said.

 

Chuck Harrelson revealed his literary ambitions to Kenny Gallo, a convicted mafia “associate” in the FBI witness protection programme. “He wrote to me saying he was writing the book that exposed all the lies written about him over the years,” Gallo said.

 

He denied that Harrelson had killed 50 people: “He may have been involved in that many killings, maybe driving the car or something, but he only carried out maybe six killings himself.”

 

America no longer produced assassins like Harrelson, he added. “Today, you want someone killed, you call in a Russian or an Israeli. I don’t know how Woody feels about his father, but Harrelson was probably the last of a killing breed.”

[Monkeys Fist 43057]

Which one, Woody's Dad or E Howard Hunt?

Edit; ah, just seen the above.

Edited July 10, 2011 by Monkeys Fist

[Park Life 71]

The Third 'Tramp'

 

Mike Lien/The New York Times

E. Howard Hunt in 1973.

 

His death, at North Shore Medical Center, was caused by pneumonia, said his wife, Laura.

 

“This fellow Hunt,” President Richard M. Nixon muttered a few days after the June 1972 break-in, “he knows too damn much.”

 

That was Howard Hunt’s burden: he was entrusted with too many secret missions. His career at the C.I.A. was destroyed by the disastrous invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961, and his time as Nixon’s master of dirty tricks ended with his arrest in the Watergate case. He served 33 months in prison for burglary, conspiracy and wiretapping and emerged a broken man.

 

“I am crushed by the failure of my government to protect me and my family as in the past it has always done for its clandestine agents,” Mr. Hunt told the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair in 1973, when he faced a provisional prison sentence of 35 years. “I cannot escape feeling that the country I have served for my entire life and which directed me to carry out the Watergate entry is punishing me for doing the very things it trained and directed me to do.”

 

He was a high-spirited 30-year-old novelist who aspired to wealth and power when he joined the C.I.A. in 1949. He set out to live the life he had imagined for himself, a glamorous career as a spy. But Mr. Hunt was never much of a spy. He did not conduct classic espionage operations in order to gather information. His field was political warfare: dirty tricks, sabotage and propaganda.

 

When he left the C.I.A. in 1970 after a decidedly checkered career, he had become a world-weary cynic. Trading on the thin veneer of a reputation in the clandestine service, he won a job as a $100-a-day “security consultant” at the Nixon White House in 1971.

 

In that role, he conducted break-ins and burglaries in the name of national security. He drew no distinction between orchestrating a black-bag job at a foreign embassy in Mexico City and wiretapping the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters at the Watergate complex. He recognized no lawful limit on presidential power, convinced that “when the president does it,” as Nixon once said, “that means it is not illegal.” Mr. Hunt and the nation found out otherwise.

 

Mr. Hunt was intelligent, erudite, suave and loyal to his friends. But the record shows that he mishandled many of the tasks he received from the C.I.A. and the White House. He was “totally self-absorbed, totally amoral and a danger to himself and anybody around him,” Samuel F. Hart, a retired United States ambassador who first met him in Uruguay in the 1950s, said in a State Department oral history.

 

“As far as I could tell, Howard went from one disaster to another,” Mr. Hart said, “until he hit Watergate.”

[Gejon 2]

Interesting, cheers Mr Life

[Park Life 71]

Interesting, cheers Mr Life

 

The tramps thing was rarely discussed (cause they were released without charge) and was kinda buried till the 90's...