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It’s been a while since I’ve posted one of these. I plan on doing an essay on conspiracy theories and the dangers they impose when large numbers of people subscribe to them. I decided on this idea the other day after trying to have a discussion with a coworker about the state of the world. I quickly discovered that his head was filled with UFO’s, lizard illuminati, climate change denialism, chip implants for all under Obamacare, and a one-world totalitarian government. The only place in his fantastical worldview I could find any connection with reality was in the idea that governments are becoming more authoritarian. Perhaps this is where so many conspiracy theories spring forth. With only the interests of a small elite being served and nearly everyone else disenfranchised from the institutions of government, people are desperate to find meaning in such an exploitative and fraudulent system that they grasp at any story, no matter how outlandish and otherworldly it may be. And with a faux democratic government fictitiously “serving the people” and becoming increasingly dictatorial as the economy craters, the wealth gap continues to skyrocket, the environment melts down, peak net energy bites, and climate change worsens, such conspiracy theories will only continue to supplant the real world in the minds of the unwashed masses.
The Future: Delusional Hope vs. Stark Reality
Cassandra’s Revenge?
The Corporate State (aka the military–industrial–congressional complex) : It’s own worst enemy…
The Apocalypse commercialized:
Collapse of Industrial Civilization 
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Thanks, Mike. I needed that.
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The problem re so called conspiracy theories is that they keep on turning out to be true.
I’ve been telling people since 2000 that certain people were reading everyone’s emails, only to be told that I was paranoid and it was a conspiracy theory. I could go on, but very soon, you’d raise your eyebrows and write me off as a conspiracy theorist 😉
Thing is, you have to check out where the term came from. It was deliberately invented by the CIA as a way to provide cover for their dirty tricks. It’s part of standard psyops.
Of course, false flags and dirty tricks and propaganda go way back into history to Machiavelli and long before, but modern manipulation of the public has been honed to a fine art over the last century, since Freud and Bernays. Hitler and Goebbels were masters, and USSR and USA learned all the lessons.
You pull off some outrage, like shooting a Kennedy, then make up a ridiculous official story, which some of the population, the most naive and gullible, will accept. The more critical will see through the absurdity of what they have been told and question it. So, you discredit them by calling them ‘conspiracy theorists’. To make certain that their version, which may approach ‘the truth’ doesn’t spread to the broader public and get accepted, you invent even crazier versions which you then ascribe to the so called conspiracy theorists, so that they can be portrayed as crackpots and cranks that nobody would ever take seriously.
In recent times, this tool for manipulating the public has reached tremendous levels of sophistication because NSA monitoring can give almost real time feedback on reaction. Pictures appear on the MSM news and reaction can be checked, just like watching the response to the adverts for the superbowl to see the ratings. It’s Wag the Dog stuff.
http://vimeo.com/48842811
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It is shocking just how ridiculous their stories can be, and still be believed by the general population.
It is also shocking how easily the media, even most of the so called alternative media, can be manipulated into supporting the fantastic stories they come up with, and censoring out massive amounts of information that disputes the official stories.
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Shocking from Harvey Wasserman about Fukishima:
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“The Japan Times writes, “In November, Tepco plans to begin the delicate operation of removing spent fuel from Reactor No. 4 [with] radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. Removing its spent fuel, which contains deadly plutonium, is an urgent task. The consequences could be far more severe than any nuclear accident the world has ever seen. If a fuel rod is dropped, breaks or becomes entangled while being removed, possible worst-case scenarios include a big explosion, a meltdown in the pool, or a large nuclear fire. Any of these situations could lead to massive releases of deadly radionuclides into the atmosphere, putting much of Japan — including Tokyo and Yokohama — and even neighboring countries at serious risk.””
http://www.newrealities.com/index.php/articles-on-politicseconomy/item/3073-the-most-dangerous-situation-humanity-has-faced
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‘The problem re so called conspiracy theories is that they keep on turning out to be true.
You pull off some outrage, like shooting a Kennedy, then make up a ridiculous official story, which some of the population, the most naive and gullible, will accept. The more critical will see through the absurdity of what they have been told and question it. So, you discredit them by calling them ‘conspiracy theorists’.’
Spot on, U.
The official narrative of 9/11 represents one of the most absurd concoctions ever conceived…,,and yet is still believed by hundreds of millions of people around the world, despite abundant evidence it was all a pack of lies.
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http://www.globalresearch.ca/search-engine-manipulation-google-and-youtube-suppress-911-truth/5352982
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The goal is control. They want all of us enslaved to debt, they want all of our governments enslaved to debt, and they want all of our politicians addicted to the huge financial contributions that they funnel into their campaigns. Since the elite also own all of the big media companies, the mainstream media never lets us in on the secret that there is something fundamentally wrong with the way that our system works.
Remember, this is not some “conspiracy theorist” that is saying these things. This is a Yale-educated attorney that worked inside the World Bank for more than two decades.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/world-bank-whistleblower-reveals-how-the-global-elite-rule-the-world/5353130
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“Some things are so big you don’t see them, or you don’t want to think about them, or you almost can’t think about them. Climate change is one of those things. It’s impossible to see the whole, because it’s everything. It’s not just a seven-story-tall black wave about to engulf your town, it’s a complete system thrashing out of control, so that it threatens to become too hot, too cold, too dry, too wet, too wild, too destructive, too erratic for many plants and animals that depend on reliable annual cycles. It affects the entire surface of the Earth and every living thing, from the highest peaks to the depths of the oceans, from one pole to the other, from the tropics to the tundra, likely for millennia — and it’s not just coming like that wave, it’s already here.
It’s not only bigger than everything else, it’s bigger than everything else put together. But it’s not a sudden event like a massacre or a flood or a fire, even though it includes floods, fires, heat waves, and wild weather. It’s an incremental shift over decades, over centuries. It’s the definition of the big picture itself, the far-too-big picture. Which is why we have so much news about everything else, or so it seems.”
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/07-1
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And people really believe humans are capable of handling this stuff ?
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/10/07/20849414-fukushima-worker-accidentally-switches-off-cooling-pumps-backup-kicks-in?lite
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In 2001 I had an argument with Bob Geldof. He was trying to feed the starving. I pointed out doing so simply exacerbated the environmental crisis. He wouldn’t accept there was any environmental crisis.
How times have changed.
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/bob-geldof-the-world-could-end-by-2030-8864186.html
Bob Geldof has claimed that the Earth as we know it could end by 2030 thanks to the ravages of climate change.
The campaigner and former Boomtown Rats singer said the human race could soon be extinct at the One Young World summit in Johannesburg.
“The world can decide in a fit of madness to kill itself,” he said, according to the Telegraph. “Sometimes progress may not be possible.”
“We’re in a very fraught time,” he continued, warning the 8,000 international delegates: “There will be a mass extinction event. That could happen on your watch. The signs are that it will happen and soon.”
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“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.” ― David Rockefeller
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ON TOPIC ! ( except it’s not the weekend…)
http://xkcd.com/1274/
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