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Spindrift

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It seems that conspiracy theories arise because people have similar thoughts about something and question the "official story". Over the years I've thought up my own conspiracy theories but never did anything about them because I knew I was just making **** up.

I wondered if a single person could posit a conspiracy theory about something that is not true and see if it ever takes on a life of its own. I'd love to see some woo someday quote my 'theory'. I also think it would make it so much better if the origin of the theory can be traced back to JREF and watch the rationalizing.

So here's my go at a totally made up conspiracy theory:

When Apollo 11 went to the moon, the Soviets launched a Luna mission to try to get to the moon, scoop up some dirt and return to Earth before Apollo 11 got back. They could then say, you don't need to send men, blah, blah, we won the race. Not a bad ploy, however Luna 15 crashed into the moon.

Here's the conspiracy theory part:
Well the reason it crashed was that the CIA knew about the Soviet attempt. They had NASA put radio jamming equipment on the Command Module. Mike Collins in the CM activated the equipment as Luna was attempting to land and it crashed.

Some sweeteners:
Mike Collins was the only member of the crew to know about it. He was an Air Force officer, Neil Armstrong was a civilian so he never knew about it and Aldrin didn't have a need to know. Collins often trained separately as well.

The US didn't attempt jamming from earth because that would be detected by the Soviets. The jamming from the Command Module could not be detected back on earth.

Maybe I'll look through the communication transcripts of Collins and Houston and see if I can cherry pick some quotes to support my theory.


Being a conspiracy theorist is fun and easy. It's like putting together a puzzle where you just cut the pieces to fit the way you want. That way it always comes together.
 
Saddam Hussein is still alive. As he'd been put in place by the CIA, Hussein knew too many secrets to risk the very public trial the Iraqi people would demand. Instead, one of Hussein's many decoys was tasked to take his place, with the promise his family would be well taken care of. The real Hussein underwent plastic surgery and is now living in Switzerland.

I am honestly surprised that some variant of this isn't more common.
 
Any time we (well, the U.S., that is) embark on a major manned lunar exploration program, alien operatives in the U.S. government get us involved in expensive and unpopular wars way the hell on the other side of the world, draining away the money and public faith in government necessary for the program. When we finally decide to go to Mars, they'll probably start the Civil War 2.0 a war with China.
 
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Disclaimer: The following post is completely false and does not reflect my true opinion at all. This makes it harder that anyone will quote this accidentally, but I'd rather not have someone track my IP or monitor this network traffic and attribute this to my real identity - that would cause major problems. (Not that it'll completely prevent misconceptions, but at least I have this disclaimer to point to if someone does try to attribute it to me.)

This came out of me asking myself how Japan's military leaders in WWII could possibly have been as stupid as they were sometimes and lead to...

The Japanese lost WWII intentionally. A secret cabal of their top military leaders was able to foresee the economic benefits of the US having a long term commitment to defend Japan, and manipulated the Japanese strategy and military leadership to ensure that Japan would not win. (Naturally they didn't care about the Japanese lives lost in the process.) They took advantage of the US reconstruction and support to build a solid economic base that will allow them to win next time, and are preparing to rebuild the Japanese military and provoke war with China at just the right point so that Japan will not be defenseless but the US will still be forced by alliance agreements to drain their resources. Then Japan will take advantage of the help they offer to claim China and begin forging a new empire with more than fifty years of preparation behind it - this time with the US as an ally and with the third largest economy in the world behind them.

On top of that, the US's own secret behind the scenes organization supports this, since the US is growing increasingly defunct. They're preparing to leverage the long-term relationship our countries have and the support they're offering into positions in Japan's new empire, so that they can restart their NWO plans with a stronger seed country. They'll happily abandon the US when the time comes and take large chunks of our strategic resources with them.

... Hey, this is somewhat fun. I don't have to worry about facts or counterarguments at all!
 
Fred Phelps of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church is a gay secret agent. He is working undercover for the gay community to create a cartoonishly absurd caricature of a gay agenda opponent to be used in guilt-by-association smears against real "family values" types.
 
Crown Prince Rudolf Franz Karl Joseph and Baroness Mary Vetsera were murdered for political reasons at Mayerling in 1889.
 
Environmentalists have a hidden agenda. They actually want the sea levels to rise.

How?
They are trying to make us think that we are overfishing, when we are actually underfishing. This way, we cease to take the necessary amount of fish (and thereby mass) out of the oceans. So the less fish we take out of the oceans and seas, the more the sea levels will rise. This is a no-brainer of course. Only Japan is trying to counter this by taking the largest fish there are out of the sea. (Yes, I know whales are mammals, but hey, this is a conspiracy theory, so who cares about getting your facts right.)

Why?
The environmentalists love the mountains. They are preparing a new world order where the sea levels rise so high that only the mountains will still be dry. They will be the only survivors and will live there happily ever after. Evidence for these preparations are quite obvious actually. They are training themselves to be able to live in the mountains by going there frequently and getting used to the altitude (low pressure) and low temperatures. When you ask mountain climbers, they will always say that by being in nature (read: the mountains) so often, they started to realize that we have to do something about global issues, like overfishing. When the truth is that it's actually the other way around!
 
This is going to be fun.

David Icke is himself a reptilian and member of parliment from outer-space. The reason he tries to expose them, is to keep us believing he's full of bull.

You see, he provides no evidence for his supposedly wacky theories BECAUSE he doesn't want us to think about what our rulers really are.

Oh, and reptilians have found a way to become immortal, so Hitler really IS still alive.
 
Conspiracy theorys are designed by a secret cabal who want people wasting their time investigating such things as the Kennedy Assasination, 9/11, Vince Foster, October Surprise, the Freemasons, the Jews, The Queen of England, the Gay Agenda and other totally stupid to dubious conspiracy theories so that people will be distracted and they can compete their nefarious plans to conquer the world and impose OWG on us and force us to drink Kool-Aid from the tap!!
 
Spindrift said:
It seems that conspiracy theories arise because people have similar thoughts about something and question the "official story". Over the years I've thought up my own conspiracy theories but never did anything about them because I knew I was just making **** up.

I wondered if a single person could posit a conspiracy theory about something that is not true and see if it ever takes on a life of its own. I'd love to see some woo someday quote my 'theory'. I also think it would make it so much better if the origin of the theory can be traced back to JREF and watch the rationalizing.
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Well, this kind of thing does happen quite often. Somebody makes up an absurd theory with lots of tantalizing details and it is taken seriously. So much so that even when the people making the whole thing up say it was just a joke they are simply not believed.

Here is a good example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_is_dead

http://www.turnmeondeadman.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=12

And more recently with the Gulf of Mexico oilspill,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/goldman-sachs-reveals-it_b_558774.html

Even though Borowitz pointed out that it was just a joke and not true, some conspiracy sites rationalized that by pretending it was just a joke is the perfect way of getting the story better known and publicized.

http://pesn.com/2010/05/05/9501645_No_joke--Goldman_Sachs_shorted_TransOcean/

Actually this idea was also the plot of Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum, but in that book making up baseless conspiracy theories could be hazardous to the health.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault's_Pendulum
 
Sledge said:
Saddam Hussein is still alive. As he'd been put in place by the CIA, Hussein knew too many secrets to risk the very public trial the Iraqi people would demand. Instead, one of Hussein's many decoys was tasked to take his place, with the promise his family would be well taken care of. The real Hussein underwent plastic surgery and is now living in Switzerland.

I am honestly surprised that some variant of this isn't more common.
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Actually, this one was popular for a while. A friend of mine from Sudan was convinced that the real Saddam Hussein had not been captured and he believed it up until the video of his execution surfaced.

Seeing Hussein's defiant demeanour on the scaffold he decided, "That's definitely him!"
 
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