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Ten Biggest World Conspiracy Theories

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  • 27-04-2009 12:01pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭


    Ok reading an article just now and thought I'd share it. Obviously its just a report on a website but what do people think, is there something missing from the list? Is there something there that shouldnt be?
    The most popular events for which various elites are responsible are:

    10. Microsoft sends secret messages with the Wingdings font

    This controversial theory came up in 1992, several days after Windows 3.1. was released. It was discovered that if the letters NYC are written using the Wingdings font, a skull, the Star of David and a “thumbs up” symbol will appear on the screen. The symbols could be interpreted as approval of killing Jews, especially those who live in New York.

    Furthermore, after 9/11, another message was discovered, although false, but many believed it. Although the flight numbers of the aircraft that crashed into the WTC were 11 and 175, somebody got the idea of giving a false number “Q33NY” to one of the planes. If this is written in the Wingdings font, on the screen appears an eerie image of the event: a plane flying towards two skyscrapers, a skull and the Star of David.

    9. Roswell

    This theory that goes back to 1947 is about the fall of an alien space craft in the American town of Roswell in New Mexico. The theory developed because the American government first confirmed that some kind of “saucer” crashed, and then changed its story about a weather balloon having fallen.

    According to some new information, there was indeed some cover-up in Roswell. But it was not an alien space ship or a weather balloon that crashed. It was a secret spy balloon codenamed Mogul Project. But Edgar Mitchell, a former astronaut from the Apollo 14 mission, recently stated that the government forced Roswell locals into silence about the crash and that it was indeed an alien craft that had crashed there.

    8. Assassination of John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas in 1963. After a ten-month investigation, Lee Harvey Oswald was found to be the assassin. Conspiracy theorists believe there had to have been at least one more shooter and they also have reservations about Oswald’s motive.

    Many theories developed about the assassination of America’s 35th president over the years, suggesting that various political options and government agencies were behind his murder, including the CIA, the KGB, the mafia, the then vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, George H. W. Bush, and even Fidel Castro found himself on the list of suspects.

    7. A race of reptiles is running the world

    The founder of this theory is a former English goalkeeper and BBC’s reporter, David Icke. He claims that the world is ruled by a race of alien reptiles that can assume human forms and that they are at all leading state functions.

    According to Icke, the British royal family, the entire Bush family and many other world leaders are not human beings, but reptiles. Even though he has absolutely no proof for his claims, Icke travels the world and holds lectures, seminars, sells books and appears on television.

    6. Paul McCartney is dead

    According to urban legend, Paul McCartney died back in 1966 and the rest of the Beatles replaced him with his look-alike. Allegedly some of the songs have messages that can be heard if played backwards and markings on photographs from albums and the words in songs all indicate that McCartney is dead.

    The main proof of the whole theory is a photograph on the Beatles’ album “Abbey Road”. Conspiracy theorists saw hidden symbolism in that photograph because Paul McCartney is crossing the road barefoot and had lost step with the other members of the band.-.--.-

    5. NASA faked Moon landing

    Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the Moon in 1969 did not seem convincing to many people and so the theory was born that there was no Moon landing at all. Allegedly, the scenario for the Moon landing was written by science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke and was directed by the CIA.

    Supporters of this theory believe that the trip to the Moon was not possible for the following reasons: the astronauts could not survive the extreme radiation, the quality of the photographs is impossibly good, no stars are seen on the photographs and the terrain is identical on all of the photographs. Also, the temperature on the Moon during the day is so high that the film in the camera would melt, there is no crater which should have been created after the shuttle landed and the flag on the footage can be seen waving, although there is no wind on the Moon.

    4. Josip Broz Tito was a Soviet spy

    That conspiracy theories are not reserved just for western countries is confirmed by a “home-made” urban legend.

    According to some stories, the late president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had been killed and the Soviets put in his place a look-alike who was their spy. And this theory has several theories. One says that Tito had been killed in Russia in the 1920s and another that he was killed in the battle of Sutjeska, but in both theories, he was replaced by a Soviet secret agent.

    According to some stories, the look-alike was a poor Polish aristocrat. The theory was backed by the story that after the war, the locals of his birth village of Kumrovec could not recognise him. Allegedly, the “real” Tito was missing three fingers on his right hand and his double even played the piano.

    3. End of the world in 2012

    Scientists have discovered that the Mayan calendar is rather precise in predicting cosmic events and-.-Courtesy National Nuclear Security Administration-.-Atomic bomb the role of the planets in those events. The problem is that there is nothing written after the year 2012, that is, the prediction of events stops there.

    Many people who are studying this phenomenon are certain that something important will happen, but they do not know exactly what. There are various presumptions, from the theory that the cycle of life on Earth will return to its beginnings, to a cosmic cataclysm that will wipe out all life on Earth.

    According to some theories, there will be a total nuclear war in 2012 and mankind will be saved from extinction by aliens.

    On the other hand, some believe that after 2012 mankind will enter its golden era, an age of prosperity and permanent peace.

    But all supporters of this theory agree in one thing: world governments know what will happen, but are hiding the truth from the people.

    2. The global financial and economic crisis was caused on purpose

    One of the newer conspiracy theories is the purposeful crashing of the economy to destroy the collective assets of the average people. According to conspiracy theorists, from the middle of the last century, the Americans kept their assets in banks, pension insurance and real-estate.

    But since it was not possible to manipulate with that money, the elites decided to find new methods that would enable them to manage the assets, via the stock markets. Slowly, people began to invest into shares instead of banks and pension insurance. So, investment banks began to sprout.

    The next step was real-estate. They began giving mortgages to people who could not pay back the loans and that eventually caused the real-estate market to crash.

    Those who planned this received nice fat bonuses, but millions of Americans lost all of their savings and the value of their real-estate plummeted.

    1. New world order

    This theory is the “mother of all theories”, their core, because all elites that wish to grab power with their backhanded games have the ultimate goal of establishing a new world order.

    The backbones of this theory are secret societies such as Bilderberg, the Illuminati and the Freemasons who, like puppet-masters, pull the strings of famous people in politics, economy or culture, all with the aim of creating a global police state.

    The purposefully caused economic crisis and the weakening of the United States’ foreign influence are, according to some theories, newest moves aimed at establishing a police state. Keeping aliens and UFOs under wraps is also their doing, allegedly because they need alien technology so they could run the entire world population.

    But in the end, every crime, from a bank robbery and an ordered murder, to the Watergate scandal, which is planned by more than one person, can be called a conspiracy.

    http://www.javno.com/en-world/ten-biggest-world-conspiracy-theories_253776


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  • Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    I have to say I found the Paul McCartney one interesting and am gonna go read more on it. Hadnt heard much about it before.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    It's a nice list, the Tito one was new to me, though I recognized most of the others.

    The Paul McCartney one is quite interesting alright, I can't see how the man that wrote "Eleanor Rigby" would go on to write "The Mull of Kintyre"...

    The only one I can really engage with is the moon landing one- it's been thoroughly debunked. Some of them seem a little hard to credit to me- Mayans predicting end of the world, lizards ruling the world, Microsoft sending messsges with Wingdings- but there's a few there worth looking at all right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackgold>>


    10 ) is nonsense and easily disprovable.
    8 ) we know they're was more than one shooter.
    7) is just plain silly and it's not even ranked 7.. more like 10,000...
    6) is plain silly lol
    5) is fair game.
    4) never heard of it so it's more like 10,0000 aswell
    2) more than likely
    1) nwo is a silly name. it's bankers .

    10, 8, 7, 6, 4, 3, shouldn't be in the list. No one has even heard of most of them .


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,858 ✭✭✭Undergod


    Why shouldn't 4 be on the list?

    Edit: I see your edit...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 852 ✭✭✭blackgold>>


    Is that yur way of saying i'm young and don't know my history? :)
    Or are you genuinely interested?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 34,045 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    I dont know enough about any of them although heard about few the obvious ones like JFK and moon landing..

    Speaking of the moon landing what are peoples taughts on that one. I do remember seeing a program(s) about it before saying it was CT . Dont know enough myself altough there seemed to be question mark but say they prob did go moon imo.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,226 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    I've always enjoyed the silliness of the moon landing conspiracy.

    There was this one documentary on Sci Fi (I can't remember the name) that had me practically in stitches with it's inaccuracies. It was almost as if they got their technical knowledge from Armageddon.

    At one point they ask "Why was there no flames in space?"


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    King Mob wrote: »
    I've always enjoyed the silliness of the moon landing conspiracy.

    There was this one documentary on Sci Fi (I can't remember the name) that had me practically in stitches with it's inaccuracies. It was almost as if they got their technical knowledge from Armageddon.

    At one point they ask "Why was there no flames in space?"

    Congratulations, that's the most unsubstantiated post I've ever seen here.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,226 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Kernel wrote: »
    Congratulations, that's the most unsubstantiated post I've ever seen here.

    Really? I've seen a lot worse.

    I'll see if I can find the name of this thing (to call it a documentary would be an insult to documentaries.)


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    Kernel wrote: »
    Congratulations, that's the most unsubstantiated post I've ever seen here.

    Funnily I saw the same 'documentary' myself. Think it was on Living maybe. It was the most one sided things I've seen outside of an actual online CT video. Must be on the web somewhere.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 19,976 ✭✭✭✭humanji


    I think I've seen that one myself. It had things in it that even those who thought the landings were faked, would laugh at.

    I like the Paul McCartney one because I have a great image in my head of him desperately trying to convince someone that he's not an imposter.

    I'm surprised 9/11 isn't up there as it's one of the better known ones because of how recent it is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 J_Kerr


    A show on Discovery called Mythbusters debunked the moon landing one. What about the "murder" of Pope John Paul1.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    J_Kerr wrote: »
    A show on Discovery called Mythbusters debunked the moon landing one. What about the "murder" of Pope John Paul1.

    Yeah, but that Mythbusters episode had several glaring problems. Including the fact that NASA supplied almost all the test environments and materials.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    humanji wrote: »
    I think I've seen that one myself. It had things in it that even those who thought the landings were faked, would laugh at.

    Ah right, probably clumsy disinfo so.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,226 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Kernel wrote: »
    Yeah, but that Mythbusters episode had several glaring problems. Including the fact that NASA supplied almost all the test environments and materials.

    Dude a vacuum is a vacuum.

    And they didn't supply the materiel for the photography section.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 J_Kerr


    King Mob wrote: »
    Dude a vacuum is a vacuum.

    And they didn't supply the materiel for the photography section.

    Unless it's a Dyson.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    King Mob wrote: »
    Dude a vacuum is a vacuum.

    And they didn't supply the materiel for the photography section.

    Hardly independent debunking now is it? Getting NASA to help run all the experiments to prove the moon landings happened. :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭Volvagia


    I'm surprised that 9/11 isn't up there.

    I do particularly like the Paul McCartney one. If that one's true then he sure is one talented imposter. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,226 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Kernel wrote: »
    Hardly independent debunking now is it? Getting NASA to help run all the experiments to prove the moon landings happened. :rolleyes:

    Well then would you like to point out where the results where falsified then?
    And it wasn't all of the experiments.
    And a few of them it would matter if it was in a NASA facility.
    A vacuum is a vacuum.
    J_Kerr wrote: »
    Unless it's a Dyson.
    Heyo!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    King Mob wrote: »
    Well then would you like to point out where the results where falsified then?

    Particularly laughable were the footprints 'experiment' in which NASA supplied the moondust........


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭thecommander


    Kernel wrote: »
    Particularly laughable were the footprints 'experiment' in which NASA supplied the moondust........

    Do you recon the Mythbusters guys are in on it then? Or that NASA pulled the wool over the eyes of the guys who's TV show is about proving things?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 J_Kerr


    Kernel wrote: »
    Particularly laughable were the footprints 'experiment' in which NASA supplied the moondust........

    To be fair Home Depot had none left.


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,226 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Kernel wrote: »
    Particularly laughable were the footprints 'experiment' in which NASA supplied the moondust........
    So you believe that actual moon dust does not exhibit those properties?

    But even with the dust being supplied by NASA, the experiment still shows that you can leave a well defined footprint in dust in a vacuum.

    And if you where watching you would know that this was because of the structure of the moon dust.

    So the argument that astronauts couldn't have left a boot print takes a fairly sizable blow.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    Kernel wrote: »
    Particularly laughable were the footprints 'experiment' in which NASA supplied the moondust........

    And if they didn't the CT would be they didn't use moondust. It's one of the major problem I have with most of the CT's.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    Do you recon the Mythbusters guys are in on it then? Or that NASA pulled the wool over the eyes of the guys who's TV show is about proving things?

    I'm simply pointing out that going to NASA to make a programme debunking the moon landing conspiracy is not an impartial way to go about it. I'd imagine the whingeing from many on here if I referenced Alex Jones to prove an Alex Jones theory.


  • Registered Users Posts: 196 ✭✭meboloxitis


    Why was Elvis not mentioned in the list?

    I heard a theory about him & Rick James faking their own death to sell more records.... Came from a reliable source, world weekly news.

    They had a picture of Elvis & RJ surrounded by women snorting lines of coke.

    Page 5 next to Bat Boy :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29 J_Kerr


    Why was Elvis not mentioned in the list?

    I heard a theory about him & Rick James faking their own death to sell more records.... Came from a reliable source, world weekly news.

    They had a picture of Elvis & RJ surrounded by women snorting lines of coke.

    Page 5 next to Bat Boy :D

    Batboy to make a comeback with batflu.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,980 ✭✭✭meglome


    Kernel wrote: »
    I'm simply pointing out that going to NASA to make a programme debunking the moon landing conspiracy is not an impartial way to go about it. I'd imagine the whingeing from many on here if I referenced Alex Jones to prove an Alex Jones theory.

    They used NASA's vacuum chamber, NASA didn't run the experiments. I wonder how many vacuum chambers of this size are available for Mythbusters to use in the first place? Not too many I would have thought.

    And really now many people who claim this was faked have run similar experiments? I'm thinking none but am happy to be proved wrong.

    So we're comparing Alex Jones to Mythbusters and NASA now are we? he he he


  • Registered Users Posts: 25,226 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Here's a paper on the lunar soil.

    http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/surface/carrier_lunar_soils.pdf

    Found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_dust

    Towards the end it talks about how cohesive the dust is.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,388 ✭✭✭Kernel


    meglome wrote: »
    And if they didn't the CT would be they didn't use moondust. It's one of the major problem I have with most of the CT's.

    It wasn't actual moondust as far as I remember, it was a mixture that NASA made up for 'the team' which supposedly had the same properties... ridiculous!


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