By Jonathan Elinoff
New World Order Report (now defunct)
After reading the article released by Cracked.com, I decided to
update and revise their sloppy work. Their article had only 7. I can
name 33 and I am planning on releasing a revised list soon with up to
50. The article I was insulted to read by the lack of information 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 follows are some of these most shocking modern conspiracy
theories that turned out true after thorough investigation by our
society. Some through congressional hearings, others through
investigative journalism. Many of these, however, were just admitted
to by those involved. These are just 33 of them, and I still had a
long list of others to add. There are a total of 33 in this article.
Many of these are listed with original and credible news clips on the
matter, as well as documentaries.
1.
The Dreyfus Affair: In the late 1800s in France,
Jewish artillery officer Alfred Dreyfus was wrongfully convicted of
treason based on false government documents, and sentenced to life in
prison. The French government did attempt to cover this up, but Dreyfus
was eventually pardoned after the affair was made public (an act that
is credited to writer Émile Zola).
2.
The Mafia: This secret crime society was virtually
unknown until the 1960s, when member Joe Valachi first revealed the
society’s secrets to law enforcement officials. What was known was
that organized crime existed, but not that the extent of their control
included working with the CIA, politicians and the biggest businesses
in the world.
3.
MK-ULTRA: In the 1950s to the 1970s, the CIA ran a
mind-control project aimed at finding a “truth serum” to use on
communist spies. Test subjects were given LSD and other drugs, often
without consent, and some were tortured. At least one man, civilian
biochemist Frank Olson, who was working for the government, died as a
result of the experiments. The project was finally exposed after
investigations by the Rockefeller Commission.
"Mission Mind Control (July 10, 1979)"- http://www.archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.37950 (YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nucsSUTpnY )
"The Brain: A Secret History: Mind Control"- http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xhgkd (YouTube- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=184PZnvOlx0 )
This film discusses Operation Paperclip:
"Arsenal of Hypocrisy: The Space Program and the Military Industrial Complex"- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf7apNEASPk
4.
Operation Mockingbird: Also in the 1950s to ’70s, the
CIA paid a number of well-known domestic and foreign journalists (from
big-name media outlets like Time, The Washington Post, The New York
Times, CBS and others) to publish CIA propaganda. The CIA also
reportedly funded at least one movie, the animated “Animal Farm,” by
George Orwell. The Church Committee finally exposed the activities in
1975.
5.
Manhattan Project: The Manhattan
Project was the codename for a project conducted during World War II to
develop the first atomic bomb. The project was led by the United States,
and included participation from the United Kingdom and Canada.
Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineer District (MED), it refers
specifically to the period of the project from 1942–1946 under the
control of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration
of General Leslie R. Groves. The scientific research was directed by
American physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The project’s roots lay in
scientists’ fears since the 1930s that Nazi Germany was also
investigating nuclear weapons of its own. Born out of a small research
program in 1939, the Manhattan Project eventually employed more than
130,000 people and cost nearly US$2 billion ($22 billion in current
value). It resulted in the creation of multiple production and research
sites that operated in secret. With the total involved, this makes it
one of the largest conspiracies in history. Entire towns were built for
short periods of time, employing people, all under secrecy and top
national secrecy at that. The government never admitted to it, the
media never reported on it, and people had no idea for over 25 years.
Project research took place at over thirty sites across the United
States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The three primary research and
production sites of the project were the plutonium-production facility
at what is now the Hanford Site, the uranium-enrichment facilities at
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the weapons research and design laboratory
now known as Los Alamos National Laboratory. The MED maintained control
over U.S. weapons production until the formation of the Atomic Energy
Commission in January 1947.
6.
Asbestos: Between 1930 and 1960, manufacturers did all
they could to prevent the link between asbestos and respiratory
diseases, including cancer, becoming known, so they could avoid
prosecution. American workers had in fact sued the Johns Manville
company as far back as 1932, but it was not until 1962 that
epidemiologists finally established beyond any doubt what company
bosses had known for a long time – asbestos causes cancer.
7.
Watergate: Republican officials spied on the Democratic
National Headquarters from the Watergate Hotel in 1972. While
conspiracy theories suggested underhanded dealings were taking place,
it wasn’t until 1974 that White House tape recordings linked President
Nixon to the break-in and forced him to resign.
8.
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study: The United States Public
Health Service carried out this clinical study on 400 poor,
African-American men with syphilis from 1932 to 1972. During the study
the men were given false and sometimes dangerous treatments, and
adequate treatment was intentionally withheld so the agency could learn
more about the disease. While the study was initially supposed to last
just six months, it continued for 40 years. Close to 200 of the men
died from syphilis or related complications by the end of the study.
9.
Operation Northwoods: In the early 1960s, American
military leaders drafted plans to create public support for a war
against Cuba, to oust Fidel Castro from power. The plans included
committing acts of terrorism in U.S. cities, killing innocent people and
U.S. soldiers, blowing up a U.S. ship, assassinating Cuban émigrés,
sinking boats of Cuban refugees, and hijacking planes. The plans were
all approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but were reportedly rejected
by the civilian leadership, then kept secret for nearly 40 years.
Author James Bamford, “A Pretext For War”, discusses the
declassified “Operation Northwoods” documents revealing that in 1962
the CIA was planning to stage phony terrorist attacks on the US and
blame it on Cuba to start a war:
10.
1990 Testimony of Nayirah: A 15-year-old girl named
“Nayirah” testified before the U.S. Congress that she had seen Iraqi
soldiers pulling Kuwaiti babies from incubators, causing them to die.
The testimony helped gain major public support for the 1991 Gulf War,
but — despite protests that the dispute of this story was itself a
conspiracy theory — it was later discovered that the testimony was
false. The public relations firm Hill & Knowlton, which was in the
employ of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, had arranged the testimony. It
turned out that she had taken acting lessons on request of the CIA and
was actually the niece of a major politician in Kuwait. Nayirah was
later disclosed to be Nayirah al-Sabah, daughter of Saud bin Nasir
Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ambassador to the USA. The Congressional Human
Rights Caucus, of which Congressman Tom Lantos was co-chairman, had
been responsible for hosting Nurse Nayirah, and thereby popularizing
her allegations. When the girl’s account was later challenged by
independent human rights monitors, Lantos replied, “The notion that any
of the witnesses brought to the caucus through the Kuwaiti Embassy
would not be credible did not cross my mind… I have no basis for
assuming that her story is not true, but the point goes beyond that. If
one hypothesizes that the woman’s story is fictitious from A to Z,
that in no way diminishes the avalanche of human rights violations.”
Nevertheless, the senior Republican on the Human Rights Caucus, John
Edward Porter, responded to the revelations “by saying that if he had
known the girl was the ambassador’s daughter, he would not have allowed
her to testify.”
11.
Counter Intelligence Programs Against Activists in the 60s:
COINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series
of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and
disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.
The FBI used covert operations from its inception, however formal
COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971. The FBI’s
stated motivation at the time was “protecting national security,
preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political
order.” According to FBI records, 85% of COINTELPRO resources were
expended on infiltrating, disrupting, marginalizing, and/or subverting
groups suspected of being subversive, such as communist and socialist
organizations; the women’s rights movement; militant black nationalist
groups, and the non-violent civil rights movement, including
individuals such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with
the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congress of Racial Equality,
the American Indian Movement, and other civil rights groups; a broad
range of organizations labeled “New Left”, including Students for a
Democratic Society, the National Lawyers Guild, the Weathermen, almost
all groups protesting the Vietnam War, and even individual student
demonstrators with no group affiliation; and nationalist groups such as
those “seeking independence for Puerto Rico.” The other 15% of
COINTELPRO resources were expended to marginalize and subvert “white
hate groups,” including the Ku Klux Klan and National States’ Rights
Party. The directives governing COINTELPRO were issued by FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover, who ordered FBI agents to “expose, disrupt,
misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” the activities of these
movements and their leaders.
This is a documentary on COINTELPRO:
12.
The Iran-Contra Affair: In 1985 and ’86, the White
House authorized government officials to secretly trade weapons with
the Israeli government in exchange for the release of U.S. hostages in
Iran. The plot was uncovered by Congress in 1987.
13.
The BCCI Scandal: The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI)
was a major international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a
Pakistani financier. The Bank was registered in Luxembourg. Within a
decade BCCI touched its peak, it operated in 78 countries, had over 400
branches, and had assets in excess of US$ 20 billion making it the 7th
largest private bank in the world by assets. In the late 1980′s BCCI
became the target of a two year undercover operation conducted by the
US Customs Service. This operation concluded with a fake wedding that
was attended by BCCI officers and drug dealers from around the world
who had established a personal friendship and working relationship with
undercover Special Agent Robert Mazur. After a six month trial in
Tampa, key bank officers were convicted and received lengthy prison
sentences. Bank officers began cooperating with law enforcement
authorities and that cooperation caused BCCI’s many crimes to be
revealed. BCCI came under the scrutiny of regulatory bodies and
intelligence agencies in the 1980s due to its perceived avoidance of
falling under one regulatory banking authority, a fact that was later,
after extensive investigations, proven to be false. BCCI became the
focus of a massive regulatory battle in 1991 and was described as a
“$20-billion-plus heist”. Investigators in the U.S. and the UK
revealed that BCCI had been “set up deliberately to avoid centralized
regulatory review, and operated extensively in bank secrecy
jurisdictions. Its affairs were extraordinarily complex. Its officers
were sophisticated international bankers whose apparent objective was
to keep their affairs secret, to commit fraud on a massive scale, and
to avoid detection.”
14.
CIA Drug Running in LA: Pulitzer Prize Award winning
journalist Gary Webb exposed this alongside LAPD Narcotics Officer
turned whislteblower and author Michael Ruppert, CIA Contract Pilot
Terry Reed, and many others. In August 1996 the
San Jose Mercury News
published Webb’s “Dark Alliance”, a 20,000 word, three-part
investigative series which alleged that Nicaraguan drug traffickers had
sold and distributed crack cocaine in Los Angeles during the 1980s,
and that drug profits were used to fund the CIA-supported Nicaraguan
Contras. Webb never asserted that the CIA directly aided drug dealers
to raise money for the Contras, but he did document that the CIA was
aware of the cocaine transactions and the large shipments of cocaine
into the U.S. by the Contra personnel. “Dark Alliance” received national
attention. At the height of the interest, the web version of it on
San Jose Mercury News website received 1.3 million hits a day. According to the
Columbia Journalism Review,
the series became “the most talked-about piece of journalism in 1996
and arguably the most famous—some would say infamous—set of articles of
the decade.”
15.
Gulf of Tonkin Never Happened: The
Gulf of Tonkin Incident is the name given to two separate incidents
involving the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the United States in
the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. On August 2, 1964 two American
destroyers engaged three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, resulting in
the sinking of one of the torpedo boats. This was also the single most
important reason for the escalation of the Vietnam War. After Kennedy
was assassinated, the Gulf of Tonkin gave the country the sweeping
support for aggressive military action against the North Vietnamese.
The outcome of the incident was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of
Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the
authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was
considered to be jeopardized by “communist aggression”. In 2005, an
internal National Security Agency historical study was declassified; it
concluded that USS Maddox had engaged the North Vietnamese on August
2, but that there may not have been any North Vietnamese vessels
present during the engagement of August 4. The report stated “It is not
simply that there is a different story as to what happened; it is that
no attack happened that night…” In truth, Hanoi’s navy was engaged in
nothing that night but the salvage of two of the boats damaged on August
2. In 1965, President Johnson commented privately: “For all I know,
our Navy was shooting at whales out there.” In 1981, Captain Herrick
and journalist Robert Scheer re-examined Herrick’s ship’s log and
determined that the first torpedo report from August 4, which Herrick
had maintained had occurred—the “apparent ambush”—was in fact
unfounded. In 1995, retired Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen
Giap, meeting with former Secretary of Defense McNamara, categorically
denied that Vietnamese gunboats had attacked American destroyers on
August 4, while admitting to the attack on August 2. In the Fall of
1999, retired senior CIA engineering executive S. Eugene Poteat wrote
that he was asked in early August 1964 to determine if the radar
operator’s report showed a real torpedo boat attack or an imagined
one. In October, 2005 the New York Times reported that Robert J.
Hanyok, a historian for the U.S. National Security Agency, had
concluded that the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports
that it had passed on to policy-makers regarding the August 4, 1964
incident. He concluded that the motive was not political but was
probably to cover up honest intelligence errors.
16.
The Business Plot: In 1933, group of wealthy
businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM,
Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush
tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a
military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship
in the United States. And yes, we’re talking about the same Prescott
Bush who fathered one US President and grandfathered another one.
Smedley Butler was both a patriot and a vocal FDR supporter. Apparently
none of these criminal masterminds noticed that their prospective
point man had actively stumped for FDR in 1932. Smedley spilled the
beans to a congressional committee in 1934. Everyone he accused of
being a conspirator vehemently denied it, and none of them were brought
up on criminal charges. Still, the House McCormack-Dickstein Committee
did at least acknowledge the existence of the conspiracy, which ended
up never getting past the initial planning stages. Though many of the
people who had allegedly backed the Business Plot also maintained
financial ties with Nazi Germany up through America’s entry into World
War II. In 1934, the Business Plot was publicly revealed by retired
Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testifying to the
McCormack-Dickstein Congressional Committee. In his testimony, Butler
claimed that a group of men had approached him as part of a plot to
overthrow Roosevelt in a military coup. One of the alleged plotters,
Gerald MacGuire, vehemently denied any such plot. In their final
report, the Congressional committee supported Butler’s allegations of
the existence of the plot, but no prosecutions or further
investigations followed, and the matter was mostly forgotten.
On July 17, 1932, thousands of World War I veterans converged on
Washington, D.C., set up tent camps, and demanded immediate payment of
bonuses due them according to the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of
1924. This “Bonus Army” was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army
sergeant.
The Army was encouraged by an appearance from retired Marine
Corps Major General Smedley Butler, who had considerable influence over
the veterans, being one of the most popular military figures of the
time. A few days after Butler’s arrival, President Herbert Hoover
ordered the marchers removed, and their camps were destroyed by US Army
cavalry troops under the command of General Douglas MacArthur.
Butler, although a self-described Republican, responded by supporting
Roosevelt in that year’s election. In a 1995 History Today article
Clayton Cramer argued that the devastation of the Great Depression had
caused many Americans to question the foundations of liberal democracy.
“Many traditionalists, here and in Europe, toyed with the ideas of
Fascism and National Socialism; many liberals dallied with Socialism
and Communism.” Cramer argues that this explains why some American
business leaders viewed fascism as a viable system to both preserve
their interests and end the economic woes of the Depression.
17.
July 20, 1944 Conspiracy to Assassinate Hitler: Among
another 20 some odd attempts, this one was one of the largest
conspiracies involving hundreds of loyalists in the highest echelons of
Hitler’s inner circle. Near the end of WWII, things were rapidly going
south for Germany and the time seemed ripe for guilt-ridden Nazi
officers to assassinate Hitler and overthrow his government. Colonel
Henning von Tresckow recruited Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg to join
the conspiracy in 1944. The plot to take out Hitler and then all of his
loyal officers was called Operation Valkyrie. The plan was to use the
Continuity of Government Proceedings during an assassination on
Hitler’s life to take over full control of the government in Germany.
The assassination would be blamed on the Nazi SS and therefore allow
Stauffenberg to take full control of all aspects of the government. It
almost worked. In July 1944, Stauffenberg was promoted so that he
could now start attending military strategy meetings with Hitler
himself. On more than one occasion Stauffenberg planned to kill Hitler
at such a meeting with a briefcase bomb, but he always held off because
he also wanted to take out Hitler’s two right-hand men, Hermann
Goering and Heinrich Himmler. On July 20, he went for it anyway and
exploded a bomb inside Hitler’s conference room with a remote
detonator. Hitler survived only minor injuries.
18.
Operation Ajax: For years, Britain had a spiffy trade
deal with Iran regarding their prodigious oil fields. The Anglo-Iranian
Oil Company was basically a giant money machine for the Anglo half,
while the Iranian half got shafted. That all changed in 1951 when Iran
nationalized the AIOC and the Iranian parliament elected Mohammed
Mossadegh as Prime Minister. Mossadegh was relatively secular,
something that pissed of Iranian clerics, but he was also very
nationalistic. He was a democratically elected, pro American figure
but the West saw his nationalizing of the oil fields a communist
move(something Mossadegh thought was the right of the people to profit
and pay for services in the country with). Those oil fields were under
the control of British Petroleum, but unfortunately Mossadegh
overruled this long standing business control. The United States sent
Kermit Roosevelt, FDR’s nephew and CIA coordinator in to figure out the
mess. The best he could come up with was to confront Mossadegh and
have him overthrown and this was accomplished by bringing in what the
agency refers to as “jackals.” The United States backed the return of
the Shah of Iran, one of the most brutal dictators the country had
ever seen and intentionally overthrew years before with the democratic
leader, Mossadegh. Until 1979, that is, when a pissed off Iranian
populace finally revolted and replaced the monarchy with an anti-West
Islamic Republic. The result was a violently anti-American revolution
lead by the Ayatollah Khomeini which overthrew the Shah and took
hostage US Embassy workers, many of whom were involved in the plot with
Kermit Roosevelt that installed the Shah. The planning for the Coup
took place largely in that embassy, but Americans were told this was
due to the rise of radical Islam and rise of democracy hating Muslims,
which of course was far from the truth.
19.
Operation Snow White: Some time during the 1970s, the
Church of Scientology decided that they’d had enough. Apparently, the
Church of Scientology managed to perform the largest infiltration of the
United States government in history. Ever. 5,000 of Scientology’s
crack commandos wiretapped and burglarized various agencies. They stole
hundreds of documents, mainly from the IRS. No critic was spared, and
in the end, 136 organizations, agencies and foreign embassies were
infiltrated.
20.
Operation Gladio: Gladio is a code name denoting the
clandestine NATO “stay-behind” operation in Italy after World War II,
intended to continue anti-communist resistance in the event of a Warsaw
Pact invasion of Western Europe. Although Gladio specifically refers to
the Italian branch of the NATO stay-behind organizations, “Operation
Gladio” is used as an informal name for all stay-behind organizations,
sometimes called “Super NATO”. The role of the Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) in sponsoring Gladio and the extent of its activities
during the Cold War era, and its relationship to right-wing terrorist
attacks perpetrated in Italy during the Years of Lead and other similar
clandestine operations is the subject of ongoing debate and
investigation. Italy, Switzerland and Belgium have had parliamentary
inquiries into the matter. What can we prove about that role?
Thousands of documents, depositions and testimony as well as recorded
conversations and admission by the highest levels of government in
Italy. That’s about as credible as it gets, regardless of the CIA’s
adamant denial it ever happened. What took place? The shooting of
innocent civilians, terrorism and assassinations all blamed on leftist
communists were actually apart of well coordinated, “black
operations.” Black operations are typically involving activities that
are highly clandestine and, often, outside of standard military
protocol.
“The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.” Black
ops missions often fit into the deniable category, a situation in which
there is no claim of responsibility for the action, and/or a false flag
operation is used to give the appearance that another actor was
responsible, or – most often – black operations involve extensive
arrangements so as to be able to hide the fact that the black operation
ever occurred. Black military operations, or paramilitary operations,
can be used by various secret services to achieve or attempt to achieve
an unusually sensitive goal. The methods used in black operations are
also used in unconventional warfare. Depending on the precise situation
in a given case, and the level of authoritarianism of the national
government or other responsible party, some tasks will be conducted as
black operations, while there are usually other activities that can be
admitted openly. Black operations may include such things as
assassination, sabotage, extortion, spying on allied countries or one’s
own citizens, kidnapping, supporting resistance movements, torture, use
of fraud to obtain funds, use of child soldiers, human
experimentation, trafficking in contraband items, etc. Since 9/11,
many black operations and long time unethical standings have been
approved for legality in the war on terror. In other words, since
September 11th, 2001, it is no a longer conspiracy for any of this to
occur, a simple decision by a top level military or CIA official is
enough, without oversight or even one thread of admission by the
Government or Private conspirators. Much of the Black operations today
are performed by private contract companies like Blackwater (now Xe).
This is a documentary banned in the United States that was allowed
to air on BBC. It was an investigation into Operation Gladio:
21.
The CIA Assassinates A Lot Of People (Church Committee):
The Church Committee is the common term referring to the United States
Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to
Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator
Frank Church in 1975. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for
illegality by the CIA and FBI after certain activities had been
revealed by the Watergate affair. The Committee uncovered, among many
other things, that the CIA had violated its charter to perform only
gathering of intelligence. For example, the assassinations of Allende
in Chile and Mossadegh in Iran. Assassinations against Central and South
American leaders and revolutionaries, as well as Africa, Middle East
and East Asia. The list was tremendous. They even declassified a
“Heart Attack Gun” the Agency had made for the use of killing someone
without it being detected. Cancer, car accidents, skiing accidents,
suicide, boating accidents, heart attacks, and just plain being shot
were common assassination methods. The hearings, although recorded in
full in congressional record, the mainstream media and official
policies, is still largely not taught in American schools on recent
history. The American public still has no idea this was ever actually
confirmed or even took place. It is common for people to still refer to
any of these assassinations as a joke or made up conspiracy.
Watch the one-minute video below for the description of a former
CIA secretary and Congressional testimony on this secret assassination
weapon which caused heart attacks.
To watch the revealing 45-minute documentary from which the above clip was taken,
click here
22.
The New World Order: This popular conspiracy theory
claims that a small group of international elites controls and
manipulates governments, industry and media organisations worldwide.
The primary tool they use to dominate nations is the system of central
banking. They are said to have funded and in some cases caused most of
the major wars of the last 200 years, primarily through carrying out
false flag attacks to manipulate populations into supporting them, and
have a grip on the world economy, deliberately causing inflation and
depressions at will. The people behind the New World Order are thought
to be international bankers, in particular the owners of the private
banks in the Federal Reserve System, Bank of England and other central
banks, and members of the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral
Commission and Bilderberg Group. Now, although this conspiracy theory
was ridiculed for years, it turns out that the Bilderberg does meet and
requests no media coverage. They receive no media coverage. The
world’s elite meet every year and it goes largely unreported, for what?
Discussions at the meetings include the economy, world
affairs, war and in general, world policy. After the financial
collapse, the Bilderberg played a key role in proposing that the world
prepare for a new world order and have a standard world currency. This
was propsed shortly after by almost all attendees of the Bilderberg
meeting. During the 20th century, many statesmen, such as Woodrow
Wilson and Winston Churchill, used the term “new world order” to refer
to a new period of history evidencing a dramatic change in world
political thought and the balance of power after World War I and World
War II. They all saw these periods as opportunities to implement
idealistic or liberal proposals for global governance only in the sense
of new collective efforts to identify, understand, or address
worldwide problems that go beyond the capacity of individual
nation-states to solve. These proposals led to the creation of
international organizations, such as the United Nations and N.A.T.O.,
and international regimes, such as the Bretton Woods system and the
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, which were calculated both to
maintain a balance of power as well as regularize cooperation between
nations, in order to achieve a peaceful phase of capitalism. In the
aftermath of the two World Wars, progressives welcomed these new
international organizations and regimes but argued they suffered from a
democratic deficit and therefore were inadequate to not only prevent
another global war but also foster global justice. American banker
David Rockefeller joined the Council on Foreign Relations as its
youngest-ever director in 1949 and subsequently became chairman of the
board from 1970 to 1985; today he serves as honorary chairman. In 2002,
Rockefeller authored his autobiography
Memoirs wherein, on page 405, he wrote:
“For more than a century ideological extremists at either
end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized
incidents … to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate
influence they claim we wield over American political and economic
institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working
against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my
family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others
around the world to build a more integrated global political and
economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I
stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
Thus, activists around the globe formed a world federalist movement
bent on creating a “real” new world order. A number of Fabian socialist
intellectuals, such as British writer H. G. Wells in the 1940s,
appropriated and redefined the term “new world order” as a synonym for
the establishment of a full-fledged social democratic world
government. In the 1960s, a great deal of right-wing conspiracist
attention, by groups like the John Birch Society and the Liberty Lobby,
focused on the United Nations as the vehicle for creating the “One
World Government”, and contributed to a conservative movement for
United States withdrawal from the U.N.. American writer Mary M.
Davison, in her 1966 booklet
The Profound Revolution, traced
the alleged New World Order conspiracy to the creation of the U.S.
Federal Reserve System in 1913 by international bankers, who she
claimed later formed the Council on Foreign Relations in 1921 as the
shadow government. At the time the booklet was published,
“international bankers” would have been interpreted by many readers as a
reference to a postulated “international Jewish banking conspiracy”
masterminded by the Rothschilds and Rockefellers. American
televangelist Pat Robertson with his 1991 best-selling book
The New World Order
became the most prominent Christian popularizer of conspiracy theories
about recent American history as a theater in which Wall Street, the
Federal Reserve System, Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg Group,
and Trilateral Commission control the flow of events from behind the
scenes, nudging us constantly and covertly in the direction of world
government for the Antichrist.
After the turn of the century, specifically during the financial
crisis of 2007–2009, many politicians and pundits, such as Gordon
Brown, Henry Kissinger, and Barack Obama, used the term “new world
order” in their advocacy for a Keynesian reform of the global financial
system and their calls for a “New Bretton Woods”, which takes into
account emerging markets such as China and India. These declarations
had the unintended consequence of providing fresh fodder for New World
Order conspiracism, and culminated in former Clinton administration
adviser Dick Morris and conservative talk show host Sean Hannity
arguing on one of his Fox News Channel programs that “conspiracy
theorists were right”. In 2009, American film directors Luke Meyer and
Andrew Neel released
New World Order, a critically-acclaimed
documentary film which explores the world of conspiracy theorists, such
as American radio host Alex Jones, who are committed to exposing and
vigorously opposing what they perceive to be an emerging New World
Order.
Videos on NWO
23.
Kennedy Assassination – the 2nd Investigation by Congress Few People Know About, United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA): The HSCA
was
established in 1976 to investigate the John F. Kennedy assassination
and the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination. The Committee
investigated until 1978, and in 1979 issued its final report,
concluding that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated by a
conspiracy involving the mob, and potentially the CIA. The House
Select Committee on Assassinations undertook reinvestigations of the
murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1979, a
single Report and twelve volumes of appendices on each assassination
were published by the Congress. In the JFK case, the HSCA found that
there was a “probable conspiracy,” though it was unable to determine
the nature of that conspiracy or its other participants (besides
Oswald). This finding was based in part on acoustics evidence from a
tape purported to record the shots, but was also based on other
evidence including an investigation of Ruby’s mafia connections and
potential CIA and/or FBI connections to Oswald. To this day, many
conspiracy deniers are unaware that the Congressional investigation
into JFK’s assassination concluded beyond any shadow of a doubt that it
was a conspiracy. What made them come to this conclusion? Aside from
reading the report, many witnesses (some of whom were CIA agents and
station chiefs in Dallas that morning) were killed the night before
testifying. For example, George de Mohrenschildt was a petroleum
geologist who befriended Lee Harvey Oswald during the months preceding
the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. He also worked for
the CIA. He also blew his brains out the night before he was to
testify to the committee.
The committee also uncovered, among many
things, that Oswald left the marines where he learned how to speak
fluent Russian (at the height of the cold war). He was given money by
the State Department to travel to Russia where he stopped off in Japan
at a top secret US Military facility. The Warren Commission even
mentioned this part. What most people do not know is that he probably
was working in the Cold War infiltrating the Russians as either a
“dangle,” “double agent,” or “defector” of some kind. What is
interesting is that upon his return he got more money from the State
Department to buy a house and work with an ex FBI Chief and CIA
officials in training anti-Castro Cubans for an invasion. In
Louisiana, where he was working, the CIA was involved in Operation
Mongoose, Where Oswald worked under CIA Agent David Ferrie, who killed
himself before testifying in a trial on the Assassination as well.
Operation Mongoose worked closely with Southern Mafia figures largely
because the casinos in Cuba, which were shut down after Fidel obtained
control over the country, were epicenters for control on the island.
The CIA even hired the mafia to assassinate Fidel on many occasions, 3
attempts which failed are common knowledge. What is funny is that
figures who worked very close with Oswald either ended up dead (over
100 of them connected to the assassination died within a few years of
unusual circumstances) or they ended up in other conspiracies.
For instance, E Howard Hunt (CIA Agent) confessed to being involved
in the conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy on his deathbed. E Howard Hunt
was one of the Watergate Burglars. Barry Seal, who worked with Oswald
and Ferrie ended up being one of the largest cocaine smugglers in the
United States during Iran Contra, as a key player for the agency and
informant for the DEA. There is so much more to get into, but there
just isn’t enough time. Oswald’s tax returns are still classified top
secret to this day. Why? Perhaps he was still getting $$ from the
United States, which places him on the payroll. That money trail leads
to figures, many of whom were murdered, that would have blown the
story wide open. For 14 years, most didn’t know this. The HSCA
investigaitons by congress went against the findings of the Warren
Commission and both reports are from the same source, Congressional
Committees. Which is true? Why do we only teach one to our children
in school?
December 30, 1978 Report on HSCA Findings:
24.
1919 World Series Conspiracy: The 1919 World Series
(often referred to as the Black Sox Scandal) resulted in the most
famous scandal in baseball history. Eight players from the Chicago
White Sox (nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series
against the Cincinnati Reds. Details of the scandal remain
controversial, and the extent to which each player was involved varied.
It was, however, front-page news across the country when the story was
uncovered late in the 1920 season, and despite being acquitted of
criminal charges (throwing baseball games was technically not a crime),
the eight players were banned from organized baseball (i.e. the
leagues subject to the National Agreement) for life. There are
hundreds of other conspiracies involving throwing games, sporting
matches and large scale entertainment events. It is common knowledge
for many, this list would have to go into the thousands if we included
all of them.
25.
Karen Silkwood: Karen was an American labor union
activist and chemical technician at the Kerr-McGee plant near Crescent,
Oklahoma, United States. Silkwood’s job was making plutonium pellets for
nuclear reactor fuel rods. After being hired at Kerr-McGee, Silkwood
joined the Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers Union local and took part
in a strike at the plant. After the strike ended, she was elected to
the union’s bargaining committee and assigned to investigate health and
safety issues. She discovered what she believed to be numerous
violations of health regulations, including exposure of workers to
contamination, faulty respiratory equipment and improper storage of
samples. She also believed the lack of sufficient shower facilities
could increase the risk of employee contamination. In the summer of
1974, Silkwood testified to the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) about
these issues, alleging that safety standards had slipped because of a
production speedup which resulted in employees being given tasks for
which they were poorly trained. She also alleged that Kerr-McGee
employees handled the fuel rods improperly and that the company
falsified inspection records. On November 5, 1974, Silkwood performed a
routine self-check and found almost 400 times the legal limit for
plutonium contamination. She was decontaminated at the plant and sent
home with a testing kit to collect urine and feces for further
analysis. Oddly, though there was plutonium on the exterior surfaces
(the ones she touched) of the gloves she had been using, the gloves did
not have any holes.
This suggests the contamination did not come from inside the glove
box, but from some other source, in other words, someone was trying to
poison her. The next morning, as she headed to a union negotiation
meeting, she again tested positive for plutonium. This was surprising
because she had only performed paperwork duties that morning. She was
given a more intense decontamination. The following day, November 7,
1974, as she entered the plant, she was found to be dangerously
contaminated — even expelling contaminated air from her lungs. A health
physics team accompanied her back to her home and found plutonium
traces on several surfaces — especially in the bathroom and the
refrigerator. The house was later stripped and decontaminated.
Silkwood, her partner and housemate were sent to Los Alamos National
Laboratory for in-depth testing to determine the extent of the
contamination in their bodies. Later that evening, Silkwood’s body was
found in her car, which had run off the road and struck a culvert. The
car contained no documents. She was pronounced dead at the scene from a
“classic, one-car sleeping-driver accident”.
26.
CIA Drug Smuggling in Arkansas: August 23, 1987, in a
rural community just south of Little Rock, police officers murdered
two teenage boys because they witnessed a police-protected drug drop.
The drop was part of a drug smuggling operation based at a small airport
in Mena, Arkansas. The Mena operation was set up in the early 1980′s
by the notorious drug smuggler, Barry Seal. Facing prison after a drug
conviction in Florida, Seal flew to Washington, D.C., where he put
together a deal that allowed him to avoid prison by becoming an
informant for the government. As a government informant against drug
smugglers, Seal testified he worked for the CIA and the DEA. In one
federal court case, he testified that his income from March 1984 to
August 1985, was between $700,000 and $800,000. This period was AFTER
making his deal with the government. Seal testified that nearly
$600,000 of this came from smuggling drugs while working for — and with
the permission of the DEA. In addition to his duties as an informant,
Seal was used by CIA operatives to help finance the Nicaraguan Contras.
The CIA connection to the Mena operation was undeniable when a cargo
plane given to Seal by the CIA was shot down over Nicaragua with a
load of weapons. In spite of the evidence, every investigator who has
tried to expose the crimes of Mena has been professionally destroyed,
and those involved in drug smuggling operations have received continued
protection from state and federal authorities.
The Mena Connection Bush, Clinton, and CIA Drug Smuggling 1995 Full Length
27.
Bohemian Grove: For years, many conspiracy theorists
were saying that the rich and powerful met every year in the woods and
worshiped a giant stone owl in an occult fashion. It turns out, ABC,
CBS, NBC, and many other credible news agencies investigated this and
found out, its true. It is said to be just all fun and games, like
brotherhood style fraternity stuff.
28.
Operation Paperclip: Operation Paperclip was the code
name for the 1945 Office of Strategic Services, Joint Intelligence
Objectives Agency recruitment of German scientists from Nazi Germany to
the U.S. after VE Day. President Truman authorized Operation
Paperclip in August 1945; however he expressly ordered that anyone
found “to have been a member of the Nazi party and more than a nominal
participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Nazi
militarism” would be excluded. These included Wernher von Braun,
Arthur Rudolph and Hubertus Strughold, who were all officially on
record as Nazis and listed as a “menace to the security of the Allied
Forces.” All were cleared to work in the U.S. after having their
backgrounds “bleached” by the military; false employment histories were
provided, and their previous Nazi affiliations were expunged from the
record. The paperclips that secured newly-minted background details to
their personnel files gave the operation its name.
29.
The Round Table: British businessman Cecil Rhodes
advocated the British Empire reannexing the United States of America
and reforming itself into an “Imperial Federation” to bring about a
hyperpower and lasting world peace. In his first will, of 1877, written
at the age of 23, he expressed his wish to fund a secret society (known
as the Society of the Elect) that would advance this goal: “To and
for the establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society,
the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British
rule throughout the world, the perfecting of a system of emigration
from the United Kingdom, and of colonization by British subjects of all
lands where the means of livelihood are attainable by energy, labor
and enterprise, and especially the occupation by British settlers of
the entire Continent of Africa, the Holy Land, the Valley of the
Euphrates, the Islands of Cyprus and Candia, the whole of South
America, the Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great
Britain, the whole of the Malay Archipelago, the seaboard of China and
Japan, the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an
integral part of the British Empire, the inauguration of a system of
Colonial representation in the Imperial Parliament which may tend to
weld together the disjointed members of the Empire and, finally, the
foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible, and
promote the best interests of humanity.”
In his later wills, a more mature Rhodes abandoned the idea and
instead concentrated on what became the Rhodes Scholarship, which had
British statesman Alfred Milner as one of its trustees. Established in
1902, the original goal of the trust fund was to foster peace among the
great powers by creating a sense of fraternity and a shared world view
among future British, American, and German leaders by having enabled
them to study for free at the University of Oxford. Milner and British
official Lionel George Curtis were the architects of the Round Table
movement, a network of organizations promoting closer union between
Britain and its self-governing colonies. To this end, Curtis founded
the Royal Institute of International Affairs in June 1919 and, with his
1938 book
The Commonwealth of God, began advocating for the
creation of an imperial federation that eventually reannexes the U.S.,
which would be presented to Protestant churches as being the work of the
Christian God to elicit their support. The Commonwealth of Nations was
created in 1949 but it would only be a free association of independent
states rather than the powerful imperial federation imagined by
Rhodes, Milner and Curtis. The Council on Foreign Relations began in
1917 with a group of New York academics who were asked by President
Woodrow Wilson to offer options for the foreign policy of the United
States in the interwar period.
Originally envisioned as a British-American group of scholars and
diplomats, some of whom belonging to the Round Table movement, it was a
subsequent group of 108 New York financiers, manufacturers and
international lawyers organized in June 1918 by Nobel Peace Prize
recipient and U.S. secretary of state, Elihu Root, that became the
Council on Foreign Relations on 29 July 1921. The first of the
council’s projects was a quarterly journal launched in September 1922,
called
Foreign Affairs. Some believe that the Council on
Foreign Relations is a front organization for the Round Table as a tool
of the “Anglo-American Establishment”, which they believe has been
plotting from 1900 on to rule the world. The research findings of
historian Carroll Quigley, author of the 1966 book
Tragedy and Hope,
are taken by both conspiracy theorists of the American Old Right
(Cleon Skousen) and New Left (Carl Oglesby) to substantiate this view,
even though he argued that the Establishment is not involved in a plot
to implement a one-world government but rather British and American
benevolent imperialism driven by the mutual interests of economic
elites in the United Kingdom and the United States. Quigley also argued
that, although the Round Table still exists today, its position in
influencing the policies of world leaders has been much reduced from
its heyday during World War I and slowly waned after the end of World
War II and the Suez Crisis. Today it is largely a ginger group,
designed to consider and gradually influence the policies of the
Commonwealth of Nations, but faces strong opposition. Furthermore, in
American society after 1965, the problem, according to Quigley, was
that no elite was in charge and acting responsibly.
American banker David Rockefeller joined the Council on Foreign
Relations as its youngest-ever director in 1949 and subsequently became
chairman of the board from 1970 to 1985; today he serves as honorary
chairman. In 2002, Rockefeller authored his autobiography
Memoirs
wherein, on page 405, he wrote: “For more than a century ideological
extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon
well-publicized incidents … to attack the Rockefeller family for the
inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and
economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal
working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing
my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others
around the world to build a more integrated global political and
economic structure – one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I
stand guilty, and I am proud of it.” Barkun argues that this statement
is partly facetious (the claim of “conspiracy” or “treason”) and
partly serious – the desire to encourage trilateral cooperation among
the U.S., Europe, and Japan, for example – an ideal that used to be a
hallmark of the internationalist wing of the Republican Party when
there was an internationalist wing. However, the statement is taken at
face value and widely cited by conspiracy theorists as proof that the
Council on Foreign Relations (itself alleged to be a front for an
“international banking cabal”, as well as, it is claimed, the sponsor
of many “globalist” think tanks such as the Trilateral Commission) uses
its role as the brain trust of American presidents, senators and
representatives to manipulate them into supporting a New World Order.
Conspiracy theorists fear that the international bankers of
financial capitalism are planning to eventually subvert the
independence of the U.S. by subordinating national sovereignty to a
strengthened Bank for International Settlements with the intent to
“create a world system of financial control in private hands able to
dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the
world as a whole”. In a 13 November 2007 interview with Canadian
journalist Benjamin Fulford, Rockefeller countered: “I don’t think
that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments
of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can’t imagine
that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable
to have a single government elected by the people of the world … There
have been people, ever since I’ve had any kind of position in the
world, who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say
that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe
them as crackpots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn’t true, and
won’t be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be
irresponsible.” Some American social critics, such as Laurence H.
Shoup, argue that the Council on Foreign Relations is an “imperial
brain trust”, which has, for decades, played a central
behind-the-scenes role in shaping U.S. foreign policy choices for the
post-WWII international order and the Cold War, by determining what
options show up on the agenda and what options do not even make it to
the table; while others, such as G. William Domhoff, argue that it is
in fact a mere policy discussion forum, which provides the business
input to U.S. foreign policy planning. The latter argue that it has
nearly 3,000 members, far too many for secret plans to be kept within
the group; all the council does is sponsor discussion groups, debates
and speakers; and as far as being secretive, it issues annual reports
and allows access to its historical archives.
30.
The Illuminati: The Order of the Illuminati was an
Enlightenment-age secret society founded on May 1st, 1776, in Ingolstadt
(Upper Bavaria), by Adam Weishaupt, who was the first lay professor of
canon law at the University of Ingolstadt. The movement consisted of
freethinkers, secularists, liberals, republicans and pro-feminists,
recruited in the Masonic Lodges of Germany, who sought to promote
perfectionism through mystery schools. As a result, in 1785, the order
was infiltrated, broken and suppressed by the government agents of
Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria, in his campaign to neutralize the
threat of secret societies ever becoming hotbeds of conspiracies to
overthrow the monarchy and state religion. In the late 18th century,
reactionary conspiracy theorists, such as Scottish physicist John
Robison and French Jesuit priest Augustin Barruel, began speculating
that the Illuminati survived their suppression and became the
masterminds behind the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. The
Illuminati were accused of being enlightened absolutists who were
attempting to secretly orchestrate a world revolution in order to
globalize the most radical ideals of the Enlightenment:
anti-clericalism, anti-monarchism, and anti-patriarchalism. During the
19th century, fear of an Illuminati conspiracy was a real concern of
European ruling classes, and their oppressive reactions to this
unfounded fear provoked in 1848 the very revolutions they sought to
prevent. Although many say that the Illuminati was disbanded and
destroyed so long ago, it is well known that the Rothschild dynasty
following the family’s involvement in the secret order in Bavaria
received much attention for its major takeover of Europe’s central
banks. The Rothschild dynasty owns roughly half of the world’s wealth
and evidence suggests it has funded both sides of major wars, including
the United States Civil War.
31.
The Trilateral Commission: The Trilateral Commission
is a private organization, established to foster closer cooperation
among the United States, Europe and Japan. It was founded in July 1973
at the initiative of David Rockefeller, who was Chairman of the Council
on Foreign Relations at that time. The Trilateral Commission is widely
seen as a counterpart to the Council on Foreign Relations. In July
1972, Rockefeller called his first meeting, which was held at
Rockefeller’s Pocantico compound in New York’s Hudson Valley. It was
attended by about 250 individuals who were carefully selected and
screened by Rockefeller and represented the very elite of finance and
industry. Its first executive committee meeting was held in Tokyo in
October 1973. The Trilateral Commission was officially initiated,
holding biannual meetings. A Trilateral Commission Task Force Report,
presented at the 1975 meeting in Kyoto, Japan, called An Outline for
Remaking World Trade and Finance, said: “Close Trilateral cooperation
in keeping the peace, in managing the world economy, and in fostering
economic development and in alleviating world poverty, will improve the
chances of a smooth and peaceful evolution of the global system.”
Another Commission document read: “The overriding goal is to make the
world safe for interdependence by protecting the benefits which it
provides for each country against external and internal threats which
will constantly emerge from those willing to pay a price for more
national autonomy. This may sometimes require slowing the pace at which
interdependence proceeds, and checking some aspects of it. More
frequently however, it will call for checking the intrusion of national
government into the international exchange of both economic and
non-economic goods.”
32.
Big Brother or the Shadow Government: It is also
called the “Deep State” by Peter Dale Scott, a professor at the
University of California, Berkeley. A shadow government is a
“government-in-waiting” that remains in waiting with the intention of
taking control of a government in response to some event. It turned out
this was true on 9/11, when it was told to us by our mainstream media.
For years, this was ridiculed as a silly, crazy conspiracy theory and,
like the others listed here, turned out to be 100% true. It is also
called the Continuity of Government. The Continuity of Government
(COG) is the principle of establishing defined procedures that allow a
government to continue its essential operations in case of nuclear war
or other catastrophic event. Since the end of the cold war, the
policies and procedures for the COG have been altered according to
realistic threats of that time. These include but are not limited to a
possible coup or overthrow by right wing terrorist groups, a terrorist
attack in general, an assassination, and so on. Believe it or not the
COG has been in effect since 2001. After 9/11, it went into action.
Now here is the kicker, many of the figures in Iran Contra, the
Watergate Scandal, the alleged conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy, and
many others listed here are indeed members of the COG. This is its own
conspiracy as well.
The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World
is a book written by Air Force Col. L fletcher Prouty, published in
1973. From 1955 to 1963 Prouty was the “Focal Point Officer” for
contacts between the CIA and the Pentagon on matters relating to
military support for “black operations” but he was not assigned to the
CIA and was not bound by any oath of secrecy. (From the first page of
the 1974 Printing) It was one of the first tell-all books about the
inner workings of the CIA and was an important influence on the Oliver
Stone movie
JFK. But the main thrust of the book is how the
CIA started as a think tank to analyze intelligence gathered from
military sources but has grown to the monster it has become. The CIA
had no authority to run their own agents or to carry out covert
operations but they quickly did both and much more. This book tells
about things they actually did and a lot about how the operate. In
Prouty’s own words, from the 1997 edition of
The Secret Team:
This
is the fundamental game of the Secret Team. They have this power
because they control secrecy and secret intelligence and because they
have the ability to take advantage of the most modern communications
system in the world, of global transportation systems, of quantities of
weapons of all kinds, and when needed, the full support of a world-wide
U.S. military supporting base structure. They can use the finest
intelligence system in the world, and most importantly, they have been
able to operate under the canopy of an assumed, ever-present enemy
called “Communism.” It will be interesting to see what “enemy” develops
in the years ahead. It appears that “UFO’s and Aliens” are being primed
to fulfill that role for the future. To top all of this, there is the
fact that the CIA, itself, has assumed the right to generate and direct
secret operations. “ He is not the first to allege that UFOs and
Aliens are going to be used as a threat against the world to globalize
the planet under One government.
The Report From Iron Mountain is a book, published in
1967
(during the Johnson Administration) by Dial Press, that states that it
is the report of a government panel. According to the report, a
15-member panel, called the Special Study Group, was set up in 1963 to
examine what problems would occur if the U.S. entered a state of lasting
peace. They met at an underground nuclear bunker called Iron Mountain
(as well as other, worldwide locations) and worked over the next two
years. Iron Mountain is where the government has stored the flight 93
evidence from 9/11. A member of the panel, one “John Doe”, a professor
at a college in the Midwest, decided to release the report to the
public. The heavily footnoted report concluded that peace was not in
the interest of a stable society, that even if lasting peace “could be
achieved, it would almost certainly not be in the best interests of
society to achieve it.” War was a part of the economy. Therefore, it
was necessary to conceive a state of war for a stable economy. The
government, the group theorized, would not exist without war, and
nation states existed in order to wage war. War also served a vital
function of diverting collective aggression. They recommended that
bodies be created to emulate the economic functions of war. They also
recommended “blood games” and that the government create alternative
foes that would scare the people with reports of alien life-forms and
out of control pollution. Another proposal was the reinstitution of
slavery.
U.S. News and World Report claimed in its November
20, 1967 issue to have confirmation of the reality of the report from
an unnamed government official, who added that when President Johnson
read the report, he ‘hit the roof’ and ordered it to be suppressed for
all time. Additionally, sources were said to have revealed that orders
were sent to U.S. embassies, instructing them to emphasize that the book
had no relation to U.S. Government policy. Project Blue Beam is also a
common conspiracy theory that alleges that a faked alien landing would
be used as a means of scaring the public into whatever global system
is suggested. Some researchers suggest the Report from Iron Mountain
might be fabricated, others swear it is real.
Bill Moyers, the American journalist and public commentator, has
served as White House Press Secretary in the United States President
Lyndon B. Johnson Administration from 1965 to 1967. He worked as a news
commentator on television for ten years. Moyers has had an extensive
involvement with public television, producing documentaries and news
journal programs. He has won numerous awards and honorary degrees. He
has become well known as a trenchant critic of the U.S. media. Since
1990, Moyers has been President of the Schumann Center for Media and
Democracy. He is considered by many to be a very credible outlet for
the truth. He released a documetnary titled,
The Secret Government,
which exposed the inner workings of a secret government much more vast
that most people would ever imagine. Though originally broadcast in
1987, it is even more relevant today. Interviews with respected top
military, intelligence, and government insiders reveal both the history
and secret objectives of powerful groups in the hidden shadows of our
government.
For another powerful, highly revealing documentary on the manipulations of the secret government produced by BBC,
click here
(view free at link provided). The intrepid BBC team clearly shows how
the War on Terror is largely a fabrication. For those interested in
very detailed information on the composition of the shadow or secret
government from a less well-known source, take a look at the summary
available here.
33.
The Federal Reserve Bank: The fundamental promise of a
central bank like the Federal Reserve is economic stability. The
theory is that manipulating the value of the currency allows financial
booms to go higher, and crashes to be more mild. If growth becomes
speculative and unsustainable, the central bank can make the price of
money go up and force some deleveraging of risky investments – again,
promising to make the crashes more mild. The period leading up to the
American revolution was characterized by increasingly authoritarian
legislation from England. Acts passed in 1764 had a particularly harsh
effect on the previously robust colonial economy. The Sugar Act was
in effect a tax cut on easily smuggled molasses, and a new tax on
commodities that England more directly controlled trade over. The navy
would be used in increased capacity to enforce trade laws and collect
duties. Perhaps even more significant than the militarization and
expansion of taxes was the Currency Act passed later in the year 1764.
“The colonies suffered a constant shortage of currency with which to
conduct trade. There were no gold or silver mines and currency could
only be obtained through trade as regulated by Great Britain. Many of
the colonies felt no alternative to printing their own paper money in
the form of Bills of Credit.” The result was a true free market of
currency – each bank competed, exchange rates fluctuated wildly, and
merchants were hesitant to accept these notes as payment. Of course,
they didn’t have 24-hour digital Forex markets, but I’ll hold off
opinions on the viability of unregulated currency for another time.
England’s response was to seize control of the colonial money supply –
forbidding banks, cities, and colony governments from printing their
own. This law, passed so soon after the Sugar Act, started to really
bring revolutionary tension inside the colonies to a higher level.
American bankers had learned early on that debasing a currency through
inflation is a helpful way to pay off perpetual trade deficits – but
Britain proved that the buyer of the currency would only take the deal
for so long… Following the (first) American Revolution, the “First Bank
of the United States” was chartered to pay off collective war debts,
and effectively distribute the cost of the revolution proportionately
throughout all of the states. Although the bank had vocal and harsh
skeptics, it only controlled about 20% of the nation’s money supply.
Compared to today’s central bank, it was nothing. Thomas Jefferson
argued vocally against the institution of the bank, mostly citing
constitutional concerns and the limitations of government found in the
10th amendment. There was one additional quote that hints at the
deeper structural flaw of a central bank in a supposedly free
capitalist economy. “the existing banks will, without a doubt, enter
into arrangements for lending their agency, and the more favorable, as
there will be a competition among them for it; whereas the bill
delivers us up bound to the national bank, who are free to refuse all
arrangement, but on their own terms, and the public not free, on such
refusal, to employ any other bank” –Thomas Jefferson. Basically, the
existing banks will fight over gaining favor with the central bank –
rather than improving their performance relative to a free market. The
profit margins associated with collusion would obviously outweigh the
potential profits gained from legitimate business. The Second Bank of
the United States was passed five years after the first bank’s
charter expired. An early enemy of central banking, President James
Madison, was looking for a way to stabilize the currency in 1816. This
bank was also quite temporary – it would only stay in operation until
1833 when President Andrew Jackson would end federal deposits at the
institution.
The charter expired in 1836 and the private corporation was bankrupt
and liquidated by 1841. While the South had been the major opponent of
central banking systems, the end of the Civil War allowed for (and
also made necessary) the system of national banks that would dominate
the next fifty years. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
(OCC) says that this post-war period of a unified national currency and
system of national banks “worked well.” [3] Taxes on state banks were
imposed to encourage people to use the national banks – but liquidity
problems persisted as the money supply did not match the economic
cycles. Overall, the American economy continued to grow faster than
Europe, but the period did not bring economic stability by any stretch
of the imagination. Several panics and runs on the bank – and it
became a fact of life under this system of competing nationalized
banks. In 1873, 1893, 1901, and 1907 significant panics caused a
series of bank failures.
The new system wasn’t stable at all, in fact, many suspected it was
wraught with fraud and manipulation. The Federal Reserve Bank of
Minneapolis is not shy about attributing the causes of the Panic of
1907 to financial manipulation from the existing banking
establishment. “If Knickerbocker Trust would falter, then Congress and
the public would lose faith in all trust companies and banks would
stand to gain, the bankers reasoned.” In timing with natural economic
cycles, major banks including J.P. Morgan and Chase launched an
all-out assault on Heinze’s Knickerbocker Trust. Financial
institutions on the inside started silently selling off assets in the
competitor, and headlines about a few bad loans started making top
spots in the newspapers. The run on Knickerbocker turned into a
general panic – and the Federal Government would come to the rescue of
its privately owned “National Banks.” During the Panic of 1907,
“Depositors ‘run’ on the Knickerbocker Bank. J.P. Morgan and James
Stillman of First National City Bank (Citibank) act as a “central
bank,” providing liquidity … [to stop the bank run] President Theodore
Roosevelt provides Morgan with $25 million in government funds … to
control the panic. Morgan, acting as a one-man central bank, decides
which firms will fail and which firms will survive.” How did JP Morgan
get so powerful that the government would provide them with funding to
increase their power? They had key influence with positions inside the
Administrations.
They had senators, congressmen, lobbyists, media moguls all working
for them. In 1886, a group of millionaires purchased Jekyll Island and
converted it into a winter retreat and hunting ground, the USA’s most
exclusive club. By 1900, the club’s roster represented 1/6th of the
world’s wealth. Names like Astor, Vanderbilt, Morgan, Pulitzer and
Gould filled the club’s register. Non- members, regardless of stature,
were not allowed. Dignitaries like Winston Churchill and President
McKinley were refused admission. In 1908, the year after a national
money panic purportedly created by J. P. Morgan, Congress established,
in 1908, a National Monetary Authority. In 1910 another, more
secretive, group was formed consisting of the chiefs of major
corporations and banks in this country. The group left secretly by rail
from Hoboken, New Jersey, and traveled anonymously to the hunting lodge
on Jekyll Island. In fact, the Clubhouse/hotel on the island has two
conference rooms named for the “Federal Reserve.” The meeting was so
secret that none referred to the other by his last name. Why the need
for secrecy?
Frank Vanderlip wrote later in the Saturday Evening Post, “…it would
have been fatal to Senator Aldrich’s plan to have it known that he was
calling on anybody from Wall Street to help him in preparing his
bill…I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret
expedition to Jekyll Island as the occasion of the actual conception of
what eventually became the Federal Reserve System.” At Jekyll
Island, the true draftsman for the Federal Reserve was Paul Warburg.
The plan was simple. The new central bank could not be called a central
bank because America did not want one, so it had to be given a
deceptive name. Ostensibly, the bank was to be controlled by Congress,
but a majority of its members were to be selected by the private banks
that would own its stock. To keep the public from thinking that the
Federal Reserve would be controlled from New York, a system of twelve
regional banks was designed. Given the concentration of money and credit
in New York, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York controlled the
system, making the regional concept initially nothing but a ruse.
The board and chairman were to be selected by the President, but in
the words of Colonel Edward House, the board would serve such a term as
to “put them out of the power of the President.” The power over the
creation of money was to be taken from the people and placed in the
hands of private bankers who could expand or contract credit as they
felt best suited their needs. Why the opposition to a central bank?
Americans at the time knew of the destruction to the economy the
European central banks had caused to their respective countries and to
countries who became their debtors. They saw the large- scale
government deficit spending and debt creation that occurred in Europe.
But European financial moguls didn’t rest until the New World was
within their orbit. In 1902, Paul Warburg, a friend and associate of
the Rothschilds and an expert on European central banking, came to this
country as a partner in Kuhn, Loeb and Company.
He married the daughter of Solomon Loeb, one of the founders of the
firm. The head of Kuhn, Loeb was Jacob Schiff, whose gift of $20
million in gold to the struggling Russian communists in 1917 no doubt
saved their revolution. The Fed controls the banking system in the USA,
not the Congress nor the people indirectly (as the Constitution
dictates). The U.S. central bank strategy is a product of European
banking interests. Government interventionists got their wish in 1913
with the Federal Reserve (and income tax amendment). Just in time,
too, because the nation needed a new source of unlimited cash to
finance both sides of WW1 and eventually our own entry to the war.
After the war, with both sides owing us debt through the federal
reserve backed banks, the center of finance moved from London to New
York. But did the Federal Reserve reign in the money trusts and
interlocking directorates? Not by a long shot. If anything, the
Federal Reserve granted new powers to the National Banks by permitting
overseas branches and new types of banking services. The greatest gift
to the bankers, was a virtually unlimited supply of loans when they
experience liquidity problems.
From the early 1920s to 1929, the monetary supply expanded at a
rapid pace and the nation experienced wild economic growth. Curiously,
however, the number of banks started to decline for the first time in
American history. Toward the end of the period, speculation and loose
money had propelled asset and equity prices to unreal levels. The
stock market crashed, and as the banks struggled with liquidity
problems, the Federal Reserve actually cut the money supply. Without a
doubt, this is the greatest financial panic and economic collapse in
American history – and it never could have happened on this scale
without the Fed’s intervention. The number of banks crashed and a few
of the old robber barons’ banks managed to swoop in and grab up
thousands of competitors for pennies on the dollar.
Google
Zeitgeist is a more effective form of government. While the Bilderbergs
have a reputation as conspirators, Google can control things openly,
since that is presupposed by its very function as a provider of
information services. That is, under the guise of a democratic and even philanthropic company is a totalitarian organization which independent journalists have already named «Google-Berg» («Bilderberg is...being recast as Google-Berg»).
Information
technology, according to Schmidt, are radically changing education, the
way business works, the character of the media, and the status of
intellectual property. They are changing man himself, who is practically
merging with the computer, turning into a bionic man. As Schmidt says,
«we’re going to go from the sort of command-and-control interfaces where
you tell the computer, like a dog, 'Bark,' to a situation where the
computer becomes much more of a friend. And, a friend in the sense that
the computer says, “Well, we kind of know what you care about». And
again, you’ve given it permission to do this.