I think my favorite is “Paul is Dead.” It lacks the substance of international government-controlling conspiracies, but it became a wonderful collaboration: some DJ made it up, fans began creatively interpreting Beatles songs and artwork to support and elaborate on the theory, and then the Beatles began playing around with the idea and referring to it in subtle ways, which spurred on the fans…
For obvious reasons I’m also partial to Illuminati theories. And David Ickes amuses me, just because you can’t honestly tell if he really thinks the world is being controlled by lizard people, or if the thinks “lizard people” is a more sane and clever way to say the world is controlled by Jews.
I, too, am an admitted sucker for the Illuminati conspiracies ever since, shortly after I read Illuminatus!, the then-government of Italy fell because of the exposure of the P2 Masonic Lodge. Sure, a collapse of Italian government was, by 1981, barely news, but this was one of the major “WTF? You mean they’re REAL?” moments.
I personally believe, admittedly without any evidence whatsoever, that Dan Rather and CBS were set up. Pro-Bush people set up the whole thing to discredit Rather and CBS while blowing smoke over Bush’s less than spectacular military record (meanwhile others shat upon Kerry’s much more impressive history). I just can’t see any other reason why anyone would fake or care about evidence for events that all parties already conceded to be true.
Compared to a lot of these, the old Birchite conspiracy theories are pretty humdrum.
Robert Welch was off his rocker in calling Ike a Commie, but the whole idea of European, British & American establishments supporting various state socialist regimes (the USSR & the Third Reich) and global governmental bodies through groups such as the CFR, the Trilateral Commission, and the Bildeberg Conferences are not incredible, and somewhat documented (Antony Sutton’s 1970s WALL STREET trilogy did an excellent job on this).
Wow, that Wikipedia list is amazing…I just checked back on this so give me a while to read it! The assassination ones interest me a lot, I’m probably going to check those out first.
Just read the first sentence under the 9/11 category, which makes me feel ill…
The peanut butter people are conspiring to sell us all just one more jar over the course of a lifetime by putting those stupid grooves at the bottom such that one can never completely extract all of the goodness from said jar. As if those grooves placed way down there at the bottom are actually gonna help my grip! Sheesh.
Then there are the shampoo people doing the same thing by switching to those caps that you can’t unscrew so as to add some water to aid in the extraction of the last bit. Herbal Essence had the nerve to pre-empt the new packaging by putting marketing verbiage on the old saying “if you love us now, you’ll love our new packaging”. Poop.
There’s a bunch about the Denver airport. Something like the grounds will be holding pens for the population when the black helicopter thing gets going.
As I recall, the evidence is a swastika pattern runway layout and a creepy looking gargoyle in the baggage claim area; which is indeed there, but looks to me like a normal art installation they tend to have in airports.
These are real! The CIA engineered plots that overhtrew the Arbentz government in Central America, the Mossadegh Gov. in Iran, and tried to overthrow Castro. For that reason, I don’t trust anything they do or say. How can you have a branch of the US government operating outside the law?
The one I heard says the Denver International Airport is supposed to become the home of the New World Order. There are some murals somewhere in the airport that are supposed to explain the whole thing. Plus, there are several instances of Masonic symbols hidden in the tilework.
