That links back to this thread.
So, … essentially Lebensraum then? [or is it too soon?!!] :dubious:
Huh. That one is just too obvious. They renamed the ship.
I saw a documentary about that!
It’s still there. I used to attend school swimming carnivals at the Harold Holt Pool!
If wiki is to be believed, HAARP has been shut down and is being dismantled. It was an experiment after all.
No mention of the much larger fully functional replacement system that CTers are certain got built somewhere *they *don’t want us to know about. :eek: :rolleyes:
Need more proof than that?!
Well, in 1868, a lot of people thought D’Arcy McGee, one of the fathers of Canadian confederation, was assassinated as part of a Fenian plot, but I don’t think think anyone has been worked up it since about 1869. I have had people at public talks in Canada go off about the Illuminati, black helicopters, and the gold standard, (sometimes all at once) but these aren’t “Canadian” as such.
Last time I was in Portland, Oregon was during the last vote on fluoride. Fun times. I don’t think we have it here, but for the more cromulent reason that they don’t feel it’s necessary to implement and pay for.
In NI there’s that common rumor that the police were providing support, materiel, membership, and even straight whacking people for (Protestant) paramilitary groups…
…ah wait that isn’t a theory.
There are people in Taiwan who are convinced to this day that the 2004 attempted assassination of Chen Shui-Bian (president of Taiwan at the time) was deliberately staged as a sympathy ploy to win votes. (The shooting took place shortly before the election, and Chen, who many thought would lose the election, surprisingly ending up winning reelection by a razor-thin margin.)
You do know that his driver was found dead only a few days later? And that there never was a will? And that LBJ supposedly had said threatening things about Holt (over Vietnam war issues) only a few weeks before?
At least that’s what I heard. My Grandfather (who was one of the founding members of the West Australian Communist Party back in the 1920s) could hold forth for ages about Holt, Menzies and the whole gang. When Kerr sacked Whitlam, I have no doubt he would have burst several blood vessels (he certainly did, talking about it later:p).
Probably the other great political CT (other than the Holt and Whitlam ones) was when the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne collided with the US destroyer *Evans *- the subsequent enquiry (run by the yanks, of course) basically hung the Australian skipper out to dry, when it was clearly the fault of the Evans.
It’s Ireland, people have died for the Corrs.
Take off!
You must work with the same guys I do! Do they warn you about contrails too?
I’m an American, actually, but I remember that during the debates in various European countries (mainly Great Britain) regarding the Maastricht Treaty there were accusations from the fringes that the EU was basically a reattempt by the Germans to conquer Europe and establish a Fourth Reich.
Believing that Stephen Harper is fit to govern?
Holocaust denial is hot in Europe. So is The protocols of the elders of Zion.
There are anti-vaxxers everywhere.
That’s the most common South African CT, I suppose. We also have the Helderberg conspiracy theories, in which the claim is that a South African Airways flight that crashed was secretly carrying military goods which caused the fire. And of course there are the “CIA created HIV” class of theories, popular with Thabo Mbeki, though those didn’t originate in South Africa.
Edit: and the Vela Incident, which one might or might not call a conspiracy theory.
Perhaps we could make one up, then?
I fairly often see armored cars* with the word GARDA on them in big red letters driving around here (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), and I always wonder if the Irish cops are moonlighting or what.
*The kind that pick up cash from grocery stores for delivery to the bank, not these.
So, the CT would be that the Irish cops are moonlighting. See, the 2008 financial crisis hit Ireland especially hard, and so the Irish police had to do something to get a bit of extra cash to keep the lights on at the police stations back home. So, they set up a for-profit branch of the Garda over here in the States. (Of course the financial crisis has eased a bit; but, some of the Garda kind of like driving armored cars in America, since over here we let 'em run around with guns and stuff.)
Garda is a Montreal company so it’s obviously a Fenian-Quebecois conspiracy to take down English financial institutions by swiping pennies at a time. Clearly.
And it’s being run by Louis Riel. He never died, see. Simply went into hiding. And this is his long-overdue revenge on the English…