I spent 37 years in or working for the Navy in a variety of positions, including some that required pretty high security clearances. Part of that time was in the Pentagon. The idea that the “government” or the “military” exist as lock-stepped, single-minded organizations capable of creating and maintaining any sort of conspiracy, well, it does give me the giggles.
But then, that’s what you’d expect me to say, right?
David Icke played in goal for Coventry City (soccer) and then went on to be a sports reporter for the BBC. He always seemed like a fairly down to earth kind of chap before he started spouting all the lizard nonsense.
Still, I’ll bet he’s worth a fair few bob these days…
One of the earliest was the one postulated by Emmanuel Velikovsky in his 1950 publication of “Worlds in Collision”. Without blaming anybody in particular, Velikovsky says that during man’s existence on earth, the planets of the Solar System have suddenly changed orbits, leaving them (including Earth) to stop spinning, and reverse their direction of rotation. He was taken seriously by quite a few eminent scientists – maybe about as many as those who reject global warming.
If “# of people involved” is a relevant metric, then surely chemtrails must win. The Apollo program fakery only lasted about ten years and involved a handful of faked missions. Chemtrails, OTOH, have been going on for decades and involve the entire air transportation industry. Somebody is designing the chemtrail equipment on those aircraft, someone else is maintaining it, someone else is refilling it with chemicals, the storage of which is managed by someone else, and the manufacturing/transport of which involves still other people.
I just recently saw a new one posted on Facebook by a “friend” (he’s actually a former soldier of mine). President Lincoln was black. Not partially black on one side as some enemies tried to spread while he was alive. No he was of 100% African descent and the hundreds of pictures we have of him are fake and lies. As proof there was an old timey picture of a very distinguished black gentleman who sported a Lincoln style beard. That was supposedly the real Lincoln.
ETA: Here’s one picture I found of it. Since the picture labels Lincoln as the 24th president I fear the theory may not be accurate.
Oh, then that was the other President Lincoln. Got it!
Wait, you have to get the phrase “stinky-footed yokels” in there somewhere. (Or was it “stinky-footed barbarians”?) And the bit about Ancient Egyptian being a nonarbitrary language whose words corresponded to reality in some way that degenerate modern languages don’t. And that the King o’ Clad could translate even though he couldn’t read it. Ramps are debunked, ya know.
Stinky-footed bumpkins.
Apparently I miss a lot of stuff by avoiding the Great Debates forum. Not nearly enough to make me change my habits, but a lot nonetheless.
I actually encountered that in person this past Sunday, the very day after the shooting. I was on a plane with a long delay, so we sat on the ground at the airport for about an hour before the flight was finally cancelled altogether. Some guy in the row right behind me was talking on his cell phone to someone, talking about how it was a proven fact that the Sandy Hook shooting had never happened, all those people you saw interviewed turned out to be actors, this had been conclusively demonstrated, and so forth. Now, he wasn’t saying the same thing was true about Orlando, but you just have to wonder…
So infuriating.
Yep. That conspiracy has killed people.
Mmm. I’m afraid she’s going to be mighty disappointed in a Pulse boy-harem.
Maybe not the maddest conspiracy theory, but certainly the one that makes me the maddest. Apparently relatives of the victims of Sandy Hook are routinely harassed and threatened by these jerks.
That is my favorite, as well. Weird, wacky stuff!
I like the Sports conspiracy theories:
NBA playoffs are fixed, so popular players and/or large markets win. Except when they don’t (San Antonio), but that’s to throw us off the path. Then again, Tim Donaghy did show this CT was not completely out of left field.
The NFL Seahawks threw the pass rather than have Lynch run it in. Lynch was unfriendly to the media, so they wanted Wilson instead to get the Super Bowl MVP award.
Pete Rose bet against the Reds and had them lose on purpose. This is the unspoken reason MLB and the Hall of Fame will never forgive Rose.
Nebraska in the 1990s won three College Football national titles. They did this by using “county scholarships”: some state law allows one student per county to get free tuition. We’d give them to football recruits, so they wouldn’t count against the NCAA limit.
As a Husker fan, I’d always retort “Do you seriously think the NCAA wouldn’t catch on to such an obvious ploy? C’mon, my Huskers can be a little more clever.”
Wait a minute… ‘Vortex’ might not be the right word, and there are some things wrong with that video (the sun isn’t leading with the planets trailing as some sort of wake, but…
The sun is moving as the galaxy rotates, and the plane of the solar system is about 60 degrees out of plane with the galaxy, so the paths described by the planets of our solar system, through the galaxy, are spirals.
I recall one from back in the mid/late 80’s that involved the number plates on cars actually being coded to let the police/UN/illuminati know the profession of the person driving it at a glance. I’m not sure how it dealt with the concept of ‘used cars’ but there was an entire book dedicated to the idea in the old Loompanics catalogue.
There’s also one about 9/11 that posits the buildings being turned to dust by a directed energy weapon aka ‘Dustification’.
Anything involving HAARP or the LHC are good for a chuckle as well.
