These are not conspiracy theories I believe in, they are merely ones that entertain and fascinate me. You are free to share any ones that you actually subscribe to, but I’m merely interested in interesting/weird/amusing theories of any kind.
All of my favorites I have discovered here on the SDMB, but in my opinion, they can’t be referenced enough. Time Cube is my personal favorite, because of his intense anger at everyone, though David Icke is awfully entertaing as well, and though this site counts more as crazy dude than a conspiracy theory, I feel like I must say how much I love Ted Jesus Christ God after reading about him here.
So if you have any good conspiracy theories that you’ve heard about lately, please do share.
-Sam Lowry
The Janet Jackson Tittygate was a part of a massive cover up ( ha!):
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divert our attention from some big political move that was taking place on Monday or Tuesday following the superbowl. Something that would have made the front page, but the outrage of a boob took over world wide headlines. B Drive up the stock in TiVo.
Any celebrity that fakes his/her own death. Those are predictable but endearing testaments to the fans who so desperately wish their object of admiration was still alive.
I suppose there’s releasing the news of Saddam’s capture to divert attention away from Patriot Act II being passed the same day, tucked away in the middle of an intelligence agency funding bill.
My favorite conspiracy theory relates to the New Coke marketing debacle of the 1980’s. For those of you too young to remember, in 1985, Coca-Cola chose to take the old formula Coke off the market, and with huge fanfare began marketing a new formula of Coke that was intended (So they say.) to taste better for all those Coke vs. Pepsi taste tests. It flopped - spectacularly. Within a month or so, Coca-Cola had re-released the old formula Coke under the label ‘Classic Coke.’
The conspiracy theory I’ve heard that relates to this is that it was never intended that New Coke would replace the old formula Coke, rather it was all a bunch of slieght of hand to distract the consuming public from Coca-Cola switching from being made with sucrose syrup to cheaper fructose syrup. I don’t know whether it’s true, or not, but it’s the only conspiracy theory I’ve heard that doesn’t make me break out in hives when I am told, ‘It’s TRUE!! What other reason would THEY have for doing THAT?’
Ahh, conspiracy theories. There are just so many to love!
Alternative 3 is a perennial favorite. Seems that the Elites are building a moon base to protect a core of humanity from the coming global catastrophe, which they probably caused anyway. But hey, is that news to anybody?
Danny Casolaro and The Octopus is one that, unlike Mr. Casolaro himself, just won’t die. The young freelance journalist started off investigaing the October Surprise, but soon found himself down a rabbit hole of Watergate conspirators, stolen software, Military-Industiral Complexities, and, you guessed it, plots to control the world. Casolaro told a friend he was meeting with a source in West Virginia that would blow the whole thing wide open. Unfortunately, after arriving in WV, he suddenly lost the will to live, sliced his wrists, cleaned up all the blood and stashed the bloody towels under the sink, and burned his notes and manuscript before finally bleeding to death. Funny how those freelance investigative writers, like J.H. Hatfield, author of a damaging biography of George W. Bush are prone to suicidal tendencies.
Because whenever you build a secret base from which to carry out your nefarious plans, you should put weird murals up and leave lots of clues in the building you are using as cover :rolleyes:
While I subscribe to any number of conspiracy theories (esp. the govt. coverup of alien visitations), the most intriguing one for me at the present (though it’s one I can’t say I’m quite convinced of) is the story of John Titor, time traveler. He’s been mentioned a number of times on the SDMB. It’s fascinating stuff, IMO.
The one I remember about it was “the patent theory”. Apparently, Coca-Cola was invented in 1888 and there was a patent on the product that was due to expire in 1985. To be able to keep the rights of the secret formula, Coca-Cola had to allow the patent to elapse and then renew it for another 40 years. The entire New Coke “fiasco” was engineered to throw competitors off the track, allowing the old formula to quietly expire, whereupon Coca-Cola immediately refiled the patent.
I know this 'cause a couple of guys in my high school had fathers who worked for Coca-Cola and this is what they told them, so I swear, it’s true!
Seriously though, it did have one good effect for Coca-Cola. The reason for the switchover was that regular Coke sales were going down and they wanted to do something to energize the product. What actually happened was that after the fiasco, there were now two Coke products on the market: “New” and “Classic”. And when the quarterly soda-wars reports came out (regularly reported in the Atlanta news, of course) both “Coke” products were added together and then that figure was applied against the one Pepsi sugared-cola, a bias that occurred in the Wall Street Journal and many other publications as well.
Arab terrorists tried the airline hijacking for kamakaze attack in 1994. The airliner was on the ground in Marsailles and French commandos retook it. So why didn’t the FAA start reinforcing cockpit doors 6 years before 9/11? Why hasn’t the media been all over the FAA about this?
A couple of nights ago someone calling in to BEYOND THE BELTWAY brought this up to an interviewee on the show. He didn’t deny it but he brushed it off.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
We need to spread this around the internet so the mainstream media can’t ignore it.
Because Janet Jackson showed her boob on TV, the FCC has lobbied Congress to allow them to levy huge fines for “indecent” content on TV and radio. Viacom, not wanting to be fined millions of dollars for show like Howard Stern, Crank Yankers, Dave Chappell etc etc has drummed up the whole dispute with EchoStar that now prevents these shows from being seen by millions of viewers on DishNet. And its all Bush’s fault because he wants to a) deny Americans personal libertys, and b) divert attention away from the fact that “he lied and Americans died”.
And “they” especially don’t like “that Left-wing Jew Jon Stewart”!
I actually heard this, almost word for word, on the radio this morning from this Nut-job they allow to give “commentary” once a week. It wasn’t made clear if Janet was involved, or “they” just jumped at the chance to do all this. It was never too clear who “they” were either. Viacom? The FCC? Congress? Bush and his “cabal”?
I’m releaved to hear that this is about more than just money.
I don’t buy any of it for one second, and I think that as a piece of ‘scholarly’ research it has more holes than an Emmenthal Cheese Appreciation Convention. But I admire the outlandish way the book was put together and its very-near-but-never-quite-almost-persuasive veneer of diligent research and plausible questing for The Truth. Mutton has rarely been so well dressed as lamb.
Don’t post to this thread, they are using it to track the people who are likely to investigate government cover-ups, etc., and they will find out where you live.
My favorite has to be the Avro VZ-9. This one may not quite fall into the category of a conspiracy theory, but it is a genuine case of the government concealing the existance of a flying saucer. Well, almost - they never did get it to fly very well.
