Conspiracy Theories That Were Actually True. . .

topic posted Mon, October 26, 2009 - 12:35 PM by  lorenzo
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maybe fudged a little bit, but still entertaining, from cracked.com. some famous and not so famous bits of history. .

www.cracked.com/article_15...ppened.html
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lorenzo
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  • Don't forget the space aliens.


    • It was bound to happen. Those who disagree with the toofers are part of the "conspiracy." They never consider that people have looked at the different 9/11 conspiracy theories and have concluded that it really was just Bin Laden and 20 religious fanatics. They imagine everyone else to be "sheeple" and only they are the real independent thinkers. It never occurs to them they could be wrong and when proven wrong they move the goal posts and emerge with a brand new angle. In this way they are like the UFO area 51 tinfoil hat crowd.
      • All these conspiracies are well within the power of Governments and Organizations like Corporations to achieve to one degree or another.

        Activities like lead to the Oklahoma City Bombing need not any of their backing however -- that is well within the average man's power to achieve...
          • Re: Conspiracy Theories That Were Actually True. . .

            Fri, November 6, 2009 - 11:29 AM
            No mention, though, of the fact that the building he destroyed contained most of the documents pertaining to the Waco incident.

            Hmm...
            • Re: Conspiracy Theories That Were Actually True. . .

              Fri, November 6, 2009 - 11:46 AM
              Read The Secret Life of Bill Clinton

              www.amazon.com/Secret-Lif.../0895264080

              I already have my copy, check the Used prices...

              Amazon.com Review
              These days, it seems like everyone's a Friend of Bill--Clinton's buddies from Arkansas are turning up in powerful White House positions faster than you can say "Whitewater." But make no mistake, British journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is no F.O.B.: in the course of The Secret Life of Bill Clinton's 350-plus pages, he manages to connect the president to everything from 1997's Oklahoma City bombing to Arkansas's drug underworld to the mysterious death of White House aide and longtime Clinton friend Vince Foster, and, of course, to Paula Jones. According to Evans-Pritchard--who has reported for the London-based Spectator, Sunday Telegraph (where he served as Washington bureau chief), and Daily Telegraph newspapers--Clinton's "original sin" was the Waco incident, the FBI's much-criticized assault on the Branch Davidian community in Texas that led to the deaths of 76 people. From that point on, the author asserts, it was all downhill for the American people.

              Evans-Pritchard's exposé of Arkansas's favorite son is indeed scathing: he documents the then-governor's drug use and consort with prostitutes (primarily in the company of ne'er-do-well brother Roger); innumerable lies to friends, staff members, and the people who empowered him; numerous infidelities; blackmail--the list goes on and on. Evans-Pritchard claims that, because he is not an American citizen, he is not "beholden to any political or financial interest in the United States," and he does not "hang on lips of official sources," nor does he "fear the loss of access in Washington, or the blackball of [his] profession"; in other words, he ain't afraid to call 'em like he sees 'em. And although many of his seemingly wild claims and accusations are substantiated by thorough notes and appendixes following the text (including copies of original FBI documents), you're never quite convinced of the author's theories. Whether or not you come to believe, as Evans-Pritchard does, that "Arkansas was a mini-Colombia within the United States, infested by narco-corruption"; that--because of William Jefferson Clinton--"you can sniff the pungent odors of decay in the American body politic"; that the president's "actions and character ... have engendered the most deadly terrorist movement in the industrialized world," you will most certainly be entertained and enlightened by the dirt this British muckraker has uncovered. You may not be an F.O.B., but after reading this book, you may not mind so much.

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