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'''"Conspiracy Theorists"''' are people who subscribe to "[[conspiracy theories]]". The term is used as an [[enemy image]] by {{ccm}} such as [[Wikipedia]]. As with other [[enemy images]], it is not used outside quotation marks on this site. | '''"Conspiracy Theorists"''' are people who subscribe to "[[conspiracy theories]]". The term is used as an [[enemy image]] by {{ccm}} such as [[Wikipedia]]. As with other [[enemy images]], it is not used outside quotation marks on this site. | ||
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| + | Conspiracy theories are generally about what could otherwise be described as [[organized crime]], but is often at the same time institutionalized in government, such as the [[CIA]]. | ||
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| + | People who were writing in the field that would today be termed conspiracy theory, were [[Augustin Barruel]] (1741 – 1820) "Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism" and [[John Robison]] (1739 – 1805) "Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies". Both writers were concerned with [[Masonry]], the [[Bavarian Illuminati]] and connected groups and their influence on the [[French Revolution]]. The [[Catholic Church]] was expressing their criticism against Masonry starting in 1738 with [[In Eminenti]].<ref>http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/papal_encyclicals.html</ref> | ||
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| − | People who have been very successful in live on the economic side also hold views that would otherwise be considered conspiratorial. | + | People of elevated intelligence who have been very successful in live on the economic side also hold views that would otherwise be considered conspiratorial. |
| + | ===Chamath Palihapitiya=== | ||
| + | [[Chamath Palihapitiya]], a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist and the founder and CEO of Social Capital. He was an early senior executive at [[Facebook]], joining the company in 2007 and leaving in 2011. In an interview for Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2017 he said:<ref>http://archive.today/2020.09.17-012828/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk</ref> | ||
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|text=Here's the thing. There's about 150 people that run the world. Anybody who wants to go into politics, they're all fucking puppets, okay? There are 150 and they're all men that run the world - period, full stop. They control most of the important assets, they control the money flows. And these are not the tech entrepreneurs. Now they are going to get rolled over the next five to ten years by the people that are really underneath pulling the strings. And when you get behind the curtain and see how that world works, what you realize is, it is unfairly set up for them and their progeny. Now, I'm not going to say that that's something that we can rip apart. But first order of business is, I want to break through and be at that table. That's the first order of business. | |text=Here's the thing. There's about 150 people that run the world. Anybody who wants to go into politics, they're all fucking puppets, okay? There are 150 and they're all men that run the world - period, full stop. They control most of the important assets, they control the money flows. And these are not the tech entrepreneurs. Now they are going to get rolled over the next five to ten years by the people that are really underneath pulling the strings. And when you get behind the curtain and see how that world works, what you realize is, it is unfairly set up for them and their progeny. Now, I'm not going to say that that's something that we can rip apart. But first order of business is, I want to break through and be at that table. That's the first order of business. | ||
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| + | ===Steve Outtrim=== | ||
| + | [[Steve Outtrim]] (born 1973) is a technology entrepreneur from New Zealand. He is best known for his success in the early "dot com years" of the [[Internet]], as the creator of Sausage Software and its flagship product, the HotDog Web Editor. In his podcasts he speaks about: [[secret societies]], [[Ritual abuse|satanism]], organized [[Mind control/Child Abuse|child abuse]], interest into the [[occult]] of the rich and powerful and many related matters.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvpYyH40x8&list=PLLipEpFIk-cxg7EFH_Qerh57Ma9uczxxk</ref> He also is taking up information from the [[Q Anon]] movement. | ||
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==Peter Lavenda== | ==Peter Lavenda== | ||
The following is extracted from [[Peter Lavenda]]'s Prologue to ''The Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual'' a 2012 book by SK Bain. <ref>[http://trineday.com/paypal_store/product_pages/9781937584177-Most_Dangerous_Book/index.html The Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual] by SK Bain. Trine Day Books ISBN 9781937584177</ref> To the extent that the terms "Conspiracy Theorist" and "[[conspiracy theory]]" have acquired a validity distinct from both their original dictionary definitions and the pejorative usage outlined above, this extract nails it: | The following is extracted from [[Peter Lavenda]]'s Prologue to ''The Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual'' a 2012 book by SK Bain. <ref>[http://trineday.com/paypal_store/product_pages/9781937584177-Most_Dangerous_Book/index.html The Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual] by SK Bain. Trine Day Books ISBN 9781937584177</ref> To the extent that the terms "Conspiracy Theorist" and "[[conspiracy theory]]" have acquired a validity distinct from both their original dictionary definitions and the pejorative usage outlined above, this extract nails it: | ||
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"Conspiracy Theorists" are people who subscribe to "conspiracy theories". The term is used as an enemy image by commercially-controlled media such as Wikipedia. As with other enemy images, it is not used outside quotation marks on this site.
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Terminology
Conspiracy theories are generally about what could otherwise be described as organized crime, but is often at the same time institutionalized in government, such as the CIA.
Early conspiracy theorists
People who were writing in the field that would today be termed conspiracy theory, were Augustin Barruel (1741 – 1820) "Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism" and John Robison (1739 – 1805) "Proofs of a Conspiracy against all the Religions and Governments of Europe, carried on in the Secret Meetings of Free-Masons, Illuminati and Reading Societies". Both writers were concerned with Masonry, the Bavarian Illuminati and connected groups and their influence on the French Revolution. The Catholic Church was expressing their criticism against Masonry starting in 1738 with In Eminenti.[1]
Usage by corporate media
A 2013 BBC article by Jon Kelly was entitled Is it OK to call someone a conspiracy theorist?, and observed that because Norman Baker expressed "doubts" about the death of Robin Cook, David Aaronovitch (of the Integrity Initiative) termed him "a conspiracy theorist".[2]
| Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO Social Capital, on Money as an Instrument of Change - Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Conspiracy theorists the media does not mention
People of elevated intelligence who have been very successful in live on the economic side also hold views that would otherwise be considered conspiratorial.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya, a Sri Lankan-born Canadian-American venture capitalist and the founder and CEO of Social Capital. He was an early senior executive at Facebook, joining the company in 2007 and leaving in 2011. In an interview for Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2017 he said:[3]
“Here's the thing. There's about 150 people that run the world. Anybody who wants to go into politics, they're all fucking puppets, okay? There are 150 and they're all men that run the world - period, full stop. They control most of the important assets, they control the money flows. And these are not the tech entrepreneurs. Now they are going to get rolled over the next five to ten years by the people that are really underneath pulling the strings. And when you get behind the curtain and see how that world works, what you realize is, it is unfairly set up for them and their progeny. Now, I'm not going to say that that's something that we can rip apart. But first order of business is, I want to break through and be at that table. That's the first order of business.”
Chamath Palihapitiya [4]
Steve Outtrim
Steve Outtrim (born 1973) is a technology entrepreneur from New Zealand. He is best known for his success in the early "dot com years" of the Internet, as the creator of Sausage Software and its flagship product, the HotDog Web Editor. In his podcasts he speaks about: secret societies, satanism, organized child abuse, interest into the occult of the rich and powerful and many related matters.[5] He also is taking up information from the Q Anon movement.
Peter Lavenda
The following is extracted from Peter Lavenda's Prologue to The Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual a 2012 book by SK Bain. [6] To the extent that the terms "Conspiracy Theorist" and "conspiracy theory" have acquired a validity distinct from both their original dictionary definitions and the pejorative usage outlined above, this extract nails it:
“They have one foot in the world of mainstream history and culture, what Robert Anton Wilson used to call “consensus reality”. That’s the world where most of us live. We are all products of that world, and of the ideas and worldview it represents. We are trained in this world virtually from birth: school, church, government, media all conspire to present an image - a picture - of reality that will result in the development of perfect citizens in an easily-managed society. There is a social contract:
we contribute to this society with the expectation that we will receive goods and services in return. We obey the laws that are created by other people, believing that our best interests are being addressed thereby. We fight in wars declared by our governments in order to preserve our society - this carefully-structured, albeit artificial, society.
And all is right with the world.
But conspiracy theorists have their other foot ... well, somewhere else. Not everyone is asleep to the darker mechanisms of reality. In fact, everyone becomes aware of them at some point in their lives. Everyone questions. The very nature of reality itself is at times so hostile to human life that human institutions must be challenged for their inadequate protection of their constituents. Conspiracy theorists seize on this inadequacy as evidence of the tenuousness of consensus reality. There are other forces at work, forces that are unacknowledged by the state, the church, the media because to admit their existence is to admit failure. Thus, when things go wrong, terrorists are blamed, or communists, or witches. This serves to rally the citizens around the government once again, instead of stopping to insist that explanations be given, that evidence is properly analyzed, that the guilty are apprehended and punished. And we once more go to war, against … someone, somewhere.
Paranoia becomes institutionalised. It is appropriated by the government as its own prerogative. The state determines the nature and quality of the paranoia: it creates intelligence agencies whose sole purpose is to give a form to paranoia, to enshrine paranoia as one of the necessary qualities of an observant and caring state. To prove that paranoia is an acceptable characteristic of the paternalistic regime.
The citizens are not allowed to become paranoid unless it is at government direction and sanction. Individual cases of paranoia are frowned upon. The state tells us that if we are not paranoid the way it is paranoid—and about the same things—it’s because we don’t have all the facts: about "terrorism", fundamentalism, communism, foreign countries, weapons of mass destruction, sleeper cells. The state has all the facts: classified documents, wire-tap transcripts, intelligence feeds, high-altitude reconnaissance images, none of which the citizen is permitted to see.
It does not realise that the logical conclusion of all this paranoia is suspicion of the state apparatus itself.
What the conspiracy theorist often fails to realise, however, is that those working for the state are often just as clueless as the average citizen when it comes to the origin and function of the forces at work to subvert it. The strength of a conspiracy, after all, rests in the limited number of persons who are aware of its existence and parameters. No one has the entire picture. Each member of the state apparatus only has possession of a single piece of an enormous jigsaw puzzle. Putting together all these disparate pieces—particularly when one does not have the original picture to work from—is a soul-destroying enterprise that consumes decades of work and years of one’s life. This is especially true when the state has in its arsenal of lies the techniques of disinformation and misdirection, of false testimony and planted documents.
Anyone who works with this material eventually comes to that realisation. But the motivation to keep digging is still alive; the urge to uncover one more piece of the puzzle, one more document, is perhaps a central characteristic not only of the conspiracy theorist but of human nature itself. The more intelligent of the theorists soon come to realize that Hansel and Gretel have left breadcrumbs everywhere, in no discernible pattern. Thus, the inclination among some of the best to stop looking for the children and start looking for the Witch.
The deeper one delves into the conspiracy literature, the more one is struck by the tendency of some theorists to look beyond the documents and the tangible evidence of government malfeasance or political conspiracy to more transcendental sources of power. One begins with the government agents, the spies, the politicians, the military, and soon gravitates towards the secret societies: the Freemasons and the Illuminati (among so many others). This involves studying their texts, their social structures, their stated goals, their secret conclaves, their antinomian beliefs and practices.”
Examples
| Page name | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
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| "Disinformation Dozen" | Enemy image "Conspiracy theorist" "Anti-vaxxer" | "anti vaxxer conspiracy theorists" according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate | |||
| "Wikipedia/List of COVID-19 conspiracy theorists" | "Conspiracy theorist" List COVID-19/Dissident | The people and groups that Wikipedia consider COVID-19 conspiracy theorists. | |||
| Jacob Wohl | 12 December 1997 | US | Lobbyist Fraudster "Conspiracy theorist" Troll |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| "Conspiracy mindset" | ““Conspiracy belief”, “conspiracy thinking”, “conspiracy mindset”, “conspiracy predispositions”, “conspiracist ideation”, “conspiracy ideology”, “conspiracy mentality” and “conspiracy worldview” — most of these apparently serving no distinct purpose other than an attempt at elegant variation — are all terms based upon the psychologists' own delusional beliefs. For some reason, all those researching the psychology of those they have labelled conspiracy theorist imagine, without reason, that the so-named “conspiracists” don’t have any evidence to back up their arguments.” | Iain Davis | 1 August 2022 |
| Piers Corbyn | “Piers Corbyn is a danger to our families, teams + to the people who believe the garbage he bangs on about. People may not agree with all their MP does but threatening to hammer us to death and burn down our offices is vile. Anonymous online trolls aren’t the major problem here.” | Piers Corbyn Sarah Owen | 18 December 2021 |
| Kate Shemirani | “From what I can see it would appear a "conspiracy theorist" is actually now anyone who believes something other than what your controllers want them to believe... I find this deeply disturbing” | Kate Shemirani | |
| Zach Vorhies | “As a trained scientist I have a multifaceted view of the world based on evidence and fact. Therefore any claim that someone has fringe beliefs or theories should be checked against http://trends.google.com and see what the views of the rest of america are and what they search for. They may find that many beliefs that are slandered as fringe are actually mainstream beliefs of we-the-people.” | Zach Vorhies | |
| John Young | “Well, conspiracy theory was invented by the spies. No one does more more conspiracy theory than spies do. The national security apparatus cooks up conspiracy theories all the time, but they put out this story that is just conspiracy theory, as though it's contemptible. But in fact, they're the ones who cook up the threats that are far more complex and bizarre than anything we ordinary people could ever cook up and they get billions to fight it. So they're almost diabolically conspiratorially. So let me call myself a sceptic and I'm willing to learn, welcome criticism. I don't mind these terms of being a dissident, a conspiracy theorist. Those are all throwaway terms. (interview with RT Jan 2, 2011)” | John Young |
Related Document
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Countering Criticism of the Warren Report | memo | 19 July 1968 | CIA | An explanation of how the CIA added pejorative connotations to the phrase "conspiracy theory". The document instructs spooks in the use of "propaganda assets" in the commercially-controlled media to undercut any criticism of the JFK assassination official narrative, especially suggestions that Oswald may not have been the "lone nut" as the Warren Commission claimed. |
Official examples
| Name | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
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| Gary Allen | 2 August 1936 | 29 November 1986 | US | Author Journalist Activist | US author of None Dare Call It Conspiracy, proposing that US big business and the left are in the same front. |
| Ernesto Araújo | 15 May 1967 | Brazil | Politician | Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister, "COVID conspiracy theorist" | |
| Shiva Ayyadurai | 2 December 1963 | US India | Activist Engineer Inventor Businessperson COVID-19/Dissident Science/Dissident | Indian-American biologist and dissident. | |
| Thierry Baudet | 28 January 2983 | Netherlands | Politician | ||
| Glenn Beck | 10 February 1964 | US | Television Radio host Political commentator Conservatism | ||
| Vanessa Beeley | UK | Journalist Activist | British investigative journalist focused on the Middle East. Helped expose the White Helmets. | ||
| Brian Berletic | US | Author Researcher Soldier | Researcher, Writer, Commentator, banned from Twitter in 2022. | ||
| Maxime Bernier | 18 January 1963 | Politician Populism Maverick | Maverick politician; former MP and Minister; Leader of the People's Party of Canada, campaigning for COVID-19/Resistance. | ||
| Johann Biacsics | 1956 | 11 November 2021 | Austria | COVID-19/Premature death COVID-19/Dissident | Leader of the Austrian Anti-vaxxer movement dies of COVID? |
| Marcus Birks | 1980 | 27 August 2021 | UK | Musician COVID-19/Premature death | "Anti-vaxxer musician" dies of COVID? |
| Mario Borghezio | 3 December 1947 | Italy | Politician | Italian politician; interested in the Bilderberg | |
| Mae Brussell | 29 May 1922 | 3 October 1988 | Researcher | A renowned researcher and investigative journalist in the field of deep politics. | |
| William Guy Carr | 2 June 1895 | 2 October 1959 | Canada | Author Spook Mariner | |
| Christopher Chope | 19 May 1947 | UK | Politician Lawyer Maverick | Conservative MP for Christchurch and East Dorset | |
| Michel Chossudovsky | 1946 | Canada | Journalist Academic | Canadian author, academic and editor of the Global Research website. | |
| William Cooper | 6 May 1943 | 5 November 2001 | US | Researcher Spook 9-11/Premature death Radio host Dissident 9-11/Dissident | Announced around 10 weeks before 9/11 that "Whatever they're going to blame on Usama bin Laden - don't you believe it...They will soon do something outlandish to gain the support of the Sheeple".<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> He was killed by the US Marshals Service less than two months after the event. |
| Piers Corbyn | 10 March 1947 | Activist Businessperson Weather forecaster COVID-19/Dissident | The activist brother of UK politician Jeremy Corbyn. | ||
| Liz Crokin | US | Journalist | |||
| James DiEugenio | Author Researcher | A JFK assassination researcher | |||
| Mark Dice | 21 December 1977 | US | YouTuber | American YouTuber. | |
| Jimmy Dore | 26 July 1965 | US | Comedian | American comedian; the host of The Jimmy Dore Show. | |
| Wolfgang Eggert | 1962 | Germany | Author Researcher | ||
| Willem Engel | 15 March 1977 | Netherlands | Activist Politician COVID-19/Dissident | Dutch "Covid denier" who was arrested when he became too much of a headache. | |
| Daniel Estulin | 29 August 1966 | Lithuania | Researcher | Daniel Estulin is a leading researcher on the Bilderberg Group. | |
| Myron Fagan | 31 October 1887 | 12 May 1972 | US | Author Director Producer | |
| Walter E. Fauntroy | 6 February 1933 | Activist Clergy | |||
| James Fetzer | 6 December 1940 | US | Researcher Soldier Academic | Deep politics researcher who was convicted to pay $450,000 for defamation for his work on Sandy Hook. | |
| Daniele Ganser | 29 August 1972 | Author Academic Historian Statecraft/Analyst | Swiss historian who has focused on Operation Gladio | ||
| Jim Garrison | 20 November 1921 | 21 October 1992 | US | Lawyer | |
| G. Edward Griffin | 7 November 1931 | US | Author Researcher Historian Statecraft/Analyst | Exposed banking cartels and "The Rothschild formula" | |
| Robert J. Groden | 22 November 1945 | Researcher | |||
| Anthony Hall | Canada | Author Academic | Academic targeted by B'nai B'rith in 2016 for "using his academic credentials to deny the Holocaust and promote 9/11 conspiracy theories." | ||
| Richard Hall | Researcher | A "conspiracy theorist" who claimed that the 2017 Manchester bombing was not as depicted by the commercially-controlled media. | |||
| Paddy Hannam | UK | Journalist | Journalist and political commentator | ||
| Health Freedom For Humanity | Activist | American group of health professionals; who advocate for Health Freedom. | |||
| Attila Hildmann | 22 April 1981 | Germany Turkey | Author Chef | German-Turkish TV chef, turned "anti-vaxxer" and "far-right conspiracy theorist" | |
| Anthony John Hill | Activist | ||||
| Daniel Hopsicker | 16 July 1951 | 22 August 2023 | Author Journalist Filmmaker Statecraft/Analyst | Film producer, director and investigative journalist whose primary focus was the illegal drug trade by the US deep state. | |
| Armoni Howard | 1976 | July 2021 | US | American conservative activist who died from the COVID-19/Vaccine. | |
| David Icke | 29 April 1952 | UK | Author Activist | A reputation in corporate media as the 'de facto face of conspiracy'. | |
| Alex Jones | 11 February 1974 | Author Spook Producer Radio host Businessperson | A very vocal and popular radio show host who occasionally has predicted deep events. Although having a very loyal fan base, several researchers have called him a spook. | ||
| Isaac Kappy | 17 February 1977 | 13 May 2019 | US | Author Whistleblower Actor VIPaedophile/Premature death Hollywood/Premature death | An actor who died aged 42 after accusing former Hollywood friends of paedophilia. |
| Craig Kelly | 29 September 1963 | Australia | Politician | Australian dissident MP; COVID-19/Resistance. | |
| Megyn Kelly | 18 November 1970 | US | Journalist | Famous American journalist. | |
| Mark Lane | 24 February 1927 | 10 May 2016 | US | Author Researcher Lawyer | Early researcher into the JFK Assassination whose worked helped to prompt the CIA's coining of the phrase "Conspiracy theorist". |
| Francine Lewis | 7 November 1975 | UK | COVID-19/Dissident | British impressionist; COVID-19/Dissident | |
| Henry Makow | Canada | Author | "Conspiracy theorist" and the inventor of the boardgame Scruples. | ||
| Jim Marrs | 5 December 1943 | 2 August 2017 | Author Researcher Journalist | Scholar for 9/11 Truth who taught a class on the JFK assassination at the University of Texas at Arlington for 30 years. | |
| Caleb Maupin | US | Author Journalist | |||
| Kris Millegan | US | Author Musician Historian | Worked with Anthony Sutton to republish America's Secret Establishment and established TrineDay. | ||
| ... further results | |||||
References
- ↑ http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/papal_encyclicals.html
- ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-24442313
- ↑ http://archive.today/2020.09.17-012828/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk
- ↑ Money as an Instrument of Change (starting min 10:00) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMotykw0SIk
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSvpYyH40x8&list=PLLipEpFIk-cxg7EFH_Qerh57Ma9uczxxk
- ↑ The Most Dangerous Book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual by SK Bain. Trine Day Books ISBN 9781937584177
