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Escobar: Bilderberg does China
As Bilderberg follows Chatham House Rules, mere mortals won’t have a clue of what they actually “proposed” or approved, and none of the participants will be allowed to talk about it with anyone else. One of my top New York sources, with direct access to most of the Masters of the Universe, loves to quip that Davos and Bilderberg are just for the messenger boys: the guys who really run the show don’t ev... 2  |
 Who Are the "Covid-19 Conspiracy Theorists"? During the first few months of the pandemic, a broad movement coalesced online. At the most extreme end were outright Covid deniers, those who believed that the virus didn’t exist and the pandemic had been fabricated. At the other were Covid sceptics or anti-lockdowners, those who thought that the numbers were exaggerated or that the government had an ulterior motive for restricting freedoms. Over the past year, these v... 16 |
A Theory About Conspiracy Theories
More than 1 in 3 Americans believe that the Chinese government engineered the coronavirus as a weapon, and another third are convinced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has exaggerated the threat of Covid-19 to undermine President Trump.
The numbers, from a survey released on Sept. 21 by the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, may or may not taper off as communities begin t... 4 |
 Bill Gates Laughs at Conspiracy Theorists Throughout an interview with Anderson Cooper, in which he confronts Gates about the Covid-19 conspiracy theories surrounding him, Gates takes a mostly bemused attitude towards them, often outright chuckling and laughing about it. Every now and then he does manage to control himself, to try and address the matter seriously... 6 |
 Columbia Journalism Review: The Many Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories ON FEBRUARY 2, more than a month before the World Health Organization deemed the spread of COVID-19 a pandemic, it declared that the virus had led to a “massive infodemic.” WHO observed “an overabundance of information—some accurate and some not—that makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it.” A few months later, the infodemic has only inte... 2 |
Conspiracy Theories Have Been With Us a Very Long Time
It’s common for people to believe in conspiracy theories. So common that recent work suggests everyone believes in at least one conspiracy theory. But being common does not necessarily mean these unfounded assertions are becoming more widely accepted.
“Journalists are saying that ‘now is the time of conspiracy theory.’ But they’ve said that almost every year since the 1960s,” said J... |
 Why Bill Gates is the Focus of the Latest Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories “The Bible says there will be an Antichrist, a man that proclaims to be God, who will try to unite the world in a one-world government with a one-world financial system and establish a one-world religion,” says Pastor Adam Fannin, a controversial Florida preacher who has latched onto the anti-vaccination movement, in a recent YouTube video. ... |
 A Bizarre Conspiracy Theory Puts Bill Gates at the Center of the Coronavirus Crisis The conspiracy theories connecting Gates to coronavirus started in late January, according to a recent New York Times investigation, with a "YouTube personality linked to QAnon" who claimed Gates had prior knowledge of the coronavirus pandemic. Days later, the website Infowars — the site run by Alex Jones, a conspiracy theorist who claims the Sandy Hook shooting was a hoax — published a piece that in... |
 "India Today" Responds to Gates/India Conspiracy Theories On Wednesday,February 7, conspiracy theorists had a field day when a report emerged: 'Centre shuts health mission gate on Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation'. At the heart of it was a Big Money, Big Pharma, Big Corruption plot: how the biggest philanthropic organisation in the world was "influencing" India's vaccination strategy, to the advantage of global pharma giants... The 23 members of the country's highest advisory... |
 The Psychology Behind Why People Believe Coronavirus Conspiracy Theories Bill Gates is plotting a way to vaccinate the entire population. 5G towers sparked the spread of COVID-19. The coronavirus was created in a Chinese lab as a bioweapon. A number of conspiracy theories like these are circulating right now, offering creative (and implausible) explanations as to why and how the coronavirus got such a foothold across the globe. One video ― called &ldq... 4 |
 The Long, Strange History of Bill Gates Population Control Conspiracy Theories Three months into the global coronavirus pandemic, Bill Gates has displaced George Soros as the chief bogeyman of the right. A New York-based tech nonprofit falsely rumored to be working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to implant vaccine microchips in people received so many death threats that it contacted the FBI. And a White House petition demanding the billionaire’s foundation be inve... 1 |
Graeme MacQueen, 9/11: The Pentagon's B Movie
(audio file) Radio program. Progressive Spirit out of Canada. This
is my fourth episode in my series on 9/11. Most will dismiss this as a
conspiracy theory as the CIA and its obedient media have instructed us.
But some will open their minds and face the evidence. Opening minds is
what we do on Progressive Spirit. In this episode I speak with Graeme MacQueen, author of the The 2001 Anthrax Deception: The Case for... 1 |
 Who killed mobster Naples? Welcome to Bertram de Souza's hometown of Youngstown, Ohio, where he has been the lead politics and opinion writer for decades now. In a city in which most news can be considered `yellow journalism', Mr. de Souza is seemingly the only local journalist who uncovers the truth behind the oblique facade. In "Who killed mobster Naples?" this writer questions aspects of this mysterious and unsolved murder, which dates back to Aug. ... |
"Conspiracy Theories and Falsehoods." The New York Times and Conspiracy Theory. There have been a number of postings here recently at OpEdNews regarding conspiracy theories. This is one more that sheds a proper context to just what is a "conspiracy theory." It illustrates a very good reason why some people believe what they do, i.e., those that believe the 9/11 false flag "conspiracy theory" cannot be true because it is, well, a "conspiracy theory." How does the New York Times play a role? 11 |
Don't Blame the Sandy Hook Truthers
Gun massacre conspiracy theories follow every massacre--fed in part by the NRA. - "what's the point of debunking any of this? The theories don't spread because they're credible. They spread in part because of the confirmation bias of worried gun owners. And that's actually been egged on, multiple times, by the National Rifle Association." 4 |
 The worst Sandy Hook conspiracy theory yet-- Salon Theorists think they've found "absolute proof" that Newtown was a hoax. Have they no shame? Yes, there really are Newtown truthers. But in the crazy world of Sandy Hook conspiracy theories, this one may be the worst yet. (Maybe you've already heard some of the others, like the one about fantasy ties between the gunman's family and the LIBOR banking scandal and a related theory about the Aurora shooting and the "Dark Knig... 37 |
5 Politicians Who Believe Outrageous U.N. Conspiracy Theories Minnesota representative and Republican Crazy Caucus chairwoman Michele Bachmann recently amused us all with a loopy conspiracy theory claiming that Hillary Clinton had signed a United Nations resolution that would criminalize free speech. The theory may be completely unfounded, but it is actually not that unusual for a staunch right-winger. Although many Republicans love to mock the U.N. as a weak, feckless organization, para... 1 |
Ellen Grace Jones: David Icke: What Went Right? David Icke said after he first spoke out nearly 25 years ago that he couldn't fill a phone box. This weekend he spoke to a sold out Wembley Arena for nine hours. Which begs the question, what went right? In terms of his increasing audience, is he just a very canny snake (or reptile?) oil salesman? Or does - perish the thought - Mr Icke actually talk, you know, some sense about things, and people are recognising that? Radical i... 4 |
 John Smith: Global Warming Could Prompt Alien Attack: NASA, By Elvira Veksler Scientists said Thursday that "extraterrestrial environmentalists" could become so angry about what we have done to the planet that they may see us a threat to the intergalactic ecosystem -- and take action by attacking Earth. 1 |
Steve Benen: Bachmann's latest conspiracy theory is a doozy Bachmann's principal problem is that she combines the worst of two important traits: she's strikingly ignorant about public policy and she's paranoid to the point of delusion. |
 Spy agencies and their failures in solving high profile murders - Shah LAHORE: The world's most-feared spy agencies, like the CIA, Mossad, KGB, MI-6, ISI and RAW, may have mesmerized a major chunk of the billions of humans living on this planet through their investigative skills, deception, guile, craftiness and bravery, but the fact remains that most of them have been unable to solve the murder mysteries of various rulers and distinguished personalities during the last 50 years. Despite possessi... |
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Alice, Meet the Stupids Family
Shortly after the anniversary of he 9/11 attack, a writer had submitted an article calling for the nation to come together in the same spirit as had motivated us immediately following the actual attack, in 2001.
Apparently totally unable to focus on that content, a number of individuals reverted once again to try to prove that attack was a U.S. Government conspiracy.This is the dialog between myself and a number of the advoc... 4 |
Of luxury cars and lowly tractors, by P. Sainath, The Hindu News
It means over a quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide since 1995. It means the largest wave of recorded suicides in human history has occurred in this country in the past 16 years. |
 Is Al-Qaeda a Front Group For The US Military-Industrial Complex? Infowars Ireland Is Anwar Al-Awlaki yet another double agent or patsy doing dirty work for the US Military/CIA, or is Paul Watson going too far in his conclusions? 2 |
 Amy Fried, Ph.D.: Do Jews Really Control the Media? Interesting analysis, by Brian Palmer, on Slate.com 30 |
Kevin Gosztola: Put up or shut up
Roger Ebert's Journal - The time is here for responsible Americans to put up or shut up. I refer specifically to those who have credibility among the guileless and credulous citizens who have been infected with notions so carefully nurtured. We cannot afford to allow the next election to proceed under a cloud of falsehood and delusion. 2 |
Kevin Gosztola: Crazy Muslim conspiracy theories
Politico's Laura Rozen points to this Times of India article, recounting how Rashad Hussain, the Obama administration's envoy to the Muslim world, was angered and "shocked" yesterday when -- as part of a tour of India to promote better relations with Muslims -- "the head of a city-based Muslim institution [Akhtar Hasan Rizvi] slammed the US' policies, not just in the Middle East, but towards Muslims...(Glenn Greenwald) |
 Kevin Gosztola: The "Liberal" Media Strikes Back? Spotlighting the Right's Incompetence Behind the "JournoList" Non-Scandal By Anthony DiMaggio | Tucker Carlson has gotten his panties in a bunch over the non-existent "JournoList scandal," which allegedly proves the media's liberal bias once and for all. The story has been making its way through right wing radio, television, and Internet this week, as conspiracy theories abound regarding the "liberal media's" plot to destroy the Republican Party and conservative America... |
Kevin Gosztola: Profiling 5 Key Right-Wing Mouthpieces Who Spread Paranoia and Hatred to Extremists on the Fringe | Tea Party and the Ri
In the last year and a half, militias and the larger antigovernment "Patriot" movement have exploded, accompanied by the rapid expansion of other sectors of the radical right. This spectacular growth (see timeline) is the result of several factors, including anger over major political, demographic and economic changes in America, along with the popularization of radical ideas and conspiracy theories... |
Sheila Samples: Justin Raimondo: Are the Russians Really Coming?
The indictments read like a very bad movie scenario, complete with machinations involving invisible ink, hi-tech hijinks, and secret messages â€" but what, one wonders, was the point? What did they steal? What damage did they cause? Something doesn't smell right about this whole affair: my BS-ometer is clanging pretty loudly, and yours should be, too. |
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