So, the BBC, in its wisdom, has an episode of ‘The Conspiracy Files’ devoted to the man behind ‘The Ripple Effect.’ I know this because the internet reports on such things, and the BBC, in its promotional glory, has a page telling us about the episode. What is especially great are the comments, for they are of the ‘I’m not a Conspiracy Theorist, but…’ variety.
It is interesting that both the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks occurred at times when the political leader of the nation was suffering in public opinion, and that both these attacks have enabled the governments involved to introduce draconian measures in the name of “security”. Whilst I do not actually believe that the governments were directly involved in either of these attacks (or at least I pray they were not), I am not so sure that they did not consciously ignore critical intelligence and thus allow the events to come to pass.
Bryan Wallbridge, Boston, Lincolnshire
is fried gold (it’s the variation on the so-called ‘Conventry Excuse’ (my terminology)), but the one I like the most is:
Well, I’m not into conspiracy theories but it happens to be completely true that the security services in both New York on 9/11 and London on 7/7 were running mock terrorist attack exercises. Make of that what you will.
Mike, Corby
Which is just fantastic. It’s a little like my ‘favourite’ tactic of a certain class of people who go ‘I’m not a racist, but…’ where what follows after the ‘but’ is almost always racist. “I’m not a Conspiracy Theorist,” says Mike, “but…”
You’re not fooling anyone.
9/11 Cult watch has reviewed the documentary here. I am endeavouring to obtain a copy for my archives.
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I’ve been mulling over things recently and, due to an online discussion about my past as a Hegelian (I have a thesis to prove it) I was, well not reminded but rather, forced to contemplate old memory banks as they flung themselves into operation; ‘The Manifesto of Self-Revocation’ hoved itself into view.
‘The Manifesto of Self-Revocation’ was a project that several of us worked upon a very, very long time ago. It originally existed as a website and then I, when I should have been doing other work, made it into a book. We had always intended to print copies, but this was before Print-on-Demand was easy and popular. Not that we were expecting a best-seller, or indeed sales; we just wanted to deposit copies of our ‘religious’ text in libraries and in the homes of whanau.
Anyway, it turns out that the PDF is no longer online and that seems, well, a bit disappointing. So here be a link to a page that contains the most recent version of the text of the religion of the pub of the University of Auckland of the country that should be known as Aotearoa/Te Wai Pounamu on the planet dismally called Earth in a solar system other sapient people don’t seem to visit.
The Red Book of the Neo-Catholic Church – The Unexpurgated Version (Contains no Gannets)
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The continuing fight between Gareth Renowden, of Hot Topic, and Ian Wishart, publisher of New Zealand’s other conspiracy rag, ‘Investigate’ continues, with Wishart now asking Renowden to justify a claim that the UN isn’t trying to impose a One World Government.
Wishart, like many Climate Change Skeptics, believes that the real agenda behind saving the planet and the species that live upon it is an agenda to instate a shadow world government.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Now, call me a philosopher, but the move that goes ‘There should be global taxes on pollution that affects the globe’ to ‘They want to take control’ is a little… over-wrought? Indeed, I believe I’m writing a thesis on this. I should get back to that.
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…is dead. Given that he was about to embark on a series of ‘comeback’ concerts and the actual cause of his death was a surprise I imagine we will have MJ Conspiracy Theories fairly soon. I mean, if David Carradine’s death warranted calls of a cover-up the Michael Jackson death industry should be able to produce something much bigger.
There will also be comparisons with Elvis Presley, both as an artist and in regards to the theories surrounding his death.
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