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33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know...

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Vierotchka
After reading the article released by Cracked.com, I decided to update and revise their work. The article gave me a chuckle because it lacked many famous and much larger conspiracy theories that became known. Their article had only listed seven. I can name 33 and I am about to release a revised list soon with 75. The article I read at cracked can be viewed here, but don't waste your time, all of that is in this article and more.

Conspiracy theory is a term that originally was a neutral descriptor for any claim of civil, criminal or political conspiracy. However, it has come almost exclusively to refer to any fringe theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by conspirators of almost superhuman power and cunning. To conspire means "to join in a secret agreement to do an unlawful or wrongful act or to use such means to accomplish a lawful end." The term "conspiracy theory" is frequently used by scholars and in popular culture to identify secret military, banking, or political actions aimed at stealing power, money, or freedom, from "the people".

To many, conspiracy theories are just human nature. Not all people in this world are honest, hard working and forthcoming about their intentions.Certainly we can all agree on this. So how did the term "conspiracy theory" get grouped in with fiction, fantasy and folklore? Maybe that's a conspiracy, just kidding. Or am I?

Skeptics are important in achieving an objective view of reality, however, skepticism is not the same as reinforcing the official storyline. In fact, a conspiracy theory can be argued as an alternative to the official or "mainstream" story of events. Therefore, when skeptics attempt to ridicule a conspiracy theory by using the official story as a means of proving the conspiracy wrong, in effect, they are just reinforcing the original "mainstream" view of history, and actually not being skeptical. This is not skepticism, it is just a convenient way for the establishment view of things to be seen as the correct version, all the time, every time. In fact, it is common for "hit pieces" or "debunking articles" to pick extremely fringe and not very populated conspiracy theories. This in turn makes all conspiracies on a subject matter look crazy. Skeptics magazine and Popular Mechanics, among many others, did this with 9/11. They referred to less than 10% of the many different conspiracy theories about 9/11 and picked the less popular ones, in fact, they picked the fringe, highly improbable points that only a few people make. This was used as the "final investigation" for looking into the conspiracy theories. Convenient, huh?

In fact, if one were to look into conspiracy theories, they will largely find that thinking about a conspiracy is associated with lunacy and paranoia. Some websites suggest it as an illness. It is also not surprising to see so many people on the internet writing about conspiracy theories in a condescending tone, usually with the words "kool-aid," "crack pot," or "nut job" in their articulation. This must be obvious to anyone that emotionally writing about such serious matter insults the reader more than the conspiracy theorist because there is no need to resort to this kind of behavior. It is employed often with an "expert" who will say something along the lines of, "for these conspiracies to be true, you would need hundreds if not thousands of people to be involved. It's just not conceivable."

I find it extremely odd that the assumption is on thousands of participants in a conspiracy. I, for one, find it hard to believe any conspiracy involving more than a handful of people but the fact remains that there have been conspiracies in our world, proven and not made up, that involved many hundreds of people. It's not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact.

One more thing to consider, have you noticed that if the conspiracy is involving powerful interests with the ability to bribe, threaten or manipulate major institutions (like the mafia, big corporations or government) then don't you find it odd when people use one of those as the "credible" counter-argument? What I mean is, if you are discussing a conspiracy about the mafia, and someone hands you a debunking article that was written by the Mafia, it doesn't seem like it would take rocket science to look at that with serious criticism and credibility. This is the case with many conspiracies. In fact, I am handed debunking pieces all the time written in many cases by the conspirators in question. Doesn't this seem odd to anybody else but me?

While intelligent cynicism certainly can be healthy, though, some of the greatest discoveries of all time were initially received (often with great vitriol) as blasphemous conspiracy theories -- think of the revelation that the earth was not the center of the universe, or that the world was not flat but actually round.

What follows are some of these most shocking modern conspiracy theories that turned out true after thorough investigation by our society. Some through congressional hearings, others through investigative journalism. Many of these, however, were just admitted to by those involved. These are just 33 of them, and I still had a long list of others to add. Many of these are listed with original and credible news clips on the matter, as well as documentaries.

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47 comments // 33 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True, What Every Person Should Know...

  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • gump
  • gump
    • +1
      gump  

    • I cnt bear the raw feelings that keep comeing back. I;ll end up screaming Like I used to. After they took the kids. And I used to look at thier empty beds trying to think of what to do terrified what might be happening to them. A world held hostage. Its hard to find hope with so much evil happening behind the scenes. Conspiracy theories are not jokes or hoaxes tome.

    • 1 year ago
  • mitekillem
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      mitekillem  

    • Conspiracy Theory: Obama likes to fuck with the American People (specifically the right wing).

      Case:
      1. Obama let people believe that he might not have been born in the US. He could have released the birth certificate at any time. He may not have been the source of the original conspiracy about his birth, but he could have squashed it whenever he wanted. He waited until it became a talking-point for the 2012 elections, and then published it to catch the Republicans with their pants down. Thus exposing them for the fools they are.
      2. Shortly after, he killed Osama Bin Laden, refused to release the picture, and video, and buried the body at sea where no one could find it. He's got the proof in his back pocket somewhere, waiting for the right time to Pants the Republican party again when the time is right.

      3. To deflate the Tea Party movement, he quietly cute everyone's taxes in 2009 to low levels not seen since the 1960's. The TEA Party was complaining that the taxes were Too Damn High, and didn't even notice that their paychecks were slightly bigger than they once were. Thus, ruining their argument, and allowing them to make fools of themselves.

      Obama likes to fuck with people and make them look like idiots.
      To him I say, Kudos Mr. President. Kudos.

    • 1 year ago
  • SageRockandRoll
  • maasanova
  • SageRockandRoll
  • Bob_Hamilton
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      Bob_Hamilton  
    • mitekillem:

      Do you actually believe the crap your saying? For starters it has been proven that Obama's birth certificate is not an original copy but a computer generated forgery with several different layers. Do your homework and look it up.Let people believe that he might not have been born in the US? Pleeeease...give your head a shake. Secondly, also a well known fact, that the death photos of Bin Laden that were posted by the government were also fakes. How convenient that his body was dumped at sea so no one will ever be able to prove it to be bullshit and that it was him by way of DNA. You would think that he would want to show the proof ( Bin Ladens body) to the world so that there would be no doubt by anyone that Obama in fact did get the worlds most wanted man. A blind man can see that it's total BS and reeks just the same.And i'm not even going to get started on the Tea party tax cut.Here is one for you to research Of all Obama's campaign promises while running for election, he has not kept even one damn promise. For example ..he said he was going to bring the troops home from the middle east and within months of being elected he shipped out 30,000 more troops to go fight in the middle east. Give your head a shake and open your eyes to reality and the truth.Because you must be getting full from all that BS you are swallowing....scary part is you believe it

    • 1 year ago
  • treewolf39
  • gump
  • Wicks934
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
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    • Some of these conspiracies are too incredible and far too complex for the average American Idol American to grasp, but some of them are quite simple and rather easy to comprehend.

      Consider #10-The 1990 Testimony of Nayirah, and then consider other fake atrocity stories that have led us to war or could lead us to war such as Iran has nukes and wants to wipe Israel off the map, Iraq's imaginary WMD's, non-existent mass graves of Kosovo, the 2001 Anthrax Attacks alleged to have been Muslim terrorists but weren't ("death to American and Death to Israel"),Gaddafi massacring his own citizens, Gaddafi supplying his soldiers with Viagra and sending them off to rape women and children (yes Obama's UN ambassador Susan Rice actually peddled this ludicrous story in front of the UN much to the amusement of the international intelligence community who knew she was full of shite).

      http://www.whale.to/b/kuwait_babies.html

      "It's so easy to put forth a war-atrocity lie believed by all. The rule is the more outrageous, the more believable. Nayirah had no accent because she lived in the USA with her dad, the US ambassador of Kuwait.

      This hoax should have been uncovered before anyone walked out of Tom Lantos' Human Rights Caucus, but it was two months before the incubator story was discovered as a hoax, and a whopping 10 MONTHS before it was discovered who Nayirah really was. By then the US was already in Iraq. A lie as imitative of past lies, (Germans killing babies in WW I) and as flimsy as the Nayirah account barely gets uncovered. And look how little people care: Tom Lantos who knowingly instigated the hoax (in collusion with the Hill and Knowlton PR firm) continued on as an elected representative until his death in 2008."

    • 1 year ago
  • MisterWizard
  • Vierotchka
  • MisterWizard
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      MisterWizard  
    • Vierotchka:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VLNNwiKvlE

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VLNNwiKvlE
      Mam I think that you're still at the stage 1 level of denial about Chemtrails. I'm completely perplexed at how anyone can suggest others to buy into 33 conspiracy theories that he or she believes to be true, yet be so adamant in defending their stance on another theory that has been proven to be true by a growing list of governments around the world.

      There's no logic in just being flat out stubborn. That's just a choice that most people make in denying the truth about one thing or another. It's OK. We all have a problem with acceptance about something in our lives. I do too. It's just not with chemtrails.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • MisterWizard:

      No siree, I am not in any stage of denial. I have for years researched the subject in depth and have friends who are airline pilots and engineers who confirmed to me that they are simply contrails. These so-called "chemtrails" (long-lasting contrails which spread out and basically are simply cirrus clouds made of crystallized water vapours that form in given temperature and humidity conditions) have existed for many decades. The chemtrail conspiracy theory is one of those which are based on no science, on ignorance and is simply a zany invention and urban legend that has spread like wildfire through the web.

    • 1 year ago
  • MisterWizard
    • +1
      MisterWizard  
    • Vierotchka:

      After reading some of your other remarks on this thread, its becoming purely evident to me that your tenure on this site gives you permission to write and hand out "your wrong again perscriptions " to anyone that disaegrees with you. That being said, your right and I'm wrong Vierotchka. How's that ?

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
  • gump
    • -2
      gump  
    • Vierotchka:

      Thank you for speaking to this issue. You are so correct.. saves me from the bother to say almost the same thing. But, it is possible todisperse stuff in the atmosphere useing commercial jet traffic that is going to be flying around anyway. Saves money. The biggest temptation of our time in this reguard is to do something to reflect sunlight to try to counter act global warming in the short run.. Not good in the long run because CO2 will continue to build up threatening to destroy sea life by acidity. One other thing is that a friend of mine who is quite old now used to work for the CIA and quit specificly because he was being asked to engineer equipment to disperse chemicals from jet planesin such ways that innocent populations could be wiped out. That is similar at least to what the chem trail talk seems to be. Vierotchka if you want to try to talk with him I could try to set it up. But be warned he doesnt really know I am progressive and he is serious about being right wing fox watcher and his siblings are all old CIA who are expecting to move into retirement soon after very long carrers. You are right on the con trail definition about water crystals . It is basic cloud formation caused by distubances from the engines and planes. I have seen them all my life since early 50's when I was old enough to focus and watch the military jets pass by high over the Phx area. Further there are much more effective ways to disburse chemicals on populations of people on the surface of the earth than to try to do it from a plane at 35 thousand feet. That would be almost as effective as trying to shoot the moon with a 22 caliber long rifle. You are on top of this issue and every other issue it seems . I appreciate the precious information you bring to this community. Hero worship really .

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
    • -2
      Vierotchka  
    • gump:

      There simply isn't enough room in the airplanes' tanks to do this. You ought to explore the site whose link I provided above - i.e. http://contrailscience.ccom - in which such questions are fully explored. Don't forget that wind directions at all altitudes change, any chemical that might have been added would be greatly diluted and spread, and that it takes hours and sometimes days for particles at different altitudes to reach the ground, and that would happen at huge distances from where such particles might have been released. Apart from direct seeding of clouds to provoke rainfall, the whole concept of "chemtrails" simply isn't possible.

    • 1 year ago
  • MisterWizard
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      MisterWizard  
    • Vierotchka:

      200 Million Tons of Aluminum Aerosol Chemtrail Poisoning All Life! Scientific Proof!
      www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFpS1yVioLM
      As continuing chemtrail activity culminated in massive aerial spraying over Vancouver Island and Washington state March 20, 2002, and broadening plumes once again fanned out to haze clear blue skies – Air Traffic Controllers at major airports across the United States expressed concern over the emissions constantly showing up on their radar screens.

      These radar returns are the signature of the fine aluminum particles found in laboratory tests of chemtrail-contaminated rain taken in Espanola, Ontario in the summer of 1999. The lab analysis found reflective quartz particles in the chemtrail fallout — and levels of aluminum FIVE TIMES higher than Ontario’s maximum permissible health safety standards.

      In a fourth interview with reporter S.T. Brendt last week, Deep Sky stated that Air Traffic Controllers at Chicago’s O’Hare airport, all three major airports in New York, Los Angeles LAX, San Francisco, Atlanta, Cleveland, San Diego, Washington DC’s Dulles and Jacksonville, Florida, were being ordered to route airliners beneath formations of Air Force tanker planes spraying something that regularly clouds their screens.

      Every controller, without exception, is being told to divert traffic due to military exercises , and to bring in traffic lower because of experiments that may degrade their radars. The controllers at Cleveland’s airport were surprised by the extent of obscuration on their radars.

      Chemtrail Scientist Breaks Silence
      Ohio is the home of Wright-Patterson — the air force base working with electromagnetic and weather modification technology. A scientist working at Wright-Patterson recently told reporter Bob Fitrakis that two different projects are being conducted.

      One involves cloud creation experiments to lessen the effect of global warming. Other chemtrails are connected with the military’s extremely high-power Radio Frequency beam weapon in Alaska called HAARP.

      The scientist claims that the two most common substances being sprayed into chemtrails are aluminum oxide and barium stearate. When you see planes flying back and forth marking parallel lines, X-patterns and grids in a clear sky, that’s aluminum oxide, according to the scientist.

      The goal is to create an artificial sunscreen to reflect solar radiation back into space to alleviate global warming. In some cases, barium may be sprayed in a similar manner for the purpose of high-tech 3-D radar imaging.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
    • -2
      Vierotchka  
    • MisterWizard:

      A YouTube video is not proof of anything, especially when it is bad science. This video is total nonsense. Analyis of rainwater is meaningless - it doesn't rain when contrails are visible. Bad, bad pseudo science.

      Aluminum is everywhere, in various quantities

      *Aluminum is the most abundant metallic element in the earth’s crust, about 8% of the ground is aluminum.
      *Aluminum is everywhere, in the food we eat, and the air we breath (as dust)
      * Aluminum is in daily contact with us, in soda cans, cookware, aluminum cooking foil, construction, transportation, baseball bats, etc.
      * The amount of aluminum in any location varies naturally. In some places there is a lot, in others there is very little.
      * Contamination of samples with aluminum is very common due to it’s abundance and common usage. Unless careful control samples are taken, then the results are often wildly inaccurate.

      Two scientists do not proof make.

    • 1 year ago
  • gump
  • Earl_Dixon
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      Earl_Dixon  

    • Knew about most of these but not all of them, nothing is how it appears and the media is owned which is likely the reason we are all on this site.

    • 1 year ago
  • gump
    • -1
      gump  

    • Thanks Vierotchka. I have seen so much that it is beyond words. Redundant is a word that comes to mind. Vast resources used to misslead the puplic again and again. I was in AKRON COLORADO in march 1988 when the big ordeal of a day care center child sex abuse story took over all the atention of the TV RADIO and NEWSPAPERS.The story raged for a year or so . It would make a hell of a good conspiracy story to read if I wrote the book. Which I have long intended to do .Even though it would likely be the last thing I could do when I do it. The real story was never even hinted at inthe media . In fact the story put out was a twisted story developed to pander to interested parties and to cover up a real problem that led to real childsex abuse . The Hazel Riggs Day Care child sex abuse story. My wife knew there was a problem a year before the story broke. She told me not to take our kids there . But as usual she would not give me any details to complete the communication. she had just heard things from her family . A family that dominated the lawenforcement , organized crime and entire political power structure of northeast Colorado. Hazel was a grandmother trying to survive in a small town. She had 2 grand sons. One was said to be insane and lived mostly in a tent in her back yard. Then there was the younger one who was said to have endured the cruelty and sex abuse from the other while growing up. Hazel was alone in running her tiny in-home kid care. There was a tremendous problem of insanity in Washington county . It came from the manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine being done by the organized crime that controled the area. My in-laws were the heart of that. So I had a special viewpoint. Poor Hazel was just one of the victims of a system gone mad. A system that victimizes everyone who is human because it values only the dollar numbers. Not the human element. Akron had a long history of self destruction and human misery. A story That includes the murder of a radio talk show host in denver, the murder of Robert Redfords son-in-law in Boulder, the murder of 40 men in Colorado springs ni 1983, and then the killing of the wemon who were in the company of the 40 men, the murder of 5 railroad workers in the Wiggins train wreack in1984,,and the tortured murder of litterally millions of American citizens inherent in the use and distribution of crystal meth. Tortured insanity that results in such madness as the Columbine High School massacre . And threats against people in power positions such as bankers living in Boulder Colorado who have 2 small children in thier home one of whom ends up dead in a basement with the police throwing thier hands up and not being able to do a real investigation. Redundant is an appropriate word . But no words are enough to comunicate the deep faults and culture shock of the simple truth. CONSPIRACY. May God help us all.

    • 1 year ago
  • Radical_Centrist
  • gump
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      gump  
    • Radical_Centrist:

      YOU GOT THAT RIGHT !!! But who put it together and for what reasons it was set up and done might be strange enough to fill a dozen volumes. I expect he may actually have been killed pretty much as claimed recently and that the biggest part of the conspiracy might be in why the Bush Crime family did not want to kill OBL or simply did not want the credit of killing the son of one of thier prominent partners. For instance did OBL's father die recently ? That would have freed up the Bush dark siders. And because the Bush CIA surely still controls special forces and military actions what if they wanted to throw Barak a bone and help him have one memorable point in his first 4 years , and there by also help him get reelected because Barak has been easy to load up with blame for the bush crimes.

    • 1 year ago
  • Nick19
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      Nick19  
    • Radical_Centrist:

      Alex Jones isn't a reliable source. Again as I've said in the past, he's full of half-truths. He'll say something partially true only to then add something that goes completely off tangent. He also sites a lot of sources that end up just being articles from his own site or from other conspiracy sites. He has never ever admitted that he made a mistake which thus proves how flawed he is. He made claims that Machete was going to cause a race war, he was part of the y2k band wagon, and he made a claim that there are more homosexuals because the government introduced chemicals that made more people gay.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2w2TRxSLxw

    • 1 year ago
  • gump
    • +1
      gump  
    • Nick19:

      The last part may be true if you look at the debilitateing effects of government related pollution. And then there is chemical castration. Some said there was that done to Micheal Jackson to preserve his voice . Not saying that he was gay. Just maybe not so able or interested . I am a fan of Micheal because of his important good works few people know about. I'm part deaf from brain damage while in the marine s so never cared much for his music But about Alex Jones ... he is in the business of scareing people and he scares me. It is very freaky toi listen to his show. Bet he gets a stipen from CIA.

    • 1 year ago
  • Nick19
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      Nick19  
    • gump:

      I don't think Alex Jones works for anyone. Its amusing to see people place a conspiracy within another conspiracy. He's just a paranoid schizophrenic who has a large following since others want to feel fear and want to feel like they know everything. They call other people "sheeple" when in reality, they're sheeple to Alex Jones in a rather ironic twist.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Nick19:

      You are a psychiatrist and have lengthily examined Alex Jones? If not, you're in no position to give a diagnosis (paranoid schizophrenic). I have known several paranoid schizophrenics, and Alex Jones is nothing like them at all. Not remotely.

    • 1 year ago
  • Nick19
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      Nick19  
    • Vierotchka:

      Schizophrenic believe in a delusional reality while at the same time, paranoid ones believe in a delusional fantasy where they're being chased by some antagonistic force. Alex Jones has on numerous occasional has gone on screaming non-sensical rants talking about the rise in a police state coming very soon and is usually doing so with purely emotional tendencies. His reaction on the day y2k was supposed to happen shows his delusional fantasies on the end of the world (Its on youtube). I guess what it comes down to me is simply this, what is his state of mind that leads him to conclude to such crazy ideas (for lack of a better term). It still frightens me how many people even go on to follow this person who has done nothing but established a certain boggy man to chase us around as we remain fearful of some rather cartoonish force of elites who somehow for some reason want to reduce the world population in FEMA death camps and rule over us via the UN.

    • 1 year ago
  • Vierotchka
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      Vierotchka  
    • Nick19:

      They do so only during their episodes between which they have fairly long periods of normalcy. You have absolutely nothing to teach me on the subject as I have been learning and researching it in depth since 1968 when someone close to me was diagnosed with the condition, and Alex Jones doesn't correspond at all to paranoid schizophrenia. Alex Jones is certainly hyperactive and has found a line of work which has been very successful and profitable for him, and he has a large team of researchers working for him. I can with ease separate the chaff from the grain in his pronouncements, and I find many of his guests to be absolutely credible and correct. By no means do I swallow everything he says hook, line and sinker, I also do my own research.

    • 1 year ago
  • gump
    • -1
      gump  
    • Nick19:

      Interesting comment . Writers often do the plot within the plot within the plot built up onion layers. But the CIA is one big player and if alex wants a niche where he wont get wacked or have media doors closed to him then he has to be respectful . And maybe take what is given as symble of servitude and acceptance of rank. Remember what happened to Serpico when he could not be bought.

    • 1 year ago
  • gump
  • coxian_armada
  • alexandrek
  • PressCore
    • +3
      PressCore  
    • alexandrek:

      Great movie that. BZ was the LSD the military used to experiment
      on American soldiers in combat in Vietnam. So the movie was a
      dramatization of Historicly accurate events that realy happened.
      Goes to show how inconscionable the military realy is, doesn't it ?.

    • 1 year ago
  • maasanova
  • Saladin
    • +5
      Saladin  

    • There's definitely a lot of shit in here that you have to take with some salt, but a lot of it is true, some of it I didn't know, and a lot of it was out of control.

      Rich people used to worship a giant owl naked as part of some weird cult-like tradition? And Nixon knew about it?

      God, there is some weird shit that goes on sometimes.

    • 1 year ago
  • Earl_Dixon
  • gump
    • -1
      gump  
    • Earl_Dixon:

      My wife's boyfriend actually worked there . Interesting stories. I wanted to pick his brain slowly over time. But I accidently kicked his ass in the driveway when he got beligerant and screwed up the flow of info I wanted. He had told of sitting around talking to Tony Blair and said Tony was alright ".He's OK." . The old lady has had a lot of boy friends. She has claimed she was a home wreacker the first time at age 11 . ELEVEN !!!! EXPLETIVE DELETED !!! Anyway he said that he was the phone operator. that all calls had to go through his switch board .

    • 1 year ago
  • Fishinflick
    • +4
      Fishinflick  

    • Great post. I find it insulting and idiotic to lump all conspiracies together derisively as is the current fashion across the political spectrum. Reasonable people don't enjoy running around in a state of paranoia. And reasonable people don't just accept everything they're told either... what ever happened to critical thinking?

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
  • kennymotown
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