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POLITICS
CONTENTS CELEBRITIES 010
PRINCESS DIANA
012
ELVIS PRESLEY
014
JOHN LENNON
016
PAUL MCCARTNEY
018
KURT COBAIN
020
MURDERED or MISSING?
JIM MORRISON
022
SID VICIOUS
EXTRATERRESTRIALS
024
BRUCE LEE
030
ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
026
MARILYN MONROE
032 032
ROSWELL
034
THE RENDLESHAM LANDINGS
036
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in g h e K in t h d t Di d ie? tu all y d ie? a c tu
UFOS OVER IRAQ
038
MEN IN BLACK
040
SECRET BASES ON THE MOON
042
CATTLE MUTILATIONS
044
SPACE SABOTAGE
046
REVERSE ENGINEERING
050
JFK
052
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
054
ROBERT KENNEDY
056
DOROTHY KILGALLEN
094
THE PENTAGON
096
THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
098
THE WATERGATE SCANDAL
100
PEARL HARBOR
102
INVASION OF IRAQ
104
GEORGE BUSH SNR
106
GEORGE BUSH JNR
108
HILLARY CLINTON
ORGANISATIONS
n Hil l la ry be Can H p ed ed ? p p to s to
112
THE ROYAL FAMILY
114
THE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI
“IT COULD BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST COVER-UPS IN HUMAN HISTORY” TRAGEDIES 144
9/11
146
TWA FLIGHT 800
148
CHALLENGER EXPLOSION
150
OKLAHOMA BOMBING
152
JONESTOW JONE STOWN N MASSACR MASSACREE
154 154
AIDS
156
SARS
058
LORD LUCAN
060
AMELIA EARHART
116
THE TEMPLARS
062
JIMMY JIM MY HOFFA HOFFA
118 118
FREEMASONS
EPILOGUE
064
MARTIN LUTHER KING
120
NEW WORLD ORDER
158
066
MALCOLM X
122
THE KGB
068
CHANDRA LEVY
124
THE VATICAN
070
SHARON TATE
126
THE CIA
128
NASA
130
THE BILDERBERG GROUP
132
MI6
“HOW WILL ANYONE REALLY KNOW WHAT THE TRUTH IS?”
HISTORICAL
134 134
MOSSAD
074
THE HOLY GRAIL
136
THE NSA
076
THE GUNPOWDER PLOT
138
THE KKK
078
STONEHENGE
140
THE MAFIA
080
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
082
MOZART
084 084
RASPUTIN
086
JACK THE RIPPER PPER
088 088
HITLER
090
RUDOLF HESS
FINDING THE TRUTH
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PRINCESS diana A ROYAL COVER-UP?
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ed er ed rd er Mu rd h e y t h b y t s? T r ri i a d s?
ELVIS presley IS THE KING DEAD?
014
JOHN lennon THE MURDER OF AN ICON
016
An en t n c o o en in n m t i im ? c t vi
PAUL mccartney MUSICAL GOD OR IMPOSTER?
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KURT cobain WAS IT ACTUALLY SUICIDE?
020 JIM morrison TRAGIC END OR NEW BEGINNING? 022 02 2
SID vicious MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE?
024 BRUCE lee QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN…
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“THE BEST WAY FOR THE MURDER OF A CELEBRITY TO NEVER BE DISCOVERED IS FOR IT TO LOOK LIKE AN ACCIDENT OR A SUICIDE”
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PRINCESS DIANA
DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES WAS THE DEATH OF A NATIONAL TREASURE ONE OF THE BIGGEST COVER-UPS IN HISTORY?
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he The car sped away and a tourist captured the death of scene on video as an innocent-looking Citroen Princess followed and the paparazzi, realising they Diana was had been duped, began to give chase on their an event that motorcycles. After a few minutes’ pursuit, the affected people Mercedes entered the Pont de l’Alma tunnel at across the high speed and all we know is that Diana, Dodi planet. Britain and Henri failed to emerge from it with their grieved, the lives. It took the French investigation several world grieved. years to produce an official version of events. Even people Not surprisingly, they supported the instant who had never verdict from the world’s media that it was a devoted any woeful auto accident caused by the combination real attention to the British Royal Family felt of a drunk driver, pursuing paparazzi and a deep emotion at the tragic circumstances that failure to wear seatbelts. robbed the world of someone who qualified The first public suggestion that there was as a global cultural icon. a conspiracy to kill Princess Diana At first it appeared to be surfaced on the BBC World nothing more than a simple Service a couple of days after tragic accident. Diana had the unfortunate events enjoyed a romantic meal of 31 August 1997. In with her lover, Dodi bizarre propagandist Al-Fayed, at the Ritz tones, the BBC made Thecrashhappenedin thePont del’Alma Hotel owned by his pains to deride a tunnelthatwasbuiltoverasiteusedin thetime ofthe Meroving iandynasty(between 500–751AD) father, Mohamed Alspeech made by asa sacredritualarea.Some secretsocieties,such Fayed. A little before Libyan leader Colonel asthePrieurdeSionandtheTemplars,claimthat midnight the couple Moamar Qaddafi in theMerovingianandall trueEuropeanroyalty– includingDianaSpencer’sfamily– areconnected left, accompanied which he claimed that tothepagancultofDiana.It isoddthat by Diana’s bodyguard the “accident” was a Britain’sQueen ofHearts mayhave died – Trevor Rees-Jones. joint French and British ona formersiteofworshipforthe goddesswhose nameshe To escape 30 paparazzi conspiracy because they wasgiven. parked outside, they went out did not want Diana to marry a via the back door. The chauffeur Muslim man. Conspiracy theories of their bulletproof Mercedes-Benz began circulating on the night of her was Henri Paul, the Ritz Hotel’s head of security. death, most of them speculating on how strange
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x vils o f landmines, in doing so risk ing her y In d u s t ri al Co m ple ar Mi li t t the e ad waged a one- woman war agains
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Grief swept the land in the wake
it was that on the day she died, Diana had already told one major British national newspaper to prepare for an amazing announcement.
A royal cover up? The Queen intervened to clear Diana’s former butler, Paul Burrell, when he was on trial at the Old Bailey just before he was about to take the stand and possibly reveal a number of uncomfortable facts about the Princess in November 2002. It later emerged that after Diana’s death, the Queen had spoken at length to Burrell. Sounding like the most paranoid of conspiracy theorists and using dialogue that would not have been out of place in The X-Files , she warned Burrell to be careful, saying, “There are powers at work in this country which we have no knowledge about.” The warning led Burrell to wait until October 2003 to make public the fact that Diana had written him a note ten months before she died. It stated: “This particular phase of my life is the most dangerous. ‘X’ is planning an accident in my car, brake failure and serious head injuries in order to make the path clear for Charles to marry”. The Princess’ startling prescience has heightened the belief she was a victim of a conspiracy, not a tragic accident.
SUSPICIONS grow Claims have been made that Henri Paul was three times over the legal alcohol limit. A second blood test ordered by his disbelieving family showed a level of carbon monoxide in his body that was not only lethal, but would have entered his bloodstream before he got into the car. The security video from the Ritz that night does not show him as a drunk, or reeling from carbon monoxide poisoning. The mystery of Henri Paul deepens further with the revelation that he deposited more than 164,000 francs into his bank account shortly before he died. In 2007, an British inquest was held into the deaths of Diana and Dodi. Evidence was given by a number of high-profile individuals, including Paul Burrell, Mohamed Al-Fayed and the former head of MI5. The jury of six women and five men eventually gave their verdict on 7 April 2008, placing the blame on Henri Paul and the chasing paparazzi.
Diana h “loose cannon”. While t political criticism in the UK as a personal sa f et y and earning s triden g o f landmines than i t mak es more mone y f rom disposin x l Comple Industria tary the Mili rning her a tten tion to the feared the possibilit y o f Diana tu does selling them, it may have e ou t ha ve been in their bes t interes ts to wip t would i y, al. Clearl in gener arms industry campaigner. in to the world’s most po wer ful peace someone who could have turned
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i t e e m m t T h e Co the United p of in telligence agency opera tives from ed Anglo-American cabal made u An alleg , the Commi t tee is dl y headquar tered in Bristol, England S ta tes and Grea t Bri tain. Suppose rela tionship tine group tha t wan ts the special ndes more cla ven f an e o a tool apparently rs. Possibly Diana’s de velop in to a union o f bo th powe be t ween the US and Britain to tive issues and possible tack le the es tablishmen t on sensi massive popularit y, willingness to r cryptic schemes. ld be a dangerous opponen t to thei pregnanc y persuaded them she cou
e ss Di an asis is tha t Diana s taged her o wn dea th so she and Dodi Pr i n c r bizarre h ypothe Anothe ’s lit tle f publicit y. No t surprisingl y, there could live f ree f rom the glare o f wish f ul thinking. hard evidence to suppor t this piece o
ed ... s p e c t so su Al t the CIA, Mossad, Islamic Rumours ha ve also sugges ted tha , The Freemasons and the IRA had Fundamen talis ts, Saddam Hussein s Rose. a hand in the death o f England’
A tragic accident Even if Diana was pregnant, that does not mean there was a conspiracy to kill her. Driving at high speed through Paris is dangerous enough without being pursued by a pack of motorcycle paparazzi. Add a barrage of camera flashes to a
chase conducted at more than 120 miles per hour when the passengers are not wearing seatbelts and you no longer need a conspiracy to explain a fatal crash. Faced with a tragedy such as Diana’s death, it is not surprising that some people
cannot accept it as a mere random accident. The car crash in Paris may be the perfect example of why some conspiracy theories come into being: if they did not exist we would have to face the banality and indiscriminate nature of death.
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KURT COBAIN
KURT COBAIN THE DEATH OF A GENERATION’S IDOL AND THE QUESTIONS THAT SURROUND HIS “SUICIDE”
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t 8:40am on 8 April 1994, an electrician who had come to fit security lighting to a luxury home in Seattle found the body of Kurt Cobain. A ©P.B.Rage shotgun wound to the head had killed him. Beside his body was found a box of drug paraphernalia, including syringes and burnt spoons. A shotgun lay across his chest and it was claimed a “goodbye” note was found in the room. An open and shut case of suicide then? Only for the local police. Conspiriologists were hardly going to be satisfied with the cursory
examination of Seattle’s boys in blue and the month before – Cobain was actually starting to media frenzy of reporting following sort himself out and planning positive Cobain’s untimely end. changes in his life. A messy The 27-year-old lead divorce from his wife and singer and songwriter of fellow rock star Courtney Nirvana was not only Love and a high-profile an internationally custody battle for their acclaimed rock daughter may have Ithasbeenreporte dthata“DreamMachine”– a star, but an icon been on the cards, trance-inducingcontraptionmade froma lightbulb, and inspiration to but Cobain was not recordplayerand cardboardcylinderwith slitsin many members of one to wimp out. He it– wasfoundin thegreenhousewithCobain .Brion Gysin,a friendandcollaboratorwithauthorWilliam Generation X. His had shown toughness SBurroug hs– oneofCobain ’sheroe s– firstcreate d fans viewed him as before and was a man theDreamMachine.A groupcallingthemselves more than another who had fought his “Friends UnderstandingKurt”havepointedout thattherehave beenpreviousrecorded way from a backwoods star; to them he was a incid entswheretheuseof aDream redneck town to global leader, a hero. His funeral Machine hasbeen associated status. Many of those who brought Seattle to a state withsuicides. have studied the case feel of gridlock and there were copycat suicides across the world. that sinister forces were working Cobain died at the peak of his power. His in Seattle to ensure an untimely end for music had reached out and touched millions Cobain. They have certainly come up with and incredible success had some unsettling questions surrounding his brought him the unwanted alleged suicide. status of spokesman for a generation as well as the grunge rock movement. Punk rock was an escape On Easter Sunday, 3 April 1994, Courtney Love for Cobain; drugs were an called private detective Tom Grant, a Californiaescape for Cobain. At first it based private detective. The previous day Cobain seemed entirely in keeping had climbed over the wall of Exodus Rehab with his character that he Clinic and had flown back to Seattle. Despite the might have sought death as fact that her husband was meant to be suicidal, the ultimate escape from the had almost died in an overdose less than a month pain and depression that had before and was returning to a home containing dogged him throughout his a shotgun, Love decided not to go to Seattle to young life. However, despite find him herself. Instead, she hired Grant and the common knowledge that despatched him to track down Cobain with the rather flippant and enigmatic phrase, “Save Cobain was a troubled man, the American icon, Tom.” Grant searched for many have found it hard to Cobain at the Seattle house on 7 April at 2:45am believe that he took his own and 9:45pm, but did not find the body that was life and conspiracy theories concerning his demise have hidden in the greenhouse on top of the garage. It proliferated while his records was eventually discovered the next day. continue to sell. The common thread in the numerous allegations in circulation is that despite There is a whole raft of hard crime scene his troubled state of mind evidence that raises questions over the idea that – exemplified by a close Cobain killed himself. One of his credit cards shave with death via a heroin was missing and someone had attempted to use overdose in a Rome hotel a it after the time the autopsy says he was shot and before the body was discovered. There were no fingerprints on this shotgun or shells, which suggests the weapon had been wiped, and his widow, hired a private body was found to contain an incapacitating level detective to find her
Kurt Cobain was his death suicide or murder?
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K u r t Co ba i n
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T om Grant , w hom Lov e subsequent ly hir ed f or sev en mont hs t o inv estiga te C obain’ s deat h, is just one of many w ho belie v e t hat C obain mus t hav e been mur dered by som eone close t o him . Giv en that t he mur derer and ot h er c onspir at ors mu st hav e had his t rust and good ac ce ss t o him, many theorist s believ e t he finger poi nts to a f amily mem ber , c lose f riend or employ e e.
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of heroin that should have prevented him from being able to fire the gun. The “suicide” note was actually a note explaining why he was quitting the record industry and many handwriting experts believe that someone other than Cobain had added the last four lines relating to his wife and daughter.
TICKING time bomb A deeply troubled man with an enormous drug habit and an interest in firearms – that makes it just so hard to understandwhy anyone thinks Cobain may have taken his own life, doesn’t it? Given that he was once photographed with a gun in his mouth, Cobain actually pulling the trigger one day isn’t exactly the most surprising ending to his story. It might be a puzzle for some to figure out why people ever buy Britney Spears’ records, but even with the odd circumstances surrounding Kurt Cobain’s end there is little mystery about why the sharp money is on suicide in this case.
It w ould not be a r ock ’n’ roll conspiracy theor y if there w er e not so me conspir iologists w ho beli ev e that Cobain is still aliv e. T he inconsistencies sur ro unding his appar ent dea th can be f ully ex plained by his f aking it to escape f ro m his w ife, by the pressu r es of being a celebr ity and by the drugs scene.
Mi l i ta y In r d u s t ri a l Co m pl e x K urt Cob
ain’ s r ole as spok esman f or a gener ation that w as apathe tic about political concerns could h av e made him a danger to the Militar y Industrial Complex (MIC ) if he had decided to galv anise the disaff ected y oung of the globe by takin g an anti-w ar stance ov er the dev eloping conflict in Y ugoslav ia. Toens ur e healthy w eapon sales and lack of public inter est, a pr e-emp tiv e str ik e may hav e been called for.
“HIS FUNERAL BROUGHT SEATTLE TO A STATE OF GRIDLOCK AND THERE WERE COPYCAT SUICIDES ACROSS THE WORLD”
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SID VICIOUS
SID VICIOUS
WAS THE INFAMOUS PUNK ROCKER AS VICIOUS AS HIS NAME SUGGESTS?
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hen New York’s finest entered Room 100 of the Chelsea Hotel on 12 October, 1978, they discovered a horrific sight. Lying beneath the bathroom sink, clad only in her underwear and covered in blood, was Nancy Spungen. She was dead, killed by a single knife blow to her abdomen. Her boyfriend, himself in a drug-induced muddle, was Sid Vicious, bass player with the then notorious punk band, The Sex Pistols. He was charged with Spungen’s murder and later released on $50,000 bail. The romance between Sid Vicious (born John Simon Ritchie) and Nancy Spungen was the stuff rock ’n’ roll nightmares are made of. After being recruited by his best friend John Lydon – aka Johnny Rotten – to replace the existing bass player in his band, the Sex Pistols (named after Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s London boutique, “Sex”), Vicious soon found himself at the epicentre of pop-culture phenomenon. The band was already notorious in the United Kingdom. Spearheading the UK punk movement, the Pistols had originally been put together by McLaren to specifically appeal to the disaffected youth of England. With songs calculated to infuriate all the wrong people (anyone over 30), The Pistols tore through England on the breaking wave of punk rock. With songs such as Anarchy In The UK and God Save The Queen , coupled with outrageous outbursts on television and other media, they were nothing short of a slow-motion atom bomb about to shake the foundations of pop culture worldwide.
“SPUNGEN AND VICIOUS MET IN 1977 AND SOON BECAME LOVERS, CAREENING INTO AN AFFAIR”
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Which wasn’t bad for Vicious, considering there was debate about whether he ever knew how to play the bass at all. Instead, he relied more on image: cutting himself with razor blades, spitting blood and even urinating while on stage. The anarchy poster boy, beloved by many newborn punk rockers, he proved irresistible to one fan, an American girl called Nancy Spungen, who came over to England with the express purpose of capturing the heart – or anything else – of a Pistol. She and Vicious met in 1977 and soon became lovers, careening into an affair riddled with drug abuse. Vicious’ love of Spungen, coupled with
Sid and Nancy were the iconic punk couple of the Se venties.
Spungen’s abrasive personality, became so intense that it began to tear the band apart. When the Pistols’ ill-fated American tour ended abruptly, with Johnny Rotten returning to England in disgust, Vicious stayed with Spungen, finally ending up in New York’s Chelsea Hotel. After Spungen’s death, out of despair Vicious attempted suicide, carving his entire forearm with a knife. Somehow surviving that, he succumbed to a heroin overdose (brought for him by his mother, fearing her son might get caught in a police sting) on 2 February, 1979. He was only 21.
FRAMED Theories have arisen over the possibility of a conspiracy concerning Vicious’ death. There are dark hints that there was more at hand than the tragic deaths of two heroin-addicts, and even murmurs that Vicious may not have killed Spungen at all.
VICIOUS by nature? However tormented and tortuous the relationship between Spungen and Vicious, it was painfully clear to all those around him that he needed her, perhaps more than anything or anyone else. Regardless of his state of intoxication, to kill her would seem completely out of character. In telephone conversations with Spungen’s mother after Nancy’s death, Vicious never made any comments about it at all. If he were as guilt-ridden over killing her as we would be led to believe, would WhileSid’smother wasreturningher he be able to son’sashesto England, JohnLydonclaims hide his pain that thatshe droppedtheurn inHeathrow, well? In all other scatteringthem acrossthe airport floor.A significantproportionof things,Vicious themweresucked intothe was not known as a ventilationsystem. paragon of restraint.
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SEX, drugs ROCK ‘n’ roll Although it would be romantic to think that all the rock stars who die young do so because the “Powers That Be” want them dead, there are times when death is simply a tragic end to a tragic story. Sid Vicious was a young man with questionable musical talent, who was simply in the right place at the right time looking the right way. When McLaren created the Sex Pistols he wanted stars he could manipulate and he got that with Vicious. Unlike general perceptions of John Lennon and Jim Morrison, the idea that Vicious could ever be a threat to American society is ludicrous. He was the “It Boy” of the punk generation, and nothing more. If his death was to be chalked down to anything, it should be heroin, and the equally dangerous drug of media exposure.
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K eeping in min d t he drug-haz ed st at e of V ic bef or e her dea ious and of S t h, it ’s ent ir ely p pungen r obable t hat someone ot h er t han V ic ious may hav e k illed Spungen. In his b ef uddled st at e of m not ev en hav e ind, he may been aw ar e of t he mur der . T perpet ra t or s, w he orr ied about t he t ru t h c oming o if V ic ious’ c ase w ut ent t o t ri al, ensu red his silenc e by mak ing sur e t hat V ic ious’ mo t her br ought a let hally c ut do se of her oin f o r her son.
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Some c onspir ac y t heor ists f eel t hat f or m V ic ious may ha er f ri ends and v e had him sup assoc iat es of plied w it h a hit T his w as meant of let hal “ hot ” he as an unusua r oin. l ac t of mer cy t f ac e t he liv ing o spar e him hav hell of a long pr ing t o ison sent enc e most not or ious ser ve d out in jail, a plac e he New Y or k ’s w ould not hav to sur vi v e. e been v ic ious enough
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f John Lennon by t he C IA and may be at tr i but F BI t o r emov e ed t o a mut ual any pop-c ult u desir e lead t he popula r e figur e t hat c t ion to r ev olt , ould possibly V ic ious might h r epr esent ed pun av e bee k anar ch n k illed bec ause y in all it s glo Amer ic an y out he r y . He had t he pot h a r ole model ent ial t o giv e t hat made t he of r espec ta bilit y oung E lv is loo y. Indeed, som k t he model e t heor ies sug hav e been a sim gest t hat V ic ious ple t rial r un of a c ould C IA or F BI r ub-o at te nt ion mov ed on t o t he m ut pr ogr amm e befor e or e diffic ult t a men died, c o sk of r emov ing L inc ident ally , in ennon. Bot h New Y or k.
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BRUCE LEE
BRUCE LEE
Thirty years after his death, Bruce Lee remains a
A MARTIAL ARTS MEGA-STAR, THE CONFUSION AROUND THE DEATH OF BRUCE LEE STILL REMAINS TODAY…
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ometimes death does not end the web of intrigue that has grown up around a celebrity during his life. In fact, sometimes death is only the start of
greater and stranger speculations. In late July 1973, when they laid to rest the body of Bruce Lee, dressed in the Chinese costume he wore in the movie Enter The Dragon , in Seattle’s Lakeview Cemetery, they did not succeed in burying the mystery surrounding his death. A much-loved but controversial figure who made many enemies, Lee was 32
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and at the height of his career when he suddenly died after falling into a coma. The subsequent coroner’s report was inconclusive and the numerous medical experts who looked at the case could only agree on one thing – that death had been brought about by a swelling of his brain. On the fateful day of his death, Lee met film producer Raymond Chow at his home in the early afternoon and spent a couple of hours working with him on the film The Game Of Death . The pair then went over to the home of Taiwanese actress Betty Tingpei, who was starring in the movie. Chow left for a meeting and Lee complained of having a headache. Tingpei gave him an Equagesic tablet – a form of powerful aspirin – and he took a nap. Chow rang Tingpei to invite her and Lee out for dinner, but the actress could not wake the sleeping star. By the time Lee arrived at the Queen Elizabeth hospital he was dead. Dr Lycette of the hospital
felt that the death was a result of Lee being hypersensitive to compounds in the Equagesic tablet, but other medical authorities disagreed and rumours of a conspiracy began to spread throughout Hong Kong and the rest of the martial arts world.
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Months before Lee was officially declared dead, rumours had been circulating around Hong Kong that the actor had died. These grew so strong that journalists on one of Hong Kong’s largest newspapers wouldn’t believe he was alive until they had actually spoken personally to Bruce Lee and subjected him to some rigorous questioning to ensure it was really him. This does tend to suggest that his eventual death may not have been as unexpected as the official version of events suggests, and for many it was just a matter of time.
In the Se tion mone y f rom Hong Kong Triads – of ten demanded protec have stood up to their based mo vie s tars. Lee was known to as a resul t o f this poisoned ve been ha y demands and ma by the Hong K ong public brave move – he was so adored ay. Could this have subtle w f in a o sed that he had to be dispo at standing up to the organisa tions also sen t a message to o thers th would not be tolera ted?
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s ar t ia l ar t m a s tt er S e cr e t m f a Lee was k illed on the ins truc tions o ar and plausible con jecture is tha
A popul man y were angered that he had taught too cabal of secret mar tial art mas ters who ms ha t Lee had already had many proble t is true t . I reigners o ts to f secre o f their na ture of the dim tial ar ts es tablishmen t. Gi ven the with the traditional Chinese mar ak is a dea th theory is not easily dismissed (dim m mak k no wn to these mas ters, this ble f or an au tops y impossi t and is tac by glancing con touch that can be administered
“THE MEDICAL AUTHORITIES PUT FORWARD NO LESS THAN FIVE DIFFERENT THEORIES TO EXPLAIN WHAT CAUSED THE SWELLING OF THE BRAIN”
to detec t).
Leefrequentlyreflectedon thepossibilityof anearly deathandat timesappearedto welcome theprospect.His wifeLindais quotedassayingthat Brucehadno wishtolivetoold ageashe foundthe prospectoflosing hisphysicalabilitiestoo horrifying tocontemplate.Deathas anescape fromfailing strengthmaynot havebeentheonlyreasonLee contemplateddyingyoung. It isknown thathe tooktheideaofthefirst-bornofhisfamily beingcursedby demonsseriously enoughtouse magicto tryand protecthisson.
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One thing that persuades many that there is a conspiracy behind Bruce Lee’s death is the confusion over the medical evidence surrounding his demise. The coroner’s report proved inconclusive and the medical authorities put forward no less than five different theories to explain what caused the swelling of the brain that led to his untimely death.
i n e se D em o n s ering f rom an An ci en t Ch d that Lee felt his family was suff
It is rumoure t-born son o f any ancien t curse tha t ensured tha t the firs y demons. The tradition o f this generation would be haunted b ruce was born t when B a curse in his f amil y was so strong th e to con fuse the demonic he was originally gi ven a girl’s nam tha t this theor y feels theorist po wers. More than one conspiracy case o f the dea th o f has been s trengthened b y the s trange fter a m ys terious handgun Brandon Lee, Bruce’s son, who died a vie block buster T he C ro w. acciden t during the filming of mo
NO smoke WITHOUT fire…
Suspicions have surrounded the death of Lee, could witchcraft have been involved?
Much of the speculation of the circumstances surrounding the conspiracy can be explained by the fact that when Raymond Chow announced Lee’s death on television he omitted the fact that he had not died at home but in the apartment of Betty Tingpei. The attempt to cover up this possibly embarrassing detail may have led many people to become convinced that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes, especially when there was an unsolved medical puzzle over the exact cause of the fatal swelling of the brain.
Br u c e L eer econspirac y theory proposes tha t Lee is s till alive
An even wild d death in an a t tempt to escape and tha t he staged his suppose or the evil in ten t of various from either the pressures o f f ame h ypo thesis also think tha t Lee this Triad gangs. Those that believe poin t in the fu ture. He cer tainly ma y return a t some unspecified is not spo t ted as much as Elvis.
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ALIEN ABDUCTIONS
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ne of the most prevalent conspiracy theories disturbing the sleep of millions of people today is that of alien abductions. All over the world, the lives of innocent men and women are apparently being disrupted by incidents of otherworldly kidnappings. Suddenly, they find themselves forcibly removed from their homes, transported to alien crafts or environments where they are horribly violated by creatures from beyond
image has become ingrained in pop culture.
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the stars. What makes find themselves experiencing a these incidents all the lucid dream created by aliens, more terrifying is the in which a normal dream complete helplessness disintegrates and is replaced Thecommonalityof experienceamong of the victims, who are by telepathic messages or abductionvictims,fromdescriptionsof completely at the mercy visual images. As in the theGreys toproceduresand implants, isdisquieting.The meteoricriseof of these inscrutable bio-extraction scenario, a reportsof abductions hintsthat aliens and their disturbing beam of whitish energy or agreatertruthisjustlurking medical procedures. light emanating from the ceiling beneaththesurface. Researchers into alien above them is sometimes seen by abductions have attempted to awakening victims. categorise the kidnappings, searching While abductions and kidnappings for common threads of experience among the have been reported throughout history, there various abductees. Among those categories are seems to be an increase in the frequency of late. It’s almost as if the perpetrators – aliens, the basic physical abduction, where abductees the Greys, or whoever is responsible for these talk of feeling tranquillized, then watching heinous crimes against humanity – are growing placidly as they are moved to an alien ship. They increasingly desperate. might be moved there by a smaller craft, by some form of tractor beam, or by some kind of inter-dimensional “gate”. Some abductees report being moved directly through Throughout the ages, abduction is one of the solid objects, such great themes of horror stories. Some even try as the walls of their to suggest links between abduction by fairies own house. and abduction by little grey men makes them Another popular one and the same. Maybe they are, but only in form of abduction the sense that our collective minds updated our is the bio-energy nightmares after watching Steven Spielberg’s extraction method: film Close Encounters Of The Third Kind . the abductees’ bio-energy, or consciousness, is removed from their bodies by an alien technology that Following abduction experiences, many victims usually takes the have found themselves implanted with small form of a white to metal devices, usually in the nasal cavities, but bluish-white beam often found in other areas of the body. When of light surrounding these implants are successfully removed by and penetrating their surgeons, their mysterious origins become bodies. The victim’s no less clear. The metal that is used to create consciousness is often many of these devices is unknown to today’s inserted into another science, and their purpose remains an unsettling body before being mystery. Are these implants tracking devices, or returned to its original something more? human form. There are also the telepathic lucid dream versions of abductions, The same phenomenon occurred at the end which, while not of the 19th Century. Although then, instead being as physical in of aliens abducting people, it was fairies. The nature as a corporeal phenomenon could be chalked up to people abduction, are no less watching films and TV shows that show alien damaging. In this kind abductions and having similar dreams. Or it of attack, abductees could be people just jumping on a bandwagon…
T h e G r e s y
T he Gr ey s ar e t he mo st c ommon ty pe of alien ex per ienc ed in t h e abduc t ion sc enario . Small c reat ures w it h melon-shaped heads and huge, blac k, slant ed ey es, they are at t he r oot of many alien c onspir ac y t heor ies. T he c ur rent t houghts on t heir inv olv ement in abduc ti ons are v aried, fr om an opt imist ic hope t hat t hey ar e our desc e ndant s c oming bac k in t ime to sav e t he Ear th f rom dest ru c tion, to a dar ke r suspic ion t hat they are ex t ra c ti ng sperm and ov a f ro m humans t o sav Under this hy pot h e t heir ow n rac e. esis t he Grey s are a r ac e of c lones that r eproduc e sex ually has lost t he abilit y t ; t he Grey s hope t o o c re at e a hy brid bet humans in or der t w e en t hemselves and o sur vi v e.
FICTION?
T h e U S G o v e rn m e n t
T he Ma jestic 12 – also k now n as MJ-12 – is a pow er fu the US gov er nment l shadow gr oup t hat may be w or k w it hin ing w it h t he Grey s continue t heir ex p , allow ing t hem t o eriment s in ex ch ange for t ec hnolo allegedly helped gy . T his deal has giv e r ise to w eapo ns suc h as t he B-2 and t he F-117 st e stealth bomber alt h fighter . Many abduc tees rec all see per sonnel and inst ing milit ar y allat ions, of te n w it hout seeing quest ion of w hether aliens. ( Th is poses t he t his ar r angement is mer ely a mat ter of c on junc ti on w it h w or k ing in the Gr ey s, or w het her t he US gov er n agenda – per haps ment has it s ow n mind c ont ro l?) Using mast er t his group disc re ful disinf ormat ion dit s and r idicules an tac ti c s, y resear ch into UFOs any t hing else that and indeed, may shed light on the myst erious Grey ensur ing c ontinued s , ther eby abduc tion w or k, conti nued miser y f or t h and c ontinued tec ousands, hnologic al pay off s for t he US gov er nment.
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T he Gr ey s may be eit her fut ur e desc endant s of dolp hins or genet ic ex tr apolat ions of dolphins t hat t rav el bac k to our t ime f or t heir ow n nef arious pur poses . T he similarit ies bet we en Gr ey s and dolphins, in sk in t ex tur e, c olour and t heir ability to emanate an ultr asonic blast t o st un enemies ( Gr ey s use t he “ St are” t o subdue abduc te es, f or ex ample), bear c onsider ation.
PARANOIA
The Greys are the most common type of abductors of unwilling humans.
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Many abductees report being taken to an alien craft by some form of tractor beam.
“MANY VICTIMS HAVE FOUND THEMSELVES IMPLANTED WITH SMALL METAL DEVICES, USUALLY IN THE NASAL CAVITIES”
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RENDELSHAM LANDING
THE RENDLESHAM LANDING THE RENDLESHAM FOREST INCIDENT IS ALSO KNOWN AS “ENGLAND’S ROSWELL”
AERONAUT entities
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here are meanspirited cynics who will tell you that conspiracy theorists live only for the moment when they can rub their hands together and say, “I told you so.” But in the annals of alien conspiracies, there is only one case where the conspiracy research can leap up like an overactive dog and shout, “I told you so, it is official – there was a conspiracy!” That case is Rendlesham. On 27 December, 1980, an Unidentified Flying Object landed in a clearing in Rendlesham Forest next to the joint USAF air bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge near Ipswich, England. Deputy Base Commander Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and several of his men witnessed the landing. It was tracked by British military Rendlesham Forest. Given that the twin airbases radar and left behind physical evidence. Twelve leased to the USAF on the perimeter of the years later, a British Parliamentary Watchdog forest housed a vast stockpile of weapons, ruled that the UK government had attempted alarm intensified when the object suddenly to cover up all of the above facts. In 2002, disappeared before reappearing without warning Parliamentary Ombudsman Ann Abraham ruled on the radar of the Bentwaters base. While that the UK Ministry of Defence had further radar confirmations of the refused to divulge full details of the strange craft were coming in from Rendlesham witness accounts other tracking stations, three and conspired to prevent military policemen saw light knowledge of the event ever in the trees outside the back becoming known. gate of the airfield and set The incident is off, fearing a crash. In his GeorginaBruniwrotea classicbook regarded as one of the report of that night Lt Col onthecase.Ata socia leventin1997, most important ever UFO Halt wrote, “They reported sheasked formerBritishPrimeMinister sightings and has become seeing a strange glowing MargaretThatcheraboutthe landing. Thatcherwas annoyedatbeing known as the “English object in the forest. Metallic questioned andrailedat Bruni, Roswell”. Possibly, it is just in appearance and triangular “Youcan’ttell thepeople.” coincidence that both cases in shape approximately two involve the US military and to three metres across the base happened close to highly sensitive and two metres high. It illuminated military bases with links to top-secret the entire forest with a white light. The arms of American nuclear defence structure. object itself has a pulsating red light on top and Alongside being the only alien conspiracy where a bank of blue lights underneath. The object a government attempt to cover up the facts has was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen been proven and exposed, no other case has as approached it manoeuvred through the trees and many staggering eyewitness accounts by highly disappeared. At this time animals on a nearby credible military professionals. farm went into a frenzy.” Shortly after midnight on Boxing Day, radar The next night Lt Col Halt joined a patrol screens at RAF Watton in Norfolk showed that found three depressions on the forest floor the sudden appearance of an object near where the object had been sighted. Radiation
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As more and more of the US military witnesses to the landing on the second night were identified, one USAF security patrolman, Larry Warren, even went public with an account claiming that he saw three “aeronaut entities” communicating with senior officers. The next morning, he and colleagues were checked for radiation exposure and instructed to sign statements, which merely mentioned seeing “unusual lights”. The statements were arranged by members of the National Security Agency and warned them not to discuss what they had seen.
MEN in black
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readings of ten times the normal level were discovered and as they were investigating the craft returned. Several years after the incident, Halt released an 18-minute audiocassette made on the night of the encounter. It makes chilling listening, especially the moment when another officer on the patrol sees the craft and shouts, “Look at the colours! Shit!” The tape also records the panic-stricken men as they see a beam from the craft disabling electrical devices in the area for a time and other military personnel in the area recording the event with both still and video cameras. Given the impeccable witnesses and multiple types of physical evidence, you might think the public would at last be told that things that were unidentifiable and flew really did exist. However, in the years that followed, both the American and British military did everything in their power to cover up the Rendlesham Forest incident. It even seemed as if other shadowy elements were also involved in a conspiracy to enforce silence – discrediting, scaring and threatening anyone witnessing the case, or who had knowledge of it. In 1983 conspiracy researchers got their first major break when a copy of a memo written by Lt Col Halt to the British Ministry of Defence was released under the Freedom of Information Act. With the first part of the puzzle out in the open, the battle to reveal the truth really began.
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Despite the fact that it was tracked by radar, left impressions in the ground and massive radiation readings, the military and others later tried to claim that the event was purely down to the revolving beam of the Orford Ness lighthouse, five miles away. The depressions in the earth were merely rabbit diggings and the radiation was of natural levels. Many witnesses were sacked, defamed, harassed, stalked and threatened by the authorities as well as military intelligence agents and shadowy “men in black” – all of which is a bit over the top if the soldiers and civilians had just mistaken a lighthouse!
GOING nuclear Hands up all those who are surprised that the UK government and the US military conspired to keep quiet about something strange landing close to an air force base housing enough nuclear to turn all of Europe into a radioactive wasteland?
s s p e c t T h e m ai n su T h e NSA
The US National Securit y Agenc y had a strong presence at the bases and pla yed a k ey role in attempting to k eep the landing secret. The NSA have an alleged contact and humans-f oradvanced-technolog y exchange programme with the Gre ys and Rendlesham was purel y a routine business meeting that was accidentall y witnessed b y Lt Col Halt and his men.
i o x je o c t Ph en Pr programme run b y America’s Def ence Advanced
An ultra-secret ma y be Research Pro jects Agenc y. One element of Pro ject Phoenix meant dealing with advanced microwave, laser and hologram weapons the demoralize e and to baffl to create totally convincing illusions dulity enem y. Rendlesham may have been an experiment to test the cre t elite of crack troops as well as assessing the impact on morale amongs weapons. these warriors of
“RADAR AT RAF WATTON IN NORFOLK SHOWED THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF AN OBJECT NEAR RENDLESHAM FOREST”
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In mediev al t imes , in an ar ea c lose t o Rendlesham, t w o my st er ious gr e ensk inned c hildr en w er e found, c ausin g some t o spec ulat e t hat t his part o f Suff olk is home t o a gat ew ay t o a par allel E ar t h. T he v isit or s t o Ren dlesham may not hav e been ex tr a-t er rest ri al v isit or s but inste ad, ex tr a-dimensiona l. Either t hey took a w ro ng t ur ning or w er e on a sc out ing mission t o our Ear th .
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This is not the first incident to have been linked with US nuclear bombers.
ey humanoid alien s f ro m Z eta Ret ic u la w ere sc out ing t US bases as elem he ent s of t he Ame r ic an militar y ar allianc e w it h repti e in a sec re t lian aliens f ro m t h e Sirius sy st em. T got int o t ro uble and they h eir c ra ft w er e f or ce d t o behind enemy line land t o mak e r e pair s s. How ev er , luc k i ly f or t he Z et a Reti t he soldier s at R c ulans, endlesham did n ot k now they w e t her ef or e let spac r e at w ar and e r ept ile’s sw or n enemies slip aw a y .
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UFOS OVER IRAQ
UFOS OVER IRAQ
It seems plausible that weapons of mass destruction were a true intent.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WERE ONLY A COVER STORY TO HIDE THE REAL TRUTH
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n 16 December 1998, tracer fire lit up the skies of Baghdad. The ongoing “tepid war” against Saddam Hussein, which had continued since the first Gulf War had failed to remove him from power in 1991, had erupted into one of its periodic phases. The Allied air strike on Iraq’s capital city was part of Operation Desert Fox and, just like the first Gulf War, it was being shown live to millions of TV viewers around the world, thanks to CNN. However, that night CNN managed to capture more than the breaking news regarding Desert Fox, they also filmed a UFO hovering above Baghdad. Their footage even showed it moving away to avoid being hit by a stream of antiaircraft fire. At the time celebrated among the UFO community as a new piece of strong evidence to prove the existence of UFOs, the incident has taken on a much wider significance among certain conspiracy theorists. More and more have come to believe that there is a solid connection between UFOs seen over Iraq and America’s
decision to launch an invasion of Iraq in 2003. These intriguing tales took an unexpected The constant patrolling and bombing of Iraqi twist when Russian intelligence sources installations by the UK and US airforces in the suggested that a UFO had crashed in Iraq and northern Iraq “No-Fly Zone” produced a wealth that Saddam was now engaged in a programme of UFO sightings by fighter pilots and a to try and reverse engineer alien technology. vast number of unexplained radar At first dismissed as entirely fanciful, contacts, with craft moving a number of intriguing stories much faster than any relating to this claim started known terrestrial fight to surface. Among them craft. It has even been were reports that Saddam reported that Allied had given sanctuary to Forces engaged in the craft’s occupants, ZechariaSitchin ,oneof thefewpeople in the combat with a UFO housing them at his worldwho is ableto translateancientSumerian cuneiform, believesthatancienttexts tellhow in the first Gulf most secure palace thecivilisationof Sumeria(basedin thearea occupied War thinking it was – the citadel of Qalaatbymodern-dayIraq) wasaided byan advanced an Iraqi fighter jet. e-Julundi. After the raceof beings.Calledthe Anunnaki(Sumerian for“thosewho camefromHeaven toEarth”), Reports also emerged revolution that brought theirexistencewould meanthatSaddam that US aircraft had Saddam to power, the old Husseinis notthefirstrulerin that brought down a craft Royal Family stronghold of areato havebeenhelpedby extraterrestrials. of unknown origin Qalaat-e-Julundi became a in Saudi Arabia in 1998. palace for the new dictator. A Residents in the area of the vast underground bunker network crash site – officially claimed to was built under the existing building, be that of a jet fighter – were ordered to leave already considered the most impenetrable place the area while American military engineers in Iraq as it stands on a hill surrounded by recovered all the wreckage for further study. vertical precipices on three sides, plunging down However, residents claim that before they were to the Little Zab River. Soon after Saddam was forced to leave, they were able to establish that alleged to have installed his guests there, people the craft was round and that it did not have an living in the Little Zab River Valley began to engine or any visible wings. They also reported report seeing strange lights in the sky, “dancing that even large bits of the wreckage were as light ghosts” seen only at night and a number of as a feather. unexplained deaths. Some of those struggling to believe in any of the official reasons put forward for the second Gulf War believe that the weapons of mass destruction argument was purely a cover story created to give a pretext to an invasion of Iraq. They consider that the real reason for vast military campaign was to prevent Saddam reverse-engineering the crashed alien spacecraft and developing a technological advantage over the US military just as the Americans had done over the Soviets with the Roswell crash in 1947.
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d the co ver-up and subsequen t The group though t to be behin h at Ros well are alleged reverse engineering of the UFO cras s o f S ta ff. The y ma y also to secre tl y con trol the Join t Chief y amil through George Bush have close link s wi th the Bush f irec tor o f the CIA. Having Snr, going back to when he was d an supremac y since 1947, the used the k nowledge to ensure Americ forced to create m was unacceptable and the y were by Sadda prospec t o f being usurped ft for themselves. so the y could seize the crashed cra a pre tex t f or an invasion of Iraq
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UFO protection
It has been reported that some pilots from the USAF engaged in more battles with lights than Iraqi fighters.
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After US forces rolled into Baghdad, a GI with the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division – who was fighting in the Little Zab Valley – photographed an oblong-shaped UFO. Locals who saw the UFO close to the holy city of Najaf believed that it, “had come from Allah’s Gardens of Bliss to protect the Tomb of Ali”. The mosque at Najaf stands over the grave of Ali, sonin-law of the prophet Mohammed. During the
an ali en sDraco system are o f ten accused of ha ving entered in to a R e p t i li eings f rom the
Rep tilian b t war with the rld’s ruling elite. Rumoured to be a secre t alliance wi th parts o f the wo America’smilitar y s ma y ha ve instructed their allies in of t-sighted Gre ys, the Draconian am. This was b y Sadd shelter y aliens being gi ven and go vernmen t to reco ver the Gre b y a dramatic show o f han ha ving to re veal themselves done under co ver o f war, rather t Draconian po wer in Iraq.
war it miraculously escaped damage from the 101st Airborne’s howitzer barrage and heavy Allied bombing raids on the area around Little Zab River Valley focused on the citadel of Qalaat-e-Julundi.
MILITARY action Bush’s claims that there was, “No doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised and that it threatens all mankind” were dubious, even before the post-war $500 million search of Iraq failed to find them. Though almost all of the Bush administration claims about Iraq weapons were disproved by UN inspectors, America still went to war, which suggests there must have been an ulterior motive for the military action.
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jo yed good The French and Iraqi regimes en rela tions and Saddam ma y ha ve been aris to share nego tia ting wi th his friends in P ld UFO technolog y with them if they cou po wer pre vent him from being remo ved from French wed the ve allo b y Bush. This would ha r global po wer. llenge fo ean cha a Europ to lead r Iraq and US Secre tar y French pro vided solid support fo Righ t up un til the momen t of war the f or its ac tions. asked if France would be punished , when yes” d “ answere well Po Colin o f S ta te
Stories of extra terrestrial visitors to the area date back as far as the Ancient Sumerian inhabitants.
Expanding the power of America to ensure it controls the 21st Century. The backfiring of Saddam’s bluff that he had lethal weapons. A war fought on behalf of American oil companies. George Bush Jr trying to prove to his father that he could do the job better than he could. Whatever the real explanation for the second Gulf War, surely crashed UFOs has got to be the least likely?
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MEN IN BLACK
MEN IN BLACK (MIB) HOW A CLEVER MEDIA COVER-UP IS HIDING A MUCH MORE SINISTER TRUTH
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f you’ve seen a UFO and report it the police, you can expect many things: ridicule, questions concerning your alcohol consumption, odd looks from friends, and perhaps a call from the local newspaper looking for a bit of light news for the next day’s edition. But even worse than the preceding events, you may receive a visit from the dreaded Men In Black. The Men In Black have long been associated with UFO sightings and phenomena. They are reported to appear at the homes of some UFO witnesses shortly after they’ve reported their sighting to the police or media, threatening them to keep quiet. Any materials found relating to a UFO sighting are promptly confiscated. In some cases, they have even knocked on the doors of witnesses Thevintageautomobilesof theMIBs before they’ve told anyone areoften illuminatedfrom withinby else of what they have otherworldlygreenishglows, andtheir seen, seemingly knowing clothinghasa “shiny”alientextureto itthat doesn’tcorrespondtoany everything that has happened
With the Men In Black covering up alien activity, we might never
If they were truly aliens, with the technology capable of enabling themselves to travel between the stars and capable of wiping out the memories of abductees, then why would they waste their time sending bizarre-looking goons in bad suits to knock on doors? Surely a good death ray would do the trick, plus it would save on all that petrol money…
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Black. Part of an programme?
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The power of the Men In Black cannot be discounted. They have been responsible for the cancellation of Space Review, a magazine dedicated to studying flying saucers, and have even gone as far as gassing an eyewitness during a terrifying interrogation. It is possible that incontrovertible proof of alien existence does exist, whether it is photos, videos or actual aliens, but has been suppressed by the ruthless efficiency of the MIBs. Research has discovered that the lineage of the Men In Black may go back as far as the Elizabethan age.
A flawed theory?
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uiet, aliens In an eff ort to k eep their activities on Earth q n y media would employ the Men In Black to suppress a es e yewitness intimidating by es their activiti attention to wa y of of UFOs into fearf ul silence. From their inhuman could the MIBs speaking, y of moving and mechanical wa the be androids, programmed b y the aliens involved in think sighting the y are sent to suppress. Some people re ys or another race, the , possibly G themselves are aliens ck Men In Bla that the explain their remark able strangeness Horlocks, (a reptilian race without souls). This would around other human beings.
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government would utilise the MIBs and Work ing in con junction with the aliens, the US UFOs. The Men In Black would be actors their attendant oddities to suppress reports of theref ore adding to the alread y confused instructed to be as odd and bizarre as possible, be untraceable agents, not link ed to and emotional state of e yewitnesses. The MIB would allowing the “Powers That Be” to k eep their an y k nown governmental institution, therefore ts. hands clean of an y violation of human righ
“ THE MEN IN BLACK COULD BE ANDROIDS, PROGRAMMED B Y THE ALIENS”
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before the witnesses had a chance to sort it all out in their heads themselves. The Men In Black deliver their message in a variety of ways, from direct threats to roundabout hints, but their message always carries the same dark undertone: “Keep your mouth shut, or you’ll regret it . . .” The Men In Black are so called because of their sartorial colour of choice – black. Black suits, black hats and black sunglasses . . . this intimidating colour scheme extends to their cars – vintage models of Buicks, Cadillacs or Lincolns. They have been described as having complexions ranging from olive to grey to dark, with slightly slanted eyes, speaking in an almost computer-like monotone. Their age is difficult to determine, since all of them seem to be verging towards middle-aged. They move in a robot-like
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IMMENSE power
ed The symbol of the Eye of Horus has been link planet with secret societies in allegiance with the some n on has been see ol Sirius. This same symb y MIBs, and some Men In Black have said the
manner, and are perhaps best summed up in one word: “odd”. Despite their numerous appearances and incredible powers of intimidation, finding conclusive proof of the existence of the Men In Black is as slippery a task as acquiring compelling evidence of the existence of the very UFOs they seek to protect.
work f or an organisation called “ The Nation of The Third E ye”. The role the y pla y in the plans of the denizens of Sirius is unclear.
OUT of this world The Men In Black definitely seem to be not of this world. Examples of this can be found in reports of MIBs disintegrating coins in their hands and inexplicably trying to sing to birds in trees. In one incident, a MIB sat down on a chair, which caused his trouser leg to rise up. There, apparently grafted to his leg, was a large green wire. In other cases, MIBs are seen crossing muddy fields, yet arrive without a single spot of mud on them. In the most vicious cold weather, they will show up wearing nothing but a thin coat, oblivious to the deadly chill.
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The ancient Egyptian symbol the Eye of Horus has been seen worn by the MIB.
The perfect way to cover up the f act that Men In Black exist surely is to use Hollywood misdirection and mak e the world think of them as a fictional stor y. The films make light of the role of MIBs, but is this a case of fact being up portrayed as fiction, possibl y a plan thought y? b y the aliens who reall y run the movie industr
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SPACE SABOTAGE
SPACE SABOTAGE
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COULD IT BE THAT MAN’S MISSIONS TO SPACE ARE DOOMED BEFORE THEY EVEN LAUNCH?
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ravelling Wi t h the odds stac ked to the against us, i t c ou ld be arg ued tha t the stars has a t tem p ts to e x p lore space are in v ain. always been a daunting task, but is it being made more difficult than it need be? Is someone – or something – doing its best to keep mankind on Earth, by sabotaging space flight after space flight? The problem has become so widespread that NASA has jokingly referred to this enigmatic and often deadly force as the “Great Galactic Ghoul”. But is it the subject for levity, or something far more terrifying? The high incidence rate of spaceflight accidents, disappearances and technological foulups would have crippled any other endeavour that didn’t have the benefit of government funding. From simple faults such as wires burning out in satellite systems to the tragedy of the Challenger explosion, the Great Galactic Ghoul shows no national preference – both Russian and American space programmes have been plagued by its disruptive hand. Some examples include the fiasco surrounding the Hubble telescope. Once in space, the muchvaunted telescope was found to be far from perfect, therefore making its pictures far more blurred than expected. An expensive repair mission was needed, but the Hubble pictures are still being discounted as more a triumph of InJuly1998,theGalileospacecraftwas selective filters, designed Shuttle. The list goes on and passingEuropa,one ofJupiter’smoons, whenit suddenlystoppedtransmitting to hide the telescope’s on, and is either a testament information.It haslong been imperfections, than the to staggering incompetence speculated thatEuropa,along groundbreaking shots the or evidence of an ongoing act withMars,maybe ableto sustainlife. project’s supporters claim of sabotage, perhaps even on a them to be. galactic scale. Another example was the Mars Explorer mission of 1993, which was launched to take closer pictures of the mysterious Cydonia Region of Mars. Just as the craft was entering Martian orbit, it suddenly stopped functioning. Other failures include: the Soviet Korabl 11 (blew up), Sputnik 24 (blew Missions to Mars fare the worst when it up), NASA’s Mariner 3 (missed Mars), Mariner comes to sabotage. One of the most disturbing 8 (fell into Atlantic), the Apollo 13 mission, and was the fate of the Russian Phobos probes. the fiery deaths of the astronauts in the Space Launched in 1988, the Russians sent the two
MYSTERY Debris Before the launch of the Mars Observer on 25 September 1992, NASA technicians examined its outer housing for a routine check. Inside, they were shocked to find the probe filled with garbage. This garbage included metal filings, dirt, paper, fibres and plaster of Paris. Even though Hurricane Andrew had blown through the area, it was impossible for debris of this kind to have entered the probe driven by the force of the storm alone… Maybe it is not so surprising that of the 35 attempts to reach the planet, only 12 have succeeded. Of these, nine were attempts to land on the surface, but only three survived. The rest crashed or exploded in orbit. Even the successful ones had problems. Sojourner, which was launched in 1997, could only manage to move a few dozen metres from its landing zone.
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government The financial windfall associated with landing a lucrative The best wa y contract would prove irresistible to man y businessmen. to discredit to succeed in the cut-throat tendering process would be fellow competitors, using whatever means available, including ment sabotage. The power of the dollar, especially one f rom a govern yes source, would easil y overcome the sanctity of human lives in the e of many.
Or w a s i t…
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For r easons of t heir ow n, it w ould be in t he best inter est s of th e Grey s t o k eep Eart h isolat ed f rom t he rest of t he Univ er se. If t he Grey s ar e r ebell ious slav es esc aping fr om their mast er s and usin g human genetic mat er ial t o reproduc e and sav e t hemselv e s f ro m t he degradat ion of t heir c loned bod ies, i t simply w ould not do t o hav e mank ind d raw ing t he at tent ion of oth er alien r ac es, par tic ularly t hose master s. And on t op of t hat , if w e somehow manag of ex tr a t err est rial ed t o gat her ev lif e w hile ex plor idenc e ing spac e, t heir sec agr eement s w it h re t abduc ti ons and Ear th ’s polit ic al pow er s c ould be in je opar dy …
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As horrible as it sounds, especially with human lives being lost in some accidents, it is possible that a secret contingent within NASA could be sabotaging that do not missions in order to satisfy elements in the US government urrounding want the space programme to discover the alien presence s the Russian Earth. Corresponding dissidents would, of course, exist in space programme.
How was the doomed Mars Observer suddenly filled with trash, dirt and de bris?
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probes to investigate Phobos, the smaller of Mars’ two moons. The Russians were interested in the irregular orbital patterns, which led many to believe Phobos was either an artificial construction or perhaps hollow. The first probe was somehow lost on the journey from Earth. Phobos 2 made it to Mars and on its way to the small moon took photographs of a cylindricalshaped shadow on the surface of Phobos. Shortly after that, the probe was destroyed. Its final picture, beamed back to Russia, has been declared too sensitive to be released to the public. On the night that final picture was sent, orthodox Russian priests were asked to go to the Phobos 2 Control Centre in Moscow to discuss the pictures.
T he sur pr ising num ber of inc ident s inv olv ing Mar s pure c oinc idenc missions goes bey e. T he Monuments ond on Mars indic at e may st ill be – life that t her e w as – on Mar s, lif e that or may w ish t o be w ill mak e it s pr e lef t alone or t hat senc e k now n in it s ow n good time. T he disappear anc es br eak dow ns, and er rat ic behav iour of c ra f t ar o lead some NASA und t he Red Plan employ ees t o jok et has e about a Gr eat Gala bet we en t he ast c ti c Ghoul liv ing er oid belt and Mar in s. Per haps this G than a disgr unt led M houl is not hing m ar ti an. or e
“BRE AK DOW NS, DI SA AND E RRAT IC BE H P PE A RANCE S AV IOUR AROUND T HE RE D P LANE T H AS E MP LOY EE S T O JO LE AD NASA K E ABOUT A GRE AT GALACT IC GHOUL”
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EXTRATERRESTRIALS
REVERSE ENGINEERING
REVERSE ENGINEERING SALVAGED TECHNOLOGY FROM A DOWNED UFO COULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL LEAPS
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ave you ever felt that the world was moving just a little too fast? Have you ever wondered at the amazing technological leaps mankind seems to have made in such a relatively short amount of time? Have you ever felt a pang of uneasiness when you consider that humanity went from barely being able to fly a crude aeroplane to walking on the Moon in under 70 years? The unprecedented way humanity’s level of technology has increased in the 20th Century is simply baffling and may be a sign of one of the
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most pervasive conspiracies of all time. While the scientific community pats itself on the back and ascribes such progress to the diligence and ingenuity of its members, a look at the “innovations” of the last few decades seem to owe more to “intervention” than ingenuity. In fact, many conspiracy theorists feel that the true guiding force behind the current technological juggernaut is not elbow grease and endless nights burning the midnight oil, but alien assistance. For reasons that are unknown to the general public, governments worldwide are reverse-engineering alien technology – that is, taking apart alien artefacts to discover what makes them work, then applying that knowledge to their own ends. This knowledge is putting us light years ahead of where we should be technologically and, perhaps, even culturally. Like children playing with fire, we are not mature enough to handle it, and are in serious danger of getting burnt.
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Most of the major leaps in technology occur after 1947 – from more powerful computers to the Apollo lunar missions. It was in 1947, coincidentally enough, that the US government allegedly salvaged a crashed UFO from Roswell, New Mexico.
ALIEN science Perhaps the most incriminating bit of technology, that ushered in the current wave of progress, was the transistor. This has been rumoured to be a direct result of reverse-engineering work on the crashed alien craft at Roswell and technology has progressed in leaps and bounds ever since. Other more sinister applications of this alien science could be the US military’s weaponry, including the B-2 stealth bomber.
en t ov er n m US g theorise T h e ng been d tha t a UFO (or UFOs ) crashed
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Bob Lazar claims to have worked on extraterrestrial technology near Area 51.
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In e xchange ts – agreeing to nt – and possibly other go vernmen one theor y has the US go vernme xplain wh y incidents for alien technolog y. This would e look the o ther way in e xchange thorities nment au y gover e b trea ted wi th ridicul o f abduction and UFO sigh tings are o f humanit y f or wha t is trul y going on – the sale as the y tr y to diver t a tten tion from
“FOR REASONS THAT ARE UNKNOWN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC, GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE REVERSE-ENGINEERING ALIEN TECHNOLOGY”
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Curiouscitizenswho havereported seeingstrangelightsthat resembleUFOs aroundArea51 havehadto contend witharmedforces harassingthem and confiscatingcamerasand video equipment.Some haveeven beenchasedby black helicopters.
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Is the US government using alien technology to develop weapons of war?
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Did the Roswell incident of 1947 leave us with alien technology to reverse engineer?
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It has lo Me xico in 1947, and tha t near Roswell and Corona in New o ff wi th the remains. the US go vernmen t quick ly made USSR, the US was Caugh t in the Cold War with the and so began the tage, despera te for an y military advan ring the alien technolog y slow process o f reverse-enginee Much o f this cers. found aboard the crashed fl ying sau occur at the inf amous re verse engineering is though t to te in New Me xico. Area 51, a secret mili tar y tes ting si
One problem with the reverse-engineering theory is that it assumes humans are brilliant. If we went back in time and handed a caveman a Pentium laptop, a remote-control garage-opener, and a Thigh Master, the reverse-engineering theory would have us believe that he’d be founding his own tech company in ten years. Sadly, he’d probably grunt at the items and then drop them on to someone’s head. Well, maybe he’d keep the Thigh Master.
Time tra vellers could be bringing technolog y in the hope that leaving their fu turis tic gadge tr y wi th us could change circums tances in their time, altering it to their ad vantage. O ther theories s tate tha t the US governmen t has e xperimen ted with shor t-range time tra vel, and is bringing back technolog y f rom la y our o wn f u ture. Similar theories the blame on dimensional tra vel, om f r coming with ad vanced tech more ad vanced versions of our
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In prepa evidenced in hnolog y to def end themselves, as pro vided world po wers with the tec – cell phones, seen b y the e veryda y populace the S tar Wars sa tellites. The ad vances by re verse erel y lucra tive spin-off s genera ted micro waves, home computers – are m t con tractors tha t and are a bonus f or the go vernmen engineering o f this technolog y undertake secre t def ence work .
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MURDERED OR MISSING
Did Am el ia t t o Ear h art wan i p pear? d sa
MURDERED OR MISSING 050 JFK THE ULTIMATE CONSPIRACY
062 JIMMY hoffa WHERE IS JIMMY HOFFA?
052 LEE harvey oswald ASSASSIN OR FALL GUY?
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054 ROBERT kennedy THE CURSE OF THE KENNEDYS
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056 DOROTHY kilgallen WAS SHE TOO CLOSE TO THE TRUTH? 058 LORD lucan WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENGLISH LORD? 060
MARTIN luther king
Wh o r eall y k il led y? t K en n ed R ob er
HAD HE BECOME TOO POWERFUL?
MALCOLM x SO MUCH FOR FREE SPEECH…
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CHANDRA levy A POLITICAL COVER-UP?
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SHARON tate
Wh o wa s on t h e Gr a s sy K n ol l ?
MURDERED BY THE MASONS?
AMELIA earhart TRAGIC END OR ESCAPE PLAN?
“THE SHOOTING OF ROBERT F KENNEDY IS A CASE THAT DEFINITELY DESERVES TO BE LOOKED AT AGAIN” c e Di d t h e Mo b sil en f f a? Ji m m y Ho
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THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK
THE ASSASSINATION OF JFK THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENT RAISED QUESTIONS THAT WE MIGHT NEVER GET ANSWERS TO…
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ovember 22, 1963, is a day not easily forgotten. Even now, countless millions of people can recall what they were doing on the day President
s T h e m ai n su sp e c t T h e CIA was about to disband the CIA due to its The Kennedy assassination could be the biggest cover up in history.
John F Kennedy was shot. It was a bright, clear and almost summer-like day in Dallas. The sky above the Texas School Book Depository was free from clouds. There could be no better day for a parade to welcome the President and yet, within seconds, several bullets had struck the presidential limousine at Dealey Plaza, and history was changed forever. Despite the suppression of vast amounts of evidence and the best attempts of the Warren Commission – in the aftermath of the assassination – to promote the idea that JFK was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone, 73 per cent of Americans believe that their President was the victim of a conspiracy. It’s a view that is backed up by the report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the House of Representatives, which stated: “The Committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F Kennedy was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.” PresidentKennedy’sbrain went A close look at the missingundermysteriouscircumstances assassination of JFK anumberofyearsago.Thisis highly produces convincing Connally, one of the other suspiciousandalso veryconvenient, asmodern scientifictests cannot evidence that Oswald passengers in the car. The angles nowbecarriedout toestablish was not acting alone and trajectories of the wounds make thetrajectoryof the and that a cover-up at a single gunman fairly unfeasible. Lee fatalbullets. the highest levels is still in Harvey Oswald, who was arrested for operation. It becomes more the murder, was himself assassinated before a question of who was behind he could be brought to trial. the conspiracy than whether it was actually a conspiracy at all.
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LONE gunman? Despite the official government opinion that the President was killed by a single shot, there were seven wounds found on JFK and on Governor
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SINGLE bullet
One thing that swings it in the favour of the conspiracy theories is the impossibility of the “single bullet theory” accepted by the Warren Commission. It claimed that the one shot Oswald took from a sixth-floor window entered
Kennedy , corruption, its inabilit y to oust Castro f rom Cuba y of Pigs and its general hostility to him since the Ba CIA debacle. It is alleged that, in self-def ence, the y and plotted with the Mafia and FBI to kill K enned iller. f rame a f ormer double-agent, Oswald, as the k
i s/K GB m m u n st Cu ba n Co nned y’s victor y and his K GB allies were still smarting f rom K e
Fidel Castro murder. Their in the Cuban Missile Crisis. As revenge the y plotted his CIA and FBI who had to cover involvement in his death was discovered b y the have led to a World War III. it up to prevent a public outrage that could
Mafia Attorney-General brother, Robert K enned y, were close to winning JFK and his black mail K enned y over their crusade against organised crime. Attempts to to have him rubbed out. It is his adultery had failed, so the Mafia decided embers; just why did smallknown that Oswald had connections to Mafia m ot Oswald? time Dallas mobster Jack Rub y so conveniently sho
x d u s t ri al Co m ple ar y In Mi l i t Militar y s to pull out of Vietnam. This obviously angered the K enned y had plan re connections in the shadow y Industrial Complex, which thrives on war. We duct a coup and place Vice worlds of the Secret Service and Mafia used to con just four days af ter JFK ’s President Johnson in the White House? Interestingly, , completel y ignoring s to Vietnam more troop ent assassination, Johnson s JFK ’s recommendations.
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A hugely popular President, the landscape of America could have been very different if Kennedy had served for longer.
Kennedy’s back, yet rose and flew out of his neck, altering its trajectory to cause the seven wounds found in Kennedy and Governor Connally, in the seat ahead of the President’s.
ROOM for all The legendary grassy knoll from where the second gunman was supposed to have shot Kennedy would have been so busy that surely someone would have spotted the 30 or so gunmen that would have to have been there to account for all the proposed conspiracy theories. However, this could be a case of no smoke without fire…
y al Par t ian L ib er T h e Can as,d evidence has emerged link ing prominent Mafia captain
President Kennedy on that fateful day in before his death.
“IT BECOMES MORE A QUESTION OF WHO WAS BEHIND THE CONSPIRACY THAN WHETHER IT WAS ACTUALLY A CONSPIRACY AT ALL”
Over recent year Part y of Canada. Rivard is Lucien Rivard to both Jack Rub y and the Liberal When the Mafia man was also link ed to Oswald’s recorded time in Montreal. of the Canadian Justice cers offi US, o the jailed in 1964 to await extradition t l Party, offered bribes to the Department, and members of the ruling Libera the lack of motive, spite American law yers to tr y and secure his release. De that the true answer to this has been enough f or some people to suggest Canada. the conspirac y to assassinate JFK will be found in
y en n ed Ja ck i e K and most discredited conspirac y theory
The wildest enned y, surrounding the assassination is that Jackie K arranged sick ened b y her husband’s continuous adultery, public f or the Mafia to wipe him out and spare her the humiliation of a divorce.
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MURDERED OR MISSING
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
LEE HARVEY OSWALD
DID THE TRUTH BEHIND JOHN F KENNEDY’S MURDER DIE ALONG WITH HIS ASSASSIN?
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he history books tell us that on 22 November 1963, in Dallas, Texas, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed John F Kennedy from a window in the Texas School Book Depository. The history books go on to recount that roughly 45 minutes later, Oswald then shot and killed Officer JD Tippit of the Dallas Police Force, and was later apprehended in a movie theatre. Two days later, Oswald was himself shot by Jack Ruby, apparently outraged at the murder of the President. According to the Warren Commission, which investigated the assassination, there the story ends – the late Oswald was the lone gunman, there was no conspiracy, case closed. However, conspiracy theories continue to swirl around the incidents of that fateful day in Dallas, suggesting that the least probable theory is that Oswald acted alone. There also remains the mystery of Oswald himself. Even the most cursory of glances at him and his alleged activities around Dallas in the days preceding the assassination, is rife with inconsistencies and bizarre elements worthy of a conspiracy all on their own. On 26 October 1957, Oswald joined the Marines in San Diego, California. While he was in the Marines he became enamoured of Russia and its politics. After a dishonourable discharge on 13 September 1960, he announced he was going to renounce his American
“OSWALD WAS SHOT BY JACK RUBY, OUTRAGED AT THE MURDER OF THE PRESIDENT. ACCORDING TO THE WARREN COMMISSION, THE STORY ENDS THERE…”
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citizenship and move to the USSR. He arrived in Moscow a little more than a month later. Travelling to Minsk, he married Marina, the daughter of a KGB colonel. The glorious life in Russia apparently soured and Oswald returned to the US with his wife in 1962. Back in the US, Oswald drifted from one job to another and was suspected of an assassination attempt on Major General Edwin Walker on 10 April 1963, in Dallas.
His political views got him arrested in New Orleans on 9 August that same year when he was involved in a fight with angry Cubans while passing out “Fair Play for Cubans” pamphlets. A friend of his wife – a Russian exile with CIA connections – arranged for him to get an interview back in Dallas at the Texas School Book Depository. Lying about his past, Oswald was hired on 15 October 1963. The rest, as the books tell us, is history. Or is it?
THE real oswald There are conflicting reports, of Oswald’s activities before the Kennedy assassination. A Texas car salesman, Albert Guy Bogard, reported that Oswald took a car for a testdrive before the shooting, remarking about a large amount of money he would be getting soon – yet Oswald never had a driver’s licence. Another sighting has Oswald showing off at a Dallas area rifle range, expertly shooting the bull’s-eyes in other patrons’ targets – this, despite Oswald’s inferior record as a marksman while in the Marines. TheCIA reportedlyexperimentedwith Maybe these LSDontroopsinAtsugi,Japan,as partof “Oswalds” were theirmind-controltests in1957. Oswald actors hired by the wasserving withthe Marinesthereat thetime.Couldit havebeenthat true parties behind Oswaldwas underthe control the assassination to ofsomeonewhenhe ensure the real Oswald shotJFK? would pay for the crime.
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TAKING credit If Oswald had killed Kennedy for political reasons, then why did he never proudly take credit? Instead, he insisted until his death that he had been set up – hardly the actions of a fanatic. His murder by Jack Ruby – preventing the truth from ever coming to light – was far too convenient.
A man with A motive
The moment Jack Rub y takes the law int o his o wn hands, as shots and kills Lee Har vey Os wald.
Of course it is possible that Oswald shot Kennedy and therefore it is not impossible that an outraged American might want to take revenge. If you listen to all of the conspiracy theories surrounding about him, Oswald could be responsible for all life’s mysteries.
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Jac k R uby or i ginally c laimed h e shot O sw ald t he pain of a t o spar e Jac k public t ri al. How ie K ennedy ev er , plent y o R uby w as a me f ev idenc e abo mber of t he Mob unds t hat . W it h sev er al c onspir ac y t h of t he most be eor ies sur ro und liev able ing t h t he Mafia, it pr e assassinat ion o obably is not c f JF K inv olv ing oinc idenc e t R uby k illed O hat R uby t ook sw ald t o pr ev out O sw ald. e nt t h e Mafia’s r ole being ex posed in t he P re . sident ’s dea t h
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E ve n bef or e Lee Har ve y O sw ald lef t f or t he USSR he w as under F , BI sc ru t iny . T he r easo n for his dishonour able disc har ge f ro m t he Mar ines – f or w ant ing t o be a R ussian – w as public k now ledge, so t he C IA w ould hav e t he per f ec t f all guy : a lone assassin w ork ing f or t h e dr eaded R ussia ns, w hic h w ould play ex tr e w ell w it h t he mely media.
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T he K GB k new t hat if O sw ald w as ev er br ough c ommunist ba t bef or e a c our c kg r ound and t, his link s t o t he K G happened, t he B w ould emer Sov iet s w ould ge. If t his be suspec te d shoot ing, so t of or ganising hey employ ed t he K ennedy R uby t o ensur e O sw ald nev er w ent on t ri al.
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DOROTHY KILGALLEN The Warren Kilgallen was set to expose it as a sham to fool the pu blic.
DOROTHY KILGALLEN CAN GETTING TOO CLOSE TO THE TRUTH END UP HAVING TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES?
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f all the mysterious deaths that swirled around the assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963, few are as curious as that of Dorothy y Kilgallen. What m a l A separates the © tragic loss of Kilgallen from the scores of officially unrelated deaths connected to that fateful day in Dallas, is that Kilgallen was a popular member of the media, very much in the public eye long before her involvement in the investigation surrounding the assassination. But as her death may prove, even celebrity may not be enough to protect you if you cross the wrong people. Kilgallen’s media career began in 1931 when she signed on to work for the Hearst newspaper syndicate as a fledgling writer. At first, she was relegated to writing about “woman things”, but her ambition and skill soon overrode the chauvinistic limits placed upon her, and she moved on to far meatier stories, including covering the legendary Sam Sheppard trial (Sheppard’s story was the basis for the popular Sixties television series The Fugitive , and the subsequent Harrison Ford movie of the same name). Not content with simply being a top-notch writer, Kilgallen moved into other media, working as a panellist on the popular television show, What’s My Line? , as well as hosting her own radio show in New York – a programme so successful that it ran for some 20 years after first hitting the airwaves in 1945. Her popularity, buoyed by her sharp wit and intelligence, endeared her to many fans. But it was during the trial of Jack Ruby for the murder of alleged Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald that Kilgallen may have taken the first steps that would lead to her death. After attending Ruby’s murder trial in Dallas in 1964, Kilgallen became convinced that there was more to the story than was being reported in the press. After voicing her doubts in her daily newspaper column, The Voice Of Broadway, Kilgallen returned to Dallas to interview Ruby. Excited by what she learned, she returned to New York and wrote a column
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that linked Dallas police officer JD Tippit home with plans to reveal all in a book. (thought to have been shot dead by Oswald The threat that Kilgallen posed to the shortly after the assassination as he tried to forces behind Kennedy’s assassination may flee) to Jack Ruby and to Bernard Weissman have caused her demise. Dorothy Kilgallen – a man who was publicly known to was found dead in her bed on dislike Kennedy. In her column, 8 November 1965. The official Kilgallen revealed that all explanation of her death was three men had met in “accidental”. An autopsy found Ruby’s strip club just one an acute mix of ethanol and week before Kennedy barbiturates in her system, was shot. so suicide could have ShortlyafterDorothyKilgallen’sdeath, After she revealed been the cause of death. MrsEarlTSmith,aclosefrien dof But why would Kilgallen more ominous material, Kilgallen, alsodied mysteriously. commit suicide when the the FBI launched CouldKilgallenhaveshared her findings withSmith,and the an investigation into book of her career was set powers-that-bedecided Kilgallen. But still she to be published? Was her shealsoneededto be persevered, undeterred. death truly accidental? Or was silenced? She travelled to New Orleans, she silenced, as were so many, ostensibly to gather further because of her knowledge of the truth proof of a cover-up, then returned surrounding the Kennedy assassination?
FACT OR
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“KILGALLEN WAS A POPULAR MEMBER OF THE MEDIA, VERY MUCH IN THE PUBLIC EYE LONG BEFORE HER INVOLVEMENT IN THE INVESTIGATION SURROUNDING THE ASSASSINATION” Was the Warren Commission all part of the coverup, and were they keen for Kilgallen to be silenced?
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Hoo ver ordered the in vestigation into Kilgallen
did he ha ve a hand in her demise?
HIDDEN files None of the files Kilgallen had compiled, including the transcripts of her interview with Jack Ruby and the information she gleaned in New Orleans, were ever released to the media.
THE story unravels Kilgallen was found in bed, apparently having died while reading a book. Her glasses – which she needed in order to read – were not on her face, nor within her reach. The book was one she had told friends she had already finished reading, and she was still wearing makeup, which Kilgallen always removed before retiring to bed.
NUMEROUS theories No one really knows what happened to Kilgallen. Was she too close to the truth? Or was the supposed “evidence” she had all lies, and realising her errors, looked for a way out…
J E dgar Hoov e r himself or der ed t he inv est igat K ilgallen, det e ion int o r mined t o disc ov er just how unc ov er ing her she w as inf or mat ion, esp ec ially her pub of R uby ’s t est lic at ion imony t o t he W ar re n C ommissio K ilgallen br oadc n. Bef ore ast t hat t o t he w orld, it had been Sec re t . K ilgallen’s c lassified T op r ef usal t o be c ow ed by t he F det er minat ion BI c ombined t o r ev eal t he t w it h her ru t h behind K suspec te d F BI inv ennedy ’s deat olv ement – m h – inc luding ay hav e sealed her f at e.
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Anot her suspe c t in t he K enne dy assassinat i silenc ed K ilga on, t he Mafia, llen, tr y ing t o may hav e mak e her dea Mob may hav t h look lik e a e been ac ti ng suic ide. T he on it s ow n, or or t he C IA. under or der s f ro m t he F BI
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K ollmar , K ilgal len’s husband, w as in t he apar of her deat h, tm ent at t he t and r epor te dly ime didn’ t find her t he nex t day body unt il noo . T here are r umou n rs t hat she w a inv olv ed w it h s r omant ic ally singer Johnny R ay . Allegedly , f ro m a public p she c alled him ay phone t o say t hat she had t c ent ur y, but t h he st or y of the at she didn’t fe el c omf or ta ble ov er t he phon t alk ing about i e. Her husban t d’ s jealousy as may hav e play a r esult of t his a ed a r ole in K ff air ilgallen’s dem ise.
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LORD LUCAN
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LORD LUCAN
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WE MAY NEVER KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED WHEN THE SEVENTH EARL OF LUCAN DISAPPEARED IN 1974
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ne of the most mysterious vanishing acts ever accomplished by a fugitive was the disappearance of Richard Bingham, the Seventh Earl of Lucan. “Lucky” Lucan was a member of the aristocracy and a professional gambler, a man with a well-known taste for the easy life. A popular socialite in wellto-do London circles, Lucan’s expensive hobbies had left him heavily in debt. He had become estranged from his wife, and the couple were in the process of fighting a bitter custody struggle over their three children. On the night of 7 November 1974, the 29-yearold nanny who looked after Lucan’s children, Sandra Rivett, was brutally murdered in the family’s home with a length of lead piping. When Lady Veronica Lucan went to investigate, she too was attacked and badly injured. The alarm was raised when she staggered into a pub close to the house, covered in blood, declaring that her husband had murdered the nanny. Penniless and without his passport, that same night Lord Lucan left a letter saying that he was innocent. He borrowed a friend’s car (the bloodstained vehicle was later retrieved at Newhaven Docks) and then vanished. The last sighting in the UK of the man himself had him some 18 miles away, in the town of Uckfield. Many find it significant that although his children eventually had Lucan declared financially dead, his eldest son was not allowed to have him declared legally dead until the day after the hereditary peerage was abolished in 1999. If this had happened before, his son could have inherited his father’s seat in the House of Lords.
The most common theor y is that the Earl is dead, having committed suicide in despair and remorse after bungling his attempt to k ill his wife. He drove to the English coast, and then swam out into the English Channel to drown.
Much like Elvis, Lucan is regularly sighted around the world. Reports have placed him walking on mountain slopes in Sicily and in permanent residence in Southern Africa. Scotland Yard still investigate supposed sightings of the Earl, and has had as many as 70 different sighting reports under investigation at once. If he is still alive and in hiding, Lucan would be in his eighties, having been penniless and on the run for over 40 years.
Ali v e L o rd L u can – was helped out of the count y
DEAD or alive?
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A cult figure
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As the publicity around the mistaken Halpin photo showed, Lucan has become something of a popular tragic-heroic figure. He has even adorned the album cover of England pop band Black Box Recorder and been the subject of one of their songs. Given that his theoretical backers are now dead, if Lucan revealed himself today In2003a furorewascausedwhena photograph he could make ofanelderlyman,claimedto beLordLucan,was a fortune and publi shedas partofthepublicityfora bookclaim ing the publicity thatthemissingEarlhaddiedin Goa,India ,in1996. However,it laterturnedout thatthe photograph– surrounding takenin 1991– wasactuallythatof ancienthippie his case would andone-timefolk singerBarryHalpin. Also make a trial knownas “Mountain”or “Jungle Barry”, Halpin wasa banjo-playingardentsocialist,who almost impossible. wenttoliveinIndiabecauseitwas If he returned and cheap,sunnyand morespiritual was exonerated of thanSt Helens. charges, there’s little doubt he would become a genuine English folk hero. There’s simply not enough scandal left to make hiding Richard B ingham and Veronica D uncan worthwhile any more.
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In this version, Lucan Goldsmith – b y a rich friend – possibl y the now-deceased Sir James private plane. who flew him f rom the South of England to France in a within Once clothing. y and provided mone or also The benefact without Europe, it would have been relatively simple to move around way slowly make his – and lax of t en are a passport – border controls le who would down to Botswana, where he now lives. Funded by peop lives in y a trial, he into disrepute b rather not see the peerage dragged modest comf ort.
Even though his children eventually managed to have Lucan declared legally dead, the English police were far from convinced. In interviews conducted by author David Southwell in 1999, some detectives at Scotland Yard announced a suspicion that Lucan is living in Botswana in Southern Africa and that frequent trips made by his children to the area have been observed. Lack of funds made an investigation difficult to carry out. Lucan’s children, however, dismissed the suggestion as absurd.
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D ead L or d L u can –
MULTIPLE sightings
Des pi te claims, t he hip py k no wn a s
W hile it is unc er ta in w het her or not Luc an w as a Fr eemason, man y member s of t h e nobilit y ar e par t of t he anc ient f ra ter nit y. Unc er ta in of Luc an’s guilt but desper at e t o pr e v ent a hugely embar ra ssing t r ial, t he Masons help ed “Luc k y ” out of t he c ount r y, and set him u p w it h a peac ef ul lif e som ew here out of t h e w ay .
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Luc an may hav e been a member of t he my st er ious dedic ated t o pr e or ganisat ion ser vi ng t he bloo dline of c er ta in ar f amilies and ensu ist oc ra t ic Br it ish r ing t he c ont inua t ion of Br it ain thr means. If one of th o ugh my st ic eir ow n w as in t r ouble, t he sec ret o seen it as t heir sac r der w ould hav e re d dut y t o pr o t ec t him f ro m t he t hr eat of prison.
years la ter, he wo uld disa ppear nev er to b e seen again.
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MURDERED OR MISSING
AMELIA EARHART
AMELIA EARHART
Amelia set many records as a female pilot, and triggered the largest military search for a civilian.
AN ICON IN WOMEN’S HISTORY, EARHART’S DISAPPEARANCE WAS NEVER EXPLAINED
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he was the golden girl of the aviation set, a media celebrity, and an inspiration to women everywhere. Amelia Earhart strode into the maledominated world of flying, setting new flight records for women, with a noble mix of courage and grace. Beloved by an America torn apart by the ravages of the Depression, Earhart was a national hero. Her sudden disappearance while trying to fly around the world in 1937 shocked the nation. Amelia Earhart was born on 24 July 1897, in Atchison, Kansas. Coming from a wealthy family,
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FICTION? Fora weekafter Earhart’stragicdisappearance, severalradiooperatorson shipsand aircraft reportedtohave hearda distresssignalcoming fromthe vicinity ofGardnerIsland. It’svery possible Earhartmay havebeenforced toland thereafter encounteringissues inthe sky,but mysteriously nothingwas everfound.Sixty yearslater searchers believedtheymighthave found itemsof Earhart’sclothing,whichrather begsthe question:whywasn’t this noticedbefore?
Amelia knew her plane like the back of her hand, and
Earhart studied to be a nurse’s aid in Toronto, and worked as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in a military hospital during World War I. In 1920, she moved out to California with her family. It was there she attended an aerial meet, and her love of flying was born. Quickly learning to fly, Earhart set a women’s altitude record of 14,000 feet two years later, and as the years passed, her reputation as a pilot flourished. In 1928, New York publisher George Putnam, asked her to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic on the “Friendship” flight between Great Britain and America. She agreed, setting another yet another record. She was tagged with the name “Lady Lindy”, after the first pilot to cross the Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh. Earhart disliked this name, because she had merely been a passenger on the “Friendship” flight. As if to prove herself even more, Earhart continued to set new records. In 1928, she flew across America, travelling from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast. In 1931, she set an altitude record of 14,000 feet in an autogiro. A year later, in 1932, Earhart flew across the Atlantic alone, landing in Ireland. She became the darling of the lecture tours, and was honoured by President Hoover and by Congress, becoming the first woman to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross. But her greatest challenge still lay before her – a flight around the world. On 1 June 1937, Earhart flew out of Miami, Florida in her Electra aero plane to circumnavigate the globe. Accompanied only by her navigator, Fred Noonan, she set out first for Puerto Rico. From South America, they flew to
Africa, then to the Red Sea. By 29 June they were in New Guinea, ready for the long flight across the Pacific. They were almost home. They left New Guinea at 0:00 GMT, with the US Coast Guard ship Itasca positioned off Howland Island, near Hawaii, to provide radio contact. They never arrived. Earhart sent a message to the Itasca at 7:42am, saying that they were unable to see the ship, and that their gas was running low. A brief message came through at 8:45am, then silence. The people of America, listening at their radios, was stunned. A shaken President Roosevelt sent out a military search party consisting of 66 aircraft and nine ships, but nothing was found. On 18 July 1937, the search was reluctantly called off. Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan were gone.
h ar t a Ear Am el niown tha y during the fligh t, perhaps impairing t Earhart had su ff ered dysen ter I t was k Earhart ma y crash. It could also ha ve been suicide – her judgemen t, causing her to of the media. Or tant at tention and e xpecta tions ha ve been burn t ou t b y the cons wa y f rom the fter a e a disappear, se tting up a ne w lif she could have simply chosen to ull y wi th ing to an isola ted island to live peacef public eye. Some theories ha ve her go na tive fishermen.
y i Par t T h e Na z ges ted tha t Earhar t was on a secre t mission
It has been sug i activi ties around the for President Roose velt to moni tor Naz y the Germans, this would globe. Sho t do wn or captured b sent out to rescue velt se e xplain the sizable militar y f orce Roo trieve sensiti ve American her in an a ttemp t, perhaps, to re e Nazis. in forma tion or usef ul da ta on th
A bad omen In an uncharacteristic loss of control, Earhart made an error while trying to lift off from an airfield near Pearl Harbor. The undercarriage collapsed, severely damaging the plane. In what could be construed as an omen, it was the same plane she disappeared in over the Pacific.
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Despite the largest military search for civilians ever mounted, no wreckage or material from Earhart’s plane was found at the time, suggesting that either Earhart was off course (with her formidable flying skills, this is doubtful), or the plane never crashed. None of the bones found since the disappearance have turned out to belong to her. Even recent evidence unearthed by The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, suggesting her plane was at Gardner Island, failed to conclusively solve the mystery, due to the absence of matching bones.
Earhart le is rumoured which is wha t the Bermuda Triang with radio to be. This would e xplain the trouble a, and her con tact be tween the plane and Itasc st in the simply lo is plane er con fusion. Perhaps h s other pas t or the f uture, along wi th numerou ve gone ha o claimed t planes and ships tha t have missing in this part o f the world.
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Along th air waves as the Earhart, coercing her to tak e to the theory sees the Japanese capturing scourge to GI ganda machine tha t was a deadly dreaded “Tok yo Rose”, the female propa morale during World War II.
A watery grave? A light plane hitting the ocean at roughly 80 miles an hour would be like a car hitting a cement abutment at the same speed. Add scavengers like sharks and other hungry fish and it’s not much of a mystery.
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If Earhar her plane, then Air Force would ha ve sho t do wn her emplo yers. In retaliation, the suring tha t no y f or public rela tions purposes, while en valian tly moun ted a search part ed. remain e vidence
Flying was a labour of love for infatuated with it since a young age.
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MURDERED OR MISSING
JIMMY HOFFA
WHERE IS JIMMY HOFFA? A POSSIBLE MOB HIT, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO JIMMY HOFFA?
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he mysterious disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa has become the stuff of North American urban legend. The unknown whereabouts of the body of the exTeamsters union leader is a source of never-ending conjecture. What is even more compelling is that while everyone is in agreement that Hoffa is
indeed dead, no one has ever been arrested for killing him. The efforts of police, from Detroit detectives to the FBI, have not uncovered the killers. Their identity remains as mysterious as the final resting place of Hoffa himself. James Riddle Hoffa was born 14 February 1913, in Brazil, Indiana. After getting a job as a warehouseman at Kroger, the grocery store chain, Hoffa joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a trade union. By 1957, Hoffa had climbed the union ladder to become President of the Teamsters, a position he held until 1971. During his tenure as President of the Teamsters, Hoffa was often linked with the Mafia
“DONALD FRANKOS TOLD PLAYBOY MAGAZINE THAT HOFFA WAS BURIED BENEATH THE END ZONE OF THE NEW YORK GIANTS FOOTBALL STADIUM” Hoffa with his son James, who also went on to become President of the Teamsters.
and with illegal activities. Robert F Kennedy investigated Hoffa in the Fifties and Sixties, which ended up with Hoffa being convicted for jury tampering(during an earlier trial in which Hoffa was accused of receiving illegal payments from a trucking firm). In 1967, Hoffa was sentenced to eight years in a Federal prison. His sentence was commuted in 1970 by President Nixon, with a condition of parole being that Hoffa should refrain from all union activities until 1980. This didn’t impress Hoffa, who began to make moves to regain control of the Teamsters. By 1975 he was on the verge of success, but this didn’t fit in with the future plans of the Mafia. Having had trouble with Hoffa, La Cosa Nostra hoped his successor, Frank Fitzsimmons, would prove more compliant. With the strong possibility that the stipulation barring Hoffa from union activities could be annulled, coupled with his strong loyalty base in the Teamsters, there was a chance that Hoffa could be president again. This was not something the Mafia wanted to see. On Wednesday 30 July 1975, Hoffa drove out to the Machus Red Fox Restaurant on Six Mile Road in Detroit, Michigan. It is known that he was due to meet someone there, but exactly who that was has never been revealed. Bearing in mind Hoffa’s well-founded paranoia, it must have been someone he trusted. He was last seen alive at around 2:30pm in the restaurant’s parking lot. He then disappeared, surfacing again only in public myth and speculation.
SOMETHING fishy The car Chuckie O’Brien was driving the day of Hoffa’s disappearance was seized by the FBI. It was a new Mercury Brougham, belonging to Joseph Giacalone. Police dogs found Hoffa’s scent in the back seat, as well as evidence of his blood and skin. O’Brien blamed the blood on a fish he was inexplicably delivering to a friend.
AN inevitable ENDING If you run with wolves, chances are you’ll get bitten. The only thing that separates this from any other Mob hit is the surprising lack of evidence buttressed by the silence of the killers. If Hoffa’s body had been found, this would be nothing more than a half-forgotten footnote in the bloody history of Mob business. As Mob conspiracies go, it should be considered smalltime – despite the way some conspiracy buffs view the case.
eyes of the Mafia.
z an o T on y Pr o ven some members of the Mob on a more
Hoff a had upset o. “ Ton y Pro”, as personal level, among them Ton y Provenzan from their time he was k nown, held a grudge against Hoffa out on the together in prison, and ma y have put a contract to establish an ex-Teamsters leader. He went to great pains alibi on the da y of Hoff a’s disappearance.
i e O’Br i en Ch u ck y have been the man Hoff a expected to meet
O’Brien ma y set up by at the Red Fox, an apparently trustworth y deco effectivel y as an the true k illers. O’Brien grew up in Hoff a’s home, seen by Hoffa as a threat. unoffi cial “adopted son”, and would not have been on when the police heard he r investigati , came unde O’Brien, himself was alleged to be in debt to the Mafia.
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of Hoff a Not wanting to experience the corrupt reign again, members of the Teamsters ma y have concluded membership, that, in the light of his popularity with the than murder. there was no other route to removing him
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mone y from the Teamsters, especially There was potential for the Mob to mak e a lot of unds. If an unco-operative Hoff a regained with access to the massive Teamster pension f source of income would mean a control of the Teamsters the loss of this lucrative were also rumours that Hoff a had told sizeable financial setback to the Mafia. There the Teamsters, as a condition of his nt in involveme the Mob’s the government about This alone would merit revenge in the restriction on union involvement being lif ted.
union if Hoff a was elected Not wanting to lose their positions within the a contract out on him. president, some union offi cials ma y have put
RESTING place The final resting place of Jimmy Hoffa remains a mystery, with claims ranging from the outrageous to the macabre. One story has him buried in the depths of Lake Michigan, while perhaps the most outrageous was the one put forth by Donald “Tony the Greek” Frankos, who told KnowingfullwellhowtheMafia Playboy magazine that Hoffa worked,Hoffa wouldneverhave gotinto acar withpeople hedidn’ttrust. There’s was buried beneath the end adarkerelementofbetrayaltothe zone of the New York Giants story:whoeverkilledHoffa,orled football stadium. himtobe killed,werefriendshe trustedtobe loyal. More plausible theories have Hoffa’s body placed in the foundations of a shopping mall, while the FBI are partial to Hoffa coming to rest in a vat of bubbling zinc in a Detroit car factory.
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A long-shot ntrol of one have wanted the combative Hoff a to be in co ith of the most powerful unions in the US, especially w nt in his disappearance Hoff a’s grudge against law enf orcement. Involveme the case. to solve bility” Bureau’s“ina would explain the
Al so su s p e c t ed … Hoffa made a lot of enemies, and faced a number of criminal charges during his life.
Tony Giacalone has also been heavily linked with Hoffa’s disappearance.
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MURDERED OR MISSING
MARTIN LUTHER KING
MARTIN LUTHER KING
T h e m ai n s u s p e c t s T h e F B I
WAS AN INNOCENT MAN CONVICTED OF THE FAMED CIVIL RIGHTS ICON’S ASSASSINATION?
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e was a man of peace, and like most men who try to make the world a better place, his life ended violently. Dr Martin Luther King was an eloquent speaker, making moving speeches for civil rights in the Sixties, from the famous civil rights march
of 200,000 people on Washington in 1963 to the more private confines of a church. He fought with dignity for a seemingly impossible goal – equal rights for all men and women, despite the colour of their skin. During the turbulent Sixties, many in America hoped King’s dream would never come true. King fought against the bigotry and ignorance in the US with weapons his enemies didn’t expect – intelligence and compassion. He refused to stand down from what he believed in, angering those who felt blacks were nothing more than second-class citizens and should not dream of being anything more. King’s quiet persistence raised fears of a changed status
The head of the FBI, J Edgar Hoov er , thought K ing w as one of the most danger ous men in America. In its attempts to r emov e King f rom his position of pow er , the FBI secr etly taped K ing’s alleged extramarital activities and used the tapes in the hope of conv incing K ing to av oid public embarr assmen t by committing suicide. W h en that f ailed to w or k, there w a s only one alternativ e…
quo, from the Ku Klux Klan up to the FBI. He made some powerful enemies and, in the end, they defeated him the only way they could, by silencing him forever. Returning to Memphis in April 1968, King booked a room at the Motel Lorraine. He had returned to hold another demonstration, disgusted that an earlier protest held in the city in March that year had collapsed into violence. He was determined that this protest would not follow the same route. During his previous stay in Memphis, he had been criticsisd for staying in a white-owned hotel. To prove a point, King stayed in the Motel Lorraine – owned by blacks, but in a worse area of town. On 4 April 1968, as evening was setting over Memphis, King was shot as he stood on the second-floor balcony of the Motel Lorraine. The threat to the status quo was eliminated. James Earl Ray, a local criminal, was arrested for the murder, and was accused of shooting King from the bathroom of a nearby boarding house. Doubts, though, began to arise as to whether or not Ray was the true assassin.
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s peech is one of the most f a mous in histor y.
KING Family It is not just the conspiracy community that believes Ray was innocent. Members of the King family supported claims of innocence and when Ray died in prison in Tennessee in 1998, they were invited to attend the funeral. The service was even conducted by the Theonly witnessto claimhe actuallysawRay at theboardinghouse aftertheshootingwas Charles Reverend James Stephens;other witnessesclaimedthatStephenswas Lawson, the former toodrunktohaveseenanythin g,orat leastto have pastor of Centenary rememberedwhat hesaw correctly.Even Stephens’ wiferefutedher husband’s story,insistently United who had claimingthe manshe sawin theboarding invited Dr King housewas notRay.Despiteallofthis,the to speak to striking authoritieswent withher husband’s story.For hertroubles,Mrs Stephens sanitation workers in wascommittedto amental Memphis in 1968, during institution. which visit he was shot. Maybe
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Was James Earl Ray just a scapegoat for a much bigger force who wished to silence King?
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K ing represented ev ery thing that the K lan hates. By k illing King, the K lan w ould send a message show ing w hat happens to blacks w ho rise abov e their station in
lif e.
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SUDDEN wealth James Earl Ray, who apparently had little money, somehow managed to become a world traveller following King’s assassination. With his newfound wealth, he flew to Canada, England, and then Portugal. When he was arrested in London’s Heathrow Airport he was preparing to fly to Belgium.
Another theory suggests that K ing’s assassins w ere provi ded by the CIA, disguised as Memphis Police. Ray w a s framed for the cr ime; govern ment agents car ried out the actual k illing. This w ould see m to be substantiated by the fact that w hen Ray w as ar rested, he w as carr ying several pieces of fake ID and mo re than one passpor t – documents rumour ed to be the w or k of a CIA identities specia list.
President Johnson and King meet during the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
they were swayed by the fact that despite the large number of death threats directed at the civil rights leader, Memphis police quietly withdrew the expected police protection surrounding King one day before he was assassinated.
A strong case Of all the political assassinations in the Sixties, all with disturbingly clear government ties, the murder of Martin Luther King has to vie with RFK’s for the title of being the most arrogant. It is staggering that it took the FBI over 15 days to publicly announce that a bundle, thrown by the assassin, belonged to James Earl Ray. Perhaps they should have announced they were giving him a “head start” as well.
Memphis w as not particula rly f riendly to K ing, and the violent end to the demonstr ation in March 1968 did not endear him to the city , let alone to the police force. It has been r umoured that CIA agents posed as pol icemen and k illed K ing, but they may not hav e had to – the police could hav e had their ow n gr udge against the civil r ights leader, r acially motiv ated or other wi se. It’ s inter esting to note that the offi ce of the Dir ector of the Memphis Police For ce w as heavily populated by member s of the military shor tly before the k illing.
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It has been suggested that the conspir acy to k ill K ing ext ended into his ow n camp. Rumours have persisted that more than one of his close follow ers w as a spy for the police or FBI and ma y hav e helped thr ow pursuer s off the sce nt of the tr ue killers by pointing to the boar ding house w indow af ter K ing w as shot.
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The Mafia w as allegedly approa ched by the FBI to k ill King, and off ered a million dollar s to do th e job. T he Mob r ef used, my ster iously citing the “screw -ups” the FBI caused directly after the K ennedy k illing, but they may have had second thoughts if the plot w as sw e etened.
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MURDERED OR MISSING
MALCOLM X
THE ASSASSINATION OF MALCOLM X WAS THE DEATH OF A MAN WHO STOOD UP FOR BLACK RIGHTS MUCH OF A SURPRISE?
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f you were a controversial political figure in America during the Sixties, it was highly probable that your life would end in a hail of bullets. Malcolm X, the fiery leader of the Organization of AfroAmerican Unity, who outraged white America with his pronouncements on racial matters, was yet another man cut down in his prime because of the dangerous power of his beliefs. Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little in 1925. His father, a Baptist minister, was murdered by white racists six years later and the family was broken up and put into care. Although he was a bright student, Little’s dreams of becoming a lawyer were crushed when a teacher
explained to him that he was only a “nigger”, and should consider becoming a carpenter instead. Disillusioned with education, he drifted into a life of petty crime. While serving time for burglary, Little began to read about the Nation of Islam. The NOI’s beliefs of black self-reliance and the need for racial separation intrigued Little, and when he was released, in 1952, he joined the Nation of Islam, dropping his surname because it was a vestige of slave ownership, and replacing it with a simple “X”. Malcolm X rose quickly through the ranks of the Nation, becoming
in their treatment of blacks. Such views, as well as animosity from the Nation of Islam, made Malcolm X a man who was widely hated. This hatred came to a head on 21 February 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. At the beginning of the meeting, a fight broke out in front of the stage where Malcolm X was speaking. As he tried to calm things down, a group of five assassins stood in the audience and shot him. Malcolm X died shortly afterwards, another figure cut down in America’s cull of leaders who threatened the Establishment in the not-so-groovy Sixties.
A very slow RESPONSE Even though there was a hospital across the street from the Audubon Ballroom, it still took close to half an hour for an emergency crew to arrive, following X’s shooting. Could this point to the fact that the powers-that-be weren’t in a rush to save the cult figure?
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Did Malcolm X h a ve too much influence and theref ore needed to be silenced?
The onl y meeting between Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. Both would be assassinated.
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the organisation’s chief spokesman. But after his inflammatory comments about the Kennedy assassination, its leader, Elijah Muhammad, suspended him from the NOI. Malcolm X took this opportunity to create his Organization of Afro-American Unity, and did not return to the Nation when his suspension was over. Where Martin Luther King believed in nonviolence and the integration of the black man into white America, Malcolm X angered white society by stating that blacks were superior to whites in all ways. He travelled the world, speaking in the Middle East, and generating support for a United Nations resolution condemning both South Africa and the United States for human rights violations
Leon Ameer, a member of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, stated on 13 March 1965, that he had proof of a government connection in Malcolm X’s death. Unfortunately, Ameer’s body was found the following morning before he could back up this claim. His death was attributed to an epileptic fit, even though past medical examinations had found no hint of epilepsy.
SAD truth In the US, if you’re black and speak out about human rights, it seems you’re a radical asking to be shot. If you’re white, you’re a humanitarian and get asked to Rotary dinners. There’s evidence to suggest this is simply the sad truth.
“MALCOLM X ANGERED WHITE SOCIETY BY STATING THAT BLACKS WERE IN FACT SUPERIOR TO WHITES IN ALL WAYS”
T h e m ai n su s p e c t s F BI head o f the FBI, distrus ted Malcolm X T h e Hoo ver, the
J Edgar f black po wer tha t had no because he represen ted a f orce o . One coun ter-intelligence place in Hoo ver’s vie w of America was designed to keep a “black programme sponsored b y the FBI movemen t. Wi th Malcolm he black messiah” lik e X f rom uniting t ing, the FBI could ha ve X gro wing closer to Martin Lu ther K preven t a united black y to y wa decided tha t k illing X was the onl f ron t from arising.
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th A frica for human demning the US along with Sou The prospec t of a UN resolution con embarrassing sibility. This would ha ve been seriously righ ts violations seemed a clear pos colm X, the S ta tes tion, Mal solu o r this re t f en f propon f or the US. B y taking out the chie le mess y business a way. could then spin-doc tor the who
e en … Or co u l d i t h av e b T h e Mob ving, and ins ti tu te a lifest yle o f clean li or t to clean up black neighbourhoods
In an eff ts that could be made rug trade. This threa t to the profi Malcolm X verbally a ttack ed the d X’s fa te. ve sealed y ha tto ma the ghe o f from the despair
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of Islam and Malcolm The schisms bet ween the Na tion people f eeling that X’sown group ran deep, wi th some mmad and o ther X was un f airly criticizing Eli jah Muha han, if no t ou trigh tl y Farrak as Louis Na tion leaders, such ed in a murder that blaspheming. This could ha ve result o ver tones to its mo ti ve had bo th poli tical and religious penly fanned this as some in the Nation o f Islam o hatred o f X. ©Ibrahimebi
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MURDERED OR MISSING
CHANDRA LEVY
CHANDRA LEVY
Former Congressman Gary with Chandra cost him his career.
A POLITICAL AFFAIR. A MISSING INTERN. JUST ANOTHER DAY IN WASHINGTON…
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hen the skeletal remains of missing former Washington intern Chandra Levy were found in a Washington DC park in May 2002, almost 13 months after she vanished without a trace, a missing person case became a murder investigation and a political scandal developed into a full-blown conspiracy theory. When she came to Washington to begin an internship at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in September 2000 Levy was just 22. Within weeks, friends had introduced her to Democratic Congressman
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Gary Condit, who represented her home district in California. It was a fateful meeting, as the two quickly became secret lovers. Condit, a member of the US Congress since 1989, was married and the father of two adult children. A major political player in Washington, he had founded a voting coalition of conservative and moderate congressmen. He also sat on several committees connected to espionage agencies and acted as an overseer of the CIA, through his work as a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. However, it was not just through her intimate relationship with Condit that Levy had access to information for which some conspiriologists would happily exchange various body parts. Her role at the Federal Bureau of Prisons involved making access arrangements for the press to view the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the man convicted of the Oklahoma Bombing. (To many conspiracy cynics, he is known as Lee Harvey McVeigh, due to their belief that he was merely a patsy.) Levy had access to sensitive Bureau and Department of Justice records relating to the condemned prisoner.
FICTION? Thelead FBIinvestigatorinthe casewas Special AgentBradleyJ Garrett. Garretthad playeda key rolein theprosecutionof Pakistannational Aimal Kasi, who wasaccusedofmurderingCIAagentsin acarparkedoutsidetheAgency’sHQin Langley, Virginia.He hadalso investigatedthesuspicious deathof anotheryoungfemaleinternshot in aWashingtonDC Starbucks.Being anFBI agentinvolvedintwo conspiracieswith unresolved questionsmakesyou eitherincredibly unluckyor highlysuspicious…
Levy had looked up Klingle Mansion online before her disappearance, but it still took 13 months to find her body.
On Monday 23 April 2001, Levy was somewhat surprisingly released from her internship. A mere week later, she was seen alive for the last time when she called in to cancel her membership of the Washington Sports Club. When her worried parents contacted the police on Saturday 5 May 2001, they searched her apartment and found suitcases packed and ready to leave but no trace of Levy. Officially declared missing, suspicion began to build on Condit and the nature of his relationship with Levy. Questioned by both the police and her parents, at first he denied having an affair. When inconsistencies in his story surfaced, he eventually confessed to police that he was having a sexual relationship with Levy. Over a year later, Levy was still missing and with his reputation in shreds, Condit was ousted from his seat in the Democratic primary by Dennis Cardoza, a former member of his own staff. However, the eventual discovery of Levy’s body did not even begin to answer any of the questions her family, the police and conspiracy theorists had as to why she had gone missing in the first place.
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Gi ven Condit in this capaci t y that led to i t was some thing he disco vered no t only helped to remo ve Le vy’sdeath. Her disappearance o ver the Agenc y, i t also him from any position o f po wer t migh t la y in store f or him, ser ved as a warning o f the fa te tha an yone else. i f he shared his kno wledge with
T h e F eBo fIChandra’s disappearance, ques tions were
A t the tim and their in ves tigation o f moun ting up wi th regard to the FBI ver e vidence tha t the FBI had Timothy Mc Veigh. A cour t bat tle o da te of his e xecution. lanned y in the p concealed led to a dela xecu tion lead her to disco ver Did Le v y’s work invol ving that e the FBI take a ve made may ha t some thing abou t Mc Veigh tha hing act? hand in arranging her f atal vanis
VITAL mistakes Levy’s skeleton was found by a man walking his dog in Rock Creek Park, in an area previously searched by the police and just 300 yards from a running path that she was known to have used. Police discovered Levy had looked at a website about the Klingle Mansion, a farmhouse built in 1823 and now used as park offices, on the day she disappeared, which made the park a major focus of the investigation. Given that it was not buried, how come it took almost 13 months to find her body?
NOT so secret Given Condit’s sensitive position as a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the access he had to highly classified intelligence, one of the most surprising and suspicious elements of the Chandra Levy case is just how little interest the US secret
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services took in her disappearance. In most other countries, if an intern of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, who was connected to a politician with close links to foreign intelligence, disappeared, it would not just be the conspiracy theorists massing to try and find out what happened to her. The absence of serious investigation by the shadowy forces responsible for security of the State convinces many that a full-blown cover-up is involved. They believe the reason they are not looking is because they already know all the answers – they just do not want anyone else to discover the truth.
A coincidence? An unknown random attacker murders a young woman; a married politician has a careerwrecking affair with an intern – sadly, these are hardly uncommon occurrences. Were it not for the coincidence that both headlines could be related to Chandra Levy, conspiracy theorists would have their work cut out finding anything to worry about. Unfortunately, Washington DC is convoluted and murky enough that it’s highly unlikely there’s anything deeper to this story.
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t success ful Democra t “vas t righ t- wing conspirac y” agains E ven Hillary Clin ton talks about a t the whole Chandra Le vy t there are those who belie ve tha politicians. So it is no surprise tha t again drag the Democra tic ublicans to unsea t Condit and ye a ffair was a plot b y renegade Rep th young in terns. e mud o ver se xual impropriet y wi rough th ment th l establish politica
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Ever sinc rs o f her family had s trong a sp y and she and o ther membe rists believe that she had connections with Israel. Some theo Israeli secre t service – to in filtra te ad – the been recruited b y Moss ing ton, possibly to pro vide fu ture to the highes t possible le vels in Wash Israel ts o f the US or a coun tr y hostile to blackmail on k e y poli ticians. If agen th. have been a mo tive for her dea had discovered this, i t could certainly
i ’s s t a f f l politics. O ften the y can be local and n d t s o f Co M em b er spirac y needs to be abou t globa
No t e very con tand wh y some ra Lev y, then i t is eas y to unders personal. If that is the case with Chand a y ha ve wan ted t members o f Condit’s o wn s ta ff, who m have alread y poin ted the finger a fi t. bene y t tic Par ra Democ or ther personal to e xpose the Congressman f or ei
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HISTORICAL
R a spu ti n – m an o r m y t h?
“THE HOLY GRAIL IS NOTHING MORE AND NOTHING LESS THAN THE ROYAL LINE OF DESCENT FOUNDED BY JESUS CHRIST”
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THE holy grail
Wa s Gu y F awk e s se t u p?
A plo t t o k il l a cal m a e st ro m u si
THE SEARCH FOR THE GRAIL
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THE gunpowder plot WAS IT MEANT TO FAIL?
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STONEHENGE WHO BUILT STONEHENGE?
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CHRISTOPHER marlowe PLAYWRIGHT OR SPY?
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RASPUTIN DEATH OF AN IMMORTAL
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JACK the ripper
Co ul d an yo n e really be so evi l?
A KILLER AT WHITECHAPEL
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HITLER PLAIN EVIL OR SATAN’S SLAVE?
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RUDOLF hess A SECRET PLAN FOR PEACE
Di d Sh ak e sp ear e m ur d er Ch ri sto ph er Mar l ow e? Wi ll t h e Wh it e ch a p el s ev er b e so lv ed ? m ur d er
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THE HOLY GRAIL
THE HOLY GRAIL
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THE BLOODLINE OF CHRIST IS THE REAL HOLY GRAIL OF CONSPIRACY THEORIES
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he legends of King Arthur and the Holy Grail, the cup that Christ drank from at the Last Supper, were © J largely set into o l a n their current ta D y forms in the r 14th Century, a time when French and German romantic poets were writing sagas based on common stories. King Arthur and his round table of holy knights are a historical pastiche that misses the truth – the kind of plate armour that Arthur’s knights are associated with was not invented until centuries after his time. Similarly, the idea of a glowing golden chalice humming with the divine power to heal the land and raise the dead, is actually a complete distraction from the true Grail. The idea of the Holy Grail comes from a deliberate misinterpretation of the root term “Sangreal” on the part of the Catholic Church. Splitting the term into “San Greal”, and from there to “San Graal”, or “Saint Grail”, the derivation of the idea of the Holy Grail is plain. However, if the word is split into “Sang Real”, the true Latin meaning becomes clear – the Blood Royal. The Holy Grail is nothing more and nothing less than the royal line of descent founded by Jesus Christ. Jesus was not born of a virgin, but in the normal manner. He was rescued from the cross by friends and was married to Mary Magdalene. They had three children, a daughter and two sons, and they settled in France in exile, far from the reach of the Romans. When Joseph of Arimathea arrived in England, legend says that he brought the Grail with him, rather than a cup, and he brought his nephew Justus, Jesus’s oldest son. Over the years, the exiled Hebrew
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The secret m ystical order charged with protecting the f ate of the British Isles knew all about the truth behind the Grail and manipulated history and Royal ion had d ynasties accordingl y. It is open to conjecture if the organisat sor clan – an y involvement with Princess Diana’s marriage into the Wind though Diana did have ancestral link s to the Meonia organisation.
Did Ar th urian romances c on tain hidden messages a bo u t t he t r ue n a t ure o f t he Ho l y Grai l?
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If the y exist, This French version of Meonia is a more surreal organisation. conspirac y. the y are almost certainly closel y involved in the Holy Grail
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if the Holy Grail There is no doubt that the Church has the most to lose encouraging the ever became widely recognised as the line of Christ. B y gesting y constantly sug il, and b the Holy Gra rpretations of romantic inte saf eguard the idea of Jesus’birth and death being holy miracles, they n own that ever k If it were a vour. m Godly f their authorit y as derived fro the power of the Christian faith was founded on a priestly hi jack ing of the Hebrew k ings, it would end in disaster for the Church.
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fact derived from St Mary the Gypsy, Mary Jacob, who came to Europe with Mary Magdalene. She had a widespread cult in early Europe, and is best known in the form of Maid Marian and the Merrie Men of AlthoughtheHouse ofWindsordoes not Robin Hood. These little known sharein theGrail heritage,PrincessDiana was “facts” go to show the extent of supposedlydescendedfromthe RoyalHouse of the Holy Bloodline in Britain. Stewart.Althoughit isgenerallysaid thatQueen
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KING jesus
royal family bred with local nobles, and the line became the Merovingian Kings of France. Even King Arthur’s name is likely to be a nickname – Artos means the Bear. The real Arthur was a warlord related to the Merovingians – the Bear King, inheritor of the Blood Royal. Through the centuries, the Holy Grail – the Blood of Christ – passed through the Merovingians to the Templars and the Crusaders, and into some of the royal bloodlines of Feudal Europe from the French Stuarts to the Scottish
Sinclairs and certain noble houses of Greece and Italy. Interestingly, the Grail heritage is not part of the Germanic House of SaxeCoburg-Gotha, reputedly now known as the Windsors, the royal family of Great Britain…
ROYAL britain It is alleged that the name Britain comes from the term B’rith-ain, or The Land of the Covenant. Furthermore, the idea of Merrie England is in
ElizabethII isroyalandDianamarriedintothe family,infactthetruthwasjust theopposite;it wasDiana whowas descendedfrom JesusChrist. Couldthis havealsoplayedapartinthe suspiciousdeathof Princess Di,as anattemptto destroythebloodline ofChrist?
The long bloodlines in the Bible are there to prove Jesus’ lineage as a royal descendant of David. The book of Matthew actually gives a line of descent from David the King down to Jacob being the father of Joseph, husband of Mary. The title of Christ denotes Jesus’ royal status, and we should think of him properly as King Jesus. The whole concept of immaculate conception and divine succession was invented by the Catholic Church in the 4th Century to justify their power, stealing the authority of the royal line for themselves, by the “Grace of God”.
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It has been suggested that Jes us w as not of the line of David at all, but actually the descendan t of the high pr iests of Atlanti s. Jesus’r ev olutionar y messages of lov e and acceptance for fellow humans is a direct thr ow back to his Atlantean teachin gs. His bloodline is holy because t he people of Atlantis w er e genetically and spiritually advan ced to a lev el nev er attained bef or e or since, and the people w ho retain that heritage are stil l gif ted w ith unusual pow er s and intelligence – Homo Superior . Frightened by the implications, jealous Homo Sapien pr iests and r uler s killed Jesus, and the k now ledge that the Holy Grail is the Homo Super ior mutati on has been suppressed ever since.
NOT so special If the Holy Grail is the Homo Superior mutation, and if it was passed into the royal families of Europe, there would be thousands of people worldwide with the gene, and any differences would have been noticed by medical science.
Atlantis?
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HISTORICAL
STONEHENGE
STONEHENGE THE CONSTRUCTION AND LOCATION OF THIS ENGLISH LANDMARK HAS BAFFLED PEOPLE FOR CENTURIES
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tanding alone and majestic as a reminder of long-lost civilisations, the ruins of Stonehenge present an enigma to which there will probably never be a definitive answer. There is no dispute that Stonehenge is a Neolithic architectural marvel, but its true purpose remains totally hidden. Stonehenge continues to stand in a modern world over-run with cell phones, satellites, and trans-Atlantic air travel, as a primitive testament to the ingenuity of early man.
Located about 80 miles from London, near “station stones” situated outside the ring. Salisbury Plain, Stonehenge is thought to Stonehenge is a focal religious point for Druids, have been constructed in three phases about who perform ceremonies there to this day, 3500BC. It was in the third phase, marking the summer solstice. But thought to be around 1800BC, that they did not build the monument, the giant stone monoliths we since Stonehenge’s creation associate with Stonehenge pre-dates the founding of the were transported to the site. Druidic religion. These sarsen (an extremely Why Stonehenge was hard type of sandstone) constructed remains Stonehenge,next toAvebury and blocks were molded and a mystery, as does the Glastonbury,is consideredone of themost magicalplacesin England, lifted into 30 upright identity of its original reportedl y becauseit isbuilt along stones with accompanying builders. Whatever powerfulleylines.So isit possib le lintels, set in a circle (17 prompted its construction, thatthesight wasconstructed asa placeforpowerful of the original 30 are still it’s clear that Stonehenge was wizardsto gather. very important – it may still standing today). Other stone designs were set in place inside the play a role in man’s sophisticated structure, including five triathlons (a world today. Perhaps the supposed pair of upright stones supporting a lintel stone). “primitive” builders knew something we have There is also a rectangular arrangement of forgotten, much to our peril.
The locations and placement of stones could have a deep religious meaning.
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s er T h e B eak po t ter y they produced, people named a fter the t ype of
A Neolithic ha ve begun the cons truction o f the Beak ers ha ve been though t to the monumen t’s use ma y ha ve Stonehenge. As the years passed, . I t has been suggested tha t neration varied from genera tion to ge nimals, wi th a religious it ma y ha ve been used simply to hold a tering of li vestock or in thanksgi ving. slaugh ceremon y in volved ei ther in the th the original us cen tre may ha ve intensi fied wi O ver time, Stonehenge’s role as a religio mple. y k ep t on in i ts ne w role as a holy te holding pen design o f the si te merel
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“WHY STONEHENGE WAS CONSTRUCTED REMAINS A MYSTERY, AS DOES THE IDENTITY OF ITS ORIGINAL BUILDERS”
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CONSTRUCTION The mechanisms by which the stones were moved have intrigued archaeologists and historians, considering the primitive level of technology at the time. The bluestones are thought to have come from the Prescelly Mountains in Wales – over 200 miles away. The sarsen stones originated from the relatively nearby Marlborough Downs – but at 25 tons per stone, the 20-mile distance is still formidable. Yet with all the work that went into Stonehenge’s construction, archaeologists have found little detritus around the site. Most ancient construction sites are a potpourri of discarded materials. By contrast, Stonehenge is remarkably – perhaps suspiciously – clean.
PLACE of worship Stonehenge shares at least two significant elements with other places of worship, including several European cathedrals. First, it has an underwater spring running beneath it, which is taken as a sign of divinity in many faiths. Secondly, in a more mathematical sense, the square root of three can be found as a recurring proportion in its construction. This too is found in many places of worship, from Europe to Egypt.
S tonehe ar. O thers belie ve tha Sun, Moon and s tars throughou t the ye correlating to the positions of the b y using the Aubre y holes nd to the path of the sun, and that a xis o f S tonehenge is buil t to correspo ts to wards the ad vanced Egyp tians, Such a focus on astronom y poin it is possible to predic t eclipses. d in the dis tant pas t. Englan led to ve travel y ha who ma
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either for The Arthurian Magus may have erected Stonehenge, n site for his own personal study of the heavens, or as a coronatio stones the young king Arthur.He would have moved the sort. levitating the of into position using magic, presumably
s t t a s t r o n au en ci An built b y ancient, extraterrestrial visitors Stonehenge ma y have been as a visible landing site/landmark, or may have been stars. built b y primitive man to honour the beings from the
s p e c t ed ... Also su Could the Ancient Greek s, the Phoenicians, The Atlanteans, giants, dwarves or energ y vortexes have been behind the creation of Stonehenge? Was the construction of Stonehenge down to Ancient Greeks?
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HISTORICAL
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE COULD ONE OF ENGLAND’S GREATEST PLAYWRIGHTS HAVE LED A DOUBLE LIFE AS A SPY?
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ate can play cruel tricks on the gifted and Christopher Marlowe (1564–93) was undoubtedly gifted. At one time he was England’s leading The legendary playwright, Doctor Faustus. thanks to such works as Doctor Faustus . If the hand of history had dealt more kindly with him it is unlikely that this giant of the Elizabethan theatre would ever have been overshadowed by that relative upstart Shakespeare. Marlowe was much more than just a talented writer. In his short but tempestuous life he experienced both wealth and poverty, was tried and briefly imprisoned and managed to kill a man in a brawl. Marlowe met an untimely end when he was stabbed in the eye in a Deptford tavern. The official story is that he was killed as the result of an argument over an unpaid bill, but conspiracy theorists never pay too much attention to the official version. There is another side to Marlowe. He was a spy. England in the 16th Century was a turbulent place. The country was troubled by enemies at home and abroad. The defeat of the Spanish Armada had ended the King of Spain’s plans for a purely military conquest of the country, so he turned to espionage and began attacking England by more subtle means. The internal threat centred on religion. For many years there had been conflict between Protestants and Catholics, with prominent figures on both sides dying at the stake. Although the official attitude in 1593 was toleration, there was an active and dangerous Catholic underground with strong links to foreign powers. To counter these threats it was necessary for the English crown to operate an efficient counter-espionage system. Elizabeth I’s spymaster was Francis Walsingham, who recruited Marlowe at Cambridge University (for generations afterwards Cambridge remained a fertile breeding ground for spies and double agents). Marlowe’s public profile and wide network of connections made him a useful agent. He infiltrated many secret societies and organisations while performing this role.
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sp ymaster was Dr John Dee. After Walsingham died in 1590, Britain’stop r activity, Dee dabbled in When not running England’s cloak -and-dagge y. The transmuting and alchem angels contacting y, necromanc astrolog y, he funds that passed of base metals into gold is a neat wa y of explaining t The doctor pa ymasters. y various ed b were provid through his hands and that Marlowe had become was not over-troubled b y scruples and if he felt him having problems d no a double-agent, he certainly would have ha silenced permanently.
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Marlowe ma elaborate attempt to infiltrate the Catholic underground and thwart the plans of the Spanish spies who were work ing through it in ay England. B y posing as a double-agent he m have been attempting to gain their confidence y would the exposed, was he . If and secrets their revenge and prevent certainly have had reasons f or wanting to take d. him f rom passing on an y inf ormation he had obtaine
Occultist and spymaster Dr John Dee may have murder for reason of state security.
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A a portrait supposedly of Marlowe, aged 21.
Given his secret life, his murder may not have been the simple affair it has been portrayed as. The question remains in many people’s minds – was Marlowe killed to end the career of one of Elizabethan England’s equivalents of James Bond?
A deadly grudge Fierce argument rages over whether Marlowe was killed by England’s enemies, by its defenders or by some other clandestine organisation with a grudge against him. It is strange to say the least, that although he was stabbed in a crowded
tavern, no witnesses ever came forward and no one was ever punished for the murder.
SECRET spy Marlowe’s arrest, under the pretext that he had murdered a man, provides strong evidence to support the idea that he was a spy. Even though it was a trumped-up charge used to detain him, the fact that he had the power and influence to be acquitted quickly suggests that he had friends in very high places – or that he bought his freedom by switching sides and becoming a double-agent.
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Spies shun the light and when n they assassinate people they o i t c The theatre can be a cut-throat e do it in dark alleys and not l l o ys before da in the and C business crowded taverns. Failing to e g a cop yright and Arts Council pay your bar bill or clear m I l ds n y bitter feu a great ma a f unding t your gambling debts tends i Thethreatof havinganeye pluckedout ifyou g i developed between pla ywrights. D betrayyour colleagues formsthe partof the to cause offence even if y r of ber a initiationoath intoseveralsecret orders– including r Shakespeare was a mem you are a spy. Marlowe had b i thehigherranks ofTemplarsand Freemasons– L e the School of Night – a shadow y a talent for getting himself r soit ismorethanalittleoddthatMarlowewas a e p organisation that included spies, killedby astabbin gtotheeye.Thenatureof into trouble and it’s quite s e k of the hisdeathmaypointtoward sit beinga sentatives a and repre writers feasible that he could have h S ritualisticmurder,and maybeit was r y among its rank s – and aristocrac e got himself involved in a fatal g meantas amessageto anyonewho l o to connections F certainl y had the hadthoughtsabout breaking fight thanks to an overuse of © therules. arrange for the elimination of one of his clever words and irony – a main literar y rivals. faux pas that is still punishable with physical violence in some English pubs today. flourishing in Elizabethan England Among the man y secret societies that were ed that Marlowe drew on Masonic were the Freemasons. It has long been suspect y a member of the order. While being imager y in his pla ys and was almost certainl pla ywright, it would also career as a a Mason probabl y helped to advance his his role of spy. Marlowe ma y have have given him access to insider inf ormation in of secrec y to the organisation. His made the foolish mistak e of breaking his oath erestimating just how much murder ma y have been the consequence of und Masons value silence.
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“ARGUMENT RAGES OVER WHETHER MARLOWE WAS KILLED BY ENGLAND’S ENEMIES, BY ITS DEFENDERS OR BY SOME OTHER CLANDESTINE ORGANISATION”
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MOZART
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
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ONE OF HISTORY’S GREATEST COMPOSERS DIED PENNILESS, WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY AGAINST HIM?
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enius may bring its blessings, but it also brings its fair share of enemies. No one knew this more than the brilliant composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A child prodigy by the age of five, his musical gifts brought him more pain than joy.Whilehis work is heralded today as the finest that classical music can offer, in his time he was openly reviled, with several of his contemporaries plotting his destruction. History may have given him fame but in his lifetime he knew no such comfort. Mozart, perhaps the
greatest composer ever known, died penniless, past childhood. Mozart was not a favourite his remains buried unceremoniously in with the Viennese court, and his work a common grave in Vienna. received lukewarm response from Born in Salzburg, Austria the public, if it was played at in January 1756, Mozart all. By 1790, Mozart’s debts quickly displayed his were staggering, and his musical gifts: by health was extremely the age of four, his fragile. The following Mozartwas initiatedinto aVienneseMasonic father had arranged year, he was secretly Lodgeat theageof18, withhisfatherjoiningshortly harpsichord lessons commissioned, thereafter.Curiously,despitethe connection,Mozart for him; by five, he by a mysterious wasdenied membershipto theVienneseSocietyof Musicians. Alsointerestingto notewas that was composing his stranger, to compose hislast publicperformanc e wasa cantat afor own music; by the a Requiem. After thededicationof hisMasonic Lodge’s time he was six, his finishing writing The newtemple.Coulditbethatthe Freemasonswere behindhis final Magic Flute , Mozart father took the young commission, andtherefore Mozart on a performance threw himself obsessively responsiblefor thedeathof tour of Vienna and Munich. into writing this mournful oneoftheirown? By the time he was 15, he was piece. But fate (or a force more concertmaster of the Archbishop of sinister) intervened, and Wolfgang Salzburg’s orchestra. The future seemed Amadeus Mozart died on 5 December 1791 to belong to the extremely gifted young man. in Vienna; the Requiem was unfinished and the But there were stranger who commissioned it disappeared into personality conflicts the shadows of time. Mozart was only 35. between the Archbishop and Mozart – the fact that Mozart wasn’t paid for three years may have been one The identity of the stranger who commissioned reason. In 1781, he left the Mozart’s final work has never been revealed. prestigious (but poorly Theories point to an anonymous woman in black paid) position and went to or to a man dressed all in grey. No one ever came seek his fortune in Vienna. forward to admit to commissioning the Requiem. There, the poor relationship Mozart was obsessed with the piece, and many he had had with the Salzburg feel that this obsession drove him to his death. court continued with the Viennese composers. This became so bad that Mozart’s father complained While “miliary fever” was diagnosed as the to Emperor Joseph II that cause of Mozart’s death, the truth was that the the other composers were attending doctors were unsure why he died. He deliberately ensuring that a suffered a range of unconnected complaints, composition of his son’s was from toothaches to lethargy, but nothing pointed not being performed. conclusively to one cause of death or another. YetMozart persevered, The official diagnosis of “miliary fever” was despite his difficulty in getting perhaps nothing more than a face-saving way for paid and his inability to spend the doctors to say they simply didn’t know. money wisely. His marriage to Constanze Weber was fraught with financial difficulties and tragedy – of their six Mozart was a sickly man almost from birth, children, only two survived plagued with one ailment after another. The question isn’t why he died when he died, but why he didn’t succumb sooner. Modern Rock me Amadeus! Mozart was an physicians have suggested he died of uremia unparalleled musical caused by kidney disease. As for jealous rivals, genius, Freemason and a man with many enemies. why murder a man whose work rarely played?
An t o n i o Sa l i e ri
A court composer, it has been w idely rumo ured ( and ev en cited as f act in th e film Am ad e u s ) that Salieri w as ter ribly jealous of Moz ar t’s gif ts and upset by his ribald w ay of life. Salieri may have commissioned the deadly Requiem himself , k now ing f ull w ell Moz ar t’s f ragile health and the cost the w ork w ould ex a ct upon him. He may hav e f e w ith Moz ar t dead lt that his ow n w ork w ould receiv e the attention h e f elt it deserv ed.
FACT OR
FICTION?
Co u n t v o n W al e s g g z u St u p pa c h
A commemorative plaque in the Czech Republic, was appreciated across the globe.
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T he C ount w as an amate ur musician w ho ma y have w anted more his talent w ould allow glor y than . T he theory runs that the C ount disguised hi the my ster ious str anger mself as , hoping to pass off the fi nished Requiem Mass ow n w ork . T o ensur e as his that Moz ar t w ould n ot dispute this, he plan Moz art poisoned. ned to hav e
Un k n o w n V i e n n e se c o m po s e s r
Moz ar t’s w or k easily outsh one the w ork of his contempor aries: Hand said that Moz ar t w a el himself s the greatest composer that had ev er liv ed. w ith Mozar t’s hit-and-mis How ev er , s approach to success, c oupled w ith the cut-throat w or ld of cour t commissions and appointments, per haps someone simply decid ed to ev en the field a bit. If Moz ar t’s health had been better and if he had learned to man age his life better , he w ould hav e been unsto ppable.
THE stranger
Or c o u l d i t h av e b e e n …
T h e M a s o n s
Moz art w as a Freem ason, but his dissolute lif esty le may hav e been cons idered a liability they no longer w anted to suff er . It is also r umour ed that they w er e none too happy w ith hi s Masonic-inspired oper a T he M ag i c F lu t e for giv ing aw ay one t oo m any of their secrets.
MEDICAL confusion
Di s r u n t e g l d B l a c k Ma i c ia n i n t h e C o u r t o f E m p g e r o r Jo s e ph A story sur vi v es of an army general in Josep h’s
cour t complaining Moz ar t’s lack of cour about t decor um to the Em peror . T he Emper or replie that he could get a gen d eral any time he w ished, but he w ould nev er get another Moz art. T his could hav e led to someone in the cour black magic to k ill Moza t using r t, leading to the conf usion among doctor concer ning his death. s
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A jealous rival of Mozart, Salieri was a powerful intriguer at the court of Emperor Joseph II.
“THE REQUIEM WAS UNFINISHED AND THE STRANGER WHO COMMISSIONED IT DISAPPEARED INTO THE SHADOWS OF TIME”
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RASPUTIN
RASPUTIN THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MAN WHO CONTROLLED THE RUSSIAN ROYAL FAMILY, AND HIS UNTIMELY DEMISE
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he Russian Royal Family at the turn of the 20th Century was completely dominated by the charismatic power of a defrocked monk- turnedpsychic-healer-and-fortune-teller Grigori
and authority, demanded extortionate bribes in return for persuading the Tsarina Alexandra, the Empress, to favour certain courtiers, business people or plans of action, and charged great sums for dispensing his “healing” among the lesser nobility. He was already a national scandal by 1911, and by 1915 had become the Tsarina’s chief advisor. He also had a voracious sexual appetite, and would frequently demand sexual intercourse from both men and women as part of the payment Perhapstheoddest featof Rasputin’ssurvival for his services – ishiscapacit ytoconsumesuchahugedoseof cyanide.Equallyas strange,though, is anartefactthat often insisting that surfacedinParis inthe Sixties– Rasputin’smummified he sleep with the penis.One observerdescribedit as“like a blackened teenage child of a banana,abouta footlong”.Thereisno recordof anyof theconspiratorscastratingtheir victim, supplicant, if such however.The bodypart wasfeaturedin the were available. He also RussianMuseum ofErotica,howeverno had no end of groupies testshavebeen carriedoutand many suspectit’smorelikely to come available, partly because of froma horse. his power, and partly because of his rumoured abilities in the bedroom. His exploits outraged the general public, but the Royal Family was totally under his spell. Reports from the time suggest that his powers of healing and precognition were both entirely genuine. Letters from Alexandra to Rasputin also hint that he was having an affair with her. Finally, a cabal of Russian nobles decided Rasputin’s influence was corrupting the state, and that he had to die. Led by Prince Felix Yusupov, the cabal lured the healer to a private party hosted by Yusopov, where he was murdered, on 30 December 1916. It was too late to save the reputation of the Royal Family, and shortly afterwards the revolution swept away the old order.
T h e m ai n su s p e c t s
Yefimovich, known as Rasputin. Theformer holy man possessed the power to maintain the health of the Tsar’s son, Alexei, who was dangerously anaemic. The hold this gave him over the Russian Royal Family is well documented, and Rasputin used his influence to great personal gain. That the “Mad Monk” greatly destabilised the Russian imperial government is a matter of historical fact. He used his influence to put his followers in positions of power
a t ar i u al Av S pi r t healing and t Raspu tin genuinel y did possess the the mos t common theory is tha
Perhaps ity to mesmerise ranted to him, including the abil precogniti ve powers that histor y has g i t was this tha t led to his gain his posi tion of au thorit y, and women. He used these po wers to in fact a spiri tual tin was t Raspu c t tha f a derived from the being murdered. The powers were a va tar or genuine saint.
FACT OR
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FICTION?
INVINCIBILITY
Grigori Yef imovich AKA Rasputin, AKA The Mad Monk.
The tale of Rasputin’s death certainly lends credence to his healing powers. Arriving at the party, the holy man was placed in front of a banquet laced with enough cyanide to kill a dozen normal men. One conspirator, a medical doctor called Lazovert, prepared the poisoned food. Rasputin became suspicious that Yusupov was not eating When the monk failed to show any ill effects from his feast, the Prince panicked, and shot him at close range. He was also shot by Grand Duke Pavlovich, the Tsar’s nephew.
Rasputin pictured with his chi ldren. to ha ve in herited his immortalit y.
Enraged but still seemingly mobile, Rasputin chased Yusupov out of the house and into the courtyard, where a gang of conspirators beat him to a bloody pulp with hefty iron chains. Dr Lazovert examined the monk, and declared him to be alive, so they wrapped him in the chains and dumped him in a hole cut into the ice of the River Neva.
FIGHTING death Rasputin’s frozen corpse was finally retrieved several miles down-river from where it had been dumped. He had shaken loose of his chains, and had been trying to claw his way out of the ice from the inside when he had finally succumbed – after having been totally submerged in freezing water for at least six hours.
MAN or machine? It is just about possible that the poison was old and ineffective, that the gunshots failed to hit any vital organs, that the beating was mostly surface damage, and even that the cold of the river Neva slowed tissue damage from oxygen starvation so much that Rasputin was able to revive for long enough to lock his fingers in the ice. But if he was so precognitive, why did he not foretell the danger of taking Yusupov up on his invitation?
tal k no wn to medie val Europe as Rasputin was in fact the immor thing the wa y for the Russian the Coun t de St Germain, smoo follo w i ts proper course. When y could revolution so that histor a ter and unable to tunnel out, he found himself s tuck in the w a t the bes t course of ac tion was Raspu tin/St Germain decided th ug ou t o f the Ne va b y the to f eign dea th and lie low. He was d From a shallow gra ve, he found conspirators, and hastily buried. mies were certain he was t. His ene ou tunnel i t rela ti vel y easy to is escape. Rumour sugges ts dead, so he was free to make h having spen t the Angeles, in Los be tha t S t Germain may now g Communism to an end. Eighties in Eas tern Europe bringin
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ad er t y was no t a resul t o f ps ychic abilit y a t all. The healer was ac tually an n v tural Al i en i vitali
Raspu tin’sunna to indulge himsel f in a f ew e xplora tion team who decided alien, a rogue member o f a small e assassina tion his ph ysiolog y was di fferent to ours, th years o f orgiastic amusemen t. Because t sunligh t tha t killed him, direc lack of e xposure to it was end, In the ffective. t ine was almos o x ygen. no t the low temperature or lack of
“HE USED THESE PO WERS TO GAIN HIS IS POSI TION OF AU THORI T Y, AND I T WAS TH D” DERE THA T LED TO HIS BEING MUR d um ped in to the river from dea th for some t ime.
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JACK THE RIPPER
JACK THE RIPPER
s sp e c t T h e m ai n su
WHO WAS BEHIND THE KILLINGS THAT TERRIFIED A NATION AND REMAINS UNSOLVED TO THIS DAY?
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he mystery surrounding the Jack The Ripper murders in 1888 has fascinated and tantalised criminologists, conspiracy buffs and Hollywood producers for more than a hundred years. Theories and counter-theories have arisen, mutually exclusive “authentic” diaries, confessions and notebooks have been discovered and published. It is doubtful whether anyone will ever be able to provide a definite answer. On Friday 31 August 1888, Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols was murdered. Her death was followed by that of Annie Chapman on Saturday 8 September, then by Catherine Eddowes and Elizabeth Stride on Sunday 30 September, and Mary Kelly on Friday 9 November. Their throats were cut and their bodies mutilated; the internal organs were often removed with surgical precision and carried away from the scene of the crime. Mary Kelly, who was three months pregnant, was found naked, with her clothes piled tidily on a chair nearby. It is also possible that there was an earlier victim – Martha Tabram, who was murdered on Tuesday, 7 August. Elizabeth Stride may not have been killed by the Ripper. All six women were prostitutes in The mortuar y photo of Ripper victim Mar y Ann Nichols.
the East End of London. Some commentators add three more women to this total. The Ripper used a fairly consistent modus operandi. When the victim lifted her skirt she was grabbed and throttled to unconsciousness, then laid on the ground. Once the woman was lying down, her throat was cut, and in most cases one of the victim’s internal organs was removed, presumably as a trophy. The degree of precision exhibited in this procedure suggests that the Ripper had medical training; in one instance, a kidney was removed frontally, without damaging any of the other organs. This would require some skill in an operating theatre, and would be very hard indeed at night, in the dark, under the pressure of being in a public place with the corpse of someone you have just murdered.
er t Vi ct o r Pr i n c e Alb
was very close to a doorway over which the message “The Juwes are the men That Will not be blamed for nothing” had been written. Senior police officers felt this would spark anti-Semitic riots in London and throughout the country, so erased the message. The odd phraseology and strange spelling has sparked suggestions that it was actually a Masonic message, and the police erased it to hide the fact.
ALBERT
FICTION?
In 1970, Dr Thomas Stowell claimed to have found documents WhenStowell’sclaimfound widespread that showed Prince attentionhe triedto retract hisevidenceand denied Albert’s doctor thathe hadimplicatedPrinceAlbert.However, William Gull was Stowelldiedbefore hisretractioncould beprinted andhis familyimmediatelyburnthis notesand seen more than papersbeforehis claimscould beverified.They once in the alsoburnt allevidencerelatingto Stowell’s Whitechapel area careerasa Freemason.Itmaybe a coincidence,but hedied onNovember on the nights of the 9,1970,theanniversaryof Mary murders. They also Kelly’sdeath. detailed how policemen and a medium had visited Gull to make enquiries and that Gull had confessed. Stowell believed this was a brave attempt to protect the real Ripper – the insane, syphilitic Prince Albert Victor.
Mary Kelly, final victim of J ack the Ripper.
Scotland Yard’s files show that two notes were received by the Central News Agency from a person claiming to be the Ripper, one entitled “Dear Boss”, and the other “from Hell”. Both were strangely written, and took a boastfully gloating tone. Most researchers into the matter doubt that either were actually written by the murderer. A chunk of diseased kidney was also sent to a Whitechapel vigilance committee with a letter that claimed the organ was from Catherine Eddowes. While there was no way of knowing for certain, the damage to the kidney was consistent with the effects of the particular disease from which Eddowes suffered.
A message On the night of 30 September, police officers found a piece of Catharine Eddowes’ apron that the Ripper had used to wipe his knife. This
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FACT OR
The grandson of Queen Victoria, Prince Albert Victor (k nown as “Edd y”) was a mentally subnormal youth, described b y one royal commentator at the time as “a gleaming goldfish in a crystal bowl”. Edd y seems lik el y to have been an occasional homosexual – a criminal off ence in Britain at the time – and died in 1892. Rumours suggested the cause of that death was syphilis. His madness is supposed to have been the spur cy led him to murder prostitutes, and f ear of scandal led to a conspira that he y suggests hushing up the Prince’sguilt. An alternative theor ma y have got one of the prostitutes pregnant. When she tried illed to black mail the government, she and her friends were k by royal agents in a manner that would distract investigators from the real reason for the deaths.
A true nightmare Jack the Ripper has become an archetypal nightmare figure and moved beyond the realms of unexplained murderer into Legend of the Night. A whole myth-making industry has grown up around the case, which is served by distorting the facts and lengthening the shadows. Given this, it is not surprising that conspiracy theories continue to proliferate and yet still fail to find a truly convincing solution to possibly the world’s most famous unsolved crime.
A map of Whitechapel shows the locations of the first seven Ripper murders.
s T u m b el ty Dr F ra n ci
An American doctor, Tumblet y was strongly suspected by John Littlechild, head of the Secret Department at Scotland Yard during the investigations. The doctor fled back to the USA, and Scotland Yard sent detectives to interview him.
Or c o u l d i t h a v e b e e n …
Dr R s o y l n D’On s to n St e ph e n s o n A heav y- dr
ink ing oc cu lt ist w ho w ent t o t he polic e w it h his ow n t heor y t o ex plain t he Ripper and his mur der s, t he doc to r ended up bec oming a su spec t himself in some theor ist s’ey es due t o the disc ov er y ma de by aut hor Mabel C ollins in 189 0 w h ile c ohabit ing w it h St ephenson. She c laims t o hav e f ound sev e n bloodst ained t ies used in the mur der s. T his possible ev i denc e ended up w it h England’s most f amous oc cu obt ained t hem lt ist Aleist er C fr om Mabel’ s lov ro w ley af te r he er , V it to ria C re mers.
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V ic tor ian London w as also plagued w it h anot her noto – Spr ing-Heeled rious Jac k Jac k. T his st ra nge figur e, w ear ing a and a helmet , c o r mour , c loak uld allegedly jump ov er buildings. He w hundreds of w itnes as seen by ses and hunted f or by a v igilant e none ot her t han E f or ce led by ngland’s most fam ous soldier W elling f eel t hat Spr ing-H ton. Some eeled Jac k w as an int er dimensional t he t rue Ripper. inv ader and
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HISTORICAL
HITLER
HITLER WAS ONE OF HISTORY’S MOST EVIL UNDER THE CONTROL OF SATANIC FORCES?
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Adolf Hitler,
Chancellor of obody Germany, is welcomed is in any by supporters at Nuremberg in 1933. doubt that Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, was one of the most evil and dangerous men to have come to power in all of human history. The legacy of death and suffering that he left behind him is staggering. Approximately 6 million Jews were slaughtered, primarily in death camps, as part of his “Final Solution” – almost two thirds of their world population. It is also important to remember he murdered a large proportion of Europe’s population of gypsies, Seventh Day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Socialists. During World War II, some 60 million soldiers were mobilised across Europe, the Americas, Russia and the Far East. Almost a third of them were killed. The total death toll for the war has been estimated around 52 million people – 18 million soldiers, 16 million civilians killed in military action, and 18 million people murdered in the death camps. Hitler lurked behind all this death, the lynch-pin of the entire war. These facts are horrific enough that surely no conspiracy can compete – but there are suggestions that Hitler’s ultimate goal was not In 1919, disgusted by the way that the German to unite Europe under his rule at all, but government had “thrown away” World War simply to cause widespread death to I, Hitler joined the Thule Society, appease his Satanic masters. which at that time was led by The Brotherhood of Death Dietrich Eckart. When the is the name given to a Brotherhood of Death rumoured world-wide began their ambitious coalition of primarily plan to reshape society Satanic organisations. in a more controllable TheUSA toohas asociety withthe logo Each organisation form, their end goal oftheBrotherhoodof Death– Yale ’sSkull and Bonessociety,rumouredto havebeenstarted in has, as its logo, the was the surveillance the1800sasa USlodgeofa Germ anunive rsityskull and two crossed and monitoring basedsociety.PresidentGeorgeBush Snrbelonged bones, the emblem we of an increasingly tothis group,as didmany importantfigures inAmericansociety andpoliticalcircles.Although associate with pirates. isolated and malleable noone’s claimingthere arelinks between The German branch population. Europe was thatsocietyand theNazi Party,it certainly of the Brotherhood of identified as a potential raisesthe questionof thesymbolism oftheskullandcrossbones. Death was allegedly the flash-point for a useful Thule Gesellschaft, or Thule war. Germany, having just Society. Centred on a semilost a major war, was ripe for mythical land from ancient times, destabilisation, and Hitler, whom the legend of Thule shares certain features with Eckart believed to be the Antichrist, was that of Atlantis. The land of Thule is supposed to chosen as the obvious leader to initiate the have been the cradle of the Aryan race. gigantic conflict and death required. This would
to Hitler’s rise. Once he was in power, it was frighteningly simple to steer the world into a gigantic war, with the death camps providing the incredible amounts of magical energy needed to change human consciousness forever.
BLACK magic Eckart’s final act was said to be Hitler’s initiation through an astonishingly sadistic black magic ritual that left the Nazi leader impotent. From then on, Hitler was forced to seek sexual fulfilment through sadomasochistic release, and it was this blow that indirectly forced him into becoming the greatest monster we have seen for over 100 years.
A job well done On his deathbed, Dietrich Eckart is said to have announced: “Follow Hitler; he will dance, but it is I who have called the tune. I have initiated him into the Secret Doctrine, opened his centres of vision, and given him the means to
“THE THULE SOCIETY WAS ABLE TO MANIPULATE THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE AND BRING THE NAZI PARTY TO PROMINENCE”
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scar the human psyche so deeply that people would become paranoid and withdrawn, and once isolated they could be manipulated into giving up autonomy to the Brotherhood and its evil masters. The Brotherhood of Death believed firmly that contact with ancient powers of spiritual evil – the Devil – was not only attainable but very desirable, and that by following the dictates of their master, they could achieve great earthly power. They used sexual perversions and practices to fuel their magical operations, which made their spells and rituals phenomenally powerful and opened channels of communication to the forces of evil. By tapping the power of evil, the Thule Society was able to manipulate the consciousness of the German people and bring the Nazi party to prominence. By appealing to the basic human psychological programmes of hatred, fear and greed, the Nazi party was able to divert the current of evil into the minds of usually decent people, and foster the political climate that led
communicate with the powers.” Given that society continues to get more fragmented, violent and subjugated by television, despite the fact that it is in no one’s interests, not even those of the world governments, the Brotherhood of Death could be said to be doing a particularly effective job.
A theory TOO far To dismiss the Holocaust and the evils of the Nazi empire as a simple tool for generating magical energy seems somewhat offensive to those who died. In addition, the circumstances surrounding the rise of the Nazi Party are well understood in sociological terms – tragic, but hardly mysterious.
s s p e c t T h e m ai n su Sa t an he Bro therhood t po wers o f spiritual e vil are behind t
If ancien a ft, then tha t rather implies o f Dea th and the Thule Gesellsch own propensit y f or the De vil. Gi ven the De vil’s well-kn even t that his at in the likely th it seems misdirec tion, lose ou t along wi th plans succeed, the Brotherhood will ever yone else.
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ten ty is of This age-old German secre t socie Ma fia though t to control e veryone from the ti were ina to the K nigh ts Templar. The Illum ders in the power behind man y occult or e been pre-war German y and may hav . It is t-master puppe te Hitler’s ul tima r was recorded that Heinrich Himmle ed to closely in volved with socie ties link ti. ina the Illum
e en … t h av e b Or co u l d i s o f Z i o n T h e Eld er
The leas t credible and perhaps mos t o ff ensi ve theor y is tha t the or Elders o f Zion were responsible f the ac tions o f the Nazi party. B y causing a massive depopula tion o f Je ws, the England-based group would have less diffi cul ty in claiming to be the inheritors f of Moses’w isdom. The horrors o the Holocaus t would also breed sympa th y for all causes even tangen tiall y related to Judaism.
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WHAT HAPPENED TO RUDOLF HESS?
WHAT HAPPENED TO RUDOLF HESS? THE STORY BEHIND A BIZARRE OFFER OF PEACE DURING WORLD WAR II
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here are many strange stories surrounding World War II, but few are stranger than that of Rudolf Hess. In many places, the story of Hess reads more like a lost Monty Python sketch than the historical details of the activities of a high-ranking member of Hitler’s Nazi party. Born in Alexandria, Egypt on 26 April 1894, Hess fell under the spell Adolf Hitler was weaving over Germany when he first saw him speak in Munich. Hess joined the Nazi party in 1920, becoming close to Hitler, whom he idolised.
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This idolatry led Hess to join Hitler in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 when Hitler attempted to take over the reins of power of Germany. Instead, they ended up in Landsberg prison. Hess acted as Hitler’s secretary in prison, taking slavish dictation as Hitler composed Mein Kampf . Released from prison in 1925, Hess followed Hitler as he built his Nazi powerbase, continuing to act as his secretary. As Hitler finally attained the power he so desperately craved, in 1932, he appointed Hess Chairman of the Central Political Commission of the Nazi Party. Hess was also made a general in the SS for good measure. As Hess continued to follow Hitler with the blind devotion of a puppy, he was rewarded with the position of Deputy Führer in 1933. Hess was determined to do what he perceived best for his beloved Führer: he would negotiate peace with England, by himself, without telling anyone. Borrowing a Messerschmitt Bf-110,
r o f Wi n ed so Ho u s earch un dertak n b y L ynn
New rese Pick ne tt, Clive Prince and others sho wed that there was subs tantial evidence tha t the K ing’s bro ther, the Duk e o f Ken t, was actively in volved in Hess’s peace mission. The y also proved tha t in 1941, the British peace part y included mos t o f the t Ro yal Family. This has gi ven a sho ts in the arm for conspirac y theoris was deepl y Windsor of House e k that th who thin Winston Churchill implica ted in the Hess a ffair and that t in 1942. of Ken e the Duk f th o arranged the dea
FACT OR
FICTION? Whileimprisonedin Britain, Rudolf Hesskept complainingthat hefelt his foodwasbeingpoisoned.Thiswasjust chalkedup toHess’s instability,but if hewere beingdrugged,his food wouldbe theleast conspicuous formof administering poison.
“HESS PARACHUTED INTO SCOTLAND, MET A BEWILDERED FARMER, AND TOLD HIM HE HAD AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR THE DUKE”
Hess flew across the North Sea on 10 May 1941. He was headed for Scotland, to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, a casual acquaintance he had met at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Hess parachuted into Scotland, met a bewildered farmer, and told him he had an important message for the Duke. His peace plan was considered ludicrous by Churchill: that if England let Germany have Europe, then England would be left alone. Disowned by the Nazi party, and considered half-mad by the British authorities, a disheartened Hess was thrown into prison. He was transferred to Germany for the Nuremberg Trials in 1945, where his mental instability was readily apparent. He was sentenced to life in Spandau prison, and reportedly committed suicide by hanging himself in 1987 at the age of 92. Or did he? Theories have sprung up that the man who died in 1987 was not Hess, but a body-double. Questions have also arisen as to why a man so obviously incompetent was considered such a threat to British authorities.
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s T h e m ai n su s p e c t
BODY double Dr Hugh Thomas, who cared for Hess in Spandau, stated repeatedly that his patient was not Hess, citing the absence of the scars that Hess should have had. This would back up the claim that the man locked up in Spandau prison was simply just a body double for Hess.
Did the Duke of Kent have a hand
e en … t h av e b Or co u l d i y ci e t Vr il So or y s ta tes Hess was kep t
This the he imprisoned b y the Germans because t Nazi held vital inf ormation abou t secre cult Vril Antarc tic bases opera ted by the oc p Nazis Socie t y, which included many to his sounds among i ts members. Al though t that mbered be reme bizarre, i t should of MI6 James Bond crea tor and member ter at mas nded th Ian Fleming recomme ad the occultist Aleister Crowle y should le in terrogation o f Hess.
THE Evidence Karel Hille, a Dutch journalist, claimed to have files that had been stolen from M16 by none other than Sir Maurice Oldfield himself, ex-head of MI6. The files proved that the man who died in Spandau was not Hess, but a body-double. Anyone see a theme?
A victory? The world actually managed to jail a highranking member of Hitler’s Nazi party? Surely this is a case where we should be acknowledging success rather than dig for a story.
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POLITICS 094
THE pentagon A MASONIC TEMPLE?
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WHO REALLY CALLS THE SHOTS?
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WATERGATE THE SCANDAL THAT ENDED A PRESIDENCY
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Ho w d id Sad da m st a y i n po w er fo r so l on g?
INVASION of iraq WAS THE WAR JUST A SMOKESCREEN?
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GEORGE bush snr WHAT IS BUSH SENIOR HIDING?
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GEORGE bush jnr BORN TO BE PRESIDENT?
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t k no w an Di d R o s o ev el t ? a t t a ck wa s i m mi n en
HILLARY clinton CAN HILLARY BE STOPPED?
“ROOSE VEL T K NE W PEARL HARBOR WAS GOING TO BE A T TACK ED, BU T HE ALLO WED I T TO o t p an y t hi n g s HAPPEN” Can e co m in g Hi ll ary b Pr esid en t ?
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TRILATERAL COMMISSION
THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION
Jimmy Carter hosts a meeting of the Trilateral Commission in 1978.
A GROUP THAT COULD BE BEHIND EVERY MAJOR DECISION ACROSS THE GLOBE…
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ormed in 1973 by private citizens from North America, Europe and Japan, the Trilateral Commission was born to create closer Henry Kissinger, ties between member of the Commission? the three geographical areas and to share leadership responsibilities on a more global basis. One of the principal founders of this was David Rockefeller, the wealthy American banker. Apparently inspired by Prof. Zbigniew Brzezinski’s book Between Two Ages , in which Brzezinski proposes an alliance between North America, Western Europe and Japan, Rockefeller went about trying to establish such
T heor ies abound that the Freemason s c ont rol t he agenda of t he T r ilater al C ommission , shaping its dec isions and i nfluenc es on glob al policy to ensur e t ot al Fr eema son dominat ion of t he Ear th By slow ly mov ing t . he w orld int o t he st raitjac ke t of t he New W or ld Or der , t he Freemason s c ould, by c ru shing all dissent under t he t ight rules and brutalit y of t h e NW O, finally ac hiev e their ult imat goal. It ’s unsur pr e ising that the Freem asons should be link C ommission of c o ed w it h t he T ri lat er urse, as if y ou believ al ed ev ery th t hey c ont rol pr et ty mu ing y ou hear abou t t hem, c h ev er y suspic ious gr oup or organisati on.
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NO photos…
Given that the Trilateral Commission’s membership includes some of the most important and powerful names in the worlds of politics, business and the media, many conspiracy theorists find it had to believe that their role is purely consultative. The theorists feel that US presidents, world leaders and other members of the globe’s power elite would not find time in their schedules to attend something that only serves as a talking shop – especially when the mysterious lack of media attention on the Commission means that they do not even get the chance for a photo opportunity.
ALL quiet There is a curious lack of media attention surrounding meetings of the Trilateral Commission, which seems extremely odd considering the profiles of many attendees. In a world where the President of the United States is bombarded with flashbulbs and microphones when he does something as innocent as walking his
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an organisation in reality. With a membership Commission is nothing more than the political supposedly gleaned from the elite echelons power behind the formation of the New World of society, the Trilateral Commission is said to Order, according to conspiracy theorists who be composed of some 335 prominent believe that the Commission has one figures in the media, politics, aim: to wipe out all political academia and business. sovereignty on Earth and place Its membership is its people under the rule supposed to have included of one government and such dignitaries as Paul one bank. Others see the Volcker, erstwhile head Trilateral Commission of the Federal Reserve as a group that is merely TheCommissionrenews itselfevery threeyears.In 2003itupdatedits System; Akio Morita, chief trying to ensure that global agendaconcerni n ginternationa l executive officer of Sony; financial interests (such interdependenceto oneof Count Otto Lambsdorff, as those of AT&T and the globalisation.Timely,giventhe increase inforcesopposing Rockefellers) are protected. leader of Germany’s Free thisgrowingtrend. While hiding behind a mask Democratic Party; Henry Kissinger, and Bill Clinton. Top of benign kindness, the Trilateral executives of such companies as Commission’s real aim is not to AT&T, Pepsico and the Chase Manhattan protect the interests of the lower classes Bank, among many others, are also members. but to convince people, subtly, that they must The Trilateral Commission meets once a bow to the needs of the banks and corporations... year, in Spring, to discuss world problems and hopefully to come up with solutions. The Do the links between the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve Bank run deeper than the Rockefeller family connection?
T h e m ai n s u s p e c t s
T h e Il l u m i n at i
Another my st erious , shadow y gr oup that is f eared t o be behin in all gov ernment d t he sc enes s, the Illuminat i is another candidat e T ri later al C ommission f or r unning t he . Lik e the Freemason s, t he Illuminat i’ s goal domination, of c o ur se. is tot al global
Or c o u l d i t b e … dog, it’s interesting to note that when he attends a meeting of the Trilateral Commission, it barely merits a mention on the evening news. Despite the Commission’s insistence that it is merely a “discussion group” and that all of its discussion papers are available to the public, this shadow over its activities is disquieting. Considering how President Clinton could not control the media circus over the Lewinsky affair, where does the Trilateral Commission get its power to muzzle the media when it sees fit?
JUST an excuse If there were going to be a New World Order, would the Trilateral Commission even have to exist as a public entity? While it can be argued that the best place to hide is in broad daylight, which could be the Commission’s credo, why create such an organisation that would inevitably lead to suspicion and fears of conspiracy? In an age of encrypted communications and underground government bunkers, there is no need for the power brokers of the world to meet in full view of a suspicious public to discuss their future enslavement. There is every evidence to suggest that the Trilateral Commission is nothing more than an excuse for rich people to get together, swap stories, drink expensive wine, and maybe sneak in a few rounds of golf. Perhaps world domination isn’t their goal: maybe just getting away from the office is.
Al i e n s
Acc or ding t o t his v iew , an un-named alien pow er is t r yi ng to tak e ov er the planet . It is w or k ing in c on junc tion w it h t he T ri later a l C ommission, t he Bilder bur ger Gr oup, and the C ounc il of For eign Relat ions. C learly , conquest w ill be muc h simp ler for t he aliens onc e all gover nment s, and all ar mies, hav e fir st been absor bed int o t he single New W orld Order . T hose w ho w ork w ith t he aliens w ill be spare d t he hor ro rs that ar e due to befall the r est of us.
K n g i h t s T e m pl ar
T he high number of banker s and finan c ier s inv olv ed in C ommission hav e the T rilat er al c onv inc ed some t hat t he gr oup w as pu t he behest of the t together at K nights Templar, t he w orld’s fir st t ruly bank er s, w ho st ill inter nat ional sec ret ly organise all t he sec re t muscle in of global business. t he w or ld T he C ommission serv es to help t he T emp k eep the w or ld’s p lar s olit ic al c limat e at th e right level f or t r emain solid w ith heir c ont ro l to pr ofits booming.
“MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND POWERFUL NAMES IN THE WORLDS OF POLITICS, BUSINESS AND THE MEDIA”
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THE WATERGATE SCANDAL
THE WATERGATE SCANDAL
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DO WE REALLY KNOW THE TRUTH BEHIND THE EVENTS THAT BROUGHT DOWN NIXON?
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atergate is the most famous political conspiracy of the modern age. The exposure of attempts to cover up a failed conspiracy led to Richard Milhous Nixon becoming the first US President to resign from office. It gave new meaning to the term “Deep Throat” – now an anonymous source of classified information as well as a sexual act – and no current political scandal is complete unless it is given the “-gate” tag. In 1995, when renowned conspiriologist and film maker Oliver Stone produced Nixon – starring Anthony Hopkins as the unfortunate President – he was not the first theorist to speculate that Watergate was only the visible surface of a much larger and more sinister plot. Like Stone’s other conspiracy-fuelled opus, JFK , the film was condemned by those it portrayed and by the establishment – a sign taken by Stone’s fellow conspiriologists to or th e main m an be hind the break i n a t Wa terga te?
Nixon’s code phrase for the John F Kennedy assassination. Dorothy Hunt, the wife of one of the key players in Watergate, E Howard Hunt, may have been blackmailing the White House and have demanded more than a million dollars to keep silent about information that would “blow the White House out of the water”. Many conspiriologists believe that there is photographic evidence to suggest that Hunt, a long-time CIA agent, was one of the famous “Three Tramps” photographed on the grassy knoll immediately after the shooting of JFK.
T he scandal s urro unding Waterga te led t o N ixon President t o d o so.
A deadly plan
suggest that it may have contained a great operative. Over the next few months, what deal of truth. initially appeared to be a third-rate The facts regarding the outer burglary quickly escalated into layer of Watergate are well a full-blown political scandal. established and form the Nixon’s involvement in the basis of the official version conspiracy to cover up a of the scandal that is conspiracy led to America’s even taught gravest constitutional crisis Amysteriousletter writtenbyLee in schools – and climaxed with his HarveyOswaldon 10 November1963, hasbeenthesourceof muchheated one of the few resignation as President on debate.In thisnoteOswaldasksa conspiracies 9 August 1974. “MrHunt”fora jobwithin his that the However, in the national organisation.Additional evidence forHunt’srole in education system aftermath of distrust following theJFK affair? Watergate, conspiracy theorists acknowledges. In the began to examine the details of the early hours of 17 June case. They discovered an assortment of 1972, James McCord – a man with numerous links to the CIA – led facts that suggested the real reason behind the a group of four anti-Castro Cuban downfall of Nixon was a conspiracy to hide the exiles in an attempt to burgle the truth about the assassination of President John Democratic National Committee F Kennedy. Headquarters. The burglars were discovered and arrested as they attempted to tap the telephone system in the Watergate office and hotel On the Watergate tapes that provided the complex in Washington DC. damning evidence of his involvement in the Charges were also eventually laid cover up of the original burglary, President against two more people: G Gordon Nixon says: “Look, the problem is that this Liddy, finance counsel to the President [Watergate] will open up the whole Bay of and the power behind Nixon’s Pigs thing again.” John Ehrlichman, Assistant Committee to Re-elect the President to the President for Domestic Affairs, who (CREEP); and E Howard Hunt, a served 18 months in prison for his part in the former White House aide and ex-CIA conspiracy, has admitted that “Bay of Pigs” was
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In December 1973, a United Airlines flight crashed near Chicago Midway Airport. On board was E Howard Hunt’s wife Dorothy. One of Hunt’s fellow Watergate conspirators, Charles Coulson, made a statement to Time magazine claiming that “the CIA killed Dorothy Hunt”. Unfortunately his claim may not have been pure paranoia – the pilot of the flight was found to have a quantity of cyanide in his blood that could only have been there if he had been poisoned. Another odd element to the crash is that Dorothy Hunt was carrying more than $250,000 in “hush money” when she boarded the plane, but only $10,000 was recovered with her body.
FUEL for the fire Watergate traumatised the American psyche and its scars run deep. The events, which started with that “third-rate burglary”, have been described as the root cause in America of the current distrust of government as well as the tendency to believe in conspiracies. Hardly surprising, then, that Watergate set off further speculation into the JFK assassination.
Director of CIA counterto 1974, James Jesus Angleton is suspected b y man y of being the mastermind behind JFK ’s assassination. His uncharacteristic refusal to help Nixon cover up the White House involvement in the burglary definitely helped seal Nixon’s fate. Was Angleton willing to sacrifice a President to hide his involvement in the “whole Bay of Pigs thing”?
T h e Mafia
had strong It is well established that the Mafia and their Cuban allies John F link s to the CIA and probabl y pla yed a part in the death of anti-Castro o ur e that f K enned y, so it is probabl y more than coincidenc the role of rglars. If Watergate bu the among Cuban exiles were of being high-placed mobsters in the JFK conspirac y were in danger or wanting exposed by Watergate, the y would have a solid motive f Nixon to tak e all of the blame.
Or c o u l d i t h av e b e e n …
F e d e ra l R e s e r v e B a n k
Lee Har ve y Osw ald’ s w idow has point ed t he finger at t he US Federal Reser ve Bank ’s my st er ious r ole in the JFK aff air . A pr iv a t e c orpor ation t hat c ont rols t he c re at ion of all Ame r ic an money , the Fede r al Reser ve Bank ( FRB) is ow ned in par t by t he Roc ke fellers. Giv en t hat t he hug ely influential T ri later al C ommission w as set up by D av id Roc ke feller in 19 73 , some hav e c on jec tured t hat t he FRB had t he financ ial musc le t o st age and politic al W at ergate t o depo se Nix on – a poss plans f or w or ld d ible obstac le in ominat ion. it s
H o wa rd H g u h e s
In 19 72 , ec ce ntr ic mil lionair e How ard Hughes ask ed t he W hit e House t o send the t eam that ev ent ually bungled the W a t ergat e burglar y t o br eak int o t he offic e of a La s V egas new spape r edit or , Hank Gr eenspun. T heir t ask w ould hav e been t o st eal c er ta in papers that f or med allegedly dev ast at ing blac k mail mat er ial. Giv en that som e hav e link ed Hughes and his fellow oil bar ons w i th N ix on and a plot t o k ill JFK , his role in W at ergate is suspic ious t o say t he least .
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Mark Felt was later revealed to be Deep Throat, the whistleblo wer.
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ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR
ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR The surprise attack happened just half an hour before dawn on a Sunday morning.
DID ROOSEVELT ALLOW PEARL HARBOR TO HAPPEN SO AMERICA COULD BE PROVOKED INTO JOINING THE WAR?
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here are crossroads in time – nexus points – when the actions that take place have the potential to shape the course of history on a grand scale. The events that took place before dawn on Sunday 7 December, 1941, at Pearl Harbor form such a nexus point. They influenced not only the course of World War II, but also the way world history unfolded. The infamous “sneak attack” by Japanese forces on Hawaii resulted in 2,403 American deaths and 1,178 wounded servicemen; 18 ships, including three battleships, were sunk and 188 aeroplanes were destroyed with a further 162 suffering severe damage. By contrast, the Japanese lost only 29 planes, five midget submarines and 64 men. The direct result of this
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 Americans.
allegedly surprise attack was a US declaration European affair, and that Britain, Russia of war on Japan, which immediately and Germany should be left led to Hitler supporting his Asian alone to sort it out without allies – an act that finally any American lives being brought America into the put at risk. Conspiracy war against the Nazis. theorists, and some However, some historians, feel that of America’s most Roosevelt knew Pearl TheUS Navyin PearlHarborwas laughably respected historians Harbor was going under-preparedforthe attack.Shipswere tiedup side-by-side and,despiteradaroperatorsin Hawaii have joined forces with to be attacked, but reportingthat Japaneseplaneswerecoming, noone the conspiriologists allowed it to happen tookany action.ThreeAmericanbattleshipswere they usually refer to as as it would give him sunkintheattack,butby 1941battleshipswere obsoleteandthe aircraftcarrierwas thepinnacle “delusional paranoids”. the perfect excuse ofnavalpower.Itmaybe significantthatno Both groups suggest for declaring war on Americanaircraftcarrierswere basedat that the real reason why Japan – an action that PearlHarborduringthe attack– the majorityof themwere Pearl Harbor should be his intelligence services 3,000miles away. remembered is because it was had told him would provoke the tragic outcome of a massive an identical response from conspiracy to ensure that the US joined Germany on the US. Britain as a full combatant in World War II. By 1941, the US President, Franklin D Roosevelt, was faced with a massive and seemingly insurmountable political problem. In 1941, Roosevelt had been warned by his He wanted America to become involved in admirals that cutting off the supply of petrol to the war with Germany but US public opinion Japan was likely to involve the US in a Pacific was unsympathetic – Americans felt it was a war. In July Roosevelt cut off those petroleum
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spiracy is the Presiden t The mos t ob vious suspect in the con to bring America in to himsel f. I t is no secret that he wanted eld back b y domes tic the war wi th Europe, bu t was being h t he had the po wer to n t tha tion mea His posi political concerns. t the US would no t ha ve manoeu vre e ven ts in such a way tha r. aggresso as the to fire the firs t sho t and be seen
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supplies and began to withhold intelligence information about Japanese activities from Army and Navy officials based in Hawaii. The governments of Britain, Holland, Australia, Peru, Korea and the Soviet Union all warned the US that a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was coming, so it is even more odd that this information was not passed on to the military in Pearl Harbor.
SNEAK attack In 1932, a joint Army-Navy exercise saw Pearl Harbor being successfully “attacked” by 152 planes half an hour before dawn on a Sunday – catching the defenders completely by surprise. This was duplicated in 1938, so there can be no doubt that the military knew the potential risk to Pearl Harbor. Furthermore, the US had cracked the top Japanese Naval and diplomatic codes – a fact not lost on a top-secret Army Board. In 1944 the Board reported: “Numerous pieces of information came to our State, War and Navy Departments in all of their top ranks indicating precisely the intentions of the Japanese including the probable exact hour and date of the attack.”
INCOMPETENCE It is hard to be sceptical over many aspects of the Pearl Harbor conspiracy, but it is also hazardous ever to underestimate the levels of incompetence that can be achieved by some of the people entrusted to run their country.
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in certain sec tions There is a widespread belief , a t least is a powerf ul Angloo f the conspiracy field, tha t there tionship” ermined to k eep the “special rela American cabal in opera tion det ritish in telligence services, members o f the American and B in e xis tence. Belie ved to in volve the cabal may also have iticians, ance and top pol and fin iness from bus figures jor ma as well as ver up the impending a ttack . He could ha ve been ins truc ted to co coun ted Roose velt as a member fend Britain. ld be brough t into the war to de on Pearl Harbor so that the US cou
e en ... i h av e b Or co u l d t y rms of the lend-lease n i t m m uerica und t to Am i an k i n g co er can b T h e Am er the te e o f Pearl Harbor, Britain was in deb aying
A t the tim no chance o f her e ver rep ted by German y there would be agreemen t. If Bri tain were def ea erican bank ing communit y had t. There fore, members o f the Am the vast loans she had tak en ou hind the y and ma y ha ve pulled s trings be a vested in terest in British victor than financial suppor t to scenes to ensure America len t more their clien t.
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America t Roose velt was secre tly a bias ha ve belie ved for some while tha mak es him a vi tal member o f communist. Their con jec ture also nists, which conspired f Commu o an alleged In terna tional League man y. America’sen try to the to tak e the US in to a war with Ger d Europe, bu t to Britain an crac y in war would no t be to sa ve demo is t s ta te, the So vie t Union, ensure tha t the world’s first commun f the Nazi war machine. was not crushed b y the migh t o
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GEORGE W BUSH
BRINGING BUSH TO POWER WAS IT INEVITABLE THAT GEORGE W BUSH JNR WOULD ONE DAY BE PRESIDENT?
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eorge W Bush might not have been born to be president as some claim, but the moment he decided to run for the job, he was destined to play a huge role in the theories of many conspiriologists. Even mainstream media, with headlines such as “Born to Be King” and concerned editorials, continue to raise the fact that if the next president is Hillary Clinton, two families will have run America over the last 27 years or more. A large section of the public, as well as hardened conspiracy buffs, sense that there was more to the election of the son of former President George Bush than the quirky workings of democracy. Suspicions about how he came to follow in his father’s footsteps are only intensified by the frankly dubious way in which he triumphed in the presidential election against Al Gore and the strange sense that fighting a war in Iraq seems to be a bit of a Bush family tradition. Bush Jr has a conspiracy pedigree second to none. Before he even became President, his
Was an ything going to stop Bush leading the US? It seems losing even stop him.
father was suspected of being involved in the by more than half million votes. assassination of JFK, Watergate, the Iran-Contra However, Bush was installed scandal and the attempted assassination of in the White House due to the Ronald Reagan and announced the creation result in Florida – a Republicanof a “New World Order” on the White House controlled state, where his lawn. His grandfather – Prescott Bush – made a brother, Jeb, was governor – that fortune from Nazi money laundering activities swung the Electoral College. while Bush Jnr profited from his oil companies’ Amid lost votes, faulty voting links to Bin Laden’s brother in Saudi Arabia. machines that counted a vote for Within minutes of announcing his candidacy for Bush, even when a voter selected president, conspiracy theorists were speculating another candidate, Bush’s chance online that the coming election would be fixed of becoming President hung in for a Bush win, a new war on Iraq would be the balance as his lead dwindled started and the government would gain further to a few hundred votes in Florida. Al Gore began pushing for a powers – all predictions that seemed to have recount, so Bush supporters in Miami started to been accurately fulfilled. The only thing they disagreed about was who was pulling the strings riot. The prospect of spreading violence helped behind the scenes. The assumption was that influence the US Supreme Court to a 5–4 ruling a man famous for making statements such as, on stopping a state-wide Florida recount and “I know the human being and fish can coexist therefore making Bush the President. However, peacefully”, and “It’s clearly a budget – it’s got it later emerged that the “Brooks Brothers’ a lot of numbers in it”, was not the brains Riot” – named after the preppie style of the behind any plot to gain control of the protestors’ clothes – was led by so-called White House. rioters who were paid by Bush’s The first prediction of election committee. Thus a conspiracy to fix the the organisation spent $1.2 vote exploded in a very million to fly operatives to public way when the Florida and elsewhere, Democratic contender and a fleet of corporate “BoyGeorge”,as manyconspiracytheorists for President Al Gore jets wasassembled, havetakentocallinghim,wasso worriedabouthis won the national vote including planes pastsurfacingthathe hireda privatedetective to owned by Enron, investigatehimself.No detailsof whatthe detective foundhaveemerged,apart fromthe factthatas then run by Kenneth oneperson ofthe Bushcampaignteamsaid, Lay, a major backer “Nohandcuffsor dwarforgieswere found.” of Bush. One of the However, GeorgeBush’sprivatedetective mightbe alittleworriedasfourother rioters, Matt Schlapp, independentinvestigatorslooking into even ended up as special hispastalldiedinsuspicio us assistant to the President. circumstances.
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Like father like son? A case of spot the diff erence as Bush Jnr emulated f ather and took America into war against I raq.
T h e m ai n s u s p e c t s
T h e Sk u l l an d Bo n e s
Democrac y in a c tion? George W hite Ho use w as d ecided in his brot her w as G overnor.
Once in the White House, the conspiracy community, mindful of the words of David Rockefeller that, “We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crises and the nations will accept a New World Order,” speculated that something akin to the aborted Operation Northwoods would soon materialise to allow for a war in Iraq and a clampdown on civil liberties. Northwoods was a secret military plan. It was sanctioned by the joint chiefs of staff but never given presidential clearance to create a public and international climate for an attack on Cuba by hijacking planes, blowing up a US ship and even committing terrorist acts in US cities and then blaming them on Fidel Castro.
LIMITS to freedom Post 9/11 it was not long before the other elements of the conspiracy theorists’ earlier predictions began to take shape. The President – who once said, “There ought to be limits to freedom” – brought in the Homeland Security Act. Among other things, this allows for secret arrest and detention, mandatory vaccinations while giving vaccine manufacturers immunity from prosecution and for the monitoring of all personal communications and financial transactions – even library records. So there was no surprise when the war against Iraq materialised on the basis that Saddam Hussein was readying weapons of mass destruction to attack the Western world.
THE real winner Unofficial recounts by news organisations found that if all the legally cast ballots in Florida had
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Lik e f ather lik e son, George W Bush is working on behalf of the Y ale-based Skull and Bones secret society. Aside f rom performing strange rituals ak in to eso teric Freemasonry mixed occult Nazi ceremonies and obtaining black mail material on all members, their aims remain well hidden. Howev er, with two recent presiden ts and a host of America’s ruling elite coming f rom within their rank s, their connection to power is obv ious.
CIA an d Am e r c i an o i l c o m pan i e s
As the CIA shaped the direction of his father’s life and presidenc y, it is not unreasonable to believ e that the CIA and their real pay masters in certain American oil companies are repeating history and pulling the strings of “Duby a ”. W ars benefiting US oil companies in Af ghanistan and Iraq, and mor e power and money f or the CIA have been noticeab le outcomes of George II’s time in t he W hite House.
Or co u ld t i h av e be e n… T h e Br i t s i h R y o al F am y i l
America’s position as the most power ful, democratic country ev er to hav e existed in world history is a clev erly constructed illusion. T he Bush family is part of a network of bloodlines owing loyalty to the Brit ish monarchy who just pretended to lose the war of America n Independence. The President’s real job is to advocate policies that ensure the continuing success of the secret British Empire and bolster the finances of the House of W indsor.
R e pt i li an ali e n s
George W Bush is the latest in a line of puppet rulers installed in positions of power by reptilian aliens from the Draco sy stem, who hav e been secretly running most of the world since 4000BC.
“A CLEV ERLY CONST RUCT E D ILLUSION” been counted, Gore would have won Florida and thus the Presidency. American citizens now have less freedom than at any previous time in their history. Despite spending more than $500 million post the second Gulf War on weapon inspection, no evidence that Saddam Hussein had massive stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and was planning an attack has been produced to back up the official reasons for the war.
MINI me Did Dr Evil take over the world and has everything we experienced just been part of his cunning plan – including Mini-Me sitting in the Oval Office? It makes as much sense as some other George W theories. On the other hand though, Bush’s path to becoming President certainly raises a few questions.
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THE RISE OF HILLARY CLINTON
THE RISE OF HILLARY CLINTON WILL REMOVING ANY OBSTACLE IN HER PATH LEAD HILLARY TO THE WHITE HOUSE?
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hen Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on a major televised interview that she and her husband Bill Clinton, were “victims of a vast right-wing conspiracy,” she became the most famous supporter of a conspiracy theory in the world. But if she thought her shattering accusation, which stunned the American media, might gain her some sympathy and support from the hordes of conspiriologists who took an interest in her career, she was very mistaken. Hillary’s favoured conspiracy theory saw her and her husband being attacked by a dark network of right-wingers. The conspiracy took in everyone from the editors of British tabloids to television evangelist Jerry Falwell. In her mind, the media interest in the Monica Lewinsky and Paula Jones sexual harassment charges against Bill Clinton and long-running investigation by independent counsel Kenneth Starr into the Whitewater scandal were “politically motivated”. G Gordon Liddy, one of the key players in the Watergate conspiracy, used his regular radio show to disclose that he used pictures of the First Lady for target practice and called her a “broomstick-riding witch”. Most conspiracy theorists, however, disagreed that this was proof of evil forces working against her. They were much more interested in digging out details surrounding a large number of people who had known or worked with Hillary and had subsequently died in suspicious circumstances. Compiling what became known in conspiracy circles as the “Clinton Body Count”, researchers were startled to find that being a friend of Bill or Hillary Clinton seemed to be one of the most dangerous occupations on the planet. This was definitely the case if you had been involved in the Whitewater investment scandal or possessed evidence about the state
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of their marriage or love lives. When President her campaign to run for President. However, as Clinton and his wife were finally Hillary continues to make political progress, cleared of acting illegally in the the doubts produced by the “Clinton Arkansas land deal that became Body Count” refuse to go away known as Whitewater, it was entirely. Could someone in a large part down to the actually be silencing those fact that many of the key who could embarrass her witnesses were dead. The and prove an obstacle Whitewater land deal to America’s First Lady A pollconductedamongthousands was a failed Arkansas making history as the first ofAmeric ansto findoutwhothey property venture in which female occupant of the thoughtwasthemostevilpersonof the Clintons were involved Oval Office? themillenniumsaw Hitlercome infirst, butamazinglyHillary when he was Governor of appeared insixth the state in the Eighties and position. Mrs Clinton was a partner in a local law firm. Alongside two of the most After the highly convenient deaths, notorious suicides in the annals of the evidence that remained, “was insufficient to conspiracy research (those of investigative prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that reporter Danny Casolaro and Vince Foster, either the President or Mrs Clinton knowingly former White House councillor, and colleague participated in any criminal conduct”. However, of Hillary Clinton at her Little Rock law firm), according to the final report, “troubling the shooting of Mary Caitrin Mahoney may have questions remained over aspects of the deal” and spared Hillary some further blushes. Mary was a “the Clintons should have known that something former White House intern and her death came was wrong with their investments and made just days after it was rumoured that she was statements that were factually inaccurate”. It planning to disclose the story behind her sexual was highly fortunate for Hillary that no charges harassment. She was killed, along with two were brought against her as it would have almost Starbucks employees, in a Washington branch stopped her becoming a Senator for New York of the coffee chain in a reputed robbery where and using the position as a stepping stone for nothing was taken. Mahoney was shot five times;
“AS HILLARY CONTINUES TO MAKE POLITICAL PROGRESS, THE DOUBTS PRODUCED BY THE “CLINTON BODY COUNT” REFUSE TO GO AWAY”
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one of the shots was to the back of her head, gangland execution style. FBI agent Bradley Garrett arrested Carl Derek Cooper for the three murders and after 54 hours of questioning by Garrett and another agent, Cooper signed a confession that he immediately repudiated as soon as he got to court. Garrett was later put in charge of the Chandra Levy case.
TAKE her down Former Democratic National Committee fundraiser Ron Brown was a close associate of Hillary. When he came under criminal investigation and indictment seemed imminent, Brown reportedly told a confidante that he would, “take her down with me”. Days later, his plane crashed on the approach to Dubrovnik airport during a trade mission excursion to Croatia. Unable to draw firm conclusions, some military forensic investigators were alarmed by what appeared to be a .45-calibre bullet hole in the top of Brown’s head.
Next stop the Wh ite House? Where will Hillary political ambitions take her?
CONSPIRACY queen Self-claimed victim of a vast conspiracy or perpetrator of one to kill anyone who could harm her chances of claiming the Presidency? Even if Hillary left politics behind and went to join a nunnery, there’s a strong chance that nothing would change – she would still be the second most name-dropped woman in the conspiracy field, just behind Queen Elizabeth II. And if she becomes President, she might get that top spot.
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As a st udent , Hilla r y suppor ted a r af t of ex tr eme c auses, inc ludin g t he Blac k Pan t her s, and at te nde ev ent s or ganised d by admir ers of c ommunism. Som suspec t that t he e f or mer r adic al fir ebr and w as r ec t o join t he sec r ru it ed et iv e c ommunis t c adr e – t he Fo Int er nat ional. Alle ur t h gedly c re at ed by T r ot sk about through st y t o bring ealth a global c ommunist st at e c ould be t he Fou , Hillar y r th Int er nat ional’s m ost c ommunist in t lik ely c hanc e of p he Ov al Offic e ut t ing a sec re and st ar ti ng the U t t ow ar ds soc ialism S on an inc rem . ent al pat h
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Hillary is a sec re t lesbian, her mar ri age t o Bill polit ic al c onv enien a sham ar ra nged c e, C helsea C lint f or t heir mut ual on a hir ed c hild aim of Ms Rodham ac to r and t he ult imate is nothing less t han t o bec ome t of the USA. Ac co he fir st f emale Pr rding t o this line o esident f c onspirat or ial thou w oman for a f asc ght, Hillar y is the f ist feminist lesbi ro nt an gr oup k now n also inc ludes C h as “ Th e Sist er hood”, er ie Blair . Onc e Hilla w hic h r y is in t he W hit w ill use t he massiv e House, T he Sist e pow er s of the Pr e r h ood e side mat riar ch nt t o inst igat e a al dic tat or ship. c oup and begin a
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Ev en t hough she w as not elec te d t o any offi c e t er ms as Pr esiden , during her husb t, Hillar y C lint on and’s t wo t ook c ont rol of U inst igat e r adic al c S healt h polic y an hanges in t he healt d tr ied t o h-c ar e sy st em. Seei t heir ow n doc to r s and medic a ng fr e edo m t o c hoose l insur anc e pr o t ak en out of t heir h v i ders ands, some w ere c onv inc ed t hat Hillar y w as w ork ing on beh alf of the Medic Est ablishment to al f ur ther c onsolidat e its c ont ro and enhanc e it s l pow er of lif e and deat h. W it h Hillar y ’s suppor t f or medic al ex p eriment at ion and c loning, they f ear new medic al hor ro rs w ould be guar ant eed if sh e ev er made it t o t he highest k posit ion in t he c land. o t s k n i h T ©
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Di d Mo ssad a ssa ssi n a te a Pr im e Mi n i ster ?
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THE royal family
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WHO’S IN THIS ELUSIVE GROUP?
REBUILDING THE BRITISH EMPIRE
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AN ARMY OF SECRET SPIES?
HAVE THEY REALLY GONE FOREVER?
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THE templars
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FREEMASONS NEW world order
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THE kgb
THE mafia HOW POWERFUL ARE THE MOB?
DO THEY STILL EXIST…
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THE kkk MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE?
A TRUE UNITED NATIONS
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Do es MI6 h av e plan s ro l t h e wor ld ? t o co n t
DO THEY POSE A GLOBAL THREAT?
DO MASONS RUN THE WORLD?
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MOSSAD INSIDE THE ISRAELI AGENCY
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BILDERBERG group
THE vatican THE POWER OF RELIGION
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THE cia CAN ANYTHING BE COVERED UP?
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NASA DO THEY KNOW WHAT’S OUT THERE?
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“THE DEATH OF DIANA PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON THE FAMILY WITH A GLARE NOT SEEN BEFORE”
Ar e t h e Il lu mi na t i b eh in d ev ery t hi n g?
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THE ROYAL FAMILY
THE ROLE OF THE ROYAL FAMILY DOES THE MONARCHY HAVE PLANS TO REBUILD THE BRITISH EMPIRE, AND WORLD DOMINATION?
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he dramatic, everchanging story of the Royal Family is perhaps the longestrunning and most enjoyed soap opera the world has ever known. Watched and adored by millions around the globe, the everyday routines of the British royals have become the stuff of dreams and form the material for endless discussion. When a major life event occurs in the Royal Family, whether it’s a wedding or a birth, it becomes an excuse for international celebration. They are the Royal Family, and their lives take precedence over the perceived mundanity in the lives of their fans. In its current incarnation, the British Royal
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Family stems from the House of Windsor, a family tree that can trace its roots to Germany. Under the stern eye of Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen Elizabeth II is among the richest women Royal Family has endured much in the in the world, and is still head of the past few years, but the death of British Commonwealth, a glaring Diana, in 1997, put the spotlight anachronism in the days of on the family with a whiteblurring national boundaries hot glare not seen before. A and international culture. world mourning the loss Instead of being relegated of Diana, its most beloved to a secondary position of ThecurrentDuke ofKent ishead ofthe princess, watched to see tradition, she still exerts BritishFreemasons, asecret societylong how the family would a considerable amount of thoughttobe involvedin thebackroom react. But even as the power, but uses it discreetly, machinationsof worldgovernment. Could thispointtotheRoyalFamil y memorial flowers that had proving that there’s more to havinglinksto someofthe mounted against the security the Royal Family than they’d mostpowerful people fences surrounding royal have us believe. onEarth? homes were finally swept away, the story continued to unfold. Images of Diana and other members of the Royal Family are sold on everything from books and There are many people who don’t feel as though videos to commemorative tea towels. the Royal Family have any place in today’s But behind the smiles and waving hands, society, and they would make up any stories to behind the castle gates and power of British be heard. tradition, just what is the Royal Family truly up to? What dark secrets lay hidden in their palatial closets? Are they really just nostalgic figureheads, or, like their plotting, politically-vicious predecessors, are they busy planning to seize power and create a renewed British Empire?
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The wreckage of the most famous car crash in history.
Some theorists isation the m ysterious Virginia Compan y – an organ f the that aims to run the world. The f all from grace o ro yal family could have been a cleverly orchestrated plans their public relations campaign to disguise a refor world domination – which is nothing short of Empire. While the y continue establishment of the glor y da ys of the British the ro yals secretl y eccentricity, dignity and of reserved image to pro ject an securit y f orces like the manage all ma jor bank ing institutions and top-level the American y planned yal Famil the Ro that K GB. There are even rumours n over America’s shores. Revolution, and that to this da y, the y still rule sovereig
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an it seems – an ongoing The current Ro yal Family ma y be nothing more th ro yalty opening paint f actories, media circus. The constant engagements of as the y pla y polo ma y newspapers giving speeches, or grabbing space in tion f rom the activities of be designed to distract media and public atten pirac y headed by kroom cons the British Shadow Government, an elite bac legislation in the House of ex-members of MI6. As their f orces quietly pass the coming of the New World Commons or test weaponr y that will f acilitate y showing Prince Harr y Order, the evening news pacifies the populace b getting his k nee scraped on a games field.
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Did the Royal Family feel Diana needed silencing, and an elaborate plan was hatched?
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When the Queen dramatically stopped the trial of Paul Burrell (Princess Diana’s butler who was charged with theft of her possessions), she created a scandal that more than rivalled any toe-sucking or lurid phonesex headlines caused by more junior members of her family. After it emerged that she had conveniently forgotten to tell police that Burrell was innocent until a few minutes before he was to take the stand, it also came to light that after Diana’s death, the Queen had told Burrell to be beware of “dark forces” operating in the country.
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The current House of Windsor could be a family of secret imposters who lack ed the apparently essential Bloodline of Christ. The y orchestrated the murder possessed alone she of Diana because, as a Stuart, first the true remnants of the Bloodline. Thought at to be easil y malleable to the policies of the Royal ch to be too mu t proved strong spiri s y, Diana’ Famil of a liabilit y, and she was removed in a badl yan y ould inflict before she c managed assassination more damage to the Windsors’plans.
Stories of weddings and royal babies could be used to cover-up more sinister news.
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“DIANA’S S TRONG SPIRI T PRO VED TO BE TOO MUCH OF A LIABILI T Y, AND SHE WAS REMO VED”
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THE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI
THE BAVARIAN ILLUMINATI
The Illuminati allseeing e ye on the US dollar bill.
THE FAMOUS SECRET SOCIETY THAT COULD BE BEHIND LIFE’S GREATEST MYSTERIES
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dam Weishaupt was born in Ingolstadt, Germany on 6 February 1748. Educated by the Jesuits, he became Professor of Natural and Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt in 1775, aged 27, and was initiated into the Masonic Lodge “Theodore of Good Council” in Munich, in 1777. He was a cosmopolitan man who despised the bigoted superstition of the priests of his time. He decided to establish an enlightened – or Illuminated – society to oppose injustice and this he did, forming the order that would become “The Illuminati of Bavaria” on 1 May 1776. Originally called “The Order of the Perfectibilists”, its object was to allow its members to team up in order to “attain the highest possible degree of morality and virtue, and to lay the foundation for the reformation of the world by the association of good men
to oppose the progress of moral evil.” In and by the end of the century it had apparently collaboration with a range of other influential vanished completely. The authorities illegally figures, including Baron Von Knigge, Xavier raided Xavier Zwack’s home in 1786 and the Zwack and Baron Bassus, Weishaupt developed documents that were seized were used to help an order that became extremely popular. suppress the order. Before long, some 2,000 people had enrolled as Most serious commentators take this decline members. Lodges of the Illuminati were located at face value. The Encyclopaedia Britannica in France, Italy, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, barely mentions the Illuminati, and the Denmark, Belgium and Holland. vast majority of historical sources The Bavarian authorities follow suit, judging the order issued a suppressive Edict to be insignificant. Others concerning the order feel that the Illuminati on the 22 June 1784, disbanded into Masonry, which was repeated a movement that was infiltrated in much the following year in Amongthelistof notablemembersofthe the same way as March and again in Illuminatiis thename MarquisSaintGermainde Constanzo.Thisseemslikelytobe TheMarquisde August. That same cancer takes over a SaintGermain,theman mostcommonlysuspected year, 1785, Weishaupt healthy body. Since ofbeingtheonlytrueimmortalknownin theworld . was stripped of his that time, they allege, Hehascroppedup asa sorcerer,an alchemistand awise manthroughoutmedievalhistory.It’s professorship and the Illuminati have evenclaimedby somethatRasputin was a exiled from Bavaria. stayed within the reincarnationofSt Germain.Who better Once it began to Masons, seizing power tohelp foundthe world’s most successfulSecretSociety? experience attempts and manipulating the at suppression, the order whole order. started to go into public decline
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STRANGE HAPPENINGS
Have boo ks a nd t he media fo und a w a y t o bring a tten tion bac k to the I llumina ti?
Adol ph F rei herr Knigge e ven t ua ll y f e ll o u t wit h Weis ha u p t a nd s us pec ted him o f being
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In 1906, the British Museum in London received a copy of a manuscript called The Illuminati Protocols . These first appeared in Bavaria in the late 18th Century, and Joly used parts in an 1864 play. The copy the British Museum received was written in Russian. It is also interesting that both Adam Smith’s capitalist treatise The Wealth of Nations and that great democratic treatise the American Declaration of Independence were written in 1776. It has been suggested that Weishaupt may have been the mysterious Black-Cloaked Man who presented Washington with the text of the declaration. It is also rumoured that the raid on Zwack’s house was spurred on by the chance interception in 1784 by the authorities of a document telling the head of the French Illuminati, Robespierre,
Xavier Z wack h e lped de ve lo p t he socie ty a longside Weis ha up t.
how to orchestrate the French Revolution in 1789. Warnings were ignored, and the revolution happened on schedule.
FREEMASON links In 1902 the Freemason William Westcott records receiving membership in the Order of the Perfectibilists from Theodor Reuss. Similarly, the occultist Eliphas Levi strongly connected the Bavarian Illuminati with Freemasonry in 1913.
A footnote There is, when you get down to it, no real evidence whatsoever to suggest that the Illuminati were anything other than a short-lived Bavarian secret society – just a lot of hearsay. If it hadn’t been for The Illuminatus! Trilogy the Bavarian Illuminati would still be an obscure sect lost in the footnotes of history.
“SINCE THAT TIME, THE ILLUMINATI HAVE STAYED WITHIN THE MASONS, SEIZING POWER AND MANIPULATING THE WHOLE ORDER”
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To achieve their goal, the Masons k new their real target – overthrowing all world government and organised religion in order to allowpeace and liberty to prevail – had to remain concealed. So, in order to avoid promoting hysteria against themselves, and as a wa y of dealing with criticism and exposé, the Masons created the Illuminati as a f ront organisation to take the blame for an y perceived d brilliantl y for misdeeds or shortcomings. It is a strateg y that has work e two centuries.
e… Or co u l d i t b t An t o n Wil son o b er er t Sh ea an d R R ob Robert Shea and Robert In the Seventies, Anton Wilson published a cult set of book s called The Illu min atus ! Tri logy . This was a novel masquerading as the largest conspirac y theor y ever seen, disguised as a grand exposé of the Illuminati. It is this book that has set the Illuminati back in the public mind. Of course, no one claims that the trilog y is anything other than a good work of fiction – or that Robert Anton Wilson is the current chief of the Illuminati . . . do they? ©Dellpublishing
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THE TEMPLARS
THE TEMPLARS
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A SOCIETY THAT WIELDED GREAT POWER BUT CAME CRASHING DOWN – OR DID IT?
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he First Crusade of the forces of Western Christendom to reclaim the holy sites of Palestine from Muslim forces took place between 1095 and 1099 AD. By the end of the war, the Holy City of Jerusalem had been captured, and the Kingdom of Jerusalem had been created. The Knights Templar was a monastic order that came into being some time around 1120 in Jerusalem in order to provide protection to the pilgrims from Europe visiting the Holy Land. Founded by a group of nine French knights, the order’s full title was The Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon. ©AlanFord
Within a few decades, the group the Papacy, so they were exempt from law. grew substantially and became an officially This same immunity allowed them to practise sanctioned Christian order backed by usury – lending of money for interest the Pope and by the combined – and they became major Monarchs of Europe. financiers to European kings. The order’s sponsor, and In the process, they created the man who drew up the a structure that would later codes of conduct and become the banking and oaths of poverty that finance industry. On19 March1314,thelastGrand the members followed, Perhaps making use of Masterof theKnightsTemplar,Jacques was Cistercian Abbot St their legal immunities, deMolay,was burntat thestake.As he Bernard of Clairvaux, the the Templars held secret died,he cursedKingPhilip andPope Clement.ThePope diedwithinfive chief spokesman of united meetings and rituals at weeksof theprediction,and Christendom, often called which the business of the Philipdied withineight Order was conducted. The “The Second Pope”. Because of months truth of what went on at these their members’ vows of poverty and the donations they took from meetings has long been debated, but the wealthy pilgrims they escorted, the whether it was Satanic worship or financial Templars quickly became rich. With wealth strategic discussions, the end was the same. came power, and back in Europe after the By the start of the 14th Century, King Philip Crusades, the influence of the Knights Templar “The Fair” of France was deeply in debt to the grew. Pope Innocent II had exempted the Templars. Rather than repay them, he chose to Templars from all authority other than that of conspire with the Pope, Clement V, who resented Templar influence. On 13 October 1307, Philip had the Templars arrested for Heresy, which allowed him to seize all their funds and torture the knights into confessing to a variety of bad deeds, including demonworship, possession of occult powers, trampling the Cross, and sodomy. On 22 March 1312, the Order was formally dissolved by Clement V’s Papal Bull entitled “Vox In Excelso”.
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governments and finance, the Templars have kept light hold on the reins of power, and still sit in the background of Western society, waiting for the right moment to reveal themselves again.
COMPELLING EVIDENCE One of the most compelling pieces of evidence for the continued existence of the Templars is the existence of the Templar Research Institute, part of a mysterious group known as CIRCES International Inc, a non-profit-based fraternal charity. According to its charter, the Templar Research Institute is dedicated to chivalry, but conspiracy theorists – as they usually do – have their doubts.
A believable ENDING There is no need to look any deeper into the mystery of the Templars than the obvious facts. A greedy King and an unscrupulous Pope wanted to get rid of their enemies, so they trumped up a load of charges and tortured the Templars for confessions, then shut the order down.
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T her e is a fair amou nt of ev idenc e to link t he T emplar s t t he Fr eemasons. Sev o er al Masonic degr ees and rites draw ex plic it ly on Temp lar imager y, and ev en use Templar titles Giv en t hat t he Ord . er fled t o Sc ot land and that ther e is a Sc ot tish R ite (or b ranc h; t he t hr ee Rite s ar e theor et ic ally separ ate organisati ons) of Freemason r y, t he T emplar s c ould w ell hav e bec ome the Freemason s, w hic h w ould leav e them st ill in pow er at the begi nning of t he 21st C ent ur y.
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T he famed Assassin s of t he Middle East w er e t he fight ing f orc e of t he Ismaili Sec t of Islam – r uled t oday by th e Aga K han. K now n t o w or k v ia infilt ra t ion, the Assassins may hav e c ompromised the K nights Templar dur ing the C ru sades as a w ay of gaining a f oot hold in t he W est ern w or ld – a f oothold on w hic h they hav e been building ev e r sinc e.
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Temple Church, London, was the location for Templar initiation ceremonies.
It has long been held that Freemasonry was formed from the dying embers of the Knights Templar. Many Templars fled from Europe to Scotland, where the Order was not suppressed. It is suspected that the Order survives to the present day, both within Freemasonry and separate to it as an individual organisation. Long used to manipulating The first headquarters of the Knights Templar, on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. ©
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WHO ARE THE FREEMASONS?
WHO ARE THE FREEMASONS? HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT, HAS THIS SECRET SOCIETY BEEN FORMING A PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION?
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nock three times. The Masonic Rites underpin one of the oldest, and certainly by far the most successful, of the secret societies. Potential candidates – those who would like to be admitted – have to find a known Mason and ask, on three separate occasions, to be considered for membership. Only after the third request is the Mason allowed to acknowledge having heard the plea. Admission to the Masons is rigorously policed, and while any member is free to admit their own membership, they may not reveal any other member’s name, or any ritual or decision
internal to the craft. In this way, the Masonic Rites have, for centuries, made sure that only the right people get in – but what sort of people are considered to be right? Certain groups maintain that Masonry is working to take over the world. There is no doubt that many important or influential people – politicians, policemen, lawyers, cardinals and bishops, media tycoons, celebrities and so on – are Freemasons. In many cases, it is a matter of public record. Bill Cooper, a major conspiracy writer, claims (perhaps somewhat
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Freemasons Hall, London, home of the United Grand Lodge of England.
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al, to which The m ystery traditions in gener ly used Masonr y traces man y rituals, frequent a person to fer re a ted” to “Illumin the term en to who was a member. This has been tak t’s Illumina ti, signif y a link to Adam Weishaup world who were o fficially announced to the ina ti on 1 Ma y 1776 in Ba varia. The Illum e ven ts for were supposedl y con trolling world and are s till hundreds o f years be fore tha t date, be under the in po wer no w. Could the Masons con trol of the Illuminati? o k l i a s ©
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think they are in control of the Brotherhood, is a powerful group who have “gone higher” and really pull the strings of the Secret Society.
George Washing ton and the majority of other founding fathers of America were high-ranking Masons.
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enthusiastically) that: “The Masons are major players in the struggle for world domination”. He goes on to say that the infamous Italian P2 lodge, implicated in the murder of Roberto Calvi, has connections with the Vatican and with the CIA. He also claims that P2 persuaded Pope John Paul II to admit Freemasons to the higher ranks of Vatican officials Many of his beliefs were based on fully provable links between the CIA, the Mafia, the Vatican, the British
Royal Family and Freemasonry. He also claimed it was possible to trace Masonic influence in the selection of political leaders of various ruling parties across the globe.
LESS holy It may or may not be significant that the Masonic term for non-Masons is “Profanes”, implying that the rest of us are less sanctified, or less holy, than they are. It seems a strangely intolerant term for what is a supposedly benevolent organisation.
POWER struggle Former 33rd-degree Freemason Jim Shaw revealed in his book, The Deadly Deception , that even the supposed highest level of Freemasonry is just a lower rung for another Freemason controlled pyramid-based power structure. Through his time as a high-ranking Mason, Shaw was able to gather convincing evidence that, at the levels kept secret from even Masons who
powerful people, the Masons are ew Wo rl d Or d er T h e N their numbers include so many
Because Order, being lynch-pins in the New World suspec ted b y some theoris ts of al population wi th no religion, a the mo vemen t towards a uni fied, glob y. chnolog cen tralised go vernmen t and limited te
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The great majority of Freemasons are respectable, DespitethefactthatsomeMasonsclaimthe upstanding professionals and originsof theBrotherhoodgo backto ancient business people with busy Egypt,therecanbenodoubtthattheceremonie sof careers and family lives, and KnightsTemplarhad ahuge impacton most ofthe ritualsconductedwithinFreemasonry. every year the Masonic lodges However, theelementsof Masonicritualdesigned donate a fortune to charity and toallowaFreemasontocontrolhis emotionsand charitable work. Many priests energies toperform magical featsdo seem toharkbacktoanevenolderperiodof and vicars are Freemasons, and history,so theremightbe sometruth the order is open to all religions. It tothis theory. seems unlikely that so many decent people are in fact working for Satan, and it is certainly hard to imagine exactly how helping to organise a school jumble sale is playing straight into the hands of Evil Forces. Apart from anything else, Masons have no reason to support the dark side in the hope of gaining favour – most of them are already successful before they join. Not only are the Masons probably one of the oldest and most successful secret societies, they are also the most-blamed by conspiracy theorists, which seems a little unfair given that they are ostensibly an organisation devoted to charity, brotherhood and the search for truth. But then, you don’t know if the Masons have made us write that…
The mos t popular accusation le velled at Masons is tha t they are in league f wi th the De vil. The hidden nature o t their ri tuals, along with the occul imager y emplo yed, has led many Chris tian groups to denounce e Freemasonry as working for th f orces o f Evil.
“COULD MASONS BE UNDER THE CON TROL OF THE ILLUMINA TI?”
It is e asy to see why the Freemasons are also known as the f unny handshake brigade.
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NEW WORLD ORDER The United Nations test f or one central global go vernment?
NEW WORLD ORDER DISCOVER HOW THE NWO PLANS TO UNIFY THE WORLD AND BRING PEACE AND HARMONY
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here is, within society, a highly organised cabal of world leaders, bankers, religious figures and business gurus who have a vision of a united Earth. These VIPs, along with certain powerful but secretive mystical adepts, and a smattering of seemingly ordinary people, form the leadership of the NWO, the New World Order. They – and their predecessors – have been manipulating world events for centuries in order to bring about their goal. The NWO has several very specific aims in mind. The peoples of the Earth must be united under one governmental body, sweeping away nationalist divides and replacing patriotic bigotry with belief in the common bonds of humanity. There is to be one currency, one language, one fair set of laws, and one race. Religion is another major source of conflict, so it is to be abolished. National armies will no longer be necessary in the New World Order, so they can be abolished too. Because pollution is destroying the biosphere, our consumption of industrial technology will have to be reduced, and we must get back to nature. Half of the Earth’s surface will be given back to nature for “rewilding”, so that we don’t kill the planet. Finally, universal education, contraception and certain tax incentives will allow the planet’s population to be reduced to just 2 billion, a third of its current size. It all sounds rather pleasant really, doesn’t it? Apparently not. There are those who believe that succumbing to the NWO’s outrageous plans would just be the start of
“NATIONAL ARMIES WILL NO LONGER BE NECESSARY IN THE NEW WORLD ORDER, SO THEY CAN BE ABOLISHED”
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a servile bondage so vile that it can barely television, AIDS, Kurt Cobain, Hiroshima, be mentioned. The fact remains that the and in fact everything else wrong with NWO is prepared to use any and the world. They are the “Them” all means necessary to achieve that we’ve all been talking its ends. The leaders of the about for so long. They are New World Order clearly prepared to kill any and see that society is almost all of us, if They killing the world, and have to, in order to if two-thirds of the save us. Somesurprisingpeople havebeentrying to Earth’s population exposetheNWO.Dr JohannesKoepplwasa special advisortothe GermandefenceministryandNATO has to be slaughtered haswarnedthattheNWOis realandtheywanta to save the remaining “take-overof worldgovernments”. Koepplis certainly third, then that is 2 ina posit iontoknowaboutthesethings,having madepresentations toboth theBilderberg billion lives saved, Groupand theTrilateral Commission. Not rather than 4 billion surprisingly,as soonas Koepplwent public needlessly wasted, or so withhis views,his politicalandmedia the reasoning goes. commentatorcareerswere suddenlyended. The New World Order has To help make the idea of long held a drive to terrorise one central government more and traumatise the populace into palatable, the NWO created the accepting one central government – this is United Nations, a prototype for the planned an easier path than using reason. The first political structure. In addition, they divided stage involves achieving a global infosphere the world into three significant power blocs, of media networks that can be manipulated. in the forms of NATO (the West), the Warsaw With the advent of the Internet and satellite Pact (the Soviet states), and SEATO (everyone communications, this has been achieved. else). These blocs were designed to provide As part of the drive to scare us, the NWO is sufficient tension that people would wish for directly responsible for both World Wars, unification, while also showing that countries global warming, heroin, crack, serial killers, could work within organisations larger than cancer, genetically modified food, daytime themselves profitably.
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THE TESTING GROUND
The North Atlantic Treat y being signed in Washington, D.C., on 4 April 1949
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Some see the Euro as one element of t he single global currency.
SINGLE currency The launch of the Euro, a common panEuropean currency, is another clear step to smoothing the way for integration. Despite the radically different natures of the European economies, one currency with a fixed value is supposed to be sustainable, a move clearly aimed at eroding traditional sovereignty. Furthermore, the euro is made up of dollars and cents, which is obviously to pave the way for a unification with the dollar early in the 21st Century.
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Given the difficulty that most governments seem to have merely organising their own internal financial flow, it would be astonishing if such a group of people – all of whom are going to have their own vested interests – could organise events in the world at large to such an amazing degree. If the Devil is behind it all, what does he care if we are one nation or 200?
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KGB
DOES THE KGB STILL EXIST? IS THIS SOVIET SECURITY FORCE JUST WAITING FOR THE RIGHT TIME TO TAKE ACTION?
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or many intelligence-gathering network the observers, world has ever seen. the true The KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy death knell Bezopasnosti) was responsible for of the Soviet defending the Soviet Communist Union was regime against internal and external heard in 1991 enemies. When the statue of its founder when an was destroyed, it was symbolic of the enthusiastic breaking of the hold the KGB had on crowd every Soviet citizen. During the Cold toppled the War, wherever there was a hint of statue of conspiracy there was also a rumour of Felix KGB involvement. Some conspiracy Dzerzhinsky and the air resounded with the buffs believe that the world’s largest sound of it shattering into hundreds of covert organisation did not pieces. For years his figure even owe allegiance to had looked across the square Communism, but that bore his name towards existed only to the infamous headquarters serve its own of the KGB – the mysterious Lubyanka. ends. Dzerzhinsky was In WhenRussianvoters backedPutinas President, the mastermind theory the theywere votingforanotherKGB creation. Heis aformer spywho alsoheadedthe FederalSecurity behind the Red KGB was Service– theoffi cialsuccessorof theKGB. Oftenseen Terror that allowed responsible onTV practisingthe martialartprowess thatcomes the Communists to the Soviet fromKGB training,no onehas discoveredhis exact rolewithintheKGBbetween1975and1989. to seize and hold Council of However, Putinhas spokenmore thanonceof on to power after Ministers; in theneed fora “dictatorshipof thelaw” and the overthrow of the practice it took someseehisruleasbeingmerely a KGBdry runbeforeZhirinovsky Tsar in the 1917 October its orders directly from the is installed. Revolution. He created the USSR’s ruling politburo – if Cheka secret police that over the it took orders at all. With the years mutated into the Committee of collapse of the Soviet Union and the State Security – more commonly known by the dismantling of the KGB in 1991, commentators initials KGB – the most dreaded and pervasive were quick to describe the organisation as “lost
I will be that dictator”, voting for him in presidential and parliamentary elections. With links to ultra-right groups in Germany, to the Russian mafia and even to Saddam Hussein, Zhirinovsky is a potential Russian Hitler with a huge arsenal of nuclear weaponry at his disposal – an arsenal he has threatened to use. Perhaps the most worrying fact is that Zhirinovsky was a secret KGB agent. Some of his former associates claim he is being prepared for power by the exleaders of the allegedly disbanded secret police and espionage agency.
RULE of the kgb Former president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev denies the accusation made by some conspiracy theorists that he instructed the KGB to create Zhirinovsky’s Liberal Democratic Party. However, he does admit the possibility that the former secret police are controlling Zhirinovsky. Gorbachev has stated: “Can the KGB create a whole party? Zhirinovsky is a remarkable actor; it is very important to find out who is directing him, who is behind him.”
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Vladimir Putin, the current Russian President, is just one of many Russian politicians who were former agents of the KGB.
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I t is well securi t y ts in the Bri tish go vernmen t and o f its a t tempt to place its agen t the a t the traffi c was two-way and tha ser vices. Ho wever, it is suspected th mmi ttee o f f the Co o adership hin the le Freemasons pene tra ted deep wit ists no w feel the y theor on trol of it. Some conspirac S ta te Security and managed to take c f a larger Masonic plo t to Russian Empire are merely par t o K GB and its plans to recrea te a achie ve world domina tion.
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Even som Hi tler. Behind many o the crea tion of Nazi German y and socie ties and occul t orders had on di is to s tay in arian Illumina ti – whose modus operan f the Bav c tre o is the spe these group n work through them. clandestine organisations, and the the shadows, tak e con trol o f o ther en tha t KGB? Giv the ge-old pat tern and sub verted Could the Illuminati have follo wed an a it could be that igh t- wing groups with f ascis t origins Zhirino vsk y has close links to German r . waiting g the KGB and the Russian Hi tler-in the hand o f the Illumina ti is controllin
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The So viet Law that saw the introduction of the KGB in 1954 .
to history”. Some conspiriologists are not so certain that KGB’s awesome, globe-spanning power has been brought to an end. To many it seemed suspicious that the KGB – which had controlled the Soviet population using fear and an extensive network of secret informers – had allowed the USSR to collapse with barely a pretence of opposition. Particularly as the KGB has a supervisory influence on the Soviet army. Conspiracy theorists believe that the apparent end of the Soviet Union and the KGB was merely a cover for an insidious KGB plot to consolidate its power and bring about an even stronger Russian empire.
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There is very little solid evidence of the KGB surviving the disbanding process. History shows that anti-Semitism and severe economic woe are sometimes all the reasons that are needed to explain the rise of a megalomaniac, would-be world dictator. But only time will tell what the future holds…
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nigh ts Templar, the Teutonic The Germanic protégés o f the K enden t principali t y Ordensland K nigh ts once con trolled the indep trac ts of Russia. Once the y los t their nd large Prussia a that co vered Finland, t socie t y Teu tonic Knights became a secre po werbase in the 14th Centur y, the t the Some conspiriologis ts believe tha de termined to regain the lost lands. the t when and, tha n po wer behind the Tsars Teu tonic K nigh ts were the hidde re volu tion and d the terminde trol, mas con Russian Ro yal Famil y became hard to nigh ts K tonic this conspiracy scenario, the Teu in fil tra ted the ne w secre t police. In scist state USSR and the K GB in order to f orm a fa staged the disin tegra tion of the trol. uppor t and there fore be easier to con that would have more popular s
RUSSIAN hitler Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has been sliding into anarchy. One of the main beneficiaries of this has been Vladimir Zhirinovsky – leader of the extreme nationalist Liberal Democratic Party. Millions of Russians have agreed with his statement: “What Russia needs now is a dictator, when I come to power
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Lubyanka Square in Moscow, with the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky front and centre.
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THE VATICAN
THE VATICAN COULD THE VATICAN BE HOME TO AN ORGANISATION DETERMINED TO CONTROL THE WORLD?
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he heart of the Roman Catholic faith can be found in the Vatican, the palatial home of the Pope, the spiritual leader of all Roman Catholics worldwide. The Holy See, with the surrounding Vatican City, exists as an independent papal state in Rome and is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic faith. It stretches over an area of 44 hectares, with an estimated population of 850 people. The Vatican is fully independent from Italy, with its own currency, its own radio station, and a police force. But even the most seemingly benevolent of institutions can be corrupted by the addictive taste for power. With its unbreakable dual hold of tradition and religion on the world’s millions of Roman Catholics, the establishment within the Vatican walls may have been corrupted by power, which has polluted the spiritual atmosphere with human greed. With the power and wealth
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FICTION? Forover 500years, papalcandidates hadtoundergothetestofthe sella stercoraria.Candidateshadto sitin a chairwitha holeintheseatso their genitalscouldbe examined.Once everyonewasconvincedof theirmasculinity, hecould becomePope.
LEAP of faith With millions of religious followers, it’s easy to suggest that the Roman Catholic church could use its power to persuade people into their way of thinking. However, it’s not surprising that they have some links to governments and highpowered individuals around the world, plus not everyone is motivated by power.
Being Pope is a dangerous job as the attempted assassination of John Paul II showed.
that the Vatican has amassed over the centuries, politics are unavoidable and may have taken precedence over the need to care for people. Few can say what secrets are hidden in the Holy See, but as the Vatican continues to put
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Mafia influe fluence role in man y aspects of the Vatican. This alleged in of Pope John came under close scrutin y following the death Pope Paul I. Assuming the mantle of Pontiff , the popular corruption almost certainly began to uncover deep levels of Mob through within the Vatican, including direct ties to the nd the the Vatican bank . Toprevent him taking action to e ma y have corruption, the Mafia and their men in the Vatican murdered the Pope.
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John Paul I was Church’s enormous wealth. These two instigating moves to redistribute some of the nd insiders within the Holy moves were enough to upset staunch conservatives a September 1978, a new Pope was See. After he was found dead in his bed on 28 ive than his predecessor. conservat a r more f was surprisingly, chosen – one who, not
P2 Ma so n i c L o d g e
When the body of the head of the Vatican bank , Roberto Calvi, was found hanging f rom Black friars Bridge in London in 1982, it blew the lid off man y sordid dealings within the Vatican. The incident also brought to light the power of the P2 Masonic Lodge. With members of the Mob, archbishops and top Italian politicians all involved with a group banned b y the Catholic Church, ul I’s death. An many wondered if P2 had been involved in John Pa been disastrous for investigation into their activities would have planning and IA agents; included C ip that them and with a membersh ability and power. carr ying out a conspiracy was well within the
ANOMALIES When Pope John Paul I died, he had allegedly been in bed reading papers that connected the Mafia to the Vatican. When he was discovered, the papers has disappeared. Furthermore, no public death certificate was issued. John Paul was embalmed just 12 hours after he was found dead, even though Italian law clearly states that 24 hours must elapse before embalming.
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forth an altruistic image of goodwill, there may be an undercurrent of darkness that even many in the Holy See are unaware of.
But conspiracies within the Vatican did not stop with the death of John Paul I. His successor faced two assassination attempts displaying worrying links to the Stasi – the secret police of East Germany. In 1998, a member of the Swiss Guard murdered his superior and his wife. Dismissed by the Vatican as purely an unfortunate case of madness, the murdered man – Alois Estermann – was rumoured to have links to the Stasi. What is even more interesting is that he had saved the Pope in 1981 by blocking the line of fire. So was Estermann killed by the Vatican – or someone connected to the assassination attempt to prevent those potentially embarrassing ties becoming public?
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The circumstances surrounding the death of Pope John Paul I have long been questioned.
line to the Hubble Rumours have surf aced that the Vatican has a direct Bopp comet carried a space telescope, and was aware that the Hale s between . Connection t spacecraf “companion”, thought to be an alien n, but reportedly the the Vatican and this spacecraf t are pure speculatio emails p-to-date Pope was directly involved in the situation, receiving u out life elsewhere on the sub ject. One of the reasons f or such concern ab the e of significanc is the Vatican’sworries over whether the s ymbolic y from the taint of original death of Christ – which absolved all humanit f the Pope’s staff have alread y sin – would also appl y to aliens. Members o to Catholicism. considered converting an y aliens discovered
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NASA
NASA DOES NASA HAVE PLANS TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD ONCE METEORITES HIT?
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merica’s space survive a direct strike from a massive meteorite agency is, if without problems. Geothermal energy supplies all the various heating, lighting, air circulation and microprotein rumours are to be cultures, so the network is self-sufficient. That believed, one of the way, when the big asteroid actually hits, NASA greatest sources will be well placed to survive with a small of misinformation military set-up, and be in a position to take and suppression control after the disaster. To make sure all goes currently active smoothly, the approach of this huge meteorite in the world. is kept secret so that NASA will be the only It has got the low-down on everything from organisation prepared for the disaster. the alien presence surrounding the globe to One feasible-sounding element of this a range of useful inventions that it is keeping conspiracy is that the Moon Landing out of the public grasp. NASA also frequently photographs were faked. They were taken falsifies mission data in order to justify its huge inside a secret warehouse that was made up to budgets. Money received is siphoned off look very convincingly like the surface of for mysterious research projects, the Moon. There are two possible conducted away from public reasons for this. First, NASA scrutiny, using US taxpayers’ never went to the Moon dollars. No one is – the launch was faked, accountable, and no one radio messages were on the outside knows provided by actors, and what it is that all this the actual landing itself Commentsaboutalien spaceships apart,there cash is being used was staged. This might is ashort, authenticatedtranscriptof anin-flight shuttleconversa tionheld whenthe craftwas well for. Alternatively, have been to save outsideEarth’satmosphere. Inthis conversation, NASA could just be money for Project oneastronautnoticesan unidentifiedobject outside creaming off huge Orpheus, or it might andaskshispartnerifhealso sawitshootpast thendartoff.Whateveritwas,it wasnota bonuses for directors, have been to provide militaryjetor aweatherballoon thistime. and covering up the US government Explanationshavebeen hardto comeby, incompetence. with a vitally important andhasNASAbeencoveringup the discoveryforyears? One paranoid rumour propaganda victory over suggests that NASA is in Russian cosmonauts. fact building a gigantic tunnel The second idea is that the network under the US, code-named Moon Landing went ahead and the Orpheus. This is so deep underground that it can film footage that was broadcast live was genuine.
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T he Moon Landing has been claimed to be fake for years.
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A lot of str ange sy mbolism seems to be inv olv e d in NASA’s space missio that astronauts hav e ev ns and it appear s en been instructed to per form sacr ed rituals at a facing in the direction of ppointed times cer tain constellations. T his is suggestiv e of the secr et society w ith an inv olv ement of a inter est in my stical sy mbolism – step forw ar d the Masons.
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If r umours are to be believed, NAS A is ho ping to take o ver t he world.
However, the photos that the astronauts took just did not come out, because Kodak underestimated the effect of solar glare on the plates. Faced with massive press demand for stills, NASA considered the financial and PR advantages of selling rights, and the embarrassment of admitting that they took the wrong camera equipment. They decided it was better to bluff it out, and mocked-up a lunar landscape for a photo-session on Earth.
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The most common ex p lanation is that f aced w ith the humiliating pr ospec t of r uining a superb public relations scoop by havin g scr ew ed up the photo s, the Amer ican gover n ment told NASA to fak e some photos and keep i t quiet or else. If there is a UFO conspir acy , it seems lik ely that the Amer ican gov ernment contr ols NASA’s inv olv ement in the suppression of the tru th.
Evidence keeps on leaking out that NASA knows much more than it releases officially. A former high-level NASA consultant is rumoured to have leaked copies of conversational transcripts from astronauts on the Space Shuttle Discovery. In this document, two of the shuttle pilots are supposed to discuss what appears to be “a huge glowing spacecraft flying around the Earth”. Now former NASA specialist Dr Hoagland has made claims that NASA not only knows about extraterrestrials, but also understands hyper-dimensional space and the true origins of human life.
Or c o u l d i t b e … FAKE landing If you look at the shadows of the rocks in the Moon Landing photos, you’ll see that they point in an arc of different directions – sure proof of a point-source of light just off camera. If the illumination was solar, as it would be on the Moon, the shadows would all point in the same direction. They would also have higher contrasts to the earth around them, as there is no atmospheric scatter of light on the Moon.
OUT of this world Even if NASA did fake the Moon Landings, this does not explain why it would be happy to see a meteorite wipe out most of humanity and cause a global catastrophe. Why exactly would a space agency want to take over a post-apocalypse world on its own? Of all the conspiracies surrounding NASA, it seems more likely that the organisation isn’t sharing all the information it has…
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Many people alr eady k now that, at the end of W or ld W ar II, America scooped up the cr eam o f Nazi Ger many’ s rocket scientists and put them to w ork on its space progra mme. How ev er, ther e is the belief that s ome of the Naz i scientists held tr ue to their earlier political v iew s and that NASA is now run by a fascist elite w ith its ow n agend a.
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T he r eal r eason that n one of NASA’ s UFO sightin gs hav e been made k now ledge is that the ag public ency is actually contr olled by aliens. Although shuttle r outinely flies the thr ough a ring of diff er ent alien craf t, the k n suppressed by the extr ow ledge is kept aterr estrials, w ho are buildin g up slow ly to r ev ealing pr esence. Gif ts of techn their ology k eep the US gov ernment happy – and an better could y ou hav yw ay , w ho e r unning y our space programme?
“NASA NOT ONLY KNOWS ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIALS, BUT ALSO UNDERSTANDS HYPER-DIMENSIONAL SPACE AND THE ORIGINS OF LIFE”
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MOSSAD
MOSSAD ISRAEL’S INFAMOUS INTELLIGENCE DIVISION HAS BEEN LINKED TO MANY HIGH-PROFILE ASSASSINATIONS
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hen the defence of the recently created nation of Israel assassins’ that was surrounded on all sides by hostile bullets countries opposed to its very existence. Over the fly from the years, Mossad has developed an impressive track smoking gun record of counter-terrorist actions, assassinations and change and covert operation success stories. Its the course infiltration of the security services of friends and of history, foes has also meant that Mossad has become it is usually the prime suspect in many conspiracy theories inevitable that over the years. From the killing of media tycoon within hours Robert Maxwell in 1991, to the death of Princess both an official Diana and even the attempted assassination of version and the conspiracy interpretation of Pope John Paul II in 1981 – there is no shortage events will be in circulation. However, of events in which Mossad may have on 4 November 1995, when Israeli played a part. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Resourceful, ruthless and was shot at a rally in Tel Aviv, fearless – how else could they it took more than a few have abducted Nazi war hours for the first hints criminal Adolf Eichmann, of conspiracy to surface. stolen a MiG jet from Iraq Beforehis death,Rabinwas The main reason for this and smuggled enough senta letterstatingthatan Israeli is Mossad – probably weapons-grade plutonium mathematicianhaddiscovereda hidden one of the most feared out of America to build a codein theBible foretellingthe ingthe future, andthatthe nameYitzhakRabin and effective intelligence hundred atomic weapons wasencodedalong withthe agencies in the world. – it seems that nothing is words“assassinthatwill Until recently, Mossad’s beyond the capabilities of assassinate”. control over Israeli media was Mossad. For conspiracy theorists, so strong that its very existence, like that includes possibly being the that of its sister agency the Shaback, was shadowy cabal behind the assassination of shrouded in secrecy. Everyone knew that the Yitzhak Rabin. agencies existed, but in Israel none of their activities were ever reported Israel demonstrates and no one even knew who was in its grief over charge of them. the death of Yitzhak Rabin. Mossad’s tight reins of censorship may have loosened a little over the last couple of years, but it is certain that they played a strong role in preventing even the mildest hint of there being a conspiracy behind Yitzhak Rabin’s death from from reaching reaching the Israeli public, for as long as possible. While CNN and even the BBC questioned the official version that the co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was not killed by a fanatical, lone gunman, the Israeli security services fought to keep such speculation from its own citizens. Not surprising, since much of that speculation focused on the possible role that Mossad may have played in murdering its own Commander-in-Chief. Mossad was formed in 1951 to oversee the intelligence gathering and
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A cover-up? The Shamgar Commission of Enquiry, which investigated the assassination of Rabin concluded that Yigal Amir was the lone killer of the Prime Minister. It also concluded that he was acting entirely alone when he shot Rabin twice in the back. In the Commission’s opinion it was those two shots which killed Rabin, while a third shot wounded the PM’s body guard. At his trial YgalAmir testified testifiedthat he loaded loaded his gun clip clip with nine bullets, yet ballistic tests found eight remaining bullets after security forces seized Amir. This means Amir only had one shot at Rabin. Where did the other shots come from? If there were a conspiracy to assassinate Rabin and subsequently cover-up the identity of the killer, it would be impossible for Mossad not to be involved – but why would the agency kill its own leader?
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INCONSISTENCIES Everyone who saw the amateur video footage of Rabin’s assassination witnessed the alleged murderer, Yigal Amir, shoot the premier in the back from five feet away. However, Chief Lieutenant Baruch Glattstein, of the Israeli Police’s Forensics Laboratory, told a different story at Amir’s trial. Glattstein stated: “In the
… e… e b t b d i t u l l d i co u Or co upper section of the prime minister’s jacket I found a bullet hole to the right of the seam, which, according to my testing of the spread of gunpowder, was caused by a shot from less than 25 centimetres’ range.”
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HERE The combination of a lone gunman and a major political assassination seems to happen a lot, but surely at least one of them must be exactly what it seems to be, instead of a farfetched conspiracy?
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THE NSA
THE NSA FORGET ALIENS AND LIZARD OVERLORDS – THE REAL DANGER COMES FROM WITHIN
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he National Security Agency is probably the organisation most feared by conspiriologists. MJ-12, the Mafia and the Greys are often seen as the most dangerous groups by outsiders, but in fact it is the NSA that is the most feared, the most suspected. The reasons are simple – it is the US spy agency responsible both for external and for domestic affairs. The most technologically-advanced intelligence agency in the world, these spooks watch American citizens and anyone else they have an interest in. The NSA is routinely accused of just about everything, from stealing the gold in Fort Knox and replacing it with spray-painted lead, down to kidnapping scientists and computer engineers whose ideas could threaten the agency’s
The headquarters of the NSA in Fort Meade, Maryland. What goes on behind those doors?
technological superiority. The sheer secrecy of the organisation helps these often-wild rumours to accumulate. However, one of the most persistent accusations to have been levelled at the agency is that it is deeply involved in an attempt to control the global banking system. The NSA is known for its expertise in cryptography. In the early Nineties, the agency was behind the attempts to have a chip known as Clipper accepted as the standard for all computer encryption. This chip carried an inbuilt weakness, a back door that the NSA could use to decode any data encrypted using the Clipper. Your information would be perfectly safe from anyone, except the government. The NSA may have succeeded in compromising the banking industry – in the late Seventies, a firm called INSLAW (the Institute for Law and Social Research) developed an integrated database management system called PROMIS. This allowed huge ranges of databases to be combined into one usable, cross-referenced whole. Law enforcement agencies wanted PROMIS to track national and international crime, and major banking agencies
such as the World Bank wanted to use it for an efficient international financial database. The US Department of Justice took the system on board, then refused to pay money owed, driving INSLAW to bankruptcy. Despite court rulings in its favour, the company has still to receive payment for PROMIS. A journalist named Danny Casolaro claimed to have uncovered evi evidence dence that the NSA had modified PROMIS to allow complete access to the contents on the NSA’s demand. Apparently, the NSA and Mossad then sold modified copies of the software to banks, foreign governments and law enforcement agencies. The plan was to allow the NSA to spy on the entire legal, governmental and financial systems world-wide. A company company called Wackenhut, based outside US jurisdiction jurisdiction on on a small Indian Indian Nation reservati reservation on in California, carried out this modification.
A strange death Deputy White House Counsellor Vince Foster apparently committed suicide in July 1993.
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T h h e F r e F r e e m m a a s o o n n s
As hit movie Enemy Of The State showed, the NSA are becoming a favourite for Hollywood bad guys.
Harr y y T T r uman, a 3 33 3r d d de egr ee Mast er r M Mason, suddenly sud ly cr cr eat ed t he N NS SA i in n 1 19 9 52. I Itt re ret t ains it s old ti tie es, s, a an nd it s f ora ray y s in int t o g gllobal c ont rol rol o of f t t he legal and b ba ank ing ing sy st ems are in fac fa c t t c c ar rie ried o ou on b ut be ehalf of th the e Fr eemasons. It w w a s t h ey w w ho or ganise sed d t he m mu ur ders of Fost er an and C asola lar r o, to hide t heir mast ery ry o of in int t er nati tio onal bank ing ing.
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His death was suspicious and he had been a control JournalistCasolarowaskilled onthe liaison for a company called nighthe statedhavingevidenceforhis story,as wasStandorf,the NSAagent Systematics, one of the fronts whopassed himdocuments.Twelve through which the NSA daysprior,Foster’sSwiss bank was selling the compromised accountwasemptied ofits $2.7million withouthis PROMIS software. Systematics knowledge. also laundered profits from covert operations, and gathered back-door information from PROMIS for sifting. A woman was with Foster hours before his death, and her hair colour matched the colour of hairs found in Foster’s underwear. Pathologists discovered that Foster had died at the moment of ejaculation. Video surveillance tapes do not show Foster leaving the building – yet his body was found in a park in Virginia, a short distance from his car.
Or c c o o u u l l d d i t t b e … T h h e G r e G r e s y It ha has b be een s
uggeste ted d t hat th the e N NS SA’ s pow er ov er putt ing b c ry ry pt ogr aphy c ba ac k k- door s in c omes, not fr om int t o co com mput er pr pr ogr ams, but f mat hemati f rom rom a m tics ma cs giv en to t he a ast er y y of of ad adv anc ed ag genc y b y by t t h e Gre G rey y c iti s in i tiz n z ens th r et urn fo tha at for t th the r a ey a q y c qu uot a o c an t ak e a of f U US an nd use f or ex peri rim ments ev er y y y y ear .
“T HIS CHIP P C CARRIE D W E EA K NE SS, A BACK AN IN-BUILT T T T HE NSA COULD USE T DOOR T HAT O DE CODE ANY Y D DAT A E NCRY P PT T E E D USING T HE CLI P P PE E R ”
THE Evidence In Bob Woodward’s book, VEIL: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 1981-1987 on page 386, former CIA Director William Casey claims of his time in office: “There was penetration of the international banking system, allowing a steady flow of data from the real, secret sets of books kept by many foreign banks, that showed some hidden investing by the Soviet Union.”
AN easier way Why drive INSLAW to bankruptcy? It seems likely that it would have been easier just to pay a licence fee as the contract required, and then negotiate the rights to sell the software on to other parties, keeping everything discreet.
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THE KU KLUX KLAN
ORGANISATIONS
THE KU KLUX KLAN THE FACT THAT THIS HATEFUL GROUP STILL EXISTS RAISES SUSPICIONS
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othing Klan came into being with a self-proclaimed is more mission to save the South from what it saw as terrifying the greatest threats of the time: blacks, Catholics, than organised Jews, and the American Federal government, hatred. The among others. First led by Nathan Bedford Ku Klux Klan Forrest, the Klan fought to preserve what it has been considered to be the purity of the white man. among the This was known as the Klan’s First Era, with most reviled Forrest acting as Grand Wizard. of hate-fuelled By the Twenties, the Klan had grown in organisations, political power, and entered its Second Era. spreading fear Through the turbulent civil rights battles of the throughout Sixties, the Klan was implicated in murders and the US against minorities and those acts of violence against civil rights who disagree with the Klan’s leaders and civil rights workers, strict, racist views. Hiding especially in the South. behind anonymous white Currently, the Klan considers hoods, Klan members have itself in its Fifth Era, become infamous for their fighting not only for the burning of the Christian power of the white man, FormerUSPresidentRooseveltput his Cross, their intolerance of but to save all of Western ownmoney intoWG Griffith’sfilm BirthOf racial integration, and their civilisation. ANation . Now seenasa silentcinema reputation for violence. While the Klan is seen classic,it is alsopro-KKK propaganda, whichraisesthe questionof why In an age where so many by many as nothing more someonethatpowerful feltit inroads have been made to than a hate organisation run wasrightto fund build bridges between races, the by ignorant men and women, theproject. Klan still exists, proclaiming the it is possible that the KKK is far power of white supremacy. stronger, and has more influence, than Rising in the ashes of the South, following is generally thought. Even today, when the civil the end of the American Civil War in 1865, the rights battles of the Sixties seem a lifetime away,
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The burning crosses and hooded KKK mem bers strike fear into minorit y gr oups across America.
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he murders o f popular black The K lan has been implica ted in t ing and Malcolm X, apparen tl y political leaders Mar tin Luther K a threa t to the K lan’s vision e acting because bo th men posed d u shared b y man y in the CIA A o f America – a vision allegedl y © ful racial in tegration was and in the FBI. K ing’s vision o f peace vie w tha t black s tentious n more co X’s m unpala table, as was Malcol form to the K lan’s ideal very respect. For re fusing to con were superior to the whi te man in e BI in volvement seem illed. In the case o f K ing, K lan and F o f a black man, bo th men were k ore K ing’s dea th. bers bef recruited K lan mem openly e FBI since th strong, par ticularly
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g a role in the ted agains t black s and Jews, playin ma y be par t o f a race war direc The K KK t agencies. The K lan S virus along with black ops go vernmen creation and dis tribu tion o f the AID the Zionist Occupa tion ( t ZOG rs abou cy rumou alse conspira is also suspec ted o f spreading f help de flec t to tak e o ver the US. Such rumours Go vernmen t), a purpor ted Je wish plan ts black ops agen ts. em y – the Shado w Governmen t and i ’s true en America tion from tten a
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o f the Ne w World Order NWO, secre tl y f ur thering the aims The K lan ma y be a fron t f or the ld include K lan t its in fluence on ever y level. This wou while openly pre tending to figh d, the K lan uses to t is allege i ch, of black helicop ters, whi enon phenom nt in the in volveme en vironmen t in which i t is , the K lan hopes, will pro vide an inci te panic in the populace which eas y to s tir up racial tensions.
Do the KKK ha ve deeper roots than originall y thought?
t er n m en US Go tv liberalism T h e the aders in corporate, o f the US Go vernment, many le recen when racism is fought and decried by so many, the power of hate continues to glow with all the intensity of the Klan’s trademark burning cross.
PRESIDENTIAL love Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States from 1913-1921, once claimed that the Ku Klux Klan saved civilisation on the North American continent. Why did he make this odd statement in support of such a group?
STILL around The continued existence of the Klan in an age where hate groups are not tolerated suggests some high-level connection with the US government. The American Constitution’s
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guarantee of free speech as the right of every American is a guarantee that the US government has shown in the past it will ignore as it sees fit (in the McCarthy Era, for example). The Klan persists, and in the modern world, that poses the question of just who is looking out for its interests and keeping it alive.
RACIAL ignorance Youdon’t need a conspiracy to explain the ignorance that lies behind race hatred. Anthropology classes probably would not be a hit with the Klan as the strong possibility that all humanity shares a common black ancestry might put a dampener on cross-burning activities and belief of white supremacy.
Despite still f avour a more conservative go vernmen t and mili tar y circles lan. Funds could be diverted to ou tlook, a vie wpoin t shared b y the K clandestine political support. This and the K lan, as well as weaponr y career af ter he lef t the K lan. would e xplain Da vid Duke’s poli tical
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, that the lik es o f ing the K KK There are so man y theories surround o f the Green Dragon have the Ba varian Illumina ti and the Order been linked to the group.
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THE MAFIA
HOW POWERFUL IS THE MAFIA? NOT A GROUP TO BE MESSED WITH, HOW FAR DOES THE MAFIA’S INFLUENCE REACH?
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ince the start of the 20th Century, the Mafia has constituted a significant part of the organised crime underground in the US. In © Think stock addition to its American operations, the Mafia is currently active in Italy, Southern France, Germany, and Russia. The facts of the Mafia’s presence and its wide range of criminal activities – from prostitution and illegal gambling through to drugs distribution, contract assassination and slavery – are undisputed. What is less well known is the extent to which the Mafia is one unified organisation. The Mafia was first formed in the 9th Century AD, in Sicily. The original Mafia valued loyalty above all and respected culture, family and heritage. Membership was only open to Sicilians
and the organisation’s aim was to protect the and the organisation grew swiftly. In 1924, interests of its members. As the centuries Mussolini cracked down on the Mafia passed, the Mafia evolved the belief in Italy and Sicily, and many that justice, vengeance and members fled to the US. Ever honour were matters for the since its super-profitable individual to look after, and days of Prohibition, the not responsibilities that Mafia has been spreading should be delegated to its influence throughout TheMafia believesdeeplyin the current government American political, legal conspiracy theories. SomeMafia – which was often put in and financial institutions, membersevenclaim thatthe place by invaders anyway. creaming off vast amounts organisationwas originally formed tofight themysterious“potere Secrecy was maintained of money in the process. occulto”orhiddenpower they through the tradition of belie veisrifein Omerta, which said that theworld. betrayal of the society’s trust was repayable by death. Early in the 18th Century, the Mafia started to become openly criminal. Money was The Mafia in the US is commonly thought to be a extorted from wealthy Sicilians, who would collection of rival gangs, clans that are organised receive a picture of a black hand. If cash were on a family structure and have little but hatred not forthcoming, arson, kidnappings and murder for each other. However, this may be far from wouldfollow. the truth. While the different gangs do certainly The Mafia has been active in the US since compete, the heads of the 24 families regularly the early 19th Century, particularly in New meet in a cartel called The Commission. At these Orleans. Word soon good back to Sicily that a meetings, they settle territorial and business lot of money could be made in the New World, disputes, and decide policy for the coming
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Major world cr teaming up to maximise pro fits. Just lik e an y legitimate big business, crime empires that merge acti vities can improve pro fitabilit y. The Ma fia has joined f orces with the Triads, with the Yak uza and with drugs cartels. This alliance, k nown as the Network , also accepts junior members such as Jamaican Yardies and Algerian sla ve traders. Because diff erent groups control di fferent resources, erican the y ha ve much to o ff er each other. The Am to the US bank ing industry, law Ma fia, f or example, can pro vide access . required as systems ce en forcement and justi
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was the
Heads of crime f amilies such as Sam Giancana ha ve even had Presidents in t heir pay in the past.
months. It is possible that The Commission may also negotiate with government agencies, particularly the CIA, on areas of activity where mutual benefit can be derived.
FOLLOW the money The spread of the Mafia is truly staggering. In the US, the Mafia and officials from the government were maintaining an Illinois-based bank as a criminal enterprise, laundering money. The bank was run by an alleged Mafia associate, the Catholic Bishop of Cicero Paul Marcinkus, head of the Vatican Bank until 1991 working in association with a Congressman who was a controller of the CIA’s Black Ops budget. A documentary detailing this was actually made, but before the programme could be broadcast, State law enforcement officers threatened the makers, families were harassed, and one was falsely arrested.
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Organised crime is just that – organised crime. The last thing it wants to do is to take over the trivia of everyday government, something that isn’t necessary anyway, given the alleged number of politicians already in the pay of Mafia Dons.
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organised crime actuall y diff erent? To what extent are go vernment and to much the same thing, Pa ying tax or protection money amounts caused as much public death and f ew criminal organisations ha ve did in Chechn ya. Some or Russia as the US did courtes y o f Vietnam, ed go vernments actuall y control conspiriologists believe that establish otherwise impossible-to y on the the Ma fia as a wa y o f ha ving authorit go vern world o f crime.
“ THE MAFIA CAN PRO VIDE ACCESS TO THE US BANK ING INDUS TR Y, LA W ENFORCEMEN T AND JUS TICE S YS TEMS AS REQUIRED”
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T he Mafia has long held str ong t ies t o Masonr y t hr ough t he shad ow y V at ic an lodg e P2, t hat is said t o be the m ost pow erf ul Ma son ic lodge in Eur ope. W hen P ope John Paul I de t er mined to c lear the Mason s out of t he V at ic an – hav ing disc ov ered ov er 10 0 among t he pr iest hood – he w as k illed, suppose dly by the Mafia. C ould t he Masons dr iv ing the Mafia’ be t he pow er s r elentless adv a nc e ov er t he y ear groups ow n a lot o s? C er ta inly bot h f judges and poli c emen.
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9/11
T h e b ir t h f AIDS o
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Mu rd er or su ici d e?
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TWA flight 800 ACCIDENT OR MILITARY STRIKE?
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CHALLENGER explosion AN AVOIDABLE TRAGEDY
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OKLAHOMA bombing WAS MCVEIGH JUST A PATSY?
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JONESTOWN massacre MIND-CONTROL GONE WRONG?
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AIDS EXPLORING THE BIRTH OF AIDS
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A co v er -u p i n Ok la h o ma ?
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9/11
9/11 DO WE KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEADLY ATTACK ON AMERICA?
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American Airlines Flight 11 took off from Logan International Airport in Boston at 7.59a.m. It hit the first of the World Trade Center’s twin towers at 8.46a.m. United Airlines Flight 175 departed from Logan heading for Los Angeles at 8.14a.m. It hit the second tower at 9.03a.m. American Airlines Flight 77 left Washington’s Dulles International Airport at 8.10a.m. and crashed into the Pentagon at 9.43 a.m. United Airlines Flight 93 left Newark and smashed into a field in Pennsylvania at 10.10a.m. More than 3,000 innocent lives from 80 countries across the globe were taken within the space of a few hours. The world changed forever, and many of us saw it happen live on TV. In the aftermath, President George W Bush caught the mood of America and much of the Western world when he called it, “Our Pearl Harbor”. Reeling from the shock of this evil, two days on, US Secretary of State Colin Powell broke
the news that Osama bin Laden was the prime things that do not make obvious sense. And there suspect. There was no surprise when later, the is a strong part of us that naturally refuses to President announced the beginning of the “war give any credence to any conspiracy concerning on terrorism”. something as large, emotive and awful as the In our struggle to make sense of why the events of 9/11. However, certain questions refuse tragedy happened, the majority of us have to be easily dismissed and the heart of many of unquestionably accepted the official the conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11 version: the hijacks were not comes down to the central question preventable, they were the of who had the power to call result of an attack planned off or reduce the usual by the al-Qaeda terror security precautions that network alone and may have prevented the no one outside that attacks. Even for the organisation had prior average person in the Thepassportof theallegedhijackerMohamed knowledge. In the street, who does not Attaseems tohave reality-defyingproperties.While DNAtechniqueshadtobe usedtotryto identify wake of the tragedy, wish to hear any talk victims,hispassport wasthrownintact andwithout George W Bush of a 9/11 conspiracy, ascratchfrom thedevastatingexplosionthat made a speech saying, some things push destroyedFlight11 andastonishingly foundin a matterofhoursamong1.6 milli ontonsof “Let us never tolerate the boundaries of debris.However,theindestructible outrageous conspiracy credibility. After two passportwasastrokeofluckfortheFBI theories concerning the commercial airliners had investigatorstryingto workout who wasontheflight. attacks of September 11th.” already crashed into the To most people, this seems World Trade Center, another like an entirely sensible and commercial airliner was able to heartfelt plea, while others see it as a fly across a No-fly Zone during what desperate attempt to frighten and threaten those should have been the highest of security alerts. who continue to probe the inconsistencies in the It was then able to crash into the headquarters official version of the terrible events of that day. of the most powerful military force to have ever There is a part of us that feels the need for existed in the history of our planet. Just how conspiracy theories to try and give meaning to could this happen without any serious attempt by the military to prevent it? These and other questions become even more pressing because a raft of evidence has emerged since that fateful day, which suggests that the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and almost all other elements of the American defence and intelligence system knew that a terrorist attack was imminent. US Attorney General Ashcroft had been advised to travel only by private jet on 11 September and, the previous night, a group of top Pentagon officials suddenly cancelled travel plans for 11 September apparently because of security concerns. On 25 March 2002, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, a democrat from Georgia, claimed during a radio interview, “We knew there were numerous warnings of the events to come on 11 September. What did this Administration know, and when did it know it about the events of 11 September? Who else knew and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York, who were needlessly murdered?”Despite being attacked by the President’s spokesman for, “Running for the Hall of Fame of the Grassy Knoll Society”, the following months proved
“THE HIJACKS WERE NOT PREVENTABLE, THEY WERE THE RESULT OF AN ATTACK PLANNED BY THE AL-QAEDA TERROR NETWORK ALONE”
The plumes of smoke billowing over Manhattan have become a symbol for the tragedy.
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s T h e m ai n su s p e c t t T here is no do u b w ho the h eroes were on 9 /11, bu t eal e r w ho w ere th vil lains?
i e s i o i l co m pan er can CIA & Am in terests had been nego tia ting with
Ma jor US oil A fghanis tan the Taliban to build a pipeline through f land-locked to transpor t the large oil reserves o ie t dent Sov K azak hstan and o ther ne wly indepen his line against the Republics. When Clin ton hardened on the World Trade Taliban, the y plo tted the at tack the US would invade Cen ter, alongside the CIA, so that t regime in K abul A fghanistan and ins tall a puppe s. f riendly to American oil concern
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McKinney right. Evidence emerged that even the President himself had comprehensive briefing on 6 August 2001, detailing that bin Laden was determined to strike in the US and would most likely hijack plans. This, and dozens of other startling revelations show that the Administration and the US intelligence agencies, especially the CIA and the NSA, had known an attack was imminent and it had been in a position to warn America. However, it had decided not to. Why? Could it really be true that there were those with the power not only to warn of a planned attack, but to prevent it, too?
PRIOR warnings British politician Michael Meacher, who served as a government minister under Tony Blair for six years, claimed that the US government knew about the 11 September attack on New York, but for strategic reasons they chose not to act on the warnings they’d received. He said, “The US failure to avert the 9/11 attacks was an invaluable pretext for attacking Afghanistan in a
war that had clearly already been well planned in advance. The overriding motivation for this political smokescreen is that the United States and the UK are beginning to run out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies.”
A big mistake The staggering ineptness of NORAD, the organisation in charge of protecting North Ameirca’s airspace, raises doubts in many people’s minds. Why did it order the scrambling of jets from Langley Air Force Base, more than 130 miles from Washington, to investigate Flight 77? Why not follow procedure and send jets from Andrews Air Force Base, ten miles from Washington and the base meant to defend America’s capital from attack? This is a vital question because it meant that the planes that were to defend Washington arrived nearly 15 minutes after Flight 77 had already smashed into the Pentagon killing 125 people.
B y u tilising o f sleeper agen ts wi th the US def ence and in telligence community, Mossad was able to t se t up bin Laden as the bigges pa tsy o f all time and ensure tha t the US would be dra wn into a prolonged con flic t with the Islamic world. Israel would bene fit as any re talia tion a wedge f or the at tack s b y the US would drive Near Eas t allies serving be t ween the US and its Gulf and y a t the f oref ron t of tr coun one o the i t, bringing it closer t ex tremis ts – Israel. figh ting an ongoing war with Islamic
t … Or wa s i Ch i n a: Islamic e xtremists
Problem causing trouble in your f ar-flung provinces, America block ing your planned invasion o f Taiwan and much tion: Crea te a o f the res t o f South East Asia. Solu st ri vals figh t themsel ves situa tion where your t wo bigge gh. and lau sit back e you to a s tands till whil
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all bu t closed The Taliban regime in A fghanis tan had ium fields. Heads do wn the world’smos t productive op mplica te 9/11 to i ganised cartels or drug o f the ma jor with the end resul t al-Qaeda and lead the US in to war opium g han A f and ted ld be ous tha t the Taliban wou longer be f rozen. If produc tion and export would no worked. tha t was the plan, it certainly
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TWA FLIGHT 800
TWA FLIGHT 800 THIS TERRIBLE PLANE CRASH STILL GOES UNEXPLAINED TODAY
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t is perhaps the greatest unspoken fear of every air passenger – that the craft in which they are travelling will crash. While many pretend to be blasé about air travel, few escape a momentary fear at some point during a flight. This horrible fear was realised for the passengers and crew of TWA Flight 800 on 17 July 1996. Eleven minutes into the journey from New York’s Kennedy Airport, destined for Paris, France, the Boeing 747 suddenly exploded about ten miles from Long Island, killing everyone on board. An investigation into the disaster was quickly launched, with boats out collecting the wreckage from the plane, searching for some clue as to what may airlines themselves, there was no have caused the explosion investigation – only a cover up, – an explosion that gave and a bad oneat that. no warning, according to evidence later found on the craft’s black box recorders. TheNavy didn’tfindthe blackbox for Finally, the National aweek, claimingthe locatorbeacons Transportation Safety hadbroken.Investigationshowedthis Board, after investigating Dr Vernon Grose, who nottobe so,suggestingtheboxes werefoundearlier thanreported with the FBI and the CIA, had served as a board andwere tampered withso determined that Flight 800 member of the National thedata fittedwiththe crashed because its centre-wing Transportation Safety Board, military’s story. fuel tank had exploded. Arcing had defended the board’s official between two wires, with a spark explanation for the crash of Flight igniting the jet’s volatile fuel might have 800. He changed his mind and began to feel caused this. The investigation was subsequently that there was a cover up. He pointed his finger closed down. at the FBI and its suppression of eyewitness Many people have openly disputed those testimony that what appeared to be a missile had findings. Eyewitnesses claim to have seen hit Flight 800. something arcing into the sky after Flight 800, with much speculation that what they saw was a surface-to-air missile. Was Flight 800 hit by a terrorist attack, or was it something far darker Data taken from nearby air traffic control towers – such as a missile fired by the US Military? clearly show a blip appearing on radar screens. In the eyes of the US government, the case is This blip then rises, and begins to follow Flight closed, but in the eyes of conspiracy theorists, 800. It is later seen to move to the front of the including members of the US military and the plane before merging with the plane’s flight path.
FACT OR
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SECRET MISSILE
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s, The US military may have been practising manoeuvre s including the firing of missiles, in an area designated a g Island. W-105, located off the southeast coast of Lon y from iles awa A Nav y “hot area”, W-105 is about 30 m In a where T WA Flight 800 m ysteriously exploded. accident potentially lethal gaff e, the first report of the which is ntagon, r om the Pe me f is thought to have co of again highl y suspicious, particularly as the snippet g news was quick ly covered up. The airspace surroundin that TWA Flight 800 was heavy with militar y aircraft y militar fateful night, once again indicating possible involvement in the tragedy. in A photograph tak en b y Linda K abot, reproduced in the sk y at the time Flight 800 exploded Paris Match , clearly shows a missile the bright light of an exhaust – there’s a clear view of a c ylindrical ob ject with y authorities on the basis that at one end. Her photograph was discounted b she took the picture. when sion actual explo the r om she was f acing away f an y missiles are fl ying around This poses the disturbing question of just how m note that the FBI paid to sting e. It’s intere American airspace at an y given tim igation. little heed to such eyewitness reports in its invest
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The wreckage of the plane was collected by boats immediately after the incident.
The popular image was of terrorists firing a rocket from a dinghy. While this is almost certainly not the case, it does not mean that there was not a terrorist plot. Given the subsequent use of surf ace to air missiles b y groups such as al-Qaeda, the likelihood of terrorists being linked to the downing of Flight 800 has become a widely held view in conspirac y circles.
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Flight 800 could which was monitoring the militar y activit y below. The UFO destroyed the plane as a reaction to being discovered.
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A secret base area near where Flight 800 went down. nd, top-secret facilit y “Project Phoenix” is thought to be an undergrou thought to be abandoned. located at Montauk Air Force Base, which is itself y a secret weapon from yed b A possibilit y exists that Flight 800 was destro en in the name of undertak up, e cover ld explain th this base, which wou American national security.
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THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING
THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING WAS ONE OF THE WORST TERRORIST ATTACKS IN AMERICAN HISTORY A FARCE?
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n 19 April about committing suicide, about dropping 1995, a out of society and into hiding, and about the massive government of the “Evil King”. The letters were explosion in so disturbing that McVeigh’s family suspected Oklahoma him of being the Oklahoma bomber almost City, Oklahoma immediately. His sister believes that McVeigh’s destroyed mania against the government stemmed from the a huge part army’s insistence that he repay them $1,000 that of a Federal he had been overpaid. office building, McVeigh had applied for Special Forces killing many training, and had failed the assessment course. of the people He claimed in one of his letters that his inside. Until assessment at Fort Bragg had revealed that that moment, America considered itself immune he would be in line for performing several to terrorist attack, lulling itself into a unsavoury duties should he make the false sense of security by glossing grade. Special Forces operatives, over terrorist attacks such as he alleged, could be required the bombing of the World to work with civilian police, Trade Center. The Oklahoma silencing – killing – people bombing was high-profile who were considered a however, and, as well as security risk. They would killing and injuring a lot also be expected to help Pentagonoffi cialsthoughtTimothy of people, it also inflicted “the CIA fly drugs into McVeighwasworkingin conjunction withIraqisas hepossessed Iraqi some nasty wounds on the the USA to fund covert phonenumbers.Perhapsit was US national psyche. operations.” It was the evil asmokescreenas Levy’s Timothy McVeigh, a Gulf nature of these assignments disappearancewasrelated toMcVeigh’sdeath. War veteran, was convicted that turned McVeigh against of the bombing. Certainly, there the US government. is plenty of evidence that he was However, there is some evidence peculiar enough to have carried it out. to suggest Middle Eastern terrorist He sent a series of letters to his sister some involvement in the bombing. Investigative considerable time before the bombing took journalist Kelly Patricia O’Mearadiscovered that place, in which he wrote about his “anger and Timothy McVeigh’s convicted co-conspirator, alienation”. These letters included comments Terry Nichols, attended a meeting in the
Rather than looking objectively at Jayna Davis’ excellent research, virtually all of the Oklahoma City and national media adopted the Bill Clinton-Janet Reno thesis that the OKC bombing was a domestic “right-wing” attack and rejected out of hand any evidence of foreign ties to the bombing. A careful review of Davis’ extensive evidence and other parallel investigations quickly convinced numerous people that Davis was on solid ground. Of the thousands of Justice Department and FBI agents involved in the investigation, none ever interviewed the Iraqi community in Oklahoma or pursued some of McVeigh’s associates in the spook field.
FACT OR
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Rescue missions were too late f or man y victims.
The bomb used in the e vent was so po werf ul that it ble w up the majority of the la rge go vernment building.
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early Nineties on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines – a hotbed of fundamentalist activities – at which Ramzi Yousef was present. The themes of the meeting were Bombing activities, providing firearms and ammunition, training in making and handling bombs. Later, Yousef cameto prominencebeing involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Many eyewitnesses saw individuals identified as being of Middle Eastern extraction speeding away from the Murrah Federal Building immediately before the blast in a pick-up truck. It has also emerged that McVeigh was seen in the company of at least one Iraqi refugee, who had been brought to live in Oklahoma City as part of President Clinton’s program to bring several thousand Iraqis into the US for resettlement.
FBI RELUCTANCE The failure of the FBI to conduct even cursory interviews with obvious suspects and to pursue potentially interesting leads is unsettling in the extreme. Either it was criminal neglect of duty or part of a deliberate effort to ensure they got a suspect who fitted the theory that it was a simple attack by domestic right-wing elements.
INEFFICIENT
T h e m ai n su s p e c t s CIA of e vidence has emerged over the las t fe w years to sugges t tha t a cabal o f T h e amoun t
A large en t Clinton f rom were planning a coup to remo ve Presid senior military and securi ty o fficers tion. T wo da ys be fore the ged poli tical and financial corrup o ffice due to their disgus t a t his alle I t is belie ved b y a. in Alabam bers o f this cabal crashed bombing a plane carrying man y mem re vent in vestiga tion isas ter in Ok lahoma as a diversion to p some tha t the CIA crea ted the d Presidenc y could ha ve f or na tional unit y a t a time when the in to the planned coup and a focus re volt. been jeopardised b y further military
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A local m Resistance had me t Mc Veigh local leader o f the White Aryan ls. The leader – banned from and was an associate o f Terr y Nicho Kingdom and classi fied by United en tering Canada and the ven ques tioned. This has Interpol as a terroris t – was never e ion that the KK K may f orced some to the unse ttling conclus the bombing, bu t ma y ha ve also no t only ha ve been in volved in t. suppor vice recei ved some f orm o f secre t ser
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sh Israeli te movemen t. This is the American version o f the Briti the true descendan ts of It claims that whi te Americans are y popular wi th righ t-wing Moses. Cer tainl y, the Iden tit y is ver volved in the bombing. maniacs and it may have been in McVeigh was acting on t ons tha suggesti There ha ve been tian Iden ti ty leader to help the ins truc tions o f a po werf ul Chris re turn o f Chris t. g to the fulfil the prophecies leadin
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To believe that there is more to the Oklahoma bombing than we have officially been told implies some degree of authority collusion in the deaths of scores of innocent government workers, which is both cruel and oddly inefficient. At the very least it means the authorities were not interested in getting the real culprits – surely too big a leap into the darkness on the basis of the facts currently available.
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THE BIRTH OF AIDS
THE BIRTH OF AIDS DO WE REALLY KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS HORRIFIC DISEASE?
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t has been called the Black Plague of the 20th Century, a , r e disease so m l a P virulent and . L . E widespread , o n i r that its o e F . victims are P , s h t u i counted in n a m s M d the millions. l c o M . G R . . AIDS has C © W become one of the great fears of our time, terrifying not only because of its lethal and incurable nature, but also because of the moral stigma that is attached to the disease. To be diagnosed with AIDS is not only to be faced with a life-destroying ailment
but to be tarred with questions about your most private behaviour. Many members of society tacitly (and not so tacitly) regard AIDS as a punishment sent from above for “immorality”. The first appearance of AIDS is disputed, but most authorities point towards its rise in the late Seventies. At first, it was thought only to be a viral disease limited to homosexuals, with much media attention focusing on the “bathhouse” lifestyles of urban gay people. This inaccurate assumption was extremely damaging to the treatment gay people, especially gay men, faced in society all across the world, and forced many gay men to hide their sexuality. As time passed, research showed that AIDS infected anyone, regardless of sexual inclination. Researchers
discovered that it was transmitted during the sharing of bodily fluids, (unprotected sex), through the sharing of needles, and through infected blood transfusions. It could also be passed from mother to unborn child in the womb, and through breast feeding. No more was it a disease specific to the gay community – AIDS threatened the world. However, is it possible that AIDS is more than just another disease Nature has thrown our way? Could AIDS be something darker than that, something that man himself created? As the disease continues to baffle researchers, questions are raised that this calamitous virus, which could potentially wipe out millions more, may have slipped out of a man-made Pandora’s Box.
“COULD AIDS BE SOMETHING DARKER, SOMETHING THAT MAN HIMSELF CREATED?”
GOVERNMENT error There are strong indications that AIDS may have been a government chemical weapon that ran off the tracks of its original course – which was to deal with the problem of overpopulation in the developing world. In 1969, at a House Appropriations hearing, the US Defense Department, through its biological division, pleaded for tax dollars to develop a fatal disease with the capability of attacking its victim’s immune system while being completely resistant to the human immune system’s attacks. The money was granted. In the early Seventies, Henry Kissinger wrote a National Security Memorandum in which he discussed the problem of Third World overpopulation. He stated that the problem should be a priority in US foreign policy and considered a grave threat to the county’s security.
ROLL out In its proposal to the House Appropriations hearing in 1969, the Defense Department said it could have the new disease up and running within five to ten years. The first incidents of AIDS were reported in the late Seventies, showing that, if nothing else, the Defense Department is punctual.
LUCRATIVE? As anyone involved in cancer research will tell you, there is more money to be made in treating a disease than in actually curing it, even diseases manufactured in a government lab. If AIDS is ever cured, rest assured a more lethal disease will suddenly appear on the horizon. Perhaps it already has – we call it Ebola.
The i m pact of AIDS i n Third World countr ies is much higher due to lack of access to costl y drugs.
FACT OR
FICTION? Ofthose whoreceivedthe Hepatitis Bvaccinatio ninNew Yorkin 1978,more thanhalfwere diagnosedwith AIDSby 1984.Ofcoursethis couldjustbe a coincidence,but manypeoplewill pointout thatthe numbers don’tlie, andtheremust bea link.
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s T h e m ai n su s p e c t T h e CIAac y theorists have traced the escape of AIDS into the
Some conspir st Cuban world’s populations to the CIA’s biological activities again with a soldiers fighting in Af rica. An attempt to inf ect Cuban troops it mutated when red fi back have y nt ma biological age orthodox more into the disease we now call AIDS and spread much f urther than its intended Cuban targets.
o d e Pro gr am G en ci Bla ck O ps theor e existing y, an evil right-wing clique of black ops agents decided to utilis
According to this blacks and homosexuals in the biological experimentation to try and reduce the number of everal thousand ga y men in population. Initially introduced via a Hepatitis B vaccine issued to s with drug-users in black districts, San Francisco and New York , through infected s yringes placed white world from middle-class heterosexual, the in e impact the y believed it would have littl which they came.
e en … Or co u l d i t h av e b i s e ch co m pan i es ear eu t cal/R Ph ar m a c keep much-nee ded grant income In an effort to rolling in, pharmaceutical and research f acilities have created the m yth of the AIDS crisis, lumping together several diseases under one umbrella in order to instil a sense of panic. The use of drugs such as AZ T and Interferon in the treatment of AIDS is also suspicious. The drugs are expensive, and there’s a bod y of opinion that reckons the drugs do more damage than good. Yet the sales of such drugs help k eep profit margins high, and stock holders happ y.
Gaia
ent aspect of the planet’s Another theor y states that AIDS is a plague created b y Gaia – the senti on. Tak ing advantage of the ecos ystem – as its own response to overpopulation and polluti of viruses around the therapid spread r recorded and highest levels of chemical pollution eve of virus. B y doing this, Gaia is trying to globe, thank s to air travel, the planet created a new type rs and activities current numbe now sees our reduce the number of humans on the planet as it as a danger to the whole ecosystem.
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eys in laboratories or a natural It is rumoured that improper handling of inf ected test monk n could also be to blame. cleansing plague created b y Nature to handle overpopulatio
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HE REAL TRUTH? W IS WRONG, WHAT’S T IF EVERYTHING YOU KNO
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5 per cent of all conspiracy theories are rubbish. Although that might seem like a strange thing to admit – based on the subject of the book – it’s important to get some perspective. As interesting and entertaining as some are, most have very little evidence behind them. Mole men from the Earth’s core aren’t responsible for UFO sightings. Satanists do not run the CIA. JFK was not shot by his own Secret Service driver. Even the majority of apparently more realistic theories don’t stand up to criteria of objectivity. There is a lot of con in conspiracy. With so many conspiriologists promoting baseless, dangerous nonsense, and with the flood of incorrect, partial and inane information circulating on the
internet, it’s no surprise that many discard any notion of a conspiracy. Yet the process of conspiracy and very real conspiracies are part of the normal structure of things. They happen all the time, in very everyday situations, but often on a small scale, in a way that people will rarely ever uncover the truth. A small lie, a hidden agenda, things like these can form conspiracies. Conspiracies often thrive in circumstances where people do not want to accept the truth. And the most popular celebrity conspiracies relate to the deaths of the famous and much-loved. Fans often cannot handle their heroes dying, so many look for someone to blame. However, in some cases the evidence
really does point to a cover up. One with the most evidence is the assassination of Robert F Kennedy. The questions surrounding the number of shots fired and the locations of the bullet wounds, along with eyewitness accounts that don’t match up with the official explanation, make this one of the most likely candidates for a true conspiracy. Remember; if 95 per cent of all conspiracy theories are rubbish, that still means five per cent could well be based on the truth, and not the truth we are fed by governments and the media, the real truth. And it’s this five per cent that should make us question things, dig for answers, and form our own opinions based on the real facts.
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