[…] 33 are tremendously useful in understanding the recent political changes in the UK, and also in understanding ‘fusion paranoia’ as a cross-contamination argument. Maybe it’s not a conspiracy, but it’s surely not a coincidence that the fusion idea was first put forth by New Yorker, a champion of the U.S. mall culture. The U.S. […]
[…] operating since the early 1960s right through to the present day have had a surprising amount of publicity in Britain considering that this is the kind of conspiracy theorising which is normally anathema to our straight media. It must help being a radical Christian! The central document in their allegations is The Affidavit of […]
[…] confront was the use of black propaganda by the terrorists as well as the intelligence agencies, and how propaganda led to the deliberate or accidental creation of conspiracy theories. Much of the evidence in print or by word of mouth pointed to the involvement of British intelligence groupings in political murder and the manipulation […]
[…] we found ourselves investigating and trying to expose in the major media far right involvement in the Green and New Age movements. This included links to anti-semitic conspiracy theorists, Holocaust revisionists, the British Israelite and Christian Identity Movements, the US militias and so on. David Icke, the magazine Nexus and the London-based magazine Rainbow […]
[…] what we all know already – the Zinoviev letter was a fake, passed to the Daily Mail by Tory-supporting intelligence officers – combined with the classic ‘no conspiracy’ line. In this case, since the letter is an acknowledged forgery, and there was a conspiracy, there are two specious cop-outs. Not only is there ‘no […]
[…] Criticism from this kind of quarter is worse than water off a duck’s back. It toughens the feathers, confirms the poor Kansans in their prejudices. A vast conspiracy One of those prejudices is that there is a vast conspiracy at work against them, composed of those self-same liberals, backed by dark agencies unknown. This […]
[…] fire three shots. Johnson’s most spectacular recent outburst is his “Flights of Dark Fantasy” in the Daily Telegraph 16 March 1985. In a bizarre attack on ‘ conspiracy theorists’ Johnson equates Marx, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Hitler, Kennedy assassination buffs and Tam Dalyell MP. “Conspiracy theory is a modern superstition, a […]
[…] point of this campaign was a story by Tim Golden of the New York Times, which explained that African-Americans are more susceptible than their fellow citizens to conspiracy theories and paranoia. But it’s not necessarily paranoid to note what crack has done to our cities, or that the U.S. prison population has tripled over […]
[…] porno mag. owned by Larry Flynt. Much of what follows is lifted from that. LAPD had set up the Public Disorder and Intelligence Division and the Criminal Conspiracy Section (PDID and CCS) in the 1960s. In 1971 one of the CCS agent provocateurs, Louis Tackwood (a black), began exposing their activities. Tackwood later wrote […]
[…] the Fortean Times Website (1) there is the content of two articles from the Fortean Times, conversations between some of the US’s leading purveyors and students of conspiracy theories. Mark Pilkington of FT introduces the conversation with the comment that ‘Adrift amongst seas of information and disinformation, claim and counter-claim, a detached, more fortean […]
