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I assume that readers do not believe that the CIA, the Mafia, the military-industrial complex or some other manifestation of the System ordered the murder of JFK. Conspiracy theories about the Kennedy assassination, once everywhere, are now confined to the diminishing audience for Oliver Stone's movies. I am not sure, however, that you can say, hand on heart, that you have not thought for a fleeting moment that maybe there just might be something in the following propositions: 

  • That Nato governments and their tame journalists invented the "atrocities" committed by Slobodan Milosevic's Serbia and her allies in order to justify a war to expand the empire of neo-liberalism into the southern Balkans;
  • That Prince Philip, along with the British and French intelligence services, arranged the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, because she was about to marry a Muslim;
  • That the 9/11 atrocities in New York and Washington were an "inside job" organised by a rogue faction within the US intelligence agencies or maybe the Bush administration itself to justify war in the Muslim world;
  • That Israel warned Jews to stay away from the World Trade Centre on 9/11 but allowed the slaughter of gentiles to stoke up hatred of Muslims;
  • That the Jews, once again, formed a "lobby" in the US that pushed America into a needless war against Saddam Hussein;
  • And that the Bush and Blair administrations knew in advance that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction worthy of the name but lied and went to war under a false prospectus.

In the past 15 years, vast numbers of people have believed one or more of the above. For a decade after Diana's death, polls reported that between one-fifth and one-third of the British public thought she had been murdered — even though to sustain that conviction they had to accept that the conspirators must have known in advance that she would decide not to stay in Mohamed Fayed's Paris Ritz, what car she and Dodi Fayed would leave in once they had resolved to move on, who would be driving the car, where and by which route it would travel and — finally and bafflingly — that the poor woman would forget to put on her seatbelt.

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Girth Brooks
June 13th, 2009
1:06 AM
Yeah y'all. I agree with this 'cept for the particular conspiracy theories that i subscribe to. And by that I mean - open y'er damn eyes homeys! The twin towers was a botched scene from the next faked moon landing! Robots I tells ya! Just like nostradamus sayz

Paul Duonozio
June 11th, 2009
9:06 PM
People in power would never lie or cheat or manufacture spectacle in order to keep their power. That simply does not happen. Right. Some of you are such good little robots.

Burt Reynolds
June 8th, 2009
6:06 PM
Thing is, this paper like others cannot be trusted; it's naturally bias by design. Of course there is a hidden world and this paper, like others, decides to keep you from knowing.

David Torbert
June 2nd, 2009
5:06 PM
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/000000... The Open Chemical Physics Journal Volume 2 ISSN: 1874-4125 Contents Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe pp.7-31 (25) Authors: Niels H. Harrit, Jeffrey Farrer, Steven E. Jones, Kevin R. Ryan, Frank M. Legge, Daniel Farnsworth, Gregg Roberts, James R. Gourley, Bradley R. Larsen doi: 10.2174/1874412500902010007 Abstract We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center. Examination of four of these samples, collected from separate sites, is reported in this paper. These red/gray chips show marked similarities in all four samples. One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red material contains grains approximately 100 nm across which are largely iron oxide, while aluminum is contained in tiny plate-like structures. Separation of components using methyl ethyl ketone demonstrated that elemental aluminum is present. The iron oxide and aluminum are intimately mixed in the red material. When ignited in a DSC device the chips exhibit large but narrow exotherms occurring at approximately 430 °C, far below the normal ignition temperature for conventional thermite. Numerous iron-rich spheres are clearly observed in the residue following the ignition of these peculiar red/gray chips. The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic. Keywords: JScanning electron microscopy, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, Differential scanning calorimetry, DSC analysis, World Trade Center, WTC dust, 9/11, Iron-rich microspheres, Thermite, Super-thermite, Energetic nanocomposites, Nano-thermite Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK-2100, Denmark. BENTHAM OPEN www.bentham.org/open Copyright © 1994 - 2009 Bentham Open

Mark
May 31st, 2009
12:05 AM
'The world is composed only of ordinary, fallible humans. Not all powerful monsters coordinating vast conspiracies.' Is that all the world ? Nick Cohen's list of 'modern conspiracy theories' studiously avoids mentioning several events involving Russia in the last decade. Are the MSM journalists who indulge in airy theorising about the deaths of Anna Politovskaya, Alexander Litvinenko, and the victims of the 1999 apartment bombings 'racists, fantasists and conspiracy nuts' ? Apparently not.

Splig
May 30th, 2009
2:05 PM
To Anonymous, May 28th, 2009 11:05 PM. Your suggestion that because 50% of Necons were Jews there is therefore a "Jewish lobby" is absurd. Does the fact that some of the Necons happened to be Jewish mean that all Jews are somehow bound together, forming one homogenous group? All linked with one aim? All involved in starting a war? Hmm. Sounds familiar doesn't it? Give my regards to Mel Gibson, and all the other racists, fantasists and conspiracy nuts. Just like you.

Ari
May 29th, 2009
8:05 PM
The UK owes the US over WWII? The US made arms and smuggled them to Hitler, it was Du Pont and GM that got Hitler his weapons. Read. But of course, Aaronovitch failed his history class...

Ian Neal
May 29th, 2009
5:05 PM
Steve, I believe they DELIBERATELY LIED about WMD because that is what the evidence tells me (Niger yellowcake forgeries anyone). That doesn't make me paranoid, just better informed than the likes David Arronovitch who referring to WMD stated "If nothing is eventually found, I - as a supporter of the war - will never believe another thing that I am told by our government, or that of the US ever again." And yet here he and Nick Cohen are pushing the same tired nonsense that if you question officialdom you are pararnoid. Are NC and DA seriously telling us that everyone who has doubts over 9/11 is paranoid? Does that apply also to the 9/11 family campaigners? Watch their films (www.911pressfortruth.com) and then tell me we know the truth. Shameful yellow journalism. Reinvestigate 9/11

arnoldo
May 29th, 2009
4:05 PM
Anonymous - congratulations on being sceptical about WMD before the invasion. You were one of a select few - the overwhelming consensus was that they DID exist. Also, as far as I know, there was no intelligence which indicated that Saddam had got rid of them.

Matthew
May 29th, 2009
3:05 PM
Here's Nick's claim that the Iraq war would be fought because we owed the US $243m from WWII. We owe a lot to America - £243 million, to be precise Since 11 September we socialist faggots at The Observer have had two insults repeated in steaming emails from the US. After a homoerotic 'kiss my American ass', we are told we can't criticise Bush because 'if it wasn't for us you'd be speaking German'. The cheap riposte, 'if it wasn't for us you'd be speaking Dutch', won't do. The furious Yanks are right: Britain remains in America's debt for WWII. The last volume of Robert Skidelsky's life of J.M. Keynes has a brutal account of how America exploited Britain's wartime vulnerability. Keynes vainly tried to ensure 'we have enough assets to leave us capable of independent action'. The US made him accept that the US Empire would supplant its British rival. In return for loans, Britain had to cut exports, limit gold and dollar reserves and repay debt from 1950 onwards. Ruth Kelly, the Treasury Minister, told Parliament the other day that Britain still owed £243 million. Rather than relieve the debt of Third World peasants, Britain, she said, intended to meet the bill in full by 31 December 2006. Ms Kelly is a revelation. Until her statement, Blair's sudden enthusiasm for a needless war against Iraq was a mystery; his failure to tell Bush that British troops can't be both peace-keepers and combatants in Afghanistan, a dereliction of duty; his inability to force a concession from Washington on any issue from Kyoto to steel tariffs, a national humiliation. Now what was baffling is clear. Debtors are in no position to demand concessions from creditors. They must do as they're told. According to the Treasury, Britain will be free to have an independent foreign policy on 1 January 2007. I'll leave it to you to imagine how many wars Blair will have fought by then.

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