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The stuff of conspiracy theories makes for great, entertaining stories in movies, books, and television. And there is no shortage of subjects: from who really killed JFK to the truth behind 9/11. And then, there are subjects from alien invasions to the Moon landing was simulated - theories that are truly out of this world, which according to some, is flat. Many of these crazy concepts have jumped off the pages or screens to become so pervasive in our culture that thousands - even millions - subscribe to them as reality.

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Are they messing with our minds? Is Big Brother watching everything we do? Why is the UK government forcing through identity cards? Are we all just a number in the system? In a world where individuals become nothing but a number in a massive system, is it time to shout STOP? Are we being controlled from the very moment we are born until the time of our death? It's time to put a stop to the ever encroaching and invasive influences upon our minds and our lives.

The words we use shape the world we live in - so it matters when we get them wrong. This series, from the creators of the chart-topping Origin Story podcast, sheds much-needed light on the true meanings and surprising stories behind some of our most used and abused political terms.

Wat maakt een conspiracy theory? Waar komen de mythen vandaan, wie verspreidt ze – en waarom? Waarom zijn sommige mensen vatbaar voor duidelijk absurde dingen, en welke mechanismen houden conspiracy gelovigen zo hardnekkig in hun greep? Duik in de wereld van de bizarre verhalen, ontdek de populairste theorieën en ontdek wat echt belangrijk is bij het confronteren van verzinsels en onbewijsbare dingen!

Why people believe what they shouldn't believe. What makes a conspiracy theory? Where do the myths come from, who spreads them, and why? Why are some people susceptible to obviously absurd things, and what mechanisms keep conspiracy believers so firmly in their grip?

We are living in an age of conspiracy theories, whether it's an enduring, widely held belief such as government involvement in the Kennedy assassination, fears of a powerful infiltrating group, or modern fringe movements of varying popularity such as birtherism and trutherism. What is it in American culture that makes conspiracy theories proliferate? Who is targeted, and why? Are we in the heyday of the conspiracy theory, or is it in decline? American Conspiracy Theories is the first to use broad, long-term empirical data to analyze this popular American tendency.

Welcome to Conspiracy Theories Gone Wild—the podcast where reality takes a backseat, and absurdity runs the show!Each week, we dive deep into the most outrageous, mind-bending, and completely fictional conspiracy theories you’ve never heard of—because we just made them up. From alien fast food franchises to time-traveling pigeons, government cover-ups of intergalactic trash dumps, and lizard people moonlighting as pop stars, no theory is too wild for us to explore.Through fake interviews, "leaked" documents, and highly suspect expert analysis, we piece together the ultimate web of ...

Episode #5 Conspiracy Theories. This week we will be looking at several theories. Fake moon landing, hollow earth, Roswell and much more. Wanna take a ride on the weird side? 👽👻

On this podcast we'll be discussing new conspiracy theories as they appear (and within the last few years). Resources will be posted in the show notes.Intro music: https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100414&Search=SearchCover art: https://www.pexels.com/photo/silhouette-of-man-standing-against-black-and-red-background-333850/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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“Jim Marrs can’t be ignored. Few in this country shout about The Truth louder than he.” —Dallas Observer In The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy, Jim Marrs, the New York Times bestselling author of Rule by Secrecy and The Rise of The Fourth Reich, offers a terrifying proposition: that the...

Por que será que acreditamos em informações erradas e, mais que isso, as buscamos e espalhamos? O que acontece quando uma pessoa aparentemente racional começa a cogitar, adotar e então defender crenças irracionais? Meu objetivo aqui é mostrar como qualquer um, sob determinadas circunstâncias, pode acabar caindo nessa armadilha. É mais fácil pensar no assunto como algo que acontece com outras pessoas. Mas este audiolivro também fala sobre cada um de nós. Sobre como formamos nossas certezas e as consolidamos, defendemos e difundimos.

In 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which he was arrested and tried for treason in 1807. This book explores the political and cultural forces that shaped how Americans made sense of the uncertain rumors and reports about Burr's intentions and movements, and examines what the resulting crisis reveals about their anxieties concerning the new nation's fragile union and uncertain republic.

It's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion - and the delusional psychologies that fuel them - have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there's been an America. In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country's obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment.

A Lie Too Big to Fail asserts the idea that a government can never investigate itself in a crime of this magnitude. Was the convicted Sirhan Sirhan a willing participant? Or was he a mind-controlled assassin? It has fallen to independent researchers like Pease to lay out the evidence in a clear and concise manner, allowing listeners to form their theories about this event. Pease places the history of this event in the context of the era and provides shocking overlaps between other high-profile murders and attempted murders of the time.

Conspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists today have introduced something new - conspiracy without theory. And the new conspiracism has moved from the fringes to the heart of government with the election of Donald Trump. In A Lot of People Are Saying, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum reveal how the new conspiracism differs from classic conspiracy theory, why so few officials speak truth to conspiracy, and what needs to be done to resist it.

A blistering exposé of the National Rifle Association, revealing its people, power, corruption, and ongoing downfall, from acclaimed NPR investigative reporter Tim Mak “Tenacious, careful and incisive.”—Jonathan Swan “Deeply and meticulously reported, colorfully and precisely...

They adore her in Manhattan. They worship her in Hollywood. They idolize her in the liberal media. But out in the real world are those of us who see through her lies about her husband, reject her socialist economics, and despise her radical social agenda. We are the members of what Hillary Clinton described as a "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy", and at VRWC headquarters, we've been keeping a file on her.

Well-funded hard-left extremists, the mainstream media, Obama/Clinton holdovers in the government bureaucracy, and clandestine forces within the US intelligence apparatus have a strategy to ensure that Trump will not serve out his term as the 45th President of the United States. Investigative journalist and conspiracy expert Jerome Corsi goes into shocking detail about how this Deep State, or Shadow Government, secretly wields power in Washington and why it is dangerous.