5 Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out to be True

Via Instapundit, former Reason intern and current Daily Caller-ite Amanda Carey lays out "Five times the conspiracy theories turned out to be true." The least disturbing of this Pentateuch of Paranoia? John Edwards' love child.

This sees like a good place to drop a little Parallax View montage action. More on the flick here.

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[John]

But the GLOMAR story has an even better and deeper conspiracy theory.

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Star.....0743261127

[Brett L]

Yeah. The Eldritch Gods find us tasty and good with ketchup.

http://www.amazon.com/Jennifer.....728&sr=1-1

[John]

That looks good.

[Brett L]

The Laundry series, of which JM is the second, are great sendups of different coldwar spy novelist styles mixed with lots of tech-geekery and Lovecraftian horrors. Can't say enough about the awesome of the series.

[Fatty Bolger]

Huh. Have to check that out.

[R C Dean]

I'll second Brett's reccy. Fun stuff. Dilbert meets James Bond meets Cthulhu.

[AU H20]

So, uh, when the fuck are we gonna get our Morning Links?

[proegg antichicken]

chill, get a cup of coffee, they have til 9:05AM, then it's late.

[AU H20]

If those morning links aren't on my desk by 9:06, you're fired Gillespie!!

[Fatty Bolger]

Also, we're going to need those TPS reports by this afternoon.

[Barely Suppressed Rage]

So I'm gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Saturday, ok? That'd be great; thanks.

[Parallax Corporation]

These are your Morning Links.

Thank you for your cooperation.

[proegg antichicken]

Ok, now, WHERE ARE MY BREAKFAST LINKS!?

sincerely,

waffles

[proegg antichicken]

my entire productivity scheme is predicated on spending my first 45-90 minutes at work reading articles about the golden girls. C'mon reason!

[Brett L]

Its a conspiracy to keep Longtorso down!

[AU H20]

He got too close to the TRUTH!!!

[J[o]h[nn]y L[o][n]gt[o]rs[o]]

You can't keep a good Golden man down.

[proegg antichicken]

damnit! My whole day is queered by this anti-golden links conspiracy. I better just vomit all over my desk and go back to bed...should'nt have eaten that danish, bleh.

[Restoras]

A+

[Fist of Etiquette]

Everyone knows that list was put together by the Jews to hide the fact that they're behind every war for the last two hundred years.

[John]

The Jews are just a front for the Masons who are a front for the Trilateral Commission.

[The Quadrilateral Commission]

Meh.

[DADIODADDY]

They've got nothing on the Duodecahedron Commission...cue manical laughter...buhhahaha

[Knights Templar]

Pikers.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Reverse vampires.

[OO]

and the trilateralists are a front for the illuminati

[kool]

The illuminiati was a red herring ruse by the vatican!

[Corporate Drone]

who were, in turn, merely a red herring for the saucer people of Planet X.

[Dello]

Planet X was simply a ruse to throw suspicion away from Plan 9.

[sage]

Allow me to put my tinfoil hat on and point out that the bin Laden raid happened just as the heat was on the White House for punishing a reporter that filmed a protest at a high dollar fundraiser. That is all.

[SIV]

Less tinfoily is when the death of bin Laden met with indifference and muted disbelief in the greater Muslim community, the assassination was "confirmed" by a spontaneous demonstration of outrage by the Pakistani Taliban ISI presser.

[OO]

whoops - aQ, the taliban, the wives & childerns all say he's dead

[Waiting for reason.com...]

Why does my Firefox 4.0 scream, shit the bed and die whenever Nick offloads a story? Do I need a better browser? Help me.

[Fire Tiger]

Because the Koch brothers donate to Reason and Gates asked them for a favor.

[DADIODADDY]

cause it's pussy software...

[rather]

because it isn't offloading a story it's looking for live pron. You aren't stupid enough to offload with a device in your bed are you?

How do you think they pay writer's wages on this website?

[ZegWoo]

Wow, pretty amazing stuff when you think about it.

http://www.totally-anon.at.tc

[Brett L]

Is it Balko's day to do the Morning Links?

[Rich]

+1

[The Truth Is]

You want me on that wall! You need me on that wall!

[Barely Suppressed Rage]

Oh great; give the Troofers and Deathers and Birthers more fodder to convince themselves they're right.

[Middle Earthians]

As long as they're too distracted to notice us, let them squabble!
MWA HA HA HA HA

[Pro Libertate]

Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows

[Brett L]

You! Boy! Heed! Get up and get the papers if you can lad.

[AU H20]

Yeah, remember when Mike Myers was funny?

Also, that reminds me of another great, obscure 90s sequence:

"Who's after you?"
"I can't tell you that!.... Bill Gates. He already has half my brain. I fell asleep at Laguardia airport."

[OO]

its always funny in philly aint funny anymore either

[AU H20]

Dead Man on Campus, but nice try dumbass.

[The]

stOOOOOOOOOOpid is strong in this one...

[OO]

sorry u still like it the predictable humor on the show

[Coeus]

Well, it's a well known fact, Sonny Jim, that there's a secret society of the five wealthiest people in the world, known as The Pentavirate, who run everything in the world, including the newspapers, and meet tri-annually at a secret country mansion in Colorado, known as The Meadows

Round these parts we just call 'em "The Five Jew Bankers".

[AU H20]

So, do we wait for Links, or do we just turn this post into our de facto morning links?

[AU H20]

Enough is enough! I'm going to compile some motherfucking morning links. Give me a minute.

[uh..]

try refresh, it's there

[AU H20]

And here are today's Morning Links:

Record Floods Rock Memphis.

The Gates is Coming! Microsoft to buy Skype for 8.5 billion.

More to come...

[AU H20]

Greece to undergo yet another audit.

Ahnold separates from wife Maria Schriver.

This Only two links thing is killing me.

[AU H20]

UN seeks pause in Libya fighting

And, last but not least, Slate shows us a world without the New York Times.

Reason- I TOOK YER JERB!!!

[iamtheeviltwin]

Honestly, hard to call any of these conspiracy theories. Almost all of them were simply "secret" actions that became known within a short time of them happening.

A better title for the article would have been "5 not-so secret secrets"

[Adobe dolt]

Can someone with knowledge of Adobe Illustrator critique this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s9StxsFllY

[Brandybuck]

If one conspiracy is true, then they ALL must be true! At least that's what the nutters say.

I ran across one last week. The *first* piece of "evidence" he had was the Manhattan Project. Huh? Apparently since the government could keep the Manhattan Project secret (they didn't by the way) then it follows that 9/11 had to have been an inside job because the government is keeping the truth secret.

[Umbriel]

Number 2 falls a bit short of the mark. The fact that van der Lubbe was pardoned doesn't prove that the Nazis were responsible for the fire -- it just proves that if, like the Nazis, you're evil enough, people will believe anything about you, and give your enemies the benefit of the doubt.

I think there's actually greater cautionary value in the story if van der Lubbe _did_ act alone. More of the worlds evils are the result of opportunism than of conspiracy.

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