Is Saudi Arabia and Russia the West? Maybe the majority of conspiracies on this thread are based in the West because, ooh, I don't know, maybe the majority of posters on this forum are from the West, i.e. Britain, the US etc. so they have a better perspective of how their governments behave. It's the same whenever there's a tragedy in the world. Westerners and the Western media will have a lot of coverage on terror attacks in Paris and Brussels but very little coverage in say, Yemen or Lebanon, for example. The reason for that is because people generally care more about things close to home.
Do we seem to care more because of the constant implication that we're the good guys? What the media cover and don't cover, and also how and why, is a bundle of conspiracy theories in themselves.
Well, yeah. Americans are told that 9/11 was the single worst thing to happen to freedom and white people, so their response as a military power was to invade Afghanistan. Are most Americans aware their government supported and facilitated the mujahideen in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded? Are most aware that the Taliban, al-Qaeda, Islamic State and other Salafist jihadi terror groups all emerged from the mujahideen?
Aokigahara. I'd like to know the craic there. Creepy as ****, signs on the path pleading with people to think of their loved ones. Some are drawn to it, even those who aren't suicidal. Weird, sad, creepy.
Has anyone mentioned the conspiracy against Chelsea yet, a friend of mine insists that's still a thing.
Americans are led to believe by their politicians that their military involvement around the world is a moral crusade to spread democracy, freedom and western liberalism. However noble some of them may find that, it's fictitious. The US can't have the world's largest military expenditure without having conflicts to engage in; there would be no justification for it. They need to have an enemy to justify conflicts which in turn justifies the largest military expenditure - the military industrial complex. A term coined no less by a former five-star general and Republican president in his outgoing presidential speech. It started off during WWII when the American government reluctantly entered the war but the arms manufacturers were rubbing their hands at the prospect of military mobilisation and selling weapons to the Allies. After the war, the communists were the 'enemy' used to justify the military expenditure, after the Cold War it was post-revolutionary Iran, after the Iran-Iraq War it was Middle Eastern tyrants like Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait and after 9/11 the War on Terror was started to fight the jihadi threat. The common theme is that the US supported or were allies with the new enemy when they were fighting the old enemy. Allies with the Soviets against the Axis, supported jihadis against communists, supported Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq War etc. They need an enemy to justify the military expenditure and that will continue so long as the US government and DoD is in cohorts with weapons manufacturers. It's the same reason why we're allied to Saudi Arabia, because they have oil and the Iranians won't play ball with the West after we deposed Mosaddegh. Saudi Arabia would look like sub-Saharan Africa if we didn't purchase their oil and sell them our guns to kill Yemenis.
Excellent posts chaps. The bottom line is the super rich and powerful 1%. Own and rule us. How do we change it ?
Anyone with a net worth of at least £2.8 million. So anyone with a really nice house and a six figure salary would count. Upper-middle class, usually.
Where do this 1% meet, 72 million is a lot of people to fit into one room or do they just send a round robin email with a list of instructions for everyone?
