Conspiracy theories form when information is kept from the public. I don't mean to sound skeptic, but some events lead to certain theories when you try to piece things together. Traits of someone who likes to solve logic puzzles.
I used to be pretty prone to conspiracy theories until I joined the military and got to see quite a few things that typically drive conspiracy websites nuts with speculation. Generally speaking - the number one flaw in a conspiracy theory is the assumption that there is an organized system in place.
Honestly, for the first couple years I was in the military, I couldn't believe half the stuff I was seeing. Packs of raving monkeys are only marginally less effective than a lot of the systems we have in place. Hell, I'm quite certain that half the military, at any given time, is operating purely off of dogmatic principle - meaning entire volumes of paperwork and even certain reimbursements are carried out -against- true policy... but miscommunications and anecdotes get passed along until they become established dogmatic doctrine that actually fills a functional role.
Even though they're technically operating against some MILPERS, NAVPERS, etc publication.
And we're supposed to be one of the most organized and effective militaries on the planet... I can't even begin to imagine what the other guys are like.
Anyway - I've seen a lot of things in my relatively short and narrow military experience; and seen how the reality gets distorted and then later re-interpreted by people on the outside (heck, half the time no one on the inside really knows what the hell is going on).
So, I have lost a lot of the belief that there -can- be very unified and organized conspiracies in place. Sure - there can be smaller ones that have larger impacts (by enticing other interest groups to hop on board) - but the general nature of human beings is to engage in politics for their own benefit. For sweeping conspiracies to exist - a huge number of people have to be participating and voluntarily contributing to the overwhelming benefit of one person or party. If they are in a position to pass that much power up to another person - they are typically in a position to sequester that power for themselves when given the chance (thus causing the conspiracy group to fragment into fratricide).
About the only exception to this is when we see very tightly controlled environments like North Korea - and even there, a huge amount of effort goes into sustaining that system... and it requires a lot of external assistance that simply doesn't exist in free-ranging systems.
Read the article. I'm more open to the history of the Rothschild Family and their original intentions, but that still doesn't change my opinion on the pattern of Rothschild Banks springing up in countries that have seemed to "cause an act on terror". Conspiracy or not, whenever a country is put in negative light in the media, either due to an act of terrorism or unstable government - it seems to be appropriate to invade that country or 'help' it.
The U.S. wet its own bed long ago during its proxy wars with the USSR. The CIA was conducting very intensive operations throughout the middle east and western asia in an effort to disrupt the rule of states held by the USSR and to assist partisans who desired to separate from the USSR.
There was a sort of expectation that if we helped them overthrow the USSR (what we wanted) - we would help them become something free and with a higher standard of living - to have us help them establish rule and make things better. In some cases - this was a doomed idea from the beginning. Those regions are largely tribal in ways we tend not to think of... they don't even recognize the borders we use to distinguish their nations - they have tribal borders and systems that just don't function according to the same political principles we tend to operate on.
Those tribes fight and squabble with each other like medival lordships did. So in agreeing to help one tribe against the USSR - things turned around later that that tribe began to impose itself upon other tribes in the way that they always had (but it was 'like America' because the members of tribes on the 'good list' got a say in political decisions... and they don't see anything wrong with that line of reasoning). So - in those cases - we kind of played "whose your dictator."
In other cases where it -would- have worked according to plan... the Berlin wall fell and the CIA was decapitated by Congress (because the CIA kept tabs on our political leaders, their affiliations, and had a lot over them - and got away with it because the CIA was credited with being the linchpin in the U.S.'s strategic capability against the USSR). Along with that - a lot of the intel and support networks evaporated - and we left a lot of those countries and regimes to fend for themselves after we had helped to overthrow the status-quo leadership.
Which is kind of a **** move.
But it established us as self-centered interventionists in a lot of their people's minds - and made us a popular target for political rantings and ravings. Bad-mouth the U.S. - get political support (which, rather than being rendered by votes, might have been rendered by people willing to kill others for you... or simply who would not try to kill you).
Even if internal politics is the primary driving factor behind the anti-U.S. sentiment - it's only natural that some of that transfer to affected actions against the U.S. Which is why we've had incidents of terrorism.
Though Europe has been dealing with it for decades (even centuries). When the protestants and catholics aren't killing each other; the Shiites and Sunis are... and when they aren't doing that - it's a four-way battle royale.
The middle-east incidents of terrorism get more attention because they actually appear to represent the behavior of a nation as opposed to just psychotic activist/political parties.
For example - there's these guys:
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in Japan.
Or these guys:
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(they're a real bottle of sunshine).
9/11 allowed America to announce the War on Terror. By 2003, Iraq and Afghanistan suddenly had a central bank.
By 2011, Gaddafi was assassinated, the 'rebels were freed'. Libya had a Central Bank.
They do not have a 'central bank owned by the Rothschilds.' They have operations as a global investment bank. Investment banks are not really central banks:
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. And while they are one of the oldest investment banking firms in existence - they are far from the largest:
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Hell - the Rothschilds are one of the few remaining, valid private-side banks. JP Morgan Chase has nearly 100 times the operating income and 250 times the number of employees.
2013, North Korea, although always been antagonised is getting quite a bit more attention that normal. I'm curious to see how the next year plays out...
It's because their new leader, the youngest son of Kim Jong Il, Kim Il Sun, has taken power and has started saying that he's going to wage war against the U.S. and other such stuff.
While that's not -entirely- new, he's taking it to a level that has not been seen in a very, very long time.
Considering that Korea is, basically, the world's only manufacturer of advanced shipping hulls for various tankers and other forms of commercial shipping (one of the reasons Korea has placed in one of the top ten economies in the world despite having a land mass the size of Indiana) ... and their northern neighbor is basically making promises to use nuclear weapons on anything and everything (and they're the only ones really in effective range of North Korea's weapons)....
That could be why we're getting a little more antsy than normal. Because North Korea is doing far more than simply making speeches - we've got them on satellites moving equipment around like they rarely do (and on scales that haven't been seen for a while). It's going to new levels.
It still doesn't justify anything. It is probably that method of business that allows so many theories to spout about the Rothschild family.
If I'm a prefabricated home manufacturer - and I see on the news that we just invaded a country and there is a need for premanufactured homes... what do you think I'm going to do?
A country that has largely been impractical to survey for raw materials (such as precious metals, rare earth compounds, etc) for political reasons is going to have a sort of 'gold rush' of prospectors looking to invest in territory and of people offering to conduct varying survey methods to find resources for those who own property (whether they are foreign investors or residents who are just like: what? You think the rocks back there are worth something and would give me enough money to buy 300 Corollas every year if it turns out to be what you think it is? I think you're crazy, but knock yourself out." (A lot of the people in that region of the world seem to use the Corolla as an income metric - the vehicle is quite popular).
It's no different than how a lot of contractors flocked to the regions around Joplin, Missouri after an F-5 tornado -erased- the town.
Did they cause the tornado to happen? No. But there was a business opportunity - people needed homes and businesses rebuilt. Thus, they came.
And the Muslim Brotherhood is another organisation that is mysterious, provoking conspirators.
They're a bit of a complex organization. I've seen reports that the face of the Muslim Brotherhood is changing. Where it used to be a sort of cross-tribal anti-american party, the younger generations have been utilizing it in an attempt to genuinely unify the various Islamic tribes and nations (with far less Anti-American sentiment).
I can't help but feel like the older generations are using the younger generation's enthusiasm and idealism to centralize power for their own purposes... but it's quite possible that the will of the newer generations will simply over-power any cleverly contrived plots. Generally speaking, though - I'm suspicious of bandwagons. Any time I find myself a part of one, it's right after asking: "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"
You should check it out, maybe you got infected.
