Ce qui commande l’adhésion à une théorie du complot, c’est l’idée que les autorités veulent étouffer l’affaire. On ne se rallie pas à ces thèses alternatives pour leur logique interne mais par opposition à la version officielle des faits, parce que l’on croit que les puissants s’évertuent à nous tromper. L’article suggère donc de prendre les théories du complot non pas comme un amalgame de thèses paranoïaques mais comme une véritable idéologie, une vision du monde et de l’histoire.~ Ben Laden et Lady Di sont morts-vivants… | Passeur de sciences
Between 1981 and 1983, Obama is supposed to have visited Mars twice, by way of a teleportation chamber called a “jump room.” Basiago, a fellow chrononaut, told the website Exopolitics that he saw Obama “walk back to the jump room from across the Martian terrain.” To acknowledge his comrade, Obama is said to have told Basiago, “We’re here” — apparently, “with some sense of fatalism.~ White House Denies CIA Teleported Obama to Mars | Danger Room | Wired.com
What is revealing is the extent to which many of the these apparently disparate campaigns all seem to have connections to each other and to figures on the far right of the US Republican Party. In the case of the climate change “deniers” a significant number seem to be funded by the US oil giant ExonMobile.~ THE MAGONIA BLOG: DENYING SCIENCE
~ Al Qaeda to Iran Ahmadinejad: Stop Spreading 9/11 Conspiracy Theory - ABC News“The Iranian government has professed on the tongue of its president Ahmadinejad that it does not believe that al Qaeda was behind 9/11 but rather, the U.S. government,” an article reads. “So we may ask the question: why would Iran ascribe to such a ridiculous belief that stands in the face of all logic and evidence?”
Though Iran was the first of the two to use the “Great Satan” as a synonym for the U.S., the author claims that Iran sees itself as a rival for al Qaeda when it comes to anti-Americanism and was jealous of the 9/11 attacks.
comme c’est souvent le cas des théories du complot— les meilleurs artisans de l’affaiblissement du mouvement de la «vérité sur le 11-Septembre» sont les «truthers» eux-mêmes. Pour la bonne raison qu’il n’est pas possible à des théoriciens du complot d’être en désaccord. Si l’on n’est pas d’accord avec un théoricien du complot, c’est qu’on fait partie du complot.~ 11-Septembre: Complotistes contre complotistes | Slate
“To change one’s mind when presented with evidence that contradicts one’s mind, is to be scientific, logical and rational. The CIA fucked up. No-one got fired. Condi Rice lied to the commission. Bush and Cheney would not testify under oath. No-one wants to take the blame for the incompetence that killed over 3,000 people.” (via No Emotional Attachment to 9/11 Theories - The Truth is Most Important - YouTube)
«Je joue un rôle éminent dans leur démonologie, mais les gens eux-mêmes ne donnent pas l’impression d’être des cinglés. Ce sont souvent des gens qui à bien des égards paraissent très sincères, soucieux, patients. Ils ont simplement une obsession. Ils ne vous écoutent pas vraiment. Vous dites quelque chose et en face, la bande tourne en boucle.»~ 11-Septembre: la théorie vs les faits | Slate
~ THE MAGONIA BLOG: AMERICAN CONSPIRACIESWhat distinguishes many of the contemporary conspiracy theories from their predecessors is that they portrait the home government, rather than foreign enemies, as the conspiring power. Lee connects this to the fall of communism, which provided a readily available symbol of the alien other, and the post Watergate cynicism.
Lee sees the rise of conspiracy theories leading to the twin, though superficially diametrically opposed, dangers of apathy and extremism, one fed by the sense that there is no point in taking part in politics because ‘they’ control everything, the second by the belief that one’s political opponents are not just wrong or misguided, but are the incarnate forces of cosmic evil who must be opposed by all means, including violence.
The waxing obsession with Nibiru, which conspiracy theorists say is a planet swinging in from the outskirts of our solar system that is going to crash into Earth and wipe out humanity in 2012 — or, in some opinions, 2011 — shows that an astonishing number of people “are watching YouTube videos and visiting slick websites with nothing in their skeptical toolkit,” in the words of David Morrison, a planetary astronomer at NASA Ames Research Center and senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute. Morrison estimates that there are 2 million websites discussing the impending Nibiru-Earth collision. He receives, on average, five email inquiries about Nibiru every day.~ Believers In Mysterious Planet Nibiru Await Earth’s End | 2012 Apocalypse and the Rogue Planet Nibiru | Doomsday Myths Debunked | Space.com
And here’s the irony. In secret, with no public oversight, a group of politicians, billionaires and corporate CEOs are discussing (we’re told): Social Networks: Connectivity and Security Issues. The global policy concerning the transparency of our social life is being thrashed out in an untransparent forum by people whose “social network” includes people like Henry Kissinger and the chairman of Goldman Sachs International. It also includes people we don’t even know are there (this happens every year, names emerge that were never admitted to).~ Bilderberg 2011: The tipping point | World news | guardian.co.uk
‘One of [Kennedy’s] concerns was that a lot of these UFOs were being seen over the Soviet Union and he was very concerned that the Soviets might misinterpret these UFOs as U.S. aggression, believing that it was some of our technology,’ Mr Lester told AOL News. ‘I think this is one of the reasons why he wanted to get his hands on this information and get it away from the jurisdiction of NASA so he could say to the Soviets, “Look, that’s not us, we’re not doing it, we’re not being provocative. “.’~ Secret memo shows JFK demanded UFO files 10 days before assassination | Mail Online
Assange est un hacker. S’il modélise la structure d’un pouvoir, c’est pour en découvrir les failles. Son but n’est pas de crier à la conspiration, mais de trouver les instruments à même de rendre tout « pouvoir conspiratif » - c’est-à-dire toute gouvernance autoritaire fondée sur le secret partagé - impossible. Que faire pour qu’un pouvoir de ce type ne puisse plus exister ? Ce moyen, ce contre-dispositif, il l’entrevoit dans ces lignes. Ce sera l’organisation de « fuites » massives, ceci dans une stratégie de désorganisation et d’affaiblissement cognitif des régimes de gouvernance autoritaire.~ L’art de la fuite. La philosophie politique de Julian Assange par lui-même. | Contretemps
