Conspiracy or Conspiracy Theory

[Correction]

EDIT: and I like the fact that I've been registered since 2005 and have less than 200 posts.

Pity the signal/noise ratio is worse than those who've been around for less than a year and have thousands of posts.

[Elvis]

What is this thread even about? Why open it up w/ a link to a bunch of videos that are sensationalist in presentation. Lots of information about our government, etc. is open to the public. I think we're just intellectually lazy. We live in a society w/ an unusual amount of freedom. We have unprecedented access to internal documents.

Here's something that could be dismissed as 'conspiracy' if it were presented by the OP in the style of his opening post:

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...aks/index.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MnYI3_FRbb.../s1600/cia.png

Excerpts:

A newly leaked CIA report prepared earlier this month (.pdf) analyzes how the U.S. Government can best manipulate public opinion in Germany and France -- in order to ensure that those countries continue to fight in Afghanistan. The Report celebrates the fact that the governments of those two nations continue to fight the war in defiance of overwhelming public opinion which opposes it -- so much for all the recent veneration of "consent of the governed" -- and it notes that this is possible due to lack of interest among their citizenry: "Public Apathy Enables Leaders to Ignore Voters," proclaims the title of one section.

[...]The Report seeks to provide a back-up plan for "counting on apathy," and provides ways that the U.S. Government can manipulate public opinion in these foreign countries. It explains that French sympathy for Afghan refugees means that exploiting Afghan women as pro-war messengers would be effective, while Germans would be more vulnerable to a fear-mongering campaign (failure in Afghanistan means the Terrorists will get you). The Report highlights the unique ability of Barack Obama to sell war to European populations (click on images to enlarge):

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_MnYI3_FRbb...s1600/cia2.png

PS: Glenn Greenwald rocks!

EDIT: Another source - http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100326...efrancegermany

[thestalkmore]

AHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MAKE THIS THREAD GO AWAY.

[Fhloston]

Negative, I am a Meat Popsicle.

Best response so far.

I actually enjoy conspiracy theories, but mostly for entertainment value. Yeah, 9/11 seemed pretty fishy, but guess what, there's really not a goddamn thing you can do about it. Like someone mentioned earlier, just exist, don't worry about who is pulling the strings. All of this time spent barking about conspiracy theories, or looking in to them, can be spent better elsewhere.