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A riveting tour through the landscape and meaning of modern conspiracy theories, exploring the causes and tenacity of this American malady, from Birthers to Pizzagate and beyond.
American society has always been fertile ground for conspiracy theories, but with the election of Donald Trump, previously outlandish ideas suddenly attained legitimacy. Trump himself is a conspiracy enthusiast: from his claim that global warming is a Chinese hoax to the...
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"Hosts of the podcast Stuff They Don't Want You to Know, Ben Bowlin, Matthew Frederick, & Noel Brown discern conspiracy fact from fiction regarding "stuff" the government doesn't want you to know. Conspiracies didn't always seem so clear and present. It used to be that people with tin-foil hats who were convinced of secret messages coming through the radio were easily disregarded as kooks and looney tunes. But these days, conspiracies feel alive and...
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"Ten years ago, Theodora "Teddy" Angstrom's older sister, Angie, disappeared. Her case remains unsolved. Now--on the anniversary of Angie's disappearance--Teddy's father, Mark, has killed himself. Unbeknownst to Mark's family, he had been actively investigating conspiracy theories sourced from a Reddit community of true crime fans fixated on Angie, and Teddy soon finds herself falling down that same rabbit hole. After all, if hope dies last, Angie...
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"In this hilarious, yet fact-filled book, Elise Gravel uses her kid-friendly wit and quirky illustration style to break down what fake news is, why people spread it, and how to tell what is real and what isn't. And that's the truth!"--
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A journalist who specializes in conspiracy theories draws on interviews with QAnon converts and victims, as well as psychologists, sociologists, and academics to explain the origin and growth of the movement, its embrace by right-wing media and politicians, and why it is important to understand it rather than mock it.
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"From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland, a history of America's obsession with secret societies and the conspiracies of hidden power The United States was born in paranoia. From the American Revolution (thought by some to be a conspiracy organized by the French) to the Salem witch trials to the Satanic Panic, Illuminati and QAnon, one of the most enduring narratives that defines the United States is simply this: secret groups...
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"In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous "crash from outer space" has become a fixture in our culture, inspiring a surge...
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Invasive technologies and social media fed by mobiles will destroy your planet and the cyber-criminal is YOU.
Global warming, pollution of oceans and exhaustion of natural resources will pale into insignificance against this threat. Rampant uncontrolled technology, apps and social media platforms will end the world as we know it.
The sad reality, the one to blame is YOURSELF.
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There are many, conspiracy theories that attribute the planning and execution of the September 11 attacks against the United States to parties other than or, in addition to, al-Qaeda, including that there was advance knowledge of the attacks among high-level government officials.
Government investigations and independent reviews have rejected these theories. Proponents of these theories assert that there are inconsistencies in the commonly accepted...
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This book is light years ahead of any counterparts. In fact, it is one-of-a-kind. It is a page-turner.
It provides shocking details about the CIA-sponsored assassination of JFK. The CIA kept a very accurate and detailed record of the plans and progress being made for the assassination right up to the date and time including telephone calls and meetings.
Elements in the military-industrial-intelligence complex wanted Kennedy killed because he was...
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El libro La Guerra Falsa (The Big White Lie), escrito por el autor de mayor venta del New York Times y antiguo agente secreto de la DEA, es una observación imperceptible de la operación profundamente encubierta y altamente secreta que destapó el sabotaje de la CIA sobre la guerra contra las drogas. El periódico New York Times describió este libro como "espeluznante", no ficticio, y que se "mueve con la velocidad de una novela de supenso de la...
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"La Guerra contra las drogas es la más grande y mortífera mentira perpetrada por el gobierno norteamericano contra sus conciudadanos", dice Michael Levine, autor de este libro apasionante.
Agente de la DEA con más de veinticinco años de servicio, Levine las diversas rutas de la droga, desde Bangkok hasta Buenos Aires. Dondequiera que viajó fue testigo presencial de las más escandalosas violaciones a la leyes antiestupefacientes por parte de...
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The House of Mystery Radio Show has been on the air for ten years, broadcasting in over a dozen cities in the U.S. It started as a way to interview guests knowledgeable in many of the world's mysteries involving crime, science, religion, history, paranormal, conspiracies, etc. The House of Mystery Interview series is a curated collection of interviews from the show. Each volume focuses on one of the mysteries, providing the background and reproducing...
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Not only is the Earth HOLLOW, but it is inhabited by Advanced Civilizations! Discover the existence of people who live in peace and brotherhood in the Center of our Earth, which is HOLLOW, with an Inner Central Sun, and oceans and mountains still in their pristine state. Visit the Library of Porthologos where all Earth's records are preserved. Discover the Lost Library of Alexandria! YES - Our Earth Is HOLLOW "And there's more to the Core than...
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This is the third and final book of the three-book series authored by Watchman on the Wall providing us with the evidence and teaching us that we are living in the very last days of the end times foretold in Bible prophecy for thousands of years.
Yahushua (Christ) returns very soon to gather the elect to Himself in perfect fulfillment of the prophecy of Matthew 24:30-31 and elsewhere. After revealing the extensive evidence that the global conspiracy...
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On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew. Large sections of the aircraft crashed onto residential areas of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing a further 11 people on the ground. Only one man has ever been convicted of the crime: Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, though few believe that he acted alone. However, author Douglas Boyd conjects that it was Iran, not Libya, who...
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A conspiracy theory revealed. We all know that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee, by James Earl Ray. James wrote his book James Earl Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?, declaring his innocence while in prison, claiming a man he knew only as "Raoul" set him up to be patsy. He detailed his life with Raoul in his book.
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Por supuesto, hay mucho de mito, conspiranoia (paranoia conspiratoria), leyenda e imaginación desvelada con respecto a cualquier secta por poderosa que sea, sobre todo si tenemos en cuenta que los verdaderos amos del mundo, iluminados, masones, luciferinos, gnósticos, teósofos, o no, no necesitan nada de nadie porque ya lo tienen todo: el dinero y el poder, los medios de producción y comunicación, la distribución y los puntos de venta de todas...
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