"Conspiracy is a common form of human behaviour across all cultures throughout recorded time, and it has always been particularly widespread in politics. Virtually all of us conspire some of the time, and some people (such as spies) conspire virtually all of the time. "-https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/9fjg7q/conspiracy_is_a_common_form_of_human_behaviour/

Northwoods, paperclip, mockingbird... Start there.

No you're supposed to just know what they are by their name alone.

List of Proven Conspiracies from this sub.

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Look it up on Reddit.

"Lycos, go get it"

Are you lazy or just plain stupid? Yes, of course you have to research them. People can point you in the right direction and then you need to start reading about the subjects.

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Read the sidebar.

It's there under community info.

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Yes... 1) That aliens are real and make up 95% of the population. 2) we have all been completely sold into debt slavery unknowingly. 3) Billy Baldwin is the most talented Baldwin.

Crap, we are all Aliens?

Yes, and I'm deeply sorry about it

Where did we come from?

We are the fleas that came with the dog.

So, not Seti Alpha 5?

Or was this a Sirius Joke?

You got me

NSA - turns out government was spying on us the whole time.
Gulf of Tonken - Turns out the event the US used to justify entering the Vietnam war never happened source;

Iran-Contra - CIA sold drugs to support a rebels in Iran because the US government would not fund it source

MK Ultra (Source), project stargate (source), project paperclip (source) - all covert government programs the government later admitted to.

USS Liberty Incident - Israel forces tried to sink a US vessel and blame it on Egypt source

there's also the US spraying cities with radioactive material (Source), infecting people with syphilis (source) and telling them specifically they did not have it

It should be remembered once conspiracies are admitted it is common for people to say "well of course it was happening" before a conspiracy is admitted though the average person will think you're a crackpot. Some of these seem like non-conspiracies but for a longtime they were not public knowledge and you would be thought of as crazy for stating the real story.

There's far more but this is a good start for reading material.

The worst part is that people think that the government used to do this but totally doesn't do stuff like that anymore.

Yeah, usually when the government admits to these things it’s decades after the events took place and there’s a tongue in cheek “can you believe the old guys did this? It’s a good thing we would never do this”

Don't forget the 2016 South Korea political scandal, Hillary Clinton, Stuxnet, etc... The list is too long for such a broad question.

pipe organ music has been used to for Mesmer. Other instruments and notes also.

Look into the history of Operation Gladio.

The Gulf of Tonkin, MK Ultra, unethical government experiments on American citizens, etc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unethical_human_experimentation_in_the_United_States

I feel like just those alone should be enough to give pretty much anyone a healthy sense of concern about our political apparatus.

Most normal people just deny and ignore this stuff. even if you smear it in their face they won't see the truth.

As children, I think most of us know there is something terribly, terribly wrong. Over the years, with all your parents and friends and schools and churches living along as if everything is OK, eventually the little screaming voice inside goes quite.

With it goes the ability to discern good from evil.

Someone writes this message once a month.... start with a podcast. Those conspiracy guys for example

First one that I know of, is the lightbulb conspiracy, and two others that come to mind are the Gulf of Tonkin, Tuskegee experiments

Is that the one how Thomas Edison deliberately made and marketed a lightbulb that would die and need replacing regularly, rather than one that works for ages - that one?

Yea there is a short documentary about this. Edison and the other dudes making bulbs back then all conspired to make bulbs that were shittier. It was the beginning of planned obsolescence.

Idk the other two, TL:DR?

US gov invaded Vietnam after false flag attack in the gulf of Tonkin.

US scientists purposefully did not treat blacks for syphilis but said they did, just to see what'd happen (they already knew what happened)

Gulf of Tonkin, the US sunk its own ship to start the war in Vietnam.

The Tuskegee experiments, the Us gov literally gave an entire town syphilis and then did not tell them for years to see what would happen.

Also check out operation paperclip,

There are many that have actual Government documentation to verify the claims. Take some time to look and you'll be surprised.

He's asking where to look. It is a reasonable question, especially with the widespread censorship of this information that is now occuring.

Depends on who you ask. I'd strongly suggest starting with the "Conspiratorial View of History" as advanced by Ralph Epperson to get the "Big Picture", as they say... http://www.lovethetruth.com/books/ralph_epperson/new_world_order.pdf

MKUltra is proven (Though some conspiracy theorists believe it did more than has been certifiably proven yet)

CIA exploding the crack epidemic in the 80's.

Iran-Contra

Gulf of Tonkin disaster

Pretenses for the Iraq War

it is always a jew.

A conspiracy is simply defined as a group of people with a common goal, add "theory" and it's one that isn't proven.

Operation Paperclip and Operation Highjump.

Chemtrails, otherwise known as HAARP and geoengineering. There’s proof beyond proof that they continue to spray us everyday but sheep continue to look down at their phones and say “oh it’s just water vapor, every plane leaves those trails”. Nope, it’s just the government knowingly spraying chemicals above our heads to “control the weather” and increase disease within communities.

Project MKUltra laid the groundwork for a number of spinoff projects which continue to this day.

Dupont pushed a disinformation campaign against hemp/cannabis in the 1910s-30s for economic purposes. It continues to this day with other corporate agents at the helm, but the motivation remains the same: keep known, safe, cheap hemp and cannabis products off the market in favor of companies that make more expensive, less effective alternatives.

Tulsa Race Riot, 1921, was nearly scrubbed from history books, down played by the establishment for many decades after it happened. The event came to prominence again in the 1990s. Now it doesn't even register as a "conspiracy," however, at the time, it was treated as an open secret by the entire white community of Tulsa--until the death of nearly everyone involved. Despite the fact that US army planes were dispatched, several law enforcement agents were shooting unarmed black people from planes and dropping bombs and incendiaries from the sky. An account from the time was found in 2015 written by a prominent local lawyer.

The DC Madame: Debra Jean Palfrey. She ran a sex service for the DC elite. She had the dirt on all those pedophile mfs. Shortly after her existence became public knowledge, and it looked a lot like she was heading for a public hearing, she simply couldn't take the pressure and committed suicide. Yeah, right.

Michael Hastings): Made a name for himself as a balls-out journalist, willing to risk his life for the real story. He was also suicided after his account of being embedded with the US Army in Afghanistan, alongside Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

From a 2013, NYT Magazine article:

Mark Leibovich, in this summer’s inside-the-­Beltway big read, This Town, describes Hastings’s McChrystal piece as “the most consequential” journalism of 2010 and possibly Obama’s entire first term. But despite going after big game, Hastings tended to be nonchalant about possible repercussions. “Whenever I’d been reporting around groups of dudes whose job it was to kill people,” he said once, “one of them would usually mention that they were going to kill me.” Here's the crash.

There are many more. They happen every day. A conspiracy happens any time two businessmen talk behind closed doors.

I pulled a lot of this stuff from other users and pieces of this have made the rounds here as mini copy/pastes. I put it all together in one thread. Enjoy!

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO (Here's a documentary)

• Operation Paperclip

• Operation Mockingbird

• Tulsa Race Riot - On May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob started the Tulsa race riot, attacking residents and businesses of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in what is considered one of the worst incidents of racial violence in United States history. The attack, carried out on the ground and by air, destroyed more than 35 blocks of the district, at the time the wealthiest black community in the nation. More than 800 people were admitted to hospitals and more than 6,000 black residents were arrested and detained, many for several days. The Oklahoma Bureau of Vital Statistics officially recorded 39 dead, but the American Red Cross estimated 300, a number supported by historians since then.

• "The Enterprise," a massive corporate/government network that conducted illegal international activities similar to the CIA (Documentary on this topic)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea-Spray

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Big_Buzz

• Project 112

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods - A plan to create false flag acts of terrorism against US citizens in order to provoke support for a war against Cuba. Authorized by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but rejected by president Kennedy.

• A division of the pharmaceutical company Bayer sold millions of dollars of blood-clotting medicine for hemophiliacs -- medicine that carried a high risk of transmitting AIDS -- to Asia and Latin America in the mid-1980's while selling a new, safer product in the West.

• CIA heart attack gun that uses a frozen dart that dissolves in the body. The toxin was undetectable in autopsies.

• http://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/15/opinion/deception-on-capitol-hill.html

• The Black Panther Coloring Book

• 1985 - Police drop bomb on radicals' home in Philidephia. The fire spread to 50 to 60 other houses in the neighborhood. Steve Harmon, a resident of the area, said: ''Drop a bomb on a residential area? I never in my life heard of that. It's like Vietnam.''

• Overthrow of the democratically-elected leader of Iran for BP Oil in 1953.

• Overthrow of the democratically-elected leader of Guatemala for the United Fruit company (now Chiquita) in 1954

• Jan. 17, 1893 | Hawaiian Monarchy Overthrown by America-Backed Businessmen

• The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.

Human experimentation:

• From 1963 to 1966, Saul Krugman of New York University promised the parents of mentally disabled children that their children would be enrolled into Willowbrook in exchange for signing a consent form for procedures that he claimed were "vaccinations." In reality, the procedures involved deliberately infecting children with viral hepatitis by feeding them an extract made from the feces of patients infected with the disease (There is a lot of stuff in this link)

• Immediately after World War II, researchers at Vanderbilt University gave 829 pregnant mothers in Tennessee what they were told were "vitamin drinks" that would improve the health of their babies. The mixtures contained radioactive iron and the researchers were determining how fast the radioisotope crossed into the placenta. At least three children are known to have died from the experiments, from cancers and leukemia

• The Ministry of Defence turned large parts of the country into a giant laboratory to conduct a series of secret germ warfare tests on the public. A government report provides for the first time a comprehensive official history of Britain's biological weapons trials between 1940 and 1979

• The Army's secret Cold War experiments on St. Louisans

• MKULTRA

• The Fernald School for the "feeble minded" was part of America's Eugenics movement, and the children there performed most manual labor, including cutting up the brains of mentally disabled people for scientific study. The boys were also given radioactive oatmeal in a study for Quaker Oats.

• Hundreds of federal inmates in Canada were used in scientific experiments during the 1960s and 70s involving untested pharmaceuticals such as penicillin and anti-stress pills, spent days in dark cells during sensory deprivation research and received painful shocks in studies of cigarette smokers.

• The Imperial Japanese Army's notorious medical research team carried out secret human experiments regarded as some of the worst war crimes in history. Its scientists subjected more than 10,000 people per year to grotesque Josef Mengele-style torture in the name of science, including captured Russian soldiers and downed American aircrews. The experiments included hanging people upside down until they choked, burying them alive, injecting air into their veins and placing them in high-pressure chambers.

More recent happenings that never got enough attention

Big Pharma:

• The pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline has been fined $3bn after admitting to bribing doctors and encouraging the prescription of unsuitable antidepressants to children.

• FBI agents arrested former Insys Therapeutics CEO Michael Babich and five other former company executives on Thursday for allegedly bribing doctors to prescribe fentanyl to patients who didn’t need it.

• In Guilty Plea, OxyContin Maker to Pay $600 Million. The company that makes the narcotic painkiller OxyContin and three current and former executives pleaded guilty in federal court to criminal charges that they misled regulators, doctors and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and its potential to be abused. Company sales officials were allowed to draw their own fake scientific charts which showed a lower addictive potential, which they then distributed to doctors.

• Michigan oncologist Dr Farrid Fata was administering chemotherapy to patients who didn’t need it. Fata, 50, was sentenced to 45 years in federal prison in 2015 after pleading guilty to fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges. At least 553 victims had been identified.

• More than 10,000 American toddlers 2 or 3 years old are being medicated for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder outside established pediatric guidelines.

• UK drugs firm alleged to have used network of more than 700 middlemen and travel agencies to bribe doctors and lawyers with cash and even sexual favours

• Federal prosecutors have charged a New York doctor with accepting cash bribes and tickets to Justin Bieber and Katy Perry concerts from a New Jersey blood lab. Thirty-eight people have pleaded guilty in connection with the bribery scheme.

Science Whistleblowers and information about little known problems in science:

• "Reproducibility in science is not very sexy. Because our scientific culture generally rewards innovation over cautiousness, replicating a study conducted by others will not get a researcher a publication in a high-end journal, a splashy headline in a newspaper, or a large funding grant from the government. Only an estimated [0.15% of all published results are direct replications of previous studies.](http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/reproduce-or-bust-bringing-reproducibility-back-

Source https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/70qvx7/updated_list_of_proven_conspiracies_and_hidden