FORTEAN TIMES UNCONVENTION 1996

CIA mind control experiments of the 1950’s & 60’s have been declassified... Studies in electromagnetic fields are still classified... Timothy McVeigh and others claim to be mind-controlled and claim to have 'implants'... You can get your body debugged for $3,000... Schizophrenics are crazy about ALL they say and think... They are DIFFERENT to people who 'hear voices' of intelligence personnel... Microwave beams can transmit words into someone’s head... 1970’s report on 5p piece sized implants... Implants now hair-strand size... No evidence... How can an implant in your teeth control your mind?... Swedish photocopies are not evidence... But CIA/NATO could be TRYING to do it... Oklahoma? Not likely that the feds did it... But it could have been military incompetence... ETC.

Why is 'conspiracy' on the increase? Widespread availability of computers is one answer. It’s cheaper to do magazines now. The machinery to spread information. New theories are getting around faster. Secondly, what is real? In America there are millions of TV channels, right-wing radio stations, the National Enquirer... People don’t read. They believe in God/the Rapture. Fantasy and fact - can people distinguish? The National Enquirer is not meant to be taken seriously, or is it? Thirdly, the approach to the Millenium...? This is probably not an answer, as it is of concern only to religions.

The existence of real conspiracies. JFK, George Wallace, domestic surveillance, Operation Phoenix etc etc etc. The information emerged in the 1960’s. Revelations post-Warren Commission, post-Watergate: the Iran-Contra affair etc. The military-industrial complex. Clinton is in power now, so there are conspiracy theories about him (Whitewater, Arkansas cocaine...), but are most of these theories Republican revenge?

America is the source of most conspiracy theories. There are some in Japan, and in the former Soviet Union (usually anti-semitic theories). In Britain the source is America, from white people mostly, though there are some black theories. White folks theories dominate the media. The American Dream is crumbling. In the 1950’s aliens/ET’s were friendly. In the 1990’s there are Blade Runner cities and the aliens are rapists. 2% of Americans have read a book in the last year. They cannot explain the economic collapse. Most Americans find it hard to believe that their SYSTEM is wrong... therefore there has to be somebody 'behind' things going wrong. David Icke in his lectures lists all the things wrong with our planet . But he does not ask 'What is the cause?', he asks 'Who is behind it?' He comes up with the Illuminati/MJ-12 etc etc., recycling global conspiracies. Some groups influence the world, such as the Trilateral Commission and the Brandenberg Group, but they do not CONTROL it. However, they don’t want disorder. There is a nugget of truth in these theories but the subject matter is contaminated.

Example of a real conspiracy: Colin Wallis discovered evidence of an anti-Labour campaign by the secret service in Britain. NEWSNIGHT interviewed Wallis, but the transmission was blocked by someone in the BBC called Protherow. MI5 had an office in the BBC at the time.

Clandestine influences in the world are mundane. They are companies and intelligence groups. Forms of political behaviour. How has this not been noticed by students of political science? Because, for example, since the 1920’s the Economic League in Britain collected money to smash the left. There was not one academic essay on the Economic League for 60 years. Even academic American history covers unsolved and uninvestigated assassinations of the 1960’s but British state MP’s cannot ask about secret branches of Conservatives and who funds them. There are links between ideologies and interests. It is intellectually forbidden to be interested in conspiracies in the UK and in the US., apart from when Red Menace theories were approved, e.g. Thatcher’s conspiracy theory about the TUC and Jack Jones being commies.

The conspiracies we should look at are those RUN BY THE STATE. There is now TOO MUCH BACKGROUND NOISE.

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