FORTEAN TIMES UNCONVENTION 1997

Marcus Allen is the UK distributor of NEXUS magazine.

When there is belief on its own, there is no proof necessary - or no proof possible.

A conspiracy is defined as two or more people acting illegally.
A cover-up means to hide or conceal.

There are two kinds of history. There is the safe version written by winners and the second version is the conspiracy theory of history. A conspiracy theory is usually attacked for one of five reasons: (1) it's wrong, (2) there are vested interests, (3) laziness - it's hard to unravel, (4) peer pressure - a journalist investigating may get laughed at or (5) bad associations - conspiracy theory used to be involved with anti-Semitic conspiracy.

Where are the facts? If you look hard enough you can find what you need. There are magazines: LOBSTER, STEAMSHOVEL PRESS and NEXUS, which contain hard-to-get information. In the mainstream press there are Christopher Booker and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, writers like Colin Wilson and Armen Victorian and books like PUZZLE PALACE by James Banford, about the National Security Agency (in the US) and SECRET POWER by Nicky Hagar which deals with the Yukusa Agreement between the UK and the US in 1947. The Yukusa Agreement meant that the UK and the US would pool intelligence resources, along with Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They monitor transatlantic calls, faxes and emails, based on a list of key words that they look out for. However, in 1985 there was no warning given to the Rainbow Warrior, so what use is the Agreement to the public?

Who runs the world? We are all responsible. Some groups have enormous power but they are all human beings exhibiting what we all do. They justify what they do by saying "the end justifies the means." If you don't believe that, you have a choice. We are busy surviving so we don't worry about power maniacs. Our choice is how to direct our time.

The slogan of Fox Mulder in THE X FILES is "I want to believe," not "I believe." THE X FILES is a search for the evidence. Do you believe in UFO's? It's not a matter of belief, it's a matter of evidence. THE X FILES is entertainment, using devices of fiction. Do not believe anything to be true without questioning. In THE X FILES there is a misleading government. But the truth can never be wrong. We now know about things that happened years ago. We know about radiation experiments on civilians in the US and the UK. We know that cannabis was restricted by law because of its threat to the paper industries. We know about Operation Paperclip, in which Nazi scientists were given fake CV's and relocated in the US, for example Von Braun who headed NASA. The "lone nut" theory in the John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations is crumbling. MLK's widow is going to court to help James Earl Ray, his supposed assassin. In the past we have been misled. The MKULTRA LSD experiments is another example.

What about now? Look at oxygen treatment in cancer. Why is it not more widespread? Who profits from it being marginalised? The pharmaceutical companies. You can't patent it and you can't sell it, like drugs.

What is the truth about the ozone hole? Sunlight creates ozone, so surely there is bound to be a hole in the Arctic and Antarctic regions?

Who bombed the plane that landed on Lockerbie? Was it really Libya?

Do you trust conventional science? They always ridicule new inventions and innovations. The Wright brothers were ridiculed by SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. Edison was ridiculed. Baird was called a fraud. Bell was called a ventriloquist. If experts are so clever, why is the world in a mess. Science does not address our emotions and it is not the government's job to guide us. With free energy and new developments people get ridiculed. John Anthony West's recent ageing of the Sphinx was ridiculed. He had to get Robert Schoch to give him academic credibility.

And the future? The game is up for the conspirators. No-one owns the Internet and no-one controls it. Is everything changing? That's better than more of the same.

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