Jesse Ventura Versus Conspiracy Theories

"Okay guys, what's the first stop?"

Jesse Ventura (or "The Body", "The Great", "The Star", "The Mind", and "The Governing Body" whichever you prefer) has been a professional wrestler, wrestling commentator, Navy Underwater Demolition Teams (UDT) member, actor, radio and television talk show host AND the Governor of Minnesota.
I've always liked Jesse, from way back when he was wrestling.
And I like him now because even though I may not agree 100% with everything he says, he makes me think.
Anyway, Jesse is about to venture (not a pun) into a new arena (not a pun again).

Jesse will host "Conspiracy Theories With Jesse Ventura" on cable's truTV, a Turner Broadcasting System channel.
Of course you know Jesse is outspoken about conspiracy theories.
He's stated several times in books and TV interviews that the assassination of John F Kennedy and the 9/11 terrorist attacks were plots by conspirators.

Jesse actually went to Cuba in 2002 and asked Fidel Castro face to face if he had anything to do with the assassination.
But instead of turning into a 1980s action movie, where Castro admits it and Jesse has to fight his way out of Cuba to get the info to the American people (boy I went off on a tangent there didn't I?) Castro looked at him and said "We would never be so crazy to do something like that.".

In this new show, Jesse will go around the world to investigate a variety of unnamed conspiracies.
My mind is fairly reeling with the possibilities here.
Jesse storming a Grand Lodge or even the Vatican?
Pounding the truth out of NASA scientists?
Giving Bush a chairshot and demanding to know what really happened on 9/11?

Okay I know none of that will happen.
But I can dream can't I?

No-Planer Cointelpro Operation Becoming Transparent >> Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com

No-Planer Cointelpro Operation Becoming Transparent >> Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com:

"COINTELPRO has reared its ugly head again, with infiltrations popping up everywhere from Anti-War activism groups to peaceful gun owners and militias. Provocations have become more and more conspicuous to the public as the Seattle World Trade Organization protests and Ontario Security and Prosperity Partnership protests successfully exposed provocateur operations. Of course, something as dangerous to the establishment *body politic* as 9/11 has not been without its alleged incidents of COINTELPRO action. Allegations of government disinformation have been swirling around certain figures in the movement, such as former Bush Administration official Morgan Reynolds, who has recently proposed that “no planes hit the World Trade Center”, has alleged “TV Fakery”, and submitted that the towers were brought down by “Directed Energy Weapons” a.k.a. “Laser Beams”."

9/11 - The 411 - How the Saudi Government is Using Alien Technology to Destroy America

Image via Wikipedia9/11 - The 411 - How the Saudi Government is Using Alien Technology to Destroy America:

"According to the book, 'House of Bush, House of Saud' by Craig Unger, on page 3 we read, 'For decades the House of Saud had somehow maintained control of Saudi Arabia and the world's richest oil reserves by performing a seemingly untenable balancing act with two parties who had vowed to destroy each other.

On the one hand, the House of Saud was an Islamic theocracy whose power grew out of the royal family's alliance with Wahhabi fundamentalism, a strident and puritanical Islamic sect that provided a fertile breeding ground for a global network of terrorist urging a violent jihad against the United States.

On page 83, he states: 'Since many Wahhabis saw the United States as the Great Satan, that means the Saudis had vital relationship essential to their survival - a double marriage of sorts - with partners who were mortal enemies."

JFK, 9/11 and Conspiracy Theories

Image via WikipediaScoop: UQ Wire: JFK, 9/11 and Conspiracy Theories:

"'There have been many things swept under the carpet. And I think it's a shame in a government that you trust - I think it's a shame, the things that they chose to tell you and the things they choose not to tell you.' -- Sept. 11 widow Julia Sweeney, whose husband Brian worked in the World Trade Center

'One of my greatest shames, as a journalist is that I still don't know who killed Jack Kennedy.' -- Hunter S. Thompson"

Sixth Anniversary of 9/11 Brings Out Conspiracy Theory Nuts

Sixth Anniversary of 9/11 Brings Out Conspiracy Theory Nuts
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
By John Gibson

The sixth commemoration of the day that shall live in infamy — I'm speaking of 9/11 here — has brought out a strange crowd from a strange world.

I'm talking about the 9/11 truthers, some of whom surrounded Geraldo's show on Saturday night outside the FOX studios in New York chanting: "9/11 was an inside job, 9/11 was an inside job."

By an inside job they mean the U.S. government — Bush and Cheney and Rummy in particular — were in on the planning and execution of the biggest attack on the American homeland in our history.

It's based on the notion that U.S. leaders killed 3,000 of their own citizens to start a war or two or three in the Middle East. Evidence of this plotting is found in all sorts of anomalies in the day of the attack.

All kinds of experts have stepped forward to say this stuff is foolishness, but conspiracy theories don't need facts to sustain them. They just need an army of the gullible to spread the word.

full story here:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,296471,00.html

Top Ten Conspiracy Theories

If you look up the Top Ten Conspiracy Theories on the web....well... you'll get a lot of hits.
1,750,000 to be exact.
Some I knew about, some I didn't.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14873

AlterNet has a nice list starting off with "1. Great Game in the Caspian Sea."
But the list is from 2002.

http://www.2spare.com/item_43133.aspx

2Spare.com starts off with " Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles are dominating the World "

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/06/02/far06001.html

Has a list of the top ten surrounding George W. Bush. Starting with " A Second Terror Attack Will Allow the Bush Administration to Complete the "Coup" that Began on Sept. 11, 2001"

http://www.popmatters.com/features/021227-conspiracy.shtml

Has a list which is basically a recap of Alter Nets.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0105/memri_top_10_conspiracies.php3

Has a list of " Top Ten Arab and Iranian Conspiracy Theories Ending 2004 ", starting with "U.S. and Zionist Control of Al-Jazeera"

http://www.askmen.com/toys/top_10/13_top_10_list.html

Even has a list starting off with " Celebrity Deaths"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,,1067809,00.html

Has a list that starts out with an article about Princess Diana that pretty much gave me the creeps.

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The "Bush Regime" theory explained: in response to debatechick, her comment. | Progressive U

The "Bush Regime" theory explained: in response to debatechick, her comment. Progressive U:

"I am not pressing anyone to believe these things. Really, it's a vast underground networking of conspiracy. There is rumor floating around that he was going to try and overrule our Constitution., more accurately, 'Material breach of the Constitution.'
Supposedly, he's been looking for a loophole to be president for however long he likes and not have any interference. They're saying he'll be the next Hitler, some kooks are even saying we're going to get microchipped with a 666 code, the government is going to enslave us by tagging us like animals, and Bush is going to be the Antichrist, maybe even the one Nostradamus prophesied, and that it'll be Armageddon! I'm not religious though, so I don't really believe that bit.
That's just rumor. I just got too much stuffed into my head from Alex Jones to the movie on the voice behind George Bush. I just don't know what to believe anymore sometimes. There's too much befuddling conspiracy theories on George Bush, Bush's involvement with Skull & Bones, being a part of the Illuminati, trying to raise a police state, martial law, etc. All rumors right? Very extremist views, I will have to say, but they exist. There's a whole culture of people who believe these things. I'm not saying I believe them all if at all.
All I really believe anymore is that I will live, I will die and there's something way bigger than me happening out there."

White House Targets Conspiracy Theorists As Terrorist Recruiters

White House Targets Conspiracy Theorists As Terrorist Recruiters: "A document cited by President Bush in his recent speech at the Capital Hilton Hotel on how to 'win the war on terror' cites conspiracies as one of the wellsprings of terrorism and threatens to 'address' and 'diminish' the problems they are causing the government in fulfilling their agenda.
On Tuesday Bush referred to the strategy paper as 'an unclassified version of the strategy we've been pursuing since September the 11th, 2001,' that takes into account, 'the changing nature of this enemy.'
The document says that terrorism springs from 'subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation,' and that 'terrorists recruit more effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices and self-serving propaganda.'
The terminology echoes President Bush's speech (video below) to the UN General Assembly on November 10th 2001 in which he stated, 'Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th, malicious lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves, away from the guilty.'"

McCain Bill Is Lethal Injection For Internet Freedom

McCain Bill Is Lethal Injection For Internet Freedom: "Republican Senator John McCain has introduced legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards, effectively nixing the open exchange of ideas on the Internet, providing a lethal injection for unrestrained opinion, and acting as the latest attack tool to chill freedom of speech on the world wide web.
McCain's proposal, called the 'Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act,' encourages informants to shop website owners to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, who then pass the information on to the relevant police authorities.
Comment boards for specific articles are extremely popular and also notoriously hard to moderate. Popular articles often receive comments that run into the thousands over the course of time. In many cases, individuals hostile to the writer's argument deliberately leave obscene comments and images simply to sully the reputation of the website owners. Therefore under the terms of this bill, right-wing extremists from a website like Free Republic could effectively terminate a liberal leaning website like Raw Story by the act of posting a single photograph of a naked child. This precedent could be the kiss of death for blogs as we know them and its reverberations would negatively impact the entire Internet. "