Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation - America.gov

Well everyone can rest easy now.
America.gov, (the public relations arm of the State Department), has created a webpage called “Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation”.

From the site:
"Conspiracy theories exist in the realm of myth, where imaginations run wild, fears trump facts, and evidence is ignored. As a superpower, the United States is often cast as a villain in these dramas."

Now ladies and gentlemen, you can put your mind at ease as our State Department puts your fears to rest!
Here you can get the truth behind....
The JFK assassination
Depleted uranium
The North American Union
The 9/11 attacks

They have a blog called "Rumors, Myths, and Fabrications" that has titles like : Reflections on September 11 Conspiracy Theories, The Obama Birth Controversy and Lee Harvey Oswald, Lone Assassin.
Don't worry about commenting there, that function has been disabled.

They also have a slide show debunking the "It wasn't a plane that hit the Pentagon" theory.

The site also has videos with titles like Conspiracy Theories: Debunking, Conspiracy Theories: What, Why and How and Conspiracy Theories: Consequences

You can visit this "doubleplusgood" site here:
http://www.america.gov/conspiracy_theories.html


And remember....

"The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak."
- George Orwell

"...loyal willingness to say black is white when party discipline demands this. It also means the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know black is white, and forget that one has ever believed the contrary."
- George Orwell

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?