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"I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I thought everyone knew that. They're working to bring down the Ministry of Magic from within using a mixture of dark magic and gum disease."
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conspiracy
gum-disease
harry-potter
humor
luna-lovegood
ministry-of-magic
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J.K. Rowling |
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70772c8
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"The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.
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alex-jones
confirmation-bias
conspiracy
conspiracy-theories
young-men
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Alan Moore |
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There is a theory going around that the U.S.A. was and still is a gigantic Masonic plot under the ultimate control of the group known as the Illuminati. It is difficult to look for long at the strange single eye crowning the pyramid which is found on every dollar bill and not begin to believe the story, a little. Too many anarchists in 19th-century Europe--Bakunin, Proudhon, Salverio Friscia--were Masons for it to be pure chance. Lovers of global conspiracy, not all of them Catholic, can count on the Masons for a few good shivers and voids when all else fails.
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conspiracy
freemasonry
illuminati
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Thomas Pynchon |
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"In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic book that would detail the murky history of the C.I.A., from the end of the second world war, to the present day. Covering such things as the heroin smuggling during the Vietnam war, the cocaine smuggling during the war in Central America, the Kennedy assasination and other highlights. What I learned during the frankly horrifying research that I had to slog through in order to accomplish this, was that yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists, and ham fisted clowns. If you are on a list targeted by the C.I.A., you really have nothing to worry about. If however you have a name similar to someone on a list targeted by the C.I.A., then you are dead? The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory. The truth is far more frightening.
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cia
confirmation-bias
conspiracy
conspiracy-theories
conspiracy-thoeorists
illuminati
males-18-35
mindscape-of-alan-moore
new-world-order
paranoia
pitfalls-of-bad-thinking
the-truth-is
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Alan Moore |
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Nine had heard whisperings that the secretive Bilderberg Group was effectively the World Government, undermining democracy by influencing everything from nations' political leaders to the venue for the next war. He recalled persistent rumors and confirmed media reports that the Bilderberg Group had such luminaries as Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Tony Blair, Bill and Hillary Clinton, George Bush Sr. and George W. Bush. Other Bilderberg members sprung forth from Nine's memory bank. They included the founders and CEOs of various multinational corporations like Facebook, BP, Google, Shell and Amazon, as well as almost every major financial institution on the planet.
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amazon-com
barack-obama
bilderberg
bill-clinton
clinton
conspiracy
conspiracy-theories
conspiracy-theory
facebook
george-w-bush
google
hillary-clinton
microsoft
morcan
the-ninth-orphan
the-orphan-trilogy
thriller
tony-blair
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James Morcan |
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I got hold of a copy of the video that showed how Saddam Hussein had actually confirmed himself in power. This snuff-movie opens with a plenary session of the Ba'ath Party central committee: perhaps a hundred men. Suddenly the doors are locked and Saddam, in the chair, announces a special session. Into the room is dragged an obviously broken man, who begins to emit a robotic confession of treason and subversion, that he sobs has been instigated by Syrian and other agents. As the (literally) extorted confession unfolds, names begin to be named. Once a fellow-conspirator is identified, guards come to his seat and haul him from the room. The reclining Saddam, meanwhile, lights a large cigar and contentedly scans his dossiers. The sickness of fear in the room is such that men begin to crack up and weep, rising to their feet to shout hysterical praise, even love, for the leader. Inexorably, though, the cull continues, and faces and bodies go slack as their owners are pinioned and led away. When it is over, about half the committee members are left, moaning with relief and heaving with ardent love for the boss. (In an accompanying sequel, which I have not seen, they were apparently required to go into the yard outside and shoot the other half, thus sealing the pact with Saddam. I am not sure that even Beria or Himmler would have had the nerve and ingenuity and cruelty to come up with that.)
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ba-athism
ba-athist-iraq
beria
conspiracy
cull
dictatorship
execution
film
himmler
saddam-hussein
syria
torture
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Christopher Hitchens |
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"Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a certain vegetable. He was a thickset fellow with calloused and jaundiced skin and a patch of brown hair, a frizzy upheaval. We will call him Bell Pepper. Bell Pepper sidled up beside The Drippy Man and looked at the grilled cheese in his hand. The Drippy Man, a bit uncomfortable at the heaviness of the gaze, politely apologized and asked Bell Pepper if he would like one. "Why is one of your legs fatter than the other?" asked Bell Pepper. The Drippy Man realized Bell Pepper was not looking at his sandwich but towards the inconsistency of his leg sizes. "You always get your kicks pointing out defects?" retorted The Drippy Man. "Just curious. Never seen anything like it before." "I was raised not to feel shame and hide my legs in baggy pants." "So you flaunt your deformity by wearing short shorts?" "Like you flaunt your pockmarks by not wearing a mask?" Bell Pepper backed away, kicking wide the screen door, making an exit to a porch over hanging a dune of sand that curved into a jagged upward jab of rock. "He is quite sensitive," commented The Dry Advisor. "Who is he?" "A fellow who once manipulated the money in your wallet but now curses the fellow who does."
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authors
books
conspiracy
dubai
dystopia
dystopian-fiction
economic-collapse
economics
end-of-the-world
espionage
future
maine
politics
satire
small-press
spy-thriller
writers
writing
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Jeff Phillips |
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Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases? We see a game beyond the endgame... As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.
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conspiracy
dystopia
martyr
purpose
revolution
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David Mitchell |
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But chance has a taste for conspiracy.
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conspiracy
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Umberto Eco |
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Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases? We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warned Nero: No matter how many of us you kill, you will never kill your successor.
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conspiracy
martyr
purpose
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David Mitchell |
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8b8b034
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Aqui, tanto no espaco, como no tempo, parecemos ter sido trazidos para um pouco mais perto desse grande facto - o misterio dos misterios -, o aparecimento pela primeira vez, de novos seres nesta Terra.
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conspiracy
darwin
john-darnton
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John Darnton |
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8ce353c
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His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
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conspiracy
tone
word-choice
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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b4fc6ba
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I hear you're a conspiracy nut. Well, this is the conspiracy, kid. It ain't ancient gods an' aliens an' coded shit on the dollar bill. It ain't even a secret, it's somthin' ordinary folks do for a livin' every day of the week. It's business.
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ancient-gods
business
conspiracy
conspiracy-theories
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Garth Ennis |
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4dfb4ff
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Six point nine seconds of heat and light. Let's call a meeting to analyze the blur. Let's devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.
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conspiracy
jfk
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Don DeLillo |