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Conspiracies

history
Investigations and scientific testing and recreations into the circumstances of John F. Kennedy's death have not settled the question of who killed him. That U.S. public opinion considers this still to be an open issue is suggested by three polls in 2003. An ABC News random telephone poll found that just 32% (plus or minus 3%) of Americans believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, while 68% do not believe Oswald acted alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theories_%28a_collection%29

person
David Icke is a former professional football player, reporter, BBC television sports commentator, and British Green Party national spokesperson. Since 1990, he has worked as what he calls a "full-time investigator into who and what is really controlling the world”. His theory, which encompasses all the other conspiracy theories, is that humanity is actually under the control of dinosauroid-like alien reptiles who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance, with evidence ranging from Sumerian tablets describing the "Anunnaki" (which he translates as "those who from heaven to earth came"), to the serpent in the Biblical Garden of Eden and the genealogical connections between the Bush family and the House of Windsor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke

numbers
The 9/11 domestic conspiracy theory asserts that either George W. Bush, or members of George W. Bush's cabinet, or United States intelligence agencies had detailed advance knowledge about the September 11, 2001 attacks, and allowed it to happen or even caused it, providing an excuse to launch their War on Terrorism. This theory claims knowing involvement and should not to be confused with beliefs that parts of the U.S. government may have had some prior warning of the attacks but did not act due to error, incompetence or incomplete information.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_domestic_conspiracy_theory

film
The Swiss Conspiracy (1976): directed by Jack Arnold and starring David Janssen and Senta Berger. Plot Summary: When a Swiss bank finds that the confidentiality of some of its more vulnerable customers has been compromised it calls in an American investigator.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073774/

thing
Cabal: a small group of people who plan secretly to take action, especially political action:
He was assassinated by a cabal of aides within his own regime.
Cambridge Dictionaries Online

song
Peanut Butter Conspiracy by Jimmy Buffett
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wordplay
Conspiracy Theory is an anagram of Hysteric crap? No? Oy!
Conspiracy theories is an anagram of Hypocrite scenarios
Anagram Genius

place
Bilderberg Hotel: hotel in the Netherlands where the Bilderberg Group first met in 1954. This is an informal, secretive and international association of powerful people, meeting every year, whose declared purpose is to further understanding between Western Europe and North America through informal meetings between powerful individuals. The Bilderberg Group is open only to residents of Europe and North America – those from Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and Africa are excluded.
Source: Wikipedia

literature
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
At first glance, this book is a detective story filled with poetry and politics. But it is mystery that grows more mysterious, until it is nothing less than the mystery of creation itself -  a hidden worldwide conspiracy that has ramifications both spiritual and mundane.
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quotes
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man. (H. L. Mencken)
Civilization is a conspiracy - Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretenses. (John Buchan)
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman. (George Bernard Shaw)
Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on the one side - and the voice of your conscience on the other. (Douglas MacArthur)

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