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The naïve often believe that world events are random, or even more laughably, directed for the common good. Others know better. While much can properly be blamed on stupidity, incompetence, and greed, there are ancient conspiracies that aim to control the world. Some of these are malicious as a matter of policy, others just careless of the side-effects that their machinations have. All of them bring ruin.

Conspiracies

These are some major conspiracies that have, through accident or incompetence, made themselves known to the world at large. Doubtless there are others, as yet hidden.

Alternative 3

The Alternative Conspiracy started as a joint US-Soviet project to save the world's elites in the case of nuclear war or some other worldwide disaster, and to reduce the numbers of genetic undesireables to manageable levels. Several alternative solutions were proposed and investigated.

Alternative 2 was subterranean, and a number of underground city-sized bases were built. Keeping them secret proved a problem, best exemplified by the reference to mine shafts in Doctor Strangelove. As a result, at least one but probably more of these cities have been taken over by others.

Alternative 3 instead draws upon technology ostensibly from captured UFOs, to build bases on the Moon. It is unknown how far construction has proceeded.

In parallell with base-building, all alternatives research mind-control, eugenics, and other tools needed to build the desired Utopia after the disaster. It is probably safe to assume that at least some studies have been made on how to create global disasters with high lethality but lower environmental impact.

Area 51

Area 51 is the old name for Detachment 3, Edwards Air Force Base, which is also known as Groom Lake, the Skunkworks, and the Dreamlands, in addition to a plethora of other names. Given its mysterious name by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1951, Area 51 is where all aliens captured by US forces are taken, as well as any remains of captured alien equipment. Some of that equipment have been reverse engineered, possibly with alien help.

Although Area 51 exists as part of the military command structure, it is beyond civilian oversight. While the Joint Chiefs of Staff know of the program, the President is usually not informed of its existence. All budgeting for alien oriented programs at Area 51 are done through black book funding, preventing anyone from following a monetary trail to the truth. Essentially, Area 51 operates beyond civilian law and control.

The Illuminati

This conspiracy is often called the Bavarian Illuminati because its plans were once accidentally exposed to Bavarian authorities after an Illuminati courier was killed by lightning, but the Illuminati has no specific ties to Bavaria other than this. And the revealed plans did nothing to stop this juggernaut of world domination with the aim of creating a New World Order.

The Illuminati has the simple goal of ruling the world by breaking down all national borders, uniting all people under a non-hereditary oligarchy with one monetary system, one army, and one ruler. To reach their goals, they pursue blackmail, bribery, mind-control techniques, genetic engineering, and robotics.

The Illuminati has long operated in the shadows, using such organizations as the Round Table, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission to carry out its goals. Their most public front is the United Nations, which they control through a complex set of debtor nations, agents placed in national governments, and control of the organization’s bureaucracy. The United Nations is one of the Illuminati’s final moves in their drive for world domination and is the platform from which they will take control of the planet. While the United Nations appears on the surface to be largely powerless, in fact it is immensely powerful, and hidden in its bylaws are provisions for the United Nations to invade and take control of member states, for their own good of course. All power will ultimately rest in a small group of Illuminati members called the Technocracy.

Majestic 12

Formerly known as the MAJESTIC AGENCY FOR JOINT INTELLIGENCE, Majestic 12 has long been at the center of UFO research and lore. Also known as Project SIGN, GRUDGE and AQUARIUS, Majestic 12 is the United States government’s answer to alien visitation in terms of setting up relations with off world visitors. Majestic 12 is responsible for all manner of communications, diplomatic relations, and technology exchanges involving the government’s alien allies, who have been in contact with Majestic 12 for over half a century. While Area 51 works to unravel alien secrets from crashed ships, Majestic 12 gets the technology straight from the source.

What the aliens have gotten in return for their help is unknown, but is undoubtedly top secret.

The Masquerade

The Masquerade is a plot by a cabal of mages to hide magic from the world. By ensuring that only they have access to magic, they can hoard the worlds magical artifacts and build a position of power behind the scenes. Their favourite method is to spread false evidence of magic, ghosts, and the supernatural, and then debunking it in public. Enemies are mind-controlled or die in absolutely completely coincidental and all-natural "accidents".

Men in Black

For years reports of UFO sightings have been wed by stories of men dressed all in black confronting witnesses with the goal of suppressing their stories or convincing witnesses they in fact saw something completely mundane. Through a mixture of intimidation, trickery and complex scientific explanations, these agents have worked to stop the spread of UFO stories, but instead have only worked to increase the fervor surrounding such events. Now the Men in Black are as much a part of UFO mythology as the UFOs themselves. Men in Black-like figures have appeared in historical accounts reaching back hundreds of years, leading some to believe they are part of some alien conspiracy trying to keep the presence of aliens on Earth a secret, but the truth is much more mundane than that.

Men in Black are usually reported as being men of approximately six feet in height with olive or pale skin. They act in odd ways, such as not understanding how to use commonplace tools and repeatedly requesting sugared water to drink. Some reports have the Men in Black using mind control to convince their victims to allow them inside or to forget specific events, such as the entire Men in Black encounter. The Men in Black wear suits that are completely black and often ill fitting, accompanied by sunglasses and a black fedora. Taken as a whole this set of evidence seems to point at something otherworldly, but that is the whole point. The Men in Black are nothing but a government sham trying to distract people from what’s really going on.

MK-Ultra

Created in 1953 by CIA Director Alan Dulles, MK-Ultra was the CIA’s major mind control and drug experimentation program during the Cold War. MK-Ultra was the pet project of Richard Helms, a member of the Clandestine Services branch of the CIA, which was commonly known as the “dirty tricks department”, who had long been a proponent of using drugs in CIA operations. The forerunner of MK-Ultra was the ARTICHOKE project, which attempted to find an effective truth drug for use during CIA interrogations.

MK-Ultra develops hallucinogenic and other drugs, and torture, brainwashing, and mind-control methods, and uses them however it sees fit. It has long since escaped all oversight, and finances itself with black projects.

Priory De Scion

The Priory de Scion owes its entire existence to one concealed truth: Jesus Christ’s bloodline did not die during the Crucifixion and instead was spirited away to France. Jesus Christ had children with Mary Magdalene before his death, founding the Merovingian line. The Merovingians had been kings in their times, but now they wait, guarded by the Priory de Scion, for the day the Merovingian may take his rightly place as the divinely chosen king of the world.

Project Stargazer

Project Stargazer was one of many Cold War programs to weaponize Extra Sensory Powers. It had some disputed success with "remote viewing" before it was officially shut down in 1995.

The Shadow Government

In the early days of the Cold War, President Eisenhower created by executive order several plans for the United States government to continue even after a nuclear war or similar catastrophe. These plans were initially concerned with the creation of a limited number of bunkers and evacuation plans, including operations like the special training camp run out of San Luis Obispo, California starting in 1969 with the purpose of training leaders in population control in the event of a nuclear holocaust. Operations like these laid the groundwork for FEMA, created in 1979 by an executive order of President Carter. While officially an agency concerned with helping American citizens cope with natural and manmade disasters, in truth it exists to provide a backup government ready to step in at a moments notice to take control of the country.

FEMA was created and given its authority by executive order; Congress never voted on it, it has never been reviewed by the Supreme Court, and the American people have never had any say on its creation or operation. According to Executive Order (EO) 12656 issued by President Reagan on November 18, 1988, a National Emergency is defined as “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency or other emergency that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.” In response to such an incident, FEMA can activate its Continuity of Government (COG) plan, by which FEMA assumes control of all aspects of government and suspends all civil liberties.

To secure the survival of the necessary FEMA and governmental personnel over one hundred underground bases, called Federal Relocation Centers, have been built in Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. These bases are fully equipped to support thousands of inhabitants for months on end in the event of a nationwide disaster, such as a nuclear holocaust. Those who are to benefit from these bases are FEMA agents and specially selected civilian and military personnel. Within these bases wait a fully constructed and prepared backup government for the United States, complete with all the normal departments found in the executive and military branches of the government, including personnel to fill in all the various Secretary positions in the Cabinet. The judicial and legislative branches are vastly underrepresented because in the police state FEMA would create they are unnecessary. The members of this backup government are chosen strictly by FEMA without outside input.

An excellent example of these bases is Mount Weather near Bluemont, Virginia. A black book budgeted operation buried deep in granite, it can house several thousand personnel for several months with no need for surface contact. It contains an onsite sewage plant; its own mass transit system and its own TV broadcast station. In a national emergency, the president is to relocate to Mount Weather, but if he can’t make it there is an Office of the President there to rule in his stead.

Having a police state waiting in the wings to step in during widely defined national emergencies is odd enough, but the Shadow Government and its backers are not content to wait for its turn to come.

Fronts

Conspirators are by nature and neccessity a secretive lot. The following are organizations founded as, or turned into, front-ends or tools for other, more secret groups.

Bilderberg Group

Numbering just over one hundred members, the Bilderbergs are a group of bankers, corporate heads and financial masterminds drawn mostly from Western Europe and North America. Founded in 1954, they meet once each year for four days. The Bilderbergs direct world events through both political and economic means. Several members are from the various royal families of Europe, getting around constitutional limitations on their official political activities by working through the Bilderbergs. The Bilderbergs often work with the Round Table and the Trilateral Commission, overlapping members with both organizations.

CIA

The Central Intelligence Agency was established in 1947 from the men and materials of the OSS, other various military intelligence organizations, and the remains of the German Abewhr. The CIA coordinates the United States intelligence activities. The CIA answers only to the President and Congressional oversight, and much of its budget is of the unspecified black book variety. The CIA is charged with working against foreign threats, but they have broken this directive many times to work against domestic targets. The CIA is involved in a large number of shady operations, from testing mind control techniques on American civilians to running drugs to finance other operations.

Like all US "alphabet soup" agencies, the CIA is corrupt to the core, divided unto itself, and serving many masters. It simply has too much power to be left alone.

Club of Rome

A think tank based in Rome, the Club of Rome is often associated with the Round Table and eugenics conspiracies. Concerned with long term political, economic and environmental issues, the Club of Rome is an open conspiracy that works to put forth a positive public face.

FBI

Founded in 1908, the Federal Bureau of Investigation serves to investigate domestic crimes and foreign threats on United States soil. Of all the “alphabet soup” agencies, the FBI is usually the least involved in conspiracies. Instead of being involved in vast, world controlling schemes, the FBI is more commonly charged with framing innocent citizens and carrying out illegal surveillance operations.

FEMA

Since 1803 Congress has been passing legislation to dispense federal aid in the wake of widespread disasters, but these acts were all ad hoc measures for the issue at hand. In 1979 the Federal Emergency Management Agency was created by executive order of President Carter and it merged all previous federal disaster relief efforts into one agency. Over time FEMA accrued other responsibilities, including keeping the government running in the face of national catastrophe. By executive order FEMA has been given the power to abolish the Constitution, assume all responsibilities of government and basically run the country as they see fit for the duration of an emergency.

FEMA is the offical front for the Shadow Government.

Freemasons

A fraternal organization tracing its origins back hundreds of years, with some claiming the Freemasons began as part of the Knights Templar, the Freemasons now claim to be merely a brotherhood that promotes self improvement, charity and brotherly love. The Freemasons have in the past been involved in politics and religious matters, long opposing the Catholic Church and its agenda. Many world leaders, especially in the United States and Britain, are members of the Freemasons.

NSA

Budgeted completely by black book appropriations and given loose guidelines in overseeing electronic intelligence operations, the National Security Agency is a key player. As the center of cryptology and computer based espionage operations in the United States it handles operations such as ECHELON that scans millions of emails and phone calls each day for specific key words. More than any other American agency the NSA has free reign to provide "security" for American citizens, having no direct oversight and no stated limitations as to its objectives.

Pentex Corporation

Pentex is a large conglomerate of American and international corporations, united by a drive for profit and a profound neglect of the environment. It has often been remarked, but never proven, that Pentex seems to go out of its way to pollute around its factories. What has been proven, however, is that several members of Pentex' executive board have close ties to certain American millenial cults that preach the Second Coming "at the Eve of the Apocalypse".

Rothschild Family

One of the largest, most powerful financial families in the world, the Rothschilds are reputed to control much of the world through their monetary power. They are said to have drastic influence over the United Nations, the European Union, G8 nations and just about every other large international organization. The Rothschilds are descended from Bauers, a German family rumored to be heavily involved in the occult during the Middle Ages. Now the Rothschilds are supposedly backing a plan of world domination and population control via mind control and brainwashing.

Round Table

A British-based secret society, the Round Table was founded in the late 19th century by Cecil Rhodes. It serves as a central organization for a number of other conspiratorial agencies, such as the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations, the Bilderberg group, and the Club of Rome. The Round Table exists to direct the events of the 20th century so eventually its members will have dictatorial control of the Earth. The Round Table usually operates by guiding world events to create a massive crisis and then bring in a solution to the crisis after it has come to a head. This allows the Round Table’s agents to appear benevolent by solving a problem they themselves secretly created. The Council of Foreign Relations, or CFR, operates as the American arm of the Round Table interacting with the NSA, CIA and similar groups.

Trilateral Commission

Founded in 1973 by David Rockefeller of the Rockefeller financial empire, the Trilateral Commission is made up of a mixture of Japanese, American and Western European private citizens. The goals of the Trilateral Commission are to protect its interests, specifically those of a business nature and those involving developing nations. Basically the Trilateral Commission works to make sure its members, most of whom are the upper echelon of the banking and business world, are protected from the difficulties and threats non-members face when dealing with developing nations.

The economic power of the Trilateral Commission is immense and it uses this power to install leaders sympathetic to their interests in developing nations with the aim of making all governments subservient to banks and corporations. Because of these activities the Trilateral Commission is largely responsible for the unrest found in Africa and South America. The Trilateral Commission regularly works with the Round Table and the Bilderberg Group.

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