Strange but true

This could be fun. I plan on adding to this thread as ideas crop up, and encourage others to do the same. Let’s all expand our collective knowledge with some unbelievable but true stories. I’ll start:
How Howard Hughes and the CIA teamed up to steal a sunken Soviet submarine

 

Some know already, others are open minded enough to consider the possibility, while many will flat out refuse to believe that “they” would do such clandestine psychological operations in order to manipulate the public. One thing is certain: neither Sean Hannity nor Lester Holt is going to talk about this:

 

This is disturbing if actually true.

 

I believe this one is based on an urban legend. The soviets did however try to breed ape-human hybrids that were to be super soldiers in the red army. They tried unsuccessfully with a few female apes, then supposedly they found a "willing" human female, to no avail...

 

Allegations of CIA assistance to Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia

This is our m.o. for controlling foreign affairs.
We supply backhanded until they no longer do what they want.
Then they are labeled terrorists and we invade

 

You mean the same CIA responsible for regime change all around the world, the same agency that ran the MK Ultra project that produced the likes of Ted Kaczynski, the agency that funds our media and then in the 1970s when Congress investigated the ties between the intelligence community and the media, they paid off the committee? Say it ain’t so!

 

Yessir thanks exactly

 

A little segue into a book that was highly recommended to me:
Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert O…
You would think the last place to find CIA fingerprints would be in the heart of the counter culture revolution of the 60s, but alas…

 

Connecticut to ban first cousin marriages next month
HUH?!?! I could've sworn this was already illegal here in CT. I actually used to work with a guy who married his first cousin, of the same last name. It was something of an open secret. He was from Indiana.... Anyway they "did it right" and adopted their daughter. Different strokes for different folks I guess

 

ever hear the story about how Al Qa*** was actually the code word for a database of arms smugglers and mujhadeen they used for their back channel ops? laden was just one of many.

 

is there anything they don’t have their hands in?
https://observerdiplomat.com/newly-declassified-u-s-documents-show-that-the-dalai-lama-was-on-cia-payroll/

 

Since covid, I have transitioned from a staunch conservative. To a hater of our government in all forms and parties.
I believe we are living in a fascist nation and have been for sometime.
(Simplified definition of fascism is government and big business in bed together)
I believe our government does all kinds of evil things both at home and abroad.
All for control power and money.
I love our country more than ever,but our government makes me sick.
Fight the system, believe nothing, live free

 

The Venezuelan deal has interested me for many years. It’s most likely oil control that is the main driver. The mexi border and precursors from china are a bigger problem.
Maybe someone is taking out the competition.
How elite special operations troops created a drug cartel

 

There always seems to be ulterior motives behind US interventionism when applying (the misuse) of the Monroe doctrine. It’s played out for decades all over Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It doesn’t seem to work out too well for the local population in said regions.

 

I recall reading about the Glomar Explorer project in my middle school Weekly Reader magazine,. That s great project to map out the ocean bottom. Rather than make it a top secret project, they put it out as a misdirection. Too dang big a build to “no comment “ on question

 

A quick overview of a few interesting ones. Conspiracies that is, not conspiracy theories. There are many, many more out there for the curious.
https://history.howstuffworks.com/h...nspiracy-theories-that-were-actually-true.htm
Whenever I hear Pink Floyd's song Mother, that line "mother should I trust the government?" hits me every time.

 

Before my time but isn't that in reference to the Jews trusting "their" government? That's the take I've always had after seeing the movie.

 

I couldn't tell you, honestly. When I watched The Wall 20 something years ago, I wasn't looking for subliminal messages, nor could I grasp them even if they were pointed out to me. Roger Waters was a huge creative force in the band (but not the only one) and was/is mostly a critic of the status quo. Maybe the movie theme was a warning of society's slow but steady tilt towards what he believed was fascism. But that's the thing with art and music, there's plenty of room for interpretation/misinterpretation.

 

Regardless, the Jews are a great example to not trust government.

 

In reference to the ones that paid the ultimate price during the holocaust? Then yes. Many put up with the restrictions put on them in the 1930s for various reasons. They didn't know or didn't want to believe what awaited them down the road, living under an extremist government. And of the ones that fled Germany on passenger ships, many seeking asylum in the US were turned away and forced to go back. It's a dark period in history, and not just for the belligerent countries that lost the conflict. Along those same lines, look at the internment camps our government put up to detain citizens of Japanese ancestry. I understand their rationale at the time, and it's conceivable to me that at least a few people detained were working in the US as spies, but to wholesale round everybody up? And tyranny isn't limited to one side of the aisle either. The pogroms, gulags, and entire liquidation of the "kulaks" in the early days of the USSR is proof enough of that.