Conspiracy theories Books

Book SynopsisOn 10 May 1941, on a whim, Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess flew a Messerschmitt Bf 110 to Scotland in a bizarre effort to make peace with Britain; Göring sent fighters to stop him but he was long gone. Imprisoned and tried at Nuremberg, he would die by his own hand in 1987, aged 93. That’s the accepted explanation. Ever since, conspiracy theories have swirled around the famous mission. How strong were Hess’s connections with the British establishment, including royalty? Was the death of the king’s brother, the Duke of Kent, associated with the Hess overture for peace? In the many books written about Hess, one obvious line of enquiry has been overlooked, until now: an analysis of the flight itself – the flight plan, equipment, data sheets, navigation system.Through their long investigation, authors John Harris and Richard Wilbourn have come to a startling conclusion: whilst the flight itself has been well recorded, the target destination has remained hidden. The implications are far reaching and lend credence to the theory that the British establishment has hidden the truth of the full extent of British/Nazi communications, in part to spare the reputations of senior members of the Royal Family. Using original photography, documentation and diagrams, Rudolf Hess sheds light on one of the most intriguing stories of the Second World War.

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Book SynopsisMarianna Spring is the BBC's first disinformation and social media correspondent and an award-winning journalist. She presents podcasts and documentaries investigating disinformation and social media for BBC Radio 4 podcasts, as well as for BBC Panorama and BBC Three. She is also one of the presenters of the BBC's Americast podcast. In 2022, she was named the British Press Guild's Audio Presenter of the year and Royal Television Society Innovation winner.

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Book SynopsisIs there anything left to say about the assassination of President John F Kennedy? Hell, yes! The subject of nearly 1000 books, half a dozen journals, two official inquiries, several million pages of declassified documents, dozens of TV documentaries and hundreds of Websites, the Kennedy assassination remains both the greatest whodunit of the post-World War Two era and the best route into recent American history. In Who Shot JFK? Robin Ramsay looks at the assassination through the work of the researchers who refused to buy the official cover-up story that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin. He explores; the major alternative theories produced by the critics of the official version, the major landmarks in the Kennedy assassination research and the disinformation produced on the subject since the event.Trade ReviewA potent little volume to sit on the shelf next to the downbeat lone-gunman version of the Don DeLillo novel and the all-singing, all-conspiring Oliver Stone DVD -- Steven Poole * Guardian Unlimited *

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Book SynopsisBang up to date with fresh cover-ups relating to Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and AfghanistanThe 100 military, medical, religious, alien, intelligence, banking and historical cover-ups ''they'' really don''t want you to know about: The Military-Industrial Complex''s fomentation of war with Iraq; the construction of concentration camps in the United States by FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency); the use of alien ''Foo Fighters'' by the Nazis and the Japanese during the Second World War; the miracle natural drug suppressed by Big Pharma; the Israelis'' responsibility for the bombing of USS Cole; the real reason why CERN broke down; the murder of Paul McCartney - and you didn''t even know he was dead. Entertainingly written and closely documented, The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies uncovers the 100 most secret cover-ups in an accessible A-Z format. It covers 95 new conspiracies even more fiendish than those detailed in The Mammoth Boo

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Book Synopsis After his master thesis of the secret societies network as outlined in volume 1, the Confessions of an Illuminati narrative of Leo Lyon Zagami is projected to the reality of today, including the occult maneuvers behind the New World Order. We need to wake up beyond our current belief systems, because the "controllers" of the New World Order are moving fast using the "Prophecies" to their advantage to implement their evil plan by 2020, when World War III will finally break loose. The author demonstrates that the hierarchy of power emanating from Rome and Jerusalem, with the Jesuits and the Zionist's united by a secret pact since the Second Vatican Council, are in cahoots working towards the creation of a world government. There is also China playing a new role in the NWO with the far reaching tentacles of Chinese Freemasonry manipulating economic Hit Men and disinformation artists, while Russia is building their Christian orthodox alliance to apparently oppose the Western antichrist. In this unprecedented scenario, we also have the involvement of the big media moguls like Ted Turner and Silvio Berlusconi and their role in manipulating perceptions. The author discusses further aspects of the Satanic infiltration of Freemasonry, pointing out on the generational aspect the many ways of defending yourself psychically against black magicians, but also against the many sects operating in the Illuminati Network.

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Book SynopsisThis completely reworked second edition of Modern Esoteric includes new information, over a dozen additional images, and up-to-date revisions. Winner of the Best Book Design 2014, Modern Esoteric examines the flaws in modern history and looks at how conspiracy theories, esoteric knowledge, and fringe subjects can be used to help change the dead-end course humanity seems to be following. The Lifeology section explores the long and storied "alternative narrative" of life on this planet. In the Control section, author Brad Olsen examines how Big Brother is here in the form of the New World Order, and how they keep the knowledge of humankind's true nature from the mass population. Finally, the Thrive section looks at all the ways humans are evolving to achieve their full potential.

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Book SynopsisIn 1749, a newspaper advertisement appeared declaring that a man would climb inside a bottle on the stage of a London theatre. Although the crowds turned up in their hundreds to witness the trick, the performer didn't. Over the following decades, elaborate jokes and fanciful tales would continue to bamboozle people across England. In The Century of Deception, magician and historian Ian Keable tells the engrossing stories of these eighteenth-century hoaxes and those who were duped by them. The English public were hoodwinked time and time again, swallowing whole tales of rapping ghosts, a woman who gave birth to rabbits, a levitating Frenchman in a Chinese Temple and outrageous astrological predictions. Not only were the hoaxes widely influential, drawing in celebrities such as Samuel Johnson, Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Swift, they also inflamed concerns about 'English credulity'.

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Book SynopsisOver the past half century, opinion has been divided as to the role of Lee Harvey Oswald in the assassination of President John F Kennedy. The rumours began to spread almost immediately that the accused assassin may have been working for or was being manipulated by individuals involved with the United States Intelligence apparatus. The most tantalising piece of evidence came from none other than Congressman Gerald R Ford, who had served as a Warren Commission member in 1964. Ford revealed in his (co-written) 1965 book "Oswald: Portrait of the Assassin" that the FBI had an ''undercover agent'' in Dallas at the time of the assassination and that that agent was none other than Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy. The two most asked questions in the whole JFK assassination story remain unanswered: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald and what was his role on 22 November 1963? In this book Glenn B Fleming looks at these claims and presents a compelling case that all is not as we have been told about accussed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Book SynopsisWhy are journalists and politicians trusted to tell the truth as little as estate agents? How can democracy function when everybody just believes whatever they want? Will we ever return to "normal"? Written in an engaging and accessible style for a broad audience, After the Fact? examines how neoliberal and centrist ideologies, unaccountable technology corporations, corporate and governmental mendacity, and complacent, shoddy journalism have combined to produce the political crisis we find ourselves in, and what the challenges will be if we are to survive it. Using a wide array of issues and examples - from identity politics to conspiracy theories to corruption scandals - this book is an entertaining appraisal of our changing relationship to political truth, taking issue with standard discourses around "fake news" and "post-truth".Trade Review"Gilroy-Ware goes deep to explain widespread propagation of and popular susceptibility to all kinds of dangerous nonsense today. This is an essential contribution to understanding our current conjuncture.""Gilroy-Ware evaluates why expanded access to information has instead led to a glut of disinformation and mistrust just when we need consensus on matters of grave import.""Expansive, interesting and, for a book that engages with some pretty complex ideas, surprisingly accessible. If you wanted to understand how capitalism operates today, particularly at an ideological level, it would be a good place to start."

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Book SynopsisA study that challenges the two dominant 'emergency' narratives that relate to the Covid pandemic and Climate Change.

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Book SynopsisThere is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. There is an increasingly large number of weapons in the arsenal of the rich, the powerful and the elected to prevent the truth from coming out - to bury it, warp it, twist it to suit their purposes. Truthteller reveals how governments and corporations have covered-up mass murder, corruption and catastrophe. In a world where Putin and Trump have successfully branded journalists as traffickers in fake news, while promoting the actual creators of fake news, an investigative reporter shows the tools that are used to deceive us and explains why they work. Using exclusive documents and interviews drawn from three decades as an award-winning reporter, editor, foreign correspondent, television producer, documentary filmmaker, and journalism educator, Stephen Davis reveals shocking details of deception in the United States, the UK, Russia, Sweden, the Baltic republics, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, the Arctic and Antarctic. Truthteller is an essential guide for understanding the modern media world - for teachers, students and concerned citizens who want to know the facts, not fake news and conspiracy theories. It takes you inside the world of investigative reporting in an intimate history of a reporter''s battles, won and lost, the personal and professional costs and the lives damaged along the way.

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Book SynopsisDr. Farrell's sourced work explores the possibility that earth may have been occupied by a race of tyrranical giants.

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Book SynopsisDelving into the complex and intertwined world of the CIA, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, this book takes on the angle of those who knew and associated with Kennedy’s alleged assassin. Profiling George de Mohrenschildt, a petroleum geologist based in Dallas and Haiti, this examination explores the relationship between Oswald, the CIA, and de Mohrenschildt. This book also investigates the CIA’s involvement in the Haitian government during the 1960s, and seeks to connect each entity to each other in the jigsaw puzzle that is the Kennedy assassination.Trade Review"Joan Mellen is a rare breed--a biographer who writes with the passion of a truth-seeker, the skill of an artisan, and the attention to detail of a well-trained scholar-researcher. She digs deep and she cares. I look forward to reading every book she writes." --Richard Layman, author, Shadow Man: The Life of Dashiell Hammett , on A Farewell to Justice

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Book SynopsisOhio housewife Sherry Shriner grew to prominence as a social media cult leader, flourishing in the era of conspiracy theories and the 9/11 Truther movement. She preached the virtues of mysterious orgone energy and Christian prayer as defensive shields against the forces of darkness, including: Lucifer and his demons; reptilian shapeshifters masquerading as human elites; the New World Order; cell phone towers; even hostile UFOs that flamed out over her home, visible only as shooting stars. Amazingly, she built a coterie of passionate devotees. The more outrageous the lie, the more fervent their belief. In 2017, she told follower Steven Mineo that his girlfriend, Barbara Rogers, was a witch who would kill him. A month later, Steven was dead, and Barbara was in jail charged with his murder. Steven's death proved Sherry's divinity to her followers, but in reality, he was just the latest casualty in a string of online trolling attacks that had left an earlier believer dead of suicide and still more cast into the outer darkness of cyberspace.

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Book SynopsisAlong with flying disks, the Germans were making long, cylindrical airships that are commonly called mother ships - large craft that house several smaller disk craft. It was not until 1989 that a German researcher named Ralf Ettl, living in London, received an anonymous packet of photographs and documents concerning the planning and development of at least three types of unusual craft - including the Andromeda. Ettl went on to make several television documentaries based on the material in the packet and released most of the documents and photos to researchers in Austria and other parts of Europe. What the Ralf Ettl document dump shows us is what many have suspected for a long time: that WWII did not end in the manner in which we have been told, and a remnant of the Nazi military - particularly the SS - continued to operate aircraft and submarines around the world in the decades after the end of the war. Much of this activity has been attributed to UFO activity, but Childress lifts the veil shrouding some of these cases and shows that Andromeda and Haunebu craft were involved in many of these incidents over the decades. Join Childress as he shows us the secret files involving the Andromeda, Haunebu, and Vril craft. Chapters include: Gravity''s Rainbow; The Motherships; The MJ-12 Documents and the CIA; The Strange Case of Rheinhold Schmidt; Secret Cities of the Feathered Serpent; The Green Fireballs; Ride in a Saucer Anyone?; The Submarines That Can Fly; The Breakaway Civilization; more. Includes a 16-page color section. Over 120 photographs and diagrams.

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Book SynopsisDue to a perfect storm among powerful corporations, powerful governments, and futuristic, mesmerizing phone technology, you soon will be asked to have a next generation of smartphone physically inserted in your brain. Many of your friends will say yes, buying into the wonders the device promises. The reality, however, will be much more nightmarish. Don''t want the implant? Too bad - the government will want you to get one. Will controlling entities monitor your thoughts? You bet. Will Artificial Intelligence take over the network? It''s likely. Will the brainphone eventually ruin humankind as we know it? Yes, it will. Does this scenario sound like the End of Days? Maybe - the brainphone is very similar to a device described in The Holy Bible. From humans-and-technology expert Scott Snair, Ph.D., this book makes the compelling argument that you are about to enter a new phase of human existence, as people are merged with a technology that alters them, monitors them, and, in many ways, commands them. Fortunately, there are ways you can resist this fusion, if you choose to push back. THE BRAINPHONE PROPHECY explains how. Chapters include: Why Are You About to Have a Smartphone Inserted in Your Skull?; How Will Your Brainphone Work? How Will Corporations and Governments Monitor Your Thoughts?; How Will the Brainphone Bring Us Down?; How Might the Brainphone Signify the End of Times?; How Might You Revolt Against the Prophecy?; And more.

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Book SynopsisConspiracy theories: What do people believe, and why? How have they come to this place, and what does it mean for us all? By speaking to experts and those with personal experience of conspiracy culture, Dylan Reeve conveys what it means to believe and their relation to modern Aoteaora. Fake Believe should leave you feeling informed about our current time, and some of what's come before. It should offer an understanding of what others believe, and it should deliver a fairly consistent series of 'WTF' moments.

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Book SynopsisThis book uniquely combines the authors’ personal experiences, deep cultural and professional experience of living and working in Russia and the former USSR, and interest and experience with language and computational analysis, to shed light on a highly contemporary question: what is motivating conflict and unrest in Russia and its surrounding countries? How does Russian government suppression of information manifest in practice today, and how does it fit into the historical cultural pattern for Russia? The authors take a computational look at social and traditional media in the original languages, from Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and the English-speaking world, to glean insights and separate fact from fiction.This book helps readers interested in Eastern Europe to ‘take the temperature’ of the region today, but it is also of interest to readers in the policy and analysis community, because it offers a template, an analytical ‘how-to’ guide which aims to follow in the footsteps of CIA author Richards Heuer’s ‘Psychology of Intelligence Analysis’, to show how state-of-the-art computational analysis techniques could be applied to similar problems in other topic areas, with the human analyst and computational techniques each working together to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts.Table of ContentsInformation Maneuvers in and around Ukraine: What is Really Driving Conflict with Russia? 1 Background 1.1 A widespread Russian view of Ukraine: rooted in language, culture, and religion 2 Issues surrounding Ukraine 2.1 Russian troop buildup on the border 2.2 Russian hydrocarbons and their place in Europe 2.2.1 A cultural specific of the Russian hydrocarbon landscape 2.2.2 Russian dependence on hydrocarbons, and its pipelines and infrastructure 2.2.3 The Russia-EU co-dependency 2.2.4 Summary 2.3 NATO enlargement 3 What does social media say about the issues? 3.1 Discussion of ‘Ukraine’ in Russian-speaking Twitter 3.2 Discussion of ‘Ukraine’ in Ukrainian-speaking Twitter 3.3 Discussion of ‘NATO’ in both Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking Twitter 4 Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications Information Maneuvers in the Baltic region 1 Contents 2 Background: brief history of the Baltics 3 A distillation of multiple threat assessments and perspectives 3.1 Brief background on threat assessment 3.2 Environmental Threats 3.3 Espionage Threats 3.4 Military Threats 3.5 Cyber Threats 3.6 Destabilizing Threats 3.7 Russian Limitations 4 Analysis of social media landscape 4.1 The ‘BEND’ framework 4.2 Research hypotheses 4.3 Topic selection 4.4 Data retrieval 4.5 Data processing 4.6 Exploration of results 4.7 Discussion 5 Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications Information Maneuvers in and around Poland: Historical Revisionism and Rule of Law 1 Background 1.1 Language, culture, and religion as predictors of geopolitical fault lines 2 Current issues surrounding Poland 2.1 The EU versus Poland on primacy of law 2.2 Polish nationalism and World War II 2.3 The Polish-Belarus border 2.4 The Suwałki Corridor 2.5 The buildup of Russian forces along Ukraine’s border 3 Analysis of social media landscape in Poland versus East Slavdom 3.1 Interpretation of the maneuvers that have led to the current point 3.2 Twitter data collection and analysis 3.2.1 Data collection 3.2.2 Analytical approach 3.2.3 Results of analysis 4 Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications 5 References Appendix 1: Polish ‘border’ tweets 49 Appendix 2: Russian ‘border’ tweets 62 Information Maneuvers for Soviet Union 2.0 1 Background 2 Features of everyday Soviet life in the twentieth century 2.1 The ‘information island’ created by the Iron Curtain 2.2 Soviet indoctrination 2.3 Repression 2.4 Soviet life – drab and dilapidated 2.5 The ideology of Soviet life 2.6 The bureaucracy of Soviet life 3 Social media analysis 4 Conclusions and recommendations for strategic communications Finding and Analyzing Information Maneuvers on the Fringe 1 Fringe narratives: an illustrative example involving Russia and its Eurasian ambitions 2 The ‘brotherhood of nations’ – a historical pattern, not an anomaly 3 Eurasian integration: coming in the near future? 4 How can we analyze fringe beliefs? 4.1 Why fringe beliefs matter: did they help end the Cold War? 4.2 The role of language in fringe beliefs 4.3 Connection to foundational computational linguistics concepts 4.3.1 Word probabilities 4.3.2 ‘Distinctiveness’ in words and combinations of words 4.3.3 From probability to pointwise mutual information 4.4 Problem statements with respect to fringe beliefs 4.4.1 Analytical approach to ‘known unknowns’ 4.4.2 Analytical approach to ‘unknown unknowns’ 4.5 Combining PMI and clustering to find ‘unknown unknowns’ 5 Demonstration and technical implementation 5.1 Dataset 5.2 Technical implementation 5.3 Key ‘waypoints’ in the approach 5.3.1 Pointwise mutual information 5.3.2 Singular value decomposition 5.3.3 Composition of adjacency matrix 5.3.4 Detection of anomalous clusters 6 Conclusions Appendix 1. The Scythians (by Aleksandr Blok) 54 Appendix 2. Hand-curated ‘fringe belief’ text 57 Appendix 3. Python Jupyter notebook for identifying fringe beliefs 59 Russian media narratives on Ukraine in 2022: a computational analysis 1 Background 2 Data used for this report, and method of collection 3 Our approach: signal processing (and SVD) fundamentals 4 Key narratives in 2022 in Russian media 4.1 Application of SVD to our data 4.2 Topics of interest: detailed discussion 4.2.1 A Russian fake about alleged Ukrainian incursion 4.2.2 Mockery of changing Ukrainian positions on NATO membership 4.2.3 ‘Humanitarian corridors’ propaganda, claims of Russian air superiority 4.2.4 Pre-invasion denials that an invasion would happen 4.2.5 Conspiracy theories about U.S. biolabs in Ukraine 4.2.6 Fears of sabotage in border regions of Russia 4.2.7 Mockery of gaffe by British Foreign Secretary 4.2.8 2014 events in Ukraine described as a ‘coup’ to justify the invasion before the fact 4.2.9 Putin’s NATO grievances 4.2.10 Putin’s ‘my beauty’ remark 4.2.11 Russian reaction to U.S. ‘pre-bunking’ of Russian false flag narratives 4.2.12 Russian comparisons of Ukrainian nationalism and terrorism 4.3 Key takeaways 5 What’s ‘mainstream’ and what’s ‘fringe’ in Russian media? 5.1 How we can answer this question with SVD 5.2 Digging deeper with Keyness analysis 5.2.1 What is a Keyness Relative Frequency Analysis? 5.2.2 Comparing RT and Meduza 5.3 Key takeaways 6 How topics changed over time in Russian media 6.1 January 1st-15th: Kazakhstan unrest 6.2 January 16th-31st: Fractious political relations between Ukraine and Russia 6.3 February 1st-15th: Mockery of Ukrainian and British politicians 6.4 February 16th-28th: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine 6.5 March 1st-15th: Evacuating civilians; Ukraine-Russia peace talks 6.6 March 16th-31st: Ukrainian deaths; Chechen fighters in Ukraine 6.7 April 1st-15th: Ukrainians killed in Bucha; alleged terrorist threats within Russia 6.8 April 16th-30th: Russian media stops talking about Ukraine 6.9 May 1st-May 16th: Victory Day in Russia 6.10 Key takeaways 7 Conclusions Appendix 1. Scraping the web for Russian media articles Appendix 2. Full list of topics extracted from 2,838 Russian media articles, 1/1/2022-5/16/2022 Appendix 3. Jupyter Notebook code snippets Appendix 4. Russian stopwords used for Keyness analysis Appendix 5. Time Relative Frequency Analyses: full list of charts by half-month

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Book SynopsisOn the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.Written in the wake of the far-right populist turn in Europe, the US, and beyond, What We Do Is Secret addresses aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy, proposing a theory of conspiracy that is not primarily concerned with conspiracy theory. This inquiry takes shape across chapters on the politics of post-internet art aesthetics; the sublime and possessive individualism in recent “critical” art; Cady Noland’s security fences, and silkscreens of the Symbionese Liberation Army; and mutuality, secrecy, and improvisation in the work of Ima-Abasi Okon. Larne Abse Gogarty discusses the relationship between culture and contemporary politics, following on from David Lloyd’s proposition that through its compensatory qualities, the aesthetic sphere naturalizes forms of life lived under the rule of property. What kind of art can work against this? Can art exist as a conspiracy capable of corroding that rule?

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