'Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.' Ron Nesen, Gerald Ford's press spokesman
Nothing is more annoying than being accused of peddling conspiracy theories, as I was today, because I have always been very dismissive of them, to a fault.
I even thought the theory that the Covid virus came from a Chinese lab was not true.
I am ashamed to say that absent-mindedly I thought for a bit that the papers might be right in blaming Russia for destroying the North Stream pipeline.
I did not, of course, believe for one second the conspiracy theory about Trump being a Russian asset - but that was a conspiracy theory that the people who rule us wanted us to believe.
Nor after some time checking did I believe the story that Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian hoax. It was impossible because it had real emails in it from real people.
Yet CIA officers said it was a Russian hoax.
Nor did I believe the Black Lives Matter conspiracy theory.
That said, it is wrong that conspiracy theories ipso facto have become thought crimes.
Conspiracy theories annoy me but I take comfort from remembering that the more people believe in them the more people are not believing the official spokesman.
It would be worrying if everyone believed the official spokesman, wouldn't it?
And of course the reason it does not make sense to disapprove of all conspiracy theories is that conspiracies do happen.
For one thing, everything the secret services do is a conspiracy and if you don't believe that secret services play a large role in politics you really have not been paying attention.
Neither veteran Moscow correspondent John Helmer nor former British Ambassador to Tashkent Craig Murray are people whose judgment I trust.
When Murray said the two Russians in Salisbury whom Bellingcat identified as Russian agents were homosexual lovers looking at the cathedral I just laughed and dismissed him.
He was wrong about that, of course.
They were Russian spies and were involved somehow with the Skripal case.
But the British official story is, as I found today, utterly untrue.
A man I know who does believe in conspiracy theories about many things sent me this and it convinced me.
People like John Helmer and Craig Murray who said the received MI6 version of the Skripal poisoning case is bunk were undoubtedly right.
It's beyond argument.
Craig Murray is right about that and he is not in this instance a conspiracy theorist because he has no theory about what really happened.
Before you shake your head please read this link or, if you have half an hour this talk.
I wonder what other lies we have been told.
We don’t need to rescue western civilization from outside forces, we need to rescue ourselves from western civilization.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/08/no_author/western-civilization-is-not-worth-saving/
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
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According to the widely accepted current chronology, the Covid-19 epidemic began in Wuhan during late October or early November of 2019. But the World Military Games were also held in Wuhan during that same period, ending in late October, with 300 American military servicemen attending. As I’ve repeatedly emphasized in my articles and comments for more than a year, how would Americans react if 300 Chinese military officers had paid an extended visit to Chicago, and soon afterward a mysterious and deadly epidemic had suddenly erupted in that city?
ReplyDeleteCovid-19, Its Impact and Origins
Ron Unz • March 15, 2021
The Hypothetical Scenario of the Covid-19 Outbreak
ReplyDelete(1) Rogue elements within our large national security apparatus probably affiliated with the Deep State Neocons decided to inflict severe damage upon the huge Chinese economy using biowarfare. The plan was to infect the key transport hub of Wuhan with Covid-19 so that the disease would invisibly spread throughout the entire country during the annual Lunar New Year travels, and they used the cover of the Wuhan International Military Games to slip a couple of operatives into the city to release the virus. My guess is that only a relatively small number of individuals were involved in this plot.
(2) The biological agent they released was designed primarily as an anti-economy rather than an anti-personnel weapon. Although Covid-19 has rather low fatality rates, it is extremely contagious, has a long pre-symptomatic infectious period, and can even spread by asymptomatic carriers, making it ideally suited for that purpose. Thus, once it established itself throughout most of China, it would be extremely difficult to eradicate and the resulting efforts to control it would inflict enormous damage upon China’s economy and society.
(3) As a secondary operation, they decided to target Iran’s political elites, possibly deploying a somewhat more deadly variant of the virus. Since political elites generally tend to be elderly, they would anyway suffer far greater fatalities.
(4) The deadly SARS and MERS outbreaks in East Asia and the Near East had never significantly spread back to America (or Europe), so the plotters wrongly assumed that the same would be the case with Covid-19. Anyway, since international organizations always ranked the US and Europe as having the best and most effective public health systems for combating any disease epidemic, they believed that any possible blowback damage would be very minor.
(5) Only a small number of individuals were directly involved in this plot, and soon after the disease was successfully released in Wuhan, they decided to further safeguard America’s own interests by alerting the appropriate units with the Defense Intelligence Agency, probably by fabricating some sort of supposed “intelligence leak.” Basically, they arranged for the DIA to hear that Wuhan was apparently suffering a “cataclysmic” disease outbreak, thereby leading the DIA to prepare and distribute a secret report warning our own forces and allies to take appropriate precautions.
(6) Unfortunately for these plans, the Chinese government reacted with astonishing determination and effectiveness, and soon stamped out the disease. Meanwhile, the lackadaisical and incompetent American government largely ignored the problem, only reacting after the massive outbreak in Northern Italy had gotten media attention. Since the CDC had botched production of a testing kit, we had no means of recognizing that the disease was already spreading in our country, and the result was massive damage to America’s economy and society. In effect, America suffered exactly the fate that had originally been intended for its Chinese rival.
https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-covid-19-its-impact-and-origins-after-one-year/