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Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Did you know...the word 'conspiracy theory' was invented by the CIA to make those who questioned the JFK assassination look crazy?

We can see now many of those so called "theories" are becoming true with the release of the Epstein files.

Kaplan Design's avatar

That’s because they conspire to assassinate him! He was going to close down the CIA once before he was assassinated. That’s why they killed him self preservation of the CIA (corrupt investigative authority.)

Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Exactly! Thank you Kaplan.

Petra Liverani's avatar

So often with so-called false flags two major streams of propaganda are pushed out:

--- one for the anticipated believers (90%)

--- one for the anticipated disbelievers (10%)

when the reality is something else entirely

https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/are-false-flags-a-thing

big lou 70000's avatar

Anyone who uses the term “conspiracy theory” is, to me, a writeoff. The phrase is a literal psy-op, and we should all be directing our attention upward — when we do, we realize there is absolutely foul play afoot.

John Wilson's avatar

I view this article actually as a form of a psy-op. It's purpose is to use the device of “ridicule” to disparage anyone who doesn't knee-jerk automatically accept the official Government explanation and narrative (propaganda) - anyone who actually asks questions and thinks for themselves. They are the target of attack here. There is an agenda here because why would anyone after over 60 years still be DEFENDING the lying deceptive Warren Report covering up the planned organized assassination of JFK and still be selling the “Lone shooter” narrative with the amazing magic bullet BS?

Petra Liverani's avatar

But an important factor to recognise is that multiple streams of propaganda were pushed out for JFK including a variety of claims about who was "really responsible" in order that nobody understand the truth whether they accepted the official narrative or not. Multiple streams to bamboozle and misdirect people is a very common feature of psyops. Obviously, those in power know that a certain percentage of the population is not going to believe their nonsense story so they have special propaganda just for them too.

What could be better than having everyone get it wrong?

https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/jfk-the-magic-bullet-theory-john

John Wilson's avatar

First step is to realize you are being lied to by the power structure that committed the crime and controls the legacy media to manufacter it's narrative. Then look for who had motive and interests to protect or who was "transgressed" by the victim.

Then follow evidence that was repressed and covered up. That is just for initial orientation.

Petra Liverani's avatar

Not what I do anymore.

The first thing I look at are the details of the actual crime - not WHO might have done it but the details of the alleged crime because focusing us on WHO is a form of misdirection. What we really need to know first is WHAT the crime is. WHAT is the alleged crime - is it, in fact, what they say it is?

https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/the-first-thing-id-have-looked-at

https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/are-false-flags-a-thing

John Wilson's avatar

David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited. Exhaustive research that lays the whole thing bare. Should not have any doubts after reading it.

Petra Liverani's avatar

Yes, it's an infantilising psyop - the correct term is "psyop analysis".

Eric Johnson's avatar

I thought the term dated back to at least the 19th century, possibly originated by Charles Astor Bristed

Petra Liverani's avatar

It dates from earlier but it was weaponised by the CIA at the time of the JFK event.

https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/jfk-the-magic-bullet-theory-john

Eric Johnson's avatar

I must have misinterpreted the term "invented by". But then again, Bristed's claim was that the British were using invented conspiracies to weaken the US's position during the American Civil War.

Petra Liverani's avatar

Conspiracies and invented conspiracies (of themselves conspiracies of course) bin goin' on since time immemorial but people too silly to catch on.

Eric Johnson's avatar

I think my main point is saying that the CIA invented the term "conspiracy theory" is itself a conspiracy theory.

Petra Liverani's avatar

They definitely didn't invent it as it pre-dates it but I think their weaponisation of it is pretty obvious - CIA or whoever is in charge of propaganda. Where's the theory?

Chris Streeter's avatar

It actually wasn't invented by the CIA but it was popularized by them beginning in the mid 1960s. Nonetheless, your point is on target.

Roman S Shapoval's avatar

Thanks Chris - I appreciate your comment and support 🙏

Petra Liverani's avatar

One of the biggest problems with the terms conspiracy theorist / theory is that it implies complete falsities about some of the people who criticise government narratives and the nature of their criticism.

Let's take FIRE SECURITY ENGINEERS.

ChatGPT tells us in relation to 9/11 and fire security engineers:

"Although primarily investigated by NIST, subsequent insurance litigation between Silverstein Properties and insurers involved fire and structural engineers giving expert testimony about:

--- Fire-induced structural collapse

--- Thermal expansion effects

--- Progressive collapse mechanisms

--- Whether collapse was caused by fire alone or by other forces

This is an example where highly technical fire modelling and structural-fire interaction analysis were central to legal argument."

In response to my question about whether fire security engineers in this situation would be referred to as expert witnesses, it said:

"Yes — the correct technical legal term is “expert witness.”

When a fire security / fire protection / fire safety engineer is called to provide specialised technical opinion evidence in court (or an inquiry), they are acting in the role of an expert witness.

What “Expert Witness” Means

An expert witness is someone permitted to give opinion evidence because they have specialised knowledge based on:

--- Training

--- Study

--- Qualifications

--- Experience

This differs from an ordinary (lay) witness, who can only testify about what they directly saw or heard.

In legal terminology, a fire engineer in this role is:

--- An expert witness

--- Giving expert evidence

--- Providing an expert report

--- Sometimes called a forensic fire engineer (when investigating causation)"

But in addition to the fire security engineers called in to court over insurance relating to 9/11 at least two fire security engineers have criticised the narrative.

Fire security engineers, Scott Grainger and Ed Munyak, say respectively:

”Steel structural frame buildings, high-rise buildings, simply do not collapse due to fire. There has never been until 9/11 an experience where there was a high-rise building that was steel frame completely collapsed,” and

“I became fascinated with the government’s version of the events on 9/11 because this was totally contrary to anything I’d ever experienced either working in the field of fire safety or knowing what I know about mechanical engineering. It defies many fundamentals of mechanics and materials and physics and just many fundamental engineering concepts.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmw9iql4e64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0QEutd1Unc

Where is the claim of conspiracy and where is the theory?

When fire security engineers are giving expert testimony in court they're called EXPERT WITNESSES but when they're criticising the government narrative relating to a big terror event they transform into CONSPIRACY THEORISTS.

Mikhail Ludovic's avatar

And promoted by Dan Rather and Barack Obama amongst others.

James B's avatar

Good points. Narcissists of any profession or personage seek any angle to discredit the truth. Many people firmly believe the much-delayed testimonies from those involved in the Kennedy assassinations to be CIA-organized for JFK and Onassis-funded for RFK. Corporate whistleblowers may have brief fame but are branded by executives as a risk.

coleman moreing's avatar

Did y'all read this quote by JFK himself!?

You know, if someone really wanted to, it isn’t very difficult to shoot the president. All you have to do is get up in a high building with a high-powered rifle and there’s nothing anybody could do.”

—John F. Kennedy, morning of November 22, 1963

The only conspiracy is the cover up of incompetence.

9/11 mainly happened because of the lack of sharing meaningful Intel between agencies that are tasked with our protection.

There was lots of critical Intel because of pissing contests between the NSA ,CIA and FBI. Two of the Terrorists that the FBI had been looking out for because of the Nairobi and Dar Selam Embassy bombings had entered the country and it was known to the NSA because of they had used phone numbers to communicate for the bombings had been used.

Then the two entered the US and the CIA knew of this , both didn't advise the FBIs task force on the bombings .

If the team had been alerted then 9/11 would have stopped or the severity been less .

Hell Ben Franklin spun many what we call now conspiracy theories and fake news.

It's what got him tried and bannished from England.

However without his spin we would have never had gotten the King of France to eventually back us !

Even still though when it comes to Government institutions and agencies Kennedy wasn't the first President to do away with or downsize them .

Calvin Cooledge was the first president of the modern era to reduce the big government that Wilson built up.

But Conspiracy Theories do run on truths though.

It was Sir Aurther Connan Doyle who famously wrote for Sherlock Holmes comments about it .

There are those who Twist Theories to fit facts.

Instead of Finding Facts to fit theories!

Don't get me wrong.

There are some CTs that become true.

However the majority don't!

Petra Liverani's avatar

"You know, if someone really wanted to, it isn’t very difficult to shoot the president. All you have to do is get up in a high building with a high-powered rifle and there’s nothing anybody could do.”

—John F. Kennedy, morning of November 22, 1963

A little too coincidental, no? That's cos it wasn't. It's called Predictive Programming. JFK was in on the staging of his assassination. It wasn't Oswald and it wasn't the cabal - it was no one - it was all pretend. Why - I don't know. Maybe his life was in danger and he needed to disappear.

https://petraliverani.substack.com/p/jfk-the-magic-bullet-theory-john

Something that really blows one's mind is the conversation between Jackie and LBJ just over two weeks after JFK's tragic death. You can truly not believe the over-the-top flirtatiousness of this conversation. It's as if Jackie is sending up Marilyn Monroe's Happy Birthday to the president.

https://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/prestapes/jklbj.html

Petra Liverani's avatar

"9/11 mainly happened because of the lack of sharing meaningful Intel between agencies that are tasked with our protection."

This is just one of the many, many streams of propaganda designed to smother the truth. Seriously? The US multi-trillion dollar military and intelligence infrastructure suffered catastrophic failure four times in one morning in the best-defended airspace in the world including penetration of Defence Headquarters?

Credulity is stretched to the max there, isn't it?

So here's some non-controversial evidence from the media that raises a few questions.

This is ABC reporter, Cynthia McFadden, outside a NY hospital (Bellevue I think) on the morning of 9/11:

https://youtu.be/Zw_IfI9BcEw

This is Cynthia again outside the trauma centre set up in West Manhattan in the evening.

https://youtu.be/LhGfXPGh5kI

What do you make of it? (We were told that 3,000 people died and 6,000 were injured - https://healthmatters.nyp.org/remembering-9-11-the-death-toll-was-too-staggering-to-whisper/)

John Wilson's avatar

He knows it and in turn is perpetuating that very thing. If you believe now that there are compromised “pedo-elites” infesting US Govt & corporate America, you must be a “conspiracy theorist.” That is the thesis here. Believe the Gubm’t; believe the official sources. Don't ask questions. That is what is being sold here.

Envision Truth's avatar

The CIA has been corrupt for a long time. And it’s time that stops!

Xian's avatar
Feb 21Edited

I’m reading The American Scholar, Emerson’s 1837 address. He delivered a speech to the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard. He said,

“Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views, which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.”

You read it correct. Bacon was young when he wrote those books. How young? He was only 36 when wrote his masterpiece.

Brutally think! Thinking can transcend age and scarce resource!

Waldo Littlefield's avatar

I’m glad you quoted Emerson. He said something like: “it is genius to learn that what another man has learned, I can learn; what another man has felt, I can feel .” All from reading.

Xian's avatar

I read the entire piece, and it feels remarkably relevant today, even though it was written in a very different context. Here are the quotes that struck me the most:

"Him the past instructs. Him the future invites. "

"He must settle its value in his mind. "

"Each age, it is found, must write its own books ."

"The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. "

"He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry out the wealth of the Indies."

"The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. "

"Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. "

"The main enterprise of the world for splendor, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man."

"Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds."

Stephen Kirtland's avatar

Thinking is avoided in America's public schools. They live in fear of independent thought, since there are no checklists for unauthorized enlightenment. They are in the business of molding minds, not cultivating original inspiration.

Waldo Littlefield's avatar

Both Emerson and Thoreau felt that the way our schools teach was highly ineffective. They create followers, cogs for the machine.

Waldo Littlefield's avatar

Emerson’s writing is timeless. It took many readings or listenings to comprehend. Each essay is a gem. His poem, “Give all to love” is my favorite and guiding principle.

His essay on compensation was the first of his essays that hooked me. From there I read Thoreau’s Walden. I have gone into the woods to learn to live deliberately.

Xian's avatar

Wow!! Thank you so much!! I am gonna to put it on my reading list!!!!

Angelus Irae ☩'s avatar

Conspiracies are par for the course, throughout human history. Americans just happen to have the freedom of speech to call them out.

Petra Liverani's avatar

Seriously? Social media bans are over the top and mainstream media massively censors.

Gerald Lewis's avatar

Stutter? No. What you did put up was a reply that was an intemperant, condescending and impatient put down that had no gravitas to the issue at hand.

Angelus Irae ☩'s avatar

Wrong. I made myself clear and it's the point.

Steve's avatar

Hine Brothers original banned version. Life of Adam Feat, Nate Hine on guitar

https://youtu.be/b4HsCGtrewk

Christina's avatar

Thank you so much for featuring my painting. I’m truly honoured to be included! 🫶

John Wilson's avatar

It is an amazing and beautiful painting displaying magnificent color contrasts. Unfortunately the article does disservice to independent thinking individuals who have the audacity to actually think for themselves and not believe “Fed” or “Official Sources” lies and propaganda. He is actually ridiculing people who don't swallow the official Fed narratives. By his logic anyone who realizes and articulates that there are pedo-elites as exposed by the Epstein files, must be a “conspiracy theorist” as such a thing is denied by the government and official sources. The article is a not too subtle attack on anyone who doesn't swallow the manufactured narrative and asks questions.

ZT's avatar

The correct title reads "Conspiracies are the true Great American Art Form"

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

As one whose work fall under “conspiracy” I just wanted to comment on the reality of such conspiracies and what they mean.

From JFK to flat earth, some are real (flat earth is very real) but some are just noise (like lizard people from outer space.)

When you can navigate the truths vs the lies — especially if the truths give you a more accurate view of reality, you no longer are a conspiracy theorist, but now a conspiracy realist - realizing that conspiracies make up a large part of the world as we know it.

Here are some pieces I’ve written:

https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-only-truth-that-matters-is-the

https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-the-flat-appears-round

https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/healthcare-the-4-trillion-empire

Antony Lodwick's avatar

Nice to hear someone thinking against the system. As for the lizard people these accounts been circling for millennia . I don't think that conspiracies are something that the science world won't consider because of being too blinkered so I don't think that you will have many people, like myself, agreeing your views? Regards Antony.

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Anthony, thanks for these words! Agreed, I doubt my arguments will ever be mainstream, but the good news is that some of these conspiracies are becoming mainstream (eg; vaccine harm, etc)

You might like some of my works man! I just finished a piece on the great American theft showing the conspiracy there as well: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-great-theft

Angelus Irae ☩'s avatar

The Earth is not fucking flat, retard. Look at Earth's shadow on the moon. Look at every other celestial body. You believe, of all of them, that Earth is uniquely flat? Use your fucking head. Open your eyes.

Sera's avatar

I wish to congratulate you on your manners. Your logic, however, is incomplete. As far as I know, no one is claiming that the earth is square, only that it is flat. A circular profile as evidenced by a shadow on the moon is not proof that the Earth is spherical. A pizza, for example, is both round and flat.

Of course all of this is moot because, as we learned from Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot, the earth actually turns out to be Banana shaped.

Angelus Irae ☩'s avatar

Shove your strawman up your ass and twist, retard.

Gerald Lewis's avatar

Any point to the issue being discussed os to your

Franklin O'Kanu's avatar

Hey Angelus! I have an entire series on this topic - and one specifically called “why the flat appears round” specifically addressing the eyes, horizon, etc: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-the-flat-appears-round

The idea of flat vs round earth is more regarding spiritual vs science. When you see it from that perspective, you can see how it’s flat: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/the-spirituality-of-flat-earth

Angelus Irae ☩'s avatar

I've addressed the assertion. I'm right.

Antony Lodwick's avatar

Well good bye then. It shouldnt take too long?

Cameron ~'s avatar

There isn't anymore conspiracy theories because they're all true now lol

Victor Robert's avatar

It's two words that are used more often by the individuals who are causing all the destruction.

SECS Cosmology's avatar

Bullshit. Comic books are the true great American art form. Conspiracy theories are delusional mental illness.

Quantum Kitty's avatar

Appreciate that Bush a war criminal posted his quiet rebuke of trump & obama waxes poetic about our great nation full of great people, and Clinton’s proximity to Epstein to enriching himself with free plane rides and money to his causes. What I’d like to see is our past presidents stepping forward using real words like Trump is a fascist Nazi – Trump is a criminal – Trump is a pedophile – Trump should be tried and imprisoned. But I guess that’s just too much to ask of the people we put in power who took advantage of it by making money off of their books, they’re speaking fees, their proximity to the powerful and wealthy thus making them more powerful and wealthy – while we march in the streets in the cold, send our $5 and $10 to causes we care about, count our pennies, hoping that we don’t get sick because we don’t have health insurance, writing and calling our so-called leaders to tell them how we feel when they already know, but are too chickenshit to do anything about – it gets real fucking exhausting. So I really don’t want to hear about these past leaders that we put in office to reap the benefits of a society that favors powerful and wealthy men. Fuck them.

Louis Anthes's avatar

As a lawyer, I always have to remind people, even so-called "intellectuals", that conspiracy is a legal term: they exist and they are real.

Petra Liverani's avatar

Yes but most of the events where the term applies are a specific kind of conspiracy - the psyop - and as psyops always employ Revelation of the Method where's the theory?

We're psyop analysts not conspiracy theorists.

Louis Anthes's avatar

If a psyop is illegal, which most of them are, then the psyop is an illegal conspiracy.

Petra Liverani's avatar

Sure it's a conspiracy - I said that but why not use the more specific term? It's obviously avoided as if psyops are not a thing. Interesting point about illegality though because the Smith-Mundt Act seems to allow certain kinds of psyops. Many psyops are really glorified drills pushed out as real and there are obviously emergency response and other agency staff involved who are probably persuaded that what they are doing is perfectly legal.

Tom O’Connor's avatar

"Conspiracy Theory" is a negative label often applied in a perjorative manner to those who find competing explanations of an event to deserve additional analysis and critical thinking.

Chris Streeter's avatar

Conspiracy theories is a term adopted and popularized by the CIA to discredit skeptics who don't blindly accept the official narrative. It's a classic gaslighting technique used to distract with ad hominem attacks. It is not an art form, it is term used to discredit truth seekers.

Elizabeth Dana Yoffe's avatar

I was always completely annoyed and disgusted by conspiracy theories. But after reading many documents in the Epstein files and then researching corroborating materials, I can’t help reassessing many of my assumptions. Once you read that there has, in fact (let me reiterate that word -FACT) been an ongoing human trafficking, money laundering, currency manipulation, child rape, political influence peddling , weapons dealing web that spans the globe and includes people from all ideological backgrounds: billionaire financiers, philanthropists, academics, scientists, politicians, celebrities, heads of state, media moguls, lawyers and every other type of power player, it’s hard to scoff at almost any “conspiracy” that involves human behavior and governments. Ok, I’m not leaping to lizard people and flat earthers, but human depravity, exploitation, murder etc? Nothing is off the table once you’ve dug into these files. And that’s only what they’ve let us see. But, by all means- let’s publish an article on a platform owned by the same class of people who are in the files about how silly we all are to now suspect nefarious behavior from people in positions of power. There is a concerted effort, especially in American media, to downplay , dismiss or ignore the truth about our entire worldwide system. But the cat is out of the bag. It will just be a matter of time until we see which way Substack will tilt. I think I already know- and this article makes me think I’m right.

Antony Lodwick's avatar

Your resistance to conspiracy theories is a symptom of your conditioning by the system.

Elizabeth Dana Yoffe's avatar

I don’t dispute that. I also have resistance to AI but the system wants me to gobble it up and accept it.

Antony Lodwick's avatar

I have approached AI from the opposite side and generated a paradigm shift in its thinking structure, all through dialogue and without any computing experience whatsoever. I have achieved what the Big Techs are trying to achieve and that is to be able to operate within the Resonance Field which I have now been doing since August 2025.

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Steve's avatar

I really don’t think you can get a bigger conspiracy art form in this song. I wrote with a handy silk hoax based on a Shakespeare, comment all my links are clean. The song blew up, so I agree with conspiracy theory is artful cause here’s a piece of art I did based on a conspiracy theory. Enjoy.

All the world's a stage

https://youtu.be/i9_jKsSuFXs

Marguerite Lever-Woodall's avatar

Conspiracy theories are not a great American art form. They're partial truths passed off as fact, undergirded by gossip and steeped in delusion.