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Is something big going on… conspiracy theory related

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Thisisbig · 29/03/2023 10:41

Ok hear me out….

the following things have put me a little bit on edge:

  • emergency alert trial from government (yes I know it’s been spoken about for years)
  • a few asteroids flying “close” and reported in press
  • A few solar/planet events… eg holes in sun creating solar winds, northern lights being so far down south, weird planetary alignments
  • nasa being able to defect the path of an asteroid in the last 6 months
  • the constant threat of nuclear war
  • chatter a few months ago about weird spy balloons and possibility of aliens?!

I can’t help but shake the feeling that some people “higher up” know something that us little folk don’t know yet and that we are being primed.

I am fully prepared to be told I’m crackers! 🤣

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ItIsFiat · 29/03/2023 12:22

There is nothing wrong with asking questions OP as you did today, test your thinking as you just did.

I remember people laughing saying that there would be no pandemic. You can look at the old threads here, I wasn't posting just reading them, where those who looked into it were laughing the following months at those who insulted them the previous month who now had no toilet roll.

MyCatBakes · 29/03/2023 12:22

Very true @Logicoutofthewindow

Part of my work has brought me in contact with people looking for information on various issues and in the times before people just looked online, they'd phone to ask for information.

Most would be satisfied with a leaflet from an official body, or an explanation, but a significant minority were of the 'I know you're covering it up and I just want to waste your time arguing about it' variety. Sometimes we got drawn into extended conversations depending on how hard it was to politely get rid of them and how much time we had that day, and I definitely got the impression that most of them were mentally ill. This was confirmed by various medical doctors who worked for the organisation, who were sometimes involved, eg if someone called us and claimed to be made ill by something.

nilsmousehammer · 29/03/2023 12:23

You could however totally rely on them to stand in the Downing Street Rose Garden after a disaster and witter spectacular cock and bull about how it absolutely definitely wasn't their fault.

maddiemookins16mum · 29/03/2023 12:24

Shit, hope not. I’ve tickets to Abba Voyage in June.

ItIsFiat · 29/03/2023 12:25

I recall people laughing that trans was a niche issue years ago and wouldcome to nothing. The New Zealand PM has now said that he would stand with those who punched at 70 year old woman and threw liquid at another woman, all because they will not say a man is a woman.

It's good to ask questions.

User639762456 · 29/03/2023 12:25

A lot of it is the media, there is high drama today in the DM about the giant hole in the sun.

bigbluehamster · 29/03/2023 12:25

HappyHolidai · 29/03/2023 10:45

Think you might need to find something absorbing to do with your time. Have you considered getting a job?

🤣🤣🤣 brutal

Sirius3030 · 29/03/2023 12:25

Babyroobs · 29/03/2023 12:02

Two friends early early fifties died suddenly last year, one heart problems, one a blood clot but both previously healthy. One with the blood clot was one of the fittest people I know, ran marathons etc. Another women who I knew from an internet help site died of brain bleed suddenly, friends daughter in thirties from a blood clot , one of dd's collegues in her part time job died suddenly brain bleed. CEO of my previous workplace died after short illness - mid fifties I'd say. I know people die suddenly, it just seems such a lot in such a short space of time when my social life and work circle is very limited. I don't have huge numbers of friends so is hard to get my head around so many deaths. I do find it worrying.

You think your social and work circle is limited, but you are mentioning deaths of random people from internet help sites, former CEO, dd´s colleagues, etc. Extrapolating outward, that is a lot of people. As we get older, more people die...

ItIsFiat · 29/03/2023 12:26

MyCatBakes · 29/03/2023 12:22

Very true @Logicoutofthewindow

Part of my work has brought me in contact with people looking for information on various issues and in the times before people just looked online, they'd phone to ask for information.

Most would be satisfied with a leaflet from an official body, or an explanation, but a significant minority were of the 'I know you're covering it up and I just want to waste your time arguing about it' variety. Sometimes we got drawn into extended conversations depending on how hard it was to politely get rid of them and how much time we had that day, and I definitely got the impression that most of them were mentally ill. This was confirmed by various medical doctors who worked for the organisation, who were sometimes involved, eg if someone called us and claimed to be made ill by something.

Apparently it's sane to say a man is a woman. I don't hold much value in the NHS anymore, if they will lie about this they will about anything.

countingallthseconds · 29/03/2023 12:26

User639762456 · 29/03/2023 12:25

A lot of it is the media, there is high drama today in the DM about the giant hole in the sun.

The DM was on about asteroids the other day. Nobody else was, it wasn't news. Sun spots are very common.

kerstina · 29/03/2023 12:28

I would just say that the threat of nuclear war is at its highest than it has ever been because of the Ukraine war. So makes sense if they are testing emergency alerts ?

CrunchyCarrot · 29/03/2023 12:28

emergency alert trial from government (yes I know it’s been spoken about for years) - you just said it, it's been planned for years.

a few asteroids flying “close” and reported in press - this is nothing new.

A few solar/planet events… eg holes in sun creating solar winds, northern lights being so far down south, weird planetary alignments - nothing new about solar 'holes' (there's an 11 yr sun cycle if you want to investigate that), CMEs from solar flares can cause northern/southern lights at low latitudes if they are strong, nothing new there! 'Weird' planetary alignment - nothing 'weird' about them! Their orbits have not changed.

As for tetanus boosters!
This is because Russia will unleash 18,000 nukes towards western Europe in early August. The issue is that most were made in 1955 and are so corroded and rusty they won’t go off but we will get tetanus from all the sharp edges of the resulting scrap metal when they land.

Bonus points for such an inventive 'theory'! 😂

Whiteroomjoy · 29/03/2023 12:29

NCgoingdry · 29/03/2023 10:44

The emergency alert trial has made me feel a little on edge if I think about it.

Just can't help but wonder - why now? And what for.

why now? 2 reasons

Flood alerts and evacuation. Simples. We are getting more floods due to climate change and people aren’t evacuating when instructed or taking flood precautions, costs emergency services more to pick up pieces, cost us all in increased insurance premiums
similarly more wildfires, extreme heat events due to climate change
climate change conditions will make the once in a hundred year events to be once in 5-10 years.

second reason: why not? , it’s only in last 10 years max that most people have mobiles that can receive texts at all. Even now a fewer don’t especially in older generation. It simply couldn’t be done before. Don’t you think that if they could have done this during WW2 they would have done? There are excellant reasons why, now the technology is available and most have means to receive it, we use that technology . a lot of countries have been using for some years already and ven use for things like amber alerts, and good forbid, active shooter 😢.

It can be done for not much money and is a no brainer really for the government.

Babyroobs · 29/03/2023 12:29

Sirius3030 · 29/03/2023 12:25

You think your social and work circle is limited, but you are mentioning deaths of random people from internet help sites, former CEO, dd´s colleagues, etc. Extrapolating outward, that is a lot of people. As we get older, more people die...

It seems like a lot of people that I know or knew personally ( most of them apart from dd's colleague) in a short space of time. Most of them young people, fifties is not old although I appreciate obviously more risk as people age.

CaveMum · 29/03/2023 12:29

For those interested in how conspiracy theories perpetuate, have a listen to this episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage, which included the author of the book I recommend up thread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000dfqn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

It was originally broadcast in January 2020, so before Covid hit, but they do touch on other vaccine conspiracy theories.

The Infinite Monkey Cage - Series 21 - Conspiracy Theories - BBC Sounds

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Shazia Mirza as they discuss conspiracy theories.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000dfqn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Over40Overdating · 29/03/2023 12:29

There is no way any government could keep
NWO, nukes or aliens quiet. Trump would have been threatening to shoot the illegals out of the sky & fight them on the White House lawn and Johnson & co would have been selling humanity off at the highest price to fill their pockets if aliens were real.

Conspiracy theory scene is like religion for people with no faith & no critical thinking skills - there must be a reason for why their lives are shit and scary compared to others so it’s aliens or bill gates. Knowing ‘the truth’ makes them feel special & important in a world that’s indifferent to them. Some are just plain nuts.

Although if by chance the Aliens are listening, can you hold an invasion off til I’ve had my holiday please. I’m knackered & need a rest before you send us all down the uranium mines. 🛸

Sorryyoufeelthatway · 29/03/2023 12:29

Would be fun tbh. Bit bored of all
this rain.

elizabethdraper · 29/03/2023 12:30

Its cancer that is killing everyone in my office

They are dropping like flying all 30-50 healthy people

I mean we do live on the east coast of Ireland so it is to be expected cos of you know Windscale fire and all that jazz!

PutYourHandUp · 29/03/2023 12:30

nilsmousehammer · 29/03/2023 12:23

You could however totally rely on them to stand in the Downing Street Rose Garden after a disaster and witter spectacular cock and bull about how it absolutely definitely wasn't their fault.

Agree with this. That lad Johnson would swear blind it wasn't him even if there was footage of him riding the bloody killer asteroid.

cormorant5 · 29/03/2023 12:30

We, UK, western Europe, do not have massive floods, tsunami, earthquakes. Nor do we have loony neighbours the way that Japan and Taiwan have China.
Why would we need to divert time money and effort to develop a warning system for something that is non existent.
Now time and technology have moved on, the alert systems will be cheaper and easier.
On the other hand our equipment is more sensitive so more is being discovered and predicting a track or direction more accurate.
Aliens from another world are still fiction.
Are you thinking of moving to Roswell OP?

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DogInATent · 29/03/2023 12:32

Completely Jacob's Cream Crackers.

ImSweetEnoughDarlin · 29/03/2023 12:32

Hiphopopotamus · 29/03/2023 10:44

Whenever I see theories like this I marvel at the idea that any group of people, especially the current shit show of a government we have at the moment could keep a secret of this magnitude without leaks. Guaranteed if there was something big going on we would have had the relevant WhatsApp messages splashed all over Twitter by now

They can keep shit quiet when they want to. Do you really think we are privy to the really important stuff? Or the downright shady shit they do? Really?

Janiebirdy · 29/03/2023 12:33

I’m not reading these events as organised or conspiratorial. We’ve had similar types of potential incidents in my lifetime so they’re not that unusual.

Other countries have an emergency alert system for fires/flood/extreme events so it makes sense that we will have this too.

Unfortunately the situation with Russia/Putin is fragile. It wouldn’t surprise me if his troops ‘accidently’ cause a major nuclear incident because Putin is angry about the West arming Ukraine. Again, we’ve had these types of threats in 20th Century history: eg Cuban missile crisis which would’ve been a huge global event if it had occurred.

ItIsFiat · 29/03/2023 12:34

CaveMum · 29/03/2023 12:29

For those interested in how conspiracy theories perpetuate, have a listen to this episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage, which included the author of the book I recommend up thread: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000dfqn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

It was originally broadcast in January 2020, so before Covid hit, but they do touch on other vaccine conspiracy theories.

Seriously just look at the whole trans thing, that tells you how ot works.

We are in a situation now where there are vulnerabie people egging each other on and they picked April fools day for a day of vengeance because people refuse to believe that they ate the opposite sex.

Our police arrest people they are sacking each other in Ireland for misgendering.

The NHS has developed munchausens by proxy, the staff display fabricated induced illness by initiating Annexe B, gaslighting patients that men are women, withdrawing care and getting patients arrested of they observe a man and say he is one.

Nobody can be trusted the lies are off the scale, so whilst I think you are incorrect in your OP, don't stop asking questions.

Mummyford · 29/03/2023 12:35

Hiphopopotamus · 29/03/2023 10:44

Whenever I see theories like this I marvel at the idea that any group of people, especially the current shit show of a government we have at the moment could keep a secret of this magnitude without leaks. Guaranteed if there was something big going on we would have had the relevant WhatsApp messages splashed all over Twitter by now

Seriously. Matt Hancock wasn't even competent enough to grab a sneaky handful of arse without us all being subjected to photographic evidence. The idea of this lot (or any government) coordinating, carrying out and hushing up something for more than a month is laughable. They can barely even hold it together on the things they've announced publicly.