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Which conspiracy theories do you believe?

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beluga425 · 18/02/2018 15:48

Which theories, dismissed by many as conspiracy theories, do you regard as the truth?

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isthismummy · 19/02/2018 11:21

I know. It's so very sad. Do you believe it really was him in the pictures she was sent though? I know she thought it was, but I didn't think they looked particularly similar. Ditto with him allegedly turning up on her doorstep. I doubt that was the real Johnny, but she was just desperate to believe it.

beluga425 · 19/02/2018 11:22

<a class="break-all" href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=extra-capsa.com/2016/01/23/velvet-goldmine-and-jack-steven-the-bowie-plot-thickens/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjY5I2h7rHZAhUCDMAKHbD0D30QFjAVegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw2FwRA31EeP7vDFKtMrb8_c&ampcf=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=extra-capsa.com/2016/01/23/velvet-goldmine-and-jack-steven-the-bowie-plot-thickens/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjY5I2h7rHZAhUCDMAKHbD0D30QFjAVegQICxAB&usg=AOvVaw2FwRA31EeP7vDFKtMrb8_c&ampcf=1
That one is alive and kicking round the web.

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isthismummy · 19/02/2018 11:24

Christ Callmegeoff he's the spit of him! I don't think it is him, but how did the interviewer not comment on the similarity?Shock

isthismummy · 19/02/2018 11:26

Haha Cupofcake I was just thinking of Velvet Goldmine. God that film gave me the horn when I was a youngsterBlush

beluga425 · 19/02/2018 11:26
Grin
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Callmegeoff · 19/02/2018 11:28

I only found him yesterday idly Googling if anyone thought Bowie hadn't died.

I don't think it is him, and Bowie did die I just think he might have hung around a few more weeks.

infinitewisdom · 19/02/2018 11:32

Haha that guy looks nothing like Bowie!

If anyone has listed to the album and seen how ill he looked in the video they would know there is no possibility whatsoever that this is fake.

beluga425 · 19/02/2018 11:34

Disappointed nobody has come on here to proclaim this:
content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1860871_1860876_1861029,00.html
is real...

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SofieMonde · 19/02/2018 11:44

All the ridiculous conspiracy theories about Nasa using green screen lol And all videos from ISS are shot on earth FlatEarthers *sigh

Diana one is definitely true...have it on good authority :) Queen did it

Andrewofgg · 19/02/2018 11:54

If anyone had fixed Trump’s election that somebody would have fixed a popular as well as an electoral majority.

SofieMonde · 19/02/2018 11:54

Also there is the theory David Ike and his claptrap is just a smoke screen and he is really one of the reptiles...I think I read that on another MN conspiracy theory thread :)

beluga425 · 19/02/2018 11:56

I thought flat Earth theory was a joke, but no!
"The idea that, instead of sailing horizontally round the Earth, ships are taken down one side of a globe, then underneath, and are brought up on the other side to get home again, is, except as a mere dream, impossible and absurd!"

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HeartOfSass · 19/02/2018 12:00

Balloonslayer - Michael Jackson was around 5’11”, so talker then he might have seemed but not above 6’. This can be compared to lots of other people of known heights on pictures for verification.

beluga425 · 19/02/2018 12:01

More from the Flat Earth Society:
"If the Earth were a globe, people - except those on the top - would, certainly, have to be "fastened" to its surface by some means or other,"

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TheArtOfNoise · 19/02/2018 12:05

Place marking!

Backenette · 19/02/2018 12:10

The flat earth society was originally a kind of debating club though wasn’t it? They’d pick a ridiculous position, debate it while enjoying jolly fine wines and all that? It was an eccentrics fining and networking club More like the devils advocate society?

Actual flat earthers are barmy of course.

QueenOfTheAndals · 19/02/2018 12:19

Re David Icke, a theory I've heard is that he doesn't really believe the lizards thing but uses it to deflect from what he writes about the paedophile coverup etc, so the powers that be just think he's a loon who no one will believe rather than a credible threat.

MissMisery · 19/02/2018 12:31

Harry is the image of Hewitt. If he's not his dad then it's definitely a huge coincidence.

I think he looks more like Phil the Greek the Duke of Edinburgh (boringly..)

stillfeel18inside · 19/02/2018 12:36

We are planning to return to the moon quite soon actually: www.sciencealert.com/europe-plans-to-build-a-moon-village-by-2030-space-agency-announces. Huge technological advances in the last decades mean engineers can now potentially make use of resources on the moon eg ice to enable longer term discovery missions - just having a human step in the moon & come straight Home has limited value.

NameChanger22 · 19/02/2018 12:46

Yanis" Varoufakis - the Greek finance minister has said a few times on TV that he doesn't believe Theresa May was ever a remainer. I thought it was common knowledge that she was lying about this.

Helmetbymidnight · 19/02/2018 12:53

Er, what you actually said was: the remain campaign led by the least popular leaders (Cameron, May).

Do you not understand that is completely not true? She was hardly involved in the campaign one way or another.

Jaygee61 · 19/02/2018 12:54

More from the Flat Earth Society:
"If the Earth were a globe, people - except those on the top - would, certainly, have to be "fastened" to its surface by some means or other,"

We call it "gravity. Grin

DarthNigel · 19/02/2018 13:01

I've never believed David Kelly committed suicide.
And I think that Jill Dando was about to uncover something scandalous about someone powerful-but that's less a conspiracy theory than just a theory I guess-didn't they release the guy they arrested for it when he appealed? So it's unsolved...or have I got that totally wrong?

Fuckoffee · 19/02/2018 13:06

I believe that Alphabet Inc is going to take over the world and possibly the universe. It’s Google’s parent company and there is something very sinister about it. In true conspiracy theorist style, there is something odd about it but I can’t tell you what Confused

I also believe Jeremy Hunt is just a puppet put there by Virginia Bottomley and family to orchestrate the collapse of the nhs. Their whole family would benefit financially from this on a level that would name your eyes water.

Justanotherlurker · 19/02/2018 13:08

I thought it was common knowledge that she was lying about this.

Lying is a bif of strong.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/25/exclusive-leaked-recording-shows-what-theresa-may-really-thinks-about-brexit

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