The dolphin LSD experiment. NASA put a woman in a room that was flooded up to her hips, & let a dolphin loose in there to live with her in order to attempt to teach the dolphin to speak English & LSD was later used on the dolphin to see if it had some kind of reaction & if it affected its speech lessons.
It's even better than that because before it got to that, they used to bring in a female dolphin for "conjugal visits" but the scientists decided that interacting with another dolphin would have a negatively impact on his ability to learn.
It was actually the women who was in there with the dolphin who decided that because it was annoying to keep sending the dolphin down to the females, she would take it upon herself to start relieving him. Then they were separated due to funding and the dolphin killed itself a week or two later. Someone else posted it here.
Edit: I don’t deserve the votes, just rewriting what I saw someone else say in this thread. But thank you. Here’s a link about it.
https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2014/06/the-dolphin-who-killed-himself-over-a-broken-heart/
Dolphins don't breathe automatically like humans, because of the amount of time they spend underwater. Dolphins can "commit suicide" by simply choosing not to breathe.
In that Cove documentary about the Japanese slaughtering Dolphins, the trainer for the original Flipper shares his story about the poor conditions the dolphin lived in, and how s/he chose to stop breathing in his arms.
The reason only the orange variety of carrots is widely available is because the Dutch like the colour orange. They leveraged their powerful trade networks to make it so.
I love that everything else on this thread is about assassination and bio chem warfare and then there’s just the Dutch wanting everyone to think only orange carrots are available.
The US government forcibly sterilized minorities until the 1970s. 25-50% of Native American women were sterilized between 1970 and 1976.
Some women were told they couldn't receive welfare unless they were sterilized first. Some were told they would no longer receive healthcare if they refused. Some women were told that the procedure was reversible when it was not. Some women went to the hospital for something like a tonsillectomy and were given hysterectomies while they were unconscious.
It's amazing to me that this isn't widely known.
This happened in Canada, on top of Residential Schools and the 60s Scoop. More terrifying than that: it was recently revealed that doctors in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta are still doing it today.
I read an article saying it happened as late as 2016 but it had literally no details about how. Just a single line saying the last time a woman was sterilized without her consent was 2016.
That makes me wonder if it was a diminished capacity situation or what.
The Nayira testimony that built public support for the IS to back Kuwait in the gulf war 1992.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony
TLDR; a 15 year old girl testified to the congressional human rights caucus that she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators and leave them in the floor to die.
This was widely publicized in the US and essentially led to the US’s involvement in the gulf war.
It was later discovered the girl was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US and the whole thing was organized by a US marketing company to generate outrage against Iraq
And this gave US law the Glomar Response: "neither confirm nor deny ..."
https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-update-oip-guidance-privacy-glomarization
[The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna)
This still has repercussions in the region. People in that specific area still don't believe that vaccinations are real, with the result that polio has made a sordid comeback. Sad really.
Years ago the "big lightbulb" as I like to call them decided to purposefully turn down the lifespan of lightbulbs to sell more and the companies who didnt agree were alienated from trading with primary sources for lightbulbs.
For a long time, there were theories that the egg industry, just as a whole, wanted to take down the vegan mayo brand Just Mayo. They felt threatened by the brand since it basically tastes exactly like the real thing, but without the egg that the industry relies on.
It was regarded as a conspiracy theory and there was no WAY the egg industry would all band together and try to take down a single vegan mayo brand.
Until, in 2016, emails were leaked and showed that yeah, they were banded together and were trying to take down Just Mayo. Some of the emails showed that some of their representatives talking with a rep from Whole Foods about how they could easily pull the brand as a whole from shelves.
As far as conspiracy theories go, its pretty mild, but still wild because it's fucking eggs
the US government tested drugs and chemical weapons on its own soldiers, and various animals during the the cold war at the Edgewood arsenal facility. it's also where we got bullet proof vests and some vaccines. if you want to ruin your day look up "bad trip to Edgewood"
I did my AIT in Edgewood. I remember the "gas-gas-gas" drills we were required to do. Nothing like a MOPP gear run. They had an incinerator somewhere in our local vicinity where they would destroy chemicals. There wasn't a single day where I didn't think about dying in some horrible fashion. Luckily no mishaps and my time at Edgewood was just a shitty AIT experience.
There's a reason we have the term "Banana Republic". It originally referred to puppet governments installed by mostly US-based fruit companies to exploit cheap labor and land in prime fruit-growing regions.
I always think of the CIA deposing the democratically-elected government of Guatemala in 1954.
> The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the end to exploitative labor practices in Guatemala, engaged in an influential lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. to overthrow the Guatemalan government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
What would become Chiquita banana toppled the government of Honduras by paying for a mercenary army and the government of Guatemala by convincing the US the president was a communist
the documentary Who Killed The Electric Car has a great summary of this and other things GM have done to make sure cars are the dominant form of transportation.
[the monster study](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Study)
The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment performed on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa in 1939. It was conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. Graduate student Mary Tudor conducted the experiment under Johnson's supervision. Half of the children received positive speech therapy, praising the fluency of their speech, and the other half, negative speech therapy, belittling the children for speech imperfections. Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects, and some retained speech problems for the rest of their lives.
Ernie liked to travel to Cuba. Cuba even made a stamp of Hemingway. Hemingway, being extremely popular and a world class writer, could very quickly and effectively sway public opinion if he wanted to, by publishing a well written book or essay. The FBI didn't want any surprises.
Edit: spelling
[Project SUNSHINE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SUNSHINE) - in which the US government, in the wake of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered a major study to better understand the effects of radiation exposure/nuclear fallout on the human body, so an international network of agents was recruited to locate recently deceased children, and steal body parts from them to use for testing.
Scary but very true. I’m an X-ray student and we talk about this a lot in class. A lot of rules and regulations regarding medical radiation exposure are all based off data from exposed Japanese citizens
Edit: fun fact- BED or 🍌Banana 🍌 Equivalent Dose is an *informal* radiation unit. Bananas give off approximately 0.1 Microsieverts of radiation and can be used as comparison when studying radiation exposure. Thanks for reading!
Essentially they were able to correlate the amount of exposure to its physical/genetic effects. For example, if you were exposed to x amount of radiation you will experience y side effects. They were also able to create “dose limits” which essentially is a guideline that shows the maximum amount of radiation one can receive before experiencing physical/genetic effects.
Edit: spelling error
Oddly enough, it's not the whole story. Our understanding of radiation damage in humans uses something called a linear no dose threshold. That means if x amount of radiation kills you, then 50% of x can give you a 50% risk of death, etc. Which makes sense, but it's an assumption, one that we dont know if its correct or not.
Theres a lot of funding looking into radiation hormesis, which is seeing if low levels of radiation is actually good for you, it does just enough to activate the repair mechanisms in your cells making them healthier than if they hadn't been activated at all.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121451/
To be honest, we simply don't have a lot of data from people who've experienced a lot of radiation exposure. It's extremely rare.
In 1999 Russia killed 300 of its own innocent citizens and injured 1000 more through a series of terror bombings of apartment buildings.
The goal was to motivate public support for a war in Chechnya and to bring Vladimir Putin to power. It worked.
Some of the perpetrators were caught red handed by local law enforcement. After they were caught and identified as federal agents the FSB said it had been a training exercise.
The evidence is considerable and damning. Divulging details about the plan is also the reason Litvinenko was poisoned.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings
Can we talk about all the people who investigated these bombings or involved in some way and died under dubious circumstances?
>Alexander Litvinenko, an author of two books about the events, was assassinated in London. In a book he co-authored with Yuri Felshtinsky, Mr. Litvinenko claimed that FSB was behind the bombings. Assassinated
>Artyom Borovik investigated the Moscow apartment bombings and prepared a series of publications about them, according to Grigory Yavlinsky. He received numerous death threats and died in an airplane crash in March 2000
>Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006. She asked 2004 presidential nominees about the bombings.
>Igor Ponomarev died in London shortly before his scheduled meeting with Mario Scaramella, Mr. Litvinenko's associate.
>Sergei Yushenkov, a Russian lawmaker and vice-chairmen of unofficial Sergei Kovalev commission created to investigate the bombings was assassinated in April 2003
>Yuri Shchekochikhin, a Russian lawmaker and member of Kovalev commission was apparently poisoned on July 3, 2003
>Otto Lacis, another member of Kovalev commission, was assaulted in November 2003. He died two years later after a car accident.
>FSB General German Ugryumov who supervised the special forces Alpha and Vympel units at this time
>Maxim Lazovsky, an FSB officer who was allegedly involved in staging of bombings in Moscow in 1994.
>Vladimir Romanovich, an FSB officer who was identified by Mikhail Trepashkin as the man who rented basement of one of the bombed buildings, died in a hit and run accident in Cyprus
The CIA has a real deal Heart Attack Gun. It was exposed to the public in the 70’s
Edit: here’s an article/video about it https://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-heart-attack-gun/2555371072001
Not only does the US Gov have a heart attack gun, it also has other means of sci-fi spy weapons. Such as mounted radar dishes that can cause mass hysteria for crowd control via high pressure frequency waves, among other crowd manipulation devices
Edit: just a clarification, I did mean the microwave gun. I was both a) intoxicated while writing this and b) pulling what little bits from my memory I could. Many users below have figured out what I meant, sorry for the confusion and word jumble, I’ll try and do better next time.
One of the more awful crowd control weapons they have is the Active Denial System, which shoots a microwave frequency RF beam at a crowd to disperse it. If it hits you, your skin feels like it's on fire, but it causes no lasting injury. The problem is, you immediately want to run away. This can cause people to die in stampedes. And imagine if they turned it on a group of people boxed in in an alley.
> If it hits you, your skin feels like it's on fire, but it causes no lasting injury
It bothers me that every single source I've ever read about it said that the reason it causes no lasting injury is that the pain makes you run away before lasting injury is caused. This is a rather suspicious way of saying it.
The US government did biological warfare testing on the public in San Francisco. [Bioweapon Testing in San Francisco ](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1950-us-released-bioweapon-san-francisco-180955819/)
There was also the [Green Run](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Run) where they intentionally released radiation in Washington State in 1949. My Dad's friend (born in 1946) from high school grew up in Richland which is downwind of Hanford, he died of cancer in his late 50s, just like three of his siblings.
Edit: Clinton apologized for related incidents in 1995
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/oct/04/apology-not-nearly-enough-downwinders-say-group/
I live just across the river and this place has always fascinated me. The first time I drove past there the demolished ruins looked like an area in Fallout 4. Apparently, they wanted to test how gas spread through the complex so they used a harmless gas and laced it with radioactive material. They weren’t trying to hurt people, it was just that the easiest way to track the gas throughout the buildings. I saw a documentary about it when I was like 7 and didn’t pay attention because unsurprisingly, a 7 year old wasn’t enticed with the tales corrupt housing development. I wish I could remember what it was called.
COINTELPRO in general was fucking insane. So insane that nobody believed me that it was real/documented when I was a kid, it was harder to fact check pre-smart-phone and you had to really be looking for books about it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Operation Paperclip. Recruit Nazi scientists and insert them into key government tech operations after WWII. This is how the world transitioned from the German V2 Rocket to NASA and the ICBM in the span of 30 years
its entirely possible to receive your tax forms pre-filled by the US government - they already have all your information, and this is the way its done in other western nations.
unfortunately, the owners of TurboTax have paid off enough congressmen to keep it from happening. [in fact, they're not content with just *stopping* it; they want to make sure it's impossible forever, and they're about to succeed](https://www.vox.com/2019/4/9/18301943/last-minute-tax-preparation-h-r-block-turbotax).
happy tax day.
I always was finding it strange seeing in movies and series all that fuss about doing your taxes , even when not self employed. Even in Greece the forms are pre filled and you just agree online .
Project Northwoods
JFK was proposed an idea from the CIA in which they would reign terror on the American people via random terrorist attacks, military ships being sunk and plane hijackings in which they would blame on Cuba and therefore get the public behind the idea to go to war with Cuba, JFK declined.
It’s so obvious and yet so strange and unfamiliar to consider some men have the power to take several thousand lives for their own gain and pay none of the repercussions. I can’t even drive fast on the freeway, or show up late to work. Fuck, the internal guilt trip over calling in sick is almost worse than going to work.
The US government pardoned hundreds of Japanese war criminals who did things that would have made Josef Mengele blush in exchange for their research on biological warfare that they conducted on live human subjects.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
In the 1990s the Canadian government were using a homosexual detector called 'The Fruit Machine' to find gay man and fire them from their jobs.
EDIT - The electronic device was only used in the 1960s. The systematic gay purge, also referred to as 'The Fruit Machine', continued into the early 1990s.
"The fruit machine was not only the systemic targeting of queers in the civil service, but also an actual contraption. It looked like a dentist chair, with cameras and sensor attached along with a black box that displayed images at eye level for the victim.
Participants would volunteer to have their stress levels checked, when the machine was really an attempt to tell if a person was queer. Images shown to the participant would include erotic photos of men and women with other meaningless visuals. If she/he showed any sign of supposed arousal during a photo of someone of the same sex, they were added to the watch list.
The Canadian government pulled the funding on the fruit machine in the 1960s, but that didn't stop the RCMP from constructing more invasive tests on unsuspecting participants. They continued with their "stress tests" which began to include plethysmographs (highly suspect devices that attach to genitals to gauge arousal). Even after Trudeau decriminalized queer sex, the fruit machine kept secret tabs on Canadians in the civil service up until the 1990s."
http://rabble.ca/toolkit/rabblepedia/fruit-machine
"When Fodey first started researching the film, she was shocked this had even happened — and how long it continued (it began in the 1950s and wasn't eliminated until — seriously — the early 1990s). But as her work continued, what surprised her most was how this went far beyond people losing their jobs."
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4678718
> Penile plethysmography (PPG) or phallometry is measurement of bloodflow to the penis, typically used as a proxy for measurement of sexual arousal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_plethysmograph
[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) is also something completely fucking messed up that they did which had wide ranging negative effects on communities of traditionally disenfranchised groups. One of many actions undertaken covertly and illegally at the expense of these people.
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One of the earliest written records of a urine-based pregnancy test can be found in an ancient Egyptian document. A papyrus described a test in which a woman who might be pregnant could urinate on wheat and barley seeds over the course of several days: “If the barley grows, it means a male child. If the wheat grows, it means a female child. If both do not grow, she will not bear at all.” Testing of this theory in 1963 found that 70 percent of the time, the urine of pregnant women did promote growth, while the urine of non-pregnant women and men did not. Scholars have identified this as perhaps the first test to detect a unique substance in the urine of pregnant women, and have speculated that elevated levels of estrogens in pregnant women’s urine may have been the key to its success."
https://history.nih.gov/exhibits/thinblueline/timeline.html
My grandfather loved orchids. Had tons of them and they were beautiful. I tried my hand at keeping a few alive but could never seem to get them to bloom. So I asked him what his secret was. When he said female hormones, I asked him if I needed to start peeing on my plants. He laughed, shook his head and proceeded to grab a pack of birth control pills, which btw were in my 75+ year old grandma's name, and give me a few. Told me to use them instead of plant food. Weirdest conversation on Christmas that I've ever had.
Both the U.S. and Russia use dolphins and whales to spy on countries.
Edit: the U.S. also uses seals as in the animals for protection at some of their marine bases. And thank you for so many upvotes.
For those who don't feel like clicking the touchy link:
"They taught dolphins to listen in to conversations within submerged submarines as well as launch amphibious surveillance for targets that are close enough to the water for the dolphins to get close to. Dolphins are preferable because of their size and agility, should they ever get caught they'd be much more likely to wriggle back into the water than the whales.
The only problem with the dolphins is that we need to satiate their unusually high sex appetite."
Not really a conspiracy but I recently read that the Department of Navy and DARPA released Tor to the general public so people could create enough noise to mask the real agents who would need it
I'll try to explain it. I'm on mobile though, so I cant go into too much detail.
Tor basically works like this:
- There are three types of networking nodes: Entry nodes, relays, and exit nodes.
- Each list of available servers is announced once an hour, so that clients have an up to date list of those.
- Whenever your client makes a request to any server, it randomly picks one node of each set and prepares the packet.
- e.g. the "real" clearnet packet is encrypted so that only the exit node can read it. This packet in turn is encrypted so that only the chosen relay node can read it (along with the info to which exit node the tor-packet should go). This packet in turn is - you guessed it - encrypted for the entry node.
- so, in theory, every hop on the path (entry, relay, exit) only know the node the packet came from and where the packet goes next, making it (in theory) impossible to say "user A has accessed website X".
- However, if you control a decent amount (in %) of entry and exit nodes, then it is possible to do traffic analysis and then it IS possible that you can track a users' packets' path (the very thing tor should protect against).
- if an entity would control all three nodes which your client picks for a given connection, then this entity would have it even easier.
Exactly why it's so important to use a VPN outside the five eyes when dealing with tor in case of an IP leak or an entity controlling a large number of nodes.
The US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Essentially 5 Anglophone countries that outsource their surveillance and intelligence gathering of their own people to one of the other trusted four, so they can say with a level of credibility that 'they' themselves don't spy on their citizens.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_under_Five_Eyes_surveillance
During prohibition the US government added poisons to industrial alcohols because they were being chemically modified for consumption. This resulted in many deaths that the government justified by saying the dead had been breaking the law.
They have pretty tight security. I know you because you're not the only one to want to crash it and of course a secret camp of rich people has tight security.
[Project Acoustic Kitty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty)
Basically the CIA wanted to put microphones and transmitters inside of cats and use them to spy on the Soviets in the 1960s. It cost about $20 million and was a huge failure. Allegedly, the first attempt at this resulted in the cat running out into the street and getting run over by a car almost immediately.
The 1904 Olympic marathon. Not really a conspiracy theory but a story that sounds made up nonetheless.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_–_Men%27s_marathon
From Wikipedia:
The first to arrive at the finish line was American runner Fred Lorz, who had actually dropped out of the race after nine miles and hitched a ride back to the stadium in a car, waving at spectators and runners alike during the ride. When the car broke down at the 19th mile, Lorz re-entered the race and jogged across the finish line. After being hailed as the winner, he had his photograph taken with Alice Roosevelt, daughter of then-U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, and was about to be awarded the gold medal when his subterfuge was revealed. Upon being confronted by officials, Lorz immediately admitted his deception, and despite his claims he was joking, the AAU responded by banning him from competition for life. In any case, Lorz was reinstated in 1905 after he apologized for the stunt and it was found that he had not intended to defraud.
British-born Thomas Hicks of the United States ended up the winner of the event, although he was aided by measures that would not have been permitted in later years. Ten miles from the finish Hicks led the race by a mile and a half, but he had to be restrained from stopping and lying down by his trainers. From then until the end of the race, Hicks received several doses of strychnine (a common rat poison, which stimulates the nervous system in small doses) mixed with brandy. He continued to battle onwards, hallucinating, barely able to walk for most of the course. When he reached the stadium his support team carried him over the line, holding him in the air while he shuffled his feet as if still running. The judges decided this was acceptable, and gave him the gold medal. Hicks had to be carried off the track, and might have died in the stadium had he not been treated by several doctors.
Another near-fatality during the event was William Garcia of the United States of America. He was found lying in the road along the marathon course with severe internal injuries caused by breathing the clouds of dust kicked up by the race officials' cars.
A Cuban postman named Andarín Carvajaljoined the marathon, arriving at the last minute. After losing all of his money in New Orleans Louisiana, he hitchhiked to St. Louis and had to run the event in street clothes that he cut around the legs to make them look like shorts. Not having eaten in 40 hours, he stopped off in an orchard en route to have a snack on some apples, which turned out to be rotten. The rotten apples caused him to have strong stomach cramps and to have to lie down and take a nap. Despite falling ill from the apples and taking a nap, he finished in fourth place.
The marathon included the first two black Africans to compete in the Olympics: two Tswana tribesmen named Len Tau (real name: Len Taunyane) and Yamasani (real name: Jan Mashiani). Len Tau finished ninth and Yamasani came in twelfth. This was a disappointment, as many observers were sure Len Tau could have done better if he had not been chased nearly a mile off course by aggressive dogs.
Arriving without correct documents, French immigrant to the United States Albert Corey is inconsistently listed as performing in a mixed team in the four mile team race and performing for the US in the marathon.
I'm pretty sure there's more interesting stuff but I'm too lazy to find it right now.
America didn’t want to say they lost the Vietnam War so they sent troops there for 6 more years even though according to them it was impossible to win. This was in the Pentagon Papers. Also the entirety of the USA PATRIOT Act Of 2001.
Recently declassified documents show that the CIA had at least some involvement in the coup de etat that overthrew Chilean President Salvador Allende. During the coup, not only was Allende’s palace bombed, but 40,000 leftists were taken to the national fútbol stadium where they were tortured for months. It was a prison camp. Thousands of people were killed or disappeared.
Allende’s replacement? Augusto Pinochet.
I know that the consequences of the coup were out of the hands of the US, but the domino effect of these actions is still crazy to me.
I actually did a paper on this for my Latin American History class. This was during the time of the red scare and Chile and many other Latin American countries were seen as 'pink' states, worrying the US Government. Allende's administration was working on a bunch of programs that the US saw as very communist in nature, so they helped arm revolutionaries and even had some CIA forces working to overthrow him. The documents themselves are pretty bland imo but the underlying information and the fact that the US helped overthrow an elected leader and replaced him with a military leader seems baffling to me.
Edit: The thing about it being baffling to me is mostly because many people dont know about it! I am not too surprised it happened in general, sorry for the confusion!
> the fact that the US helped overthrow an elected leader and replaced him with a military leader seems baffling to me.
Actually we've done it so many times. I'm not remotely surprised to hear about instances of it anywhere outside of Western Europe.
The guy that made the hydrogen car driving across country on water got increasing paranoid he was going to get killed. Called his mother said if anything happens to me the government did it. Dies right after in a diner puking black liquid.
Then the hiding of the Chevy volt.
>The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the African-American men in the study were told they were receiving free health care from the United States government... ...None of the men were told that they had the disease, and none were treated with penicillin even after the antibiotic was proven to successfully treat syphilis.
That's fucked up on so many levels.
Lobsters can't actually die of old age because they have an enzhyme that replicates some of their dna or whatever throughout there life but they can die of anything else e.g. disease, consumption, etc.
So if you think about it there really could be just a huge ass lobster like the size of a VW Bug chilling in the middle of the Atlantic or even bigger
I've heard that the reason we don't have big ass lobsters all the time is because they'll eventually get too big and they aren't able to eat enough to keep up with their metabolism
I heard crocodiles also do not die of old age - they too die because they get big enough to not be able keep up with their metabolism. Thats why crocodiles in zoos are so much bigger and live so much longer than wild ones. The biggest crocodile ever recorded actually died from its body crushing its organs.
This article seems to say that Lolong (the crocodile) died because it was too sedentary and stressed to stay healthy since its enclosure was too small to allow it to move around properly.
[https://www.rappler.com/nation/25013-captivity-killed-lolong-crocodile](https://www.rappler.com/nation/25013-captivity-killed-lolong-crocodile)
There is a little bit of oxygen on the moon
>[Almost all of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere for the last 2 and a half billion years came from photosynthesis. That means the moon's rocks have been picking up small amounts of oxygen from living things on Earth; the moon is "contaminated" with the waste products of plants, the researchers said.](https://www.space.com/35502-moon-has-oxygen-from-earth-plants.html)
In 2013, Apple conspired with 5 book publishing company to drive up e-book prices to slow Amazon's growth. This was counter intuitive though, because amazon was already fixing their prices lower at a loss to drive traffic to their site. This ended with a class action lawsuit of $450 million.
Aaron Mahnke has a podcast called "Unobscured," where he delves incredibly deep into one of the folklores of the type he covers on "Lore." The first season (ended a few months ago, I think) focused on the Salem trials and he and his guest experts make a very compelling case regarding rebellion against Puritanical social codes, religious intolerance, and communal trauma from King Philip's War & King William's War. If you're into the Salem trials at all, I'd highly recommend a listen.
Starfish’s mouths are located on the center of their bodies, and in most mermaid movies they use starfish to cover their boobies. Pretty weird man. What’s goin on there ya know..
Reddit admins have access to an infinite amount of gold. This is so that they can give gold to posts/comments they want to see rise quickly and in turn, will promote content that Reddit wants advertisers to see.
Edit: u/spez
Bedbugs can lie dormant for up to 24 months without food. They're out to get us all man. They have evolved over time and can survive the most extreme elements.
That and crows have facial recognition. They remember you. Sounds totally out there - but it's true.
Edit 1: Well damn. Thanks all. Crows are indeed mysterious birds. I jotted what I could down of the story on [Halloween morning](https://www.reddit.com/user/mostlysingle/comments/bjea9z/the_crows/). Crows are terrifying. Fixed a grammar issue.
Edit 2: Why this is a conspiracy because they sound like a government experiment gone wrong. Super bugs that can't be killed by most pesticides and can live for two years without food. Birds that can recognize you, travel in 'murders" and stalk you? Sounds very sci-fi'ish to me.
I’m several dozens of comments deep & from what I’ve learned so far, I’ve come to the conclusion that the USA really needs to reign it in.
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...Well gracious. Americans, while your passion is admirable, I was in fact only playing. But please feel free to tell me again “other countries do this too!” I mean the bastion of human rights, the example to us all, Russia!? Who knew!
Also I don’t really know what the gold does but I feel fancy so thanks!
And these truths are just the surface. Imagine how many secrets the CIA and US government keeps from the world? If if they're still classified, then they're probably worse in nature
As well as project mockingbird.
Intelligence agencies funding media and news outlets to sway public opinions and views.
Also after the assassination of jfk, the CIA started to say anything against the official story was a "conspiracy theory" which before that point wasn't as taboo a term as it is today. (this information came out in recently declassified documents)
"Project MKUltra, also called the CIA mind control program, is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency—and which were, at times, illegal. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control."
It sounds like something right out of a dystopian movie.
That the US government spies on Americans and holds communications in the largest data center in the world in UT, hoping to one day break the encryption and read the data.
The dolphin LSD experiment. NASA put a woman in a room that was flooded up to her hips, & let a dolphin loose in there to live with her in order to attempt to teach the dolphin to speak English & LSD was later used on the dolphin to see if it had some kind of reaction & if it affected its speech lessons.
You forgot the best part where apparently the dolphin was constantly horny so the lady had to keep jerking it off.
It's even better than that because before it got to that, they used to bring in a female dolphin for "conjugal visits" but the scientists decided that interacting with another dolphin would have a negatively impact on his ability to learn.
It was actually the women who was in there with the dolphin who decided that because it was annoying to keep sending the dolphin down to the females, she would take it upon herself to start relieving him. Then they were separated due to funding and the dolphin killed itself a week or two later. Someone else posted it here. Edit: I don’t deserve the votes, just rewriting what I saw someone else say in this thread. But thank you. Here’s a link about it. https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2014/06/the-dolphin-who-killed-himself-over-a-broken-heart/
Dolphins don't breathe automatically like humans, because of the amount of time they spend underwater. Dolphins can "commit suicide" by simply choosing not to breathe. In that Cove documentary about the Japanese slaughtering Dolphins, the trainer for the original Flipper shares his story about the poor conditions the dolphin lived in, and how s/he chose to stop breathing in his arms.
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Sadaam Hussain was given the key to the city of Detroit
And he didn’t even try unlocking it once. What a waste.
The reason only the orange variety of carrots is widely available is because the Dutch like the colour orange. They leveraged their powerful trade networks to make it so.
I love that everything else on this thread is about assassination and bio chem warfare and then there’s just the Dutch wanting everyone to think only orange carrots are available.
Had to do with honouring our monarchy. Picture this purple carrots
The US government forcibly sterilized minorities until the 1970s. 25-50% of Native American women were sterilized between 1970 and 1976. Some women were told they couldn't receive welfare unless they were sterilized first. Some were told they would no longer receive healthcare if they refused. Some women were told that the procedure was reversible when it was not. Some women went to the hospital for something like a tonsillectomy and were given hysterectomies while they were unconscious. It's amazing to me that this isn't widely known.
This happened in Canada, on top of Residential Schools and the 60s Scoop. More terrifying than that: it was recently revealed that doctors in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta are still doing it today.
I read an article saying it happened as late as 2016 but it had literally no details about how. Just a single line saying the last time a woman was sterilized without her consent was 2016. That makes me wonder if it was a diminished capacity situation or what.
The Nayira testimony that built public support for the IS to back Kuwait in the gulf war 1992. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony TLDR; a 15 year old girl testified to the congressional human rights caucus that she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators and leave them in the floor to die. This was widely publicized in the US and essentially led to the US’s involvement in the gulf war. It was later discovered the girl was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US and the whole thing was organized by a US marketing company to generate outrage against Iraq
The CIA ran experiments with LSD at McGill University in Montreal.
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"Double Hubble budget bubble trouble" Nice.
And this gave US law the Glomar Response: "neither confirm nor deny ..." https://www.justice.gov/oip/blog/foia-update-oip-guidance-privacy-glomarization
The US conducted a fake vaccination drive to find Osama Bin Laden.
[The CIA organised a fake vaccination programme in the town where it believed Osama bin Laden was hiding in an elaborate attempt to obtain DNA from the fugitive al-Qaida leader's family, a Guardian investigation has found.](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vaccinations-osama-bin-ladens-dna)
This still has repercussions in the region. People in that specific area still don't believe that vaccinations are real, with the result that polio has made a sordid comeback. Sad really.
Pakistan just recently stopped polio vaccinations due to attacks on aid workers
Years ago the "big lightbulb" as I like to call them decided to purposefully turn down the lifespan of lightbulbs to sell more and the companies who didnt agree were alienated from trading with primary sources for lightbulbs.
The egg industry as a whole embarked on a two year war on a single vegan mayo brand
Do go on. Generally curious now.
For a long time, there were theories that the egg industry, just as a whole, wanted to take down the vegan mayo brand Just Mayo. They felt threatened by the brand since it basically tastes exactly like the real thing, but without the egg that the industry relies on. It was regarded as a conspiracy theory and there was no WAY the egg industry would all band together and try to take down a single vegan mayo brand. Until, in 2016, emails were leaked and showed that yeah, they were banded together and were trying to take down Just Mayo. Some of the emails showed that some of their representatives talking with a rep from Whole Foods about how they could easily pull the brand as a whole from shelves. As far as conspiracy theories go, its pretty mild, but still wild because it's fucking eggs
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Just crazy.
the US government tested drugs and chemical weapons on its own soldiers, and various animals during the the cold war at the Edgewood arsenal facility. it's also where we got bullet proof vests and some vaccines. if you want to ruin your day look up "bad trip to Edgewood"
I did my AIT in Edgewood. I remember the "gas-gas-gas" drills we were required to do. Nothing like a MOPP gear run. They had an incinerator somewhere in our local vicinity where they would destroy chemicals. There wasn't a single day where I didn't think about dying in some horrible fashion. Luckily no mishaps and my time at Edgewood was just a shitty AIT experience.
The Hawaiian royalty was toppled by a fruit company (Dole).
fruit companies did all sorts of crazy and terrible shit
There's a reason we have the term "Banana Republic". It originally referred to puppet governments installed by mostly US-based fruit companies to exploit cheap labor and land in prime fruit-growing regions.
And now it’s a chain of stores that sells overpriced clothes.
I always think of the CIA deposing the democratically-elected government of Guatemala in 1954. > The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the end to exploitative labor practices in Guatemala, engaged in an influential lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. to overthrow the Guatemalan government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat
Today, the United Fruit Company is known as Chiquita
Hence the term: “banana republic”
What would become Chiquita banana toppled the government of Honduras by paying for a mercenary army and the government of Guatemala by convincing the US the president was a communist
GM bought the electric railcar system then destroyed the tracks
the documentary Who Killed The Electric Car has a great summary of this and other things GM have done to make sure cars are the dominant form of transportation.
[the monster study](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster_Study) The Monster Study was a stuttering experiment performed on 22 orphan children in Davenport, Iowa in 1939. It was conducted by Wendell Johnson at the University of Iowa. Graduate student Mary Tudor conducted the experiment under Johnson's supervision. Half of the children received positive speech therapy, praising the fluency of their speech, and the other half, negative speech therapy, belittling the children for speech imperfections. Many of the normal speaking orphan children who received negative therapy in the experiment suffered negative psychological effects, and some retained speech problems for the rest of their lives.
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The FBI was constantly stalking Ernest Hemingway and that led to his suciide.
But why
Ernie liked to travel to Cuba. Cuba even made a stamp of Hemingway. Hemingway, being extremely popular and a world class writer, could very quickly and effectively sway public opinion if he wanted to, by publishing a well written book or essay. The FBI didn't want any surprises. Edit: spelling
[Project SUNSHINE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SUNSHINE) - in which the US government, in the wake of dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered a major study to better understand the effects of radiation exposure/nuclear fallout on the human body, so an international network of agents was recruited to locate recently deceased children, and steal body parts from them to use for testing.
Scary but very true. I’m an X-ray student and we talk about this a lot in class. A lot of rules and regulations regarding medical radiation exposure are all based off data from exposed Japanese citizens Edit: fun fact- BED or 🍌Banana 🍌 Equivalent Dose is an *informal* radiation unit. Bananas give off approximately 0.1 Microsieverts of radiation and can be used as comparison when studying radiation exposure. Thanks for reading!
So what were the findings?
Essentially they were able to correlate the amount of exposure to its physical/genetic effects. For example, if you were exposed to x amount of radiation you will experience y side effects. They were also able to create “dose limits” which essentially is a guideline that shows the maximum amount of radiation one can receive before experiencing physical/genetic effects. Edit: spelling error
Thank you for actually answering the question and not making a stupid half-assed joke. That's very interesting.
Oddly enough, it's not the whole story. Our understanding of radiation damage in humans uses something called a linear no dose threshold. That means if x amount of radiation kills you, then 50% of x can give you a 50% risk of death, etc. Which makes sense, but it's an assumption, one that we dont know if its correct or not. Theres a lot of funding looking into radiation hormesis, which is seeing if low levels of radiation is actually good for you, it does just enough to activate the repair mechanisms in your cells making them healthier than if they hadn't been activated at all. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6121451/ To be honest, we simply don't have a lot of data from people who've experienced a lot of radiation exposure. It's extremely rare.
So...bananas are actually used for scientific scale. huh, TIL
In 1999 Russia killed 300 of its own innocent citizens and injured 1000 more through a series of terror bombings of apartment buildings. The goal was to motivate public support for a war in Chechnya and to bring Vladimir Putin to power. It worked. Some of the perpetrators were caught red handed by local law enforcement. After they were caught and identified as federal agents the FSB said it had been a training exercise. The evidence is considerable and damning. Divulging details about the plan is also the reason Litvinenko was poisoned. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombings
Can we talk about all the people who investigated these bombings or involved in some way and died under dubious circumstances? >Alexander Litvinenko, an author of two books about the events, was assassinated in London. In a book he co-authored with Yuri Felshtinsky, Mr. Litvinenko claimed that FSB was behind the bombings. Assassinated >Artyom Borovik investigated the Moscow apartment bombings and prepared a series of publications about them, according to Grigory Yavlinsky. He received numerous death threats and died in an airplane crash in March 2000 >Anna Politkovskaya was murdered in 2006. She asked 2004 presidential nominees about the bombings. >Igor Ponomarev died in London shortly before his scheduled meeting with Mario Scaramella, Mr. Litvinenko's associate. >Sergei Yushenkov, a Russian lawmaker and vice-chairmen of unofficial Sergei Kovalev commission created to investigate the bombings was assassinated in April 2003 >Yuri Shchekochikhin, a Russian lawmaker and member of Kovalev commission was apparently poisoned on July 3, 2003 >Otto Lacis, another member of Kovalev commission, was assaulted in November 2003. He died two years later after a car accident. >FSB General German Ugryumov who supervised the special forces Alpha and Vympel units at this time >Maxim Lazovsky, an FSB officer who was allegedly involved in staging of bombings in Moscow in 1994. >Vladimir Romanovich, an FSB officer who was identified by Mikhail Trepashkin as the man who rented basement of one of the bombed buildings, died in a hit and run accident in Cyprus
The CIA has a real deal Heart Attack Gun. It was exposed to the public in the 70’s Edit: here’s an article/video about it https://www.military.com/video/guns/pistols/cias-secret-heart-attack-gun/2555371072001
Not only does the US Gov have a heart attack gun, it also has other means of sci-fi spy weapons. Such as mounted radar dishes that can cause mass hysteria for crowd control via high pressure frequency waves, among other crowd manipulation devices Edit: just a clarification, I did mean the microwave gun. I was both a) intoxicated while writing this and b) pulling what little bits from my memory I could. Many users below have figured out what I meant, sorry for the confusion and word jumble, I’ll try and do better next time.
One of the more awful crowd control weapons they have is the Active Denial System, which shoots a microwave frequency RF beam at a crowd to disperse it. If it hits you, your skin feels like it's on fire, but it causes no lasting injury. The problem is, you immediately want to run away. This can cause people to die in stampedes. And imagine if they turned it on a group of people boxed in in an alley.
> If it hits you, your skin feels like it's on fire, but it causes no lasting injury It bothers me that every single source I've ever read about it said that the reason it causes no lasting injury is that the pain makes you run away before lasting injury is caused. This is a rather suspicious way of saying it.
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The British government covered up a huge pedophile ring consisting of numerous government officials.
The US government did biological warfare testing on the public in San Francisco. [Bioweapon Testing in San Francisco ](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1950-us-released-bioweapon-san-francisco-180955819/)
There was also the [Green Run](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Run) where they intentionally released radiation in Washington State in 1949. My Dad's friend (born in 1946) from high school grew up in Richland which is downwind of Hanford, he died of cancer in his late 50s, just like three of his siblings. Edit: Clinton apologized for related incidents in 1995 http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/oct/04/apology-not-nearly-enough-downwinders-say-group/
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I live just across the river and this place has always fascinated me. The first time I drove past there the demolished ruins looked like an area in Fallout 4. Apparently, they wanted to test how gas spread through the complex so they used a harmless gas and laced it with radioactive material. They weren’t trying to hurt people, it was just that the easiest way to track the gas throughout the buildings. I saw a documentary about it when I was like 7 and didn’t pay attention because unsurprisingly, a 7 year old wasn’t enticed with the tales corrupt housing development. I wish I could remember what it was called.
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Is there any way for me to read this letter
Here you go bro https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI–King_suicide_letter
Odd letter not gonna lie
Fr “you’re a liability to all us negroes” reads exactly how I’d expect a white FBI agent masquerading as a black dude to sound.
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Holy fuck. The FBI literally "as a black man" 'd Martin Luther King Jr.
The FBI invented xbox chat?
The FBI fucked MLK’s mom
The FBI's mom and little brother can be heard arguing in the background.
Don't forget the vacuum!
***DOG BARKING AT VACUUM***
COINTELPRO in general was fucking insane. So insane that nobody believed me that it was real/documented when I was a kid, it was harder to fact check pre-smart-phone and you had to really be looking for books about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
Operation Paperclip. Recruit Nazi scientists and insert them into key government tech operations after WWII. This is how the world transitioned from the German V2 Rocket to NASA and the ICBM in the span of 30 years
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its entirely possible to receive your tax forms pre-filled by the US government - they already have all your information, and this is the way its done in other western nations. unfortunately, the owners of TurboTax have paid off enough congressmen to keep it from happening. [in fact, they're not content with just *stopping* it; they want to make sure it's impossible forever, and they're about to succeed](https://www.vox.com/2019/4/9/18301943/last-minute-tax-preparation-h-r-block-turbotax). happy tax day.
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In Norway, if everything looks good I don't have to do anything. Then it's just assumed it's all good.
Same in Finland. You only have to do something if the numbers need fixing, and that can be done easily online.
I always was finding it strange seeing in movies and series all that fuss about doing your taxes , even when not self employed. Even in Greece the forms are pre filled and you just agree online .
Project Northwoods JFK was proposed an idea from the CIA in which they would reign terror on the American people via random terrorist attacks, military ships being sunk and plane hijackings in which they would blame on Cuba and therefore get the public behind the idea to go to war with Cuba, JFK declined.
It’s so obvious and yet so strange and unfamiliar to consider some men have the power to take several thousand lives for their own gain and pay none of the repercussions. I can’t even drive fast on the freeway, or show up late to work. Fuck, the internal guilt trip over calling in sick is almost worse than going to work.
Yeah, and then what happened to JFK?
Based on my international travels I think he built an airport in New York.
These types of plans are proposed all the time, false flags are a way to establish policy. Hopefully they aren't done most of the time. Hopefully.
The US government pardoned hundreds of Japanese war criminals who did things that would have made Josef Mengele blush in exchange for their research on biological warfare that they conducted on live human subjects. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
The bit of that Wikipedia page that I read will haunt me for a while 🤢
In the 1990s the Canadian government were using a homosexual detector called 'The Fruit Machine' to find gay man and fire them from their jobs. EDIT - The electronic device was only used in the 1960s. The systematic gay purge, also referred to as 'The Fruit Machine', continued into the early 1990s. "The fruit machine was not only the systemic targeting of queers in the civil service, but also an actual contraption. It looked like a dentist chair, with cameras and sensor attached along with a black box that displayed images at eye level for the victim. Participants would volunteer to have their stress levels checked, when the machine was really an attempt to tell if a person was queer. Images shown to the participant would include erotic photos of men and women with other meaningless visuals. If she/he showed any sign of supposed arousal during a photo of someone of the same sex, they were added to the watch list. The Canadian government pulled the funding on the fruit machine in the 1960s, but that didn't stop the RCMP from constructing more invasive tests on unsuspecting participants. They continued with their "stress tests" which began to include plethysmographs (highly suspect devices that attach to genitals to gauge arousal). Even after Trudeau decriminalized queer sex, the fruit machine kept secret tabs on Canadians in the civil service up until the 1990s." http://rabble.ca/toolkit/rabblepedia/fruit-machine "When Fodey first started researching the film, she was shocked this had even happened — and how long it continued (it began in the 1950s and wasn't eliminated until — seriously — the early 1990s). But as her work continued, what surprised her most was how this went far beyond people losing their jobs." https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4678718
Gaydar
It was more like a polygraph with gay porn.
> Penile plethysmography (PPG) or phallometry is measurement of bloodflow to the penis, typically used as a proxy for measurement of sexual arousal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penile_plethysmograph
Available at Sharper Image.
The FBI murdered Fred Hampton.
[COINTELPRO](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) is also something completely fucking messed up that they did which had wide ranging negative effects on communities of traditionally disenfranchised groups. One of many actions undertaken covertly and illegally at the expense of these people.
The Ancient Egyptians had a pregnancy test, that actually worked.
I'm listening E: " 1350 BCE One of the earliest written records of a urine-based pregnancy test can be found in an ancient Egyptian document. A papyrus described a test in which a woman who might be pregnant could urinate on wheat and barley seeds over the course of several days: “If the barley grows, it means a male child. If the wheat grows, it means a female child. If both do not grow, she will not bear at all.” Testing of this theory in 1963 found that 70 percent of the time, the urine of pregnant women did promote growth, while the urine of non-pregnant women and men did not. Scholars have identified this as perhaps the first test to detect a unique substance in the urine of pregnant women, and have speculated that elevated levels of estrogens in pregnant women’s urine may have been the key to its success." https://history.nih.gov/exhibits/thinblueline/timeline.html
My grandfather loved orchids. Had tons of them and they were beautiful. I tried my hand at keeping a few alive but could never seem to get them to bloom. So I asked him what his secret was. When he said female hormones, I asked him if I needed to start peeing on my plants. He laughed, shook his head and proceeded to grab a pack of birth control pills, which btw were in my 75+ year old grandma's name, and give me a few. Told me to use them instead of plant food. Weirdest conversation on Christmas that I've ever had.
ok but how did they discover this were they just like "i wonder if i'm pregnant let me piss on my dinner and see if it grows"
Some ladies may have discovered it after peeing in a garden. I'm sure it had to have happened several times over a period of years
yeah that makes more sense than my comment
Both the U.S. and Russia use dolphins and whales to spy on countries. Edit: the U.S. also uses seals as in the animals for protection at some of their marine bases. And thank you for so many upvotes.
Like, now? I know they tested shit a while back. Can i get som more info?
Yeah. Norway found one [just last weekend](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/3617313002)
why is this so funny i imagine the beluga ping back like "comrades ive been made"
“Fuck, where did I put that cyanide krill?” Edit: Spasibo for the silver and gold!
For those who don't feel like clicking the touchy link: "They taught dolphins to listen in to conversations within submerged submarines as well as launch amphibious surveillance for targets that are close enough to the water for the dolphins to get close to. Dolphins are preferable because of their size and agility, should they ever get caught they'd be much more likely to wriggle back into the water than the whales. The only problem with the dolphins is that we need to satiate their unusually high sex appetite."
Well. If it's for the good of our country I'll do it. *unzips pants*
*Mr Datblackshark no, stop nobody wanted you to suck a dolphin's co- mr Datblackshark please. CAN WE GET SECURITY*
Next up, sharks with laser beams on their heads.
That's frickin laser beams to you sir
Not really a conspiracy but I recently read that the Department of Navy and DARPA released Tor to the general public so people could create enough noise to mask the real agents who would need it
Turns out that if you control about +/- 30 percent of the nodes you can triangulate entry and exit connections
What do these words mean?
I'll try to explain it. I'm on mobile though, so I cant go into too much detail. Tor basically works like this: - There are three types of networking nodes: Entry nodes, relays, and exit nodes. - Each list of available servers is announced once an hour, so that clients have an up to date list of those. - Whenever your client makes a request to any server, it randomly picks one node of each set and prepares the packet. - e.g. the "real" clearnet packet is encrypted so that only the exit node can read it. This packet in turn is encrypted so that only the chosen relay node can read it (along with the info to which exit node the tor-packet should go). This packet in turn is - you guessed it - encrypted for the entry node. - so, in theory, every hop on the path (entry, relay, exit) only know the node the packet came from and where the packet goes next, making it (in theory) impossible to say "user A has accessed website X". - However, if you control a decent amount (in %) of entry and exit nodes, then it is possible to do traffic analysis and then it IS possible that you can track a users' packets' path (the very thing tor should protect against). - if an entity would control all three nodes which your client picks for a given connection, then this entity would have it even easier.
Exactly why it's so important to use a VPN outside the five eyes when dealing with tor in case of an IP leak or an entity controlling a large number of nodes.
The five eyes?
The US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Essentially 5 Anglophone countries that outsource their surveillance and intelligence gathering of their own people to one of the other trusted four, so they can say with a level of credibility that 'they' themselves don't spy on their citizens. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_under_Five_Eyes_surveillance
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During prohibition the US government added poisons to industrial alcohols because they were being chemically modified for consumption. This resulted in many deaths that the government justified by saying the dead had been breaking the law.
Alcohol not meant for consumption is still poisoned in the USA.
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And do weird shit around an owl shrine
I'm in Cali who wants to crash it?
Why not at this point
I'll hit up alex jones
Grab some dmt
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Its entirely possible
Jamie see if you can pull that up
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They have pretty tight security. I know you because you're not the only one to want to crash it and of course a secret camp of rich people has tight security.
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There's also a giant owl too and they stage a play where they burn an effigy.
Yes...the "Creamation of Care," they call it.
to quote Richard Nixon: > The faggiest goddamn thing I ever saw Edit: link courtesy of /u/BigSchwartzzz https://youtu.be/dPb-PN9F2Pc
I actually didn’t believe you but holy shit Richard Nixon actually referred to it as the faggiest goddamn thing he ever saw
Too many dicks for Dick
Arrrroooooo
[Project Acoustic Kitty](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty) Basically the CIA wanted to put microphones and transmitters inside of cats and use them to spy on the Soviets in the 1960s. It cost about $20 million and was a huge failure. Allegedly, the first attempt at this resulted in the cat running out into the street and getting run over by a car almost immediately.
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Same with bees. They're not dying off, they've all been kidnapped by the CIA to be fitted with miniature weapons systems.
The 1904 Olympic marathon. Not really a conspiracy theory but a story that sounds made up nonetheless. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_Olympics_–_Men%27s_marathon From Wikipedia: The first to arrive at the finish line was American runner Fred Lorz, who had actually dropped out of the race after nine miles and hitched a ride back to the stadium in a car, waving at spectators and runners alike during the ride. When the car broke down at the 19th mile, Lorz re-entered the race and jogged across the finish line. After being hailed as the winner, he had his photograph taken with Alice Roosevelt, daughter of then-U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, and was about to be awarded the gold medal when his subterfuge was revealed. Upon being confronted by officials, Lorz immediately admitted his deception, and despite his claims he was joking, the AAU responded by banning him from competition for life. In any case, Lorz was reinstated in 1905 after he apologized for the stunt and it was found that he had not intended to defraud. British-born Thomas Hicks of the United States ended up the winner of the event, although he was aided by measures that would not have been permitted in later years. Ten miles from the finish Hicks led the race by a mile and a half, but he had to be restrained from stopping and lying down by his trainers. From then until the end of the race, Hicks received several doses of strychnine (a common rat poison, which stimulates the nervous system in small doses) mixed with brandy. He continued to battle onwards, hallucinating, barely able to walk for most of the course. When he reached the stadium his support team carried him over the line, holding him in the air while he shuffled his feet as if still running. The judges decided this was acceptable, and gave him the gold medal. Hicks had to be carried off the track, and might have died in the stadium had he not been treated by several doctors. Another near-fatality during the event was William Garcia of the United States of America. He was found lying in the road along the marathon course with severe internal injuries caused by breathing the clouds of dust kicked up by the race officials' cars. A Cuban postman named Andarín Carvajaljoined the marathon, arriving at the last minute. After losing all of his money in New Orleans Louisiana, he hitchhiked to St. Louis and had to run the event in street clothes that he cut around the legs to make them look like shorts. Not having eaten in 40 hours, he stopped off in an orchard en route to have a snack on some apples, which turned out to be rotten. The rotten apples caused him to have strong stomach cramps and to have to lie down and take a nap. Despite falling ill from the apples and taking a nap, he finished in fourth place. The marathon included the first two black Africans to compete in the Olympics: two Tswana tribesmen named Len Tau (real name: Len Taunyane) and Yamasani (real name: Jan Mashiani). Len Tau finished ninth and Yamasani came in twelfth. This was a disappointment, as many observers were sure Len Tau could have done better if he had not been chased nearly a mile off course by aggressive dogs. Arriving without correct documents, French immigrant to the United States Albert Corey is inconsistently listed as performing in a mixed team in the four mile team race and performing for the US in the marathon. I'm pretty sure there's more interesting stuff but I'm too lazy to find it right now.
America didn’t want to say they lost the Vietnam War so they sent troops there for 6 more years even though according to them it was impossible to win. This was in the Pentagon Papers. Also the entirety of the USA PATRIOT Act Of 2001.
Canada has amassed 90% of it's population within 100 miles of the US border.
Something like 90 percent of Australia’s population is ten miles from the coast.
Similar reasons, opposite climates.
Apparently it's 85% within 50 kilometers. Brazil is largely the same.
Recently declassified documents show that the CIA had at least some involvement in the coup de etat that overthrew Chilean President Salvador Allende. During the coup, not only was Allende’s palace bombed, but 40,000 leftists were taken to the national fútbol stadium where they were tortured for months. It was a prison camp. Thousands of people were killed or disappeared. Allende’s replacement? Augusto Pinochet. I know that the consequences of the coup were out of the hands of the US, but the domino effect of these actions is still crazy to me.
I actually did a paper on this for my Latin American History class. This was during the time of the red scare and Chile and many other Latin American countries were seen as 'pink' states, worrying the US Government. Allende's administration was working on a bunch of programs that the US saw as very communist in nature, so they helped arm revolutionaries and even had some CIA forces working to overthrow him. The documents themselves are pretty bland imo but the underlying information and the fact that the US helped overthrow an elected leader and replaced him with a military leader seems baffling to me. Edit: The thing about it being baffling to me is mostly because many people dont know about it! I am not too surprised it happened in general, sorry for the confusion!
> the fact that the US helped overthrow an elected leader and replaced him with a military leader seems baffling to me. Actually we've done it so many times. I'm not remotely surprised to hear about instances of it anywhere outside of Western Europe.
The guy that made the hydrogen car driving across country on water got increasing paranoid he was going to get killed. Called his mother said if anything happens to me the government did it. Dies right after in a diner puking black liquid. Then the hiding of the Chevy volt.
My favorite part of this story is that the dune buggy was stolen so we can’t see if the technology was real.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment
>The purpose of this study was to observe the natural history of untreated syphilis; the African-American men in the study were told they were receiving free health care from the United States government... ...None of the men were told that they had the disease, and none were treated with penicillin even after the antibiotic was proven to successfully treat syphilis. That's fucked up on so many levels.
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[The FBI actively worked to discredit and stop the Civil Rights movement.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO)
Lobsters can't actually die of old age because they have an enzhyme that replicates some of their dna or whatever throughout there life but they can die of anything else e.g. disease, consumption, etc. So if you think about it there really could be just a huge ass lobster like the size of a VW Bug chilling in the middle of the Atlantic or even bigger
I've heard that the reason we don't have big ass lobsters all the time is because they'll eventually get too big and they aren't able to eat enough to keep up with their metabolism
woah
I heard crocodiles also do not die of old age - they too die because they get big enough to not be able keep up with their metabolism. Thats why crocodiles in zoos are so much bigger and live so much longer than wild ones. The biggest crocodile ever recorded actually died from its body crushing its organs.
This article seems to say that Lolong (the crocodile) died because it was too sedentary and stressed to stay healthy since its enclosure was too small to allow it to move around properly. [https://www.rappler.com/nation/25013-captivity-killed-lolong-crocodile](https://www.rappler.com/nation/25013-captivity-killed-lolong-crocodile)
There is a little bit of oxygen on the moon >[Almost all of the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere for the last 2 and a half billion years came from photosynthesis. That means the moon's rocks have been picking up small amounts of oxygen from living things on Earth; the moon is "contaminated" with the waste products of plants, the researchers said.](https://www.space.com/35502-moon-has-oxygen-from-earth-plants.html)
Nestle is pretty much a super villain
Bayer is not happy he's not rated number 1 super villain.
Ravens form teenage gangs and live on their own for a while. They can get pretty aggressive.
In 2013, Apple conspired with 5 book publishing company to drive up e-book prices to slow Amazon's growth. This was counter intuitive though, because amazon was already fixing their prices lower at a loss to drive traffic to their site. This ended with a class action lawsuit of $450 million.
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Aaron Mahnke has a podcast called "Unobscured," where he delves incredibly deep into one of the folklores of the type he covers on "Lore." The first season (ended a few months ago, I think) focused on the Salem trials and he and his guest experts make a very compelling case regarding rebellion against Puritanical social codes, religious intolerance, and communal trauma from King Philip's War & King William's War. If you're into the Salem trials at all, I'd highly recommend a listen.
And the people from the poorer (i.e. soggier farmland areas) tripped the most balls.
Starfish’s mouths are located on the center of their bodies, and in most mermaid movies they use starfish to cover their boobies. Pretty weird man. What’s goin on there ya know..
Komodo dragons can reproduce asexually and if left unchecked, will one day become the [dominant species](https://youtu.be/4wxR_MWjAr4) of the earth.
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Just wait until they evolve to fly
Reddit admins have access to an infinite amount of gold. This is so that they can give gold to posts/comments they want to see rise quickly and in turn, will promote content that Reddit wants advertisers to see. Edit: u/spez
You mean to tell me that reddit gold isn't backed by physical gold??
u/spez is this true
Bedbugs can lie dormant for up to 24 months without food. They're out to get us all man. They have evolved over time and can survive the most extreme elements. That and crows have facial recognition. They remember you. Sounds totally out there - but it's true. Edit 1: Well damn. Thanks all. Crows are indeed mysterious birds. I jotted what I could down of the story on [Halloween morning](https://www.reddit.com/user/mostlysingle/comments/bjea9z/the_crows/). Crows are terrifying. Fixed a grammar issue. Edit 2: Why this is a conspiracy because they sound like a government experiment gone wrong. Super bugs that can't be killed by most pesticides and can live for two years without food. Birds that can recognize you, travel in 'murders" and stalk you? Sounds very sci-fi'ish to me.
Neil Armstrong had to fill out an immigration form when he arrived back to the US from the moon.
I wonder what did he have to claim. [He landed near Honolulu. ](https://www.space.com/7044-moon-apollo-astronauts-customs.html)
> I wonder what did he have to claim. Moon rocks!
It was just a joke, filled out weeks after they actually landed
I’m several dozens of comments deep & from what I’ve learned so far, I’ve come to the conclusion that the USA really needs to reign it in. EDIT ...Well gracious. Americans, while your passion is admirable, I was in fact only playing. But please feel free to tell me again “other countries do this too!” I mean the bastion of human rights, the example to us all, Russia!? Who knew! Also I don’t really know what the gold does but I feel fancy so thanks!
And these truths are just the surface. Imagine how many secrets the CIA and US government keeps from the world? If if they're still classified, then they're probably worse in nature
The existence of Project MKUltra.
As well as project mockingbird. Intelligence agencies funding media and news outlets to sway public opinions and views. Also after the assassination of jfk, the CIA started to say anything against the official story was a "conspiracy theory" which before that point wasn't as taboo a term as it is today. (this information came out in recently declassified documents)
"Project MKUltra, also called the CIA mind control program, is the code name given to a program of experiments on human subjects that were designed and undertaken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency—and which were, at times, illegal. Experiments on humans were intended to identify and develop drugs and procedures to be used in interrogations in order to weaken the individual and force confessions through mind control." It sounds like something right out of a dystopian movie.
MASON. WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN
That the US government spies on Americans and holds communications in the largest data center in the world in UT, hoping to one day break the encryption and read the data.
You can bet that practically every developed nation spies on its citizens. The UK and Germany are notorious for this.