Category: Conspiracy Corner

Every Thursday, about 8:15am, Matthew talks with Ethan and Zac on 95bFM’s “Breakfast Show” about conspiracy theories.

Well, after recording the first segment a whole lot more information has come out about the who (but not really the why) of the Boston Marathon bombing. As such, I thought it prudent to devote another segment to the story that just keeps on generating conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory.

Also, I must apologise for getting Sunil Tripathi’s name wrong. This is what happens when you don’t work from notes but hazy recollections obscured by early morning fugue ((I’m seriously considering going back to working from notes, something I did back in the early days of “The Dentith Files”. I think I need to mix things up a little.)).

Topics we discussed

Reddit and their amateur sleuthing ((Charlie Brooker had the best commentary on this: Reddit users were really only looking for people who were brown and alone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVkjg8BtzNM))

Glenn Beck and his mysterious Saudi

The Russian Establishment warning the American Establishment

The Chechens saying it’s a conspiracy

Other topics we did not touch upon

The FBI and their weird behaviour

More on the Chechen claim that its a conspiracy

Every Thursday, about 8:15am, Matthew talks with Ethan and Zac on 95bFM’s “Breakfast Show” about conspiracy theories.

As I joked to a friend on Wednesday afternoon, not knowing something about a subject has never stopped me from talking about it on the radio ((As noted, this is a jocular comment and should not be taken seriously, enemies of mine.)). When it comes (or came, depending on when you read this post) to the Boston Marathon bombing, there’s so much we don’t know that it’s hard to carve out something resembling a story of “Who and why?”

Every Thursday, about 8:15am, Matthew talks with Ethan and Zac on 95bFM’s “Breakfast Show” about conspiracy theories.

This week, a well overdue examination of the GCSB story.

This is a story I am liable to come back to (and might even form a part of the soon-to-be-revealed “mystery project”) I’m itching to make public. Certainly, we did not cover nearly enough in today’s segment to make this close to my final words on what is either a series of quite damning cock-ups by both the Government and its security apparatus or it’s a conspiracy by some group to ride roughshod ((A metaphor which will soon be meaningless to most people, I’m assuming.)) over due process in our nationstate.

Further Reading

The Dim-Post’s helpful (conspiratorial) timeline of the GCSB fiasaco.

Hamish Cardwell’s summation of the two, crucial meetings between the GCSB and the New Zealand Police.

Idiot/Savant’s thoughts on the Kitteridge Report into the operation of the GCSB.

Every Thursday, about 8:15am, Matthew talks with Ethan and Zac on 95bFM’s “Breakfast Show” about conspiracy theories.

So, Lord Christopher Monckton and his Anthropogenic Climate Change Denial tour are in town. I (and note this down, history books) have little to say other than “Oh no, not again!” ((Which, I guess, makes Monckton the whale in this story.))

Every Thursday, about 8:15am, Matthew talks with Ethan and Zac on 95bFM’s “Breakfast Show” about conspiracy theories.

…for lovers, for dreamers and me.

Sorry about that, folks; I’m fair bubbling with some good news I can’t in good conscience report for another week, so random acts of musical association will have to sit in for [INFORMATION REDACTED].

Last week we talked about the interesting development in the on-going story of the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko: the suspicious death of his associate Boris Berezovsky, the former Russian oligarch-turned-poltical exile.

Tomorrow I’m going to talk about Christopher Monckton and his tour of our shaky isles. He’s here promoting Anthropogenic Climate Change Scepticism in what is the midst of our most terrible drought in quite some time. Coincidence or conspiracy?

Well, coincidence, obviously, but not for the kind of reasons Monckton would advance.

Links for this segment

Boris Berezovsky: kingmaker reduced to a shadow in exile

Litvinenko inquest: newspapers launch challenge over withholding of evidence

Alexander Litvinenko inquest postponed until October

Every Thursday, about 8:15am, Matthew talks with Ethan and Zac on 95bFM’s “Breakfast Show” about conspiracy theories.

When we think of the CIA we tend to think of a big, bad organisation where people scheme and plot to make trouble for people who made the mistake of not being American. This isn’t necessarily too far from the truth, but sometimes it pays to remember that that CIA is not quite the homogenous beast that maybe we’d like to paint it as being. In the late forties, fifties and sixties CIA agents liked to drink hard, write novels and collect Art (yes, with a capital) and many of them looked down upon the weirdness of McCarthy and his purges.

Which explains, to a certain extent, why the CIA developed the “long leash” and funded things like Abstract Expressionism. Well, that and the role Art played in the development of a thesis of cultural supremacy over Russia in the Cold War… (of which you can read more about here)

Now, at one point in the segment I was asked whether the CIA funding of art (like Abstract Expressionism) had any real effect. I said a few things along the “Probably not” spectrum of response, but, really, I should have said “I’m no art historian or sociologist, so I couldn’t really say.” So, art historians and sociologists (and culture theorists and critical theorists, et cetera), sorry. I fumbled at answering that particular question and I bow to your expertise. Come, correct me. I welcome you with open arms.