I'm From Your Government And I'm Here To Kill You Manipulates Facts Cover-Ups

How The Government Manipulates All Facts Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda and how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it. Gallup recently found that 49 percent of Americans believe that the government poses “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens.” I’m from the Government and I’m Here to Kill You and shows that even the 51 percent have no idea how bad things really are. Rights and freedoms are not the only things at stake; all too often government imperils the very lives of those it supposedly serves. Federal employees have, with legal impunity, blown up a town and killed six hundred people, released staggering amounts of radioactive contamination and lied about the resulting cancer, allowed people to die of an easily treated disease in order to study their deaths, and run guns to Mexican drug cartels in hopes of expanding agency powers. Law enforcement leaders have ordered their subordinates to commit murder. Medical administrators have “cooked the books” and allowed patients to die, while raking in plump bonuses. Federal prosecutors have sent Americans to prison while concealing evidence that proved their innocence.

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Thought-provoking documentary on war propaganda: how governments manipulate the facts and how most media let them get away with it. WWI, Vietnam War, post-2001 Afghanistan, post-2003 Iraq, Palestine: a historical account of PR, embedded journalism, lies and cover-ups, but also of courageous journalists who disclose the truth. John Pilger is one of the world’s most renowned investigative journalists and documentary film-makers.

I’m from the Government documents how we came to this pass: American courts misconstrued and expanded the old legal concept of sovereign immunity, “the king can do no wrong.” When Congress attempted to allow suits against the government, the legislators used vague language that the courts construed to block most lawsuits. The result is a legal system that allows official negligence to escape legal consequences and paradoxically punishes an agency if it tries to secure public safety. I’m from the Government ends with proposals for legal reforms that will hold the government and its servants accountable when they inflict harm on Americans.

Attempted Cover-ups in History
As much as we don’t want to admit it, every once in a while, the conspiracy theorists get it right and a massive government cover-up is revealed—or revealed, and then immediately debunked. In many cases, it’s understandable that certain operations have to be performed secretly to protect those involved, but many of the examples here that were ultimately exposed showed some pretty shady activity that probably shouldn’t have been happening in the first place. Still skeptical? Here are 88 slippery facts about the shadiest attempted cover-ups in history.

1. The Potemkin Village
A “Potemkin Village” has become known as any deceptive or false construct, conjured often by cruel regimes, to deceive both those within the land and those peering in from outside. This is said to reference the story of a dashing 18th Century Russian nobleman, Grigory Potemkin, who endeavored to show Catherine the Great the best face of his empire. To accomplish this, it is said that pasteboard facades of pretty towns were set up at a distance on riverbanks, and whole populations of serfs were moved around and dressed up in fanciful garb to flaunt a prosperity that didn't exist. Recent historical work has determined that this origin story is likely exaggerated, but real examples Potemkin Villages have nonetheless occurred. The kicker to all this? Catherine the Great and Potemkin had once been lovers, and enjoyed a tryst of "laughter, sex, mutually admired intelligence, and power." Why you gotta do me like that, Grigory?

2. Quite the Trip
The CIA set out to building safehouses in New York and San Francisco for the sole purpose of studying the effects of LSD on non-consenting subjects. One outfit was called Operation Midnight Climax: In order to lure people into these safe houses, the CIA had several prostitutes on their payroll—yes, you read that correctly—who would entice “clients” to come back to the houses. Once there, the prostitutes would dose them with various substances—most famously LSD. The subjects were then monitored behind a two-way mirror. It is alleged that the officials who ran the experiments described them as "fun, fun, fun. Where else could a red-blooded American boy lie, kill, cheat, steal, rape and pillage with the sanction and bidding of the All-highest?

3. Dark Days
Nine stories below the lowest floor of Grand Central Station in New York sits a bunker known as M-42. There was a fear of sabotage while the station’s trains were being used to transport soldiers in and out of New York during WWII, therefore the bunker was rumored to be secured by armed guards with shoot-to-kill orders. Also located below the Station is Track 61, which was built for wealthy travelers arriving to NYC on private trains. The track has a freight elevator that rises up to the garage level of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Its most frequent user was President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who suffered from mobility issues due to polio.

4. Bon Appetit
In August 2008, the United States National Archives released an incredible number of former personnel files of those who had worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. Included in the list of former employees was Julia McWilliam—better known as Julia Child, the famous chef and master of French cuisine. Although her work in Intelligence was never deemed to be a secret, it was not publicized either. After the release of these files, many more people became aware of her service during WWII.

5. Weaponized Seashells
It has been reported that from 1960 to 1965, at least 8 plots to assassinate Fidel Castro were brainstormed by the CIA. A report that was drafted in 1967 (and declassified 36 years later) listed several possibilities to carry out this proposed idea, including using cigars, contaminated air, poisoned pills, and syringes. The one plot that really caught people’s attention was the booby-trapped seashell. Castro was known to be an avid diver, so the CIA planned to plant a beautiful seashell in a reef that he was known to frequent. The idea was to make the shell so beautiful that Castro would have to pick it up, triggering an explosion. However, the elaborate scheme was deemed to be impractical.

6. Nessy Revealed
Most are familiar with the famous sighting of the dark, brontosaurus shaped image in the water of Loch Ness, captured in what is now known as the “surgeon’s photograph”. Referring of course to the Loch Ness Monster, this tall tale sent the public into a whirl in 1934 and has since inspired many other “sightings.” Often rebutted by skeptics, believers may have a new glimmer of hope. Newly published documents reveal that a former Scottish Police Chief named William Fraser remarked, "That there is some strange creature in Loch Ness seems now beyond doubt, but that the police have any power to protect it is very doubtful." The existence of the famed monster has not yet been confirmed, but there continues to be a possibility, and that is more than enough to keep looking!

7. The Smithsonian Coverup
Recently, The Smithsonian became entangled in a great alleged conspiracy of its own. On April 5, 1909, the Phoenix Gazette carried a front page spread about a great archeological dig in the Grand Canyon. The story went into great detail about recovered objects of Egyptian origin being discovered by Professor S. A. Jordon from the Smithsonian. This discovery indicated migration of ancient peoples. The Smithsonian had adamantly rejected this narrative, denying any knowledge of the dig or the people supposedly involved. Many believe that the cited article may just be a great example of old “fake news,” however, others remain intrigued by the many “Egyptian” names given to sites surrounding the Grand Canyon.

8. The Secrets of Area 51
There are many who still theorize that the famed Area 51 is the site of a downed UFO and/or alien bodies and artifacts. While this is the most popular theory, the much more likely explanation for Area 51 is that it is a restricted area where new/emerging technologies and weapons are developed and tested. CIA veterans who have been relieved of their secrecy vows surrounding Area 51 have said that the site was the testing ground for spy planes like the A-12 and its record-breaking speedy successor the SR-71 Blackbird in the 1960’s. So while the site is still considered to be a cover-up of sorts, it is doesn’t seem likely that the government is hiding aliens out there.

9. War of the Worlds
In 2010, newly-released files showed that the UK government took the threat of UFOs in the 1950s so seriously that UK Intelligence Chiefs met to discuss the issue. The ministers went on to commission weekly reports on UFO sightings from a committee of intelligence experts. Perhaps most intriguing, however, is a wartime account claiming that Prime Minister Winston Churchill ordered a UFO sighting be kept secret to prevent “mass panic”. The sighting he was referring to was the bizarre incident off the Coast of England where a renaissance plane and its crew were returning from a mission over occupied Europe and encountered a metallic UFO which shadowed them. It left both the crew and the experts consulted afterward so confused and uncertain that Churchill ordered it to remain a secret for at least 50 years.

10. Multi-Generational Toll
Castle Bravo was the most powerful nuclear device that the US ever set off. It was detonated in 1954 over Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands as part of the ongoing response to increased Soviet bomb activity. Although originally meant to be kept a secret, there was a massive fallout from the blast which affected the citizens of nearby islands. The effects included birth defects and radiation sickness. The effects continued to be felt later on as many children whose parents were exposed to the blast developed thyroid cancer and neoplasms. In response to this, Project 4.1 was launched in order to examine the effects of radiation fallout on humans.

11. Not Just Imagine-d
The ex-Beatle John Lennon became very well known for his protests against war and advocacy for peace. Fearing that he might disrupt the 1972 National Republican Convention, the FBI placed Lennon on its “watch list.” They terminated his visa and even began deportation proceedings against him. When Lennon and his family were not found to be doing anything “suspicious,” the FBI closed its investigation a month after Nixon’s re-election. After his murder in 1980, historian Jon Weiner fought and won a 14-year legal battle to force the FBI to release its Lennon files under the Freedom of Information Act.

12. Side Effects
In the 1960s the US Department of Defense performed a series of irradiation experiments which were targeted to non-consenting, poor, African-American cancer patients. The subjects were told that they would be receiving radiation treatment, however, they were not informed that they would be receiving extremely high doses in order to determine the effects on the human body. The consent forms were only signed with initials in order to avoid litigation and to prevent the patients from receiving any compensation for the government. It was reported that the radiation doses equaled 7500 x-rays to the chest, which caused intense pain, vomiting, and bleeding from the nose and ears. At least 20 of the subjects died.

13. Report Card
It took five years of preparation, but in 2014 the Senate Report on the CIA Detention Interrogation Program was finally released. It was shown that the CIA had been using illegal and “enhanced” interrogation techniques, and that they yielded very poor results. If that’s what was left in, one can’t help but wonder what the five years of “preparation” may have left out.

14. Post-War Push
Operation Paperclip was a program that the US government covertly instituted following WWII. This program secretly brought more than 1,500 German scientists, technicians, and engineers from Nazi Germany and other foreign countries to the United States for employment. This was partly done to prevent German scientific expertise and knowledge from leaking to the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom; additionally, there was the intent to keep post-war Germany from redeveloping its military research capabilities. The scientists were “bleached” of their Nazi ties, and all documents tying them to the party were altered or destroyed.

15. Experimental Dermatology
Dr. Albert Kligman set out to use human subjects to test the effects of Agent Orange on the skin-which was deemed as “dermatological research”. He not only injected his subjects with dioxidin, the main component of Agent Orange, but he was rumored to have done so in 468 times the amount he was authorized to. The US Army oversaw the testing to “learn how the skin protects itself against chronic assault from toxic chemicals, the so-called hardening process.”

16. Involuntary Testing
In the 1940s penicillin was established as a cure for syphilis, but its effectiveness was still being researched. The US experimented on the citizens of Guatemala by using infected prostitutes to spread the infection to unknowing prison inmates, insane asylum patients, and soldiers. When this was ineffective, they turned to inoculating unsuspecting patients by pouring syphilis bacteria onto men’s penises, forearms, and faces. Although the intention was for all subjects to receive the treatment of penicillin, as many as 1/3 never did, which likely spread to further generations. Hilary Clinton apologized for the events on October 1, 2010, and new research began to determine if anyone affected was still alive and suffering with the infection.

17. Deal With the Devil
Unit 731 was a covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army during WWII. As head of this unit, Dr. Ishii was responsible for carrying out violent human experimentation on tens of thousands of “logs” as he called them. He would perform vivisection (experimental surgery) on unwilling prisoners, without the use of anesthesia; force pregnant women to abort their babies; and induce strokes, heart attacks, frostbite, and hypothermia. The facility and remaining prisoners were destroyed in 1945, and Ishii was arrested. Then, the respected General Douglas McArthur allegedly struck a deal with Ishii: The US would grant Ishii immunity from his crimes, if he exchanged all germ warfare data based on his human experimentation.

18. Sounds Innocent, But Isn’t
Regarded as the “greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics”—prior to the Watergate Scandal—the Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place during the administration of Warren G. Harding, from 1921 to 1922. Albert Bacon Fall, Secretary of the Interior, had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, along with two other locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The leases were investigated, and Fall was convicted of accepting bribes and became the first Cabinet member to go to prison.

19. The Real X-Files
The Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) was purported to be a secret committee made up of scientists, military leaders, and government officials. The committee was formed in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation of an alien spacecraft. The alleged cover-up was brought to light in 1984 due to a series of supposedly leaked secret government documents first circulated by ufologists. The FBI investigated and determined that the supposed documents were “completely bogus”, however the legend of the Majestic 12 lives on in the minds of serious conspiracy theorists.

20. Higher Powers
Still one of the most widely-contested government coverups, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) was initiated as an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Its original purpose was to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance. Theorists debate both the function and necessity of having a High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program at all, claiming that it can be used to “weaponize” weather and be used to trigger floods, major power outages, and thunderstorms.

21. Collateral Damage
During the Vietnam War, there was a mass killing of approximately 500 unnamed civilians which was initially reported as a routine battle. It wasn’t until a helicopter gunner sent a letter to Congress asking for an investigation that the facts became apparent and it came to be known as the My Lai massacre. Despite the devastation, many still consider the massacre to be part of the collateral damage of war.

22. Trading Trama
Considered to be one of the biggest coverups of recent history, the Iran-Contra affair took place during Ronald Reagan’s Presidency. The deal which facilitated the sale of firearms to Iran began in order to free seven American hostages being held captive in Lebanon. After the sale was made, a portion of the money ended up funding anti-Sandinista and anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua. Reagan’s involvement in the deal remained classified, and the convictions of minor political players were either overturned or pardoned by President George H. W. Bush during the final year of his presidency.

23. Whatever Happened to Do No Harm?
In 1931, Dr. Cornelius Rhoads set off to Puerto Rico to infect its citizens with cancer cells, presumably to study the effects. Thirteen of them died. Regarding the events, Rhoads allegedly wrote the following:

"The Porto Ricans [sic] are the dirtiest, laziest, most degenerate and thievish race of men ever to inhabit this sphere... I have done my best to further the process of extermination by killing off eight and transplanting cancer into several more... All physicians take delight in the abuse and torture of the unfortunate subjects."

Despite these horrendous remarks and actions, Rhoads later received a seat on the United States Atomic Energy Commission. He was also elected by the US to be put in charge of chemical warfare projects. Furthermore, he somehow even became vice-president of the American Cancer Society.

24. Sleeper Agents
It was when the Cold War was at its peak that the US considered using mind-controlling substances to infiltrate communist Russia with sleeper agents. In a project named MK-Ultra, the CIA began testing this possibility by getting government scientists to experiment on human subjects using substances such as LSD, methamphetamine, and barbiturates, in combination with hypnosis, to break the subject down. They would then rebuild them with qualities specific to their spy missions. The Project was determined to be a failure and scrapped, with CIA Director Richard Helms ordering the destruction of all documents related to the project.

Facts about the Biggest Screw Ups by Government Agencies
To err is human. Unfortunately, human blunders can be pretty darn costly, especially when its large government agencies with important mandates who bugger things up. Here are stories from all over the world where a government leader--or even an entire agency--made some big mistakes.

25. Whoops
In the 1960’s, the CIA used the as a spot to spy on the Chinese nuclear missile tests. They convinced a group of Sherpa men to help them carry a plutonium-filled device called a “SNAP unit” up mount Nada Devi. However, they totally underestimated the power of nature. A snow storm forced them to hide the SNAP unit in a crevice, and wait until spring to return. When they came back, it was missing. They found evidence that the plutonium device slid down the hill... never to be seen again.

26. Whoops...
US intelligence helped Saddam Hussein's Party seize power in 1963. Evidence suggests that Saddam may have been on the CIA's payroll as early as 1959, which is when he participated in a failed assassination attempt against Iraqi strongman Abd al-Karim Qassem. In the 1980s, the US government (as well as Britain's government) backed Saddam in the war against Iran. The United States provided him with arms, money, satellite intelligence, and materials for chemical weapons. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, many of the Iraqi forces they fought against were shooting at American soldiers with guns and ammunitions purchased by the United States government.

27. You’ve Got the Wrong Guy!
By the year 2003, the CIA had captured around 3,000 people under the suspicion of being involved in Al-Qaeda. Many of these people are presumed to be innocent. One man in particular, named Khaled el-Masri, was kidnapped because he had the same name as a criminal. He was imprisoned for five months before the CIA realized their mistake.

28. Never Forget
The CIA had been trying to find and take down Osama Bin Laden since 1990, so they were fully aware of many terrorists who didn’t like the United States. The CIA didn't share information with the FBI (or any other agency for that matter!) about the arrival of at least two well-known Al-Qaeda operatives on US soil in 2000. These two men, Nawaf Alhamzi and Khalid Al-Midhar, were two of the hijackers responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Insider sources have blamed professional rivalries and poor protocols for inter-agency communication for the lack of coordination. Had the FBI been informed, it's likely that these two men would have been watched by the FBI, and it's possible the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks could have been prevented.

29. Clearing Out Space
NASA is the United State’s national space program that is controlled by the government. You would think that a government agency’s records would be near perfect, but in reality, they made a huge mistake: they deleted the original video footage of the moon landing. They had to gather video from TV stations who made sure to hold on to the footage in order to re-assemble their own new, restored copy.

30. Where is He?
For years, there has been a conspiracy theory that Adolf Hitler never died following World War II, and that he ran away to live in Argentina. In 2009, a group of forensic scientists wanted to settle the rumor once and for all. The Russian government is responsible for holding on to his remains, and they allowed scientists to run a test on the famous piece of Hitler's skull. The tests revealed the skull belonged to a female.

32. Blood Thirsty
When Lyndon B. Johnson was President of the United States, he conspired with the military and media sources to publish reports about North Vietnamese attacks on American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. The largely unsuccessful American invasion of Vietnam, which led to 50,000 deaths, was a supposed retaliation to these attacks. Evidence has since proven that at least one of these attacks, and potentially both, were entirely false.

33. Should Have Prepared for Winter
In June of 1941, Hitler was riding high on his victories, and was determined to claim the Russian territories to fulfil Germany’s destiny. Convinced that he would easily win, he ignored the warnings of his military, and reportedly told them that “We have only to kick in the front door and the whole rotten Russian edifice will come tumbling down." Thanks to some strategical miscalculations on Hitler’s part, delays, and their unpreparedness for Russian winter, the German soldiers were eventually forced to retreat.

34. Honeypot Espionage
A blond female spy named Gerda Munsinger infiltrated the Canadian government. It was later revealed that Munsinger actually had affairs with multiple members of the Canadian government, most notably cabinet ministers George Hees and Pierre Sévigny. Sévigny and Hees had actually co-sponsored her application for Canadian citizenship in 1960.

After learning that the Central Intelligence Agency considered Munsinger to be a "definite security risk," the Royal Canadian Mounted Police interrogated her and conducted surveillance on her telephone conversations, but found no evidence of spying on Canada.

Regardless, news of the affairs became public in March 1966, and a UK news report concluded that "a blond playgirl... has thrust Parliament into a state of suspended degradation."

35. Just Trolling?
A man pretending to be a republican congressman named Donald Payne Jr got backstage access to an event in New Jersey. He got backstage, where he was only a few yards away from President Obama, and actually mingled with legitimate members of Congress until a White House aide realized the man wasn't actually Rep. Payne. He was asked to leave, and complied without incident. No one was able to figure out the man’s true identity, or his motives for pretending to be Payne, but it could have been seriously bad if he was an assassin or spy.

36. Puppet Masters
Project MKULTRA was a CIA operation that involved experimenting on controlling the minds of human beings. This is not only scary, it’s completely illegal and unethical. Somehow, they got away with it, and we will never know exactly what went on behind closed doors, because they burned the documents.

37. Don’t Trust Magicians
The Romanov family were the last royal dynasty to ever rule Russia. One of the mistakes that the family made was trusting Rasputin, a man who claimed to have magic powers. He became the advisor of the family, and his growing influence is credited with separating the Tsar from the people. Rasputin's notorious affairs with aristocratic women, as well as a rumor that he was having an affair with the Tsarina herself, convinced many that he was a disgrace to the court and inspired great anger amongst the people. Soon enough, the Bolshevik Revolution happened, and the entire Romanov family was executed.

38. Real-Life Conspiracy
Operation Northwoods was a plan by the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to fake a terrorist attack from Cubans, as an excuse to go to war with their country. President John F. Kennedy stopped them from doing it. He was assassinated soon after, which has led (at least partially) to the conspiracy theory that he was assassinated by the CIA.

39. The Four Pest Campaign
In 1958, Mao Zedong declared that China would get rid of its “pests” from their new People’s Republic. The four targets of this campaign were mosquitoes, flies, rats, and sparrows. This was a mistake, because as the sparrows were killed off by both government officials and average citizens alike, it increased the insect population. Sparrows eat locusts, which were now ravaging crops. At the same time, Mao's Great Leap Forward encouraged farmers to produce more food than was humanly possible. The farmers, not wanting to admit defeat, falsified their surpluses. This lead to millions of people starving to death in China.

40. Up in Flames
The National Park Service, which is an extension of the US government, uses a technique called “controlled burns” to prevent forest fires. This is basically burning flammable natural debris in a small area, allowing new plants to grow, which makes a wildfire less likely. However, in the year 2000, the New Mexico National Park Service started a controlled burn when the weather was way too dry, hot, and windy. As a result, it started the massive Cerro Grande Fire, which burned down over 400 family homes and created $1 billion in damage.

41. Partying Too Hard
In 2012, members of the American Secret Service were in Columbia. They were caught partying, hiring prostitutes, and doing drugs. They were also found to have passed out from alcohol while on-duty and protecting the President. Apparently, this is a common issue.

42. Caught Red-Handed
The Manhattan Project was the creation of the atomic bomb. A scientists by the name of Klaus Fuchs was chosen by the British government to help the Americans with the bombs. For six years, he was actually leaking information back to the Soviet Union. When he was found out, Britain put him in prison. He eventually moved to East Germany.

43. That’s Not the System We Used!
A group of Lockheed engineers used Imperial units of measurement to build the Mars Orbiter, but the rest of the team used Metric. The use of two different systems caused the spacecraft to approach Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet. It disintegrated as it passed through the upper atmosphere. The mistake cost NASA approximately $125 million back in 1999.

44. Better Safe Than Sorry?
During the cold war, the US spent $16 million manufacturing M65 atomic cannons, often referred to as “Atomic Annies.” These were large artillery pieces designed to launch a nuclear warhead similar to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs, with a range of almost 20 miles. The only issue was that the size of the cannons and lack of range made them practically useless. The colossal cannons weighed in at 83 tons, approximately twice the weight of tanks in the 1950s. In a combat scenario, the weight of the system would completely hamper its mobility because very few bridges used at the time could support them. Furthermore, the 20-mile maximum range is not enough to prevent the men firing it from getting fried by radiation, especially facing a headwind. The lack of mobility and enormous size would also make it easy for Soviets to track the cannons and target them in combat.

45. Proud to Be An American
The Department of Defense faced harsh criticism in the mid-2000s when it was revealed that they were paying more than $10 million annually for patriotic displays at soccer matches and NASCAR races. Specifically, the National Guard spent approximately $136 million on Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s NASCAR sponsorship from 2012-2017 to encourage enlistment. Even with the $27.35 million spent on Earnhardt in 2009 alone, only 346 guardsmen were recruited that year. This means that even if all of them joined solely because of the Earnhardt sponsorship, it would have cost $80,000 per guardsmen. In 2012, a survey of guardsmen revealed that not one had joined because of NASCAR sponsorships. Despite this, in 2012, the U.S. House voted to continue spending on pro sports sponsorships.

46. Kitty Killing Tragedy
During the 1300’s, The Black Plague was killing people all over Europe. In London, a rumor began that cats were to blame. The government was the royal family. They were more concerned with saving themselves and staying away from disease-ridden commoners than helping them. Without giving the people a logical explanation or solution to the Plague, people had to take matters into their own hands. Cats were associated with witchcraft and the Devil. Even the more educated English royal family was known for believing in these sorts of things. So, people started to kill cats. This actually made the problem so much worse, because the real carries of the disease were the rats and mice. So, without cats to kill the mice and rats, the disease spread even more, killing more people.

So essentially, when people decided to murder all the cats to stop the spread of The Black Plague, they accidentally caused millions of unecessary deaths, simply because they didn't realize that cats were actually preventing the spread of the disease.

47. Risky Business
Hana and Karl Koecher were a couple from Czechoslovakia who were “deported” for their anti-Soviet sentiments, and “forced” to live in the United States. The CIA offered to let them become spies for the United States. The main spot where they swapped secret information was at risque swinger parties in New York and Washington DC. After years of acting as a US informant, it was revealed that they were double agents, and the entire deportation was a ruse.

48. Big Brother is Watching
In the United States, people have a right to privacy, and their homes are safe from “search and seizure” without a warrant. In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) under the Obama administration was systematically spying on hundreds of millions of Americans, an act they deemed acceptable under Section 702 of the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act. While this did prompt some backlash from opposition, many people in the country didn't find the revelation surprising at all, as there had already been several similar cases of government spying since the September 11 Terrorist Attacks.

49. Equipment Failure
America’s most expensive jet was destroyed on a practice flight in Guam when faulty sensors caused the plane to stall on take-off and crash. Luckily, both pilots were able to eject safely.

50. Just Act Like You Belong There
When Barack Obama was president, an army veteran who was suffering from severe delusions decided to break into the White House. The man, named Omar Gonzalez, was carrying a pocket knife, and he somehow made it over the fence of the White House without being noticed by security. He then charged toward the White House front door (probably shocked that absolutely no alarm had sounded). Once there, he encountered a lone female security officer who he overpowered and stormed into the building. Once inside, he screamed and ran past the stairway to the President's quarters (who wasn't there anyway), and dashed into the East Wing. He even walked around the house, seemingly aimlessly, for almost a minute before he was tackled by an off-duty officer. After he was arrested, Gonzalez gave permission for his vehicle, parked nearby, to be searched. Agents recovered 800 rounds of ammunition, two hatchets, and a machete from the car.

This, quite thankfully, prompted the Obama Administration to increase White House security measures.

51. Total Failure
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy gathered 1,400 Cubans who had been exiled from the country and sought asylum in America. He had them go through CIA training, and then sent them to try to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro. It was an epic failure. 114 of them were killed, and the rest were taken prisoner. This event was called “The Bay of Pigs.” This event only strained the relationship between the US and Cuba even further. Although Kennedy's name is often associated with the invasion, the plan was actually cooked up by the CIA under Eisenhower.

52. Let the Spirits Guide You
In 2016, South Korean President Park Guen-hye was impeached and put into prison because she was making huge decisions for the country by taking orders from a cult leader who brainwashed her into believing that she should leave the country’s destiny up to the “spirits” of past dead leaders. Yikes. It’s hard to tell where the bigger screw-up was, here. Was the mistake in electing her as president, when she was known to have ties to this cult, or was it in the cabinet members for not noticing this issue sooner?

53. You Win Some, You Lose Some
On March 30, 1867, the Russian Empire sold Alaska to the US Government for a mere 2 cents per acre. Russia was afraid they would eventually lose the land to the United Kingdom and saw an opportunity to preemptively weaken British power by selling to the United States. It turns out, however, that Alaska held a huge amount of gold. 1896 saw the Klondike Gold Rush, with Eldorado Creek producing over $30 million (about $675 million today) worth of gold. The kicker? Forget about gold, most Alaska's money is in oil and natural gas. Today, the petroleum industry supports one-third of all jobs in Alaska (110,000 jobs). The State of Alaska has collected $157 billion (inflation adjusted) from oil since 1959. The Alaskan Purchase is often placed alongside the Louisiana Purchase as one of the most profitable land deals in history. Russia probably wishes they could have that one back.

54. Too Big for His Britches
Then President Richard Nixon used his power to obstruct an investigation into criminal activities committed by supporters who were arrested while spying on the president’s opponents. Even though no evidence was found to implicate Nixon directly in the illegal surveillance, his role in the attempted cover up became a scandal unto itself, and ultimately led to the president’s resignation. The very word “Watergate” has become more familiarly associated with scandal and corruption than its namesake hotel and office buildings.

55. Always Check Your Sources
In the early 2000s, the US government was getting their information on Iraq from a spy nicknamed “Agent Curveball” (real name: Rāfid Aḥmad Alwān). According to this spy, the Iraqi government was manufacturing weapons of mass destruction. The United States invaded Iraq in 2003, largely based on the assertion that Iraq possessed WMDs, as verified by United States intelligence. Later, a former CIA agent was interviewed in 2009, and he commented on the incident as a “complete intelligence failure.” The reports of the “Agent Curveball” informant, as well as other information produced by US intelligence, had been entirely discredited by both German intelligence prior to the US invasion of Iraq.

These Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theories That Turned Out To Be True.

56. The CIA has a special gun that shoots dissolvable darts that leave no trace and cause people to get a heart attack. It was dismissed as a conspiracy theory before the gun actually turned out to be true during a trial where it was demonstrated by CIA operatives.

57. You know the whole “birds aren’t real” conspiracy theory?

Well, it’s funny because there was a thing in the 1960s called Project Acoustic Kitty where the CIA wanted to put microphones and transmitters inside of cats and use them to spy on the Soviets. It cost about $20 million and was a huge failure and allegedly the first cat they wired was hit by a car and killed very soon after they let it go. Now I’m not saying that birds are being used to spy on us, but it’s crazy to think that the government did actually try something like that.

58. Planned Obsolescence by mobile phone companies. People suspected their phones were being slowed down on purpose when a new phone arrived.

59. Your phone is listening to you even when you aren’t using it. Case and point, my friend was telling me, in person, about some alternative to PayPal she found. This same company was then advertised to me later that day despite my never looking it up. It’s not even available in my country.

60. MK-ultra. The government was running massive mind control experiments through American universities. Further, the CIA would kidnap people, load em up with LSD and torture them under this program. They even ran illegal brothels to kidnap the johns. The victims wouldn’t talk because they’d have to admit they were cheating on their wives.

The only reason we know about it is due to FOIA requests and the fact that someone forgot to destroy or hide the documents.

And no one fucking talks about it. No one went to prison for it. It’s very likely that the Unabomber was pushed to his mental breaking point under the auspices of this program and lead to his targeting of universities.

The FBI also ran illegal surveillance through COINTEL PRO and used it to suppress the black panthers, harass social activists, run illegal wire taps, and follow around public figures. And no one fucking talks about it. Hell it’s legal now under the patriot act.

61. That the NSA is basically storing and spying on everything sent across the internet.

Then Snowden came out and told us how they were doing it and suddenly Google etc started encrypting all their inter-server communications and https was universally pushed, hard.

He’s a fu*king true blue American hero who should be celebrated as such.

62. My father, who I previously thought was insane, was convinced the meds the military used to prevent malaria caused serious and permanent behavioral health issues. 30 years later, I was prescribed a different malaria med as a preventative before a trip, and I jokingly mentioned my father’s theory to the doc.

“Mefloquine? Yeah, that’s actually true. That’s why we switched to this one.”

63. My grandfather for years told everyone his well water was poisoned. Everyone thought it was one of his (many) delusions. Eventually one of my uncles tested the water from his well and it turns out it was unsafe to drink.

64. Michael Jordan apparently sold so much that when he retired the NBA started losing profits. They started building stars like Kobe. They paired him up with Shaq in LA to recapture the glory days and get that Hollywood money. It’s also one of the reasons that New York never wins because win or lose, New Yorkers shell out money for the Knicks.

The Spurs, being in a small market, were pushed to championships because of their international appeal. Miami was rumored to be the next Hollywood due to lax tax laws and it being a similar party city which is why the first manufactured super team was formed there.

Of course there was also the Laker-Hornets trade that was vetoed by the NBA which would fuck the Hornets out of a solid trade (Lamar Odom, Kevin Martin, Luis Scola, Goran Dragic). David Stern said it was to protect the Hornets but they ended getting less for CP3 (Chris Kaman, Eric Gordon, Al Farouq Aminu and an unprotected 1st round pick). This seemed to be done to tank the Hornets, which the NBA owned at the time.

65. Not really a conspiracy but the author of Hunt for Red October got the story of submarines so accurate that the department of defense investigated him thinking he was a spy.

66. The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ), also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It involved one real and one falsely claimed confrontation between ships of North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. The original American report blamed North Vietnam for both incidents, but the Pentagon Papers, the memoirs of Robert McNamara, and NSA publications from 2005, proved material misrepresentation by the US government to justify a war against Vietnam.

67. Colombia’s government and high rank military officials killed farmers and poor people just to get personnel promoted and support from people.
The bodies had uniforms just like the ones guerrilla soldiers used to wear.
People started noticing that something was wrong with these ”guerrillero bodies” when the boots in some of the bodies were backwards and a lot of people went missing from villages.

68. This is on a lighter note but in 2013 (during the twerking craze), there was a viral video which feature a girl named Caitin Heller twerking against a doorway. When someone opens the door, Heller then falls on a table with a candle thus setting her on fire. Not only was it being shared online but news media like CNN were picking up on the story. While people were having conspiracy theories that this video may be fake, those people were often mocked. Eventually, Jimmy Kimmel came out and revealed that the video was fake and Caitlin Heller was actually a stuntwoman named Daphne Avalon.

69. Watergate. It started out as a conspiracy theory, but gained enough evidence to tun into the scandal that we all know today.

70. Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal, corporate-sponsored dictators around the world.

71. The sugar industry buying researchers to muddy the waters in regards to diet. Coke has paid for these studies to say that sugar is not harmful to the general populace but it generally is. The way that food is processed to hell and back is detrimental to humanity. I’m not innocent of enjoying sugar but the way our food is treated is a huge problem.

72. All FIFA World Cups were purchased from 1998 through 2014. When I know that in 2002, I heard about who would win each year. And it happened!

73. Systematic Pedophilia in the catholic church. It was an open secret that for whatever reason was suppressed by the church, its members and even its victims.

74. CIA putting LSD in the water supply.

Except it was only a handful of extremely small (<800 pop.) towns in the American Southwest, and the outcome was not, “we have a mind control serum,” but instead, “that deeply troubled a lot of rural elderly people, who had no idea what was happening to them.”

75. Operation Northwoods. The Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved plans to create terrorist acts on US soil to drum up support for a war and invasion of Cuba in the 1960s.

President Kennedy rejected the plan, which included: innocent Americans being shot dead on the streets; boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington D.C., Miami, and elsewhere; people being framed for bombings they did not commit; and planes being hijacked.

76. Jeffrey Epstein was killed and if you think the cameras broke both guards fell asleep and he hung himself you’re an asshole.

77. Playing football causes brain damage. They knew since the 80s but it was becoming such a juggernaut that they climate change denier’d it.

78. My grandfather was afraid of moving into a nursing home or living alone, he was convinced people working in elderly medical care were out to get him. A few years later a local nurse is in the news as a serial killer who believed she was doing the right thing ending lives early. Around the same time a home visiting nurse, who was supposed to help him, got frustrated and hit him, so I removed her from the house which was something he wouldn’t have been able to do. After reporting that nurse everywhere she was still doing home visits for an acquaintance (until I told him too).

79. Ernest Hemingway believed he was being followed by the FBI. It was passed off as paranoid delusions by the medical community and the world at large. But the freedom of information act revealed that Hemingway was an amateur agent in Cuba during the war, but also seen as a potential communist sympathizer by the FBI, who did later follow him. It played a major role in his suicide, though obviously there were many other factors.

80. Political decisions (and frankly, any big decision) are not made by YOU and only you. As it has been proven again and again and again and again, the moment you log into any social media, open a newspaper, look outside or watch tv, your view begins to be manipulated by others. Even if you think you’re above that, you’re not. We’ve all speculated this, but now we know for a fact, our decisions are manipulated and there is no way to stop that.

81. Operation Condor. The USA financed with money and weapons military groups in all South America, to prevent the communism or socialism to impose in any country on the continent. It turns out that they began to establish dictatorships that in some cases lasted for decades, disappearing tens of thousands of people against the regime. One of the most widely known case is Pinochet in Chile and Videla in Argentina.

82. The CIA kickstared the crack epidemic that devastated many US black urban areas in the ’80s in order to pay for death squads in Central America.

There was an investigative series in the mid-90s written by a journalist named Gary Webb in the San Jose Mercury News where he chronicled the CIA’s trafficking of cocaine on behalf of the anti-Communist Contras in Nicaragua. This got picked up by several other larger newspapers and prompted several official government investigations.

The paper got pushback which eventually led to them retracting parts of the investigative series and the official government reports whitewashed the entire thing and Gary Webb resigned in disgrace. He would later ‘kill himself’ in 2004.

83. The Business Plot: the 1930s robber barons attempted a violent overthrow of FDR’s government, with the intention of installing fascism. Smedley Butler, the man they had hoped would lead their coup, exposed them, making them look ridiculous and leading to a coverup (but nonetheless rendering the plot a failure). They destroyed his career, which never recovered, and he died in obscurity in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

There’s a good chance that we would have seen a fascist/Nazi takeover of the country had one man not sacrificed his career to prevent it. Despite his heroism, few people today know his name.

84. Governments and corporations are actually spying on us.

85. I lived in Oregon in the 70’s and 80’s. Everyone always talked about how the Evergreen Airport was used by the CIA but they always denied it. The truth finally came out and the airport ended up closing afterwards.

86. Paraquat Pot: The True Story Of How The US Government Tried To Kill Weed Smokers With A Toxic Chemical In The 1980s When people talk about “killer weed,” that’s typically understood to mean really good weed. But due to US government policies that started in the 1970s and extended through most of the 1980s, marijuana fields were being sprayed with a chemical that can actually kill you.
The chemical, known as “paraquat,” is an herbicide sprayed over marijuana fields in Mexico in the 1970s with the aid of US money and US-provided helicopters and over marijuana fields in Georgia in the 1980s under the direction of the Reagan Administration.

But normally, anything poisonous enough to kill plants is also toxic enough to kill humans, and that is the case with paraquat.

Paraquat is an organic acid that is used as an herbicide. It kills green plant tissue on contact.

When sprayed on plants, paraquat is tasteless and odorless and invisible. In other words, you wouldn’t be able to tell if the weed you were smoking had been sprayed with paraquat.

As far as breathable poisons go, the government has placed paraquat in Toxicity Category I—the highest possible level.

Due to the fact that it is cheap and available, liquid paraquat is frequently used in suicides throughout much of the Third World.

In humans, exposure to paraquat has been linked to the development of Parkin’s disease.

Depending on the dose and the method of ingestion, paraquat can either be immediately fatal or can lead to kidney, liver, lung, and heart failure for up to 30 days after exposure.

Tests performed in 1977 demonstrated that combusted paraquat caused damage to the lungs of laboratory rats.

In 1978, after years of attempting to reassure Americans that smoking paraquat-tainted marijuana was safe, US Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Joseph Califano announced that new tests found that heavy smokers of tainted weed could develop irreversible lung damage and that even moderate users could develop “clinically measurable damage.”

87. 1920 Poisoned Alcohol In 1926, the federal government poisoned alcohol to curb consumption during Prohibition; by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, an estimated 10,000 people had died from this poisoning. When the manufacture and sale of alcohol was illegal between 1920 and 1933, regulatory agencies encouraged.

As if Americans hadn't accumulated enough dark suspicions about their government over the past 50-odd years, along comes an Internet factoid holding that the United States government intentionally (and fatally) poisoned more than 10,000 of its own citizens between 1926 and 1933:

To sell the stolen industrial alcohol, the liquor syndicates employed chemists to "renature" the products, returning them to a drinkable state. The bootleggers paid their chemists a lot more than the government did, and they excelled at their job. Stolen and redistilled alcohol became the primary source of liquor in the country. So federal officials ordered manufacturers to make their products far more deadly.

By mid-1927, the new denaturing formulas included some notable poisons—kerosene and brucine (a plant alkaloid closely related to strychnine), gasoline, benzene, cadmium, iodine, zinc, mercury salts, nicotine, ether, formaldehyde, chloroform, camphor, carbolic acid, quinine, and acetone. The Treasury Department also demanded more methyl alcohol be added—up to 10 percent of total product. It was the last that proved most deadly.

It wasn't just the violent Prohibition-era gang wars that were dangerous to Americans drinking homemade moonshine and bathtub gin. According to the Dec. 26, 1922 edition of the New York Times, five people were killed in the city on Christmas Day from drinking "poisoned rum." That was only the beginning. By 1926, according to Prohibition, by Edward Behr, 750 New Yorkers perished from such poisoning and hundreds of thousands more suffered irreversible injuries including blindness and paralysis. On New Year's Day 1927, 41 people died at New York's Bellevue Hospital from alcohol-related poisonings. Oftentimes, they were drinking industrial methanol, otherwise known as wood alcohol, which was a legal but extremely dangerous poison. One government report said that of 480,000 gallons of liquor confiscated in New York in 1927, nearly all contained poisons.

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