Links N’ Junk: Conspiracy Theories

I was just watching a movie that forced me to research creepy stuff which was irksome enough to allow me to create a Links N’ Junk totally obsessed focused on conspiracies. The creepy thing isn’t so much that I’m linking to this stuff; rather the fact that some of this is actually official documents on government websites and news articles that didn’t make a blip on the public radar.

Don’t lambaste me for this; I just managed to squeeze a post out of that movie.

• palpatine powers. Some years ago, George W. Bush signed Homeland Security Directive 51 (pdf warning but here’s a wiki link) which allows the Federal Government’s claim of an event as a “catastrophic emergency” (defined as “any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions.”) to result in emergency powers being bestowed upon “a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development of continuity policies.”
• civilian force. At the launch of USA Service.org (don’t put in your info…),  Obama signed Directive 14014.10 (pdf warning) which organizes a homeland force made up of civilian personnel, under the auspices of the Department of Defense, and headed up by either the Secretary of Defense or the President of the United States. As it is, some Mayor is already considering that we need it now.
• global warning. We all know global warning is all our fault, right? Yes? No? Maybe? Ah just tax everyone for carbon emissions and be done with it.
• mo’ money. Taxes on plastic (starts with plastic bags), taxes on carbon emissions (same link above), more fees on your bank account ; and yet trillions disappears into the ether. Banks say they need saving, but then wind up spending the bail-outmoney on other things; while in the background talks about what we really need is a World Wide Bank.  Is it bad if congressmen were feeling bullied into making that bailout decision? Is it bad that Alan Greenspan said that the Fed was above the law?
• change. Plans to leave Iraq in six months end of 2009 sixteen months by end of 2010 (and even so 50,000 troops will stay in Iraq). Torture is evil and CIA is not allowed to participate in it;  but we still have no problem shipping detainees to other countries and letting them ask the hard questions. Guantanamo Bay facility must be closed; but mum’s the word on the relocation (or the shipping them to other countries to do the dirty work).  Lobbyists should not be anywhere near the White House be given positions of prestige (and here).
• shadow government. Why does a group of multi-nationals, from both the public and private sector, get together every four years and have a conference without the media’s interference or invitation? Some of them owners of the major corporations that own the news (like GE, Time War, etc.). BBC says we need them to keep doing what they do (whatever that is). Whatever the case may be, British Parliament was concerned enough to ask (and have unanswered) questions.