{"id":39522,"date":"2018-10-22T06:29:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39522"},"modified":"2018-10-22T06:29:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T11:29:38","slug":"yes-virginia-there-are-conspiracies-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39522","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Virginia, There are Conspiracies\u2014I Think"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, Virginia, There are Conspiracies\u2014I Think<\/a><\/h3>\n
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You know those little green-and-white USDA Organic labels you find on organic produce? What if someone told you that their adhesive transmits a powerful drug into the edible that over time can render humans sterile? It\u2019s true, they say; they\u2019ve seen the lab reports, and go on to assert that this is a plot by USDA and agribusiness interests to decimate nutritionally savvy people as a way boost sales of poison-laden GM food products.<\/p>\n

Insidious beyond belief, you think. You\u2019re pretty sure it\u2019s a crock, but your doubt gene says \u201cWhat if\u2026?\u201d and you decide to check it out. You email people to ask if they\u2019ve heard it and some of them do the same. Someone finds a truther blog with a long discussion thread about it and lets you know. Alleging scientific credentials, certain\u00a0discussants proceed to hypothesize about the chemistry and physiology of the attack vector and argue about that. Others point to connections between certain USDA political appointees and Big Food. The rumor has become a thing, and even if you post refutations that get shot down, you\u2019re now part of it.<\/p>\n

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Pop Quiz: Which of these do you think might have been the work of conspiracies?<\/p>\n

1) The assassination of President John F. Kennedy<\/p>\n

2) The Death of Clinton cohort Vince Foster, also by bullet to the head<\/p>\n

3) The Federal Government<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here\u2019s My Take:<\/p>\n

JFK: It\u2019s quite likely that JFK was felled by a conspiracy orchestrated by the CIA, involving the Cuban exile underworld and possibly the New Orleans syndicate, pretty much as Oliver Stone said in JFK. Much of Stone\u2019s material comes via CIA whistle-blower USAF Col. L. Fletcher Prouty. Here\u2019s the epilogue<\/a>to his book JFK: The CIA, Vietnam and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy<\/a>that the printer strangely omitted.<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, Virginia, There are Conspiracies\u2014I Think You know those little green-and-white USDA Organic labels you find on organic produce? What if someone told you that their adhesive transmits a powerful drug into the edible that over time can render humans sterile? It\u2019s true, they say; they\u2019ve seen the lab reports, and go on to assert […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,158,5493,16467,1372,22493,3481,22492],"class_list":["post-39522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cia","tag-conspiracy","tag-counterpunch","tag-geoff-dutton","tag-jfk","tag-l-fletcher-prouty","tag-us-federal-government","tag-vince-foster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39523,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39522\/revisions\/39523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}