Conspiracy Theories, the modern way of rumour mongering (gossiping)!

I am particularly fascinated with conspiracy theories, who would not be? Not so much as to find the 'truth out there' like Fox Mulder and Dana Scully in X-files, but I am just intrigued by how people managed to justify their every action and statement with appropriate rationalisation which actually made sense and people believing. The internet is a fertile hunting ground to this end, and the numbers increase exponentially as I speak (type)!
Some of the theories that caught my fancy are depicted here, in no particular order of importance...

• The moon landing is a hoax! A hot topic which has been discussed at length is the lunar landing. Many argue that televised lading footage was actually filmed in a studio in Arizona! They go on to say that the Star-Spangled Banner (US flag) is actually 'flying' in an atmosphere-less lunar atmosphere! Apparently, a whiff of wind passed through the ajar studio door during shooting. And the hard believers go on to insist on Buzz Aldrin to swear on the Bible, which he refused, further proving their point. And why were there no lunar landings after Apollo 11?
• JFK was assassinated by CIA! The defeat at 'Bay of Pig' and the reluctance of the President to go to war in Vietnam was good enough a reason for CIA and the war lobbyists to assassinate Kennedy. Various inquiries have agreed that 4 shot were heard; too fast a pace to be shot from the alleged weapon. They also decided that 2 gunmen were needed, taking into consideration the location of the shooting and injury. There is a dispute in the nature of the injury to the President. The alleged killer, Lee Harvey Oswald, is just a fall guy!
• Achtung! Adolf Hitler never committed suicide or died. His body was never found. He allegedly got an amnesty to be extradited to Argentina to resume a new identity!
• Imagine! John Lennon was not shot by a deranged fan, Mark Chapman. He was just a pawn in a game controlled by the CIA as Lennon had struck a wrong nerve among the proponents of Vietnam War with his anti-war sentiments.
• Elvis is Alive! Right, Elvis may have left the building, but he never left the world. After leading a lonely decadent life binging on peanut butter sandwiches and burgers and turning into a balloon, decided to lead a fresh new life away from the neon lights of Las Vegas. He supposedly faked his own life. Besides the multiple Elvis' sightings, conspiracy theorists insist that the tombstone at his grave is not the King's. His middle name is misspelt (or is it?); Aaron instead of Aron. Elvis actually had a not so famous handicapped twin brother who lies there.  
• England Rose wither...Lady Diana's accident is planned murder! The coroner's report says that the Lady's death was due to drunk driving. The theorists, on the other hand, accuse the British Royal family to order M15 to execute her murder! Witness mention of a flash of light in the tunnel which blinded the driver before the accident. Three times the permitted limit level of alcohol was found in the driver's blood, but this is disputed on its method of detection. Diana is said to be carrying her lover Dodi Fayed's child. The royalty could not accept a non-Christian potential heir to the throne of Windsor castle, herein lays the motive. Screening for pregnancy hormones (BetaHCG) proved negative, however. Her NGO work on anti-landmines was getting a lot of clouts which seem to upset the superpowers. Today, everybody is happy; the two-timing wife is no more in the wrong light, no adverse publicity in the British tabloids, her two-timing husband is happily flaunting his ugly mistress in public.
• 9-11 Twin Tower Massacre is staged by Mossad!  Activities in airlines shares showed a lot of activities days before the tragedy. 300,000 Jewish workers were informed not to go to work on the tragic day. Many experts have questioned the pattern of destruction of the building. Many have come forward with information of demolition work carried in the vicinity days before the event. Theory of superimposition of plane visual on TV was also told. Unprovoked auto-destruction of a third building, not immediately adjacent but within the vicinity, is said to happen due to structural damage but actually allegedly contained sensitive CIA files on 9-11.
• Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq! To justify his march into a sovereign country, Bush hoodwinked the world on the existence of WMD. Bush just helped to stir a hornet's nest, and Iraq is now in disarray. It is all about the petroleum line, stupid! The only WMD around is vehicles in Malaysia with number plates starting with alphabets WMD!
• Aliens rule the world! True, the British royal family are aliens to England. They are actually immigrants from Germany. That we know. There is a wild story that many world leaders are actually alien reptiles in human clothing. And we are talking from the time of Roosevelt to now.
• Everybody wants to rule the world! Many races have been linked with this accusation, especially the Jews, though The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and their Jewish lobby in the US Senate. Hitler justified his act of genocide to this end. The Baha'is at one point or another have been accused of being agents of the British and Russians. The Armenians are said to have corroborated with Nazis in the Holocaust.
• Area 51 holds alien artefacts! Many theories revolve around this strip of desert land in Nevada USA. It is officially reported to be a USAF base, but stories about crash-landed alien aircraft, time travel experiments, teleportation, weather control, exotic weapons and extraterrestrial meetings have been churned again and again.
• Coup de tat! Many regimes and dictators have been placed and displaced at the fancy of US, to maintain their interest and hegemony in specific regions. This would include Chile, Haiti, Philippines, Venezuela, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq and many more. Anywhere any leader falls or is killed, the Americans are there with the smoking gun!
• Itching for a fight! Even though the Americans had prior knowledge of the Japanese attack and their success in breaking into the Japanese intelligence code, they lost tamely in Pearl Harbour on a Sunday morning attack. That is because the US just wanted to have a reason to be dragged into World War 2.
• A dream shattered! Great Nobel Prize winner, pastor, heart-wrenching orator Martin Luther King Jr. is said to have been assassinated by the CIA as he was getting too comfortable for their taste. Also in their hit-list were Malcolm X and Michael Jackson? And Chandra Bose too by the British colonial masters?  
• Paul is dead! In the late 60's there was a mega-theory that the second most influential member of the Beatles, Paul McCartney was dead! They said that if you were to play a particular song on the turntable backwards, the message would be clear - Paul is dead. There were cryptic lyrics in that song to support that like I carried him on my shoulder, I buried Paul, etc. On the cover of the album, Paul was supposed to have posed with his back facing the camera. A bad omen, apparently and it goes on and on. 
• I shot the electric car! In 1914, the fastest electric vehicle was moving at 65 mph! What happened? Why did not these cars pick up steam? The oil barons and cartels were there to suppress this technology to prosper themselves. Now that the Zephyr, the solar airplane, had 82 hours of continuous flight, we will wait and see just how far it will go before it is literally shot down.
• Licence to be shot at: KAL 007! KAL 007 has nothing to do with the spy with the same code, but it was a civilian plane mercilessly gunned down by Russian fighter planes in 1983 over prohibited waters in the Sea of Japan. Many unanswered questions were left dangling on the shooting and the simultaneous presence of an American fighter plane nearby.
• I want to live forever! Advancements in medical sciences allegedly increase longevity, so they say. As the medical industry is a multi-billion industry, there is a dire, pressing need to keep the industry going by suppressing herbal and traditional remedies. There is lethargy in the breakthrough in the treatment of endemic diseases of the under-developed world of dengue, tuberculosis, leprosy and malaria as there is no profit to be made here. Just to get the industry going, the cure for common chronic diseases like cancer, diabetes, hypertension is still wanting. Did you notice how fast the cut-off levels of cholesterol seem to get lower and lower when treatment needs to be started? 
• HIV & Afro-Americans: Louis Farrakhan of Nations of Islam claim there is a bigger agenda among the powers that be to bring down the Blacks in the USA. Hence, the Government vaccinated blacks with Hepatitis B tainted with the HIV virus to eradicate Afro-Americans. He conveniently omitted their lifestyles.  
• Kaboom Mushroom Cloud! Did you know that the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami was not the act of God? It was the effect of underwater nuclear underwater testing gone awry. So was the devastating earthquake in Haiti in 2006. To clear their conscience, a significant fat donation was given to the victims.
• Shhh!!!  Many secret societies have been founded around the world with dubious motives. (At least it is not known to everyone else.) These societies have only agenda on their mind - world domination. Examples of organisations include Freemasons, Skull & Bones society (Yale fraternity) and Men-in-Black (MIB). Ask Dan Brown, he will tell you loads of these pacts and their hidden agendas and Ron Howard will make a movie out of it. 
• Subliminal mind control! Ever since J.L. Baird invented the idiot box (TV), it is a common pre-conception that it can be a tool to control our mind. True, our likes and dislikes are monitored. That is how show rating is given. Now with the advent of the internet, people have all lost their privacy and are at the liberty of Big Brother. Even movies would have subtle advertising cues if one were to discern the frame behind the main character!

 These types of stories indeed make excellent party conversation pieces, but after some time people will shun you thinking that you are either a paranoid schizophrenic or party-popper! Malaysian politics is filled with  conspiracy theories. Our leaders will categorically deny everything and even ridicule the idea. Rakyat will talk all about it in the coffee shops and cyberspace, just to be proven correct in the newspapers months later!
We just have accepted all these happenings in our life. Just take it like the curry leaves in your banana leave rice. The curry leaves (conspiracy theories) are essential in giving that extra oomph to your favourite mutton curry (life), but it also comes in the way when you sink your teeth into your juicy meat!

Liar! Liar!Pants on fire!

Infidel princess

Very distant cousin

Pinochet and Chilean guard

Kamikaze at Pearl Harbour

Dream realised 40 years later!

Fly away...Zephyr

British Tabloids

Turning his back on Beatles

Aaron? Aron? What's the difference?

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  Little Hitlers in Argentina?

  

  KAL 007

  

  Lunar hoax?

  

  Alien leaders amongst us

  
  

Changed the world we live

JFK shortly before the assassination

Netaji

Mushroom cloud

Jewish agenda