American Traps and Conspiracies

American Traps and Conspiracies
Author: Arnold Sarnel
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2019-02-13
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1643509128

In the midseventies, Sarnel had a brush with death and vowed whatever put him on that stretcher, he would whip-and omen in disguise! In one year, he lost all his weight, quit smoking, and became a social drinker. After that experience, Sarnel decided to write a book on health and happiness. The only clue he had was the cryptic phrase: "I know it is wrong for me, but I am doing it anyway." After speaking to over thirty thousand customers about their eating, drinking, and smoking problems, Sarnel put together an informative, inspirational, and educational book you won't put down. It is more of a testament or road map to better health and physical fitness. Sarnel uncovers the tobacco, alcohol, and "junk food" conspiracies to get millions of people addicted to tobacco, alcohol, and junk foods. The reader will realize he/she has been victimized by the alcohol, tobacco, and junk food companies with propaganda and conspiracies. He sheds light about the superstitions of the dark age thinking to modern-age thinking. Sarnel goes into modern-day fallacies/myths regarding food, tobacco, and alcohol. He writes about symbolic traditions and the pros and cons regarding Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. The reader will find the folklore traps: birthdays, anniversaries, Mother's/Father's Day, Valentine's Day could be as heartrending and disenchanting traps people can fall into. Sarnel saved the deadliest trap for last: the media fallacy trap. People trappers always need some kind of bait to entice, lure, or tempt their prey/victims into their traps. Their bait could be greed, gluttony, or lust, to name a few; they are the go-between for the alcohol, tobacco, and junk food companies: the dictators. After the reader reads this, he/she could feel like the patsy to the alcohol, tobacco, and junk food companies. The best is yet to come. You beating the dictators! Sarnel unveils the cheap excuses, which are nothing more than cheap alibis, people use regarding their habits. The reader will realize excuses/alibis lead to rationalities, justification, and denial. (When the reader realizes his/her failures and mistakes, then they are ready to declare war on their eating, drinking, and smoking habits.) Sarnel will excite the reader's imagination seeing themselves being their normal weight, smoke free, and a social drinker. Sarnel shares having a campaign against the reader's self-destructive excuses that they will use regarding the eating, drinking, or smoking problems. He guides the reader through their self-destructive smoking, eating, and drinking problems. He educates the reader with warning signs/symptoms of eating, smoking, and drinking, and with laws and their campaign to destroy their self-destructive habits. Sarnel goes into shattering the conspiracy and breaking the comfort Zones," Sarnel gives a step-by-step in winning the war on your eating, drinking, and smoking problems. He also shares cooking techniques to better health and fitness. He goes into eating traps and the "All American plague." He ends with the reason why people use that deadly phase, "I know it is wrong for me, but I am doing it anyway." (If you want to know more about Sarnel, go to knowyourdestiny.info.

American Conspiracy Theories

American Conspiracy Theories
Author: Joseph E. Uscinski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2014-08-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199351821

We are living in an age of conspiracy theories, whether it's enduring, widely held beliefs such as government involvement in the Kennedy assassination or alien activity at Roswell, fears of a powerful infiltrating group such as the Illuminati, Jews, Catholics, or communists, or modern fringe movements of varying popularity such as birtherism and trutherism. What is it in American culture that makes conspiracy theories proliferate? Who is targeted, and why? Are we in the heyday of the conspiracy theory, or is it in decline? Though there is significant scholarly literature on the topic in psychology, sociology, philosophy, and more, American Conspiracy Theories is the first to use broad, long-term empirical data to analyze this popular American tendency. Joseph E. Uscinski and Joseph M. Parent draw on three sources of original data: 120,000 letters to the editor of the New York Times and Chicago Tribune from between 1890 and 2010; a two-wave survey from before and after the 2012 presidential election; and discussions of conspiracy theories culled from online news sources, blogs, and other Web sites, also from before and after the election. Through these sources, they are able to address crucial questions, such as similarities and differences in the nature of conspiracy theories over time, the role of the Internet and communications technologies in spreading modern conspiracy theories, and whether politics, economics, media, war, or other factors are most important in popularizing conspiratorial beliefs. Ultimately, they conclude that power asymmetries, both foreign and domestic, are the main drivers behind conspiracy theories, and that those at the bottom of power hierarchies have a strategic interest in blaming those at the top-in other words, "conspiracy theories are for losers." But these "losers" can end up having tremendous influence on the course of history, and American Conspiracy Theories is an unprecedented examination of one of the defining features of American political life.

Conspiracy Theories in American History [2 volumes]

Conspiracy Theories in American History [2 volumes]
Author: Peter Knight
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 944
Release: 2003-12-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1576078132

The first comprehensive history of conspiracies and conspiracy theories in the United States. Conspiracy Theories in American History: An Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive, research-based, scholarly study of the pervasiveness of our deeply ingrained culture of conspiracy. From the Puritan witch trials to the Masons, from the Red Scare to Watergate, Whitewater, and the War on Terror, this encyclopedia covers conspiracy theories across the breadth of U.S. history, examining the individuals, organizations, and ideas behind them. Its over 300 alphabetical entries cover both the documented records of actual conspiracies and the cultural and political significance of specific conspiracy speculations. Neither promoting nor dismissing any theory, the entries move beyond the usual biased rhetoric to provide a clear-sighted, dispassionate look at each conspiracy (real or imagined). Readers will come to understand the political and social contexts in which these theories arose, the mindsets and motivations of the people promoting them, the real impact of society's reactions to conspiracy fears, warranted or not, and the verdict (when verifiable) that history has passed on each case.

Conspiracies of Conspiracies

Conspiracies of Conspiracies
Author: Thomas Milan Konda
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 022658593X

“The most comprehensive intellectual history of American conspiracy theories yet produced.” —The American Historical Review It’s tempting to think we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion—and the delusional psychologies that fuel them—have been a constant presence in American life for nearly as long as there’s been an America. In this sweeping book, Thomas Milan Konda traces the country’s obsession with conspiratorial thought from the early days of the republic to our own anxious moment. Conspiracies of Conspiracies details centuries of sinister speculations—from antisemitism and anti-Catholicism to UFOs and reptilian humanoids—and their often-incendiary outcomes. Rather than simply rehashing the surface eccentricities of such theories, Konda draws from his extraordinary assemblage of conspiratorial writing to crack open the mindsets that lead people toward these self-sealing worlds of denial. What is distinctively American about these theories, he argues, is not simply our country’s homegrown obsession with them but their ongoing prevalence and virulence. Konda proves that conspiracy theories are no harmless sideshow. They are instead the dark and secret heart of American political history—one that is poisoning the bloodstream of an increasingly sick body politic. “Meticulous scholarship . . . essential context for understanding our present mess.” —Survival: Global Politics and Strategy “Incisive and engaging . . . Konda’s assessment of the ‘new dynamics’ of conspiracy theories in contemporary US politics is a significant contribution. Written with a clarity of expression rare in academic writing, the book is accessible to a wide readership.” —Choice

American Conspiracy Files

American Conspiracy Files
Author: Peter Kross
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1939149614

Conspiracy theories are not new to our modern time. They date back to biblical times when Moses sent his spies out to check out what the Egyptians were doing. Espionage is also linked to various conspiracies and is all mixed up in the same bag of tricks and form any decent conspiracy or theory. In this new, fact providing book by author Peter Kross called The American Conspiracy Files: The Stories We Were Never Told, the reader is given a tour de force through the world of conspiracies and conspiracy theories dating back to the time when this nation was first founded, right up until the modern day. Author Kross provides the reader with these fascinating and unbelievable stories in short, thought-provoking chapters that will both inform and educate the public to these little known tales from our past. Among the stories that are revealed are the circumstances surrounding the Lost Colony of Roanoke whose settlers simply left their homes and were never seen again. The tales of the deaths of Davy Crockett, Jesse James and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid leave the reader wondering just what really happened to these iconic heroes, conspiracies in the Revolutionary War including Benedict Arnold and Ben Franklin’s son, William. We delve into the large conspiracy to kill President Lincoln and see that John Wilkes Booth did not act alone. Our tale then goes into our modern day with chapters on the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, spies in the Roosevelt administration, the reasons behind the Oklahoma City bombing, the sordid plots of President Lyndon Johnson and the deaths of people associated with him, the revelation of “Deep Throat,” a plot by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to invade Cuba and blame it on Castro, among other interesting tales. As author Kross did in his previous books, Tales From Langley: The CIA from Truman to Obama and The Secret History of the United States, these stories are a fascinating account of our hidden history, most of which the public has never heard of.

The American Trap

The American Trap
Author: Frédéric Pierucci
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1529326885

In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's power company subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very core of how he plotted the key features of the secret economic war that the United States is waging in Europe. And after being silenced for a long time, he has decided, with the help of journalist Matthieu Aron, to reveal all. In April 2013, Frédéric Pierucci was arrested in New York by the FBI and accused of bribery. The US authorities imprisoned him for more than two years - including fourteen months in a notorious maximum-security prison. In doing so, they forced Alstom to pay the biggest financial penalty ever imposed by the United States. In the end, Alstom also gave up areas of control to General Electric, its biggest American competitor. Frédéric's story unpacks how the United States is using corporate law as an economic weapon against its own allies. One after the other, some of the world's largest companies are being actively destabilised to the benefit of the US, in acts of economic sabotage that seem to be the beginning of what's to come...

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East
Author: Michael Butter
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2014-02-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110338270

Conspiracy Theories in the United States and the Middle East is the first book to approach conspiracy theorizing from a decidedly comparative and interdisciplinary perspective. Whereas previous studies have engaged with conspiracy theories within national frameworks only, this collection of essays draws attention to the fact that conspiracist visions are transnational narratives that travel between and connect different cultures. It focuses on the United States and the Middle East because these two regions of the world are entangled in manifold ways and conspiracy theories are currently extremely prominent in both. The contributors to the volume are scholars of Middle Eastern Studies, Anthropology, History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, and American Studies, who approach the subject from a variety of different theories and methodologies. However, all of them share the fundamental assumption that conspiracy theories must not be dismissed out of hand or ridiculed. Usually wrong and frequently dangerous, they are nevertheless articulations of and distorted responses to needs and anxieties that must be taken seriously. Focusing on individual case studies and displaying a high sensitivity for local conditions and the cultural environment, the essays offer a nuanced image of the workings of conspiracy theories in the United States and the Middle East.

The Nature of Conspiracy Theories

The Nature of Conspiracy Theories
Author: Michael Butter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1509540830

Conspiracy theories seem to be proliferating today. Long relegated to a niche existence, conspiracy theories are now pervasive, and older conspiracy theories have been joined by a constant stream of new ones – that the USA carried out the 9/11 attacks itself, that the Ukrainian crisis was orchestrated by NATO, that we are being secretly controlled by a New World Order that keep us docile via chemtrails and vaccinations. Not to mention the moon landing that never happened. But what are conspiracy theories and why do people believe them? Have they always existed or are they something new, a feature of our modern world? In this book Michael Butter provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the nature and development of conspiracy theories. Contrary to popular belief, he shows that conspiracy theories are less popular and influential today than they were in the past. Up to the 1950s, the Western world regarded conspiracy theories as a legitimate form of knowledge and it was therefore normal to believe in them. It was only after the Second World War that this knowledge was delegitimized, causing conspiracy theories to be banished from public discourse and relegated to subcultures. The recent renaissance of conspiracy theories is linked to internet which gives them wider exposure and contributes to the fragmentation of the public sphere. Conspiracy theories are still stigmatized today in many sections of mainstream culture but are being accepted once again as legitimate knowledge in others. It is the clash between these domains and their different conceptions of truth that is fuelling the current debate over conspiracy theories.

The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy 2008

The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy 2008
Author: Mark W. Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2008-01-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1596985461

Already tired of the left-wing media spin on the 2008 elections? Had enough of Democratic talking heads hyping tax increases and the global warming scare? Looking for an island of straight-talking sanity in today's swamp of multi-cultiliberal gibberish? Look no further. Mark Smith continues his crusade against the lunatic Left with this new edition of The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy. Right on time for the 2008 elections, this book shows you how to shoot down the latest liberal rants for bigger government, a cowardly foreign policy, and depraved social values. Why stay silent in the face of so many leftist lies? Grab a copy of The Handbook and you'll be ready to wade into a San Francisco cocktail party, a Grateful Dead reunion concert, or an Ivy League classroom and take on liberals on their home turf.