Only 6 examples? why not 10 or 20?
Because I think you'll be struggling to produce 6.
There's plenty of stuff but whether it's good enough as evidence or what most want to believe is often the problem, i would suggest you start by watching some of the videos posted here then research this stuff yourself if you haven't already, it would be easier to discuss what is or isn't likely true then, for instance I can safely say secret societies and groups exist and some like to put their symbols in plain sight, many of their members are in positions of power.
I agree 100% with this:
secret societies and groups exist and some like to put their symbols in plain sight, many of their members are in positions of power.
Such societies do exist; look at the Bilderberg group, for example. What we disagree on, are the implications of their existence.
Oh look what a surprise, someone going to an extreme in an attempt to make the whole subject seem as ridiculous, how clever, i've never seen that before...
Being serious now, I forget but what's the definition for that sort of comment?
Why is it so hard for some to acknowledge there are groups who want power and that conspiracies can exist?
I have no trouble believing that this may be true. It's the specifics that I can't accept. The specifics just don't add up.
I think its the secrecy and unknown aspect that really makes the subject so dodgy and unthinkable, like it can never happen even though history says otherwise.
I would find it very easy to believe if I could be shown some proof. It's not the "secret and unknown aspect" that makes it unthinkable; it's the clear detachment from logic, reason and reality that the conspiracy demands.
Look at
The Money Makers, for example. It's simply a regurgitated version of the old "Rothschild conspiracy", which has been doing the rounds ever since anti-Semitism became fashionable in the 1930s. So in that sense, it's just another form of the old "Jews are running the world" story.
Interestingly,
The Money Masters presents dire predictions of an imminent economic meltdown which stubbornly refuses to occur. But
The Money Masters was first released in 1998... ten years ago. And yet, the prophecies of doom remain unfulfilled.
Some quotes from the movie:
I can tell you right naw that there is going to be a crash of unprecedented proportions. A crash like we have never seen before in this country. The greatest shock of this decade is that more people are about to loose more money then at any time before in history, but the second greatest shock will be the incredible amount of money a relatively small group of people will make at the same time.
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The problem is we have one of the worst monetary systems ever devised - a central bank that operates independently of our government, which, with other private banks, creates all of our money with a parallel amount of interest-bearing debt.
That's why we can never get out of debt. And that's why a deep depression is a certainty, for most of our citizens, whether caused suddenly in a severe economic crash, or gradually through continued relentless inflation.
The Fed is creating it to enrich its private stockholders, just like it deliberately created the Great Depression the 1930s.
Source.
So according to the film, this vast economic calamity was supposed to occur "within our decade" (that's from 1998-2008). Well... did I miss it?
And according to the film, the Great Depression was
deliberately orchestrated by America's Federal Reserve Bank for the purpose of enriching its owners. Er... reality check, please?
Surely you can see why I remain incredulous.
