Conspiracy theories - part of US cultural imperialism?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Princess Diana was murdered...
Tsarina Anastacia is alive...
Jews control everything...
The Illuminiti controls everything...
The Knights Templar control everything...
A space ship crashed in Siberia in 1905...

I'd say Europe is doing just fine.

[Seeker]

Some good ones I remember from Korea:

-The North Koreans are actually our friends and only the insidious manipulations of evil foreigners (bush) keep the 2 koreas from uniting into a Super-Korea (something like a giant robot?) which will crush Japan and kill the Divine Guardian of Japan, Godzilla. Incidents such as the 2 naval skirmishes, etc are actually orchestrated by the US. Conditions of life in North Korea are simultaneously exaggerated and caused directly by the US government.

-The Bad Man-Dool Incident(traditional dumplings were found to have been made with garbage from the largest company) was a government plot.

-The Japanese War Memorial is built on an artificial hill made out of severed Korean noses and/or ears taken during the 1590s war and the Occupation Period. More urban legend than plot.

-Nintendo, Sony, and Sega are Japanese plots to create immorality and communism in Korea.

-All foreigners in Korea may claim to have legitimate business, but are actually just there to steal Korean women, with the involvment of the corrupt government.

-The Chinese government somehow deliberately creates air pollution in Korea.

-Most governments are in fact controlled by Space Alien '5th collumnists' (the Raelians were big when I was there). Read Russian newspapers for the real truth on alien life hidden deliberately by the western media.

-There is a conspiracy by Western medical profession to discredit the Incredible Secrets of Traditional Korean Medicine, which can cure cancer etc etc.

[Colon™]

Elvis is alive.

[Drake Tungsten]

The Japanese War Memorial is built on an artificial hill made out of severed Korean noses and/or ears taken during the 1590s war and the Occupation Period. More urban legend than plot.

There is a hill of Korean ears in Kyoto though, from Hideyoshi's invasion in the 1590's. Need to go see it sometime.

[DanS]

Don't the Germans have all sorts of Nazi gold conspiracies? Amber Room? They have some currency over here.

[Dr Strangelove]

How about ODESSA? SMERSH? SPECTRE?

Is it true that the owners of the eight major banks in Russia are all Jews, or is this a resurgence of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion conspiracy theory?

[Jon Miller]

THer eis the Nazi Argentina consipracioes

jM

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by DanS
Don't the Germans have all sorts of Nazi gold conspiracies? Amber Room? They have some currency over here.

There's also the one about Nazi UFOs But these aren't really "alive", while for example the RAF thing I mentioned was (relatively) wide spread for some time.

[MosesPresley]

There are no conspiracies. There have never been any conspiracies. The US is incapable of conspiracy.

[Japher]

There are no conspiracies. There have never been any conspiracies. The US is incapable of conspiracy.

Liar!

The Moon Landing was a hoax perpetuated by the luminati in attempt to sell cheese to the Indians.

[BeBMan]

Correct, except that it wasn't about cheese.

[Spiffor]

AIDS comes from condoms, because they have been infected by the western powers who sell them, in order to prevent Africa from tising to prominence again.

[Ecthy]

Most "AIDS victims" died of the actual medical treatment.

[OzzyKP]

I met an AIDS activist here in America who apparently is pretty big and well connected, and he believes that the condoms the US sends to Africa all have a hole poked in them (on Bush's order of course). He also believes that there is a cure for AIDS but the big pharma companies refuse to release it so they can make money on other stuff.

[Ecthy]

Sounds like some youth rights conspiracy theorist I have heard off...