Punx0r said:
Is it not also strange that a person who believes one conspiracy theory is also likely to believe a raft other ones despite being about completely different subjects and unrelated?
Or, could it be, that is those who believe the 'official story' tend to believe a raft of other 'official stories', when in fact many of these "official stories" are proved to be utterly wrong (I.e., the catholic church and their belief in the Earth's place in the universe vs galileo's heliocentric model)? Does that make them any less crazy? Here's a hint, they're gullible. Granted, the gullible exists within both cultures (The "official stories" and "conspiracy stories" cultures), but there's a raft of rational thinkers who believe a bit of both based solely on the evidence. It's not hard to do when you have the intellectual capacity to evaluate the credibility of both official stories and conspiracies, something very few people tend to have (Most people are "conformists", and a part of that includes they believe whatever other people in their 'tribe' believes.). And, yes, there's quite a few so-called conspiracy stories that are more veritable than the official stories, that only the wise enough among us can discern.
For example, I can't verify the Jekyll Island incident and Rothschild's involvement in the federal reserve, but I can say without a doubt the federal reserve was created by the big Wall Street bankers for the Wall Street bankers, designed to increasingly usurp the wealth of the nation's economy overtime. Anybody who can look at how the Federal Reserve is structured, and actually understands its monetary flows, and tell me otherwise has got to be shitting me. Just as loans to Greece from Germany is designed to usurp the wealth of Greece and enrich the Germans, the monetary system was designed by the big bankers to usurp the wealth of America and enrich the Big Bankers. And they do it by both the same mechanism, interest rates. (Here's a hint, the primary mechanism used to be "The prime rate", but they've increasingly relied on Quantitative Easing(Otherwise known as printing money) to steal the wealth of the nation in recent times via longterm inflation that inevitably results from monetary expansion.)
Edit: Actually, I just checked out wikipedia. It appears Jekyll Island is factual (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jekyll_Island#Planning_of_the_Federal_Reserve_System):
At the end of November 1910, Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department A. Piatt Andrew, and five of the country's leading financiers (Frank Vanderlip, Henry P. Davison, Charles D. Norton, Benjamin Strong, and Paul Warburg) arrived at the Jekyll Island Club to discuss monetary policy and the banking system, an event that led to the creation of the Federal Reserve.
And who are these leading financiers?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_A._Vanderlip (President of National City Bank, the largest bank of its day. Now Citibank.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pomeroy_Davison (Senior partner at J.P. Morgan & Co., now a merger between Chase bank and Morgan Stanley)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Strong,_Jr. (Was a de facto partner at J.P. Morgan.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Warburg (Director of Wells Fargo & Company, which I have several accounts at.)
It looks like they were the Big Bankers of their day.