Conspiracies in 20th Century (III) : The White House Putsch (Coup) Conspiracy in 1930

Today, the topic is about the Great Depression. Since it affected a lot of countries in 1930 and became the main reason to lead WWII, there were a lot of conspiracies behind this era. One of the most interesting ones was "The White House Coup" against President F.D. Roosevelt.

What is this?

Only a handful of Americans know this, but during the Great Depression, a groups millionaries and businessowners created a conspiracy to hijack the U.S. government and install a fasicst dictatorship, like the Nazi government in Germany.

Want to Know More?

According to the book A Main in His Time by Spivak, plotters still continues to cover up the truth from the American public for sixty years after the incident: "...Even a generation later, those who are still alive and know all the facts have kept their silence so well that the conspiracy is not even a foonot in American histories."

Although the Hous of Representatives' McCormack-Dickstein Committee for Nazi and comminst activities in America confrimed the allegations, the investigation was quickly finished and was dismissed easily. No wonder! Most of the plotters were famous American financiers in the JP Morgan and Du Pont commercial empires, who bitterly opposed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal policies and friendly policies towards labour unions.

Without Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, the conspiracy would be the reality. In 1933, active putsch plotters approached Butler; they offered him the job of transforming the American Legion veterans group into a 500,000- man marauding army for the coup.

Unformtunately, Butler's honesty turned out to be the conspiracy's downfall. As he told the Committee, Butler was first apporached by Gerald G.MacGuire, a bond salesman of the Connecticut American Legion. MacGuire, Butler said, explained that he had traveld to Europe to study the role played by veterans' groups in propping up Mussolini's facist Italy, Hitler's Nazi Germany, and the French government. Then, he elaborated on the plot.

Althought MacGuire denied Butler's account under ohath, corroborating testimony came from Paul Comly French, a Philadelphia Record reporter. In his article, the leading plotters included:

*Grayson Murphy, a director of Goodyear, Bethlehem Steel, and a panoply of Morgan banks.

*William Doyle, a former state commander of the Legion and purportedly the architect of the coup idea.

* John W. Davis, former Democratic candidate for President of the United States.

*Al Smith, former governor of New York, a Roosevelt foe.

Mysteriously, though, the congressional committee released heavily edited reports and ended the investigation. The reason was, the committee said, there was no suffient evidence to support the claim.

Credit:
Vakin,Jonathan. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time. 1st. Toronto,Ontarion: A Citadel Press Book, 1995.

(Next: 20th Century Conspiracies (IV))

20th Century Conspiracies (II): "Breeding Pure people" Conspiracy.

Today, I will discuss about "Racism." Some may ask, "What kind of conspiracies would racists have?" Well, in this time, it is not a person who has a racial conspiracy; it is a country which has a racial conspriracy. Let's begin.

What is this?

We only know that Hitler's Nazi Germany was the only country that tried to put the "racial hygiene" program in action. Well, not really. In the early twentieth centry, more than fourteen countries, including the United States, approved some of "racial hygiene" program legislation.

Want to know more?

In fact, the United States of America was the first industrialized nation to enact racial purification laws before Germany did. In the first thirty years of this century, thirty of these U.S. states passed sterilization laws. The true number cannot be know, but as many as 60,000 people were "legally" sterilized by the government because they were simply "idiots" or "morons".

In some cases, the most enthusiasitc engenics advocates from society's upper strata started to be show in front of the public. The first "Race Betterment Conference" took place in Battle Creek, Michigan; Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and other scientists tried to "prove" that blacks were stupid, Jews were greedy, Mexicans were lazy, which people with good table manner were born to be superior.

Some of these scientists later earned a huge popularity from their works. William Shockley, who was the Nobel Prize- winning electronics scientist, advanced a proposal in total seriousness to pay person- I mean, black people, with low IQ scores to have themselves sterilized. Also, Konrad Lorenz , who was accepted as a member of Nazi Party in 1938, wrote a paper talking about principles of ethology and "eliminationg inferior races". Later, he accepted his Nobel Prize in Sweden.

What do I think?

What do you think I am thinking? Sometimes, I think there is no evil in this world. Evil can only be seen when we think somebody is evil; that is for sure. By the way, if you think it is not a conspiracy, sorry.

Credit:

Jonathan, Vakin. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time. 1st. Toronto,Ontarion: A Citadel Press Book, 1995.

(Next: 20th Century Conspiracies (III))

(Urgent) Leaked Tibet Protest Photoes on Wikileak.org

Wikileak has finally done it. The site excusively show censored photos of Tibet Protest, which censored by the Chinese government. They also describes the horror of protests in Lhasa.

Go to:
http://www.wikileak.org/

If the upper link doesn't work, go to

http://tmichaelburke.com/mirrors/tibet/
http://www.tchrd.org/press/2008/pr20080318c.html
http://tibet5.notlong.com/

This photoes explains that the Tibet protest was not a conspiracy nor a violent riot.

Conspiracies in 20th Century: Apollo Moon Landing Conspiracy

In this month, I will present about various conspiracies in 20th century. Wow...20th century! There are a lot of conspiracies I need to talk about...the death of Hitler, Hiroshima Bombing, Pearl Harbour, 9/11... However, today, I will start with Apollo Moon Landing Hoax conspiracy.



What is this?

I assume that everyone heard about Neil Amstrong and his Apollo 11. They are the first human beings who landed on the moon, "Men on the Moon." Now, some claims that some or all elements of the Apollo Moon Landing were faked by NASA or other organization from the US government. Depending on groups or individuals, however, there are various thoeries existed right now. Before discussing about theories, first, Let's start with how all things started.



How has it started?

Everything started when Bill Kaysing self-published the book We Never Went to the Moon :American's Thirty Billion Dollar Swindle in 1974, two years after the Apollo Moon flights had ceased.

Since than, a number of different hoax theories have been created. However, No one has proposed a complete persuasive theory.

Different kinds of theories
Several of these theories and their most identifiable facts are listed below:
1. Complete Lie: The idea that entire human lading was faked. Some say the technology
to send men to the Moon was undeveloped or made a misson impossible to put in the action.

2. Partical Hoax: The theory that astronauts had faked their orbit around the Moon and their walk on its surface by trick photography and media technology. British author Marcus Allen suggests that NASA could do the mission because radition levels in space were lethal to humans. Another idea of this theory is that while Apollo 11 mission was fake, Apollo 14 or 15 was the first authentic moon landing mission.

3. Cover-up:

-Astronauts may have used "a secret zero gravity device" on a "Captured extraterrestrial spaceship."

-While astronauts did land on the Moon, they covered up what they found, whether it was gravitational anomalies, aliens, or alien encounters.

4. Actural moon landing; fake broadcasting:

Other belive that men did land on the moon, but the photography was very low quality to broadcast. Therefoore, NASA altered, modified, and faked many of the pictures and films.

Why did they do that, then?

Many people may ask this question, and there are several back-up reasons on this conspiracy.

1. Cold-war: The American government thought they need to win "Space War" against USSR in any means.

2. Money: NASA raised not enough money to go to the Moon.

3. Risk: The technology in that time was unstable to send men to the Moon.

4. Distraction: The government needed a popular distraction from the politic and the Vietnam war.

5.Delivering the promise: NASA had to fulfill President Kennedy's 1961 promise.

What other people think about this?

A 1999 poll by the Gallup Organization showed that 89% percent of the US public believed the landing was true, while 6% did not and 5% was undecided.

What am I thinking?

When I saw "Apollo 13" in grade 5, I loved the human history in space. I hope the whole conspiracy is just a joke, but I cannot say anything.

(Next: Conspracies in 20th Century: II)

Credit:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Moon_Landing_hoax_accusations
-Jonathan, Vakin. The 60 Greatest Conspiracies of All Time. 1st. Toronto,Ontarion: A Citadel Press Book, 1995.

Intro: What is this?

"...When asked which historical events occurred as the result of a conspiracy, many cite The Kennedy Assassination or The World Trade Center Bombing. Although these rank among the most notorious of supposed conspiracies, the historian will likely find the halls of time littered with the cigarette butts of those who plotted in the dark corners of the past. Therefore I present to you the Conspiracy History of the Western World, which brings these little-known concoctions to light so that the hidden history of our world may finally be told..."
From: http://www.geocities.com/area51/cavern/9748/

This site will be about introducing eerie yet attractive historical conspiracies to the general public. I will write all these events in simple articles and opinions, so just watch and read.