9/11 Was an Inside Job

On September 11, 2001, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The impact instantly killed hundreds of people and trapping hundreds more in higher floors. Then, 18 minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing 767 appeared out of the sky and sliced into the south tower near the 60th floor. The collision caused a massive explosion and overall 3,000 people died that day.

The attackers were Islamic terrorists from Saudi Arabia and several other Arab nations. Reportedly financed by Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist organization, they were allegedly acting in retaliation for America’s support of Israel and its continued military presence in the Middle East. But theorists believe a more sinister tactic was at play. This event initially defined Bush’s presidency as it lead many people to join arms in the war against the Middle East. Theories believe this gave U.S military personnel a reason to advance into Middle Eastern territories (and occupy).

People who state it was an inside job say the US government ‘let it happen’, without intervention. Conspiracists generally claim that the aim was to give the Bush government an excuse to wage war on the Islamic world. In actuality, the US governments have shown for decades that they will intervene when and where it suits them. The last thing they need to do to justify any foreign policy is kill 3000 of their own citizens.

Another famous conspiracy states that the twin towers did not collapse, but they were demolished. Research done by over 200+ engineers and architects show that the real reason the twin towers collapsed was structural. Most buildings have their core structural supports at the centre. So basically, when the exterior of the building was penetrated so devastatingly by the planes, the structure's ability to hold itself up was threatened. So when one floor went, the combined weight meant they all went.

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NASA Moon Landing

On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 successfully landed on the moon. It carried Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin. The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961, which was to perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. The United States' Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon.

Though the whole event was documented, many skeptics believe that the NASA Moon Landing was all a hoax from start to end, and that it was staged by NASA with the aid of other organizations. This is due to claims that state that the technology to send men to the Moon was lacking or that the, solar flares, solar wind, coronal mass ejections and cosmic rays made such a trip impossible.

According to James Longuski (Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering at Purdue University), the conspiracy theories are impossible because of their size and complexity. The conspiracy would have to involve more than 400,000 people who worked on the Apollo project. Hundreds of thousands of people, including astronauts, scientists, engineers and many more, would have had to keep the secret. Longuski argues that it would have been much easier to really land on the Moon than to generate such a huge conspiracy to fake the landings.

Vince Calder and Andrew Johnson (Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory), also gave detailed answers to the conspiracists' claims about the moon landing program. They show that NASA's portrayal of the moon landing is fundamentally accurate, using the scientific process, they say that any hypothesis that is contradicted by the observable facts may be rejected.

These conspiracists have managed to sustain public interest in their theories for more than 40 years, despite the rebuttals and third-party evidence, and will continue to do so. 

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NASA Moon Landing Conspiracy Debunked

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Area 51

Area 51 is a United States Air Force facility in Nevada. The base's current primary purpose (not publicly announced) is to supposedly test secret technology, such as military grade weapons and armors. Shortly after Kenneth Arnold coined the term "flying saucer" in 1947, there have been growing rumours that the US government, and others, have a number of crashed UFOs and alien bodies in their possession, and have been secretly reverse-engineering alien technology at locations such as Area 51.

After some absurd speculations the CIA finally came forward and did (publicly) admit that Area 51 exists, but they denied all claims of any alien-related activity. In reality, the spy agency offers no proof of alien spaceship landings in the desert or anywhere, much less have the spaceships themselves. This lead theorists to believe in a government cover-up, arguing why else would they require military personnel to guard the secret location.

Instead of encounters with flying saucers, the documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency recount a less sensational history of Area 51 as a testing range for the government's U-2 spy plane during the Cold War. So the secrecy was not about Martians but about hiding a new spy plane from the Soviets. The U-2 reconnaissance aircraft was designed to snoop on the Soviet Union at high-altitude, hence its development was top-secret.

James Noce, an Area 51 worker in the early 1960’s, revealed he was sworn to secrecy about his work for 47 years. After his contract was over he was free to talk about his work, and shed some light for the curious people. Noce disclosed he was a guard and worked as security, doing routine things like checking for clearance and making sure no one had weapons. He also shared that the Air Force and "the agency" didn't mind the stories about alien spacecraft because they helped cover up the secret planes that were being tested.

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Hitler Not Dead

On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Führerbunker. Though many conspiracy activists state otherwise, claiming that Hitler and his wife, Eva Braun, survived and escaped the city of Berlin that day. While subject to some exposure in popular culture, examples being books such as Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf, these viewpoints provide no factual evidence towards the case.

Others believe that at the Führerbunker, the corpses of "Hitler" and "Braun" were those of doubles who were mercilessly shot, but again, there is no evidence supporting these fringe theories that any doubles were killed. Gustav Weber was Hitler’s main double, but given that there was no shortage of corpses in wartime Berlin, such a killing would have been unnecessary.

There was also a skull fragment with a bullet-hole found outside Hitler’s bunker and kept in Russia’s federal archives in Moscow, and for decades was believed to be that of Hitler’s. However, in 2009 samples of the skull were DNA-tested at the University of Connecticut by archaeologist and bone specialist Nick Bellantoni and colleagues, it was found to be that of a woman aged under 40.

Furthermore, some supposed “Declassified” FBI documents were believed to have containing a number of alleged sighting of Hitler along with conspiracy theories of his escape from Germany. Regarding the subject, the FBI officially stated that the information within those documents pertaining to the escape and sightings of Hitler cannot be verified.

Today, there are an endless amount of theories suggesting Hitler’s escape, imprisonment and torture in Russia, supposed sighting and staged doubles, none of which hold any evidence supporting their claims. Aside from that, fringe theories will continue to exist as they so famously spark people’s curiosity and give us debunkers some notion to write about.

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One of the many conspiracy theories but #NoEvidence

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Illuminati

Historically, the name usually refers to the Bavarian Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776. The society's goals were to oppose superstition, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power. The Illuminati were outlawed by the Bavarian ruler, Charles Theodore, with the encouragement of the Roman Catholic Church, in 1784. In the several years following, the group was defamed by conservative and religious critics who claimed that they continued underground and were responsible for the French Revolution.

The eye in the middle of a pyramid on the American $1 bill is often pointed to as evidence of the Illuminati’s control over the U.S today. In actuality, the official name for this design is called the Eye of Providence. It has been used by multiple religions throughout history to reflect the protective, heightened powers of a god or gods. This can be accounted to date back to Ancient Egyptians as the Eye of Horus.

The reason behind the symbolism, from an American perspective, is that it is a reflection of God’s support for the United States. There are 13 levels on the pyramid, where the Eye of Providence is positioned. This was solely to show the freedom and overall unity of the country, while also displaying a potential to grow in the future.

The Freemasons, a fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local fraternities of stonemason, are believed to be behind the powers of the U.S, instead of the Illuminati. This is because the Freemasons have a symbol, very similar to the Illuminati. The Freemasons, however, did not adopt the Eye of Providence as a symbol until 14 years after the US government. 

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 Sarcastic video about the Illuminati

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