Many conspiracy theorists have joined the likes of arsonist eco-terrorists and Green Peace anti-Globalist groups in a march against multi-national Corporations. But why you ask? After all; nearly all of these corporations bring human consumers what they desire. Why is that bad? Do the conspiracy theorists and anti-globalists want to cause a power vacuum in financial markets and then what? Are they anarchists too? Do they think they can do better? How so? Where is their plan? I would like to ask them a question?

Who do you think built all this, had the vision and stuck with it on a multi-generational plan? Hmm? You want to take down corporations who provide everything you see, everywhere you go. These corporations you list supply jobs, products and services to the whole world. But since you are talking out of your other end, I guess you did not think the whole thing through yet? Still these conspiracy theorists go on and demand the political leadership and the corporate power base be culled and state such things as;

“Removal from power, indictment for crimes and what ever it might take short of armed rebellion to ensure their power is negated.”

Yah but event the two-bit Castro had a plan after he stole his country, murdered and imprisoned business owners, and set up his dictatorship? Give your conspiracy a rest and think through what you are saying, it makes no sense whatsoever. Consider this in 2006.

Postmodernism as a broad intellectual, social and literary movement is hard to capture and define, not more so due to the deliberate wishes of the some of it protagonists for the paradigm to remain enigmatic. As many Post modernists question the practice and prorogation of meta and universal theories grounded in frameworks of "truth", there are obvious overlaps between Postmodernism, Philosophy and the Social Sciences. This is in terms of both the subjects of knowledge and the products of research and literature. For Postmodernism, the role, use and application of theory are not only pivotal to epistemological questions but have fundamental consequences on conceptions of reality.

One area completing overlooked is the relationship between Conspiracy Theory and Postmodernism. One tenet of Postmodernism, as the name directly suggests, is that the analysis of knowledge, society and ontology requires a framework that moves beyond the universal rationalism espoused by the enlightenment period. Enlightenment bore the mark of the birth of Modernity but is now dead. We therefore require a post-modern theory to secede the shackles of the Modern period. For the sake of brevity, this usually entails contextual sensitivity and relativism as opposed to universalism and absolute truth.

Although Conspiracy Theories have always been present throughout history, the genesis of the modern day conspiratorial phenomena is taken to be that of JFK. This saw the inception of a Meta Conspiracy Theory in which political phenomena was not what it seemed. Behind what appears to be the establishment there is a ruling elite, an organization of individuals who act as puppet masters; the real elite behind the masquerading elite.

This undoubtedly gave rise, over the last forty years, to Meta conspiracy theories encompassing the Illuminati, The Bilderberg Group, The Freemasons and the New world Order. It then began to propagate Meta historical continuing conspiracy theories. For instance the New World Order or Illuminati does not juts control all the facets of political, economic and social activity but this plot has been deliberately designed and executed throughout history. This changes the dimension of modern conspiracy theory from being just Meta causal to being all historically encapsulating. This ushered in new questions, not just of current affairs but of the nature and validity of history itself.

This above illustrates one aspect of modern conspiracy theories subsumed by the Postmodern tradition. For contemporary conspiracy theorists, we now require a philosophy and conceptual framework that moves past the enlightenment period's proposals of Liberalism and representative Government. This is because in the world of conspiracy theorists the latter paradigms are evidentially fallacious. We therefore need new theories to look at incidents such as JFK, the Iraq war, 911 and observable inequalities in wealth and living standards. For the exclusion of conspiracy, old political ideologies and theories of Government, society and civil interaction are inept. Instead conspiracy theory serves as a better explanation for the post modern world.

It is these arguments advanced by conspiracy theorists to accommodate the post modern political world that paradoxically has its roots in the Postmodernist tradition. Certain aspects of Postmodernism entail a revamped romanticism, the vacuum left behind by the insufficient claim to universal truth and knowledge is filled by an epistemological tendency "that anything goes". In a Postmodern world in which scientific claims to "true knowledge" are questioned and merely labeled as social constructionism – that it is the social process and practices of institutions such as Universities and scientists that perpetuate science as "truth"; the discourse of science for some Postmodernist is filed under oppressive regimes that perpetuate universal truth.

Instead Jacques Derrida's notorious Deconstruction Theory comes vividly to life in that any subject matter is not just open to interpretation but the possibilities of interpretation are endless. In today's world we see conspiracy theorists operating within this framework. Mistrust in scientific facts and the agents of established social institutions, especially those who endorse the official account of 911 is coupled with the both the ability and license to look at phenomena such as 911, the Iraq war, JFK and the banking crisis and interpret them in any way possible. In fact this is incredibly salient for conspiracy theorists. The Deconstruction Theory rings true in that the narrative of Conspiracy Theory is applicable to any phenomena imaginable. Postmodernists scream out that any phenomena are open to infinite alternative accounts and conspiracy theorists seize on the opportunity.

Ironically under the Postmodernist tradition Conspiracy Theory falls victim to its own claim and purchase of "truth" through its own self created discourse. By dismissing the "truth" presented by established institutions, conspiracy theorists explicate their own version of "truth". However both opposing factions are discourses and Conspiracy Theory mirrors the account of Liberal Government but with its own formation of "truth".

Postmodernism under Foucault and Derrida pronounced prophetic one liners such as "discourses forms of objects of which they speak" and thus instead of "truth" standing outside narratives and discourses, the separation is not possible as discourses themselves form "truth" and "reality" in a circular and interlocking manner.

This is precisely what the discourse of Conspiracy Theory does when proposing the "truth" behind social and political phenomena. For instance the movement called the 911 "Truth" Movement. By rejecting the modern explanation of social and political phenomena, by employing open interpretation that requires no reference to established scientific facts and by creating a discourse which forms "truth" and thus a notion of "reality", modern conspiratorial phenomena finds its foundations in Postmodernism .

Unknown to most of the literate adult Americans of the 21st Century, US Government bureaucracies have, since around 1934, been deliberately created and structured to support covert, illegal, and diabolical unconstitutional operations. How is this so? Well, think of a specific government agency, one of the 1,550 currently existing federal regulatory agencies, commissions, and administrations, as you would a huge chest of draws, comprising a hundred different draws within it. Every drawer is deliberately isolated from every other drawer to contain specifically different items. Likewise, federal government agencies are comprised of many different departments, or drawers, each having its own subdivision of smaller drawers, which are also separate and distinct from each other. Government agencies are usually created to function in a fashion that does not promote cogent oversight. As to why this so, you will see a bit further in this article. For instance, let's take the CIA for example. The independently autonomous Central intelligence Agency is comprised of, at least, 300 different operational departments, each department having, at least, 100 sub-divisions, or sections. Each one of those sub-divided sections is divided into even smaller sections. Each of these agency subdivisions, or sections, contains at least 100 employees, or operatives, who have specific autonomous functions as assigned by their designated section leaders. So, realistically, a government agency, such as the CIA, could contain as many as 50,000 operatives (and assets, or men and women around the world who are not official employees of the CIA, but are secretly paid to perform special assignments) working in 5,000 sections, 100 operatives to a section, and Congress, who actually created the CIA, has no real knowledge of these operational sections. The National Security Agency (NSA) is nearly three times the size of the CIA in operational bureaucratic size, which, of course, creates even more alienation between departments, sections, and sub-sections, where the right-hand of the bureaucratic body does not know what left-hand is doing. Scary, huh? Moreover, when the bureaucratic body has many sections and subsections (or hands), the many right hands ordinarily don't know what the many left hands are doing. This makes the planning and orchestration of conspiracies (covert unsanctioned illegal paramilitary operations) pretty easy to accomplish.

Compartmentalization, a 20th Century term originally created by US Army Gen. Leslie Groves, who managed the WWII Manhattan Project, is the crux of US bureaucratic organization. In order for security to have been tightly micromanaged during the time the first atomic bomb was being created and assembled in the remote New Mexico desert, Groves ensured that the various departments of the Manhattan Project were insulated from each other. This meant that one department didn't know what another department was actually doing. From 1934 until 1939, Groves had taken a great deal of personal time to study the German Nazi bureaucracy quite well, and had realized just how effectively it worked to keep the flow of information to the German civil servants very limited. It is quite surprising how many officers of the US military, like Groves, personally endorsed the pro-Nazi views of Charles Lindbergh, sympathetic to Hitler, during the years prior to 1941. Groves was a confirmed pragmatist and, after 1942, realized that if he could regulate the specific work done in each subsection of the Manhattan Project to ensure that no subsection knew what another subsection was doing, he could securely manage the composition output of the overall project. Essentially, Groves was a hypocrite, a walking contradiction, personally believing in Nazi fascism, but following orders to deliver an atomic bomb. As long as each of his Manhattan Project subsections completed its objective, as an integral component of the whole atomic bomb, the project was securely engaged. I have no idea if Groves realized, or even surmised, what the Nazis were actually planning as their "final solution," which incorporated the Holocaust. Yet, the long-term success of the Nazi final solution was due to the effective working of the Nazi bureaucracy, the thousands of German civil servants (who were not members of the Nazi Party) who performed the paperwork, construction, and transportation needed for the disposition of the millions of Jews who were murdered in the death camps. The Nazis compartmentalized all of their bureaucratic operations that were necessary for the completion and operation of the austere final solution.

So let's depict a believable scenario for the creation and orchestration of an underhanded federal conspiracy in the convoluted bureaucracies of the US government, a conspiracy to kill a lot of innocent people in order to successfully create the public perception of an attack on the American nation and to successfully blame the attack on an unwitting scapegoat in order to perpetuate an endless military and paramilitary "war" against that scapegoat. Let's say that the director of the Council on Foreign Relation, a federal quasi-governmental bureaucracy within itself, organized to determine US foreign policy, which maintains a large staff of federal employees hired by the US military, the CIA, the NSA, the DIA , and the FBI in fifteen different locations in the USA and around the world, calls an organizational meeting with the presiding CFR CIA section-chief about a proposed operation. The CFR Director instructs the CIA section-chief that he, or she, is to plan, within a two-year timeframe, for the complete destruction of three large skyscrapers in New York City, and that the blame for the destruction is to be placed on Muslim terrorists. The political object of this Machiavellian machination would be the eventual control, by federal government privateers, of Middle-Eastern oil and the expanded social, economic, and political control over the American people in furtherance of one-world government and the United Nations Agenda 21 .

The CIA section chief responds to the CFR Director with a dutiful aye, aye, sir, and immediately calls a secret meeting of all the integral federal officers who will be responsible for key parts of the overall conspiracy. One of these individuals is the main CIA liaison with federal contractors in top-secret aircraft construction projects. Now remember that CIA sections and subsections are isolated from each other on a need-to-know basis. So this liaison officer is told by the CIA section chief to arrange for the top-secret construction of two jet drones the size and shape of Boeing 767 commercial jet airliners, and for specialized avionic guidance systems for each of the drones, over a period of two years. Then the section chief instructs another person at the meeting, the CIA liaison officer with NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology), to arrange for the two tallest skyscrapers in New York City, and a third smaller 47-story building, to be secretly prepped, over a two-year period, with military-grade nano-thermite for remote controlled demolition. This particular long-term conspiracy, and its component operations, will be tacitly confirmed and approved by the new incoming neoconservative Republican presidential administration in January 2000, which will be allowed, through a manipulated presidential election, to assume the federal Executive branch. The new presidential administration, under the actual direction of the vice-president, will covertly fall in-line with the orders given by the Council on Foreign Relations. Since all funding for the component parts of the conspiracy will be provided through accounts managed and controlled by the Council on Foreign Relations and secret accounts held by CIA / NSA / DIA owned corporate interests (the CIA, NSA, and DIA own and operate their own corporations around the world), no federal tax appropriations from Congress will be utilized in the operations of the conspiracy. The federal aircraft contractors who will build the jet drones within the two-year timeframe will use "apparent funds" that will be promised to the contacting companies by the CIA liaison, but will never actually be received by the contractors. In other words, the contractors will unknowingly use their own funding to build the drones expecting reimbursement payment by the federal government, which will actually never come. The top-secret, highly classified, arrangements were to be routinely accepted by the contracting companies because such arrangements were standard operating procedures and had been established and used on many previous contracts made through the CIA.

Does this detailed scenario sound strangely familiar, much like something that really happened sixteen years ago, which was actually blamed by the US government on Islamic terrorists; such as 9/11? Well, that's exactly what I have described! Except, it's not at all what the federal government said it was in its mythic book of fiction published in 2004, the "Report of the 9/11 Commission." Hence, let me continue with the unfolding scenario. Two years come and go, and the WTC Twin Towers are prepped for controlled demolition by work crews during day and nighttime hours, during times when the Towers were "supposedly" undergoing elevator repairs and were essentially vacant. Another skyscraper, the Solomon Building, or Building 7, was also covertly prepped with explosives. Building 7 was to be the control-point for operations on 9/11, since the CIA had operational offices in the Solomon Building.

Now the logistical methodology for making the American public think, and perceive, that the commercial Boeing 767 airliners, American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, and American Airlines Flight 77, Boeing 757, supposedly hijacked by Islamic terrorists, crashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon on the morning of 9/11, making them totally collapse in a manner identical to controlled demolition, was tragically diabolical and ruthless, but, nonetheless, pragmatically efficient. You see, the American Airline flights that "supposedly" crashed into Towers 1 and 2, and the into the Pentagon, were actual flights that met that their doom elsewhere in the USA at prearranged times when the empty and windowless jet drones, almost identical to Boeing 767s, were flown into the Towers by remote control. United Airlines Flight 93, a real Boeing 757, was actually flown to some undisclosed location, landed, and the passengers killed, murdered. Remember the alleged crash of Flight 93 into a field near Somerset, Pennsylvania on 9/11? No aircraft fuselage or engine component wreckage was recovered from that crash, which was scientifically impossible. Even if a jet aircraft, the size of a Boeing 757, is flown into the ground in a dive from a high altitude, the 10 tons of steel and titanium engine components don't just vaporize. A great deal of wreckage would remain. It takes a fire and heat of over 2,300 degrees to melt steel and titanium, and much greater heat than that to vaporize such a large amount of such metal. Kerosene jet fuel will only produce a fire with a temperature of less that 800 degrees. The federal government used some other high-detonation weapon to create that large hole in the ground.

Furthermore, the alleged cell phone messages sent and received by the alleged passengers, supposedly depicting hijacking scenarios, were cleverly contrived by the conspirators to appear real and genuine to the American public. The conspirators had enough time and technological resources to make this subterfuge believably happen. In order to tie-up all of the lose-ends of the conspiracy, all of the numerous federal contractors and employees who had specific knowledge of the plans and details of the secretly constructed drones, and who played any other unwitting part in the planning of the conspiracy over the two year period, were individually scheduled, ticketed, and assembled, in mass, on one of those four rerouted commercial flights, and murdered at an undisclosed location where the aircraft was flown during the daytime hours on 9/11. The pragmatic murders of all of the unfortunate passengers on those airliners were committed by paramilitary agents of the US government at undisclosed locations, and their bodies were immediately incinerated.

Yet, not even the most intricately planned conspiracy unfolds without, at least, one, or more, noticeable flaws. On September 11, 2001, a fast arriving CNN news crew responded to the alleged crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon wall. The original video news clip of the CNN reporter appeared on national television in front of the Pentagon wall where, supposedly, the large Boeing 757 had flown into the wall at 400 miles per hour. The reporter was clearly puzzled by the obvious fact, shown in the video, that "there appeared to be no evidence of an airliner crashing into the wall." The grassy ground in front of the wall was totally undisturbed, and federal workers were seen in the background carrying away small pieces of what looked like some other type of smaller aircraft fuselage. Then the CNN broadcast was suddenly cut from view, disappeared, and its content not mentioned again by CNN or any other news affiliate. This was the first publicly viewed flaw. Thank God that the short-lived news-clip was recorded on DVRs around the nation and later made into a U-tube video on the Internet. The second flaw was the mainstream media's federally manipulated failed attempt to persuade the many scientifically-minded American people watching the collapses of the WTC Twin Towers on national television that the crashes of the jet drones flown into the steel super-structures, and the ensuing fires , caused the two super-towers to collapse into their tracks at free-fall speed in a manner identical to controlled demolition. The third flaw comprised the lies publicly told by federal NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) on, and after, 9/11 that the many reports of the 9/11 first-responders of loud secondary explosions heard in the minutes preceding the collapse of both Towers, and that large pools of molten steel were seen by the responders after the collapse, were false. You see, secondary explosions, precisely triggered detonations, are always necessary for remote demolition to properly occur with tall buildings, and in order for the super-steel structures to have been collapsed by controlled demolition with the use of secondary explosive detonations, a super heat producing explosive, military-grade nano-thermite, was used to melt the super-steel construction at its various connected stages in order to produce the free-fall collapse that occurred. Moreover, traces of nano-thermite were abundantly discovered in the ash and debris emanating into the air, and onto the ground, from the rubble of the collapsed towers.

The intricacies of the convoluted layers of federal government bureaucracy are so very disparate in their comprehensive construction and maintenance that describing their operation involves massive and morally unreasonable contradiction, contradiction that the reasonable American would find much too unreasonable to accept. The acquired ability of federal agencies, supposedly created and authorized by Congress, to secretly mutate and metastasize into smaller agencies, administrations, and consortiums without the knowledge of Congress, in order to conduct illegal unsanctioned activities, is the primary means to insidious conspiratorial ends. The men and women who publicly speak and act like honest and decent public servants, but secretly go about in dark illicit circles as ravenous wolves, seeking the demise of constitutional government and the American republic, are the key players in these conspiracies. Awful things can happen when misplaced public trust is wrongfully reposed in the faceless people of amorphous federal agencies, who pragmatically and remorselessly pursue conspiratorial agendas to the detriment of the American people. It is not a matter of determining "if" it can be done, but, rather, a matter of ferreting-out, by federal and State law enforcement, how and when it was done, who the murderous conspirators were that did it, and indicting, trying, and convicting those heinous murderers to the executed deaths that they rightfully deserve.

In studying the Concorde crash the investigators determined it was caused by debris on the runway, which had fallen off a Continental Airlines Aircraft, which went down the same runway prior to the Concorde. Some thought the crash was an International Terrorist Attack. Had the debris, which had fallen off been known it could have been picked up prior to the Concorde’s take off roll.

In fact debris on run ways is common, I have seen stuff on runways myself during takeoff rolls, usually it is something minor and in a light aircraft you are not going very fast so a slight bit of steering for someone on the ball and the problem is solved. The Concorde however takes off at 180 knots or at least that day it tried. It hit the debris and it popped a tire and that tire shredded and sent pieces into the bottom of the wing and fuel tank along with a little of the debris. The aircraft on fire took off and then immediately crashed.

A young man, only twelve years old has come up with a little gadget, which will prevent this from ever happening again. It is a small real-time video camera, which runs along the runway on a track and videos the aircraft as it lands or takes off. It can also be sent solo to inspect the runway from afar, such as a room in the control tower or ground control workstation. The British Airport Authority (BAA) is interested in possibly developing this concept. Interesting as a 12-year old came up with it. Incidentally today NASA announced a spherical device to fly around the ISS-International Space Station to check for damage from space debris. Had this been available it could have inspected the Space Shuttle prior to its return and prevented the accident by way of video preflight.

The young man’s device is said to be able to spot even a single nut on the runway, which could be picked up by a tire or sucked into a jet engine. This is an awesome idea and I would hope the US Military would put them on the catapults so when it returns it video tapes the deck. The young man developed the concept in the “Young Engineers for Britain” contest. This shows why it is important to get ideas from everywhere and how contests spur on innovation. In the United States we have constant robotic contests and we all know about Robot Wars. The young man wants is counting on becoming a mechanical engineer if he ever grows up and I think he will make a damn good one.

Robert Kiyosaki launched his recent book as a viral event by having chapter by chapter released online and collecting comments from readers. The end result is a physical book "Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money".

Judging by the stream of traffic flowing to his ConspiracyOfTheRich.com website and comments from readers, it has not put the world alight, but worked fairly well.

Robert Kiyosaki is best known as author of the best-selling book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" and ever since that book came out in 1997, he and his colleagues, has just held publications to come.

The controversy over the years has focused on Kiyosaki's view that your house is not an asset (instead it is an obligation, because it takes money rather than makes money) and that mutual funds are unsafe and losing investments.

You can say that by the time he writes this book in 2009 his views have, at least in part, been shown to be accurate.

Kiyosaki was controversial in 2002 when he came out with Rich Dads Prophecy predicting a crash. His assertion that the demographics of the Baby Boomer generation and the laws of their retirement investments would lead to a heavy crash in the stock market when they stopped working and began living off their investments. He predicted this to be sometime from 2010 onwards, and it seems to be panning out.

However Conspiracy of Rich is his strongest statement literary statement yet.

Kiyosaki is at both vivid and scathing; from the Introduction "The Root of All Evil", to the later section on "Hijacking of the Education System", where he compares the US to wartime Vietnam or the shanty towns of Cape Town in South Africa.

His message continues, "Today, those who have a strong financial education have an unfair advantage over those who do not."

As always, Kiyosaki is speaking in general terms, using stories and metaphors (such as the tale of the big bad wolf and the three little pigs). He also references much from his previous books. In fact, every one of his eight new rules can be found in his earlier books.

But this book also has more hard and relevant facts, and more solid warnings than ever before.

For example, in Chapter 10 he explains exactly why the recent chaos has been followed by seeming stability. The graph shows that he is instead of green shoots, are we merely in the eye of the hurricane, and Lehman Brothers etc or worse is set to occur again, he predicts, within the next two years.

Chapter 12 shows that the US stock market low on the Dow of 6547 in 2009 is no bottom, and that there is still much lower to drop.

A consistent criticism of Kiyosaki is that he is very repetitive. This book keeps the same style as the previous ones. Kiyosaki response is that repetition is a part of learning, and I'd agree.

A few months ago I went back and reread Cashflow Quadrant, and was surprised at how much I felt that I was not even to pick out all those years ago when I first read it.

Personally, I ended up after much of Kiyosakis path to riches. I'd prefer say its because I've followed his advice but in reality its more because my experiences have agreed again and again with his messages.

If you just want the guts of the "Conspiracy of the Rich" you can read the final Chapter 12 "If I Ran The School System", but there are enough interesting stories in this book to make it worth reading all the way through.

If you are familiar with Kiyosaki's most important books, and you understand fractional reserve banking, Fiat currency and the notion that the Federal Reserve is not federal or US, it has no reserves, and it is not a bank, then you can get the few extra nuggets pretty quickly.

If you are new to Robert Kiyosaki, or have not encountered Austrian economics (a term never used in the book) then it is both a treat, and a mental work out. More than any other of his books this one covers a lot of territory for the newcomer. This is also one of his most fundamental books about money and general financial skills, and deserves to be read broadly.

Many adults have the need to cure bad breath (or halitosis) yet How many of us have used Listerine® to keep your mouth clean and your breath fresh?

The claim that Listerine will “Kill the germs that cause bad breath” is spurious.

It is now scientifically proven that using alcohol based ‘antiseptic mouthwashes’ is not the most effective way to kill the bacteria that cause bad breath.

The bacteria that cause halitosis are not the only bacteria that live in our mouth, believe it or not there are ‘good bacteria’ that play a real part in keeping our mouths clean & healthy. One of the downsides with any antiseptic mouthwash is that they tend to kill everything – that means the ‘good bacteria’ as well.

At best, these antiseptic mouthwashes will only temporarily mask the the foul odor of bad breath. They are certainly not a cure for bad breath.

But why pick on antiseptic mouthwashes and Listerine® in particular?

Industry Research firm ReportLinker’s annual report into the US Market for Oral Care Products (2009 – 7th edition) reveals that there are over 130 million users of mouthwash in the US alone spending in excess of $1billion per year on mouthwash.

Worldwide, billions of dollars are being spent each & every year on mouthwash. And who is really benefiting? – it is certainly not the consumer, yet the mouthwash ‘big brand owners’ are reaping hundreds of millions of dollars in profit.

In some major markets Listerine® has acquired up to 75% market share.

And what of oral cancer….

Debate has raged for years about whether or not alcohol based mouthwash products contribute to incidents of oral cancer. The Australian Dental Journal made this statement after a comprehensive review of a study carried out in 3 countries;

“There is now sufficient evidence to accept the proposition that developing oral cancer is increased or contributed to by the use of alcohol-containing mouthwashes.”

Have a think over these curious facts about Listerine®:

• It was originally created in 1879 as a disinfectant for surgical procedures
• In about 1884 it became an ‘all purpose’ antiseptic
• Over the decades until 1929, Listerine was used for:
• Treating dandruff and dry scalp
• as a beauty treatment for skin
• antiseptic for cuts
• As a deodorant
• An after-shave lotion
• During World War 1, it was even used as a wound irrigant.

….. Mouthwash eh?

The cynic is forgiven for thinking that the marketers merely decided the ‘mouthwash application’ was the most profitable, rather than the most efficacious use of the product – a product that seems to have all the characteristics of a ‘snake oil’ solution.

Even if you believe that all this is inconclusive, would you still spend the money and carry the potential health risk it where a better, cheaper alternative mouthwash existed as a genuine cure for bad breath?

By the way, here’s a tip; If you want to test how your own breath smells, forget cupping your hands around you nose and attempting to sniff your breath.

Simply lick the skin on the inside of your wrist, allow it to briefly, then smell your wrist where you licked – what you smell there is the best indication of how your breath smells to others!

Theory is often regarded a systematic framework formed of concepts that analytically account for phenomena observed. Philosophers for centuries have debated whether the goings on are external to human thoughts and cognition and thus real and material; or whether they are constructs of the mind, logically assembled and maintained by the exercising of reason with no independent reality.

Theory is applied in both the social and natural sciences. In the social sciences disputes emerge, once again, between those who advocate that there is a real material world outside the remit of the observer and those who propose that the social sciences can only be understood internally by its inhabitants; resulting in normative theories that encompass Political Theory as well as historical, social and anthropological paradigms under the broader domain of hermeneutics. In the natural sciences the matter is somewhat different. Although Philosophers o f science such a Van Frassen advocate a scientific image along with anti-realism, most would accept that the methodological practice of the natural sciences is to generate hypothesis that form, or derive from, an overarching theory. This runs parallel to the procession of validating the phenomena in question with the eventual goal of producing a correlation between the explanandum and the explanan.

Classifying both the social and natural sciences as science, with the use of theory, means that the procedures of verification, evidence and explanation take the same abstract steps even though the physicist is completely divorced from the world he studies as where the sociologist, by the nature of human existence and the definition of the discipline, is inescapably part of the phenomena he studies, society. Nonetheless the issues that arise for both the sciences centre around preemption; when there is more than one theory competing for the explanation of the phenomena in question, or theoretical redundancy; when there is a theory that explains certain aspects of a phenomena but not every time nor in every context. This coupled with using evidence based empirical data to warrant the application and validation of a theory means that both the social sciences and natural sciences constantly refine their hypotheses and make predictions on future outcomes.

These are the formal understandings and uses of theory across the spectrum of the sciences and this is what sets both theory apart from pseudo theory and science apart from pseudo science. It is for this very reason that Conspiracy Theory is a pseudo theory. Take firstly one of the Holy Grail’s of the scientific method: prediction. These abound in the natural sciences, ranging from how, why and when your PC will turn on to planes flying and equations of time and space. The social sciences, as already mentioned, tread a much more precarious, unreliable and unstable ground. However through the collection of data based on conceptualized variables and statistical models of causation, predictions can be levied. Anyone who has an investment portfolio can see the benefits of employing time series and regression analysis in economics although the latest financial crises illustrates that the predictions are far from completely accurate.

Conspiracy Theory as a serious ontological and epistemological alternative to social phenomena must provide predictions, demonstrate their applicability and warrant evidence that at least renders their explanations as plausible or highly likely. Although in the social sciences these do not map exactly due to the nature of the measurement of artificially constructed social variables, Conspiracy Theory falls spectacularly short regarding the relationship between observed phenomena, explanation and the use of reliable and relevant data and thus prediction.

Here we must separate conspiracy theories, classifying them into single point conspiracy theories and Meta conspiracy theories. The latter come with an ensemble of predictions for the future. These range from totalitarian one world governments, to alien control to the accession of spiritual enlightenment in other dimensions and planes of existence. However there are no time limits placed on these occurrences only weak inductive inferences. Consequently as a readily defensible claim, conspiracy theorists have the grace of an ever winding clock on their side with limitless time as a luxury for if it does not happen today it will happen tomorrow. These are often the arguments used by classic Marxists, that there is no time frame specified for the proletariat revolution but it will happen one day. Yet it is for these same reasons that in this context both Marxism and conspiracy theories are pseudo scientific theories as neither are falsifiable – that is they cannot be shown to be false. Consequently they stay in the realm of speculation.

With this outcome we have the position of scientific theory vs. unfalsifiable theory. I have argued elsewhere that Conspiracy Theory is a form of Political Theory and Philosophy. Yet Conspiracy Theory is not even competitively viable as a political and social theory. To further grapple with these issues one has to look at the philosophical frameworks and implications of the use of theory in the social sciences, the area in which Conspiracy Theory is attempting to work in. Whether one is a structuralist, a functionalist, a critical theorist or a postmodernist one can look at social phenomena and at least readily apply identifiable frameworks to these goings on based on, in one way or another, the use of data and evidence. Thus a discourse analyst would look at how issues of insanity are constructed in the work and reports of clinical psychologists themselves which brings these conceptual frameworks into existence. A classic critical theorist may demonstrate how mass consumerism and the capitalist enterprise of consumption neglects the critical thinking capacities of the citizens of the modern state. From the position of the social sciences they share the same stand point in that there is a phenomenon to be explained and one applies a theory that can be backed up by some sort of evidence, even though the constitution of evidence in the social sciences is an elusive activity.

Conspiracy Theory operates in reverse with paradoxical tendencies in terms of both phenomena observed and epistemology. This is because, by its very nature, Conspiracy Theory runs contrary to the goings on observed in terms of widely accepted explanations. That is, it a polemist contrarian to other explanations that are presented. It therefore advocates a “behind the scenes” explanation for what is really going on. Financial meltdown, civil unrest and Governmental issues are not caused by idioms advocated by social science but are a deliberately conspired plot executed in the background that most are not aware of. Conspiracy Theory and Political Theory both use observable data yet conspiracy theorists add the stipulation of a deliberately falsified social reality: that what is really going on is does not match the accepted explanations and thus in turn the accepted explanation is not what is really going on.

This then leads to the paradox in Conspiracy Theory with regards to observed social phenomena and epistemology. This is that the observed phenomenon is allocated to the realm of conspiratorial explanation. The explanation encapsulates the activity of cabalist agents operating grand tricks of misdirection yet simultaneously these grand tricks are not only detected by conspiracy theorists but are fully deciphered. In effect the conspirators are both fully competent and almost omnipotent like in that they can control all facets of social activity yet are completely inept in the maintenance of secrecy as they leave an amassed trail of clues for conspirators to find.

The final part of Conspiracy Theory as pseudo theory is its malleability in the face of empirical data. When evidence and data does not match a theory in science, the theory is either reformulated or discarded. This is the same in Conspiracy Theory, where the theories themselves evolve and adapt to take account of newly emerging evidence. We have seen this with the 911 truth movement constantly evolving their theory in the face of ever increasing evidence from structural engineers for how the twin towers collapsed by fire. However when theory is adapted in science, the fit between theory and evidence is refined and tightened so that the theory now matches the data in a more succinct and plausible way. In part, this is the reason why the falsifiability of a theory is imperative. Conspiracy theorists attempt the same execution, in which the Conspiracy Theory will then match the observable data in a correlated manner. Yet again, though, the theory runs in the opposite direction, moving further away from the evidence presented towards elaborating and embellishing the Conspiracy Theory further. For instance take the skull and bones theory that the U.S government and financial system is secretly run by an all white boys club out of Yale University; or somewhat related to a Freemason secret organization. What then happens when a black President out of Harvard takes up the office? The data does not quite fit the theory. Abandon the theory? No reformulate it in the opposite direction that Obama must be a black Freemason.

What Conspiracy Theory does is more than just maintain an equation between data and theory in a reversal and regressive manner but the schema of Conspiracy Theory means that in terms of psychological inference, all data becomes interpreted as conspiratorial phenomena. This rarely happen in the sciences for when data no longer fits a theory it soon becomes disregarded. We have seen this throughout history from Copernicus to Edwin Hubble and a shift now beginning to emerge in terms of free market economics.

Conspiracy Theory is intrinsically more dogmatic than theory in the social and natural sciences producing disjointed theoretical explanations between the theory and data. This constant malleability of Conspiracy Theory, working with different pools of data that no longer correlates to the Conspiracy Theory used in explanation and thus neglecting the data, and observed phenomena, is just one aspect that makes Conspiracy Theory a pseudo theory.

In 2019 there was a secret meeting between several socialist elites who’d been plotting for decades to take over the US. They’d had success getting folks elected or appointed to the highest offices and agencies in our government. They now control the top Ivy League law schools, and they run a good many of the largest US corporations. Basically they run the game. The meeting was secret because this time they were planning their final strategies.

They sat in the dimly lit room going over the final details. They were going to create a mega-disaster, blame it on Mother Nature, declare Marshall Law, suspend the constitution and forgo the upcoming Presidential Elections. No one knew of the plot, but someone had figured it out, a blogger, and they tried to label him as a conspiracy nut, but he’d gained too much popularity.

Worse, the plan had already been put into place. The Salton Sea had been denoted an “Alternative Energy Zone,” and Geothermal companies had been pumping the sea water into deep emptied reservoirs and onto molten rock to break it up in a fracturing type method. Soon the San Andreas Fault would come alive, a 9.0 Earthquake was expected which would cause chaos, and an unheard of disaster. Unfortunately for them the blogger had written:

“I hereby charge those involved with this with a long-term conspiracy to create a situation whereby a giant earthquake will occur, and thus, use that disaster to control, forcing in government into greater power. We have little if any transparency with regards to these things here, we have questionable recently elected politicians who’ve been fast-tracked to higher office by the socialist-elite, and we can’t put anything past them. Yes, there is thermal energy available, but only if the methods used are closed loop, if not, we could cause earthquakes, big ones, pay attention to this, you have been forewarned.”

Little did anyone else know but the same socialist team had set up a bioterrorist attack in Washington DC using an imported virus from the Middle East, which would be put into processed food, and some water supplies. Also simultaneously, the conspirators set up a collapse of NYC’s underground water supply system. All this would occur for the October Surprise. The FBI was running blind, and the NSA’s special system to track communication had been shut down, and there were not enough details to bring up the conspirators up on charges, worse, all the enforcement agencies had also been compromised.

How does this story end?

Over numerous past centuries, common law crime has been very clearly defined in U.S. and British jurisprudence as the joint union and/or operation of act and intent, or criminal negligence, as perpetrated by felons. Most heinous crimes have always involved two or more perpetrators and also a particular stage of planning, or plotting, by those perpetrators in order for them to prepare to commit the crimes. Such definite incremental criminal planning is formally called a “conspiracy” to commit the crime.” Take, for example, bank robbery, burglary, robbery, arson, blackmail, assassination, extortion, or kidnapping; these crimes are all felonies which usually involve a prior-stage of planning by usually two or more individuals. This prior-stage is now codified, listed, and defined in State and federal criminal codes as the separate and distinct crime of “conspiracy.” In other words, it is a punishable felony for two or more people to sit down at a table and “conspire,” or plot, to commit a felony crime, even if the crime is never actually committed. The intent of the perpetrators to conspire together works in union with the act of plotting the crime in definite accomplishable stages to make the conspiracy actionable, in and of itself, as a crime. All it takes for a criminal conspiracy to be hatched is the cooperative working of two, or more, criminally-minded human beings who have the mens rea, or criminal intent, to plan and commit an act that is designated by law as a crime. In fact, a misdemeanor, such as shoplifting, may be transformed into a felony by the culprits planning to enter a store to steal merchandise. This planning elevates the misdemeanor shoplifting to the status of a felony, burglary. Of course, there are some good conspiracies that may be planned by two or more individuals, such as surprise parties, but, by far, there many more bad conspiracies planned and executed than good ones.

Since the beginning of recorded history, criminal conspiracy has been the cause of the worst and most tragic human criminal events, which have resulted in the saddest human history of war, death, and despair. Nonetheless, the primary recorders of American history since the inception of the republic, the academic historians, have had the prerogative to, either, classify and publish these egregious events as what they actually were, criminal conspiracies, or as “accidental” events resulting merely from negligent mistakes instead of deliberate human intention. This gross misrepresentation of the facts has obviously been done in order to deliberately misshape, for political purposes, the perception of the people reading and studying the history of the events over decades of time; that is, the national electorate. In his fictional book “1984,” George Orwell wrote about the sad inhuman result of a futuristic totalitarian government falsely revising human history to re-educate a collective population people to believe what was totally untrue, but necessary for the functioning of the fascist government. That falsely revised history was called, by Orwell, “Newspeak.”

A clear and cogent example of this misshaping of public perception is the current published history of the use and application of the terminology “manifest destiny.” Most academic histories of the Mexican War, 1846 to 1848, in nearly all of the U.S. history textbooks used in high schools, colleges, and universities, state that “Mexico created a war with the USA in 1846 by crossing the Rio Grande River and attacking an encampment of American soldiers led by General Zachary Taylor.” This history goes on to state that the alleged attack led to General Taylor’s expedited report to President James Polk that Mexico had committed an act of war against the USA, which merited a declaration of war by Congress against Mexico. This was exactly how the Mexican War was politically and academically described for well-over a hundred years until the real discernible facts bore witness to a much different set of circumstances. The real facts revealed that the term “manifest destiny” was created by President James Polk as what he envisioned as the eminent right of the United States to have claimed the land of North America formerly owned by Mexico, which now consists of the States of Arizona, California, New Mexico, Nevada, Wyoming, and parts of Utah. The facts also reveal that President James Polk summoned General Zachary Taylor and conspired with him, in Polk’s White House office, to create a military situation on the Mexican border to which the Mexicans would react violently. Polk explicitly ordered Taylor to ensure that American lives were lost in an exchange of gunfire with Mexican troops on the American side of the border. In Polk’s subsequent speech he gave before Congress, asking for a declaration of war, he used the term “manifest destiny” to glorify the ultimate purpose of the war that would shortly ensue. According to the true facts, Abraham Lincoln was the only U.S. Representative in the 1846 House of Representatives to question Polk’s motives for demanding a war against Mexico. Lincoln was actually the only voice in the entire 1846 Congress to question a call for war.

Therefore, one can only say, in truth, that President James Polk was involved in a criminal conspiracy with General Zachary Taylor in order to create an illegal war with Mexico for the purpose of illegally acquiring Mexican lands. Yet, you don’t see it written that way in the history textbooks studied by American high school and college students, and the damning truth is, usually, not expressed by the high school teachers and the college professors to their classes. And why is this? In most cases It is because these teachers and professors are explicitly told by their administrators to strictly adhere to the textbook version of the facts about all historical events. If, however, the teachers and professors had the perspicacity and audacity to state to their students the historical truth about those misperceived events, they would, in all probability be terminated from their positions; but the use of the word “conspiracy” might, as a result of their daring, be more clearly understood by the American public in accordance with the true facts surrounding those, and the many other, “events” labeled as accidents; such as the 1941 Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor or the 1915 sinking of the RMS Lusitania, which precipitated the suspicious U.S. entry into World War I.

Several distinguished historical writers, including the imminent historians John Toland and Georgetown University’s Dr. Charles Tansill, have audaciously written the truth about the Pearl Harbor debacle, reclassifying the surprise attack as a deliberate conspiracy hatched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, instead of a negligent accident. Yet, these true published facts about Pearl Harbor have not been enough to cause the official published history of the murderous incident to reflect that a criminal conspiracy occurred instead of accidental negligence.

Moreover, if the true, relevant, and material facts were published in all officially studied history books about the circumstances that led-up to Operation Desert Storm, and the Gulf War of 1991, there is no doubt in my mind that the precipitating reason for that invasion of Iraq would officially be that “a criminal conspiracy was plotted by a Presidential administration” instead of” the overt aggression of Saddam Hussain.” I firmly believe that the true facts about Operation Desert Storm disclosed to me by the veteran journalist Jean Heller, of the former “St. Petersburg Times,” with whom I conversed at length by telephone, would be sufficient to rewrite correctly what has been deliberately and incorrectly written into American history books since 1991, that “Saddam Hussain was encamped with his army on the Saudi-Kuwaiti border, threatening Saudi oilfields, as shown by NSA satellite photos.” Jean Heller was, however, empowered by her newspaper in 1991 to buy satellite photos taken by the Soyuz-Karta Russian commercial satellite of the same ground supposedly photographed by the NSA satellite, at the same exact time. A careful examination of the Soyuz-Karta photos by ex-Pentagon photo analysts revealed that Saddam’s army was not anywhere near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border, but had withdrawn back to near the Kuwaiti-Iraqi border, and presented no threat, whatsoever, to Saudi-Arabia. The tragic and unnecessary American and Iraqi deaths resulting from the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 1991 were based totally upon egregious lies told to the American electorate by a U.S. Presidential administration. So, can it be said that a “criminal conspiracy” had been spawned by that Presidential administration, which led directly to the invasion of Iraq? And if a criminal conspiracy ensued in that case, how many other sordid criminal conspiracies have been spawned by federal officers since 1991, which have culminated in the deaths of thousands of innocent human beings around the nation and the world? Moreover, just how many of the recent mass-shootings, bombings, and other tragic events that have shaken the moral fabric of the republic been concocted federal conspiracies, which have been deliberately misclassified by federal law enforcement, and the media, as accidental happenings for the express purpose of misshaping American public perception? The correct and perturbing answer to these egregiously poignant questions will certainly mortify inquiring American minds!