There are two competing versions of reality:

1. The world according to the various authorities--a combination of the state and wealthy private companies and citizens;

2.The world according to the information that the authorities forbid, mock, blacklist, shun, etc.

Understanding #1 can be as simple as skimming through your social media feeds and just looking at headlines. Understanding #2 requires diligent research, cross-referencing, self-awareness, persistent intellectual honesty, and a willingness to stand in opposition to both the authorities and the believers of #1, who are the majority in most large cities.

Figuratively speaking, the people who are convinced of #2 are the well-traveled athletes, while the people who are convinced of #1 are the passive, lazy, complacent, and indolent. The media apparatus owned and controlled by the authorities is so pervasive, sophisticated, and effective that the lazy believers of #1 consider the hard-working believers of #2 to be crazy and/or stupid. The utter backwardness of this dynamic is the perfect picture of how lost we are as a population. Maybe the word "stolen" is more appropriate.

Whatever you choose to call it, there is a group of highly placed individuals:

(1)For whom such a "rule the world" conspiracy is individually and collectively rational;

(2)Who have the wealth and power to implement such a conspiracy (and in fact a longstanding monopoly on the creation of money); and

(3)Who are in a position to benefit immeasurably from such a conspiracy, possessing the technology to enforce it and the ability to stop anyone else from bringing them to justice.

Therefore, it would have been decision-theoretically irrational for them not to have invented and pursued such a conspiracy, and it follows that this is exactly what they did. As for the details of this conspiracy, many of those usually discussed - e.g., those involving Illuminati symbolism - are either irrelevant or open to debate.

The point is that we are already presented with something that has too much improbable structure and political-economic momentum to be merely accidental, and thus that anyone who denies the generic existence of such a conspiracy is a deceiver and/or a fool who has no comprehension of the existing power structure, the meaning of rationality, or the definition of conspiracy (which explicitly includes the high level of secrecy ascribed to it by "conspiracy theorists").

Remember, people who deny the existence of a rule-the-world conspiracy are basically saying that the elite, who were ruthlessly (if not globally) "rational" in their efforts to reach the tops of their respective heaps, suddenly forgot all about it for the sake of sheer kindness and morality once they became very rich and powerful. Basically, the idea is that members of the international oligarchy, having clawed, stolen, and murdered their way to a lofty elevation from which they could perceive an entire planet for the taking and the possibility of owning it all in perpetuity by cooperatively playing the cards already in their hands, suddenly decided in concert to sweep all the cards off the table onto the floor and generously distribute their towering piles of money to all of the losers, out of the sheer goodness of their hearts.

Here are some examples of ‘conspiracies’ confirmed to have been carried out by the US government.

Operation Northwood:- The proposals called for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) or other U.S. government operatives to both stage and actually commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The possibilities detailed in the document included the possible assassination of Cuban immigrants, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes to be shot down or given the appearance of being shot down, blowing up a U.S. ship, and orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy.

Khelld El-Masrl - A German and Lebanese citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian police in 2003, and handed over to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). While in CIA custody, he was flown to Afghanistan, where he was held at a black site and routinely interrogated, beaten, strip searched, sodomized, and subjected to other cruel forms of inhumane and degrading treatment and torture. After El-Maui held hunger strikes, and was detained for four months in the "Salt Pie, the CIA finally admitted his arrest and torture were a mistake and released him.

He is believed to be among an estimated 3,000 detainees whom the CIA abducted from 2001-2005. On December 13 2012, EI-Masri won an Article 34 case at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. The court determined he had been tortured while held by CIA agents and ruled that Macedonia was responsible for abusing him while in the country, and knowingly transferring him to the CIA when torture was a possibility. It awarded him compensation. This marked the first time that CIA activities against detainees was legally declared as torture.

Rex 84 - Short for Readiness Exercise 1984, was a classified scenario and drill developed by the United States federal government to detain large numbers of United States citizens deemed to be "national security threats', in the event that the president declared a National Emergency. Possible reasons for such a roundup were reported to be widespread opposition to a U.S. military invasion abroad, such as if the United States were to directly invade Central America. To combat what the government perceived as "subversive activities', the plan also authorized the military to direct ordered movements of civilian populations at state and regional levels.

Project Garden Plot - The plan was developed in response to the civil disorders of the 1960s and fell under the control of the U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM). It provided Federal military and law enforcement assistance to local governments during times of major civil disturbances. The Garden Plot plan—drafted after the Watts, Newark, and Detroit riots—captures the acrimonious times when the document was drawn up. The ‘Plot’ warns against "racial unrest," as well as 'anti-draft" and "anti-Vietnam" elements."

Operation TIPS - Terrorism Information and Prevention System, was a domestic intelligence gathering program designed by President George W. Bush to have United States citizens report suspicious activity. The program's website implied that US workers who had access to private citizens' homes, such as many cable installers and telephone repair workers, would be reporting on what was in people's homes if it were deemed "suspicious."

WARRIOR PRIDE - This is the GCHQ and NSA code name for a pair of spy-ware kits that can be installed on the iPhone and Android based smart-phones. Information about these kits was published by the press on 27 January 2014 from the documents leaked by Edward Snowden.

HEMISPHERE Project - provides police access to a database containing call records going back decades, combined with a sophisticated analytical system. The program involves a private-public part-nership with AT&T.

Prohibition Alcohol Poisoning - Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols manufactured in the United States, products regularly stolen by bootleggers and resold as drinkable spirits. The idea was to scare people into giving up illicit drinking. Instead, by the time Prohibition ended in 1933, the federal poisoning program, by some estimates, had killed at least 10,000 people.

Operation Fast and Furious - Guns were sold to "Straw buyers" in the pursuit of a goal to track the firearms as they were transferred to higher level traffickers in hopes of dismantling the Mexican cartels. By June 2010, suspects had purchased 1,608 firearms at a cost of over US S1 million at Phoenix-area gun shops. At that time, the ATF was also aware of 179 of those weapons being found at crime scenes in Mexico, and 130 in the United States. Barrack Obama invoked executive privilege to withhold documents relating to this scandal.

EPA Toxic Pollutants University of North Carolina's School of Medicine 2004 - A suit filed in federal court charges the Environmental Protection Agency with conducting illegal and potentially lethal experiments on hundreds of financially needy people who were paid $12 an hour without even informing them of risks, and exposed subjects at the University of North Carolina's School of Medicine to very high levels of toxic air pollutants. Many of these subjects were already health-impaired, suffering from asthma, metabolic syndrome, and aging (up to 75 years old).

Operation Paperclip - The forgiving of Nazi leaders and German scientists in exchange for information to further our development on rockets and biological/chemical weapons WWII

Soldiers Mustard Gas Experiments - 60,000 enlisted men were ordered to take part in a once-secret government program — formally declassified in 1993 — to test mustard gas and other chemical agents on American troops.

PRISM - PRISM is a code name for a program under which the United States National Security Agency (NSA) collects internet communications from various U.S. internet companies. Documents indicate that PRISM is "the number one source of raw intelligence used for NSA analytic reports", and it accounts for 91% of the NSA's internet traffic acquired under FISA section 702 authority.

Stellar Wind - was the code name of a warrant-less surveillance program begun under the George W. Bush administration's President's Surveillance Program (PSP). The National Security Agency (NSA) program was approved by President Bush shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks and was revealed by Thomas Tamm to The New York Times in 2004. Stellar Wind was a prelude to new legal structures that allowed President Bush and President Barack Obama to reproduce each of those programs and expand their reach.

Donald Ewen Cameron, electroconvulsive, MKULTRA SUBPROJECT 68 - Cameron's experiments, known as MKULTRA sub-project 68, were partially funded by the CIA and the Canadian government, and are widely known for their use of LSD, barbiturates, and amphetamines on patients. Dr. Cameron wanted to de-pattern patients' minds with the application of highly disruptive electroshock twice a day, as opposed to the norm of three times a week. According to him, this would break all incorrect brain pathways, thus de-patterning the mind. Some call it brainwashing; Cameron called it re-patterning.

Project MINARET - This was a domestic espionage (spying) project operated by the National Security Agency (NSA) President Richard Nixon further expanded the list to include civil rights leaders, journalists and two senators. Among those included were Vietnam war critics.

Project SHAMROCK - The sister project of MINARET where all telegraphic data entering or exiting the United States was gathered and spied on, no authorization of these operations and no warrants.

COINTELPRO - Conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1956 to 1971 to discredit and neutralize organizations considered subversive to U.S. political stability. It was covert and often used extralegal means to criminalize various forms of political struggle and derail several social movements, such as those for civil rights and Puerto Rican independence. Tactics included intense surveillance, organizational infiltration, anonymous mailings, and police harassment.

Operation Mockingbird- is an large-scale program of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) that began in the early years of the Cold War and attempted to manipulate news media for propaganda purposes

Ohio State Penitentiary Cancer Experiments - More than 200 Ohio prisoners were injected with live cancer cells in a research project that they were misinformed about. The project received 5300,000 to $500,000 in federal funding.

Dr. Joseph Stokes Female Prisoner Hepatitis - 200 female prisoners were deliberately infected with hepatitis.

BOUNDLESS INFORMANT - It gives NSA managers summaries of the NSA's worldwide data collection activities by counting meta-data. Those disclosed documents were in a direct contradiction to the NSA's assurance to United States Congress that it does not collect any type of data on millions of Americans.

MUSCULAR (Surveillance) - A program that involves both the NSA and the GCHQ of the United Kingdom that without warrants they store the data of yahoo and google networks.

Xkeystore -A formerly secret computer system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects continually.

Project MKNAOMI - focused on biological projects including biological warfare agents—specifically, to store materials that could either incapacitate or kill a test subject and to develop devices for the diffusion of such materials.

Edgewood Arsenal Human Experiments - From 1948 to 1975, the U.S. Army Chemical Corps conducted classified human subject research at the Edgewood Arsenal facility in Maryland. The purpose was to evaluate the impact of low dose chemical warfare agents on military personnel and to test protective clothing, pharmaceuticals, and vaccines. A small portion of these studies were directed at psycho-chemical warfare and grouped under the prosaic title of the "Medical Research Volunteer Program' (1956-1975). The MRVP was also driven by intelligence requirements and the need for new and more effective interrogation techniques. The experiments were abruptly terminated by the Army in late 1975 amidst an atmosphere of scandal and recrimination as lawmakers accused re-searchers of questionable ethics.

Suffice it to say that there is far more to the rationality and conspiracy concepts than meets the untrained eye. These examples are only the ones that have been declassified. With this much evidence of questionable and criminal behaviour from just the US government alone, the conclusion must be drawn that they (and others) are capable of such actions, and that they (and others) are still doing things behind closed doors that the public would be horrified by. Russia and China no doubt are, and we all know the importance the government places on staying ahead of it’s rivals.

Secrecy is paramount, and anything that did leak out would have to be quickly discredited. The term "Conspiracy theory" is a tool they use. It lumps together all carefully documented evidence and facts and contaminates them with thoughts of men in tin foil hats complaining about the CIA stealing their brainwaves, in order to discredit anyone who can identify obvious holes in the official narrative. It doesn't take too much effort to invent a new term and meaning. Nor does it take much to make that new language popular. Take the word "Tsunami", for an example. This word and its meaning existed almost exclusively in japan, since the 19th century.

That was until 2004, when a huge "Tidal wave" was generated after the Indian ocean earthquake that year. See, up until this event, westerners called tsunamis, tidal waves. To completely erase an English term and exchange it with a Japanese one, only took a few hours, not even a few weeks. Once the media talking heads chose to adopt this foreign word and repeated it a few thousand times during the rolling news coverage. It was a done deal, the population would simply follow their lead.

"Tsunami" only describes a naturally destructive force, but the manner in which the word was implanted overnight into western language demonstrates how quickly new words, and worse, new meanings, are continually implanted using this same top down, repetitive method. Except this new language isn't Japanese or another legitimate language, formed over thousands of years of societal evolution. This new language was and still is being developed by this group of elites in sociology departments in universities and government think tanks. This language is designed to completely destroy our organic culture and replace it with stagnation, degeneration, moral subversion and oppression.

An invented mono "Culture" that has already taken root across the entire western world like cancer. A culture of self censorship, victim-hood, fear of voicing unpopular opinions (no matter how factual), and hatred of Europeans. Political correctness is the language and cultural Marxism is the meaning. Once you have read this collection of facts, articles and summaries, the next time you hear “homophobic” “transphobic” “xenophobic” “Islamophobic” etc., you will understand why each term includes phobic. Phobic states you have an irrational fear and therefore you must be irrational to have a divergent view point.

So most people simply stop having “divergent” views, as it’s socially unacceptable. Imposed group think becomes self sustaining and your own peer group will punish you if you dare step out of line. The elites have successfully turned the average person into a cancer cell who degenerates and slowly dies whilst attacking other healthy cells who refuse to. Of course, they don't just hijack and subvert phobias. Other terms that preexist are given new and exaggerated meaning. Such as racism, which now is defined as opposing unlimited Muslim immigration etc.