August 31, 1978:
19 year-old Steven Morrissey first meets guitarist Johnny Marr,
the one who will launch Morrissey’s career several years later
by aggressively enlisting him to co-found a band: The Smiths.

August 31, 1997:
19 years to-the-day since Morrissey met guitarist Johnny Marr,
Princess Diana is killed under circumstances foreshadowed
in Morrissey’s work, beginning with an album by The Smiths.

And that’s just the beginning.

Here we are at Wednesday again, and you know what that means. Once more into the depths, my friends, exploring the strange coincidences and conspiracies that form the underbelly of our suburban existence. This week: a precognitive musician.

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So. Go watch the video. Then come back and tell me that ain’t freaky stuff.

Morrissey predicted Diana’s death. I mean, that’s the only logical explanation. How else can you explain that Diana died by smashing into a pillar, huh? Or the Diana on the deathbed? I’ll be the first to admit I didn’t quite follow that particular train of logic, but it must be legit.

But in the end, the question everyone who ever loved the Queen of People’s Hearts must ask themselves it this: Does Alma really matter?

Fellow conspirators and conspiracists (there’s a difference), I’d love to hear who you know was behind the Princess’s death. Who knows? Maybe your comments will make it into a future edition of Way-out Wednesday.

Via Swallowing the Camel.

I like flying commercial.

It gets frustrating sometimes. Long lines, too short transfer times and the fact that airplanes eat my cell phones all put a damper on my fun quotient. For some reason, though, I still like it. I like the expensive crappy food. I like the feeling of takeoff. And I sleep like a baby in those narrow, cramped seats.

There’s another reason for me to like to fly. Since I fly out of Denver International Airport, the more I fly, the better the chances that I’ll be under those huge white pavilions when the world ends. When the Illuminati who really control the world take their refuge in the sixth underground level of the caverns beneath the Airport, I’ll just knock on their door. How could they refuse a guy with my disarming smile?

That’s right folks, it’s Way-out Wednesday, and today’s expose is a doozy. Before we take one more step, refresh your memory of this disclaimer:

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It’s legally binding.

So what on earth am I talking about? Just this.

If you can’t be bothered to read the whole thing, here’s an overview:

Denver International Airport may or may not be run by the Illuminati, child-eating reptile-resembling aliens or a more sinister organization.

Why? Because it’s:

A: The largest airport in the United States (bigger than San Francisco proper).
B: The site of a mural which shows three dead minority women: a Native American, an African American woman, and a Jewish woman.
C: Has a network of fiber optic (not counting plain copper wire) cable that is longer than the Nile River.
D: The inside is supposedly invisible to infrared and RADAR detection.
E: Reportedly has 8 subbasements (who needs EIGHT basements?)
F: Is “the most inconvenient airport in America”, ranked by its distance from Denver proper.

And the Big One….

That’s a MASONIC SYMBOL that you see there, folks, with what looks like a KEYPAD above it! The entrance to the super secret catacombs?

One can only hope. Here’s a closer image.

Note the title beneath the date: New World Airport Commission. I rest my case.

That’s it for this week, folks! Here’s a compendium of links for further information:

“An Open Letter to the New World Order Denver Airport”
An article from Westword on the subject.
An almost reasonable account of the conspiracy.

Keep digging, and always- if you come across a conspiracy that you think needs airing, you can send it to me.

And every pop hit for the last 35 years.

Welcome back to Way-out Wednesday , when we bravely venture into the realm formerly reserved for crackpots and Robert Ludlum. As always, please read carefully the following disclaimer:

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We’ve already talked about just a few corporations controlling what we read and see on TV, but what if it was more sinister than that? What if- now bear with me, because this is a what if- what if one man, one single, solitary man with a creaky voice and a vaguely communist splash page was responsible for all of the music you listen to?! Watch the video below, and tell me it’s not scary.

Well? Yeah. That’s what I thought. Reason #3,713 to listen to music that’s off the beaten path.

Via Essays and Effluvia who got it from Super Deluxe.

Henry H. “Hap” Arnold.  Jimmy Doolittle.  Carl “Tooey” Spaatz.  Hoyt S. Vandenberg and Curtiss E. LeMay.  What do they all have in common?

If you answered “Air Force heroes”, you were wrong. Well, not wrong, technically-but off the mark.  The correct answer, of course, (and if you got this one right, you should be writing this column) is they were all members of Majestic 12, the far-reaching conspiracy that all started one fateful day back in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico.

Welcome back to the fourth edition of Way-out Wednesday, where we get together and explore the inner recesses of some of the most paranoid minds in the world.  Just remember- even paranoid schizophrenics have enemies.  They might even have more.

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The discussion of Majestic 12 is especially timely.  If this letter is authentic, then the 60th anniversary of its founding was just two days ago.  60, of course is divisible by 12.  This is clearly a sign of great significance (or maybe that’s just what they want you to think).

If Majestic 12 ever existed, it must have thrived.  With brilliant minds like Einstein and Oppenheimer working on reversing engineering alien technology, how could Majestic have done anything but?  Able to produce oodles of money out of thin air, possessing the knowledge of ancient cultures, they consolidated power, assassinated JFK when he threatened to expose them, and now are doing…

Not much of anything, at least that we can see.  Of course, that just means the conspiracy is working.

Unless the whole thing is a USAF conspiracy designed to make us look away from the people we should really be afraid of (of course, if it is, I know nothing about it).

Behold, the true holders of real ultimate extraterrestrial power.

What if Fidel Castro wasn’t the loveable old communist most of us think of him as? What if he was something much more sinister? What if he was (duh duh duh!) a SUPERMOLE!

Welcome back to Way-out Wednesday. If you’ve never seen this before, this is when we all dig into the underbelly of our world a little bit and bring to light some dark and scary secret, like the preternatural tree-hiding abilities of the average African Elephant. This week’s conspiracy is certainly a doozy. As always, the following disclaimer applies:

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So, what could possibly make our bearded southern friend a candidate for American agenthood? Well, for one, Castro was a firm believer in the Marxist system. A little too firm, some say. After all, everybody knows that the system is overly idealistic and that true believers are dangerous.

Point #2: Castro went to the Russians, not the other way around. Every intelligence professional knows never to trust an outsider who wants the job.

And then there’s the mysterious Russian intelligence agent who showed up as a “journalistic correspondent” and kept a close eye on Castro. A “correspondent” who just happened to work for a telegraph service that just happened to be run by the Soviet Government! Coincidence? I think not!

There’s all kind of evidence here, and it’s even footnoted. Of course, I have neither the time nor the inclination to go track down all the sources and verify if they truly heard Castro singing the Star-Spangled Banner in the shower one day, but the facts are plainly laid out. Castro is the best placed mole in history.

I wonder if this means he’ll get a star on the wall when he finally kicks the bucket.

Thanks to Robert Anton Wilson’s book, Everything is Under Control.

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P.S.> Astute readers might (or might not) notice that this story has some similarity to the plot of Alan Moore’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. I. I’m pretty sure this is a coincidence- but what if it’s not!? What if this British author’s British story about fictional British heroes is actually about the U.S.S.R. and the plain ol’ U.S.?!? Cue the woo-woo music!

Welcome back to the feature I can now officially call weekly! Every week, Wingman NewsWire touches briefly on the kind of conspiracy most people call crazy but those in the know call incontrovertible.

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This weeks presentation is a little different, based as it is on an SNL skit.Even though this video was initially presented on Saturday Night Live, it hits a little close to home. Take a look at this list of GE’s major holdings. For example: Those store credit cards, like Dillard’s, Sams Club, American Eagle? All owned by GE.  People worry about McDonald’s or Disney- I think good ol’ General Electric is going to be on my list of things to do a little digging about in the near future.

Via Art of the Prank via Dwerf

Trackposted at Diary of the Mad Pigeon.

Welcome to Way-out Wednesdays, Wingman NewsWire’s soon-to-be weekly foray into the wilderness of conspiracy theory! This inaugural edition is an example of what I promise you’ll see every week: a short synopsis of a conspiracy theory that may be just for laughs- or may hit a little close to home (and an overabundance of parenthesis).

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There now, half of my promise is fulfilled, and I haven’t even started in with the conspiracy! Today’s way-out-ness is a few threads of classic conspiracy: The Illuminati and the Freemasons.

John Robison’s Proofs of a Conspiracy
In 1801, the somewhat-noted physicist John Robison produced a pamphlet called Proofs of a Conspiracy, which alleged that the Illuminati (and if you don’t know who they are, you probably aren’t ready to step into the big kids’ conspiracy pool) had secretly taken over the Grand Orient Lodge of Egyptian Freemasonry and were infiltrating other Freemason organizations. Robison says that the Illuminati’s goal was the abolishment of all government and religion to some unknown end.
All not terribly interesting or inventing stuff (maybe it was in 1801), but here’s why I thought Robison would be a good kick-off:

Nothing is dangerous as a mystic Association. The object remaining a secret in the hands of the management, the rest simply put a ring in their own noses, by which they may be led about at pleasure; and still panting after the secret they are more pleased the less they see.¹

Now, I haven’t read Robison’s book (yet), but that quote sure is interesting. It gets right to the heart of the conspiracy method of control (which is something my undergraduate thesis will talk a lot about). People are naturally drawn to secrets, and the lure of them will keep some of us hopping right over the edge of a cliff. Robison’s warning is good for us to remember even today.

In other news, Robison seemed to make a habit of warning normal citizens of impending doom. According to an unsourced statement in Wikipedia (can anyone verify further?), he was the true inventor of the siren.² Thanks, John Robison! Maybe someday someone will get to the bottom of the Illuminati and you can rest in peace.

SOURCES
¹ Robert Anton Wilson and Miriam Joan Hill, Everything is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults and Cover-ups (New York: HarperPerennial 1998) quoting John Robison, Proofs of a Conspiracy.

² “John Robison (physicist)” in Wikipedia: The Free Online Encyclopedia Anyone Can Edit (accessed 0801 1SEP2007); Internet.