Tag Archives: Conspiracy theories in the United States

23Oct/26

The Rothschild Weather Control Conspiracy

October 23, 2026EnvironmentCloud seeding, Conspiracy theories in the United States, Contents, General Electric, Haiti, High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program, Jérôme Kasparian, Laos, Los Angeles, Luke, Matthew, Meteorology, Milton, national science foundation, Physical geography, Project Stormfury, Savannah, Sixbert Sangwa, St. Louis, Tropical cyclone, United States, Vortices, Weather, Weather hazards, Weather modificationadmin

From STORMFURY to HAARP: Unpacking the Physical Limits of Geoengineering and the Spread of Weather Disinformation

Fri Oct. 23, 2026 /Mpelembe Media/ — The viral “THRONE CLIMATE” narrative functions as a grand super-conspiracy, falsely alleging that a secretive elite connected to the Rothschild family operated a worldwide network of 22 weather modification stations for 47 years to manufacture catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. This online legend adapts 19th-century antisemitic tropes regarding Jewish financial control to modern anxieties about emerging geoengineering technologies, echoing recurring claims made by political figures regarding atmospheric manipulation and space-based weapons. To create false plausibility, the narrative relies on capability substitution—taking bounded, real-world technologies like localized cloud seeding and misrepresenting them as total atmospheric command—alongside pseudo-technical jargon and institutional scapegoating to offer simplistic explanations for complex global market and weather events. Continue reading →

06Feb/26

The Paranoid Style Ascendant: From the Business Plot to the Deep State and the Erosion of Public Trust

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06, Feb. 2026 /Mpelembe Media — Conspiracy theories have been a persistent feature of American political life, though their status has shifted over time. In the 17th and 18th centuries, conspiracy theories were considered “orthodox knowledge” voiced by elites, such as the Founding Fathers’ fears of British plots or the Puritan belief in the devil’s influence,. In the early republic, fears centered on the Illuminati, Freemasons, and Catholics, who were accused of subverting American liberty,,. Following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, persistent myths arose claiming that John Wilkes Booth escaped and a government cover-up hid the truth. Continue reading →

05Dec/23

How conspiracy theories can affect the communities they attack – new research

December 5, 2023Human Interest9/11 conspiracy theories, Andrew McNeill, Antisemitic trope, Anxiety, Conspiracy theories, Conspiracy theories in the United States, Creative Commons, Daniel Jolley, International Jewish conspiracy, Jenny Paterson, New World Order, Newcastle, Pseudohistory, QAnon, SHUTTERSTOCK, United States, White genocide conspiracy theory, World governmentadmin

Daniel Jolley, University of Nottingham; Andrew McNeill, Northumbria University, Newcastle, and Jenny Paterson, Northumbria University, Newcastle

Scientists have learned a lot about why people believe in conspiracy theories and how they harm society over the past couple of decades. Yet little is known about how the groups targeted by conspiracy theories feel and behave.

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21Feb/23

15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory

February 21, 2023Environment9/11 conspiracy theories, Alessia Calafiore, Alex Nurse, Anne Hidalgo, Carlos Moreno, Conspiracy theories, Conspiracy theories in the United States, Creative Commons, Denialism, Geography of England, Liverpool, Local government in the United Kingdom, Neighbourhood, Paris, Richard J. Dunning, Theory, United Kingdom, Urban planningadmin

Alex Nurse, University of Liverpool; Alessia Calafiore, The University of Edinburgh, and Richard J. Dunning, University of Liverpool

Conspiracy theories aren’t a new thing, and for as long as they’ve been around they’ve ranged from the benign to the absurd. From the six moon landings being faked to the Earth being flat, or our ruling class being lizards, we’ve all probably come across them in one form or another.

Yet, in a surprise twist, the hottest conspiracy theory of 2023 comes from an unlikely corner: town planning. This relates to the idea of “the 15-minute city” and has even gone so far as to be mentioned in UK parliament by an MP who called the idea “an international socialist concept” that will “cost us our personal freedom”.

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21Jan/23