@Economister
The real question is "Who is really in charge"? The reason there are so many "conspiracy theories" about, is that there is A LOT of stuff that goes on "out of sight" that we don't know about. Think of what we DO know about some of the "secret" things that happened up to, say, the 1940's, and then think about how much the public knew about that stuff at the time - or even shortly afterward: almost nothing, if anything. We like to think that in the "digital age", we can find out anything about anyone, and keep "them" (whoever "them" might be in any given context) accountable. There IS enough whispered conjecture floating about for us to conclude that there is a very large amount of "stuff" that happens that we will never know about. So therefore, I say that anything that is "leaked" is done so deliberately, by "them", in order to make us think that we have a bead on things. Further, I firmly believe that same "them" allows just enough truth to be mixed into the mass of FUD circulated by the "conspiracy theorists" to a) make them look like idiots whilst b) getting us used to the existence of various ideas (e.g. "planet x", ETs, human chimeras et al). If our thinking is "softened up" by information that is 90% FUD & 10% truth, we gerbils are far more likely not to spin out when weird, out-there stuff ACTUALLY happens. Case in point: those who acknowledged "aliens" of any sort prior to the 50's were basically locked up. Today we just argue about who they are, what they are, and how many there are...
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