Listen, I get that there's plenty - PLENTY - of paranoia in the world. There are people that still swear the Earth is flat; there are people that believe Bigfoot roams the deepest, darkest jungles of our planet; and there are people, as we all know, who believe that aliens are human-statured, gray-skinned, naked, bug-eyed creatures with flying saucers and beams of light.
This post is not of the supernatural variety, but rather simply something I happened upon today that blows my mind. Yesterday the stock market (specifically the Dow Jones) dropped over 500 points, its biggest drop since September 11, 2001. This was somewhat expected due to recent news of several financial corporations on the brink of bankruptcy. However, a Google Groups user by the name of "reinhardt" predicted this crash, to the day, on July 18th of this year.
The prediction itself, while impressive, wasn't amazing. People guess things like this frequently based on historical data, sort of like the meteorologists we all hold in such high regard. This, though, was different. Reinhardt goes on to explain in great detail just how these things happen, and the source of these conspiracies. The internet community began doing some research on this guy because his evidence was so detailed and convincing. It turns out he's predicted similar market adjustments in the past. He has since been banned from Google Groups.
Much of his reasoning is beyond my level of comprehension, but, assuming his facts are straight (I have not done fact-checking, but have read others' accounts backing up reinhardt's information) this is some creepy stuff. He essentially ties these market adjustments to Opus Dei, Legatus, and several very prominent businessmen.
A website called abovetopsecret.com then picked up the story. Admittedly this site appears to be a fear-mongering paranoia factory, but they did a ton of research and dug up some interesting information, including this:
Hi all, This might be the last thing I ever post on here but I need to warn you all. I have been with LAPD for a while and have learned alot of things. One of them is to be a little more independent. Don't put 100 % faith in other humans to take care of you. And yes that means the government 2. Well because things have gotten so bad in LA (Officers being shot at up 39 % in 2007) I decided to move to Idaho. And I love it by the way. Anyway what I'm going to say might shock you or even scare you, but please understand that fear does nothing but makes things worse kinda like stress. So instead of worrying do something to fix it. Remember there's no problems only solutions. This morning I got a call from my uncle who is very high up in the military and he told me to leave the city now. I hardly ever talk to him so he was unaware that I had already left LA. But he seemed very concerned but refused to tell me why. After about 20 minutes he told me the very basics. The first thing he said was to buy as much can food and water as possible. The second was to stock up on ammo. I have already stacked up on ammo because I knew it would become very expensive later and in LA there was a 1 year wait for .223 bullets for my AR15. But I was still very confused as to why he's calling out of the blue and telling me these things. Well what he said next is something the american people aren't suppose to know. He told me that there is an actual plan as to when the economy will completely crash. As of right now he said it will happen in the middle of sept of this year. Also he said that our Government will crash in Feb of 2009. He said that Mexico and Canada will merge with us and that a new dollar called the Amero is going to replace the dollar. But the most scary thing is what he told me he's been doing for the past couple of years. He's been overseeing the construction of Prison Camps being built all through out America. He said a Private company called Haliburton is building them. He told me that 1 camp in Alaska can hold 2 million people and there's almost 1000 camps in the USA. ( not including the ones underground) He also said that these will be used when they declare Martial Law. There's some more things but I promised him I would never repeat them. But just knowing that this could even be possible makes me say to myself " why not buy an extra 20 or 30 bucks of food I can store" each time I go shopping. I had about 2 weeks worth because in California you never know when that next big earthquake can hit not to mention the last year and a half we have been training on how to handle food riots in LA.( By the way the first step in the LAPD process is to stand back and observe).
I'm not sure what a government "crash" is, and I don't even know who this is, or their reputation. This person's grammatical skills leads me to believe it could be anybody just messing around, but still, it sticks in my mind. Perhaps this person wears a tinfoil hat. However, I Googled this "Amero," which I've never heard of. Googling is free after all. There are roughly 900,000 results for a search of "amero." There's a Wikipedia entry (which means nothing, because Jimmy the Retard could have written it). There's a guy on CNBC speaking about it.
I'll reiterate this one last time: I don't believe any of this. Yet. But some of this stuff seems very coincidental, and remember, there's no such thing as a coincidence.