9/11 CultWatch

Conspiracy Radio

Tune in to BBC Radio 4 at 2300 this evening for Dave Against The Machine.

This is billed as a comedy about a fictional conspiracy theorist, Dave Railings. It ceertainly seems to have put the Telegraph's radio guide on the defensive. This evenings programme focuses on Dave's concern about a dirty bomb, prompting the Telegraph to warn "If a real bomb (threat or actual) should manifest itself the BBC will pull this quicker than you can say 'bang'."

Other 'conspiracy' based comic characters have been tried before, without prospering. Lets see how this four part series develops before speculating if Dave Railings will be a permanent fixture in conspiracy culture.

What Does David Icke Have To Hide?

The end of April saw a Royal Wedding in London and the first day of May the beatification of Pope John Paul II in Rome.

Always one to find a link or two, David Icke does not believe the proximity of these events is a coincidence. Did the Catholic Church perhaps feel the need to grab a headline or two, and make sure St Peters Square was in the news as much as Westminster Abbey that weekend? Not according to Mr Icke - both events were in fact Beltane Rituals, a point elaborated both in text and on video. This is connected, he argues, to satanic rituals.

One thought occurs to me. April 29th was David Icke's birthday. He appears to have been born at the start of Beltane - but does not bother to tell us of this fact. Why not? If dates have such relevance, surely he could mention it? As Icke stated in his newsletter of 5 May:

"But energetically, Beltane is not just May Day. It begins to build through April 29th and on to April 30th for its culmination on May 1st. The Roman celebration of Beltane was called Floralia, the Festival of the Flowers in honour of the Roman goddess, Flora, and ran through April 29th and May 1st. Here we had the royal wedding in London on April 29th and the beatification of Pope John Paul II in Rome on May 1st. The two rituals were at different ends of the Beltane energetic period in two cities so ritually crucial to the Satanic hierarchy which is running the Illuminati agenda"

You seem to be selling yourself short David. The events also began with your birthday.

Bin Laden Conspiracy Theories

This blog has not rushed to comment on either the death of Osama Bin Laden, or the conspiracy theories that rapidly emerged after Barack Obama's announcement on Monday.

If there were to be a World Cup for conspiracy theorists, the two nations vying for top seeding would be the United States and Pakistan. The UK, despite the best efforts of some, would probably have the type of seeding England's footballers have after four years of Fabio Capello's best efforts. Perhaps the beauty of Bin Laden's death (there you go, I have given away my position as a believer in anything the US President says!) is that it brings together, in one incident, both these conspiracy minded nations. Let battle commence!

Politically, the Navy Seals operation must have terrified the Pakistani establishment, by raising their worst possible fear. That is a world where the US - and for that matter the west more broadly - may not particularly need them. The possibility for Pakistani's feudal class, for its military and its intelligence service, of having to work for a living and pay taxes, rather than simply soak up billions in aid from the West, must be a truly terrifying thought.

Such elements certainly have a motive for denying Bin Laden's death, and indeed for denying his long term presence in a house so close to a Pakistani military academy. They will be delighted to both read, and fuel, further conspiracy theories in the weeks and months to come, providing they absolve the Pakistani establishment of any responsibility for the actions of Al Qaeda.