Euler wrote Interesting thought.

It may well have just been a large coincidence.

However, it is human nature to want to do things you are told not to do, you see this all the time with young children, however it is still prevalent in fully grown adults.

Whether or not that is relevant may be up to debate, as it may have just been an opportunistic idea. I.e, a group of extremists planning on doing something, but not sure what to do, see a news story saying "Look how bad it would be if terrorists did this!". And as an extremist without your own idea, what would your first thought be? Why don't we do that?

Or you could take the 12 year old, ultra-conspiracy view of, "Omg the news are part of a conspiracy, they are in the illuminati! They knew it was going to happen before it already happened because they helped plan it! The news stations are trying to take over the world 0_0" etc etc.

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Euler wrote Interesting thought.

It may well have just been a large coincidence.

However, it is human nature to want to do things you are told not to do, you see this all the time with young children, however it is still prevalent in fully grown adults.

Whether or not that is relevant may be up to debate, as it may have just been an opportunistic idea. I.e, a group of extremists planning on doing something, but not sure what to do, see a news story saying "Look how bad it would be if terrorists did this!". And as an extremist without your own idea, what would your first thought be? Why don't we do that?

Or you could take the 12 year old, ultra-conspiracy view of, "Omg the news are part of a conspiracy, they are in the illuminati! They knew it was going to happen before it already happened because they helped plan it! The news stations are trying to take over the world 0_0" etc etc.

Let me tell you something that many people know for a fact, especially those in the U.S. military (which I was). The media is and has been HEAVILY engaged in a SERIOUS PSYWAR against the general public since the early 20th century when employers were exploiting their workers. There is and always will be someone behind them with a lot of money telling them what and what not to report on, and sometimes it will be completely staged in order to sway public opinion about a certain topic (e.g. the toppling of the statue of Saddam Hussein). Those "Iraqi Citizens" not only came from the U.S., they were also greatly compensated for acting as citizens of Iraq. The entire event was created by the military's Psychological Operations branch and other public relations firms. My own country is a place of great disgust to me because of its lies and willingness to sell out to the social elite. Governments do not control the world. People with profound amounts of money control the world (e.g. corporations).

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William Casey (CIA Director, 1981)

Euler wrote You talk as if I don't understand that our world is controlled by nothing more than money, and that there is corruption within our governments. Any 12 year old can tell you that, unfortunate as it is, money gives power.

But what I meant in my post was simply that not everything is a conspiracy. You can not put the blame down to these higher organisations because you have nobody else to blame. From what I can tell you lack the ability to understand why, for example, a terrorist would kill hundreds of innocent civilians, so you have to blame it on something else. Therefore there has to be another reason behind what happened that isn't immediately obvious right? No. Not always. It seems to me that you need to realise that these things do happen without any influence from the news stations, corporate elite or government. And sometimes, it is just an individual who is either psychologically impaired, or has horrendously extremist views.