{"id":6279,"date":"2020-07-11T12:25:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6279"},"modified":"2020-07-11T12:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T19:36:51","slug":"rethinking-conspiracy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/?p=6279","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>EXCERPT<\/strong>: &#8220;I asked <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_Marrs\">Jim Marrs<\/a>, the popular author  and critic of various official versions of history, what he considered to be the origin of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a derogatory term and how it has  been manipulated:                                                        \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcconspiracy theory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was consciously  submitted to assets of the CIA back in a document from the 1960s to be  used to counter factual information that was continually being made  public regarding the Kennedy assassination. From there, these assets,  including media personalities, pundits, academics and government  officials, expanded the term to become a pejorative for any statements  not complying with the Establishment line,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Marrs said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153However, its  repetitive overuse, plus the fact that the 9\/11 attacks obviously  involved a conspiracy, today has lessened the impact of the term.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-global-research\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/rethinking-conspiracy-theories\/5414471\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: &#8220;I asked Jim Marrs, the popular author and critic of various official versions of history, what he considered to be the origin of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153conspiracy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as a derogatory term and how it has been manipulated: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The term \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcconspiracy theory\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 was consciously submitted to assets of the CIA back in a document from the 1960s to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theswillbucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}