The instant ridicule of ‘conspiracy theories’ especially from academia is fairly predicable given that ‘scholars’ tend to be narrowly focused & quite incapable of synthesising knowledge from a variety of disciplines. There is also the pull of conformity within academia.

The courts hear evidence for criminal conspiracies every day. There are financial conspiracies, such as ‘insider trading’. The Mafia is generally accepted as a centuries old international criminal conspiracy whose tentacles starting from families in the hills of medieval Sicily,

have come to encompass many states, to have influenced politicians, and to have had the rich and powerful in their entourage or on their payroll.

The same can be said of the Chinese Triads, which have been a major political influence. There have been conspiracies that have been both religious and criminal in nature, such as the Thuggee in India.

The Ku Klux Klan is a secret society that achieved immense political influence during the 1920s. Yet if someone suggests that there might be political conspiracies involving Freemasonry, occult societies or banking dynasties, this is laughed out of court by orthodox academia.

There is nothing particularly extraordinary about the existence of conspiracies. A conspiracy is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as: a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful: a conspiracy to destroy or infiltrate the government.

A ‘criminal conspiracy’ is defined in US law as ‘conspiracies against the public, or such as endanger the public health, violate public morals, insult public justice, destroy the public peace, or affect public trade or business.

That such conspiracies exist is obvious enough, but we are expected to disregard any such notion when it comes to secret societies, bankers, political lobbies, etc.

Comparatively recently, the widespread conspiracy of Lodge P2, deriving from the Italian Grand Orient, exposed a colossal conspiracy that reached into the highest levels of Government and the Vatican. Presumably we are expected to regard this as an anomaly.

-Prof Kerry Bolton, The Occult & Subversive Movements: Tradition & Counter-Tradition in the Struggle for World Power