Conspiracy Theory Hosted by Jesse Ventura a Review

Review of Conspiracy Theory hosted by Jesse Ventura
Plus a review of a few other reviews of Conspiracy Theory
By ABH Alexander

There is a test currently going on truTV on Wednesday nights at 10PM Eastern, it is called Conspiracy Theory with the host and Executive Producer, Jesse Ventura. Known as Jesse "The Body" Ventura during his professional wrestling days, he has also got respect while being labeled as a rogue independent Governor of Minnesota. His tough take-charge attitude on this show is boosted by his service as a Navy Seal team member. His military experience serving to guide him much better towards controversial topics than TV critics and skeptics. No doubt there will be heaps of labeling the Governor as a deceiving ex-wrestler (hey, that was show biz!) or his academic credentials as being few (how about his experience?) This review will not stem from the dividing sword of political correctness and pre-conceived notions. This review will not shy away from the pointing at the general shutdown by the media to investigate what Conspiracy Theory has aired and will air in the future. Starting from the supposition of "This can't possibly be true" is not the way to follow the breadcrumbs of any large or institutionalized conspiracy. Ventura pledges to follow the breadcrumbs, collect them and present as much of the loaf as possible in his one-hour show. As he says in his opening intro, I have seen some things that will blow your mind and I'm ready to talk now".

For the record the show is produced for truTV=Not Reality, Actuality by A. Smith & Co along with B2 Entertainment. Jesse Ventura is one of the Executive Producers, which means he put up some of the bucks for this endeavor. Other Exec. Producers are Arthur Smith, Kent Weed, Frank Sinton, Michael Braverman and Barry Bloom. Among the co-executive producers are Chris Mortensen, Mark Mayer, and Burk Kearnes. The Editor is Martin Singer and the two prime Investigative field reporters are June Sarpong and Alex Piper who take part in producing the segments done.

It should be noted that truTV is also part of the Time-Warner media empire which has seen its principal news station CNN lose about 30% of its audience over the last year. This could be a move to regain some of that monetary gusto they seem to have lost.

The Conspiracy Theory is kind of a test, in that it is a great challenge for any kind of critical thinking skills. Over the last twenty years most of the American public has begun stirring from a long hibernation in their trust of government, corporations & media. The mainstream or as Bernie Goldberg (author of Bias & Arrogance to name but two) calls it the Lamestream Press is not giving you the American citizen the facts you need to make the right kind of decision on most issues. Ventura's focus here seems to show that there are a whole host of things behind the scenes that demonstrate that this is very intentional. There is a grand design to it all. The people behind the veil are commonly being called, "global elitists" or in an organizational sense, what President George H.W. Bush called the New World Order in 1990's. The elder Bush's efforts resulted in him being knighted by the Queen of England for what some say was returning Americans back to the Queen as subjects of the Crown.

Ventura's pursuit began on Dec. 2, 2009 with the HAARP project in Gakona, Alaska. HAARP=High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project. Very little attention has been focused on this massive Department of Defense project which positions 180, 72-foot tall antennas on 58 acres of government owned property, which can focus an effective Gigawatt of energy into the Ionosphere. This power is at least 70,000 times more than the most powerful radio station in America. You can expect the critics to pan any interest with an official statement from a bureaucrat who says this is not a weapon but only research, except you will not be allowed to know anything about that research. Ventura goes to Gakona and attempts to get past the large gate and guards to no avail. Jesse leaves in a huff mentioning that any such project done by the military is not about research but weapons of mass destruction. To the shows credit they usually seem to insert an experiment, which proves the point of the investigation. In the case of HAARP, the frequency's it is focused at can effect both weather, the earth and even brain wave activity of the average human.

While Ventura acts as the front man in the investigation he is accompanied by what he calls a team of experts. It is clear that this group of five or six articulate young experts seem to have more of a conventional, entertainment background. This should be expected as anyone who steps out on this limb is likely going to have to go through a new learning curve. This is rather heady material and one shouldn't expect the lamestream press to offer anything too terribly substantial when it comes to the world of Mega-Conspiracies. To their credit they plunge forward to interview the real credible experts who reveal the substance behind the conspiracies, which to them are no longer, a theory.

Conspiracy Theory also allows for dissenting opinion and often features at least one of the researchers coming up with a challenging question on the direction of the research. The boardroom meeting setting for progress reports is reminiscent of Donald Trump's Apprentice but with more casual common-man type dress. Ventura is rarely seen in more than a t-shirt and leather jacket. None of the researchers is ejected here and their question is usually one that would likely be posed by someone in the lamestream press anyway.
During a discussion of how 9/11 may have been an inside job and a substance called Super Thermite may have been added in a powder form to the structure to make the heat intense enough to melt steel and facilitate what we saw, one of the team injected, "It is all well and fine that this could do it, but just how do we apply all this Super Thermite?" Ventura answers directly from other research they had apparently gathered, "We already know there was construction going on all the time in the building, new paint jobs on those moving out, and those moving in". The powdered Thermite can be added to anything, even paint. Painters may not have known what they were painting on the walls, as they would have operating from supplies given. So was 9/11 an inside job? Or perhaps a combination of inside and outside? Conspiracy Theory does raise some important questions that need to get past the, "This just can't be true, these people are all kool-aid drinkers" stage.

In Minnesota, writer, critic Tad Sammons labeled the show "Preposterous but surprisingly entertaining." Sammons claimed that Ventura reinvented himself into a character/hero type that might be called the Truthinator." Sammons quickly falls into typical debunking techniques, attacking Jesse personally stating, "Jesse used his famously piercing intellect to articulate the menacing scope of what he is witnessing." Often labeled "ad hominin" attacks these are good flags to watch, as they do not address the material in any depth only any character flaw of the messenger bringing it forward.
A TV critic for the LA Times Robert Lloyd said, "I don't suppose any of these episodes will end with the Governor-Everyone calls him Governor here-judging any of these theories to be bunk. You can leave that to the Mythbusters." While Lloyd may sound clever it seems clear he has commented on a subject he knows little about. Even Mythbusters never deals with conspiracy topics such as those that Ventura's show has aired. Mythbusters will show you how an arrow can pierce light armor or some substance can actually blow up accidentally, or not.

Conspiracy Theory tackles what the lamestream press often calls "fringe" conspiracy theories. Ventura retorts with a tag line from the show, "You won't believe what you don't know." While the information has been out there for years, it has been doggedly debunked and rarely explored in any depth.

In their first month, the show tackled HAARP, Global Warming, the 9/11 Cover-up, and the electronic invasion of your privacy and the secret agenda of world leaders at the annual Bildeberger Conferences. Conspiracy Theory will start off January 2010 with a show on Mind Control. That show will likely include references to programmed Manchurian Candidate like assassins, Government programs like MK-ULTRA, MK-NAOMI, Project Artichoke, perhaps HAARP and maybe others? This topic is better understood if you know how the compartmentalization of secrecy occurs in the military. This is a subject that Jesse Ventura is likely intimately acquainted with from his Seal Team days. TV critics and political pundits rarely get any of this kind of understanding; they just want to keep those paychecks coming in.

Do not expect a documentary style investigation from Jesse Ventura, he uses much more of a visual method with the experiments and direct interviews of selected people who in some cases have spent a large chunk of their lives and own fortunes either writing or investigating what is discussed.

Unbeknownst to many Americans there exists a kind of growing duality in this country between those who choose to live only on what they are told by a very sanitized and carefully spun government, corporations & media. Most now live on food which is increasingly being stripped of vital nutrients and replaced with toxic chemicals like Aspartame or Fluoride. Medical answers to Cancer, AIDS appear like ghosts on a radar screen only for a moment and then vanish. Our officials have been repeatedly caught saying one thing and doing another, yet remarkably so few have their feet held to the fire.
The obvious question WHY? Ahhh! This is the realm of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura and crew.

The show debuted to very good numbers for a cable-TV show, around 1,635,000 tuned in on Episode One. This is the biggest audience ever for a new series launch. One can't help but wonder what part of that number were those who are part of all these secret projects and agendas? Maybe they are just watching to chuckle as they probably feel that it is too late for anyone to stop these plans? As one of those interviewed for the Bildeberger segment stated, "What they are afraid of is the people, there are a lot more of them than they can stop, if we become aware." This twig of hope sprang from Dr. Rima Laibow, a former US resident who moved out of the country and administers natural healing methods at an undisclosed location in Central America. Researching those interviewed is always a good idea so this review chose Dr. Laibow for the check up.

According to a Wikpedia.com report Dr. Laibow was or maybe still is married to Albert Stubblebine, a retired Major General in the US army who has an extensive background in Parapsychology. Stubblebine is also a member of the US Military Intelligence Hall of Fame, perhaps for his pursuit of creating a super soldier who can render himself invisible and walk through walls. Do we know if he was successful? No. Stubblebine's work is being credited for being a part of the inspiration for the 2009 movie, Men Who Stare at Goats, with George Clooney.

Rima Laibow is a Dr. in Psychology and after working with MUFON, the Mutual UFO Network on abduction cases in the early 1990's she founded the NSF or Natural Solutions Foundation, a non-profit corporation devoted to protecting and promoting health freedom. Dr. Laibow has campaigned hard against the International Codex Alimentarius, which is a direct assault on the common sense of nutritionally sound foods and vitamins. Anyone can do a search on this conspiracy; this one is easy to take out of anyone's theory box.

The format usually includes a smaller and larger conspiracy to investigate, the large one in the last show of December 2009, dealt what has become known as the Bildeberger Group. Anywhere from 120-300 of the world's most potent power brokers, politicians, corporate and military types have appeared. The meeting is not a secret, what happens behind closed doors is kept closely guarded and yes they are armed. Major representation of the media is also present and in the past info has leaked out where they were actually thanked for cooperating to keep the substance of their meetings out of the press. So what's the big secret, what is their agenda? Ventura's crew teams up with the few researchers who have dogged this meeting to protest their secrecy and what they believe to be their hideous agenda. Among them Jim Tucker, who covered every meeting for years and reported exclusively to the now defunct Spotlight newspaper. While the ultimate agenda would be difficult for most unacquainted with the previous related info to believe, it is worthy of considering. In short it seems five to six billion human lives could be at stake.

Those of you, who are really not impressed with what passes as investigative journalism or the near total lack of asking hard questions of authority figures, will find Conspiracy Theory entertaining to say the least. As a researcher who has tread a similar path in years past and found the likelihood of what is discussed in most cases to be to more truth than fiction this is a show that should be recommended by both skeptic and conspiracy buff.

As Conspiracy Theory also mentioned the not so well known Georgia Guidestones written about earlier by this author it seems this crew is truly dedicated to putting together information to understand the bigger picture and at least what could be one of our potential futures.

Check out this new show Conspiracy Theory, let me know what you think and more importantly why you think that way. The future is a choice, if you don't choose, someone else you don't know and likely don't care for too much will choose for you.