World domination conspiracys

The existence of an international Jewish conspiracy or international Zionist conspiracy is an anti-Semitic canard which regularly features in various racist conspiracy theories. The blood libel , the conspiratorial slur that Jews kill gentile babies to use their blood in the preparation of Passover matzos, dates back to antiquity even back to before the advent of Christianity [2]. In medieval Europe , popular wisdom commonly blamed outbreaks of disease on Jews poisoning wells; such attitudes and accusations could lead to pogroms , murders , and the governing authorities forcing Jews to live in segregated areas of cities called ghettos. Only in modern times did the Catholic Church stop assigning blame to the Jews for their purported deicide of Jesus Christ. In medieval Europe, anti-Judaists accused Jews of re-enacting Jesus's crucifixion and death by stabbing or mutilating the host , which Catholics regard as transubstantiated into the body of Christ.

The New World Order or NWO is claimed to be an emerging clandestine totalitarian world government by various conspiracy theories. The common theme in conspiracy theories about a New World Order is that a secretive power elite with a globalist agenda is conspiring to eventually rule the world through an authoritarian world government—which will replace sovereign nation-states —and an all-encompassing propaganda whose ideology hails the establishment of the New World Order as the culmination of history's progress. Many influential historical and contemporary figures have therefore been purported to be part of a cabal that operates through many front organizations to orchestrate significant political and financial events, ranging from causing systemic crises to pushing through controversial policies , at both national and international levels, as steps in an ongoing plot to achieve world domination. Before the early s, New World Order conspiracism was limited to two American countercultures, primarily the militantly anti-government right and secondarily that part of fundamentalist Christianity concerned with the end-time emergence of the Antichrist. During the 20th century, political figures such as Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill used the term " new world order " to refer to a new period of history characterised by a dramatic change in world political thought and in the global balance of power after World War I and World War II. Such collective initiatives manifested in the formation of intergovernmental organizations such as the League of Nations in , the United Nations UN in , and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO in , along with international regimes such as the Bretton Woods system and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT , implemented to maintain a cooperative balance of power and facilitate reconciliation between nations to prevent the prospect of another global conflict. These cosmopolitan efforts to instill liberal internationalism were regularly criticized and opposed by American paleoconservative business nationalists from the s on.

This is a list of conspiracy theories that are notable. Many unproven conspiracy theories exist with varying degrees of popularity, frequently related to clandestine government plans and elaborate murder plots. Conspiracy theories usually deny consensus or cannot be proven using the historical or scientific method and are not to be confused with research concerning verified conspiracies such as Germany's pretense for invading Poland in World War II. Numerous conspiracy theories pertain to air travel and aircraft.

Americans see hoaxes and plots everywhere: from climate change to immunizations to almost anything having to do with Hillary Clinton. But why? Is the constant stream of conspiracy theories a side effect of social media? Are conspiracy theories a product of the increasing polarization of politics? Or have they always been around and for some reason we just notice them more now?