They’re highly secretive they have knowledge they keep to themselves they operate consistently and they practice ancient mysterious rituals they are secret societies our secret societies a hotbed of evil they are certainly the subject of countless conspiracy theories they are
Accused of pursuing a Sinister objective of seeking to rule the world perhaps as many claim they rule it already time and again people sense perfidious conspiracies everywhere but which of their suspicions are well founded and which are based on mere fiction created by successful authors like Dan Brown
Secret fraternities have existed for thousands of years their members are in our midsts everywhere join us as we delve into the dark parallel world of secret societies foreign Is on the trail of perhaps the most fantastic conspiracy in Christianity the possibility that Jesus had descendants if that is true are they being protected by a Secret order from Munich is investigating the suspicion that staff at Nasa conspired to fake the lunar Landing Foreign years the Vatican has been a Center of Spiritual power and of secular Dominion the focus here is on the salvation of the human soul but also on influence and Power the Vatican is the subject of much speculation a sensational secret is believed to be kept
Within its walls a secret that were it to be revealed would rock the world it involves Jesus Christ located in the catacombs in Rome are the oldest depictions of Jesus they show a young man full of joys of Life a man who is said to have had a wife Mary
Magdalene [Music] verse 55 of the apocryphal gossip of Philip States the companion of the Savior was Mary Magdalene according to the manuscript he loved her more than all the other disciples and would often kiss her on the mouth if that were true Christian history
And theology would have to be Rewritten [Music] so is the Vatican suppressing a truth that would undermine its power The Da Vinci Code the best seller by Dan Brown made the story of Jesus and Mary accessible to a broader public and a film with Tom Hanks and Andre
Tattoo certainly did how could Christ have a bloodline unless man he was pregnant at the time of the crucifixion [Music] for her own safety and for that of Christ’s unborn child she fled the holy land and came to France and here it is said she gave birth to a daughter cell
[Music] the south of France this then is where the descendants of Jesus are said to live in our very midst protected according to Dan Brown’s novel by a secret fraternity Marion fusel is heading for the place where it all began then Le Chateau [Music] this sleepy Hamlet has a strikingly pompous Church many see this as an indication that then Le Chateau is the epicenter of a large-scale conspiracy a remarkable Church full of mysterious symbols it seems totally out of place in such a small village [Music]
[Music] terrifying creatures greet the visitor [Music] do the statues here portray the mother of God or perhaps Mary Magdalene holding Christ’s child [Music] um this small village and especially its church is steeped and Legend it’s Redevelopment and pompous refurbishment around 1900 along with the construction of other buildings nearby
Have given rise to questions as to how it was all financed the work must have consumed fairly large sums and even today the question of where the money came from is the subject of much speculation the incongruities surrounding the church go back to the summer of 1885 when father Bering
Sonier took up office in ventless chateau at the time the parish really was as poor as the proverbial church mouse nevertheless the priest soon embarked on the expensive conversion of his church it wasn’t long before his flock began to wonder where Abe sonier
Had managed to find so much money for his construction project Seized the building project and the Mysterious bloodline of Jesus Christ as elements of a major conspiracy theory [Music] Christian dumac has provided him with further details has examined the village priest’s estate and knows all the Legends associated with render chateau
Went far beyond his means it was clearly not his income as a priest that enabled him to construct all the buildings back then that raised one or two questions amongst the villagers it gave rise to the rumor that he must have found some treasure
And for a long time the nature of this treasure was the source of much speculation was it cash valuable relics perhaps or ancient documents proving as many suspect that Jesus had descendants Sonia is said to have used the documents to Blackmail the Catholic Church into giving
Him hush money not to reveal the secret of Christ’s daughter [Music] the figure at the center of this major Scandal was Mary Magdalene [Music] Leonardi Da Vinci is said to have immortalized Jesus’s wife in his famous painting of The Last Supper
The claim is that it is not the beardless disciple John who is pictured to the left of Christ but Mary Magdalene the legend that Jesus had a family was embroidered more and more his descendants were said to be protected by a secret fraternity best-selling author
Dan Brown plays with this incredible version in his novel The DaVinci Code foreign who are you there have been many names the keepers Guardians The Priory of Zion [Music] although The Priory of Scion is said to be ancient its existence was not documented
Until the 1970s when French author Pierre plantar wrote about it had he betrayed secret knowledge of the fraternity [Music] the trail leads us to Paris where The Priory of Scion is believed to have been active foreign the most important documents on the Brotherhood of Scion are kept in the French national library
[Music] a venerable institution what is stored here appears to be incontestable religious scholar Frederick Lenoir is fascinated by the Brotherhood and by the idea of Christ having descendants he has made a detailed study of the files in his research anwa came
Across an important document a list of the grand Masters Of The Priory of Scion cataloged as such by the National Library please [Music] the neatly typed list goes back to the time of Jesus it includes such famous names as that of universal genius Leonardo da Vinci
Legendary scientist and mathematician Isaac Newton is also mentioned one illustrious figure after another but were they all really members of the Inner Circle [Music] when you look at the list you notice at once that all the historical facts seem
To be right the dates are correct and so are the Coats of Arms [Music] so that you then realize that some of the figures on the list could never have had anything to do with The Priory Leonardo da Vinci for instance had no contact with the Knights Templar here reality
Has been mixed with fiction but the general public and the media jumped at the blend of fact and fiction it was the grain of reality that made the fiction credible but that’s something the authors of such products of the imagination are also aware of
When they merged the two it is hard to see the result of exactly what it is what struck me was the creation of a modern Legend in exactly the same way the ancient Greeks concocted their amazing myths which still exist today in the form of The Priory
A modern myth was created which has enjoyed Global success and that’s quite extraordinary doubts Over The Priory of Scion also arise from the fact that the list of grand Masters cannot be authenticated it was passed to the National Library anonymously and was only
Accepted into obligatory storage a conclusive document exists in the form of the priory’s deed of foundation signed by Pierre plantar in 1956. so The Priory of Scion is a 1950s invention as plantar himself admitted in the late 80s the ancient Brotherhood dedicated to protecting the bloodline of Christ never existed another
Theory also rests on an unsound footing fissile discovers why the priest had so much money at his disposal records he left show that it came from an illegal trade in intercessions for the deceased was a confidence Trickster [Music] the account books that have been preserved show quite clearly that there was no treasure
Involved just a systematic trade in Mass services but that didn’t affect the legend people still suspected that hidden treasure was involved and went on searching for it it’s still astonishing though that sun yay should have gotten away with a scam for so long how gullible his villagers were
The Legend Continues to be spun out however for belief in such Mysteries lies in the very nature of the human soul Marian fusel has analyzed what convinces people most of all he is found that the more significant and the more fantastic a secret sounds the more likely it is to be believed precisely
What is involved is actually of secondary importance [Music] wanted to get rich that in itself is relatively harmless but there are also other conspiracy theories which focus on entire groups and those theories can become a real danger that
Was also the case with the most Sinister conspiracy theory in history the myth of a Jewish World conspiracy in the first half of the 20th century the Jews were blamed for all ills they were accused of wanting to bring countries to their knees first of all with capitalist money and
Then with the help of bolshevism their alleged goal Global dominance wealthy Jewish entrepreneurs served as proof of these crude assertions families like the balance the Rothschilds the guggenheims [Music] and the asters [Music] the Jews were painted as the enemy foreign
[Applause] the story of a Jewish World conspiracy an imaginary plot be at a most unusual indeed creepy location every 100 years leading Jews were said to gather at prague’s Jewish cemetery as the Elders of Zion a Jewish Shadow government whose alleged aim was the suppression of the
Gentiles but the myth of this meeting a product of the imagination was to have dire consequences in Berlin the fear of a Jewish World conspiracy was used to stir up hatred of the Jews wants to find out how this production of the imagination came about and why so many people still believe
In it even today he has come to the Jewish Museum in Berlin to meet historian Wolfgang Benz an expert on anti-Semitism Benz has made a close study of the accusations leveled its use in the 20th century [Music] the theory of a world conspiracy comes from a small book entitled
The protocols of the Elders of Zion virtually no other inflammatory publication of the last century has wrought as much Havoc as this pamphlet with great skill the author plays with fears prejudices and enemy stereotypes the defamatory propaganda involved in creating
Enemy stereotypes draws people to support the existing Center of power it is a dark and gloomy narrative allegedly every 100 years the Jewish Elders meet at the cemetery in Prague to report on their progress in permeating the world’s structures is headed protocols to give the impression of it being an authentic official Document
Handling the claim is that the protocols were recorded secretly at the first Zionist World Congress which actually took place but in reality the focus was on something totally different the World Congress was convened by Theodore hadzel but he wasn’t nurturing
Visions of global dominance hadsel wanted to establish a Jewish state in Palestine so why was the truth twisted minorities have always been exposed to prejudices and made into enemy stereotypes since the end result in this case was a compact rounded picture the Jews are evil the Jews are a threat
To non-jews the Jews want sovereignty of the world St Petersburg the true story of the protocols of the Elders of Zion begins during the time of the Russian Empire [Music] nowhere was hatred of the Jews more widespread than among the people ruled over
By Tsar Nicholas II more Jews lived in the Russian Empire than anywhere else regarded as the enemies of Orthodox Christians they were persecuted pretty much the head of the Russian foreign intelligence servicekowsky used the anti-semitic mood in the country for a political ploy he wanted to pin the blame for oppositional attacks
On the Czar on the Jews to achieve this all he had to do was discredit them even further rajkovsky needed a document that would enable him to defame the Jews since he didn’t have one rajkovsky had one prepared at short notice was commissioned with the task and disaster took its course budget still [Music] can a specific group really be vilified so quickly in society and why is this done people’s needs scapegoats and those in power certainly do they need scapegoats to conceal their own failures or weaknesses or to mobilize people for some goal or other where conspiracy
Theories are concerned of course this is taken to extremes and the worst extreme is the conspiracy theory based on the protocols of the Elders of Zion Jews as a whole are stigmatized and made responsible for all the world’s ills [Music] intelligence officer golovinsky was
Actually a specialist in producing bogus press articles but now he wrote the basic inflammatory pamphlet for many years to come he shamelessly plagiarized and mixed Fiction with reality entire passages were lifted word for word from the satirical French novel The dialogue
In Hell by Mauricio Lee golovinsky finished by heading his text protocols to indicate its authenticity even though everything was in utter fabrication and the Russian Empire what was probably the most dangerous document to appear in the 20th century was reprinted time and again
Within a few years the fabricated protocols began their triumphal Global Advance the mendacious pamphlet had its finger on the anti-semitic nerve of the time in the end golovinsky’s text was translated into around 60 languages Germany too it was regarded as authentic The protocols of the Elders of Zion dovetailed perfectly with the crude mindscape of the national socialists it was soon alleged that the text was a fabrication but once a conspiracy has been exposed it is hard to allay all suspicions
The national socialists referred to this fictitious protocol as if it provided actual proof of a Jewish World conspiracy ultimately all anti-semitic propaganda the whole persecution of the Jews was based on this documented under the National Socialist Terror regime the protocols LED inevitably to the Holocaust
Six million Jews were systematically murdered before Nazi Germany capitulated the protocol of the Elders of Zion survived the shock of the Holocaust and the fall of the Third Reich they continue to spread hatred of the Jews even today foreign fusel rediscovered the inflammatory pamphlet on the home page of Hamas the radical Islamic
Movement its Charter contains excerpts from the protocols as if they were an authentic document and not a fabrication foreign conspiracy theories simplify complex issues in an extreme way there are no Shades of Gray just black and white good and evil one such conspiracy theory is the Jewish World conspiracy
Which is still in the heads of millions of people worldwide time it again it’s used for achieving political lands and for interpreting current events mistrust of the government has always been deeply rooted in American society one of the best known conspiracy theories led to a bizarre experiment in the Nevada desert [Music] on
A summer’s night in 1976 a man set out to expose what at the time was the Pinnacle of American Science as a cheap fabrication Bill casing did not believe that the Americans had landed on the moon the whole mission he said was just technologically impossible it was merely a political Gambit in the Cold War casing suspected that the legendary moon landing was actually staged on the earth and
He reckoned he could prove it on that Summer’s night Bill casing took on the U.S government if casing were right the world would no longer be talking about one of the Great Adventures of all time what about the greatest deception of all time on July 16 1969 a Saturn V rocket
Weighing 3 000 tons lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida its destination the Moon the mission was Global spectacle worldwide 500 million viewers excitedly watched its progress on television in a bold speech given in September 1962 John F Kennedy set the tone for the space race
The U.S president was staking everything because he knew that the plan to put a man on the moon was highly ambitious we choose to go to the moon and just decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard
Kennedy needed to be successful because in the space field the Americans were lagging years behind their Arch Enemy the Soviet Union in 1957 the Soviets had launched the first animal into orbit a dog called Leica four years later Yura Gagarin went down in history as the first human being in space
Gagarin made a complete orbit of the planet I see the Earth it is so beautiful he radioed back from his spacecraft space seemed to belong to the Russians NASA however had to cope with one failure after another and the tragic loss
Of human life the Apollo program was costing a fortune but the success that was so ardently desired failed to materialize and the psychology of the Cold War this was a calamitous situation for the Americans after all two different political systems were vying for Supremacy success was a massive shock
To the Americans who up to then had been world leaders certainly leaders of the Free World a country that played a dominant role in technology and Commerce in all other areas in fact found that it was now lagging behind in the important field of space research consequently America
Made every conceivable effort to recover from its shock it was about winning the battle of the systems a victory the Americans had to achieve at almost any price in July 1969 the decisive Apollo 11 mission was launched the go the goat to establish U.S Supremacy in space
[Music] 12 minutes after liftoff the three astronauts on board entered the Earth’s orbit hurtling through space at a speed of nearly forty thousand kilometers an hour the flight to the Moon took three days the astronauts orbited the Earth’s satellite three times
Then Buzz Aldrin commenced The Landing maneuver onto the dry Sea of Tranquility four four we’re drifting to the right level 30 seconds okay engine stop listen uh the eagle has landed we copy it down eagle [Music] that’s one small
Step for man parking Triumph leads all right looks beautiful hey you got it that’s a good step [Music] it’s very pretty out here are you getting a TV picture now Houston a massive Triumph or was it in fact nothing more than a giant con Bill casing was the
First to voice the suspicion in 1976 he accused the government of having filmed the moon landing on Earth he was convinced that all the evidence for a landing the photographs and footage was manipulated flag the footprints nothing he said could have been photographed like
That on the moon and in the Nevada desert he intended to prove how easy it is to deceive people after all the terrain in the desert is very similar to that on the moon Bill casing took his own Moon photographs and indeed the material he produced Bears
A striking similarity to that presented by NASA so what is real and what is fabrication Was the triumphal Return of the Apollo 11 Heroes merely part of a gigantic deception to pull it off the U.S government and NASA would have had to act as a giant secret organization [Applause] [Music] and if it had astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin were wrongly celebrated as Heroes
Aryan fusel has come to Munich to investigate the accusations level by critics of NASA and clear-up matters 40 years after man allegedly first landed on the moon [Music] in 1993 ugly Volta from Munich Technical University was himself an astronaut spent 10 days in
Space carrying out scientific experiments today Walter is Professor of space technology at the University Month after month ulrivalta receives hundreds of letters all asking the same question did the Americans really land on the moon even today countless people still believe that they were duped by the Apollo 11 Mission even though NASA’s film and photographic material has been studied in great detail foreign
ER Landing already received support in the 1970s because of the cold war climate and also because of the mistrust within America through Watergate and various other Affairs people could imagine the government in this case NASA doing absolutely everything to dupe the people
Puzzle number one why are there no stars visible on the photographs puzzle number two why is there no crater to be seen Under The Landing module’s propulsion unit puzzle number three why are the astronauts seen exiting the capsule brightly lit while
The rest of the landing module is in Shadow puzzle number four why is the American flag fluttering even though there is no wind on the moon those questions had already irritated a skeptic Bill casing in 1976 he published his concerns
In a book and earned a lot of money from it what casing began runs continuously through the story of this accusation of fraud conspiracy theorists have come up with new suspicions time and again but at the center of every dispute are the photographs that were taken
On the Apollo mission to the moon or taken elsewhere [Music] Walter knows every detail of the photographs he believes he can refute every single objection the former astronaut is certain that every American moon landing was totally bona fide even though many people might find the idea of human beings walking around on another
Celestial body simply inconceivable There’s a simple reason why the stars are not visible on certain photographs with a really bright Motif you have to close the aperture so since the light from the stars is extremely weak on some photographs they are no longer visible that’s also why the
Astronaut in the shade appears brightly lit the moon’s surface reflects sunlight [Music] and what about the missing crater a crater can only be created if there is scree Under The Landing module but the surface of the Moon is relatively firm and covered with a
Layer of dust roughly two centimeters thick so when the module landed the gases blew away the dust if the substrate hadn’t been fairly firm the astronauts couldn’t have walked on it that’s why there’s no crater visible
And why is the flag fluttering one of the astronauts took the flag and stuck it in the ground to drive it in firmly he moved it to and fro the shaking made the flag wave and this was interpreted as fluttering in the Wind
Fossil does not doubt that the American moon landing was genuine it’s something else that troubles him the fact that this conspiracy theory simply won’t go away despite all the arguments against it [Music] many people still find the moon landing incomprehensible along with many other things too
Conspiracy theories will probably be around for as long as mankind is that’s because they have more to do with what people believe than with what they know they can’t be refuted with counter evidence or counter arguments because anyone prepared to believe a conspiracy
Theory will not be put off let alone convinced by them that’s probably the true power of a conspiracy the fact that it simply cannot be eradicated foreign to orient themselves fantasies involving an explanation of the world are gratefully seized upon some people believe they are merely the playthings
Of dark Forces lied to by those whose structures they cannot peer into the church governments and secret societies conspiracy theory is so far-fetched that it cannot be spread worldwide in fact the more far-fetched it is the more likely people are defined it credible thank you [Music]
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