One podcast I've discovered in the past few years: Geopolitics and Empire. Some very high profile and extremely credentialed guests but also more obscure people. Many of the episodes offer dissident points of view very critical of "the globalists" / NWO / emerging (pseudo-)technocracy

I used to not pay much attention to this kind of talk but since covid I've been looking into it a little bit Seems like some of these conspiracy guys were on to something after all Or at least there is a legitimate discussion to be had about potentially non-democratic influences on national governments. (E.g. what's the role of organizations like Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, WEF, CFR, bohemian grove, Skull and Bones etc? What have organizations like UN, WHO, IMF, World Bank, BIS etc been up to? What's their history? Who makes the decisions in these organizations and how are they selected? Who funds them? What's the relationship with our democratic institutions and tax systems?)

The podcast I mentioned features these kinds of people who actually know what they're talking about. People who've read a couple dozen books, a few hundred papers etc on the topics they're speaking on and in some cases been part of the actual organizations and bureaucracies involved.

I've found that I'd underestimated the amount of conspiracy going on. It's also not that clear if it should be called a conspiracy or not since much of the stuff appeared in publications available to the public such as articles, papers, books etc. It's just that nobody was reading these things except guys like Alex Jones.

And when guys like Alex Jones told people what they read "from the horses's mouth" they were called conspiracy theorists for decades or completely ignored / blacked out from coverage.

Then a weird shift happened where instead of continuing to say "it's not happening, that's a conspiracy theory and therefore somehow untrue by definition" to "yes it's happening, of course, nobody said it wasn't. Besides, it's benign or if anything it is good or even necessary"

Any examples that come to mind where this peculiar switch in PR occurred from "it's not happening you crazy conspiracy theorist" to "it's happening and here's why that's a good thing"?

I've got some candidates myself but I'd like to hear from others first.