Conspiracy Theories

I don't think there are still any doubts surrounding outerspace travel at this day and age. The only conspiracy at the time was whether the Americans did land on the moon BEFORE the Russians or was it all staged so they can claim they got there first.

I've seen a show about conspiracy of 2012. Basically the belief is that instead of the type of apocalyptic event that extincted the dinosaurs, what will take place is that the sun will emit these super-charged solar rays that will wipe out the global power system for good. So it's kinda like the Y2K scare or a global EMP shockwave type of thing. It's been stated that this kind of phenomenon has already happened over a century ago, but people back then didn't rely on electricity nearly as much as the people living in this era, so they barely noticed anything different at the time. But in 2012 when this happens again, the world will go into chaos.

Then it goes on to uncover the dirty secrets behind the US government, which has already spent billions of dollars building underground shelters all over the country. So that when the disaster strikes, the rich and the powerful will be able to isolate themselves from the rest of the world. The shelters are equipped with all the life's necessities for its occupants and much like the vaults in Fallout, it is impenetrable from the outside, making them paradises in the middle of hell on earth.

So the moral of this story is start building your own bomb shelter if you haven't already. And don't even think about trying to take over mine because I'll put a shotgun up your butthole.

putting fear in people -> people giving up more power to the government

Basically it is in the government's best interest to have people feel they need to rely on their government to take care of everything. If the average person believes there is imminent threat from foreign enemies at any given time, he's a lot more likely to support the government in taking the fight to those countries.