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Map of the United States, 1830

The United States of America, abbreviated U.S. or USA, is an economically and militarily important nation in the global balance of power whose foreign policy has been influenced by a percieved duty to lead since the beginning of the Cold War. This, combined with the nation's well documented connections both to the British Crown and various secret societies has made the nation a proper object of great interest for conspiracy theorists.

1 Origins
- 1.1 Founders
- 1.2 Symbolism of flag
2 Other conspiracies: A legacy of ambition
- 2.1 Power struggle
- 2.2 Ascension By War
3 Further Reading
4 Also On tinWiki
5 ATS Discussion Threads
6 External links

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Origins

The United States of America has its legendary foundation year as 1776, the same year that Adam Weishaupt founded the Bavarian Illuminati. The nation was formed after some of the British colonies in North America revolted against their colonial overlords. Secret societies like the Sons of Liberty were instrumental in the agitation for separation and revolt.

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Founders

Many leaders of the revolutionary conspiracy were wealthy merchants or politically influential Britons.

One of the head conspirators in the U.S. revolt, a talented military general and member of the elite named George Washington, was believed by some to have been assassinated early on by Adam Weishaupt, who then replaced him, as the two had similar physical appearances. Many of the leftist radicals and liberals that founded the U.S. government were in also Freemasons.

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Symbolism of flag

British East India Company

The flag that the new republic adopted to represent itself was modeled in part after that of the John Company, or the British East India Company, which still exists to this day. Furthermore, the stars in the U.S. Flag's canton formed the shape of the St George and St Andrew's crosses of Britain up until 1818.


1776-1777	1777-1795	1795-1818

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Other conspiracies: A legacy of ambition

The new found republic was quickly threatened by a conspiracy to create an independent empire just to its western border, to be ruled by Aaron Burr. Burr's plot never, ultimately, came to fruition, and the U.S. eventually expanded its dominion to the far western coast of North America.

As a part of this expansion process, referenced as "manifest destiny", the nation came into conflict with the super-power in the western hemisphere, the Spanish Empire. Major media outlets of the time would print exceedingly slanted and populist propaganda pieces ("yellow journalism") against the Spanish, thus whipping the public into a clamor for war. In the end, the Spanish saw their imperial domain crumble colony by colony, and even the breakaway nation, the Mexican Empire, was consumed by the growing U.S..

As the U.S. boundaries grew, so did its economy. Before long, a public trading gold and silver coin gave way to the Greenback Conspiracy, in which paper notes were issued that could be, in theory, exchanged for gold bullion at banks. At first, banks issued their own notes, but eventually the federal government in league with the banking interests colluded to centralize the process and create federal notes.

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Power struggle

Alongside this, a politico-economic problem arose. The more southern states were dependent upon an agricultural economic base that required the use of human slave labour, while the northern states were less agricultural and had less of a need for such labour. Thus antimony grew between these two regional sections, to such a point that the slave issue, along with other somewhat unrelated political and ideological issues resulted in a conspiracy among southern political and military leaders to secede from the Federal government. In response, the Federal government sent troops to military bases in the South, a move that would undoubtedly result in raised tensions, exchanges of fire, and then all out war. Such, indeed, did happen. By the end of it, the federal government found itself occupying the defeated rebel states and imposing martial law upon the former U.S. citizens, who were eventually re-incorporated into the states. This situation lead to the birth of yet another secret society, the Klu Klux Klan, originally intended to resist perceived federal aggression, ultimately decaying into rabid populist racist sentiments.

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Ascension By War

Nominally a power in the western hemisphere, events in Europe, the old homeland of the Americans, changed the global order. A pro-war movement in the U.S. eventually got the country involved in an unpopular overseas war between different alliances of European despots, kings, and caliphs. After a victorious outcome for the side that the U.S. was allied with, crushing and punitive demands were made of the defeated powers. This set up the foreground for yet another overseas war that the U.S. was eventually swept up into, despite the objections of pacifists and isolationists at home. In that case, the American public, split between anti-war activists, and pro-war activists (with some camps advocating becoming involved on the British side and others on the German side). A wildly destructive and unexpected attack upon U.S. installations by the German side polarized the hitherto scattered American public opinion on the matter.

In order to prepare for and prosecute that war, U.S. industries were mobilized for the effort. Vehicle and equipment manufacturers contracted with the government and Army officers to shift production from civic and public use into military use. This complex between industry and the military would remain influential for generations, including the present day. These actions resulted in victory against the fascist alliance, however, the situation of the war resulted in Anglo-American interests now being aligned against those of their former ally, the Russian Soviets. Peace in Europe was maintained for the next several decades on the surface, while secret service organizations, such as the British MI5, American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Soviet NKVD and later KGB, were engaged in deadly underground wars.

In the rest of the world, war between the proxies of the Anglo-American interests and Soviet infiltrated nations began to rage, first in the Korean War, then the Vietnam War, then a series of Wars in South America, and also a war in Afghanistan. As this was occurring, students in the U.S. became radicalized and organized a leftist general anti-war movement, with teleconnections to communist insurgencies in other parts of the globe. Along with this, the U.S. president who advocated complete and total opposition to Soviet interests was mysteriously assassinated. Ultimately, the communist adversary of the U.S. was worn out and destroyed in a series of coups and counter-coups.

This left the Anglo-American alliance and its tacit system of capitalism and global geo-strategic interests as the only 'political pole' on Earth. Thus there has been significant movement for the globalist political movement. Islamist movements represented one of the few new checks on this process, and seemed to have represented an anti-globalist block. While there was a split of public opinion in the U.S. between pacifist and pro-involvement groups, a sudden and unexpected attack on U.S. installations galvanized the U.S. public into action against yet another alliance of states that it saw as a threat to its interests.

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