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By 1971, the United States had abandoned the Gold Standard. Calamities attributed to this action range from the vortexian national debt to soybeans being called “edamame”. Can a conclusive argument be made for or against the Gold Standard to lay the issue in its final, albeit gilded, resting place?
Following the U.S.S. Maine and the R.M.S. Lusitania in episode 1937, the next ship on the Conspiracy List (the U.S.S. Eldridge didn't make the cut) we review the events of August 2 and August 4, 1964 involving the U.S.S. Maddox and the North Vietnamese Army.
Postulating Conspiracy Theories is a popular American pastime and Conspiracy Theorists are a favorite target of the mass media and self-styled intelligentsia because – let’s face it – they are easy targets!
Even the term Conspiracy Theory was coined by the CIA specifically to marginalize people who were skeptical of the government’s version of events.
But what if the Conspiracy Theories are true? How do the people and the government react when the skeptics reveal the wrongdoing and the subsequent cover-up?