re: Talk about Conspiracy Theories!
You don't need conspiracy theories. Stupidity and greed are all that's required to explain these anomalies. Unfortunately, we have no shortage of either. The idea of a great conspiracy is just how we protect ourselves from the actual truth, that the world is a random pointless process with no one in charge. It's why I gave up on revolution a long time ago.
"When the mutineers finally battered their way onto the bridge, they found that there was nobody there."