Some Unapproved Thinking | Forbidden History | Conspiracy Insights | Hidden Hist

Some Unapproved Thinking | Forbidden History | Conspiracy Insights | Hidden Hist

Some Unapproved Thinking

Forbidden history, cultural disruption, and lessons the ages keep teaching

Unapproved Thinking is a podcast for people who sense that the official explanation is rarely the full story.

Each episode explores ideas, events, and stories that fall outside the approved narrati...

EP 089 CIA and the Press | The Media Conspiracy in the Church Committee Record
Some Unapproved Thinking | Forbidden History | Conspiracy Insights | Hidden Hist
EP 089 CIA and the Press | The Media Conspiracy in the Church Committee Record

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Nov. 2, 2026

EP 089 CIA and the Press | The Media Conspiracy in the Church Committee Record

CIA & The Press: What the Church Committee Actually Documented (Mockingbird, Fallout, and Hidden Cover) Media conspiracy claims about the CIA and U.S. press deserve a close look at the record. Tracy examines what the 1976 Church Committee documented: covert relationships with journalists, intelligence officers using media cover, and propaganda that could reappear in American news. The episode also weighs Carl Bernstein’s reporting and the Mockingbird label against the evidence, separating docume
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Oct. 27, 2026

EP 088 Frank Olson’s Hotel Fall | MKUltra Conspiracy and Narrative Control

Frank Olson & MKUltra: The CIA’s LSD Experiment, a Hotel Fall, and the Records They Tried to Shred Conspiracy and narrative control meet in the story of Frank Olson, the Army scientist who died after being secretly dosed with LSD in 1953. Tracy investigates MKUltra, the CIA’s Cold War mind-control program, the official account given to Olson’s family, and the later revelations that changed the story. This episode explores institutional skepticism and investigative history without treating unansw
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Oct. 20, 2026

EP 087 Project Babylon: Gerard Bull | Conspiracy and Narrative Control

Gerald Bull & Project Babylon The Space Gun That Got Him Killed Conspiracy and narrative control meet investigative history in the story of Gerald Bull and Project Babylon, Iraq’s ambitious supergun program. Explore Bull’s electromagnetic engineering, the political forces surrounding the project, and the unresolved questions about his 1990 assassination—without treating speculation as proof. https://SomeUnapprovedThinking.com Sponsor - https://DarkHorseEntrepreneur.com
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Oct. 5, 2026

EP 086 Who Owns the News? | Conspiracy, Corporate Manipulation Culture

Modern Media And The Corporate Architecture Behind “Reality” Conspiracy and modern systems meet in this investigation of who owns the news—and how media consolidation may shape the stories audiences hear. Tracy examines corporate ownership, cross-ownership conflicts, and Sinclair’s mandated local segments to ask how narrative control works inside modern media. Rather than asking listeners to accept a theory outright, this episode follows the structures and incentives behind the coverage. https:/
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Sept. 27, 2026

EP 085 Data Center Boom: Surveillance Conspiracy or Coincidence? | Narrative Control Exposed

Data Centers: America’s Hidden Surveillance Buildout (NSA Utah, PRISM, Section 702, Stargate & the AI Boom) Conspiracy & cultural conditioning converge in America's data-center boom. Tracy examines the NSA's Utah "Bumblehive," Stargate's infrastructure play, and 331% surge in construction spending—asking not just *if* surveillance is expanding, but *how* institutional messaging prepares us to accept it. Explores narrative control, power structures, and what the signals tell us about AI, intellig
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Sept. 20, 2026

EP 084 The 1913 Library Purge | Narrative Control & Rockefeller's Book Burning Conspiracy

The 1913 Library Purge Exposed Evidence that Rockefeller agents systematically bought and destroyed history's most radical library books In 1913, narrative control went corporate. The Rockefeller Foundation, flush with Standard Oil wealth, quietly reshaped American libraries through funding, professionalization, and institutional skepticism of radical literature. Tracy exposes how systematic institutional power—not dramatic book burnings—erased ideas from the historical record. A hidden history