Alternate Conspiracy Theories

The railway was suppressed in 19th century Britain by a unholy alliance of the landed aristocracy, the old school canal and road engineers, the London banking elite, the turnpike trusts, stage coach interests and the hard core of the steam carriage entrepreneurs. The cabal included road proponent Sir Henry Parnell, prominent engineer Thomas Telford and and famed steam carriage builder Walter Hancock, amongst many others.

The suspicious deaths of railway promoters such as Robert Stephenson and John Rennie, as well as several well-concealed acts of sabotage against various railway locomotives and especially the constant harassment of the work on the defunct Stockton and Darlington Railway were interconnected events ordered directly by the leaders of the vast conspiracy to make the railway system seem economically and technologically unfeasible.

The objective, which obviously was reached, was to to keep the traffic on the roads to benefit the old elites, the trusts and the stage coach syndicates by eventually introducing locomotive power on the common roads rather than on the rails. Innovation and change was stifled and this probably set back the economic development of Britain, if not the world, by several decades.
 
I have read a lite-version on this theory accusing a single individual of having this hidden agenda so it isn't alternative in the trus sence of the word.

Christians tend to be sceptical toward the rich and idolise poverty (a camel trough the nedels eye? you guys know the bible and christianity better then me). They also give a lot in forigin aid.

So what if they give aid but focus it on projects that doesnt lift people from poverty? It does sound like a good conspiracy theory. Maybe ALL western aid is a conspiracy to keep the poor in poverty.

It is a good theory, some 3rd world leaders can use it to throw out westerners. Some people can use it against forigin aid spending. And a lot of forigin aid is wasted or misused so it is possible to find examples to point to.

(I thought some more on this and realised that at least one group doesn't play to it's strengths. Jehovas Witness doesn't set up schools in Africa teaching door to doors salesmen. It's like Doctors without borders buildnig bridges or teaching at schools. They might be good at it but it isn't what they do best:D)
 
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