Chris, I'd like to invite you to visit the Conspiracy forum to have some fun, if you like.
However, I don't remember if asking this is breaching CZ regulations. If I am, sorry, I'm not inviting you, but if you'd like to sorta wander over there, you could. :-)
I tell ya, I was a skeptic just like you a year ago, and I think that's it's perfectly OK for you to be. But I kinda got bonked on the head with some irrefutable evidence, and now I believe some of this stuff. Not all of it, but some.