common purpose

I've never heard of this organisation either, but as with all these things I'd say there's a fine line between healthy scepticism and crazy paranoia that the internet always brings out in people. There's usualy a logical progression of thought between the two sides at least, no matter how extreme - often sound ideologies in which we can all recognise some validity, yet with something our instincts quietly tell us to be wary of. Are we conditioned to think this way though?..

We are evolutionarily conditioned to be misanthropists, to distrust what might be a threat, it seems to pool more in some people/groups than others, but I think it's entirely natural (refuses to define 'natural') - conspiracism is an expression of an evolutionary defence drive.

shuffles off to open 3rd bottle of red wine

I always think that if you have got to the stage where it takes three bottles you need to move on to the spirits + possibly street drugs.

Shuffling is often the first sign.