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Eric over at Classical Values had a great response to my recent discussion about Birtherism and it’s crackpot leftist cousin Trig Birtherism (the belief that Sarah Palin’s son Trig is actually her grandson instead of her son.) He also had an important discovery: In fact, I’m going to scoop Andrew on something. It may shock readers to know this, but Trig Palin was born in Kenya! No, seriously. The only known, true, government-certified copy of his Kenyan Birth Certificate has come into my possession. And here it is, for the first time on the Internet! See this amazing revelation for...

Why the Founding Fathers Were “Birthers” By JB Williams Saturday, August 1, 2009 The label of “birther” is fast becoming a noble badge of honor for millions of Americans who are not willing to let their Constitution die without a good ole patriot’s fight! The leftist Obama propaganda press would love for you to believe that “birthers” are just a bunch of “crazy racists” that number in the hundreds, and that they have NO basis to demand proof of whom and what Barack Hussein Obama really is… But the “birthers” actually number in the millions and the basis for their...

Those who subscribe to 9/11 conspiracy beliefs are generally suspicious and inquisitive, a new study suggests. Shortly after terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center and mangled the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, conspiracy theories blossomed about secret and malevolent government plots behind the tragic events. A report scheduled to appear in an upcoming Applied Cognitive Psychology offers a preliminary psychological profile of people who believe in 9/11 conspiracies. A team led by psychologist Viren Swami of the University of Westminster in London identified several traits associated with subscribing to 9/11 conspiracies, at least among British citizens. These characteristics consist...

I walked into work a few weeks ago and caught my boss watching a video online called "Loose Change." It's basically the audio/visual bible for left-wing 9/11 conspiracy theorists. I yelled at her for allowing evil lies to get into her head and she replied that she was "bored" and it was "just interesting." It still makes me sick, as we remember today those horrible acts, that there is this vocal, energetic minority out there that pumps this cancerous information out into the ether. Worse yet, many foreigners seem to believe it as a matter of accepted fact. From a...

Three months ago, at a birthday party, I met a dour young man wearing a “9/11 was an inside job” T-shirt. I’d already been noticing a lot of “inside job” stickers and graffiti around town, and now, faced with a real-life Truther, I found that I couldn’t stop staring at him: He was at a celebration of a friend’s life and he was wearing a shirt announcing that nearly 3,000 American citizens were killed by our own government. It’s easy to dismiss a guy like this as a lone wolf, but he’s actually not alone: A 2006 Scripps Survey Research...

The History Channel is running a pretty good special on the assorted groups behind the 9-11 conspiracy theories. I decided to take a look at some of these sites, particularly the site devoted to the "documentary" called "Loose Change". This is the one that Charlie Sheen is supposed to be considering narrating. What I found was the usual collection of goofballs, morons and runaway nutjobs. It seems no amount of factual information can influence these people. What they display is the expected amount of self-delusional fantasies and paranoia. What I found that I DID'T expect (but should have) was that,...

Some conspiracy theorists insist that there’s nothing new or novel or dangerous in pointing to the hidden hand behind perplexing, painful present events. They argue that discerning observers and historians have always identified powerful conspiracies because these plots and schemes have played such a prominent role in human events. Consider the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March. Wasn’t that high-minded plot an example of a diabolical and world-changing conspiracy? And what about the Nazis or the Bolsheviks or even the Sons of Liberty in the American Revolution? Didn’t such groups prepare secretive plans which they ultimately executed...

Vincent Bugliosi's remarkable 20-year work on who killed John F. Kennedy has just been published. Containing about a million and a half words and thousands of footnotes, "Reclaiming History" is probably the most detailed examination of one moment in time ever written. It reconfirms that a man named Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing the American president. As one who never doubted the original U.S. government report that Oswald acted alone, I am deeply grateful to Bugliosi for the service he has rendered our country. But I also regret that he had to. Not One Shred of Evidence Why...

According to a poll by Rasmussen, 22% of all Americans and 35% of all Democrats believe that George Bush knew about the 9/11 attacks in advance.Perhaps that's because it's not at all unusual to hear bizarre theories about 9/11. If you spend a lot of time on the internet, you'll hear everything from Bush knew about 9/11 and let it happen, to Bush was behind 9/11, the Mossad was behind 9/11, the Pentagon was hit by a truck bomb, the Pentagon was hit by a missile, the World Trade Center was taken down by explosives, WTC 7 was taken...

click the link to hear Fred Thompson poke fun at conspiracy thinking.. starts at 2:45 "they just dont like to think about how much our enemies hate us"

New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin has suggested that the slow recovery and rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina -- which has prevented many black former residents from returning -- is part of a plan to change the racial makeup and political leadership of his and other cities. "Ladies and gentlemen, what happened in New Orleans could happen anywhere," Nagin said at a dinner sponsored by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, a trade group for newspapers that target black readers. "They are studying this model of natural disasters, dispersing the community and changing the electoral process in that community."...

Spring is coming, and those despicable charlatans-the Alex Jones 9/11 Truthers-have launched their Internet offensive. It certainly is offensive !!

Reflections of a Green Beret LTC Daniel Marvin is the author of "Victory Edition - Expendable Elite - One Soldier's Journey Into Covert Warfare" and a Veteran of the Korean and Vietnam Wars The Psyche of a Trained Military Assassin By Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Marvin, U.S. Army Special Forces (Retired) Watcher Magazine Contributer November 30, 2006 PEOPLE should know who and where I was when, like a human robot, I eagerly and without question participated directly as an "operative" in government sponsored illegal activities perpetrated by certain powers against any individual, government or activity who would attempt to disrupt the...

It is the belief of Donald McAlvany, who publishes the McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, that the coup was a hoax. Only a minimal number of troops participated in the coup, the internal or international lines of communication were not cut, the press was not controlled, and the airports were not closed. A very strange "coup" indeed.

The Cheyenne had Contraries: people who would do the exact opposite of what was the norm.They were tolerated because others could learn from their absurdities. Centuries later, we have Alex Jones and his devoted band of 9/11 "Truthers": people whose worldview is 180 degrees from the norm. This raises a question !

FBI scientist Douglas Beecher's report says he found NO additive in the Anthrax preparation he tested-only pure spores. The US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology says they examined the same specimens-and found silica in them. I believe both were reporting in good faith.

While thousands came on 9/11/2006 to honor and remember the 3,000 murdered five years ago by Islamofascists terrorists, a couple hundred people came to repeat scurrilous accusations. Their gathering to express these views is free speech yet their gathering on 9/11, at Ground Zero, says a lot about their lack of character.CLICK ON THE IMAGE ABOVE FOR DETAILSThe leader of these self-proclaimed "9/11 truthers" is Alex Jones, who was also there Monday. He is the guy in the sunglasses in the bottom left of the photo below. The truth is the last thing these ghouls want for their otherwise mundane...

ON Feb. 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/Illuminati conspiracy for world domination. That day, Popular Mechanics, the magazine I edit, hit newsstands with a story debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories. Within hours, the online community of 9/11 conspiracy buffs - which calls itself the "9/11 Truth Movement" - was aflame with wild fantasies about me, my staff and the article we had published. Conspiracy Web sites labeled Popular Mechanics a "CIA front organization" and compared us to Nazis and war criminals. For a 104-year-old magazine about science, technology, home improvement and car maintenance, this was pretty...

WND Exclusive Commentary Anger, conspiracy and 9/11 truth Posted: September 11, 2006 A recent Scripps Howard survey reports that one in three Americans believe or suspect their democratically elected government is guilty of the worst crime in American history – of participating in the wanton murder of thousands of its own citizens and the destruction of the national economy in order to advance some nefarious, secret agenda. If that poll is accurate, then I think it's time for us to face some hard truths. First, we need to understand that, when it comes to 9/11 conspiracy theories, the choice is...

The "Siri Thesis" Unravels - by Inside the Vatican staff In our confusing times, many otherwise faithful traditional Catholics have denounced and broken with "conciliar Rome," including the "conciliar Popes." But that has not ended the confusion... "It has been very well observed that there is no such thing as an impartial historian. Every man who sets out to trace the development of life, whether in politics, religion, or art, is bound to do so with some theory in his mind... The historian, or the theologian, who is most nearly impartial is not he who has no view, but he...

The government is taking the unusual step of responding to conspiracy theories about the destruction of the World Trade Center. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Gaithersberg, Md.), which investigated the causes of the collapse of the twin towers, said Wednesday (Aug. 30) that it has posted a "fact sheet" addressing alternatve theories about the fires and collapse. Several academics have put forth a "controlled demolition" and missile attack hypotheses for the destruction of the towers. NIST concluded after a three-year building and fire safety investigation that the towers collapsed after being hit by separate, fuel-laden aircraft flown...

Trust that conspiracy theorists will attempt to exploit the fifth anniversary of 9/11 to spread sensational claims and sensational lies. Moreover, it's a fair bet sensationalist media will collaborate, not because the squawk show host or headline scribbler believes the poisoned foolishness, but because anger, fear and trembling sell. Conspiracy theories are public ghost stories of a sort, campfire horror tales tarted up with government devils, corporate witches and other demons-of-convenience. However, Popular Mechanics magazine and Hearst Communications have provided a handy antidote to the conspiracy theorists' more noxious rhetorical poisons. "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up...

At 9:02 a.m., on April 19, 1995, a massive explosion detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, collapsing the 9-story building and killing 168, 19 of them children, and wounding more than 700. Convicted by the federal government and executed in June 2001, Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh claimed he acted alone. Yet, multiple eyewitnesses identified McVeigh at ground zero with unknown accomplices before and after the blast. The original indictment charged McVeigh, Terry Nichols, and "others unknown" with conspiracy and murder. Was the bombing part of a greater pattern of Middle East-sponsored terrorist attacks, including...

How do Muslims worldwide think? To find out, the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press carried out a large-scale attitudinal survey this spring. Titled “The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other,” it interviewed Muslims in two batches of countries: six of them with long-standing, majority-Muslim populations (Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey) and four of them in Western Europe with new, minority Muslim populations (France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain). The survey, which also looks at Western views of Muslims, yielded some dismaying but not altogether surprising results. Its themes can be grouped under three...

<p>CHICAGO (June 4) - In the ballroom foyer of the Embassy Suites Hotel, the two-day International Education and Strategy Conference for 9/11 Truth was off to a rollicking start.</p> <p>A 9/11 conspiracy group that held a meeting in Chicago this weekend says the motive for faking the attacks was to let the administration "instantly implement policies its members have long supported, but which were otherwise infeasible."</p>

Anti-Semitism can appear in many forms, many disguises. Its latest camouflage can be seen in “The Israel Lobby,” an article in the March 23 London Review of Books by Political Science Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Dean Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. This article is an extract from “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” their March 2006 self-published academic “working paper” that is neither peer reviewed nor published in any scholarly journal. Although ballyhooed as a work by two major scholars, they acknowledge that it “should not...

The first thing I wondered is why the study only used figures from between 1961-1990 when figures were available from as early as 1871 and as late as 2004. If a point is to provide proof for long-term global heating patterns, it makes sense to include as much data as possible. It took only a little research to figure out why the study reduced their findings to a 40-year period. Though the organization studied many cities, I reduced my research to the city of Nashville. According to the study, the average 11-month temperature for Nashville in 2005 was 72.9 degrees,...

Tue 04.12 >> David G. Brown, the author of The Last Log of the Titanic, will share some new theories on the infamous sinking as well as details of other dramatic shipwrecks. Book Info (International Marine) Tells the reconstructed story of the events leading up to the sinking of the Titanic, pieced together by an experienced sea captain from the official records of the incident and from eyewitness accounts. Exposes propaganda that has been perpetuated by tradition, revealing what may be closer to the truth. DLC: Titanic (Steamship). Product Description: Nearly nine decades after the event, the sinking of the...

The Forbidden Side of ScientologyBy the Reverend Murray Luther, Jan 28, 2005Religious Hard-Sell        A while back, I received a mailer from the Church of Scientology's Citizens Commission on Human Rights. The mailer offered, "You are invited to a CONFIDENTIAL closed-door Briefing and Dinner." I've been a Scientologist long enough to know that what they were really saying. Essentially, the message was "Come to our dinner and give us the opportunity to brow-beat you into giving us thousands of dollars."        L. Ron Hubbard describes this approach as "come-on promotion." The words confidential and closed-door are meant to induce, allure and attract...

The Forbidden Side of ScientologyBy the Reverend Murray Luther, Jan 24, 05Totalitarian Religion        In 2001, following the September 11 attacks, Church of Scientology Chairman of the Board David Miscavige promptly issued Inspector General Network Bulletin No. 44, titled "Wake-up Call." The Church's official position, although not exactly a denial of the facts, completely avoided one issue worth noting. Miscavige made absolutely no mention of the terrorists' radical religious extremism. I suspect that for most Scientologists, extremism is a concept that probably hits too uncomfortably close to home. Your average dedicated Scientologist, while able to perhaps recognize the dangers of suicide...

The Forbidden Side of Scientology By the Reverend Murray Luther, Jan 18, 2005 Unauthorized Correspondent for The Church of ScientologyIndoctrinated Tyranny    One of the first things a new Scientologist encounters when studying Dianetics and Scientology is the absolute authority of L. Ron Hubbard. There's a gradual indoctrination process that takes place in which the Scientologist eventually comes to the realization that everything Hubbard says is absolutely true and completely correct. Sooner or later every Scientologist arrives at a point where Hubbard's word becomes law, not to be questioned.     Every course begins with the same Hubbard Policy Letter, Keeping Scientology...

The Forbidden Side of Scientology By the Reverend Murray Luther, Jan 13, 2005 An Ex-Fanatic Speaks Out     This is the first entry in a series of reports and commentary on the ever controversial Church of Scientology. I've been a member for roughly thirty years, and as of this writing I still remain in good standing. I've received hundreds of hours of Scientology counseling, and have attained some of the highest spiritual levels that it offers. I've also done significant amounts of training in the delivery of Scientology counseling, as well as courses in the administration of Church management policies....

I receive the most amazing e-mail messages from all over the world. Some of these messages are angry, most are supportive, and some are from Muslims who feel they are on a mission from Allah to show me the error of my ways. Many from other countries show a woeful lack of knowledge of Americans and what is really happening in the world. One very nice Muslim man said, "Look at me, I am peaceful." Well, that's one. Over and over again I am reminded that Islam is only peaceful. The well documented genocide at the hands of the Islamic...

Jim McDermott believes in conspiracies. You may remember Baghdad Jim. The Seattle area Congressman went to Baghdad two years ago in a show of support for Saddam Hussein. While there, he denounced U.S. foreign policy and UN sanctions. His constituents must be so proud. When Saddam was captured last December, McDermott argued that U.S. troops knew of Saddam's whereabouts for a long time, but delayed capturing him in order to achieve a public relations coup on behalf of President Bush. Jim McDermott also participates in conspiracies -- at least according to the courts. A federal judge found McDermott guilty in...

Twelve years before Operation Iraqi Freedom began, an F/A-18 Hornet piloted by Lieutenant Commander Scott Speicher during the first night of the first Gulf War exploded into a fireball. The following day he was named as the conflict's first casualty and his wife quickly remarried. Evidence was later discovered indicating Speicher, call sign "Spike," had ejected and may have survived. Eyewitness accounts emerged of a Navy flier held in an Iraqi hospital who was not repatriated at the end of the first Gulf War causing Spike's status to be reclassified from Killed in Action to Missing in Action. Then another...

Bubba Ho-Tep Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis (Bruce Campbell) as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death", then missed his chance to switch back. Elvis teams up with Jack (Ossie Davis), a fellow nursing home resident who thinks that he is actually President John F. Kennedy, and the two valiant old codgers sally forth to battle an evil Egyptian entity...

This is what was posted: Senator Joe Biden shoots down Al Franken ... Telling him that President George Bush would have thrown his body in front of the planes himself if it would have stopped 9/11. When Franken tried to bring up the war for oil conspiracy theory, Senator Biden basically told him that was bull just like the war for revenge for the attempt on his fathers life theory was bunk. Franken sounded demoralized when Senator Biden finished the interview.

We've all heard them time after time after time, in article after article after article and book after book after book (from Immaculate Deception to HoB, HoS: "Bush was a member of the Satanic anti-Christian Skull and Bones and is plotting to take over America." "Bush is collaborating with Osama bin Laden, staging the WoT for a common interest that will benefit them both." "Bush..." I know there are a number of articles out there that debunk the tin-foil-hat Bush conspiracy theories, and I'd like to put together a comprehensive set of rebuttals to these to use as ammo for...

Conspiracy Conspiracy fans can have a field day if Sen. John Kerry wins the Democratic nomination for president, as it appears at this time he will. Conspiracy buffs can say that, once more, the Establishment has won. Both the Democrat and the Republican nominees will be Establishment types — both are rich guys, both are Yale graduates, and both are members of the secretive and elitist Skull and Bones club at Yale. And the outsiders (Howard Dean, John Edwards and Wesley Clark) remain outside. By now, I'm used to this state of affairs and don't put a lot of stock...

A galactic mystery hovers over the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland: How many of the 2,280 global leaders, including 31 heads of state, gathered in this Alpine resort conduct business with extraterrestrials? This is no whimsy for Davosians. It's on the agenda of the annual powwow of the influential and affluent who will ask forum participants such as Vice President Dick Cheney, Coca-Cola Chairman Douglas Daft and De La Rue Chief Executive Ian Much if the aliens have landed and are collaborating with them to concoct government policy, brew soda pop and mint Iraq's new bank notes. "The...

Suddenly Rush Limbaugh Is Concerned About Conspiracies By Chuck Baldwin Food For Thought From The Chuck Wagon January 6, 2004 Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has seen the light, or maybe felt the heat. In either case, he suddenly realizes the consequences of living in a society where government agencies have unfettered access to personal information and where individuals have little or no constitutional protections. Welcome back, Rush. For years, Limbaugh has impugned, denigrated, and chastised any caller who dared bring up the subject of federal encroachment on individual liberties, calling them "conspiracy nuts," or worse. He...

German police files have exposed flaws in their own investigation into the mysterious death of a British student. Jeremiah Duggan, from Golders Green in north London, died last March in Wiesbaden after allegedly running into the path of two vehicles.Mr Duggan, who was Jewish, had travelled to Germany to attend what he thought was an anti-war conference before discovering that the groups he had joined, the Schiller Institute and its associated newspaper, Nouvelle Solidarité, were run by the American Lyndon LaRouche, a convicted fraudster with a history of anti-Semitism.The German police decided that his subsequent death was suicide, but an...

HILLA, Iraq It was a classic Paul Wolfowitz moment: He was speaking at a new women's rights center here nine days ago when someone asked for his advice on writing an Iraqi constitution. Wolfowitz, the professor turned Pentagon war planner, began quoting Alexis de Tocqueville's theories about democracy to the residents of this ancient city on the banks of the Euphrates River. "There are people in the world who say that Arabs can't build democracy," Wolfowitz told the crowd. "I think that's nonsense. You have a chance to prove them wrong. So please do it." That interaction captured the missing...

Were the attacks on New York and Washington the biggest act of terrorism in history - or just an enormous secret service conspiracy? Conspiracy theorists are filling bestsellers with their supposed evidence, and they already have one-fifth of all Germans convinced of their half-truths. The man with the shy smile who has been appearing in the dock in room 237 at the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court in Hamburg since August 14 is accused of being involved in a conspiracy. His name is Abdelghani Mzoudi, and he has been charged with assisting in the commission of murder - in 3066 cases...

In my 18th summer, I took a job, working in a section gang on the old Erie Railroad. Our job was track maintainence and repair: Jack up the crossties,tamp ballast rock under them,drive in fresh spikes. I quickly learned it isn't easy walking down the crossties, because of the way they are spaced. I also learned copperheads sometimes lurked between the ties: hard to see, because they were the same color as the ballast rock. The "old hands" had a "surefire" way of spotting copperheads: "Be alert for the smell of cucumbers", they said."If you smell cucumbers anywhere around you,stop...

"The Clinton Wars" Sidney Blumenthal Author and Former Senior Adviser to President Clinton Tuesday, June 10, 2003; 11:00 a.m. ET In "The Clinton Wars," Sidney Blumenthal, former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton, gives his account of what went on in the White House during his second term. The "right-wing conspiracy,"

The conspiracy theorist, who likely fed Mrs. Clinton the line about the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy” (VRWC), was signing his book at a book store in North West D.C. on Friday, June 6, 2003.  Naturally, your DC Chapter viewed this as a great opportunity to confirm Sid Blumenthal’s worst fears about the vastness of the VRWC.  Even in the liberal enclave that is North West Washington, D.C., he cannot escape FReeper protests of his lies.  We had a great time  FReeping him as he promoted his book  The Clinton Wars.  For those  who came late to FR, Blumenthal was a...

ICONOCLAST SPECIAL RANT FOR THE DAY GORE VIDAL & THE MOTHER OF ALL CONSPIRACIES by Denis Schulz Oliver Stone knew his Lee Harvey Oswalds and his Jack Rubys. He could tell the difference between Herbert Hoover and J. Edgar Hoover without a cue card. And he didn't like either one of them. Stone could visualize a grassy knoll before he could see one. And he could imagine a conspiracy with the best of them. The result was JFK, the movie. It was, alas for Ollie, not the Mother of all Conspiracies. Hillary Clinton is more encompassing when it comes...

Once again the news media mind-control "spin doctors" are baiting naive Americans to believe that the Bush administration's "preferred target" at this time (Iraq) was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing escapade. Those of us who have done our inside homework on the OKC bombing most certainly KNOW that this was a government/military insider job, with a special agenda for our nation connected with it...and hence we are not falling for this diversionary tactic to somehow now justify in the American minds the "war on Iraq." From my CIA-insider whistle-blowers, to General Ben Partin's exposing of the obvious government/military role...