http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/conspiracytheory/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:39:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418324/posts James David Manning questions whether or not Obama ever attended Columbia. Heavy stuff . ATLAH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418324/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:39:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414738/posts For those fond of conspiracy theories, here's one hatched at the first Christmas where God unveiled his plan for a new global society. He sent Jesus, his son, as the peacemaker and saviour so that the world can live in peace and harmony as it was meant to be before the original plan was marred by our refusal to fit into God's road map. Those in the Jewish political and religious establishment in those days knew about this plan for it has been already announced by prophets like Isaiah more than seven centuries earlier. As it came to pass, Jesus... My Sinchew http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2414738/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:41:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408227/posts Ben Smith has a great catch – the North Dakota Republican Party fronting its website with a joke about the White House party crashers demanding President Obama’s birth certificate. The news here is the steady mainstream Republican acceptance of a deeply nutty and quasi-treasonous conspiracy theory about whether the president of the United States is really an American citizen. Yes, it’s just a joke here. But when’s the last time a Democratic Party web site fronted a joke about, say, whether Sarah Palin is the real mother of Trig Palin? (She is, by the way.) Washington Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408227/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:57:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402023/posts Introductory Remarks: On December 7, 1941, U.S. military installations at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii were attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Could this tragic event that resulted in over 3,000 Americans killed and injured in a single two-hour attack have been averted? After 16 years of uncovering documents through the Freedom of Information Act, journalist and historian Robert Stinnett charges in his book, Day of Deceit, that U.S. government leaders at the highest level not only knew that a Japanese attack was imminent, but that they had deliberately engaged in policies intended to provoke the attack, in order to draw... The Independent Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402023/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:25:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2404835/posts Operation Enduring Freedom, on Oct. 7 will begin its ninth year. At $4 billion per month, a National Priorities Project has determined that the total cost of military operations in Afghanistan by the end of the year will be almost $200 billion. Thoughtful American taxpayers may ask why the Obama administration has not only embraced the Central Asian ground war that it inherited from Bush, but is seeking to expand not only the U.S. military footprint, but subject its NATO allies to contribute more troops and funding as well. Shorn of post 9/11 patriotic and fervor against the perpetrators of... Oilprice.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2404835/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:36:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403948/posts "As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities." --Voltaire "Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true." --Demosthenes A long, long, long time ago, many people believed the Earth was flat, but for more than the last 2,000 years few educated people have subscribed to this delusion. The story (included in some textbooks used in American schools) that Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage was the first proof that the Earth is round and not flat is deceitful historical revisionism, nothing more. For (literally) thousands of years, people... Idaho Mountain Express http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403948/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:06:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402280/posts To its credit, National Review once attacked those who refused to accept the prima facie evidence of Barack Obama's birth certificate as proof of his eligibility to be president of the United States. The hallmark of a conspiracy theory is that a lack of evidence for the theory is taken as yet more evidence for the theory. Indeed, the maddening thing about dealing with conspiracy hobbyists of this or any sort is the ever-shifting nature of their argument and their alleged evidence: Never mind the birth certificate, his step-grandmother said he was born in Kenya! (No, she didn't.) Now examine... The Atlantic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402280/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 20:34:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401775/posts UN officials have likened the theft of e-mails from university climate researchers to the Watergate scandal, after claiming computer hackers were probably paid by people intent on undermining the Copenhagen summit. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, a vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that the theft from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) was not the work of amateur climate sceptics, but was a sophisticated and well-funded attempt to destroy public confidence in the science of man-made climate change. He said the fact that the e-mails were first uploaded to a sceptic website from a... timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401775/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 01:48:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397255/posts Conspiracy theorists awaiting Wednesday night's premiere of "Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura" might take interest in a curious comment Ventura made in the Los Angeles Times this weekend. Ventura, who has been doing the media rounds promoting his new venture on TruTV, told the paper that MSNBC cancelled his show "Jesse Ventura's America" in 2003 because he did not support the Iraq War. He said the network "in essence" paid him to be silent, which allowed him to purchase a house in Mexico. This is not your first venture into TV hosting since leaving the governorship. What happened to "Jesse... StarTribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397255/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:44:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400242/posts Here's another reason "liberal elites" look down on Sarah Palin: "Would you make the birth certificate an issue if you ran?" she was asked (around 9 minutes into the video above). "I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue. I don't have a problem with that. I don't know if I would have to bother to make it an issue, because I think that members of the electorate still want answers," she replied. "Do you think it's a fair question to be looking at?" Humphries persisted. "I think it's a fair question, just like I think past... Cup O'Joel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400242/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:10:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399916/posts At 7:45, your quote of the day. Something for (almost) everyone here: For the left, smoking-gun proof that she’s a fringe character, and for Birthers, smoking-gun proof that their concerns are mainstream. As for righties like me and Ed (and Glenn Beck) who think this particular science is well settled, tomorrow should be a fun media day. I wonder if she realized when she said this that it’ll follow her around from now on. Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399916/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 03:49:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399889/posts The Birther movement is convinced that President Obama is not a natural-born citizen and hence is constitutionally prohibited from being President. Most Birthers claim that Obama was born in Kenya, while others think his birth occurred in Indonesia. Even though Obama has released a copy of his birth certificate showing that he was born on Oahu, these conspiracy theories continue to animate the fanatical right. What is most surprising about these conspiracy theories is the number of relatively mainstream people willing to associate themselves with the Birthers or at least recognize the issue as a legitimate controversy. One of CNN’s... The Claremont McKenna College Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399889/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 03:11:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398473/posts Never fear conspiracy theorists of the world! The Birthers are alive and well and advertising in the pages of the Washington Times. And what an advertisement it is. It's unclear what is more offensive here: the accusation that President Obama is not an American citizen, or the ape imagery. The former, of course, is utterly ridiculous. The latter is not. Also, now Obama is British. Ape imagery has well-documented racist undertones, making it fairly difficult to miss the subtle message here. Earlier this year the New York Post got in some very hot water for publishing a cartoon depicting policemen... Mediaite http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398473/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:02:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398461/posts It's perhaps indicative of the culture, but there has been a media obsession with the scandalous aspects of Michaele and Tareq Salahi crashing a White House State Dinner on Nov. 24. However, the incident also demonstrated how vulnerable President Barack Obama could be to outside intruders, and that isn't getting the lion's share of the attention. Instead, coverage like that from NBC's "Today" show has been about reality TV and exclusive interviews. This soft focus, argued Fox News host Glenn Beck on his Dec. 1 broadcast, could have repercussions. "Let me ask you, what's more reasonable: people walking by the... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398461/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:46:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397374/posts No no, just kidding: There’s no “maybe” here. On the contrary, he blithely asserts that “there’s no question about it,” which precipitates the first and likely last defense of George W. Bush ever mounted by David Shuster. But then, this is the same guy who once claimed that Karl Rove planted the phony memos that destroyed Dan Rather’s career, who called for nationalizing America’s oil industry, and who thought it’d be super-keen to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. Chock full o’ good ideas, he is; it was only a matter of time before he stumbled across this one. Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397374/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 03:59:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397241/posts Here is video of Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey accusing the Bush administration of intentionally letting Osama Bin Laden "get away." Rep. Hinchey said "we apparently intentionally let Bin Laden get away." Hinchey said the Bush admin. let Bin Laden get away because "they knew very well if they captured Al-Qaeda there would be no justification for an invasion in Iraq." (Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2397241/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:15:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396298/posts Originally I just saw a "thread pulled" message, but now it has: "Site has links to trutherism, don’t post it here again" So now content is banned because the site *links* to objectionable content? I'd suggest that's true of most major news outlets for one thing. "Free"republic should support "free speech", it's one of the cornerstones and strengths of our system. Censorship is the antithesis of the American system. Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2396298/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:03:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2388299/posts Rumors about gun confiscations. Angry protests about the government's tax policies, replete with Nazi comparisons. A resurgent militia movement. Rage at the election of a president deemed to be illegitimate and threatening. Distrust and anger toward the government fueled by paranoia and conspiracy theories. They are among the crosscurrents of anger and hostility that have swept certain sectors of the country since President Barack Obama took office nearly a year ago. And they are contributing to "a toxic atmosphere of rage in America," according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which today issued a report looking at the various sources that... ADL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2388299/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:11:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379314/posts After various responses from the DoH giving unclear answers to UIPA requests which exclusively pertained to birth documents for Obama dating back to August 1961 – specifically documents which caused his birth to have been “Filed by Registrar August 8, 1961″ – I requested assistance from the OIP. Their interpretation of the DoH response was that of a denial of access. But the OIP also issued guidance as to how I could properly refine my request. I took the OIP advice and issued a 6th UIPA request asking for the same documents and limiting any possible wiggle room. And to... Natural Born Citizen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379314/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:28:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377784/posts Orly Taitz, Birther Queen, has been rejected again. US District Judge David O. Carter threw out a lawsuit questioning Barack Obama's eligibility to hold the office based on his "natural born" citizenship status Thursday, saying the courtroom is not the proper arena to "challenge a president’s election." Judge Carter dismissed Barnett et al v. Obama et al. This had been Taitz's most successful lawsuit to date, which is not saying much. However, it is the one that got the furthest through the legal system.... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377784/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 23:22:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375435/posts Fidel Castro has found something to sneeze at in Washington's decision to ease visits by Cuban-Americans to his island: He says more Americans mean more swine flu. The 83-year-old ex-president wrote in state-controlled newspapers on Saturday that many of Cuba's early cases of the virus were visitors from the United States and he used the occasion to take a jab at the U.S. embargo. "We had the strange case where the United States on one hand authorized more trips for a large number of people carrying the virus, and on the other prohibited us from obtaining equipment and medicine to... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375435/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 19:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2372975/posts Love Can Mess You Up: Before Arthur David Horn met his future bride Lynette (a "metaphysical healer") in 1988, he was a tenured professor at Colorado State, with a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale, teaching a mainstream course in human evolution. With Lynette's guidance (after a revelatory week with her in California's Trinity Mountains, searching for Bigfoot), Horn evolved, himself, resigning from Colorado State and seeking to remedy his inadequate Ivy League education. At a conference in Denver in September, Horn said he now realizes that humans come from an alien race of shape-shifting reptilians that continue to control civilization... News of the Weird via Yahoo! News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2372975/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:20:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367876/posts ...after the terror attacks of 9/11/01, there were indeed a few Americans who honestly believed that the federal government was so corrupt that it was behind and responsible for the events of September 11th. Even though we all watched in shock, as hijacked planes flew into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, these folks imagined that someone in Washington DC might have blown up those buildings instead. These believers were labeled “truthers”—snip Most Americans passed these folks off as crackpots—mentally unstable individualssnip So when very normal people starting asking who this grand nobody from Chicago was, who... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367876/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:53:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367176/posts Next month will mark the 45th anniversary of the publication by Harper's Magazine of Richard Hofstadter's famous essay, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," a work that seems to grow more relevant by the day. I was not always a fan. When I first read it two decades ago, I thought Hofstadter was being needlessly insulting by equating political views with mental illness—despite his insistence that he wasn't using the word that way. Besides, I thought, who really cared about the strange notions that occurred to members of marginal groups like the John Birch Society? Joe McCarthy's day was long... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367176/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:57:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367288/posts By Michael Peabody The other day someone sent me a link to an “Antichrist Decoder” that has been posted online by an otherwise reputable Christian ministry. You can type in anybody’s name and the program will calculate the value of the name in Roman numerals. After checking my name to make sure that I was not the Antichrist I looked at the other names that people had plugged into the decoder and learned that Barack Obama is not the antichrist, neither is Barack Hussein Obama. Ronald Wilson Reagan’s name doesn’t add up to 666 even if you type in two... ReligiousLiberty.TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367288/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:59:04 GMT