A lone anthrax mailer? Skeptics question FBI case

The story has all the ingredients for a good conspiracy theory: a killer germ created in a secret government lab, a government on the brink of war, a murder investigation with unanswered questions and a suspect who committed suicide before he could be charged.

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9/11 Conspiracy Theories Persist, Thrive

Kevin Barrett believes the U.S government might have destroyed the World Trade Center. Steven Jones is researching what he calls evidence that the twin towers were brought down by explosives detonated inside them, not by hijacked airliners.

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Internet Floats Lay Conspiracy Theories

Ken Lay has taken his place alongside Elvis Presley in the pantheon of people whose deaths have not been fully believed. In Internet sites and blogs, conspiracy theorists and jokesters have floated the idea that the Enron founder's powerful friends helped him fake his death to escape sentencing in one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history.

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An opinion piece from October 15th, earlier this year.

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Why do people believe in highly improbable conspiracies? In previous columns I have provided partial answers, citing patternicity (the tendency to find meaningful patterns in random noise) and agenticity (the bent to believe the world is controlled by invisible intentional agents …

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KARACHI: Pakistan's television networks are heaping political pressure on an increasingly unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari with critical and influential programming that offers a voice to the poor. In the decade since military ruler Pervez Musharraf issued licences and so …

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Guest columnist Ahmed Rashid on how the real problems facing Pakistan are being sidelined by a surge of conspiracy theories Switch on any of the dozens of satellite news channels now available in Pakistan.

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Americans generally like to hear good news. They like to believe that a new President will right old wrongs, that clean energy will replace dirty oil, and that fresh thinking will set the economy straight. American pundits tend to restrain their pessimism and to hope for the best.

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What follows is a detailed listing of major terrorist plots and racist rampages that have emerged from the American radical right in the years since Oklahoma City.

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Conspiracy. Just saying the word in conversation can make people politely edge away, looking for someone who won't corner them with wild theories about how Elvis, John F. Kennedy, and Bigfoot are cryogenically frozen in an underground bunker. Yet conspiracies do exist.

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(Watch) Next... H3N8: Dog Flu Virus

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"Trust no one." That was the slogan of The X-Files, the TV drama that followed two FBI agents on a quest to uncover a vast government conspiracy. A defining cultural phenomenon during its run from 1993 to 2002, the show captured a mood of growing distrust in America.

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As well as providing juicy titbits [sic] about the Obama marriage, a new book supports the right-wing theory that the president needed help to produce 'Dreams From My Father'

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If nothing Obama can do (short of resigning) will have any effect on birther activity, then it is certain  that the birthers bear all of  the responsibility for all the public funds spent in dealing with birtherism. What are those costs?

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Conspiracy theorists -- and by conspiracy theorists, I don't mean anyone who believes in particular conspiracies (which occur all the time), but rather those who maintain that a single vast conspiracy suffices to explain the better part of human affairs -- claim to be hard-boiled …

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excerpt: ""MSNBC morning show host Joe Scarborough went on the attack against right-wing "hatred" Tuesday and declared he would be putting together a "conservative honor roll" to reward GOP politicians who denounce the rhetoric of commentators like Fox News' Glenn Beck. ""

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Granted, when you're out of power, stirring up trouble is a lot more fun than writing policy papers.

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Like today, Vietnam had its Neocons and Zionist war criminals, Nixon and Kissinger, when Bush and his Zionist imperial thugs also lied us into an illegal war in Iraq, or today, Obama and Rham Emanuel, as liberal warmongers, and Zionist war cheerleaders who continue their fascist …

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"I wanted to bring you here because I wanted to show you what's on the other side of the board... this is stunning..." Well, I agree with Beck that his demonstration was stunning, but I'm guessing we were stunned for different reasons.

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On Aug. 4, President Barack Obama celebrated the anniversary of his birth, an event that occurred 48 years ago in the state of Hawaii.

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Twenty Obama Myths Debunked!

Since President Obama first stepped foot on the campaign trail, a constant swarm of conspiracies followed his every step. Obama's detractors have fabricated a lengthy list of myths involving the President, and most of them refuse to go away.

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On July 20 1969, Americans and the world sat transfixed in front of their televisions as Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. Arguably one of the greatest events in human history...

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There's a term some use for people like Taitz, and she doesn't like it.

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Do you ever wonder why some conspiracy theories, no matter how retarded they sound, seem to never die? Where do these things come from, anyway?

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LOS ANGELES - Howard K. Stern once loved posing with pill-popping Anna Nicole Smith, but he's not happy in mug shots taken by cops, who say the Playmate's Svengali was also her supplier.

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Excerpt: Orange County's once most-famous meter reader, Roy Kronk, wants bounty hunter Leonard Padilla to hush up.

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Subprime And Stereotypes

IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? We seem to be in one heck of a financial mess and we all seem to agree that sub prime is at the root of the entire predicament.

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Right-Wing/Evangelical Plot Uncovered in Idaho Bunker

Idaho law enforcement officials report thay have discovered a plot by what appear to be disenfranchised right wingers and evangelicals to physically annex the Idaho panhandle and hold it by force until the "rapture event" that many claim is right around the corner.

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