[T]he Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has decided to attack me in association with the fatal shooting of three police officers," [Alex Jones] said on his April 5 broadcast. "So there you go, it's my fault. No, it's Barack Obama's fault for introducing a bill to effectively ban all semi-automatic hand guns and rifles and to psychologically test all Americans who want to own guns. But look, this shooting isn't even Obama's fault, even though he's a tyrant and a gungrabber ... it's [the shooter's] fault. Naturally, some were documented on YouTube. One person, making calls for Jones'. prisonplanet.com Web site, for example, audio-recorded his interaction with an employee in the P-G's copyright department. The conversation went on for six minutes, and while the employee said that the paper stood b...
Politics is a blood sport, and it's naive to think there won't be some serious injuries when playing in the political big leagues. Because the stakes are so high, people running for office put forth enormous efforts to scrub their past and curricula vitae of any information that could give the faintest whiff of scandal or irregularity. This leads to many self-inflicted wounds. Excessive fear of scrutiny breeds secrecy, which can inspire conspiracy theories, as the current occupant of the White House has proven. All of the question marks lurking around President Obama's background could be answered with a little transparency. Fair or not, refusing to make college transcripts public makes a gossipy society curious about what someone has to hide. When a public servant doesn't provide clari...
Americans love a good conspiracy. Let's face it: conspiracy theories can be so much fun. For one, you get to feel important; those who believe in conspiracies get to feel that they alone have pierced the dark veil of some illicit scheme only to gaze at the hidden underbelly of our world - while the rest of us are just brain- washed into some mindless ignorance. Then too, conspiracies can be profitable. Think Oliver Stone and the X-Files. But then again, perhaps many Americans are just plain paranoid. Popular conspiracy thinking has been around longer than the grassy knoll. Joe McCarthy made his senatorial career back in the 1950s by accusing "men high in government" with a "conspiracy of infamy." But long before Senator Joe, the Populist Party believed that men of finance (gold gamblers...
ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan - It was all a ruse, Ejaz Ahmad sniffed. Osama bin Laden never lived in Abbottabad. To Ahmad, the secret night raid by U.S. commandos, the staccato bursts of gunfire, the crash of the stealth helicopter and the reported killing of the al-Qaida leader in a whitewashed compound just down the road were pure theater. The Americans made it all up to convince the world that terrorism exists everywhere in Pakistan.
The weekend conference is the Chicago meeting for 911truth.org, one of the most visible organizations within a larger coalition known as the "9/11 Truth Movement," and most of the crowd in the meeting believes that the US government planned and orchestrated the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001. Mole discusses the .
DURING her post-Osama bin Laden visit to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Pakistan should shed anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories. Clinton's comment isn't uncalled for. Many Pakistanis still believe that Sept. 11 was an inside job. Another conspiracy theory popular in Pakistan says 3,000 Jews who worked in the World Trade Center didn't show up Sept. 11 because they knew in advance the planes would crash into the towers. Pakistan's intelligence agencies are accused of abducting, torturing and killing fellow citizens every day. Therefore, the conspiracy crowd thinks it would be normal for the CIA, as well, to sacrifice American lives to achieve its goals.
A survey of 1,010 randomly selected adults asked about media use and belief in three conspiracy theories about the attacks of September 11, 2001. "Paranoid style" and "cultural sociology" theories are outlined, and empirical support is found for both. Patterns vary somewhat by conspiracy theory, but members of less powerful groups (racial minorities, lower social class, women, younger ages) are more likely to believe at least one of the conspiracies, as are those with low levels of media involvement and consumers of less legitimate media (blogs and grocery store tabloids). Consumers of legitimate media (daily newspapers and network TV news) are less likely to believe at least one of the conspiracies, although these relationships are not significant after controlling for social structura...
DURING her post-Osama bin Laden visit to Pakistan, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Pakistan should shed anti-Americanism and conspiracy theories. Clinton's comment isn't uncalled for. Many Pakistanis still believe that Sept. 11 was an inside job. Another conspiracy theory popular in Pakistan says 3,000 Jews who worked in the World Trade Center didn't show up Sept. 11 because they knew in advance the planes would crash into the towers. Pakistan's intelligence agencies are accused of abducting, torturing and killing fellow citizens every day. Therefore, the conspiracy crowd thinks it would be normal for the CIA, as well, to sacrifice American lives to achieve its goals.
So it was not surprising when Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seized on the "Jewish control" canard in a "letter to the American people" excerpted in the November 30, 2006 issue of The New York Times, in which he asked why the U.S. supports Israel, whom he described as "infamous aggressors." His answer: "Is it not because they have imposed themselves on a substantial portion of the banking, financial, cultural and media sectors? In the U.S., the new anti-Semitism is emerging in a period of conflict and crisis, a polarized society and an unpopular war. Mr. [Kenneth Jacobson] points out that in 1991, when columnist Patrick Buchanan accused "Israel and its amen corner in the United States" of pushing America into the Gulf War, his charges were widely dismissed. But as the new war in...
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