The week in conspiracy (Mother’s Day Edition)

May 8, 2011

What a week! Anyway, on with the conspiracies.

Michael Shermer finds that Donald Trump’s birth certificate is a “layered” fake. Not to be confused with a layer cake.

Take the wit and wisdom of Alex Jones with you wherever you go with the Alex Jones quote generator.

Plowed Clouds reports that HAARP closed down its website, apparently realizing that they had been blowing all of their war- and weather-inducing schemes by publishing them to a website. I simply do not believe that The Age of Reason is one of her favorite books. Do read the list of her favorite sites, btw. Wow.

Why is MUFON covering up alien encounters? asks one man a year and a half ago.

Hack writer (look at the last paragraph) Nick Redfern speculates about the men in black. They are Satanic aliens who are somehow associated with Ouija boards.

If GMOs are so safe, why don’t the Obamas eat it? asks someone with unparalleled access to shit they just made up.

According to the Fortean Times (heheh), conspiracy theorists are more likely to want to be part of a conspiracy.

Perhaps HAARP is responsible for whale beachings? Sure. Why not? Makes earthquakes. Controls the weather. Messes with dolphins’ brains. HAARP is like a swiss army knife of terror.

The powers that be intend to split the country in two along the New Madrid fault line, which appears to RUN THE LENGTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI!

New in the FBI Vault: the Ox-Files–cattle mutilation records.

Someone with access to We Are Change L.A.’s website follow invisible alien hiding in a hollow mooner David Icke. Not inspiring confidence, boys. The stuff about the satanic pope is almost insignificant by comparison.

A proposal to tax people who drive the most sends technophobes into a tizzy. Of course, it seems the proposal would only track how far someone drove, not, you know, relay their information to a directed energy weapon satellite in orbit.

A new spin on the expanding Earth theory: the core of the planet is spinning out of control. I’ll by that. If it’s spinning, there is certainly nothing we can do about it!

Seth Mnookin pointed me to Andrew Wakefield’s descent into abject goofery.

Messenger discovers (smiley) faces on Mercury!

Here’s a weird little article, and I don’t exactly know what to make of it yet: “President Ahmadinejad cohorts accused of using sorcery.”

It’s hard to know where to file “False Flags: An American Tradition,” so I file it here.

Is the alien menace perhaps more menacing to those with negative blood types?

I just like the title: “Ancient Mayans Endorse Tim Tebow as Denver Broncos Starter and Other Suspect Suppositions”

Guy in alien costume film leaked!

“Are conspiracies becoming a new religion?” dude asks.

And one for the ladies: Were UFOs seen in the ashcloud above Iceland’s volcano? No. Those were dragons.

Rush Limbaugh thinks that Obama is withholding FEMA aid from Texas because they are a red state. Of course, it’s high time that we broke Texas’ dependence on the federal teet.

The number of Birthers is down following the release of the birth certificate, says Rolling Stone. Remember when Obama released his birth certificate? Seems like years ago.

How will Chuck Baldwin run a presidential campaign from the moon?

Mitchell and Webb look at the Princess Di assassination:

Did you know that nothing hit the World Trade Center on 9/11? It was all just CGI. It just goes to show that if you can say something, it must be true.

This week in Osama bin Laden

Images from the compound where OBL was killed, if you flip through them to the bloody ones (and they are graphic), reveal that one of the men is lying on what appears to be a water pistol. I can’t wait to see the conspiracy theories that come out of that one.

THE OBL STORY HAS CRUMBLED! BY WHICH THEY DON’T MEAN OBL IS WALKING AMONG US, BUT THAT MINOR DETAILS ARE OCCASIONALLY CORRECTED!!!

ABC News reports that the “terror playbook” has been found. The NFL banned the fumblerooski because they knew it was a threat to our way of life.

HAHAHAHAHA! David Ray Griffin apparently describes himself as “Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. David Ray Griffin.” HAHAHA! Also, he thinks OBL died in 2001. Way to cite your own press release, asshat. Did you nominate yourself for that Nobel too? Haha!

Alternative media, reports the alternative media, has benefited from the Osama Bump. So, clearly alternative media orchestrated the fake assassination.

Daily Mail says that Zawahari may have been responsible for tipping off the US with this something-other-than-confidence inspiring opener: “Osama Bin Laden’s deputy led U.S. troops to the Al Qaeda leader’s hideout so he could take over the terrorist group, it was claimed today.” Damn you, passive voice!

Did Barack bin Obama take down the American flag at ground zero so he “lovingly drape” OBL’s coffin in it? Christ, it’s like the type of thing that Victoria Jackson would write.

Guy on web says that he saw the FoxNews ticker report the death of OBL days before it happened. Because his twitter stream is locked, I can’t check it.

Conspiracy theory of the week! A real humdinger!

Royal wedding or Illuminist fulfillment of biblical prophesy? A sample for your delectation:

Prince William and Kate Middleton demonstrated their blood lust and newfound birth into the Illuminati on April 29, 2011.[…] My suspicions were first aroused when I looked at the date of the wedding. The date is April 29, 2011. Or remove the april 2 and the 20 and you get 9, 11 or as the cabal who lead the new world order would say 9/11. Personally I watched this wedding so I know what the real deal is since it was broadcast live. My evidence that I have unearthed through my research fully supports my claim that Prince William and Kate Middleton sought the head of Bin Laden to be procured for them as a honeymoon gift from the Illuminati so they could baptise themselves into the Illuminati by drinking the blood of the innocent from the rotting skull of Bin Laden as a blood oath of allegiance and unswerving obedience to their overlords.

That’s all for now. In case you missed it, I appeared on the BBC World Service last week talking about conspiracy theories. Also, Ted Goertzel, with whom I’ll be appearing on a panel in October, was in the Washington Post discussing OBL conspiracy theories.

RJB

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More OBL Conspiracies

May 5, 2011

I’ve been trying to keep up with the conspiracy theories this week, but they are coming so fast and furious 5 that I can hardly get to them all. Nonetheless they are fascinating, not only for their predictability (many of the same ones were repeated about Elvis, Hitler and Michael Jackson) and…utter inconsistency with one another. Usually clusters of correct ideas tend toward what actually is correct. This is narrative noise, as far as I can tell.

Let’s get at it, and may Shatner give me strength:

So, the first one is the funniest. By far. This is the conspiracy theory that the picture of the President and cabinet in the Situation Room during the raid was Photoshopped. I suspect that they may be on to something:


Do you notice how conspiracists in the consequent 8 pages of comments start to get into it? Sad. WHY CAN’T YOU SEE STARS IN THE PHOTO?!?

Striking similarities have emerged between the hunt for OBL and the trajectory of the Harry Potter series. (While not a CT, I think that it is part of the propensity to link unrelated things.)

A conspiracy theory from Alex Jones states that the CIA is employing theatrics to heighten the drama of the “Osama murder photo release,” you know. Of course, Obama has decided to seal the photos, so swing and a miss, Alex, m’boy. But there are real fake photos online, if you just can’t get enough gore.

Lew Rockwell describes the “doctored” Situation Room photo as a screening of a “snuff film.” He follows the post with the comment: “How telling is it to see the military guy sitting in the larger ‘running the meeting’ chair while Obama sits off to the side with Joe Biden?” Since you asked, not at all, you delusional twit. And by military guy, you mean “Brigadier General Marshall Webb, Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command.” Notice how he’s a little too busy to “run a meeting.” Other groups are picking up this narrative, like Before It’s News, whose correspondent says that because we don’t have film of the firefight, everything is a lie, a non sequitur on steroids.

Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice (and the American Way) say that the DNA evidence will not be compelling.

We Are Change L.A. is citing Russia Today, a slightly worse source than the Weekly World News, to support their claim that the US is just getting rid of an old CIA asset. If you needed to see how reliable RT is, they had Alex Jones on.

A fascinating video has appeared on the prestigious YouTube that links OBL, a coming New Madrid earthquake, Mississippi River floods, a police crackdown at an Illinois college campus, and international nuclear terrorism.

Cindy Sheehan seems to have jumped the shark.

Paul Joseph Watson at Prison Planet sees the appeal for unity as a publicity stunt on Obama’s part. And then he talks about all sorts of other unrelated stuff. Of course his boss, Alex Jones, would never use the Osama death to promote himself. (Watch his introduction to himself.) Watson, by the way, describes the operation as a Jessica Lynch-style fable. And the Jones people, again, are throwing out a variety of different agendas whose ends are supposed to be served by an announcement of the death of OBL. It reminds me of the WTC 7 conspiracies. Pick an evildoer and run with it, man! Jeez.

I freaking love this story, how a group of undergrads predicted where bin Laden would be found. Down to the house. I remember the story when it broke a few years back and was wondering how they had done. But then William Gibson retweeted the follow-up. Heheh. Not a conspiracy theory, but fun.

Mexicans are, according to Alex Jones, taking the announcement of the death of bin Laden as an invitation to come up north. What, does he think he’s Lou Dobbs now?

That the story is unclear and shifting is proof that it never happened.

Presumably, bin Laden was shot to avoid proving every 9/11 nutter right. Damned wizards turning their giants into windmills!

Today Jones announces “US Official calls 9/11 and Osama bin Laden Death “Hoax“. OMG! Of course, since all he has to offer is that he is “prepared to testify in front of a grand jury how a top general told him directly that 9/11 was a false flag inside job,” and since by “official” Jones means, a guy who claims to have advised the Carter Administration, the chances of him getting to perjure himself are relatively remote. Oh, he’s also apparently a health crank on the side. Furthermore, the destroyed helicopter was apparently a super secret stealth helicopter (perhaps the type that is following Mel Gibson around in Conspiracy Theory?). Of course, there was that guy tweeting about their stealthlessness during the raid.

[Update! Turns out, according to Jane’s, the images of the helicopter that was left behind suggest that it is classified technology. I’ve also heard people talking about radar-frustrating skin.]

Pittsburgh Steeler Rashard Mendenhall should have his twitter account taken away from him for his own good. “We’ll never know what really happened,” he twat (the accepted past tense of the verb “to tweet”). “I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.” Good for you, mate! Nobody other than wackaloons say that happened. And you don’t get to suspend your judgment in ignorance and say, “We’ll never know.” Of course the crap we can know. Get off yer backside and do your homework! And go run laps.

The Kristian Krazies have refused to be silent about this. Worldview Weekend, who wants us, apparently, to just trust them, says Obama was not in charge of the operation that took down OBL. Presumably “they” are also forcing him to go to Ground Zero for the victory lap. Evolution News, which is apparently a thing, says that somehow, through junk DNA, Osama’s death proves evolution is false:

President Obama is said to have known the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden since September but chose to wait until May to authorize action against him. Why the delay? Could it perhaps have been to provide a super-timely news hook for the rollout of Jonathan Wells’ new book, The Myth of Junk DNA? If so, an additional note of congratulation is owed to Mr. Obama.

Shameless. Of course it’s not just our own domestic weirdos who have lost it, but also members of the Iranian Parliament (the original “No Spin Zone,” if I am not mistaken) have decried OBL as a Zionist puppet.

One man in the town where Osama was killed said that he can’t believe that the world’s most wanted man was living down the street. (snark)Of course, why should we care about this testimony when the Pakistani intelligence seems to not have been able to pick up bin Laden?(/snark)

The nuke conspiracy that was brewing a few days ago has become more clearly articulated, Underpants Gnome-style: “1- Create and Kill Patsy Bin Laden 2- Nuke a US City 3- Total Martial Law, 4- PROFIT!”

Of course, everyone celebrates the death of Osama bin Laden in his own way:

And, finally, a hard-hitting CNN poll determined that most Americans believe that Osama bin Laden is now in hell.

Stay tuned! I’m sure we have not heard the end of this.

RJB

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Bob Blaskiewicz: Shaper of International Consensus

May 3, 2011

Heheh.

After missing an opportunity to be in this morning’s Washington Post, I moped all the way to campus. I had sad coffee and dined mightily on the bagel of despair.

Then I got a personal message from the BBC World Service. They wanted a blogger to discuss Osama death conspiracy theories. So, for an hour, or so, I was on the radio on the show World Have Your Say. About a half hour into the show (you don’t hear it), the producer came in on the Skype call and asked me to be on the Africa version of the show, another 15 minutes of recording.

Honestly, they did not need me. Their host was more than well enough equipped to challenge conspiracy theories, and he did so quite well.

Very, very cool. Hear that tooting? That’s my own horn.

And, by the way, why didn’t anyone tell me that I stutter and sigh a lot?

RJB

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Osama bin Laden Dead! (Is Osama bin Laden alive and living in Argentina?)

May 2, 2011

I’ve been itching to get some time at a computer today to write this post. It took just under 8 milliseconds after the story that Osama bin Laden had been killed for the conspiracy theories to begin. The conspiracy theories, of course, have always been there. Many people are convinced that he died in 2001 or 2002 in Tora Bora of kidney failure or military action. Alex bin Jones said that bin Laden has been “on ice” for the better part of a decade. As he said in 2002, “Alex Jones was separately told by a high level Republican source that Bin Laden was dead and that his body was being kept ‘on ice’ until Osama’s death could be announced at the most ‘politically expedient’ time.”

The Republicans waited until just the right moment to…let a Democrat president take the credit? Or was it to interrupt Celebrity Apprentice, as Tengrain from Mock, Paper, Scissors found? Clearly, Trump is a danger to the Republican establishment, and they must crush him.

The faithful heeded the call to conspiracy sounding from the minaret of Above Top Secret and bowed toward Austin. In a post titled, “Calling all ATS Osama Dead huh? What are they breaking the news to hide? Let’s start digging please,” the writer exhorts:

“This is how they do it we all know this. This is a blatant MSM wool over the eyes type of an announcement. It’s time to peruse the interwebz with a fine tooth comb. I have a huge suspicion that there is something that is occurring or about to. […] This seems entirely too convenient right now….senses are tingling strong on this one. I wouldn’t post this if I didn’t feel strongly about it.”

Well, if you feel strongly about it…no, actually that has no bearing on whether or not your claim is true. This fellow casts a wide net (something occurring or about to happen that is or will be listed on the Internet?) and offers us only a “feeling” as justification. Before It’s News thinks it’s a distraction from…whatever we’re doing in Syria.

I have a suspicion that many conspiracy theorists will look to the other reported deaths of bin Laden, which really were reported but were of course inaccurate, but they will probably ignore the fact that there are multiple lines of evidence leading to the conclusion that this one is in fact correct, not the least of which is that an al-Qaida spokesweasel, “in vowing vengeance against America, called him a martyr, offering no challenge to the U.S. account of his death.” Wow! Talk about independent confirmation!

One guy, who has a webcam and a fauxhawk (never a good combination), thinks it has something to do with the occult, sort of, or it’s all a lie, or… uh:

Well, if you can’t trust an insomniac in a basement, who can you trust?

Some people just assume that the raid was staged, like the moon landing. I know that when I stage assassinations, I stage them within spitting distance of a Pakistani military installation.

So who’s staging it. According to a former member of the ISI (why are insider sources never current members?), the security forces of Pakistan, it’s the CIA, but this is just too convenience, since the Tehrike Taliban Pakistan, who have sworn to avenge bin Laden’s death, are blaming the ISI.

Of course, Fox got it wrong:

I challenge the Truthers to answer how FoxNews knew that Obama was going to die years ahead of the event itself? They must have psychic powers. (A real 9/11 Truther argument re: the BBS reporting on WTC 7.)

There are elements of the story that will, inevitably, lead to much speculation. The fact that we no longer have the body is going to make the predisposed doubt. I don’t blame the military for burying bin Laden at sea. You have 24-hrs before you are technically desecrating the corpse, so they had to dispose of it. It’s not in our interests to have his burial place be a shrine, so give him an actual “burial” at sea. I think it is a pretty elegant solution, myself. They have apparently all the evidence they need. The raid was, surprisingly, live-tweeted. They have DNA of the dead man and from his family. Al-Qaida confirmed the death by swearing revenge. There is apparently additional facial recognition evidence. One of his wives (one who was NOT used as a human shield) identified him. And who knows what trail of evidence evidence led to the compound? This is a pretty firm case. I’m sure there will be more.

Old, known forgeries of an image of Osama bin Laden’s corpse, which were never endorsed by the military but have circulated on the web for years, inexplicably, are being used as evidence that Osama is not dead. If he was just killed yesterday, then wouldn’t the old photos have to be faked anyway? And nobody in the government is even claiming that those photos are of bin Laden.

I am also hearing rumors of a recently Wikileaked an al-Qaida document saying that if Osama is killed there will be nuclear retribution in the US. I haven’t confirmed that, but I suspect that people will use that, regardless of whether or not it’s true, to say, “The government/NWO/Jews/Illuminati/ other is going to nuke us soon and blame al-Qaida.” Oh well.

Ben Radford is on the case over at Discovery News. I look forward to seeing how this one plays out. Will Osama end up hiding in Argentina? Perhaps underneath the Antarctic ice cap in a flying saucer? Is he cloning himself and raising an uber-race of super-jihadis among the stars? Or maybe he’ll pop up at a Burger King in Kalamazoo, MI? We’ll wait and see.

RJB

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Trump gets posterior handed to him on a platter at WHC dinner.

May 1, 2011

This…makes me very, very happy. The President was awesome and puts the nutter creep in his place:

And then there was Seth Myers, who was not restrained in any way by anything like nicety. Which was awesome:

Ah! That was just exquisite! I have always had qualms about the mingling of press and President at this affair (which Colbert addressed in his speech a few years ago), but perhaps there is something potentially redeeming about the affair after all.

RJB

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The Week in Conspiracy, 30 April 2011

April 30, 2011

Nothing related to conspiracy theories happened all week. Well, except that I have been receiving messages from the New World Order through old Monty Python episodes. Other than that, nothing conspiracy related has happened. Except that Obama released the birth certificate.

In other not-news:

Conspiracy Theory of the Week:

That’s all, folks. Only 3 more weeks to the rapture, so make sure to wrap up warmly.

RJB

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Breaking News: American President American!

April 27, 2011

I’ve discussed the issue of Obama’s birth status more than it warrants. Indeed, everyone has. During the campaign, the issue came up, but was dealt with handily by the press and they walked away from it. But the news cycle and the conspiracy theory cycle are not in sync, and the smoldering conspiracy theory every so often will occasionally flare up. Usually it appears only when some wingtard (I use that word with all possible respect–none whatsoever) who has managed to get elected decides to submit a “birther” bill, stipulating that a presidential candidate, to be on a ballot in the state, needs to produce a birth certificate.

Take Georgia clown Rep. Mark Hatfield, who submitted that the following become the law of the land:

(b) Within 10 days after submitting its list of names of candidates, the state executive committee shall submit to the Secretary of State for each candidate an affidavit by the candidate stating the candidate’s citizenship and age and shall append to the affidavit documents that prove the candidate is a natural born citizen, prove the candidate’s age, and prove that the candidate meets the residency requirements for President of the United States as prescribed in Article II, Section 1 of the United States Constitution.
(c) The Secretary of State shall review the affidavit and supporting documents submitted for each candidate; and if the Secretary of State finds reasonable cause to believe that the candidate does not meet the citizenship, age, and residency requirements prescribed by law, the Secretary of State shall not place that candidate’s name on the ballot.”

Now, it doesn’t say “birth certificate” or “nigger,” but we know what it means.

Personally, I believe that race is an important part of this ridiculous movement. The white ruling class, which people somehow assume I am a member of, is losing its majority. This, to me, at least, suggests, “Be nice to the swarthy people,” but reactionary types kicked back hard against the election of a black president. The president no longer looks like them, and there seems that there is something very primal, very basic, fueling this unquenchable fire.

Now, this is not the first presidential birthplace scandal, and historically the issue has not been raised on the basis of race. Take for instance the case of Chester Arthur, who was born within a day’s walk of the US/Canada border. (See? There is something mildly interesting about Chester Arthur!) He was the subject of much suspicion by his political opponents, but it seems to have just been that. More recently, candidates like Barry Goldwater (born in the “Arizona Territory”), John McCain (born on a US military base in Panama), and even Al Gore (born in Washington, DC) have faced scrutiny over their status and eligibility underneath the “natural born citizen” clause of the Constitution, though they generally haven’t been more than mild objections by opportunists. (Chester Arthur might not have been able to prove to himself that he was born on the American side of the border, by the way. Record keeping was not then what it is today.)

The Obama birth story, as far as I can tell, is the product of WorldNetDaily and Joseph Farah, and it surfaced as an issue in 2008. When you go back into the papers, you find that it was originally linked to allegations that not only was the dirty word “Hussein” in Barack Obama’s name, but “Mohammud,” at least so it appears in the 14 June 2008 edition of the St. Petersburg Times. The fact that this stems from concerns about his religion (I mean, doesn’t anyone remember him being criticized for hanging out with Jeremiah Wright?) suggests that this manufacture-versy is originally rooted in racism. And this is dangerous. I’m concerned about what could happen to the President when a significant percentage of the population think that he is a usurper.

Indeed, as I look through the record regarding the President’s ancestry, a headline (19 Jan 2004) from Africa News seems badly worded, considering the current goofiness and otherwise-valuable-time sink of the birther conspiracy theory: “Kenyan in US Senate Race.” Of course the first line of the report is more precise: “An American of Kenyan descent is topping the opinion polls in the race for Senator in the state of Illinois.”

I wanted to post some reactions from conspiracy theorists to today’s release of the so-called long-form birth certificate:

Obama’s Damned Birth Certificate

Joseph Farah, the guy who started this at his weird little website, says that he is still going to publish a book that attacks Obama’s birth certificate. Yeah, the guy really has no shame. I encourage the New York Times and Amazon to no longer list this book, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” as non-fiction, but as fiction.

Infowars just rejects it out of hand and says that it “raises as many questions as it answers.”

The Smoking Gun anticipates the upcoming looniness from those who simply will not accept this as evidence. Ironically, even though TSG calls these ideas “nutty,” Infowars (Alex Jones’s website) cites it as if it didn’t think that they were loonbats from Mars.

Donald Trump has gotten stranger by the week. He is now demanding that Obama show his college record (as anyone in education knows, these records would be sealed under FERPA, so of course we don’t have them). He suggests that Obama was not a good student, basically suggesting that Obama was an affirmative action hire, who took away a slot from a more talented, better-qualified white kid. Of course, Trump’s son-in-law clearly bought his way into Harvard.

I’m just glad this is all behind us, and that now that undeniable evidence has come to light, exactly what the birthers were demanding, that we can put this behind us and march happily into a bright tomorrow!

RJB

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The Week in Conspiracy (24 April 2011)

April 24, 2011

That sneaky cabal of globalist Marxist weasels has made me look the fool again by delaying their plans for taking over everything by one week. But ne’er matter! We’re on to them, and by exposing their plans, somehow that’s going to make everything better.

But I’m still sleeping in the HAARP-proof bunker tonight.

Conspiracy theory of the Week:

By the way, sifting through my Google Alerts this week was pretty amazing, as I came across myself several times. That’s new.

RJB

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CNN wrap-up…

April 20, 2011

Check me out. I’m now an expert. Heheh. Anyway, ego-stroking aside, I was reading through the comments with great interest. On a blog the people who reply are generally interested in what you have to say. Sure you get an occasional person who just did not get the point, but most people are on the same wavelength.

The people replying on the CNN post, however, wow…the audience is noticeably different. Most of the critics, honestly, didn’t get past the headline. I could have written filthy limericks and nobody would have noticed. Either that or reading comprehension is WAY down. Regardless, I thought I would compile my favorite replies because I have 10 minutes.

phatchunk99

CNN brings dumb articles everyday. Are we going to see a repeat again today?

MrsLaceyB

Hey, a lot of other news sources have done this story too. So, ease up, readers. I’ve seen this story published year after year on various news websites. Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, and numerous other sites have the same type of story except they didn’t even try to oppose the coincidences, they just brought it to our attention. I agree with the professor, its confirmation theory, people tend to seek out what they want to hear. The news media loves to put fear into the heart of Americans to manipulate us.
(Always agree with the professor.)
angbahoko
Tactically thinking and speaking, spring time and fall time has probably the most ideal weather for those who want to carry out a terror attack. April is the beginning of Spring. Most people are busy doing their thing and are outside more often, thus more activity (more distraction) and less attention from the guarding eyes. The change in season (warmer climate) easily provokes the temper of violent people. Summer is even worse, thus more road rage and homicides during summer time.
The only problem with this, though I generally agree that violence is probably more likely during nice weather, is that the ATF set the timeline for Waco. When my cross-country rampage comes around, my top is going to be down.

longtooth

I’ve seen a lot of inane and desperate attempts at filler stories, but this one takes the cake. CNN, where have you gone? Look at the BBC website, and hang your head in shame.

MadMelGibson

What an irresponsible story. You could say that about any month. Its called coincidence.
Again, he didn’t read or understand it. But it’s Mel Gibson, so what do you expect?

NathanS

The American people know about the Bomb squad trucks that were witnessed at the scene an hour before the explosion in oklahoma… Coincidence? You do the math, oh wait you won’t because CNN didn’t say it first.

Guest

“Conspiracy theories are a contemporary mythology, not unlike the Greek gods. Everything that happens has a reason, and the gods affect the course of human events through direct intervention.”Now why did the author feel the need to specify which gods are mythological? These two sentences sum up the absurdity of all religions. It’s certainly not limited to Greek mythology.
Only because they are clearly agents with motivation that are a lot like people, that they walk among us and have human form but can do anything. They live like elites on their holy mountain and are inaccessible to mere mortals. There was a reason I said that and the image in my head was of Athena deflecting an arrow aimed at her champion. Sure, it was just a crummy shot, but Athena gets the credit. Besides, I did say, “really seem to me to be a secular version of religious mythology.”

sonnycam

good analysis there, CNN……..ever heard of COINCIDENCE?? idiots
There’s an irony buried in this analysis. But at least he gets to walk away feeling smug.

alwaysrite9

If you read the article, you would have noticed that CNN is debunking conspiracy theories – so, if you consider the debunking to be paranoid, doesn’t that mean that you are actually the paranoid. Gotta go, time for “Twilight Zone” . . .
That one made me happy.
antil

“Following the election of [Barack] Obama, however, there was a steep rise in the number of hate groups”

“last year on the 19th of April, gun advocates had a rally in Washington””in the mythology that has grown up around Waco and Oklahoma City among self-identified patriots, the 19th has become a sort of high holiday””Conspiracy theorists”

I see what you did there. Talk about tying unrelated thing together…

These people are laboring under the demonstrable delusion that Obama is designing to take away their guns; it is a conspiracy theory that is at the heart of just about every fascist take-over scenario dreamed up by modern conspiracists. They are related, and I never said that everyone there was conspiracy theorist.

BeyochKnowlz

Didn’t Shakespeare write “April is the cruelest month”? This has been going on for centuries.

turtle995

I am a Jewish interdimensional shapeshifting reptilian space alien that works as a banker for the CIA. Why can’t we all just get along?
Win.

LiberaI

“Conspiracy theory expert.” What a joke.
Heheh.

NewEditi0n

April showers bring May conspiracies.

BGko

This guy they interviewed missed the boat. Actually April 19th to May 1st is an Occult Holiday time period in which blood sacrifice is required. On April 19th in particular, a sacrifice by fire is required, hence we have Waco, OK City, BP, etc ,etc ,etc…. I know it sounds wacky, but this is truth. Research deeper into the occult and you’ll find our government, media, etc is absolutely riddled with it, but you won’t see it unless you know what you’re looking for. You’ll find many such ‘disasters’ fall on occult holidays for good reason. You don’t have to believe in it, what matters is that they believe in it and act accordingly.

Wait…there was a boat? Why wasn’t I told?

SeekTruth911

Put simply, the globalist elite are very much obsessed with numerology because they believe in Satanic forces that empower them. I think that’s a bunch of bull pucky but THEY believe it.
Just google “dark secrets inside bohemian grove” to see the political and financial leaders of the world performing a mock human sacrifice to an ancient god known as Moloch.Also google David Gergen Bohemian Grove and just look at his reaction.

Kjcube

“He teaches a course examining conspiracy theories and runs a blog” well that settles it then… stupid CNN
I thought you had to be an expert to teach college classes on…your subject. The blog is just gravy for me.
BP2U
This ‘expert’ apparently doesn’t know that more suicides occur in Spring, as people come out of a long depressing winter only to see everyone else (except themselves) change for the better. It’s not a conspiracy, that’s just how it works.The tax time and 4/20 connection are also practical.Next time, ask normal people instead of these so-called ‘experts’ 😛

You’re right. Columbine was probably about taxes. And experts. Pish! What do they know?

NikkiNouse

It has been reported that levels of male testosterone are highest in April, probably from evolutionary survival mechanisms over millions of years. Not surprising, then, that male-initiated violence increases this time of year.
Aleforge

I agree with some of the others, its warmer out so people start picking up new hobbies. I almost started a cult but ended up doing some yard work instead. Maybe next year. *shrug*
Ketone

Can the professor cite any violent acts that actually were deliberately planned to coincide with the Battles of Lexington and Concord? He says the timing of Waco was merely “an unhappy coincidence”. Bringing up Lexington and Concord sounds nice but does it have any meaning?
Clearly not to you.
joeisking4
This article is ridiculous. While I’m not one to tone it down just to please a few sensitive people but cnn should really be more careful when putting out pointless articles such as this. Copy cats do exist and want to add their names to the long list of April tragedies. This is pointless journalism. Call me crazy, but this seems like a ploy to further violence so a few writers and editors can have their time to shine.
Imagining sinister motivations much? Dude, I want to study you.
nocode42
Confirmation bias is the single greatest threat we face today. It has allowed complete lunatics from both sides of the spectrum to basically hijack national politics with the kind of delusional sense of certain righteousness that produces suicide bombers. And there is literally no way to speak reason to such people… they could watch Obama’s birth with their own eyes and their brain would tell them the eyes are lying and their grandmaster’s right.
I like the next exchange a lot:

GixxerJoe

CNN forgot about April 19, 1775. Typical libtards.

nocode42

Both battles were mentioned in the article you didn’t read. Thanks for illustrating the concept of confirmation bias though. Your idiocy might be instructive to others.
Heheh.
GHull
You forgot the oil spill starting on April 20th. These dates are intentional. Illuminati mind control and sick cult like belief systems causes these dates to be used. Get real CNN. This is a piece intent on debunking people like Alex Jones and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Glades2
The Bible says that many things happen spiritually that we are not aware of – the week before or after Easter was also near or almost at the same time of these events, and represents the suffering of Christ for our sins, so it’s possible that spiritually evil tries to counter this sacrifice by generating evil in different forms. In fact, at the time of the Columbine shooting, Rachel Scott’s Father said that the thought kept coming to him (as said in the book “Rachel’s Tears”) that what was happening was “a spiritual event”, so again it does seem that many things happen for spiritual reasons, that we cannot see or understand by God’s permitting Will, for the good of mankind…
Oh, shut up. Er, I mean…good point!

sarcastr0

I can’t believe CNN’s obvious bias against interdimensional shapeshifting reptilian space aliens living in hollowed-out artificial moons. Obvious liberal bias.
That was my favorite comment, by the way.
Starter1977
CNN-you puppets for the illegal corrupt government..please see that you are controlled and you don’t even know it. You think you are high game, you are a joke and are being controlled like a video game. WAKE UP. Obviously the middle of April has an increase as it is Hitlers Birthday tomorrow. Every year he makes sure another event happens around the anniversary. And quit playing dumb like you actually think Hitler is dead. Wake up your fruitcakes and quit playing dumb..I guess that’s what you become after getting brainwashed by your controlled school system.
That one wasn’t.
andruha
Actually, I thought this article wasn’t half-bad. Granted, CNN asked inane question — they are trying to play the average American — but the expert was pretty interesting. I like his comparison to Greek Mythology — interesting interpretation.
Ah, that’s more like it.
So that’s that. I will never mention the CNN article again. Unless I’m drunk or think you might be interested in or benefit from being told about it.
RJB

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Posted by Bob

The week in conspiracy (19 April 2011)

April 19, 2011

You remember last time when I said that global events were coming to a head in the coming week? Boy, I sure was wrong because this week– THIS WEEK– represents the culmination of vast clandestine machinations.

Conspiracy Theory of the Week (or so):

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