Conspiracy Theory

A Conspiracy Theory by definition involves speculation about an event, or a series of events, where people or agencies may have acted in concert to achieve results which vary from the official version of the same event. The stories draw attention and fascination as the circumstances surrounding them are often themselves shrouded in mystery.

Some conspiracy theories offer revisionist views of documented historical events, such as the events of 9/11 or the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, while others purpose alternative explanations for unknown phenomena like the purported crash of a UFO in Roswell, New Mexico.

A conspiracy theory will often go hand in hand with stories of a government coverup, with many conspiracies focusing on nefarious worldwide agencies like the Illuminati or the New World Order.

Needless to say, conspiracy theories are thriving in abundance in the blogosphere, with numerous websites devoted to the various stories out there, as well as an equal number of sites that specialize in debunking or shooting down conspiracy theories.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Conspiracy Theory”

• David Vitter Mistakenly Accuses Climate Bill of Giving Dictatorial Powers to President

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  This is a deeply strange story, ably picked apart by the smart conservative blogger Ed Morrissey. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) has been making the rounds today claiming that the climate bill includes a provision that — in the words of the Washington Examiner — “requires President Obama to act like Venezuelan ...
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• Shorter Sarah Palin

  
  43-Ideas-Per-Minute — Authority: 138
  Palin Sees Conspiracy In New Dollar Coins I mean, its just bogus donchaknow changing how a coin looks. Keep your hands of my change! Its like the US Mint is a death panel now. I mean, I tell Todd not to mess with my spice rack, cause ya know what if the Russians in my back yard see that my cooking accessories ...
  2 days ago

• Corporatocracy

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  This article has multiple issues. No kidding. Let’s start at the beginning: Is corporatocracy a far-left conspiracy theory or is it that government of the people, for the people and by the people perishing from the earth? read more
  3 days ago

• Militant Muslims and Home Grown Al Qaeda Groups Cooked up H1N1 at Behest of Obama

  
  POLITICALPYRO CONTRIBUTORS — Authority: 112
  Reports early today from inside Russia suggest that a link exist between the Obama Administration and the H1N1 Virus. It has yet to be confirmed, but sources inside several militant Muslim groups throughout the Middle East and as far west as China have been working together in an effort -proposed by the Muslim ...
  4 days ago

• The Men Who Stare at Goats

  
  [CinemaRatty] Latest Articles — Authority: 164
  Film Review by Kam Williams Headline: Reporter Uncovers Top Secret Psychic Unit in Conspiracy Theory Comedy If you listen to the radio in the middle of the night, perhaps you’ve tuned in to Coast-to-Coast AM, that nationally-syndicated, radio talk show which gives credence to guests with wild theories about all ...
  4 days ago

• Sleeper awake?

  
  South Of Heaven — Authority: 137
  Lets go back for a moment and think about those pesky anthrax letters. Soon after 9/11 letters loaded with anthrax began showing up, most notably at the offices of two Democratic senators, Leahy and Daschle, who opposed the Patriot Act. Quite an intimidating thing. It was leaked that the letters had anti-American ...
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• Pakistan arrests Indian parrot on charges of spying and sabotage

  
  Faking News — Authority: 533
  Karachi, Pakistan. As a further concrete and clinching proof of Indian involvement in terrorist and illegal activities in Pakistan, Pakistani officials have arrested an Indian parrot on charges of spying and sabotage. The parrot, who has been living in Pakistan for almost three years now, was reportedly repeating ...
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• Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Channels Glenn Beck

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  more about "Pure Dead Brilliant — Jon Stewart Ch…", posted with vodpod Posted in Advocacy, Cognitive Psychology, Creative Class, Cynical Stuff, Discipline-behavior, Dominionists, Ethics and Philosophy, Framing, Health, Humor, Journalism, Language, learning, Liberties and Rights, Literacy, Literalism, Logic, ...
  5 days ago

• Not That You’d Expect a Conspiracy Site to Apologize, But …

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Jason Linkins, in fine form after Jerome Corsi’s conspiracy ramblings about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, does some reporting : I contacted Frank Cillusso, the director of the HSPI at George Washington University, who tells me that Nidal Hasan has no affiliation with the HSPI or with George ...
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• Birther Site Is Already Lying About Ft. Hood Shooter and Obama

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  Conspiracy-theorist Website WorldNetDaily posts the inevitable “connection” between Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and President Obama, and it possesses the same level of rigor and responsibility we’ve come to expect from the leading source of disinformation that the president wasn’t born an ...
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• Sting Like a Bee, Write Like Dan Brown

  
  Shelly Lowenkopf's Blog — Authority: 127
    There is nothing so likely to cause the flag of conspiracy theory to fly over the castle of your writing ambitions and intentions as the appearance at great hoopla and subsequent sale of a truly remarkably awful book by a person who has little or no writing skills. Even when you were receiving regular paychecks ...
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• Munaf Patel and Dinesh Karthik to play for Australia tomorrow

  
  Faking News — Authority: 533
  Hyderabad. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has offered Indian players to the visiting Australian team that is suffering from grave injury problems causing many of their players to go back home. Keeping with the homegrown rules of Indian cricket, Indian captain has offered his Australian counterpart a chance to ...
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• Coverup artists in the media

  
  South Of Heaven — Authority: 137
  In order to understand the world in which we live people need to understand how information is controlled. Back in the Seventies the Church Committee in the Senate uncovered all sorts of illegal and immoral things that the CIA was doing. The most disturbing was how the CIA had infiltrated the media. And its not ...
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• Mormon Pollster Gary Lawrence: We Want Negative Buzz

  
  Main Street Plaza — Authority: 125
  Catch Gary’s latest YouTube clip: The LDS pollster hired by two anti-gay campaigns (Yes on 8 in California and Yes on 1 in Maine) reveals his thoughts on how the Mormon church benefits from generating “negative buzz” … Mormon Strategy #4: We Welcome Buzz People think, “Well, we don’t like ...
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• LBJ was scared

  
  South Of Heaven — Authority: 137
  He apparently was afraid  it was a conspiracy that killed JFK . And he was afraid for himself, too. This month will mark the 46th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A recently declassified oral history by Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, President Kennedys military aide on the Dallas ...
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• Just a little prick

  
  Three O'Clock in the Morning — Authority: 458
  "You have to relax your muscles if you dont want this to hurt," she said as she finished rubbing alcohol on my skin. I honestly thought I was relaxed, but this was my first time doing this so there was probably some background anxiety that I wasnt consciously aware of. So I took a deep breath and tried to relax ...
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• Former GM Economist Reveals Auto Industry Conspiracy

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 136
  Former General Motors economist Walter McManus reveals some shocking statements that show GM not only ignored the consumers wishes regarding fuel efficiency, but intentionally misled the public opinion on fuel efficiency.
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• Snippets: Facebook Scam Alert, Government Watch, Fate of the F22 Raptor, Wisconsin Taxes Increase

  
  Lighthouse Patriot Journal — Authority: 126
  √ Don Farr sent me a link to ZD Net that warns Facebook folks of an email scam …On the heels of one fake Facebook e-mail scam, a researcher warned on Wednesday of another such campaign in which users of the popular social network are being tricked into revealing their passwords and downloading a Trojan [...]
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• Lebanon: Israeli Agents Launching Rockets At Themselves To Make Us Look Bad

  
  Mere Rhetoric — Authority: 566
  Well sure it sounds batshit crazy. But if you look at it from the perspective of a conspiracy-addled antisemite - "whatever helps Israel must have been instigated by Israel, including the genocidal wars Arab States start and lose" - then it makes a lot of sense. Why wouldnt Israel fire on its own citizens, thereby ...
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• Our Sick Mullahs And Their Unnatural Obsession With Sex

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 524
  While  the terrorists that Our Mullahs provided the ideological basis for and helped create continue to wreak havoc on Pakistan – a country whose creation the Mullah-in-chief Maududi had doggedly opposed and had worked to weaken throughout his miserable, pathetic and parasitic existence -  it should be placed ...
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