
IRVINE, CA - Wednesday, November 7th, I had the opportunity to attend a Ron Paul Meetup group meeting. This was not like any other meeting, however; this time, the members spoke to Ron Paul over a live teleconference.

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While acknowledging that he may be out-of-step with many of his colleagues on the left, Chomsky talks about why he doesn't believe that 9/11 was an "inside job."

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(in no particular order, with each theory's author or main proponent in parentheses)

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How big a lunatic do you have to be to watch two giant airliners packed with jet fuel slam into buildings on live TV igniting a massive inferno that burned for two hours and then think, "Well, if you believe that was the cause?" Stop asking me to raise this ridiculous topic o …

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To say Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul has eclectic supporters could be considered an understatement.

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Germany's ZDF public television network has sunk to an all-time low on its Web site. It has asked the public who was behind 9/11: Was it really Osama bin Laden or was it actually the US government?

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In the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the state-run news outlets preferred to discuss the conspiracy theories.

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Six years after the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, there's plenty of unanswered questions about why the Bush administration didn't prevent them. But the most popular 9/11 conspiracy theories are full of holes, too.

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An analysis of the World Trade Center collapse has challenged a conspiracy theory surrounding the 9/11 attacks.

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A new mathematical analysis of the collapse of the World Trade Centre has been published by a Cambridge University academic, with results that challenge conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11th attacks.

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One woman's journey to unmask the secret rulers of the world. Who are the secret rulers? Mike White answers that.
Their new script, "Them," is "a paranoid conspiracy movie/comedy," White recently told MTV News. "About who the secret rulers of the world."

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Forget the conspiracy theories. Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk just wants a few questions answered.

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Allahpundit piqued my curiosity with his link to Robert Fisk's latest screed at the Independent, wherein he claims to be unable to find answers to many questions about the 9/11 attacks.

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It may seem remarkable that, 23 years after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), there is still denial that the virus is the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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Examines the various conspiracy theories espoused on the Internet, in articles and in public forums that attempt to explain the 9/11 attacks.

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After nearly nine years of construction, the Mexi-Canadian Overpass, the controversial $4.3 trillion highway overpass linking Guadalupe and Winnipeg, was finally completed last week, drawing harsh criticism from U.S. citizens and officials alike.

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For nearly three decades, the memo has been passed around by word of mouth, the Internet, on nth-generation photocopied fliers, making the rounds among African American activists, politicians and talk-show hosts.

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Alas, the Weekly World News, long a stalwart of reportage no one else dared to print, is going out of business.

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An interesting piece came across my desk the other day that paints a chilling picture of how strong the religious right's death grip is on American culture and politics...

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*NOTE: Filing this under the category "World News" seemed appropriate.

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Even by Daily Kos' standards of whacked out hate U.S.A. first moonbat conspiracy theories, this one is at the long end of the Kos bell curve:

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On July 20, 1969, half a billion people watched as Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon.

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One factor fuelling the general growth of conspiracy beliefs is likely to be that the internet allows new theories to be quickly created, and endlessly debated by a wider audience than ever.

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A "national underground network" of pink pistol-packing lesbians is terrorizing America.

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Widely known as an expert in Latin American history and social movements, and a prolific critic of U.S.