The conspiracy theorists who have claimed for more than a year that President Obama is not a United States citizen have found receptive ears among some mainstream media figures in recent weeks.
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, the country’s most popular talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh, told his listeners Tuesday that Mr. Obama “has yet to have to prove that he’s a citizen.” Lou Dobbs of CNN said that Mr. Obama should do more to dispel the claims. Larry King, also of CNN, asked guests about it, and other media types, including the MSNBC hosts Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, merrily mocked the controversy. NBC News even did a segment on the subject.
Cable news is often stretched for news in the summertime, but the birth certificate case has been fueled by the combustible combination of luck, compelling video, an outlandish topic, and savvy activists
read more at http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/on-television-and-radio-talk-of-obamas-citizenship/?hp
Monday 27 July 2009
Did MI5 kill Dr David Kelly?
The day Dr David Kelly took a short walk to his death in the Oxfordshire countryside, an unopened letter lay on the desk of his book-lined study.
Sent from the heart of the British Government, the pages were marked 'personal' and threatened the world-renowned microbiologist with the sack if he ever publicly opened his mouth again.
The letter remained unopened for the seven days during the drama that would pitch Dr Kelly into the spotlight and end in his death at just 59.
Doubt: To this day there are many unanswered questions about how Dr Kelly died
No one has ever explained why the eminent scientist and UN weapons inspector did not open the letter, but everyone close to him is convinced he knew its contents.
It was designed to silence him because his Ministry of Defence bosses had discovered that not only was he secretly talking to journalists, but was also preparing to write an explosive book about his work.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200004/Did-MI5-kill-Dr-David-Kelly-Another-crazy-conspiracy-theory-amid-claims-wrote-tell-book-vanished-death.html#ixzz0MRUWdVQO
Sent from the heart of the British Government, the pages were marked 'personal' and threatened the world-renowned microbiologist with the sack if he ever publicly opened his mouth again.
The letter remained unopened for the seven days during the drama that would pitch Dr Kelly into the spotlight and end in his death at just 59.
Doubt: To this day there are many unanswered questions about how Dr Kelly died
No one has ever explained why the eminent scientist and UN weapons inspector did not open the letter, but everyone close to him is convinced he knew its contents.
It was designed to silence him because his Ministry of Defence bosses had discovered that not only was he secretly talking to journalists, but was also preparing to write an explosive book about his work.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200004/Did-MI5-kill-Dr-David-Kelly-Another-crazy-conspiracy-theory-amid-claims-wrote-tell-book-vanished-death.html#ixzz0MRUWdVQO
Sunday 26 July 2009
The Top Moon landing fake list
US flag waving in the wind - there is no wind on the moon.
No blast crater from the moon lander's rocket.
No stars seen on the pictures.
Shadows from pictures are not parallel suggesting differing light sources
Footprints - footprints require moisture to make a print - there is no water on the surface of the moon.
Perfect pictures: unlikely as mounted on astronauts chests
Astranauts bouncing: if you speed up the film then this resembles earth gravity pull
No blast crater from the moon lander's rocket.
No stars seen on the pictures.
Shadows from pictures are not parallel suggesting differing light sources
Footprints - footprints require moisture to make a print - there is no water on the surface of the moon.
Perfect pictures: unlikely as mounted on astronauts chests
Astranauts bouncing: if you speed up the film then this resembles earth gravity pull
Obama beset by conspiracy theories
The 9/11 attacks were an inside job perpetrated by the United States government. The Clintons had White House counsel Vince Foster murdered. John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Cuban exiles, the CIA, the FBI, the KGB or the mafia.
For so many signature moments in American history, there has been a conspiracy theory explaining how it all REALLY went down.
Now Barack Obama is finding out just how stubbornly some false charges persist.
Six months after he was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Mr. Obama continues to be bedevilled by a hard-core group of skeptics who contend his Hawaiian birth certificate is an elaborate fake and that, well, he may not be the legitimate president of the United States
read more http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1794057
For so many signature moments in American history, there has been a conspiracy theory explaining how it all REALLY went down.
Now Barack Obama is finding out just how stubbornly some false charges persist.
Six months after he was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, Mr. Obama continues to be bedevilled by a hard-core group of skeptics who contend his Hawaiian birth certificate is an elaborate fake and that, well, he may not be the legitimate president of the United States
read more http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1794057
Moonstruck
Ten years ago, Jay Windley was stuck on a bus with his fellow members of the Utah Symphony Chorus. They were headed from Salt Lake City to Jackson Hole, Wyo., for a routine performance. But it wasn't long before Windley was annoyed (and not by his singing bus mates). He was perturbed by the man sitting next to him, the one insisting that American astronauts have never landed on the moon, despite the abundant photographic and physical evidence provided by the Apollo lunar landings—the first of which reached the moon 40 years ago this week. "He was spouting all this hoax nonsense," Windley says. "And he was clearly wrong, but I didn't have the research at that time to say that."
When Windley got back from his choral excursion, he founded clavius.org, a small Web site on which he has spent the last 10 years trying to prove the moon-landing deniers wrong. On the site, as well as on message boards that feature responses from astronomers, academics, and interested high-schoolers, Windley and his crew make their way through hoax myths, debunking them one by one. If deniers argue that the flag planted on the moon shouldn't be waving back and forth, then debunkers explain the theories of inertia as it applies to rippling fabric. Another argument—that the stars are missing from the backgrounds of the photographs—is easily explained: the exposure on the camera wasn't long enough to catch them. Sometimes, hoax believers argue that those astronauts who weren't ready to participate in the conspiracy were killed off. To that, the debunkers point out that NASA used a variety of consultants, contractors, and outside engineering firms, enough people that surely some word of a conspiracy would have leaked out, had there been one.
read more at http://www.newsweek.com/id/207149
When Windley got back from his choral excursion, he founded clavius.org, a small Web site on which he has spent the last 10 years trying to prove the moon-landing deniers wrong. On the site, as well as on message boards that feature responses from astronomers, academics, and interested high-schoolers, Windley and his crew make their way through hoax myths, debunking them one by one. If deniers argue that the flag planted on the moon shouldn't be waving back and forth, then debunkers explain the theories of inertia as it applies to rippling fabric. Another argument—that the stars are missing from the backgrounds of the photographs—is easily explained: the exposure on the camera wasn't long enough to catch them. Sometimes, hoax believers argue that those astronauts who weren't ready to participate in the conspiracy were killed off. To that, the debunkers point out that NASA used a variety of consultants, contractors, and outside engineering firms, enough people that surely some word of a conspiracy would have leaked out, had there been one.
read more at http://www.newsweek.com/id/207149
UN Team Checks Pakistan's Bhutto Conspiracy Theories
An inquiry into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is being conducted by a three-member team from the UN.
The team arrived in Pakistan earlier today to begin their work.
The world body's Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon established the commission at the request of the coalition government, led by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.
The work by the commission is scheduled for completion in six months.
It'll then submit its report to the the Secretary General by the end of December.
The findings will be shared with the Pakistan government and the UN Security Council.
There are several conspiracy theories concerning the suicide gun-and-bomb attack that killed Bhutto in December 2007.
Allies of former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf pointed a finger of blame at Pakistani Taliban commander and al-Qaeda associate Baitullah Mehsud.
The CIA also indicated Mehsud was a prime suspect.
A theory has also surfaced that allies of Musharraf plotted against her because they did not want her in power.
(Copyright 2009 by Newsroom Solutions)
The team arrived in Pakistan earlier today to begin their work.
The world body's Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon established the commission at the request of the coalition government, led by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.
The work by the commission is scheduled for completion in six months.
It'll then submit its report to the the Secretary General by the end of December.
The findings will be shared with the Pakistan government and the UN Security Council.
There are several conspiracy theories concerning the suicide gun-and-bomb attack that killed Bhutto in December 2007.
Allies of former president and army chief Pervez Musharraf pointed a finger of blame at Pakistani Taliban commander and al-Qaeda associate Baitullah Mehsud.
The CIA also indicated Mehsud was a prime suspect.
A theory has also surfaced that allies of Musharraf plotted against her because they did not want her in power.
(Copyright 2009 by Newsroom Solutions)
Alexander Lebedev: the oligarch, conspiracy theories and a mercury poisoning mystery
Alexander Lebedev may be dying. The former-KGB spy turned London newspaper proprietor is strolling by the banks of lavender at his boutique Umbrian hotel, looking the picture of health in his skinny jeans, cropped white hair and plimsolls without laces.
But as he walks, he mentions casually that he is being treated for mercury poisoning. Medical tests have shown a mysterious spike in his blood mercury levels to 14 times the normal limit.
His Belgian endocrinologist has warned him that it may well be high enough to enter his nervous system, then his brain, and begin to kill off his memory.
"Though if I wake up tomorrow morning and cannot remember Putin, that would be nice," he says.
Mr Lebedev's condition has echoes of another former KGB spy, Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in London in 2006. It also reads like a discarded plotline from a John Le Carre novel: The Spy Who Got a Bad Cold.
But the truth is, Mr Lebedev's dry, dark one-liner also cuts to the heart of the questions that surround him: is he the Kremlin's puppet, or its critic?
read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5854042/Alexander-Lebedev-the-oligarch-conspiracy-theories-and-a-mercury-poisoning-mystery.html
But as he walks, he mentions casually that he is being treated for mercury poisoning. Medical tests have shown a mysterious spike in his blood mercury levels to 14 times the normal limit.
His Belgian endocrinologist has warned him that it may well be high enough to enter his nervous system, then his brain, and begin to kill off his memory.
"Though if I wake up tomorrow morning and cannot remember Putin, that would be nice," he says.
Mr Lebedev's condition has echoes of another former KGB spy, Alexander Litvinenko who was poisoned in London in 2006. It also reads like a discarded plotline from a John Le Carre novel: The Spy Who Got a Bad Cold.
But the truth is, Mr Lebedev's dry, dark one-liner also cuts to the heart of the questions that surround him: is he the Kremlin's puppet, or its critic?
read more http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/5854042/Alexander-Lebedev-the-oligarch-conspiracy-theories-and-a-mercury-poisoning-mystery.html
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