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		<title>Speakers at Anti-Semite’s Texas Conference Go Light on the Jews</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 16:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hatewatch Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a day-long conference in Austin organized by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Texe Marrs, a series of speakers revealed who really killed JFK, explained the evils of Obamacare and ranted about the “New World Order,” but steered clear of spewing overt hatred against Jews. Sponsored by Power of Prophecy, Marrs&#8217; Austin-based &#8220;end-times ministry,&#8221; the Liberty &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Extremists Blame Favorite Bogeymen for Boston Bombings</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/04/17/extremists-blame-favorite-bogeymen-for-boston-bombings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/04/17/extremists-blame-favorite-bogeymen-for-boston-bombings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilyn Elias</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: We&#8217;ve corrected the attribution of a quote below suggesting that if the attackers were antigovernment they would have attacked a government target, rather than random Americans. The quote actually came from Mike Lackomar of the Southeast Michigan Volunteer Militia. Hatewatch regrets the error, which was the result of an editing mistake. Who was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>62</slash:comments>
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		<title>‘Conservatives’ Who Gathered in Colorado a Different Breed</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/03/25/conservatives-who-gathered-in-colorado-a-different-breed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/03/25/conservatives-who-gathered-in-colorado-a-different-breed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hatewatch Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['Patriot' Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — You might have thought that a conference with the title “Conservative Call to Action” would feature lots of talk of small government, of Ronald Reagan, of the need to defend traditional values and a capitalist economy. But that would be yesterday’s conservatives. Instead, at the event held Saturday in this famously [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>In New Novel, Glenn Beck Warns of Squirrel-Worshipping Socialists</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/27/in-new-novel-glenn-beck-warns-of-squirrel-worshipping-socialists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/27/in-new-novel-glenn-beck-warns-of-squirrel-worshipping-socialists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[America’s favorite far-right entertainer, Glenn Beck, has always got the scoop on the coming End of the World and how to protect yourself from it. When he’s not urging fans to buy guns and gold, he’s telling them to build bunkers and stock up on food. Now, just in time for the holidays, the fear-mongering [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>90</slash:comments>
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		<title>Super-Storm Sandy Spawns Plethora of Conspiracy Theories</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/30/super-storm-sandy-spawns-plethora-of-conspiracy-theories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/30/super-storm-sandy-spawns-plethora-of-conspiracy-theories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hatewatch Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Even before the winds of Hurricane Sandy began to moderate, conspiracy theorists of a variety of bents got busy explaining the real meaning of the storm. Because, of course, a monster storm can’t just come from something like “weather” or “climate.” No, a storm like that just must be the product of nefarious or, perhaps, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>53</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conspiracy Theorists: Isaac Caused by God, Gov’t, or Maybe Chemtrails</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/29/conspiracy-theorists-isaac-caused-by-god-govt-or-maybe-chemtrails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/29/conspiracy-theorists-isaac-caused-by-god-govt-or-maybe-chemtrails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Extremism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hurricane Isaac has inconvenienced a lot of people. Many thousands of Gulf Coast residents have boarded up windows and sought shelter inland. And many others are now facing the prospect of cleaning up and rebuilding flooded homes and businesses. But the inconvenienced people we’ve been hearing about most are the pundits and politicians who gathered [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>177</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conspiracists Say Recent Shootings ‘False Flag’ Attacks by Government</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/27/conspiracists-say-recent-shootings-false-flag-attacks-by-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/27/conspiracists-say-recent-shootings-false-flag-attacks-by-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 19:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['Patriot' Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kurt Nimmo says that there is no problem with violent white supremacists in the military. His boss, Alex Jones, says that there is no problem with gun violence in America – at least, no problem that’s not a result of government-sponsored “mind-control” experiments. Jones and Nimmo, who are among the biggest spinners of conspiracy theories [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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		<title>Radical Right Theories Flourish in Aftermath of Sikh Killings</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/09/radical-right-theories-flourish-in-aftermath-of-sikh-killings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/09/radical-right-theories-flourish-in-aftermath-of-sikh-killings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 21:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New World Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriot]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With last weekend’s mass killing at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin fresh in the public’s memory, the usual players on the conspiracy scene have begun crafting wild, alternative narratives of what really happened. The theory has started to spread that the attack was orchestrated by some dark sector of the federal government in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conspiracists Adopt NRA Talking Points on UN Arms Treaty</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/19/conspiracists-adopt-nra-talking-points-on-un-arms-treaty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/19/conspiracists-adopt-nra-talking-points-on-un-arms-treaty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New World Order]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing spooks antigovernment conspiracy theorists like the United Nations and its international treaties – particularly when it comes to perceived threats to their right to bear arms. So naturally, far-right paranoiacs really have their panties in a twist over the proposed Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which would establish standards for the international trade of weapons. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tea Party Nation: Oath Keepers is Last Line of Defense Against Tyranny</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/10/tea-party-nation-oath-keepers-is-last-line-of-defense-against-tyranny/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/10/tea-party-nation-oath-keepers-is-last-line-of-defense-against-tyranny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New World Order]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tea Party Nation, one of the more extreme factions of the Tea Party movement, has dipped deeper into the conspiratorial waters of antigovernment lore, most recently promoting the Oath Keepers and other antigovernment “Patriots” as the last line of defense for Americans increasingly confronted with “a government verging on evil.” In a post published [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>98</slash:comments>
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		<title>Alabama Defeats Communism with Anti-Sustainability Law</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/06/06/alabama-defeats-communism-with-anti-sustainability-law/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/06/06/alabama-defeats-communism-with-anti-sustainability-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 20:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Propaganda]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With chronic budget shortfalls, dangerously overcrowded prisons and the nation’s biggest municipal bankruptcy filing, we here in Alabama have a lot on our minds. But at least we can cross one worry off the list: Our property cannot be confiscated by the United Nations or any of its myriad stealth agents in the name of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gun, Ammo Sales Skyrocketing in Anticipation of Obama Win</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/05/09/gun-ammo-sales-skyrocketing-in-anticipation-of-obama-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/05/09/gun-ammo-sales-skyrocketing-in-anticipation-of-obama-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 22:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marilyn Elias</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A hard-hitting propaganda campaign unleashed this year by Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the National Rifle Association, may be convincing Americans that President Obama will crack down on gun ownership if he’s re-elected and becomes a lame duck. Skyrocketing sales of guns and ammunition, along with some shortages due to stockpiling, are reported by many [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>80</slash:comments>
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		<title>Surprising No One, Georgia Judge Concludes the President is a Citizen</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/06/surprising-no-one-georgia-judge-concludes-the-president-is-a-citizen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/02/06/surprising-no-one-georgia-judge-concludes-the-president-is-a-citizen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8654</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The economy may still be limping along and the Middle East in crisis, but at least President Obama can cross one item off the list of things keeping him up at night: According to Friday’s ruling by Georgia Administrative Law Judge Michael Malihi, the president is indeed a natural-born citizen eligible to run for office [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>WND Promotes Anti-Abortion Film for Black History Month</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/30/wnd-promotes-anti-abortion-film-for-black-history-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/01/30/wnd-promotes-anti-abortion-film-for-black-history-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taking a break from its usual offerings of “birther” propaganda, gay-bashing, and End Times prophecy, Joseph Farah’s online publication WorldNetDaily (WND) is promoting a new film, “Gates of Hell,” a propaganda piece supporting the Christian right notion that abortion is a vicious plot to destroy black America. “Gates of Hell” is a feature-length pseudo-documentary set [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Down-Low President?</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/12/12/the-down-low-president/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/12/12/the-down-low-president/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Goldwag</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few months, the question has been coming up again and again in the comments sections of right-wing websites: Why is the mainstream media putting Herman Cain’s and other Republicans’ sex lives under a microscope while the president gets a free pass on his gay escapades? It’s true that the rumors about Obama’s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sheriff Joe on Birth Certificate Probe: ‘Media has suddenly gone missing &#8230;’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/29/sheriff-joe-on-birth-certificate-probe-media-has-suddenly-gone-missing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/29/sheriff-joe-on-birth-certificate-probe-media-has-suddenly-gone-missing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 21:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is angry that no one is paying attention to his investigation into the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate. “[W]hy has the media has decided to black out all news of our Obama investigation? That’s what I don’t understand. &#8230; I’m a controversial guy and usually the media is all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>Vatican Assassins: A One-Stop Website for Conspiratologists</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/23/vatican-assassins-a-one-stop-website-for-conspiratologists/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/23/vatican-assassins-a-one-stop-website-for-conspiratologists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Goldwag</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming upon a hate site unexpectedly, you sometimes get this down-the-rabbit hole, Alice-in-Wonderland feeling that you’ve been wrenched into an alternate reality. Such a place is Vatican Assassins, the domain of one Jon Eric Phelps, whose interests and identity are pretty well summed up in the nearly incomprehensible blurb for his 1,836 page magnum opus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White House Shooter Fan of Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/21/white-house-shooter-fan-of-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/21/white-house-shooter-fan-of-conspiracy-theorist-alex-jones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 19:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 21-year-old Idaho man who shot at the White House earlier this month was a fan of antigovernment conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, The New York Times reports today. Oscar Ortega, the Mexican-American waiter from Idaho Falls who on Nov. 11 fired a semiautomatic rifle out of his car window while driving by the president’s residence, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPAC Snub of Birch Society Shadows ‘Liberty’ Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/09/19/cpac-snub-of-birch-society-shadows-liberty-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/09/19/cpac-snub-of-birch-society-shadows-liberty-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[RENO, Nev. — Organizations in the conservative “liberty” and “freedom” movements seem to be sorting out bed partners, and there was new evidence of that at the Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) held here over the weekend. For the ultra-conservative and conspiracy-oriented John Birch Society (JBS), which co-sponsored LPAC 2011, the timing of the event [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conspiracist Alex Jones: ‘Whites are the New Al Qaeda’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/31/conspiracist-alex-jones-whites-are-the-new-al-qaeda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/31/conspiracist-alex-jones-whites-are-the-new-al-qaeda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Nationalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Antigovernment conspiracy theorist Alex Jones seems finally to have crossed the Rubicon of race. Earlier this month, the man who may have done more than any other to popularize “truther” theories about government complicity in 9/11 declared that the U.S. government believes that “whites are the new Al Qaeda.” The source of Jones’ race paranoia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Shariah and Anti-Semitism: Old Wine in New Bottles</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/08/anti-shariah-and-anti-semitism-old-wine-in-new-bottles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/08/anti-shariah-and-anti-semitism-old-wine-in-new-bottles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur Goldwag</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Semitic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anders Breivik’s “European Declaration of Independence&#8221; (pdf) marshaled scores of writers who argued that Communism, multiculturalism, feminism, and even environmentalism have been using Islam to weaken and destroy the foundations of the Christian West. “The cultural Marxist bourgeois experiment will end as catastrophically as Stalin’s social experiments,” wrote the man who went on to murder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conspiracy Conference: ‘Patriots,’ Others Tout Tales of Government Evil</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/06/conspiracy-conference-patriots-others-tout-tales-of-government-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/06/06/conspiracy-conference-patriots-others-tout-tales-of-government-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=6759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If hundreds of antigovernment conspiracy buffs gathered under one roof, would that be a conspiracy? And even if it weren’t, wouldn’t having them all together make them easy targets for everything they fear, loathe and hate — the mind-control operatives, spying government agents, the Illuminati, man-made earthquakes, maybe a big chemtrail pattern overhead or even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Un-TruTV: Fear vs. Fact on Ventura’s ‘Conspiracy Theory’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/11/22/un-trutv-fear-vs-fact-on-venturas-conspiracy-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/11/22/un-trutv-fear-vs-fact-on-venturas-conspiracy-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Evelyn Schlatter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Madison, Georgia. Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and “conspiracy expert” Alex Jones creep through the woods and hunker down beside a tree. Jones points through underbrush. Ventura leans forward, peers at something, and says in his ominous rumbling baritone, “What in the hell is this?” The camera shifts to stacks of oblong black plastic containers. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9.12 Project Paranoia: Obama Wants to See You… Naked!</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/18/9-12-project-paranoia-obama-wants-to-see-you-naked/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/18/9-12-project-paranoia-obama-wants-to-see-you-naked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Zaitchik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unsurprisingly, Glenn Beck’s 9.12 Project has absorbed much of its founder’s famous paranoia. Based on Beck’s fevered lectures and paid endorsements, legions of 9.12’ers have eagerly bought up overpriced gold coins, non-hybrid seeds, and lots of ammo for use in 9.12 Project practice shoots. But not even the most skeptical and bemused observer of 9.12 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fox News Host Embraces Conspiracist With Race War Theory</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/15/fox-news-host-embraces-conspiracist-with-race-war-theory/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/10/15/fox-news-host-embraces-conspiracist-with-race-war-theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leah Nelson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Latino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media Extremism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4949</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Gravelly voiced conspiracy theorist Alex Jones touts himself as one of the few daring souls willing to tell the “truth” about 9/11 being an inside job, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s plans to intern dissidents in “death camps,” and the “New World Order” plot to exterminate 80% of the world’s population. The Austin, Texas-based radio [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Some Dare Call It Conspiracy: The John Birch Society and the SPLC</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/17/some-dare-call-it-conspiracy-the-john-birch-society-and-splc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/17/some-dare-call-it-conspiracy-the-john-birch-society-and-splc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Zaitchik</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['Patriot' Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday morning, the contents of the Fall 2010 issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report were posted online at splcenter.org. By four o’clock that afternoon, an online magazine called The New American had responded with a critical appraisal of the issue’s feature exploring 10 popular conspiracy theories animating the antigovernment “Patriot” movement. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Intelligence Report Spotlights ‘Sovereign Citizens’</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/12/new-intelligence-report-spotlights-sovereign-citizens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/12/new-intelligence-report-spotlights-sovereign-citizens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence Report]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we’re releasing a major report on “sovereign citizens,” a radical-right movement that has grown to include as many as 300,000 adherents who believe that the government has no right to tax or impose laws on most Americans. Adherents can be incredibly dangerous, especially to police officers, and our new report is pegged to the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Conspiracists Accuse Bill Gates of Seeking Mass Sterilization</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/07/conspiracists-accuse-bill-gates-of-seeking-mass-sterilization/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/07/07/conspiracists-accuse-bill-gates-of-seeking-mass-sterilization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heidi Beirich</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['Patriot' Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4399</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When most people think about Bill Gates, what comes to mind is his great technological success and his resulting great wealth. Many also have warm feelings toward him because of the decision by Gates and his wife to donate the bulk of their multibillion-dollar estate to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whose slogan is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>Racists See ‘Set-Up&#8217; in Arrest of Idaho Lawyer</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/06/22/racists-see-set-up-in-arrest-of-idaho-lawyer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/06/22/racists-see-set-up-in-arrest-of-idaho-lawyer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4340</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Onetime Aryan Nations attorney Edgar J. Steele was denied bail today in a case that has many of his fellow bigots suggesting in postings to white nationalist websites that the Idaho attorney must be an innocent victim of a conspiracy because of his racist views — not a man who plotted to have his wife [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>As Gulf Oil Spreads, So Do Slippery Conspiracy Theories</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/06/11/as-oil-spreads-so-do-conspiracy-theories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/06/11/as-oil-spreads-so-do-conspiracy-theories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 12:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larry Keller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['Patriot' Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conspiracies]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=4303</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pelicans and dolphins in the oil-polluted waters of the Gulf of Mexico: Dead. Conspiracy theories about the disastrous BP oil rig explosion: Very much alive. As BP and federal officials struggle to deal with the eruption of millions of gallons of oil from the ocean floor following an April 20 explosion at BP’s Deepwater Horizon [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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