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        <title><![CDATA[LOL....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[But... Logically speaking... what a better way of distracting people from the truth. Give them some &quot;lie&quot; to chase down and cry about while you go on your merry own business of whatever. Coliseums for for Ancient Rome anyone? Could hide some truth in some lies in a &quot;conspiracy theory&quot; just to keep what truth within unbelieved too.too many possibles. too many theories. too many unknowns. if facts exist, they are hidden or camouflaged well.  Not too hard sometimes to hide something under our own noses if we only recognize it as &quot;SEP&quot; (Someone Else's Problem) or bury it deep within fiction.As far as what's really true and what isn't, time will reveal for those theories with some &quot;future&quot; effect will either never come to be, or will be.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DaemonSlayer]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:26:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[AND...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[they have no country affiliation. they are neither American, Russian, German, Egyptian, or any other country's citizen. After all, the Union of all nations under one authority requires that authority to be non-partisan.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[DaemonSlayer]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:12:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[??? HUH ???]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Read up on what you're condemning here, or are you afraid that if you did:1. your theory would be demolished completely2. you might get to believing what the Christian Bible says3. all of the above.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:59:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[LOL....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Grassy knoll... RIGHT.... IF there is anything to this one, the damage and splatter patterns would support the extra assassin also having a post in the depository (at another window) and NOT any place else.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:55:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I have only two words to say:]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Mel Gibson.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NexS]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:02:47 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ha!  Love it.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nice job.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:53:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[...and of the shooter on the grassy knoll ?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One lone wacko? Or an organized over-through of government?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[lewislbr@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:42:26 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does anybody actually look this stuff up?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Beech Grove's Amtrak station is a great place for a secret extermination camp, for three reasons:1. it's in the middle of Indianapolis' urbanized area;2. it doesn't have Amtrak service; and3. all its train lines have been taken up.Look it up on Google Maps' satellite images.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[RudHud]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:23:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I love the Titanic Conspiracy]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It wasn't the Titanic. It was another ship that looked just like it!This is the perfect conspiracy theory.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[RudHud]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:19:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In plain sight...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Where else would they hide?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:17:05 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Oddly enough, this top secret group has a web site]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... where they announce the dates and locations of their secret meetings, and the contents of their secret agendas (going all the way back to 1954).www.bilderbergmeetings.org]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[RudHud]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:06:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Council]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Have heard many variations of that one, but they always miss the point.  The known billionaires are just the puppets of the real council!  The real council members are so rich that they don't have names that a common person would know....]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gibsonrd]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 07:14:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Thas' good.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I thought it to be so.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:19:27 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It fits]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Both fact and supposition.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:06:02 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Only iff]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[You are sincere about your theory.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:38:24 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Poor criteria]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I can trace the book &quot;The DaVinci Code&quot; directly back to Dan Brown.  Dan Brown seems sincere.  Does that make the contents of the book truth?  I can trace other conspiracy theories back to individuals who all seem sincere, as well, yet that does not validate their theories.My criteria for separating truth from conspiracy theory: 1.  Does it make sense?  Is the conclusion believable in the context of the times to which the theory applies?2.  Is it well documented? Are there references to generally accepted historical documents so I can independently check the facts, should I wish to?2.  Is it scientifically accurate?  Does the theory take into account the laws of physics and other sciences, or does it ignore or dismiss them?3.  Does it dismiss or ignore physical evidence contrary to the theory's conclusions?Answers other than &quot;yes, yes, yes, no&quot; lead me to discount the theory as more distraction than anything else.  Hey, now there's a theory:  All the people putting forward all these conspiracy theories are working for &quot;them&quot; to keep us from focusing our attention.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:33:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Separating the wheat from the chaff]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;Conspiracy theories&quot; originate from a valid human concern: that an ill-intentioned person or group in our environment is lying to us to get us to cooperate with them.There have in fact been many examples of this in history, and many people have more personal examples of similar experiences in their own lives.That this urge to &quot;stay on one's toes&quot; is being mocked, ridiculed, and impersonated by the same people who want to hide their true intentions, or gullible others connected to them, is I think the more important observation to make about the current scene.That said, some of these theories sound very outlandish. Why would anyone go to the trouble of faking a whole moon shot and landing, for instance? Could that really make that big a difference to anyone in the long run?My only answer is that it takes a high level of discernment these days to know what data to take seriously. Both sides seem to be playing this game, so we have a lot of conflicting claims to sort through. I have two main tests when I am confronted with accusative data of this type:1) Can I trace the data back to sources that are real people?2) Do those people seem sincere?If Both these points are &quot;yes&quot; for a datum or story, it would behoove one to take a good look. People really do exist who will lie without regret to gain cooperation from others. That cooperation can result in severe suffering and setbacks for whole societies. Look at the German holocaust before World War II. If we want to keep this planet running, it pays to take a look at accusations that are traceable and seem sincere.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[l_e_cox]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:31:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Short circuit logic to the rescue]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[IF pi = 4THEN e = pi/2Or in layman's terms: if a pie will feed 4, then half a pie is enough for me. For the nonce.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[AnsuGisalas]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:24:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Origami]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Somebody un-do me!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:11:45 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[muhahahhaha]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[excellent.....Ex-cellent.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mr_m_sween]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:07:47 -0700</pubDate>
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