A topical article on election conspiracies here:
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/09/ten_of_the_rights_craziest_election_conspiracies/
Including Agenda 21:
http://www.alternet.org/election-20...ight-unleash-wave-domestic-terrorism-if-obama
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2...g-that-black-people-will-riot-if-romney-wins/
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/09/ten_of_the_rights_craziest_election_conspiracies/
Including Agenda 21:
And more seriously, a look at potential dangers from conspiracy theories:10. The Green Plot to Enslave the World
Conservatives have never taken to science. So it should come as no surprise that many of them regard global warming as a hoax whose purpose is to enrich Al Gore and a few socialist wind farmers. But there is another faction of the anti-environment movement that has uncovered something even more dastardly lurking behind the effort to maintain a clean, sustainable planet. Agenda 21, a little known and non-binding resolution adopted by the United Nations is viewed by some on the right as an attempt to control the lives of people throughout the world by regulating everything they do. Amongst their paranoid fears is that Agenda 21 will cede U.S. sovereignty to the U.N. and a one-world government. The truth is that Agenda 21 is a set of principles to guide the development of practices to preserve a sustainable environment for future generations. It is entirely voluntary and was agreed to by the U.N. in 1992 and signed by President George H.W. Bush. But to hear doomsayers like Glenn Beck put it, it will “suck all the blood out of [our communities], and we will not be able to survive.”
http://www.alternet.org/election-20...ight-unleash-wave-domestic-terrorism-if-obama
And an Alex Jones conspiracy kind of almost makes it into the mainstream:It's an exceptionally dangerous game that the right-wing media are playing. If Obama wins – and according to polling guru Nate Silver, he'd have a 95 percent chance of doing so if the vote were held today – there's a very real danger that this spin -- combined with other campaign narratives that are popular among the far-right -- could create a post-election environment so toxic that it yields an outburst of politically motivated violence.
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2...g-that-black-people-will-riot-if-romney-wins/
The Drudge Report, Mitt Romney’s favorite website, is stirring up another race-baiting conspiracy theory. Since Friday, Drudge has linked to two articles on conspiracy site Infowars.com warning of“massive riots” of black people attacking white people should Mitt Romney win the election.
Infowars excitedly posted the second article, above, after their first one “was picked up by the Drudge Report over the weekend and has since gone viral.” Drudge linked to the second story on Monday.
The Infowars story from Monday collects 11 tweets — all from accounts with African American avatars — talking about rioting if Obama loses the election. Infowars claims they only included 11 because “there are simply too many to track.”
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