{"id":39315,"date":"2013-10-22T23:38:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T05:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/your-weekly-obama-conspiracy-theory.html"},"modified":"2013-10-23T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:39:29","slug":"your-weekly-obama-conspiracy-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/your-weekly-obama-conspiracy-theory.html","title":{"rendered":"Your weekly Obama conspiracy theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Someone one pointed out to me how remarkable it is that people who believe in reincarnation and recall their past lives were always princesses and kings and other noteworthy figures, not the (vast majority) drudges and peasants and grunts and ordinary folks.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, it&#39;s always remarkable to me when folks assert they are revealing a vast conspiracy that&#39;s resulted in the death of many previous potential whistle-blowers, without explaining how it is that they, themselves, are still alive.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/UNMNe6KU_EcPEaOYqt0XVTqjclo52lWt6E3jb8iY2U8sP9vTF9SA9fHPta-8nYEaRZKrKc19kre6UC2kXpMo_qb7s3qDXu5VMSMjAU-0V5qjXNWr7PN9vwb2Yg13abqLvw=w120-h120' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/garrow-breitbarts-big-mouth-got-him-michael-hastings-tom-clancy-all-killed-president-obama'>Garrow: Breitbart&#8217;s &#8216;Big Mouth&#8217; Got Him, Michael Hastings &#038; Tom Clancy All Killed By President Obama<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Earlier this year, a right-wing activist named Jim Garrow started claiming that President Obama had instituted a litmus test within the military, requiring leaders to pledge to fire on American civili\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/hx6qrrzdvPC' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone one pointed out to me how remarkable it is that people who believe in reincarnation and recall their past lives were always princesses and kings and other noteworthy figures, not the (vast majority) drudges and peasants and grunts and ordinary folks. Similarly, it&#39;s always remarkable to me when folks assert they are revealing a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/22\/your-weekly-obama-conspiracy-theory.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your weekly Obama conspiracy theory&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-conspiracy-nuts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133716,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/20\/movie-conspiracy-2001.html","url_meta":{"origin":39315,"position":0},"title":"Movie: &quot;Conspiracy&quot; (2001)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 20-Jun-17 10:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"A bit more serious than my normal escapist fare, this HBO Film is a remarkable relating of the 1942 Wanssee Conference, where the \"Final Solution\" was formulated and agreed upon by representatives of the the Reich government and the German military. 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