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How Agenda 21 hysteria seeped into mainstream Florida politics

By | 09.02.11 | 9:24 am | More from The Florida Independent

Image by: Matt MahurinFlorida right-wing groups are up in arms over a 19-year-old initiative launched by the United Nations in an effort to promote sustainable development in communities all over the world. The groups are convinced the U.S. is being held hostage in a secret plot by the U.N. to steal our sovereignty More…

The Rise of Alex Jones

By | 10.08.09 | 9:57 am

Michelle Goldberg profiles Alex Jones, the explosion-voiced radio host who spent eight years of the George W. Bush administration being dismissed as a one-world, 9/11 Truth kook, but has won new fans under Barack Obama. One thing I didn’t know: It was in Jones’s work that the phrase “The More…

Rep. Alan Grayson Does Alex Jones

By | 09.24.09 | 9:16 pm

Freshman Democrat Alan Grayson, a bit of an iconoclast who’s backing Rep. Ron Paul’s (R-Texas) “Audit the Fed” bill, appeared on the out-there Alex Jones show to talk up that and his investigations of contractor fraud — see TWI’s Spencer Ackerman for more on that. Jones is More…

Alex Jones and the ‘Joker’ Meme

By | 08.10.09 | 10:22 am

The fringe radio host made good on his promise to broadcast in “Joker” pancake make-up, then hit the streets to put up “Obama=Joker” posters. Jones is pushing his own version of the poster, pointing to “InfoWars.com” instead of labeling President Obama a “socialist,” because “socialism is bad, but it’s More…

Alex Jones Adopts the ‘Joker’ Meme

By | 08.07.09 | 3:25 pm

Some slow-Friday news, you ask? Sure, why not. The raw-throated, conspiracy-loving radio host Alex Jones is getting set to do 30 minutes of live radio in a Joker costume, to promote the strange, Drudge-approved meme portraying President Obama as Heath Ledger’s insane Joker from “The Dark Knight.”

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