Russian Orthodox Church leaders say they asked the question not because they suspect there's any truth in the Jewish conspiracy theory, but because they want the government to help them put an end to any lingering doubts in the minds of Russian believers.
And with the referees giving the conspiracy-theory crowd a reason to be each and every visit to New York, well, most fans were probably just waiting for the fun to abruptly end at every turn during the reign of Jordan, Pippen, and Jackson.
However, western diplomats in Yemen seem to be coming round to the belief that there could well be some currency in the international-conspiracy theory.
The right-wing conspiracy theory turns what should be a weakness into a strength: the more the prime minister is prosecuted, the more he seems persecuted.
Estrada dismisses the allegations as "desperation on the part of the administration" and counters with his own conspiracy theory that he is the target of a murder plot called Operation Jupiter.
The trouble with this conspiracy theory is that Rick made no secret of his views in 2009, which he outlined in widely distributed public documents.
There just seems to be something in the air, a perpetual conspiracy theory afloat.
But attorneys for Skilling and Lay pounded at Koenig, trying to get him to concede the defense theory there was no company-wide fraud or conspiracy at Enron, but merely the Venn diagram of a few bad corporate apples--such as ex-Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow --lots of shaky investors and a brutal market.
So they have come up with their own creative conspiracy theory to explain away the improvement.
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Sceptical Yemeni journalists maintain that the theory of a wider international conspiracy is simply a ploy by the government to save it from embarrassment over the group's links with the authorities.
Even WikiLeaks was initially rumored to be a CIA ruse in its early days, a conspiracy theory that still persists in some corners of the web.
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If a conspiracy theory at all were wanted, then an attack on the stockmarket rather than on the currency sounds more plausible.
However outrageous, this conspiracy theory is taken seriously by many Russians, and was discussed in the press even before the most recent bombs.
One conspiracy theory is that hedge funds distorted CDS prices, which in turn spooked the stock market and caused a collapse in confidence.
There was even a conspiracy theory that France's president, Jacques Chirac, was happy that the constitution flopped, despite ostensibly pushing for it to be approved.
Maybe all of the elements of this story just coincidentally fit together in a way to create a terrific conspiracy theory that has no basis in reality.
Some of Everton's fans who mounted a campaign to keep Rooney on the basis he was actually forced from Goodison Park would have been sorely disappointed to see their conspiracy theory so comprehensively dismantled.
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