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THE CONSPIRASPHERE

UNHAPPY ANNIVERSARIES

Anniversaries have a particular significance in the Conspirasphere. It sometimes seems as if competing sects of conspiracists count time from different beginnings: so many years since JFK; so many years since 9/11, and so on. And sometimes, anniversaries occur on anniversaries, adding a layered telescopy to the complex numerology of deep events.

One such date occurred recently. On 19 April 1995, the Alfred P Murrah Building in downtown Oklahoma City was ground zero for a terrorist attack; the worst, at that point, in US history (). 168 people lost their lives, including 19 children and

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