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At a day-long conference in Austin organized by anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Texe Marrs, a series of speakers revealed who really killed JFK, explained the evils of Obamacare and ranted about the 鈥淣ew World Order,鈥� but steered clear of spewing overt hatred against Jews. Sponsored by Power of Prophecy, Marrs' Austin-based "end-times ministry," the Liberty & Truth Conference hosted about 80 people at the Airport Hilton on Saturday. The audience was overwhelmingly white and over 40. Many of the attendees were from out of state.

The lack of anti-Semitic themes stood in contrast to 2010's conference, which was co-sponsored by American Free Press, a publishing platform for Willis Carto, who long led a now-defunct group called Liberty Lobby and is one of the best-known professional anti-Semites in the United States.

That year, Marrs and other lecturers repeatedly returned to the theme that 鈥渂loodthirsty鈥� Jews sit at the center of a vast global network controlling the media and the banking system and are responsible for orchestrating the 9/11聽attacks and the JFK assassination. In his writings and audiotapes, Marrs has posited that a Jew will emerge as the anti-Christ and criticized American Jews as 鈥渢he chief polluters and destroyers of America.鈥� He鈥檚 heaped praise on the fraudulent Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a hoax text favored by the Nazis that alleges a global Jewish plot to take over the world.

This weekend, the conference featured more mainstream, though still far-right, figures. The speakers covered a bewilderingly broad swath of antigovernment grievances and conspiracy theories. But apart from allusions to 鈥渋nternational bankers鈥� and the Rothschilds 鈥� classic bugaboos of the paranoid right that typically allude to Jews 鈥攍ittle overt anti-Semitism was in evidence.

Two speakers鈥擥aylon Ross and Jim Marrs鈥攑resented detailed Powerpoint presentations on the JFK assassination.

Suzanna Hupp, a former Texas legislator and gun rights activist who survived a 1991 mass shooting in Killeen, Texas, praised the audience as part of 鈥渁 tiny percentage that can actually make a difference for the country.鈥� 鈥淭he other side is radical and extremist,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hey鈥檙e talking about flushing 200 years of history down the toilet.鈥�

For his part, Texe Marrs focused on talking up his new book, Robot Alchemy, which posits that 鈥渢he Elite鈥� will soon undertake a global campaign of mass murder to 鈥渄epopulate鈥� the planet to make way for highly intelligent robots.

If that wasn鈥檛 enough, the program also advertised a "mystery guest," who turned out to be none other than Alex Jones, the almost comically loud author, radio show host and conspiracy theorist extraordinaire. Jones and his growing legion of followers believe they are聽part of a small vanguard challenging the so-called New World Order (global elites allegedly working together to control the planet and its resources) and its myriad and tangled plots. Recently, Jones has attracted mainstream media attention, with interviews on CNN鈥檚 鈥淧iers Morgan Live鈥� and BBC鈥檚 鈥淪unday Politics鈥� show. Jones asserts that the Boston Marathon bombing and the mass shootings in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., were 鈥渟taged鈥� by agents of the New World Order in order to justify gun confiscation.

Although Jones is now an international figure, he was once a relatively obscure conspiracy-monger toiling in regional fringe circles. Marrs described Jones as a 鈥減ersonal friend of mine鈥� who he met through the Austin cable access TV channel, presumably in the 鈥�90s, when Jones had a little-watched show.

At the Liberty & Truth Conference, Jones received an enthusiastic response as he launched into one of his hallmark semi-extemporaneous tirades. He mixed in more hard-line Christian language than usual, referring to the New World Order as 鈥渁 Satanic conspiracy at war with all of God鈥檚 creations.鈥�

He praised the attendees as part of a tiny elite mocked by clueless 鈥渟heeple.鈥� 鈥淲e are the resistance,鈥� he said. 鈥淲e are the people that know. ... You are the leaders.鈥� 聽Jones said he was 鈥渘ot calling for shooting people鈥� because 鈥渨e鈥檙e winning peacefully.鈥� But, he said of those who put fluoride in drinking water, 鈥淭hese people should be executed after a trial by jury for putting poison in the water.鈥�

As a keynote speaker, Jones brought considerably more energy and relevance to this year鈥檚 Liberty & Truth Conference compared to the 2010 event. Texe Marrs was clearly pleased with the fresh injection of vitality.

鈥淚 know we have God on our side,鈥� Texe Marrs concluded happily.