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A pedestrian gets run over in New York every 8 minutes.
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Fabulous Joined: 09 Mar 10
Replies: 722 28 Aug 10 13:04 I've got some questions which hopefully someone from either side of the argument could answer. Ps open minded on the 9/11 thing. Some ridiculous theories out there, but also parts of official version which I don't really buy either! Anyway.... 1. Only posting because of rages post above, I've always wondered about that. If they claim to have only 1 basic camera for areas of a very important building, surely that's not right. I don't know if they have ever said this.There is only one cctv camera showing the impact, but thats not the same thing. 2. Before 9/11, was the Pentagon (an obviously restricted) tourist attraction? i.e could people get fairly close to it. The reason I ask, is if it was, surely it would be fairly busy with tourists, armed with cameras etc. See below. 3. Surely if an airliner was to fly at such a low level through any city, be it Glasgow, London, Paris etc, someone would have captured it. Obviously Concorde was filmed in flames by someone driving a car, it just seems highly unlikely that no one would have captured it at all. Yes it was, but plenty of other planes that crashed have not been filmed so did they not crash? Your last 2 questions are based on absence of evidence. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Some thing I tried to explain to Gene. There is no evidence that Hannibal went through the Alps. So does that mean he didn't go throw the Alps? Think about it? 4. Apologies if I've missed it, but why with the first tower burning, when the 2nd plane hits, i've never seen a really clear cut image of the livery of the 2nd jet. Obviously there could be footage out there I've missed, but every bit of footage I've seen, the quality isn't great. I only ask this this, because when it was happening at the time, I 100% heard eyewitnesses on the radio admant that the planes were unmarked. I expect this one could be easily explained though. Already posted this one. As I said, open-minded on the whole thing, and happy for these to be answered by either side. |
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Fabulous 28 Aug 10 13:04
I've got some questions which hopefully someone from either side of the argument could answer. Ps open minded on the 9/11 thing. Some ridiculous theories out there, but also parts of official version which I don't really buy either! Anyway.... 1. Only posting because of rages post above, I've always wondered about that. If they claim to have only 1 basic camera for areas of a very important building, surely that's not right. they were all confiscated by feds. They have never been released, despite requests. What is your source for this? 3. Surely if an airliner was to fly at such a low level through any city, be it Glasgow, London, Paris etc, someone would have captured it. Obviously Concorde was filmed in flames by someone driving a car, it just seems highly unlikely that no one would have captured it at all. the flight path is very suspicious and unusual and its been challenged as impossible. It is more like the behaviour of a computer than a human pilot. Anyway, it supposedly didnt fly at lows levels for very long, it came in very steep. What is your evidence for these assertions? |
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They did 4 things:
1. In the short term they justified their intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is true. It has since been proven that Iraq was not linked to 9/11 and no weapons of mass destruction were found.Strange they didn't fake some evidence to link Saddam with 9/11. You think they planted 100 plus witnesses seeing a plane hit the Pentagon, but couldn't link Saddam to 9/11. 2. They gain more control over their own people -The Patriot Act for example. You are begging the question. you have not proven that the government attacked it's own people to gain more control over their own people. This is just speculation. 3. They have managed to engineer a new enemy (to replace the communist threat) by demonising every Muslim in the world. So you say. I've never heard the US government say that all Muslims are terrorists.Please provide evidence that they have said this. 4. They,and their friends and associates,and the corporations they are involved with,made lots of money. This may be true, but it doesn't prove cause and effect. |
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Sunset, are you D1ck Cheney by any chance?
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Very true Fabulous
I find it strange that the accused terrorists had a meeting in Vegas in the build up to 9/11 where they frequented gambling,drinking and stripper premises. This could be part of them going under cover. Blending in with the rest of the sheep.This is why they shave their beards off.Or may be they were just hypocrites. Or may be they thought Allah would forgive them for killing so many infidels and they would get their 72 virgins. As Islamic extremists who are willing to sacrifice themselves for their Islamic beliefs, in an act of terrorism against the perverted and capitalistic west....erm...now then...strap yourself in Sunset Cristo but im not sure they where Islamic extremists if they enjoyed the the thrills of drink,gambling and strippers.What do you think? See above.Are you going to start answering my questions at some point. Your like clocky. Like asking, but not answering. At least Gene answers some times.Ever though of being a politician? |
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http://www.bollyn.com/making-sense-of-the-media-cover-up-of-9-11
AG are you anti Semitic? Thermite debunked http://www.debunking911.com/thermite.htm You think any one that disagrees with you is controlled by the NWO and that includes the media. You don't supply any evidence for this belief though as usual. |
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Angel Gabriel When: 29 Aug 10 14:53
Sparky sorry to carp on about Gene Hackmans question number 3. Have you ever noticed how the American government seems to support Israels racist policies on Palestine? Racist policies? The Israelis have done some despicable things ,yes. But so have the Arabs. The Arabs have done worse than the Jews. The Jews have been persecuted for more than 2000 years, but that obviously means nothing to you. America has chosen to target Muslim nations as these nations are defiant in a compromise with regard to the NWO agenda. So you keep saying and I keep asking you to prove it? |
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Angel Gabriel When: 29 Aug 10 18:43
Whats your source Pandorica? This has got to be a joke. I have been asking you for weeks AG for sources and evidence for your assertions and you have consistently ignored me.The only thing you have been consistent with. Now you have the nerve to start asking other people. The line between awareness of cover ups and the belief in the official line, is quite a fat chunky line. I would say that smart people who believe they are aware of cover ups, arrived at these decisions by smart reasons of deduction, and reading between the lines. Please give these smart reasons and stop being a hypocrite and ignoring my questions. |
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In its 1984 World Development Report, the World Bank threatens nations who are slow in implementing the Bank’s “population policies” with “drastic steps, less compatible with individual choice and freedom.”
In the Foreword, then President of the World Bank and 1985 Bilderberg attendee, A.W. Clausen stated: “(…) although the direct costs of The World Bank programs to reduce population growth are not large, a greater commitment by the international community is sorely needed to assist developing countries in the great challenge of slowing population growth.” “(…) governments can use incentives and disincentives to signal their policy on family size”, the report continues. “Through incentives, society as a whole compensates those couples willing to forgo the private benefits of an additional child, helping to close the gap between private and social gains to high fertility.” To give an adequate illustration of the World Bank’s preference for all-out government control over the people, and their intent on meddling in people’s personal decisions, the following quote will suffice (page 107): “By taxing and spending in ways that provide couples with specific incentives and disincentives to limit their fertility, government policy can also affect fertility in the short run. Government can offer “rewards” for women who defer pregnancy; it can compensate people who undergo sterilization for loss of work and travel costs; and it can provide insurance and old-age security schemes for parents who restrict the size of their families. Each of these public policies works through signals which influence individual and family decisions- when to marry, whether to use contraception, how long to send children to school, and life expectancy, and whether and how much family members work.” |
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Now look here, all you warmists and you warming-deniers, I don’t care which of you is right about Kilimanjaro. I don’t care whether Al Gore is correct in saying that the icy crown is being lost to global warming. And I don’t care whether Christopher Booker is right to point out that the more likely culprit is deforestation of the surrounding area, which has reduced precipitation at the summit. I don’t give a monkey’s because the fundamental cause is the same.
It’s us, folks. When I last came to Tanzania in 1976, the place had a population of 17 million. That has now more than doubled to almost 43 million. It is the relentless expansion in the number of human beings that is polluting the air and burning off the forests and driving species after species to the verge of extinction. - Boris Johnson |
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China's one- child policy - which has resulted in forced abortions, infanticide and compulsory sterilisation - has had a 'positive impact' on the country's economic performance, one of Labour's leading advisers says today.
Lord Turner, head of the Financial Services Authority, claims the laws on family size played a crucial role in China's economic take-off and allowed the country to develop without 'severe political and social tensions'. The former director general of the CBI Adair Turner argues that there is a pressing need to stop world's population growing at an 'explosive rate'. |
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Those who like 911myths.com might want to check this site which debunks much of it:
. http://911physics.atspace.com/Pages/Debunking911Myths.htm |
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"... in searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up
with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine, and the like would fit the bill". From "The First Global Revolution" Club of Rome, |
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What solution does Boris propose? Or is he just gassing on?
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Those who like 911myths.com might want to check this site which debunks much of it:
. http://911physics.atspace.com/Pages/Debunking911Myths.htm Jesus, that's a pathetic effort. Debunks nothing at all. How can they have this ancient piece of rubbish on there: From the time they decided to scramble jets, to the time jets arrived at the Payne Stewarts plane, between 18 and 22 minutes had elapsed (depending on what news source you want to believe.) ![]() |
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right-ho
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Bush didnt murder 3000 of his own people, Israel did it. Before Sunset Kissinger Cristo asks for me to provide evidence. The evidence is all around you Sunset. Mossad where behind it.
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A Parable
To put these events in perspective, imagine that a person leases an expensive house, and immediately takes out an insurance policy covering the entire value of the house and specifically covering bomb attacks. Six weeks later two bombs go off in the house, separated by an hour. The house burns down, and the lessor immediately sues the insurance company to pay him twice the value of the house, and ultimately wins. The lessor also gets the city to dispose of the wreckage, excavate the site, and help him build a new house on the site. Wrong if there were two houses on the same block or next to each other you could use it not the same house |
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sparkmaster. When: 28 Aug 10 23:51
Fabulous, if I may 1. That would surely depend on the sixe of that area? If one camera covers an area adequately, why use two? I'm not sure such a claim has been made though. 2. I don't really know, but if you think of the aircraft that got into trouble over New York last year, did a loop and landed intact in the Hudson....and NOBODY got a decent pic of it, it would be very surprising if someone had got a shot in a much less touristy location. This was actually caught on cctv,but not clear pics though.And not while it was in the sky and no one recorded it even though most people have video recording on their phones now. Strange the the conspiracy people never mention that. Bet there are lots of pilots that think this landing can't be done either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIS-aKJMY3E&feature=related 3. As above, Concorde was filmed BECAUSE it was in flames, but that's the only footage of that event. Nothing of the crash itself. There are basically, very few images of plane crashes. So following the logical fallacy of the conspiracy people, Concorde never crashed then.Is that what you believe Gene? 4. I can't explain that, I didn't hear it |
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The difference between the 2nd "plane" striking on 9/11 and the New York river landing and also the Paris crash is this:
There were dozens of cameras already trained onto the towers after the 1st strike and all they managed to capture on film were dodgy incoming pics to say the least. Bear in mind you are talking about professional equipment and cameramen, and not one of them picks up the incoming "plane" in a clear blue sky until a second or so before impact. |
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One rather imagines they were trained on the tower that had been hit.
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![]() also planes travel pretty fast. |
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Synthetic Terror and False Flag Operations - excerpts from interwiews with authors Webster Tarpley and Nafeez Ahmed
. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN595MYi7wY Google their books for info specific to 911. |
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By: sparkmaster. When: 03 Sep 10 13:13
One rather imagines they were trained on the tower that had been hit. I imagine they were too, but surely at least one diligant cameraman might have spotted an object coming out of the clear blue sky towards them at a fair rate of knots. After all a persons eye is drawn to things that don't seem quite right by instinct. |
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I rather think the diligant cameramen's eyes would have been drawn to the thing they were filming.
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Lucky, are you falling for this no planes hokum?
Lucky, I seen no mystery regarding the second plane not having been seen until very late. As you agreed, the cameras would have been trained on the WTCs not the surrounding sky. Further, a plane travelling towards you presents very little visual profile and is hence hard to spot. Also, as it would have been travelling at hundreds of miles an hour, it would have been a mere dot until a second or two before impact. |
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I'm not stating that there weren't planes, what I'm saying is that from all the angles covered why wasn't it spotted earlier?
In fact, only people watching tv in New York said they saw a plane, no one on the ground said that they had. I appreciate that there would have been limiting views with the make up of the surrounding area, but surely with thousands of people on the streets lots of people should have been able to see the approaching object. |
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Sunset
So following the logical fallacy of the conspiracy people, Concorde never crashed then.Is that what you believe Gene? Don't be silly,Sunset. There would have been(and still will be)hundreds of cctv cameras in and around the Pentagon and other buildings in that location.You've said previously that images of the 757 would be unable to be captured because it would be travelling too fast.Well not all of those cameras would have been pointing at 90 degrees to the flightpath of that plane would they? Some of them would be pointing towards the oncoming plane and would capture the plane quite easily wouldn't they? If such an image existed then why wouldn't the US government release it and shut half of the conspiracy theorists up at a stroke? |
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In fact, only people watching tv in New York said they saw a plane, no one on the ground said that they had.
How can you possibly know this? |
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Because the US Gvt doubtless consider the conspiracy theorists as utterly trivial. Correctly.
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Some of them would be pointing towards the oncoming plane and would capture the plane quite easily wouldn't they?
Why? |
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sparkmaster. When: 03 Sep 10 14:39
In fact, only people watching tv in New York said they saw a plane, no one on the ground said that they had. How can you possibly know this? If you watch the footage broadcast on the day, only people watching the tv screens mention a plane. When people on the ground are asked, they either don't mention a plane or are prompted by the interviewer that it was a plane. The fact that there would be people on the ground who saw a plane and didn't come forward with that information is rather far fetched, as the government would be parading that info to reinforce the official storyline. |
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sibaroni When: 03 Sep 10 14:39
Because the US Gvt doubtless consider the conspiracy theorists as utterly trivial. Correctly. So, respected architects, engineers, pilots, firefighters and scholars etc, speak out about what they perceive to be glaring anomalies in the official version of events that day are challenging the government's line just to be utterly trivial eh? Do me a favour. Why would anyone bother contesting the official version and possibly facing recriminations if it seemed plausible to them? Because they deem it implausible to have happened like they were told. |
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I'm not sure too many people were strolling round NY thinking
"I wonder if terrorists will fly into the towers today, I'll keep my eye on the sky just in case" |
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Lucky Trifeta - are there any interviews with any of the people 'on the ground' were someone says that they saw something that wasn't a plane crash into the second tower?
[I'm assuming that you are prepared to concede that something must have hit it?] If none of them are mentioning a plane then what are they mentioning? This idea that there were no planes is beyond ludicrous. |
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In fact, only people watching tv in New York said they saw a plane, no one on the ground said that they had.
That's a gem. Ironically, there is a small collection of witness statements at a site referenced by Clocky in the past. http://www.911research.dsl.pipex.com/ggua175/witness/ |
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Lucky, that doesn't back up your frankly ridiculous claim. I reminded of that time Clocky claimed 'all the tv reporters said no plane had hit the pentagon' and substantiated with one video of a reporter saying he hadn't SEEN the plane hit the Pentagon. Classic distortion of the facts.
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sparkmaster. Joined: 07 Aug 01
Replies: 10510 03 Sep 10 14:39 Some of them would be pointing towards the oncoming plane and would capture the plane quite easily wouldn't they? Why? Sparky CCTV cameras point in all directions don't they? The ones in my town centre do. Some of them face across the road,some of them up the road,and some of them down the road. If a bus came down the road,there would be CCTV footage from the front back and side wouldn't there? Is that why enough for you? |
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Plus the the US military had performed mock drills in the event of an air strike on iconic buildings.
Sparky i cant believe you are questioning whether security cameras would be pointing to the sky. I suppose the Security services where only concentrating on the entrance of the car park.!! ![]() |