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truthmover Donating Member (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 06:46 PM
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TruthMove.org Announces New Improved Website
We are happy to announce the latest development of our site at:
http://www.truthmove.org

TruthMove is a site dedicated to expanding the Truth Movement beyond 9/11--we are very much focused on context, scope, and psychology. We emerged from 9/11 Truth and still consider it to probably be the most critical issue of the wider Truth Movement. Our other main areas of focus are the Environment, Psychology, and Black Ops.

We would like to express our extreme gratitude to yh (http://911blogger.com/blog/165) for his amazing skill and diligence in programming and designing our new site! (If you're not aware of yh's contribution to the movement, he is also the designer of the new user-friendly 911blogger that you're browsing right now.)

There may be a few kinks left to work out, but the site looks great and is ready to be explored. We've tried to keep some of the feel of the old site while adding new functionality and more efficient content organization.

Make sure to check out our Outreach section including our Outreach Journal and links to our flickr page (http://www.truthmove.org/outreach/). Users can now comment on our Journal entries.

There may be some minor changes to the site over the next days or weeks but overall things are complete. Any and all suggestions, questions, comments are welcome. We want your input in order to make this the most accessible, efficient, useful Truth Movement resource out there!

We'll be adding lots of new content in the coming days, adding news stories and spending time in the forum. Also, lookout for some new pages in the near future.

---

If you're unfamiliar with TruthMove, you might want to start at these pages:

Intro (http://www.truthmove.org/intro/) and FAQ
(http://www.truthmove.org/static/faq)

9/11 Truth Section
(http://www.truthmove.org/content/9-11-truth/)

Psychology Section including pages on Cognitive
Dissonance, Social Control, Alienation, and Optimism
(http://www.truthmove.org/content/psychology/)

Environment Section
(http://www.truthmove.org/content/environment/)

Assassinations Section
(http://www.truthmove.org/content/assassinations)

False Flag Operations Section
(http://www.truthmove.org/content/false-flag-operations)

Thanks for your intersest and may 2007 be a breakthrough year for the TRUTH!
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 08:08 PM
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1. Hey truthmover, long time no see. glad to see your kicking ass and taking names. n/t
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wildbilln864 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-04-07 08:21 PM
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2. And I ....
second what JQC said!
:hi:
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 12:18 PM
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3. Response from Mark Roberts
The "unbelievably committed 9/11 truth debunker" Mark Roberts, truthmove.org's arch nemisis at Ground Zero, sent you an interesting response to your "new" website. I'll be looking forward to your reply.


I agree. The site looks good. Unfortunately the content is amateurishly inaccurate. You seem to have simply thrown the same old stuff together without checking any facts. Every part of your "Evidence" section contains numerous egregious errors and falsehoods.

This is your "truth?" The same b.s. in a different package? Error after error after error?

Well, I give you credit for at least believing that there were real hijackers who wanted to kill us.

You guys are big on psychology. At Ground Zero you filmed me for a while, then edited to film to show me telling people that I HAD evidence, but you deleted all the parts in which I actually GAVE the evidence. What does that say about your approach to the "truth?"

After observing and listening to me for a while, you criticized my approach – a valid criticism. When people lie egregiously at Ground Zero, fail to listen to corrections, and say they're proud of their ignorance, I'm not shy about letting them know it. But when I asked all three of you to name one thing I had said that was wrong, you couldn't. Please think about that.
Here are brief comments on some of the site content.

Today's headline is a quote from Christian fundamentalist Pat Robertson:

Robertson predicts ‘mass killing’

“I’m not necessarily saying it’s going to be nuclear,” he said during his news-and-talk television show “The 700 Club” on the Christian Broadcasting Network. “The Lord didn’t say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that.”

Okay, what's that doing on a site that's supposedly devoted to the truth? Should I expect an Alex Jones quote tomorrow? Does Pat Robertson have a record of accurate predictions? You're into psychology. Tell us why your headline is a loon making claims of mass killing, "something like" "nuclear."

In your 9/11 section, you list

Eleven pieces of evidence you should know about:
First of all, these are eleven claims. You do link to an evidence section, but I bring this up because much of what I do is point out how badly people in the truth movement blur the line – and sometimes aren't aware of the line at all – between claims, questions, evidence, and facts.

For over an hour, NORAD air defense failed to intercept any of the hijacked aircraft. Fighter jets are commonly “scrambled” and reach out-of-contact or off-course aircraft within 10-20 minutes.

You don't mention that the most notice NORAD had of any of th flights was 9 minutes. Two of the flights they didn't know about until after they had crashed. Please make that distinction. I know that you don't want to be misleading, right?

Please provide your evidence that NORAD, prior to 9/11 "routinely reached out of contact or off course aircraft within 10-20 minutes. The only NORAD interception of such an aircraft over the CONUS (not an offshore ADIZ intercept) in the decade prior to 9/11 that I'm aware of is of Payne Stewart's plane, which took 81 minutes to reach. If you are not aware of others, please make that correction. And again, NORAD had no chance to intercept the planes on 9/11 because they didn't know where they were.

Several war games were being conducted on 9/11, including mock-hijackings and plane crashes.

This must be corrected. NEADS, which was responsible for the air defense of the northeast, was not running any exercises on 9/11. There was an exercise scheduled at 9:00, but it was canceled when the report of flight 11 came in.

There were no hijacking drills conducted anywhere by NORAD anywhere in the U.S. or Canada on 9/11. None. Please do your homework and make that correction.

The "plane crash" drill you refer to was not a "war game." It was a casualty and disaster-preparedness drill involving an imagined accidental crash of a small plane. Please make that correction. All this information is readily available to the public.

There were multiple, specific warnings from foreign governments of impending attacks including potential targets and the names of several alleged 9/11 hijackers.

Were there "multiple, specific warnings" about potential attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, (and other D.C. targets) that consisted of actionable intelligence? Credible threats? Warnings of imminent attacks using aircraft? Not that I've seen.

As the 9/11 commission report points out, the U.S. did miss clues, such as doctored passports. We even gave a visa to KSM, although he was on the terrorist watch list (he didn't enter the US). If you want to show other negligence, though, you have to put any "warnings" into context with all the other intelligence being processed at the time. I don't excuse screw-ups. Neither do I excuse taking things out of context to try to support a claim.

Nearly every member of the 9/11 Commission had a major conflict of interest.
You'll need to define "conflict of interest," then provide evidence that such conflicts actually existed, rather than "looking funny" on paper. Remember, most of the investigating was done by law enforcement and intelligence agencies long before the commission was formed. After the commission was formed, most of the investigating was done by the commission staffers, not by the appointed members. You link to a site that lists the commissioners and their alleged conflicts, some of which consist solely of serving on House and Senate intelligence committees. Yeah, we wouldn't want people with that kind of experience involved in...an intelligence investigation. And Fred Fielder was "deep throat?" How many deep throats were there?

The Commission Report ommitted and altered evidence that contradicted the official story.
You'll need to show that what you define as omissions are relevant and would have affected the outcome of the investigation. Mentioning Griffin's list won't do. Most of his "115" are laughably irrelevant or outright false. What evidence was altered?

Insider trading (put options on American, United and other 9/11-affected companies) was never properly investigated. The SEC could trace who made these trades.
Never properly investigated? According to whom? There was a huge investigation into these claims, and no suspicious activity was found at all. I recommend http://www.911myths.com/html/put_options.html for a brief examination of these issues. From the 9/11 commission report:

"A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10...

Similarly, much of the seemingly suspicious trading in American on September 10th was traced to a specific U.S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, which recommended these trades."
Please make that correction.

The deep involvement of Pakistani Intelligence (ISI) was never officially acknowledged or investigated.
First, you'll have to prove ANY involvement of the ISI, much less "deep involvement." No one has done so. Please make that correction. How do you know the claims weren't investigated?

Some prominent travelers such as San Francisco mayor Willie Brown and top Pentagon officials were warned not to fly on 9/11. Who warned them? What did they know?
From 9/11myths:

"Brown's warning: In the five years since 9/11, the question of how then-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown got a warning about flying that day continues to live on in the blogosphere -- and conspiracy theories abound.
"The latest version is that Condoleezza Rice alerted me personally,'' Brown said this week. "It's all part of the ongoing myth."

The "myth" has its origins in the night before the attacks, when Brown called "my security people at the airport'' to check on his flight to New York the next morning.

What the mayor got from his source was a warning that Americans should be concerned about traveling.

Willie being Willie, he paid no attention -- and was actually waiting for his ride to the airport when he turned on the TV and, like millions of other Americans, watched as the World Trade Center crumbled.

Exactly how the warning popped up remains a mystery to this day.
It might have had something to do with a little-noticed State Department memo issued a week before that went out in a routine press briefing -- and that former Secretary of State George Shultz himself received -- warning that Americans may be the target of an attack from extremist groups "with links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization."

The warning, however, dealt primarily with U.S. military bases in Japan and South Korea -- clearly the wrong targets."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/13/BAGG9L4KI81....

On the Pentagon officials:
http://www.911myths.com/html/pentagon_officials.html

Please make those changes.

Until 9/11/01, no steel frame building had ever collapsed due to fire.

Absolutely false. See pages 72-77 of my paper 'WTC 7 and the Lies of the 9/11 Truth Movement' http://www.911myths.com/WTC7_Lies.doc (.doc file) or http://www.911myths.com/WTC7_Lies.pdf
Then please make the correction.

I shouldn't have to state this, but WTC 1, 2, and 7 were unusual buildings that sustained unusual damage and fires. If you want to make claims about them, you need to address what happened to THOSE buildings.

With only moderate fires and no major structural damage, WTC Building 7 imploded at 5pm into a tidy pile of rubble.

Outrageously false. See the entire paper listed above, and make the corrections. Why don't you give a damn?

The collapse of the towers and WTC 7 all exhibited characteristics of CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.

Not according to the experts on the scene, not according to the audiovisual and seismic recording devices, and not according to all the investigators. There is absolutely zero evidence for this contention. See the NIST report, and Protec's paper "A critical analysis of the collapse od WTC towers 1, 2, and 7 From an Explosives and Conventional Demolitional Industry viewpoint. http://www.jod911.com/WTC%20COLLAPSE...d%208-8-06.pdf

Several FBI investigations which could have uncovered the 9/11 plot were squashed and sabotaged by key FBI officials.

The "19 terrorists" list turned over by Mossad? One story in Die Zeit that was picked up by other papers. Was this ever confirmed?

Robert Wright, who worked during the Clinton Administration, complained that investigations were prematurely shut down. What's your suggestion?

You don't mention her by name, but Colleen Rowley referred to a climate of hesitancy among FBI officials in the wake of disasters such as Waco and Ruby Ridge. She does not claim that bad decisions fostered by this climate were the result of an attempt not to investigate terrorism.

In September, 2000, Neo-Con think tank, “Project for the New American Century” (PNAC) acknowledged that their geostrategic goals to control the Middle-East would be long and difficult to achieve “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.” PNAC members included Bush Administration insiders such as Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby and Perle.

I'm no fan of Neo-Cons, but if you think that's what the PNAC report says, you clearly haven't read it. It's not very long. Please read it and make your corrections.

There are many historical precedents of “false flag” and state sponsored terrorism. Operation Northwoods was a top secret U.S. plan in the 1960s to carry out a campaign of terror, including blowing up airplanes, and blame it on Cuba as a pretext to invade and overthrow Castro.

You're using Northwoods, a memo of which part was approved by the Joint Chiefs, and which did NOT call for the killing of U.S. civilians, and which was summarily rejected by the government, as an example that the government would kill thousands of its own people? Please explain your logic. Better yet, just think about it and make the corrections. At bare minimum, don't imply that Northwoods was a plan to murder Americans, and note that it was neither conceived, promoted nor approved by the civilian administration.

Is Northwoods, then, your best example of the USG 's supposed will to attack its own people? Is that it? Really?

I didn't look at much more of your site, but I did notice under "Assassinations" a comment that you think the crash of Paul Wellstone's plane was suspicious. It always baffles me that the same people who clamor that the NTSB should have been more involved in the 9/11 investigations, say that the NTSB investigation of Wellstone's crash is a sham.

You have some good flickr photos, but some of the captions are very inaccurate.

Finally, you said about me, "We've heard his story now, and we just don't get it."

It's very simple: I don't like it when people lie about 9/11, when they exonerate the terrorists, falsely accuse others of mass-murder, say the FDNY was in on it and fail to read any of the reports they claim to dispute.

I really don't like it when they do that at Ground Zero. Got it?

I'll check in with you in a week to see how you're progressing with your research and corrections.

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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 12:42 PM
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4. That's what I call a sound thrashing. n/t
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 01:03 PM
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5. You should watch Roberts chew up the Loose Change boyz, Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas
Edited on Fri Jan-05-07 01:06 PM by William Seger
This is a debate on the Hardfire show.

Part 1 is pretty good: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=142975074341498508&hl=en

But part 2 is a total rout: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4070898042073434589

(ETA: This is a video shot by one of the other LCers in the studio, not the show as broadcast, which is why the video doesn't look very professional.)

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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 03:25 PM
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6. WOW!
The more I see/read about these clowns the more I realize what assholes they are.

They ADMIT their movie is crap.

"we make some dubious claims"

"we are just kids" etc.

It's funny to watch Bermas squirm out of his chair when called on his implication that the firefighters are "in on it." He tries to pass it off with a grin.....fucking shameless.

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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 03:51 PM
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7. I thought the kids botched it. For instance, near the begining when they
were talking about the '93 truck bombing facilitated with the the FBI informant, they should have at least mentioned Peter Lance's meticulasly reseached and documented book. Triple Cross," which demonstrates conclusively that the FBI knew about the 1993 truck bomb plot against the WTC tower long before it happened, knew who all the members of the cell were, and had their informant facilitate the plot. Why they didn't bother to stop it is still unknown.

it was funny how the "host" didn't seem to know that there had been a bombing at the Towers in 1993, even when told repeatedly.

It was also bad judgement on the kids parts to go to a debate where the "host" was obviously OCT.

I wonder if Roberts has the guts to debate the big boys in a nuetral forum? I doubt it.

To the kids credit, they pointed out that 9/11 Press for Truth was a much better documentary movie. It is.

But I will always have soft spot in my heart for Loose Change. It's a real tour de force and makes up in raw energy and great footage what it lacks as a documentary.
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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 04:00 PM
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8. I thought the program was handled fairly...and so did the LooseChangers..
It went better than I thought. Last time I saw them debate, they got out of line calling the PM guy names.

"It's a real tour de force and makes up in raw energy and great footage what it lacks as a documentary."

Sorry, you and I just see things differently. To hold a soft spot for something proved to be so inaccurate is, to me, like people saying george bush is an ok president cause he says what he means and you'd like to have a beer with him.
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-05-07 04:27 PM
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9. I pretty sure
Edited on Fri Jan-05-07 04:27 PM by DoYouEverWonder
1993 was a test run for 9-11 and it gave the planners an excuse to do extensive renovations to the mechanical systems in the WTC complex.

1993 was not an attempt to take down a tower. They didn't even park under a tower. Instead, they were after destroying the physical plant that provides power and AC to the complex.

They learned a lot about what it would take to seriously damage to the buildings. And they also learned a lot about what worked and what didn't work during a fire emergency.


# 6 civilians killed
# Over 1,000 injured
# 105 firefighters injured - 5 admitted to local hospitals
# reinforced floors almost 30 inches think blasted away on 3 levels below grade, plus a concourse level floor,leaving a crater about 150 feet in diameter at it's largest point.
# On the B1 level, the operations control center of the Port Authority Police Department (and the fire command station forthe complex) was heavily damaged and rendered out of service.
# On the B2 level, various walls of elevator shafts and freshair plenums severely damaged, allowing smoke to enter and rise through the cores of both towers.
# Numerous concrete walls destroyed or damaged.
# 200,000 cubic feet of water poured into the lowest grade fromdamaged refrigeration unit supplies (from the Hudson River),sewer lines, fresh domestic water lines, steam pipes, and condensate return. Water 1.5 feet deep across the B6 level.
# 124 parked cars destroyed, 102 damaged.
# Partition walls blown out onto PATH train mezzanine.
# Numerous telephone conduits collapsed from ceiling onto cars (but phone service was not cut, miraculously).
# Fire alarm and public address systems out of service.
# Elevators out of service.
# Water cooled emergency generators shut down due to overheating when their water supply was cut. This disabled the emergency lighting.
# Sprinklers & standpipes out of service.

http://www.fdnewyork.com/wtc.asp



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truthmover Donating Member (40 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-06-07 01:42 PM
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10. Arch nemesis? lol
Jules said:

Well, I've got to hand it to Mark. He spent a while of this message, and it wasn't all wasted. I will read the message, and seriously consider his comments, if for no other reason than he apparently took some time to look at the site.

***

Is this constructive criticism? In essence the message is a critique of our project, which we welcome. Accurate or not, we appreciate any attempt to help us get our facts straight. And there are a couple of recommendations Mark has made that we may seriously consider. I'm sure we'll find at least one constructive change we can make in the site as a result, and that positive contribution is appreciated.

However, Mark's criticisms, while demonstrating some degree of logical savvy, also demonstrates either a surprising lack of social savvy or simply outright negative intent. This all comes down to effective methods of argumentation. If you want to convince someone to modify their thinking or behavior, you can't be seen by them as an adversary. While he has stated that he is there to keep us in check, signifying an interest in communication, Mark's approach is decidedly uncooperative. For this simple reason, I have come to seriously doubt that Mark is interested in the 911 truth movement doing a better job. In fact, he has made it perfectly clear on many occasions that he takes the official story at face value, and has a critical response to every single piece of evidence that we rely upon. He will in no way validate anything we address.

Sadly, a number of the insights that he has gained about the movement, in his quest to debunk it, could actually be quite beneficial to many in the movement. He's good at catching us mis-quoting or over-extending the facts. And if he had an interest in the logical development of this movement, he might be able to provide positive recommendations for responsible community promotion. Unfortunately, his approach has alienated him from everyone in the movement. People just won't listen to him anymore.

While I'd like to assume that Mark just isn't savvy, having seen him in action on many occasions, I'm afraid this does not seem to be the case. His behavior makes it clear that he is present not to critique our work, but for the impact he has upon public perception of our movement. He has told me that he feels, very much like us, that it is his duty to inform the public. But he feels responsible to inform the public that we are wrong. This is entirely clear when you see him interacting with 9/11 truth folks and the public. He constantly interrupts conversations we are having with people, and always draws conversations away from the big picture, toward details that he can dispute. He provides an easy out for people on the fence.

And as everyone knows by now, he provides a bit of spectacle that draws people's attention and essentially benefits our promotional efforts. But only when we aren't baited to frustration by him. He does succeed in making us look bad from time to time, but as often his approach makes people more sympathetic to our concerns, finding Mark's tone to be reactionary, and non-discursive.

The 'lol' is because Mark, while being quite an annoyance to activists who frequent Ground Zero, is not someone who TruthMove deals with often, going to different locations each time we hit the streets. We have long positive conversations with people who agree and disagree with our positions. Mark has no influence two blocks from where he is standing. There's people everywhere. We can always go somewhere else.

That being said, I will still review his comments with some attention.


Max said:

yes, we should use this productively. we would be pretty hypocritical if we refused to hear mark out (as long as he's being respectful and honest).

while he specifically chose our summarized list of evidence to debunk, i certainly think we should take his critiques seriously and correct ourselves on any valid points.
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