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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 01:55 PM
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Why The Truth About 9/11 Is Censored By The Media
False flag terrorism is the most controversial topic there is. Exposure of the truth about 9/11 would challenge the government and the corporate status quo. Exposure of the truth of 9/11 would directly damage the bottom line of the war profiteers (see below). It would also damage the financial interests of the news organizations, since revelation of the truth would show how bad the mainstream media has been in covering real news, thus encouraging more people to get their news from other sources.

In addition, the Bush administration is allowing tremendous consolidation in ownership of the airwaves. The large media players stand to gain billions of dollars in profits if the administration continues to allow monopoly ownership of the airwaves by a handful of players. The media giants know who butters their bread. So there is a spoken or tactit agreement: if the media cover the administration in a favorable light, the MSM will continue to be the receiver of the government's goodies. And censoring the truth about 9/11 is a large part of covering the administration in a favorable light.



Censorship by the Government

Finally, as if the media's own interest in covering up things like 9/11 and in promoting war is not strong enough, the government has exerted tremendous pressure on the media to report things a certain way. Indeed, at times the government has thrown media owners and reporters in jail if they've been too critical. The media companies have already felt great pressure from the government to kill any real coverage of 9/11 other than the official story and attacking straw men.

For example, Dan Rather said, regarding American media, "What you have is a miniature version of what you have in totalitarian states".

Tom Brokaw said "all wars are based on propaganda".

And the head of CNN said:

"there was 'almost a patriotism police' after 9/11 and when the network showed it would get phone calls from advertisers and the administration and "big people in corporations were calling up and saying, 'You're being anti-American here.'"

Indeed, former military analyst and famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said that the government has ordered the media not to cover 9/11, saying:

Ellsberg seemed hardly surprised that today's American mainstream broadcast media has so far failed to take <9/11 whistleblower Sibel> Edmonds up on her offer, despite the blockbuster nature of her allegations .

As Edmonds has also alluded, Ellsberg pointed to the New York Times, who "sat on the NSA spying story for over a year" when they "could have put it out before the 2004 election, which might have changed the outcome."

"There will be phone calls going out to the media saying 'don't even think of touching it, you will be prosecuted for violating national security,'" he told us.

* * *


http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2005/10/hit-them-with-truth.html


You can see the same mindset happening right here on DU, that is why September 11 is in the dungeon. That is also why there are humorless operatives living down here to intimidate and confuse the posters.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 02:17 PM
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1. An emerald heart to you RC
Edited on Sat Aug-16-08 02:20 PM by seemslikeadream

Welcome to the jungle



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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 02:31 PM
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2. Why Thank You.
I've know for a long time what really happened, but it was only in the last week I figured out a very important piece of the puzzle.
I don't normally post down here because either I am preaching to the choir or sparing with the operatives, which is a waste of time and energy.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 02:57 PM
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3. of course I completely understand that but as was just talked about in another thread
sometimes we have socks to pair or such and have time for a little bickering :rofl:
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 03:04 PM
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4. a very important piece of the puzzle?
can you share?
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 03:17 PM
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5. Did FEMA's Project Godzilla bring the WTC down on 9/11?
Edited on Sat Aug-16-08 03:19 PM by RC
"The result was a secret program called Godzilla. This program is in part a secret building code by the terms of which structures deemed of concern must submit a plan for demolition that FEMA keeps on file. Planned buildings over a certain height must submit a demolition plan along with a construction plan and the construction plan must include facilities and features within the structure and machinery for the potential installation of demolition explosives."


http://investigate911.se/articles/godzilla.html

There is not a whole lot out there on this. I can't find the original article I saw, but it said basically the same thing as this one.

It would explain why there were work crews & temporally closed off floors in the Twin Towers in the months before 9/11.
The reason for the Godzilla Project was and still is originally good. But the criminals took advantage of it to start their war and the rest is history.
FEMA under Bill Clinton worked. bu$h fatally fixed that early on.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 03:44 PM
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6. That is what I believe, and others that the towers were wired in case something might happen
not necessarily because 9/11 was going to happen, the wiring was just a plus for the event.
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frog92969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 03:51 PM
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8. They needed a high casualty level
The better to "shock and awe" you with.
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 11:04 PM
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45. Then why not just nuke Manhattan? nt
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chandler2 Donating Member (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-20-09 01:02 PM
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90. NUKES were used, weren't they?

I've read some persuasive articles about tactical nuclear weapons and recently Spooked911 posted some photos
which show shiny smoke that is said to be a signature of smoke caused by the use of nukes.

Lower Manhattan was ordered to be evacuated immediately after the explosions/fires erupted, so that lessened the
casualty/injury rates. Also, some researchers maintain that cell phones and various other electronic devices
were useless due to having been "HAARPed" - which would explain why only Faraday-protected TV network video cameras worked.

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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-20-09 04:41 PM
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93. Do you have any proof that a single thing you cite....
actually happened? I'm thinking no because, if you did, you'd present it. You're as hopeless as Spooked.
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 11:55 PM
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62. I'd like to see your answer to Flatulo's question
Nuking some city would have been a far, far easier and safer plot to execute. One obvious advantage is that nuking a city would have required far fewer black ops people than any of the 9/11 plots proposed by the "truth movement." And all they would need to do is put the bomb in place and set it off -- it doesn't get much simpler than that, with very little chance of anything going wrong. Both Hollywood and the news media had already primed the public to worry that terrorists might be buying Russian nukes on the black market, whereas flying hijacked airplanes into buildings seems to have caught most people by surprise. They could have put the bomb on a ship that was sailing into a harbor and set it off just before it docked, so there would be far fewer questions to answer about why our defenses failed. (If they did that, they could also have precisely controlled how much damage was done by where they set it off.) And finally, it would have been a lot easier to implicate just about any country they wanted to, if the intent was to create a justification for a war, rather than have "some guy in a cave" as their boogieman.

So, why did those boneheads instead come up with a far more complicated and risky (yet less effective) plot?
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tetedur Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 09:35 PM
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9. One of the strangest things I've ever heard proposed as a possibility
for the destruction of the WTC7 came from Peter Lance on a "Coast-to-Coast" radio
broadcast. This was broadcast in 2005, but he said that some foreign embassies
are rigged to blow should the need arise and he suggested the same for 7. He said
a ME type man on 9/11 went into an unmanned firehouse and put on a fireman's outfit
and was caught in the building. Therefore they had to blow it because it was compromised.
Bizarre much?

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2005/06/16.html
(Must be a subscriber to listen)
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 07:52 PM
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40. I have most of the interview and will be posting at youtube soon
It's really good so far
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 10:00 PM
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11. You've obviously never seen a building wired for CD...
or you wouldn't make such an absurd post.
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Realityhack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:45 AM
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12. Oh bullshit.
That claim is utter garbage.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 09:59 PM
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10. What a bunch of crap.....
Have you ever actually seen a building rigged for controlled demolition? To claim that it could go on right under the noses of the occupants and they never noticed is absurd.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 05:35 AM
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13. I have photos to prove it happened
Edited on Sun Aug-17-08 05:44 AM by LARED




Scary dude

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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 05:48 AM
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14. Government has plan to use Badgers to counter Godzilla threat
Edited on Sun Aug-17-08 06:26 AM by LARED
Don't mess with him (her?)

edit for spelling

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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 06:18 AM
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15. Oh shit, Lared! SDud is gonna fuck with you for 3 days now cuz you spelled 'badger' wrong...
:popcorn:

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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 06:27 AM
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16. What spelling error?
Edited on Sun Aug-17-08 06:38 AM by LARED
To clarify this is a joke, as I sure without the disclaimer someone will be calling me a liar.
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Ghost in the Machine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 08:23 PM
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41. LOL!!
Well played, LARED... :rofl:

I'll give you 10 points for that one...

:hi:

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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 11:45 AM
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25. What bullshit....
can you find any corroboration for this or didn't you even bother to look?
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 12:10 PM
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27. Amazing
Hi ya, RC, welcome to the dungeon.

"There is not a whole lot out there on this" is quite an understatement. The very first mention of this "secret program called Godzilla" seems to be this anonymous comment left on a CommonDreams article earlier this year, which doesn't provide a single source. Is that right?

But when you read it, a lightbulb or little voice in your head allowed you to immediately fit another piece into your puzzle?

And if anyone points out the rather high probability that this story is total bullshit, he's probably a conspiracy agent, and if several people do that, it means you're definitely getting too close to the truth?

Are you really sure you want the media to give more attention to the "truth movement?"
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truedelphi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 09:42 AM
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48. You say:
"FEMA under Bill Clinton worked. bu$h fatally fixed that early on."

Hey the trucks heading to New Orleans under FEMA orders will be arriving any day now.

How can you doubt Bush, Brownie and Chertoff?
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-21-09 07:11 PM
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96. The WTC was going to have to come down . . . but NOT by demolition . . .
there were problems with the WTC buildings -- asbestos and other thigns --

they were going to have to go to very expensive lengths to build scaffolding to

take the towers down in reverse of how they put them up!

Again -- DEMOLITION WAS BARRED because of the contaminants in the buildings --

The people who wired the building were those involved in the "false flag" event --

and it was a military operation.

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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-21-09 09:13 PM
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99. I'd love for D&P to explain the logistics behind this...
I'd especially love to hear how someone could construct 100+ story scaffolding.

And people wonder how the "truth movement" has self-marginalized.
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frog92969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 03:47 PM
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7. K&Censored R
Goebbels would feel like a chump.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 08:55 AM
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17. One thing I have noticed down here is when the subject gets
too close to the truth, the wreaking crew comes out in force. The more damaging the truth, the more coordinated the attack.

The same people all the time to disrupt and sidetrack the thread. They live down here. They never or seldom go anywhere else. If I didn't know any better, I say they were assigned here. Hmmmm, now who would gain the most from keeping the information about 9/11 in confusion? By pushing the plausible denial to any and all provable facts contrary to the government line. In pushing the conventional wisdom put out by our corrupt^h^h^h^h^h^h^h government and our 'We Report, You Decide' news media? Any ideas? I wonder... Hmmmm...
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 09:54 AM
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18. Since you've got no way of knowing the motives of posters...
why speculate?

Personally, I believe a certain voluminous poster is being paid by the publishing industry to help sell conspiracy books. And I beleive they're paid by the post, hence the incredible volume of posts that they make.

But since I've got no way of actually knowing that to be true, there's no point in speculating about their motives.

Sid
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 10:19 AM
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19. Oh but I can surmise the motives of the posters by what & where they post
And the more they post, the stronger my conclusions. Think of a jig-saw puzzle with other people supplying the pieces. Some pieces fit, some don't. Some that don't fit now, sometimes fit later. And some pieces that don't fit are from other puzzles given to confuse and delay. There are some here with a ready supply of mis-fit pieces with either the shape or the color wrong.
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 10:42 AM
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21. You're assuming the mis-fit pieces are actually the incorrect ones...
Edited on Sun Aug-17-08 10:44 AM by SidDithers
of course pieces from the puzzle of logic, reason and science would be considered mis-fit when put into the puzzle full of woo that the truth movement is trying to construct.

Sid

Edit: improved post title.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 11:22 AM
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23. Define this "Truth Movement" for me, please.
The definition seems to be kind of muddied down here.
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 12:52 PM
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29. Shoe on the wrong foot
It's up to the "truth movement" to define itself. So far, is seems it hasn't uncovered enough "truth" to even convince each other of anything. If it hasn't been able to avoid getting into gang fights within itself and to avoid fracturing as badly as any religion, then it's no surprise that it doesn't have any clear definition.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 02:40 PM
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30. Obfuscate much?
A simple question with an easy answer. And you can't even answer that straight.
Do the Truthers (A)push the government line or are the Truthers the ones (B)trying to figure out what really went on concerning 9/11?

Answer - Check one:

A.

B.
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:19 PM
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32. Neither A nor B
That's why I always put "truth movement" in quotes.
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chandler2 Donating Member (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-20-09 03:51 PM
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92. Definitely not a problem for the other side

They sticky together in a united challenge to hold the line by any means possible. And I might add they do a mighty fine
job. Congratulations. You must be awfully proud of your accomplishment.
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-20-09 04:42 PM
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94. or, naybe, it's the lack of conclusive evidence from....
people like you. Ever think of that?
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icee2 Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-23-09 12:47 PM
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65. I've noticed that too.

Oh well, at least the 9/11 TCs here agree with us that Bush/Cheney are liars whose word can't be trusted.
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BeachBaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 10:36 AM
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20. Thank you, RC!!!
While I can't say that this is any surprise, to hear it come from the horses' mouths (Brokaw and Rather) sums up what I have come to believe all along.

I have done quite a bit of reading and research on Joseph Goebbels - and after reading Al Gore's "The Assault on Reason" and Naomi Wolf's "The End of America", I am absolutely convinced that we are only being told what the powers-that-be want us to know/believe.

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."
~~Joseph Goebbels~~


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Grateful for Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 11:02 AM
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22. It's good to see in print
what many of already knew.

Since it is likely that this has been going on for quite some time, I am grateful that at least now we have the internet to help with correcting the misconceptions that often result from the propaganda.

Thanks for posting this, RC. I see you have been here on DU for a LONG time. I haven't seen you post here in the dungeon before, and, am glad that you decided to venture "down".
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 11:41 AM
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24. I see...
so, if we take issue with your absolute lack of proof, we're "humorless operatives living down here to intimidate anc confuse the posters"? That sounds like propaganda itself. Why is it that when we try to debate on the facts, the instant reaction from the "truth movement" is that our motivation can only be suspect?

I'll match my liberal credentials against anyone here anyday. What I find truuly appalling is the object lack of critical thinking skills on the part of most of the "truth movement". It's truly embarassing to witness roundly debunked 9/11 myths recycled here over and over, especially when it's plain that the poster hasn't subjected the myth to a shred of critical analysis but simply swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 12:28 PM
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28. OMG OH NOOOOOS GRIEVOUS SPELLING ERROR WHERE IS SD? WILL WE EVER SEE THE END OF HIS WRATH
Here badger badger badger where art thou spelling mistake badger patrol.........Oh I see it was the almighty badger police man himself,

Will he relentlessly badger himself post after post? Stay tuned for more of "These are the Days of the Badger" staring SD as the badger with a badge. Will he drive himself insane tormenting himself over a simple spelling error? Only the Shadow knows.




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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:02 PM
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31. I counted four (4) spelling errors.
All it takes is a mouse click.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:44 PM
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34. OMG Does that mean I will be relentlessly pursued for NOT catching all the spelling mistakes?
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 04:19 PM
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36. Don't know. You worth pursuing?
:evilgrin:
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 04:17 PM
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35. Maybe these 'roundly debunked 9/11 myths' get recycled because
they are closer to the real truth than what you are pushing.

I have been interested in information about 9/11 for the last almost 7 years. My interest began with the 6 or 8 thousand pounds/gallons whatever, depending on the source, of jet fuel that magically flowed straight to the elevator shafts, through doors that magically open to allow the flowing, burning jet fuel to flow the 7 sub-basement and burned hot enough to melt all 47 columns at the same time to collapse the towers, straight down, from the top down.

Never mind that most of the fuel load burned OUTSIDE the building on the second impact. That building came down first. Yeah, you're right, something's suspicious here.
They were telling us that all that burning jet fuel in the basement was the reason for all that molten steel at the bottom of the rubble pile, don't cha know. Ya sure, ya betcha. Bull Shit!

The second tower had as much molten steel at the bottom of other rubble as the other tower, without the fuel load to cause it. Where did the energy come from to melt all that steel and get it hot enough to keep it molten for weeks?

The above was in the news for weeks till people started saying "Hey wait a minute, how can that be?" Well, it can't be for several obvious reasons. But that was the official line at the time, that was what the news media and the government were selling. I didn't buy it then and I still don't. Why do you still push the government line?

Because Saddam personally flew both planes into the Towers so therefore we invaded Iraq? Do you believe that also? 9/11 is the excuse for the invasion of Iraq even though Iraq had nothing to do with it. Where is the tie?

When one gathers enough information on any one subject, pattern appear. There are plenty of patterns concerning 9/11 and the official line doesn't fit the reality.
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 10:19 PM
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43. But 9/11 was not the reason for the invasion of Iraq. WMDs were.
They started several stories conflating the 9/11 attacks with Iraq, but the primary selling point was WMDs. As time passed and no evidence of an Iraqi angle materialized, both Bush and Cheney disavowed the idea.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 06:58 PM
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55. They needed a New Pearl Harbor as the excuse to invade Iraq. And 9/11 was it.
Saddam-WMD and 9/11-Iraq were used in the same sentence for weeks as a means to tie Iraq to 9/11 without saying Saddam or Iraq was responsible.
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 08:50 PM
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58. Respectfully disagree - we would have invaded Iraq whether or
not 9/11 had happened.

9/11 certainly didn't hurt the administration's case, but it was not essential to it.

Just my opinion.
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 11:13 PM
Response to Reply #55
61. This time with a source...
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/

(CNN) -- The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes.

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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 11:23 PM
Response to Reply #35
47. What, exactly, am I pushing, RC?
Please be specific.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 07:02 PM
Response to Reply #47
56. That is all you can get out of my post?
You're funny. I take my comment back about the operatives down here not having a sense of humor. :rofl:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 07:51 PM
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57. Are you accusing me of being an "operative"?
You made the accusation. What exactly am I "pushing"? Is everyone who disagrees with you and calls you on your bullshit an "operative"?
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MinM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 11:58 AM
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26. Of course this is not unique to 9/11...
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 03:31 PM
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33. Why is the Truth about a Flat Earth not printed by the media?
Or the Truth about the fake moon walks?

Or the Truth about Bigfoot?

Same thing.
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Make7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 04:50 PM
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38. But the media is finally covering the truth about Bigfoot. ( n/t )
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 04:56 PM
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39. But not the Truth! n/t
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William Seger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 10:43 PM
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44. Oboy, now they're trying to fool us with faked DNA evidence
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKN1544880720080817

Sorry, Mr. "Scientist" -- I saw the photos and I believe my eyes.
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procopia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 11:14 PM
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85. Galileo was ridiculed
for his support of the round earth theory. Interesting.
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Grateful for Hope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 04:43 PM
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37. Not sure if you saw this
article by Paul Craig Roberts:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=3737928

Of interest, I think is the following:

The anthrax scare is one more example of the Bush Regime’s use of disinformation to advance an undeclared political agenda. As Glenn Greenwald reminded us last week in Salon, the Bush Regime used Brian Ross at ABC News to spread the lie far and wide that US government tests proved that the anthrax mailed to various Americans, including prominent US Senators, was made in Iraq by Saddam Hussein. This lie was essential for scaring Congress into passing the Bush Regime’s Gestapo laws, such as the PATRIOT Act, and for overcoming opposition to invading Iraq.


Roberts goes on to say:

Wouldn’t a government that would lie about something this serious lie about other serious matters?

The Bush Regime stands against against the truth. That is why it pretends to have the power to prevent executive branch officials wanted for questioning by Congress from appearing before the people’s representatives. Nothing could make clearer the contempt that the Bush Regime has for the American people and their elected representatives than its arrogant claim that it is unanswerable to them.

Obviously, neither the President nor the Vice President respect their oaths of office. If they will betray such a serious oath, won’t they lie about everything, even 9/11 itself?


And, wouldn't they use the media to spread those lies?

I think it is quite possible.
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 09:10 PM
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42. RC - some points to ponder...
There are over 50,000 professional journalists in the US today. There are many more in Europe and Asia.

Each and every one of these professionals has the option and opportunity to resign their corporate positions and instantly become a millionaire by publishing the "truth" about 9/11.

These are not cowardly people. Hundreds of professional journalists have ridden into the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan with our troops. Over 200 professional journalists have been killed in Iraq alone.

Can you think of any reason why, among these tens of thousands of brave professionals, not one has published the story that exposes 9/11 for what you may think it is? This would be the story of the millenium.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 01:43 PM
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49. that's not their job.
in fact, it would end their job.
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 10:11 PM
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50. Not following you...
My point was that there are 50,000+ professional journalists out there. Do you seriously believe that each and every single man and woman among them is afraid to investigate 9/11 and publish the 'truth'?

Are there any documented cases of Bush murdering anyone who got too close to the truth?

Whoever could unravel the story would make millions, so they would not need their day job.

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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-18-08 11:08 PM
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51. their industry is no longer about journalism
it is not about finding difficult, unpopular truths and reporting them.

it is about propaganda, disseminating it, discussing it and repeating it until it supplants even the truth one can see with one's own eyes.

Five, maybe as few as three, corporations effectively own ALL the major media in this country. They all are right wing, capitalist, status quo supporting entities.

An older, established, successful employee of the corporate media has far too much to lose to risk it by challenging the accepted script. Dan frigging Rather couldn't survive his mild challenge to the bush cabal over the bush AWOL issue. And that was FAR less momentous an issue than the truth about 9-11. No media star would risk their multi-million-dollar salary, perks, and privilege in order to report a story, especially one that would provoke as much outrage as support among the public. (Never mind that the stars succeeded in their careers because of a complete lack of scruples in the first place.) They'd be marginalized, if not outright assassinated--professionally if not literally--within one news cycle.

Younger, less-established employees of the corporate media would not have the power, gravitas or reach to expose a story of that magnitude. They would be immediately marginalized or outright banished. Ashliegh Banfield was "disappeared" for making mildly critical remarks about the sanitized coverage by the corporate media of the invasion of Iraq. Her career has never really recovered, certainly not in news.

I think the truth about 9-11 is yet another loose thread in the history of this country, that if pulled, would unravel stories that no one would believe or want to believe. Things are far worse than even we "conspiracy nuts" hypothesize.
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 09:57 AM
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52. While you raise valid points about media consolidation, you
seem to be assuming that every journalist is somehow being forced to present a RW agenda. In reality, I would expect the distribution of political bias among that population to more-or-less mirror the distribution among the general population, ie, some are RW, some are LW and the vast majority are in the middle somewhere.

In addition, there are large numbers of free-lancers who do not have any corporate masters. These folks do not depend on Rupert Murdoch for a paycheck. They investigate and find a publisher for their work.

Are you seriously suggesting that a thorough, well sourced expose, complete with irrefutable smoking guns, would not see the light of day?

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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 04:07 PM
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53. There are journalists who are reporting parts of the truth.
Just none in the mainstream American corporate media. Are you aware of any thorough, well-financed expose?

For starters, most of the evidence has been destroyed and people have died, moved on, forgotten...

Plus, we've had 7 years of disinformation and propaganda shoved down our throats 24X7 so that the small percentage of Americans who pay attention now "know" things that aren't true.

It would take a huge effort to properly investigate this and discover the truth.
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AZCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 09:21 PM
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60. Not only free-lancers...
but the numerous publications not part of the "mass media" who foster skepticism of government claims. Does anyone seriously think of The New Yorker, The Nation, Mother Jones, the various indies - that they all bow to some right-wing corporate master? If so, whoever is in charge of the Tucson Weekly better keep a closer eye on them - they seem to be out of step with the right-wing program.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 06:54 PM
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54. "...not one has published the story that exposes 9/11..."
It has been numerous time and it get buried and/or the authors find themselves unemployed in their chosen profession. You either forget or don't know who controls the media in this country. And it ain't the Liberals.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Upton Sinclair

Without the internet we would never have gotten enought facts to figure out the government line was pure lying bullshit.

And so, the rest of the world is better informed about 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the bu$h administration's part in 9/11, than the average American.

And what does being a journalist in Iraq or Afghanistan have to do with anything here? It's a straw man argument.

This story of the millennium has been published, numerous times, only to get derided and beat down as the creative imaginations of lunitics, such as you are doing.
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Flatulo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-08 08:55 PM
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59. I'll pose three questions...
1. Can you cite the multiple authors who have uncovered the 'truth' of 9/11?

2. Do the stories agree in most salient respects?

3. Have they been independantly vetted by scholarly sources?

If the answer to all three is 'yes', then I will cede that there is a massive conspiracy to bury the story.
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-08 11:11 PM
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46. When this bitch can have her own "news" show there is something wrong terribly wrong
Campbell Brown
Campbell Brown Fascist Mouthpiece
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdrhDrU_wOc



Airhead CNN Reporters try to Belittle Impeachment Hearings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-6jAfc-Bg
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-22-09 10:49 PM
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-23-09 09:03 AM
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64. LMAO...
a year-old thread kicked from the basement of the dungeon, by a now deleted post. That's pretty freakin' funny. :rofl:


Sid
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flow_urgirl Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 09:13 AM
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66. Intimidation is the key to control
Edited on Sun Nov-29-09 09:27 AM by flow_urgirl
The harrassment of people, putting their power down, denying them of their right to free speech and interpretation of such a terrible event, one that shocked me and made me cry when I saw it on the TV in Australia.

And how much do people fear it happening again anyway? Even without the pressures to maintain conformity to reporting with the major news like CNN.. it still disturbs the people so terribly. It disturbs me over here in Australia. makes me wonder where they will try next? Europe? In Redfern there are two towers. I had picked up on this being a disturbing thing years before in 1999. TNT towers actually and I recall now I thought - they're going to blow them up! I am so sorry to the families and friends, and lovers who lived close to the mass of people who died. The image of the towers haunts me the most when I think of the tiny people free falling down the side.

This is my first opportunity to say anything about 9/11 more directly over the net.




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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 09:20 AM
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67. The net is a terrible place to say dumb things on your first try,
the anonymity seems to make people less than charitable.
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 04:12 PM
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 05:00 PM
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69. Not really, I am a pretty nice guy almost all the time, except
when people spout idiotic 9/11 nonsense.
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flow_urgirl Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 09:18 PM
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72. your feeling is..
not a clue of ypurs you think in insults and think and don't acknowledge feelings of others...
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 06:59 AM
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79. 9/11 truth is about facts not feelings - nt
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icee2 Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 05:14 PM
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70. surprised? nt
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Prometheus Bound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 10:21 PM
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74. No, I'm starting to get the picture.
What I don't understand is why my comment was deleted.

He called a new member dumb for speaking from the heart, and I call him mean. So my comment was deleted.

Yeah, I starting to get the picture.
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 10:43 PM
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75. He said something said was dumb, not that the new member was dumb.
Please get your facts accurate. Accurate facts lead to accurate pictures.
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flow_urgirl Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 02:30 AM
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76. thankyou..and often busy and a bit distracted
I meant to say that this person who I assume to be male telling me that my post about 9/11 was dumb. To be unspoken..to be unspeaking..to be silenced..to be forced to shut up..now that is a definition of dumb for me as I am not a dumb or unspeaking person and do not need sign language to convey my opinion. Now I am aware of yet another person who has the will to shut me up. Your intent seems to say this as a negative, which it can hardly be sensed as other than negative and derogatory. Why post something so deprived of originality?!! I am not just saying something that appears like lazy texting, or anything mindnumbing, so why your target of me? What do you not reflect to yourself about?!!
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icee2 Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 08:38 AM
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81. You know those TV commercials with
the two little girls and the gift ponies...and the one with the little girl and a bicycle?
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flow_urgirl Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 09:17 PM
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71. you say nothing then by saying an insult as
it does not identify your statement as you have one of only a - sign...no matter who you are connected with...get lost.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-29-09 10:03 PM
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73. Sorry your post is incoherent. - nt
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flow_urgirl Donating Member (47 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 02:32 AM
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77. I mean..
to say that the "- sign" is of negativity. And then for them to get lost, quite clear.
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LARED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 06:54 AM
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78. Sorry, I still can't figure out what you are talking about
What does ""- sign" is of negativity" mean?

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icee2 Donating Member (261 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 08:26 AM
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80. Only DU, I'm sure. No. Really.
"no matter who you are connected with...get lost."
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Prometheus Bound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-30-09 02:58 PM
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82. I'm wondering if the OP got it wrong.
"humorless operatives living down here to intimidate and confuse the posters."

They're sounding more confused than confusing.
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pberq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-04-09 12:16 PM
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83. Thanks for posting this RC - some great info in there - nt
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arthritisR_US Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-08-09 07:38 PM
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84. TY for posting this. It's nice to be able, from time to time, get information
without having to wade through insults and derisions. I'm amazed by the all the screamers and I keep on wondering, what the hell are they afraid of? Could it be that the truth would burst their delusional bubbles? Just things I ponder but I sure do appreciate the information RC :-)
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felixkrull Donating Member (1 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 06:57 AM
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86. "Atheists" caused 911...
First of all: Nostradamus demolishes "atheism"


__________________________________________________ __
wait, wait...


I forgot something...


you little shits even talk about me....


GOATS ON FIRE....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssFaIhJkLsk



LIBERATION!


Sing from the rooftops:

"Atheism is dead!"

http://www.conspiracycafe.net/forum/index.php?/topic/25104-atheist-apocalypse/page__pid__117856_




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK50So-yYRU

BYE BYE ATHEISM
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SidDithers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 01:19 PM
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87. Allow me to be the first to say...
WTF?

Sid
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 01:31 PM
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88. I second that....
WTF?....
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CJCRANE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-15-09 02:51 PM
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89. I've been thinking about the level of truth allowed in the MSM...
Let's posit 10 levels of political truth-telling:

10 Absolute propaganda (see Stalin's Russia or Nazi Germany)
9
8 Bush-Cheney Administration
7
6 Normal political spin (Clinton administration)
5 Candidate Obama
4 Wesley Clark (more truthful than most politicians, disliked by the MSM)
3 "Truth to power" politician (e.g. Dennis Kucinich)
2
1 Deep politics (i.e. what's really happening)
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snagglepuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-20-09 03:30 PM
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91. Your list is spot on. nt
:thumbsup:
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-21-09 07:08 PM
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95. Who would expect our corporate-CIA press to cover 9/11 . . . ???!!!!
Meanwhile, that they have to maintain a heavy cover on this shows how vulnerable

the right remains to any pebble of truth hitting their mirror of myths!!!

It's not just 9/11 . . . it's all the violence, all the fakery -- all the right wing BS

and cover ups that would fall if questioned.

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chandler2 Donating Member (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-21-09 07:16 PM
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97. If the corp. press wasn't part of the conspiracy, they would. nt
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-21-09 08:58 PM
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98. No . . . I don't think they would . . . but I agree, MSM were involved in the 9/11 farce . . .
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CrunchMaster Donating Member (308 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-05-10 02:54 PM
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100. like this post... KICK n/t
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BeFree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-11 10:49 PM
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101. Kick for truthers. n/t
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