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Zentric
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:25 am    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

rwwff wrote:
Zentric wrote:
Verbose, obtuse, perverse, and boring.


Sometimes life is like that.

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Will I have to share the future with people like you, or just with jackals of the ordinary variety?


We come with the package. Sorry.


Thanks, Man. What's your thesis, anyway... why are you here on this thread and forum?

Are you:

Altruistic: Helping strangers to prepare for the coming crap storm?

Bored: Just killing time?

Pissed off at the world: Weaving an ideology of intolerance, control and death? (not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you).

For profit: Paid either by the message or word?

And in the final analysis: Do you see yourself more as one who wears the boots, or are you more like the other guy, whose face is to be stomped by them?

We've read your long posts. Now how about just 50 words that summarizes what rwwff is truly all about...

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:54 am    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

Mesuge wrote:
The president and his team actively obfuscated the investigation, which doesn't automatically mean he order the attacks it just means he authorized coverup for whatever reason and that's a mainstream wisdom now, deal with it buddy..


Again, you are assuming that I support the government's report as truth, which I don't. Nor do I reject the premise that an administration would obfuscate as much stuff as they could that would interfere with their objectives. Thats the way Washington works.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 12:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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Thanks, Man. What's your thesis, anyway... why are you here on this thread and forum?


Intellectually exploring possibilities, concerning PO; and harrassing GW "We can fix it" types.

I'm not quite sure why I occassional get drawn by these 9/11 CT debates, but I'm not accustomed to leaving curious things alone.

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Altruistic: Helping strangers to prepare for the coming crap storm?


When I have useful expertise, sure, but otherwise, not much anyone can do directly. This is a relatively good place to acquire a broad spectrum of expertise from other parties though.

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For profit: Paid either by the message or word?

I wish.

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And in the final analysis: Do you see yourself more as one who wears the boots, or are you more like the other guy, whose face is to be stomped by them?


More like the guy that sets out the dinner table for the guy with boots on. "Just want to be helpful, sir." If someone wants to go up against a battallion with a couple AR's and a wagon full of "rage against the machine" I'm not gonna get in the way.

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We've read your long posts. Now how about just 50 words that summarizes what rwwff is truly all about...


I like writing.

Maybe I'll end up with enough material to write some Apocolyptic fiction or something. Make'em free ebooks, doomer porn to read on the PDA as the last of the electric grids fail...
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:38 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

Okay, rwwff. To summarize, you have a "rational" reason for participating on the forum - to learn, to explore possibilities, and to harrass the "we can fix it" GW-types. Fine and good.

But you also say that you are not quite sure what attracts you about to the 9/11 CT debate. I think you should explore this. My guess is that your motivations here are childish.

Many people here have made a rational argument that the "official version" of the events leading up to and including 9/11 is or resembles a conspiracy theory coverup that warrants an independent investigation - a simple argument supported by scads of evidence. But you consistently attack this view using bullshit objections.

You strike me as two people, neither without considerable debating skills:

1) A rational "down to earth" guy who can effectively counter liberal groupthink.

2) An irrational bully who's this way because it somehow feels good to him.

Could you possibly find a way at being only a single person?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

Zentric wrote:
But you also say that you are not quite sure what attracts you about to the 9/11 CT debate. I think you should explore this. My guess is that your motivations here are childish.


Could be.

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But you consistently attack this view using bullshit objections.


I do attack the desire for an "independent" investigation, if only because one of the following would certainly be true.

1.) It would not be seen as independent by the right.
2.) It would not be seen as independent by the left.
3.) It would not be seen as independent by either.

Changing the members of the group of size x-odd percent that believe the investigation wasn't independent, without drastically reducing the actual size of the group, doesn't seem to me to be a reasonable use of funds. Not that the government doesn't fritter off lots of funds just as pointlessly; but to be selfish about it; I'm very thankful that most of the members of this conspiracy group are, for once, not on my side.

Trust me, having people on your side that believe the UN is invading America in black helicopters with no numbers is really disturbing.

I don't know that the arguments I use are bs, maybe they are, but I do the best I can with very weak material and a very weak issue.

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You strike me as two people, neither without considerable debating skills:


I've never been diagnosed with multiple personalities before, and certainly not over the web. Quite impressive.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

Mesuge wrote:
Perhaps you better start with 9/11 Press for Truth, which is a mature look of the 9/11 families on how the government promises about real investigation which was established after delays and only thanks to their constant presure turned out to be in the end a sick joke..

9/11 Press For Truth:
http://www.911pressfortruth.com/story

Video Google:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5589099104255077250&q=press+for+truth


THANK YOU - I did not know the history of this movement.
edit: I watched it before as i had it or most of it saved in my google dl file - dial up sucked Wink
tonights reruns are "the matrix original" and "press for truth".
everybody's gotta learn sometime was enough for me even if it was cheesy Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:54 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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Yes, that's one of the rarely mentioned stories by the media. Yet, it all began when Daschle and gang got those military grade anthrax envelopes, then Bush & Cheney pushed him not to open any investigation into 9/11 and he as a classic repucratic coward backed off. Then there was a very limited congressional inquiry and senators being put under lie detectors, gag orders etc.

Then the families put some more presure and "independent" repucratic Commission has been setup up. First two chairmans resigned, Kissinger because of his Saudi family clients with terror funding past (revealed again by the 9/11 families).

The vice chair of the Commission Lee Hamilton is a professional cover up artist from Iran-contra and beyond.

The most important figure, executive director Mr. Zelikow is a long time career neocon and academic expert in "creation of public myths" no kidding. Zelikow is a buddy and protege of Condie, now works under her.

Another influential man, senator Ben-Veniste had an interesting career in law. For instance, legal defense for Barry Seal, the biggest narco smuggler in the US history and buddy of Poppy Bush and the CIA blackops since 60s.

Reads like a B-grade comic book and it was indeed a sick comic book plot.. Well, this is not tasty French or Russian spy novel afterall..

In a disgusting twist the most influential neocons (and their Harvard buddies like Ernest May) are openly prizing in their scholarly papers 9/11 families for the release of the limited documentation on the case, perhaps they are proud about their work and the little publicity for the historical record about their role in the whole scheme. While hired food baskets like Ann Coulters attacked 9/11 families as terrorist supporters..
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:01 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

But the major insight into all these ghostly games is this famous documentary from BBC, The Power Of Nightmares which is a good overview of the evolution of both the neocon and jihadist strends of thought..

High quality:
http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmares

Lower quality (1-3):
http://video.google.ca/videosearch?q=power+of+nightmares

PS:
For the evidence touch challanged yanks, BBC stands for The British Broadcasting Corporation not for Baghram Bomb City..
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:30 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

Also, there is a brand new documentary "Kill the Messenger" about the FBI whistleblower, the Sibel Edmonds case. Aired numerous times on the TV Canal + this month. It will perhaps resurface on the net soon:
http://justacitizen.com/KillTheMessenger.html

Although the skeleton of her story is out there from the start, Edmonds is currently gaged by synergetic efforts of numerous institutions, courts, DOJ, FBI, and Congress. So she is not going to testify for anything..

Basically, her case is about the underground Turkish-Israeli-Pakistani bazaar where conventional, nuclear arms, genuine and infiltrated terrorist cells, drugs and campaign slush funds for D.C. cretins like Dennis Hastert but Democrats as well merge into one smelly river.

Basic timeline of her story:
http://cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&projects_and_programs=sibelEdmonds


Details about the Valery Plame connection
(how one agency is blowing up the cover of the other in this environment):

Search for the story of Maj. Dickerson and his Turkish wify
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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1.) It would not be seen as independent by the right.
2.) It would not be seen as independent by the left.
3.) It would not be seen as independent by either.

Please do not lay your "left-right paradigm" crap on me. I utterly reject that BS. Those words, as you have used them, have absolutely no meaning to me or to many others here who are truly concerned about Peak Oil. The Left/Right paradigm is so yesterday. The left and the right are part of the same beast. Any fool knows that.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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1.) It would not be seen as independent by the right.
2.) It would not be seen as independent by the left.
3.) It would not be seen as independent by either.

Please do not lay your "left-right paradigm" crap on me. I utterly reject that BS. Those words, as you have used them, have absolutely no meaning to me or to many others here who are truly concerned about Peak Oil. The Left/Right paradigm is so yesterday. The left and the right are part of the same beast. Any fool knows that.


Fine whatever. My point isn't whether they are left or right, but simply that trading 5 million Joes on CoverA for 5 million Dougs on CoverB isn't a particularly useful exercise.

Unless someone can show me a way to form an investigating body that would be seen as independent by almost everyone (98%+), then I just don't think you gain anything by starting yet another investigation.

SO, got any ideas on how to create such a beast? I sure as heck don't.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:45 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

Well, I think David Ray Griffin and Webster Tarpley are a good place to start.
My point is that 9/11 Truth advocates don't want anyone who thinks along that "left/right" paradigm, because the "Democrats" are just as wedded to the 9/11 myth as "Republicans". It is all about government control of the public and increased defense spending, and that is ultimately what both "left" and "right" are interested in.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:05 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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Well, I think David Ray Griffin

Author of: The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9-11 (2004)

Ok, so we've gone from a relatively small group of CT folks, to about ten million that will instantly think anything he signs his name to is left wing propaganda. Great progress there.

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Webster Tarpley

Author: 9/11 Synthetic Terrorism Myth of the Twenty-first Century.

Ok, come on. You put together a group with those two on it, and even the Democrat base is going to have a hard time keeping a straight face.

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My point is that 9/11 Truth advocates don't want anyone who thinks along that "left/right" paradigm, because the "Democrats" are just as wedded to the 9/11 myth as "Republicans".


Yet the above two you listed are absolute anti-Bush authors. No suggested Anti-Clinton author? No suggested anti-Reed authors?

As much as you might hate to admit it, both parties have core groups that are loyal beyond reason, each to the tune of at least 30 million people or so. You want to trade the relatively small group of CT folks, for a horde of 30 million??????

What kind of progress is that? That will make the horde of people claiming "cover-up" absolutely huge.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:11 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

Carlhole wrote:
Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

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'Oil, Smoke and Mirrors' is an independent 50 minute documentary on peak oil, 9/11 and the war on terror.


Yes, yes, yes.

Features Richard Heinberg, Colin Campbell, and others.

The link is broke, here is an updated version, no idea what exactly has been updated though. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8677389869548020370&hl=en
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:13 pm    Post subject: Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" Add User to Ignore List Reply with quote

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Ok, so we've gone from a relatively small group of CT folks, to about ten million that will instantly think anything he signs his name to is left wing propaganda. Great progress there.


I would have to agree. But one question, regardless of whether it would be ‘independent’ or not, would you agree that another investigation is warranted?
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