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Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby Carlhole » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 16:08:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ClubOfRomeII', 'I') also might add, I found this as a place which appears to have alot more facts on the issue than I would ever desire to know, but some people are just funny this way. Plus its only the real crazies who want to tie this in with peak oil anyway.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread225868/pg1

http://www.911myths.com/index.html

Go sign up and argue with them, I agree with the poster who said tying this in with Peak oil just makes us peak oil nuts look like...well...nuts.


Nuts like Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over: Oil and The Fate of Industrial Societies", "Powerdown", and "The Oil Depletion Protocol".

Nuts like Barrie Zwicker producer/host of the peak oil film "The End Of Suburbia".

Here's a snippet of recent talk given by Zwicker about his new book, "Towers of Deception"
9/11 Truth: Everybody Knows (except the mainstream media!)
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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby venky » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 16:29:46

Look Carlhole, our primary aim is in spreading Peak Oil awareness, getting people to understand the situation with oil depletion, trying to mobilize society to act to mitigate this issue; that is the focus here. Firstly anything else like 9/11 is just a distraction, that diverts efforts from the main issue. I haven't studied the issue like some people here but I know enough to know that there is a lot of disinformation out there. And secondly most people have an instinctive reaction against conspiracy theories; its like their minds slam shut and they are will no longer listen to you.

There is solid evidence to suggest that oil production will peak within a decade. On the other hand 9/11 theories, atleast in my opinion are fuzzy and speculative; even more so that they are somehow linked with Peak Oil; and more importantly disturbing to many people in the extent that they will instinctively assume that everything else you say is nonsense, without looking at the facts of Peak Oil.

Another point 9/11 is an US issue......while Peak Oil require the co-ordination of countries around the world.....another reason why the two should not be linked.

The first half of that documentary was pretty good; the second half had me squirming in my seat; as I knew I could not show it to any of my friends or contacts.
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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby ClubOfRomeII » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 16:36:40

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
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Nuts like Richard Heinberg, author of "The Party's Over: Oil and The Fate of Industrial Societies", "Powerdown", and "The Oil Depletion Protocol".

Nuts like Barrie Zwicker producer/host of the peak oil film "The End Of Suburbia".



Why is it when I read his bio

http://www.richardheinberg.com/files/RHeinbergCV.pdf

I don't see anything about his degree? I notice he TALKS alot, and writes book, and I get this weird creepy feeling he eats lots of granola, might be a vegetarian, and his wife sews his clothes for him and that there might be some chickens stashed in his backyard, but not a single mention as to to his technical expertise in, say, economics? Engineering? Geology? Physics? Statistics or math? Not even a snippet.

I noticed in the video posted at the top of this thread, he sure likes to talk about thermite. Does he know what it is? Is he a demolitions specialist? Explosives? Is he the guy who didn't fact check the documentary? Or even READ a basic timeline of 9-11 before he started buying into something Ruppertesque hook-line and sinker?

Don't get me wrong, until I find out more substantial information I can only speculate, but I know for a fact my resume lists publications, both real science pubs and "grey" ones, and my technical expertise across a continent or two, why does his simply consist of listing places he talked to people? Heck, I'm sure I could stand up in front of the local PTA and spout off about modern ecology and how the Ice Caps are melting in a completely and utterly factually incompetent way and I bet they wouldn't even NOTICE, hardly makes me an expert in climate change or ecology though.

As far as anyone debating Kuntslers work, thats a riot. It would be more informative to watch two politicians debate EXACTLY how many angels can dance on a pinhead and probably more meaningful than what that guy ever said, published,assembled, speculated on or manufactured.
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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby Carlhole » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 16:38:39

There are three fuzzy and speculative subjects that are worth talking about. Those are: 911, Peak Oil and The War in Iraq.

I'm of a mind to investigate things properly before propounding some belief. I think 911 ought to be investigated properly. I think a serious effort to account for the world's oil reserves ought to be conducted. And I think there ought to be great coordination among nations as regards energy. I'm not in favor of a unipolar world where one nation seeks to control the entire world's resources and I think these kinds of ideas should be dispersed so that people are aware and discuss them and so that these ideas possibly affect future policy.

So fuck your ideas. I've got my own.
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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby Mesuge » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 17:58:33

Carlhole> ClubofRome is a renown clown and stirrer on this forum we don't have to over react to his lunacies although I share your rage..

I have very little respect for individuals like ClubofRome, basically he presents himself here as a social outcast, not unlike the same sort of sociopath types as Cheney and Rumsfeld..

Especially, if we take into account the thousands of NY first responders who already died from the toxic dust (declared by EPA on higher orders as ok) on the site and thousands which will follow in the next few years and are living dead with gutted organs.. These guys are all for new 9/11 investigation as is the 9/11 Family Steering Commtt.

In terms of the idea that the reinvestigate 9/11 campaign is harming the Peak Oil agenda that's humours. For one thing, these two tribes are from the start mutually interdependent schools of thought as shown above and also the one aspect makes no sense without the other..
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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby AirlinePilot » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 20:53:49

It's entertaining to see how when someone presents a bit of logic to refute the 9/11 CT supporters they are summarily attacked and labeled as neo-con facilitators. Keep at it Club, your not the only one in here with an IQ who can think for themselves.

Venky has an extremely valid point. Whether you believe in LIHOP/MIHOP or whatever HOP, If you link these two together routinely, you routinely lose credibility with whoever your audience is. It's the nature of the beast, plain and simple. I agree 100% with Venky. If you want folks to see what PO is, and maybe think through solutions, your not going to do it by alienating them with (what they think) are nut ball thoeries.

I still don't profess to know one way or the other how it went down that day, but I can guarantee you all one thing, I doubt any one in here really knows the story either. If you think you do, then you need to take a look in the mirror and think really hard about arrogance and your ability to have an open mind.

There are some smart folks in here. It might be nice to couple their brains with some courtesy and humility on occasion.
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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby Fergus » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 21:11:56

Seems like if you post anything here that someone disagrees with, your a neocon dog. I was labeled that myself for my stance on the American Military and its current activities. Even today, I have no idea what a neocon dog is.

So soon we will all be neocon dogs.
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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby AlCzervik » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 21:28:36

Carlhole, I didn't mean to steal your thunder by posting this in Open Discussion. I checked the media forum and didn't see it there, so I pulled the trigger in Open Discussion.

The most interesting aspect of this video is Heinberg going into 9/11 Truth more than ever before and 9/11 Truther extraordinaire Nafeez Ahmed delving into peak oil. It's funny that they put Webster Tarpley in this movie because he thinks peak oil is a scam.

The first 20 minutes on peak oil are an A+, especially for a newbie.

As a 9/11 Truth movie, I give it a C+, but it does introduce some of the issues to those who haven't heard them. Anyway, at this point, I am all about the LIHOP material like Sibel Edmonds and the material which Nafeez Ahmed focuses on, like Pakistani ISI links to the crime.

Here are more 9/11 Truth movies for others to watch.

LIHOP.
9/11 Press For Truth.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 4255077250
Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8400743688

LIHOP/Psychological drama.
Who Killed John O'Neill?
http://www.wkjo.com/

For the demolition fans.
9/11 Mysteries.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 1483512003
What's The Truth - Why Indeed Did The Twin Towers Collapse? (I am not convinced of demolition, but some parts of this movie minutes 45-60) are very interesting.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3701191665
http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?vid=95
9/11 Revisited.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 9657809939
Steven Jones lecture at UVSC.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2002408586
9/11 Eyewitness.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8587461603

Others.
Loose Change Second Edition.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 8192753501
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 3848835726
Painful Deceptions.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 2031629480
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Re: Independent Doc: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors

Unread postby AlCzervik » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 21:32:00

Edit. Dupe.

See current events at 911blogger.
http://www.911blogger.com/
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby NEOPO » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 21:37:54

Aww....... as if the world will accept PO and do the right thing no problem but toss 9/11 on it and yer asking to be called crazy.....

and Awww some resident NEOCONS have been outted recently and I for one am proud to have done my part....AWWW poor fellers.

Let us all recall that Club of rome came here basically denying much of the PO argument.
I bet a similar pattern exists for those of you unable to accept LIHOP or MIHOP theory.
Rest well with your GIT theory.

Hell neocon is a compliment compared to what I think about some people here ;-)

Now wheres that link so I can watch it again!!!
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby zberry » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 21:44:32

Just for the record, I would definitely categorize 'Who Killed John O'Neil?" as MIHOP, not LIHOP.
I agree that the most interesting aspect of the documentary was the intersecting of people like Heinberg and Nafeez. To me, given Aghanistan and Iraq's prominence in the world energy picture, and given that those two wars (and maybe a third with Iran) are only possible because of 9/11, it makes sense to at least possible connections. I have actually become very interested in 9/11 in just the past three or four months, whereas I have followed Peak Oil since at least 2002.
I now see 9/11 as an event that really crystalizes the path we are going on as a society (fascist path). To get inside 9/11, including Kroll Associates, AIG, Venice Flight School, OKC, etc., is really to come face-to-face with something so monstrous it is almost hard to describe. That's why Who Killed John O'Neil is so great. It shows just how many people stood to benefit from the events of that day, and that the real terrorists who are out to harm us do not wear towels on their heads or live in caves in Afghanistan, but rather wear three-piece suits and work on Wall St., and in the upper echelons of government and military.
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby Carlhole » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 22:00:51

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '[')url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgoSOQ2xrbI&mode=related&search=]Controlled Demolition Expert and WTC7[/url]

Danny Jowenko, a European Controlled demolition expert with 27 years experience is positvely certain that WTC7 collapsed as the result of a controlled demolition. He says it is quite obvious to him.

Controlled Demolition Expert on WTC1 and WTC2

This same controlled demolition expert claims that WTC1 and 2 collapsed as the result of the plane crashes and the fires.

Naturally, any thinking person wants to get to the bottom of the events of 911 because they have been used to enact sweeping legislation that affects every American's civil liberties AND the attacks have been a constant drumbeat for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - wars that, on the face of it, would seem to have much do to with oil geopolitics, wars that the US is apparently losing. Indeed, the events of 911 have been used to incite the 'Clash of Civilizations" conflict that the US leadership claims 'will not end in our lifetimes'.

So its important to answer all the questions that the public has about the events of 911. The 911 Truth Movement is interested in getting to the heart of the matter(s). So it is not so much a movement based on 'belief' as it is on 'disbelief'.

The 911 Commission did not investigate the attacks properly at all, did not address WTC7 in its report, did not address widely reported phenomena such as the molten pools of metal and extreme temperatures in the rubble piles, did not provide a scientifically rigorous account of the 'Total Progressive Collapse' (pancake theory) sequence, did not address quite alot of other details about the attacks.

The government WILL NOT release crucial evidence (for example, the Pentagon wreckage) that would answer many of these questions. Even the 911 families regard it as a shameful whitewash and they have documented their grievances in the film '911:Press For Truth". So, those Americans who would like to have the extensive number of their unanswered questions properly addressed are pushing for a renewed investigation. Thus, the movement has publicized ALL the unresolved issues regarding 911 that people have raised in films such as 'Loose Change'.

Non-curious, non-thinking, non-intellectual people think that is crazy.


May as well re-post this again here.

I was very pleased to see the new video "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors" because, indeed, it is mainly a powerful statement by peak oil maven Richard Heinberg about his suspicions regarding 911. However, the set of ideas contained in this video has been around for 5 years now.

The first time I ever heard of them was in Michel Chossudovksy's slim book "War and Globalization". Then, Michael Ruppert picked up on them and really developed a momentum linking 911 with Peak Oil in his articles and books . It was then that "End of Suburbia" producer Barrie Zwicker made two documentaries about 911.

The ideas were then given a much more academic treatment by Nafeez Ahmed, my favorite, in his three books: "The War on Freedom", rigorously documented and concentrating on 911; "Behind The War on Terror", which was about ME history and the decades of Anglo-American oil-related interference in the region; and "The War on Truth", discussing the relationship between international intelligence agencies and Islamic militant groups.

If you look, you can also download (torrent) Daniel Hopsicker's film investigating "Mohammed Atta & The Venice Flying Circus" or watch an abridged version on Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 5177039347
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby ClubOfRomeII » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 22:31:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')Danny Jowenko, a European Controlled demolition expert with 27 years experience is positvely certain that WTC7 collapsed as the result of a controlled demolition. He says it is quite obvious to him.



This one has been debunked by demolition guys as well. No seismic signature.

http://www.jod911.com/WTC%20COLLAPSE%20 ... 8-8-06.pdf

Has the CIA recently invented anti-seismic devices along with the steel eating moon mice?

I really am confused by all this. People ignore that jets are scrambled and make up stories based on this particular lie, people ignore what fires do to steel, let alone 18 floors of structural damage, people require explosives and there is no seismic signature, the fire chief could SEE that WTC7 was bulging and was going to come down HOURS before it did, yet people insist it was explosives. Why is this a REQUIREMENT?

And then to mix it all in with Peak oil? Why? Isn't Peak oil bad enough? And then we invade Iraq and guess what? We let THEM have all the oil proceeds! This is the silliest thing in the world if our government is willing to kill a few thousand civilians to invade a country, at the very least we could STEAL their oil to our own ends, isn't that the point? And why waste the time on Afghanistan first? Waste of resources, just concentrate on the Iraqi oilfields, steal their oil, presto! 3 or 4 years later and we STILL aren't doing it. For a government smart enough to hide all the evidence from at least people with functioning neurons on 9-11, how could that same government not be smart enough to STEAL the poor Iraqi's blind?
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby Carlhole » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 23:04:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ClubOfRomeII', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '
')Danny Jowenko, a European Controlled demolition expert with 27 years experience is positvely certain that WTC7 collapsed as the result of a controlled demolition. He says it is quite obvious to him.



This one has been debunked by demolition guys as well. No seismic signature.


None of the formal investigating agencies (FEMA, NIST, The 911 Commission) was able to explain the collapse of WTC7.
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby rwwff » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 23:07:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'N')one of the formal investigating agencies (FEMA, NIST, The 911 Commission) was able to explain the collapse of WTC7.


Absense of a satisfactory answer does not imply that you get to pick your own.
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby venky » Thu 05 Oct 2006, 23:47:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'N')one of the formal investigating agencies (FEMA, NIST, The 911 Commission) was able to explain the collapse of WTC7.


Absense of a satisfactory answer does not imply that you get to pick your own.


Even if yours makes more sense than the others tossed about?
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 00:06:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'N')one of the formal investigating agencies (FEMA, NIST, The 911 Commission) was able to explain the collapse of WTC7.

Absense of a satisfactory answer does not imply that you get to pick your own.
Even if yours makes more sense than the others tossed about?


If one wishes to stick with critical thinking; Yes. Especially when its something that "makes sense" to you, but which others find questionable or fantastic.
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby NEOPO » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 00:08:24

I want to prove a point please.

Rwwff - i am calling you out punk ;-)

The following video was posted and has been posted and probably will be posted again and again as one of the best on the subject:

loose change second edition

Have you watched it?
If so, I will wait for your response, I have some questions that you could not answer unless you indeed watched the film.

Care to take my test? ;-)
Just to prove that you have watched it because right now - I cant imagine any rational person with the ability to grasp PO not being able to see how this piece fits so please help me better understand by convincing me that you have seen it and that you still feel the same about 9/11.

Better yet debunk each part with links!!! yeah ;-)

Now Club of rome - there were so many witness's to the secondary explosions that it isnt funny and if you watched "loose change" then you know of at least one guy who got fired for his official position and another "expert" who changed his story completely from one interview to the next.

Pointing at one group who attempted to debunk some part of any aspect of this conspiracy tells me little.
Its like saying PO isnt reality because the price fell to $60.

I am so glad that Heinberg and others near the PO issue see it for what it is and I do not think it hurts PO at all.
Like global warming - the facts only compound the seriousness of our situation and so do the facts of 9/11.

The sugar coat isnt working ya freakin genius's................
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby venky » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 00:29:03

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('venky', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', 'N')one of the formal investigating agencies (FEMA, NIST, The 911 Commission) was able to explain the collapse of WTC7.

Absense of a satisfactory answer does not imply that you get to pick your own.
Even if yours makes more sense than the others tossed about?


If one wishes to stick with critical thinking; Yes. Especially when its something that "makes sense" to you, but which others find questionable or fantastic.


So basically we should follow the government or official line ahead of what our own senses or research on the subject shows? That is critical thinking???
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Unread postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 00:29:04

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'H')ave you watched it?


No, or at least I think not, but I would be pleased enough to accept your summary. I've seen a dozen links today with people yelping, "you gotta watch this" "this will change your life" etc.

My opinions are not shiftable by video of material I can neither test and verify nor test and falsify. Nice thing about PO, is the math is not complicated. At its most difficult it relies on simple calculus; setting upper bounds, and restricting the range of possibilities.

And I am most certainly not going to spend nearly an hour and half watching another 9/11 conspiracy video.

So quick and simple, is it a MIHOP, LIHOP, GIT, or Morphine Drip.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')etter yet debunk each part with links!!! yeah ;-)


Can't debunk it, because I can't TEST it. And because I can't TEST it, I'm not particularly interested in it.

And, as I've noted other places, even if it was MIHOP, I wouldn't really care that much. As nauseating as you might find that. We're at war, and have been for at least a couple decades now; its a slow, icky, torturous war, and it has begun to, and will further continue to erode everything good about both peoples. It will debase us all down to the core predatory lust that lurks within, it will release it; and we will kill until there is nothing that remains that draws breath.

That is the dark world that this little incident falls into.

So you want to believe MIHOP? Great, fine. Its MIHOP.
You want to believe its LIHOP? Sure, swell, whatever. Its LIHOP.
Think its just idgits at the controls? Wonderful. The idgits did it.

A couple centuries from now, the question won't be MIHOP/LIHOP, the question will be, "what was this thing you called New York again?"
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