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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Zentric » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 13:25:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zentric', 'V')erbose, obtuse, perverse, and boring.


Sometimes life is like that.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ill 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 shit 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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 13:54:26

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mesuge', 'T')he 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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 14:03:33

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zentric', 'T')hanks, 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.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')ltruistic: Helping strangers to prepare for the coming shit 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.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'F')or profit: Paid either by the message or word?

I wish.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd 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.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e'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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Zentric » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 15:38:12

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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 15:56:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zentric', 'B')ut 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.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')ut 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.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Y')ou 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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby NEOPO » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 16:14:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mesuge', 'P')erhaps 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 ... +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 ;-)
tonights reruns are "the matrix original" and "press for truth".
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Mesuge » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 16:54:23

NEOPO>
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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Mesuge » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 17:01:49

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=po ... nightmares

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For the evidence touch challanged yanks, BBC stands for The British Broadcasting Corporation not for Baghram Bomb City..
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Mesuge » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 17:30:11

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 ... belEdmonds


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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby zberry » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 18:24:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 18:27:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zberry', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby zberry » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 18:45:57

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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 19:05:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('zberry', 'W')ell, 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.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')ebster 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.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')y 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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Hiderow » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 19:11:48

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Carlhole', '[')url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7946373613537938266&hl=en]Oil, Smoke and Mirrors[/url]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Google Vid', ' ')'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 ... 0370&hl=en
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Gridlock » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 19:13:09

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')k, 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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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 19:18:29

Not to be constantly negative....

I had an idea, not that anything I suggest has any chance of being used either, but here it is.

Six people.
3 - from hard conservatives blocks
3 - from hard liberal blocks

Select by:
Find the most right wing (by votes for Senate) county in TX, UT, and GA, and take the highest ranking elected official with prosecutorial power.

Find the most left wing county in NY, MA, CA, and take the highest ranking elected official with prosecutorial power.

They form a court with power to subpoena anyone and anything.
No video. No audio. Written report with all six signatures to be released at their discretion. Written transcript to be released as a historical record fifty years afterwards, no exclusions for any state "secret" classifications; NONE.

This completely kills the "gotcha" drive, the grandstanding, the book selling; the people involved will be brutally direct with no consideration to how good they look. Real data will be acquired. The report will insure no "partisan" taint; and the eventual historic release will insure they don't punt.
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Gridlock » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 19:24:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') had an idea, not that anything I suggest has any chance of being used either, but here it is...


I'd guess it would be a 50-50 split. It would have to be independent of politics, somehow.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')his completely kills the "gotcha" drive, the grandstanding, the book selling; the people involved will be brutally direct with no consideration to how good they look.


I agree. That loose change film is the worst in my eyes. Just my opinion.
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby rwwff » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 19:28:25

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Gridlock', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')k, 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?


See my previous post. While I do offer that suggestion, I think it would be a waste of money and waste of time. Watch how others react to it. Anything that keeps them from their passionate desire to have Bush's head on a platter will be unacceptable.

Its also reasonable to assume that the realities of government essentially preclude any "independent" anything. No lefty thought Kenneth Starr was independent, eh?
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Gridlock » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 19:39:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') think it would be a waste of money and waste of time.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,1873114,00.html

Here we go again. Your countrymen's lives are about to be put at risk, in a questionable attack. Surely it's fair to give them some reassurance about the reasons for it. Maybe it's better to clear this one up, as a few million quid for another investigation is small change (not loose change).
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Re: Documentary: "Oil, Smoke and Mirrors"

Postby Carlhole » Fri 06 Oct 2006, 19:45:29

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rwwff', 'S')ee my previous post. While I do offer that suggestion, I think it would be a waste of money and waste of time. Watch how others react to it. Anything that keeps them from their passionate desire to have Bush's head on a platter will be unacceptable.


That's bullshit.

If there had been a decent investigation that addressed all the public's questions in the first place, we wouldn't be having the argument.

It's always been about unanswered and ignored questions. 911 has been used to embroil the country in two losing wars and is being further used to curtail Constutional rights. Why shouldn't a citizen raise the questions?

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