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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby mmasters » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 00:53:07

I found a good book for SPG:

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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby CrudeAwakening » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 01:16:20

One thing is certain. There were NO explosions heard in the WTC area, as evidenced by this video, which most definitely does NOT show a large explosion after the collapse of one of the towers, despite what your ears may suggest to the contrary:
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 01:48:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CrudeAwakening', 'N')ope, no explosions.


Yep. Definitely nothing in a collapsing 150 floor building that would make a bang besides an errant unexploded bomb from a controlled demolition secretly planted by a shadowy government conspirator. There's absolutely no way that bang could have come from a piece of debris falling or a structural member snapping or any one of a hundred other things. It clearly has the acoustic signature of a thermate bomb.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby TWilliam » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 02:06:46

I agree that video proves nothing with regard to the possibility of explosives in the buildings, thus I assign it essentially zero weight with regard to the issue. However the fact that this particular item is relatively insignificant in this regard does in no way refute the testimony of 118 + witnesses, some of whom clearly describe what appears to be sequenced explosives in the buildings immediately prior to collapse.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby Zardoz » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 02:17:49

When a building is demolished, the detonations are deafening. They echo all over town.

In this video, taken from a position about two blocks away from the towers, not one explosion is audible:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 7415552903

Do I have to drag out the videos of real demolitions to show you what we should have heard?
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby jupiters_release » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 02:29:48

It has nothing to do with evidence or science for people like spg, their thinking is too transparent for that. It's completely faith-based in that they could never conceive the government sacrificing a few thousand people and a few buildings to start a lucrative war. Which obviously is an absurd and irrational position considering we're facing imminent die-off of billions of people, but concretized faith never related to reality anyway. 9/11 is a decoy, the real conspiracies are right in front of everyone's face in daily life: the poisoned water, the toxic food, our chemical environment, and of course "medicine" which is the leading cause of death in the states. It would be tragic if spg got a grip of reality because she would probably drown in schizophrenia.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby CrudeAwakening » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 02:31:41

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('CrudeAwakening', 'N')ope, no explosions.


Yep. Definitely nothing in a collapsing 150 floor building that would make a bang besides an errant unexploded bomb from a controlled demolition secretly planted by a shadowy government conspirator. There's absolutely no way that bang could have come from a piece of debris falling or a structural member snapping or any one of a hundred other things. It clearly has the acoustic signature of a thermate bomb.

I don't know what to make of the explosion in that video. It certainly does not sound like a piece of debris falling or a structural member snapping - those suggestions are even more ludicrous than that of a bomb.

That doesn't mean it's a thermate bomb or whatever is proposed by MIHOPers. But it is a bit odd, and is certainly evidence that there was at least one explosion in the vicinity. As to the origin of the explosion, who knows? I'm certainly not jumping to the conclusion that it's a bomb.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby Carlhole » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 03:13:34

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jupiters_release', 'I')t has nothing to do with evidence or science for people like spg, their thinking is too transparent for that. It's completely faith-based in that they could never conceive the government sacrificing a few thousand people and a few buildings to start a lucrative war. Which obviously is an absurd and irrational position considering we're facing imminent die-off of billions of people, but concretized faith never related to reality anyway.


I thought I wrote a reasonable post at the top of this page but Never got a reply from spg or others.

To recap, what if you neither believe that the Towers could have fallen the way they did because that would violate laws of physics, nor do you believe any military/intelligence/industrial/government forces to be competent enough to pull off the demolition and hide the fact?

Further, what if, frustrated, you turn to The 911 Commission Report and NIST to find that there is no explanation for the Total Progressive Collapse of the Towers nor is there an explanation for the physics-defying collapse of WTC7?

What is a human brain to do?

It seems that some prefer violations of physics laws over their preconceived ideas about government competency. Others prefer to believe that somehow perpetrators within and around the government must have been successful because obviously physical laws cannot be violated.

And so the argument teeter-totters ridiculously.

But obviously, the idea is to investigate thoroughly the total progressive collapse sequence and have a public airing of all these outstanding questions. If the total progressive collapse were indeed possible without violating the laws of physics, then an explanation of it should be readily accessible.

Until there is an open airing of the many questions that continually swirl, the argument will continue as ridiculously as ever.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby TWilliam » Thu 14 Jun 2007, 03:47:13

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Zardoz', 'W')hen a building is demolished, the detonations are deafening. They echo all over town.


This argument has been addressed repeatedly. There are professional demolitionists on record as saying that virtually every aspect of a demolition can be tightly controlled, including noise levels. Just because the only demolitions you've seen exhibit these "deafening" detonations, it does not automatically follow that all demolitions must exhibit the same.

And as far as that video, number one, it's considerably more than "about two blocks away from the towers", and number two, the moments immediately prior to the south tower collapse were apparently not caught nor was the initiation of the north tower collapse. It disproves nothing.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby NEOPO » Fri 15 Jun 2007, 05:13:51

Are the sheeple really worth it?

I say fuck em!

Let the sheeple follow the misguided one's to their doom.

Let the sheeple believe the reassuring lie's spread about by the SPG's and Zardoz's of this world.

It is evolution at it's finest.

It is quite evident that these people cannot compare, cannot compete, are out manned, out witted and otherwise unable to comprehend anything but their own spoon fed reality.

Oh yes go ahead and feel pity for them. Feel sorrow for their handicap yet do not allow it to bring you to a boil or otherwise hamper your own determination to face the truth and act accordingly.

As long as this type of behavior is the example set then so go the sheeple who are barely able to comprehend the intricacies of Peak Oil and ultimately would you/we have it any other way?

Initially perhaps the answer is yes yet after some thought I am positive that the truly enlightened one's will rise and realize that it simply is not worth it.

Let them hang, the blades drop and the heads roll.
It ought to be a fine time indeed.

Stay, come and go just as you are, you precious example's of disfunction, of apathy, of greed, of unsustainability, of all that could be said to be wrong in this world as without you the WE would shine no brighter.

Yep, thanks so much, thank you eternally for showing the few, the brave how NOT to be...
Stay in your cities, lobby your unelected officials, continue to prop up the status quo and otherwise do little or nothing as anything else would be civilized.

How I appreciate your time here, so much so as to make counting the ways an effort in futility...

You brilliant minds you :lol:

All I wonder now is how long will my friends continue to care enough to stick around and help make this place more then a wet napkin haphazardly thrown and stuck to the ceiling of reality.

PO and that's it? PFFFT!
Oh, sorry, by all means continue to insult all of the peaker sheeple's unintelligence yet please do not for one IGNORANT and UNIMAGINATIVE motherFN second think that you will ever fool us all.

Denial toward a bigger picture indeed.
From the bottom to the top and at this point it is fairly nauseating.

Got a pill for that Hon? :lol:

Please make this one green as green goes rather well with blue.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby max_power29 » Fri 15 Jun 2007, 08:26:46

9/11 was an inside job. Its so obvious.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby Geko45 » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 00:46:45

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', 'Y')ep. Definitely nothing in a collapsing 150 floor building that would make a bang besides an errant unexploded bomb from a controlled demolition secretly planted by a shadowy government conspirator.

Smallpoxgirl, do yourself a favor and retire from this thread. There is nothing you can do to correct the false perceptions that these people use to convince themselves of this great conspiracy. Just make yourself mental notes of who has proposed which absurd theory and that way you will know to not put any credence towards future information posted by these individuals. Take solace in knowing that there are ten people that have read your words and agree for every dissenter that has posted irrational venom in opposition. Of course, there are no conspiracies. Just incomprehensible ignorance that leads to illogical actions and beliefs.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby TWilliam » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 01:27:32

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Geko45', 'O')f course, there are no conspiracies.


Would that include the one where 19 men conspired to hijack some airliners and use them as weapons to attack certain targets, or is that one somehow exempt from your pronouncements?

You have no idea how utterly foolish such statements sound, do you?
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby mmasters » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 02:01:44

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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby Carlhole » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 03:41:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Geko45', 'T')here is nothing you can do to correct the false perceptions that these people use to convince themselves of this great conspiracy.


Yes there is.

Explaining how the Twin Tower collapses could NOT have violated the Law of Conservation of Momentum would be a good place to start.

You see, I believe that objects fall through air faster than they fall through immensely strong structural steel frameworks. Call me crazy but that's what I believe.

The buildings were observed to collapse (according to NIST and seismic records and many films) in 10 - 12 seconds. Freefall is 9.5 seconds.

It's been demonstrated that if the110 floors were magically hanging in mid air (without any vertical core columns or perimeter columns) and the 10-floor block began it's fall, the building would take about 15 - 20 seconds to collapse due to the Law of Conservation of Momentum alone. This is because each floor has a certain amount of stationary inertia that must be overcome as the falling mass impacts each floor. This stationary inertia slows down the total collapse time. It's elementary.

Now let's add back in the 47 immensely strong core columns and the 250 perimeter columns, all the solid structural framework, all the rivets and welds and whatnot that held the building together and upright, designed to support 2.5 times it's own weight.

Then, let the 10-floor block begin it's fall again. Now, not only do you have to overcome the static inertia of each floor, you have to have enough energy to overcome all the huge vertical supporting columns and tied-together steel-framework. since it takes energy to do this, it slows down the collapse time significantly even more! Without something removing the vertical integrity of the columns and underlying structure of the buildings, the buildings could never collapse in only 10-12 seconds.

Probably, without explosives, the buildings would not have collapsed at all. If the 10-floor block began it's fall, most likely it would suffer severe damage, damaging the structure it was falling onto also, then it would slip off to the side following the path of least resistance, or it would stop settling on top, or some combination.

Of course, once someone thinks about the above and comes to the conclusion that explosives simply MUST have been used to remove the strucural integrity of the buildings ahead of the collapse wave, then there is the problem of how did explosives become planted there?

But, if you decide that the military/government/industrial complex is too incompetent to pull off such an act. Then, you are back to the violation of the Law of Conservation of Momentum and the fact that the buildings could not have collapsed in the time that they did.

A reasonable person would, of course, check the NIST and 911 Commission Reports. However NIST and The 911 Commission did not provide any analysis of the Total Progressive Collapse (TPC) of the towers. This is odd since no TPC had ever occurred before in a fully constructed, established steel-framed skyscraper.

So what you need to do is to resolve anomalous building collapses in a rigorous scientific fashion. Becase at the heart of it, is not a desire to believe in conspiracy theories just for the hell of it - the heart of the matter is that the Tower collapses have not been explained.

Of course, WTC7 has not been explained either - that building's collapse was different than the towers and the questions are different - so that needs to be explained too. And there are a lot of other questions that were not explained in any of the reports.

But explaining the near freefall Tower collapses and the apparent violation of physics would go a long way.

So let's hear it. Give it your best shot. Or do you prefer to just keep hurling ad hominems around?

I guess it's easier to just call people names since that doesn't require much difficult thinking.
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby NoLogos » Sat 16 Jun 2007, 23:58:03

IMHO, the US MSM is a very sophisticated propaganda machine, perhaps the most effective in world history. I can't really blame people for not seeing that the US media is full of irrelevant information mixed in with lies. The only way I can deal with it is to get information elsewhere and not expose myself to it. If a person doesn't understand how propaganda works, and doesn't realize that the corporate MSM are not to be trusted any more than an old issue of Pravda, then it is likely they will believe what they are told. I certainly didn't know a thing about demolishing buildings when I first saw the WTC collapse; if I hadn't bothered to see what other building demolitions looked like I would not have realized how I had been fooled.

Here is a very big thank-you for all those who spread *relevant* information! [smilie=thumbsup.gif] [smilie=hello2.gif] [smilie=eusa_dance.gif] [smilie=5thanks.gif] We need to know this kind of stuff... [smilie=read2.gif]
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby Carlhole » Sun 17 Jun 2007, 15:41:22

"Shadowplay", new documentary trailer

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')HADOWPLAY SYNOPSIS

Islamic extremism, terrorism and 9/11 are now all synonymous. But what if that horrific act was not the work of Arab extremists at all? What if it was something far more sinister – an evil contrived from within? In the past, invisible elites lurking behind thrones have tightened their grasp on power by provoking attacks on their own people, then blaming the enemy as a casus belli – a false-flag pretext for imperial wars. The idea that this could happen today is almost unimaginable. Or is it?

False flag operations - named after pirate ships that showed enemy colors - are deceptive attacks intended to incite war hysteria. The enemy is wrongly accused, and as angry, fearful people demand retaliation, ruthless wars of global domination and control of strategic resources are masked as defensive response.

Like a phoenix emerging from the flames, a wounded nation rose from the smoldering dust and ashes of the world’s worst terrorist attack to appear on the global stage as a beacon of freedom, policing a strife-torn world for the good of all. Yet from the bunkers of Baghdad to Guantanamo's gulag, a punishing war on terror has become an unpopular war of error, as an escalating clash of civilizations is played out on the global chessboard.

With Afghanistan and Iraq still gasping in anguished chaos, Iran and Syria are now targeted for regime change to advance a global Pax Americana. Pundits comment that World War Three has begun. Some say it began with 911


Trailer doesn't mention Peak Oil by name but it does mention the $2 Trillion in oil and gas reserves in Iraq and Central Asia and growing scarcity of petroleum.

You would have to call this a good part of the "Bigger Picture".
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby TWilliam » Sun 17 Jun 2007, 16:47:30

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NoLogos', 'I')f a person doesn't understand how propaganda works, and doesn't realize that the corporate MSM are not to be trusted any more than an old issue of Pravda, then it is likely they will believe what they are told.


Oh come on. Faux News is "fair and balanced", remember? They said so themselves...

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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby threadbear » Tue 19 Jun 2007, 12:23:19

From the Vancouver Courier:

"As for the rest of the progressive left, an attitude adjustment is in order. When Monbiot, Dyer, Cockburn and co. shout down a significant fraction of the public as "gibbering idiots" and "nutcases," this is hardly the language of reasoned debate. It's the rhetoric of Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, shock jock Don Imus and the Moscow show trials"

http://www.vancourier.com/issues07/0632 ... 07op2.html
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Re: PO.com Denial Towards the "Bigger Picture"

Unread postby Carlhole » Tue 19 Jun 2007, 15:17:46

Thom Hartmann's 9/11 Debate Challenge

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'N')ationally syndicated progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann, (Air America), has issued a challenge to those researching 9/11.

He wants a representative from the skeptics of the Government's "Official Conspiracy Theory", the "OCT", and a defender of the OCT, to come on his show at the same time, and debate their positions in a civil manner.

Hartmann tasked his producer approximately 6 months ago to find a well-known defender of the OCT to accept the terms of the debate, and not a single one would. On Friday, June 15, Hartmann renewed his challenge on air, and noted that the problem seems to lay with the OCT defenders, who won't come on the show at the same time as the skeptics, and won't take calls from the public following a few rounds of debate.

On Monday, June 18, Hartmann renewed the call again;

"I mentioned on the program a couple days ago that we tried to put together a program about 9/11 where we wanted to get on the folks from Popular Mechanics, or some variation, someone who would take the position of the 9/11 Commission... and get some representatives from the 9/11 Truth community of one of its variations, and Dave, my producer came on and said we couldn't find anybody who would come on and debate.

First of all we can't find anybody, NOBODY has contacted us (on the OCT side), and we've contacted a number of them, the magazine (Popular Mechanics) wouldn't do it... would come on and take that position, and so... to have somebody come on and say, "it was a controlled demolition", and not to have somebody on the other side say, "no, wait a minute, here", it wouldn't be a discussion, it just be... bad.

It's amazing, I've gotten several hundred emails over the last couple days in consequence of that, many of them people saying, "I'd be glad to come on", I'd be glad to debate... all of them on the conspiracy side of it...

...I am absolutely neutral on this. I'm neutral because I went through this with the Kennedy assassination...

I'm calling for serious investigation of this (9/11) and I'm really pleased to see a community forming trying to find out, not just what happened with buildings 1 and 2, but why did this happen? Who was asleep at the switch? How many warnings did Bush get? Why did he ignore them?

There are these weird coincidences, Bush's oil company was funded by Osama bin Laden's brother, another one of his brothers was having breakfast with his father the morning of 9/11, and these things just make you scratch your head... you know, "what is going on?"

So I just want to put it out, I don't need anymore emails telling me how terrible so-and-so is, or that movie's the bad one, this is the good one, we've got enough of those, enough already, we got it.

And if anybody can get somebody from the "there was no conspiracy, it was just these 19 guys with boxcutters", and "it was all Osama bin Laden", if somebody can someone from that group to come on the program, and debate... then let us know."


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It's pretty telling that the OCT defenders consistently wimp out of these things. There was supposed to have been a big 911 debate last March but the same thing happened.

If the Truth with crowd were indeed a bunch of nutcases spouting ninsense, then the defenders of the official story would be crawling all over each other to defeat them in a highly visible venue.
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