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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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Well aside from the things mentioned in another thread, which was requested by you, there are plenty of things that simply don't add up.
http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/DavidRayGriffin911Empire.pdf
There are 6 questions (or talking points if you will) discussed in the above essay. I have never seen any reasonable attempts at answering them.
Other than the usual," they were asleep at the switch" explanation.
If you would be so kind as to read and then give your thoughts on the first one (pages 5 - the first half of 7) regarding the failure of Norad on that day, I would be greatful.
Thank you. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
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I didn't say that. I have plenty of problems with what was or was not done prior to, during and after 911.
I just don't think jumping to conclusions at this point is helpful. |
So if you can't say you have no problem with my SCAMMIt hypothesis, then clearly there must be something you think is not consistent with SCAMMIt?
It really would be much easier to debate if you put your nickel down. I don't think anyone is so link happy if they don't have a rather firm hypothesis. |
mm2, the david ray griffin link is all the evidence you have been asking for. Nothing else is required.
If you can't argue against it conclusively, then you need to throw in the towel. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| some waygug-in wrote: |
Well aside from the things mentioned in another thread, which was requested by you, there are plenty of things that simply don't add up.
http://journalof911studies.com/volume/200704/DavidRayGriffin911Empire.pdf
There are 6 questions (or talking points if you will) discussed in the above essay. I have never seen any reasonable attempts at answering them.
Other than the usual," they were asleep at the switch" explanation.
If you would be so kind as to read and then give your thoughts on the first one (pages 5 - the first half of 7) regarding the failure of Norad on that day, I would be greatful.
Thank you. |
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I. How Could Hijacked Airliners Have Struck the WTC and the
Pentagon?
If standard operating procedures of the FAA and the U.S.
military had been carried out on 9/11, AA Flight 11 and UA
Flight 175 would have been intercepted before they reached
Manhattan, and Flight 77 would have been intercepted long
before it could have reached the Pentagon. Such
interceptions are routine, being carried out about 100 times
a year. A month after 9/11, the Calgary Herald reported that
in the year 2000, NORAD had scrambled fighters 129 times.
Just a few days after 9/11, Major Mike Snyder, a NORAD
spokesperson, told the Boston Globe that �[NORAD�s] fighters
routinely intercept aircraft.�18 Why did such interceptions
not occur on 9/11? We have never been given a plausible
explanation. Indeed, we have received three mutually
inconsistent stories. |
I did answer this before. It's a matter of time lines, isn't it? If you fly off the end of the runway at JFK and smack into the UN building, you can't really get birds up in the air.
And what kind of interception are they talking about? Aircraft approaching from the ocean? This "claim" tells me nothing.
What assets were in the sky that you believe could have intercepted?
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II. Why Did the Twin Towers and Building 7 of the WTC
Collapse?
The Bush-Cheney administration has also failed to provide a
credible explanation for the destruction of the World Trade
Center buildings. According to the official explanation, the
Twin Towers (WTC 1 and 2) collapsed because of the impact of
the airplanes and the heat of the ensuing fires. But this
explanation faces several formidable problems.
First, WTC 7 also collapsed, and in roughly the same
way. This similarity implies that all three buildings
collapsed from the same causes.. |
Says who? I see no footnote.
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Second, the fires in these buildings were not as big,
hot, or long-lasting as fires in steel-frame high-rises that
have not induced collapses. |
Did these building also lose a great deal of their fire proofing?
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Fourth, the collapses of these three buildings all
manifested many standard features of the kind of controlled
demolition known as �implosion,� such as: sudden onset
(whereas steel, if weakened by fire, would gradually begin
to sag); |
Really? Says who?
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Nevertheless, molten metal was produced,
according to many witnesses. |
Metal? Why doesn't he say "steel"? Lots of metals, I'm sure, are to be found in any major building. Some have a lower melting point. Who says that was the motel metal from the steel structural supports?
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With regard to explosions, literally dozens of people--
-including journalists, police officers, WTC employees,
emergency medical workers, and firefighters---reported
hearing explosions in the Twin Towers, with some of them
explicitly saying that the collapses appeared to be
instances of controlled demolition.27 |
What is their qualification to say these so called explosions were consistent with controlled demolition?
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Given all the features that indicate controlled
demolition, it is not surprising that when a controlled
demolition expert in Holland was shown videos of the
collapse of WTC 7,31 |
And no demolition experts closer to home can be found to make that claim?
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III. Could the Official Account of the Pentagon
Possibly Be True?
First, Flight 77 allegedly, after making a U-turn in
the mid-west, flew back to Washington undetected for 40
minutes, even though it was then known that hijacked
airliners were being used as weapons and even though the
U.S. military has the best radar systems in the world. |
Right. There are 4,000 planes in the air and a couple with its transponder turned off. Would you have an FAA official that would say it's easy to find a given plane under those conditions?
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to some pilots would have been impossible for a Boeing 757,
even under the control of an expert. Hanjour, moreover, was
known as �a terrible pilot,� who could barely fly a singleengine
airplane.41
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A terrible pilot doesn't need great skill to crash a plane. And the author cites a couple pilots but is that the consensus of most pilots familiar with a 757?
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IV. Why Did the President and His Secret Service Agents
Remain at the School? |
Because Bush is an idiot.
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V. Why Did the 9/11 Commission Lie about Vice President
Cheney�s Activities? |
Ass covering for being asleep at the switch.
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VI. Did the Bush-Cheney Administration Have Motives for
Orchestrating the 9/11 Attacks? |
Argument from final consequences. |
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loose_ends
Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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| mm2, your rebuttals are far too simplistic and "one-off". If you can't even put in the time to make a half-asssed rebuttal, then don't pretend that you are seeking to find the truth. You look like you are just trying to argue for argument sake. Specifically, your rebuttal to the question of jets not being scrambled is amateurish. You also pick and choose, and conveniently avoid the questions about the Cheney timeline, the pentagon not being protected by missile defence, the expert testimony that the maneuver by the plane hitting the pentagon would be impossible for a pilot of his training, and the videos of whatever hit the pentagon not showing a plane. These questions you are conveniently avoiding. Are you serious, or are you in the jinju/cbc school of debate? |
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loose_ends
Joined: 23 Jul 2007
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| Are you serious, or are you in the jinju/cbc school of debate? |
prove him wrong mm2...come over to my thread. Make the same claims and back it with evidence.
i'm waiting.... |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:07 pm Post subject: |
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| blaseblasphemener wrote: |
| You look like you are just trying to argue for argument sake. |
Is there anything wrong with that?
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| Specifically, your rebuttal to the question of jets not being scrambled is amateurish. |
I've asked some pointed question about the claim. Do you have an answer? The intercepts they hold up to be an example of the system working, can they really be compared. It's one thing to claim the system works when you have outbound approaching American shores, the NORAD posture at the time, vs off course planes in the USA. The referenced article seems to offer no comparison. Why?
According to Popular Mechanics:
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Intercepts Not Routine
Claim: "It has been standard operating procedures for decades to immediately intercept off-course planes that do not respond to communications from air traffic controllers," says the Web site oilempire.us. "When the Air Force 'scrambles' a fighter plane to intercept, they usually reach the plane in question in minutes."
FACT: In the decade before 9/11, NORAD intercepted only one civilian plane over North America: golfer Payne Stewart's Learjet, in October 1999. With passengers and crew unconscious from cabin decompression, the plane lost radio contact but remained in transponder contact until it crashed. Even so, it took an F-16 1 hour and 22 minutes to reach the stricken jet. Rules in effect back then, and on 9/11, prohibited supersonic flight on intercepts. Prior to 9/11, all other NORAD interceptions were limited to offshore Air Defense Identification Zones (ADIZ). "Until 9/11 there was no domestic ADIZ," FAA spokesman Bill Schumann tells PM. After 9/11, NORAD and the FAA increased cooperation, setting up hotlines between ATCs and NORAD command centers, according to officials from both agencies. NORAD has also increased its fighter coverage and has installed radar to monitor airspace over the continent. |
Sure seems to me like the pdf author fudged the facts.
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| You also pick and choose, and conveniently avoid the questions about the Cheney timeline, the pentagon not being protected by missile defence, the expert testimony that the maneuver by the plane hitting the pentagon would be impossible for a pilot of his training, and the videos of whatever hit the pentagon not showing a plane. |
Does the Pentagon publish what plans it has for air attack? I some how doubt the Pentagon reveals such information. It's hard to say "wow, a spectular failure! A little too spectacular!" when there is no basis for comparison. About the only thing I know is the White House used to have some Secret Service agents ready with stingers to shoot down small planes.
In a court of law, the defense has its expert that says the guy was insane, the prosecution has its expert that says the guy was sane. Sorry, I'd sure like to hear the consensus opinion on the flying skill needed.
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| and the videos of whatever hit the pentagon not showing a plane |
A security camera taking a frame per second might not capture an object moving at 500 mph.
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| These questions you are conveniently avoiding. Are you serious, or are you in the jinju/cbc school of debate? |
Then maybe you'd not like to debate me. I'd be more than happy to deal with loose_ends on his thread. I don't really have the time to argue two threads on 9/11. This thread seemed like it was drawing to a close when I issued the challenge to loose_ends. And then W introduced the PDF full of real meat to debate.
That said, B and W maybe follow up here in loose's thread about actual evidence. The PDF seems to stray now into not questions but claims. I'll deal with claims there:
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=102045&start=15 |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007 Location: Nearly in NK
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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I watched the whole darn Zwicker presentation. It was a Bs, Ms and PhD king of presentation.
Bullsh!t, Moresh!t and piled higher and deeper presentation. The whole premise semingly was that since war games scenatiors where writting the must have been used.
Where are all of the people of those aircraft? Is just one quetion that should be asked. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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In response to your citing of the Popular Mechanics article:
http://911research.wtc7.net/letters/pm/index.html
Regarding the number of NORAD intercepts, in your reply to Elliot Lemmon
you assert that "Numerous conspiracy theorist cite these as 'proof' NORAD
intercepted flights more frequently than PM stated. However, when
excerpting the clippings, conspiracy theorists leave out a few important
details. Here's the full quote from the Knight Ridder story as it appeared
in the Colorado Springs Gazette: 'From June 2000 to September 2001, NORAD
scrambled fighters 67 times but not over the continental United States.' "
The problem with your explanation is that Elliot Lemmon didn't say
anything about the continental United States. What he wrote was (and
correctly quoting your magazine) "Your claim that NORAD intercepted only
one civilian plane over North America in the decade before 9/11 is in
opposition to the facts. The following quote from Maj. Douglas Martin, a
NORAD spokesman, contradicts you: 'From Sept. 11 to June [2002], NORAD
scrambled jets or diverted combat air patrols 462, almost seven times as
often as the 67 scrambles from Sept. 2000 to June 2001, Martin said.' "
As can be seen here it is clear that rather than admit that not everything
you wrote is true, you instead attempt to confuse the issue. NORAD's
(North American Aerospace Defense Command) mission since 1958 has been a
partnership between Canadians and Americans to protect the airspace of
Alaska, Canada and the contiguous 48 United States. Elliot Lemmon left out
no important detail. It is you who got it wrong.
Another thing that puzzles me is your statements from the March issue:
"Why couldn't ATC find the hijacked flights? When the hijackers turned off
the planes' transponders, which broadcast identifying signals, ATC had to
search 4500 identical radar blips crisscrossing some of the country's
busiest air corridors." What, I wonder, is so difficult in tracing a radar
blip that is missing its transponder information? It should stand out like
a beacon. I would be surprised if the radar screen machine wasn't
programed to flash a hazard signal for each flight that was missing its
transponder signal. After all, it is the "country's busiest air corridor."
A flight without a transponder signal would be a real safety concern.
Certainly, those machines would be able to make it easy to identify a
safety concern. Also, you emphasize 4500 blips, but are we to suppose
that a single radar operator would have that many on his individual
screen?
Another reply can be found here:
http://www.911lies.org/popular_mechanics_911_lying_traitors.html
http://www.wanttoknow.info/020812ap
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| contrarian wrote: |
I watched the whole darn Zwicker presentation. It was a Bs, Ms and PhD king of presentation.
Bullsh!t, Moresh!t and piled higher and deeper presentation. The whole premise semingly was that since war games scenatiors where writting the must have been used.
Where are all of the people of those aircraft? Is just one quetion that should be asked. |
Then feel free to go ask the pentagon/CIA/NSA. I'm sure they'll be very forthcoming with that information. Of course, it's a good question. It would be very difficult for elements of the military to make a plane load of people disappear. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to figure it out. |
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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:03 am Post subject: |
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This is either extreme ignorance of history or sheer argumentative bull crap. Every instance cited is factually proven. These things aren't even debated anymore.
Tonkin Gulf is a known, verified fact. How can a deliberate choice to characterize panic/overreaction, an incident in which no American was injured and no American vessel took any fire, as a full fledged attack on US forces not be a conspiracy? You need to read up before speaking up.
Iran-contra? Fog of war? So, the pentagon and the White House were under attack while Ollie was running his little game? Are you out of your mind?
North American Union? Fog of war? How? There is a U.S. Government website for it. Let me get this straight: The US, Canada and Mexico are under attack, so they are blindly putting together a plan to integrate/coordinate various governmental functions of the three countries?
Project Northwoods? Again, what attack was on-going when this was dreamed up?
The Kuwaiti Ambassador's daughter being coached to go before Congress and lie her ass off is �fog of war?� Are you kidding?
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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Some things that cannot be dismissed, though I keep seeing "prove it" posted here. If you don't believe what you see in this post DO SOME EFFING RESEARCH, such as, go back to the the other 9/11 threads that already exist and follow the links. What cannot be disputed:
1. Cheney was in personal charge of US military in the areas in question.
2. The above almost certainly slowed operations as generals would have to go through him for approval to act. I have never even seen this mentioned, but I raise the point now. Why? It was the first time in history, that's why. (Where else have we heard that phrase?)
SO... With Cheney personally in charge, with the FAA's phone tree to all relevant agencies intact and activated soon after the first plane struck, how did another two airliners strike?
50... 40.... 30.... 20...
Six minutes. They had six minutes, but the Pentagon couldn't get off a single shot?
Uh-huh. Suuure.
3. The cuts on the beams in a variety of pictures from ground zero that match perfectly with shaped charges. Some of them have melted metal, or something that looks like it (arguing it isn't is ridiculous), on them.
4. There is no explanation that accounts for the heat and melting at the site up to three months later except... thermite.
And that's just getting started. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: |
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The reason why I accept the 'official version' (in 8 words):
IGTG, keane, blaseblasphemener and regicide don't accept it. That's all the proof I need. I double-check my thinking anytime one of them says something I also happen to believe. (But I still miss anda.) |
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cbclark4

Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Location: Masan
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:03 am Post subject: |
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I present the Ezekialistas.
IGTG, keane, blaseblasphemener and regicide.
The original Tinfoil Hat Band.
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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:11 am Post subject: |
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I see the children are out. No surprise. With hard info comes straw men and bullshit. You folks ARE consistent.
This is interesting:
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| As we mentioned previously, we are not able to provide a full explanation of the total collapse. |
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| NIST did not conduct tests for explosive residue... |
From a letter from NIST to 9/11 victim's families Sept. 27, 2007. |
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