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If your point is to show that there are crazy people in the US this clip certainly demonstrates it. This guy is nuts. I don't think it is appropriate, and you should remove it, or disavow it, or explain why you think it belongs here today of all days?
If your point is to show that there are crazy people in the US this clip certainly demonstrates it. This guy is nuts. I don't think it is appropriate, and you should remove it, or disavow it, or explain why you think it belongs here today of all days?
The members here are first class intelects and gentlemen, so eating popcorn before dinner will likely be the most offending part of this thread.
Actually, I ran across it while watching the video on the engineers who determined that the government explanation of the tower collapse was impossible. And why don't they ever mention the third tower falling? (If you ask ten strangers, I almost guarantee that no one has ever heard of the third trade center falling).
Not to minimize the tragic loss of life.
Seriously Jay, it's OK to be slightly mis-trustful of what the media says, but in order for our government to do this you have to accept that so many people in the US are beyond evil and cold blooded (even President Bush had a friend on one of the airplanes) to come up with this plan you might as well climb into your bomb shelter now and lock the door. In the meantime Al Queda is still blowing things up and killing people all over the place, so how do you explain why they are able to keep doing this, or is the American Government behind all the other killings in the world too?
It would take far too many people in the loop to pull something like this off, if it was a government conspiracy, and by now somebody who was inside would be talking. I'm going with Occam's razor.
Did not watch the video (can't) nor have I ever done any investigation either pro or con about the towers falling. The following are my thoughts about it from an engineering or builder's point of view.
There is no possible way that the towers could so totally collapse by anything hitting and/or exploding two thirds of the way up the towers. Think about it. Those towers were built, stick at a time from the bottom up. They were SELF-supporting all the way up. Knocking off the tops would STILL leave the rest of the towers SELF-supporting at some point relatively close to the hit, probably at least half way to the top.
Instead, what we have are towers that collapsed as if the planes had hit them at GROUND ZERO. Or as if they had had their FOUNDATIONS knocked out from under them.
And the third tower was not hit by planes, and not knocked down by debris from the other two, yet it also collapsed as if its FOUNDATION had been knocked out from under it.
Needless to say, the official explanation leaves A LOT TO BE DESIRED. And there is a lot more to this puzzle than meets the eye. Whatever happened, thousands of people lost their lives, and if (repeat IF, as I do not know) this was part of a grand conspiracy, then there are a lot of people with blood on their hands that got away Scot-free.
It would take far too many people in the loop to pull something like this off, if it was a government conspiracy, and by now somebody who was inside would be talking. I'm going with Occam's razor.
Seriously Jay, it's OK to be slightly mis-trustful of what the media says, but in order for our government to do this you have to accept that so many people in the US are beyond evil and cold blooded... to come up with this plan....
I think it would take much fewer people than you might think.
$ can buy you lots of things. For everything else, you can kill off all their family and friends if they talk.
The Manhattan Project employed over 100,000 people who kept their mouths shut.
If 9/11 had been a government conspiracy Obama would have gleefully released that information when he became President.
The motivation is the same. The people in the know truly believe they did it for the greater good. Besides that, why does it take a lot of people to pull it off? Planes can be controlled remotely. All it takes is a few people like Cheney giving orders to stand down:You can't keep this secret because unlike the Manhattan Project thousands of American citizens were killed.
conversely, I'm only one person, and I can't keep my mouth shut :rotflmbo:
You can't keep this secret because unlike the Manhattan Project thousands of American citizens were killed. Literally millions of people had their lives turned upside down, countries were invaded, thousands more died, and trillions of dollars were wasted and you think it was all based on a lie?
All things being equal, the simplest answer is quite often the correct answer - Occam
We don't have much testing data on this but I think when you fly a 757 filled with fuel at high speed into a very tall building, and it collapses, that maybe the two are related.
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I completely agree. However, and this is a very big however, in the summer of 1945 a B-25 bomber with a full load of fuel crashed in to the Empire State Building and the structure was not compromised. while certainly not the same size as a modern passenger liner, the two buildings can't really be compared either. The twin towers were built with modern alloys of steel and the Empire State was hot riveted joints and hand bolted connections on most cross-members, rather than welded joints and cross-bolted moment joints to absorb building sway.
That said, I merely question the fact that on that day, three buildings fell at near free-fall speed directly in to their own footprints, and that is something any demolition expert will tell you is the holy grail of demolition. Seeing that three times in one day is akin to spotting a unicorn; it just doesn't happen. Building 7 fell the same way on that day, even though the fires were spotty and did not encompass any one entire floor, yet the building miraculously fell in to its own footprint. I am not accusing any entity, merely pointing out the absolutely incredible coincidence of this event occurring not once, but three times in one day. The odds dictate a different outcome.
All things being equal, the simplest answer is quite often the correct answer - Occam
We don't have much testing data on this but I think when you fly a 757 filled with fuel at high speed into a very tall building, and it collapses, that maybe the two are related.
interesting comments at the end, the plans to invade Afghanistan were ready and sitting on Bushes desk five days BEFORE 9/11.
Also, the plans to invade Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran were written up at the same time, as show in the interview with Wesley Clark on March 2, 2007. I've transcribed the interview as a part of another video here.
Corbett is one of the best journalists out there. He is like the impartial witnesses from Stranger In A Strange Land.
interesting thing I read the other day, we dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to show Russia what we could do. It wasn't necessary to end the war as they teach in school; Japan had already sued for peace. But the myth taught is school is that if we hadn't dropped the bombs, X amount of Americans would have died... he who wills the war writes the history...
Not true at all. Japan sued for peace but with MANY conditions, we were going for unconditional surrender. The invasion was being planned. The one concession Truman finally relented to was letting them keep their emporer & not charging him with any crimes. Getting the worlds attention, including Russia, and also seeing how it worked in actual combat were just bonuses from dropping the bomb.