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NOTE: Not sure which web site did it, but got the pop up about how my computer is locked, etc; which does not go away until I went to "task manager" and stopped it. May of been a web site ad hit by accident, but the two web sites below "incogman." and "firstlightforum", looked like the kind of sites which could have adware, etc... (most likely I hit an ad while scrolling the pages)
9/11 truth and anti-semitism? http://incogman.net/2008/02/50-top-r...an-inside-job/ Not sure how I found this web site... wait, I searched 50 reasons 9/11 was... or something. Not a lot in common with the basic lies and BS of 9/11 truth; but then I did not waste much time checking more than NORAD, as I waded in the sewer of ignorance and bigotry. http://www.911truth.org/the-top-40-r...offical-story/ Is 9/11 truth a covert anti-semitic lies-R-US thing... Then I found a site that seemed to be slamming "incogman", but then appeared to be anti-semitism lite crazy, ... mixed with CTs and more 9/11 truth BS https://firstlightforum.wordpress.co...-in-the-world/ I was looking up how to edit video and fell into the sewer of BS... I have to go clean my computer. How were 9/11 truth and anti-semitism conceived; a rape by Hate and Ignorance. Sharing a common ancestry. |
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I just stumbled on an anti-semite who doesn't mind being called one:
https://truthandshadows.wordpress.co...#comment-45798
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The discussion continues.
A commenter "Brighton" advises not to focus on the Jews for tactical reasons, as not all Jews were involved, and not everyone involved was a Jew. Sockpuppet2012 makes the following point then: "At the planning stage, which had to have taken years, if not decades, all the top conspirators had to be Jews. I don’t believe any Goyim would be trusted with such information, risking death-bed confessions, or a pang of conscience that might cause them to sabotage the plan." There. He said it. Apparently, only Jews have no conscience. All of them. He goes on: "All the people who rigged the Buildings for demolition had to be loyal Jews in the Mossad, the Israeli Military and explosives and demolition experts…..I just can’t see Christian Zionists with their Scofield Bibles tucked under their arms while they’re placing explosives in the buildings." You can't imagine this because you are a ********** up anti-semite, ******* Thankfully, he documents how Steven E. Jones has been hanging with anti-semite Christopher Bollyn since at least 2006. And then comes the bummer: Sockpuppet alerts us that Richard Gage has teamed up with anti-semites Kevin Barrett and Christopher Bollyn to visit the anti-semitic Nation of Islam - again in February 2017 - just a bit over 2 weeks ago! https://www.noi.org/911revisited/ It is thus perfectly official now: Richard Gage and AE911Truth are knowingly and willingly in bed and *********** with raving anti-semites! I'll go one further with my private opinion: IMO, Richard Gage IS an anti-semite. "Brighton" then actually speaks out against sockpuppet's anti-semitic rant and agenda. A commenter calling themselves "captivescientist" (who, a bit later, calls Gen. Albert Stubblebine "extremely credible") weighs in, and we learn that a fake acronym has been coined as a brief label for all anti-semitic 9/11 CTs: ZIHOP. dennis weighs in an reports two "excommunications" at rival twoofer sites. This is now getting us into the "schisms" thread. |
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I cannot find any mention of Gage's trip to NoI - neither on https://www.facebook.com/ae911truth/ nor on http://www.ae911truth.org/
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It is indeed interesting that Gage has not publicized his appearance at the NoI, considering his enthusiasm for it the last time around (in 2012). His reticence might be explained by his fellow panelists this time around--Kevin Barrett and Christopher Bollyn.
Barrett is a longtime kook; his specialty in the past has been imagining the show trials of prominent 9-11 Troof debunkers. Well, actually he usually skips the trial and goes right to the execution. Ordinarily I might feel a little pride in being on Kevin's mental gibbet list, but he's put about 1/2 the country up there at one point or another. Bollyn is truly a whack job; I did not know he was back in the country. Both of them are Holocaust deniers. |
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Dunno. As of 2010 Bollyn was still writing as if he were in hiding somewhere:
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https://www.adl.org/blog/christopher...-anti-semitism
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There's this post from Sword of Truth which bears serious study in context. Jim Hoffman has a bit to say about Bollyn's associations with the American Free Press and neo-Nazism here, which stops short of actual evidence of Holocaust revisionism or denial. It looks to me like Bollyn is careful not to actually commit on this issue; one can only guess at why he doesn't want to commit.
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Thanks, guys.
It seems thus that Bollyn is smart enough not to speak out on the holocaust, and we would hence be smart not to call him an HDer outright - agreed? For the evidence appears limited to association? |
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Got around to reading.
Bollyn is very much, and certainly willfully, inconsistent with his standards. On one hand, he feigns ignorance of the reality of the holocaust because he has not personally seen the physical evidence like ovens and gas chambers. On the other hand, he claims to know that 600,000 people perished in the bombing of Dresden because he claims to have seen evidence in Dresden, and has talked to one eyewittness (a Waffen-SS officer). Of course it is impossible for him to have seen physical evidence to prove 600,000 victims, or any other nunber, when he visited Dresden in 2004, for such evidence did not exist any longer; nor could the Waffen-SS officer (Kuklane) have determined any credible number even if he truly was there in 1945. Of course the actual number of Dresden deaths was no more than 25,000 - Bollyn is eager to believe false numbers if they suit his anti-semtitic, pro-Nazi taste, and equally eager to feign agnosticism on the true extent of the destruction of the Jews, when plenty of evidence can be known. So yes, a closet HDer he is. |
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Hello Criteria,
nice to see you back! Several months ago, you showed your own utter lack of interest in truth and facts when you ran away from a question, like you always do when you know the answer is inconvenient to your pretended beliefs: Perhaps now, 4 months later, you can make yourself give straight and honest answers to these two questions: Can you name a 9/11 "debunker" who is an antisemite? Is there even one anti-semitic debunker here on ISF? Remember that I clearly identified a couple of anti-semites among the very few Truthers who posted in this thread - which would be anecdotal support for my claim that you feign having a problem with: Anti-semitism is very much okay with a majority of Twoofers. ETA: Criteria, do YOU have a problem with Richard Gage speaking at a Nation of Islam event, alongside Kevin Barrett and Chistopher Bollyn, given that NoI is an anti-semitic organisation, and Barrett and Bollyn are well-known career anti-semites and holocaust deniers, earning their living with professional anti-semitism? A simple, straight and honest "yes" or "no" will do for the moment. Failing to answer this question will be interpreted as a "no, I [Criteria] am very much okay with anti-semitism and my 9/11 Twoof hero Gage openly allying himself with professional anti-semites." |
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Here are Barrett, Gage and Bollyn at the Nation of Islam Event.
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Only fools will fall for truther nonsense... there were always leaders lying to the governed... there was no false flag on 9/11.
The attack was cynically exploited not executed as a false flag. Not a shred of evidence of this. |
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I already posted a link to the same video, embedded in the NoI website, on March 06 - with appropriate comment.
I'd be curious what comment you have on Gage going to bed with anti-semites? |
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While looking something up for a different thread I came across this in one of the comments on AE911T's FB page:
Originally Posted by Johann Wapstra
https://www.facebook.com/ae911truth/...type=3&theater I don't know Richard Gage's private feelings at all. I wouldn't speculate if he is or isn't anti-Semitic. But I believe this is another piece of evidence that shows he is at least willing to flirt with these groups to further his agenda. That being more donations. |
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Well, a whole lot can be inferred by Gage's embracing and major presentation at Farrakhan's "Hate Whitey and Especially Israel" fest a short while ago. At worst he doesn't care and at best yes, he is a major league anti-Semite. Just par for the course for these people.
http://americanfreepress.net/farrakh...for-911-truth/ Forgive the link to a Kevin Barrett article, but the obsequious and nauseating fawning Barrett gives to the low-life Farrakhann is telling. |
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I am not at all sure anyone at AE HQ is following comments on their social media with any frequency and care. Seeing a post not deleted doesn't necessarily amount to endorsment.
I have noticed though that a noticable proportion of comments to their FB page comes from fans that are sympathetic to anti-semitic theories: Christopher Bollyn is mentioned often, for example. |
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You'll pardon me for asking because I am not a Facebooker therefore I do not know exactly how things work, but wouldn't there have to be some sort of administrator who set up the page that would be notified of ongoing comments? Much like here or YT?
And no, I would not necesaarily accuse AE911T of endorsing these comments, but I would say they turn a blind eye to them. This was the point of my comment and subsequently Pinch's: they are courting these people at arm's length to purse any avenue of revenue possible. |
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Sure, there will be notifications somewhere - doesn't mean anyone is reading them with any frequency or care.
I agree that they (includin Gage) are at least turning a blind eye to the comments, and to the fans that make them. Any activity, particularly any donations, are welcome. Money doesn't stink. |
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Gage doesn't seem to be doing much of anything these days, including updating his website. The Events page looks like nobody's touched it for four years as the most recent "upcoming" appearance is from 2013.
For a guy who claims to work sunup to sundown 7 days a week, he sure isn't accomplishing much. |
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Not sure.
I have seen critical comments that I interprete as being from debunkers in recent days. I haven't noticed that any have been deleted, but I am certainly not keeping score. I am myself no longer allowed to leave comments, haven't been for a long time (feels like three years or so), after I had left several "debunking" comments to several posts. Could be that users who knew me from other FB groups blackmailed me. |
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It's interesting that Bollyn doesn't have a wikipedia page. You have to go to dissident wikis like WikiSpooks to learn a bit about him. I think I heard that he's married to a jewish woman he met in a kibbutz, and has two children with her.
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He is married to this blonde Swede:
https://www.facebook.com/helje.bollyn The family name "Kaskel" however may indeed be Jewish: There exists a noble family von Kaskel in Austria. If she's is of Jewish descent, she serves as an example that even folks of Jewish descent can be rabid anti-semites - cuz that's what she is. Similar to how 911Truth hero Rudy Dent, a man of African descent and dark skin, is a Hitler fanboy and paleo-nazi. |
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Wow, her Facebook page is full of the woo.
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