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Isn't it possible that he just chucked in these objects in order to get rid of them as he had no use for the genital scrub?
I don't know anything about American customs checking, but is this an uncommon thing for bags to not make it onto jets? |
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OMG if the troofers actually manage to get anything taken to court I would pay to go just for the comedy value.
"But your honor, what has the witness done to prove that he is NOT an illuminati shill?" "So professor, in your 26 years of teaching structural engineering at MIT, have you ever judged the collapse of a building based on how quickly you can say 'clunkity-clunk?'" "Objection your honor, there were witnesses that saw a missile hit the Pentagon, David Ray Griffin mentioned them in his book. What's that your honor? Uh, no, he does not name them. No, he doesn't say how many there were. Uhh, sorry your honor. Actually he doesn't quote them either. So are you sure I can't admit this into evidence?" |
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This appears to be the full video, for those of you who are dying to see how it ends. I am too busy at the moment watching a David Gilmour DVD.
http://video.google.com/googleplayer...61960956516&hl |
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i've started to transcribe averys narration of LCFC with a rough timeline. hopefully people here may find it useful to check out the various points made in this and similar threads. i've been a bit busy with my non-internet life but still managed to complete transcription of the first 25 minutes or so covering chapter 1. having fingers like cumberland sausages my word speed is a tad slow but i hope to complete the project within a day or so. please point out errors/ommisions i could do with all the help i can get.....anyway here's the first installment.
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From the article, some believed the terrorists deliberatly left a trail of evidence for the FBI, and this seems to be to do with how sophisticated the hijackers were in planning. And that's it as far as I can see for the quote. And leaving a trail would kind of make sense - if you're trying to deal a blow against your enemy, you want them to know who dealt that blow. But this isn't evidence against the 9/11 comission report or anything else, let alone evidence for a conspiracy. It looks like Dylan was just looking for quotes that might sound suggestive, in dim light, after a few drinks. You can find the original article on conspiracy sites (I'm guessing this is where Dylan Avery found it) or the New Yorker, although I'm not sure that the full text is available from the New Yorker online (might be on Nexis). |
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What do you mean by a meta-thread?
Hmmm.. I'm annoyed my thread got merged into this. It was all neat and tidy before. |
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Is it possible that the baggage never made the plane because he didn't want it to make the plane?
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Originally Posted by Loose Change
Says who? These claims are made all the time, but I never seen any report or statement that says, "We searched for the engines but we could not find them in the debris". The troofer claim is rather an argument from ignorance, if there are no photos of something on the internet or mentioned by someone, it doesn't exist. Did Dylan ask the NTSB if there were missing engines or anything like that in the debris? Didn't think so. I'll give him one thing though -- that was the most accurate and detailed animation of the Pentagon attack I've ever seen. |
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This stupid movie states that the Atta/ISI money transfer was conducted in August 2001. Why would the hijackers still need money that close to the actual attack date? Wasn't most of the money needed for the flying lessons?
Speaking of the hijackers what's with all this crap about them not being fundamentalist Muslims because they drank and watched porn? Forget about booze and porn, they were not good Muslims because they murdered people! As for the prologue, what's with this crap about a "growing percentage of the world's population becoming increasly skeptical of the events of 9/11"? If that were the case then why not show footage of the 2007 9/11 anniversary instead of 2006? As for the WTC buildings falling "in their own footprint", what's with that crap? Doesn't Dyland know that several other buildings were destroyed that day and dozens of others were damaged due to falling debris? Will continue rant later. |
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2nd debris field at shanksville was covered in the BBC thing yes?
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Meta-post, my mistake. In other words, eventually everything's gotta be organized, but even your hijackers thread was not in order, so it would require another level of organization. We could break the meta-post up as well by chapter, with one person organizing each segment.
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"Verifies that A Mohammed Atta trained there, but wouldn't clarify if it they were the same person."
Another complete assumption with no evidence, along with the whole passport thing. |
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Gravy: You called it. The movie completely conflates Arab and Afghan Mujahideen.
Atta's Will: According to The Looming Tower, the will was something Atta got from the Al Quds mosque in Hamburg. He did this on April 11, 1996, the day Israel attacked Lebanon in Operation Grapes of Wrath. In other words, Atta was the Islamic equivalent of a Chick Tract reader. And having it in a suitcase that could have been destroyed tells me it was a more personal memento rather than a seriously-meant will at that point. Favorite Roll-Your-Eyes Moment Thus Far: Oh, the heinous wickedness of Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary of Commerce, "Bush Cabinet-level appointee". This was revealed in our introduction to NIST. Gutierrez and Bush have actually shaken hands. So NIST is hopelessly biased, of course. |
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Dylan's argument so far is extremely weak, and is still using the "highjakers are still alive" argument though that was debunked ten times over after he used it in previous editions. And by the end of the first portion of the movie, he ends by just asking more questions.
Then he talks about the interceptions and how it takes 10 minutes. This is a DRG statement that has also been debunked. Wargames? Yawn...debunked already. I'm about 30 minutes in and i've seen hardly anything new and original in this movie. |
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Argggh, the 70% of the GZ workers have developed respiratory problems claim. Debunked by those notorious Bush supporters at the New York Times. If it were really seven in ten there'd be no need for a Mount Sinai study.
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Is it just me or does Avery have the most annoying and boring voice of any narrator ever?
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Ahhhhh....now they show the Norman Mineta testimony....Why don't you show the whole quote from the beginning starting with the question Dylan? Would it be because it would completely contradict you?
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It's not just you.
Does anyone know if there is any evidence that Rex Tomb of the FBI said they had no hard evidence against Osama Bin Laden? I've been looking for an interview where he said it, to look at what he actually said and the context he said it in, and all I can find is the claim that he said it repeated all over conspiracy sites. The best I've found so far is: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...082700687.html http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/09/47109 Neither support that quote. |
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Now Hanjour, who already had his commercial liscense. Most instructors if I remember correctly said he couldn't land a plane, but obviously that wouldn't be a problem on 9/11.
43 minutes in, still nothing "earth shattering" as I believe Bermas said it would be. |
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Ed Haas of the Muckraker Report is the original source.
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Hanjour's main problem was that he didn't speak English adequately. Remember, Marcel Bernard rated him an average to below average pilot. Bernard's instructors took three test flights with Hanjour before declining to rent him a plane, which is hardly indicative of a complete incompetent. In addition Hanjour did end up renting a plane at another airfield (in New Jersey, IIRC) and ended up making a flight to Maryland and back.
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The usual BS about the last three minutes of the Cockpit Voice Recorder missing; of course this comes from the claim that the plane crashed at 10:06, not 10:03 as is generally accepted, and as even Dylan says in the opening of this segment. Amazing how he forgot that!
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The whole start of the WTC section is just like 2nd edition. Yawn. Where did all this money he claimed to use for the movie go if hes just rehashing 2nd edition clips?
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Dylan makes the usual claim that all the columns had to collapse "simultaneously". One column could give way, but buildings are designed to transfer that load to other columns. It is only when the remaining columns cannot support the weight that the building collapses.
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Something struck me as unusual during the Kevin Ryan interview. They show them making the model for the floors and all of that, but there is one problem. They had the fireproofing still in tact, although all throughout the floors of the impact zone the fireproofing was knocked off.
Just something i spotted. |
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Also, like Bofors, Dylan and Co. never read the NIST report, and they have openly admited that they "dont have the time" to read over the report. So their critique is useless, like bofors.
Now, he's talking about the usual free fall speed and controlled demolition. I also like how they note that Prof. Jones "retired" from BYU. Last I checked, he quit his post while his paper was being peer reviewed by his department and took his paper with him. |
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And now they're doing the usual "assuming molten metal automatically means molten steel" rubbish. Dylan is really ripping the truthers off with this one. Once again, it's still basically 2nd edition with improved sound and CG.
Way to screw twoofers out of their money Avery. |
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Finished. Odd that there's not a single mention of thermite/thermate or iron microspheres. And the film seems more aimed at the existing Troofer community than at converting new folks, but at the same time it's much less definitive in its conclusions, which strikes me as likely to be unsatisfactory to the kooks.
Dylan provides very little context for some of the issues. The radio issue gets mentioned, but he does not explain what it's all about. Granted, it's boring, but at least there's some substance to that claim compared to the rest of the film. |
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ALSO...(lol...tell me if im getting annoying) he compares the collapse with a normal CD. Note theres a whole bunch of loud bangs and bright flashes. None of which are present in collapses of either towers or WTC 7(unless you watch 9/11 Mysteries which implanted SFX, or some other truther fake videos).
He then talks about the smoke cloud coming from the base of the towers. At this point Twoofer hero Willie Rod. is still in the basement, which effectively would have killed him. I believe RKOwens debunked this claim. Then he uses the interviews of people from that day, which has been talked about constantly by debunkers and is nothing new for this movie. Come on Dylan. Im still holding out that you'll talk about something original. |
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