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Meanwhile, we may notice Oystein kinda slither back onto the scene and strive to turn the discussion, however philosophically advanced, back into any specific area that does not have full focus on the censorship.
The contextual stealth of the censorship is still being disregarded and ridiculed with every new post that PsyOp shills are swift enough to type. The truth is being buried behind pixel-sucking (staged) performances, debates between alpha shills and beta shills posing as fake truthers, just to keep the deception going. |
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Chuck,
First things first. Thanks for your service. I hope all goes well for you. The only thing that you are missing is the historical path that the CD claims traveled. Initially, truthers claimed that the twin towers collapsed "at free fall speed". Some still make this silly claim. Mostly they were confusing the fall of the debris that was thrown clear of the footprints & really did fall "at free fall acceleration" for the crush down of the towers themselves. Rather than the true initial acceleration (until the top disappears into the cloud) of about 0.7g. Many truthers, including Steven Jones, were still laboring under this delusion 3 - 4 years after the event, when Jones came up with the concept of thermite to explain the lack of sounds of explosives. But the implication of the misunderstanding that the towers crushed the whole way "at G" is that ALL the floors had to be cut in exquisitely timed sequence: not too late (thereby slowing down the collapse) & not too early (thereby causing the tower to collapse from the bottom). You can still google an interview between Steven Jones & Leslie Robertson on a Colorado radio station where Robertson said "you can't mean this. That'd mean they'd have to cut every floor" & Jones giggles an evasive but affirmative answer. Then, in quick succession, Jones changed his "absolute, no doubt about it" assertion from thermite, to thermate (higher temp, easier to ignite), back to thermite (no barium found), to nanothermite (not enough energy), to super-nanothermite (somebody uncovered a patent). Now, both Jones & Harrit agree on two things: 1) super nanothermite used as an igniter, with tons of high explosives doing the heavy lifting. Thereby ignoring the key observable fact ("no BOOMs") that drove this whole nonsense in the first place. and 2) they've got better things to do, so they're not going to spend much more time on this issue. How conveeeeeeeeient for them ... Tom |
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I guess that would sound plausible to anyone unfamiliar with explosives. But to someone who had any training it would sound ridiculous.
Thermite is an incendiary, and a very effective one, but most high explosives (including C4, TNT,Dynamite,Astrolite,etc.) are initiated by shock, not heat. Using thermite as an initiator would produce exactly the opposite effect. Namely, it would set fire to the HE which, in turn, would just burn itself out. As a matter of fact, that is the recommended way to dispose of them. I am not that familiar with "super-thermite" but from what I gather rapid deflagration occurs at relatively low temperatures, and the subsequent velocity of the pressure wave exceeds 1100 fps, which would make it useless if the object was to produce a "silent" explosion (which is,IMO, an oxymoron). Standard non-electric detonators initiated by shock tube would be more suitable. Additionally, blowing successive floors would seem to be pointless as there were 40 odd floors above the collapse point, providing more than enough force to destroy the entire building. Not to mention that the videos of the collapse show no evidence of explosives detonating. Trust me, you shoot hundreds of pounds of HE and it will do a lot more than just puff out a few windows, especially with no prep. And to top it off, blowing dozens of floors sequentially would require an incredibly complicated firing order, violating the KISS principle. It just doesn't make sense. |
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Aaah the perennial favourite of the defeated: you'd have seen my argument was correct if all those people hadn't replied to it proving me wrong.
How dare people respond in a thread and hide your genius!! If you want your nonsense to be unchallenged, get yourself a blog. |
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You guys STILL discussing 9/11?
You've GOT to be the only people on the planet who have NOT accepted the simple, verifiable fact that the events of 9/11 were orchestrated by rogue elements within our own government.
Come on, guys. |
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Chuck,
Thanks for that info. Very interesting. Fewer stories than that. About 12 stories (incl hat truss) plus antenna for North Tower, & 25 stories (incl hat truss) for South Tower. Neither Jones nor Harrit, the originators of thermite claims, made the claim that "there wasn't enough force". They didn't say much of anything (that I recall) about the required amount of force. Jones made the CORRECT claim that "IF they crushed down at EXACTLY free fall acceleration, then NO work was done breaking components." Which has, as a corollary: "IF the towers crushed down NEAR free fall acceleration, then LITTLE work was done breaking components." The problem is that his premise was wrong. The towers themselves did NOT come down at, or even near, free fall acceleration. They came down, while observable, at an acceleration of ~0.7G. Which means that they resisted the collapse with an average force of ~0.3W (where W = eight of upper block, which was a massive amount of force). The fundamental story of the Truth Movement: "Amateurs making assertions that 'seem obvious' to themselves, and who refuse to listen when experts tell them that 'what seems obvious to you happens to be wrong.' " That is very interesting. Ain't this the truth. |
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To tfk,
You're welcome. Every grunt in VN (myself included) carried a chunk of C4 in his rucksack. Not for blowing things up, but for heating his C-rations. The "heat tabs" the Army provided were damned hard to light up in the rainy season since you had to hold a lit match to them for a couple of seconds, but a little ball of C4 (about the size of a marble) could be ignited with a lit cigarette and would produce a nice hot flame. I had the evidence, gosh darn it! A photo of George Bush lighting the fuse in front of the WTC. He even signed it with his NWO ID number. But a tiny ninja disguised as my dog chewed it up and peed on it. I had it, I tell you, I had it! And now, for some reason, nobody believes me. Probably those ninjas again. |
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In Your Guts You Know They're Nuts. "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." -Kierkegaard . "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. "- Marcus Aurelius A Truther is a True Believer convinced by lies. You can't reason someone out of a thing they weren't reasoned into.There's a sucker born every minute-Barnum |
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911 truth post and run.
Which rogue elements? Who? What? 911 truth can't name names, they only spew idiotic claims, fantasy, and insane nonsense. Nothing has changed, 911 truth started due to ignorance and remains in ignorance. 911 truth is failure, and fraud. Got some more similes which fooled you? Got anything to go with 911 truth's 11 years of pathetic failure? No |
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No, ProfJoey223 had it right, unless you think those pulling it off were all red as in your photo, where they then could possibly be called rouge rogues.
Rogue definition is 1. a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel. 2. a playfully mischievous person; scamp. 3. a tramp or vagabond. 4. a rogue elephant or other animal of similar disposition. 5. Biology . a usually inferior organism, especially a plant, varying markedly from the normal. Rouge definition is 1. any of various red cosmetics for coloring the cheeks or lips. 2. a reddish powder, chiefly ferric oxide, used for polishing metal, glass, etc. I think we can all agree that those who pulled off 911 were dishonest scoundrels, regardless of who you think they actually were. |
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We don't "think" anything. We know who did it.
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As a matter of fact, while I agree with knavish and scoundrel, I am not sure they were, on a top level, dishonest. Terrorism works best if you are totally sincere and honest about who you are, what you do and why.
Of course to achieve success you have to employ dishonesty along they way, for example when misleading immigration officers or flight instructors about your plans. But that is merely an operative consideration. In the end, these particular scoundrels were very frank about their heinous act: We have some of their videos and confessions. |
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In Your Guts You Know They're Nuts. "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." -Kierkegaard . "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. "- Marcus Aurelius A Truther is a True Believer convinced by lies. You can't reason someone out of a thing they weren't reasoned into.There's a sucker born every minute-Barnum |
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Sure thing, Tony. For that subset of "dishonest scoundrels" who fit the description of "willful, calculating mass murders who intentionally killed thousands of innocent men, women & children who never did them the slightest harm, who succeeded in igniting fear, hatred & war that killed hundreds of thousands more, and who adamantly wanted to (but fortunately failed to) ignite world-wide religious wars that would have decimated nations for decades & led to the horrific deaths of tens to hundreds of millions." You sure you want to go all the way out on that "knavish, playfully mischievous" branch? Ya know, Tony, this is one of those innumerable times over the last years when I've been convinced that this is all a big, insincere game to truthers... |
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