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Old 31st May 2018, 11:52 AM   #121
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Originally Posted by manifesto View Post
Do I? Really? Where do you draw the line? An essay? A book? A series of books with additional evidentiary volumes?

The thing is. If someone reads an article that is claiming to refute this and that, this same ”someone” has to understand it in order to see if that is really the case. IF this someone understands the paper, he/she should have no problems in explaining the critical data, methods and conclusions and make his/her case.
And yet you do this all the time, or worse, post a Youtube video.

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That is how it works. It is not the opponent who shall do this for him/her. That is plain nuts.
This is why you fail, we're not you're opponents. You've come here to make a claim, and it is you who have to provide evidence for the claim.

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Example. There is an argument I make for CIA sanctioning the assassinations of the Ngo brothers against the expressed orders of their president, JFK.

If you in turn have issues with any of my statements, you correct them and/or request that I substantiate them with sources and maybe quotes from these if deemed proper.
I posted the links, none of the document s were more than three pages long, and all were brief.

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Imagine me posting a couple of links to x number of books and suggests that you should read them and ”understand”.

Would you like that?
Depends on the books.
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Old 31st May 2018, 12:00 PM   #122
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RFK junior is just following in the footsteps of the Martin Luther King family,who has been pushing crackpot conspiracy theories about the murder of MLK for years....
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Originally Posted by dudalb View Post
RFK junior is just following in the footsteps of the Martin Luther King family,who has been pushing crackpot conspiracy theories about the murder of MLK for years....
What "crackpot" conspiracy theories is RFKjr putting out there?
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Old 31st May 2018, 12:28 PM   #124
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How is this different from what we have today? GW Bush had a Cabinet which had collective assets exceeding $500M.
Yep that agrees with what I was trying to explain to manifesto. He is complaining about money in politics but money has been in politics since the git go. I believe all the signers of the Constitution would have been considered wealthy or powerful men in their own time frame. I cannot speak to who was in President Washington's cabinet but I suspect they would be wealthy or powerful men of their time also.

His cabinet consisted of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and Edmund Randolph with John Adams as VP.
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Old 31st May 2018, 12:50 PM   #125
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The evidence of a conspiracy and a cover up of the assassination of RFK are if at all possible, even more obvious than the same for his older brother. It’ll take time to go through all of it but be sure that I will, if not banned.
If you get banned, it won't be because of what you believe, but because of the way you may express the belief, contrary to an MA that works as much for you as it could against you. Calling people "ignorant" when they don't agree with you is the way to ensure the latter, not the former.
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Of course there is more than one side to every story but that doesn’t mean that truth is relative. There is only one way an event can have happened, not several ways (with reservations for multiple universes).
Can't disagree with that, really; but this is a case of historical debate where people every bit as intelligent as you have, with the same set of facts, come to a conclusion different from yours. It happens all the time- there are still debates about whether King Richard III killed (or had killed) his nephews in the Tower. Same set of facts, and only one way it could actually have happened, yet Alison Weir differs from Paul Murray Kendall as to the truth of the matter. Neither opinion determines, or is meant to determine, the truth, so "truth isn't relative" is effectively irrelevant here- that's a debating trick, really a red herring.

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When time and again have to deal with ”skeptics” on a forum devoted to ”scientific skepticism” that acts contrary to every reasonable definition of that concept, one has to point it out.

To remain sane.
Do you understand that you just reinforced my point about "no true skeptic" here? I'll also add that if your sanity is so fragile that it can't take a little disagreement without descending to insult, this might not be the best place for you to present your ideas.

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Do I? Really? Where do you draw the line? An essay? A book? A series of books with additional evidentiary volumes?

The thing is. If someone reads an article that is claiming to refute this and that, this same ”someone” has to understand it in order to see if that is really the case. IF this someone understands the paper, he/she should have no problems in explaining the critical data, methods and conclusions and make his/her case.

That is how it works. It is not the opponent who shall do this for him/her. That is plain nuts.

Example. There is an argument I make for CIA sanctioning the assassinations of the Ngo brothers against the expressed orders of their president, JFK.

If you in turn have issues with any of my statements, you correct them and/or request that I substantiate them with sources and maybe quotes from these if deemed proper.

Imagine me posting a couple of links to x number of books and suggests that you should read them and ”understand”.

Would you like that?
I'm talking about a finite entirety of evidence here, not some vague body of it that people will keep adding "evidentiary volumes" to in order to prolong the argument. There's only so much of it- and, yes, I think that, if something's presented that you're not already familiar with as a response to something you bring up, then it's incumbent on you to read the material in its entirety. You're the only one who can know what in it you would find relevant, nobody else can determine that for you- you're essentially asking folks to cherry-pick the material for you without knowing which bits you'd rather not consider.


I'll admit I'm not as familiar with the RFK assassination as you are- I've read a couple of books, but I don't consider myself familiar enough with the subject to have a definite opinion on it. As far as JFK's, it might surprise you to know that I was once a pretty committed believer in a conspiracy, that Oswald was innocent. What turned me away from that was, ironically, reading David Lifton's Best Evidence, not so much the ridiculous body-snatching theory itself as the way it became obvious to me he'd arrived at it- by simply ignoring the consilient body of evidence, cherry-picking his way to a conclusion that had no regard at all for anything that might contradict his scenario. I didn't, at the time (my early 20's) know the name of the concept, but it was clear enough from its absence in his thinking.

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When debating a controversial subject the discussion tends to be polarized.

A is listing all the facts, sources and good arguments for or against.

B is listing all the facts, sources and good arguments against or for.

May the closest to the Truth win.
Well, carry on then, I'll leave you to it. I'll just ask you to consider the idea that you can't bully and insult your way to the truth- telling your "opponents" (if you must have it so) that they're either complicit or ignorant is no way to discuss something you clearly consider important enough to need people to see your "Truth."
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Old 31st May 2018, 02:09 PM   #126
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Yep that agrees with what I was trying to explain to manifesto. He is complaining about money in politics but money has been in politics since the git go. I believe all the signers of the Constitution would have been considered wealthy or powerful men in their own time frame. I cannot speak to who was in President Washington's cabinet but I suspect they would be wealthy or powerful men of their time also.

His cabinet consisted of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, Henry Knox and Edmund Randolph with John Adams as VP.
It is the amount of money and how big money can bye legislation at the expence of the voters and taxpayers.

Legalized corruption.
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Old 31st May 2018, 02:14 PM   #127
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What "crackpot" conspiracy theories is RFKjr putting out there?
He's an Anti-Vaccination guy:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...cine-science1/

That's more than enough.
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Old 31st May 2018, 02:55 PM   #128
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If you get banned, it won't be because of what you believe, but because of the way you may express the belief, contrary to an MA that works as much for you as it could against you. Calling people "ignorant" when they don't agree with you is the way to ensure the latter, not the former.
I’m not debating in vacuum and I’m no robot. For every insult I give there is 20 more coming my way.

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Can't disagree with that, really; but this is a case of historical debate where people every bit as intelligent as you have, with the same set of facts, come to a conclusion different from yours. It happens all the time- there are still debates about whether King Richard III killed (or had killed) his nephews in the Tower. Same set of facts, and only one way it could actually have happened, yet Alison Weir differs from Paul Murray Kendall as to the truth of the matter. Neither opinion determines, or is meant to determine, the truth, so "truth isn't relative" is effectively irrelevant here- that's a debating trick, really a red herring.
Returning to the issue of the assassinations of Ngo brothers, I have the opinion that the CIA (and among others, Lodge) were fully aware, if not ordering it, that they were about to get killed and that they did nothing to stop it.

And, most important, that they acted against the explicit orders from JFK.

If you disagree, feel free to counter with information speaking against my contention.

(There is more)

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Do you understand that you just reinforced my point about "no true skeptic" here? I'll also add that if your sanity is so fragile that it can't take a little disagreement without descending to insult, this might not be the best place for you to present your ideas.
If it is obvious that x knowingly obstruct, harass, stalk, lie, etc, and at the same time pretend to be a ”skeptic” I will call him/her out.

Shouldn’t I?

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I'm talking about a finite entirety of evidence here, not some vague body of it that people will keep adding "evidentiary volumes" to in order to prolong the argument. There's only so much of it- and, yes, I think that, if something's presented that you're not already familiar with as a response to something you bring up, then it's incumbent on you to read the material in its entirety. You're the only one who can know what in it you would find relevant, nobody else can determine that for you- you're essentially asking folks to cherry-pick the material for you without knowing which bits you'd rather not consider.
I do not agree. If the article in qustion contains proof/evidence/a good argument for this and that, it is the person refering to it who should explain why this is the case.

Maybe if an argument is so complex that I must have a deeper look at the actual science in the context of the paper, I’ll do so, but not before my opponent at least try to convey its findings and show that he/she have grasped the essence of it.

An example. The HSCA acoustic evidence have been attacked from day one and continued to be attacked up to this very day. I have read most of it, and nothing of it stand up to scrutiny.

Still, I need to know why the opponent who invoke one or more of these ”debunkings” find it/them true. I can’t do that for them. They have to explain with specific reference to it in order for me to respond in a comprehensive manner. I surely can’t guess what the opponent find so convincing, could I?

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I'll admit I'm not as familiar with the RFK assassination as you are- I've read a couple of books,
Compared to the JFK assassination there are not that many. 10-15 books worth reading. Same with all other media and formats. Roughly 10 times less material (worth reading/look at).

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but I don't consider myself familiar enough with the subject to have a definite opinion on it.
May I ask which books it is that you have read? Feel free to answer or not. Not important.

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As far as JFK's, it might surprise you to know that I was once a pretty committed believer in a conspiracy, that Oswald was innocent. What turned me away from that was, ironically, reading David Lifton's Best Evidence, not so much the ridiculous body-snatching theory itself as the way it became obvious to me he'd arrived at it- by simply ignoring the consilient body of evidence, cherry-picking his way to a conclusion that had no regard at all for anything that might contradict his scenario. I didn't, at the time (my early 20's) know the name of the concept, but it was clear enough from its absence in his thinking.
Luckily I read a lot of critique of Lifton and his ”Best Evidence” before reading the book which probably have spared me some embarrasment in discussions on different forums. Yes, he is not good at reflecting on his ’findings’ and even worse at interviewing witnesses and make estimates of accuracy versus time, etc.

He did one good thing, though. He opened up the at the time unthinkable possibilty that maybe there is reason to not take the medical evidence at face value.

That said, I’m not sure if one bad apple is enough to discard the whole basket. For me the road have been the contrary. The book that turned me around from mainstream ’skepticism’ was this one: https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakab...why+it+matters

Especially the part on ”why it matters”.

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Well, carry on then, I'll leave you to it. I'll just ask you to consider the idea that you can't bully and insult your way to the truth- telling your "opponents" (if you must have it so) that they're either complicit or ignorant is no way to discuss something you clearly consider important enough to need people to see your "Truth."
I can say this, if most of the other ’guests’ in this forum had behaved like you have, I would be much more reasonable, that I can garantee.

Thanks for this.
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Old 31st May 2018, 04:36 PM   #129
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Is there a thread on this topic? If so, I’ll post the proof in due time. Of course they knew that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor that very day. They had broken the Japanese codes long before that happened.

Like reading from an open book. Prime time.
Well, there's this:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=325634

And this:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=302892

And this:

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=286164

And this:
http://www.internationalskeptics.com...d.php?t=244726

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Now the Pearl Harbor crap.
Manifesto apparently never met a conspiracy theory he did not buy into...
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Old 31st May 2018, 05:42 PM   #131
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Now the Pearl Harbor crap.
Manifesto apparently never met a conspiracy theory he did not buy into...
You seem to be more concerned about theories of conspiracies than conspiracies. Correct?

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Ever heard of pacifism that accepts the concept of self defence?
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Thank you. I have a look at it when time admits.
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Old 1st June 2018, 04:41 AM   #133
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Oh, look! Manifesto has someone who agrees with him!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ennedy-it.html

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Oh, look! Manifesto has someone who agrees with him!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ennedy-it.html


Really?

Oh, wait... its the Daily Flail.

False alarm.
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Old 1st June 2018, 05:20 AM   #135
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Originally Posted by smartcooky View Post
Really?

Oh, wait... its the Daily Flail.

False alarm.
Brad Johnson worked for CNN when discovering the tape recording which contains proof of two pistols being fired in the pentry where RFK got assassinated.

That said, US MSM is the monolithic propaganda organ for the US Security State so I would be very careful with information coming from any of its present or former presstitutes.

Double and tripple check everything.
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Another child of RFK supporting a new investigation of the assassination of her father.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, told the Globe this week that she supports a new investigation, joining her brother Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who revealed last weekend that he visited convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan in prison and believes someone else killed RFK.
Boston Globe: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...n6N/story.html

Hope.
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Hope.
Er why would this be hope? In your vision of the world the evil National security state controls everything. How will a new investigation actually work then?

Wouldn't any new evidence be destroyed?

Wouldn't any new witness be killed?

Have you thought this through?

Why would the super efficient and evil NSS suddenly throw up it hands and be nice now?

By the way who is the leader of the NSS?
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Brad Johnson worked for CNN when discovering the tape recording which contains proof of two pistols being fired in the pentry where RFK got assassinated.

That said, US MSM is the monolithic propaganda organ for the US Security State so I would be very careful with information coming from any of its present or former presstitutes.

Double and tripple check everything.

Its the Daily Flail.... false alarm.
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Er why would this be hope? In your vision of the world the evil National security state controls everything. How will a new investigation actually work then?

Wouldn't any new evidence be destroyed?

Wouldn't any new witness be killed?

Have you thought this through?

Why would the super efficient and evil NSS suddenly throw up it hands and be nice now?

By the way who is the leader of the NSS?
Hope.
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Its the Daily Flail.... false alarm.
Have you double and tripple checked it?
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Have you double and tripple checked it?

Checked what? Explain, please.
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Hope.
So in other words you concede you don't have a clue about any of this.

....and we kinda guess that already.

So since you are just pretending to know about the NSS and just making up stuff why should we talk to you?
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So in other words you concede you don't have a clue about any of this.

....and we kinda guess that already.

So since you are just pretending to know about the NSS and just making up stuff why should we talk to you?
Hope.
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Checked what? Explain, please.
The information in the article he is handwaving away.
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The information in the article he is handwaving away.
What information? What specifics? Is he doing the same behavior as you when you are hand waving scientific information that refutes your Theories?
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Have you double and tripple checked it?
I don't, by default, believe anything that is published in the Daily Flail.... its a gutter rag with questionable editorial and reporting practices. ("UFO Lands in Hyde Park" is a classic example).

What I do is copy a substantial piece of the text from a story, and Google search to see if the same exact story has been put out on the AP wire or published in another, more reputable source (e.g. WAPO, WSJ, NYT, Politico), one that fact checks before going to press (a legacy term).

If I find the exact same story on one of those more reputable sources, I am more inclined to believe the story. If not, I dismiss it.

At the time I posted, there was no other paper carrying this story "as writ" so I dismissed it as conspiraloon bollocks.
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I don't, by default, believe anything that is published in the Daily Flail.... its a gutter rag with questionable editorial and reporting practices. ("UFO Lands in Hyde Park" is a classic example).

What I do is copy a substantial piece of the text from a story, and Google search to see if the same exact story has been put out on the AP wire or published in another, more reputable source (e.g. WAPO, WSJ, NYT, Politico), one that fact checks before going to press (a legacy term).

If I find the exact same story on one of those more reputable sources, I am more inclined to believe the story. If not, I dismiss it.

At the time I posted, there was no other paper carrying this story "as writ" so I dismissed it as conspiraloon bollocks.
The fact that RFKjr want the murder of his father reinvestigated is a theory of a conspiracy?

Is this a lone nutty position?
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Originally Posted by smartcooky View Post
I don't, by default, believe anything that is published in the Daily Flail.... its a gutter rag with questionable editorial and reporting practices. ("UFO Lands in Hyde Park" is a classic example).

What I do is copy a substantial piece of the text from a story, and Google search to see if the same exact story has been put out on the AP wire or published in another, more reputable source (e.g. WAPO, WSJ, NYT, Politico), one that fact checks before going to press (a legacy term).

If I find the exact same story on one of those more reputable sources, I am more inclined to believe the story. If not, I dismiss it.

At the time I posted, there was no other paper carrying this story "as writ" so I dismissed it as conspiraloon bollocks.
He neglected the headline: "Kennedy Children Divided...", which tells the rest of the story.
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Old 2nd June 2018, 04:21 PM   #149
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He neglected the headline: "Kennedy Children Divided...", which tells the rest of the story.
You are as usual off base by a mile or two. No, this is another article in the Daily mail about the fact that RFKjr wants the assassination of his father reinvestigated. The article you are referring to is in The Boston Globe reporting that his sister wants the same. A reinvestigation of the assassination of her father, RFK.

But I like the slant in the BG article. ”Kennedy Children Divided”, not the real news, ”Kennedy Children Wants the Truth”.

It is called, spin.
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What information? What specifics? Is he doing the same behavior as you when you are hand waving scientific information that refutes your Theories?
Do I? Cite. Explain. Argue.
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You are as usual off base by a mile or two. No, this is another article in the Daily mail about the fact that RFKjr wants the assassination of his father reinvestigated. The article you are referring to is in The Boston Globe reporting that his sister wants the same. A reinvestigation of the assassination of her father, RFK.

But I like the slant in the BG article. ”Kennedy Children Divided”, not the real news, ”Kennedy Children Wants the Truth”.

It is called, spin.
Strange because the Boston Globe has been Kennedy-friendly since day one.
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Do I? Cite. Explain. Argue.
Baloney.
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Do I? Cite. Explain. Argue.
Baloney x 2
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You are as usual off base by a mile or two. No, this is another article in the Daily mail about the fact that RFKjr wants the assassination of his father reinvestigated. The article you are referring to is in The Boston Globe reporting that his sister wants the same. A reinvestigation of the assassination of her father, RFK.

But I like the slant in the BG article. ”Kennedy Children Divided”, not the real news, ”Kennedy Children Wants the Truth”.

It is called, spin.
Oh, the irony. You cite the Daily Fail article as 'the real news'. Really?

Who wrote that article, Manifesto? Tim Tate and Brad Johnson.

Who wrote the book that the article is about? Oh, look! By an astonishing coincidence, it's Tim Tate and Brad Johnson.

That article is not journalism: it's advertising. Do you honestly expect the two authors of the book to give an unbiased critique of their work?
Which of those two papers is more likely to put a spin on the story?

Next time, old chap, check your sources. In fact, it's probably best to double, or even 'tripple' (sic) check them. Always good to be accurate, don't you think?
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Originally Posted by Cosmic Yak View Post
Oh, the irony. You cite the Daily Fail article as 'the real news'. Really?

Who wrote that article, Manifesto? Tim Tate and Brad Johnson.
...........

It's not an article or a review. It's an excerpt from their book itself, as the credit plainly states:
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Adapted by Corinna Honan from The Assassination Of Robert F. Kennedy by Tim Tate and Brad Johnson, to be published by Thistle on June 6 at £11.99. © Tim Tate and Brad Johnson 2018.

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Do I? Cite. Explain. Argue.
I asked what information and/or what specifics. I didn't add you second most favorite line Cite. Explain. Argue. But I will now. You ask of those debating arguing with you, that which you refuse to do.
Hans was more succinct, baloney.
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Baloney x 2
Agree.
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I asked what information and/or what specifics. I didn't add you second most favorite line Cite. Explain. Argue. But I will now. You ask of those debating arguing with you, that which you refuse to do.
Hans was more succinct, baloney.
What do I ”refuse”? Cite. Explain. Argue.

You know the drill.
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Oh, the irony. You cite the Daily Fail article as 'the real news'. Really?
No. I cite the headline of the Boston Globe article, and call it spin of the real news that is the fact that two of RFK’s children wants a new investigation of the assassination of their father.

So, where do we find the ”oh the irony” now?
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It's not an article or a review. It's an excerpt from their book itself, as the credit plainly states:
It was not me who posted the link to the Daily Mail article, and the news that RFKjr wants a new investigation did I not get from there. I already knew this.

I posted a link to a Boston Globe article cointaining the news that also a daughter of RFK, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, wants a new investigation. That was ”real news” to me.

Noting that the headline says - ”RFK’s children divided over calls for a fresh investigation of his assassination” - I conclude that it is spin on the real news which is that two of RFK’s children wants a new investigation of the assassination of their father.

Do you disagree on any particular issue here or are you just whining about as usual?

Be specific.
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