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BBC and WTC 7 on 9/11: confusion or NWO-blunder?
This is an interesting video showing part of the BBC World Service's live coverage of the events on 9/11.
(It also includes some propaganda, of course.)
The video shows the coverage from around 5pm EST. At 4.57pm, the collapse of the Salomon Building (WTC 7) is announced. That's 23 minutes before the actual collapse. Later, around 5.15pm EST, BBC correspondent Jane Standley is talking from New York City, with WTC 7 in her background clearly still standing, while the collapse is mentioned on the screen. bbc.jpg So, is this an example of the confusion reigning on that day, or did a secretary of the evil NWO send the press release too early to the BBC? Guess what the boys at LCF are thinking. What is actually interesting is the heavy smoke escaping from WTC 7 during the whole sequence with Jane Standley . |
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This is truly bizarre. I didn't think wtc 7 was that suspicious but I do now.
How the **** can anyone explain this? |
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You ever worked in TV news? Ever been in the gallery? Thought not.
Journalists knew WTC 7 was in danger of collapse. The caption operator very probably had a caption typed up and ready to go just in case. That's not unusual. The caption operator then screwed up and displayed the wrong caption. That's far from unusual also. Sinister secret demolitions are quite unusual though aren't they? Edit: okay, ignore the above. I hadn't watched the video properly. |
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I've been working in the tv business since 2000. When the heat is on, **** happens. Mistakes gets made in the heat of the moment as a direct result of getting news to the people asap.
When a journalist gets a news item to cover, non-live and the 2 minute timespan that is, it's generally shot, edited and racked up for broadcast within a 5-6 hour period WITH preparation and written blurbs. That means room for mistake due to misunderstandings or bad information. Add to that the human factor. Now compare it to a live, real time coverage of a disaster like 9-11 where no one really knew what the hell was going on and only had rumors to go on for much of the information and you got a bloody war zone going on in the broadcast booth. To get a clear picture of what it COULD look like, imagine a small room with a wall full of monitors and a bank of various equipments in front of maybe 6-7 people. One is a live-editor, one takes care of sound, one manages satellite feeds, there's a "director" and one poor soul taking care of the written blurbs. You've got signals coming in from at least 4 different places in New York which means at least 4 different journalists feeding the broadcast crew back on the farm information through an ear piece/mic. You've got various in house researchers and journalists running around trying to gather as much information as they can, including the unavoidable claptrap which they must attempt to filter out with nothing to compare it to. You've got feeds from OTHER news services online as well to try and keep up with things. Airing of wrongful information is BOUND to happen. |
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In addition you have jammed phone lines and circuits due to the overwhelming number of calls being made, so it is hard to confirm any information. Plus, being the BBC they have a ocean between them and the events. All flights to the US are cancelled, so they are unable to send anymore reporters to NYC, and they must rely more heavily than they like on other news outlets. They may also not be familiar enough with the WTC complex to know which is WTC7. They keep hearing that it is going to collapse and may have jumped the gun.
With so much confusion going on that day, I would rely more on the reports from days after 9/11 rather than the live coverage. |
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I would say they probably got to know that people were evacuated from the area, because WTC 7 was in danger of collapsing. Somewhere along the line during the busy newsday someone made a mistake, and the report changed to the one we are seeing. To a report that WTC 7 had already collapsed, when it actually was still only in danger of doing so.
I love the CT logic. This is the most secret NWO operation ever, but hell, they release a press report stating that a building they demolished has collapsed, when in reality everyone can see on their screens that the building is still standing. OOPS. And Alex Jones would say, they are this arrogant, they laugh in your faces! |
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I bet they didn't bother to actually check on this... It just "appears as if" they were notified or there was a press release. So the fact that the press release probably said "is expected to collapse" (if there even was a press release- probably just a lot of talk from higher-ups, like... say... the fire chief).
No investigation, of course- just a lot of speculation... |
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Our good friend Jeff has called the BBC about this.
I can't listen to it here at work, so I have no idea what it says, but for the record, here it is: Jeff/Shure calls the BBC. The original BBC footage is here (it's 1Gb). |
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I remember on September 11 hearing quite clearly that at least 8 aircraft had been confirmed hijacked. I recall hearing that San Francisco and other west coast cities had been hit, and that the hijackers were starting to simply crash the planes now that their plans were known. I also recall hearing of car/truck bombs going off in DC and elsewhere.
Obviously none of this was actually true. It's hard to appreciate the chaos of that day looking back. Nobody knew just what was happening. |
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Man, those NWO conspirators sure are bad at keeping secrets!
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I to work in the 'biz' and what we saw from the BBC was a very amazing gaff for such a reputable news organization.
Roughly 7 hours since the last collapse, well after the major news has occured, they make this sensational unsubstantiated claim and continue to build on it. Meanwhile, they are receiving via satellite, all the major American news feeds as well as their own live feeds from New York City. And strangely, no one apparently wondered why CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC etc., American media at the scene, had made no mention of this major new event? Obviously they got it wrong, obviously there was confusion. It's probably a case of predicted collapse getting misinterpreted as "it collapsed", but what a blunder! MM |
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This could be a blunder, however its so odd that they were totally convinced of the upcoming collapse. Yes, the building was in a bad state but they couldnt be absolutely sure it would suffer a global collapse.
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Err given the fact that two huge buildings had collapsed just hours before, you are telling me that an on the spot reporter wouldn't be easily convinced another badly damaged building was about to collapse, might even have collapsed already? Given the horror and confusion of that day, this smacks more of cock-up than conspiracy
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My point was that people seemed 100% convinced that 7 would suffer this global collapse. It just seems odd that they could be so convinced when the collapse of 7 is still such a mystery. FEMA said the best hypothesis had only a low probability of occurence. How could they be so certain of a future event that only had a low probability of occurence? |
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Well one possibility is, as described by others above, it was a mistake.
I'm not sure what you're implying with your question. You've stated previously that you don't think WTC 7 was CD. Are you now suspicious that it may be, and Larry Silverstein called the BBC autocue operaters just before he told the fire department to pull it? I'm just guessing at what your alternative scenario is, could you clarify your suspicions? |
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... I don't think you understand what FEMA were saying. Regarding predictability of collapse... The fact that so many people were so sure WTC7 was going to collapse is a significant sign of just how bad the damage was. It was leaning, it was bulging, it was engulfed in flames, it had an enormous chunk of it missing, it was creaking, groaning, etc... The thing I find truly amazing about 9/11 is how so many people still assert that each building collapse was "sudden and totally unexpected" despite the fact that in all three cases people there on the day stated with conviction that the buildings were going to collapse. -Gumboot |
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My sister-in-laws brother has a cousin who saw a Wal-Mart truck flipped over and there were a bunch of scripts for the BBC talking about the collapse. No, really. He said if I forward it to 10 people that Bill Gates would send me money and a Neiman Marcus cookie recipe. It's true! |
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The difference between how this is viewed here and on LCF is fascinating.
Two examples:
Originally Posted by alexvegas@LCF
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What do you think they were talking about when they said this. They weren't talking about whether or not it was probable that given the observed conditions on 9/11 it would collapse. They were saying a hypothesis for explaining the reason for the collapse had a low probability of occurance. There is a world of difference.
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When there was the terrorist attack on the tube and buses in London in 2005 because my partner commutes into London every morning and with the mobile phone networks being overwhelmed so not being able to contact them I was on the look out for any news.
Time and time again there were captions up on the screen and reporters repeating things that later on would turn out to be incorrect. The pressure for "live" saturation coverage of a major event results in all new broadcasters being less then rigorous with their fact checking on live feeds. |
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If wtc7 collapsed 'naturally' under the conditions it had on 9/11 how could they talk about a low probability of occurrence. The chance of collapse is defined as the ratio of the amount that collapse and the amount that doesn't collapse or collapses (the total), the more measurements you have the more accurate it is. Since wtc7 collapsed under the conditions it has it should be a high probability of occurrence.
The OCT does not know what to say. The only thing we can conclude is that FEMA's story is has a low probability of being the right one. |
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Wishful bloody thinking
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Christ RTE news were still reporting the "5th" plane at around 6pm GMT. Hell they should Come check out sky news. Some of their Aston cock up are legendary. ![]() |
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What possible reason could there have been for the neer do well's who planned this deed to have let people know the tower had collapsed. Wouldn't they have just waited until it happoened and let the news report it. Especially because as we all know they hoped no one would pay much attention to it since its demise was clearly cause by a CD. This makes about as much sense as orders coming down to warn the people the building was going to be pulled before it collapsed.
The most likely case was a mix up between reporters hearing that the area had been cleared because a collapse was thought to be imminent. |
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So many people were in on it..including the BBC..yet no one has come forward to blow the whistle. Amazing.
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You mean 2005 right? Unless [CTer]you know something the rest of us don't[/CTER]
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Originally Posted by dylan avery@LCF
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