Week Of Truth

[16.5]

Are the "Debunkers" at JREF prepared to handle the onslaught that is the Truth Week of Truth sponsored by the Truth Movement in Conjunction with Truth?

http://www.weekoftruth.org/?

Now you may think it is a cynical attempt to bolster sales for a book, and get Steve Alten some face time on TV.

But you would be WRONG! Well, not "wrong." What is that word that sounds like wrong but means the exact opposite? Oh yeah, absolutely freaking RIGHT.

And look at the cast of ne'er-do-wells that got together to promote the book:

"Dr. Steven Jones; Janice Matthews (911Truth.org); David Ray Griffin; Kevin Ryan; Dr. Robert Bowman; Rob Balsamo (Pilots for 9/11 Truth); Carol Brouillet; Mike Berger; David Kubiak; Kevin Barrett; Michael Wolsey; Peter Dale Scott; Bill Douglas."

Some choice quotes:

Kevin Ryan: "This Book Really Holds Water!"

Kevin Barrett: "Even the Shills we send to be hanged would enjoy this Book!"

DRG: "[DEBUNKED]"

Dr. Jones: "Purple Monkey underpants... wooo, woooo!! Thermite-y style subtstance."

[SpaceMonkeyZero]

But how will they get the word out, now that they can't put their web site links on their home made Ron Paul cardboard signs? I see those rotting on the side of the road everyday.

[uk_dave]

Steve Alten will donate $5,000 each week the “The Shell Game” reaches the top 10 of the NY Times best seller list, to the Fealgood Foundation (http://www.fealgoodfoundation.com/):

http://www.weekoftruth.org/

Why does that sound like "Buy my book or the kid gets it!"?

[1337m4n]

What is that book really about?

[Unsecured Coins]

a fictional "inside job" book that truthers refer to as "the book that blows the cover off the official lie of 9-11"

[16.5]

a fictional "inside job" book that truthers refer to as "the book that blows the cover off the official lie of 9-11"

I am mystified why they are all pushing this work of fiction.

Giving us something else to mock is nice, but c'mon.

/hey why weren't the CIT, Ace and Judy invited to the Week of Woo?

[CHF]

"Dr. Steven Jones; Janice Matthews (911Truth.org); David Ray Griffin; Kevin Ryan; Dr. Robert Bowman; Rob Balsamo (Pilots for 9/11 Truth); Carol Brouillet; Mike Berger; David Kubiak; Kevin Barrett; Michael Wolsey; Peter Dale Scott; Bill Douglas."

Poor Uncle Fetzer....

Imagine being too stupid to be invited into that clubhouse.

[Jonnyclueless]

It's like the little twoofer rascals gang. Just trying to figure out which one is buckwheat.

[Dumb All Over]

Weak Of Truth

[DGM]

It's telling how the "truthers" always mention the "Fealgood Foundation" but I've never seen a thank you or an acknowledgment of their work on their site.

I wonder why John Feal doesn't promote them seeing they give so much to him?:rolleyes:

http://www.fealgoodfoundation.com/

[Dr Adequate]

Let's see how this affects the quantity of googling on "9/11 truth".

[A W Smith]

at 2:58 in the second video. "Its Fiction"

[timhau]

I took a look at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Shell-Game-Steve-Alten/dp/1599550946/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207252675&sr=8-1) to find out what they say about it. Here's Publisher's Weekly:

Even die-hard conspiracy theorists will be dubious about the sinister government-led plots that form the shaky foundation of this political thriller. Alten, best-known for his gory novels featuring giant prehistoric sharks (Meg; The Trench), goes well beyond the already far-fetched idea that the Bush administration let the devastating 9/11 attacks happen to further the neoconservative agenda of reshaping the Middle East. In 2012, with centrist conservative David McKuin in the White House, the federal government plots to detonate a nuclear bomb in a U.S. city and blame Iran as a cover to take out that country's radical leadership. Standing in the plotters' way is Ace Futrell, an energy expert whose murdered wife was possibly targeted by U.S. intelligence. An awkward mix of actual and fictional political figures (Hillary Clinton is still in the Senate in 2012, having lost the 2008 election to McKuin) doesn't make this paranoid and superficial book more plausible.

Ahem. Maybe the Twoof movement would've been better off staying with Margaret Cho and Jesse Ventura?

[1337m4n]

This is like if Richard Dawkins were to spend his time begging everyone to read "Golden Compass" instead of doing actual work.

[Drs_Res]

Why just a Week?

[timhau]

Why just a Week?

Their shift manager at McDonalds said they can't have 8 consecutive days off.

[beachnut]

Just a plug for a book of fiction, capitalism at work. This 9/11 truth is just a market for fantasy ideas; wish I wrote well. I could sell books to real smart truthers.

[Drudgewire]

Why just a Week?
[Nate X]Because a month would make the white man nervous![/Nate X]

[johnny karate]

Poor Uncle Fetzer....

Imagine being too stupid to be invited into that clubhouse.

It's like when Guns N Roses fired their drummer because he was doing too many drugs.

[Blender Head]

Weak Of Truth

Reek of Truth.

[dudalb]

Just a plug for a book of fiction, capitalism at work. This 9/11 truth is just a market for fantasy ideas; wish I wrote well. I could sell books to real smart truthers.

I think you are aiming for a non existence audience.
But beleive me, it would not be hard to write a better book then the truther books,most of them are very badly written.

[Horatius]

Just a plug for a book of fiction, capitalism at work. This 9/11 truth is just a market for fantasy ideas; wish I wrote well. I could sell books to real smart truthers.



Did you read any of the bits of that page that look like excerpts form the book? I'm not sure if they are excerpts, as the page is very badly laid out, but if they are representative of the quality of the rest of the book, it wouldn't be hard to beat it.

And I've said this before, but, "Ace Futrell". The name of the "good guy" says pretty much everything you need to know about the quality of this book.



Maybe I'll write one with the character "Biff Freedon". Think they'll buy that?

[timhau]

Did you read any of the bits of that page that look like excerpts form the book? I'm not sure if they are excerpts, as the page is very badly laid out, but if they are representative of the quality of the rest of the book, it wouldn't be hard to beat it.

You can get some excerpts on Amazon. And yeah, the writing is atrocious. Like a 14-year-old trying to sound hard-boiled macho.

[DC]

What is that book really about?

A fictional story about the next False flag terror atack that will come soon, it will be a nuclear one.

[bonavada]

Reek of Truth.

Peak of Spoof

BV

[bonavada]

I am mystified why they are all pushing this work of fiction.

Giving us something else to mock is nice, but c'mon.

/hey why weren't the CIT, Ace and Judy invited to the Week of Woo?

Judging by the audio clip I listened to the other day, there's an acrimoniously hilarious split developing between the Fetzer/Baker Wood/Hutchison camps.
I would give a link but I think I fainted while listening I was laughing so much.....

BV

[Unsecured Coins]

I just realized that this crap starts on my birthday. F you, God. F You in the face!!!!

[Wildy]

Are the "Debunkers" at JREF prepared to handle the onslaught that is the Truth Week of Truth sponsored by the Truth Movement in Conjunction with Truth?

Is that anything like Hate Week (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_week)?

[Horatius]

Okay, I'll probably burn in hell for this, and after all this Googling, cutting and pasting, I'm not sure if this is even funny anymore, but I've done too much work over my lunch hour to let this go to waste, so I'm going to subject you to it anyways, and you can all hate me for it later.

Here is a powerful new historical-fiction edu-tainment novel, “The Shill Game,” that exposes the in-fighting and manipulation that COINTELPRO has caused to derail the most important movement since the American Revolution. In “The Shill Game”, intrepid reporter and Iron Man triathlete Biff Freedon conducts a whirl-wind investigation of the major players, exposes the frauds, and indicts the conspirators who were really behind the 9/11 attacks. An odyssey that takes him from his Wichita newsroom to the White House, this tale is one that will resonate for ages in the annals of American Literature.



(page 133)
Peggy Sue shrugs. “Okay, Biff, if that’s true, how did Avery, a film school reject, produce the most popular 9/11 film ever? By your logic, Alex Jones should have swept up the entire Truth Movement, just like he did the Patriot Movement. Didn’t happen. Know why? Short attention spans and a driving techno beat.”

“What? ‘The Beats of Loose Change’ and that video of him rapping?”

“They’re part of it, yes. You begin with the delusion, something you can sell, it only matters that it’s not true. There were two major Truther challengers, “In Plane Sight”, and “Press For Truth”. Rowe and his merry men fuelled their attacks like the Reagan Administration fuelled the Iranians against the Iraqis in the 1980s. Deride and conquer – a brilliant play – and the blood between the two camps grew so bad that the there was no way the Truthers could heal the rift. The machine creates the message, the money fuels the media, and the media pounds it home everyday until your mind subconsciously associates message with Truth. It’s the Pavlov dog syndrome, ring the same bell over and over and the dissatisfied teenagers eventually salivate.”

Biff shakes his head. “So substance means nothing.”

“Correct. A complete lack of substance, however, means everything. Take the advice of Dr. Griffen. Griffen’s primary mantra, besides religion, was that no one should ever state a positive theory of what happened on 9/11; that would leave them open to attack. One should simply continue to point out flaws in the “Official Stoyy”. That same message was repeated, over and over in book after book, until even Creationists believed it. Here we are, ten years later, and we just passed a million copies in sales! Millions in cash were redirected to conspiracy theorist’s pockets, Alex Jones among them. Who’s accountable? Maintain confusion and the answer is no one. As long as you control your Internet forum, even the worst debunkings get washed clean through an Admin deletion.”

“And that’s all there is to it? Money, message, and attacking your opponent . . . that’s how you make the big bucks?”




(page 54)
“That’s right, a massive buy-in. To most of you it will appear gradually, as gradual as climbing into a giant pot of cold water and turning on the burner. At first you won’t know anything is happening, then slowly. . .slowly and painfully, like a YouTube clip of subtitles that linger long enough for semi-literates to read them, the realization will kick in that there’s no escaping this obsession, that the chaos that’s in your mind won’t be going away, that the arguments left on your hard drive and in your DVDs won’t last very long, that you and your “crew” are going to have to get real jobs.

Or make up some new evidence.

Or be debunked by an analysis whose impact you’ll never understand. Or succumb to a ennui you’ll never feel. You will be as helpless as the victims of the tsunami that struck Indonesia the day after Christmas, 2004 (which was caused by the US, by the way), or the lost souls of Hurricane Katrina, abandoned without food or water in flooded New Orleans. . . only this time there will be no discomfort, because you’ll still be sitting in your mother’s basement, watching TV. Shooting aliens on your Xbox won’t help. Call me a liar, repute my warnings, curse my existence—it won’t change a thing. The brakes are shot and the Truth Movement is being diverted. . . instructed to gaze in the rearview mirror as we drive ourselves off a cliff. . . only you’re too busy play-acting your fantasy to see what’s happening.

Open your eyes! Read the signposts! It’s already begun, the opening moves played out as if upon a great political chessboard:

The “Pull it” crisis – the first taste of things to come.
The fifth anniversary of 9/11 protests – moves within moves, corruption behind smiles.
LCF and PfT– a fostered war designed to temporarily control the center of the board.
Ace Baker’s invasion of JREF -- the manipulation of a pawn.
The rise of the denial of Islamic fascism - a cancer spreading throughout the liberal world.
Secret forum meetings - our path of self-destruction, mortared in self-obsession.
The manipulation behind 9/11 Truth, the sacrifice of an ignoble knave.
The defection of Russel Pickering. The deceit of CIT--
–the tentacles of Alex Jones.

Attempted derails. Rigged Internet polls. Bad analogies lifted straight out of a George Orwell novel. The board’s still in play, but the outcome was decided long ago, and soon the final piece shall fall, but not the way the self-appointed truthseekers would ever have predicted. When the house of cards collapses everybody loses, from the filmmakers to the dead-enders, and the geek shall indeed inherit the Earth, at least what’s left of it.



(page 77)
All Conspiracy Theorists lie. Kageki lied about Pearl Harbor. David Carmichael lied about Israeli jets shooting at the USS Liberty. Bart Siebrel lied about the Moon landings. Alex Jones lied about FEMA Death Camps. I suppose even Kevin Barrett lied (he probably never even went to Morroco).

But it was the lies coming from the Woods-Fetzer Scholars For Truth after the events of September 11th, 2001 that led us to the insanity of Space Beams and to a crossroads in Western civilization that will affect you and your customers and a few more innocent people.
Did the Truther community know JREF’s attack was coming?

Yes.

Did we try to stop them?

Yes, but we were unable to do so. PfT field agents who were close to exposing the plot were repeatedly and purposefully debunked by a single skeptic – Ryan Mackey– who would later receive a accolades for his actions. Then, on the day of the attacks, the LCF admins, under IVXX’s personal direction, scheduled and conducted five separate server upgrades that purposely slowed down the forum while deliberately causing lag that ate a lot of posts. Professional Paranoid who normally dismissed evidence within minutes were delayed an unfathomable 80 minutes, most never even entered the fray. While dedicated pilots for truth and teenagers desperately tried to determine what was real from what was made up, a Prison Planet administrator “accidentally” updated their postings to hide the fact that they had promoted proven errors as established facts.

Those are facts. . .but only the tip of a dirty iceberg.

Of course, none of that information was ever acknowledged by the 9/11 Truthers around the world. They just moved the goal posts to a discussion of how Wall Street investors allegedly knew –– a day before the attacks domestic and foreign investors placed an unprecedented number of “put calls” (a leveraged bet a stock will drop) on the airlines and companies that would suffer devastating losses, in some cases over 90 times higher than normal trading. They then claimed that these financial transactions netted upwards of $15 billion in insider trading, even though that was a load o bollocks.

One voice of opposition who refused to be intimidated - Russel Pickering- would conveniently stop posting anywhere on 9/11 topics.


(Page 355)
And newly sworn-in President of the United States Biff Freedon ascended the podium to give his commencement address.

“And if America is to become a great nation again, this must become true. So let Freedon reign from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let Freedon reign from the mighty mountains of New York. Let Freedon reign from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. Let Freedon reign from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado. Let Freedon reign from the curvaceous peaks of California.

But not only that. Let Freedon reign from Stone Mountain of Georgia. Let Freedon reign from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee. Let Freedon reign from every hill and molehill of Mississippi, from every mountainside, let Freedon reign!”


Epilogue: Two days later, President Biff Freedon was assassinated by outraged supporters of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As of this printing, 283 separate theories presupposing government collusion in his murder have arisen on the Internet.







Pre-order your copy today! Only $19.95! Cash only, please!*














*acceptance of advance orders in no way obligates me to actually write this piece of trash. But if I get enough of them........;)

[Myriad]

Pre-order your copy today! Only $19.95! Cash only, please!*

*acceptance of advance orders in no way obligates me to actually write this piece of trash. But if I get enough of them........;)


I think I speak for everyone here in the Conspiracy Theories subforum when I say...

I'll only buy a copy if you promise I'll be in the story. :D

Respectfully,
Myriad

[Mince]

Just a week? Then what? Back to the presumption, speculation, misunderstanding, misconception, ignorance and outright lying that somehow allowed them to name themselves the truth movement?

[Horatius]

I think I speak for everyone here in the Conspiracy Theories subforum when I say...

I'll only buy a copy if you promise I'll be in the story. :D

Respectfully,
Myriad



Ahem:


And then Biff Freedon spoke up, his eyes glistening with emotion, "If we're to find out the real truth of the matter, one of us will have to make the ultimate sacrifice."

"You mean?"

"Yes. One of us will have to get close enough to Judy Wood to find out how crazy she really is. One of us will have to get her emotionally involved enough to bare her soul. One of us will have to .... sleep with her."

Myriad stood up. "I'll do it," he said quietly.

"You're a better man than I, sir," effused Biff. "Your selflessness is an example to us all!"




Shall I continue, or will you just pay me off now?

[Myriad]

Ahem:
:eek:
Shall I continue, or will you just pay me off now?


Do you accept all my worldly goods, or will you be needing my immortal soul* too?

Respectfully,
Myriad


*Immortality of soul not guaranteed. The endless refreshment, however, remains.

[Horatius]

Look, you volunteered, and we need the romance subplot to bring in the ladies!

Now take it like a man.

[Dave Rogers]

Now take it like a man.

As if I didn't already have too many unwanted images in my head.

Dave

[dudalb]

A fictional story about the next False flag terror atack that will come soon, it will be a nuclear one.

Swiping from Tom Clancy, are we?
He did the idea of a false flag nuclear terrorist incident in "Sum Of All Fears". Except his was halfway plausible, unlike the crap I am sure this book will be.

[pomeroo]

Reek of Truth.


Your signature is dishonest.

[Horatius]

Biff Freedon looked at his friend, Jack Power with skepticism. "A false flag nuclear attack? That sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, and not a good one at that."

Jack whipped his finger up to point it into Freedon's face. "That's exactly it! They publish bad novels with improbable plots, so that when it all comes true, nobody will believe it! How does it feel to know you've been so well programmed by the ruling elite?"

Freedon paused.

"It doesn't feel very good at all."



Someone stop me before I kill again!

[R.Mackey]

A Week Of Truth, eh?

How droll. Almost reminds me of an auto de fé.

And no nasty writing about me in pulp novels. :mad:

[Horatius]

Biff Freedon confronted the NASA scientist. "You've lied about your math! You know you're a fraud!" He turned away in disgust.

"I'm also something else", Mackey said, with a hint of gravel in his voice.

"What's that?"

There was a hiss of gas. "An awesome shot with a paint ball gun!"

Freedon spun back to face Ryan, but he was a split second too late. A burst of highly accelerated plastic balls filled with paint slammed into his groin, immobilizing him with pain. He dropped to the ground, writhing in agony.

Ryan stood above him, grinning. "You just don't get it, do you? The NWO doesn't just want to win, it wants to gloat over you while it does it!"





I must start using this power for good!


Nah.

[Foolmewunz]

I think I speak for everyone here in the Conspiracy Theories subforum when I say...

I'll only buy a copy if you promise I'll be in the story. :D

Respectfully,
Myriad

Myriad,
I don't know if this was intentional irony or coincidence (woooo, spooky!), but I checked out Alten's own home page and on his site he gives out his email address, promises that if you write to him, he'll actually answer you, and that he will sign you up in his fan club so that you can be eligible for neato stuff. I was thinking decoder rings and such, but.....
(bolding mine)
At the beginning of each month I send out newsletters to registered fans. Newsletters contain information about new novels, movie updates, special "life-tips" sent in from readers, and contests on how YOU can become a character in one of my upcoming novels.

ETA: So? Ya think there's an Ace Futrell out there in the 9th grade somewhere who thought he'd be in one of the fright books, and now finds himself thwarting the NWO?

[Horatius]

Contests? Amateur.


I'm open for straight-up bribes.

[contra]

Well we could do what the Wright brothers apparently did...and swap sides

They all come here (and without parody) take everything from the non conspiracy using science and such....while we all go to their forums for a week and start publishing fiction and short stories.

Job done.

[Dr Adequate]

Your signature is dishonest. If your real name is not Ron Weick, then Blender Head certainly owes a deep and contrite apology to Ron Weick, whoever he is, for attributing your words to him.

[1337m4n]

Keep the Myspace-esque drama to your Private Messages, please.

[twinstead]

Myspace-esque. I LIKE it.

[jhunter1163]

Myspace-esque ROCKS!

[Dr Adequate]

Keep the Myspace-esque drama to your Private Messages, please. This is "drama"?

[cow_cat]

Our Goal: To propel The Shell Game into the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List.

To achieve our goal, weekoftruth.org is launching with this our first project, The National The Shell Game Buy In Week for Truth, April 16th – 22nd, 2008. This is the weekly reporting period for the New York Times Best Seller List and this is the week we intend to focus our efforts on. To help out, we ask of you the following:

1) During the week of April 16-22, buy at least two copies of The Shell Game to give out to friends who are not 9-11 aware.
(emphasis mine)

:jaw-dropp

Do it for the Truthtm. Oh, and if I happen to make a few bucks along the way, then hey, that's just the kind of sacrifices I'm willing to make.

[Horatius]

Do it for the Truthtm. Oh, and if I happen to make a few bucks along the way, then hey, that's just the kind of sacrifices I'm willing to make.



That's a sacrifice they're all willing to make. It's the Twoof Movement's greatest strength!

[HannibalGroup]

Some are really frothing over this. How do you suppose they will spin their imminent failure into a "win"?

[Horatius]

The same way they usually do - by either ignoring it completely, or claiming that the NWO thwarted them because they were "just about to expose the truth!"

[16.5]

Some are really frothing over this. How do you suppose they will spin their imminent failure into a "win"?

Don't they know that Twooth Week is a a marketing plan for a marketing plan!

They want to sell more books so this guy can get on TV and sell more books.

The sad thing is, the knucklehead is a first class hack!

Ace Futrell, give me a break.

[Drudgewire]

Our Goal: To propel The Shell Game into the Top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List.

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,087 in Books

It finally happened. They've set a goal for themselves even more unrealistic than proving 9/11 was an inside job. :D

[Horatius]

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,087 in Books

It finally happened. They've set a goal for themselves even more unrealistic than proving 9/11 was an inside job. :D



I'm just waiting for one of them to claim that the destruction of unsold remaindered copies is proof that "They burned the book to keep us quiet!"

[Drudgewire]

Oh my, has anyone researched this book's publishing company yet?

http://www.cedarfort.com/

It's "The Shell Game" and "Mormon Literature" publishing company. I'd be willing to bet that on the infinitely tiny chance they had enough people willing to buy copies and "launch it to the NY Times Bestseller List," there wouldn't be enough copies printed up to handle it.

:dl:

[dudalb]

So now promoting a crappy NOVEL..a work of fiction....will somehow convince people that 9/11 Was An Inside Job. It's hard to get more pathetic then that...but the Twoofers will find a way.

[dudalb]

Oh my, has anyone researched this book's publishing company yet?

http://www.cedarfort.com/

It's "The Shell Game" and "Mormon Literature" publishing company. I'd be willing to bet that on the infinitely tiny chance they had enough people willing to buy copies and "launch it to the NY Times Bestseller List," there wouldn't be enough copies printed up to handle it.

:dl:

I would not be surprised if they are doing some "Vanity Publishing" .

[Drudgewire]

So now promoting a crappy NOVEL..a work of fiction....will somehow convince people that 9/11 Was An Inside Job.

They've released something that isn't fictional? :eye-poppi

[Brainster]

What is that book really about?

I tried to read it (http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2008/02/shell-game-battles.html), but it's really tough slogging. The book opens with a congressional hearing, with lots of long speechifying on Peak Oil. The Troofer connection is that some of the chapters have introductions including quotes from Michael Ruppert and DRG. I gather that the climax is a US city getting nuked by the "neocons" in order to drag us into a war with Iran, but I didn't get anywhere near that far into the novel.

[HannibalGroup]

Anyone know how the "Week of Truth" is going so far?

[eromitlab]

Anyone know how the "Week of Truth" is going so far?

"The Shell Game" has made it into the 60s on Amazon. It was at #62 at one point, sitting at #68 ATVM.

[qarnos]

Anyone know how the "Week of Truth" is going so far?

It's been renamed the "Weak of Truth".