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I have a feeling GodisEnergy might be rather young, so guiding him/her in the right direction rather than squashing him/her with facts, which he/she doesn't understand anyway, is probably better.
At least I hope GodisEnergy is young. The other possibility is just sad. Metamars on the other hand, I enjoy watching being squashed. Bananaman (The Occasional Sadist.) |
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Also, it is in the charter of the US Government (you know, that thing called the Constitution) that it is the government's job to spend money on the military and national defense, yet I can't find anything anywhere in there that states it is the responsibility of the U.S. Government to spend money to feed starving children in Africa.
Note: It's not that I don't want to help starving children in Africa or any other deprived or struggling area. There are plenty of wonderful private groups that do a remarkable job at this under almost impossible circumstances and I certainly support our govt's actions during emergencies such as the tsunamis and such. I just get tired of the attitude of some people that we're meddling and "trying to gain influence" if we do help and selfishly depriving them if we don't help. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Oh yes, agreed.
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Penultimate Amazing
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Depraved countries or deprived countries?
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Heh, little of both, really.
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Penultimate Amazing
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Yea, I guess a country can be both depraved AND deprived
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Penultimate Amazing
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This is a complete non sequitur. What the US spends on its military compared to its overseas AID budget has nothing to do with any possible conspiracies. However if you want to look at what the US spends its money on, 21.6% of the 2008 budget was alloted to Defence and War on Terror compated to 52.7% which was spent in Social Security, MedicAid, MediCare, Unemployment, and other welfare benefits. Seems to me that the US is far more interested in looking after its people than blowing things up.
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Well the police think I'm depraved and, if my accountant did his job, the IRS thinks I'm deprived.
I'm guessing that the posters name gives some clue as to where the free energy supposedly comes from. I do wonder if we'll start seeing arguments that anti-gravity cars prove the CIA killed JFK! |
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Penultimate Amazing
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A$$, Grass, or Cash...nobody gets energy for free.
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Incromulent Logic
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Attempting to build a case without evidence is just another day spent with no use of common sense. The conspiracist is not merely illogical: he assaults logic.~ Pomeroo Sylvia Browne is not a medium, she's a mediocre. |
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Incromulent Logic
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Incromulent Logic
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Incromulent Logic
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Incromulent Logic
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Incromulent Logic
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Hit and Run Max post
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Mission Possible
No, this thread's perfect.
R.Mackey put forth that a 9/11 deception was mathematically impossible. I'm just curious how the housing bubble - which was pure deception - was mathematically possible. What's different? |
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MAX-MIHOP: Thermite - an incendiary - was used to heat-weaken WTC steel connections, to initiate collapse. Jets served as ambiguity-reducing deception to make all of the experts certain, decisive and wrong that the WTC fires were solely jet-induced. The experts were so bewildered by deception planners' use of feedback - of hiding fire in fire - that no one thought to investigate for arson. That is how the WTC demolitions-by-heat-weakening were - and still are - hidden in plain view. |
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I'm wondering if GodisEnergy is going to explain how the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), which is publically owned and predominantly funded by the federal government, is part of this supposed global media conspiracy. Especially since, at the time of 9/11 up until the federal election of 2006, it was a Liberal government in charge, one which decided not to participate in U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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Incromulent Logic
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Attempting to build a case without evidence is just another day spent with no use of common sense. The conspiracist is not merely illogical: he assaults logic.~ Pomeroo Sylvia Browne is not a medium, she's a mediocre. |
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Incromulent Logic
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Max in search of formula
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yea well it was a joke i dont beleive that the cole was an inside job.And yes i think its good to affront those who lace up boots for their country as im a pacifist.Who doesnt beleive in war no matter what
I take offense to my people who have been murdered by yours ! |
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#147 |
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Do you know that Nintendo is a simultaneous 4-player cube that rotates on startup every day it is started on earth? You are Sony stupid and unable to know Nintendos's 4-Player Game Cube Creation! - GameCube GENERATION 8: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment. |
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GodisEnergy:
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At first I thought you were about 13 years old. Now I'm intrigued. But not too intrigued, as I'm there ahead of you. Bananaman. |
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Penultimate Satisfaction
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THE END
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This is satire. I have a hangover so you may need to help me here, but that is a joke, right? Bananaman. |
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THE END
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I would imagine that social conditioning is the reason there are never any whistle blowers who come forward to claim injustices or any conspiracies ever brought out into the light.
Oh. Wait. Never mind. |
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Seriously though, you are talking total claptrap about the media and social conditioning. The point you make is completely misplaced in relation to 9/11. A media outlet backing one party or candidate over another in an election, yes. The truth about 9/11, no. It's that distinction that should be clear to you, but I'm certainly not clever enough to make it clear to you. Perhaps someone cleverer than me can. Bananaman |
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THE END
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What you wrote in this post was once completely true. Since the advent of Fox News, it is only mostly true. Yes, conservatives will not find jobs in the mainstream media. But what the lockstep-left, Bush-despising media has to do with your imaginary conspiracy is anybody's guess. But you already knew that. |
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Irreligious fanatic
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Oh pom, you are a one aren't you!
Returns to scheduled afternoon programming / indoctrination on the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation... |
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Arguments by assertion not impressive
That goes for both sides. Unfortunately, I don't have much time for posting about, much less researching, what makes the media the way it is. Please search on my previous posts on this subject, if interested.
Besides references to Chomsky and Barrie Zwicker that I'd previously made, I can also suggest Inventing Reality, the Politics of News Media, by Michael Parenti. I'm literally on p. 3 (also not impressive, I know), but I can see that he's at least asking the right questions. You might also check out the comments to David Sirota's recent blog post Discussing Media Bias and Media Elitism. The open-lefties normally show little interest in deep politics of the Peter Dale Scott variety, but they tend to be smart, so if they tell you that a discussion of media bias was, well, biased, it's worth taking note of. Also, can anybody suggest a forum where serious, knowledgeable individuals can discuss, debate, and investigate media bias, where the participants observe civility but cover a large swathe of opinions? By knowledgeable, I mean there should at least be a smattering of college professors who study this issue. Greg Urich started the911forum.freeforums.org , since the level of discourse here was so nasty, and since the Scholar's for 911 truth forum is closed off, and suffers from questionable moderation (including relegating serious questions to a 'Debunker's Forum'). Don't know if there's anything like that for media bias, though I bet a survey of freepress.net participants will yield that information. |
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Penultimate Amazing
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Media bias and people keeping their mouths shut about evidence that suggests 911 was an inside job are two completely different things. IMO all the media bias in the world wouldn't prevent a 911 operator from spilling the beans that he or she received a call from a lot of people reporting a plane 'almost' hit the Pentagon, for example.
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Kill the middleman
"Deception", how? What do you mean by "deception"? How are you defining "deception"?
As I have tried to tell you, this "proof by proxy" method you are using is stupid. Why don't you just prove that there was a "9/11 deception"? Why are you trying to prove that there was an economic deception, only for you to have to link it back to 9/11 somehow, at which point you'd still have to prove a 9/11 deception anyway? Get rid of the stupid middleman. If there was a 9/11 deception, prove it. We've been waiting. If you think you can prove economic deception then what makes you think you can't prove a 9/11 deception? "What's different", indeed. |
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Truthers fear the closure of this sub-forum. Without this outlet, mostly they are relegated to mass circle jerks on the PrisonPlanet forum. Ironic, then, are inane posts like #141 which hasten that outcome.
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