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New Blood
Join Date: Oct 2008
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9/11 Truthers... What is your smoking gun?
Post the single piece of evidence that you believe proves 9/11 was an inside job. I've seen a lot of information that is suspicious, but what is your smoking gun?
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 11,497
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You must be new to dealing with 9/11 quacks.
WTC7 is the answer you will get. It will be the last simple coherent statement you will hear from them (especially if you ask them to explain it). |
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New Blood
Join Date: Oct 2008
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I've "debated" with them on other forums and notice one thing they do is go quickly from topic to topic while cherry picking the facts.
I'd like to discuss one single issue and see where it goes. |
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Frequencies Not Known To Normals
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Parts Unknown
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EXIT STAGE LEFT! EXIT STAGE RIGHT! THERE IS NO PLACE TO RUN; ALL THE FUSES IN THE EXIT SIGNS HAVE BEEN BURNED OUT! |
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Scholar
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 59
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Out of the many suspicious events that day, I will agree that WTC #7 is the most damning. The recent dust analysis paper, along with witness testimony of explosions and molten steel really drive the point home.
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: South Africa
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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. |
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Scholar
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 11,497
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And so it begins...
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: South Africa
Posts: 282
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There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact. |
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Banned
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: NWO headquarters
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
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Keeper of the Kool-Vax
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: The Far East...of Canada
Posts: 20,816
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Guiliani's secret bunker was not really for Emergency Preparedness, but rather housed a whore house used by all the presidents and politicians. Word got out to Prisonplanet of this on 9/11, so it had to be taken down.
(Cue music) TAM
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Suspended
Join Date: Apr 2009
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Master Poster
Join Date: Mar 2007
Posts: 2,272
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But on Mythbusters last night, they had something that actually did that - thermite plus ice. So, the NWO clandestinely brought in tons of ice blocks and thermite, melted the some steel and then caused explosions when the thermite reached the ice. The ice melts away, and the thermite leaves residue that would normally be found in the wreckage.
This theory is better than anything the TM has produced to date. |
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Zensmack (LastChild, Laughing Assassin, RazetheFlag, Wastrel, TruthbyDecree) - Working his way up the sock puppet chain, trying to overtake P'Doh. Or, are they the same? Quote me where I said conspiracists use evidence. - mchapman |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: UK
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: UK
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Illuminator
Join Date: May 2009
Location: New York
Posts: 3,646
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a long time ago when i first started "debating" with truthers
i found an article on one of their research sites that was instructions on how to debate debunkers it included instructions that read something like "dont stay on one subject too long, switch topics often" "dont rebut things, change subjects" etc it was a pretty long read and shows how the "truth" operates (dirty tactics) i've been looking for it the last few weeks but i fear its been deleted hopefully at some point someone here has read it too and has a link or a copy |
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"I joined this forum to learn about the people who think that 9/11 was an inside job. I've learned that they believe nutty things and are not very good at explaining them." - FineWine "The agencies involved with studying the WTC collapse no more needed to consider explosives than the police need to consider brain cancer in a shooting death." - ElMondoHummus |
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Graduate Poster
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Location: UK
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Master Poster
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Zensmack (LastChild, Laughing Assassin, RazetheFlag, Wastrel, TruthbyDecree) - Working his way up the sock puppet chain, trying to overtake P'Doh. Or, are they the same? Quote me where I said conspiracists use evidence. - mchapman |
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: UK
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Yeah. It will run and run for so long that they will eventually believe the crap that they themselves started. Then come to JREF in 2012 with some wiki article or third hand statement from an unknown WTC employee who witnessed men in black suits carrying large dripping blocks of ice through the lobby. Hey i could get used to this story telling stuff
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 4,664
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Yeah I saw that. Very interesting. I was a little disturbed that that they did not really try to guess what caused the explosion. Seemed to me pretty clear that what we were seeing was the explosive release of super heated steam. They suggested water separating into hydrogen and oxygen? Thermite dispersed in the air?
Guess they never saw a steam boiler blow up. |
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AI-EE-YAH!
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: USA
Posts: 5,830
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Direct me to one single witness testimony of someone hearing an explosion while WTC7 was collapsing. Oh and just FYI, if there were explosives detonated in WTC7, they would have been heard for miles (Ever been to a controlled demo? Yeah they are LOUD). But yet, not a single piece of audio equipment recording that day picked up any sort of explosions in WTC7. Why is that?
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Looks like the one on top has a magazine, thus needs less reloading. Also, the muzzle shroud makes it less likely for a spree killer to burn his hands. The pistol grip makes it more comfortable for the spree killer to shoot. thaiboxerken |
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Graduate Poster
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Based on a true story!
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Kansas City, MO
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No, no, no, you all don't understand. They don't look for smoking guns. They try to smoke the guns. This is the real reason there are so few of them anymore. They put the barrels in their mouth, inhale, and put a lighter to it.
Tragic, really. |
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AI-EE-YAH!
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: USA
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Looks like the one on top has a magazine, thus needs less reloading. Also, the muzzle shroud makes it less likely for a spree killer to burn his hands. The pistol grip makes it more comfortable for the spree killer to shoot. thaiboxerken |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere between Here and There
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You obviously weren't at last month's NWO meeting. It was explained that the guidelines were taken down by NWO operatives and the authors were kidnapped and disposed of at the same Area 51 rendering facility used to get rid of the passengers from the fake 9/11 flights.
This is top secret information, but publishing it online as I am today is part of our psy-ops disinfo campaign. Hiding in plain sight, as it were. |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Dog House
Posts: 19,895
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You presented hearsay and moronic Jones junk-science.
Evidence is what was asked; do you know evidence. Please do not say explosions were from explosives without evidence, there were zero sounds of explosives on 911 so you will need to bring more than lies and fantasy. |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 298
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I have composed a comphrehensive & detailed list of the twoof movements accomplishments & resulting societal impact since 2001:
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Illuminator
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere between Here and There
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In all seriousness, AFAIK, there is no single piece of evidence which is used to 'prove' the inside job theory.
The term 'smoking gun' was used recently by Dr. Steven Jones, discussing his team's paper 'Active Thermitic Material Discovered in dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe' on Visibility 9/11 this year. As you may know, the paper focuses on the small Red/Grey chips found in WTC dust samples. I think the paper is one of the most thoroughly and competently researched inquiries made by the 9/11 truth movement to date. As yet, the results are somewhat incomplete - they haven't identified the Grey layer, the 'organic binder', and they haven't yet isolated the Red layer to determine what the energy output of it is by itself. Nor did they get combustion of the chips in the absence of oxygen - now THAT would have been interesting! As it stands today, you'd probably agree that the term 'smoking gun' is premature for this line of inquiry. More accurately it should be labeled 'potential smoking gun, TBC' Here's a link to the interview. Also check out the infomercial by A&E for T's Richard Gage! (There is a blurb on the right of their home page outlining the case for CD at WTC7 http://www.ae911truth.org/) http://cdn4.libsyn.com/visibility911...3d739edfe47394 |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 298
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Correction...that was the "Loaded gun" not the 'Smoking gun'.
Get your twoof guns straight Next I can only assume we will have the 'Empty gun' and finally the "new in wrapper never opened resale special' gun :-) |
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 298
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Discussing the
Also, it has not been determined that what they found was: A)Active Thermitic Material Nor has it been even remotley concluded to be B)Discovered in dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe So, at face value...it falls all over itself.... BTW--great job on your YouTube vids |
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Pedantic Bore
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Abandon All Hope
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AI-EE-YAH!
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: USA
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Please tell me everyone knows where that pic is from...
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Looks like the one on top has a magazine, thus needs less reloading. Also, the muzzle shroud makes it less likely for a spree killer to burn his hands. The pistol grip makes it more comfortable for the spree killer to shoot. thaiboxerken |
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Scholar
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Space
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I was wondering how the CD of WTC7 would automatically imply an "inside job"?
Why couldn't some redneck anti-gubmint types have blown it up? A few warriors working as security guards set up the magic-o-explosives and blow the thing up. Or some islamic fundamentalists for that matter? If it was so easy to rig the building without anyone noticing where's the problem in these two scenarios? So what specifically proves "inside job" if WTC7 was in fact blown up? |
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Critical Thinker
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AI-EE-YAH!
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: USA
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Looks like the one on top has a magazine, thus needs less reloading. Also, the muzzle shroud makes it less likely for a spree killer to burn his hands. The pistol grip makes it more comfortable for the spree killer to shoot. thaiboxerken |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
Posts: 11,497
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Hot Shots?
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Critical Thinker
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 476
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...this is complete bunk. How you can make such ridiculous generalizations without being totally called out by your fellow members is beyond me. Is there a skeptics handbook that you "all" refer to? Jref, so quick to destroy any mistatement made by a member of alternate theory, and yet so happy to let anyone posting garbage that fits their worldview get a pass.....
Why don't you hold everyone to the same standards? It would lend credibility to any member who did, imo. Has anyone been able to explain how the fires in the two towers were only hot enough to cause structural failure(ie. not melt steel), yet molten metals were found in the rubble piles? Why was the steel hot enough to melt the worker's boots in the weeks post-collapse? Could the fires that burned in the damaged sections of the towers spread as the building collapsed, and then grow into larger fires below the rubble that reached hotter temperatures? |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere between Here and There
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Oh, thanks! Well, the Jones paper was in fact peer reviewed, although people are skeptical about the journal it was published in. I don't think it's fair to characterize the chip testing as junk science, but as I pointed out the conclusions Jones et al. are drawing are not really supported by that evidence.
See where I'm going? Incidentally, Jones seems confused about what the possible role of any such nanothermite might have been in the collapses anyway. In a discussion with Dr. Frank Greening, he seemed to be favouring the idea that NT was used as a detonator for conventional high-explosives. But he also speculates that the NT might have been 'painted on', possibly by unsuspecting workers, onto core steel columns. Either way, he's not really theorizing high temperature steel melting, he's leaning towards a high-explosive effect. There are serious problems with that idea, starting with the fact that there weren't any detonations, blast shockwaves or that type of evidence observed. Here's a really good illustration of the absence of detonations. It doesn't get any more clear than this video, taken fairly close to the collapse - the camera is zoomed in fairly tight to the burning areas, and captures the beginning of collapse. The only sound heard is a growing rumbling sound as the collapse progresses. Doesn't look at all like CD to me. Doesn't matter whether it's nanothermite or not.
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Graduate Poster
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Beyond the Sun
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Platoon?
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