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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
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Gage and Farrakhan
Box Boy is going to be appearing at the Nation of Islam's annual convention to tell them that Muslims didn't do 9-11:
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I am reliably informed that Kevin Barrett will be a part of the 9-11 Denial symposium. And you can rest assured that there will be plenty of Jew-bashing as well; one of the topics will be "Business is Warfare: The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews." |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
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This nicely fits the conclusions I came up with lately that AE911T's technical claims have absolutely zero traction among even the technical professionals who signed their stupid "petition", where there is no organic growth at all. A&E-truthers fail 100% to convince peers. Gage apparently has totally given up on the pros and is now targeting the low-hanging fruits of people lacking the relevant education, but having serious political grievances. |
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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So the largest audience that Gage has ever had, by 5 times, will be 3000 kooks from another cult... LMAO!
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somewhere between Here and There
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I wonder how Gage would respond if asked whether the hijackers existed or were just a cover story; or whether OBL had anything to do with 9/11 etc...
I suspect he'd just steer the conversation toward his talking points 'Freefall speed, symmetrical collapse, iron-rich microspheres' etc etc. |
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Heiwa - 'Anyone suggesting that part C structure can one-way crush down part A structure is complicit to mass murder!' 000063 - 'Problem with the Truthers' theories is that anyone with enough power to pull it off doesn't need to in the first place.' mrkinnies 'I'm not a no-planer' 'I don't believe Flight 77 hit the Pentagon' |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Dog House
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Join Date: Mar 2003
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Muse
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Ministry of housinge
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I'd love to see the reaction if he tells them that cave arabs couldn't pull off 9/11.
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Psycho Kitty
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Patriot Nation
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Just when you thought that POS Gage couldn't be any more vile.....
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Join Date: Oct 2011
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Preaching to a bunch of islamists that arabs are too stupid to have pulled off 9/11.. This should be good.. someone should link the live net cast so I can see Gage getting stabbed as he walks off the stage..
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Common sense has clearly been snuck up on from behind beaten several times on the head and left to bleed. Over 140 pieces of evidence showing American 77 hit the Pentagon http://therightbloggerbastard.blogspot.co.nz/ http://www.youtube.com/user/cjnewson88 |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: Oct 2006
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"Farrakhan Hosts Bigots Who Claims Islamic Cave Delers Too Stupid To Pull Off 911"
Neat if someone could have a short article published in Farrakhan's own paper. http://www.ae911truth.org/en/news-se...911-truth.html
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2009
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It's not clear to me that anyone except us here perceives 9/11 Truth in these terms.
All of this makes me wonder if Gage is being forced to move into new territory to stay financially viable. He's spoken to Muslims before, but apparently that was a small one-time thing. If he's having the membership and money troubles we all think he is, he may be looking for fresh ground to keep things at the level he's become accustomed to - 70K+ a year. I wonder when Gage is going to get around to touring Iran. Would that be illegal? If not, I predict it's only time until he gets forced to start making decisions like that. |
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Grammar Resistance Leader
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Oh, it doesn't get much better than this! You go, Richard! I am just dying to see a bunch of NOI members at Gage's next speech (the one after this). Can you imagine the black t-shirt wannabes peeing themselves as five or six of the brothers walk in and take up a whole row?
I guess they're giving up on the White Makes Right crowd and going to the opposite end of town? When do they finally run out of groups to appeal to and have to go get real jobs? |
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Ha! Foolmewunz has just been added to the list of people who aren't complete idiots. Hokulele Don't you wish someone had slapped baby Hitler really really hard? [i] Dr. Buzzo 02/13 [i] |
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Common sense has clearly been snuck up on from behind beaten several times on the head and left to bleed. Over 140 pieces of evidence showing American 77 hit the Pentagon http://therightbloggerbastard.blogspot.co.nz/ http://www.youtube.com/user/cjnewson88 |
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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That's they keep telling everyone. There and Japan and China. These last 2 places don't seem to be going so well. I don't think there's much interest in the stuff anymore. It was a long time ago. None of students in Taiwan who are around 20-21 talk about 9/11 anymore.
But most significantly, Gage needs money. If he can't get money out of the Swedes, there's not much use for him to go there. That's why I figure he'll end up in Tehran. He can be a consultant to Ahmadinejad. |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
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Remember this from 2009?
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=151010 http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=155636 Mr. Gage prefaced his presentation with these words: "[...] Muslims of the world deserve an apology from the real 9/11 perpetrators, their supporters, and non-Muslims who refuse to even look at this scientific evidence. We wish that it was safer for Muslims to be publicly active, but we understand that this is an unfair request — given the post 9/11 political environment. If together, we are successful, you and your Muslim brothers and sisters around the world will no longer have to continually look over your shoulders." |
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Penultimate Amazing
Join Date: May 2006
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Yep and here is on Chinese TV saying, that "[T]he cause of 9-11 has nothing to do with Muslims".
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Join Date: Jul 2009
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Not in the UK anyway. Most times I bring the subject up people hadn't even heard that there are conspiracy nuts out there denying the official story, let alone knowing about 911T. Don't know about the rest of Europe though.
This made me think about a vision of a holocaust denier (quack historian) trying to tell a room full of right wing neo nazi types that the Nazis wouldn't have been capable of doing what they did becuase they weren't up to the challenge. |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Germany
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It's nothing that anybody would notice who isn't already knee-deep in woo. Childlike Empress, who is also from Germany, recently sent me a link to a youtube video by Matthias Bröckers who also has a new book out., but he is from the old and early guard of German woosters, too, and I am not aware that anyone takes notice. When Loose Change came out, and Zeitgeist, and all these movies, 9/11 trutherism surged for a while, with some time-laps to the same in the USA. So I'd say in 2008, 2009 it was a topic on social fora. Not so anymore.
When I tell my friends about what I discuss here at the JREF, they find it the most bizarre thing and mostly can't understand why I am wasting my time. They mostly are vaguely aware that such CTs exist, but haven't really consumed any, ever. I believe another factor plays a role here in continental Europe that is somewhat different from the situation in North America: Never was Europe more united than in its universal hatred and dislike towards GW Bush. Opposition to the wars he started were often in the 80%-90% range. Any evil seemed possible and credible under Bush. The soil for the seeds of CTs was fertile. Many of us however fell in love with Obama, and when he took office, that soil dried up quickly. The left-right dichotomy in European politics is quite different from that in the USA. Much of the woo was propagated by angry young men who felt they were on the anti-Bush left. And even the European right was very much anti-Bush. Both camps lost their enemy when Obama took over. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2009
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This is interesting to be because of my perception that 9/11 Truth is increasingly a struggle involving different kinds of American Christians. The idea from Myriad that 9/11 Truth is an aesthetic statement also lends itself to the understanding that it has limited cross-cultural appeal.
I think the idea of 9/11 Truth in Europe refers to a series of lectures that DRG did there in 2009. You can find the list of his appearances on the right hand side of his blog. There wasn't even a whisper of demonstration there during the 10th anniversary, so it appears that the masses attending his talks were not motivated to do much of anything after he left the room. I suspect this has to do with the points raised by Oystein. |
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Muse
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Yankees Universe
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No shame in who Gage tries to soak money from.
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"What is stopping you from taking action? Did you try CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc? Do you have a plan? Are you going to take action? What is your goal? 10 years of failure, no action." - The best question to the "truth" movement, phrased by Beachnut |
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Join Date: Feb 2009
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Heiwa - 'Anyone suggesting that part C structure can one-way crush down part A structure is complicit to mass murder!' 000063 - 'Problem with the Truthers' theories is that anyone with enough power to pull it off doesn't need to in the first place.' mrkinnies 'I'm not a no-planer' 'I don't believe Flight 77 hit the Pentagon' |
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Muse
Join Date: May 2011
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Isn't the NoI known for it's militant ideals, Black Supremecy and anti-semitism? So, instead of appealing to the ASCE or other relevant professionals (lol like he could), he turns to a group, of which, some may have praised the "martyrdom" of their muslim brothers and hold those 19 hijackers in high regards. So he's going to present to these people that it was all a sham...the blowback from this could be epic.
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Join Date: May 2008
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This'll make great footage for Loose change: Unlimited Yapping Edition
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This may not be quite the correct thread, but I just want to quickly dump this bit of trivia that I just learned from I am currently talking with a buddy in Denmark, who knows Niels Harrit. He believes that Harrit is politically pretty leftist, and that most of the Danish truth movement leans heavily left.
Harrit has received a cultural price that is awarded by the Danish communist party: http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelsted...cherfig-Prisen (Google Translation) In that context, I just remembered that a while ago I was in contact with Jochen Scholz, a former lieutenant colonel of the German Air Force and NATO staff officer in some political capacity, who is now a consultant for the socialistic party "Die Linke" (which is more or less the successor of the former East German state party SED). He had given an interview in which he suggested (but didn't outright claim) that the US air defense's failure to intercept the hijacked planes could only be explained by malicious intent, and that the US government used 9/11 for geopoloitical gains. I had written to him to clarify what he said about the air defense procedures, and in that exchange, he alerted me to another talk he gave where he suspected that Zelikow was installed at the 9/11 Commission with the intent to retroactively "shape" how history is written (i.e. to deceive). So there you have anecdotal evidence that 9/11 Twoof enjoys some traction among the European far left. |
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Illuminator
Join Date: Jul 2009
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This is the sort of thing that raised my concern about 9/11 and other conspiracy theories. Everyone laughs at Jim Fetzer, and even Richard Gage is being reduced to recruiting astrologers as his local area leaders for AE911T. But these guys have started a 'rumour' - an Internet runour as Chomsky put it - that something problematic happened on 9/11.
Back in 2009, a Truth nutter was posting on one of the forums that I occasionally use. Apparently he'd been posting there every September for years, but I hadn't noticed. I posted links of Truthers laughing and joking about victims and their families. One of the local members participating in the thread replied that previously, he had thought there must be something to all these rumours, even if there was no real MIHOP, but after watching Dylan Avery interviewed by Jack Blood, he was just disgusted with the whole idea. All of this reminds me of the thread describing how David Ray Griffin went to Japan to talk with their Socialist Party. DRG and his nutty ideas were fine with them as political firepower until they discovered that right-wing nationalists were also fawning over him. The hard-core Leftists you talk about would be the kind of Europeans much less enamored with Obama than they are committed to a political opposition to the USA. The truth of these statements isn't what's important. But once they find out what 9/11 Truth really means in the minds of its activists, they won't tolerate it. |
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I'd say hearing that Islamic extremists are getting mixed up with Scientology is more disturbing than anything else.
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It's not really correct to call the NoI Muslim. Sure, they have mosques, eschew pork and alcohol and follow (more or less) the Five Pillars. But that's about it. Their prayers and rituals are different, they've made the Ramadan fast and the Hajj pilgrimage optional and claim their founder as the messiah. All Islamic groups have repudiated them.
Plus NoI theology is quite different from Islam and actually nearer to Scientology in spirit; they believe that the Black race was the original and superior race and all other races came out of genetic tampering by a super-evil mad scientist. They also believe in flying saucers, that the Earth is 76 trillion years old and that Adam & Eve and all the other events recounted in the Koran/OT came millions of years after humans came about. So accommodating Scientology won't be any big stretch for them.* In fact, now that their funding from Gaddaffi has suddenly dried up, they'll be on the hunt for wealthy investors. Look out for Tom Cruise shaking hands with Farrakhan. *As for 9/11 Tutherism, they already believe so much obviously crazy stuff that it'll be a shoo-in. |
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"Nature is floods and famines and earthquakes and viruses and little blue-footed booby babies getting their brains pecked out by their stronger siblings! ....Nature doesn't care about me, or about anybody in particular - nature can be terrifying! Why do they even put words like 'natural' on products like shampoo, like it's automatically a good thing? I mean, sulfuric acid is natural!" -Julia Sweeney |
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Well, obviously, it depends on what your definition of 'Muslim' is. But really, they bear the same relationship to Islam as Mormonism does to Christianity, or Christianity to Judaism. That is, they share some tenets but otherwise differ wildly.
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"Nature is floods and famines and earthquakes and viruses and little blue-footed booby babies getting their brains pecked out by their stronger siblings! ....Nature doesn't care about me, or about anybody in particular - nature can be terrifying! Why do they even put words like 'natural' on products like shampoo, like it's automatically a good thing? I mean, sulfuric acid is natural!" -Julia Sweeney |
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Fallout from the event includes the resignation of one or more volunteers:
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Given that most of the "profiles" in the Danish truth community are in the art community, that's hardly a major surprise. There's a couple of actors (one somewhat notorious for being the prügelknabe of those chasing Communist infiltrations of Danish media), an aging rock star (was big in the 70's, haven't done much since then), and a couple of movie directors.
Curiously, the architects and engineers are few and far between. Go figure. |
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Cute
I love it, but doubt that many here understand what that word means ![]() ("Prügelknabe" = "flogging boy" - describes the concept that one individual out of a group of alleged wrong-doers is routinely singled out for punishment and abuse and receives more than his fair share of it) ETA: For those of you who don't know: Harrit is a fairly accomplished sax player, that's why he is associated with the arts establishment in Denmark. |
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Interesting that DRG made you buy his book at the Stockholm one (100 SEK ≈ $15)
http://davidraygriffin.com/calendar/...009-stockholm/ I wasn't aware he is charging admission but I guess the man needs to make a living. He seems to have found a very receptive audience in Sweden. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed4Bne11Uww The group that hosted him claims to promote understanding between Europe and the "Arab world." http://alhambra.se/order/info.htm |
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Nor Cal Truth is Brian Romanoff, according to Adam Syed.
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/forum/i...howtopic=21901 On that page, Syed also says other members have left AE911T over this:
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