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Title: The 9/11 conspiracy plots thicken
Source: Seattle Times
URL Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ht ... /2003250424_911conspire09.html
Published: Sep 09, 2006
Author: Michael Powell, wapo
Post Date: 2010-07-19 22:23:35 by Dakmar
Keywords: None
Views: 15387
Comments: 989

They are politically diverse and include academics, ex-officials and Web surfers. All share a belief that the Bush administration played a role in the 9/11 attacks. Their numbers seem to speak to Americans' innate distrust of their government.

By Michael Powell

The Washington Post

NEW YORK — He felt no shiver of doubt in those first terrible hours.

He watched the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and assumed al-Qaida had wreaked terrible vengeance. He listened to anchors and military experts and assumed the facts of Sept. 11, 2001, were as stated on the screen.

It was a year before David Ray Griffin, an eminent liberal theologian and philosopher, began his stroll down the path of disbelief. He wondered why Bush listened to a child's story while the nation was attacked and how Osama bin Laden, America's Public Enemy No. 1, escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora.

He wondered why 110-story towers crashed and military jets failed to intercept even one airliner. He read the 9/11 Commission report with a swell of anger. Contradictions were ignored and no military or civilian official was reprimanded, much less cashiered.

"To me, the report read as a cartoon," Griffin said. "It's a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives."

Such as?

"There was massive complicity in this attack by U.S. government operatives."

If that feels like a skip off the cliff of established reality, more Americans are in free fall than you might guess. There are few more startling measures of American distrust of leaders than the extent of belief that the Bush administration had a hand in the attacks of Sept. 11 to spark an invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq.

36 percent suspicious

A recent Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll of 1,010 Americans found that 36 percent suspect the U.S. government promoted the attacks or intentionally sat on its hands. Sixteen percent believe explosives brought down the towers. Twelve percent believe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon.

Distrust percolates more strongly near Ground Zero. A Zogby International poll of New York City residents two years ago found 49.3 percent believed the government "consciously failed to act."

Establishment assessments of the believers tend toward the psychotherapeutic. Many academics, politicians and thinkers left, right and center say the conspiracy theories are a case of one plus one equals five. It's a piling up of improbabilities.

Thomas Eager, a professor of materials science at MIT, has studied the collapse of the twin towers. "At first, I thought it was amazing that the buildings would come down in their own footprints," Eager says. "Then I realized that it wasn't that amazing — it's the only way a building that weighs a million tons and is 95 percent air can come down."

But the chatter out there is loud enough for the National Institute of Standards and Technology to post a Web "fact sheet" poking holes in the conspiracy theories and defending its report on the towers.

Motley crew

The loose agglomeration known as the "9/11 Truth Movement" has stopped looking for truth from the government. A cacophonous and free-range a bunch of conspiracists, they produce hip-hop inflected documentaries and scholarly conferences. The Web is their mother lode. Every citizen is a researcher.

Did you see that the CIA met with bin Laden in a hospital room in Dubai? Check out this Pakistani site; there are really weird doings in Baluchistan ...

Peter Knight, senior lecturer in American studies at the University of Manchester and editor of the 2002 book "Conspiracy Nation: The Politics of Paranoia in Postwar America," called the movement "a strange beast, an amalgam of elements. You've got the anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war crowd — you know, if they lied about the war, maybe they lied about 9/11. Another part is people merely interested in the anomalies, with no preconceived political agenda.

"Then you have the more traditional right-wing conspiracy part of the continuum that believes a vast cabal has taken over the United States, the mega-conspiracy of the right's new world order. To them, all of these things are connected. Each group inserts 9/11 into its pre-existing conspiracy model."

The academic wing is led by Griffin, who founded the Center for a Postmodern World at Claremont University; James Fetzer, a tenured philosopher at the University of Minnesota; and Daniel Orr, retired chairman of the economics department at the University of Illinois.

Professor suspended

The movement's de facto minister of engineering is Steven Jones, a tenured physics professor at Brigham Young University who has studied vectors and velocities and tested explosives and concluded that the collapse of the twin towers is best explained as controlled demolition, sped by a thousand pounds of high-grade thermite.

Jones has been placed on paid leave while the Mormon-church-owned school investigates his claims, it was announced Friday.

The physicist published his views two weeks ago in the book "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out."

Former Reagan aide Barbara Honegger is a senior military-affairs journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School in California. She's convinced, based on her freelance research, that a bomb went off about six minutes before an airplane hit the Pentagon — or didn't hit it, as some believe the case may be.

Then there's Morgan O. Reynolds, appointed by George W. Bush as chief economist at the Labor Department. He left in 2002 and doesn't think much of his former boss.

"Who did it? Elements of our government and M-16 and the Mossad. The government's case is a laugh-out-loud proposition. They used patsies and lies and subterfuge and there's no way that Bush and Cheney could have invaded Iraq without the help of 9/11," Reynolds asserts.

They are cantankerous and sometimes distrust each other — who knows where the double agents lurk? But unreasonable questions resonate with the reasonable. Colleen Kelly's brother, a salesman, had breakfast at the Windows on the World restaurant on Sept. 11. After he died she founded September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows to oppose the Iraq war. She lives in the Bronx and gives a gingerly embrace to the conspiracy crowd.

"Sometimes I listen to them and I think that's sooooo outlandish and bizarre," she says. "But that day had such disastrous geopolitical consequences. If David Ray Griffin asks uncomfortable questions and points out painful discrepancies, good for him."

Griffin's book, "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11," sold more than 100,000 copies and became a movement founding stone. Last year he traveled through New England, giving speeches. One evening in West Hartford, Conn., 400 mostly middle-aged and upper-middle-class doctors and lawyers, teachers and social workers sat waiting.

Griffin took the podium and laid down his ideas with calm and cool. He concluded:

"It is already possible to know beyond a reasonable doubt one very important thing: The destruction of the World Trade Center was an inside job, orchestrated by domestic terrorists. The welfare of our republic and perhaps even the survival of our civilization depend on getting the truth about 9/11 exposed."

The audience rose and applauded for more than a minute.

No patience

Chip Berlet, senior analyst at Political Research Associates, a Boston-based left-leaning think tank, is no fan of the 9/11 Commission. He believes a serious investigation should have led to indictments and the firing of incompetent generals and civilian officials.

But he has no patience with the conspiracy theorists.

"They don't do their homework; it's a kind of charlatanism," says Berlet. "They say there's no debris on the lawn in front of the Pentagon, but they base their analysis on a photo on the Internet. That's like analyzing an impressionist painting by looking at a postcard.

"I love 'The X-Files' but I don't base my research on it. My vision of hell is having to review these [conspiracy] books over and over again."

In the days after Sept. 11, experts claimed temperatures reached 2,000 degrees on the upper floors. Others claimed steel melted. Nope. What happened, says Eager, the MIT materials-science professor, is that jet fuel sloshed around and beams got rubbery.

"It's not too much to think that you could have some regions at 900 degrees and others at 1,200 degrees, and that will distort the beams."

The truth movement doesn't really care for Eager. A Web site casts a fisheye of suspicion at the professor and his colleagues. "Did the MIT have prior knowledge?" notes one chat room. "This is for sure another speculative topic ... "

Professsor Jones' suspension was reported Friday by The Associated Press. Peter Knight was quoted by McClatchy Newspapers.

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#710. To: AGAviator (#700)

His plan was to hit the building from the side, not from the top.

So instead of PLANNING the easiest and most effective approach, he PLANNED to use the most difficult and INEFFECTIVE way he could find, because he liked a challenge?

Uh huh.

The most damage causing approach is horizontal. A vertical approach would waste most of its energy digging a great big hole in the ground.

Try thinking for a few moments before posting reflex denials.

And you know and can prove this was his plan how?

Were you on the inside helping to plan this attack?

If not how do you know what the plan of attack was?

GOT PROOF?

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-07-27   17:11:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#711. To: FormerLurker (#708)

Name the differences instead of waving your arms.

Let's see, first off there are at least 4 sticks on a console between the pilot and co-pilot to control the engine thrust on a 4 engine jet, NO stick on most single engine planes, where the control is a rod that is pulled out or pushed into the instrument panel to increase or decrease engine speed.

That's something VERY basic. Most of the instruments, if not all of them, are computer generated images on various displays on the instrument panel of a private jet, not analog indicators as that found on a single engine aircraft such as a Cessna 172.

The list goes on and on, but you get the picture...

He might but he'll deny he does with more vague arm waving, histrionics, and avoidance. Der talkink points vill bhe adhered to!

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-07-27   17:14:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#712. To: AGAviator (#707)

It is a documented fact that the 757's wings clipped light standards and also partially but not completely knockeded the tops of construction equipment on the lawns.

It would HAD to have knocked over light poles to reach the target while flying 20 feet off the ground. Same goes for anything else in the alleged path.

So what? Its wings had to be level or they would have HIT THE GROUND.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:14:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#713. To: christine (#709)

Yes indeed: "The answer is blowin' in the wind."

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-07-27   17:15:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#714. To: Oink, buckeroo (#704) (Edited)

Because he was able to miss the easy target this incompetent suddenly becomes a, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Jet Ace able to fly a Jumbo Jet at tree top height at 400+ mph and then with micrometer like touches to the controls wobble to 20 feet off the ground, leaving 2.5 feet between the engine cowlings and the ground, simultaneously accelerating to 530 mph

American Airlines 757 parts were found both inside and outside the Pentagon, Half Two00fer Half Wit.

Deal with it.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   17:16:08 ET  (2 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#715. To: FormerLurker (#712)

Its wings had to be level or they would have HIT THE GROUND

They barely cleared the ground as they wobbled and the plane banked 1 way and then the other.

One eyewitness said he had to hit the deck to avoid being hit by the airplane wings. And he did say it was an airplane.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   17:18:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#716. To: AGAviator, ALL (#707)

Change the subject. Usually in connection with one of the other ploys listed here, find a way to side-track the discussion with abrasive or controversial comments in hopes of turning attention to a new, more manageable

19. Ignore proof presented, demand impossible proofs. This is perhaps a variant of the 'play dumb' rule. Regardless of what material may be presented by an opponent in public forums, claim the material irrelevant and demand proof that is impossible for the opponent to come by (it may exist, but not be at his disposal, or it may be something which is known to be safely destroyed or withheld, such as a murder weapon.)

In order to completely avoid discussing issues, it may be required that you to categorically deny and be critical of media or books as valid sources, deny that witnesses are acceptable, or even deny that statements made by government or other authorities have any meaning or relevance.

Wow, so those are the tactics you're trying here, eh? Well you needn't inform us of that, since we already know. It's quite obvious actually.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:19:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#717. To: AGAviator (#715)

They barely cleared the ground as they wobbled and the plane banked 1 way and then the other.

One eyewitness said he had to hit the deck to avoid being hit by the airplane wings. And he did say it was an airplane.

Being the fact the fuselage is said to have been at an altitude of 20 feet, how high where the bottom of the engines? Between 2 to 3 feet off the ground, that's how high.

ANY wobble would have buried an engine, pulled the wing down, gouged the lawn, and made the aircraft tumble or spin out of control.

AT MINIMUM it would have gouged the lawn, yet it didn't, so IT didn't happen.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:22:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#718. To: AGAviator, FormerLurker, wudidiz, critter, HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend, christine, all (#707)

So what government and media sources are acceptable to you as evidence, Oink?

You're dissembling again Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

You can quote the disinfo points all you want.

However, any source is acceptable - as long as it is true and correct.

However, your attempted diversion does not change your own self contradictions in your arguments which have changed over time from:

Because he had a Commercial Ticket he was therefore automatically the heir of Baron Friedrich Von Rictoften.

Which has now morphed into

His wings were wobbly.

Which despite the rhetorical flourishes IS the evolution of your argument talking points.

No, at this point all you can do, and it is what you are doing, is to try to throw up any old crap and see if you can make it stick to the wall. And the rest of us who are interested in the truth of what really happened on 911 are busy hosing it off.

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-07-27   17:24:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#719. To: AGAviator, Original_Intent (#714)

American Airlines 757 parts were found both inside and outside the Pentagon, Half Two00fer Half Wit.

Where did all the fuel disappear to, and how did the wing not break those windows upon impact? Was it MAGICK? Did it just pass through that glass magickly, and/or did the fuel simply vanish?


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:26:45 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#720. To: FormerLurker, Original_Intent, AGAviator, *9-11* (#719)

Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine Questions Flight 77


We're alien hybrids

wudidiz  posted on  2010-07-27   17:30:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#721. To: AGAviator (#707) (Edited)

He did what he needed to do, just barely, and in the wrong location. Deal with it.

Well probably not "he", but "someone" DID do what they "needed to do". Thing is, WHO is that "someone".

BTW, it WASN'T the "wrong location" if it was an inside job.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:31:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#722. To: wudidiz (#720)

Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine Questions Flight 77

Great vid, thank's for posting it.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:33:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#723. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#717) (Edited)

Being the fact the fuselage is said to have been at an altitude of 20 feet

"Is said to"

Flight Instruments

Most aircraft built since about 1953 have four of the flight instruments located in a standardized pattern called the T arrangement. The attitude indicator is in the top center, airspeed to the left, altimeter to the right and heading indicator under the attitude indicator. The other two, turn-coordinator and vertical-speed, are usually found under the airspeed and altimeter, but are given more latitude in placement. The magnetic compass will be above the instrument panel, often on the windscreen centerpost. In newer aircraft with glass cockpit instruments the layout of the displays conform to the basic T arrangement.

Additional panel instruments that may not be found in smaller aircraft include:

Course Deviation Indicator

Radio Magnetic Indicator

Busted again.

You really have to stop wasting my time with your reflexive ritualistic challenges that have no basis of your own to support them.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   17:34:38 ET  (3 images) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#724. To: wudidiz, buckeroo (#720)

Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine Questions Flight 77

***Questions.***

So what conclusions does he express, and how does he explain away the AA 757 aircraft debris.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   17:37:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#725. To: AGAviator (#723)

Now show where the FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM is located on a Cessna 172. You know, the one that controls various aspects of flight on a commericial airliner, such as NAVIGATION.

Flight management system


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:38:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#726. To: AGAviator, wudidiz (#724)

So what conclusions does he express, and how does he explain away the AA 757 aircraft debris.

Irrelevant. If the hole is too small, and there is no jet fuel where the left wing should have impacted, nor physical damage to glass windows in that location, then it WAS NOT a 757.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:39:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#727. To: AGAviator (#724)

So what conclusions does he express, and how does he explain away the AA 757 aircraft debris.

You should watch it.


We're alien hybrids

wudidiz  posted on  2010-07-27   17:45:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#728. To: AGAviator, wudidiz, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, abraxas, christine, ALL (#723)

Busted again.

You really have to stop wasting my time with your reflexive ritualistic challenges that have no basis of your own to support them.

Still waiting for you to explain to me the location of the Flight Management System on a Cessna 172.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:48:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#729. To: FormerLurker, AGAviator, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, abraxas, christine, ALL (#728)

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We're alien hybrids

wudidiz  posted on  2010-07-27   17:50:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#730. To: AGAviator, FormerLurker, wudidiz, critter, HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend, christine, all (#723)

Gee, that sure looks a lot like this 757 Cockpit doesn't it:

"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator

Original_Intent  posted on  2010-07-27   17:55:56 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#731. To: wudidiz (#729)

After 45 minutes from the impact, the structure in and around the direct impact collapsed..... hmmm.... sounds strangely familiar, doesn't it? You know, fire and structures weakened by a tremendous jet mass in a near horizontal collision.

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-07-27   17:57:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#732. To: wudidiz, AGAviator, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, abraxas, christine, ALL (#729) (Edited)

WOW!

LOOK at 0:43 seconds into the video, there are individuals wearing some form of official (FBI?) jackets getting off a bus, carrying FULL CANVAS BAGS TOWARDS THE PENTAGON!!!!!!

Initial reports of NO debris were correct apparently, and it is obvious from the video there is NO FIRE ANYWHERE on the EXTERNAL WALLS of the PENTAGON.

No jet fuel was sprayed at all apparently, where a 757's wings would have sprayed fuel ALL over the walls and more than likely part of the roof.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   17:57:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#733. To: Original_Intent (#730)

Gee, that sure looks a lot like this 757 Cockpit doesn't it:

Not just that, but there IS no Flight Management System on a Cessna 172, yet it is required in order to actually navigate the 757.

On private jets, a FMS might look like something below, which is VASTLY different than what a single engine plane would have in terms of flight instruments.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   18:03:27 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#734. To: FormerLurker (#725)

Now show where the FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

You don't need a ***Flight Management System*** to navigate by using a VORTAC/DME.

Go look it up, I'm getting tired of you wasting my time.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   18:04:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#735. To: AGAviator (#734)

You don't need a ***Flight Management System*** to navigate by using a VORTAC/DME.

Now where on the 757 is the VORTAC/DME?

Answer: It's on the FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, isn't it?


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   18:08:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#736. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#733)

yet it is required in order to actually navigate the 757

Wrong.

You punch in the frequency of the VORTAC station you are interested in, and you will see on your ***CDI*** which is on the instrument cluster, on most small planes as well as the large ones, heading, distance, and course deviation.

If you do not have a CDI on your instrument cluster, you will have a difficult time getting permission to fly in any controlled airspace subject to directions from the FAA or the airport.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   18:12:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#737. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#735)

Answer: It's on the FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, isn't it?

No.

It may be connected to the FMS on planes that have an FMS, but exists independently of the FMS and does not need an FMS to be installed to work.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   18:16:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#738. To: AGAviator, Original_Intent, ALL (#736) (Edited)

You punch in the frequency of the VORTAC station you are interested in, and you will see on your ***CDI*** which is on the instrument cluster, on most small planes as well as the large ones, heading, distance, and course deviation.

I doubt that would work on a 757, since it appears ALL navigation is controlled through the FMS. Post a link that explains how to utilize the information given by a VORTAC station on a 757. Explain how the hijacker could have determined his current position, and plotted a course to bring him to Washington, then engage autopilot. Wait, autopilot was ON the entire duration of the flight, except upon final approach to Washington. A Boeing 757 would at minimum need to utilize the FMS to engage autopilot.

From Boeing 757- 200 Background

Flight Deck

The 757-200 flight deck, designed for two-crew member operation, pioneered the use of digital electronics and advanced displays. Those offer increased reliability and advanced features compared to older electro- mechanical instruments.

A fully integrated flight management computer system (FMCS) provides for automatic guidance and control of the 757-200 from immediately after takeoff to final approach and landing. Linking together digital processors controlling navigation, guidance and engine thrust, the flight management system assures that the aircraft flies the most efficient route and flight profile for reduced fuel consumption, flight time and crew workload.

The precision of global positioning satellite (GPS) system navigation, automated air traffic control functions, and advanced guidance and communications features are now available as part of the new Future Air Navigation System (FANS) flight management computer.

The captain and the first officer each have a pair of electronic displays for primary flight instrumentation. The electronic attitude director indicator displays airplane attitude and autopilot guidance cues. The electronic horizontal situation indicator displays a video map of navigation aids, airports, and the planned airplane route and can display a weather-radar image over these ground features.

The engine indicating and crew alerting system, often called EICAS, monitors and displays engine performance and airplane system status before takeoff. It also provides caution and warning alerts to the flight crew if necessary. EICAS monitoring also aids ground crews by providing maintenance information.

The 757-200 is available with a wind shear detection system that alerts flight crews and provides flight-path guidance to cope with it. Wind shear, caused by a violent down-burst of air that changes speed and direction as it strikes the ground, can interfere with a normal takeoff and landing.

Flight decks of the 757 and 767 are nearly identical and both aircraft have a common type-rating. Pilots qualified to fly one of the aircraft also can fly the other with only minimal additional familiarization.

Built-in test equipment helps ground crews troubleshoot avionics and airplane systems quickly for easier maintenance than on earlier aircraft. Structural maintenance needs are reduced, owing to new methods of corrosion protection including application of special sealants and enameling of major portions of the fuselage.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   18:22:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#739. To: AGAviator (#737)

It may be connected to the FMS on planes that have an FMS, but exists independently of the FMS and does not need an FMS to be installed to work.

Explain how auto pilot can be engaged without the FMS on a 757.


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   18:23:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#740. To: AGAviator, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, abraxas, christine, IRTorqued, RickyJ, ALL (#737)

BTW, what do you think of those guys with full bags of something, getting off the bus, walking towards the Pentagon after the attack?

You know, the ones at 0:43 in this video...


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   18:41:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#741. To: wudidiz (#740)

Sorry, forgot to ping you to the above post. I wonder how long it'll take AGAviator to find some "explanation"...


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   18:44:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#742. To: FormerLurker (#698)

So instead of PLANNING the easiest and most effective approach, he PLANNED to use the most difficult and INEFFECTIVE way he could find, because he liked a challenge?

Uh huh.

LOL! It looks like aggravator/blowviator and buck would get tired of getting their butts kicked from one thread to the next all day every day.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-07-27   18:55:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#743. To: FormerLurker (#741) (Edited)

Good video, I have seen it before but it doesn't hurt to see it again.

The Pentagon lawn was just about perfect in front of the Pentagon. Any plane crashing there would have torn the lawn up.

I am thinking now the earlier bombs that went off before the alleged flight 77 got there, were only a few small bombs, just enough to get people cleared out of that area before the majority of the bombs went off which could not be kept under wraps as easily if there were any people still there that happened to survive.

God is always good!

RickyJ  posted on  2010-07-27   18:57:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#744. To: James Deffenbach, AGAviator (#742)

It looks like aggravator/blowviator and buck would get tired of getting their butts kicked from one thread to the next all day every day.

You know what is really phunney? I was thinking the same thing about FL and O_I and the 4um pseudo-comedian chat club, of which you are obviously fully integrated within.

AG has kicked both FL and O_I's ass.... time after time after time.

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-07-27   18:58:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#745. To: buckeroo, James Deffenbach, AGAviator (#744) (Edited)

AG has kicked both FL and O_I's ass.... time after time after time.

In your deluded mind. Tell me buck, how does one instruct the Flight Management Computer on a 757 to change course, and how would you enter a new destination for the autopilot to follow...


"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen

FormerLurker  posted on  2010-07-27   19:01:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#746. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#738)

I doubt that would work on a 757

Already giving yourself an out, I see.

It appears ALL navigation is controlled through the FMS. Post a link that explains how to utilize the information given by a VORTAC station on a 757.

You are wrong, and given your history of untrue accusations based purely on conjecture and unwillingness to face facts, I won't do research for you.

If you actually want the truth, and aren't just trying to obfuscate, contact VORTAC/DME manufacturers of and put your 757/FMS questions to them directly.

As a general rule, you can presume that nearly all items in any aircraft system can be disconnected manually.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   19:03:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#747. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#745)

ell me buck, how does one instruct the Flight Management Computer on a 757 to change course, and how to enter a new destination for the autopilot to follow...

You keep moving the goalposts after being debunked one untenable charge after another.

Contact the VORTAC or FMS systems makers and put your questions to them.

For once you have an opportunity to do some original research.

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   19:06:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#748. To: Original_Intent (#704)

So, let me, ha, ha, ha, see if I get this right. Because he was able to miss the easy target this incompetent suddenly becomes a, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, Jet Ace able to fly a Jumbo Jet at tree top height at 400+ mph and then with micrometer like touches to the controls wobble to 20 feet off the ground, leaving 2.5 feet between the engine cowlings and the ground, simultaneously accelerating to 530 mph and run a Jet Aircraft, while he had NEVER in his entire life flown anything larger than a 4 seater, propeller driven Piper Apache, into a 71 foot high wall which was only 26.5 feet higher than the plane. You actually want living sentient beings to believe this? C'mon admit it - you're smokin' another "fattie".

I get it now, he's a freakln' out of work comedian!

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace

James Deffenbach  posted on  2010-07-27   19:08:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#749. To: buckeroo (#744)

It looks like aggravator/blowviator and buck would get tired of getting their butts kicked from one thread to the next all day every day.

AG has kicked both FL and O_I's ass.... time after time after time

One of these furballs actually posted that a vertical strike from the roof that digs a great big hole in the ground, would have been preferential to a horizontal attack that expends all its energy knocking down building supports, and destroying offices till the plane grinds to a stop, deep within the building.

No, I did not make this up.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

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One of the major consequences of the 9/11 movement has been to draw enormous amounts of energy and effort away from activism directed to real and ongoing crimes of state, and their institutional background, crimes that are far more serious than blowing up the WTC would be, if there were any credibility to that thesis. That is, I suspect, why the 9/11 movement is treated far more tolerantly by centers of power than is the norm for serious critical and activist work....Noam Chomsky

AGAviator  posted on  2010-07-27   19:11:46 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#750. To: AGAviator (#747)

You [FL] keep moving the goalposts after being debunked one untenable charge after another.

FL is trying ... struggling, actually .... to keep up with his own expertise.

"we ought to lay off the criticism" -- Pinguinite, circa 2010-05-26 22:17:22 ET

buckeroo  posted on  2010-07-27   19:13:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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