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Title: The 9/11 conspiracy plots thicken
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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
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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. 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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#700. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#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. 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wrong. Name the differences instead of waving your arms. Then say where they are located.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The words "Epic Fail" seem to resonate somehow. He can't decide whether he wants to build him up, or tear him down. The spin is making my head dizzy...
If you're talking about a rock or a missile, perhaps. A LARGE JUMBO JET on the other hand would cause MUCH more damage from the TOP of the building, hitting its ROOF, as its wings would blow apart and spread tens of thousands of gallons of JET FUEL which would engulf a large area of the structure in flames and explode.
He had a plan he was not able to follow. His plan was to hit the building from the side, not from the top. When events get away from him, he had to improvise in an extremely stressful situation. Just because he didn't come up with a 20/20 perfect plan in hindsight to you does not mean anything. 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". You really should book the Poconoes. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. You just can't make this shit up.
"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
Name the differences instead of waving your arms. Then say where they are located I don't claim to be a 757 pilot, where you are acting as if YOU are. Explain your qualifications to say ANYTHING about the cockpit of a 757, short of public information which is easily found on Google.
The words "Epic Fail" seem to resonate somehow. He can't decide whether he wants to build him up, or tear him down. The spin is making my head dizzy... The boy's just plain confuuuuuuuused - one side is speaking one thing the other side the other. It's like dealing with "Two Face". T'ain't playin' with a full load. Whar's his senseahumor.
"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
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. So your self-serving claims of either he had to bury the wings in the ground, or else fly perfectly straight and level, is a crock, as are all the rest of your Half Truths. He did what he needed to do, just barely, and in the wrong location. Deal with it. 17. 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. So what government and media sources are acceptable to you as evidence, Oink? I'm seeing a near perfect adherence to the disinfo tactics you pretend everybody else except you engages in.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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...
Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea ?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free ?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind. ;)
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? "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
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
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.
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
American Airlines 757 parts were found both inside and outside the Pentagon, Half Two00fer Half Wit. Deal with it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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.
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: Which has now morphed into Which despite the rhetorical flourishes IS the evolution of your 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
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? Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine Questions Flight 77
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.
Great vid, thank's for posting it.
"Is said to" 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ***Questions.*** So what conclusions does he express, and how does he explain away the AA 757 aircraft debris.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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.
You should watch it.
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.
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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
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
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.
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. 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now where on the 757 is the VORTAC/DME? Answer: It's on the FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, isn't it?
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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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. Explain how auto pilot can be engaged without the FMS on a 757.
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...
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestHis plan was to hit the building from the side, not from the top.
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
#701. To: FormerLurker (#699)
As far as "all cockpits are laid out basically the same", that's a lie. A single engine craft has a tiny fraction of the controls a commericial airliner would have, or from what a private jet would have.
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
#702. To: Original_Intent (#696)
And here we go around the Fruit Loop again as Bloviator reprises his greatest, failed, talking points.
"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
#703. To: AGAviator, ALL (#700)
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The most damage causing approach is horizontal. A vertical approach would waste most of its energy digging a great big hole in 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
#704. To: AGAviator, FormerLurker, wudidiz, critter, HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend, christine, all (#695)
So instead of the EASIEST approach, and most EFFECTIVE approach in terms of What a suicide pilot would perform in order to cause as much damage and fatalities as possible, he picked a DIFFICULT manuever to line up with a LOW VALUE target with what would be typically IMPOSSIBLE to hit at that speed due to ground effect, yet he managed to overcome that and FLY INTO THAT 71 foot tall target, because he was an "EXTREMELY POOR PILOT"?
#705. To: AGAviator (#701)
Wrong.
"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
#706. To: FormerLurker (#702)
And here we go around the Fruit Loop again as Bloviator reprises his greatest, failed, talking points.
#707. To: Former Lurker, Oink, buckeroo (#696)
It couldn't have been "wobbling" on it's final approach BTW, otherwise its wings would have gouged the lawn and broken up there, causing the aircraft to spin, much like you are doing here on this thread
The words "Epic Fail" seem to resonate somehow.
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
#708. To: AGAviator, Original_Intent (#701)
Name the differences instead of waving your arms.
"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
#709. To: (#707)
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
#710. To: AGAviator (#700)
His plan was to hit the building from the side, not from the top.
GOT PROOF?
#711. To: FormerLurker (#708)
Name the differences instead of waving your arms.
#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.
"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
#713. To: christine (#709)
#714. To: Oink, buckeroo (#704)
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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
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
#715. To: FormerLurker (#712)
Its wings had to be level or they would have HIT THE GROUND
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
#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
"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
#717. To: AGAviator (#715)
They barely cleared the ground as they wobbled and the plane banked 1 way and then the other.
"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
#718. To: AGAviator, FormerLurker, wudidiz, critter, HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend, christine, all (#707)
So what government and media sources are acceptable to you as evidence, Oink?
Because he had a Commercial Ticket he was therefore automatically the heir of Baron Friedrich Von Rictoften.
His wings were wobbly.
argument talking points.
#719. To: AGAviator, Original_Intent (#714)
American Airlines 757 parts were found both inside and outside the Pentagon, Half Two00fer Half Wit.
"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
#720. To: FormerLurker, Original_Intent, AGAviator, *9-11* (#719)
#721. To: AGAviator (#707)
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He did what he needed to do, just barely, and in the wrong location. Deal with 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
#722. To: wudidiz (#720)
Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine Questions Flight 77
"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
#723. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#717)
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Being the fact the fuselage is said to have been at an altitude of 20 feet
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.
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
#724. To: wudidiz, buckeroo (#720)
Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine Questions Flight 77
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
#725. To: AGAviator (#723)
"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
#726. To: AGAviator, wudidiz (#724)
So what conclusions does he express, and how does he explain away the AA 757 aircraft debris.
"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
#727. To: AGAviator (#724)
So what conclusions does he express, and how does he explain away the AA 757 aircraft debris.
#728. To: AGAviator, wudidiz, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, abraxas, christine, ALL (#723)
Busted again.
"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
#729. To: FormerLurker, AGAviator, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, abraxas, christine, ALL (#728)
#730. To: AGAviator, FormerLurker, wudidiz, critter, HOUNDDAWG, farmfriend, christine, all (#723)
#731. To: wudidiz (#729)
#732. To: wudidiz, AGAviator, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, abraxas, christine, ALL (#729)
(Edited)
"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
#733. To: Original_Intent (#730)
Gee, that sure looks a lot like this 757 Cockpit doesn'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
#734. To: FormerLurker (#725)
Now show where the FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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
#735. To: AGAviator (#734)
You don't need a ***Flight Management System*** to navigate by using a VORTAC/DME.
"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
#736. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#733)
yet it is required in order to actually navigate the 757
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
#737. To: FormerLurker, buckeroo (#735)
Answer: It's on the FLIGHT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, isn't it?
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
#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.
Flight Deck
"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
#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.
"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
#740. To: AGAviator, Original_Intent, James Deffenbach, abraxas, christine, IRTorqued, RickyJ, ALL (#737)
"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
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