@izzythepush,
Quote:Jimmy Savile fooled the BBC.
For three decades. I've posted evidence refuting this claim.
It's quite clear why you fall for all sorts of conspiracy theories, if you believe this one.
You've also shared zero evidence of my connection with your fellow pomgolian Icke, or anything to do with reptilians. Interesting that you're up with such ideas.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.
These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.
Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.
The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening.
It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors.
It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.
The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.
The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.
NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7’s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“
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The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.
Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet.
Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.
This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about NADA .
And none of this is a theory, folks. Happy 9/11
@Builder,
I think Fauci is still loth to answer some questions, particularly his cozy relationship with a foreign scientist; he expressed gratitude to him in their email exchanges, according to the the Washington Post.
"Thank you for your kind note. All is well despite some crazy people in this world, " Fauci wrote.
There is no denying that Trump's lackadaisical response to Covid 19 when it started surfacing last year is deplorable. More Americans could have been saved,
At the same time, Fauci's handling of Covid-19 is also dodgy ; he is adamant that you don't have to wear a mask outside once you get the jab. The reality is: some vaccinated people still get Covid-19 worldwide, thanks to the emergence of variants like Delta , Mu and Lambda.
It's also galling that some people and companies even try to use this crisis as a means to make fast bucks; they even sell shoddy masks to the poor in some nations.
@MontereyJack,
But that doesn't mean Fauci is telling the truth about Covid-19. Can't you smell a rat? Michael Crichton wrote a novel featuring the same scene, which is a world racked by an unknown virus Michael Crichton would have been struck by this. I mean we are actually living in the world created by him in that novel.
We just don't know if such viruses are produced by cranks and cads on earth or alien creatures from another planet. I think it's not from aliens since aliens don't have to use this as a weapon to annihilate earthlings. I bet their military capabilities have already reached a level that's beyond imagination.
@goldberg,
Quote:There is no denying that Trump's lackadaisical response to Covid 19 when it started surfacing last year is deplorable.
Clinton didn't do very well calling people deplorables. Your opposition was rabidly attempting to impeach your president, and totally ignoring the emerging medical problems of the spread of this virus. Address that.
Quote:More Americans could have been saved,
An American dies over 37 seconds from CVD, but I don't see any campaign or scare tactics directed at that. It's the biggest killer of western adults.
hitor reckons you can't "catch it" so it's not a problem at all.
Try and find any stats for it lately. It's the reason why India has 320 deaths per million from covid19, but the US of A has 2000 deaths per million.
All deaths are covid19 now.
@Builder,
I know, I know. Trump actually did something since inception , such as blocking Chinese airlines from China. Yet he also remarked that" Covid-19 is just a hoax". I wish he hadn't said this.
I'm not blaming him, mind you. He did everything a president could do to tackle this health crisis. You know it's so strange that even America's presidential powers are curbed in a situation like this. Some governors were bolshie then; only the states ruled by the Republican Party played ball with Trump.
Biden is facing the same conundrum.
@hightor,
The author of this article is reduced to living in his own fantasy. You don't have to read such articles full of blinkered views. For all the shortcomings of capitalism, capitalism is still the perfect model for mankind. Even Karl Marx recognized the means of production in his most talked-about book.
@goldberg,
Quote:Yet he also remarked that" Covid-19 is just a hoax". I wish he hadn't said this.
Calling it a pandemic is a hoax. I'm long covid, so I've been through the whole gamut of symptoms and long-term outcomes, including shingles, psychosis, and heart problems, and that's during recovery from the initial infection, which is scary enough.
The virus is manageable using known treatments. What we need to know, is why are western governments shunning known treatments, in favour of untested procedures?
@Builder,
Oh. Sorry to hear that. I hope you get well soon, mate. I'm also petrified by the way they treat this virus like you. And I don' think they are telling the truth, including Fauci and his foreign counterparts.
We are just commoners , so we won't be able to find out the answer. Take care , mate.
@goldberg,
I'm well, and a fighter. I don't let a little virus worry me.
Worked right through the whole show, except for the seven days of the initial infection, when I had to self-isolate.
Quinine is extremely helpful. It's part of the hydroxychloroquine thing.
Notice how they're calling ivermectin a "horse drug" ignoring why it won awards when first approved for human consumption?
Must be handy being able to control the narrative so easily these days.
@Builder,
Quote:Notice how they're calling ivermectin a "horse drug" ignoring why it won awards when first approved for human consumption?
Paranoid much? No one's "ignoring" anything. It's referred to as a "horse drug" because the people using ivermectin haven't been prescribed the medication so instead of being issued safe pills at a drug store with a dosage level meant for humans, they're buying it in a veterinary formulation meant for horses. It's all about the dosage and the level of purity.
@hightor,
Quote:Quinine is extremely helpful. It's part of the hydroxychloroquine thing.
Hydroxychloroquine is a synthetic drug while quinine is a naturally occurring compound found in cinchona bark - it's a completely different chemical substance to quinine.
@Walter Hinteler,
“Hydroxychloroquine is a synthetically manufactured drug, developed
based on the chemical structure of quinine. Quinine is not a component of our drug Plaquenil, the active ingredient is hydroxychloroquine,” a spokesman said.
@hightor,
Quote:Paranoid much? No one's "ignoring" anything.
You don't seem to follow what is happening in the "press" much.
Ivermectin is being used in enough nations to verify it being helpful. It cannot be sold without a prescription here, and the AMA has said it won't be recommended for covid 19 variants.
@Builder,
Quote:
Ivermectin is being used in enough nations to verify it being helpful.
Good – although I'm pretty sure astrology, intercessory prayer, and various types of animal sacrifice are also used in a lot of nations.) I don't think that the number of nations using a particular pharmaceutical product does much to establish the effectiveness of the product, so I look forward to the peer-reviewed, double-blind, independently verified studies which confirm the drug's effectiveness in the prevention, treatment, or cure of covid-19 and existing variants. Pretty clever of Fauci to get all those other countries to do the guinea pig work for the USA, eh?
From The Economist
After Afghanistan Germans rethink their country’s foreign policy
"AMERICA’S DEBACLE in Kabul has caused especially deep concern in Germany. Two decades ago, after rancorous parliamentary debate, Germany approved its first military deployment outside Europe since 1945, to Afghanistan. The vision was of a Bundeswehr (the armed forces) acting in the service of noble goals: state-building, humanitarianism and diplomacy. “It sounds like a joke today, but read the debates and it really seems like the plan was to turn Afghanistan into Sweden,” says Peter Neumann, a security expert and adviser to Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate for chancellor in this month’s election. The fact that Joe Biden’s administration now claims these goals were delusional has left a bitter taste in Germans’ mouths as they head to the polls.
Initially divided about the wisdom of the mission, Germany’s policymakers found a rationale for what was to become its largest post-war deployment: some 150,000 troops had passed through Afghanistan by the time the last ones left in June. Throughout the 2000s Germany ratcheted up its police-training and civil-reconstruction efforts there. Yet at the same time polls revealed growing public scepticism. Later, in the 2010s, Afghanistan slowly slipped from voters’ minds. Of the main parties standing in the election, only the Greens find space to mention the Afghan mission in their manifesto.
Germany’s allies have long urged it to play a more assertive role abroad. Critics gripe that those pleas have gone unheeded. But that is unfair. Jolted by Russia’s adventurism in Ukraine, Germany’s defence budget, though still short of NATO’s target of 2% of GDP, has grown by almost half since 2014. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who as defence minister has tried to get her compatriots to think seriously about security, has explicitly linked Germany’s security policy to its trade—and earlier this year dispatched a frigate to the South China Sea to emphasise the point. More than 80% of voters say they support the Bundeswehr; over 40% want more defence spending.
After Afghanistan Germans rethink their country’s foreign policy
But they also know precious little about the dozen or so missions in which German troops serve, from Atalanta, an anti-piracy naval effort off the Horn of Africa, to stabilisation forces in Kosovo. Polls also show that Germans are persistently reluctant to throw their military weight around. There is a yawning gap between the views of voters and the security establishment. This finds expression in the mandates that parliament gives the army, which can scale absurd heights. At one point German troops in Afghanistan carried cards bearing instructions on what to say to enemies in the field: “United Nations—Stop, or I will fire!” A Pushtu translation was also provided.
Unsurprisingly, then, Afghanistan has failed to turn Germany’s election campaign upside down. There have been ritualistic expressions of support for the EU to do more for its own security amid a dawning awareness that, as an official puts it, Mr Biden’s administration is about “Americans first”. But the only substantial idea in the air is to set up a national security council to weave a coherent policy from the competing strands of Germany’s foreign-policy machinery. Opinions vary on whether such bureaucratic answers match up to Germany’s strategic challenges.
There are nuances in the parties’ foreign-policy platforms. In government the Greens would inject a degree of hawkishness towards authoritarian states; the Social Democratic Party (SPD) has a contingent of Russia doves. But whichever of the possible coalitions emerges is unlikely to have a decisive impact on Germany’s foreign-policy outlook, says Fritz Felgentreu, an outgoing SPD MP. None of the four parties in contention for government questions Germany’s transatlantic bond, its European vocation or its position in NATO. All accept the need to recalibrate the relationship with China. The foreign-policy chapter of the next coalition agreement will be the product less of considered reflection on Germany’s place in the world than of hard-fought compromise between several parties that must find a way to govern together.
Yet there is still scope for wrangling. The next parliament must resolve a long-running debate over giving the Bundeswehr armed drones; it must boost Germany’s cyber-resilience; and it must consider its role in NATO’s nuclear-sharing. The overstretched armed forces need stable funding increases, even as Germany confronts its debt overhang from covid-19. It must also articulate a new China policy that takes into account American pressure and growing Sino-scepticism among German businesses. Meanwhile its EU partners will expect it to lead the response to the next crisis, be it a fresh Russian military challenge or another flow of refugees.
Fresh thought also needs to be given to the Bundeswehr’s outstanding deployments. This applies especially to the Sahel, which now that the Afghanistan mission has ended is the largest: around 1,200 German troops take part in EU and UN missions. Parallels with the Afghan effort are obvious. A German force dispatched initially to support an ally battling terrorism (America in Afghanistan; France in Mali), with a limited mandate, uncertain prospects for success and growing questions over its purpose. French troops do the serious fighting, but German soldiers are exposed: a dozen were hurt in a suicide attack in June. “We need a serious discussion about the conditions under which we deploy,” says Carlo Masala at the Bundeswehr University in Munich. “If we do things like Afghanistan and Mali in future, we have to go fully in: meaning doing the dirty stuff.”
Yet a “grave rethinking” of public life would be needed to make Germany a truly autonomous power, argues Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook, director of the German Council on Foreign Relations. Better to carve out a role as a “hinge” power, conducting shrewd diplomacy in those areas where America or other allies struggle, including with China. But even that will require a hard-headed assessment of Germany’s interests, ambitions and limitations. If the election campaign is any guide, the country is far from ready for one. "
@Builder,
Good for you. I don't know much about medicine. I got the jab last month and still wear a mask when I go out.
@goldberg,
The masks do very little, and according to studies in Israel, the jabs don't work, either.
Pfizer saying two jabs a year for the rest of your life. I'm not going there.
@hightor,
Quote:so I look forward to the peer-reviewed, double-blind, independently verified studies which confirm the drug's effectiveness in the prevention, treatment
You're ignoring the fact that none of the current batch of covid jabs have been through anything like what you've described.