Posted on 09/10/2006 2:15:59 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Hot Air points readers to an excellent 43-minute documentary by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), hosted by Ron Silver, about the coverage and analysis of 9/11 in the Muslim world. It's an excellent perspective on the widespread paranoia and denial that conspiracy theorizing has brought to the ummah. If you want the short version, here it is: the Jews did it. In fact, some of the assertions made in this video sound uncomfortably similar to rhetoric emanating from far-Left circles.
Also, Allahpundit also recommends this CBS site, which has unedited clips of 9/11 coverage. You'll see many scenes that the broadcast networks had excised for the last five years.
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From Memri website:
When the twin towers collapsed… My lungs filled with air and I breathed in relief, as I had never breathed before."
'Ali 'Uqleh 'Ursan,
Syrian Arab Writers Association chairman
Al-Usbu' Al-Adabi (Damascus)
September 15, 2001
Since the attacks on September 11, 2001, The Middle East Media Research Institute has monitored, translated, and recorded what was said in the Arab and Iranian press about that day. Prominent journalists, members of academia, leading religious figures, and even Arab government officials helped shape conspiracies about what "really" happened.
The carefully documented collection is now available as a PDF and includes a compilation of articles and editorials from the mainstream Arabic and Persian language press, as well as transcripts from television programs.
A documentary film about the Arab and Iranian reaction to 9-11 incorporates footage from various TV and satellite stations in the Middle East. It was made with Interface Media Group and narrated by acclaimed actor Ron Silver.
Muslim coverage is right here: http://www.obsessionthemovie.com/eventlist.php
Muslim Arabs are NOT our friends. I don't care how much we "need" their oil, we should take steps to stop buying it, like coal gasification for instance.
We know the coal conversion process works quite well. Germany used it against us 60 years ago after we ran them out of the ME and plastered their Romanian refinery. They ran their tanks, cars and airplanes on "synthetic" fuel.
It is our task to remember. Remember we are outnumbered badly by people who will never give up. We have to stay strong and resolute just in order to have a chance to survive in the long run.
Remember and stay angry.
It's amazing how much this sounds like DU. I watched the first 15 minute video and I can't tell the difference between the video and them.
Better than oil shale or bituminous sands?
Ah yes! We remember it well:
http://www.jontzen.com/tribute.htm
Book mark this.
Don't forget.
At least as well, and it's established technology.
I'm not selling either of those things short.
Just don't get all freaky on me by trying to tell me what a wonderful fuel Methanol is for daily use (probably been involved in burning more of that over the years than everyone else on FR put together), or how energy efficient Ethanol is to produce, especially from corn.
Make your ethanol correctly, and drink it so you can burn it in your liver and brain.
Don't worry, bro'! I hear it costs 1.29 barrels of oil per barrel of ethanol produced, and there's less energy per unit volume to boot. Not to mention the fact that ethanol/gas turns to goo in cans and small engines over time.
And, an organic carbohydrate economy slowly strip mines the soil, IMHO.
Coal is another story. I think that it could be the mainstay of non-nuclear electricity generation in fairly short order. We can afford the stack strubbers. In other places, like transportation, we need portable energy because we have a liquid fuel distribution system in place. So, for coal conversion versus tar sands as a petroleum source, I'm open minded and wondering how efficient the conversion was for the Germans, because I don't know..
mark
Ethanol isn't too bad to produce from something like sugar beets, sugar cane, or anything not as starchy as corn. The problem is with a starch based process, you have so much inert matter to heat in the distillery, and THAT takes a lot of energy. Furthermore, the conversion of the starches to sugar to alcohol emits a ton of CO2. That's what puts a head on your beer, and ethanol from corn is nothing more than distilled beer. I hate to sound like a greenhouse gasser/global warmer, but if CO2 REALLy is a problem, this is the LAST sort of process that should be done.
Typical moonbat enviro thinking. They are more interested in trying to poke the eyes of existing capitalism than to actually find solutions. Ethanol can work out economically on the farm using waste wood for energy and sub food grade crops, but biodiesel using off-spec cottonseed/corn/peanut/etc. oils directly as a fuel makes much more sense.
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