Posted on 11/20/2008 5:17:08 PM PST by bruinbirdman
1. September 11, 2001 - Thanks to the power of the web and live broadcasts on television, the conspiracy theories surrounding the events of 9/11 - when terrorists attacked the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington - have surpassed those of Roswell and JFK in traction. Despite claims by al-Qaeda that it planned, organised and orchestrated the attacks, several official and unofficial investigations into the collapse of the Twin Towers which concluded that structural failure was responsible and footage of the events themselves, the conspiracy theories continue to grow in strength.
At the milder end of the spectrum are the theorists who believe that the US government had prior warning of the attacks but did not do enough to stop them. Others believe that the Bush administration deliberately turned a blind eye to those warnings because it wanted a pretext to launch wars in Middle East to usher in another century of American hegemony. A large group of people - collectively called the 9/11 Truth Movement - cite evidence that an airliner did not hit the Pentagon and that the World Trade Centre could not have been brought down by airliner impacts and burning aviation fuel alone. This final group points to video evidence which they claim shows puffs of smoke - so-called demoliton squibs - emerging from the Twin Towers at levels far below the aircraft impact zones and prior to the collapses. They also believe that, on the day itself, the US air force was deliberately stood down or sent on exercises to prevent intervention that could have saved the lives of nearly 3,000 people.
Many witnesses - including firemen, policemen and people who were inside the towers at the time - claim to have heard explosions below the
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2. The assassination of John F Kennedy - The 35th President of the United States was shot on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas at 12.30pm . He was fatally wounded by gunshots while riding with his wife - Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy - in a motorcade. The ten-month investigation of the Warren Commission of 1963 to 1964, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) of 1976 to 1979, and other government investigations concluded that the President had been assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald - who was himself shot dead by Jack Ruby while in police custody.
But doubts about the official explanation and the conclusion that Oswald was the lone gunman firing from the Texas Book Depository overlooking Dealey Plaza where Kennedy was hit surfaced soon after the commission report. Footage of the motorcade taken by Abraham Zapruder on 8mm film supported the growing belief that at least four shots were fired - not the three that the Warren Commission claimed. The moments of impact recorded on the film also suggested that at least one of the shots came from a completely different direction to those supposedly fired by Oswald - evidence backed up by testimony of several eye witnesses. Many believed that several shots were fired by gunmen hiding behind a picket fence on a grassy knoll overlooking the plaza.
The assassination is still the subject of widespread speculation and has spawned numerous conspiracy theories, though none of these has been proven. In 1979, the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) found both the original FBI investigation and the Warren Commission Report to be seriously flawed. The HSCA also concluded that there were at least four shots fired and that it was probable that a conspiracy existed. However, later studies, including one by the National Academy of Sciences, have called into question the accuracy of the evidence used by the HSCA to support its finding of four shots.
Oliver Stone found the answer ....
It’s clear that the two women in the foreground of the JFK photo are holding some type of machine guns and the cops are looking the other way.
It was just a movie. Not a documentary.
Mark Steyn has pointed out that conspiracy theories used to be the preserve of the lunatic right whether it was Freemasons, Jews or flouridation of water there was always some sinister force behind things.
Now it is the left which love the conspiracy theories, I wonder why that is.
Where’s the moon landing?
Not that Stone is artistically comparable to Shakespeare, but Stone’s “movie” about JFK is going to affect subsequent public opinion about him in the same way “Richard III” completely overwhelmed the historical record about the last Yorkist.
A research once asked an audience how many had seen the movie, “JFK” and half the audience raised their hands. He then asked the audience how many had read the Warren Report and no person in attendance had read it.
Every single act of forgery, fraud and lies has come from the Conspiracy theorists. Not one shred of evidence has ever been faked or modified by the people who say Oswald did it.
The movie was NOT a documentary.
Whoops I see the moon landing is on the list. But what about Flt 800?
OK - I know that ... it was entertaining but I thought the courtroom scene the best ... it sure is strange though that someone hit from the back flipped back ... and that Jackie was trying to hold the pieces of his head in with her hand (from that Zapruder film) - the idea that the driver of the car accelerated was what caused JFK to move his head back but then again he didn’t know he was shot ... there still are too many questions out there ...I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I’m trying to look at this logically .....
Here’s one: The Democrats in cahoots with Soros and the leaders of all the affected financial institutions (who were promised no jail time and could keep their money by the Democrats) timed the collapse of the financial markets to coincide with this years election.
....Except I don’t think its a theory.
The courtroom scene was total bs from what I heard, Stone’s boy never gave that speech.
It needs more remote control planes and missiles painted to LOOK like planes.
You mean the scene with Richard Gere?
Ok, the prosecutor in real life - I get it. But then the things that Gere brought up I though were thought provoking ...
The existence of the planet earth is the greatest hoax pulled on mankind ever. in truth, none of us are here, we exist only in our imaginations.
Now I’ll take my medicine and return to my rubber room.
Regarding the Kennedy assassination, I was very distressed when investigators were not allowed to remove the bullet fragment from Gov. Connaly’s (sp) body before he was sent to his final rest. That bullet had the potential to answer many questions or raise them.
29. Global warming is a hoax - Some climate change doubters believe that man-made global warming is a conspiracy designed to soften up the world's population to higher taxation, controls on lifestyle and more authoritarian government. These sceptics cite a fall in global temperatures since last year and a levelling off in the rise in temperature since 1998 as evidence.
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