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Daily Sport
Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 6:18 pm
by David Johnson
Did you read that story about the London double-decker bus found on the Moon?
Out of interest, true or false do you reckon?
PS. Are you going to have a go at answering my question as to why Bush didnt invent the story 2 weeks before the last American election? Or alternatively why didn't Obama invent the story before the US mid term election?
Cheers
D
Re: Bin Laden Ravages News Reporter
Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:23 pm
by belfast_birty
First pics of OBL's body are now out on the net.
Re: Daily Sport
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 5:54 am
by dynatech
You will find better answers to that contained in the videos on the above link than I could give. You probably won't want to hear them though.
Anyway David, I won't upset your beliefs any further - you are clearly part of the political pantomime in one way or another!
Re: Daily Sport
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 9:52 am
by Flat_Eric
dynatech wrote:
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Anyone who takes Alex Jones seriously needs their head examining.
The man's a ranting buffoon. A clown who gets off on the sound of his own voice.
Pre (circa) 1995 he'd have been locked away in a place where only his psychiatric nurse could hear him. Now - thanks to the Internet - he has a platform for spouting his garbage to anyone daft enough to listen (which, by the way, he makes a tidy living off).
Of course there's always the possibility that he's actually a US government agent whose brief it is to give all conspiracy theorists a bad name. Now there's a "conspiracy theory" forya!
- Eric
Re: Daily Sport
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 11:18 am
by dynatech
If just what he says about the admission they fake certain videos etc as reported in the paper quoted last May in that video is even half-true then that's reason enough to doubt all of the crap we've been told in the last 10 years. Never mind any of the rest. He is a ranting buffoon, but I make my own mind up with the information laid before me.
Re: Bin Laden
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 12:14 pm
by Flat_Eric
@ dynatech: Governments have been lying for centuries - contrary to what the Internet CT community would have you believe, it's nothing new.
And there's nothing wrong with exercising a healthy degree of scepticism.
But it has to be rational scepticism, not simply taking the default position of "the government says X, therefore Y must be true" every single time.
Because - working on that basis - when the American Government were saying that Bin Laden was still alive somewhere, most of the tinfoil-hat community was insisting that he was probably already dead and had been for years.
Since Monday though - when the US announced they'd killed him the other night - the prevailing thought within the tinfoil-hat community as far as I can gather appears to be that "no, he's still alive"!
So first he's alive, then he's dead, then he's resurrected and now he's alive again. It's getting hard to keep up!
I'd also be interested to know what you'd consider "concrete" evidence that things panned out the way we've been told. The US says it has DNA evidence from the body, so clearly you don't accept that and think they're lying. After all, it's not as if were in a position to verify it for oursleves is it? And I'd be willing to bet that once they release any photos, you'll be saying they're fake as well.
What would convince you? I only ask because you seem happy enough to take Alex Jones and his sources at face value.
Yes, it's safe to assume that some of what we're told by governments is either incomplete or bollocks (I mean generally, not this Bin Laden story specifically). But it's also safe to assume that some of it isn't.
Nor do governments have a monopoly on spin, distortion and bullshit.
- Eric
Re: Bin Laden
Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 1:51 pm
by andy at handiwork
turanhosting wrote: 'It is claimed that the body was buried at sea quickly out of respect for Muslim tradition. Muslims don't go in for sea. '
But they do insist on quick disposal of a body. As has been explained, it was buried at sea to prevent a burial site from becoming a shrine and place of pilgrimage.