GazeboflossUK

Ahmadinejad Gives US TV Interview CBS | August 10 2006 (CBS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down with Mike Wallace in Tehran on Tuesday in a rare, exclusive interview with a Western reporter. In the wide-ranging interview, the Iranian leader comments on President Bush's foreign policy, the lack of relations between Iran and the United States, Hezbollah, Lebanon and Iraq. Speaking about President Bush's failure to answer his 18-page letter that criticized U.S. foreign policy, Ahmadinejad said, "Well, (with the letter) I wanted to open a window towards the light for the president so that he can see that one can look on the world through a different perspective. … We are all free to choose. But please give him this message, sir: Those who refuse to accept an invitation will not have a good ending or fate. You see that his approval rating is dropping every day. Hatred vis-à-vis the president is increasing every day around the world. For a ruler, this is the worst message that he could receive. Rulers and heads of government at the end of their office must leave the office holding their heads high." On what the "conducive conditions" would be for Iran to establish relations with the U.S., the president said, "Well, please look at the makeup of the American administration, the behavior of the American administration. See how they talk down to my nation. And this recent resolution passed about the nuclear issue, look at the wording. They have given us — presented us with a package which we are studying right now. We even gave them a date for our response. Ignoring that, they passed a resolution. They want to build an empire. And they don't want to live side-by-side in peace with other nations. The American government, sir, it is very clear to me they have to change their behavior and everything will be resolved. (George W. Bush) believes that his power emanates from his nuclear warhead arsenals. The time of the bomb is in the past, it's behind us. Today is the era of thoughts, dialogue and cultural exchanges." Portions of the interview will appear on the CBS Evening News on Thursday, Aug. 10 at 6:30 p.m. ET/PT. The entire report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes this Sunday at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

September 11 -- what year? 30 percent of Americans in poll don't know AFP | August 10 2006 Comment: If 30 per cent are virtually oblivious to the event itself, and 36 per cent believe government complicity enabled the attack, then that leaves only 34 per cent of Americans who actually believe the official version of events. WASHINGTON (AFP) - Some 30 percent of Americans cannot say in what year the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against New York's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington took place, according to a poll published in the Washington Post newspaper. While the country is preparing to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives and shocked the world, 95 percent of Americans questioned in the poll were able to remember the month and the day of the attacks, according to Wednesday's edition of the newspaper. But when asked what year, 30 percent could not give a correct answer. Of that group, six percent gave an earlier year, eight percent gave a later year, and 16 percent admitted they had no idea whatsoever. This memory black hole is essentially the problem of the older crowd: 48 percent of those who did not know were between the ages of 55 and 64, and 47 percent were older than 65, according to the poll. The Post telephone survey was carried out July 21-24 among 1,002 randomly selected adults. The margin of error is plus or minus three percentage points.

Trillions of dollars disapears from Pentagon Funds every year.... On Sept. 10, 2001 Donald Rumsfeld said "we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions" $2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America. Rumsfeld promised change but the next day - Sept. 11 - the world changed and in the rush to fund the "war on terrorism", the war on waste seems to have been forgotten. Hmmm, lucky him. They are always overspending....that's why America has one of, if not the biggest debt amounts in the world. Not to mention the outstanding cost of these staged wars, it's out of this universe.

It's the cost of setting up a Police State. (+ there were 745 million passegers last year)

:o Yes please.

...can I have double choco chip? Oops this IS off topic... Back to serious Gareth. :blank:

I tried :(

^ haha, your right. I wonder how much a "Battlefield Masseuse" gets paid per hour??

Shut up, shut up, shut up. The next Orphan I see I will "point and laugh"??? What an idiot... Always adding that little bit extra to make me look bad, when you know fine well that I wouldn't do those things. People need to start calling you on this.....you do it all the time. Hang on......I was saying that 'Bono' maybe unaware of what really is going on and that I think he should be paying more attention to the inner workings of what he's gets involved in. The political leaders can use him for their own gain and not actually help matters. Sure I made a dig at him for flying his hat around the world but I think that someone who is telling others to give money to help these causes needs to be ready for some sort of critical press when he such things. My second point there is what I am really getting at.

What an odd story. :indianchief: :builder2: :biker: :cowboy: :helmet: Need the sailor, but it's close enough.

9/11 Hit Pieces Get Just Plain Stupid: Part 1

9/11 Hit Pieces Get Just Plain Stupid: Part 1 Writing "nonsense," and giving the word its own paragraph is not a satisfactory rebuttal Paul Joseph Watson | August 9 2006 Recent advances in the public profile of the 9/11 truth movement, owed in part to C-Span's airing of the American Scholars Symposium and Oliver Stone's World Trade Center movie, have provoked a slurry of new hit pieces against 9/11 truth activists. Most are characterized by their twilight zone illogicality and inability to get basic facts correct. Wisconsin Sheboygan Press This has to be my favorite 9/11 hit piece of all time, even topping Betsy Hart's 'argument' that 9/11 skeptics are wrong because they fear Muslims. It is the most inept and manifestly ridiculous attempt at arguing for the official line that I have ever encountered. Amazingly it's written by the entire editorial staff - their best and brightest - which must mean that the rest of their journalists are a mixture of kindergarten kids and Rhesus monkeys. Maturely titled, 'We've had enough of 9/11 conspiracy theorists', this pathetic excuse for an article dismisses WTC demolition evidence by proudly announcing, "Our opinion remains steadfast that it was a terrorist attack that brought the towers down." Maybe my memory is a little faded but I don't seem to remember 'terrorist attack' appearing on the periodic table. I don't think even an extensive Google search will give you any results about a noun melting steel. Here's another pearl of wisdom. "The conspiracy theorists claim, in part, that the twin towers collapsed because of internal explosions and not as a result of the hijacked airlines plowing into them. To back this contention, they say the government deliberately reacted slowly to the reports of hijacked planes." Like some kind of dodgy cut and shut car sold by criminals, the esteemed editorial staff have decided to weld together two different strands of the 9/11 skeptic's argument that are not even directly related to each other. By bizarrely claiming the skeptics say the NORAD stand down made the buildings collapse creates straw man reasoning. I can't even adequately lower myself to their demented moronic level of thinking to fully communicate how utterly stupid and retarded their claims sound. So Mr. Professor, what caused the collapse of the towers and Building 7, which wasn't hit by a plane, the first time any steel building had collapsed from fire damage in history? "It gotta be 'dem 'dirty low down stinkin' terrorists dat done dem cole-apses, uh huh and 'dat's for damn sure." It gets worse - in one instance they try to scientifically disprove claims that the government's version of 9/11 is a lie by typing the word, "Nonsense" And giving that word its own paragraph. Cue their heavyweight historical 'fact' that also proves 9/11 was carried out by 19 dunderheads with box cutters that couldn't even fly Cessna's. "Every major event creates enough doubting space for those who are always looking under beds. There were those who believed that President Franklin Roosevelt either caused or allowed the bombing of Pearl Harbor to happen in 1941 because he wanted the country to be pulled into World War II." Really? Now c'mon, next you'll be telling me that whole Watergate conspiracy crap actually happened. Iran Contra? Nonsense. And that old conspiracy theory about Station H - a radio intercept station that picked up Admiral Yamamoto's order for the Pearl Harbor attack. Or the declassified McCollum Memo - an eight stage plan to provoke a Japanese attack that was implemented at every stage by President Roosevelt. Our illustrious editors wrap it all up by throwing their toys out of the pram and saying they don't want to hear any more about it. Unfortunately, following the publication of this expose they'll be hearing more about it. A lot more. Send a letter to the editor of the Sheboygan Press and politely inform them of the fact that they've just been exposed as inept idiots who couldn't win a debate with a 3-year-old. Coming soon in part 2: Big city papers scoff at 9/11 skeptics, but have trouble getting names right. Is prison planet.com a radio show hosted by Jack Blood? Is Alex Jones' new film called TerrorWar? The bottomless pit of sloppy research continues.

Boo fucking hoo for you. Can't believe you actually said "bono is better than anyone on here".....go and listen to your fucking self. You're very silly sometimes. Any chance you get you use the 'conspiracy' word as you think it makes my comments less credible....that's all you are about.....not making many points, just spout out lots of straw man arguments. Really, everyone can see you doing it....just look at how many times you've linked what I'm sayng to Aliens, bigfoot etc......your a joke.....it's getting boring now...and really pathetic. I was just pointing some stuff out....and I really wasn't saying that BONO is currupt or that he is an evil man. I mean flying a hat around the world for $1500 because he needed to wear it strikes me as a bit loopy. Anyway......It's like he's gotten involved with things which he believes is a worthy cause but there's aspect of it to which he is unaware.....that he's being used as a tool by others to help their causes which don't carry the best intentions.

Yeah, of course..... JFK was an amazing movie. I just have a problem with Stone's choice to do this movie as he has been quoted as saying to Paramount that he was "in search of a hit"....that he wanted a hit movie. But I do know he has been very outspoken over the governments actions in he past and with 9/11. One good thing about this movie though....in regards to us who are trying to premote the truth.....is that 'World Trade Center shows a video of the Building 7's precipitous total collapse, underscored by a scene of Port Authority officers at headquarters viewing the event on TV with puzzled expressions. The film's inclusion of this footage means that millions of people will witness this event for the first time. This is very significant. In a November 16, 2005 interview on the nationally syndicated MSNBC program The Situation, Professor Steven Jones repeatedly requested that host Tucker Carlson play footage of the collapse that he had supplied the studio in advance. Carlson indicated that they were unable to, implying that technical problems were to blame. World Trade Center brings to the big screen what MSNBC would not play on TV.' That's a good point.

I suffered the same from my friends for a long time....but now it's crazy as they've done a complete u-turn.....I've shown them every possible video, photo, story...everything....and they now say that they are very interested....but again, they still don't come to me with news....I have to go to them with it.

:(

'Dayside' Audience Laughs at Lebanese Deaths News Hounds | August 8 2006 The audience for Fox News' "Dayside" sank to a new low on Tuesday (August 8, 2006) during discussion of the fighting along the Israeli-Lebanese border. Watch the video Here Egged on by substitute host Steve Doocy (or Doocey as the chyron spelled it at one point), the audience literally laughed at the suffering of Lebanese civilians caught between Hezbollah and Israeli bombs. Doocy was interviewing Tania Mehanna, a senior war correspondent for Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, when he chided Lebanese civilians for not standing up to Hezbollah fighters whom he said are positioning rockets in front of their homes. 'I think I'd be angry as Hezbollah," Doocy said. Listen to Mehanna's answer and to the audience response. Later, a man in the audience claimed that Arabs have made up the idea that Israel is bombing Lebanon. Chilling. There's something deeply disturbing about this. I keep thinking about what that last man said and it really has me worried on many levels.

Yes, that's a good point. Hard working Americans paid to give Isreal the means to carry out such a war. Now they surely will end up paying to clean up the mess those weapons created as well.

Is that true.....I didn't know that. It doesn't suprise me....even the so-called "respected" charities are cashing in.

Coldplay having their own Jet with the X&Y style paintwork make me feel slightly angry....they really don't need it and it takes them further and further away from the fans..... They don't want to turn into U2.......where they put a concert on in Brazil and charge twice the average weekly wage for a ticket.......I thought if U2 cared so much then they surely wouldn't have made such a horrible blunder.

An indictment of Mr. Conspiracy Some Internet sites say Oliver Stone's 'WTC' fails to address what really happened on 9/11. Tina Daunt / LA Times | August 8 2006 Editor's note: Once again there are basic mistakes in this article that we must correct. Alex Jones has a daily radio show on the GCN network that is nationally syndicated as well as being broadcast over the internet. Furthermore Jack Blood is not affiliated with prisonplanet.com, he has his own radio show on the GCN network and his own website. This comes after the Village Voice referred to Alex Jones' New film Terrorstorm as "Terror War". Memo to Oliver Stone: Conspiracy investigators have a bone to pick with you. The filmmaker's latest release, "World Trade Center," does not engage in any of the cloak-and-dagger mumblings that have made the rounds, particularly on the Internet, in the wake of the 9/11 tragedy. All this has conspiracy theorists very disappointed. They figured if anyone would be willing to — as they see it — challenge the "official" version of events, it would be Mr. "JFK" himself. "Oliver Stone, having done 'Nixon' and 'JFK' and other movies that have been quite revealing, had a chance to use his power to ask a few very damning questions," said Prisonplanet.com radio show host Jack Blood, who is urging a boycott of the film. "Instead, what we have is an establishment movie that certainly condones and endorses the cover story that was given to us by the government on 9/11." Stone has a simple answer: He wanted to tell the story of two Port Authority officers who tried to save lives that day but ended up fighting for their own. Politics wasn't involved. Alex Jones, who has an Internet radio show on Infowars.com and Prisonplanet.com, said he doesn't fault Stone for making a movie that honors the heroes of 9/11. "He is allowed to make a movie about this microcosm that was such a big part of 9/11," said Jones. "We know that the police and firefighters were heroes, and I agree with that. But there is concern in the 9/11 truth community that the movie will be used to bolster the official story." To be sure, there are plenty of alternate views on the events of 9/11. Some believe the CIA was in on the attacks. Others wonder if bombs had been planted inside the towers. Still others think the U.S. government knew the attacks were coming but chose not to act. In March, actor Charlie Sheen said in an interview with Jones that he too questions the "official 9/11 story." "It seems to me like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners and hitting 75% of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory. It raises a lot of questions." Sheen added: "There was a feeling, it just didn't look like any commercial jetliner I've flown on anytime in my life, and then when the buildings came down later on that day, I said to my brother, 'Call me insane, but did it sort of look like those buildings came down in a controlled demolition'?" Sheen also told Jones he wanted an independent investigation of the events leading up to 9/11. "It is up to us to reveal the truth. It is up to us because we owe it to the families; we owe it to the victims. We owe it to everybody's life who was drastically altered horrifically that day and forever. We owe it to them to uncover what happened." Now with Stone in the mix, there's even more intrigue. Some theorists theorize: Maybe the director himself is part of the 9/11 plot. "Was Stone used by the Illuminati as an unknowing pawn to whitewash the 9/11 conspiracy theories to the masses?" wondered blogger John Conner. "Was he approached with the project and coerced into a commitment to occupy his time in attempts to thwart any other 9/11 angle from being used? Is Stone a pawn in the game? Perhaps Stone didn't know at the time, and found out too late. Perhaps production had begun, and he was already on board when he found the 9/11 rabbit hole." The questions just add fodder to the debate. "At some point you will see a Hollywood film that looks at alternative views of the official 9/11 story," said Jones. "It's just who's got the courage to do it."

Well, I wouldn't count on him finding you.....he still hasn't found what he's looking for since 1987

Fakes On A Plane - Conspiracy buffs craft their own online WTC movies by Ed Halter Villagevoice.com