reprehensor
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 Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:42 pm Post subject: Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference - 22-24Jun |
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I know, long trip.
It's all Barrie Zwicker's fault. He was the first media professional on the planet to start poking holes in the Bush administration's "Official Conspiracy Theory", on cable TV. He's Canadian, so, it must be his fault!
From Toronto to Vancouver, Canadians are wondering just what the hell went down on 9/11, and Zwicker is egging them on. This past week saw Zwicker roll into Winnipeg with architect Richard Gage and launched a three-day whirlwind of public presentations and appearances on Winnipeg's local cable television, with a big supporting role from Winnipeg's www.stoplying.ca ;
Zwicker and Stop Lyings's Dr. Joe Hawkins on CITY TV;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_obODlqMgU
Zwicker on SHAW cable;
Part One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-u7vRoyQVs
Part Two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHegCopSG28
It's funny... these TV anchors are so... different compared to say, Hannity & Colmes, for instance.
Gage didn't arrive in time for the TV interviews, but did have two successful presentations at the University of Manitoba and the Fort Garry Hotel, speaking to 200 and 300 people respectively.
The general tack of tolerance in Canadian media toward 9/11 skeptics was firmly established by the federally-funded CBC. In this Sunday-morning newscast posted on YouTube, we see a report from 2006 that roughly coincided with the 5th anniversary of 9/11. Skeptics and proponents of the "Official Conspiracy Theory" are presented one after the other in a relatively balanced manner, seldom seen on US media outlets.
The CBC report is noteworthy, because the reporter, Evan Solomon, asks a series of questions of Lee Hamilton that the US media can't, or won't. The full interview with Hamilton is posted on the CBC website. David Ray Griffin says of this interview;
| Quote: | | This interview was conducted by a man who, having read some of my writings, asked many of the questions I would have asked. This exchange can, therefore, be considered my ersatz interview of Lee Hamilton, whose responses are quite revealing. - DEBUNKING 9/11 DEBUNKING, p.136 |
I'll say. Check this one out;
| Quote: | | What caused the collapse of the buildings, to summarize it, was that the super-heated jet fuel melted the steel super-structure of these buildings and caused their collapse. - Lee Hamilton, August, 2006. |
I would hate to accuse anyone of spreading disinformation, but Mr. Hamilton, have you no shame?
So, the Winnipeg local cable is a natural progession, and evidenced by the SHAW hostess, at least some of the talking heads up north actually read.
From June 22-24th, "The Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society will host an international conference to expose the realities, myths, omissions and distortions of the official narrative of the events of September 11th, 2001, and present evidence which contradicts what the public has been told about that fateful day, and evidence that has been ignored. Presenters will detail the numerous reasons why a new, full, and impartial investigation into 9/11 is required."
This international conference will likely be the best of its kind this summer, with other US conferences in the offing for this fall. |
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Mark Gobell
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Picked this up from http://www.911blogger.com
This is an opinion piece in the Vancouver Courier http://www.vancourier.com/issues07/063207/opinion/063207op2.html
| Quote: | 9/11 'Truthers' uncovering disturbing anomalies
By Geoff Olson
They're "nutcases" to Vancouver writer Terry Glavin, "gibbering idiots" to British author and Guardian columnist George Monbiot, and "conspiracy nuts" to U.S. political writer Alexander Cockburn. They're promoting "nonsense," says David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation. They're trafficking in "pure fantasy" that is "rotting peoples brains," says Canadian military analyst and author Gwynne Dyer.
They're opponents of the Bush administration who reject the official story on 9/11. And their most vocal critics hail not from the right, but from North America's progressive left. Ignored by mainstream media, and vilified by the alternative press, the so-called "9/11 Truth movement" probably wouldn't exist without the Internet. A huge online presence, with thousands of blogs and websites, has inspired the creation of films, DVDs and the organization of international conferences. The movement has chapters across North America, including in Vancouver.
According to its press release, the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society "will host an international conference to expose the realities, myths, omissions and distortions of the official narrative of the events of Sept. 11, 2001," from June 22 to 24 at the Vancouver Maritime Labour Centre.
Among the speakers are Professor Michael Chussudovsky of the University of Montreal, Professor Peter Dale Scott from Berkeley, Canadian journalist Barrie Zwicker, and Robert Hordon, a former U.S. air traffic controller.
Never mind Islam and Christianity-for a culture clash closer to home, you only have to contrast the marginalized 9/11 conspiracy touted on the Internet to the authorized 9/11 conspiracy advanced by government sources and traditional media. These contending belief systems might as well be from parallel worlds. As a media observer, I have never witnessed a greater cultural divide. It's safe to say that the nonofficial viewpoint is far from fringe, at least in numbers. According to a New York Times/CBS News poll, from October 2006, only 16 per cent of Americans think the government is telling the truth about 9/11 and the intelligence prior to the attacks. A Scripps-Howard poll determined that one in every three Americans believe their government aided or abetted the attacks of 9/11. This signals a profoundly deep cynicism and suspicion among Americans about their own government.
Of all the anomalies they cite, 9/11 activists believe they've found their Rosetta Stone in Building Number 7 of the World Trade Center complex, which collapsed hours after the twin towers came down. Michael Hey, secretary for the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society, writes by email that there was a "sudden and total disintegration, symmetrical, at a speed of near free-fall_ to date we know of only one way to achieve this effect, and it does not involve flying airplanes into buildings." He adds, "Of course, no airplane actually hit World Trade Center 7."
"Hundreds of physicists, architects and structural engineers have spoken out about the fact that the official explanation simply defies the laws of physics." One of them is Professor Steven Jones, a retired professor of physics at Brigham Young University, and a guest speaker at the Vancouver conference.
The 9/11 Truthers find it noteworthy that the collapse of WTC 7 was not mentioned in the Kean Commission's 9/11 report. U.S. and Canadian media haven't paid much attention either. A search through a database of Canadian newspapers yields only a half dozen reporter mentions since 9/11.
A news clip from Sept. 11, 2001 has been making the rounds on YouTube, of a BBC reporter announcing the news of the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building, aka WTC 7. As she repeats the information from her sources, the Manhattan skyline can be seen behind her, with WTC 7 clearly visible-more than 20 minutes before its actual collapse.
Expatriate American author and political essayist Gore Vidal has expressed his puzzlement that jets were not scrambled immediately on the morning of 9/11 to intercept the planes heading for Washington and New York. In Toronto recently, he qualified his position, pegging himself as a "conspiracy analyst" rather than a "conspiracy theorist." In a Globe and Mail interview, he rejects the notion that Bush launched 9/11: "Clearly he didn't because it was beautifully executed."
As for the rest of the progressive left, an attitude adjustment is in order. When Monbiot, Dyer, Cockburn and co. shout down a significant fraction of the public as "gibbering idiots" and "nutcases," this is hardly the language of reasoned debate. It's the rhetoric of Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly, shock jock Don Imus and the Moscow show trials. |
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