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Prole Validated Poster

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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| chi of life wrote: | BTW- It was Brudget Dunne that put it about that I'm in it for the money because she wanted me to tell her everything just like Duffy did.
But a website and a book is a more democratic way of releasing evidence. |
Truth is not a commodity - truth has to be free - everything we produce and distribute on J7, including articles from academics, is given freely. Our time spent on writing and researching, too much of it sometimes, is given freely. Leaflets and dvds are given out freely. The very nature of the internet shows that everything wants to be free.
Anyone who might have suggested 'that you're in it for the money', Daniel, won't have heard that from me. If you have asked for payment for interviews or to speak at meetings, then that's an entirely separate thing, and people can and will make up their own minds.
Yes, I did want you to 'tell me everything', if you had important information and evidence that challenged the official version of these events, why wouldn't you want to? _________________ 'The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought'. JFK
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Chi_of_life Validated Poster


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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 11:56 am Post subject: |
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| Prole wrote: | | chi of life wrote: | BTW- It was Brudget Dunne that put it about that I'm in it for the money because she wanted me to tell her everything just like Duffy did.
But a website and a book is a more democratic way of releasing evidence. |
Truth is not a commodity - truth has to be free - everything we produce and distribute on J7, including articles from academics, is given freely. Our time spent on writing and researching, too much of it sometimes, is given freely. Leaflets and dvds are given out freely. The very nature of the internet shows that everything wants to be free.
Anyone who may has suggested 'that you're in it for the money' Daniel won't have heard that from me. If you have asked for payment for interviews or to speak at meetings, then that's an entirely separate thing, and people can and will make up their own minds.
Yes, I did want you to 'tell me everything', if you had important information and evidence that challenged the official version of these events, why wouldn't you want to? |
Talk may be cheap, but the truth is never free.
Lies and disinformation is freely given away.
Journalist's are easily bought and the media frequently swayed in these times.
Lies can be bought and sold for the price of a tabloid newspaper that's discarded like garbage a day later.
First people must want the truth in order to then seek the truth.
Thus the truth has to have VALUE attached or as humans living under capitalist skies they ignore it, calling it WORTHLESS, referring to the people who hand out FREE stuff with unusual claims as conspiraloons.
I spent the best part of 18 months writing The 4th Bomb (Unpaid - no advance - at personal expense) no mean feat, as I have a mortgage to pay.
Thankfully, the book is doing okay and for that I have the J7's , infowars and nineeleven.co.uk's of this world to thank.
Everyone has to play a part to make a difference.
But at the same time you cannot control me like some kind of intelligence asset, as that goes against freedom, which is the very essence of what we all truly desire.
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Prole Validated Poster

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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| chi_of_life wrote: | Thus the truth has to have VALUE attached or as humans living under capitalist skies they ignore it, calling it WORTHLESS, referring to the people who hand out FREE stuff with unusual claims as conspiraloons.
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I would argue that the value that truth has is not monetary, it is priceless, the value of truth is the truth itself. It does not contain more value because it has been paid for. Perhaps I am just an extremely odd 'human living under capitalist skies' who is suspicious of any website claiming to have important information that can only be obtained 'at a price'.
You of course are totally free to do anything you wish with the information you have. I of course am entirely free to challenge you when you make untrue and unsubstantiated statements such as 'It was Bridget Dunne that put it about that I'm in it for the money because she wanted me to tell her everything just like Duffy did.' _________________ 'The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought'. JFK |
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| Prole wrote: | | chi_of_life wrote: | Thus the truth has to have VALUE attached or as humans living under capitalist skies they ignore it, calling it WORTHLESS, referring to the people who hand out FREE stuff with unusual claims as conspiraloons.
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I would argue that the value that truth has is not monetary, it is priceless, the value of truth is the truth itself. It does not contain more value because it has been paid for. Perhaps I am just an extremely odd 'human living under capitalist skies' who is suspicious of any website claiming to have important information that can only be obtained 'at a price'.
You of course are totally free to do anything you wish with the information you have. I of course am entirely free to challenge you when you make untrue and unsubstantiated statements such as 'It was Bridget Dunne that put it about that I'm in it for the money because she wanted me to tell her everything just like Duffy did.' |
Actually I recieved a message on my blog from a 9-11'er back in April to that effect, but if you're denying ever saying it, thats quite interesting.
Good thread.. quite revealing that when questioned by 'Ahem' & co, Duffy denied ever showing me Hussain's picture.
I suppose its only me that knows the truth then. |
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Prole Validated Poster

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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject: |
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| chi_of_life wrote: | | Actually I recieved a message on my blog from a 9-11'er back in April to that effect, but if you're denying ever saying it, thats quite interesting. |
Saying it - what, "Daniel is only in it for the money because he wouldn't tell me everything for free like Duffy". Post the blog comment Daniel. _________________ 'The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought'. JFK |
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Chi_of_life Validated Poster


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| Prole wrote: | | chi_of_life wrote: | | Actually I recieved a message on my blog from a 9-11'er back in April to that effect, but if you're denying ever saying it, thats quite interesting. |
Saying it - what, "Daniel is only in it for the money because he wouldn't tell me everything for free like Duffy". Post the blog comment Daniel. |
I would if I hadn't deleted it.
BTW. The truth is NOT priceless, it is not something unattainable and mythical as certain people would like us to believe. It is plain and very matter of fact. It stared me in the face, I stared back.
The difference I did not fall silent in the face of menacing threats.
Finally, exactly 1 year before my book was released I published a PDF document explianing minute by minute what happened between Euston and Tavistock Square and the price:? Free  |
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Chi_of_life wrote: | | Prole wrote: | | chi_of_life wrote: | | Actually I recieved a message on my blog from a 9-11'er back in April to that effect, but if you're denying ever saying it, thats quite interesting. |
Saying it - what, "Daniel is only in it for the money because he wouldn't tell me everything for free like Duffy". Post the blog comment Daniel. |
I would if I hadn't deleted it. |
A deleted blog comment from a 9/11er? Must be true then!
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BTW. The truth is NOT priceless, it is not something unattainable and mythical as certain people would like us to believe. It is plain and very matter of fact. It stared me in the face, I stared back. |
Life is priceless, doesn't make it unattainable or mythical though.
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The difference I did not fall silent in the face of menacing threats. |
Yes, you have been courageous. You have also taken to asking journalists for £900 for a 15-minute interview, hardly the way to publicise the information you have.
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Finally, exactly 1 year before my book was released I published a PDF document explianing minute by minute what happened between Euston and Tavistock Square and the price:? Free  |
The pdf and much of the info that was freely available on the 4th bomb website has gone since you published your book. _________________ 'The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought'. JFK |
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astro3 Suspended

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Prole wrote (Sept 14)
'You may be interested in these heli-tele images, which were shown on BBC World the following day, the problem is how do we date them? The timing is obviously a few minutes after 9.47 and there is a lot of debris around, would there have been this much debris left lying around 24 hours later?
http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/7-7-30-bus-tavistock-square.html'
The Kingstar van is next to the bus so there is no problem about dating them – they are pics of July 7th, 09.55 seven minutes after the blast, showing the top deck totally deserted.
If Stelios believes that ‘the demolition van is NOT connected. You can detonate a bomb from 1000 miles away’ can he tell us what Kingstar was doing there? Its office is well outside London. |
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Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: |
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Astro3 I think the date of the heli-tele images was cleared up with this post:
| Prole wrote: | | guzman wrote: | | The character for the date looks more likely to be TH but could also be FR depending on how they format the Rs. The number following would be a 0 and the number after that has a rounded bottom, so should be an 8. |
I think you're right guzman that the rounded bottom on the second numeral would definitely indicate that these were taken on the 08/Jul/05.
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Nick Cooper Suspended

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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:35 am Post subject: |
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| astro3 wrote: | Prole wrote (Sept 14)
'You may be interested in these heli-tele images, which were shown on BBC World the following day, the problem is how do we date them? The timing is obviously a few minutes after 9.47 and there is a lot of debris around, would there have been this much debris left lying around 24 hours later? |
As little as possible would have been moved until the forensic investigation was completed. Tavistock Square was certainly still cordoned off on the Saturday:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4659259.stm
| Quote: | http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/7-7-30-bus-tavistock-square.html'
The Kingstar van is next to the bus so there is no problem about dating them – they are pics of July 7th, 09.55 seven minutes after the blast, showing the top deck totally deserted. |
As has been pointed out, the datestamps indicate they were shot on the 8th.
| Quote: | | If Stelios believes that ‘the demolition van is NOT connected. You can detonate a bomb from 1000 miles away’ can he tell us what Kingstar was doing there? Its office is well outside London. |
It would be more pertinent if people actually looked at the Kingstar website and realised that the demolition they do is mechanical, not explosive:
http://www.kingstar.co.uk/robotic-demolition.html
http://www.kingstar.co.uk/controlled-demolition.html
Unless, of course, someone is going to suggest that Number 30 was destroyed with a gigantic pneumatic drill....
As to what it was doing in London, the front page of their site lists a number of clients, including two London Boroughs, and numerous high-profile companies one can see working around the capital at any given time:
http://www.kingstar.co.uk/ |
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Nick Cooper Suspended

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| Chi_of_life wrote: | | Hmmm, so you believe a hack who does anything for a story, above a guy who puts his life on the line? Interesting. |
What anybody claims should, of course, be judged on the merits of what they say, but it is also coloured by how they choose to say it. Even a cursory glances shows inconsistencies between what you have said in the past, compared to what is in your book, and even that seems to be being superseded by further "revisions."
For example, at the meeting three weeks ago, you presented what you continue to claim is "CCTV footage" of yourself "returning" to the Square. Previously, and in your book, you seemed to give the impression that this was immediately after you claim you ran away from the bus, within a minute or so of the explosion. I see that on your blog you are now saying that this was "6 minutes" afterwards, and maintain that, "This footage proves they LIED when they claimed the CCTV's were not working in Tavistock Square that day." The figure in the claimed footage is standing on the steps of Lynton House, so presumably you now think it was shot as you describe yourself leaving there.
At the meeting I asked you directly if there was, in fact, a CCTV camera in the Square that could have shot the footage, as it didn't seem like it was of that origin to me. To me this seems like basic good evidential practice, i.e. proving that a piece of evidence is what it is claimed to be. You, however, seemed surprised by this, as if you had either never been asked the question before, or that it had never occurred to you yourself. You seemed confused when I said that if it was of CCTV origin, it obviously wasn't a static camera (the accepted term for one that does not move), since the image moves, thinking I meant a temporary as opposed to a permanently-fixed unit. Eventually you emphatically claimed that there was such a camera.
I went to Tavistock Square on Sunday 16th September and noted that the only CCTV cameras in the vicinity are two arrays - one on each side of the road - of three cameras each, about a third of the way up Upper Woburn Place from the Square. The one on the east side of the road is pointing north, while the one on the west side points south. All the cameras are static and so cannot move, and all are angled downwards to cover the traffic immediately approaching them. The south-facing cameras, even if they were tilted up enough, would not have been able to "see" the entrance to Lynton House immediately to the right of the bus as it appears in the claimed footage; it would instead appear on the left of the vehicle, as would most of the buildings on that side of the road as far as Tavistock Place. The only way to replicate the view in the footage is from around the area of the left-hand side of the front of Endsleigh Court, much closer to the Square. There are no CCTV cameras here, so the logical conclusion is that it was shot from the window of one of the flats in Endsleigh Court.
Furthermore, there are no other cameras in the immediate vicinity of Tavistock Square that could see the site of the explosion, leading to the inevitable conclusion that CCTV footage has not been "suppressed," for the very simple reason that there was no footage to suppress in the first place. The only camera that could conceivably have caught the explosion is a Camden Council unit halfway along Woburn Place, at the corner with Coram Street. As this is of the movable type, there is a chance that it may have caught the explosion. However, as it is some 275 metres away, it is unlikely that it would be of useful quality, even if it happened to be pointing in the right direction, rather than - as one would expect - focussing on something more in its immediate vicinity. |
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Rachel On Gardening Leave

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| astro3 wrote: | Have we got any evidence that Daniel was present in Tavistock Square that day?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but for a year his story is not reported, until his book appears. He watched 'Mind the Gap' before coming out with his story.
There seems to be more in his book about about ladies he fancies than details of the 30 bus.
I object to his suddenly telling the story of Rachel and her hugging her boyfriend etc as if he had info on this subject.
Various details of his story are impossibly wrong, eg the Greek bus driver reciting his Hail Marys after the blast - no way would a Greek Orthodox person recite a Catholic prayer. <snip>. |
(thanks Astro3 so do I)
| Quote: | | There is a strange interlude in Obachike's narrative where we are taken to the home of Rachel North on Sunday 10th July 2005 (p 69 - 72). It is not clear what the point of this is given that she had no direct connection to the bus bomb. North's only other appearance in the book is on p 288 when she confirms that the bandaged man referred to earlier was photographed near to Russell Square. North dissents strongly from Obachike's view that Hasib Hussain was not on the bus and that MI5 carried out the explosion, so it is very odd that she has not dissociated herself publicly from "The 4th Bomb |
From the July 7th ''Truth'' website
The reason I have never disassociated myself publicly from this is because I've only just found out about this. For the record, I have never met Daniel, and I have no idea why he has apparently written about me and my husband ( boyfriend at the time) in his book!
I wonder what anyone else would think if they found that someone had misrepresented them and their family in this way without their knowledge? I don't expect they would be too pleased. Especially as I have nothing to do with Daniel.
I really do get fed up with the nonsense that gets written about me at times.
If someone could send me a scan of the relevant bit of the book which I understand is p69-72 and p288 I would be grateful.
I do not in any way condone or endorse Daniel's very strange account/ version of events and I never have. If he was there and suffers from PTSD then I extend my sympathy to him as I do to anyone who suffers this condition, for whatever reason, and indeed the only contact I have ever had was when he contacted me and I expressed my sympathies when he told me he was there.
But that does not excuse quoting me without permission, especially in what looks like an an endorsement of his theories, or writing about me and my partner at home when HE HAS NEVER MET ME OR MY PARTNER.
If he has lifted content from my blog, or book, without permission, for commercial useage that is a breach of copyright; the blog and book are my intellectual property. What he appears to have done is not only unethical and unfair but quite likely unlawful as well and my publishers will not be happy.
And on a personal level, I am not happy either. I am upset and insulted at this crassness and apparent attempt to leverage my reputation and voluntary/campaigning work to push his book by making it appear as if I have had anything to do with his tales or support them
I would buy a copy myself to check but I am reluctant to give him money especially if a) he has been misusing my goodwill in this way b) if he is libelling other survivors, notably the bus driver and the man in the suit injured on my train and c) because I am not sure that even if I do send money a copy of the book will ever appear.
anyway, if someone can let me see what he has published about me without my knowledge I would be grateful. |
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ian neal Angel - now passed away


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Interesting
Someone is definately being economical with the truth here atleast if we take chapter 6 on 4th bomb to be an eye witness account of Daniel visiting Rachel's flat as opposed to Daniel imagining what Rachel was going through. If it is his imaginings it is v unclear that this is what he is telling
When I get to a scanner to will try to forward you the pages rachel.
I can't find your 'second appearance' in the book since it can't be p288. There are only 244 pages in the book.
In the first appearance in chapter 6 Daniel does describe your flat, your cat and your boyfirend/husband but all these details are available on the internet so prove nothing.
Daniel/Chi, a bit of clarification is needed here |
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Rachel On Gardening Leave

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Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Interesting
Someone is definately being economical with the truth here atleast if we take chapter 6 on 4th bomb to be an eye witness account of Daniel visiting Rachel's flat as opposed to Daniel imagining what Rachel was going through. If it is his imaginings it is v unclear that this is what he is telling |
Daniel is 'being economical with the truth' if he is claiming to have met me or my partner or seen my flat.
| Quote: | | When I get to a scanner to will try to forward you the pages rachel. | Thanks - someone else has already offered
| Quote: | | I can't find your 'second appearance' in the book since it can't be p288. There are only 244 pages in the book. |
July 7th ''Truth'' website had it as p288, they must mean 188 perhaps?
http://www.julyseventh.co.uk/j7-book-review-daniel-obachike-the-fourth -bomb.html
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In the first appearance in chapter 6 Daniel does describe your flat, your cat and your boyfirend/husband but all these details are available on the internet so prove nothing. |
I have never met him. None of the details you refer to are available on the internet, (apart from 2 pics of the cat.)
I am deliberately vague about which part of N London I live in and never give out street names or if I mention a road in North London, it's not a street I walk down regularly to get home.
No description of my flat, or my partner, no photo of my flat or my partner, no name for my flat or the road I live on, no name for my partner has ever appeared in any medium.
Anyone searching the internet for my partners first or second name, or a description of him, or a photo of him, or a description of my flat, or a photo of it, inside or out, will draw a blank.
If you think you've seen me interviewed in a flat - it wasn't my flat. I always do 'at home' interviews in other locations, never my own home.
There are very good security reasons for this. You might be aware of the bother I had with a stalker for over 400 days until they were jailed for the max sentence recently. And I get enough nutters writing to me as it is without running the risk of them turning up at my door.
Re. quoting my blog or my book.
I'm a freelance writer - writing is how I make my (admittedly titchy) living now. My writing is copyright protected. With my blog, anyone can quote , for free, as long as they attribute and do not distort - & as long as it is non-commercial useage. That's normal blogger etiquette, and I am pretty relaxed about it. Any commercial useage is only by written permission. That's fair - people ( ie. unscrupulous hacks) who nick my work, without asking, and sell it, and keep the money aren't being fair. Copyright law exists to protect people from such things.
Copying books without permission is a big no-no and any publisher will have you in court faster than you can say ''intellectual property theft''if you do that.
If Daniel is making out that he has ever met me, or my partner, or been anywhere near my flat, he is lying. And if he has lifted content without permission, to put in his book to make money, without the courtesy of even asking me, he is in breach of copyright as well as being rude and unethical. And if he is misrepresenting me and my campaigning work and profile as being in any way linked to his wild theories, or endorsing them in any way, then I am not happy. |
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guzman Minor Poster

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| Rachel wrote: | | I do not in any way condone or endorse Daniel's very strange account/ version of events and I never have. If he was there and suffers from PTSD then I extend my sympathy to him as I do to anyone who suffers this condition, for whatever reason, and indeed the only contact I have ever had was when he contacted me and I expressed my sympathies when he told me he was there. |
From what I've heard PTSD - as a strange side-effect - leads to an ability of having excellent recall of events no matter how minute the detail. Are you trying to suggest otherwise? |
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Rachel On Gardening Leave

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As someone who has had severe PTSD twice, no, obviously that is not what I am trying to suggest.
Reading what I posted might help.
If he was thereand suffers from PTSD then I extend my sympathy to him as I do to anyone who suffers this condition
My sympathy to traumatised people however does not extend to them telling lies about me in books for money, and misrepresenting me and my family, or claiming I support their weird evidence-free theories when I absolutely don't.
To make that clear. |
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Bushwacker Relentless Limpet Shill

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| guzman wrote: | | Rachel wrote: | | I do not in any way condone or endorse Daniel's very strange account/ version of events and I never have. If he was there and suffers from PTSD then I extend my sympathy to him as I do to anyone who suffers this condition, for whatever reason, and indeed the only contact I have ever had was when he contacted me and I expressed my sympathies when he told me he was there. |
From what I've heard PTSD - as a strange side-effect - leads to an ability of having excellent recall of events no matter how minute the detail. Are you trying to suggest otherwise? |
I think you are mistaken. Symptoms listed are:
sleep problems including nightmares and waking early
flashbacks and replays which you are unable to switch off
impaired memory, forgetfulness, inability to recall names, facts and dates that are well known to you
impaired concentration
impaired learning ability (eg through poor memory and inability to concentrate)
hypervigilance (feels like but is not paranoia)
exaggerated startle response
irritability, sudden intense anger, occasional violent outbursts
panic attacks
hypersensitivity, whereby every remark is perceived as critical
obsessiveness - the experience takes over your life, you can't get it out of your mind
joint and muscle pains which have no obvious cause
feelings of nervousness, anxiety
reactive depression (not endogenous depression)
excessive levels of shame, embarrassment
survivor guilt for having survived when others perished or for not having done more to help or save others
a feeling of having been given a second chance at life
undue fear
low self-esteem and shattered self-confidence
emotional numbness, anhedonia (inability to feel love or joy)
feelings of detachment
avoidance of anything that reminds you of the experience
physical and mental paralysis at any reminder of the experience
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Rachel On Gardening Leave

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You are both correct. That's the list of symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder. But it is not exhaustive.
In some people, the traumatic memory can remain seared in their consciousness, and details of it re-experienced intrusively in flashbacks, or dreams, in other people, the memories of the traumatic event are bloacked out, in some people they are blanked out but later recalled piece by piece or all at once, with dreadful clarity, triggered by something that sets it off. No one person is the same.
PTSD can also exaserpate any underlying tendences someone already has to mental illness, (depression, paranoia, whatever.) As you might expect from something that fu*ks you up and massively interferes with your mental balance, your sleep, your immune system etc. |
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Rachel On Gardening Leave

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Thanks to Staraker for sending the scans of the offending chapter. I've read it, and am predictably upset that someone who I've nevermet should feed off my life so parasitically.
What Daniel has written is culled, garbled, from my blog, without permission, and inaccurately represented, misleading, and downright creepy. Here are some of the more obvious errors in the 3 pages in which he writes about me.
1. The police came on Saturday 9 afternoon, not Sunday 10 morning.
2.The flowers were not in vases, but in a bucket, I was too tired and upset to arrange them for several days.
3. The 'at last she was able to feel again' and his description of my emotions is inaccurate and frankly, creepy.
4. The description of 'morbid curiosity, reading and re-reading' is distasteful and offensive as is 'the dizzying brew of intriegue and emotion' . which he insultingly - and lyingly - describes me as feeling.
5. I do not have a laptop.
6. Urban 75 is a message board, not a blog.
7.The problem with the train diagram was reported first to the police, then to the BBC via telephone on Friday 9 July, not Sunday 10 to the news editor by email. I did not begin blogging for the BBC until later in the week.
8. The BBC mesage board wrong image of the explosion on the train was found by me on Friday 8 July and reported that day.
9. My nails were no longer black with soot on the Sunday; I had cut them off.
10. The business about my partner 'whipping out a bunch of lillies from 11.Martina and Andy across the road' is just complete made up * and never happened.
12. The made up bit about my husband saying 'you're not still on the internet are you?' and 'despairing of her post traumatic stress disorder' is equally utter rubbish.
13. PTSD does not kick in in the first instance, I was in shock, not dealing with PTSD at that stage.
14.The sexual/affectionate representation of my relationship is disturbing and creepy.
This man Daniel did not even ask my permission before publishing this insulting misrepresenative drivel.
That's 14 errors - lies - in 3 pages.
Oh - and the next, even worse lie, is his attempt to have me somehow supporting his crackport theory that the injured man, who was hurt in the Piccadilly blast - was anything to do with a drill - which I would say is libellous to the unfortunate man Daniel writes about
. He twists my words on the forum to try to make his point.
Despicable.
Think this is a reliable witness? Think this is honest and honourable behaviour? Think this rubbish should be given any credence at all?
I don't.
I think it is horrible. I feel disgusted and upset by what he has done. Bad enough that he should write such rubbish on a blog, but to publish it in a book? And that people will think I gave permission for this nonsense?
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guzman Minor Poster

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:40 am Post subject: PTSD |
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| Rachel wrote: | As someone who has had severe PTSD twice, no, obviously that is not what I am trying to suggest. :roll:
Reading what I posted might help.
If he was thereand suffers from PTSD then I extend my sympathy to him as I do to anyone who suffers this condition
My sympathy to traumatised people however does not extend to them telling lies about me in books for money, and misrepresenting me and my family, or claiming I support their weird evidence-free theories when I absolutely don't.
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Your post started off accusing Daniel Obachike of misleading his readership
The quoted paragraph started "I do not in any way condone or endorse Daniel's very strange account/ version of events and I never have." In that same paragraph you quickly change the topic and make a conditional statement saying that you extend your sympathies conditional on if he was there and if he was suffering from PTSD. By that conditional statement you excluded him from your sympathies if he suffers from traumatic side-effects not classified as PTSD or if he was there and suffered little or no mental side-effects. Furthermore by the way the sentence was placed inside the paragraph and inside the post implied that you believed that either he wasn't caught up in the explosion at Tavistock Square or if it was possible he was suffering from PTSD, the condition contributes to his telling of a 'very strange' version of events re: his possible meeting with you. You then end the following paragraphs and the post talking about libel, misrepresentation, 'tales' and plagiarism. So a single mention of the PTSD condition occurs within the context of a post almost solely dedicated to saying that Dan Oba is a liar and a thief. With the addition of sympathies it strongly implied that PTSD was among a number of possible reasons for a fantastical version of events and this further implies that suffering from PTSD can turn one into a liar.
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guzman Minor Poster

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: Rachel, is she misleading? |
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karlos Validated Poster


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Guzman - I must say the above post is one of the most informative i have ever read on this board - anywhere. So, many thanks mate.
Rachel - If you have never met Daniel why do you feel you have to write this long list? To me a simple yes or no will do. So the fact that you wrote this meaningless list of rebuttal makes me curious.
1. The police came on Saturday 9 afternoon, not Sunday 10 morning.
2.The flowers were not in vases, but in a bucket, I was too tired and upset to arrange them for several days.
3. The 'at last she was able to feel again' and his description of my emotions is inaccurate and frankly, creepy.
4. The description of 'morbid curiosity, reading and re-reading' is distasteful and offensive as is 'the dizzying brew of intriegue and emotion' . which he insultingly - and lyingly - describes me as feeling.
5. I do not have a laptop.
6. Urban 75 is a message board, not a blog.
7.The problem with the train diagram was reported first to the police, then to the BBC via telephone on Friday 9 July, not Sunday 10 to the news editor by email. I did not begin blogging for the BBC until later in the week.
8. The BBC mesage board wrong image of the explosion on the train was found by me on Friday 8 July and reported that day.
9. My nails were no longer black with soot on the Sunday; I had cut them off.
10. The business about my partner 'whipping out a bunch of lillies from 11.Martina and Andy across the road' is just complete made up * and never happened.
12. The made up bit about my husband saying 'you're not still on the internet are you?' and 'despairing of her post traumatic stress disorder' is equally utter rubbish.
13. PTSD does not kick in in the first instance, I was in shock, not dealing with PTSD at that stage.
14.The sexual/affectionate representation of my relationship is disturbing and creepy.
Rachel your book which is mostly about matters other than 7/7 has a number of inconsistencies about 7/7 that dont marry up with the published 'facts' so my question before we dissect it - are there any things that have come to light since you published that you know to be errors or do you stand 100% by what you wrote? _________________
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Nick Cooper Suspended

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: |
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| stelios wrote: | | Guzman - I must say the above post is one of the most informative i have ever read on this board - anywhere. |
Heavy irony. |
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Nick Cooper Suspended

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| stelios wrote: | | Staraker wrote: | | stelios wrote: | | Guzman - I must say the above post is one of the most informative i have ever read on this board - anywhere. |
Heavy irony. |
meaning what?
he raised some very good bits of information like the polish video for example and has on several occasions posted things that take a more forensic view. I found it good. Credit where credit is due. |
Whoosh!
| Quote: | The fact that she walks past all the Algerian shops on Blackstock Road every day and as you know the Finsbury Park Mosque was for many years the site of daily demonstrations by the man with the hook who used to stand outside it with a loudspeaker, these influences may cloud Rachels impartiality when it comes to dealing with 'Muslim' issues.
She may find it easier to blame the 4 after seeing and hearing mr hook's rantings every day. She must have formed preconcieved ideas.
Do you get me? |
The tortuous and pathetically convoluted nature of what passes for your train of thought, you mean? Yes, the above says a huge amount about it.
| Quote: | The fact that her boyfriend ................. editted. previous post from stelios deleted by IN
So it was a very powerful post. |
Pathetic. As usual.
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Nick Cooper Suspended

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:19 am Post subject: Re: Rachel, is she misleading? |
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Guzman,
Even by the usual standards of this forum, that was utterly reprehensible. Given what you cannot fail to be aware of about Rachel's past, and why she desires a degree of anonymity, what you posted suggests a lack of empathy on your part that borders on the sociopathic. If you have a shred of a hint of a conscience you will remove it. |
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guzman Minor Poster

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:54 pm Post subject: Re: Rachel, is she misleading? |
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| Staraker wrote: | Guzman,
Even by the usual standards of this forum, that was utterly reprehensible. Given what you cannot fail to be aware of about Rachel's past, and why she desires a degree of anonymity, what you posted suggests a lack of empathy on your part that borders on the sociopathic. If you have a shred of a hint of a conscience you will remove it. |
I only published what was published voluntarily by herself and another man who has the initials XX {edit IN}. She chose to do that Television interview and if those are her details on the whois entry then it was her choice to publish them. You'll note that I didn't republish the address of the registrant, merely the general postcode area. So the thing that you believe is utterly reprehensible is republishing what the lady chose to publish herself.
She made many categorical statements, many could be misleading. She chose to hold herself to a very high standard in order to launch an attack against another survivor and accused him of lying among many other things and in such an effort she could have made very many misleading statements herself. You'll note that I haven't categorically stated that I believe it to be a video of her flat or details of her boyfriend, so if she wants to deny any of those things in my previous post then I'll believe her.
She also made an effort to smear people who suffer the effects of PTSD. That was a lack of empathy on her part. |
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karlos Validated Poster


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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: Re: Rachel, is she misleading? |
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| Staraker wrote: |
Even by the usual standards of this forum, that was utterly reprehensible. Given what you cannot fail to be aware of about Rachel's past, and why she desires a degree of anonymity, what you posted suggests a lack of empathy on your part that borders on the sociopathic. If you have a shred of a hint of a conscience you will remove it. |
You are wrong Staraker.
If you read through previous posts you will see that NOBODY here knew anything about Rachel's past until she herself posted it.
Ofcourse she has also written about it in Marie Claire and her own book.
Nobody knew her real name until she posted a link which led to a document which had her real name.
The Polish video clearly shows her home and it is the same address as she has published on her whois.
It might be as she has claimed a friends address but it was clearly the address she had left on the morning of 7/7 so i think it is probably her home.
So please get your facts straight.
have you yourself read her book? i refer ofcourse to the relevant 7/7 bits? _________________
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guzman Minor Poster

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:16 pm Post subject: Rachel North |
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Take this lady for example, Tania Head, a sociopathic individual who decided to masquerade as the wife of a victim of the 9/11 attacks. Sure when revealed it may be an unhealthy period for those who suffered in the attacks and those who chose to stay in contact with other survivors and victim's relatives, but continuously bringing accusations of lying into the field would probably be much more damaging in the long run. Yet Rachel North decided to do this, perhaps forever making a small and widening crack in the bonds between survivors.
Rachel North spends seven times as much effort online coming onto 9/11 truth forums, the Antagonist's blog, Abandon All Fear, the Alex Cox forum etc. then building momentum for her campaign. Who knows she may have spent many an hour on the J7 forum, out of curiosity she may have even started posting on there. All she does is attack those who dissent from her views on 7/7 and other matters. She then frequently beats people around the head with anonymity thing, even though she's frequently failed when it comes to protecting her own anonymity - she often publishes her now maiden name. The only thing she has consistently protected is the anonymity of her alleged attacker.
She makes an issue out of a book that she says she hasn't read, but she was originally going to buy it anyway. The reason she gives now for not buying the 4th Bomb is that she doesn't want to give him money for writing the possibly misleading sections of the book. Yet, the book she was originally going to buy has been out for nearly four months, but she didn't have reasons not to buy the book ‘'till recently’. Her public demonstration of ignorance could be for a possible legal argument, so if she bought the book it might be construed as a possible acceptance of the contents.
She's significantly posted her quibbles with Daniel Obachike on this board, rather than contacting him in private or posting on his blog to his readership or making an issue out of it on the most accessible forum for her readership, her blog. By way of attacking him on here she also wants to attack us as well. That is her motive.
She, not Daniel Obachike nor astro3, has made a small but significant breach into the social etiquette between survivors and victim's relatives alike. I hope she understands the repercussions of that. |
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Nick Cooper Suspended

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:17 pm Post subject: Re: Rachel, is she misleading? |
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| guzman wrote: | | Staraker wrote: | Guzman,
Even by the usual standards of this forum, that was utterly reprehensible. Given what you cannot fail to be aware of about Rachel's past, and why she desires a degree of anonymity, what you posted suggests a lack of empathy on your part that borders on the sociopathic. If you have a shred of a hint of a conscience you will remove it. |
I only published what was published voluntarily by herself and another man who has the initials XXX.. She chose to do that Television interview and if those are her details on the whois entry then it was her choice to publish them. You'll note that I didn't republish the address of the registrant, merely the general postcode area. So the thing that you believe is utterly reprehensible is republishing what the lady chose to publish herself. |
Is your mother proud of you?
| Quote: | | She made many categorical statements, many could be misleading. She chose to hold herself to a very high standard in order to launch an attack against another survivor and accused him of lying among many other things and in such an effort she could have made very many misleading statements herself. |
Obachike's book is a minefield of inaccuracies, contradictions, misrepresentations, and baseless or downright illogical speculation. There are things in it that are definitely not true, and others that cannot possibly be true in the way he presents them to a degree that does bring into question whether he was on the bus at all. Someone could very easily shorthand that into a more succinct description.
| Quote: | | You'll note that I haven't categorically stated that I believe it to be a video of her flat or details of her boyfriend, so if she wants to deny any of those things in my previous post then I'll believe her. |
I think you know damn well that that detail wasn't the most contentious one you included.
| Quote: | | She also made an effort to smear people who suffer the effects of PTSD. That was a lack of empathy on her part. |
You seem to be interpreting what Rachel said they way you want to interpret it. Obachike has without doubt appropriated part of Rachel's experience for his own ends. What is your opinion on that? |
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Nick Cooper Suspended

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Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 2:29 pm Post subject: Re: Rachel, is she misleading? |
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| stelios wrote: | | Staraker wrote: |
Even by the usual standards of this forum, that was utterly reprehensible. Given what you cannot fail to be aware of about Rachel's past, and why she desires a degree of anonymity, what you posted suggests a lack of empathy on your part that borders on the sociopathic. If you have a shred of a hint of a conscience you will remove it. |
You are wrong Staraker.
If you read through previous posts you will see that NOBODY here knew anything about Rachel's past until she herself posted it.
Ofcourse she has also written about it in Marie Claire and her own book.
Nobody knew her real name until she posted a link which led to a document which had her real name.
The Polish video clearly shows her home and it is the same address as she has published on her whois.
It might be as she has claimed a friends address but it was clearly the address she had left on the morning of 7/7 so i think it is probably her home.
So please get your facts straight. |
That's not the issue, and you know it isn't. There is a difference between someone who is happy to lay all their cards on the table from the outset, and someone who others have to go to an effort to identify. Most people here are using pseudonyms and that is accepted, and nobody else seems to show much inclination to "track them down" and signpost where to find their personal details in order to score petty points, no matter how easy it may be (anyone smart enough could "find" me in a couple of minutes). Guzman may be patting himself on the back for his little join-the-dots exercise, but it sets a dangerous precedent.
| Quote: | | have you yourself read her book? i refer ofcourse to the relevant 7/7 bits? |
I have it on order. |
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