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In the second half of the 20th century, the burgeoning American media was co-opted by something called Operation Mockingbird, the CIA's subversion of the free press in America. Frank Wisner, who ran the project in the 1940s and 1950s for the Agency, once famously said that the American media was like his own "...personal Wurlitzer; I can play any tune I want on it and America will follow along."
In the 1970s, CIA director William Colby admitted, "The CIA owns assets at every major media outlet in America, TV networks, newspapers, publishing houses, and magazines."
In a 1977 Rolling Stone article, Carl Bernstein estimated that there were hundreds, perhaps thousands, of CIA-friendly assets at all the major TV networks, newspapers and periodicals in America.
We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false. -- William Casey, CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Originally posted by randyvs
It is childish and is name calling ! To make a judgement call on someone you havn't even met ? Because of a frivalous disagreement on wheather any photo or image on the net can be faked and photo shopped?
]There by, my reasoning that no images, or photos ,can be taken seriously as evidence, on either side of this debate ? When for all you know everything on the NET or WEB is vulnerable to the Gov. filters?
Here's a probing question in the interest of your ignorance. How old are you?
Again it dosn't take physics to know for an absolute fact that the core of main support columns should have gone nowhere. To give you some kind of a clue, as to the power it would take to bring down a core column like
that ? Tied into bedrock ? An outside force ? Go nuclear. Oh there I go all bare assed and ready for another very childish judgement call. But please bring it on.
If you seriously think that all those images and videos are faked, then my honest opinion is that you are a delusional nut case. I can be politically correct about it, but I prefer honesty.
Originally posted by -PLB-
reply to post by randyvs
So you decided to not address the issue of how you have determined your OP "fact" other than an argument from authority, and then decided to create a straw man argument as counter attack against my observation that you are holding a delusional position. And on top of that you call me childish and accuse me of having nothing to add. All in a thread about the facts and the proof only. Is it just me or is there an atmosphere of irony here?
Its all fine with me that you take your "fact" on faith, the only issue I have is that you call it a fact. It just does not cut it in the real world. You will have to do better if you want to convince others that your "fact" is actually true.
Originally posted by randyvs
dpd
yousaid
[What people don't understand is this... The government isn't one faceless entity. It's not "they" and "them". It's people. Regular people that just come and go to work like everybody else. Whether you are CIA, NSA, whoever... It's still just people. Every time somebody throws out these accusations, they aren't accusing some faceless shadow people... They're accusing real people of being mass murderers. ]
Why wouldn't people understand people accusing people? That's what the official story does when they say it was alqueda and the boogie woogie man Bin Laden did it. Are you saying Arabs arn't regular people?
edit on 19-8-2011 by randyvs because: (no reason given)
Besides all that you're wrong about that regular people crap. The Bush family are regular Nazis maybe. But not regular people by any stretch. Most politicians can be shown to be psychos. Guess what ? Psychos have no remorse. You can't possibly tell me, that people who can get up in front of millions and lie constantly, are normal people ! For crips sakes man was Nero a normal person ? He set Rome ablaze and blamed the Christians.
What's so hard to believe about history repeating itself, because they don't change a game plan that works.edit on 19-8-2011 by randyvs because: (no reason given)edit on 20-8-2011 by randyvs because: (no reason given)
All this rant proves, is that you're just another person with some bizarre obsession with hating Bush and the government
And here come the names and paranoid accusations. lol I knew it was only a matter of time. I always know I'm making a dent when the best anybody can think to do is call me ignorant.
Originally posted by dpd11
And here come the names and paranoid accusations. lol I knew it was only a matter of time. I always know I'm making a dent when the best anybody can think to do is call me ignorant. I understand the topic perfectly, thanks. And why you think I'm a cop, or what that has to do with anything, I have no clue. But that's OK... Just more proof of what I just said... Most of the people that believe this nonsense all suffer form some irrational hatred of authority and the government. What you believe has absolutely nothing to do with "proof', or 'evidence', or anything else that's logical. Maybe some day you guys will be accused of committing some horrific crime by a bunch of people, using nothing more than some insane conspiracy that makes no sense at all. Then you'll know what it feels like.
Originally posted by dpd11
And here come the names and paranoid accusations. lol I knew it was only a matter of time. I always know I'm making a dent when the best anybody can think to do is call me ignorant. I understand the topic perfectly, thanks. And why you think I'm a cop, or what that has to do with anything, I have no clue. But that's OK... Just more proof of what I just said... Most of the people that believe this nonsense all suffer form some irrational hatred of authority and the government. What you believe has absolutely nothing to do with "proof', or 'evidence', or anything else that's logical. Maybe some day you guys will be accused of committing some horrific crime by a bunch of people, using nothing more than some insane conspiracy that makes no sense at all. Then you'll know what it feels like.
Originally posted by randyvs
Originally posted by dpd11
And here come the names and paranoid accusations. lol I knew it was only a matter of time. I always know I'm making a dent when the best anybody can think to do is call me ignorant. I understand the topic perfectly, thanks. And why you think I'm a cop, or what that has to do with anything, I have no clue. But that's OK... Just more proof of what I just said... Most of the people that believe this nonsense all suffer form some irrational hatred of authority and the government. What you believe has absolutely nothing to do with "proof', or 'evidence', or anything else that's logical. Maybe some day you guys will be accused of committing some horrific crime by a bunch of people, using nothing more than some insane conspiracy that makes no sense at all. Then you'll know what it feels like.
It's odd that you are talking about being called ignorant. You didn't quote that and I can't find it either. Hope I didn't miss it.
Something else about paranoid accusations, as to you being a cop ? You need to deny it before it can become a paranoid accusation. Havn't seen you do that yet and everyone knows if you are you must I.D. yourself. You could get into big trouble denying it when asked. I think I'm right even more so now that you pretend, to not know where I get the idea, dpd.
As far as anything else in your post ? I've satisfied myself you don't know a damn thing about this subject on your own. Let me say it now, you're ignorant and havn't made a dent in anything but your own head when you bumped it.