Monday, February 01, 2010
HERB SMITH DISCUSSES SUTTON ON MINISTRY OF TRUTH
Gordon Comstock of The Ministry of Truth has just posted an excellent interview with Utican Herb Smith which is available for download here. Gordon and Herb discuss Antony Sutton's America's Secret Establishment, with particular attention to far-reaching influence of Yale's Skull and Bones. Thanks to both for a most enlightening and highly enjoyable program!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
IF YOU'RE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE, YOU'RE WITH THE TERRORISTS
I don't see how anyone could possibly write satire with stuff like this out there.
In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised George Bush, the former US president, for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations.
"This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions - whether intentionally or unintentionally - and about the action we must take," bin Laden said.
"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact."
This is like a great big Dagwood sandwich of riotous disinformation. I love it! (Thanks to Vyz.)
In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised George Bush, the former US president, for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations.
"This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions - whether intentionally or unintentionally - and about the action we must take," bin Laden said.
"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact."
This is like a great big Dagwood sandwich of riotous disinformation. I love it! (Thanks to Vyz.)
Saturday, January 30, 2010
CALIFORNIA SAYS CRAP ON THE MOON A HISTORIC RESOURCE
The absurdity never stops. And when I say "crap on the moon," I'm being literal. Part of the (non-existent) lunar treasure trove includes "bags filled with human waste." I say it's equine waste.
California is poised to become the first state to register the items at Tranquility Base as an official State Historical Resource. If the State Historical Resources Commission approves the idea at a meeting in Sacramento today, it would be a victory for scientists who want to build support for having Tranquility Base designated a United Nations World Heritage Site in advance of what they believe will be unmanned trips to the moon by private groups, and even someday by tourists. Proposals to place the items on historic registries in Texas and New Mexico are planned for later this year.
How can you have "unmanned flights" by private groups and tourists? (Unless, of course, they're using the word "unmanned" to connote something too painful even to contemplate.)
Minor semantic quibbles aside, Dave McGowan must be laughing his ass off.
California is poised to become the first state to register the items at Tranquility Base as an official State Historical Resource. If the State Historical Resources Commission approves the idea at a meeting in Sacramento today, it would be a victory for scientists who want to build support for having Tranquility Base designated a United Nations World Heritage Site in advance of what they believe will be unmanned trips to the moon by private groups, and even someday by tourists. Proposals to place the items on historic registries in Texas and New Mexico are planned for later this year.
How can you have "unmanned flights" by private groups and tourists? (Unless, of course, they're using the word "unmanned" to connote something too painful even to contemplate.)
Minor semantic quibbles aside, Dave McGowan must be laughing his ass off.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
DAVE MCGOWAN ON THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH
Dave McGowan discussed his series "Wagging the Moondoggie" with Gordon Comstock on The Ministry of Truth and the program may be downloaded at this link. It's a great show! (And thanks for the nod, Gordon!)
Monday, November 09, 2009
Must Read!
Dave McGowan tackles the moon landing hoax in his latest article "Wagging the Moondoggie." I've kind of stayed away from this because I didn't like all the emphasis put on the photographic evidence. Although McGowan covers much of that he shows there are much better, easier to understand arguments to put this myth to rest.
And of course it's very funny. Enjoy.
And of course it's very funny. Enjoy.
Sunday, November 08, 2009
Friday, November 06, 2009
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
My Thoughts on Keeler Show...
Good strategy, poor execution. The point I was trying to make was the buildings were being destroyed as they descended meaning they were encountering maximal resistance. Keeler obviously does not have x-ray vision. He wasn't seeing floors hitting floors any more than he was seeing people or desks, chairs, core columns etc.
But even saying floors were pulverizing he was acknowledging the building was being destroyed and I probably still should have went with that.
So close to putting this over.
But even saying floors were pulverizing he was acknowledging the building was being destroyed and I probably still should have went with that.
So close to putting this over.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
HERB SMITH ON "KEELER IN THE MORNING" TOMORROW!
UPDATE (11/03): Herb's "post game show" with Vyz is available at THIS LINK.
UPDATE: Herb's interview is now available for download HERE.
Herb Smith will appear on Bill Keeler's popular radio program, "Keeler In The Morning" Thursday, October 29. The show broadcasts daily beginning at 6 AM from WXUR 92.7 FM ("The Drive") in Herkimer, NY. Herb's segment is scheduled for just after 8 AM.
For those outside the Herkimer-Utica listening area, continuous streaming of Bill Keeler's show may be heard HERE.
UPDATE: Herb's interview is now available for download HERE.
Herb Smith will appear on Bill Keeler's popular radio program, "Keeler In The Morning" Thursday, October 29. The show broadcasts daily beginning at 6 AM from WXUR 92.7 FM ("The Drive") in Herkimer, NY. Herb's segment is scheduled for just after 8 AM.
For those outside the Herkimer-Utica listening area, continuous streaming of Bill Keeler's show may be heard HERE.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
HERB WITH VYZ ON TOBE!
UPDATE: The link to Herb's interview is now fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.
In response to certain issues raised by Robert Denton, Jr. on a recent episode of Think or Be Eaten, Herb spoke with Vyzygoth Wednesday. This is a most excellent program. (If Herb wasn't someone I've known for 35 years, I'd want to meet him based on this interview.)
There's more on the instability hypothesis here: Tom Scott Gordon's 2007 Interview on the Instability of WTC 1 & 2
In response to certain issues raised by Robert Denton, Jr. on a recent episode of Think or Be Eaten, Herb spoke with Vyzygoth Wednesday. This is a most excellent program. (If Herb wasn't someone I've known for 35 years, I'd want to meet him based on this interview.)
There's more on the instability hypothesis here: Tom Scott Gordon's 2007 Interview on the Instability of WTC 1 & 2
Sunday, October 18, 2009
ISSUE TWO OF "INSIDE THE GRASSY KNOLL" IS UP!
Another excellent issue of Vyzygoth's e-magazine, Inside The Grassy Knoll, is available for your reading enjoyment. There are articles by Vyz, Gordon Comstock, the Collins Brothers, John Bonanno, Dwight Ward, Michael Trudeau, and your humble correspondent. (And check out Ang Riedel's amazing cover art. Ang designed the look of this e-magazine, which is so nice I wish I could lift it off my monitor and display it on my coffee table.)
The first issue is still available for your perusal here.
The first issue is still available for your perusal here.
Thursday, October 08, 2009
ANG WITH VYZ ON THINK OR BE EATEN
Vyzygoth has recently posted a delightful and informative discussion with Angie Riedel, webmistress and designer of Think or Be Eaten. Ang also designed the Inside the Grassy Knoll e-magazine, and her wonderful artistic creations may be seen and purchased at the TOBE shop. (The above image is available as a poster here.)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
THE JOY OF NIST SEMANTICS by Dwight Ward
(Author's revision, Oct. 11, 2009)
"The focus of the Investigation was on the sequence of events from the instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower. For brevity in this report, this sequence is referred to as the 'probable collapse sequence,' although it includes little analysis of the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were reached and collapse became inevitable." (NIST, p xxxvii/39)
The preceding paragraph, from The Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, may be a better synopsis of the entirety than any critic could compose. On the face of it, it's absurd, and in a practiced and casual manner it uses.a cognitive shock tactic wherein the logical absurdity is presented openly while simultaneously admitting that absurdity in superficially rational-sounding language. This is a ploy to preempt any close examination or protest of the absurdity. It is a hurried bum's rush past a vital topic.
The nonsense presented here is compact and multi-layered. It consists of the following elements:
a) an arbitrary decision to report on only part of the sequence of events
b) a naming and labeling of that act to characterize it as its own opposite
c) a conscious and blatant admission of the rhetorical, psychologically aggressive tactic that has just been used.
The first sentence is preparatory and an essential part of what is to follow. It acknowledges that the investigatory method to be used will result in deliberately ignoring a huge swath of the sequence of events. It makes the assumption that this method is proper by means of an even deeper and hidden assumption, namely that the events of the actual collapse can be properly separated from the events that lead up to them and that the resulting analysis will be as valid as if the total of all events had been examined. It is as if investigators of a murder ended their formal inquiries at the moment when the bullet was headed from gun to victim, with all subsequent events declared irrelevant.
We have here an attempt to make a highly artificial separation within an anomalous and dramatic series of events - things leading to collapses, then the collapses themselves. One caused the other, of course, and the way the collapses took place contain much vital evidence of what caused the collapses. This would seem trivial from a scientific standpoint and one watches in awe as NIST exhibits the temerity to essentially discard the actual collapses from analysis. The overall presupposition is that such a truncated analysis is as valid as one which did not arbitrarily draw a sharp line dividing those events that would be examined from those to be ignored. This is just bad science, bad logic, bad politics, and, to borrow from Sartre, bad faith.
By truncating their report with the bullet hanging in midair, the police investigators want the assumption to be made that the bullet was the primal and only cause of the victim's death. The NIST report accomplishes a similar thing. By ignoring the way the towers came down, they eliminate from consideration a host of possible causes other than plane impacts and fire. They accomplish this by simple omission of a huge portion of the available facts. In doing so, they destroy the context of the whole event. It's a bold stratagem and completely removes the report from the realm of the scientific and moves it into the political.
With this done the NIST investigators proceed to label their actions as their own opposite. They name the events leading to collapse as the 'probable collapse sequence'. It is done brazenly and with an inadequate explanation, much as if they had just stated that two equals three and then proceeded to more important matters.
To continue with the analogy of the murder investigation given before, it is as if the police investigators titled their report, which ended with the bullet hanging in midair, "What Happened After The Bullet Hit The Victim." The method has the advantage of being so simple as to nearly escape analysis and examination. One reads such things with the thought "Is it just me or did that sentence make no sense at all?" The critical parsing of language needed to show that it makes no sense is of necessity tiresome and tedious.
For a final assault on the reader's sense of congruity and logic the report writers simply acknowledge their own pathology by admitting that the content of the report has little to do with the informal title which they, themselves, have selected. They further state that it is not a random distortion but is in simple and direct opposition to the truth. The reason given? Brevity. Two equals three and we don't have the space or time to explain why this is so. The writers of this report continue the events of 911 with their assumption of the public's credulity. This report is an attack of another sort than 911 but it is an attack, all the same.
"The focus of the Investigation was on the sequence of events from the instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower. For brevity in this report, this sequence is referred to as the 'probable collapse sequence,' although it includes little analysis of the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were reached and collapse became inevitable." (NIST, p xxxvii/39)
The preceding paragraph, from The Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, may be a better synopsis of the entirety than any critic could compose. On the face of it, it's absurd, and in a practiced and casual manner it uses.a cognitive shock tactic wherein the logical absurdity is presented openly while simultaneously admitting that absurdity in superficially rational-sounding language. This is a ploy to preempt any close examination or protest of the absurdity. It is a hurried bum's rush past a vital topic.
The nonsense presented here is compact and multi-layered. It consists of the following elements:
a) an arbitrary decision to report on only part of the sequence of events
b) a naming and labeling of that act to characterize it as its own opposite
c) a conscious and blatant admission of the rhetorical, psychologically aggressive tactic that has just been used.
The first sentence is preparatory and an essential part of what is to follow. It acknowledges that the investigatory method to be used will result in deliberately ignoring a huge swath of the sequence of events. It makes the assumption that this method is proper by means of an even deeper and hidden assumption, namely that the events of the actual collapse can be properly separated from the events that lead up to them and that the resulting analysis will be as valid as if the total of all events had been examined. It is as if investigators of a murder ended their formal inquiries at the moment when the bullet was headed from gun to victim, with all subsequent events declared irrelevant.
We have here an attempt to make a highly artificial separation within an anomalous and dramatic series of events - things leading to collapses, then the collapses themselves. One caused the other, of course, and the way the collapses took place contain much vital evidence of what caused the collapses. This would seem trivial from a scientific standpoint and one watches in awe as NIST exhibits the temerity to essentially discard the actual collapses from analysis. The overall presupposition is that such a truncated analysis is as valid as one which did not arbitrarily draw a sharp line dividing those events that would be examined from those to be ignored. This is just bad science, bad logic, bad politics, and, to borrow from Sartre, bad faith.
By truncating their report with the bullet hanging in midair, the police investigators want the assumption to be made that the bullet was the primal and only cause of the victim's death. The NIST report accomplishes a similar thing. By ignoring the way the towers came down, they eliminate from consideration a host of possible causes other than plane impacts and fire. They accomplish this by simple omission of a huge portion of the available facts. In doing so, they destroy the context of the whole event. It's a bold stratagem and completely removes the report from the realm of the scientific and moves it into the political.
With this done the NIST investigators proceed to label their actions as their own opposite. They name the events leading to collapse as the 'probable collapse sequence'. It is done brazenly and with an inadequate explanation, much as if they had just stated that two equals three and then proceeded to more important matters.
To continue with the analogy of the murder investigation given before, it is as if the police investigators titled their report, which ended with the bullet hanging in midair, "What Happened After The Bullet Hit The Victim." The method has the advantage of being so simple as to nearly escape analysis and examination. One reads such things with the thought "Is it just me or did that sentence make no sense at all?" The critical parsing of language needed to show that it makes no sense is of necessity tiresome and tedious.
For a final assault on the reader's sense of congruity and logic the report writers simply acknowledge their own pathology by admitting that the content of the report has little to do with the informal title which they, themselves, have selected. They further state that it is not a random distortion but is in simple and direct opposition to the truth. The reason given? Brevity. Two equals three and we don't have the space or time to explain why this is so. The writers of this report continue the events of 911 with their assumption of the public's credulity. This report is an attack of another sort than 911 but it is an attack, all the same.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
UTICANS WITH VYZYGOTH!
Herb Smith and I discussed many pertinent topics last night in a phone interview with our friend Vyz. This is a landmark webcast because it was Vyz's last program before his move to more a congenial neighborhood. Some of the language we used is not suitable for all ages--but it was a fun, relaxed conversation. And we thank Vyz for having us on for the last show recorded at his old digs.
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