| Date: | August 6, 2007 / year-entry #287 |
| Tags: | non-computer |
| Orig Link: | https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070806-01/?p=25693 |
| Comments: | 11 |
| Summary: | With the loss of the Weekly World News, I'll have to rely on the trustworthy Internet to keep me informed of government conspiracies. I happen to be partial to 4/29truth.com, which uncovers the strange coincidences and inconsistencies in the "official" explanation of the tanker crash and fire on April 29, 2007 that destroyed a highway... |
With the loss of the Weekly World News, I'll have to rely on the trustworthy Internet to keep me informed of government conspiracies. I happen to be partial to 4/29truth.com, which uncovers the strange coincidences and inconsistencies in the "official" explanation of the tanker crash and fire on April 29, 2007 that destroyed a highway overpass in the San Francisco Bay Area. (This site is so noteworthy, even The Los Angeles Times sang its praises.) My favorite factoid: The only way Governor Schwarzenneger could have gotten to the scene in time was if he was already en route when the explosion occurred, proving that the explosion was no accident. |
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I’d really like to know can anybody who believes this stuff explain where’s the proof that Arnie’s photo shooting wasn’t done on some following night after the crash.
Like, elementary…
Or perhaps he didn’t drive from Sacremento. Maybe the governor can get a helicopter ride when he needs one.
This is like Slashdot, people commenting without reading the link.
Ace, Scott Boyd: Perhaps, and JUST PERHAPS, the linked-to site is a spoof of conspiracy sites? And the "evidence" for conspiracy is specifically chosen to be ridiculous? Just maybe!
Don’t laugh. Already presidential candidates from both parties have pandered directly and indirectly to the Truther movement.
Every red blooded American… strike that, human… has the right to be fucking stupid. But there comes a point when that stupidity, whether natural or willful, reaches evil. The point where nonfeasance becomes malfeasance.
The sad thing about all of this is that the website may very well be a spoof. However, it is done 100% straight, making it impossible to tell apart from other Truther sites. If I had to guess, I’d guess it was a spoof. But only because it directly matches the tone and paranoia of other conspiracy sites over such a non-event.
It’s totally a spoof, and well done, too. I had a good laugh.
Another debunking of the "official" explanation of the sinking of the Titanic. I give you, Unfastened Coins:
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=af07
That site is hilarious. It was practically required reading in my office for weeks after the accident.
"Witnesses say it did not feel like an earthquake. Instead of the familiar rolling and shaking of seismic waves, there was one sudden jolt. Exactly 13 minutes after “4/29″."
Yeah, this has gotta be a spoof. Of course, I’ve run into people who actually think this is a good argument.
It is interesting to think that people honestly believe that thousands of people could remain quiet on all these conspiracies: a controlled demolition of the WTC would have taken hundreds if not thousands or people to accomplish, and then there is the planning and oversight.
Let alone assuming that the government is even competent. When was the last time it did something well?
Whichever explanation of the WTC you believe you’re believing a conspiracy theory of one form or another. It’s interesting that most people accept, without question, the conspiracy theories handed to us by our governments and mainstream media without even realising they are conspiracy theories most of the time.
Remember that the media is stone-cold wrong whenever they report on a subject you know about in detail. Ask other people about subjects they know about and it seems easy to extrapolate that the media is wrong most of the time about just about everything and, while interesting and a good starting point to discover what’s going on in the world, not particularly trustworthy or reliable when it comes to explaining things. (Whether it be because of laziness, bias, agenda, worrying about ratings rather than facts, or taking things from other sources at face value when things may be different in reality. I think it’s a mixture of all of those things.)
This isn’t to say I believe all the conspiracy theories. I don’t. I simply believe that we should be consistent with what we label a conspiracy theory and that we should be cynical about all media, stories and explanations where anyone has anything to gain from spinning or twisting the truth.
Leo, yes the media is always wrong, but not 100% wrong. I would say they seem20% wrong, but of that 20%, they are right half the time, and you are right half the time. So, the media manages about 90% right. That’s on the facts. On opinions, there is no telling.
Most of these theories carry the notion that "the government" is a closed organization and did something in secret, but government in the US isn’t closed at all. A citizen can talk to most anyone about most anything with a little persistence. In fact, with a little persistence, he can become part of most any government activity. And the government can’t keep secrets worth a damn. Do you remember Congress having public debates about "covert aid to the contras"?