NPR Bans Employees From Jon Stewart's & Stephen Colbert's Rallies

Sorry but I don't buy the notion that NPR is all that objective. How many times on NPR did you hear people raise the legitimate concerns about the intelligence on WMD before the Iraq war? How much press does the death of a Palestinian or Pakistani civilian get compared to the press for a dead American or Israeli? When on NPR do you hear people that represent a truly left wing point of view such as Noam Chomsky or Michael Parenti?



Of course they are better than Fox but that's an absurdly low bar.
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Never Again: Ten Great Holocaust Films You May Have Missed

I think you are missing the point. One can be appalled by the holocaust and still condemn the barbarous treatment of the Palestinians. Indeed to really be true to the memory of the victims of the holocaust one should resist similar acts of barbarism against any people, even when those acts are committed by some of the descendants of the holocaust.
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HuffPost Comments: Addressing Concerns About Our Community Moderator Badge

Mr. Estes, I haven't even bothered commenting because in my experience comments that actually address censorship on this site seldom make it through. But if by some chance this comment makes it in and you or other Huffpo people are interested we have a whole blog full of examples of censorship that seems arbitrary: http://bannedfromhuffpo.blogspot.com/
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9/11 Conspiracy Theories Rife In Muslim World

And if you had offered evidence and some Truth Movement people had dismissed it I would agree with you. But you didn't. You started out by calling them "batsh*t crazy "truthers" That's just name calling and is no better than the people who dismiss evidence.



And while I don't agree with most of the Truth Movement theories, and I agree many of the "Truthers" are irrational, I can understand why they are open to conspiracy theories and I think there are some very interesting open questions about 9/11
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9/11 Conspiracy Theories Rife In Muslim World

I agree about the "buildings are wired". Not only is there little evidence but the theory itself doesn't make much sense. There are a million things that can go wrong with a plot like this. If you are going to do a false flag operation the most important thing is plausible deniability. Being able to blame it on the external group you are trying to frame. Planting controlled demolitions is exactly the kind of thing you would never do as is firing a missile at the Pentagon.
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9/11 Conspiracy Theories Rife In Muslim World

I agree. I think there are a lot of holes in the "official story" but most of the conspiracy theories are so convoluted that they just seem absurd. The idea that you are going to plant bombs AND then fly planes at a building make no sense. For the reasons you stated also because plausible deniability is an essential aspect for any false flag operation. To plant explosives requires building access, several people to plant them and runs the risk of exposing the whole thing if the plane doesn't hit the building. The same for the "missile hit the pentagon" Firing a missile at the Pentagon requires all sorts of supporting people not to mention getting rid of the ACTUAL plane and all the people on it.
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9/11 Conspiracy Theories Rife In Muslim World

I don't think that Iraq is the main thing that feeds conspiracy theories, but I do agree that stupidity is part of what does.



When you look at all the missed opportunities there were to uncover and stop some of the conspirators its easy to believe that you aren't just looking at incompetence but complicity. Examples: the CIA helped one of the terrorists get into and stay in this country even though they knew he was a terrorist. The FBI had a laptop which if they had looked at it would have given them clear evidence about the coming plot. Agents in the FBI asked for a warrant to look at the computer but were refused by their bosses. Other agents in the FBI were concerned about reports of middle eastern men taking flight classes and only learning to take off not land. They also wanted to investigate and were refused. Then there is the smoking gun memo hand delivered to Bush titled "Bin Laden determined to strike the US" the month before the attack.



I don't agree with most of the conspiracy theories but I can see how people would look at all these examples of incompetence and think there is something more behind it.
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