I don't want to open up a whole can of worms here, but one thing that I've heard the LC2E guys say twice now that I think is ill-informed is that "peak oil is a scam."

Petroleum geologists like Colin Campbell, energy investment bankers like Matthew Simmons, economists like Kenneth Deffeyes, politicians like Michael Meacher and Andreas von Buelow, and many others are on record, and there is voluminous scientific data to indicate that we're near a midpoint of world oil production much like the midpoint of production reached in the US in the 70's, when declining production made domestic sources uncompetitive and put the US in the role of importer instead of exporter.

Peak oil doesn't say oil is "running out," it only says that sources of conventional cheap light sweet crude are becoming scarce and those supplies are under heavier and heavier demand from countries like India and China, making petroleum products more expensive, which is a problem for economies based on cheap oil.

And believe me, I'm the first to accuse corporations like Exxon of a scam; personally, I think corporate personhood should be abolished so they can't influence politics, I think corporate tax rates should be raised, and I think corporate tax havens and other loopholes should be eliminated. I try to avoid supporting them when possible, by shopping at local small businesses instead of box stores like Home Depot (don't even get me started about WalMart).

So my question is, why would so many people, many of whom remain invested in these corporations through their 401Ks and mutual funds, who still shop at WalMart and wear Nike, and who probably even still buy their gas at Exxon, insist that peak oil is just "a scam" when resource scarcity is one of the main historical reasons for warfare, poverty, and a host of other ills?

Other Anon--"The truth movement too often assumes that because 9/11 was an inside job, then everything in this world is a corporate or military industrial oligarch manipulation."

Everything is not such a manipulation, but almost everything is.

I agree with that, SBG, with the qualifier that it also gave them political cover for the Patriot Act and more military spending.

bush and his boys did 911 because they hate our freedom.... the patriot act proves it....

http://www.911studies.com/911photostudies73.htm

this is what hit the pentagon

Btw, there is a new parameter being thrown around n regards to Loose Change. It's about that 'tarp-covered box' the guys are carrying.

The claim is that the movie makers have admitted "making a mistake", that's it's a tent setup outside the Pentagon during the operations.

Yes, it's a tent - I've worked on outdoor festivals where we've used that very same tent. It's make of 2.5" aluminum tubing, a plywood floor and plastic tarp covering. And I can tell you, only a moron who have people carry the structure with the tarp on top - it makes it very susceptible to catching the wind and blowing over. It's doesn't weight that much, but it's enough to seriously injure someone if they're under it when it blows over. You remove the tarp, and dismantle the frame.... unless of course, it's holding some light aluminum airplane pieces that would be easily detected as not belonging to an America Airlines 757.

THEN you keep it covered all the way to the truck. Otherwise, this is a stupid, dangerous, unnecessary way to move the structure.

Dear Dylan - no need for apologies, you didn't "make a mistake" on this.

it definitely looks like the tents seen in some of the photographs.

that's old news
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/dazinith/114305795207380520/

Dylan,

never mind for answering me.
I assume, it's hopeless:

http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/
Loose Change Losers: We're Still Pod People!
This appears at the very end of the "Extra Footage" video (Loose Change visits Ground Zero). I suspect this is an attempt to get back into the good graces of Phil Jayhan, who's one of the biggest proponents of the pod theory, and who reportedly bankrolled the first edition of Loose Change.

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2116/144/320/Pod1.jpg
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/2116/144/320/Pod2.jpg

Let me assure you guys, that i support 98% of what you did in LCII.

However, if you continue to support any kind of remote controlled plane nonsense and ignore the findings on TV fakery, i can't take you for serious.

Maybe your friend Luke in NYC can broker an external dialogue with me.
I give you know the last benefit of a doubt, that you're NOT under the influence from some particular spooks in this movement. Lemme know -;

WTC Planehugger Therapy -Top 30 FAQ
http://www.911closeup.com/nico/FAQ_planehuggers.html

9/11: 16 CGIs which fooled the world
http://www.911closeup.com/nico/CGI/CGI_aprilfools.html

Camera for only live footage identified as military system
http://www.911closeup.com/nico/WABC_cam_identification.html

9/11 WTC Aircraft 'Witnesses'
http://911closeup.com/nico/witness_contradictions.html