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	<title>Comments on: A Year After Katrina</title>
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		<title>By: zuzu</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/28/a-year-after-katrina/#comment-62359</link>
		<dc:creator>zuzu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 02:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oh, god, a conspiracy theorist.

Yeah, no fucking way a jet plane full of fuel could have exploded or anything.  Or the fuel tanks in the city command bunker in WTC 7 could have caught fire or nothin&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh, god, a conspiracy theorist.</p>
<p>Yeah, no fucking way a jet plane full of fuel could have exploded or anything.  Or the fuel tanks in the city command bunker in WTC 7 could have caught fire or nothin&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>By: farang</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/28/a-year-after-katrina/#comment-62358</link>
		<dc:creator>farang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 02:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hasten to add: This in no way means that Jet planes weren&#039;t flown into the Towers. Or that SOMEONE ( recall, 7 of the so-called hijackers are still alive) flew or directed the planes into the Towers. Just that it isn&#039;t possible that caused the explosive events recorded on video and audio, and seismic media.

It&#039;s just a distraction allowed by those that placed the explosives in the weeks and months prior to the well known plan to attack the US (PDB, remember?).

Obviously.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hasten to add: This in no way means that Jet planes weren&#8217;t flown into the Towers. Or that SOMEONE ( recall, 7 of the so-called hijackers are still alive) flew or directed the planes into the Towers. Just that it isn&#8217;t possible that caused the explosive events recorded on video and audio, and seismic media.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just a distraction allowed by those that placed the explosives in the weeks and months prior to the well known plan to attack the US (PDB, remember?).</p>
<p>Obviously.</p>
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		<title>By: farang</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/28/a-year-after-katrina/#comment-62357</link>
		<dc:creator>farang</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2006 02:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Robyn,

Hold your head up proudly.

NO ONE can dispute that BILLIONS were made &quot;shorting&quot; United, American, and Marsh Associates stock, way, WAY above normal levels (like 1000% more) the week leading up to 9/11/01. Just google it and see the FBI agents statements that investigated it.

OF COURSE explosives were used to bring down the three buildings.

All one has to do is THINK: HOW can a gravity collapse (Government official theory, Jet fuel melted support steel, blah blah blah, causing a pancake collapse, blah blah blah) cause I-Beams weighing more than school buses to be EJECTED 600 feet from the towers, in a video observed  arc?

Answer: CAN NOT.

Good on ya for being honest with yourself.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Robyn,</p>
<p>Hold your head up proudly.</p>
<p>NO ONE can dispute that BILLIONS were made &#8220;shorting&#8221; United, American, and Marsh Associates stock, way, WAY above normal levels (like 1000% more) the week leading up to 9/11/01. Just google it and see the FBI agents statements that investigated it.</p>
<p>OF COURSE explosives were used to bring down the three buildings.</p>
<p>All one has to do is THINK: HOW can a gravity collapse (Government official theory, Jet fuel melted support steel, blah blah blah, causing a pancake collapse, blah blah blah) cause I-Beams weighing more than school buses to be EJECTED 600 feet from the towers, in a video observed  arc?</p>
<p>Answer: CAN NOT.</p>
<p>Good on ya for being honest with yourself.</p>
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		<title>By: Madison Guy</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/28/a-year-after-katrina/#comment-61915</link>
		<dc:creator>Madison Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For many Americans Katrina is already long gone, although we&#039;re just paying lip service to the anniversary now. It seems to be a national habit to forget the past and move on. History may not let us off that easily, however. &quot;What&#039;s past is prologue,&quot; wrote Shakespeare, a man who knew a thing or two about callous, uncaring leaders. 

Looking back a year later at &quot;Bush on a Plane&quot; :  &lt;a href=&quot;http://letterfromhere.blogspot.com/2006/08/flyover-president-and-his-broken.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;A flyover president and his broken promises&lt;/a&gt;.  It&#039;s frightening that this guy has more than two years left in office, two more years to fly from here to there, posturing to his heart&#039;s content, while the country goes to hell.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For many Americans Katrina is already long gone, although we&#8217;re just paying lip service to the anniversary now. It seems to be a national habit to forget the past and move on. History may not let us off that easily, however. &#8220;What&#8217;s past is prologue,&#8221; wrote Shakespeare, a man who knew a thing or two about callous, uncaring leaders. </p>
<p>Looking back a year later at &#8220;Bush on a Plane&#8221; :  <a href="http://letterfromhere.blogspot.com/2006/08/flyover-president-and-his-broken.html" rel="nofollow">A flyover president and his broken promises</a>.  It&#8217;s frightening that this guy has more than two years left in office, two more years to fly from here to there, posturing to his heart&#8217;s content, while the country goes to hell.</p>
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		<title>By: Carty</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/28/a-year-after-katrina/#comment-61887</link>
		<dc:creator>Carty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 12:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice piece.

Countering fear mongering requires that people demonstrate courage.  Fear is insidious because it is much easier to lead people to be afraid than to lead them to be courageous (as John Kerry discovered).

The good news is that courageous people can accomplish a lot.  With the right leaders in 2004 and 2006 this could be the beginning of an exciting time for progressives.  Ironically we’ll have King George’s startling incompetence, in part, to thank for that.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice piece.</p>
<p>Countering fear mongering requires that people demonstrate courage.  Fear is insidious because it is much easier to lead people to be afraid than to lead them to be courageous (as John Kerry discovered).</p>
<p>The good news is that courageous people can accomplish a lot.  With the right leaders in 2004 and 2006 this could be the beginning of an exciting time for progressives.  Ironically we’ll have King George’s startling incompetence, in part, to thank for that.</p>
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		<title>By: Robyn Banks</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robyn Banks</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I will admit that I am a conspiracy theorist. 

I believe that there were explosives in the twin towers, and that explosives led to the collapse of building 7.

I keep these beliefs to myself, for the most part. When I express these beliefs, I tend to get attacked from the left AND right. And most of the people who criticize my theories just don&#039;t have the facts. They just say something about &quot;wacko conspiracy theorists&quot; and leave it at that. They don&#039;t bother to look at history, or even contemporary political thought, for evidence that people might find attacking their own nation justifiable. I think about the Reichstag fire, about Pearl Harbor, and just have to think...

Just wait for the next terrorist attack and the subsequent martial law. I hope I&#039;ve acquired enough in savings to leave the US before then.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will admit that I am a conspiracy theorist. </p>
<p>I believe that there were explosives in the twin towers, and that explosives led to the collapse of building 7.</p>
<p>I keep these beliefs to myself, for the most part. When I express these beliefs, I tend to get attacked from the left AND right. And most of the people who criticize my theories just don&#8217;t have the facts. They just say something about &#8220;wacko conspiracy theorists&#8221; and leave it at that. They don&#8217;t bother to look at history, or even contemporary political thought, for evidence that people might find attacking their own nation justifiable. I think about the Reichstag fire, about Pearl Harbor, and just have to think&#8230;</p>
<p>Just wait for the next terrorist attack and the subsequent martial law. I hope I&#8217;ve acquired enough in savings to leave the US before then.</p>
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		<title>By: kate</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/28/a-year-after-katrina/#comment-61848</link>
		<dc:creator>kate</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When I saw the news that day of the bombing I always pondered the possibility of a conspiracy.  Its just too damn easy.  

Bush is and always has been a puppet, driven by those unelected actors behind the scenes who&#039;ve been waiting to get their hands on the wheel for years.  

Katrina blew into the theatre of the &#039;Let&#039;s Play Whitehouse&#039; marionette show.  Dumb, wooden and without his own mind, our hapless leader was left to dangle precariously, hung by props of a one-act play that didn&#039;t fit the scene.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When I saw the news that day of the bombing I always pondered the possibility of a conspiracy.  Its just too damn easy.  </p>
<p>Bush is and always has been a puppet, driven by those unelected actors behind the scenes who&#8217;ve been waiting to get their hands on the wheel for years.  </p>
<p>Katrina blew into the theatre of the &#8216;Let&#8217;s Play Whitehouse&#8217; marionette show.  Dumb, wooden and without his own mind, our hapless leader was left to dangle precariously, hung by props of a one-act play that didn&#8217;t fit the scene.</p>
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		<title>By: The Mahablog &#187; Image and Action</title>
		<link>http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/08/28/a-year-after-katrina/#comment-61800</link>
		<dc:creator>The Mahablog &#187; Image and Action</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...]  more mileage out of a single photo op. For me, Bush will always be reading My Pet Goat.  	zuzu: 	Katrina gave even those who were supportive of the president and th [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...]  more mileage out of a single photo op. For me, Bush will always be reading My Pet Goat.  	zuzu: 	Katrina gave even those who were supportive of the president and th [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Dianne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dianne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can not by any contortion of my mind figure out why Bush was so popular right after 9/11/01. Where was he that day? Hiding in a hole. He wasn&#039;t at the WTC with Gulliani and every rescue worker in NYC. He wasn&#039;t at Bellevue Hospital waiting to try to help survivors or offering to donate blood. No, he hid until the danger was over then he came and made some little speeches at the site of the WTC, using it as another excuse to attack a country that had no involvement in the attacks, and pissing on the memory of those who died--and the honor of those who survived and those who tried to help the victims. I never thought less of the man than I did on 9/12/01.

As a semi-aside, ever notice that any time the issue of terrorism comes up, the Republicans get more popular? It doesn&#039;t matter how the issue comes up: fail to prevent an attack (a la 9/11, the London subway bombings, and the anthrax letters)--up in the polls. Prevent an attack or claim to (a la the recent liquids on planes scare)--up in the polls. If the republicans are losing the 2008 election and there&#039;s a terrorist attack, I&#039;d consider conspiracy theories about it much more seriously than I normally would.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can not by any contortion of my mind figure out why Bush was so popular right after 9/11/01. Where was he that day? Hiding in a hole. He wasn&#8217;t at the WTC with Gulliani and every rescue worker in NYC. He wasn&#8217;t at Bellevue Hospital waiting to try to help survivors or offering to donate blood. No, he hid until the danger was over then he came and made some little speeches at the site of the WTC, using it as another excuse to attack a country that had no involvement in the attacks, and pissing on the memory of those who died&#8211;and the honor of those who survived and those who tried to help the victims. I never thought less of the man than I did on 9/12/01.</p>
<p>As a semi-aside, ever notice that any time the issue of terrorism comes up, the Republicans get more popular? It doesn&#8217;t matter how the issue comes up: fail to prevent an attack (a la 9/11, the London subway bombings, and the anthrax letters)&#8211;up in the polls. Prevent an attack or claim to (a la the recent liquids on planes scare)&#8211;up in the polls. If the republicans are losing the 2008 election and there&#8217;s a terrorist attack, I&#8217;d consider conspiracy theories about it much more seriously than I normally would.</p>
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