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#26 2006-05-07 7:31 pm

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Re: United 93

blank kludge wrote:

resedit wrote:

I would not be surprised if it was brought down by USAF - I don't think it was brought down by USAF though.

But if it was - I can understand why it was; though if that was the case, then as horrible as it sounds, we should have been told.

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#27 2006-05-07 7:32 pm

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Re: United 93

Chickenhawk wrote:

And if it had been shot down, somebody would have leaked that info by now.

Probably. But not necessarily.


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#28 2006-05-07 8:18 pm

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Re: United 93

Oh. Then I must be misinformed:

http://www.flight93crash.com/
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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42112
"The official story has been that passengers on the United Airlines flight rushed the hijackers in an effort to prevent them from crashing the plane into a strategic target – possibly the U.S. Capitol.

During his surprise Christmas Eve trip to Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld referred to the flight being shot down – long a suspicion because of the danger the flight posed to Washington landmarks and population centers. "
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Leak? More like a magic fountain ya can't see. But you can hear the splashing water.

Next stop: Pentagon and plane debris. Double or Nothin'.
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PS --> I do believe none of four sets of black boxes has been admitted recovered. U/93 included. Pentagon. Highly rare and unusual, imho.

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2.3 - What are "Blanks"?

Blanks are people who have either fallen off the information nets, or taken themselves off deliberately. Usually known and addressed by their first names with "Blank" as a title - Blank Reg, Blank Bruno, and Blank Dom(inique) are three we get to know well.

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#29 2006-05-07 9:31 pm

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Re: United 93

I guess the next thing you'll say is that the second plane to hit the towers was not a United 767, or it fired some kind of missle into the tower, or was packed with high explosives.


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#30 2006-05-07 9:32 pm

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Re: United 93

resedit wrote:

blank kludge wrote:

resedit wrote:

I would not be surprised if it was brought down by USAF - I don't think it was brought down by USAF though.

But if it was - I can understand why it was; though if that was the case, then as horrible as it sounds, we should have been told.

Jeebus

Ya don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows.
Don't follow leaders
Watch yer parking meters
The pumps don't work cuz the vandals took the handles.

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#31 2006-05-08 3:56 am

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Re: United 93


2.3 - What are "Blanks"?

Blanks are people who have either fallen off the information nets, or taken themselves off deliberately. Usually known and addressed by their first names with "Blank" as a title - Blank Reg, Blank Bruno, and Blank Dom(inique) are three we get to know well.

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#32 2006-05-08 9:05 am

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Re: United 93

I simply have no desire to see that movie.


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#33 2006-05-08 9:31 am

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Re: United 93

Apparently emulating its subject:

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/S … p;keyword=

" "United 93," the controversial film depicting events on one of 9/11's hijacked airplanes, fell to fifth place from second. The movie, from General Electric's  (GE  :General Electric Company 35.12, -0.04, -0.1% ) Universal, made $5.2 million. End of Story"
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Made by that major defense contractor GE. That makes me go hhhmmmm.
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Meanwhile #1 M.I.3 made $48 mil.


2.3 - What are "Blanks"?

Blanks are people who have either fallen off the information nets, or taken themselves off deliberately. Usually known and addressed by their first names with "Blank" as a title - Blank Reg, Blank Bruno, and Blank Dom(inique) are three we get to know well.

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#34 2006-05-08 10:00 am

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Re: United 93

blank kludge wrote:

Made by that major defense contractor GE. That makes me go hhhmmmm.

No, it was distributed by Universal, a movie company.


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#35 2006-05-08 10:43 am

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Re: United 93

When Universal's stock moves,  is that entered in GE's spreadsheets?
GEez, the article itself SAYS it outright. If my brother gives me money to make a movie and that movie makes a milliion bucks, will my brother get money out of that million?

I'll have my people call your people. We'll do a lunch at Signature's. I'll make the reservations, OK?


2.3 - What are "Blanks"?

Blanks are people who have either fallen off the information nets, or taken themselves off deliberately. Usually known and addressed by their first names with "Blank" as a title - Blank Reg, Blank Bruno, and Blank Dom(inique) are three we get to know well.

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#36 2006-05-08 10:47 am

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Re: United 93

. . . which has a parent company. . . . which is. . .


General Electric.

There's something about one of the nation's largest defense contractors, which benefits from the whole "war on terrrrrrr" thing making a film about 9/11. . . that would be called propaganda.

The REAL genius is the number of people who will pay to be subject to it. We learned that one from Goebbels and co.

. . . any other bits of obvious recent history you want to conveniently ignore?


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#37 2006-05-08 11:16 am

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Re: United 93

If Universal did not distribute it, someone else would have. It has nothing to do with GE, the parent company.

GE did not write nor direct the film, Paul Greengrass did.


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#38 2006-05-08 11:32 am

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Re: United 93

Cyberpawz wrote:

Tallgeese wrote:

Why, what are you talking about?

Sorry, I have this thing where I'm unable to remember the past.

Any credibility you had with me is now long gone... thank you for playing and thank you for proving my point, you are a pompous ass who is more willing to take pot shots at people, and make fun of them in general than to actually maintain a topic.

If there was a way to ignore people on this forum, you'd be the first on a very short list of one.

How come my smurfing post against NokXious gets mod-edited,
but this bullsmurf is allowed to fly? If I have to wear the nicey nice
gloves, then - gahdammit - everyone should have to, as well.
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#39 2006-05-08 11:37 am

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Re: United 93

True. Greengrass.
Backstory:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/news/comm … yid=318253
Universal wanted him for another Bourne movie. Allegedly.


2.3 - What are "Blanks"?

Blanks are people who have either fallen off the information nets, or taken themselves off deliberately. Usually known and addressed by their first names with "Blank" as a title - Blank Reg, Blank Bruno, and Blank Dom(inique) are three we get to know well.

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#40 2006-05-08 11:48 am

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Re: United 93

From your link:

"With Greengrass available, U execs began trying to get the next "Bourne" entry up and running. Greengrass, however, had another idea: "United 93.""

So how on earth do you get from greengrass wanting to make this film, to it being a giant GE conspiracy to do something sinister?


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#41 2006-05-08 11:53 am

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Re: United 93

Just being fair and balanced.
I reported. You decided.
My theory holds that the dictum 'follow the money' will almost always lead to a correct conclusion being drawn. In the case at hand, that trail is marked 'GE'.


2.3 - What are "Blanks"?

Blanks are people who have either fallen off the information nets, or taken themselves off deliberately. Usually known and addressed by their first names with "Blank" as a title - Blank Reg, Blank Bruno, and Blank Dom(inique) are three we get to know well.

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#42 2006-05-08 11:58 am

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Re: United 93

A butterflies wings flapped, a tsunami was created.


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#43 2006-05-08 12:04 pm

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Re: United 93

...terrorism, war, and fear became the coin of the realm.


2.3 - What are "Blanks"?

Blanks are people who have either fallen off the information nets, or taken themselves off deliberately. Usually known and addressed by their first names with "Blank" as a title - Blank Reg, Blank Bruno, and Blank Dom(inique) are three we get to know well.

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#44 2006-05-08 1:02 pm

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Re: United 93

I bet they had a big special-effects budget for the shot when the missle hits the plane.


Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.

Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.

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#45 2006-05-08 1:35 pm

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Re: United 93

The studio may have made it for bucks, but Greengrass sure as hell didn't.

And can we stop with the smurf 9/11 conspiracies? People who believe a missile hit the Pentagon are so willfully ignorant that it amazes me. I guess the hundreds of people who SAW IT HIT were just high or something, or it was the government that got to them! Then again, if the government had been behind it all and had already rammed planes into the WTC, then why the hell would they lob a missile into the Pentagon and try to make it look like a plane? Why not just throw another plane into it? And if it was a missile, then WHERE IS THAT PLANE? You can't hide a goddamn jumbo jet. Drop it already. Christ.


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#46 2006-05-08 1:39 pm

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Re: United 93

hee hee


Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.

Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.

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#47 2006-05-08 1:40 pm

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Re: United 93

:jumbo jet:


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#48 2006-05-08 2:21 pm

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Re: United 93

Believing its possible that flight 93 was shot down is a totally different story from beleiving the Pentagon was hit by a misslie or that the WTC attack was a cover to steal gold.


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#49 2006-05-08 2:50 pm

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Re: United 93

Actually, the real conspiracy is that they are covering up information that the Bush Administration was ignoring that there were planes hijacked and on the way in on a suicide mission.


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#50 2006-05-08 2:51 pm

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Re: United 93

There, another baseless rumor spread.


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