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Originally posted by Shades1035
Just out of curiousity, why are there so many debunkers on ATS? A conspiracy board with so many people that just think that conspiracies do not exist. That makes no sense? It almost seems like a conspiracy!
[edit on 13-2-2009 by Shades1035]
Originally posted by Anonymous ATS
When the plane crashed into the Hudson, they took a week to release the transcript of the cockpit conversation.
The plane crash this morning? The transcript was being played on CNN.
Both are suspicious. When a plane has icing problems, it loses lift and drops like a rock. The plane this morning sounded like a mechanical, possibly intentional.
Nothing is as it seems. Question authority, as time is short.
Originally posted by Shades1035
Just out of curiousity, why are there so many debunkers on ATS? A conspiracy board with so many people that just think that conspiracies do not exist. That makes no sense? It almost seems like a conspiracy!
Big increase in Pentagon budget for propaganda
Thursday, February 5 2009
By CHRIS TOMLINSON Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As it fights two wars, the Pentagon is steadily and dramatically increasing the money it spends to win what it calls "the human terrain" of world public opinion. In the process, it is raising concerns of spreading propaganda at home in violation of federal law.
An Associated Press investigation found that over the past five years, the money the military spends on winning hearts and minds at home and abroad has grown by 63 percent, to at least $4.7 billion this year, according to Department of Defense budgets and other documents. That's almost as much as it spent on body armor for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2006.
This year, the Pentagon will employ 27,000 people just for recruitment, advertising and public relations -- almost as many as the total 30,000-person work force in the State Department.
"We have such a massive apparatus selling the military to us, it has become hard to ask questions about whether this is too much money or if it's bloated," says Sheldon Rampton, research director for the Committee on Media and Democracy, which tracks the military's media operations. "As the war has become less popular, they have felt they need to respond to that more."
...On an abandoned Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas, editors for the Joint Hometown News Service point proudly to a dozen clippings on a table as examples of success in getting stories into newspapers.
What readers are not told: Each of these glowing stories was written by Pentagon staff. Under the free service, stories go out with authors' names but not their titles, and do not mention Hometown News anywhere. In 2009, Hometown News plans to put out 5,400 press releases, 3,000 television releases and 1,600 radio interviews, among other work -- 50 percent more than in 2007.
The service is just a tiny piece of the Pentagon's rapidly expanding media empire, which is now bigger in size, money and power than many media companies.
Originally posted by doctordoom
Chadwick? Is there any conspiracy in the world you believe in, or is EVERYTHING the government does legit and awesome.
What a shill.
Originally posted by Dramey
now again im no expert, but ive been in ny for a while now, not in buffalo, but nearby, and i KNOW it was a little icy and windy at the time, but NOWHERE near the extremes they are capable of getting in that area, so why is this the 1st time ice has caused a crash like this?
Originally posted by baseball101
reply to post by questioningall
read about this ... here is a similar article on the subject .... very possible conspiracy, yet then again could be a coincidence? maybe?
Originally posted by questioningall
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
reply to post by jfj123
When you've got a government (actually a NWO shadow government)
that would plan the Operation Northwoods false-flag terrorism in 1962, then murder 3,000 of it's own citizens 40 years later just to start endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, anything is possible.
Just curious but how did we all find out about northwood?
...I consider that fate was merciful to us in that we had the opportunity to say goodbye. So many others didn't.
For those of us who were so personally affected, there was a realisation that if we can't find a way to make this world better, death and destruction will reach us all. It's something that's going to haunt me forever but I was so fortunate to be with Sean during his last moments, and to give what comfort I could although, honestly, he was comforting me.
He was being very strong, brave and composed and telling me to give his love to his family. He also told me to live a good and full life.
We were just remembering how happy we were. I just wanted to crawl through the phone and hold him but then there was an explosion, followed by a loud crack and a sound like an avalanche. That was the tower coming down. He was gone.