Video: DU'er Paul Thompson on Link TV

[reprehensor]

During the February/March fundraising season, Link TV is broadcasting 9/11: Press for Truth, interspersed with an interview of Paul Thompson, conducted by Peter Coyote. Here are the 3 interview segments as one continuous video, approx. 24 min.

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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2147695828990077136&hl=en

[JohnyCanuck]

1. Thanks for the link, reprehensor. Watching now.

[reprehensor]

4. You're welcome. n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Paul makes a good point that

"conspiracy theories" contradicting an official narrative arise when governments are seen to be stonewalling investigations and going to some lengths to hide information surrounding a significant event like 9/11, as it is only natural that people will speculate as to "what really happened" and just what is it that the government is apparently so anxious that we not find out.

He also points out how authority figures use the dreaded "conspiracy theory" label to cut off debate and disparage anyone who questions the official story as being on the loony tune fringe - e.g. Tony "The Poodle" bLIAR saying in 2003 anyone who thought that oil had anything to do with the Boy-Idjit-Emperor's Iraq invasion was a "conspiracy theorist."

Just found this with a google search after hearing Paul's remark about the Poodle's disparaging remark about conspiracy theorists above:

Cheney, energy and Iraq invasion
Supreme Court to rule on secrecy

SNIP

There are many other indications that, despite the Bush administration's repeated and insistent denials, petroleum politics may have played a crucial role in the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

For instance, both the State Department and the Pentagon had pre-war planning groups that included a focus on Iraq's oil industry; protecting the industry was an early U.S. objective in the war.

In October 2002, Oil and Gas International reported that U.S. planning was already under way to reorganize Iraq's oil and business relationships.

In January 2003, the Wall Street Journal reported that representatives from Exxon Mobil Corp., ChevronTexaco Corp., ConocoPhillips and Halliburton, among others, were meeting with Vice President Cheney's staff to plan the post- war revival of Iraq's oil industry.

Cheney is said to have once remarked that the country that controls Middle East oil can exercise a "stranglehold" over the global economy.

One-time Bush speech writer David Frum wrote in "The Right Man," his 2003 biography of his boss, that the United States' "war on terror" was designed to "bring new freedom and new stability to the most vicious and violent quadrant of the Earth -- and new prosperity to us all, by securing the world's largest pool of oil."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/21/ING0H5LTDA1.DTL

[JackRiddler]

3. kick

[Gabi Hayes]

5. same here.....and remember, that's CITIZEN Paul Thompson

just a regular guy who cares

[JohnyCanuck]

6. One more kick for Paul Thompson

and http://Cooperativeresearch.org before I hit the sack.

[BeHereNow]

7. WOW! Thanks for the link- GO PAUL!

Watching now.
BHN

[John Q. Citizen]

8. All right, thanks for the heads up!

[Laurier]

9. Conspiracy theory crap - isn't there a separate forum for this?

Can't you contain yourselves to the conspiracy forum that was created specially for tinfoil hat nonsense?

[JohnyCanuck]

10. It's not conspiracy theory to point out

as our own DUer Paul Thompson has done (using only mainstream media sources) in his book "The Terror Timeline" and on the web site www.cooperativeresearch.org that there are inconsistencies and holes in the "official" conspiracy theory, the only conspiracy theory we are told by government and media to accept without question or debate.

The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute: A Comprehensive Chronicle of the Road to 9/11 — and America's Response is described by its publisher as a compilation of over 5,000 reports and articles concerning the September 11, 2001 attacks.<1>

The book was compiled by a Stanford University alumnus and 9/11 researcher who goes by the pseudonym "Paul Thompson", and the Center for Cooperative Research. The timeline chronicles events leading up to the terrorist attacks and America's response. The project began in mid-2002—and continues to be updated—as a website entitled The Complete 911 Timeline.

The book and the website it is based on are perhaps most notable for their use by the Jersey Girls in their attempts to influence the work of the 9/11 Commission, and Kristen Breitweiser has personally endorsed the book, stating; "If you want to know everything about 9/11, you must read this book ... Our intelligence agencies should be recruiting people like Paul Thompson, because he's brilliant" <2>

Richard Clarke has put it on his reading list for his course on "Terrorism, Security, and Intelligence" at Harvard University. <3>

The book, and Thompsons research in this field, has gone on to inspire the movie "9/11: Press for Truth"<4>

His work has also gone on to be cited as a key piece of research in a Complaint and Petition, which seeks a criminal inquiry and/or grand jury investigation into "the many still unsolved crimes of September 11, 2001", that was filed with and accepted by the New York Attorney General's Office.<5>

The book is cited in the book by Tom Fenton titled "Bad News" for Chapter Four, references 4 and 8.

The Terror Timeline was assigned reading for the Honors class "Counterterrorism" at the University of Maryland for the Fall 2006 semester.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_Timeline

[symbolman]

12. Boy are YOU going to make a lot of friends here

Sheesh.

[Judi Lynn]

11. Thanks, so much, reprehensor. Good interview, important points covered,

and a link, like JohnnyCanuck posted, www.cooperativeresearch.org to check into, ourselves.

The interview also allowed me the chance to upgrade my opinion of Peter Coyote!

Best wishes to Paul Thompson for his future endeavors.

[paulthompson]

13. Thanks for posting that

Peter Coyote is a very cool guy, very politically knowledgeable and active.

By the way, here's the thing I was talking about regarding Blair saying that the idea of the Iraq war being about oil was a conspiracy theory:

Blair: Iraq oil claim is 'conspiracy theory'

Matthew Tempest, political correspondent
Wednesday January 15, 2003
Guardian Unlimited

Tony Blair today derided as "conspiracy theories" accusations that a war on Iraq would be in pursuit of oil, as he faced down growing discontent in parliament at a meeting of Labour backbenchers and at PMQs.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,11538,875173,00.html

or here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2659511.stm

I find it interesting that even here at DU we have people labelling whatever they don't want to know about a "conspiracy theory" and then dismissing it without really examining it. The term "conspiracy theory" is a very powerful tool to shut off debate.

[JohnyCanuck]

14. And thanks Paul for your research

and for pointing out how the "conspiracy theorist" label is used by politicians and their supporters as a red herring to sidetrack or stifle legitimate inquiry into government malfeasance and coverups.