Monday, June 05, 2006

Media Blackout Lifted

The august New York Times covers 9-11apalooza in Chicago:

In the foyer, there were stick-pins for sale ("More gin, less Rummy"), and in the lecture halls discussions of the melting point of steel. "It's all documented," people said. Or: "The mass media is mass deception." Or, as strangers from the Internet shook hands: "Great to meet you. Love the work."

Such was the coming-out for the movement known as "9/11 Truth," a society of skeptics and scientists who believe the government was complicit in the terrorist attacks. In colleges and chat rooms on the Internet, this band of disbelievers has been trying for years to prove that 9/11 was an inside job.


But, as the article notes, the convention had about 500 attendees in total. IIRC, the cost was about $50 so that may have kept some of the college crowd away. That doesn't mean they can't dream though:

To get the message out, the movement has gone beyond bumper stickers and "Kumbaya" into political action.

There is a plan, Mr. Berger said, to create a fund to support candidates on a 9/11 platform. There is a plan to create a network of college campus groups. There is a plan by the British delegation (such as it is, so far) to get members of Parliament to watch "Loose Change," the seminal movement DVD.


And there's the usual paranoia:

"I hope you don't end up dead somewhere," a companion said to a participant, hours earlier as he dropped him at the Loop. "Don't worry," the participant said. "There's too many of us for that."


But overall I am sure that the Truthers have to be thrilled with this particular article. It does note that they're frequently considered nutty by even their family and friends, but it does not attempt to characterize them that way, and avoids mentioning the really wacky stuff in Loose Change. The description of the conspiracy theory is roughly LIHOP with demolition charges, which is probably the most palatable version of the CT.

15 Comments:

At 05 June, 2006 23:04, Blogger Pat said...

default, I think you can download it at google, but you have to watch it through their player. Not sure if Markyx has it available in other formats.

 
At 06 June, 2006 17:24, Blogger Alex said...

Marky, I actually downloaded all of your videos and then stuck them together and converted them into mp4 format. If you have (and I'm assuming you would) your original version, you could try creating a torrent and posting it to some of the torrent sites. It gets around the problem of having to pay hundreds of dollars in hosting fees if the movie gets really popular :) If it wasn't for that consideration, I'd offer to host it for you myself.

 
At 06 June, 2006 18:36, Blogger Falco98 said...

I'm downloading it off MegaUpload now; I'm gonna torrent it as soon as I have the whole thing, then post the URL here, and seed for as long as I can :)

sound good?

 
At 06 June, 2006 19:29, Blogger Falco98 said...

so (just to make sure) the megaupload version is your original?
Once I have it torrented, you can pretty much just open the torrent and have it "save over" (a copy of) the original video and you'll be an instant-seeder. would help me out some ;-)

 
At 06 June, 2006 20:00, Blogger Falco98 said...

Cool. then it's up.
Get the torrent HERE.

Any seeding help would be appreciated!
(I have it as a folder named "Screw Loose Change" with the three videos from the .rar file in it. So create a new folder with that name and COPY the videos in, then when the torrent asks where to save, choose the directory ABOVE the "screw loose change" folder.)

 
At 06 June, 2006 20:55, Blogger Unknown said...

WTC7: Watch. Consider. Think.

Directions:
Here

 
At 06 June, 2006 21:19, Blogger Falco98 said...

WTC7: Watch. Consider. Think.

oh, please. not this bullshit again.

 
At 06 June, 2006 21:20, Blogger shawn said...

What's a good torrent program? Once I get a hold of one and get this video I'll seed it constantly.

 
At 06 June, 2006 21:44, Blogger Falco98 said...

Shawn: I alternate between a few.
These days I normally use either Azureus (good if you wanna run a whole bunch of things alot of the time, with queueing and stuff), and BitTornado (which is great for stand-alone purposes). I'm currently seeding using the latter.

 
At 07 June, 2006 09:11, Blogger Falco98 said...

Marky:
think you could post a link to the torrent (or, just the .torrent file itself hosted on your own site) on your "videos" page? It might even replace the megaupload link, or at least be an addition to it O:-)

 
At 07 June, 2006 16:52, Blogger Falco98 said...

I forget if i have a working account there, but if I do i'll try to get it done.
BTW: I accidentally attacked you in a comment on the myspace version of part 1... I didn't realize it was *you*, and i didn't realize you were talking about a prior comment as opposed to the video. yeah i'm an idiot today, heh.

 
At 07 June, 2006 16:53, Blogger Falco98 said...

Default: as far as i'm concerned, you can throw it wherever you want. i assume marky will agree with me, though he could correct me if i'm mistaken.

 
At 07 June, 2006 18:52, Blogger Alex said...

Good to see the torrents getting started. Wish I could help but I can't seed from this base :(

 
At 07 June, 2006 19:19, Blogger Falco98 said...

Alex:
it's ok, we've pretty much got seeding covered. now on the other hand if you can help spread, i.e. tell others outside to get it, post it to appropriate forums, etc. that would be cool ;-)

 
At 08 June, 2006 05:52, Blogger Alex said...

you got it!

 

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