Many dead in coordinated Paris shootings and explosions

[frogwoman]

Thats what I got you for, I'm not an investigative journalist.... or a researcher. Do you believe everything your told or read??? Do you have have to research everything you read?

You should at least try to verify it or you might end up spreading false news which can be very dangerous.

 

[existentialist]

Thats what I got you for, I'm not an investigative journalist.... or a researcher. Do you believe everything your told or read??? Do you have have to research everything you read?

You learn to strike a balance between trusting credible sources and following up on those that seem less reliable. It is always tempting to regard "credible" as "has opinions I agree with" and vice versa, so a little extra critical thinking is needed in order to strive towards a more objective viewpoint when deciding.

That last bit is usually where conspiracy theorists fall down.

 

[8den]

Hmm ok here's my first introduction from the early 80's I was told not to believe that rubbish by several so called experts, as these CONSPIRACY THEORIES were floating around on USENET and were just fairy stories (at the time)...

There are loads of others, but hey I'm no EXPERT such as yourselves.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html
The Contras, Cocaine, and U.S. Covert Operations

Documentation of Official U.S. Knowledge of Drug Trafficking and the Contras
The National Security Archive obtained the hand-written notebooks of Oliver North, the National Security Council aide who helped run the contra war and other Reagan administration covert operations, through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed in 1989. The notebooks, as well as declassified memos sent to North, record that North was repeatedly informed of contra ties to drug trafficking.

Just because Someone is right about "X" does not mean they're right about everything.

Like your friend who said that every terrorist attack is a false flag. If you scream "oh my god conspiracy!" About everything eventually by the law of averages something will be amiss with one of them.

 

[editor]

You learn to strike a balance between trusting credible sources and following up on those that seem less reliable. It is always tempting to regard "credible" as "has opinions I agree with" and vice versa, so a little extra critical thinking is needed in order to strive towards a more objective viewpoint when deciding.

That last bit is usually where conspiracy theorists fall down.

Their 'research' usually involves a circle jerk of bonkers websites all making evidence free claims. You've got a greater chance of getting closer to the truth of any given topic by looking at a potato.

 

[butchersapron]

Just because Someone is right about "X" does not mean they're right about everything.

It's not that some one is right about X though.It's an interlocking number of serious research projects with credible sources understanding of the info the sources reveal and what that information means and an analysis established on the basis of these prerequisites that means we know about these things. Not just some plonker on youtube making a lucky guess.

 

[bimble]

just about to go in the oven.

 

[8den]

It's not that some one is right about X though.It's an interlocking number of serious research projects with credible sources understanding of the info the sources reveal and what that information means and an analysis established on the basis of these prerequisites that means we know about these things. Not just some plonker on youtube making a lucky guess.

Quite. I was more referring to the fact that Icke or Jones scream "conspiracy" at every world event. And then when something like Iran Contra is exposed they announce their vindication.

Sort of like someone firing wildly into the side of a barn and then painting a bullseye around were the bullets land to "prove" their accuracy.

 

[laptop]

BREAKING: Putin Reveals 4O Countries That Are Funding ISIS At The G20 Summit

Apart from all the other reasons that's bollox: Arithmetic error!

Did no-one writing that headline ask themselves: "Er, why is it called the G20"?

(And I just spotted that they don't know the difference between O and 0.)

Fucking classic conspiraloonery. Excitement of "knowing" Something Secret overwhelms any connection to or concern about the world. And Iran-Contra was never a conspiracy theory: it was properly-researched reportage all the way.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Apart from all the other reasons that's bollox: Arithmetic error!

Did no-one writing that headline ask themselves: "Er, why is it called the G20"?

As well you know, there is no arithmetical error in the headline or in the article, even if neither meets your high standards of elegant prose.

 

[bimble]

The first real post-terror test of French public opinion..will take place on December 6th, the first stage of a two-round election for regional governments. Polls suggest that first-round bragging rights will belong not to Mr Hollande or his Socialist Party, nor even to the centre-right opposition, but to Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Front (FN).

http://www.economist.com/news/europ...layed-straight-hands-frances-far-right-terror

 

[rekil]

Ghouls be monetizin'

U2's Bono writes freedom song about terror attacks at the Bataclan in Paris

 

[Orang Utan]

Ghouls be monetizin'

U2's Bono writes freedom song about terror attacks at the Bataclan in Paris

Phew, everything's going to be alright then

 

[bimble]

such lyrics.

 

[Orang Utan]

He even shoehorns in Xmas. What a bell.

 

[rekil]

During an interview with CNN's Fareed Zakaria, Bono revealed he'd written a song for veteran Italian blues and rock singer Zucchero Fornaciari but had decided to reclaim and release it as The Streets of Surrender.

In other words, it's a load of throwaway cobblers but he couldn't be arsed to do a new one.

Every man has two cities he needs to be: The one he can touch and the one he can't see.

Check your male urban-centric privilege. What about those in rural areas?

 

[bendeus]

Ghouls be monetizin'

U2's Bono writes freedom song about terror attacks at the Bataclan in Paris

With characteristic modesty the Edge claims that U2 are 'starting the process of resistance'. Thank fuck for that, eh? Lucky, lucky Paris.

 

[danny la rouge]

 

[fishfinger]

With characteristic modesty the Edge claims that U2 are 'starting the process of resistance'. Thank fuck for that, eh? Lucky, lucky Paris.

Tonight, thank God it's them instead of you...

 

[DaveCinzano]

With characteristic modesty the Edge claims that U2 are 'starting the process of resistance.'

Drone warfare

 

[8den]

Well at least Bono didn't write "terrorism is bad, it makes me so sad"

 

[Idris2002]

Well at least Bono didn't write "terrorism is bad, it makes me so sad"

"War is stupid. And people are stupid".

 

[frogwoman]

"i hate isis, they're not very nice-is"

 

[Pickman's model]

Well at least Bono didn't write "terrorism is bad, it makes me so sad"

he would have done if he'd thought of it

 

[bimble]

^ those are all SO much better than the actual words.

 

[Pickman's model]

"i hate isis, they're not very nice-is"

i don't like isis
my tum, it hates a crisis

 

[rekil]

I came down these streets of lovin' pride to surrender, streets of surrender.

Ok Bono, I'm on the train to Killiney to accept your surrender. No funny business. Schnell you stinker.

 

[frogwoman]

i don't like isis's bombs
can't they just make combs

 

[Pickman's model]

Ok Bono, I'm on the train to Killiney to accept your surrender. No funny business.

mind he doesn't ambush you with a hail of shite singing

 

[rekil]

"i hate isis, they're not very nice-is"

But hate is wrong
So let's learn to get along
With ISIS

 

[frogwoman]

terrorism is wrong
that's why i'm singing this song