MightyTibberton
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Rudkowski would be a completely credible attendee by the way, it's not at all hard to find him with several of the others on that list.
It is weird. The woman who wrote that blog that's one of the sources actually reports her bafflement at why he would be there. And it seems odd to me, too - the panels he's listed as contributing too are quite technical things that I don't think he's had any involvement with.
But it's not coming from junk, made-up sources. The website of the conference seems to have been removed/updated to the next iteration, but his name is listed on the official running order.
Conference Itinerary
His onetime pal, Luke Rudkowski, (Luke Rudkowski - RationalWiki) is reported as attending by CFCA - Iranian conference promoting antisemitism
But I can't find anything (again, I'll add the proviso that I'm not a full-time, professional Googler on this topic, or particularly expert at finding stuff that might be deleted or hidden) post the conference to actually prove he was there.
There is, as Pickman's model notes about a million pages back (this discussion seems to score very highly for Tim Pool Google results!), the fact that he wasn't tweeting definitively from any other location at the time of the conference. Same with Luke Rudkowski. In itself that seems odd - their whole brand is all about visibility, if they were alright with going there you'd expect them to be alright with talking about it. (I have no way of searching for deleted tweets.)
Invited but did not attend seems plausible - there was also a nearly concurrent film festival on the same theme.
I suppose if you're forensically minded you might point out that "never been to Tehran" and "was not on panel at this conference" is not entirely synonymous in these days of Skype, particularly for two people who made their reputations by livestreaming.
Pool, incidentally, says that his politics are "centre left"...
And he's been hanging round with Sputnik/Russia Today/Zero Hedge of late too....
tbh if tp wasn't there then he should get in touch with memri so they can amend this:
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The Second International 'New Horizon' Conference in Tehran Draws Leading Holocaust Deniers, Conspiracy Theorists, And BDS Activists From Around The World – And Is Backed And Supported By Iranian Regime
Sorry, beeing a bit lazy here, is Rudkowski or Pool listed here, and in that case where about in the text?
He was in New Zealand filming for Vice in October 2013... (though perhaps Vice are always filming in New Zealand...) :
In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand. Even though Kim is under house arrest—since he's at the center of history's largest copyright case—he's still able to visit a recording studio in Auckland. So check out this brand new documentary we made at Kim's mega-mansion and in the studio where our host, Tim Pool,
He was in New Zealand filming for Vice in October 2013... (though perhaps Vice are always filming in New Zealand...) :
In October 2013, VICE News was invited to visit the infamous tech mogul and creator of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, at his palatial property in New Zealand. Even though Kim is under house arrest—since he's at the center of history's largest copyright case—he's still able to visit a recording studio in Auckland. So check out this brand new documentary we made at Kim's mega-mansion and in the studio where our host, Tim Pool,
(though perhaps Vice are always filming in New Zealand...)
Indeed. . .
Yes it´s a mystery. And it´s also a mystery that Tim Pool did´t contact all the websites where he is at, to ask them to correct the information. He is on Buzzfeed, Memri and CFCA among others. And "invited to film" is not the same thing as sitting as a panelist.
And that is if Caleb Maupin is telling the truth. Maybe Tim Pool contacted him now as the shit hit the fan...
Mmm. Interesting deletion! I have absolutely zero hacking skills. . .
Luke Rudkowski was only listed on CFCA - Iranian conference promoting antisemitism I didn't see him on the actual conference schedule I saw.
I slightly walk back my claim that Caleb Maupin is no associate of TP now having read that he was an Occupy Wall Street activist, which is where TP first came to light, so it's not impossible or indeed unlikely that they might have met in that time period. Maybe you should drop emails to the other people on panels with him?
Rudkowski has interviewed Gareth Porter. He interviewed Wayne Madsen just a few weeks before the conference:
But, the more I search on this the more I realise what a small world this is - David Icke, Russia Today, Press TV etcetc - so they do all seem to talk to each other fairly regularly. . . Just saying don't overinterpret that.
How's your Farsi?
I reckon it might all come down to this guy:
Hamed Ghashghavi
He seems to be a translator, host, conference organiser... and played a part in the conference.
"As the secretary of International Affairs of the 2nd New Horizon Conference that has been cancelled by the Rouhani Government, Hamed Ghashghavi has invited the following anti-Zionist, anti-Imperialist and anti-Capitalist personalities to visit Iran:
Congressman Jim McDermott, Prof. William O. Beeman, Prof. Webster Tarpley, Prof. Aleksandr Dugin, Dr. Rev. Stephen Sizer, Prof. Anthony James Hall, , Prof. John Mueller, Prof. Henry Veltmeyer, Prof. Peter Scholl-Latour, Dr. Hesham Tillawi, Dr. Peter Lavelle, Dr. Coleen Rowley, Dr. Daniele Ganser, Dr. Rev. Randy Short, G. Edward Griffin, William Blum, Ray McGovern, Fmr. Gov. Gary Johnson, Col. Ann Wright, Brady Kiesling, Danny Schechter, Alain Soral, Susan Lindauer, David Barsamian, Wayne Madsen, Leo Wanta, Medea Benjamin, Cindy Sheehan, Christopher Bollyn, Carol Brouillet, Gordon Duff, Grant F. Smith, Alison Weir, Judge John V. Whitbeck, Judge James P. Gray, Tim Pool, Luke Rudkowski, Robert Naiman, Cyrus McGoldrick, Mark Dankof, Mark Glenn, Peter Eyre, Gwynne Dyer, Chris Bambery, Kémi Séba, Jean-Michel Vernochet, Michel Collon, Gilles Munier, Christoph R. Hörstel, Rainer Rupp, Jürgen Cain Külbel, Giulietto Chiesa, Pepe Escobar, Baraka Blue, Phillip Tourney."
So, looks like "invited but did not attend" or even "claimed to be invited" is the most credible explanation for all this...?
Well I wrote a long post about this that got lost. . .
There you go. . .
Short version. I think the Iranian chap is the source of all this. . . But good luck with your search. I see TP is off to France now.
It's to protect him from incisive criticismwearing his wankers stab proof vest for no reason...
wearing his wankers stab proof vest for no reason...