Yeah, We're Still Here!
Just a quick note to let everyone know that despite the lack of activity on the WTCD blog, the truth movement continues its work (not everything of note happens in public, you know!)
The tenth anniversary was a time to pause, reflect, and ultimately RESUME! The passing of Prof. Lynn Margulis, an exemplary public intellectual and scientist, was a sobering reminder that every truther will one day leave the movement. We owe it to those who have done so much to help the cause of truth to not let their work be in vain by reaffirming our commitment to do our part for this most important effort.
As we go forward, let's be determined to work smarter as well as harder. Let's continue to subject the more "mainstream" truth venues to the strictest analysis and criticism and constantly explore those issues we find to be neglected. Let's flesh out the legal landscape before us, as well as the cultural one, and keep our eyes on the prize--a full public accounting of the real events of 9/11 made known to every citizen of America, in a responsible yet uncompromising manner.
Onward truthers!
Check out what's happened to 911newscentral.com
Clicking on http://911newscentral.com redirects the viewer to the following site:
http://www.reficultnias.org/
Did a google search. It looks like Jeff still owns it.
http://allentown.craigslist.org/pol/2752144315.html
Jeff is from Allentown PA. " Dear Lehigh Valley news readers:"
It's him.
The site's name is "Saint Lucifer" backwards.
He's redirecting 911newscentral traffic to his new site, much like he redirected 911blogger.org and 911truthnews.net to 911newscentral in the beginning.
Weird man, that Jeff Jacobucci.
Still here. Thanks for
Still here. Thanks for keeping this going Gret!
Too bad this site is not what it used to be...
what with several intelligent, quality bloggers having either been banned (at least one of them for reasons which haven't been convincingly explained) or choosing to leave on their own accords. some of them were active from the beginning and obviously brought a lot of traffic to this site when they were still posting here. Now this place seems like a ghost town. Can't say that you are a very welcoming or transparent site admin, Gretavo. A bit hypocritical, in fact, compared with your criticisms of other sites that you like to criticize.
whose banning...
are you concerned about? Tell me and I'll tell you why they were banned.
Breakthrough?
http://www.opinion-maker.org/2011/01/british-intelligence-reports/#
Fyi,
Regards,
911I
yes, too bad indeed...
In the earlier years, I enjoyed reading what this site had to offer; even if I didn't agree with Gretavo on who is and isn't Cointelpro (though I suspected it for awhile, I eventually concluded that Jon Gold isn't a "fake truther," just the ultimate intolerant, my-way-or-the-highway type character), I found the site to be edgy, opinionated, interesting, and worth reading since it covered stories not covered at 911blogger, and I was most particularly impressed by this site's coverage of the Israel angle.
When the noose of control at 911blogger had gotten so tight that it was no longer within a reason of hope for 'we the people' to take back that site, I enthusiastically promoted this site as a healthy alternative, and encouraged the many (over 100) people on my mailing list to come here, register and contribute, and have it be the vigorous, free-wheeling discussion site that blogger once was.
Then my heart later sank with dismay as I watched Gretavo drive his own site into the ground. IMO, he ended up exhibiting some extremely poor judgement, in both opinions (openly airing unfounded suspicions of others) and actions, and breaking implicit faith/trust with a number of former supporters.
After that, I had to face the embarrassment of re-mailing all those people on that same mailing list, informing them that I no longer endorsed the site.
Unfortunately, that same "wash, rinse, repeat" cycle happened again in the future with 911NewsCentral.
Too bad the movement of real truthers still hasn't gotten its act together and created a new "leading news" site with free and open debate/discussion, to counter the shills at 911B, Visibility911, truthaction, etc. Craig McKee's Truth and Shadows blog is currently where the discussion is at, but that one blog is hardly enough. That site is simply an op-ed blog, not a "news" site.
It's a sad state of affairs.
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"your criticisms of other sites that you like to criticize..."
Sounds like you think the criticism is undeserved. It's obvious who's been banned here because their picture is replaced with the words 'THIS USER HAS BEEN BANNED', and the reason/s are explained.
While banning anyone who isn't obviously a robot or troll seems a shame, comparing WTCD to 'those other sites' makes me wonder where you're coming from. At e.g. 911Blogger you can be banned for simply standing your ground against the 'Truth Action' LIHOP saboteurs in control there. Until then many comments will simply disappear. They won't even explain that you've been banned, instead you'll be told you're in 'moderation' but actually all comments you post are deleted.
"and the reason/s are explained"...
...where?
it depends on whom you want to know about
Is there anyone in particular? When I've banned registered users the reason is usually given in a comment at the site of their (last) offending post. Merry X-mas!