Your favourite unsolved mystery?

Colmustard wrote: »

OK I will say it

How come women can put a duvet cover on in such a simple movement

While us men usually get tied up and inside the damn thing.

Jus,,t just,, why can't us men put a duvet cover on.

If anyone know the answer, lay off the quantum physics, and tell me in plain english.

Stop acting dumb!

You start with the duvet cover inside out, put your hands in it to the two distant corners, once this is done, grab two corners on the duvet and shake the duvet cover, it will turn itself around the right way and voila...

Now stop using that lame excuse to get out of doing it.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_Runestone Would love if this turned out to be authentic .

Especially with other "out of place" artifacts http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/society/text/other_artifacts.htm

There are a lot of unsolved issues in the world and what we hear and what goes on tends to be different. Love them or hate them, but Israel and the West can get away with anything they like whereas other countries (even if they say something rather than do something) tend to be reprimanded if they step out of line. Contrast Israel's invasion of Lebanon and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. The then leaders Olmert and Milosevic were very very similar (evil is the word) but a blind eye was turned to one whereas the other was bombed!

9/11 remains the biggest unsolved mystery. Firstly, that an organised crime syndicate could get away with planning this without the US knowing something I do not buy. The chaos that followed this including the Afghan and Iraq wars and the subsequent financial crises are a legacy of this and it seems it was all futile. The Middle East has been plagued by war and when one country seems to be calming, another civil war erupts elsewhere. Terrorism and the threat of it has not gone away and the biggest mystery about al Qaeda is who is really behind it? Or why a direct war on that evil organisation has never truly been launched.

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

The biggest ifs and buts to the 9/11 conspiracy theories are the scale of the attacks.

The US would have justified two wars with strong public backing by committing deadly but less financially and casualty causing attacks. A wave of car bomb attacks in various cities for example, would have been a somewhat lesser carnage but still horrifying enough to get the public behind a war.

But thousands dead, the airline industry nearly collapsing, insurance companies going to the brink, the two financial powerhouses of the country hit with many of the greatest economic and military minds among the dead at the WTC and Pentagon, it really would be too much of a shoot yourself in the foot attack to entertain a false flag theory. Particularly against Afghanistan, a rugged land the USA already would have had justification in attacking but chose not to do so because of its historical ability to beat foreign invaders. There was certainly negligence that allowed the attacks to occur, but direct involvement is a stretch too far.

I would be inclined to agree... if that administration didn't prove itself to be utterly, and increasingly, insane throughout it's tenure - as well as utterly reckless. They set the blueprint for the sheer madness that the Republican Parry is today.

That said, I don't follow the 'mass conspiracy' bit myself either, as there are some tinfoil hat wearers who have brought it to the nth degree and just made any valid argument toxic by association. But I figure there had to be something murky there at some level, somewhere... just not sure what. Kind of a situation that even if they all got proven 100% guilty of complete conspiracy tomorrow, I wouldn't be all too shocked, but at the same time there's not enough information out there for anyone to claim to know the entire truth about alleged conspiracies and whatnot.

Kind of like before Snowden, most were suspicious of what the NSA were up to (or at least chunks of it), but there wasn't enough to know it for fact. When that story broke, all that really surprised me was that it surprised so many other people. But I'm a bit of a sceptic on both sides.

Sunglasses Ron wrote: »

The biggest ifs and buts to the 9/11 conspiracy theories are the scale of the attacks.

The US would have justified two wars with strong public backing by committing deadly but less financially and casualty causing attacks. A wave of car bomb attacks in various cities for example, would have been a somewhat lesser carnage but still horrifying enough to get the public behind a war.

But thousands dead, the airline industry nearly collapsing, insurance companies going to the brink, the two financial powerhouses of the country hit with many of the greatest economic and military minds among the dead at the WTC and Pentagon, it really would be too much of a shoot yourself in the foot attack to entertain a false flag theory. Particularly against Afghanistan, a rugged land the USA already would have had justification in attacking but chose not to do so because of its historical ability to beat foreign invaders. There was certainly negligence that allowed the attacks to occur, but direct involvement is a stretch too far.

I never said that the US was directly involved in the attacks but that a whole lot of unanswered questions remain about the attacks. Here's some issues:

1- I would find it hard to believe that the US agencies knew nothing about them but could have played down the issues and never believed it was possible. Hindsight is easy.
2- Why target what was targetted? What was in the WTO that someone was so desperate to destroy? That was picked for a reason not for some vague gesture like 'attacking a building that symbolises keeping poor countries down'. The organisers of 9/11 were hardly poor and could not care less about the poor!! Under their reign, indeed Afghanistan was the poorest country outside Africa but they lived in luxury - bin Laden and Zawahiri were upperclass rich men - even if they were caves: but modified and house-like caves. Frontman Mullah Omar lived in palace. Enemies of the poor? Definitely? WTO as threat to them? Maybe something about drug money being laundered was about to break?
3- How could well-educated postgrad students be convinced to fly planes into buildings and obey and believe in voodoo black magic? They were either drugged (AQ is one of the biggest heroin dealers on the planet) or else forced into it. Certainly, they would not do it in their right mind as they had minds. What did 9/11 were zombies and to be a zombie, you either have to be drugged or told to do it to avoid some worse fate.
4- Iran, Iraq and North Korea had nothing got to do with it. Why was one of them attacked and two threatened?

I believe the full truth about 9/11 will never be truly known. The key though is to find out WHY WTO was attacked? What was in that building that posed a threat to the biggest drug dealers on the planet? That is the key to the truth.