Monday, May 18, 2020

So much for the "unmasking" attempt at scandal

So many (nearly all?) conspiracies owe their existence and longevity to the lack of experience in, or specialised knowledge of, a field of expertise or practice by members of the public, which is exploited by the person first creating it.

Don't know how structural steel beams perform under X degrees of heat for X amount of minutes?   Well, of course that's an area ripe for conspiratorial exploitation.

The Clinton email issue with using a private account  - as I have said before, people who have worked in Defence at nearly any but the lowest levels should all know that it is easy for an email to end up with a dubious (and unnecessarily high) security classification;  the average gullible member of the public, though, hasn't a clue and thinks if any "secret" email had been misdirected or hacked it was inevitably going to be some kind of espionage disaster. 

The latest example, if this information from a WAPO column about the pathetic attempt of Trump to make "unmasking" of Flynn a scandal against Obama and Biden is true, it would be a great example of exploitation of ignorance:
Finally, the fact that a senior official’s name appeared on the list doesn’t necessarily mean that the official actually made the request. In many cases, unmasking requests are made by a senior official’s daily intelligence briefer so they could be prepared to answer any questions the official might raise. The intelligence community nonetheless records that as a request by the senior official.


3 comments:

Not Trampis said...

come on steve,
We all knew the unmasking was BS

GMB said...

"Don't know how structural steel beams perform under X degrees of heat for X amount of minutes? Well, of course that's an area ripe for conspiratorial exploitation."

Hilarious. You cannot get kerosene in such a building in the first place by the methods the terrorists propose. And kerosene burns so cool that its less hot than a barbecue. Your barbecue would melt. What makes it even more ridiculous is that these were very large steel beams and steel is an excellent conductor of heat. So its a non-starter on all grounds. Strangely enough this is not atypical for the terrorist community. A lot of their cover stories are physically impossible on multiple grounds. Like when one member of the terrorist community proposed a bullet changing direction in mid-air. This is old hat to these people.

What really happened is that they had nukes deep in the ground. They had immense redundancy going on. There is such a thing as a "nuclear chimney" in the science of nuclear demolition. As a consequence of the nukes deep in the ground you had a molten substance there for 3 months after the explosion. So we assume molten rock deep below the ground and molten steel above that. Three buildings were largely turned to dust by all the neutrons. 6% of the buildings were turned into vaporised iron that created all these microspheres. Most of the concrete was turned to dust. 3 more buildings were also destroyed on the inside but the facades stayed in place.

Such steel girders that survived the nuclear demolition were quickly shipped off to China in prearranged trucks during a time when iron ore was at its lowest known real price in history. The terrorists had also prearranged a great many trucks full of earth to tamp down the nuclear radiation.

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