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Unbelievable

by John Cole|  July 9, 20052:17 pm| 21 Comments

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More information is released about the explosions in London, and, true to form, Raimondo disappears the timeline he was using as the crux of his conspiracy theory. The post (2206-0-1-0) used to be here.

The post before (2205_0_1_0) is there, the post afterwards (2207_0_1_0) is there, but the post with the timeline he was using to advance the notion that Netanyahu was warned after one bombing but before an another is, quite simply, disappeared.

I wish I had a screenshot.

And now, magically, it is back, and with an update:

UPDATE: The new timeline that we are now being told is much closer to the truth — that the explosions in the London terror attack were mere seconds apart — obviously makes the analysis herein invalid.

In all the rush and emotion of Terror Thursday, I had forgotten the number one axiom for a libertarian journalist: if a government says something, we have to assume they’re lying. This goes double for the government of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which has turned “for you own good” paternalism into an excuse for a worrying authoritarianism.

Given the new sequence of events we are presented with, the Israelis’ claim that Finance Minister Netanyahu received a warning after the first explosion makes sense — that is, if their denial that they received a warning before the blasts can be believed.

The analysis is invlaid, but the rumor mongering continues in earnest.

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21Comments

  1. 1.

    Joel

    July 9, 2005 at 2:29 pm

    Maybe there’s a google cache or the Wayback machine might still have the originals–though not knowing how either of those things work, I ‘ve no idea whether that’s probable or not.

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    Gary Farber

    July 9, 2005 at 2:33 pm

    Raimondo is true to form.

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    Gary Farber

    July 9, 2005 at 2:35 pm

    There are so many like this.

  4. 4.

    KC

    July 9, 2005 at 3:09 pm

    Wow, way to stick it ’em, John. Have to admit, you’ve got the biggest pair in the blogosphere.

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    Justin Raimondo

    July 9, 2005 at 3:26 pm

    Uh, you need to get a life, Cole. It’s Saturday: go out an get some fresh air. The blog entry you’re frothing at the mouth about was deleted by mistake, and then restored with an update containing the new information. So what? Ok, so I should’ve realized that the socialist-commie-INGSOCcers who rule Britain were lying about the timeline. However, that doesn’t mean that Netanyahu wasn’t tipped off in advance, as AP and Stratfor reported.

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    John Cole

    July 9, 2005 at 3:33 pm

    Or maybe, just maybe, you should wait more than 8 hours after a bombing to start absurd and stupid conspiracy theories about Israel that require you to cling desparately to errant news reports…

    Quite literally, the bodies weren’t even cold and you were popping off at the mouth that Israel knew and Netanyahu let people die and so one and so forth. And those are the least vile of your assertions.

    You brave, bold, intrepid ‘libertarian journalist.’

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    Justin Raimondo

    July 9, 2005 at 3:39 pm

    There is nothing “absurd” or “stupid” about the AP story, or the Stratfor.com report, both of which say that Netanyahu received a warning before the blasts. But I guess you’re just popping off at the mouth again, conjuring conspiracy theories — AP has it in for Israel, along with Stratfor, eh?

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    John Cole

    July 9, 2005 at 3:45 pm

    You still here? I thought you were outside. It is, after all, Saturday.

    Yes- the widely reported SINGULAR AP story with an anonymous source and a Stratfor report. Pay no attention to every other subsequent report, pay no attention to the confusion surrounding any mass bombing of a civilian population and the ensuing chaos..

    All together now, with Dennis:

    “What did Bibi know, and when did he know it?”

    Itinerant fool.

  9. 9.

    Mr. Right

    July 9, 2005 at 4:42 pm

    “Itinerant”

  10. 10.

    John Cole

    July 9, 2005 at 4:45 pm

    Yes. Itinerant:

    Traveling from place to place, especially to perform work or a duty: an itinerant judge; itinerant labor.

    A traveling fool, who flows from place to place on the web being foolish. I meant exactly what I said.

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    mr. right

    July 9, 2005 at 4:50 pm

    Okay, sorry. Just seemed like weird phraseology, that’s all.

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    John Cole

    July 9, 2005 at 4:51 pm

    Just seemed like weird phraseology, that’s all.

    Consider the source. Sorry for snapping, though- I am pissy with things not going well in the site transition.

  13. 13.

    Halffasthero

    July 9, 2005 at 5:11 pm

    Sorry for snapping, though- I am pissy

    Just keep it simple… : )

  14. 14.

    SoCalJustice

    July 9, 2005 at 6:22 pm

    Hey Justin, got a question for ya:

    Who is John Israel?

    Cheers.

    You’d think you’d learn – these “mistakes” keep piling up.

    Maybe you should go after another boogeyman?

    Or maybe someone should write a “booklet” about your mounting Zionist faux pas, have it sold on amazon, and link to it in every other column they write.

    Nah, that’s been done.

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    John Cole

    July 9, 2005 at 6:24 pm

    I am not reading all that, SoCal. Could you give me the abridged version?

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    SoCalJustice

    July 9, 2005 at 6:26 pm

    Oh Justin – you might have missed (or just ignored) my question on the last thread, but what happened to all that indecent fun you were having over at the Huffington Blog?

    That was a quick adventure.

    On the bright side, you probably can compile all your posts there into another “booklet” and shamelessly hawk it every chance you get.

    What’s the scoop, sir?

  17. 17.

    SoCalJustice

    July 9, 2005 at 6:29 pm

    John,

    The abridged version is there was a guy named John Israel in the Taguba report about the abuses at Abu Ghraib.

    Justin immediately jumped on the name and figured the guy was Mossad (just like all the covert CIA agents we have named Johnny America, you see?)

    Turns out the guy was a Chaldean Christian Iraqi – but of course, before anyone knew the facts, good ole reliable J.R. was out their banging the Mossad/Zionist/Likud drum. After all, those Israelis are just sneaky enough to name their agents “Mr. Israel.”

    Tricky lot, them.

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    John Cole

    July 9, 2005 at 6:44 pm

    LMAO.

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    SoCalJustice

    July 9, 2005 at 7:32 pm

    BTW, there was a classic nugget in one of Justin’s recent columns:

    “And they do these things for much the same reason Bin Ladin rants about Zionists and crusaders: because it gets good ratings. Spewing hatred over the airwaves 24/7 keeps the true believers in a permanent froth, drowning out any doubts about the party line and the party elite.

    He’s quoting Billmon. But it’s pretty interesting, because if you replace “Bin Ladin” with “Justin” and “crusaders” with “Likudniks” – the sentence holds true, and one realizes that Justin and Osama basically have the same marketing strategy.

    Although Osama makes video tapes instead of “booklets.” But it’s close enough.

  20. 20.

    kl

    July 10, 2005 at 11:10 am

    Guys, you have to look at this from Dennis’s perspective: Those backpedalling Jews said the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were fake too.

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  1. protein wisdom says:
    July 9, 2005 at 4:01 pm

    Because it's Saturday, I've decided to let others do my work for me -- which leaves me free to eat lots of chips and maybe watch a baseball game

    1. Craig C sends along several links, all of them worth checking out. First, Tim Blair investigates a few nascent conspiracy theories springing up around the London bombings and in the process, develops one of his own. Also by way of Tim Blair, Andr…

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