simonshack @ Jan 21 2010, 11:29 PM wrote: If you have a Youtube channel, please subscribe to "911dayofservice" !
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simonshack 4 Jan 22 2010, 01:20 PM wrote:Wonder if Ron Paul actually gets to read these articles which keep appearing on the 'Daily Paul'... ;)
http://dailypaul.com/node/121283
D.Duck 4 Jan 24 2010, 10:45 AM wrote:What really starts to piss me off about all people that knew someone in the towers or on the flight is that they never tell the name of the person they knew ( haha, how could they).
I don't know why people insists to call him Dr.Ron.
So from now on, if you meet someone that tries to give you the guilt trip, ask for their names from the start and if they don't give it tell them to go f#ck themselves, that will shift the guilt bag in a couple of weeks.
D.Duck
brianv 4 Jan 25 2010, 09:26 AM wrote:I have previously called this the Woodstock Syndrome, it's a form of delusion or psychosis, some sort of self-justification brought about through fear and guilt. Lying to yourself and to others to garn sympathy or status.
I have first-hand evidence of this phenomenon. My partner, came home from work one day and declared that her boss told her that "an uncle or cousin was on one of the planes."
My brother's girlfriend had a cousin in one of the towers. She's an actress/flake. Me calling her a liar didn't go down too well. I asked for the cousin's name and then produced the "victim" list - whaddya know, no cousin on the victim list.
i811st @ Jan 25 2010, 06:20 PM wrote:brianv 4 Jan 25 2010, 09:26 AM wrote:I have previously called this the Woodstock Syndrome, it's a form of delusion or psychosis, some sort of self-justification brought about through fear and guilt. Lying to yourself and to others to garn sympathy or status.
I have first-hand evidence of this phenomenon. My partner, came home from work one day and declared that her boss told her that "an uncle or cousin was on one of the planes."
My brother's girlfriend had a cousin in one of the towers. She's an actress/flake. Me calling her a liar didn't go down too well. I asked for the cousin's name and then produced the "victim" list - whaddya know, no cousin on the victim list.
Yes! Brianv, you are spot-on, with the"cousin"mantra...MY cousin's husband(whom i had never,ever met,nor seen a photo of)was supposedly at a 9a.m. meeting on the 90th floor in one of the towers. His body was "recovered" over a week later, UNSCATHED.I have bought that story til right now.Thanks, now i have a whole new set of enemies,my family. :o
Also on that day I was working in Providence,RI(I live in Los Angeles) and my Fijian girlfriend at the time had flown out for the last week of my stay. That afternoon she comes to me bawling in tears. Said that the Fijian embassy was in that building, And one of her "cousins" worked there.(she never mentioned this cousin before,odd since this was her first time in the east coast of the mainland,no?)Well I come to find out later , after i had lost contact with her, that in Fiji,EVERYONE is your COUSIN!!! ;) funny how some people believe in coincidence...
Compensation from Libya
On 29 May 2002, Libya offered up to US2.7 billion to settle claims by the families of the 270 killed in the Lockerbie bombing, representing US10 million :blink: per family. The Libyan offer was that:
40% of the money would be released when United Nations sanctions, suspended in 1999, were cancelled;
another 40% when U.S. trade sanctions were lifted; and
the final 20% when the U.S. State Department removed Libya from its list of states sponsoring terrorism.
Jim Kreindler of New York law firm Kreindler & Kreindler, which orchestrated the settlement, said: "These are uncharted waters. It is the first time that any of the states designated as sponsors of terrorism have offered compensation to families of terror victims."
The U.S. State Department maintained that it was not directly involved. "Some families want cash, others say it is blood money," said a State Department official. Compensation for the families of the PA103 victims was among the steps set by the UN for lifting its sanctions against Libya. Other requirements included a formal denunciation of terrorism--which Libya said it had already made--and "accepting responsibility for the actions of its officials".
On 15 August 2003, Libya's UN ambassador, Ahmed Own, submitted a letter to the UN Security Council formally accepting "responsibility for the actions of its officials" in relation to the Lockerbie bombing. The Libyan government then proceeded to pay compensation to each family of US8 million (from which legal fees of about US2.5 million were deducted) and, as a result, the UN cancelled the sanctions that had been suspended four years earlier, and U.S. trade sanctions were lifted. A further US2 million would have gone to each family had the U.S. State Department removed Libya from its list of states regarded as supporting international terrorism, but as this did not happen by the deadline set by Libya, the Libyan Central Bank withdrew the remaining US540 million in April 2005 from the escrow account in Switzerland through which the earlier US2.16 billion compensation for the victims' families had been paid. The United States announced resumption of full diplomatic relations with Libya after deciding to remove it from its list of countries that support terrorism on 15 May 2006.
A civil action against Libya continued until 18 February 2005 on behalf of Pan Am and its insurers, which went bankrupt partly as a result of the attack. The airline was seeking 4.5 billion for the loss of the aircraft and the effect on the airline's business.
In the wake of the SCCRC's June 2007 decision, there have been suggestions that, if Megrahi's second appeal had been successful and his conviction had been overturned, Libya could have sought to recover the 2.16 billion compensation paid to the relatives. Interviewed by French newspaper Le Figaro on 7 December 2007, Saif al-Gaddafi said that the seven Libyans convicted for the Pan Am Flight 103 and the UTA Flight 772 bombings "are innocent". When asked if Libya would therefore seek reimbursement of the compensation paid to the families of the victims (2.33 billion in total), Saif al-Gaddafi replied: "I don't know".
In an interview shown in BBC Two's The Conspiracy Files: Lockerbie on 31 August 2008, Saif al-Gaddafi said that Libya had admitted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing simply to get trade sanctions removed. He went on to describe the families of the Lockerbie victims as very greedy: "They were asking for more money and more money and more money". However, several of the victims families refused to accept compensation due to their belief that Libya was not responsible.
Contingency fees for lawyers
On 5 December 2003, Jim Kreindler revealed that his Park Avenue law firm would receive an initial contingency fee of around US1 million from each of the 128 American families Kreindler represents. The firm's fees could exceed US300 million eventually. Kreindler argued that the fees were justified, since "Over the past seven years we have had a dedicated team working tirelessly on this and we deserve the contingency fee we have worked so hard for, and I think we have provided the relatives with value for money."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
SmokingGunII 4 Feb 8 2010, 11:02 AM wrote: Wow.
Please take time to look at the "PARTIAL LIST" list of "disasters" they have worked on, it's quite extensive and features a few you might be familiar with:
http://www.kreindler.com/kreindler_work ... _list.html
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