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KISS QUESTIONS
As stated in my above
DISCLAIMER (see my first post on top of this page), I don't have any sort of working theory of what happened / or didn't happen at the KISS disco in Brazil, on January 27. All I'll be doing here is to ask legitimate questions related to the photographic record of the event. If I had lost a Brazilian friend (I have a few) in that fire and attended his/her funeral, I would STILL be raising these questions. After a few days of steady searching, I have not been able to find all that many images of the event, something which I find a bit odd - considering that roughly 1500 people supposedly got out alive & unharmed from that disco fire. But let me first list a few figures:
Confirmed dead:
245 (for numerologists =11) [
Note: there still seems to be lots of 'confusion' around the final death toll.]
Confirmed wounded / hospitalized:
117 (for numerologists =9)
Reported number of people inside the disco that night: approx
2000 (twice the club's stated capacity)
So my first question would be: where are all those survivors' photos of the event itself? So far, it seems there are only about a few dozen (generously speaking) uploaded online. Anyways, let us check out some of them and see what they depict.
Here are two very rare 'amateur' images, allegedly
from inside the KISS disco before the fire set off. Quite frankly, they both look awfully artificial and 'plastic' to me - certainly not any sort of casual snapshots captured on the fly:
source:
http://kadajnetonews.blogspot.it/2013/0 ... boate.html
Here are two ('artistically' tilted) shots showing survivors in front of the KISS club. They appear to be clean, relaxed and none the worse for wear, chatting about, holding beer cans and hugging each other (and showing off their underwear) while an ugly smokeplume gushes out from the main (and only) discotheque entrance/exit :
Now, does the above look like some disaster area involving 2000 people - some of them roasting/choking to death inside that disco? Where are the firefighters (which reportedly promptly arrived within minutes of the alarm)? Well, we do have these three shots of the same firefighter in the same pose - from different angles - spraying water on an invisible fire. But
that is about it, as far as the KISS DISCO firefighting imagery is concerned:
Here's a dreadful frame from CNN. How such piss-poor imagery can even exist today is beyond belief:
And shouldn't we have plenty of rescue teams and ambulances here? Are we to believe that Brazil is some sort of retrograde, under-developed "third-world" nation in the middle of nowhere? Well, here's an image showing three guys haplessly carrying a victim around, RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE KISS DISCO ENTRANCE! Where are the other 1500 survivors who just escaped from the fire? (Note the large pool of blood to the left - or is it tomato sauce?) :
Allright, here's another image showing a small group RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE KISS DISCO ENTRANCE. Yes, we see an ambulance and a fire engine there, but again, does this look like a site where 1500 people have just escaped from that burning discotheque? I can count 18 people in this picture - and the photographer seems to have plenty of room to compose his remarkably well-lit shot of that ONE particular victim lying on the ground:
Now, here's an image of the aftermath of the tragedy. At upper left, we have three buildings, marked
"A", "B" and "C" :
Here's an image grabbed from a CNN video, from a slightly different angle. Where is building
"C" ?
The problem is, Brazilian TV showed THIS aerial view of the KISS DISCO - and its surrounding buildings. Clearly, the sloped roofline of building "B" extends
all the way to the edge of the building - unlike the above images suggest :
FIRE DAMAGE: That Brazilian TV aerial shot also shows that the largest fire damage of the KISS DISCO occured just above the location of the windows "A, B, C" - as marked below. How then, can we see those soot-less, uncharred interiors (featuring pristine woodwork and plastic beer cases) ?
Moreover, what exactly is going on here, on this CNN video? The colors of the various parts of the KISS DISCO façade are all off by a mile (beyond any plausible excuse) - and we have those sharp
soot stripes...
...which are nowhere to be seen on other images of the post-fire scenery:
Here follow 4 images inside of the KISS DISCO which apparently caught fire (in the ceiling) causing the death of 245 people. The question is: are the conditions of this club (ceiling and all) consistent with the official account?
The Brazilian press has released two maps of the KISS DISCO. Unfortunately, they are dramatically inconsistent and cannot agree either on the club's layout/architecture - or even about WHERE THE FIRE INITIATED!
("inìcio do incêndio")
MAP1 :
MAP2:
We then have a handful of "graphic", awfully blurry / gory pictures of charred bodies - supposedly snapped at the KISS DISCO. However, do any of these images contain any indications that these images were snapped inside the KISS DISCO?
[st]Is it just a coincidence that one of these rare images resembles another old disco-tragedy in BALI (blamed on AL-QAEDA?)[/st]
(EDIT: thank you, Upstream - for pointing out dubious sources of upper image in red-framed comparison below. My bad. This would mean, I suppose, that there exist no images of bodies inside the KISS discotheque.)
(Dubious sources mentioned above:)
http://www.luiscardoso.com.br/politica/
http://sobradoemfoco.blogspot.it/2013/0 ... os-na.html
http://www.itabunaurgente.com/2013/01/i
Do we have lamestream media interviews with attractive female eyewitnesses/ survivors of this event? Yes we do:
We have this blonde girl - who says her survival was "a birthday gift". A real survivor or an actress?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG9lqf0jYO0
We also have "Pamella Vedovotto" (Vedovotto translates as "little widower" in Italian). A real survivor or an actress?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ia1bJ11Rg
I should probably stop here. Ok, so I'll believe that this KISS event was wholly real - if you wish me to.
I've tried my best to
Keep
It
Simple,
Stupid. I'm off to bed now. Nighty nighty!
