There is a radio show my dad currently listens to and I sometimes listened to a couple years ago called Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell(well, he's partially retired now). This show at first dealt with aliens and the supernatural, but now it has expanded into other conspiracy-esque areas. One of the reasons this show is so popular among late night listeners(it's won a few awards I believe) is because Art Bell is known for not tolerating sensationalist lies. Ironic considering it's a conspiracy theorist and supernatural activity show.
Now, he has a psychic that he introduces as "The man with more hits than a mafia hitman"(I don't remember his name. If someone could post it if they know, that would be appreciated). This psychic also has a circle of people he discusses things with that include other psychics, astrologists, numerologists, etc, etc. Now, one of the many things this guy predicted was that Bush was going to become President in the 2000 elections even before the Republican primaries started. He also said it was going to be ridiculously close(I think he even said it would come down to Florida) and there was going to be tons of controversy around it.
For this election he has predicted the Bush will win again, but it will be by a significant margin(that means beyond the margin of error to me). Frankly, I don't believe this because this presidential race is so close I think it's going to be even more controversial than the 2000 election.
Now, my dad told me about him being on a few months ago or something and he said bin Laden was dead. He said that if you look back at the battle of Tora Bora, the media mentioned almost offhandedly about a convoy going out of the battle was hit with a missle. He says bin Laden was in that convoy and that DNA from some of the pieces of flesh from the convoy was compared against the DNA of several of his family members and it was concluded it was bin Laden(actually, I don't know if it was the psychic that said the part about the DNA or the "top-notch conspiracy private eye" that was on the show that said this. I don't remember his name, so if anyone who listens to the show remembers his name, please post.)
Anyway, the psychic said there were three reasons why the government wasn't coming out with this information:
1) No one would believe them. We had the bodies of Uday and Qusay, yet there were still people that said we hadn't killed them. How do you think having bits of flesh and DNA results would be seen?
2) Announcing bin Laden's death would have made him a martyr, thus increasing recruitment into terrorist organizations and making things a lot worse.
3) "Looking for bin Laden" is a good excuse for knocking down doors over there.
Now, I'm very skeptical of all of this, but I think it was worth posting about. Thoughts?
(edit: grammar is my friend)
Now, he has a psychic that he introduces as "The man with more hits than a mafia hitman"(I don't remember his name. If someone could post it if they know, that would be appreciated). This psychic also has a circle of people he discusses things with that include other psychics, astrologists, numerologists, etc, etc. Now, one of the many things this guy predicted was that Bush was going to become President in the 2000 elections even before the Republican primaries started. He also said it was going to be ridiculously close(I think he even said it would come down to Florida) and there was going to be tons of controversy around it.
For this election he has predicted the Bush will win again, but it will be by a significant margin(that means beyond the margin of error to me). Frankly, I don't believe this because this presidential race is so close I think it's going to be even more controversial than the 2000 election.
Now, my dad told me about him being on a few months ago or something and he said bin Laden was dead. He said that if you look back at the battle of Tora Bora, the media mentioned almost offhandedly about a convoy going out of the battle was hit with a missle. He says bin Laden was in that convoy and that DNA from some of the pieces of flesh from the convoy was compared against the DNA of several of his family members and it was concluded it was bin Laden(actually, I don't know if it was the psychic that said the part about the DNA or the "top-notch conspiracy private eye" that was on the show that said this. I don't remember his name, so if anyone who listens to the show remembers his name, please post.)
Anyway, the psychic said there were three reasons why the government wasn't coming out with this information:
1) No one would believe them. We had the bodies of Uday and Qusay, yet there were still people that said we hadn't killed them. How do you think having bits of flesh and DNA results would be seen?
2) Announcing bin Laden's death would have made him a martyr, thus increasing recruitment into terrorist organizations and making things a lot worse.
3) "Looking for bin Laden" is a good excuse for knocking down doors over there.
Now, I'm very skeptical of all of this, but I think it was worth posting about. Thoughts?
(edit: grammar is my friend)
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