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The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« on: April 15, 2019, 12:16:19 PM »
A piece of history is burning to the ground.

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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2019, 12:33:18 PM »
Very sad. Fire can be so terribly destructive. Any idea how it started yet?
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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2019, 12:57:40 PM »
Sad news for such a historic building, just been watching the news and live feed, saw the spire and roof collapse. Probably linked to renovation work that was being carried out.
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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2019, 02:42:49 PM »
Seen construction scaffolding at the scene. I'd bet money a construction worker accidently started the fire. Welding and soldering can do that.
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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2019, 06:45:16 PM »
Seen construction scaffolding at the scene. I'd bet money a construction worker accidently started the fire. Welding and soldering can do that.

Accidentally or on purpose? This is the holiest week in Christendom, was it a deliberate act of terrorism?


https://europe.infowars.com/notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris-on-fire-worker-claims-it-was-deliberately-started/

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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2019, 06:56:07 PM »
Seen construction scaffolding at the scene. I'd bet money a construction worker accidently started the fire. Welding and soldering can do that.

Accidentally or on purpose? This is the holiest week in Christendom, was it a deliberate act of terrorism?

https://europe.infowars.com/notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris-on-fire-worker-claims-it-was-deliberately-started/

An acquitance of mine about 15 years ago restored in the Dordogne a listed, high value structure. Not really a chateaux more of a fortified farm house. The government control was excessive, including each worker having his own fire extinguisher.

Off course what the government mandates and what the government does it self are two different matters. Just consider the fire in the Cats House in The Hague.
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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #6 on: April 16, 2019, 12:31:47 PM »
Seen construction scaffolding at the scene. I'd bet money a construction worker accidently started the fire. Welding and soldering can do that.

Accidentally or on purpose? This is the holiest week in Christendom, was it a deliberate act of terrorism?


https://europe.infowars.com/notre-dame-cathedral-in-paris-on-fire-worker-claims-it-was-deliberately-started/

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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #7 on: April 16, 2019, 01:09:15 PM »
Moby understands French and watches the French news...

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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #8 on: April 16, 2019, 01:09:15 PM »
Stefan Molyneux was making the point that there seems to have been a spate of defacements, arson attacks and vandalism on Catholic churches in France this year. He also made the point, and it seems reasonable, that while authorities are telling people that it is too early to jump to conclusions they are also telling us that there is no sign of the event being due to arson. Both those statements cannot be true at the same time.

The claim that the fire was not due to arson is a conclusion, just as a claim that it might have been arson is a conclusion and is a sure sign that we are being manipulated. That's not to say that the incident was, or was not arson - just that the manipulation is clear and that suggests a narrative is either prepared or in the process of preparation.

Given the degree of caution taken by contractors on projects of this type of work, it seems very unlikely that what happened was an accident. Just think of all the things that would have had to go wrong in a highly controlled environment, for this to have happened.

When I used to run a disaster restoration business we were not dealing with priceless cultural and religious artifacts but we took huge care to make sure that we damaged nothing or that we dd not make anything worse than when we first touched it. In all my years, running several franchise areas with multiple teams of workers, all trained in conservation and precaution, we only ever had one item claimed to have been damaged, a vase, in a fire-damaged house. Frankly, I did not believe the claim was genuine. However, that gave me a little context when reading reports into yesterday's events. Given the training and conditions under which the workers on this project laboured I find it hard to believe that somebody did something careless that led directly to this fire.

Either there was a whole series of events that went wrong allowing this unlikely event to happen, or the fire was deliberate. It is actually easier to think the event was due to arson than that a business that is successfully based upon the extreme caution needed to protect some of the most valuable objects in the world had a series of failings of management, systems, and equipment yesterday, in Paris. If the company had such a degree of failure built into it then there would have been evidence of it in other projects, with less grave outcomes.
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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2019, 02:51:08 PM »
While the experience of my acquaintance in France was somewhat different than what Andrew sketches it has similarities. The amount of control and almost meddling amazed me. A private individual restores a landmark at his own cost and the government tells him what size nails to use, the type of potties and type of heating system.

If I were to guess based on the available information presently this was a chain of events that led to the outcome, a disaster.

As I recall Windsor Castle was also subject to a serious fire. What was the background of that?
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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #10 on: April 16, 2019, 07:59:23 PM »
Stefan Molyneux was making the point that there seems to have been a spate of defacements, arson attacks and vandalism on Catholic churches in France this year. He also made the point, and it seems reasonable, that while authorities are telling people that it is too early to jump to conclusions they are also telling us that there is no sign of the event being due to arson. Both those statements cannot be true at the same time.

The claim that the fire was not due to arson is a conclusion, just as a claim that it might have been arson is a conclusion and is a sure sign that we are being manipulated. That's not to say that the incident was, or was not arson - just that the manipulation is clear and that suggests a narrative is either prepared or in the process of preparation.

Given the degree of caution taken by contractors on projects of this type of work, it seems very unlikely that what happened was an accident. Just think of all the things that would have had to go wrong in a highly controlled environment, for this to have happened.

When I used to run a disaster restoration business we were not dealing with priceless cultural and religious artifacts but we took huge care to make sure that we damaged nothing or that we dd not make anything worse than when we first touched it. In all my years, running several franchise areas with multiple teams of workers, all trained in conservation and precaution, we only ever had one item claimed to have been damaged, a vase, in a fire-damaged house. Frankly, I did not believe the claim was genuine. However, that gave me a little context when reading reports into yesterday's events. Given the training and conditions under which the workers on this project laboured I find it hard to believe that somebody did something careless that led directly to this fire.

Either there was a whole series of events that went wrong allowing this unlikely event to happen, or the fire was deliberate. It is actually easier to think the event was due to arson than that a business that is successfully based upon the extreme caution needed to protect some of the most valuable objects in the world had a series of failings of management, systems, and equipment yesterday, in Paris. If the company had such a degree of failure built into it then there would have been evidence of it in other projects, with less grave outcomes.


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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #11 on: April 16, 2019, 08:13:09 PM »
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/spotlight-is-blamed-for-blaze-at-windsor-1561542.html

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Are your lives that boring? This is the 21st C.. 

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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2019, 12:11:22 AM »
The Windsor Castle fire was due to carelessness and a lack of precautionary measures. To mention it suggests that we do not learn from our mistakes.

Interestingly, just as with Notre Dame, quite literally the day before the conflagration, contents of several of the rooms due to be burned had been removed. Funny how that happens, just another coincidence in a long line of coincidences required for the story to play out as it did.

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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #13 on: April 17, 2019, 01:40:46 AM »
Ri-ight....

So, while doing rennovations priceless artifacts do not get moved to another place?

So much for conspiracy theories
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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #14 on: April 17, 2019, 04:50:32 AM »
Moby, you have the same information as everyone else although I'm not fluent in French with a Parisian accent like yourself, but I'd be interested to hear why you have almost polar opposite views on the subject, as in almost every other debate?

From what I can see, there appears to be some suspicion surrounding the fire at one of the worlds greatest christian land marks, in a country currently troubled with multiple islamic terrorist incidents and a large muslim population. There's also a huge amount of recent data to suggest that christian landmarks are being targeted for vandalism and arson in France. Logically its right to question whats happened and investigate if there will be a cover up for the good of diversity.

Nobody here has said for sure that this is the case but questions are rightly being asked. I also tend to agree with Andy on this because any contractor working in one of the most historically & culturally rich locations in the world, would have a very strict protocol and framework to work within. Accidents do happen but the likelihood of this happening due to an accident must be minuscule. If it was an accident, describing it as hugely unfortunate would be an understatement and it would involve a very long sequence of failed protocol for it to have happened. Still, its a possibility.

The photo Manny mentions (which I have seen) could also be unfortunate and innocent but the laughing emojis (literally thousands) on all the Facebook news pages by people from the islamic world or people with "muslim" names appears to practically portray an appetite for such an event to happen? Again, it could be coincidence but I'm inclined to think that there's a hate thing going on here, irrespective of how innocent you paint it.

So, with all this information and being mindful that I'm not yet pointing the finger at anyone, but merely keeping an open mind, why is it that you so staunchly and firmly believe that it couldn't be arson or a terrorist attack?

You have the same information and no proof, yet you appear to be adamant that it wasn't the muzzies. Is this belief based on liberal ideals and are you one of those secretly hoping it was a white male who did it?


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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #15 on: April 17, 2019, 05:17:28 AM »
Moby, you have the same information as everyone else although I'm not fluent in French with a Parisian accent like yourself, but I'd be interested to hear why you have almost polar opposite views on the subject, as in almost every other debate?

I'm pretty sure that in the real world - outside this twilight zone of conspiracy theorists who claim , ""twas the Muzzies what did it " and post bollox imagery from WELL dubious sources  - my viewpoint is prevalent




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« Reply #16 on: April 17, 2019, 05:52:06 AM »
moby, in fact, most of the 'priceless artifacts' were not removed! Just the ones right by where the fire started.

In Windsor castle, there were only two items destroyed by fire (apart from the buildings) because just by coincidence, many of the objects normally in the rooms that got burned had been removed just before the fire. An awful lot of stuff had to be removed from the castle while the fire was burning and yet only two items, a painting, and a table were lost. Having dealt with a lot of house fires all much smaller than the Windsor and Notre Dame conflagrations, I am in awe at the good luck involved that led to the removal of valuables before the fire. If such a thing happened in 'the real world' that would be taken as being a sure sign of a planned incident.

I am really making no suggestions as to what happened because I have no way to know, but if a random event happens then it will happen at a random time. Just by chance, the fire occurred in Windsor and in Paris immediately after valuables had been removed. People were just really lucky, that's all.
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« Reply #17 on: April 17, 2019, 05:52:18 AM »
Moby understands French and watches the French news...

He will be along to point out your are either gullible or a member of the Aaron Banks fake news club.

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« Reply #18 on: April 17, 2019, 05:54:59 AM »
moby, in fact, most of the 'priceless artifacts' were not removed! Just the ones right by where the fire started.

Moby was referring to Windsor Castle ...in response the other conspiracy 'theory' ..  :coffeeread:




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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #19 on: April 17, 2019, 06:03:05 AM »
Ri-ight....

So, while doing rennovations priceless artifacts do not get moved to another place?

So much for conspiracy theories

I' starting to think insurance fraud. Just before the fire, 21 million had been raised for reconstruction of the roof. It was not nearly enough and they were just doing the 'gravely necessary' parts.

Now the worst parts have burned down and they raised 100' of millions to rebuild.
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« Reply #20 on: April 17, 2019, 06:06:21 AM »
Ri-ight....

So, while doing rennovations priceless artifacts do not get moved to another place?

So much for conspiracy theories

I' starting to think insurance fraud. Just before the fire, 21 million had been raised for reconstruction of the roof. It was not nearly enough and they were just doing the 'gravely necessary' parts.

Now the worst parts have burned down and they raised 100' of millions to rebuild.

Hmmm... did not know that. See my post above about valuables being moved. :(
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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #21 on: April 17, 2019, 06:48:04 AM »
It’s certainly possible that it was indeed an accident. There are other possibilities as well.

There has been quite a history of some radical men within Islam vandalizing Churches and harming or threatening Priests.

However the truth is that most Muslims are non violent and some people don’t know that Islam does consider Jesus Christ to be a prophet.

I have some Muslim friends who are highly educated peaceful people. Both in California and up here in the PNW. It’s better to meet people in person and talk to them then to allow demagogues and the media to cause separation and paranoia.

The French government has stated there should be a very thorough investigation and we’ll all see how that goes. Of course there will be many different perceptions and opinions, that’s human nature.

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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #22 on: April 17, 2019, 06:52:10 AM »
Ri-ight....

So, while doing rennovations priceless artifacts do not get moved to another place?

So much for conspiracy theories

I' starting to think insurance fraud. Just before the fire, 21 million had been raised for reconstruction of the roof. It was not nearly enough and they were just doing the 'gravely necessary' parts.

Now the worst parts have burned down and they raised 100' of millions to rebuild.

I also wasn’t aware of this, wow! Investigators must keep an open mind and be thorough. There might be a cover up or truth might win out in the end.

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« Reply #23 on: April 17, 2019, 07:22:12 AM »
It’s certainly possible that it was indeed an accident. There are other possibilities as well.

There has been quite a history of some radical men within Islam vandalizing Churches and harming or threatening Priests.

However the truth is that most Muslims are non violent and some people don’t know that Islam does consider Jesus Christ to be a prophet.

I have some Muslim friends who are highly educated peaceful people. Both in California and up here in the PNW. It’s better to meet people in person and talk to them then to allow demagogues and the media to cause separation and paranoia.

The French government has stated there should be a very thorough investigation and we’ll all see how that goes. Of course there will be many different perceptions and opinions, that’s human nature.

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Re: The Notre Dame Cathedral fire
« Reply #24 on: April 17, 2019, 09:17:58 AM »
Moby, you have the same information as everyone else although I'm not fluent in French with a Parisian accent like yourself, but I'd be interested to hear why you have almost polar opposite views on the subject, as in almost every other debate?

I'm pretty sure that in the real world - outside this twilight zone of conspiracy theorists who claim , ""twas the Muzzies what did it " and post bollox imagery from WELL dubious sources  - my viewpoint is prevalent

Moby, is it your suggestion that Nick Griffin faked the photo he posted? Which is this “well dubious source” you mention? Because you disagree with Nick’s politics, does this cloud your judgement to the degree that you assume everything he posts is fake news? He merely posted the photo and offered a possibility, he did not claim it was specifically fact that the Muslims were behind the fire.
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