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The official 9/11 coverup commission promotes the lie that 9/11 was a surprise attack, and turning the country into a police state will prevent a repeat.
The media, both political parties in Washington and even most of the liberal opposition say that incompetence was the reason that 9/11 was not stopped. While government operations are not perfect, incompetence cannot explain the suppression of efforts to prevent the attacks.
Most Bush critics argue 9/11 was blowback - revenge for US policies in the Middle East. While there are many people motivated to retaliate for US foreign policies, the war games on 9/11 were not coordinated by Muslims.
  • fighter planes moved out of region, making interception impossible
  • fake blips on radars diverted interception efforts
remote control of the four Boeings - the “hijacking the hijackers” theory. the technology is not theoretical and best explains how Flight 77 was steered into the Pentagon’s mostly empty sector - it is likely, but not provable, that the Boeing “auto-land” uninterruptable autopilot was used on 9/11. the “black boxes” from all four planes were recovered, which would refute or confirm this claim
There are numerous claims that the twin towers were intentionally demolished by the Bush administration, but the method of destruction was allowing (and possibly steering) Flight 11 and Flight 175 to crash into the buildings. The sober and fantastical claims for explosives, thermite, and even exotic unconventional weapons are not supported by peer reviewed, independently verifiable investigations and are an enormous distraction from solid evidence. The core of the case for complicity has nothing to do with the collapses. Complicity is completely provable without touching the issue of the twin towes or even WTC 7.
no plane hit the Pentagon a hoax created by Donald Rumsfeld on Oct 12, 2001

 

 

 

 


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9/11: the American Reichstag Fire
the Achilles heel of the Bush regime

Cheney's crime, not an intelligence "failure"
an inside job, but not all claims are true
the 21st Century began on September 11, 2001

on this page:

9/11 research is a rabbit-hole of Byzantine complexity full of snares and delusions and peopled with false friends, lunatics, earnest lost souls and a few heroes. It's not necessary to understand all the nuances of science and bureaucracy that allowed the government to get away with mass murder, blame it on swarthy foreigners (of whom many are eager accomplices) and use the incident as (in the words of the Cheney, Jeb Bush et al cabal, the Project for a New American Century) "a new Pearl Harbor." At this critical juncture in human history, it's only necessary to understand why they did it. The motive was Peak Oil, a disaster which will affect everyone on the planet, about which all must enlighten themselves and for which all must prepare.
-- Jenna Orkin, World Trade Center Environmental Organization
http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/2007/05/epa-whistleblower-alleges-more-fraud.html


Crossing the Rubicon: Simplifying the case against Dick Cheney
by Michael Kane

www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011805_simplify_case.shtml

  • Means - Dick Cheney and the Secret Service: Dick Cheney was running a completely separate chain of Command & Control via the Secret Service, assuring the paralysis of Air Force response on 9/11. The Secret Service has the technology to see the same radar screens the FAA sees in real time. They also have the legal authority and technological capability to take supreme command in cases of national emergency. Dick Cheney was the acting Commander in Chief on 9/11.
  • Motive - Peak Oil: At some point between 2000 and 2007, world oil production reaches its peak; from that point on, every barrel of oil is going to be harder to find, more expensive to recover, and more valuable to those who recover and control it. Dick Cheney was well aware of the coming Peak Oil crisis at least as early as 1999, and 9/11 provided the pretext for the series of energy wars that Cheney stated, "will not end in our lifetime."
  • Opportunity - 9/11 War Games: The Air Force was running multiple war games on the morning of 9/11 simulating hijackings over the continental United States that included (at least) one "live-fly" exercise as well as simulations that placed "false blips" on FAA radar screens. These war games eerily mirrored the real events of 9/11 to the point of the Air Force running drills involving hijacked aircraft as the 9/11 plot actually unfolded. The war games & terror drills played a critical role in ensuring no Air Force fighter jocks - who had trained their entire lives for this moment - would be able to prevent the attacks from succeeding. These exercises were under Dick Cheney's management.


New York newspapers, May 2002

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9/11 was the psychological pretext used to get the Wars on Afghanistan, Iraq and possibly Iran started. While it is a relief to finally see much of the country turn against the War on Iraq, there has been very little overt discussion of this pretext, or what the motivations were to start the illegal, unnecessary, destabilizing wars. While the full details remain obscure, it is documented beyond any reasonable doubt that the administration was repeatedly warned (by Britain, France, Israel, Jordan, Morocco, Germany, Russia and other countries) that 9/11 was about to happen and at least five FBI investigations were squashed to make sure the attacks were not stopped. It is also very well documented that the administration knew the world was about to reach "Peak Oil" and that soon demand for petroleum would start to outstrip supplies. Cheney's secretive Energy Task Force examined maps of Middle East oil fields in the months before 9/11 and the start of the alleged "War on Terror" - so it seems reasonable to conclude that 9/11 was desired in order to allow the seizure of Iraqi oil fields, the second largest on the planet.

September 11 was allowed and assisted engineered to create the psychological trigger to seize the Earth's diminishing oil supplies (the real reason behind the Iraq war) and to impose a "neo-feudalist" Homeland Security police state to suppress dissent.

The best list of "unanswered questions" about 9/11 is from the 9/11 Family Steering Committee, which includes the widows who forced through the creation of the (severely flawed) official 9/11 commission. Their list is posted at their website -- www.911independentinvestigation.org -- and it is an excellent reference for any further investigation of these important issues. It should not be surprising that the official Commission praised the widows for their tenacity and then ignored almost all of their questions.

In addition, the Complete 9/11 Timeline at www.cooperativeresearch.org is the most detailed, careful compilation of evidence (sourced from the mass media and direct testimony), and should be required reading for anyone wondering why some people question the official story. The 9/11 families and the "Timeline" are profiled in a 2006 movie "9/11: Press for Truth" which is an excellent introduction to these topics. The film does not address every issue, but it carefully sticks to facts that are solidly documented, which is the best strategy for success.

The best books about 9/11 are Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil by Michael Ruppert and The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism by Nafeez Ahmed.

Unfortunately, there is a campaign to persuade skeptics that the plane crashes were faked and other debunked, speculative and even ridiculous claims, which makes the documented facts much more difficult to discern. While the "Timeline" documents how at least 15 countries provided warnings to the Bush administration - some of them extremely specific about what, when, how -- the "wilder" claims about alleged lack of plane crashes and demolition theories gather most of the media attention. There are a number of hoaxes and speculations that allegedly "prove" 9/11 complicity yet lack evidence that is documented beyond websites referencing each other. Some of the false claims have been repeatedly debunked by 9/11 truth activists but that doesn't prevent their continued dissemination. Focusing on the core issues of how efforts to stop the attacks were thwarted and how standard operating procedures were not followed that morning avoids most of this problem.

There is a legitimate need for the country to understand the motive: why 9/11 was allowed to happen to enable the Iraq war (part of a larger effort to control the Middle East oil fields as the world passes the point of Peak Oil). Please take a small amount of time to do a little homework to sift through the claims to understand the documentation for them. The best documentation is not provided in video clips of uncertain origin or speculation bounced from website to website.


9/11: Bush’s Achilles Heel

The main reason Bush is still in the White House is that many people think he responded well to the attacks. The film "Fahrenheit 9/11" was hated by the Bush administration because it touched on the deeper, dangerous issues that could topple the regime. The images of Bush reading "My Pet Goat" while the towers burned raises the question why Bush was not engaged as Commander-in-Chief, summoning the air defenses to stop the attacks. And if Bush wasn’t in charge, who was?

 

Cheney’s crime

A book that was published during the 2004 election campaign provides credible evidence that Vice President Richard Cheney, the man behind the throne, was in charge of numerous military and intelligence "war games" on 9/11. "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" by Michael Ruppert, accuses Cheney with coordinating "war game" exercises that morning that made the attacks possible. One of these was a "plane into building scenario" at the National Reconnaissance Office near Dulles Airport, Virginia (which runs US spy satellites). NORAD, the Air Force division in charge of air defense, was running multiple exercises, including live fly simulations, and radar “injects” (fake blips) that confused air traffic controllers.

While Ruppert’s work has been ridiculed by the liberal "alternative" media and ultra-conspiracy theorists (some of whom promote disinformation claims that discredit real investigations), no one has made a substantial challenge to the information about the role of the war games in ensuring that the Air Force would not be able to stop 9/11.

A Zogby poll of New York City residents in August 2004 found that half thought Bush Knew about 9/11 in advance. Many leading Democrats privately think this, yet are scared to publicly say it -- even though it is probably the only scandal that could lead to impeachment of Bush and Cheney. (The webmaster of oilempire.us was once privately told by a U.S. Senator that he knew Cheney ran wargames in the basement of the White House during the attacks. Other Democratic Party officials have also privately acknowledged to this writer that they know these facts.)

 

Follow the Money

On September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to admit that the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion (not billion) in spending. While this story is still on CBS’s website, events the next day drowned out the coverage of this amazing scandal. At that time, the Pentagon’s Comptroller (in charge of the money), was Mr. Dov Zakheim, a member of the "Project for a New American Century." Before he was put in charge of the Pentagon’s budget, Mr. Zakheim was with a defense contractor that makes remote control guidance systems for planes.

 

9/11 Soundbites

The intelligence failure of 9/11 is the failure of the media and much of the public to point out the obvious flaws in the official stories of September 11.

PEAK OIL is the real connection between Iraq and 9/11.

9/11 was allowed to happen (and given technical assistance) to provide the pretext to seize the Middle East oil fields in preparation for Peak Oil.

the Republican convention in New York, 911/2004 -- returning to the scene of their crime

the myth of 9/11 is that a larger police state system would have been able to stop it from happening however, the evidence strongly suggests that 9/11 was an inside job, with the goals of domestic fascism and global empire

The Department of Homeland Security's national ID card would not have done anything to prevent 9/11.

Warnings came from 15 countries, some of them very specific: there was no "intelligence failure" that requires more police state powers -- it was an intelligence CRIME.

Michael Moore's movie "Fahrenheit 9/11" is very good, but it does not analyze who the perpetrators of 9/11 were. To answer that question, one must ask: "Who had the power to turn off the Air Force protection of New York and Washington?" None of the various "fall guys" -- Saudis, Pakistanis, Egyptians and Israelis -- have that power.

On September 11, the National Reconnaissance Office (which runs the spy satellites), was conducting a "plane into building" scenario with the CIA at the NRO's Virginia headquarters (near Dulles airport). This was not a "terrorism" exercise, it merely tested the emergency response that would be be needed if a plane crashed into the NRO headquarters. This exercise resulted in the evacuation of America's spy satellite control center just as the 9/11 "attacks" began, reducing the number of intelligence officials capable of monitoring what was going on.

NORAD was also conducting war games on 9/11 -- Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Guardian and Northern Vigilance -- war games that managed to paralyze part of the air defense system, making an effective response to the hijacked planes impossible. The "new Warren Commission" did not investigate the NRO or NORAD war games on 9/11.

Gen. Ralph Eberhart, commander of NORAD on 9/11 was promoted to head the new "Northern Command" afterwards if 9/11 had been an intelligence "failure" General Eberhart would have been court-martialed

The 9/11 Commission report blames the failure of the military to protect the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on the Federal Aviation Administration's alleged incompetence. Supposedly, the FAA was unable to follow long established procedures to alert the Air Force that four planes were off course. However, the FAA was competent enough to safely land more than four thousand four hundred planes at airports that were not expecting them (when all planes were ordered out of the air shortly after the second tower was struck). Obviously, the FAA has less political power than NORAD, and therefore had to take the blame.

 

9/11: pretext for World War

Rebuilding America's Defenses, September 2000, Project for a New American Century
Dick Cheney, Jeb Bush and the rest of the neo-conservatives

... While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein ...
... the process of [military] transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor ...
... advanced forms of biological warfare that can "target" specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.


"Moreover, as America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."
-- "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives," by Zbigniew Brzezinski (1997), Council on Foreign Relations, National Security Advisor to President Carter and adviser to Presidents Reagan and Bush the First


"To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11."
-- Tony Blair comments to the Commons liaison committee, (London) Times, July 17 2002 http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html

 

The Archeology of 9/11: unearthing the evidence

Sifting through the volumes of 9/11 evidence is analogous to archeology. Only some of the evidence for the distant ancestors of all living beings has been unearthed and catalogued. However, the fact that the currently known fossil record is incomplete does not prevent science from attempting to determine patterns and draw tentative conclusions about the history of life on Earth, knowing that additional evidence is likely to alter the story as we gain further knowledge. The early days of archeology saw spectacular forgeries "revealed" by unscrupulous advocates of particular theories, which parallels current efforts to distract and discredit 9/11 skeptics with disinformation. It is unlikely that any story of 9/11 is completely true, and hopefully enough of the documentation will be made public in the years to come - and enough whistleblowers step forward - so that historians will be able to more fully explain what happened to the United States of America.

Whatever details future archeologists of truth will unearth are unlikely to discredit the Reichstag Fire paradigm for understanding 9/11 - they merely will add to our understanding of the details of how the "Reichstag" was burned. The real issue is to explain why the attacks were perpetrated.

 

Unanswered Questions

For most North Americans, 9/11 is a "cut and dried" story - evil Arab terrorists attacked the US, there's nothing more to learn. At worst, in many people's minds, there was an "intelligence failure" of missed warnings that need to be addressed to prevent a repeat (the excuse for the new Homeland Security behemoth). However, there are lots of "unanswered questions" that suggest a much different story:

- a flight school drop out managed to execute a high speed, high G fighter pilot maneuver into the nearly empty, under reconstruction part of the Pentagon despite the refusal to rent him a single engine plane the previous month (they said he had no flying skills),

- that the hijackers left behind an Arabic language flight manual in their rental car in Boston (similar to evidence planted to incriminate Lee Harvey Oswald as the assassin despite the physical impossibility of the claim that he was the "lone gunman")

- why the "black boxes" couldn't be found from the planes yet a paper passport of a hijacker somehow survived the fireballs and was found on the streets of lower manhattan

- why Bush thought that reading to second graders was more important for him than to respond to the alleged surprise attacks (at 9:05 am on 9/11/2001)

- why was the CIA ran a simulation of a plane hitting the National Reconnaissance Office HQ (near Dulles) on 9/11

- why numerous warnings from allied governments were supposedly ignored (at least a dozen countries, possibly more, warned the US that 9/11 was coming)

- the absolute failure to scramble interceptors in a timely fashion, despite decades of well-established military and FAA procedures. The fact that Bush stayed in a second grade classroom reading about a "Girl and her pet goat" instead of cancelling the event and pretending to be commander-in-chief is damning evidence of prior knowledge by Bush, his staff, the secret service and the military hierarchy (or at least a faction of it).

- why the General in charge of Air Defense received a PROMOTION to run the "domestic" use of the US military (the "Northern Command," established October 2002)

- why the planes that eventually were scrambled traveled much, much slower than they are capable of traveling, especially in an emergency (ie. after the second tower was hit but before the Pentagon)

- why the part of the Pentagon that was hit was the only part that had almost no one in it, and the part that had been recently strengthened against such an attack

- why the CEO of Fiduciary (in the towers) just happened to be at a breakfast "fundraiser" sponsored by Warren Buffett at Offutt AFB (strange place for a charity fundraiser) on 9/11, the same base that Bush went to in the afternoon

- On the morning of 9/11, Sen. Graham met with the head of Pakistan's ISI (their CIA), who is alleged to have sent $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the alleged leader of the alleged terrorists ("alleged" because several of those names were identity thefts - the people named are still alive, according to the BBC and several other media sources).

- why Bush showed no reaction when told of the attacks, and kept reading to second graders (and why his aide, Andrew Card, didn't even wait to ask for a reply from the "President")

- why Bush had anti-aircraft missiles set up around Genoa, Italy during the July 2001 G-8 summit (due to concerns about a 9-11 type attack) but not around the Capitol despite numerous warnings that 9-11 was coming

- long standing ties between the CIA, Pakistan's ISI, the Saudis, al-Qaeda, and between the Bush and Bin Laden families

- the anthrax attacks traced back to Fort Detrick - www.oilempire.us/anthrax.html

- repeated pattern of manufactured pretexts for galvanizing support for imperial wars - the blowing up of the Maine (1898), Pearl Harbor (which was allowed to happen, FDR had prior knowledge due to communication intercepts), the Gulf of Tonkin (1964), Operation Northwoods (1962 Pentagon plan to stage terror attacks on US citizens to justify invasion of Cuba), the encouragement of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait (1990), the first WTC attack in 1993 (which the FBI knew about in advance), Oklahoma City in 1995 (in which there was also "prior knowledge" at the very least) - www.oilempire.us/parallels.html

- why the director of the "commission" to investigate 9/11 is a business partner of Osama bin Laden's brother in law (Gov Thomas Kean, formerly of New Jersey, is a director of Amerada Hess, which is invested in the Saudi consortium to build the fabled pipeline across Afghanistan ...) Even Fortune magazine has picked up on that.

- why the Bush regime interfered with the investigation of al-Qaeda before 9/11, something that FBI whistleblowers, journalist Greg Palast and FBI counterterrorism director John O'Neill charged.

 

best 9/11 web sites

911independentcommission.org

family members had tough "unanswered questions" for Bush, the official Commission, Giuliani and others. Most of their questions were ignored by the official Comission report, although many chose to endorse the Commission anyway. Some of the Independent Commission affiliated family members endorsed Paul Thompson's excellent book "The Terror Timeline," which documents how 9/11 was not a surprise attack using well documented, verifiable evidence.


911pressfortruth.com

Website for the movie Press for Truth about the 9/11 families (who were part of the "independent commission" effort) and Paul Thompson, creator of the Complete 9/11 Timeline.


911review.com

"Physical evidence" focused website from Jim Hoffman, author of wtc7.net and 911research.com. Its strength is in debunking some of the sillier false claims for complicity, which is a rare trait in the 9/11 truth movement (peer review and fact checking are not popular activities for those who got snared by some of the bait).


cooperativeresearch.org

The Complete 9/11 Timeline from the Center for Cooperative Research
the basis for Paul Thompson's book "The Terror Timeline: Year by Year, Day by Day, Minute by Minute"
an amazing, impeccable, irrefutable database of over 1,000 corporate media articles that show that 9/11 was not a surprise attack. The best site to show to anyone still clinging to the official story that 9/11 was a surprise attack.
The best research guide about 9/11.


digitalstylecreations.com and digitalstyledesigns.com

multimedia in support of 9/11 truth.


flight93crash.com

the story of the shootdown of the fourth plane

a useful antidote to two type of propaganda: the official story, and the disinformation claiming the plane crashes did not happen


fromthewilderness.com

The best investigation of how and why 9/11 was perpetrated.

Michael Ruppert's book "Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil" This investigation has been publicly attacked more than any other independent effort, which is a testament to its effectiveness. This site probed deeper than the corporate press into the "insider trading" on United and American Airlines just before 9/11 (a story abandoned by the corporate press after the trail didn't lead to anyone Islamic - but rather to CIA connected businesses on Wall Street). From the Wilderness has done the deepest examination of the 9/11 war games, and has the best analysis of the motivation of Peak Oil in allowing 9/11 to happen. FTW hosts the most articles with original, credible investigation of 9/11 -- any "9/11 truth" website that avoids mentioning the incredible work of From the Wilderness is either uninformed or trying to throw readers off course.

Crossing the Rubicon: Simplifying the case against Dick Cheney
by Michael Kane

www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011805_simplify_case.shtml

  • Means - Dick Cheney and the Secret Service: Dick Cheney was running a completely separate chain of Command & Control via the Secret Service, assuring the paralysis of Air Force response on 9/11. The Secret Service has the technology to see the same radar screens the FAA sees in real time. They also have the legal authority and technological capability to take supreme command in cases of national emergency. Dick Cheney was the acting Commander in Chief on 9/11.
  • Motive - Peak Oil: At some point between 2000 and 2007, world oil production reaches its peak; from that point on, every barrel of oil is going to be harder to find, more expensive to recover, and more valuable to those who recover and control it. Dick Cheney was well aware of the coming Peak Oil crisis at least as early as 1999, and 9/11 provided the pretext for the series of energy wars that Cheney stated, "will not end in our lifetime."
  • Opportunity - 9/11 War Games: The Air Force was running multiple war games on the morning of 9/11 simulating hijackings over the continental United States that included (at least) one "live-fly" exercise as well as simulations that placed "false blips" on FAA radar screens. These war games eerily mirrored the real events of 9/11 to the point of the Air Force running drills involving hijacked aircraft as the 9/11 plot actually unfolded. The war games & terror drills played a critical role in ensuring no Air Force fighter jocks - who had trained their entire lives for this moment - would be able to prevent the attacks from succeeding. These exercises were under Dick Cheney's management.

frustratingfraud.blogspot.com
the Hijacking of the 9/11 Truth Movement by the No-Plane-at-the-Pentagon Theory

a website started in Fall 2006 that focuses on what happened to the "truth" movement, although some of the specific details about the history of the hoax are not correct. It spends too much on the obscure conspiracy theorists who are peripheral to the actual story. This site has been pressured by "no-planers" and has been renamed part of the title from "No Plane" to "No 757" in deference to those who pretend there is any evidence (there isn't) for an alleged crash of a smaller-than-757 plane.


judgeforyourself.us

John Judge's research on 9/11 and other scandals

His writings are also archived at www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/ -- some of the best analyses of deep politics.


justacitizen.com

Sibel Edmonds, an FBI whistleblower gagged by a federal Court injunction, discloses some of what she knows on her website.


justicefor911.org

an effort to get New York's attorney general Spitzer to prosecute the crimes -- which was ignored, especially after "no planers" flooded Spitzer's office with wild speculation and hoaxes, thus letting him know that if opened this can of worms this is the type of material he would be associated with in the public mind - Spitzer ignored 9/11 issues and successfully ran for Governor of New York


nafeez.blogspot.com

writings by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed, author of "The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism."

http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-911-families-are-saying.html
Friday, September 15, 2006
What the 9/11 Families are Saying
One of the things that really bothers me is the marginalization of the 9/11 families, the people who lost their loved ones in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Not only have the families, and their call for an investigation even now, been marginalized by the Bush administration; they have also been marginalized by the 9/11 "truth" movement which has largely shown little interest in what the families have been saying.
More than anyone, it's been the 9/11 families who have been at the forefront of the ongoing campaign for an independent public inquiry into the attacks that might truly hold the authorities to account, and result in full disclosure of what happened, how and why. Indeed, one of the most powerful resources demonstrating how little we really know about 9/11 comes in the form of the huge list of 9/11 Unanswered Questions on the website of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Independent Commission.


oilempire.us (this website)

A political map to understand Peak Oil and 9/11

Propaganda Patterns:
Limited Hang Outs, Discrediting Disinformation

www.oilempire.us/map.html

Connected Dots:
9/11, Peak Oil, Climate Change, World War, Media, Homeland Security, Fake Elections

www.oilempire.us/dots.html


Jamey Hecht

http://poetrypoliticscollapse.blogspot.com/2008/09/seeking-to-hire-ignorant-ghostwriter.html

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Seeking to Hire Ignorant Ghostwriter for Book That Already Exists

Beginning on the day of the attack, the 9/11 Truth Movement ran the same inevitable course repeated by domestic dissent and political critique so many times: formation, momentum, growth, penetration by unidentified representatives of the critiqued; disinformation campaigns; factionalization, and fizzle. It is always possible, however, to rebuild and extend the work of social repair that such movements represent. Apart from that utopian ambition, it’s inherently valuable just to make sense of the attacks and assassinations, the engineered coups des etats and the falsely triggered wars. That sense-making happens in paperback-and-podium argumentation pitched at various levels of sophistication for various audiences; it happens in documentaries; and it can happens in the arts. It cannot happen in the courts: published in September 2004, Mike Ruppert’s Crossing the Rubicon was a solidly documented, robustly argued legal case against Dick Cheney and others, constructed strictly around means, motive, and opportunity. Though it remains the 2nd or 3rd best-selling book on 9/11 after the Kean Report itself, Rubicon has been resolutely ignored by the mainstream media and gone unchallenged by any legal (or other) representative of those it accuses. The way to get media attention is to publish – wittingly or unwittingly – a true story mixed with a poison pill of disinformation.

 


politicalassassinations.com

www.politicalassassinations.com/New%20Research.html

“JFK, Watergate, 9/11:
Recurring Patterns in America’s Deep Events"
Professor Peter Dale Scott


ratical.org

Crimes Against Humanity: 9/11, covert operations, and alternative visions
one of the best sites on the internet

Domestic Terrorism: The Big Lie
The "War" On Terrorism is a Total Fabrication
www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/AOPof911p11.html

be mindful of the fundamental contradictions that misrepresent the very foundations of Bush II's purported "war" on terrorism. Our U.S. intelligence agencies, funded annually for decades with increasingly extravagant budgets, claim they were unable to prevent the 9-11 bombings due to the lack of correlated intelligence gathered. Yet within the span of less than a day, these same agencies asserted the identity of those responsible with such certainty as to preclude any serious investigation of other possible perpetrators. Whose interests are truly served by such investigations and their near instantaneous conclusions?


rigorousintuition.ca

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com

http://rigint.blogspot.com

The best "blog" (web-log) on 9/11 related information. It covers a lot of topics, including some very fringe material (which it handles well, although 100% accuracy is always a challenge when exploring these depths - it would be a relief if some of this material is exaggerated). Rigorous Intuition is one of the few 9/11 related websites to recommend that "truth activists" focus on what is proven and provable, instead of speculations and hoaxes about alleged physical evidence.

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/06/dont-get-used-to-it.html

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/06/sound-of-one-hand-slapping.html
FBI foreknowledge and the excuse of incompetence

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/05/cynical-sophisticated-and-subtle.html
parallels between the JFK and 9/11 truth movements

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/05/let-me-put-it-this-way.html
more on fake versus real evidence

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/05/guns-of-911.html
9/11 evidence and lessons from the JFK Truth Movement

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/02/sibels-way.html
Sibel Edmonds, 9/11 whistleblower

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/01/michael-chertoff-and-sabotage-of-ptech.html
Homeland Security and 9/11 complicity

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/12/ten-things-we-learned-in-2004-about.html
an update on the real new news about 9/11 during 2004

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/09/riddle-of-transponders.html
good analysis of war games

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/09/flying-wedge.html
how the "no plane" hoax divided the skeptics

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/coincidence-theorists-guide-to-911.html
original article on this site, great summary of basic issues


summeroftruth.org

the Summer of Truth campaign in New York, lots of background information and excellent analysis


thememoryhole.org

www.thememoryhole.org/911/ has archived documentation about foreknowledge, video of Bush reading "the Pet Goat" and other useful pieces of evidence.


they-let-it-happen.blogspot.com
The Synchronized Failures of Defense on 9/11

(from the same author of Frustrating Fraud)


totuus

www.kolumbus.fi/totuus/index.html
What is the Truth on 9/11?

a website in Finland with sensible (truthful) perspectives on 9/11, including the "no plane" and "mini-nuke" nonsense


truthmove.org

website about 9/11 truth in context with broader perspectives
the best new 9/11 website of 2006

the "truth move" discussion forum has the best signal to noise ratio of any of the on-line discussion forums - the greatest amount of good information and the least amount of attacking disinformation, although at least one poster calls this website government sponsored for pointing out that the plane really did hit the Pentagon. This verifies the conclusion taken by this website in 2004 that a "free for all" forum on these controversies is probably impossible to screen out shrill attackers who promote false claims.

www.truthmove.org/911voices/
nice slideshow introduction to key concerns and credible skeptics of the official story

www.truthmove.org/content/9-11-truth/
introduction to 9/11 pages

www.truthmove.org/content/disinformation/
Disinformation - Infiltration, Misinformation, Disruption
The 9/11 truth movement is a prime target for disinformation, infiltration, and other forms of sabotage by forces who do not want the truth to be known. You can imagine that if mainstream anti-war and environmental groups have regularly been infiltrated, something as radical and revolutionary as 9/11 truth would demand a very sophisticated counterintelligence campaign.
Agents of disinformation may not “play their hand” until the right moment and disinformation must appear credible in order to be effective. Deceptive evidence is often delivered alongside accurate information.
Disinformation requires intentionality while misinformation does not. In the 9/11 truth movement, you will come across both—evidence, materials, researchers, and groups that either consciously or unconsciously promote false or misleading information. Much incorrect information within the 9/11 truth community likely began as disinformation but has been perpetuated as unintentional misinformation.

The objectives and methods of disinformation are quite sophisticated. Here are a few of the main strategies:

  1. The Straw Man Argument/Sensationalism - by promoting speculative, sensational, and false evidence, opponents can setup easily debunkable or dismissable points that can be used to lend credence to their position. ....
  2. Muddying the Waters - making it harder to discern the real evidence/researchers/websites from the fake ones. ....
  3. Death by Association - by including the target idea/individual/movement along with another topic or personality that is disliked or discredited (UFOs, anti-semitism, nazis, etc.), the original subject can be smeared and dismissed. ....
  4. Paranoia/Divide and Conquer - one of the most effective ways to destroy a group is to sow distrust among members.

wtceo.org

World Trade Center Environmental Organization (advocacy for those poisoned by the dust clouds from the collapsing towers)
also mirrored at 911ea.org 9/11 Environmental Action

New York City based effort for truth and justice about 9/11

www.counterpunch.org/orkin03052005.html
"Racism, Fairy-tale Wealth and Idi Amin
Memories of Kawaggi, Saudi Arabia"
By JENNA ORKIN
March 5 / 6, 2005

a related resource on the health consequences of 9/11 is

Mesothelioma & Asbestos Awareness Center
www.maacenter.org/jobsites/WTC/asbestos.php

After the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001, many people were exposed to a deadly cloud of dust. This dust contained thousands of deadly chemicals including the carcinogen asbestos. As a result, many people are being diagnosed with the deadly cancer mesothelioma.


wtc7.net

best "physical evidence" 9/11 site, focused on the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.

This site also sponsors 911research.com - a broader investigation into the 9/11 attacks and 911review.com (focused on the disinformation efforts infiltrating the 9/11 truth movement).

 

A small list of important articles about 9/11

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html
"This war on terrorism is bogus: The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination"
Michael Meacher, Saturday September 6, 2003, The Guardian

Was this inaction [the Air Force "stand down"] simply the result of key people disregarding, or being ignorant of, the evidence? Or could US air security operations have been deliberately stood down on September 11? If so, why, and on whose authority? The former US federal crimes prosecutor, John Loftus, has said: "The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defence of incompetence." ....
.... the so-called "war on terrorism" is being used largely as bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic
geopolitical objectives. ....
The 9/11 attacks allowed the US to press the "go" button for a strategy in accordance with the PNAC agenda which it would otherwise have been politically impossible to implement.
The overriding motivation for this political smokescreen is that the US and the UK are beginning to run out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies. By 2010 the Muslim world will control as much as 60% of the world's oil production and, even more importantly, 95% of remaining global oil export capacity. As demand is increasing, so supply is decreasing, continually since the 1960s. ....
The conclusion of all this analysis must surely be that the "global war on terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda - the US goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project.


www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,574809,00.html

Gagging the sceptics

The US, founded to protect basic freedoms, is now insisting that its critics are its enemies
George Monbiot
Tuesday October 16, 2001
The Guardian

There are plenty of reasons to be sceptical. The magical appearance of the terrorists' luggage, passports and flight manual looks rather too good to be true. The dossier of "evidence" purporting to establish Bin Laden's guilt consists largely of supposition and conjecture. The ration packs being dropped on Afghanistan have no conceivable purpose other than to create the false impression that starving people are being fed. Even the anthrax scare looks suspiciously convenient. Just as the hawks in Washington were losing the public argument about extending the war to other countries, journalists start receiving envelopes full of bacteria, which might as well have been labelled "a gift from Iraq". This could indeed be the work of terrorists, who may have their own reasons for widening the conflict, but there are plenty of other ruthless operators who would benefit from a shift in public opinion.
Democracy is sustained not by public trust but by public scepticism. Unless we are prepared to question, to expose, to challenge and to dissent, we conspire in the demise of the system for which our governments are supposed to be fighting. The true defenders of America are those who are now being told that they are anti-American.

note: in early 2007, Mr. Monbiot wrote two articles for his column decrying 9/11 conspiracy theories, persuaded by Loose Change and its variations that there was no truth to any of this. The far-out false claims succeeded in alienating someone who had healthy skepticism immediately after the attacks.


Lt. Col. Steve Butler

vice chancellor for student affairs at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California -- a US military facility that one or more of the hijackers reportedly attended during the 1990s.

Monterey County Herald, The (CA)
May 26, 2002
Page: F2
A contemptible offense

It's about time conservative idiots like Steve Kelly and Rod Musgrove got a dose of reality. Of course President Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy had Saddam and he needed Osama.
His presidency was going nowhere. He wasn't elected by the American people, but placed into the Oval Office by the conservative supreme court. The economy was sliding into the usual Republican pits and he needed something on which to hang his presidency.
For them to accuse Democrats of being "sleazy" is laughable. Isn't it ironic that Kelly begins his inane babble with a reference to Monica Lewinsky? How many people died because of Monica Lewinsky? And for Musgrove to call the assertions "contemptible" is another joke. Funny how he manages to make disparaging remarks about President Clinton, as well.
Face it people, Bill Clinton was a great president. This guy is a joke.
What is sleazy and contemptible is the President of the United States not telling the American people what he knows for political gain. The Democrats asking pertinent questions is their duty as public servants.

Steve Butler
Monterey


9/11 Evidence - Smoking Gun ... by Cheryl Seal
www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0206/S00071.htm
also at www.unknownnews.net/cdd052002.html
one of the best articles describing the evidence and the motivations, warnings, the curious nature of the Pentagon attack (on the mostly empty part of the building), the Bush administration's interference with the FBI investigation of al-Qaeda, and much more. One of the best articles pointing out the likelihood of remote control of the four planes (hijacking the hijackers).

At the very least Bush allowed 9/11 to happen. But the evidence indicates his guilt involves more than just a huge intentional sin of omission – this now seems certain. ...
.... why would Bush admit to having been warned about 9/11 in the first place? In the corporate and political world, this admission is a strategy that has been used over and over by creeps who are guilty of huge crimes and know the heat is on. By confessing to a lesser charge, they try to draw the heat away from the main, more dangerous issue.


www.wsws.org/articles/2006/oct2006/nib1-o04_prn.shtml
Causes and consequences of the “war on terror”
Part 1
By Nick Beams
4 October 2006


Canadian journalist and media commentator Barrie Zwicker, whose January 2002 film The Great Deception was the first serious documentary on 9/11 complicity (January 2002), made these comments on April 21, 2003 at the premier showing of "Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11," San Francisco, CA.

My offering is that 9/11 was what the anarchist Bakunin called "the propaganda of the act." That it was "Reichstag Fire 2001." That it was the greatest deception of its kind ever foisted. And that's saying something, in light of the long and totally-neglected history of this kind of war-triggering deception perpetrated by powerful special interests to sway public opinion in favour of deadly agendas that almost always result in serious grief for just about everyone.
My offering is that 9/11 was arranged to jump start the so-called war on terrorism, which in turn is the cover and heat exchanger for hot wars, these being the toxic tip of the machinery for world domination. At the levers is a clique of neocons that has hijacked this country's foreign policy at the behest largely and to the benefit mainly of Big Arms and Big Oil, with the rest of the worst at the top, giving the thumbs-up and boarding the gravy train.

 

The psychological trick at the heart of September 11th, by the way, is that people confuse their compassion for the victims with their certainty about who the perpetrators are. The public was presented with instant perpetrators. The trick will most likely continue working for all future planned invasions – looks as if Iraq is next – so long as the public remains blindfolded by the media.
-- Barrie Zwicker, Canadian journalist and media commentator, from "The Great Deception" (2002 movie about 9/11)

(Note: in 2006 Mr. Zwicker claimed that those who point out that some claims of complicity are not actually true - particularly the debunked "Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon" hoax - are helping the government. In reality, the "no plane" claims were created by the government to create a strawman to discredit legitimate skepticism of the official story.)


Those who have fully studied the issues and facts concerning 9/11 and the Bush administration's inexplicable coverup and lies understand rationally that this is not a topic of "conspiracy theory" but instead a true scandal of serious proportions. This can no longer be denied. It is a scandal which, if aggressively pursued by the media, should have helped hamstring and sideline the Bush administration months ago, which would have made it politically impossible for them to push ahead with their war plans in the first place.
www.questionsquestions.net/docs0209/0920_response.html

the "Truth about 9/11" could be a catalyst for the collective transformation of the American people. The greatest threat to the military / intelligence / industrial juggernaut, currently making an imperial grab for world dominance and using 9/11 as a pretext, is an informed American public, whom I believe, have the power to rein in those forces.
-- Carol Brouillet, Deception Dollar project

Only one force on Earth can directly confront and defeat the U.S. Corporate State and its criminal Government. That force is us, the overwhelming majority of the people in this country.
-- Don Paul, author, "9/11: Facing Our Fascist State"
www.questionsquestions.net/docs04/0526_donpaul.html


www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/6/2088660.html

The miraculous timing of the 9/11 skyjackers, Part 1
by margieburns on Thu 06 Jul 2006

 

www.margieburns.com/blog/_archives/2006/7/8/2093537.html

"The Fog of War Games" -- the miraculous timing of the skyjackers, part 2
by margieburns on Sat Jul 8 18:23 2006


www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1480940,00.html
The war on paperclips
I worry that I'm turning into a conspiracy theorist

AL Kennedy
Wednesday May 11, 2005
The Guardian

OK, I'm paranoid and depressed. My new government of troglodytes, murderers and spivs barely elongates the customary scream I give upon waking. What troubles me more is our rulers' inevitable recommencement of the war on terror bollocks.
To begin at what we're told is the beginning, we have 9/11 - the one in the US, not the earlier one in Chile when covert US government intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed the country to a commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right junta. Now if 9/11/2001 is so important, why is it so hard to find out what happened?
The FBI, as we know, blocked all manner of investigations into the plot in the run up to its execution, whether these involved highly specific warnings from its own agents or from government sources in Afghanistan, Argentina, Britain, the Cayman Islands, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco and Russia.
Meanwhile, I worry why the nearest military aircraft weren't scrambled to intercept any of the hijacked flights when this is standard procedure and why, when more distant jets were finally aloft, they flew at less than half speed, thus failing to prevent the impacts at the twin towers and then, it would seem, managing to shoot down Flight 93 when its passengers may already have overcome its hijackers.
It would, of course, be easier to know what happened to Flight 93 if there weren't - according to educated estimates - three minutes of the cockpit recording missing. It would, equally, be handy to have access to the black boxes from the other crashes. Firefighters at Ground Zero have repeatedly stated that three of the four possible black boxes there were found and taken away by government agents.
And these worries are maybe less important than the ones about clear links between the Pakistani ISI, the CIA and the men named as the 9/11 hijackers. Or the mysterious inability of anyone to capture Osama bin Laden, who fled from Tora Bora, possibly being evacuated by helicopter, and then escaped to Pakistan unhindered.
So while Chinese paperclips are now made out of vital 9/11 evidence and almost every implicated party goes free, we and our controlling US interests continue fearlessly to terrorise countries unconnected with the attacks, to place permanent military bases near oil reserves and pipeline routes, to harass and murder Muslims anywhere we can, and to foment terrorist resistance at every opportunity. The UK unmasks non-existent ricin plots and threatens us with ID cards, but we can't supply our troops in Iraq with working radios or a legal causus belli.
But you'd never want to think that on 9/11/2001 covert US government intervention killed thousands of innocents and handed the country, if not the world, to a commerce-friendly, torture-loving, far-right junta. That would make you a paranoid, depressed conspiracy theorist. And, take it from me, that just wouldn't be comfortable.


www.sanderhicks.com/hopsickerinterview.html

HOPSICKER: See the basic story is and I need to tell you in just 30 seconds is [that] the government’s story is that I call the Magic Dutch Boy theory. Remember the Kennedy assassination when the "magic bullet" has passed thru three people, the only way they could make a story of one lone gunman even remotely logically possible?
HICKS Most of the people never bought that and still don't.
HOPSICKER: Similarly, in 9/11, it’s only through the Magic Dutch Boy theory that you can believe these people came over here without the knowledge and consent of the U.S. government. The government's story is that the year before the terrorists began to arrive in force, two separate Dutch nationals purchased separately the two flight schools at the Venice, Florida, airport, that, eight or nine months afterward, began training terrorists how to fly.
HICKS: Right. But when it all sort of fell apart, both Dutch nationals happened to have two separate aircraft accidents.
HOPSICKER: That's correct. They are inconvenient people at this point, because if either one of them ever talked, it could bring down the government of the current administration.


Top ten conspiracy theories of 2002
OF BIG OIL, BY BIG OIL, FOR BIG OIL
The 10 Most Startling Speculations and "Conspiracy Theories" About September 11 and America's New War
[27 December 2002]
by Mike Ward

www.popmatters.com/features/021227-conspiracy.shtml

www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0301/S00008.htm

Top Ten Conspiracy Theories of 2002
Courtesy of Indymedia New York, Mike Ward of PopMatters lists the most outrageous top ten officially spun conspiracy theories of the year - Scoop Editor's Note: If you feel like a laugh then read this!
He forgot to mention the most outlandish conspiracy of them all (and the most widely accepted): 19 hijackers from a third world terrorist group armed with boxcutters forced 3 planes into 3 of the the nation's most important and symbolic structures with no assistance from US government/intelligence insiders.


www.empirewatch.org/archives/911/pages/essays/JFK_911_AndTheRealAmerica.html
JFK, 9/11 and the REAL America
Tying It All Together
by: Jon Phalen / November 22nd, 2003
the history of deception to lure reluctant US citizens to support wars.
Explores the evidence for Remote Control software in the 9/11 hijackings (not too dissimilar from electronic hijacking of our computerized election ballot machines).


A scandal in England and Ireland about a terrorist called "stakeknife" concerned a thug for the IRA who was actually a British double agent (in other words, the Brits ran one of the most ruthless IRA killers in order to legitimize their occupation of northern Ireland).

The "false flag" operations by the Italian fascists in Italy are well documented by many - one of the most notorious was the bombing of the Bologna train station in 1980, perpetrated by the fascists (with official ties) to blame on the "left" to create the climate for a right wing military coup. The article below has crucial information about the "P2," Operation Gladio and the Vatican Bank - a story with disturbing parallels to the current situation in the United States.

www.questionsquestions.net/kolskegg_911.html
9/11 IN CONTEXT: PLANS AND COUNTERPLANS
by Max Kolskegg

It is time to have a hard, clear-eyed look at our situation here in this post-September 11 "brave new world order", on the brink of a huge conflagration in the Middle East, with endless war beyond. The Global Fascist Terror State has arrived, the fruit of decades of planning, propaganda and provocation. September 11 was its coming-out party, and for us, the last wake-up call. So now let's face the facts. No more self-delusion, no more easy roads. The reality is plain as day, and so therefore is our task


www.counterpunch.org/weiner0601.html
The Bush 9/11 Scandal for Dummies by Bernard Weiner June 1, 2002

A very good introductory article that points out the likelihood that Bush's notorious month-long "vacation" at his so-called ranch near Crawford, Texas was probably a long planning meeting for the post-9/11 political environment.


www.narconews.com/goff1.html "The So-Called Evidence Is a Farce" By Stan Goff
written shortly after 9/11, this is still one of the best articles explaining the political context and the phony evidence for the official story


www.attackonamerica.net/ignorad.htm -- MSNBC article on the standdown by a (now deceased) mainstream journalist


http://wsws.org/articles/2002/jan2002/sept-j24.shtml  
why is there no investigation of what happened?


http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2005/02/sibels-way.html

If I had to choose just four links to show your average joe and jane, and pique their interest in the possibility of a 9/11 coverup, these would be my top picks right now:

1. The wargames acknowledgement AP report. The SF Chronicle is the only paper I know of that still has the original AP report available in their archives.
2. Senator Dayton's declaration that NORAD and the FAA lied. He announced it during the week of the Dem's National Convention last year. He's got a pair.
3. This in depth timeline of the event of that day certainly points toward high-level government deception. It's long, but fascinating and crucial to understanding just what Senator Dayton was talking about.
4. And then finally This gem of a report on the destruction of the FAA controller tapes. No coverup is complete without the destruction of evidence :-)

I think the best way to wake up more of the public is to let them see with their own eyes the evidence that the 9/11 truth movement has been pointing to all along, and the more official the source, the better. I guess that's why I like the FAA/NORAD lying angle for leading people into the seemy underworld of 9/11. It's one of the aspects of the whole event that's fairly well documented in the mainstream press, giving us the opportunity to point this stuff out without referring to news sources considered illegitimate by a public that still can't imagine the media would or even could tell such Big Lies.


www.osamaskidneys.com [no longer on-line]
What is the true story of the Sept. 11 attacks?

We do not know, because it is shrouded in secrecy. But thousands of 9/11 Skeptics on the Internet have used evidence from the mainstream and foreign press to demonstrate beyond doubt that the official story is incomplete, inconsistent and rife with lies. In March and April 2002, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) became the first American politician on the federal level to question the official story and suggest that elements of the U.S. government may have known of the attacks in advance. On May 16 [2002], the White House was forced to admit receiving warnings, in the months before Sept. 11, of a Qaeda plot to hijack airliners in the United States. This admission was coupled with the claim that no one in the administration could have guessed that these planes would be used in suicide attacks - a demonstrable falsehood. Since then, many revelations from government agencies have corroborated the 9/11 Skeptics' claims that pre-Sept. 11 investigations by the FBI, which might have prevented the attacks, were obstructed from within the government. The government also confirmed that the war in Afghanistan was prepared in advance of Sept. 11, and that a finished plan for the war was presented to George W. Bush two days before the attacks on New York and Washington. By then, large British and American forces had already arrived or were underway to the Central Asian theater. In an effort at damage control, the revelations of the past month have been limited. Congressional investigators and the mainstream U.S. media have made little effort to connect the dots logically, which would yield an even more troubling picture of the government's actions at the highest levels. Attention has focused instead on middle-level "failures" of bureaucracy and analysis, with an accompanying campaign to justify more radical surveillance and police measures and the creation of a new Homeland Security Department. But the revelations have served to support many of the cardinal assertions of the oft-maligned 9/11 Skeptics movement. On June 10 [2002], C-SPAN refused to broadcast a major press conference in Washington organized by former government officials, relatives of 9/11 victims and investigative journalists, who posed vital "Unanswered Questions" about the attacks and their true background. This setback was predictable; the issue is still too controversial for the mainstream media. 9/11 Skeptics should not therefore despair. The time has come for skeptics to unite, to speak openly, to stay loud and proud, and to employ creative, determined and peaceful means with heart and humor, to force disclosure of the full story of the Sept. 11 attacks. History is with us!


The Center for an Informed America (CIA) NEWSLETTER #42 August 25, 2003

I started flipping through the channels to see what else was on, and in doing so, I happened to catch a snippet of what I assume was some kind of archival footage of a master spy, named "Maxwell Smart," discussing what was presumably classified information with some shadowy figure identified only as "The Chief." The footage was shot in 1966, and the topic of discussion was the possibility of "KAOS," described as "an international organization of evil," going out of business. Here is the verbatim transcript of what I heard:

Agent Smart: Wait a minute, Chief. If KAOS goes out of business, what happens to us?
Chief: Well, I guess the Control organization would be out of business too. There wouldn't be any need for us.
Agent Smart: Well, maybe we could get together and give KAOS enough money to keep going for a few years.
Chief: Max, that's a ridiculous notion! That would be like the police cooperating with organized crime! How would you like that?!
Agent Smart: Well, it seems to work in the big cities.

An "international organization of evil"? The 'good' guys covertly funding the 'bad' guys, thus artificially creating 'KAOS,' and along with it the need for ever more 'Control' organizations? Don't look now, folks, but I think we're living in Maxwell Smart's world. davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr42.html

(this newsletter is a mix of good and false claims, promoting abiotic oil and the "no Pentagon plane crash" hoax, but this reference to the "Get Smart" TV show is excellent