9/11 plus 5 = WWIV
Five Years After 9/11
Ruppert in Venezuela
Many readers of this website will probably already be aware that Michael
Ruppert's From the Wilderness was physically attacked in late June, and
Ruppert subsequently left the United States. You can read his farewell
to America at the FTW website. (Update: Ruppert later changed his mind and moved back to Los Angeles. No word on the amount of fossil fuel used by this relocation and then retreat back to the desert.)
BY THE LIGHT OF A BURNING BRIDGE: A Permanent Goodbye to the United States
by Michael C. Ruppert
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/081606_burning_bridge.shtmlIn my book Crossing the Rubicon I wrote that events that took place in the five years following those attacks would determine the course of human history for centuries to come. We now stand at the brink of that fateful anniversary.
-- Michael Ruppert
9/11 Five Years Later: How We Won, And Lost
Emanuel Sferios of septembereleventh.org (the original
9/11 truth grassroots outreach campaign) has written an excellent memoire
of his involvement in the early days of 9/11 truth -- how we won (by spreading
the information far and wide) and how we lost (no political changes have
happened). He suggests one of the reasons for our loss is the massive
propaganda barrage that has succeeded in associating 9/11 truth with the
kookiest claims, instead of the best evidence.
www.septembereleventh.org/five_years_later.php
9/11 FIVE YEARS LATER: WHAT HAVE WE ACCOMPLISHED?
An Assessment of the 9/11 Truth Movement
By Emanuel Sferios
September 11, 2006
How They Got Away With It
Commentator Michael Green has an excellent article on
the 911Research site that suggests "How They Got Away With It."
http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/green/HowTheyGetAwayWithIt.html
How They Get Away With It
by Michael Green
Media
9/11 Strategy: focus
on the "No Plane" hoaxes, ignore Best Evidence
Nearly every major media institution covered the "9/11 Truth Movement"
around the time of the anniversary. Time magazine, The Washington Post,
Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, Democracy Now! and many others highlighted
the "no plane" hoaxes and demolition
theories in order to ignore the best evidence (suppressed
warnings and war games).
Two excellent articles summarizing this strategy are
http://stillcursedwithvision.blogspot.com/2006/09/alright-goddamnit.html
http://rigint.blogspot.com/2006/09/too-much-monkey-business.html
Friday, September 22, 2006
Too Much Monkey Business
"Towers of Deception:
the Media Cover-Up of 9/11" by Barrie Zwicker
Barrie Zwicker has published his book "Towers of
Deception," which focuses on how the media have ignored evidence
of official 9/11 complicity. Zwicker is probably best known for his pioneering,
courageous film The Great Deception (January 2002) and for narrating The
End of Suburbia. He was also lead organizer of the May 2004 International
Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11 in Toronto, and has been a major voice in
the 9/11 truth movement.
Unfortunately, the book misses how the media has delighted in profiling
9/11 "truth" -- as long as it is confined to the no plane hoaxes
and demolition theories. Since the 2004 Inquiries, there has been an onslaught
of media interest in the kookier claims in the 9/11 truth world, but virtually
no attention to the data presented by the Complete 9/11 Timeline or Michael
Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon (those efforts are not so easily dismissed,
so they are ignored).
Most curious is the complete omission of any mention of Peak Oil as a
motivation for allowing (and assisting) the attacks, since Zwicker's first
film showed this was a motivation for Bush policies in Central Asia, his
narration of End of Suburbia showed deep understanding of energy issues,
and his publisher (New Society) prints more book titles about Peak Oil
than any other company. Some of those promoting a mix of real and fake
claims for 9/11 truth have ridiculed the reality of Peak Oil in recent
years, and have pressured truth activists to disconnect the issues of
9/11 complicity from probable Cheney administration planning for Peak
Oil. The real scam of Peak Oil is that the public is excluded from decisions
over how to use the remaining fossil energy reserves -- as a bridge toward
a sustainable society, or to wage endless World War to dominate the oil
fields as they run out.
Towers of Deception reads as if it was compiled three years ago, before
the media began to focus on the 9/11 hoaxes as a substitute for covering
the serious evidence, and before a number of 9/11 truth activists spoke
out more loudly about the fake "no plane" claims. (Watching
how the media zeroed in on the untruths masquerading as truths was a wake
up call to many to see how the powers-that-be were trying to define the
truth movement by its weakest links.)
9/11 Press For Truth
In the past year, there have been a number of "9/11 documentaries"
that have purported to tell 9/11 truths. Many of them have promoted the
no plane claims, demolition theories (both credible and absurd) but few
have mentioned serious, well documented evidence.
The new film "9/11:
Press For Truth" focuses on the 9/11 family members who demanded
an inquiry into the mass murder of their relatives, and how they were
betrayed by the official 9/11 commission. Their unanswered questions are
available at www.911independentcommission.org
The film also profiles the Complete 9/11 Timeline, an impeccable database
of mainstream media articles at www.cooperativeresearch.org This timeline proves that 9/11 was not a surprise to the administration,
and they suppressed numerous specific warnings provided by France, Germany,
Israel, Jordan, Italy, Egypt, Russia and other countries.
Perhaps the main omission in Press for Truth is the lack of discussion
of the 9/11 war games, even though this information is detailed at the
Complete 9/11 Timeline. Press for Truth is an excellent introduction to
these issues, but it also seems like it was produced three years ago (when
some of the best evidence of the war games was not yet in the public domain).
Press for Truth is probably the best introductory film for people not
familiar with the details.
Ruppert's films The Truth and Lies of 9/11 (November 2001) and Denial
Stops Here: From 9/11 to Peak Oil and Beyond are also required viewing
(Denial could have used a better editing job).
The best compilation to date is 9/11 Citizens Commission (New York City,
September 9, 2004), but it is over five hours long.
The
Complete "No Planes on 9/11" Timeline
Inspired by the incredible,
impeccable Complete 9/11 Timeline from the Center for Cooperative Research,
this new compilation shows the history of the "no plane claims"
(Rumsfeld was the first to say a "missile" hit the Pentagon)
and how they have been used to smear 9/11 "truth."
Most of those who still believe the "no plane" claims (and their
seemingly endless variations) are sincere, but that sincerity does not
make their statements any less incorrect.
Pentagon Truth:
9/11 activists debunk Rumsfeld's "missile" meme
This page includes many of the best writers and investigators
of 9/11 complicity who point out how the various "no plane"
claims are not real.
Bush and Blair: new
terror scare (August 2006)
In August, immediately after Senator Joe Lieberman lost the Connecticut
Democratic primary, the Blair and Bush regimes announced they had foiled
a terror plot involving liquids. Fortunately, a number of political observers
who have stayed quiet about 9/11 complicity have raised serious questions
about the reality behind this new scare. While the full truth is probably
not likely to be ever known, British media have reported that some the
alleged conspirators did not have passports (which would make it difficult
to get on a plane bound for the US). The new "security" measures
imposed on airplane passengers are essentially a form of sado-masochism
-- the security industry is enjoying poking through everyone's possessions,
and we are supposed to enjoy the abuse in the name of safety. To paraphrase
Benjamin Franklin, those who give up freedom for security will get neither.
Israel, Lebanon, Hezbollah
The Israeli War on Lebanon (and the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel)
seem to have been a trial run for the potential US / Israel attacks on
Syria and Iran (the latter two countries wisely stayed out of the direct
conflict in Lebanon this summer). The Israeli military dropped over a
million cluster bomblets on Lebanon, many of them will act as land mines
threatening civilian populations for many years to come. Depleted uranium
weapons were also reportedly used, which is an ecological war crime.
Saudi oil and the Sunni
/ Shia demographic divide
the Shia live on most of the Middle East oil
One of the factors behind this proxy war is the Sunni / Shia demographics
in the Middle East -- this divide is essential for understanding the Oil
Empire's strategy to balkanize the Middle East. Most alarming is a June
2006 article in Armed Forces Journal that advocated splitting up Iraq,
Iran, Saudi Arabia and other countries into several new states -- this
new map shows that a new country would be created on top of most of the
oil (along the Persian Gulf) that presumably would become an American
client state.
The Oil Depletion Protocol
Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over and Powerdown, two of the
best books about Peak Oil, has published The Oil Depletion Protocol. This
new book is a short, excellent discussion of the need for global cooperation
to manage the peaceful decline of petroleum extraction and combustion.
Council on Foreign Relations says terror threat
exaggerated
The CFR published a very interesting article suggesting
the terror threat has been exaggerated. While this is not exactly a novel
observation, the fact that one of the country's most elite organizations
is now saying this is extremely interesting, and suggests that some of
the power structure has indeed turned on the Bush / Cheney regime.
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090306A.shtml
www.foreignaffairs.org/20060901facomment85501/john-mueller/is-there-still-a-terrorist-threat.html
Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?
By John Mueller
Foreign Affairs
September/October 2006
Despite all the ominous warnings of wily terrorists and imminent attacks, there has been neither a successful strike nor a close call in the United States since 9/11. The reasonable -- but rarely heard -- explanation is that there are no terrorists within the United States, and few have the means or the inclination to strike from abroad.