Saturday, March 23, 2013
'Bloom borg' story
slashed and burned
Today's print edition of the New York Daily News has this tabloid cover headline:
BLOOM
BORG
Big Brother is watching you,
so get used to it: Mike
On Page 5, Tina Moore's story was headlined:
DRONE CITY
* Mike: cameras everywhere
* Tells people: get used to it
The online version not only burned all the zinger heads, it also offers, even in its New York section, a truncated version of the story.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bloomberg-new-york-eventually-surveillance-city-article-1.1296103
I can't be sure of the reason for this editorial decision by the online staff. Did they get a call from Hizzoner's office complaining about the "Bloom Borg" pun? Or do we have a case of regular newspaper people who know a good story when they see one being overriden by the militant leftists who run the News? Were they worried that the story tended to legitimize "paranoid conspiracy theorists" among libertarians, who also had made an issue of Bloomberg's remarks? Not sure, really.
slashed and burned
Today's print edition of the New York Daily News has this tabloid cover headline:
BLOOM
BORG
Big Brother is watching you,
so get used to it: Mike
On Page 5, Tina Moore's story was headlined:
DRONE CITY
* Mike: cameras everywhere
* Tells people: get used to it
The online version not only burned all the zinger heads, it also offers, even in its New York section, a truncated version of the story.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bloomberg-new-york-eventually-surveillance-city-article-1.1296103
I can't be sure of the reason for this editorial decision by the online staff. Did they get a call from Hizzoner's office complaining about the "Bloom Borg" pun? Or do we have a case of regular newspaper people who know a good story when they see one being overriden by the militant leftists who run the News? Were they worried that the story tended to legitimize "paranoid conspiracy theorists" among libertarians, who also had made an issue of Bloomberg's remarks? Not sure, really.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
WSJ robo-drone report
edited to shield Israel
The threat of robo-drones, which shoot to kill on their own authority, is a very serious threat, according to a a summary by two experts for the Wall Street Journal.
Sanitzed version of WSJ report
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578346333246145590.html?mod=itp
I happened to notice that mention of Israel's role in the sale of such drones was removed from the Wall Street Journal's online version of the article, and Google searches show no online version with those references. In addition, I also took a look today at a print copy of Friday's paper, and found that the references were also missing from that edition, implying that I had seen an early edition with the commentary.
(I also have the impression that the early edition article has been pared in other ways.)
The authors, Robert H. Latiff and Patrick J. McCloskey, had noted that Israel had sold Harpy drones that automatically fire toward those radar sources not found in computer memory as "friendly." The authors wondered about the consequence of an adversary putting a radar site atop, say, a hospital. The drone would show no mercy, lacking human judgment, they said.
Here are some references to Israel and Harpy drones I found:
"U.S. intelligence agencies have observed Chinese forces with Israeli-made anti-radar weapons moving them close to the coast opposite Taiwan, The Washington Times reported on Tuesday."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/23/us-israeli-defense-technology-collaboration-began-/?page=all
Here is that article with the search terms highlighted:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cQBOYYnMLw0J:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/jul/2/20020702-032943-8545r/%2Bisrael+harpy+drones+%22washington+times%22&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&hl=en&ct=clnk
Here is an account from Rense:
http://rense.com/general28/iisj.htm
edited to shield Israel
The threat of robo-drones, which shoot to kill on their own authority, is a very serious threat, according to a a summary by two experts for the Wall Street Journal.
Sanitzed version of WSJ report
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324128504578346333246145590.html?mod=itp
I happened to notice that mention of Israel's role in the sale of such drones was removed from the Wall Street Journal's online version of the article, and Google searches show no online version with those references. In addition, I also took a look today at a print copy of Friday's paper, and found that the references were also missing from that edition, implying that I had seen an early edition with the commentary.
(I also have the impression that the early edition article has been pared in other ways.)
The authors, Robert H. Latiff and Patrick J. McCloskey, had noted that Israel had sold Harpy drones that automatically fire toward those radar sources not found in computer memory as "friendly." The authors wondered about the consequence of an adversary putting a radar site atop, say, a hospital. The drone would show no mercy, lacking human judgment, they said.
Here are some references to Israel and Harpy drones I found:
"U.S. intelligence agencies have observed Chinese forces with Israeli-made anti-radar weapons moving them close to the coast opposite Taiwan, The Washington Times reported on Tuesday."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/23/us-israeli-defense-technology-collaboration-began-/?page=all
Here is that article with the search terms highlighted:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:cQBOYYnMLw0J:http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2002/jul/2/20020702-032943-8545r/%2Bisrael+harpy+drones+%22washington+times%22&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&hl=en&ct=clnk
Here is an account from Rense:
http://rense.com/general28/iisj.htm
Monday, March 11, 2013
LENIN'S PUPILS AMONG THE FEDS
How would you like to be sanctioned by the feds with no right to challenge the sanction? There definitely is something wrong when the federal government, more than a decade after 9/11, claims the right to sanc...tion individual American citizens in ways that the rest of the citizenry does not feel.
This is the martial-law theory of government. And, as Rand Paul showed, it's the right time to start putting the heat on the feds for exercising the right to sanction individual Americans with no due process of law, while the Executive Branch shelters behind secret laws, some passed by Congress, others issued by the attorney general.
This sort of behavior is more than mildly unconstitutional -- it goes against the very fabric of American democracy. The people supporting such individual sanctions with no due process, along with the secret laws, seem to have read George Orwell's 1984 for tips on how to subvert democracy. Much of the reasoning of the unconstitutionalists at the federal level dovetails nicely with the views of V.I. Lenin.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-native-returns-to-middle-east/article/3763915
HAVE YOU BEEN BARRED FROM OUR FACEBOOK SITE?
A great deal of material has been posted on the related Facebook account, but, though this site has a fair number of readers, purportedly there are only two followers of the public Facebook account. So you may find quite a few interesting links and commentary on that Facebook site, though admittedly you may have to skim past a lot of fun but irrelevant material.
https://www.facebook.com/paul.conant.39
Please try to let me know at krypto78@gemail.com if you have tried to follow that Facebook site but have been barred by one means or another.
How would you like to be sanctioned by the feds with no right to challenge the sanction? There definitely is something wrong when the federal government, more than a decade after 9/11, claims the right to sanc...tion individual American citizens in ways that the rest of the citizenry does not feel.
This is the martial-law theory of government. And, as Rand Paul showed, it's the right time to start putting the heat on the feds for exercising the right to sanction individual Americans with no due process of law, while the Executive Branch shelters behind secret laws, some passed by Congress, others issued by the attorney general.
This sort of behavior is more than mildly unconstitutional -- it goes against the very fabric of American democracy. The people supporting such individual sanctions with no due process, along with the secret laws, seem to have read George Orwell's 1984 for tips on how to subvert democracy. Much of the reasoning of the unconstitutionalists at the federal level dovetails nicely with the views of V.I. Lenin.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-native-returns-to-middle-east/article/3763915
HAVE YOU BEEN BARRED FROM OUR FACEBOOK SITE?
A great deal of material has been posted on the related Facebook account, but, though this site has a fair number of readers, purportedly there are only two followers of the public Facebook account. So you may find quite a few interesting links and commentary on that Facebook site, though admittedly you may have to skim past a lot of fun but irrelevant material.
https://www.facebook.com/paul.conant.39
Please try to let me know at krypto78@gemail.com if you have tried to follow that Facebook site but have been barred by one means or another.
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Personal note
I've had trouble with coding on a page of mine, Toward a Signal Model of Perception. I post a new url for that updated page here:
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2013/03/toward-signal-model-of-perception.html
I've had trouble with coding on a page of mine, Toward a Signal Model of Perception. I post a new url for that updated page here:
http://paulpages.blogspot.com/2013/03/toward-signal-model-of-perception.html
Monday, January 7, 2013
Top Dem pushing president
to suppress rebel lawmakers
House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi is urging President Obama to use the Reconstruction-era 14th amendment to override debt rebels.
The relevant clause reads:
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
to suppress rebel lawmakers
House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi is urging President Obama to use the Reconstruction-era 14th amendment to override debt rebels.
The relevant clause reads:
Section 4. The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Ex-White House terrorism chief
sees CIA hand in events of 9/11
From Ian Henshall of Reinvestigate 911:
http://www.reinvestigate911.org/content/2012-breakthrough-year-911-truth-movement
2012: A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR FOR THE 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT
RICHARD CLARKE'S BOMBSHELL
ED ASNER QUESTIONS 911 ON CBS, VENTURA ON CNN
MEDIA: THE DOG THAT FAILED TO BARK
CIA TENTACLES IN MEDIA
GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR INQUIRY
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
PILOTS' EVIDENCE
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
2012: A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR FOR THE 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT
2012 was the year that doubts over the official story of the 9/11 attacks finally became firmly established in the corporate media in the US. Sceptics in the Muslim world gained a new voice at governmental level with the call by President Morsi of Egypt for a new independent 9/11 investigation. In Italy Supreme Court President Francesco Imposimato said he would be petitioning the International Criminal Court to pursue an investigation into the possible involvement of rogue elements in Washington in the attacks.
RICHARD CLARKE'S BOMBSHELL
9/11 sceptics cite two smoking guns, one forensic the other based on the paper trail. The belated 2008 admission from government experts that WTC 7 (the third building to collapse in the 9/11 attacks) fell not only symmetrically but at free fall speed strongly suggests the use of pre-planned demolition charges, they say.
In 2011 came the bombshell confirmation by Richard Clarke, White House anti-terror co-ordinator at the time of the attacks, that, based on his unrivalled vantage point at the top of the intelligence pyramid, the CIA must have made what Clarke calls a "decision" to allow the alleged 9/11 hijackers to operate freely in the US and hidden the decision from him.
Clarke's assessment should have unleashed a tidal wave of horror worldwide, but it didn't. Let's say it again: the man best placed to judge is now clear that 9/11 took place as a result of a "decision" at the CIA. Having told the public for ten years that 9/11 was entirely explicable as the result of a conspiracy by skilled and cunning Islamic fanatics, few in the media had the time or the stomach to check these new fact, corroborated by FBI's Al Qaeda expert Ali Soufan. This is the same media cartel that failed to challenge the deceitful weapons of mass destruction story used by Bush and Blair to justify the second post 9/11 war, the invasion of Iraq.
Still, Clarke's bombshell seems to have started journalists and editors thinking and perhaps paying less attention to the shills that infest mainstream media offices using the "conspiracy theory" slur to block unwelcome lines of investigation.
ED ASNER QUESTIONS 911 ON CBS, VENTURA ON CNN
In March 2012 Hollywood legend Ed Asner appeared on the CBS Sunday Morning programme questioning the official 9/11 story and persuading CBS to screen the "smoking gun" video of the collapse of WTC7, an extremely rare event in the corporate media. Viewers saw this massive building collapse symmetrically and for a period at free fall speed. This event, say Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth (AE911), could only occur with the aid of carefully positioned explosives. What else, they ask, could remove all support for the building, not just in one place but evenly across it?
Over the 9/11 anniversary last September the film Experts Speak Out, produced by AE911, was the most downloaded film on PBS, America's publicly funded network. A week later leading US 9/11 sceptic Jesse Ventura was on CNN with Piers Morgan. While Morgan presented the official view, Ventura, maverick ex-Governor of Minnesota, put the alternative view: "every war starts with a false flag operation". A straw poll of the CNN studio audience yielded strong support for Ventura.
Another initiative, the 9/11 Consensus panel has been looking at the common ground of the 9/11 Truth Movement and supplying scientific assessments to the mainstream media, disseminated by Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and as a result by many other corporate outlets.
MEDIA: THE DOG THAT FAILED TO BARK
When they are not cosying up to their "sources" in government, media people spend much of their time consuming other mainstream media, so the significance of these three breakthroughs is not only that the public is better informed, but the media are too.
Libertarian commentators on Fox News and Jesse Ventura on his TV show had already given sympathetic hearings to 9/11 sceptics, but both are easily smeared in Washington's divide and rule political game. But with CBS and CNN at last validating 9/11 doubters it's a lot harder for the shills.
The official 9/11 conspiracy theory has bewitched much of the "alternative" media too. When in 2006, the five year anniversary, the Washington Post and other mainstream outlets aired 9/11 doubts in an even handed way it should have been an open goal for anyone opposed to the wars and civil liberty outrages of the new era. This was the opportunity for the alternative media to lead the way and turn the spotlight on the key 9/11 questions. Even then it was already clear that the collapse of the Twin Towers had not been satisfactorily explained and multiple FBI officers had complained that their investigations into the alleged hijackers had been intentionally stymied by superiors.
Instead there was a wave of attacks on the 9/11 truth movement. With discreet support from superguru Noam Chomsky, who only in 2010 began to change his attitude, a string of "alternative" media people led by David Corn, of Mother Jones and The Nation, penned divisive and ill-informed hit pieces attacking 9/11 truthers.
CIA TENTACLES IN MEDIA
How could the mainstream and "alternative" media have got it so horribly wrong? One starting point might be a revealing CIA memo from the late 60s. It bemoans the spread of "conspiracy theories" surrounding the Kennedy assassination, admitting the allegations are undermining US foreign policy. The memo then advocates the CIA's preferred method of dealing with the problem: using its contacts in the media to plant feature stories attacking sceptics. So it is disturbing to find that David Corn, who penned his first attack on 9/11 sceptics within weeks of the event, seems to have links with the CIA. It is also disquieting that so many alternative media operations have financial links with the mainstream Washington foundations.
Quite apart from 9/11 there are of course many other outrages which demand draconian reforms to cut the power of media owners, dissolve Washington and NATO's permanent shadow government and subject its operatives to the rule of law. The bankster heist, the austerity con, the continuing torture and rendition, the Iraq war lies, the all but declared war on Iran and Syria, were all made politically possible by 9/11. Many sceptics say that the "success" of 9/11 emboldened the shadow government. Certainly the campaign to achieve radical long term reforms can only be helped by the growing doubts over how 9/11 really happened, why it was never properly investigated, and anger towards a media that failed to do its job.
GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR INQUIRY
Internationally the 9/11 issue presents another sign of the long expected shift of power away from the US and the NATO countries. With the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, the consensus in the Middle East (bar Israel of course) is that the official 9/11 story, the crown jewels of Washington's warmongering empire is, to say the least, unproven. Egypt's President Morsi has pronounced that there should be a genuinely independent inquiry, thus supporting the position of alleged pariah President Ahmedinajad in his 2011 UN speech.
Rebellions like this used to be dealt with in a summary way: a stern warning complete with explicit threats would be issued in the Washington Post. It would be taken up slavishly by the local media and the offending politician would be pressured by colleagues to retract. In this way questions have been suppressed in the UK, Sweden, Japan, and probably many other countries.
But this time, so far at least, Morsi has ignored the Washington Post's recent threat to starve Egypt of finance if he fails to retract his statements on 9/11. A majority vote in the UN General Assembly may now be within reach, authorising a new investigation with or without Washington's co-operation.
In Italy the eminent jurist Ferdinando Imposimato, President of the Supreme Court and renowned for his courage in prosecuting Mafia figures, has announced his intention to pursue the 9/11 issue through the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Many people in Italy still remember the "strategy of tension" bombings blamed on communists and anarchists in the 1970's. Based on the findings of a Parliamentary probe at the end of the Cold War many now believe the bombings were linked to NATO's Operation Gladio, designed to distract people from problems at home by creating an artificial terrorist threat and exaggerating the threat from foreign enemies. The possible parallels with 9/11 are of course glaring, with the terrifying enemy threat role switched from communists to the implausible Al Qaeda.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
In Washington, Freedom of Information and other mechanisms have led to the release of vast caches of US government documents that bear on the 9/11 issue, while unauthorised caches from Wikileaks present another opportunity but also a massive task for researchers. The experts at AE911 have meticulously examined and discredited the various official reports that claim to explain the bizarre and unprecedented collapse of three steel framed buildings on the same day, each supposedly by a different collapse mechanism.
In the same way researcher Kevin Fenton in his book "Disconnecting the Dots", uses a mass of evidence from the US government to come to the same conclusion as Richard Clarke: some of the alleged 9/11 hijackers had been identified as terrorists before 9/11 and were protected from arrest by a decision implemented by a cabal at the CIA.
Two more paper trail researchers stand out. Kevin Ryan an editor at the Journal of 9/11 Studies, has been digging into the neocon network that seems to pop up in so many parts of the 9/11 story in his personal blog, while the anonymous blogger at 911 Shoestring has been trawling through media reports and most recently highlighted the extraordinary, possibly systematic, failures of communication across multiple agencies and facilities on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. (See endnotes)
PILOTS' EVIDENCE
Pilots for 9/11 Truth have analysed flight data recorders and text messages between controllers and the 9/11 planes and have come up with records that seem to contradict the official story. A text message implies Flight 175 was over Pennsylvania after it had supposedly been crashed by a hijacker in New York, while the flight recorder from Flight 77, reportedly hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, shows the cockpit door was never opened, they say.
Pilots for 9/11 Truth, echoing the 911 Consensus Group, have also shone a light on another issue at the heart of the official 9/11 story: how could the alleged hijackers have carried out such feats of navigation and control? Hani Hanjour, the man said to have carried out the extraordinary ground level, top speed strike on an empty wing of the Pentagon, was declared by at least two independent training schools to be dangerously incompetent on small planes, simpler to fly than massive passenger jets with their vast array of instruments.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
So what really happened? Few 9/11 researchers have any doubt that the use of subpoena powers on certain individuals in the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and air traffic control would get the answer pretty fast. One possible 9/11 scenario arose from a minor scandal when Washington's 9/11 Commission discovered that the Pentagon had tried to erase vital tape recordings from the day of the attacks. When the content was retrieved it emerged that amongst a plethora of other exercises they were running a live anti-hijack exercise at the time the apparent 9/11 hijacks took place.
This is a classic indication of a CIA type black operation with a possible "limited hangout" built in to it in case some of the truth starts to come out. A parallel hijack going ahead legitimately as an exercise can provide cover for a small group of plotters and serve to muddy the waters when the investigations start. Studies of the unlikely routes the planes took have led to speculation the apparently hijacked planes could have had doubles or been flown into the buildings by a remote control takeover scripted as part of the anti-hijack exercise.
The final irony of 9/11 might be that the evidence needed to turn the spotlight on Washington's black ops crowd at the heart of the permanent secret state has already been published by the US itself. But with the mountain of available data now in the terrabytes perhaps no-one has got round to reading it yet.
Author's note: a simple google search (eg "Corn CIA") will confirm most of the information in this article. Here are links which may be harder to find.
http://911blogger.com/news/2012-10-03/more-mass-media-breakthroughs
http://911blogger.com/news/2012-09-24/controversial-911-film-soars-1-pbs-breaks-local-records
The 9/11 Hijackers: Fraud in Official Video Exhibits Uncovered by Expert Panel
http://www.consensus911.org/news/
Why Were U.S. Intelligence Facilities in an 'Information Void' During the 9/11 Attacks?
http://shoestring911.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/why-were-us-intelligence-facilities-in.html
Kevin Ryan: Why Louis Freeh should be investigated for 9/11
http://digwithin.net/2012/11/21/louis-freeh/
CIA Memo
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=3167&relPageId=2
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/MORE-ACARS-CONFIRMATION.html
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sees CIA hand in events of 9/11
From Ian Henshall of Reinvestigate 911:
http://www.reinvestigate911.org/content/2012-breakthrough-year-911-truth-movement
2012: A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR FOR THE 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT
RICHARD CLARKE'S BOMBSHELL
ED ASNER QUESTIONS 911 ON CBS, VENTURA ON CNN
MEDIA: THE DOG THAT FAILED TO BARK
CIA TENTACLES IN MEDIA
GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR INQUIRY
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
PILOTS' EVIDENCE
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
2012: A BREAKTHROUGH YEAR FOR THE 911 TRUTH MOVEMENT
2012 was the year that doubts over the official story of the 9/11 attacks finally became firmly established in the corporate media in the US. Sceptics in the Muslim world gained a new voice at governmental level with the call by President Morsi of Egypt for a new independent 9/11 investigation. In Italy Supreme Court President Francesco Imposimato said he would be petitioning the International Criminal Court to pursue an investigation into the possible involvement of rogue elements in Washington in the attacks.
RICHARD CLARKE'S BOMBSHELL
9/11 sceptics cite two smoking guns, one forensic the other based on the paper trail. The belated 2008 admission from government experts that WTC 7 (the third building to collapse in the 9/11 attacks) fell not only symmetrically but at free fall speed strongly suggests the use of pre-planned demolition charges, they say.
In 2011 came the bombshell confirmation by Richard Clarke, White House anti-terror co-ordinator at the time of the attacks, that, based on his unrivalled vantage point at the top of the intelligence pyramid, the CIA must have made what Clarke calls a "decision" to allow the alleged 9/11 hijackers to operate freely in the US and hidden the decision from him.
Clarke's assessment should have unleashed a tidal wave of horror worldwide, but it didn't. Let's say it again: the man best placed to judge is now clear that 9/11 took place as a result of a "decision" at the CIA. Having told the public for ten years that 9/11 was entirely explicable as the result of a conspiracy by skilled and cunning Islamic fanatics, few in the media had the time or the stomach to check these new fact, corroborated by FBI's Al Qaeda expert Ali Soufan. This is the same media cartel that failed to challenge the deceitful weapons of mass destruction story used by Bush and Blair to justify the second post 9/11 war, the invasion of Iraq.
Still, Clarke's bombshell seems to have started journalists and editors thinking and perhaps paying less attention to the shills that infest mainstream media offices using the "conspiracy theory" slur to block unwelcome lines of investigation.
ED ASNER QUESTIONS 911 ON CBS, VENTURA ON CNN
In March 2012 Hollywood legend Ed Asner appeared on the CBS Sunday Morning programme questioning the official 9/11 story and persuading CBS to screen the "smoking gun" video of the collapse of WTC7, an extremely rare event in the corporate media. Viewers saw this massive building collapse symmetrically and for a period at free fall speed. This event, say Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth (AE911), could only occur with the aid of carefully positioned explosives. What else, they ask, could remove all support for the building, not just in one place but evenly across it?
Over the 9/11 anniversary last September the film Experts Speak Out, produced by AE911, was the most downloaded film on PBS, America's publicly funded network. A week later leading US 9/11 sceptic Jesse Ventura was on CNN with Piers Morgan. While Morgan presented the official view, Ventura, maverick ex-Governor of Minnesota, put the alternative view: "every war starts with a false flag operation". A straw poll of the CNN studio audience yielded strong support for Ventura.
Another initiative, the 9/11 Consensus panel has been looking at the common ground of the 9/11 Truth Movement and supplying scientific assessments to the mainstream media, disseminated by Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and as a result by many other corporate outlets.
MEDIA: THE DOG THAT FAILED TO BARK
When they are not cosying up to their "sources" in government, media people spend much of their time consuming other mainstream media, so the significance of these three breakthroughs is not only that the public is better informed, but the media are too.
Libertarian commentators on Fox News and Jesse Ventura on his TV show had already given sympathetic hearings to 9/11 sceptics, but both are easily smeared in Washington's divide and rule political game. But with CBS and CNN at last validating 9/11 doubters it's a lot harder for the shills.
The official 9/11 conspiracy theory has bewitched much of the "alternative" media too. When in 2006, the five year anniversary, the Washington Post and other mainstream outlets aired 9/11 doubts in an even handed way it should have been an open goal for anyone opposed to the wars and civil liberty outrages of the new era. This was the opportunity for the alternative media to lead the way and turn the spotlight on the key 9/11 questions. Even then it was already clear that the collapse of the Twin Towers had not been satisfactorily explained and multiple FBI officers had complained that their investigations into the alleged hijackers had been intentionally stymied by superiors.
Instead there was a wave of attacks on the 9/11 truth movement. With discreet support from superguru Noam Chomsky, who only in 2010 began to change his attitude, a string of "alternative" media people led by David Corn, of Mother Jones and The Nation, penned divisive and ill-informed hit pieces attacking 9/11 truthers.
CIA TENTACLES IN MEDIA
How could the mainstream and "alternative" media have got it so horribly wrong? One starting point might be a revealing CIA memo from the late 60s. It bemoans the spread of "conspiracy theories" surrounding the Kennedy assassination, admitting the allegations are undermining US foreign policy. The memo then advocates the CIA's preferred method of dealing with the problem: using its contacts in the media to plant feature stories attacking sceptics. So it is disturbing to find that David Corn, who penned his first attack on 9/11 sceptics within weeks of the event, seems to have links with the CIA. It is also disquieting that so many alternative media operations have financial links with the mainstream Washington foundations.
Quite apart from 9/11 there are of course many other outrages which demand draconian reforms to cut the power of media owners, dissolve Washington and NATO's permanent shadow government and subject its operatives to the rule of law. The bankster heist, the austerity con, the continuing torture and rendition, the Iraq war lies, the all but declared war on Iran and Syria, were all made politically possible by 9/11. Many sceptics say that the "success" of 9/11 emboldened the shadow government. Certainly the campaign to achieve radical long term reforms can only be helped by the growing doubts over how 9/11 really happened, why it was never properly investigated, and anger towards a media that failed to do its job.
GLOBAL SUPPORT FOR INQUIRY
Internationally the 9/11 issue presents another sign of the long expected shift of power away from the US and the NATO countries. With the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, the consensus in the Middle East (bar Israel of course) is that the official 9/11 story, the crown jewels of Washington's warmongering empire is, to say the least, unproven. Egypt's President Morsi has pronounced that there should be a genuinely independent inquiry, thus supporting the position of alleged pariah President Ahmedinajad in his 2011 UN speech.
Rebellions like this used to be dealt with in a summary way: a stern warning complete with explicit threats would be issued in the Washington Post. It would be taken up slavishly by the local media and the offending politician would be pressured by colleagues to retract. In this way questions have been suppressed in the UK, Sweden, Japan, and probably many other countries.
But this time, so far at least, Morsi has ignored the Washington Post's recent threat to starve Egypt of finance if he fails to retract his statements on 9/11. A majority vote in the UN General Assembly may now be within reach, authorising a new investigation with or without Washington's co-operation.
In Italy the eminent jurist Ferdinando Imposimato, President of the Supreme Court and renowned for his courage in prosecuting Mafia figures, has announced his intention to pursue the 9/11 issue through the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Many people in Italy still remember the "strategy of tension" bombings blamed on communists and anarchists in the 1970's. Based on the findings of a Parliamentary probe at the end of the Cold War many now believe the bombings were linked to NATO's Operation Gladio, designed to distract people from problems at home by creating an artificial terrorist threat and exaggerating the threat from foreign enemies. The possible parallels with 9/11 are of course glaring, with the terrifying enemy threat role switched from communists to the implausible Al Qaeda.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
In Washington, Freedom of Information and other mechanisms have led to the release of vast caches of US government documents that bear on the 9/11 issue, while unauthorised caches from Wikileaks present another opportunity but also a massive task for researchers. The experts at AE911 have meticulously examined and discredited the various official reports that claim to explain the bizarre and unprecedented collapse of three steel framed buildings on the same day, each supposedly by a different collapse mechanism.
In the same way researcher Kevin Fenton in his book "Disconnecting the Dots", uses a mass of evidence from the US government to come to the same conclusion as Richard Clarke: some of the alleged 9/11 hijackers had been identified as terrorists before 9/11 and were protected from arrest by a decision implemented by a cabal at the CIA.
Two more paper trail researchers stand out. Kevin Ryan an editor at the Journal of 9/11 Studies, has been digging into the neocon network that seems to pop up in so many parts of the 9/11 story in his personal blog, while the anonymous blogger at 911 Shoestring has been trawling through media reports and most recently highlighted the extraordinary, possibly systematic, failures of communication across multiple agencies and facilities on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. (See endnotes)
PILOTS' EVIDENCE
Pilots for 9/11 Truth have analysed flight data recorders and text messages between controllers and the 9/11 planes and have come up with records that seem to contradict the official story. A text message implies Flight 175 was over Pennsylvania after it had supposedly been crashed by a hijacker in New York, while the flight recorder from Flight 77, reportedly hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon, shows the cockpit door was never opened, they say.
Pilots for 9/11 Truth, echoing the 911 Consensus Group, have also shone a light on another issue at the heart of the official 9/11 story: how could the alleged hijackers have carried out such feats of navigation and control? Hani Hanjour, the man said to have carried out the extraordinary ground level, top speed strike on an empty wing of the Pentagon, was declared by at least two independent training schools to be dangerously incompetent on small planes, simpler to fly than massive passenger jets with their vast array of instruments.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?
So what really happened? Few 9/11 researchers have any doubt that the use of subpoena powers on certain individuals in the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and air traffic control would get the answer pretty fast. One possible 9/11 scenario arose from a minor scandal when Washington's 9/11 Commission discovered that the Pentagon had tried to erase vital tape recordings from the day of the attacks. When the content was retrieved it emerged that amongst a plethora of other exercises they were running a live anti-hijack exercise at the time the apparent 9/11 hijacks took place.
This is a classic indication of a CIA type black operation with a possible "limited hangout" built in to it in case some of the truth starts to come out. A parallel hijack going ahead legitimately as an exercise can provide cover for a small group of plotters and serve to muddy the waters when the investigations start. Studies of the unlikely routes the planes took have led to speculation the apparently hijacked planes could have had doubles or been flown into the buildings by a remote control takeover scripted as part of the anti-hijack exercise.
The final irony of 9/11 might be that the evidence needed to turn the spotlight on Washington's black ops crowd at the heart of the permanent secret state has already been published by the US itself. But with the mountain of available data now in the terrabytes perhaps no-one has got round to reading it yet.
Author's note: a simple google search (eg "Corn CIA") will confirm most of the information in this article. Here are links which may be harder to find.
http://911blogger.com/news/2012-10-03/more-mass-media-breakthroughs
http://911blogger.com/news/2012-09-24/controversial-911-film-soars-1-pbs-breaks-local-records
The 9/11 Hijackers: Fraud in Official Video Exhibits Uncovered by Expert Panel
http://www.consensus911.org/news/
Why Were U.S. Intelligence Facilities in an 'Information Void' During the 9/11 Attacks?
http://shoestring911.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/why-were-us-intelligence-facilities-in.html
Kevin Ryan: Why Louis Freeh should be investigated for 9/11
http://digwithin.net/2012/11/21/louis-freeh/
CIA Memo
http://www.maryferrell.org/mffweb/archive/viewer/showDoc.do?docId=3167&relPageId=2
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/MORE-ACARS-CONFIRMATION.html
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TO HEAD OBAMA'S CIA
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/07/john-brennan-dishonesty-cia-director-nomination
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2258402/John-Brennan-architect-Barack-Obamas-drone-strike-programm
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obama-picks-a-lying-torture-endorsing-executioner-as-cia-head.html
I suspect that some spook hacker introduced dirt into Greenwald's
column, as a sign of control. For example, no experienced journalist
on either side of the Atlantic would use the phrase "centered around."
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