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Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Jon Cole: 9/11 Experiments: The Great Thermate Debate (video)
A video experiment to demonstrate what does and does not melt steel. Be sure to read the thoughtful and informed thread discussion. ~PB
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Techniques Used to Disrupt 9/11 Questioning by Kevin Ryan | Dig Within
Techniques Used to Disrupt 9/11 Questioning
In 2008, Harvard professors Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule proposed that the government should engage in “cognitive infiltration” of citizen groups that seek the truth about 9/11. The proposal was that government operatives, whether anonymous or otherwise, should infiltrate and disrupt the groups. They wrote, “Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action."
The following year, this anti-Constitutional stance was rewarded when Sunstein was made director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Members of the 9/11 Truth Movement responded with detailed criticism.
Of course, the idea of infiltrating a grassroots action group, to disrupt and defame its members, was not new. The FBI program called COINTELPRO was a widely reported example after it was revealed in the early 1970s to have infiltrated citizen groups seeking civil rights and peace. After being revealed, COINTELPRO techniques continued at the FBI and elsewhere in government.
Since 9/11, journalists have noted that government infiltration of political groups is no longer a rare exception but is the norm. The goals of such infiltration are to destabilize and prevent citizen dissent by creating a negative public image for the target group and conflict within the group. Infiltration is easy when it comes to a grassroots movement like 9/11 Truth. That is, you cannot just claim to be a 9/11 Commission member or an employee of a government agency but anyone can say they are a truth seeker. The beauty of this for government operatives is that they can control both sides of the conversation.
To make a significant impact, however, an infiltrator needs to quickly move into a position as a leading voice for the movement. One way in which this was done, even before Sunstein’s proposal, was through a social variant of the physical principle called the “gravitational assist.” The physical principle leverages the movement and gravitational pull of a moon or planet to slingshot a spacecraft into a higher velocity trajectory by moving the path of the spacecraft near the larger body. The social variant is when a brief association with a leading voice in a group lends someone credibility that they would otherwise not have.
Examples of the gravitational assist occurred when physicist Steven Jones made news in September 2005 for challenging the official account of the World Trade Center destruction. People wanted their photo taken with him and he was invited to speak at many events. Soon afterward, Jim Fetzer, previously unknown to 9/11 investigators, dramatically announced that he and Jones were starting a new “scholars” group to challenge the official account of 9/11. That association led to Fetzer discrediting Jones and others through association with absurd concepts like Star Wars beams and holograms at the WTC.
It was later learned that Fetzer was an expert on the use of disinformation yet he and his colleagues Morgan Reynolds and Judy Woods went on to link 9/11 questioning with many preposterous ideas. They created nonsensical hypotheses and promoted them through mass emails targeting media representatives and others in order to present the 9/11 Truth Movement as a ludicrous spectacle.
When recently asked to help reveal more of what happened during that time, it occurred to me that people could benefit from learning the general techniques used to disrupt grassroots movements. Examined more closely, the techniques used by infiltrators or disruptors can be seen as expressions of commonly known rules of debate. Specifically, the rules are reflected in philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s sarcastic publication, The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument. Here are a few examples of how these techniques were used to disrupt 9/11 questioning.
“The Extension” takes a proposal beyond its intended limits so that the extended proposal can be refuted and thereby make the original statement sound weaker. A 9/11 example took the question about whether an aircraft had actually hit the Pentagon and extended it to all other aspects of 9/11. Therefore if there was no plane at the Pentagon then there were no planes at all, and no alleged hijackers, and so on.
“The Homonymy” is a misuse of a proposition through use of similar words. The government agency NIST utilized this method effectively by replacing words in its reports with weaker homonyms, making it easier for the unprecedented destruction of the WTC to sound more plausible. Therefore fireproofing became “insulation” and joists became “trusses.”
Using the “Postulate What Has to Be Proved” rule, 9/11 disruptors presented and then destroyed their own straw man arguments. That is, they first framed the questions in simplified, diverting ways and then refuted those “straw man” frames. This was the go to technique of the “debunkers” at Popular Mechanics.
The method of “Make Your Opponent Angry” was frequently used. Through the years, infiltrators often resorted to baseless accusations, threats, and absurd insinuations. Luckily, this could be easily spotted.
In the “Agree to Reject the Counter-Proposition” technique, the disruptor frames the issue as two very distinct options. This is the “split screen” method that FOX News used so well over may years to move national discussions toward extreme views. With 9/11, it was again most well demonstrated by arguments over the Pentagon in which everyone was either a “planer” or a “no-planer.” All other questioning about the Pentagon event was forsaken as a result of this mindless dichotomy.
Using “Arguments Ad Hominem,” Schopenhauer described how the opponent could be shown to be inconsistent and therefore untrustworthy. With 9/11 questioning, disruptors often attacked the person (ad hominem) rather than the argument itself.
Fetzer helped the government deflect questions by using the “Make Him Exaggerate His Statement” technique in which “when you refute this exaggerated form of it, you look as though you had also refuted his original statement.” In the short time that he was in the 9/11 limelight, Fetzer would begin every interview with the claim that my former company UL had “certified the steel used in the World Trade center to 2000 degrees for six hours.” Despite being an incorrect exaggeration, Fetzer continued to use it even after that fact was made clear to him. Ultimately this allowed the government agency NIST to refute Fetzer’s exaggerated claim, quoting it word for word, rather than address true questions about UL’s certification of the WTC steel components.
In the “Find One Instance to the Contrary” method, the disruptor simply finds one example of when a proposition was not met. For example, a disruptor would argue that because the WTC towers were destroyed from the top down, they could not be demolitions because all demolitions occur from the bottom up. This was the argument from “skeptic” Michael Shermer when I debated him on Air America radio in 2007. In order to support his contention, Shermer casually claimed to have watched thousands of demolition videos during the 2-minute radio break. Unfortunately for him, a top-down demolition was posted on a leading 9/11 truth website which I referred to at the time.
With the “Put His Thesis into Some Odious Category” technique, 9/11 questioning was frequently conflated with positions that were seen as hateful or stupid. This led to some members of the media lumping “truthers” in with “birthers,” holocaust deniers, and those who question the moon landings.
In retrospect, it is comforting to know that so much effort at disruption was needed to prevent 9/11 questions from taking over the national discussion. It means that many people were informed to some degree and that citizen groups working for the truth were seen as a threat to a corrupt system. Many people are now aware that terrorism events are not as simple as the government and mainstream media portray them.
People need to be able to recognize infiltration of grassroots movements because the system will not change on its own. It’s likely that only a catastrophic and catalyzing realization on the part of a large segment of society will lead to any real change and recognizing the techniques of disruption could help achieve that realization.
https://digwithin.net/2018/06/24/disruption/
The following year, this anti-Constitutional stance was rewarded when Sunstein was made director of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Members of the 9/11 Truth Movement responded with detailed criticism.
Of course, the idea of infiltrating a grassroots action group, to disrupt and defame its members, was not new. The FBI program called COINTELPRO was a widely reported example after it was revealed in the early 1970s to have infiltrated citizen groups seeking civil rights and peace. After being revealed, COINTELPRO techniques continued at the FBI and elsewhere in government.
Since 9/11, journalists have noted that government infiltration of political groups is no longer a rare exception but is the norm. The goals of such infiltration are to destabilize and prevent citizen dissent by creating a negative public image for the target group and conflict within the group. Infiltration is easy when it comes to a grassroots movement like 9/11 Truth. That is, you cannot just claim to be a 9/11 Commission member or an employee of a government agency but anyone can say they are a truth seeker. The beauty of this for government operatives is that they can control both sides of the conversation.
To make a significant impact, however, an infiltrator needs to quickly move into a position as a leading voice for the movement. One way in which this was done, even before Sunstein’s proposal, was through a social variant of the physical principle called the “gravitational assist.” The physical principle leverages the movement and gravitational pull of a moon or planet to slingshot a spacecraft into a higher velocity trajectory by moving the path of the spacecraft near the larger body. The social variant is when a brief association with a leading voice in a group lends someone credibility that they would otherwise not have.
Examples of the gravitational assist occurred when physicist Steven Jones made news in September 2005 for challenging the official account of the World Trade Center destruction. People wanted their photo taken with him and he was invited to speak at many events. Soon afterward, Jim Fetzer, previously unknown to 9/11 investigators, dramatically announced that he and Jones were starting a new “scholars” group to challenge the official account of 9/11. That association led to Fetzer discrediting Jones and others through association with absurd concepts like Star Wars beams and holograms at the WTC.
It was later learned that Fetzer was an expert on the use of disinformation yet he and his colleagues Morgan Reynolds and Judy Woods went on to link 9/11 questioning with many preposterous ideas. They created nonsensical hypotheses and promoted them through mass emails targeting media representatives and others in order to present the 9/11 Truth Movement as a ludicrous spectacle.
When recently asked to help reveal more of what happened during that time, it occurred to me that people could benefit from learning the general techniques used to disrupt grassroots movements. Examined more closely, the techniques used by infiltrators or disruptors can be seen as expressions of commonly known rules of debate. Specifically, the rules are reflected in philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer’s sarcastic publication, The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument. Here are a few examples of how these techniques were used to disrupt 9/11 questioning.
“The Extension” takes a proposal beyond its intended limits so that the extended proposal can be refuted and thereby make the original statement sound weaker. A 9/11 example took the question about whether an aircraft had actually hit the Pentagon and extended it to all other aspects of 9/11. Therefore if there was no plane at the Pentagon then there were no planes at all, and no alleged hijackers, and so on.
“The Homonymy” is a misuse of a proposition through use of similar words. The government agency NIST utilized this method effectively by replacing words in its reports with weaker homonyms, making it easier for the unprecedented destruction of the WTC to sound more plausible. Therefore fireproofing became “insulation” and joists became “trusses.”
Using the “Postulate What Has to Be Proved” rule, 9/11 disruptors presented and then destroyed their own straw man arguments. That is, they first framed the questions in simplified, diverting ways and then refuted those “straw man” frames. This was the go to technique of the “debunkers” at Popular Mechanics.
The method of “Make Your Opponent Angry” was frequently used. Through the years, infiltrators often resorted to baseless accusations, threats, and absurd insinuations. Luckily, this could be easily spotted.
In the “Agree to Reject the Counter-Proposition” technique, the disruptor frames the issue as two very distinct options. This is the “split screen” method that FOX News used so well over may years to move national discussions toward extreme views. With 9/11, it was again most well demonstrated by arguments over the Pentagon in which everyone was either a “planer” or a “no-planer.” All other questioning about the Pentagon event was forsaken as a result of this mindless dichotomy.
Using “Arguments Ad Hominem,” Schopenhauer described how the opponent could be shown to be inconsistent and therefore untrustworthy. With 9/11 questioning, disruptors often attacked the person (ad hominem) rather than the argument itself.
Fetzer helped the government deflect questions by using the “Make Him Exaggerate His Statement” technique in which “when you refute this exaggerated form of it, you look as though you had also refuted his original statement.” In the short time that he was in the 9/11 limelight, Fetzer would begin every interview with the claim that my former company UL had “certified the steel used in the World Trade center to 2000 degrees for six hours.” Despite being an incorrect exaggeration, Fetzer continued to use it even after that fact was made clear to him. Ultimately this allowed the government agency NIST to refute Fetzer’s exaggerated claim, quoting it word for word, rather than address true questions about UL’s certification of the WTC steel components.
In the “Find One Instance to the Contrary” method, the disruptor simply finds one example of when a proposition was not met. For example, a disruptor would argue that because the WTC towers were destroyed from the top down, they could not be demolitions because all demolitions occur from the bottom up. This was the argument from “skeptic” Michael Shermer when I debated him on Air America radio in 2007. In order to support his contention, Shermer casually claimed to have watched thousands of demolition videos during the 2-minute radio break. Unfortunately for him, a top-down demolition was posted on a leading 9/11 truth website which I referred to at the time.
With the “Put His Thesis into Some Odious Category” technique, 9/11 questioning was frequently conflated with positions that were seen as hateful or stupid. This led to some members of the media lumping “truthers” in with “birthers,” holocaust deniers, and those who question the moon landings.
In retrospect, it is comforting to know that so much effort at disruption was needed to prevent 9/11 questions from taking over the national discussion. It means that many people were informed to some degree and that citizen groups working for the truth were seen as a threat to a corrupt system. Many people are now aware that terrorism events are not as simple as the government and mainstream media portray them.
People need to be able to recognize infiltration of grassroots movements because the system will not change on its own. It’s likely that only a catastrophic and catalyzing realization on the part of a large segment of society will lead to any real change and recognizing the techniques of disruption could help achieve that realization.
https://digwithin.net/2018/06/24/disruption/
Sunday, September 10, 2017
National Press Club 9/11 event live-streamed on Monday 9/11
National Press Club 9/11 event live-streamed on Monday 9/11
with Bob McIlvane, Richard Gage and Peter Michael Ketcham
Bobby McIlvaine World Trade Center Investigation AcT
http://www.press.org/events/bobby-mcilvaine-world-trade-center-investigation-act
September 11, 2017
1:00 PM
LIVE
Location: Zenger Room
9/11 Family Members and Technical Experts Call on Congress to Launch New World Trade Center Investigation
Washington, D.C. – On the 16th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, 9/11 family member Bob McIlvaine and architect Richard Gage, AIA, will announce the Bobby McIlvaine World Trade Center Investigation Act at a news conference to be held at the National Press Club at 1 p.m. EDT.
The Bobby McIlvaine Act is draft legislation that would empanel a select committee in either chamber of Congress to reinvestigate the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. The act is named after Mr. McIlvaine’s son Bobby, who was tragically killed at the age of 26 while entering the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Mr. McIlvaine has been an outspoken leader in advocating for a new investigation since the release of the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004. Mr. Gage, meanwhile, has worked diligently to educate and mobilize technical professionals since he founded the organization Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) in 2006. Today, AE911Truth represents close to 3,000 architects and engineers, as well as two-dozen 9/11 family members, who have signed AE911Truth’s petition calling on Congress to open a new investigation.
Mr. McIlvaine and Mr. Gage will be joined by Peter Michael Ketcham, a former employee of the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency that was charged with investigating the World Trade Center disaster. Mr. Ketcham first spoke out against his former agency’s investigation in 2016 and has since joined with AE911Truth in championing a new investigation.
At the conclusion of the news conference, Mr. McIlvaine, Mr. Gage, Mr. Ketcham, and supporters of the Bobby McIlvaine Act will proceed to the Capitol, where they will distribute packets to every member of Congress over the next day and a half. They will then work to assemble a bi-partisan group of sponsors and have the resolution introduced by next year’s September 11th anniversary.
The group will use the soon-to-be-released computer simulation of World Trade Center Building 7’s collapse — a study conducted by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and funded by AE911Truth — to bolster its case that NIST’s account of the building collapses is false and that it is incumbent upon Congress to launch its own investigation.
Space is limited. Please RSVP by emailing Congress@AE911Truth.org.
Who: Bob McIlvaine; Richard Gage, AIA; Peter Michael Ketcham; Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
What: Announcement of the Bobby McIlvaine World Trade Center Investigation Act
When: 1 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2017
Where: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Livestream: https://beta.AE911Truth.org/get-involved/bobby-mcilvaine-act
Washington, D.C. – On the 16th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, 9/11 family member Bob McIlvaine and architect Richard Gage, AIA, will announce the Bobby McIlvaine World Trade Center Investigation Act at a news conference to be held at the National Press Club at 1 p.m. EDT.
The Bobby McIlvaine Act is draft legislation that would empanel a select committee in either chamber of Congress to reinvestigate the destruction of the three World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001. The act is named after Mr. McIlvaine’s son Bobby, who was tragically killed at the age of 26 while entering the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
Mr. McIlvaine has been an outspoken leader in advocating for a new investigation since the release of the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004. Mr. Gage, meanwhile, has worked diligently to educate and mobilize technical professionals since he founded the organization Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth (AE911Truth) in 2006. Today, AE911Truth represents close to 3,000 architects and engineers, as well as two-dozen 9/11 family members, who have signed AE911Truth’s petition calling on Congress to open a new investigation.
Mr. McIlvaine and Mr. Gage will be joined by Peter Michael Ketcham, a former employee of the U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the agency that was charged with investigating the World Trade Center disaster. Mr. Ketcham first spoke out against his former agency’s investigation in 2016 and has since joined with AE911Truth in championing a new investigation.
At the conclusion of the news conference, Mr. McIlvaine, Mr. Gage, Mr. Ketcham, and supporters of the Bobby McIlvaine Act will proceed to the Capitol, where they will distribute packets to every member of Congress over the next day and a half. They will then work to assemble a bi-partisan group of sponsors and have the resolution introduced by next year’s September 11th anniversary.
The group will use the soon-to-be-released computer simulation of World Trade Center Building 7’s collapse — a study conducted by researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and funded by AE911Truth — to bolster its case that NIST’s account of the building collapses is false and that it is incumbent upon Congress to launch its own investigation.
Space is limited. Please RSVP by emailing Congress@AE911Truth.org.
Who: Bob McIlvaine; Richard Gage, AIA; Peter Michael Ketcham; Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth
What: Announcement of the Bobby McIlvaine World Trade Center Investigation Act
When: 1 p.m. EDT, September 11, 2017
Where: National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C.
Livestream: https://beta.AE911Truth.org/get-involved/bobby-mcilvaine-act
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Why Discussion of the Events of 9/11/2001 and the Deep State Help Develop the Antiwar Movement | Richard Krushnic
Why Discussion of the Events of 9/11/2001 and the Deep State
Help Develop the Antiwar Movement | Richard Krushnic 9/18/14, with an
Introduction by Christopher Gruener MA, LMHC
(Secretary for the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth & Justice)
"Most folks don’t want to know the truth because it threatens their world view, their paradigm for understanding and making life bearable. They can accept that the government does things like this to other people and governments in other lands, but not that it does them here at home. Even considering the possible truth of such things creates cognitive dissonance that is very emotionally disturbing and frightening. All kinds of primitive and sophisticated psychological shenanigans are employed by the person considering such truths to deny their possibility and avoid seeing even the obvious."
Help Develop the Antiwar Movement | Richard Krushnic 9/18/14, with an
Introduction by Christopher Gruener MA, LMHC
(Secretary for the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth & Justice)
"Most folks don’t want to know the truth because it threatens their world view, their paradigm for understanding and making life bearable. They can accept that the government does things like this to other people and governments in other lands, but not that it does them here at home. Even considering the possible truth of such things creates cognitive dissonance that is very emotionally disturbing and frightening. All kinds of primitive and sophisticated psychological shenanigans are employed by the person considering such truths to deny their possibility and avoid seeing even the obvious."
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Hello Friends,
As
many of you know, the 9/11 Truth Movement has been striving for many
years to develop a collaborative interface with the broader Anti-War /
Peace and Justice Movement. Please take time
to read Richard Krushnic’s article below and then add your voice to the
ongoing conversation on this topic.
Richard
is a leading activist in the 9/11 Truth Movement, with a long time
commitment to effective peace and justice activism. He has worked
tirelessly for well over a decade to integrate
these two arenas for maximum collaboration and impact.
Peace, Persistence and Solidarity,
Christopher
Christopher Gruener MA, LMHC
(Secretary for the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth & Justice)
From: Richard Krushnic [mailto:rkrushnic@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 3:56 PM
To: Chris Gruener
Subject: 9/11 Truth, the Deep State and the Antiwar Movement
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 3:56 PM
To: Chris Gruener
Subject: 9/11 Truth, the Deep State and the Antiwar Movement
There
has been a discussion chain on the UNAC (United National Antiwar
Coalition) discussion group regarding recent possible false flag
operations, such as the evidence
that the downing of the airliner in Ukraine was a false flag, which
Ralph Lopez carried into 9/11 Truth territory. Ralph posted some of the
controlled demolition evidence. He received the usual negative
responses from some of the leading lights in the discussion
group. He has been holding his own without meaningful support. Only
two persons sent extremely brief comments. Most think 9/11 should not
be allowed as part of the discussion. Today I responded to the chain by
posting the following. I hope the moderator/moderators
post my piece to the discussion.
Why Discussion of the Events of 9/11/2001 and the Deep State
Help Develop the Antiwar Movement | Richard Krushnic 9/18/14
Help Develop the Antiwar Movement | Richard Krushnic 9/18/14
Discussion
of the events of 9/11/2011 are relevant to discussions of ongoing and
prospective US wars, because all
of US foreign policy and wars in the Middle East, Asia and Africa have
been and continue to be heavily influenced by the events of 9/11. If
9/11 was an inside job false-flag operation (an act a nation does itself
and blames on another nation or group); this
informs us of the extraordinary power the perpetrators have over us,
and how manipulable the nation is by those planning and implementing
wars. It also means that false flag operations could be employed
repeatedly and at any time in order to manipulate the
public politicians into beginning new wars or extending existing ones.
I
was involved in efforts to introduce 9/11 evidence into New England
antiwar movement discussions a few years ago,
and found that there was no interest because most thought 9/11 Truth
people were primarily right-wing Libertarians or Laruchites, which was
neither the case then nor now. At any rate, the message didn’t matter
because of who it was assumed that the messenger
was. I think the same attitude is still at work today in antiwar
circles. I am a member of the socialist segment of the 9/11 truth
movement, and would like to enter the current discussion.
It
is certainly deeply meaningful that 2,500 licensed architects and
engineers have signed the Architects and Engineers
for 9/11 Truth Petition stating that the government explanation of 9/11
is a conspiracy theory that flies in the face of the basic laws of
physics and chemistry and is completely preposterous, and therefore an
investigation independent of the government must
be done. The best single presentation of the views of this massive
body of expertise is AE9/11 Truth’s DND Experts Speak Out, which has 42
experts in their fields of Firemen, Building Fire Safety, Physics,
Chemistry, Architecture, Construction Engineering
and Building Demolition.
They
point to Building 7 (47 stories) falling at free-fall speed; pools of
molten metal underground under the twin
towers for weeks at temperatures double that of the hottest airplane
fuel or office fires; thermite and nanothermite residues in the cement
powder distributed around lower Manhattan (incendiary and
incendiary/explosive burning at 1.6 times the melting point
of structural steel); near free-fall speed of the twin towers (all
resistance removed below the demolition wave—only possible with
controlled demolition); turning nearly a million pounds of concrete into
fine powder (only possible with controlled demolition
charges on a high percentage of floors); high-velocity ejection of
multi-ton steel members; steel members like swiss cheese with sulfur
(only possible with thermite or nanothermite); over 200 first responders
experiencing and hearing numerous explosions, and
many more pieces of evidence. In the cases of many of these pieces of
evidence, any one of them is sufficient to prove that the government’s
version is a lie.
But
we are not just talking about 9/11 here. We are talking about the
modern era of the US deep state from at least
as far back as World War II to the present. To understand the modus
operandi of the deep state, its strength and its membership, we have to
understand the main outline of its activities. So permit this brief
reflection: Pearl Harbor was a partial false
flag operation, because an 18-month plan dreamed up by a naval officer
found its way to Roosevelt and was implemented. The objective was to
goad Japan into attacking Pearl Harbor in order to overcome opposition
to entering the war—the real urgency was to
enter the war against Germany. Overwhelming evidence that this plan
was carried out is presented in Day of Deceit, also written by a
naval officer, Robert Stinnett. The key players in the establishment of
the CIA were aware of this, and as they organized
and executed the coups in Iran in 1953, in Guatemala in 1954, the
failed coup in Indonesia in 1958, and a brilliantly executed coup via
electoral manipulation in the Philippines the same year, the outlines
and strength of the secret deep state developed and
solidified.
When
JFK changed from a cold warrior to a peacemaker while in office, he
quickly made enemies among the most powerful.
The mafia kicked out of Cuba wanted back in and blamed Kennedy for the
failure of the CIA’s Bay of Pigs Invasion. Kennedy refused to bomb Cuba
against the wishes of the military and nearly everyone else in his
cabinet, and set out to end the cold war and
make peace with Russia and Cuba. He refused to undertake another
effort to unseat Sukarno in Indonesia, earning him the enmity of
Rockefeller oil interests and Texas mining interests (Freeport Sulfer,
Brown & Root). He moved to cut the domestic oil depletion
allowance, making Clint Murcheson and H.L. Hunt bitter enemies, and put
price controls on steel. When he issued the secret order to pull out
of Vietnam after the 1964 elections, that was the last straw. On behalf
of these multinational corporate, military
and intelligence interests, and with the support of Lyndon Johnson, he
was murdered by the CIA and the Secret Service. Jim Douglass’ JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters is probably the best single book on the subject. There is
overwhelming evidence of this from many many excellent sources.
The same forces executed his brother, RFK, and Martin Luther King. While researching the Kennedys’ executions is
tedious, researching MLK’s is easy—just read Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King,
by Wiliam Pepper, attorney for the King family for a generation. The
book recounts all of the evidence, and presents the wrongful death suit
1999 trial
in which 74 witnesses present overwhelming evidence. So overwhelming
that it took the jury of 6 whites and 6 blacks 59 minutes to return with
a verdict finding agencies of the US government guilty of King’s
murder.
The
secret FBI sector that is part of the deep state was in charge of the
coverups of the state executions of the
Kennedys and King. The deep state component of the FBI has trained
small groups in all major police departments to cooperate with them in
this work. The police departments of Dallas and Los Angeles played key
roles in the coverups of the Kennedys’ executions;
and the Police Dept. of Memphis not only played a key role in the King
execution coverup, but also played a key role in his execution,
including the actual shooting by the police department’s lead
marksman. The deep state role of the FBI is most present
today in the creation of phony or entrapment cases against around 600
Muslims, in order to maintain the public fear regarding Muslim
terrorists. Read Rounded Up: Artificial Terrorists and Muslim Entrapment After 9/11,
by Shamshad Ahmad, PhD, or review
the Tarek Mehanna case in Boston, where Tarek is serving 17 years for
translating and posting some articles by Al Queda. There are questions
regarding the Boston Marathon Bombings. For example: why did the FBI
execute the unarmed friend of The Tsarnaevs
in Florida. What about the family’s claims that the FBI continued
contact with the elder brother after the initial 2012 interviews? What
about the presence of Craft International personnel and van at the
finish line? Craft contracts to train police departments
regarding terrorist acts and may be part of the integration of the deep
state’s secret coordination between the FBI and police departments.
There are many other questions regarding the Marathon Bombing.
If
we cannot effectively question government versions in public and get
media coverage for this, we are doomed to
be forever manipulated by false-flag operations. The current case in
point is the downing of the passenger airliner in the Ukraine.
Surveying the information available in the mass media and the internet,
there is clearly more evidence pointing to a downing
of the airliner by Ukrainian forces than by the rebels in Eastern
Ukraine. Numerous witnesses have testified to the two jet fighters
trailing the airliner immediately before it went down.
Some
of the persons involved in 9/11 were already in high government
positions by the time of the Kennedy killings
or shortly thereafter, such as Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and others.
Everybody in the highest positions knows about all of this, and they
know that the same forces are at large today, exercising power through
the deep state—a network of multinational corporate
interests, and key military, political, academic and intelligence
players. Obama’s team, when he came in, had discussions about what the
president could do and not do to avoid assassination by the deep state.
Along with the assassinations of the Kennedys
and King, and subsequently, the show went on in Vietnam, Brazil, the
Dominican Republic, Chile, Argentina, etc.
Part
of this has been US government regulation of and participation in the
global illegal narcotics trade and frequent
use of mafias to perform killings so they cannot be traced to the US
government agency in charge: a deal with the mafia for the US heroin
market in return for help in WWII in Italy; the Burma Golden Triangle
following the Chinese Revolution; Southeast Asian
trade in the Vietnam War (Opium and Politics in Southeast Asia by
Alfred McCoy); shifting the heroin market to Pakistan and Afghanistan
during the effort to unseat the Russians from Afghanistan. And, of
course, the simultaneous creation of Al Qaeda.
The US mafia was hired by the CIA to assassinate Castro, mafia gangs
were used to do most of the half million killings in Indonesia
immediately after the 1965 coup, etc. The CIA created the gangs that
introduced crack cocaine to the US as a means to fund
the Contras in Nicaragua (Dark Alliance by Gary Stephan Webb), etc.
Then
there is, of course, the INSTITUTIONALIZED membership of the key
owners and operators of the mass media in
the deep state network. The shining star example for 9/11 is the 2003
Popular Mechanics magazine and book that presented 11 arguments that
9/11 was a false flag operation. This was the single most effective
propaganda against 9/11 Truth ever. The 11 arguments
were all straw men. The main body of 9/11 truth did not put forth any
of these 11 arguments, but Popular Mechanics attributed them all to a
unified 9/11 Truth movement. Of course, none of the arguments that were
put forth by the main body of the movement
were mentioned. Sophisticated disinformation technique is solidly
institutionalized into the mass media’s deep state participation.
Now briefly back to 9/11: Zbigniew Brzezinski, in his 1997 Grand Chessboard laid
out essentially the same
plan as Project for a New American Century (PNAC) in 2000 (controlled
by the neocons of the Bush Administration): a plan to extend US
multinational corporate dominance in the Middle East and Asia for
another 40 years. Both documents clearly state that the
plan couldn’t succeed without a new Pearl Harbor. The plan required
enough control over Afghanistan and Iraq, which straddle Iran, to exert
enough influence on Iran (sitting on both the Persian Gulf and the
Caspian Sea) to be able to play a prominent role
in continuing energy development and pipelines. The plan also requires
continual weakening of Middle Eastern societies through warfare. You
can’t get Americans to go fight and die for half a century in Asia
without a new Pearl Harbor.
The
National Institutes for Standards and Technology (NIST) says on the
first page of its 10,000 page report on the
twin towers that it investigated nothing after the collapse initiated,
i.e. after the collapse began at the point of airplane entry. That
way, they don’t have to address nearly all of the points raised by the
2,500 architects and engineers who signed the
AE9/11Truth petition (check out its website). NIST didn’t investigate
the possibility that preset explosives might have been involved. Turns
out that leaders of the NIST investigation were members of the team that
developed nanothermite in the US Dept. of
Eneregy’s weapons labs. We haven’t been able to detect any source for
nanothermite in 2001 other than Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and the
Naval Weapons Lab at Indian Point. Nanothermite is so good that it can
be disguised as almost anything, has three
times the explosive force per unit of weight as runner up explosives,
and is replacing former explosives in the US smart weapons arsenal.
See the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth and Justice’s Nanothermite Packet.
NIST
commissioned a study by Underwriters Labs to prove its hypothesis:
Planes’ impact and fires from the planes’
fuel and office furnishings dislodged insulation and heated floor
trusses enough that they sagged 44 inches, shortening them enough to
pull in exoskeleton members enough that they buckled, initiating the
collapse. Underwriters Labs created several 60-foot
floor trusses to specification, loaded them with twin tower floor loads
and cooked them for an hour at the NIST-prescribed temperature.
Nothing. So they doubled the temperature and doubled the time. The
trusses sagged 4 inches, not 44 inches. The test
disproved NIST’s hypothesis. You can see the test in an appendix to
the NIST Report. However, the test is not mentioned anywhere in the
body of the report.
Why
does the truth about 9/11 and the history and nature of the deep state
matter to the antiwar movement? Because
if we do not understand the deep state’s capabilities and propensities
for false flag operations on all scales, from a single beheading to
9/11, we leave them the opportunity to use false flag operations at will
to start any war any time. If we don’t understand
that every single provocation we hear about (beheadings, suicide
bombings, thwarted plans by US Muslims in Albany, the airliner downing
in Ukraine), might be a false flag operation; then we throw away one of
our potentially greatest tools for peace: education
of masses of people about the modus operandi of the deep state. I
have no idea if the recent beheadings were false flag operations, but
they might have been, and just see how a few simply executed beheadings
can be enough to start a new level of conflict.
If a meaningful segment of the public is wise to the methods and
omnipresence of the deep state, it would be much easier to get
government versions scrutinized in the mass media, and much harder to
start or extend wars.
The
leading response to any attempt to present evidence regarding 9/11 as a
false-flag operation is: In an operation
that complex, they wouldn’t be able to keep it a secret—somebody would
talk. Many people talked about their involvement or what they knew
about the JFK and MLK executions, but not for many years after the
events. Many people talked about their involvement
or what they knew about the plan to goad the Japanese into attacking
Pearl Harbor, but not for many years after the events. Perhaps many
will eventually talk about 9/11. The same is true about nearly all of
the CIA coups and assassinations of heads of state.
What is much more interesting and important, however, is that even
though there is incontrovertible evidence regarding the assassinations
of the Kennedys and MLK and about Pearl Harbor, still, most people
prefer to ignore the evidence and buy the government’s
version. Most folks don’t want to know the truth because it threatens
their world view, their paradigm for understanding and making life
bearable. They can accept that the government does things like this to
other people and governments in other lands,
but not that it does them here at home. Even considering the possible
truth of such things creates cognitive dissonance that is very
emotionally disturbing and frightening. All kinds of primitive and
sophisticated psychological shenanigans are employed
by the person considering such truths to deny their possibility and
avoid seeing even the obvious.
Noam
Chomsky, Michael Albert, and others, who have immeasurably benefited
the antiwar movement with brilliant and
endless work, have failed us on this one score. They say that these
assassinations and false-flag operations are done by small numbers of
individuals or rogue elements, and that they therefore don’t matter that
much; because what matters are the acts of the
totalitarian institutions of the multinational corporation, and the
military. But the deep state is the network by which these
corporations, the military and others discuss their long-range
interests, develop their plans, and indicate how nice it would be
if a group within the military or intelligence community would just
kill this person or execute this false flag operation. The deep state
is fully INSTITUTIONALIZED. The King execution involved coordination
among the CIA, the FBI, the New Orleans and Memphis
Mafias, the Memphis Police Department, the MIssissipi National Guard,
and the US Air Force. The Kennedys’ executions were coordinated among
the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service, the Dallas Police, the upper
political establilshment in Texas, and Lyndon Johnson,
with the backing of the interest groups mentioned above. Some
assassinations are done by small groups or rogue elements, but the vast
majority are not, they are a major INSTITUIONAL mechanism by which many
of the most pivotal events in modern history are
carried out precisely at the behest of the institution of the deep
state. The coordination list for 9/11 is longer.
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