9/11

[I'm going to break my rule and give a ton of links. Sorry if it's too much info at once] This video clip is from the BBC documentary The Century of the Self, and it explains how the media allows itself to be manipulated and used to further the ends of those in power. They did it 50 years ago. They did it to sell the war in Iraq. And they're doing it today. The lobbyists are people they tell us are people we have to trust. For instance, former DHS Sec. Michael Chertoff who's going to get his very own post in this series or former DNI Mike McConnell, who happens to have made a bundle out of security contracts at Booz Allen

Ten years after leaving the government, McConnell was finally making real money -- two million dollars a year at Booz-Allen.

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Over the last few weeks there have been a series of posts at different websites that have documented the latest variations of the conjunction of the military and anti-terror industrial complex with our government. I'm going to call it the Fear Industrial Complex because to be boxed in into the Military Industrial Complex would be inaccurate and wouldn't even come close to defining the collusion of 1) the military wing, with 2) the security wing, with 3) the Congressional wing, with 4) the Presidential wing and lastly 5) the media wing of the complex . There are so many links that if I tried to put them all in one post it would take several hours to put together and would shortshrift them all and be a disservice to the thought-provoking information.

With that, here's the first post by Frida Berrigan, with an intro by Tom Engelhardt in the link. I'm posting the entire thing because things like this have a way of disappearing

America’s Global Weapons Monopoly

THE 9/11 COMMISSION REJECTS OWN REPORT AS BASED ON GOVERNMENT LIES
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER

John Farmer’s Book: “The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11″ Farmer builds the inescapably convincing case that the official version... is almost entirely untrue...

The 9/11 Commission now tells us that the official version of 9/11 was based on false testimony and documents and is almost entirely untrue. The details of this massive coverup are carefully outlined in a book by John Farmer, Senior Counsel for the 9/11 Commission.

Farmer, Dean of Rutger Universities' School of Law and former Attorney General of New Jersey was responsible drafting the original flawed 9/11 report.

"Don't know much about history"

~ Sam Cooke

Mr. Panetta Needs a History Lesson

CIA director Leon Panetta implied Sunday that the "reality of 9/11" excused the unconstitutional and criminal acts of the Bush administration:

The country was frightened, and political leaders were trying to respond as best they could. Judgments were made. Some of them were wrong.

Panetta makes it sound like all of the illegal decisions were made after 9/11, in response to that horrific event.

But as I've previously pointed out:

* The government's spying on Americans began before 9/11 (confirmed here and here)

* The Patriot Act was written before 9/11 [*note below*]

* The Afghanistan war was planned before 9/11

* The decision to launch the Iraq war was made before 9/11

* The decision to launch a war against Iran was made before 9/11

* Cheney advocated strengthening the powers of the White House to the point of monarchy before 9/11

In addition, while the decision to torture appears to have been made after 9/11, it appears to have been made for the purpose of creating a false linkage between Iraq and 9/11 in order to justify the Iraq war. In other words, the post-9/11 decision to torture appears to have been made to rationalize the pre-9/11 decision to invade Iraq.

Moreover, it was known long before 9/11 that torture doesn't work to produce accurate intelligence.

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[**] The link for the article on the Patriot Act being written prior to 9/11 is dead, but I found a reprint and will reprint it in it's entirety below

The USA PATRIOT Act Was Planned Before 9/11

Why was the government unable to prevent 9/11? According to James Bamford, incompetence and in-fighting among the NSA, FBI, and CIA, resulted in the 9/11 tragedies. Find out what NSA been doing since.



James Bamford is an American bestselling author and journalist who writes about United States intelligence agencies. He was raised in Massachusetts, spent three years in the United States Navy as an intelligence analyst during the Vietnam War, and used the GI Bill to earn his law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.


Scott Horton Interviews James Bamford


Click here to download or listen to mp3 Duration about 50 min.

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From Anti-War Radio, Scott Horton Interviews Robert Pape.


Robert A. Pape is an American political scientist known for his work on international security affairs, especially strategic air power and suicide terrorism. He is currently a professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.



He is the author of "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism" which has earned praise from Peter Bergen, who conducted the first television interview with Osama Bin Laden in 1997. The book earned praise from Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas). The book earned praise from Michael Scheuer, former CIA Chief of the ben Laden unit. The book earned praise from Noam Chomsky, who is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, and lecturer. Duration about 52 minutes.

Click here to download or listen to mp3 Total Duration 1:46:39.

From beautiful Sacramento, Ca on 9-11-08, hear Paul Zarembka, author and professor, “9/11: An Inside Job?” He is the editor of the collection of essays "The Hidden History of 9-11". The Marxist School of Sacramento is the sponsor of this public event.



With an opposing point of view, from 2006 Popular Mechanics executive editor David Dunbar, contributing editor Brad Reagan and editor-in-chief Jim Meigs join Benjamin Chertoff for a detailed discussion of reporting behind the new Popular Mechanics book "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up To Hard Facts". Also to help walk us through a detailed analysis of World Trade Center conspiracy theories is former Deputy Fire Chief of the New York City Fire Department Vincent Dunn.



Click here to download or listen to mp3 Total Duration 1:46:39




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Paul Zarembka's home page

Government Report on WTC Building #7 Defies Laws of Physics

Independent architects and structural engineers have submitted evidence of controlled demolition, disputing NIST’s theory of 9/11 building collapses as "contrary to all historical, visual and physical evidence."

Trish Stevens
Ascot Media Group, Inc.
1120 Nasa Parkway, Suite 220
Nassau Bay, TX 77058
tstevens [at] ascotmedia.com
http://www.ascotmedia.com
Office: (281) 333-3507
Direct: (281) 748-5094

For Immediate Release

Government Report Defies Laws of Physics

Architects & Structural Engineers Submit Evidence of Controlled Demolition, Disputing NIST’s Theory of 9/11 Building Collapses

Hear Sander Hicks talk about 9/11 and other conspiracy theories.



In Sacramento, CA on Feb. 12th, 2008, Sander Hicks is a media maverick, former candidate for US Senate (Green Party), founder of Soft Skull Press, and Vox Pop.



Vox Pop is a publishing company/coffeehouse/bookstore in Ditmas Park, Flatbush, New York. Hicks is the publisher at New York Megaphone newspaper. He has authored the books The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up.