Pericles - In Defense of Democracy

Pericles, in 431 B.C., gave the following speech to the citizens of Athens, Greece.


IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY
by Pericles

Our government is not copied from those of our neighbors. We are an example to them, rather than they to us. Our Constitution is named a democracy, because it is in the hands, not of the few, but of the many. Our laws secure equal justice in all; in our private disputes, and in our public opinion, which is welcomed, and honors every talent in every branch of achievement, on grounds of excellence alone. We give free play to all in our public life, and we carry the same spirit into our daily relationships with one another.

We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without weakness. Wealth, to us, is not mere material for vain glory, but an opportunity for achievement. And poverty, we think is no disgrace to acknowledge, thatthe real denegration is to make no effort to overcome.

Our citizens attend both public and private duties, and do not allow absorbtion in their own various affairs, to interfere with their knowledge of the cities. We differ from other states regarding the man who holds himself aloof from public life. He is regarded as quiet, but we regard him as useless. And, we decide, debate, and carefully in person, all matters of policy, holding not that words and deeds go ill together, but the acts are doomed to failure when undiscussed.

We are noted for being adventuruous, in action, and reflective beforehand. The bravest are those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet go out and meet it. In a word, I claim that our city is an education to Greece, and her members yield to none.

--- Pericles; to the Athenians (431 BC)


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Athens, Greece

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Patriotism

Pericles

Jesse Ventura Talks 9/11, JFK, Northwoods, and Loss of Our Freedoms!

PART ONE here ...




PART TWO here ...




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Jesse Ventura questions 9/11 Alex Jones interview Part One (September 25, 2006)

Jesse Ventura questions 9/11 Alex Jones interview Part Two (September 25, 2006)

9/11

Gulf of Tonkin

JFK Assassination

Operation Northwoods

Gov. Jesse Ventura

FEMA Concentration Camp In Indiana?

FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMP IN INDIANA?

This, according to Senator Lugar, is merely a train yard that has been built and renovated to repair "broken trains."

Do YOU think this is what this "train yard" is REALLY for?!





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American Concentration Camps

Crawford Peace House - FEMA and REX-84

Concentration Camp

FEMA Death Camp

REX-84

Protesters in America

September 11: Should The Truth Be Revealed or Concealed?

David Ray Griffin spoke in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 14, 2006 about whether or not 9/11 TRUTH should be revealed to the world. See the entire lecture here on The Kentroversy Papers.


SEPTEMBER 11: SHOULD THE TRUTH BE REVEALED OR CONCEALED?
Lecture by David Ray Griffin






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David Ray Griffin - September 11: Should The Truth Be Revealed or Concealed? (September 14, 2006)

9/11

9/11 Truth Movement

Bush Crime Family

Bush Knew

Bush Lied

David Ray Griffin

Sergeant Lauro "LJ" Chavez, 9/11 Whistleblower Speaks Out to the Editor of the Cincinnati Post

Military 9/11 whistleblower Lauro L. J. Chavez sounds off on the 9/11 controlled demolitions.


SERGEANT LAURO 'L. J.' CHAVEZ, 9/11 WHISTLEBLOWER SPEAKS OUT TO THE EDITOR OF THE CINCINNATI POST
by Lauro L. J. Chavez



Greetings Mr. White,

I felt it necessary to follow up to a recent story that was published in Cincinnati Post. It was the 1 in 3 believe 9-11 conspiracy theory. I must admit that at first I was overwhelmed with joy that our local paper was actually starting to have real journalism and talk about real issues. Then I read the story and it was a total debunk to make the actual people around the world who feel there was something not right about 9-11, to look like overreacting conspiracy theorists.

I'm utterly outraged. My 9 year old daughter could have done more research in this, as opposed to just trying to throw the publics ideas and feelings out. Is this not what journalism is supposed to represent - real issues? There have been many, many polls done in major cities that actually ask people how they felt about the 9-11 tragedy. One such poll is called the Zogby poll; which was offered in New York City.

Honestly I could care less what is done with this letter, but I feel that I should speak my mind and Ill tell you some things that I have not told many people at all. From 1995 till 2002 I was a Sergeant in the United States Army. Not only this, but I was stationed at United States Central Command, which is located at MacDill AFB in Tampa Florida. I was on active duty when 9-11 happened. In the days prior to the tragedies, we were involved in many exercises. Some of these exercises included the scenarios of hijacked planes crashing into, our building the world trade center, the White House, Sears Tower, and the Pentagon. These drills or exercises as we called them, where classified Top Secret. Having a Top Secret rated clearance I was dumbfounded that they would ever push a training exercise above the level of Secret. Over my 8 years in the Army, I had participated in many exercises around the world, none of which were ever classified over the Secret level.

I'll start by saying a few months prior it was announced by President Bush that Dick Cheney would be heading up operations over NORAD our North American Aerospace Defense Command. Along with many of my peers, we were shocked. Over the years, if you research NORAD, it has always been under the command of a Military officer. It was done this way because the defense of this country has always been in the hands of such. Prior to the months before 9-11 this was all of the sudden changed. Like I said, if you research NORAD and the command structure you will find that it was imposed long ago that the military should be in control of the order to scramble planes in the defense of American air space. For some strange reason, Bush changed this and gave that power to a civilian person on his Staff team yes I know, very interesting.

Back to the morning of 9-11; the command was busy with this training exercise. We were instructed to bring all our gear in to prep for a mock (staged) deployment to the Middle East. On the morning of 9-11, I had been on base prepped and ready to go since about 0400am. During my time at the base that morning, they were setting up barriers around the command and placing gun posts on the roofs. When I questioned one of the security officers about the machine gun and shoulder fired rockets on the roof I was given the answer its a precaution for a plane attempting to crash into this building.

So, I was standing in the SCIF (Secure Compartmented Information Facility), which is basically this underground bunker command post for USCENTCOM, when the first plane hit. We were watching the fly patterns of all the planes on the aerospace grid. This contained not only all commercial flights at the time, but all military flights, and fake enemy planes that were supposedly put on there for the exercise. Many of the planes sent to intercept the fake blips were scrambled from Andrews which is an air defense AFB for the East Coast. They were sent across the US and left very few planes to defend the capital. After the first plane hit the tower we were all in disbelief. After the initial shock was over, our questions were what are the odds this could happen for real, during a training exercise thats covering the same scenario? We were all at wits end. Then to top all of this off, Cheney gave NORAD the order to stand down scrambling jets to intercept. A few moments later tower 2 was hit. Only after the Pentagon was hit, did he give the orders to scramble the jets to intercept the plane bound for the White House.

All of this is very interesting to me it sickened me so that I left the Army after coming back from an 8 month deployment to Afghanistan. There were just too many questions that no one could answer, too many things that did not make sense. How is it possible to have a training exercise about planes hitting the WTC and then actually have planes hit the WTC? This kind of thing just does not happen unless its' pre-planned. What reason would there be to have this type of exercise on that morning, Ill tell you if you are placing fake planes all over the north American aerospace grid then you have no way of knowing which planes are real and which are fake. Then to thicken the plot you put a civilian in charge of NORAD so that the military does not have the power to initiate the order for jets to be scrambled to intercept. If the military would have still commanded power over NORAD they would have scrambled jets because they would have simply followed the procedures that had been in place for this type of situation for years and years and scrambled jets.

To delve even further, as Im standing there watching the towers collapse, next to me is one of my good friends and a former commander of the Army Corps of Engineers. He is a demolitions expert. He was even more surprised than me. When the towers collapsed he kept saying this isnt right, this isnt right. When I asked him what he was talking about he told me that steel buildings dont fall down that way. Even if they are struck by objects; he went on to say that in theory if the top 10 floors were hit, then possibly just that part of the building would fall over and off, but the rest would remain standing. When I asked him, not understanding the implications of demolitions, he told me that it looked as if they were brought down by controlled demolitions. I was utterly amazed, but after he said that it did sort of appear that way.

I'll tell you what gave this whole thing away was building 7. If they would not have brought this building down, then they probably could have gotten away with it all. It was the most amazing sight I have ever seen. Not only was it amazing, it bore reality to the truth of the situation something was not right here. Now, Im going to tell you all I have learned, but I urge anyone to just spend 1hr reading about this incident on the internet and learning the facts. There have been numerous scholars, numerous physicists that have analyzed this over and over and over again. And they all come to the same conclusion, something does not add up. Building 7 was never directly hit by a plane. Now it was stated that a piece of one of the towers fell onto the side of building 7 and caught one of the floors on fire. A few moments later we all witnessed the most perfect example of controlled demolitions to ever be caught on camera. It could not be proved that building 7 fell due to fire. My friend and I standing there in the SCIF watching in uninterruptible awe with all those other military members; watching building 7 fall perfectly onto its footprint; my friend stating that it was beautifully done.

We all knew then we all realized that this was not some group of unorganized cave dwellers from Afghanistan orchestrating a perfect hit on American soil. It was impossible. Shortly after the Pentagon was struck I called my close friend that I went to Basic Training with. All civilian lines were down and I had to contact him via STU which is a black line classified phone system. He did not answer, but one of his soldiers did. I asked if SGT Worthington was ok and he said yes. I asked if the plane did severe damage and he told me I didnt see any plane. Then when I finally got to speak to my friend, he started acting strange saying he could not talk about the incident over this line. He was shipped off overseas a few weeks later and I never to this day have had the chance to speak with him.

The Pentagon crash tape was released a few months back after 5 years. You need to watch that tape no where can you see a plane strike the Pentagon. This is because it was not a plane. I cannot tell you exactly what hit the Pentagon, but its unanimous; it was definitely not a plane. I can assure you that there is more than one CCTV camera around the Pentagon. On September 25, 4 days before my 25th birthday, I deployed to Afghanistan. Over the 8months I was there I had never seen one intelligent Afghani soldier. They were all tattered and scrawny and could barely shoot their weapons straight. This does not mean that there were not men that could fly a plane, but after what I saw it was extremely hard to believe they could be taught to fly a sophisticated piece of aeronautical equipment.

My point, Mr. Editor, is that I spent 8 months in combat watching my brothers die in the name of Freedom. I killed, in the name of Freedom and to this day my brothers are still being killed for this illusionary war we call the War on Terror. Where the enemy has no face where there is no clear objective. In this War, anyone with ill thoughts toward this country can be defined as a terrorist. Well, I guess that includes me in this group as well as everyone else who questions the events of 911, because we all hold ill thoughts toward the leadership of this country and I say the real terrorists in this world sit right in the heart of its capital.

I have bled for this country and would do so again in a heartbeat but only to protect its people, the true Americans that live here. I would never again offer my life under the leadership whose real goal is oil and money. The same ones who staged the most perfect illusionary tactic in our history that was a pretext to a war on terror that would never again go away. Their goal was to scare the American public into submission making it easier for the world powers to do their evil and get away with it.

Now that may sound like a typical conspiracy theorist I guess, but how many do you actually talk to? Im not here saying that Aliens came down and used laser beams to bring the towers down or control the planes that were flown; Im telling you as a sane, logical and intelligent individual, something does not add up about this. Earlier this year I was watching the Discovery channel. They have a PBS program called Rebuilding America. This particular episode was about the WTC building 7. They interviewed Larry Silverstein (the owner) about building 7. He stated on national TV the following which is the direct quote and can be found here:

Larry Silverstein "Pull it!" Quote Video

"I remember getting a call from the, ER, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse."

I actually have the program recorded and you are more than welcome to come by my house and watch it. He actually stated this on national TV. I was so amazed that I almost shat myself. I could not believe he actually stated this on a nationally broadcasted TV program. You can ask any person who has done controlled demolitions please interview someone they will tell you it takes weeks of planning to do this. We are expected to believe that this was facilitated and planned in a matter of hours for building 7, while the damn thing was on fire you have got to be kidding me. If that is not enough to make you believe something was fishy well then nothing will ever do.

Since that time there have been numerous scholars, some of which have actually been publicly broadcasted on CSPAN. The latest program was called: Theories about 9-11. American Perspectives and you can watch this (which I advise you do) per this link: Theories about 9-11 (American Perspectives) or you can go to www.c-span.org and look under their video/audio section to find this title. Its an outstanding video and encompasses the thoughts of not only the American public, but also Dr Steven Jones from Brigham Young University a physics professor that actually received a piece of the rubble from the WTC. Not only does he profoundly agree that building 7 was a controlled demolition he can prove it. After he analyzed the piece of debris they found; there were large traces of sulfur and Thermite found. If you did not know, Thermite is a chemical compound found in many explosives including C4 which I have used many times in the Army. It leaves a distinct smell and identifiable residue upon explosion. Dr Jones found large traces of this from the rubble.

Sir, there are many things that I never wanted to know for one that the government that is supposed to be caring for the American people could be corrupt. This was the last thing that I ever wanted to be true but its time we wake up and smell the bullshit because its permeating throughout the American public and we are all starting to realize whats really going on. If your news station actually did a similar Zogby type poll here in Cincinnati, I think you would find that a lot more than 1/3 of the people believe this. I know tons just in this area.

I could literally write you 100 pages of truths that could prove that 9-11 was an inside job, but Id probably just be passed off as some crazy conspiracy theorist. Instead I want to give you the tools to look for yourself because the quest for wisdom is a journey we must all take alone. So, to you I add the following links and if you just spend a small portion of your day reading and watching some of this footage, who knows you may wake up and stand along side the rest of us in utter amazement.

Respectfully,

SGT Lauro Chavez
United States Central Command

Thanks to the Internet, one of the few freedoms we have left, these truths can be sent to the public. Thank God we dont have to rely on news media to get this information out to everyone!

This is only about a 10th of my list of sites. Enjoy; and when you are sick with the truth of things, let me know and Ill buy you a beer to ease your nerves.

Loose Change Volume 2 (An outstanding documentary done about 911 that includes news reports and live footage of the tragedy and finds that some things are not what they seem):

Loose Change 2

Official Pentagon Plane Crash Video (You tell me where the plane is):

Pentagon Crash Video

Silverstein saying we decided to pull the building, the collapse of building 7:

Larry Silverstein "Pull it!" Quote Video

Another video of building 7 (In this you can see the widely noticeable crinkle that is common in controlled demolitions):

WTC # 7 Controlled Demolition Video

Watch the following in sequence:

1. Showing the Thermite at work. (In this video you can see the molten concrete and metal spewing out of the WTC. This is what happens when a Thermite type explosive is used to cut down steel pillars):

WTC Evidenceof Thermite

2. Then watch this video (it shows the spot where the molten metal is coming out the same spot where the building crinkles and collapses):

WTC # 7 Molten Metal Video


Misc Links for research:

9/11 Truth.org

Scholars For 9/11 Truth

NORAD Tapes Only Intensify Implausibility Of 9/11 Official Story (August 2, 2006)


Zogby Poll Results:

Zogby Poll - 88% Say Bush Knew About 9/11 Attack (May 17, 2006)

As you can see, I'm not your typical conspiracy theorist I actually have a good job! I thought at first I might send you this from an anonymous email address, but you know what now you know I'm not just some stupid kid.

Thanks for taking the time to read.

Respectfully,

Lauro "LJ" Chavez

Director of Information Security
Domin-8 Enterprise Solutions

513-492-5831

lchavez@domin-8.com
www.domin-8.com

"As the guardians of technology; security shall be our shield and vigilance our sword."

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1 in 3 Believe 9/11 Conspiracy (August 3, 2006) NOTE: This is the hit-piece article to which Sgt. Chavez was responding.

9/11

9/11 Truth Movement

Bush Crime Family

Bush Knew

Bush Lied

Just As I Said Here: Osama Bin Laden Is Dead!

On November 24, 2002 Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes fame, declared his belief that Osama Bin Laden was dead. I concurred with this assessment 1,000% -- and it appears as though I was 1,000% correct!


KENTROVERSY COMMENT:

Just as I have been saying since 9/11 itself, and since April 2006 on this site, Osama Bin Laden is dead. A recently leaked French intelligence document confirms the death of Bin Laden, according to French President Jacques Chirac, who spoke on this subject today September 23, 2006. To reiterate, one of my sources had told me in December 2001 that Bin Laden was already dead, at that point in time. Some people laughed, refusing to believe the authenticity of the data, as passed to me from this source.

The way that this is going to play out -- take my word for it -- is that the news of Bin Laden's death will be the ultimate ending of this story -- which is surrounded by a flurry of unconfirmed statements. This has the feel of a limited hang-out -- where the news of Bin Laden's death will be highly damaging to the Bush regime's so-called GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR. By the way, 'global war' is a code phrase for WORLD WAR, meaning that the war on terror is actually the beginning of WW-III.

The Bush Neo-Nazi-Cons will have an interesting time trying to SPIN this one.

Nevertheless, as one of my sources told me YEARS AGO, BIn Laden IS dead, HAS BEEN dead, and news of this will have to be admitted to at some time in the near future. Let's see what KARL ROVE (real name: KARL ROVERER; a dual citizen of Germany first and the USA second) does with this one!

The report below that the House of Saud does not know whether or not the son of its' royal family is dead is complete nonsense! Of course they know. The problem is HOW they are going to release this data to the global press without the war on terror falling apart is the likely reason for their current prevarication on this matter.


CHIRAC: BIN LADEN INTEL NOT CONFIRMED
by Elaine Ganley

PARIS (AP) - A leaked French intelligence document raises the possibility Osama bin Laden died of typhoid, but President Jacques Chirac said Saturday the report was "in no way whatsoever confirmed" and officials from Kabul to Washington expressed skepticism about its accuracy.

There have been numerous reports over the years that bin Laden had been killed or that he was dangerously ill, but the al-Qaida leader has periodically released audiotapes appealing to followers and commenting on current news events.

The regional French newspaper l'Est Republicain printed what it described as a copy of a confidential document from the DGSE intelligence service citing an uncorroborated report from a "usually reliable source" who said Saudi secret services were convinced that bin Laden had died.

The document, dated Thursday, was sent to Chirac and other top French officials, the newspaper said.

"This information is in no way whatsoever confirmed," Chirac said when asked about the document. "I have no comment."

Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry offered no details. "I've heard the reports, but I have no information at all. I have no idea," spokesman Mansour al-Turki told The Associated Press.

In Washington, Blair Jones, a presidential spokesman, said the White House could not confirm the report's accuracy. But two U.S. intelligence officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said U.S. agencies had no information to suggest bin Laden was dead or dying.

A senior official in Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry said he was very skeptical of the document, noting past false reports of the death of bin Laden. He declined to let his name be used because he was not authorized to discuss the issue publicly.

Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Tasnim Aslam, called the information "speculative," saying his government had no information on bin Laden.

Many people suspect bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders are hiding in the Pakistani mountains along the border with Afghanistan.

Among previous reports, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said during the U.S.-led offensive that toppled Afghanistan's Taliban regime in late 2001 that he was "reasonably sure" bin Laden had been killed by U.S. bombing raids on the Tora Bora caves.

Bin Laden also was rumored to have kidney problems, but a physician detained by Pakistan on suspicion he was treating top Taliban and al-Qaida militants told AP in December 2002 that the al-Qaida leader was in excellent health when the physician saw him a year earlier.

The Washington-based IntelCenter, which monitors terrorism communications, said it was not aware of reports on the Internet speculating about bin Laden and a life-threatening illness.

"We've seen nothing from any al-Qaida messaging or other indicators that would point to the death of Osama bin Laden," IntelCenter director Ben N. Venzke told AP.

Al-Qaida would likely release information of bin Laden's death fairly quickly if it were true, said Venzke, whose organization also provides counterterrorism intelligence services for the U.S. government.

"They would want to release that to sort of control the way that it unfolds. If they wait too long, they could lose the initiative on it," he said.

IntelCenter said the last time it could be sure bin Laden was alive was June 29, when al-Qaida released an audiotaped eulogy for al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed by a U.S. air strike in Iraq earlier that month.

Chirac spoke at a news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Compiegne, France, where the leaders were meeting.

Putin suggested leaks can be ways to manipulate. "When there are leaks ... one can say that (they) were done especially," he said.

Chirac said he was "a bit surprised" at the leak and had asked Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie to investigate how the document was published.

The document from DGSE, or Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure, indicated the information came from a single source. "According to a usually reliable source, Saudi security services are now convinced that Osama bin Laden is dead," it said.

"The chief of al-Qaida was a victim of a severe typhoid crisis while in Pakistan on August 23, 2006," the document said. His geographic isolation meant medical assistance was impossible, the French report said, adding that his lower limbs were allegedly paralyzed.

According to the document, Saudi security services were pursuing further details, notably the place of bin Laden's burial.

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Chirac: Bin Laden Intel Not Confirmed (September 23, 2006)

Osama Bin Dead! (September 8, 2006)

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead! (April 7, 2006)

Jacques Chirac

Al-Qaeda

Osama Bin Laden

Osama Bin Laden is dead

Andy Rooney

9/11 Press For Truth

9/11 Press For Truth is one of the most compelling videos related to September 11. See it here for free ...


KENTROVERSY COMMENT:

9/11 Press For Truth is one of the most compelling videos related to September 11th. Tapping into the anguish of those women who lost their husbands and significant others to the horrible and evil events of that day, the viewer will be educated as to some irrefutable facts of that day's events:





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The Complete 9/11 Timeline Project Website

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9/11 Families Steering Committee

9/11 Press For Truth

9/11 Timeline Project

9/11 - Five Years Later: The Official Story Falls Apart

Sander Hicks takes a sober look at the United States five years after 9/11 ...


9/11 - FIVE YEARS LATER: THE OFFICIAL STORY FALLS APART
by Sander Hicks

For many people, 9/11 truth is only about getting at the truth of what really happened on that day. And for that there's two ways: either researching the publicly available information - a tiresome job, and mind-boggling with only low-resolution video footage -, or activism, forcing the media to stop their complicity and finally to investigate 9/11 and to challenge the government on the issues.

- historic precedent: Watergate.

(The new documentary "9/11 Press For Truth" which revolves around the story of the Jersey Girls, covers and alludes to some of the historical connections below, which can be easily verified from mainstream media sources on the internet - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED)

Sander Hicks
9/11/2006

The government is getting desperate. Two major polls recently showed that a growing number of Americans doubt the official story around 9/11. On Aug. 28, the State Department responded with a direct assault against “misinformation,” by publishing a statement that attacked the fringes of the 9/11 Truth Movement. A major media brouhaha immediately followed. The New York Times published a sarcastic sniff at 9/11 activism, titled “U.S. Counters 9/11 Theories Of Conspiracy” on September 2. Time magazine ran a sympathetic but dismissive review of the popular 9/11 film “Loose Change.” ABC/Disney chimed in recently with a docu-drama based on the 9/11 Commission Report.

But not everyone is going along with the program. In New York City, the Sept. 1 edition of AM New York did a positive front-page overview of the 9/11 Truth movement’s claims. In August, Seattle’s Post-Intelligencer did the same. Even the heads of the 9/11 Commission, widely criticized as too close to the government they were tasked to investigate, recently released a new book that admits they were pre-destined to fail. Popular Mechanics has turned their anti-conspiracy theory feature “9/11: Debunking the Myths” into a book. Five-time Emmy award winning journalist Peter Lance just wrote Triple Cross about the funky CIA connections of bin Laden’s right-hand man, Ali Mohamed. Triple was turned into a documentary at the National Geographic TV channel, but before it was broadcast Aug. 28, Lance removed his name from the film. “They hijacked my work,” he told reporters, “The feds have gotten to them, there is no doubt.”

Author Mike Ruppert has sold 30,000 copies of Crossing the Rubicon, a study of 9/11, but after his offices were repeatedly burglarized, he expatriated himself to Venezuela, swearing never to return to the U.S. On Aug. 16, the anti-Zionist, right-leaning journalist and 9/11 researcher Christopher Bollyn was arrested and bloodied by Chicago police, for asking them why three men in an unmarked car were monitoring his house. Bill O’Reilly bent to a new (and criminal) low this summer by making death threats against Kevin Barrett, professor and full member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth and founder of MUJCA.

The censorship and the violence come from the same place: an intense desperation. America is out on a limb in Iraq. We are there, in part, in the name of an attack used to motivate us for war. But five years later, that attack gives people gnawing feelings of betrayal. America is writhing in the birth pangs of a new way to see itself. The State Department and media are holding their hands up in front of a tsunami. People are beginning to reject the deathly falsity of the war in Iraq and the “war on terror.” Who knows how this will translate in the mid-term elections, but pro-impeachment progressives and third party candidates stand to gain big.

A Zogby poll from this summer shows mainstream opinion 42 percent against the official story, claiming deliberate cover-up. Ten percent are undecided. According to a widely-cited August 14 poll by Ohio University and Scripps Howard News Service, 36 percent of Americans believe U.S. government officials “either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted to go to war in the Middle East.” Something is not right with 9/11. It was never right: from the president’s non-response on Sept. 11, 2001, to the GOP abuse of New York City for their convention, to the president’s recently announced plans to visit Ground Zero this Sept. 11, five years later.

When he arrives, he will meet the 9/11 Truth Movement. They are a nationwide batch of volunteers willing to risk their own skins to hunt down better explanations. The World Trade Center towers were symbolic of the grandeur, glory, and showmanship of New York and America. Their destruction, no matter who did it, was the biggest psychological blow to our collective psyche. Losing the towers shattered the anchor of the New York skyline. In the same way that no New Yorker can look at the city without seeing a gap, no American has been allowed to feel safe, secure, respected, or just, good and right, since. We have become torturers. We have become war-mongerers.

The undecided among us perhaps have not yet begun to recognize and heal the psychological trauma of 9/11. Instead, the media images have been burned into our brains, a reminder of the original experience. Last year, I toured the country speaking about 9/11. More often than not I met people who said things like, “you’re right, all you say, but I’m just not ready to go there yet.”

The facts are not enough. This is not just an intellectual struggle, last year, it became apparent something really deep is going on.

So, a year later, what changed? Katrina and the quagmire in Iraq have damaged the Bush team’s credibility beyond recognition. When people saw Bush letting black people die in New Orleans, on television, a lot of people did a gut check. And now that Team Bush won’t revise its Iraq strategy in light of the Pentagon’s own assessments, and instead starts implying that Iran or Syria is next, people are going, hold on a minute. Meanwhile, you’ve got technology like Google Video virally distributing films like “Loose Change II” into the hands of millions worldwide. You’ve got 9/11 truth activists, working in every major city in America. You’ve got new veterans from the financial and intelligence underworlds coming forth and saying, yeah, 9/11 was an inside job. Even former Bush official Morgan Reynolds and former Reagan official Paul Craig Roberts agree: 9/11 is a big lie.


The Argument

There are many ways to make The Argument. The recent media stories have focused on the “controlled demolition” theory, which posits that the buildings must have been brought down with explosives, since fire has never before collapsed a steel frame structure. The most popular exposition of this theory is “Loose Change II.” But controlled demolition is a bit of a straw dog. “Loose Change” is a well-edited, quickly paced 9/11 theory overview with good music. But it tends to incorporate the more esoteric of the many 9/11 conspiracy theories available.

Like the once-popular “no plane hit the Pentagon” theory, controlled demolition is a tall order. As “Loose Change II” morphs into the widely anticipated “Loose Change: Final Cut” (in which this reporter appears) the Megaphone and Loose Change teams find themselves working the same angle:

There’s a certain social network in place. You catch glimpses of it, when things like the Iran/Contra scandal, or the BCCI scandal, or Enron, break above-ground, and then disappear. This social network rules by deception, taking a page straight out of Machiavelli. They use religion like a mask. They detest the people, so they keep the masses shocked into submission, through spectacles. In the first Gulf War, it was a fabricated story about Iraqi soldiers taking babies out of Kuwaiti incubators. In Vietnam, it was the fabricated attack at the Gulf of Tonkin. The history of rule-by-deception, American style, goes all the way back to the 1840s and the Mexican-American War, when President Polk fabricated a Mexican attack, started a war, and annexed the entire Southwest from Mexico. A veteran of the CIA admitted to me recently, “The U.S. decides who it wants to go to war with, and then it finds a reason.” Wait, “find” a reason? History shows us that when the rulers decide to go to war, they “create” a reason.

U.S. Foreign Policy, Democrat and Republican, is in a crisis of the soul. With the fall of the Soviet Union, there’s no big national enemy to fear. There’s no longer any reason to spend $500 billion a year on defense. The recipients of that $500 billion gravy train know that some kind of justification has to be created. In year 2000, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld’s right-wing think tank, Project for a New American Century (PNAC), published a document “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” that said the U.S. should jack up defense spending, take total control of the Internet, and expand the USA’s dominance in Central Asia. Almost all the top neo-conservative figures (and some Democrats) signed on as supporters. Learning a lesson from the 1960’s, and Vietnam, PNAC recognizes the public’s ability to protest and stop aggressive foreign wars. So “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” looks to a “catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor” to jumpstart the funding for new war technology.

In the late 80s, President Reagan’s biggest scandal, Iran/Contra, broke open and was soon covered up. Despite laws from Congress, the ascendant conservative right-wing funded anti-leftist Contra rebels in Nicaragua with drug and weapons profits from trade with Iran, Pakistan, and Iraq. 20 years ago, in Iran/Contra, the PNAC social network circumvented Congress and infused capital into a right-wing militia, using a complex international network that included massive narcotics trafficking, surface support for Islamic fundamentalism, domestic media manipulation, fake Christianity at home, and the power of the dollar. In other words, it was a lot like 9/11. The pattern is the same, and so are a lot of the names:

John Negroponte, National Intelligence Chief, presided over death squads in Honduras, while ambassador there during Iran/Contra.

Eliot Abrams was indicted for lying to Congress about Iran/Contra, yet he laid low and came back strong as one of the National Security Council’s Senior Directors in the Bush White House.

The most relevant example of the whole guilty lot of them is Richard Armitage. In 1989, he couldn’t get a job in President Bush the First’s Department of State, because of his odious Defense Department work with Iran/Contra criminal Oliver North. Skip ahead a scant 12 years later, to the summer of 2001:

Armitage sails into a position as Assistant Secretary of State, without a peep from the media or Senate Foreign Relations Committee. After a lifetime in CIA/DIA circles, Armitage happens to hold the highest civilian decoration from the Pakistani military, and has deep social ties there, from his work in the Afghan/Soviet civil war.

Remember that one? That was the 1979-1988 operation where bin Laden, the Mujahedeen, and the Pakistani intelligence group, ISI, were used as proxies for the U.S. military, a mix that later created the Taliban, which helped create Al Qaeda. The 9/11 Commission Report distorted all this, because it’s at the core of understanding 9/11.

Also noticeably missing from the Report is Richard Armitage’s close relationship to the Pakistani funders of 9/11. The Report incredibly states that discovering the funding for 9/11 is “of little practical significance.” However, the FBI, the Wall Street Journal, and the Times of India have all acknowledged that Pakistani ISI Chief Mahmood Ahmad wired $100,000 to Mohamed Atta on Sept. 10, 2001. Ahmad had met extensively that May with the State Department’s Richard Armitage, and CIA Director George Tenet, in Pakistan. On the morning of 9/11, Ahmad was in D.C., meeting with Representative (and later CIA director) Porter Goss and Senator Bob Graham. When news of Mahmood Ahmad’s wire transfer reached his home country, he was let go, a month after 9/11. The Pakistani ISI works very closely with the U.S. State Department, and handlers like Armitage. Ahmad was fired quietly, when he should have been arrested, extradited, and served up to the American public as a culprit for the attacks. Remember how high the passions flared in October, 2001? Instead, the whole incident was buried. Ahmad walked.

Asia Times called the Ahmad scandal 9/11’s “real smoking gun.” There’s been zero coverage in the U.S. media. The White House edited Ahmad’s name out of the official transcript, the one time Condi Rice was asked about the scandal at a press conference. Instead of prosecuting Ahmad, the U.S. gave Pakistan an aid package of $3 billion over five years, right after 9/11.

So, it’s ironic that this same State Department denounces 9/11 Truth as “conspiracy theories.” This same State Department is packed to the gills with the top criminal minds of Iran/Contra. This same State Department’s Francis X. Taylor, in July 2001, told an informant from the Joint Terrorism Task Force, Randy Glass, “we know about the threat, the terrorist threat, from Al Qaeda and bin Laden flying air planes into the World Trade Center. Musharraf [the Pakistani president] has guaranteed us—because his ISI behind it—that he can stop it if we support him publicly.”

Randy Glass is one of many 9/11 whistle-blowers who were trying to stop the attacks. If the American people really want the truth about 9/11, we’ve got to stop diddling around with theories about maybe a cruise missile hit the Pentagon, or maybe controlled demolition took down the towers. Maybe so, but let’s go there only after we’ve met the real people in flesh and blood, who have suffered to get the truth out.

They are the real heroes of this whole thing:

Randy Glass, Robert Wright (the FBI agent who was stopped by higher-ups from tracking bin Laden’s finances), Sibel Edmonds (a translator who discovered pro-Al Qaeda elements inside FBI, but was gagged by John Ashcroft for speaking out), Colleen Rowley (the FBI lawyer who was mysteriously stopped from getting a routine warrant to search Zacharias Moussoui’s laptop), etc. Most recently, this past year, a lot of new ground has been broken with Anthony Shaffer, the Lieutenant Colonel who did intelligence work in the Pentagon. His operation, Able Danger, identified terrorist Mohamed Atta in year 2000. But unfortunately, someone higher up was protecting Atta. The real cutting edge of 9/11 Truth is an Internet search for Shaffer’s 48-page statement. Just don’t believe what you read about him in the Washington Post.

Sander Hicks is an author of The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers and the Cover-Up, available at voxpopnet.net

© 2006 Sander Hicks
All rights reserved. Used with permission.


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The following sources were used in the creation of this Kentroversy Paper . . .

Anthony Shaffer's Testimony PDF (February 15, 2006)

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9/11 Timeline Project

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Bush Regime

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Sander Hicks

Anthony Shaffer

Venezuela's Chavez Calls U.S. President Bush "The Devil"

Before the U.N. earlier this week, Hugo Chavez called George Bush Jr. "The Devil."


VENEZUELA'S CHAVEZ CALLS U.S. PRESIDENT BUSH "THE DEVIL"
Deutsche Presse Agentur (September 20, 2006)

New York- Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez compared US President George W Bush to "the devil," who he said addressed the UN General Assembly "as if he owns the world." Chavez minced no words by satirizing Bush, who preceded him to the UN podium on Tuesday.

"The devil was right here, yesterday," Chavez said. "The devil came here and this place still smells today."

"The devil is speaking as if he owns the world, we should call a psychiatrist to analyze it," he said.

Chavez began his address to the 192-nation assembly by holding up a book written by Harvard professor Noam Chomsky, titled "Hegemony and Survival."

"This book says about the imperialist strategy of the US, which is "the greatest threat looming over our planet," Chavez said.

© 2006 DPA - Deutsche Presse-Agenteur
All rights reserved. Used with permission.


Here is the complete text of Hugo Chavez's speech before the United Nations, where he called Bush Jr. "The Devil," and after reading this transcript, I am at a loss as to say that there is anything with which I DO NOT AGREE.

The image and reputation of the USA has been irreparably damaged by the Bush regime, and I fear that may have been their intention all along -- if so -- they have succeeded. The entire world HATES this nation at the present time:

Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it.

Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, ‘Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.’” [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.] “It’s an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what’s happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet.

The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of time,” [flips through the pages, which are numerous] “I will just leave it as a recommendation.

It reads easily, it is a very good book, I’m sure Madame [President] you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is right in their own house.

The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house.

“And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here.” [crosses himself] “And it smells of sulfur still today.

Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.

I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday’s statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world.

An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: “The Devil’s Recipe.”

As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world dictatorship to be consolidated.

The world parent’s statement — cynical, hypocritical, full of this imperial hypocrisy from the need they have to control everything.

They say they want to impose a democratic model. But that’s their democratic model. It’s the false democracy of elites, and, I would say, a very original democracy that’s imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons.

What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize it or others who are at the root of democracy.

What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

The president of the United States, yesterday, said to us, right here, in this room, and I’m quoting, “Anywhere you look, you hear extremists telling you can escape from poverty and recover your dignity through violence, terror and martyrdom.” Wherever he looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother — he looks at your color, and he says, oh, there’s an extremist. Evo Morales, the worthy president of Bolivia, looks like an extremist to him.

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It’s not that we are extremists. It’s that the world is waking up. It’s waking up all over. And people are standing up.

I have the feeling, dear world dictator, that you are going to live the rest of your days as a nightmare because the rest of us are standing up, all those who are rising up against American imperialism, who are shouting for equality, for respect, for the sovereignty of nations.

Yes, you can call us extremists, but we are rising up against the empire, against the model of domination.

The president then — and this he said himself, he said: “I have come to speak directly to the populations in the Middle East, to tell them that my country wants peace.”

That’s true. If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San Antonio, San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of the United States, what does this country want? Does it want peace? They’ll say yes.

But the government doesn’t want peace. The government of the United States doesn’t want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war.

It wants peace. But what’s happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? In Palestine? What’s happening? What’s happened over the last 100 years in Latin America and in the world? And now threatening Venezuela — new threats against Venezuela, against Iran?

He spoke to the people of Lebanon. Many of you, he said, have seen how your homes and communities were caught in the crossfire. How cynical can you get? What a capacity to lie shamefacedly. The bombs in Beirut with millimetric precision?

This is crossfire? He’s thinking of a western, when people would shoot from the hip and somebody would be caught in the crossfire.

This is imperialist, fascist, assassin, genocidal, the empire and Israel firing on the people of Palestine and Lebanon. That is what happened. And now we hear, “We’re suffering because we see homes destroyed.’

The president of the United States came to talk to the peoples — to the peoples of the world. He came to say — I brought some documents with me, because this morning I was reading some statements, and I see that he talked to the people of Afghanistan, the people of Lebanon, the people of Iran. And he addressed all these peoples directly.

And you can wonder, just as the president of the United States addresses those peoples of the world, what would those peoples of the world tell him if they were given the floor? What would they have to say?

And I think I have some inkling of what the peoples of the south, the oppressed people think. They would say, “Yankee imperialist, go home.” I think that is what those people would say if they were given the microphone and if they could speak with one voice to the American imperialists.

And that is why, Madam President, my colleagues, my friends, last year we came here to this same hall as we have been doing for the past eight years, and we said something that has now been confirmed — fully, fully confirmed.

I don’t think anybody in this room could defend the system. Let’s accept — let’s be honest. The U.N. system, born after the Second World War, collapsed. It’s worthless.

Oh, yes, it’s good to bring us together once a year, see each other, make statements and prepare all kinds of long documents, and listen to good speeches, like Abel’s yesterday, or President Mullah’s . Yes, it’s good for that.

And there are a lot of speeches, and we’ve heard lots from the president of Sri Lanka, for instance, and the president of Chile.

But we, the assembly, have been turned into a merely deliberative organ. We have no power, no power to make any impact on the terrible situation in the world. And that is why Venezuela once again proposes, here, today, 20 September, that we re-establish the United Nations.

Last year, Madam, we made four modest proposals that we felt to be crucially important. We have to assume the responsibility our heads of state, our ambassadors, our representatives, and we have to discuss it.

The first is expansion, and Mullah talked about this yesterday right here. The Security Council, both as it has permanent and non-permanent categories, (inaudible) developing countries and LDCs must be given access as new permanent members. That’s step one.

Second, effective methods to address and resolve world conflicts, transparent decisions.

Point three, the immediate suppression — and that is something everyone’s calling for — of the anti-democratic mechanism known as the veto, the veto on decisions of the Security Council.

Let me give you a recent example. The immoral veto of the United States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon. Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a resolution in the council was prevented.

Fourthly, we have to strengthen, as we’ve always said, the role and the powers of the secretary general of the United Nations.

Yesterday, the secretary general practically gave us his speech of farewell. And he recognized that over the last 10 years, things have just gotten more complicated; hunger, poverty, violence, human rights violations have just worsened. That is the tremendous consequence of the collapse of the United Nations system and American hegemonistic pretensions.

Madam, Venezuela a few years ago decided to wage this battle within the United Nations by recognizing the United Nations, as members of it that we are, and lending it our voice, our thinking.

Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet.

This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar’s home has sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.

Let’s see. Well, there’s been an open attack by the U.S. government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from being freely elected to a post in the Security Council.

The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.

And I would like to thank all the countries that have kindly announced their support for Venezuela, even though the ballot is a secret one and there’s no need to announce things.

But since the imperium has attacked, openly, they strengthened the convictions of many countries. And their support strengthens us.

Mercosur, as a bloc, has expressed its support, our brothers in Mercosur. Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, is a full member of Mercosur.

And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full Arab League has voiced its support. And I am immensely grateful to the Arab world, to our Arab brothers, our Caribbean brothers, the African Union. Almost all of Africa has expressed its support for Venezuela and countries such as Russia or China and many others.

I thank you all warmly on behalf of Venezuela, on behalf of our people, and on behalf of the truth, because Venezuela, with a seat on the Security Council, will be expressing not only Venezuela’s thoughts, but it will also be the voice of all the peoples of the world, and we will defend dignity and truth.

Over and above all of this, Madam President, I think there are reasons to be optimistic. A poet would have said “helplessly optimistic,” because over and above the wars and the bombs and the aggressive and the preventive war and the destruction of entire peoples, one can see that a new era is dawning.

As Sylvia Rodriguez says, the era is giving birth to a heart. There are alternative ways of thinking. There are young people who think differently. And this has already been seen within the space of a mere decade. It was shown that the end of history was a totally false assumption, and the same was shown about Pax Americana and the establishment of the capitalist neo-liberal world. It has been shown, this system, to generate mere poverty. Who believes in it now?

What we now have to do is define the future of the world. Dawn is breaking out all over. You can see it in Africa and Europe and Latin America and Oceanea. I want to emphasize that optimistic vision.

We have to strengthen ourselves, our will to do battle, our awareness. We have to build a new and better world.

Venezuela joins that struggle, and that’s why we are threatened. The U.S. has already planned, financed and set in motion a coup in Venezuela, and it continues to support coup attempts in Venezuela and elsewhere.

President Michelle Bachelet reminded us just a moment ago of the horrendous assassination of the former foreign minister, Orlando Letelier.

And I would just add one thing: Those who perpetrated this crime are free. And that other event where an American citizen also died were American themselves. They were CIA killers, terrorists.

And we must recall in this room that in just a few days there will be another anniversary. Thirty years will have passed from this other horrendous terrorist attack on the Cuban plane, where 73 innocents died, a Cubana de Aviacion airliner.

And where is the biggest terrorist of this continent who took the responsibility for blowing up the plane? He spent a few years in jail in Venezuela. Thanks to CIA and then government officials, he was allowed to escape, and he lives here in this country, protected by the government.

And he was convicted. He has confessed to his crime. But the U.S. government has double standards. It protects terrorism when it wants to.

And this is to say that Venezuela is fully committed to combating terrorism and violence. And we are one of the people who are fighting for peace.

Luis Posada Carriles is the name of that terrorist who is protected here. And other tremendously corrupt people who escaped from Venezuela are also living here under protection: a group that bombed various embassies, that assassinated people during the coup. They kidnapped me and they were going to kill me, but I think God reached down and our people came out into the streets and the army was too, and so I’m here today.

But these people who led that coup are here today in this country protected by the American government. And I accuse the American government of protecting terrorists and of having a completely cynical discourse.

We mentioned Cuba. Yes, we were just there a few days ago. We just came from there happily.

And there you see another era born. The Summit of the 15, the Summit of the Nonaligned, adopted a historic resolution. This is the outcome document. Don’t worry, I’m not going to read it.

But you have a whole set of resolutions here that were adopted after open debate in a transparent matter — more than 50 heads of state. Havana was the capital of the south for a few weeks, and we have now launched, once again, the group of the nonaligned with new momentum.

And if there is anything I could ask all of you here, my companions, my brothers and sisters, it is to please lend your good will to lend momentum to the Nonaligned Movement for the birth of the new era, to prevent hegemony and prevent further advances of imperialism.

And as you know, Fidel Castro is the president of the nonaligned for the next three years, and we can trust him to lead the charge very efficiently.

Unfortunately they thought, “Oh, Fidel was going to die.” But they’re going to be disappointed because he didn’t. And he’s not only alive, he’s back in his green fatigues, and he’s now presiding the nonaligned.

So, my dear colleagues, Madam President, a new, strong movement has been born, a movement of the south. We are men and women of the south.

With this document, with these ideas, with these criticisms, I’m now closing my file. I’m taking the book with me. And, don’t forget, I’m recommending it very warmly and very humbly to all of you.

We want ideas to save our planet, to save the planet from the imperialist threat. And hopefully in this very century, in not too long a time, we will see this, we will see this new era, and for our children and our grandchildren a world of peace based on the fundamental principles of the United Nations, but a renewed United Nations. And maybe we have to change location. Maybe we have to put the United Nations somewhere else; maybe a city of the south. We’ve proposed Venezuela.

You know that my personal doctor had to stay in the plane. The chief of security had to be left in a locked plane. Neither of these gentlemen was allowed to arrive and attend the U.N. meeting. This is another abuse and another abuse of power on the part of the Devil. It smells of sulfur here, but God is with us and I embrace you all.

May God bless us all. Good day to you.


Sources:

The following sources were used in the creation of this Kentroversy Paper . . .

Venezuela's Chavez Calls U.S. President Bush "The Devil" (September 19, 2006)

Text of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez's Speech Before The United Nations (September 19, 2006)

George Bush Jr.

Hugo Chavez

The Devil

Raw Story

United Nations

A Rothschild Defends U.S. Government's Own 9/11 Conspiracy Theories!

The very fact that a Rothschild wrote an article supporting the U.S. government's own official-fiction of 9/11, shows how DESPERATE the Global Elite have become, as their new world order continues to crumble.


KENTROVERSY COMMENT:

The story by Mr. Matthew Rothschild below appears in blue type. My comments (and proof of my statements) appear in pink type. My comments appear right in the body of the article, directly underneath the statements that Mr. Rothschild makes. This way, I can show the fallacies of Mr. Rothschild's thesis, and it should be self-evident that if ANYONE here is proferring a conspiracy theory, it is Mr. Rothschild himself, because the official-fiction of that day defies both common sense AND the laws of physics.

Furthermore, the researchers of the 9/11 Truth Movement are among the most intelligent and well-spoken of any activist movement in which I have ever participated. This is likely the reason WHY our TRUTH is being attacked by one of the Rothschild family -- Global Elite Kingpins. This clearly shows that they are losing their grip on global society, and their plans for their much-coveted new world order is now falling apart around them.


ENOUGH OF THE 9/11 CONSPIRACIES, ALREADY!
by Matthew Rothschild

September 12, 2006
The Progressive

At almost every progressive gathering where there’s a question and answer period, someone or other vehemently raises 9/11 and espouses a grand conspiracy theory.

If you haven’t had the pleasure of enduring these rants, please let me share.

Here’s what the conspiracists believe:

9/11 was an inside job.

Members of the Bush Administration ordered it, not Osama bin Laden.

The prevailing consensus at this point is that the Israeli intelligence group MOSSAD appears to have been behind 9/11. After all, there was some mighty damaging behavior on the part of Israeli agents on 9/11. First, we have the Israeli front company Odigo warning its' employees NOT to come to work that day. We also have what has become known as the 'Dancing Israeli Art Students,' who were filming the event from atop a high-rise near the WTC, and who were seen 'celebrating.' Then, we have Ariel Sharon, who has said the following about America, a statement that I found repugnant:

“I don’t care what the American people think, I own the [U.S.] Congress!”
--- Ariel Sharon; Israel Prime Minister


Arab hijackers may not have done the deed.

There were no Arabs listed on any of the flight lists, and seven of the nineteen so-called hijackers were found to be ALIVE after 9/11. This alone raises serious questions about the official-fiction as presented by the Bush regime. Furthermore, Bush Crime Family patriarch George Bush Sr. refuses or is unable to say where he was on that day.

This is similar to George Bush Sr's not being able to explain where he was on November 22, 1963, when an Associated Press photographer named James Altgens took a photo of Bush Sr. standing outside of the Schoolbook Depository at the time of the assassination of JFK. Furthermore, Bush Sr. was debriefed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover the day after the assassination.



It seems that whenever seriously EVIL DEEDS are going down, Bush Sr. is constantly unable to say where he was at the moment of these events.


On top of that, the Twin Towers fell not because of the impact of the airplanes and the ensuing fires but because the Bush Administration got agents to plant explosives at the base of those buildings.

William Rodriguez, the WTC janitor who was the last person to come out of the towers alive, unequivocally stated that he heard explosions in the sub-basement level of the tower he was in -- WTC 1 -- also known as the North Tower:

"When I heard the sound of the explosion, the floor beneath my feet vibrated, the walls started cracking and it everything started shaking," said Rodriguez, who was huddled together with at least 14 other people in the office.

Rodriguez said Anthony Saltamachia, supervisor for the American Maintenance Co., was one of the people in the room who stands ready to verify his story.

"Seconds after the first massive explosion below in the basement still rattled the floor, I hear another explosion from way above," said Rodriguez. "Although I was unaware at the time, this was the airplane hitting the tower, it occurred moments after the first explosion."

But before Rodriguez had time to think, co-worker Felipe David stormed into the basement office with severe burns on his face and arms, screaming for help and yelling "Explosion! Explosion! Explosion!"

David had been in front of a nearby freight elevator on sub-level 1 about 400 feet from the office when fire burst out of the elevator shaft, causing his injuries.

"He was burned terribly," said Rodriguez. "The skin was hanging off his hands and arms. His injuries couldn’t have come from the airplane above, but only from a massive explosion below. I don’t care what the government says, what scientists say. I saw a man burned terribly from a fire that was caused from an explosion below.

"I know there were explosives placed below the trade center. I helped a man to safety who is living proof, living proof the government story is a lie and a cover-up.

"I have tried to tell my story to everybody, but nobody wants to listen. It is very strange what is going on here in supposedly the most democratic country in the world. In my home country of Puerto Rico and all the other Latin American countries, I have been allowed to tell my story uncensored. But here, I can’t even say a word."

After Rodriguez escorted David to safety outside the WTC, he returned to lead the others in the basement to safety as well.

While there, he also helped two other men trapped and drowning in the basement elevator shaft, another result he says of the explosives placed below the tower.

In fact, after leading these men to safety, he even made another trip back into the north tower, against police orders, in order to rescue people from the top floors.

"I never could make it to the top, but I got up to the 33rd floor after getting some of my equipment and a face mask out of the janitor’s closet," said Rodriguez, adding he heard a series of small explosions going off between the 20th and 30th floors, unrelated to the airplane strike, while making his way through the stairwell to the top floors.

"Also, when I was on the 33rd floor, I heard strange sounds coming form the 34th floor, loud noises like someone moving and thumping heavy equipment and furniture. I knew this floor was empty and stripped due to construction work so I avoided it and continued to make my way up the stairs."

Rodriguez said he finally reached the 39th floor before being turned back by fire fighters and then, reluctantly, started his descent back down and his own flight to safety while, at the same time, hearing explosions coming from the South Tower.


Building 7, another high-rise at the World Trade Center that fell on 9/11, also came down by planted explosives.

Larry Silverstein, who invested $130 million dollars in the WTC complex, received an insurance payout of $3 BILLION DOLLARS, in a September 2002 PBS documentary entitled 'America Rebuilds,' stated the following:

"I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, "We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it. And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse."

Don't believe what you read? Then watch the video for yourself:




Aside from 9/11 being a day of mass murder, it was also the largest monetary case of insurance fraud in the entire history of the United States! However, the 9/11 Commission was predictably silent on the matter of Silverstein's insurance fraud. The insurance policy he bought was for incidents of terrorism, and nothing else!! IF you or I did this, our asses would be sitting in prison right now, Silverstein however, became a billionaire through this fraud.


The Pentagon was not hit by American Airlines Flight 77 but by a smaller plane or a missile.

The Pentagon has to be the world's first airline crash site that featured no wreckage whatsoever! Furthermore, the Pentagon released five single frames of crash impact footage, which likewise show no plane! Recently, the Citgo gas station that is across the street from the Pentagon, released their security tape of the moments of the crash. There is no plane there, either!


And the Pennsylvania plane did not crash as a result of the revolt by the passengers but was brought down by the military.

Okay, first of all, the "passengers crashed the plane into the ground" story is the most ridiculous thing I have yet heard about 9/11. Doesn't it make much more sense that they would have wrested control of the plane from the terrorists, and then gotten instructions from the closest air-traffic control tower to put the plane into AUTOPILOT MODE and land it safely at the nearest airport, saving the lives of all who were on board that plane?

In a radio interview on February 27, 2004, Col. Donn de Grand-Pre made the following comments concerning the shoot-down of Flight 93 outside of Shanksville, PA USA:

John: And was United Airlines Flight 93 shot down in Pennsylvania by a U.S. or NATO pilot and was that what was supposed to hit the Pentagon?

DGP: No, that was hit at 10:00 hours. It was taken out by the North Dakota Air Guard. I know the pilot who fired those two missiles to take down 93.

John: Was it shot down because the airline pilots actually regained control of the hijacked auto-pilot or was that to replace the unmanned drone that was shot down?

DGP: No, it was the aircraft, you see, had totally unconscious people on board. There were no hijackers. At 9:35, the Happy Hooligans, the Air Guard flying the F-16s were ordered to take that plane out. And they took it out from 9:35 to 10:00.

John: Were there any refueling jets involved in that operation?

AJ: Hold on a second, John. The question is why would they deviate from the plan of flying it into the Capitol? Why did the globalists decide to go ahead and shoot the plane down?

DGP: There had been an adjustment to the controls, probably by an AWACs aircraft flying overhead, again, remote control. And it was on a course for either the Capitol or the White House. And at this stage, you don't know. The Happy Hooligans came in and took care of it.

A retired military officer, Col. Donn de Grand-Pre, mentioned that Flight 93 was shot down by a group out of North Dakota Air Guard -- which calls themselves the HAPPY HOOLIGANS. I am inclined to believe this man, based upon his public writings, in which he is clearly an American Patriot. I'll believe Col. Donn de Grand-Pre before I will believe ANYTHING the Neo-Nazi-Cons say.


I’m amazed at how many people give credence to these theories. Everyone’s an engineer. People who never even took one college science course can now hold forth at great length on how the buildings at the World Trade Center could not possibly have collapsed in the way they did and why the Pentagon could not have been struck by that American Airlines jet.

No, I am NOT an engineer, and I never claimed to be.

But, I do know enough to listen to the real engineers about the events of 9/11, and what they had to say directly contradicted the official-fiction of the governments own creation.

The engineers associated with FIRE ENGINEERING magazine had published a report that the towers fell from a cause other than what the government reported, and called for a truly independent investigation. Here, Mr. Rothschild clearly does not understand his subject matter, or he prefers to misrepresent that numerous INDEPENDENT building and fire-safety engineers have stated that the ONLY way the WTC 1, 2, and 7 could have fallen were from CONTROLLED DEMOLITION. Bill Manning, editor of FIRE ENGINEERING magazine, was likewise troubled by the destruction of material evidence. The steel beams were cut down and sold for scrap, and sent to China, where they would remain inaccessable to independent investigators.

To add to the government's consciousness of guilt, before this steel and iron was shipped away, it was guarded by Wackenhut guards, who were told to "shoot to kill" if anyone tried to access the site. Fortunately, Professor Steven E. Jones was given a small piece of this steel, which he had tested in an independent lab. As I state earlier in this essay, this metal tested positive for THERMITE.

Watch the following two videos, and see for yourself that THERMITE was used at the WTC. The first video recorded an experiement that shows what Thermite looks like when it burns, and the second video below shows Thermite fires at the WTC. They look identical!





See? They look IDENTICAL ... and the only conclusion we may draw from this is that it was Thermite that was used at the WTC. Thermite burns at 2519° C or 4566° F -- and this is what you are seeing burn on the tower in the video above.

In the case of WTC 7, does the reader believe that this building was wired some time between 8:46am and 5:20pm of that day? Or, is it more LIKELY that the buildings were wired in the summer of 2001, after Silverstein took control, and during the times when employees were prevented from entering the building, because of alleged upgrades to the buildings security?

And if that isn't enough circumstantial evidence -- the name of the company that was hired to "clean up" the WTC site was CONTROLLED DEMOLITION, INC. They are known as the preeminent experts in the demolition of buildings of all types. This company also "cleaned up" the Murrah building site after the April 19, 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.


Problem is, some of the best engineers in the country have studied these questions and come up with perfectly logical, scientific explanations for what happened.

The American Society of Civil Engineers and FEMA conducted an in-depth investigation of the World Trade Center. The team members included the director of the Structural Engineering Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers, the senior fire investigator for the National Fire Protection Association, professors of fire safety, and leaders of some of the top building design and engineering firms, including Skidmore Owings & Merrill in Chicago, Skilling Ward Magnusson Barkshire in Seattle, and Greenhorne & O’Mara in Maryland.

It concluded that massive structural damage caused by the crashing of the aircrafts into the buildings, combined with the subsequent fires, “were sufficient to induce the collapse of both structures.”

The National Institute of Standards and Technology did its own forty-three volume study of the Twin Towers. “Some 200 technical experts . . . reviewed tens of thousands of documents, interviewed more than 1,000 people, reviewed 7,000 segments of video footage and 7,000 photographs, analyzed 236 pieces of steel from the wreckage, [and] performed laboratory tests and sophisticated computer simulations,” the institute says.

It also concluded that a combination of the crash and the subsequent fires brought the towers down: “In each tower, a different combination of impact damage and heat-weakened structural components contributed to the abrupt structural collapse.”


The engineers that Mr. Rothschild mentions above, are all related to the government, and as such, they will stick to the script as it had been written for them. The debris that fell from WTC 1 & 2 was microscopic, and there were no pieces of much of anything. Does a fire pulverize acres of cement? Does an aluminum airplane have the power to fly through a wall of heavy metal beams, which were all interconnected, and which increased their tensile strength?

Here, it is clear that Rothschild's combination of Ad Hominem attacks and his use of Straw Man arguments are clearly falling apart, as evidenced by the next paragraph below, which talks about how important the Popular Mechanics hit-piece was, while he completely ignores that the editor of that magazine -- Benjamin Chertoff -- is a cousin of Michael Chertoff -- the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.


Popular Mechanics, first in its March 2005 cover story and now in its expanded book, Debunking 9/11 Myths, after interviewing scores of other experts in the engineering field, takes apart the most popular contentions of the conspiracists. “In every case we examined, the key claims made by conspiracy theorists turned out to be mistaken, misinterpreted, or deliberately falsified,” the book says.

I made a few calls myself, including to Gene Corley, who conducted the American Society of Civil Engineers/FEMA study, and to Mete Sozen, structural engineering professor at Purdue, who was one of the principal authors of “The Pentagon Building Performance Report” of January 2003, which was done under the auspices of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineering Institute. I also contacted engineering professors at MIT and other leading universities in the country, and none of them puts any stock in the 9/11 conspiracy theories. In fact, they view them as a huge waste of time. They are busy trying to figure out how to prevent buildings from falling in the future.

Of course, any conspiracy theorist worth his or her salt will claim that all these people are in on the plot.

And that I am in on it, too.

Get over it.

These people continue to claim that real journalists like myself, are left-wing conspiracy theorists. However, every single one of the 300+ articles that I have published on my own website, all contain extensive source notes, and not a single person has been able to discredit anything I have written.

First of all, my political philosophy is dependant on the issue. On some issues, I am extremely conservative. On others, I am extremely liberal. I have never voted along party-lines, preferring instead to allow individual candidates say what they have to say, and then I make my decisions in the voting booth. This also describes most people I know -- who depending on the candidate's position on an issue -- they decide whether or not to support that candidate with their vote.

That is, WHEN I voted. I haven't voted in the past several elections, because it doesn't matter whoI vote for -- these people are s'elected and NOT elected.


The guru of the 9/11 conspiracy movement is David Ray Griffin, an emeritus professor not of engineering but of philosophy and theology at the Claremont School of Theology. First in The New Pearl Harbor and then in The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions and now in Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11, Griffin has peddled his conspiracy theory.

No one considers David Ray Griffin to be a guru, such as Reverend Moon, whom George Bush Sr. finances and pals around with. I have seen several of Griffin's lectures, and he states right at the beginning of his talks, that what he is presenting is a COMMON SENSE version of 9/11. Furthermore, he makes use of many arguments put forth by the government, just to show how ridiculous they are.

If anything, the Global Elite believe that we are "stupid cattle," and they refer to us as "useless eaters." So, it must have come as quite a shock to them when the vast resources of many independent researchers have come forward to show that things simply could NOT have happened the way the government claims. There are tens of thousands of websites the world over that have proven to one degree or another, how the government's official-fiction could NOT possibly be true.

In my own research library, I have all of the major BOOKS AND DVD's that were released, concerning the events of 9/11. Every one of the authors of the books have provided extensive footnoting and source notes. Every one of the DVD's contain video docuumentary footage that show blasting squibs puffing smoke out of the towers as they were collapsing. One of the DVD's was a Discovery Channel documentary, where the subject of the literal tons of steel and concrete was covered. Then, after providing this truth -- they fall back into the government's position of "the towers fell because of melting steel" -- and the diagram they use to support their claim shows NONE of the steel beams that surrounded the building on each outside wall.

Even the FEMA report tries to say that there were no outside beams in WTC 1 & 2, in direct conflict with the buildings blueprints and photos taken during the construction of the buildings!


He’s not alone, of course. A myriad of websites devote themselves to this subject, and several films are circulating on it, including Loose Change. There’s even a group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which insists “the World Trade Center was almost certainly brought down by controlled demolitions.” Most prominent among these is Steven E. Jones, professor of physics and astronomy at Brigham Young University, whose primary field is not engineering but cold fusion, according to Debunking 9/11 Myths.

The Scholars For 9/11 Truth are nearly all college professors, and ones with PhD's at that. Another member of this group is Col. Robert Bowman, who is currently running for Congress in the 15th District of Florida. In a recent interview Col. Bowman granted me, he mentioned that he was in charge of Reagan's SDI [Strategic Defense Initiative] project, and it was Bowman himself who dubbed the program 'Star Wars.'

Professor Steven E. Jones from BYU is the developer of the cold fusion theory, and Rothschild completely ignores that in order for Jones to develop the working schema for COLD FUSION -- he was clearly ENGINEERING a new fuel technology. People like Rothschild DO NOT want anyone to make that connection, and this is the reason why I call attention to this EXTREMELY ADVANCED feat of engineering on the part of Professor Jones.

This alone shows their contempt for the American people.

The LOOSE CHANGE DVD clearly scares these elitists, especially as it was produced by a group of kids in their early twenties. I have a copy of this DVD, and it has to be embarassing to have the government's own CONSPIRACY THEORY taken apart by a group of kids barely out of their teens. In case the reader has missed this documentary, I have reproduced part 1 immediately below. The reader can get an idea from watching this first part -- as to whether or not the DVD's arguments are sound and valid:




The conspiracy theories are particularly popular on the left for a couple of understandable reasons. It’s undeniable that Bush has ceaselessly seized on 9/11 to justify his warmaking abroad and his repressive policies at home. And then there’s the notorious phrase in a document of the Project for the New American Century, the fount of neoconservativism, whose members included Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and a host of other hawks who flew into the Bush Administration. That line, from the September 2000 study “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” argues for transforming the U.S. military posture into a much more aggressive one, and for expanding the Pentagon’s budget to reach $500 billion a year. The authors recognized that this transformation would be difficult to achieve quickly “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.”

Here, Rothschild uses the tired old technique known as the LIMITED HANG-OUT. This is where certain small aspects of a crime are admitted to, while refusing to address or validate the rest of the facts. Here, the PNAC document 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' is a literal roadmap to fascist empire building, based upon military preemption -- we hit our enemies BEFORE they have a chance to hit us first.

The problem was that every single one of Bush Jr's preemptive strikes have been built upon LIES -- so much so that this man is clearly pathological -- and appears incapable of telling even the smallest of truths. Yet another thing that Rothschild neglects to mention is that PNAC was filled with individuals who carry dual citizenship with Israel and the USA. And with them, its' ALWAYS Israel first, and the USA last.

Some of these people have been suspected of being MOSSAD moles.


Griffin and other leftwing conspiracy theorists put the two together, and voila. The attacks “were orchestrated in order to pave the way for launching unprovoked wars on two countries that provided no threat, whether imminent or long-term, to the people of the United States,” he writes in Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11. “The Administration and its Pentagon even planned to use 9/11 as a pretext . . . to attack still more countries. The U.S. government was planning, therefore, to use the deaths of some 3,000 people (whom itself had killed) to justify wars that would most likely kill and maim many hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps millions.”

Here, Rothschild falls back on the tired leftwing accusations, of which nearly NO ONE I personally know from all my family, friends, and my Internet friends thinks in terms of LEFT and RIGHT. Most intelligent people are past that tired paradigm -- but the ones' who desperately cling to the RIGHT-LEFT PARADIGM are the dullards who voted for Bush Jr. because he SAID he was a Christian, and Jesus was his favorite philosopher.

Actions ALWAYS speak louder than words, and in which case, the inference BY HIS OWN BEHAVIOR, that George Bush Jr. is a soulless Satanist, who is more likely to privately espouse the doctrines of ANTON LaVEY than he does Jesus Christ.


Before taking some of the major conspiracy claims one by one, let’s examine how outlandish the conspiracy theory is on its face.

First, Osama bin Laden has already claimed responsibility for the attack several times and boasted of the prowess of the suicide bombers who hijacked those planes. Why not take him at his word? And if bin Laden were working in cahoots with the Bush Administration, why was the President warned on August 6, 2001, in a Presidential daily briefing that Osama bin Laden was about to attack the United States? Wouldn’t that risk exposing the conspiracy?

Actually, Mr. Rothschild, Bin Laden denied involvement in the attacks by the end of September 2001. This was covered by the news media on that day. Once again, Rothschild hopes that we have FORGOTTEN ABOUT THIS. Fortunately, Kentroversy has a photographic memory, and the reader will find the link in the sources section at the end of this essay.

During an interview on September 28, 2001 -- Osama Bin Laden said the following -- which is entirely consistent with his Islamic religious beliefs:

"I have already said that I am not involved in the 11 September attacks in the United States. As a Muslim, I try my best to avoid telling a lie. I had no knowledge of these attacks, nor do I consider the killing of innocent women, children and other humans as an appreciable act. Islam strictly forbids causing harm to innocent women, children and other people. Such a practice is forbidden even in the course of a battle. It is the United States, which is perpetrating every maltreatment on women, children and common people of other faiths, particularly the followers of Islam.

The one thing that the controlled news media of the USA does NOT want people to know is that the Bushes and the Bin Ladens were business partners through the Carlyle Group, through Bin Laden Construction, and the elder Bush and his wife have even vacationed at the Saudi palace of the Bin Laden family.


Second, if the Bush Administration plotters carried out 9/11 to justify attacking Iraq, why didn’t they have Iraqi hijackers do the deed? In actuality, there was not a single Iraqi hijacker, and Bush propagandists had to do all sorts of gymnastics to link Iraq to the actual attackers.

Once again, as I state above, there were no Arabs on those planes, and seven of the nineteen so-called hijackers were found to be alive in the days and weeks following 9/11. What is widely known is this -- the Bush administration LIED when they attempted to link Iraq and Saddam Hussein to Al-Qaeda -- or Al-CIAeda as it is more appropriately known. Osama Bin Laden, aka Tim Osman, has been a known CIA ASSET going back to the Mujahadeen-Russian war in Afghanistan in the late 1980's -- when they were known as FREEDOM FIGHTERS.

Some of the alleged hijackers had ID's that placed them living and training at military bases in Florida, where they were trained by the TRUE CABAL that carried out the attacks. Rothschild and his criminal brethren DO NOT want people to know this, and it is the precise reason WHY I am mentioning it.


Third, for this conspiracy to have succeeded, it would have had to have been amazingly vast: not only the high level members of the Bush Administration (including the head of the Secret Service, Griffin says in Christian Faith) and the explosives teams, but also many others.

Obviously, Mr. Rothschild has never heard of TOP SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCES. These oaths of secrecy that are taken by various agents of the government have successfully concealed plans for HUGE PROJECTS, like the Manhattan Project, which involved some 50,000 people -- and it was NEVER LEAKED before the bombs went of in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Compared to the Manhattan Project, 9/11 was relatively small potatoes.


Griffin, in Pearl Harbor, for instance, alleges that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani may have been involved. Griffin quotes Giuliani telling ABC News, “We were operating out of there [Building 7] when we were told that the World Trade Center was gonna collapse.” Griffin says Giuliani had no obvious way of knowing that, and concludes: “Giuliani’s statement provides, therefore, evidence someone, perhaps he himself, knew something that the firemen in the buildings did not know—which was perhaps that explosives had been placed in the buildings and were about to be set off.” Is that really evidence? Isn’t it much more likely that the firefighters told the mayor to leave because the fire itself was jeopardizing the building?

Since a high-rise building has never before or since collapsed from fire alone, this supposition by Rothschild is complete hogwash. It is far more likely that the mayor was in on the scam, and he knew what was going to happen well in advance. In order to control his statements to the press and television news media, the REAL TERRORISTS would have provided him with a suitable script, outlining the part that he was to play on that day. Otherwise, they would have had one or more MISTAKES ON THEIR HANDS before the day was out.

But, Rudy played his part well, and the Governorship of New York will be his reward.


Griffin also alleges that Larry Silverstein, who leased the World Trade Center complex, was in on the deal so he could collect the insurance. (This claim—which he might as well have called “The Jew Cashed In”— dovetails with the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory popular in the Middle East that the Mossad blew up the towers and warned the thousands of Jews who would have been working there to stay home.)

Here Rothschild attempts to assign anti-semitic statements to David Ray Griffin, which tells us two things: first, this is how DESPERATE these people have become. Second, he should watch what he says, because his is real close to SLANDER.

The ODIGO company (which WAS proven to be a MOSSAD front) DID in fact warn their employees to stay home on that day. Proof? Not a single death from 9/11 hit this company, which sent all their employees a text message to stay home on that day.

Is it an act of anti-semitism for me to point this out?

Of course not, but remember, these people are REALLY DESPERATE at this point, as their new world order collapses before them.

Besides, who really cares what a slimy criminal thinks of them, anyway?

I sure don't ... I would NOT be able to do what I do if it did bother me!


In Pearl Harbor, Griffin quotes Silverstein in a 2002 PBS documentary recalling a conversation from the fire department commander on September 11 “telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, ‘We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.’ and they made that decision to pull and we watched the building collapse.” Griffin, who writes that Silverstein “made almost $500 million in profit from the collapse of Building 7,” says by “pull it” Silverstein was recommending that the building be demolished by explosives. Silverstein has flat-out denied that. By “pulling it,” he has said that he meant giving up on the firefighters’ efforts to save the building.

Specialists in the fields of explosives AND building controlled demolition has verified the real meaning of the phrase "Pull it!" It refers to bringing down a building by controlled demolition. Is Silverstein, the perpatrator of the largest monetary insurance fraud in the history of this country, a reliable witness for THIS or anything else?

The answer, dear reader, should be self-evident -- no way!!

Silverstein said this on camera, and with the confirmation by building demolition experts, "Pull it!" refers to a controlled demolition, and nothing else. Furthermore, the fires in WTC 7 were isolated, and watching any of the many 9/11 DVD's that show that building, easily confirm this. Having made a $2.8 BILLION DOLLAR profit on his insurance policy -- I have to wonder why this man was never questioned about this obvious case of insurance FRAUD.


Two books later, Griffin removes any ambiguity Silverstein’s “assertion that Building 7 was brought down by explosives, whatever the motive behind it, explains why and how it collapsed,” Griffin writes in Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11. But Silverstein never made such an assertion, and for Griffin to claim he did is, to say the least, a distortion.

See my previous comment about security clearances, above.

There is no distortion in Griffin's comments, because the real meaning of "Pull it!" has been verified as referring to a controlled demolition, where a building is brought down by explosives. If anyone is distorting things here, it is Mr. Rothschild. Again, does a member of the Rothschild dynasty make a reliable witness? Of course not, but desperate people often do desperate things.


The problems with a vast conspiracy theory are obvious. There’s the likelihood that someone along the chain would squeal. Members of the government have been engaged in far less treasonous plots (such as Bush’s designs on Iran), and whistleblowers have managed to get the information out to the likes of Seymour Hersh over at The New Yorker. And, on top of that, we’re supposed to believe that this incompetent Administration, which brought you Katrina, was somehow able to execute this grand conspiracy?

Most people in the 9/11 Truth movement believe MOSSAD to be the main instigators of 9/11, and not the gang who could not shoot straight. Personally, I believe that Bush Jr. is a marginally low-IQ situation, with a ton of stress on top of it all. And, he certainly wasn't the POWER in the Oval Office at any time during his Presidency. That distinction certainly goes to DICK CHENEY, a real son-of-a-bitch if ever there was one!

Some of the things that I have heard about this guy Cheney -- is that he is a REAL MONSTER -- and some of it is so horrible that I don't feel right printing it in this space. I will say it deals with sex, and the most brutal rapist suddenly becomes Prom King when compared to the MONSTER Cheney. Use the worst of your own imagination, multiply by 1,000 -- and draw your own conclusions.


“The government is not sufficiently competent to pull off such conspiracies and too leaky to keep them secret,” said Richard Clarke, the one-time counterterrorism czar for Clinton and Bush, in a blurb for Debunking 9/11 Myths. Clarke has been a harsh critic of Bush, and he was a strong supporter of John Kerry. Don’t you think Clarke would have blown the whistle had he known? And who was in a better position than he to know?

We are supposed to pay attention to what Richard Clarke says on a book jacket blurb, and BECAUSE he supported JOHN KERRY?! Both John Kerry and George Bush Jr. were and still are members of SKULL AND BONES, where they take an oath that supercedes any subsequent oath, including the Presidential Oath of Office!

Again, only the dullards who believe anything authority figures tell them, believe that there was any appreciable difference between Bush Jr. and Kerry.

They are but two heads on the same monster.


Finally, in Pearl Harbor, Griffin acknowledges one enormous, unfillable hole in the conspiracists’ theory: If Flight 77 did not hit the Pentagon, where did it go? And where did all sixty-four people on board go? Griffin pathetically answers: “One cannot expect that the revisionists, being independent researchers with limited budgets and no power to subpoena testimony, could answer all the questions raised by their alternative scenario.” But that doesn’t stop him from speculating, in a ghoulish way, about one piece of evidence that contradicts his Flight 77 notion: the phone calls from conservative Barbara Olson, who was on Flight 77, to her husband, Ted Olson, Bush’s solicitor general. Griffin casts doubt on whether the phone calls actually happened, noting that Olson “is very close to the Bush Administration.” At least in Pearl Harbor, Griffin recognizes the weakness of this argument. The conspiracy theorists “still need to explain, of course, what became of Barbara Olson, and also whether it is plausible that Ted Olson would have participated in a plan with that outcome,” he writes. In his latest book, though, Griffin does not appear bothered in the least, as he continues to cast doubt on Ted Olson’s account. He has swept Barbara Olson and sixty-three other people under the rug.


The Southern Ontario college professor by the name of AK DEWDNEY flew with two different types of cell phones, and found that no calls can be connected at the altitude they were flying at on 9/11. Project Achilles was a huge blow to the official-fiction of 9/11. It has decimated the "cell phone calls to loved ones" story, and rightly so. I encourage all readers to check out the Project Achilles link in the sources secttion below, for the full details of the experiment and its' outcome.

Has the reader been on an airplane on vacation or maybe a business trip? Do you remember what object is embedded into the seatbacks in front of where you sat during the flight? Look at the left seatback in the photo:



In the back of these seats on airplanes are satellite phones, which cost roughly $5.00 per minute. These are NOT cell phones, and THIS is the reason why it costs so much per minute to use them.


On to some of Griffin’s most oft-cited questions.

Why did dust clouds shoot out of the Twin Towers as they fell?

Or, as Griffin poses it in Pearl Harbor: “What other than explosives could turn concrete into powder and then eject it horizontally 150 feet or more?”

Corley, who headed up the investigation for the American Society of Civil Engineers and FEMA, gives a quick response to that. “That is simply the air pressure being pushed down,” he says. “Once the collapse started, then you had roughly a twenty-story building and roughly a thirty-story building acting as a very large mass to push everything down. The air pressure gets quite something, and the windows on the lower floors break, and you see puffs of smoke coming out of them.” Debunking 9/11 Myths offers the same explanation and cites structural engineer Jon Magnusson, who says this expulsion of air and debris is fairly common when buildings collapse.

Once again, Rothschild's experts are representing the government, and for that reason alone, they cannot be taken seriously.

Air pressure blew those towers into microscopic dust particles?!

Are you kidding me?!

All the concrete, all the office furniture, all the carpeting, all computers, all the asbestos, and every other thing that was in those buildings -- were blown up into dust. The force of air, at whatever intensity, cannot turn concrete into dust.

The whole issue of the buildings' collapse is another Achilles Heel for the traitors who have overrun our government. They have made such outrageous claims, that have been getting more peculiar as they go along.

Remember what William Rodriguez said above? He heard explosions coming from the sub-basement, and Steven E. Jones was given a piece of one of the support beams, which he had tested at an independent lab. It tested positive for THERMITE, an explosive that gets very hot, and is extremely dangerous. It can get as hot as 2000 degrees, and burns white-hot and leaves nearly no smell.


Why did the tower that was hit second fall first?

“All other things being equal, then, the tower that was struck first should have collapsed first. And yet, although the South Tower was struck seventeen minutes later than the North Tower, it collapsed twenty-nine minutes earlier,” writes Griffin in Pearl Harbor. The fact that the South Tower fell first, he concludes, “suggests that the collapse of these buildings was caused by something other than the fires.” But all things weren’t equal. “The damage done to the second building was more serious than the damage done to the first,” says Corley.

SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE FIRES, eh?

This is Rothschild's carrot to the 9/11 Truth Movement -- he dangles a possibility of an honest soul-cleansing -- by including Griffin's comment immediately above. Naturally, Rothschild does not hold any regard for the citizens of the USA, as he clearly thinks we are all stupid and unable to conduct research. Or, perhaps he is attacking Griffin, because like LOOSE CHANGE, Griffin's writing was compelling, and worked well to disprove many of the government's own conspiracy theories about 9/11.


The National Institute of Standards and Technology concurs. Its “Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers” notes that ten core columns were severed in the South Tower, whereas only six were severed in the North. And 20,000 more square feet of insulation was stripped from the trusses in the South Tower than the North. The report “found no corroborating evidence for alternative hypotheses suggesting that the WTC were brought down by controlled demolition using explosives planted prior to September 11, 2001.”

Of course, they are not going to admit that they are implicit in the cover-up official-fiction of that day's horrible events. NIST is affiliated with the government -- and the only thing upon which they can be depended -- is to stick with their funding source and benefactor, the government of the United States of America.

Also, in July and August 2001, there were times when the buildings were CLOSED. This was during normal business hours, and since these are dates after Silverstein bought the complex -- this is the most logical time when explosives were deployed throughout both towers.

FEMA, in their report on the collapsed buildings, tried to say there were no outter columns with diagrams throughout the report's book, which showed what has become known as the Pancake Effect. This is where one floor would fall to the floor imediately below. Then, the combined weight woud fall to the floor below, etc, etc. until the buildings fell completely in their own footprint.

Here, Rothschild is flat-out lying. In order for those buildings to fall, ALL of the columns would have needed to be severed. This was confirmed by the structual engineers and demolitions experts who have commented publicly on the matter of the WTC buildings' collapse.


What about Building 7?

This is a favorite of the conspiracy theorists, since the planes did not strike this structure. But the building did sustain damage from the debris of the Twin Towers. “On about a third of the face to the center and to the bottom—approximately ten stories—about 25 percent of the depth of the building was scooped out,” Shyam Sunder, the lead investigator for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, told Popular Mechanics.

What’s more, the fire in the building lasted for about eight hours, in part because there were fuel tanks in the basement and on some of the floors. “The building was designed for a fire duration of no more than about three hours,” says Corley. “Eight hours was way more than what that building was designed for.” (Corley, by the way, also headed up the investigation of the Murrah Building’s collapse in Oklahoma City.)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is still studying the collapse of Building 7, but its initial report says: “NIST has seen no evidence that the collapse of WTC 7 was caused by bombs, missiles, or controlled demolition.”

Upon examination of the video footage of the collapse of WTC 7, it can be shown that there were only small isolated pockets of fire, and not a raging inferno inside the building.


What about the Pentagon?

Conspiracy theorists will bend your ear explaining that the American Airlines Boeing 757 couldn’t possibly have made such a small hole in the Pentagon. Griffin in Pearl Harbor: “The orifice created by the impact . . . was at most eighteen feet in diameter. Is it not absurd to suggest that a Boeing 757 created and then disappeared into such a small hole? . . . Can anyone seriously believe that a 125-foot-wide airplane created and then went inside a hole less than twenty-feet wide?”

First of all, the hole was actually ninety feet wide, according to the “Pentagon Building Performance Report” of January 2003, which the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Structural Engineering Institute put out. And Professor Sozen of Purdue, one of the authors of that report, has an explanation.

Here, Mr. Rothschild once again is lying. The hole was ninety-feet wide only after the upper floors of the Pentagon COLLAPSED. The original hole left by the Cruise Missile or whatever else hit that building, WAS ONLY EIGHTEEN FEET WIDE.





Here, we have the original impact hole at the Pentagon. I have also included a second photo with firemen standing near the hole, for the purpose of determining its' size. Is this hole NINETY-FEET WIDE, as Rothschild alleges? Or is it closer to the EIGHTEEN FEET as Griffin states in his book, and elsewhere? The third photo immediately above is a photo of the hole to which Mr. Rothschild refers, but, it was only AFTER the upper floors collapsed, that the hole widened to approximately ninety feet in width!

Again, this comment by Rothschild proves that the global elite all think we are a bunch of morons, incapable of understanding basic principles of measurement.


“The reinforced columns of the Pentagon destroyed the wings,” says Sozen. “That’s why the hole is smaller. It had to be smaller.” Since working on that report, Sozen has designed simulations at Purdue, and his results correspond with what happened to Flight 77, he says. Sozen, who identifies himself as a progressive, says it is “ridiculous to deny” that the American Airlines plane hit the Pentagon. And, he adds, if Flight 77 didn’t hit the Pentagon, where did it go and “what happened to the people in that plane”?

Okay, if this were true, why didn't the wings crumple outside of that small hole, where they would have ended up on the Pentagon's lawn?


But we know what happened to them. They died at the Pentagon. “All but five of the 189 people who died on the aircraft and in the Pentagon were later identified through DNA testing,” according to Debunking 9/11 Myths.

Examining pg. 10 (pg. 13 of PDF file) of the Operation Northwoods document, which can be found in the links below, explains the plan for getting rid of air passengers in a false-flag terror attack. DNA testing is only good if there is a pre-existing sample on file at some laboratory, and if these passengers were all random fliers, such samples would not exist.

The may have been able to tell the difference between samples, but, otherwise could not have identified individual people.

Furthermore, the fire at the Pentagon after impact was burning nearly white-hot, and it looks very similar to the THERMITE that was used at the WTC. The likelihood that they would have used Thermite at the Pentagon is extremely likely, especially if they were already using it at the WTC site, where the sub-basement fires were still well over 1,000 degrees fahrenheit, a week after 9/11. Remember, Thermite burns at the following temperatures: 2519°C, 4566°F. This is the logical reason why the basement pit of the towers were burning so hot one week later!


Finally, was Flight 93 shot down?

Griffin and many other conspiracists allege that Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, was brought down not by the passengers struggling with the hijackers but by a U.S. missile. But we know from cell phone conversations that passengers on board that plane planned on confronting the hijackers. And, as Debunking 9/11 Myths notes, “a Cleveland air traffic controller assigned to Flight 93 heard signs of a struggle in the cockpit, followed shortly by screaming.”

Tapes of the conversations at the northeast regional headquarters for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirm this, as Michael Bronner has shown in his August article for Vanity Fair entitled “9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes.” Major Kevin Nasypany was the facility’s mission-crew commander that day, and the tapes show him frantically trying to figure what was going on and whether he had orders to shoot Flight 93 down.

“Gimme the call sign,” he says at 10:07. “Gimme the whole nine yards. . . . Let’s get some info, real quick. They got a bomb?”

But, as Bronner reports, by then “everyone on board is already dead. Following the passengers’ counterattack, the plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania at 10:03 a.m.”

The man who headed up the crash site investigation there was Matthew McCormick, a thirty-three-year veteran at the National Transportation Safety Board. “From my investigation there was no pre-impact stress to the airplane,” he told the Debunking authors.

This matter was already covered above, by the comments of Col. Donn de Grand-Pre, who spoke with the pilot who actually shot down the plane. The cockpit recording of the Flight's final moments contains an explosion just before the radio signal goes dead. When I first heard this, I thought it was evidence of a shoot-down. I played the recording to ten random people, and each of them thought it sounded like the plane was shot down.


To be sure, there are discrepancies and omissions in The 9/11 Commission Report, and the Pentagon and FAA appear to have not been fully truthful and forthcoming about what happened that day. Not every riddle that Griffin and other conspiracists pose has a ready answer. But almost all of their major assertions are baseless. And their own theories have such gigantic holes and require such monumental leaps of logic that they discredit themselves.

Here, once again, Rothschild is very keen to assign negative traits to many people who have spent many hours researching this issue, just because he does not like our conclusions. Once again, he tries a LIMITED-HANG-OUT, in which he admits the 9/11 Commission was not "fully truthful and forthcoming about what happened that day." But, as we read above, he uses the 9/11 Commission to support his arguments several times, and agrees with many of the Commission's conclusions.

He cannot have it both ways, try as he might.


At bottom, the 9/11 conspiracy theories are profoundly irrational and unscientific. It is more than passing strange that progressives, who so revere science on such issues as tobacco, stem cells, evolution, and global warming, are so willing to abandon science and give in to fantasy on the subject of 9/11.

The 9/11 conspiracy theories are a cul-de-sac. They lead nowhere. And they aren’t necessary to prove the venality of the Bush Administration. There’s plenty of that proof lying around. We don’t need to make it up.

He claims that sound research is unscientific, even when experts in their particular fields are consulted. The Project Achilles cell phone experiments alone show that A.K. Dewdney used the scientific method. I also employ the scientific method, mathematical logic, and common sense in my own research-journalism. As I have pointed out, there are several times when Mr. Rothschild has LIED, distorted the true facts, and employed Ad Hominem attacks, and Straw Man arguments in his poor attempt to discredit the 9/11 Truth Movement, of which I am a contributing member.

As I point out several times above, these people like Mr. Rothschild are growing desperate about their precious new world order. The education of the masses continues to win converts to our side of truth and justice, while eschewing the favored lies and obfuscations of the global elite. Now that the cat is out of the bag, so to speak, it is IMPOSSIBLE for us to go back to the times when we were ignorant to what we now know are self-evident truths.

I wanted to provide a point-by-point rebuttal of Rothschild's thesis, because on the face of it, it was poorly done. And, if this represents the BEST of that which our enemies are capable, then I have no doubt in my mind, heart, and soul -- that we will defeat these people when all is said and done.

© 2006 The Progressive
© 2006 Kentroversy Papers
All rights reserved. Used with permission.


Sources:

The following sources were used in the creation of this Kentroversy Paper . . .

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119th Fighter Wing

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Common Sense

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Controlled Demolition Inc.

Felipe David

A.K. Dewdney

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Flight 77

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Flight 175

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Operation Northwoods

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Scholars For 9/11 Truth

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