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Michael C. Ruppert is a former narcotics officer. He gave a lecture which is available on dvd. It's called "The Truth & Lies of 9-11". He has scary evidence about the atrocities committed by the cia, corporations, and American government.
con·spir·a·cy 1)An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. 2) A group of conspirators. 3) Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action. dictionary.com
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When I wrote these things- [these instructions to the embassies to frame Arabs for Israeli terrorist attacks on U.S. targets in Egypt] - I still didn't know how crushing is the evidence that was ALREADY PUBLISHED refuting our official version. The huge amounts of arms and explosives, the tactics of the attack, the blocking and mining of the roads ... the precise coordination of the attack. Who would be foolish enough to believe that such a complicated operation could "develop" from a casual and sudden attack on an Israeli army unit by an Egyptian unit? - Moshe Sharett, Prime Minister of Israel 1954 & 1955. | ||
Premonitions | ||
Bin Laden Comes Home To Roost Ashcroft Flying High Newspaper: Echelon Gave Authorities Warning Of Attacks - WP, Newsbytes, September 13, 2001 San Francisco Gate Chronicle - Suspicious Profits Sit Uncollected Willie Brown Got Low-Key Early Warning About Air Travel NY Times ADMITS Scrubbing 9-09 Warning Instant Messages To Israel Warned Of WTC Attack | ||
Official Response | ||
BILL NELSON: Perhaps we want to do this in our session, in executive session. But my question is an obvious one for not only this committee, but for the executive branch and the military establishment. If we knew that there was a general threat on terrorist activity, which we did, and we suddenly have two trade towers in New York being obviously hit by terrorist activity, of commercial airliners taken off course from Boston to Los Angeles, then what happened to the response of the defense establishment once we saw the diversion of the aircraft headed west from Dulles turning around 180 degrees and, likewise, in the aircraft taking off from Newark and, in flight, turning 180 degrees? That's the question. I leave it to you as to how you would like to answer it. But we would like an answer. Why Were None Of The Planes Intercepted? - Emperors
At 9:25, [Jane] Garvey, in an historic and admirable step, and almost certainly after getting an okay from the White House, initiated a national ground stop, which forbids takeoffs and requires planes in the air to get down as soon as reasonable. The Herndon command center coordinated the phone call to all major FAA sites, the airline reps in the room contacted all airlines, and so-called NOTAMS —notices to airmen — were also sent out. The FAA had stopped the world. ...at 10.31, the FAA allowed all military and law enforcement flights to resume. (and some flights that the FAA can't reveal that were already airborne). | ||
By Way Of Deception | ||
The Miracle of Atta's Passport - Uncle Sam's Lucky Finds The Mysterious Death Of An Enron Executive Flaming Death No Accident, FBI says Car Bomb Disinformation Was From A High-Ranking Official "I first saw it on TV, and I thought - There's one terrible Pilot!" (1) "I first saw it on TV, and I thought - There's one terrible Pilot!" (2) | ||
Freedom & Dictator | ||
War, Recession & National Emergency - "Lucky Me, I hit the Trifecta!" You know, I was campaigning in Chicago and somebody asked me, is there ever any time where the budget might have to go into deficit? I said only if we were at war or had a national emergency or were in recession. (Laughter.) Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.)" "You know, I remember campaigning in Chicago and somebody said, would you ever spend a deficit? And I said, only if we're at war or we had a recession or there was a national emergency. Little did I realize we'd get the trifecta. (Laughter.)" 10 More Examples @ GWBush.Com
"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." | ||
Flight 93 | ||
Jet May Have Been Shot Down, says FBI - We just don't know...
Cockpit Tape Offers Few Answers but Points to Heroic Efforts | ||
At The Pentagon | ||
Hotel employees sat watching the film in shock and horror several times before the FBI confiscated the video as part of its investigation. It may be the only available video of the attack. The Pentagon has told broadcast news reporters that its security cameras did not capture the crash. Velasquez says the gas station's security cameras are close enough to the Pentagon to have recorded the moment of impact. "I've never seen what the pictures looked like," he said. "The FBI was here within minutes and took the film." CNN's Jamie MacIntyre: "witnesses told me the day this happened that the plane -American Airlines Flight 77 - came in extremely low, but I'm not sure I realized how low it was until I saw these sequence of pictures that CNN obtained from....a.....that were taken by a Pentagon security camera." The second plane looked similar to a C- 130 transport plane, [Keith Wheelhouse] said. He believes it flew directly above the American Airlines jet, as if to prevent two planes from appearing on radar - while at the same time - guiding the jet toward the Pentagon. Daily Press, September 14, 2001 Kelly Knowles, a First Colonial High School alumnus who now lives in an apartment a few miles from the Pentagon, said some sort of plane followed the doomed American Airlines jet toward the Pentagon, then veered away after the explosion. At the same time, [Keith Wheelhouse] and his sister, Pam Young, who lives in Surry, were preparing to leave a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, which is less than a mile from the Pentagon, when they watched the jet approach and slam into the Pentagon. Both of them, as well as at least one other person at the funeral, insist that there was another plane flying near the hijacked jet. Daily Press, September 15, 2001 Then the plane -- it looked like a C-130 cargo plane -- started turning away from the Pentagon, it did a complete turnaround. New York Lawyer
[Keith Wheelhouse] and at least two other witnesses to the Pentagon attack were troubled that Pentagon spokesmen had until now said they were unaware of a C-130 being in the area at the time. In the days immediately following the Sept. 11 hijackings, the Pentagon had no knowledge of the C-130's encounter, because........all reports were classified by the Air National Guard(!) Daily Press, October 17, 2001 said Milburn. "It was like a WHOOOSH whoosh, then there was fire and smoke, then I heard a second explosion." WashingtonPost
Witnesses told CNN that a helicopter circled the Pentagon and disappeared on the other side of the building shortly before the explosion and fireball.copy of CNN report @ Lake Today PLANT (LIVE): Well, and speaking to people here at the Pentagon, as they're being evacuated from the building. I'm told by several people that there was, in fact, an explosion. I was told by one witness, an Air Force enlisted - senior enlisted man, that he was outside when it occurred. He said that he saw a helicopter circle the building. He said it appeared to be a U.S. military helicopter, and that it disappeared behind the building where the helicopter landing zone is - excuse me - and he then saw fireball go into the sky.[...]It's a very tense situation obviously, but initial reports from witnesses indicate that there was in fact a helicopter circling the building, contrary to what the AP reported, according to the witnessess I've spoken to anyway, and that this helicopter disappeared behind the building, and that there was then an explosion. That's about all I have from here. September 11 Live CNN Transcript, Europe
QUESTION: Ari, can you tell us more about this other radar track that you were mentioning this morning, that gave clearer evidence that American flight 77 was headed for the White House initially? MR. FLEISCHER: The Secret Service is going to handle all the inquiries concerning any tracks involving the White House and the security of the White House, and they'll give you a full explanation. In fact, I think they may already have, in the case of CBS. Patriot Resources | ||
Joy, Mockery & Espionage | ||
QUESTION: In Israel, the newspaper, Haaretz, reports that every political party in the Knesset denounced the manifestations of Palestinian joy following last week's terror attacks on the United States, except the Israel-Arab parties, who also refused to sign the Knesset's letter of sympathy to the American people. And my question, surely after last night's unforgettable and specific, very specific Presidential address, the White House is not going to evade comment on these Israeli-Arabs, are you Ari? MR. FLEISCHER: I took that question when you asked me a question two days ago about anyone around the world, including the Palestinians, who would rejoice at the loss of American life. And I said at the time, that the United States condemns it. Patriot Resources 5 Israelis detained for `puzzling behavior' after WTC tragedy Five Men Detained As Suspected Conspirators However, sources close to the investigation said they found other evidence linking the men to the bombing plot. "There are maps of the city in the car with certain places highlighted," the source said. "It looked like they're hooked in with this. It looked like they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park." Sources also said that bomb-sniffing dogs reacted as if they had detected explosives. The FBI seized the van for further testing, authorities said. Bergen Record, September 12, 2001 (copy) The White Van Spies, or students? Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities Aborted Mission Spy Rumors Fly on Gusts of Truth According to one former high-ranking American intelligence official, who asked not to be named, the FBI came to the conclusion at the end of its investigation that the five Israelis arrested in New Jersey last September (Sivan and Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari and Yaron Shmuel) were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front.[...] In addition to their strange behavior and their Middle Eastern looks, the suspicions were compounded when a box cutter and $4,000 in cash were found in the van. Moreover, one man carried two passports and another had fresh pictures of the men standing with the smoldering wreckage of the World Trade Center in the background.[...] On December 7, a New Jersey judge ruled that the state could seize the goods remaining inside the warehouse. The state also has a lawsuit pending against Urban Moving Systems and its owner, Dominik Otto Suter, an Israeli citizen. The FBI questioned Mr. Suter once. However, he left the country afterward and went back to Israel before further questioning. Mr. Suter declined through his lawyer to be interviewed for this article.[...] Charlene Eban, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Washington, and Don Nelson, a Justice Department spokesman, said they had no knowledge of an Israeli spying operation. "If we found evidence of unauthorized intelligence operations, that would be classified material," added Jim Margolin, a spokesman for the FBI in New York. Forward, February, 2002 Dominik
Suter of Mossad on an FBI List of September 11 Suspects (large pdf) | ||
Anthrax | ||
Arab scientists recount hostility and harassment at military anthrax lab The poem also doubles as an ode to each of the participants who adorned the camel, who number at least six and referred to themselves as "the camel club." Two Dr. Philip Zack and Dr. Marian Rippy voluntarily left Fort Detrick soon after Assaad brought the poem to the attention of supervisors.- Seattle Times, December 19, 2001 Anthrax Missing From Army Lab, Dr Philip Zack - Fort Detrick Suspect - CTNow, January 20, 2002 | ||
McKinney & The May Bombshells | ||
"All of us have voices in our heads, whispering insanities. Rep. Cynthia McKinney's problem is that she lets hers speak." Chris Suellentrop, Slate, Friday, April 19, 2002
Aren't those good questions? Could It Have Been Stopped? -CBS, May 08, 2002 | ||
USAma Bin Laden | ||
United States special agents were told to back off the bin Laden familyand the Saudi royals soon after George Bush became president, although that has all changed since September 11, a BBC television program has claimed. copy of SMH version of BBC report Bin Laden Family Evacuated
"...although the administration has denied supporting the Taliban, it is clear that they discouraged all of the anti-Taliban supporters from supporting the efforts in Afghanistan to defeat the Taliban. Even so much as when the Taliban was ripe for being defeated on the ground in Afghanistan, Bill Richardson and Rick Inderfurth, high-ranking members of this administration, personally visited the region in order to discourage the Taliban's opposition from attacking the Taliban when they were vulnerable, and then going to neighboring countries to cut off any type of military assistance to the [opponents of the] Taliban. This, at a time when Pakistan was heavily resupplying and rearming the Taliban. What did this lead to? It led to the defeat of all of the Taliban's major enemies except for one, Commander Massoud, in the north, and left the Taliban the supreme power in Afghanistan. So what we hear today about terrorism and crocodile tears from this administration, let us remember this administration is responsible for the Taliban. This administration has acted in a way that has kept the Taliban in power." From U.S., the ABC's of Jihad | ||
Gasbekistan | ||
"Kenny Boy" Lay to Governor G.W. Bush, April 03, 1997 1998-1999 Regional Pipeline Plans Exxon Unleashed Today's Silk Road Might Carry Black Gold The Lust For Blood And Oil Attacks Held to Be a Conspiracy "Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th" |
Osama bin Laden, a Yemeni cum Saudi (inherited) multimillionaire gained a following among the fundamentalist Muslim jihadists for his role as an administrator in the Afghan-Soviet war. This role led to the formation of the group "Al Queda".
According to Saudi intelligence, bin Laden became angry with the US and Saudi Arabia when the Saudis scoffed his idea to let Al Queda remove Iraq from Kuwait. This rejection solidified anger over the infidels holding station in the holy lands of Mecca and Medina.
The group, al Queda, was involved in many terrorist acts against the US following the Gulf War: examples include the truck bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, US Embassy bombings in Africa, a failed attack of LAX in 2000, and the Cole bombing in Yemen.
Finally, 19 al Queda terrorists hijacked and flew commerical airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a failed strike at the US Capitol building (with the airliner crashing in rural Pennsylvania).
Finally, 19 al Queda terrorists hijacked and flew commerical airliners into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a failed strike at the US Capitol building (with the airliner crashing in rural Pennsylvania).
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a) Where's your evidence?
b) How do you account for the evidence that was already published refuting the official narrative? (see above)
WHO crashed those planes into the World Trade Centre? Israel, obviously. Mossad must have known that their country would profit from a surge in American hostility towards the Arabs, who were set up to take the rap. Shortly after September 11th 2001, the consensus on the Arab street was that only the Israeli secret service could have managed such deadly precision. Corroboration was quickly found in a report that 4,000 Jews who worked in the twin towers had been secretly warned to stay away that day.*
This was not the only interesting theory bandied around the souks. The doyen of Egyptian pundits, Hassanein Heikal, blamed the Serbs, noting that they were mad about losing Kosovo. Others fingered home-grown, Oklahoma-style extremists, or a plot by America's military-industrial complex, ever hungry for new enemies to boost defence budgets.
One fellow in a Cairo café told The Economist that the culprit was clearly not al-Qaeda, but rather something called al-Gur. Was this, perhaps, a terror network still more murderous than the Bin Laden gang? No. On closer listening, it transpired that the evil al-Gur was bent on avenging not some wicked Yankee geo-blunder, but the theft of the 2000 American presidential election. “It's obvious,” declared the café sage. “Who else could have wanted to hurt George Bush more than his rival, the former Vice-President al-Gur?”
The citizens of Cairo may be skilled at concocting diabolical scenarios, but they are not the only ones. Plenty of Africans from further south pooh-pooh the conventional view that the virus that causes AIDS originated with monkeys. It was cooked up in an American lab, of course, to kill black people.
Many Asians, including the prime minister of Malaysia, blame a clutch of Jewish financiers for causing their economies to crash in 1997. Some Jews, meanwhile, equate Amnesty International, which often criticises Israel, with the Nazi party. Credulous Indians see the hand of Pakistani intelligence behind everything from train crashes to cricket match fixing, and many Pakistanis return the compliment. Slobodan Milosevic, smug in court at The Hague, has testified that the 1995 massacre of 7,000 unarmed Muslims at Srebrenica was carried out not by Serb militiamen, but by French intelligence. Less whimsically, China's government launched its vicious campaign to crush Falun Gong in the belief that the movement, whose stated aims are to improve its devotees' spiritual and bodily health, is a dangerous cult bent on subverting the state.
Americans like a good plot too. The assassination of John F. Kennedy still generates a thriving industry, complete with a thicket of suggestive websites (see article), books, college courses, one big-budget movie and a whole vocabulary of arcana. (If you don't know what is pictured in frames 112 and 113 of the Zapruder film, or wonder what the Grassy Knoll is, better stay quiet on the subject.) A 1991 poll showed that, three decades after the president's murder, 73% of Americans still think he was a victim of conspiracy.
Such fables are nothing new. American pamphleteers in the 1790s warned of a plot by atheist, libertine Illuminati and Freemasons to concoct an abortion-inducing tea and “a method for filling a bedchamber with pestilential vapours”. The bestselling book of the 1830s was a racy confession by a repentant nun detailing a scheme by Catholics to undermine Protestant morals. At around the same time, Samuel Morse, better known as the inventor of Morse Code, exposed an Austrian plan to install a Hapsburg prince as emperor of the United States. In the 20th century, Americans feared reds more than royals; hence Joe McCarthy's witch-hunts, and the popularity of Father Charles Coughlin, who told radio audiences that “Masons and Marxists rule the world”.
In “Under Western Eyes”, Joseph Conrad wrote that “to us Europeans of the West, all ideas of political plots and conspiracies seem childish, crude inventions for the theatre or a novel.”
Some modern scholars go further, arguing that the conspiracist habit is a sort of disease or syndrome. The “paranoid thinker”, instructs material from a course at the University of Rhode Island, is “rigid, victimlike, cowardly”. This contrasts with the traits of the “rational thinker”, who is “open, flexible, empowered, strong”.
Daniel Pipes, the author of two books about conspiracy theorising, describes the classic grand theories—such as those about Masonic or Zionist or Papist plots for world domination—as:
a quite literal form of pornography (though political rather than sexual). The two genres became popular about the same time, in the 1740s. Both are backstairs literatures that often have to be semi-clandestinely distributed, then read with the shades drawn. Elders seek to protect youth from their depredations. Scholars studying them try to discuss them without propagating their contents: [with] asterisks and dashes in the first case and short extracts in the second. Recreational conspiracism titillates sophisticates much as does recreational sex.
Mr Pipes does good work in skewering anti-Jewish conspiracy theorists, but his recent founding of “Campus Watch”, a website devoted to “outing” pro-Arab academics, emits a whiff of burning books.
Belief in conspiracies is not necessarily foolish. Some are real. The Holocaust, for example, actually happened, though few believed it before the camps were liberated. Consider also the Bolshevik revolution of 1917: a small group of violent fanatics seized control of a large empire, as millions of their victims could testify, were they still alive. Businessfolk conspire, too. Adam Smith, a man to whom The Economist accords considerable respect, once wrote that: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public.”
That some conspiracies are real, however, does not mean that they all are. As a tool for explaining how the world works, conspiracism has certain drawbacks. It inhibits trust: if everyone else is out to get you, better have nothing to do with them. It dampens optimism: if “they” are sure to frustrate your plans, why bother doing anything? And, of course, it leads to harmful errors, such as the belief, once popular among Africans, that condoms were yet another ploy to reduce their population.
The evolution of theories
So what is the attraction of conspiracism? For starters, as grand unifying theories of geopolitics go, it is simple to grasp. In ill-educated societies, that makes it appealing. It is also impossible to disprove, because any fact that does not fit the theory can be dismissed as a trick by the conspirators to throw ordinary folk off the scent.
In countries with opaque and authoritarian political systems, rumour is often the only alternative to official news sources. If the people in such countries remember falling victim to real conspiracies, they may be inclined to attribute fresh misfortunes to a similar cause.
Take more or less anywhere in the Middle East. The very borders of countries such as Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are a product of the 1916 Sykes-Picot accord, a secret agreement between Britain and France to divvy up the region between themselves, despite earlier British pledges of statehood to Arabs. In 1917, war-pressed Britain sought to curry favour with the growing Zionist movement by promising a “Jewish national home” in Palestine. The Palestinians, nine-tenths of the territory's population at the time, were not consulted. Thirty years later, when the UN voted to give Jews 53% of the land, the 13 “Eastern” countries that objected were overruled by 33 “Western” countries, which between them ruled over some 120 future members that surely would have voted otherwise had they been able to. Small wonder Palestinians see the world through a lens of victimhood.
In the West, conspiracies have, for some reason, tended to fail, and so fade from the popular imagination. Who now frets about the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when a gang of Catholics failed to blow up Britain's Parliament? Or the doomed Carlist uprisings in 19th-century Spain? Or the European anarchists who assassinated seven heads of state in the 1890s, to no avail? Or the Watergate scandal?
In Iran, by contrast, people still seethe over the CIA-backed coup of 1953 that toppled Muhammad Mossadegh, a man much loved for having dared to nationalise British oil interests. Syria and Iraq have suffered a dizzy sequence of successful plots and counter-conspiracies, ending with the pair of Baathist coups in the late 1960s that installed their current ruling cliques.
Half the governments of the Middle East trace their origins to coups. In a sense, conspiracy is the region's only real form of politics, which can make it hard for Middle Easterners to understand the dynamics of open, democratic societies. Hence, for example, the Arab tendency, as the French say, to “occult” America's generous backing for Israel. Aiding the Jewish state infuriates hundreds of millions of oil-supplying, American-product-consuming Arabs and Muslims. So why does America do it? It must be a conspiracy by the Zionist lobby, or perhaps a plot to divide and rule Arabs to control their oil, or part of a Christian crusade against Islam.
Blaming others for one's troubles may be emotionally satisfying, but it is a counsel of despair. Stella Orakwue, a journalist, writes in the New African that: “Today, [Africa] has to remain in deficit so Europe and America can maintain their obscene wealth.” Given that Africa accounts for less than 2% of global trade, this is hardly an adequate explanation of why the West is rich and Africa is poor. And without understanding why their continent is poor, Africans will find it harder to grow rich.
In extreme cases, conspiracy theories can cost lives. Osama bin Laden genuinely seems to think he is fighting a Zionist-Christian-materialist assault on Islam. Adolf Hitler sincerely believed he was ridding the world of a Jewish menace. Many Serbs were convinced that the Muslims of ex-Yugoslavia were out to annihilate them. And many Rwandan Hutus, informed by their leaders that the Tutsis were planning to kill them, were happy to follow orders to pre-empt this threat.
*For the record, around 300 Jews and 100 Muslims were among the 3,000 victims. The origin of the rumour was probably a report in the Jerusalem Post of September 12th, which mistakenly said that 4,000 Jews had “disappeared” in the disaster.
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NOTE: The following Letter to the Editor was published in The Economist on January 9th 2003:
SIR – In your article on conspiracies you erroneously attribute to the Jerusalem Post a report “which mistakenly said that 4,000 Jews had ‘disappeared' in the [September 11th] disaster” (“That's what they want you to believe”, December 21st). This, you suggest, is probably the origin of the rumour that “Jews who worked in the twin towers had been secretly warned to stay away that day.”
Nowhere in our reporting of that day did the Post publish anything of the kind. A story in our internet edition did say that the Israeli foreign ministry had collected the names of 4,000 Israelis believed to have been in the areas of the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon at the time of the attack. Whether this story was the origin of the rumour, I cannot say. What I can say is that there was no mistake in our reporting.
Bret Stephens
Editor-in-chief
Jerusalem Post
Jerusalem
So let's try again:
a) Where's *your* evidence?
b) How do you account for all the crushing evidence that was already published refuting the official narrative? (see above)
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faith
n.
1) Confident belief in the truth, value, or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing.
2) Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence. See Synonyms at belief. See Synonyms at trust
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the·o·ry
n. pl. the·o·ries
1) A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
2) The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory statements, accepted principles, and methods of analysis, as opposed to practice
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