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Pure fiction: Bigelow’s bin Laden chase film will reinforce 9/11 myths
The planned Hollywood film on the hunt for Osama bin Laden will never challenge the idea that he was behind 9/11 (http://truthandshadows.wordpress.com)
I can see it now: Robert De Niro as Osama bin Laden, George Clooney, Matt Damon, and Brad Pitt as the handsome and fearless Navy SEALS, and Morgan Freeman as the “president.” Or Denzel Washington…
Okay, I might have the casting wrong, but the upcoming film Kill bin Laden by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) is certain to be fascinating – and fictional. It will take its place alongside United 93 and World Trade Center – a sort of trilogy of 9/11 propaganda.
The bin Laden chase pic will portray the heroic efforts of the CIA, Pentagon, and president(s) to find bin Laden. There will be some bureaucratic bungling (there has to be some criticism for the account to seem objective), but there will be no hint that the powers that be didn’t want bin Laden caught at all. Or that he was already long dead.
There will be heart-stopping suspense during the heroic midnight raid, along with the courageous decisions to kill bin Laden and dump the body at sea. In the end it will be the good country, with all its lovable imperfections, killing the evil mastermind and preserving democracy. The idea that the whole raid was a piece of theatre and that bin Laden wasn’t even there won’t be considered.
I know, the bin Laden film hasn’t even been shot yet, but with the enthusiastic support of the Obama White House, there is little doubt that the finished product will be pure Hollywood: The Bourne Identity meets Independence Day meets Day of the Jackal.
I can’t help wondering how the film will – or won’t – handle these questions:
What was bin Laden’s role as a CIA asset, and why was he visited in the American Hospital in Dubai by the local CIA station chief just two months before 9/11?
Why did FBI leadership block agents from capturing bin Laden?
Why did the FBI say they had “no hard evidence” against him?
Why didn’t the U.S. provide proof of bin Laden’s guilt to the Taliban, which had agreed to turn him over?
How did an obviously fake confession video (complete with a bin Laden double) become accepted as proof of bin Laden’s guilt?
Why didn’t the U.S. capture bin Laden so they could gain intelligence about future terrorist plans and details about the al-Qaeda organization?
Why did they really bury his body at sea?
What does the 10th anniversary of 9/11 have to do with the timing of the raid?
What’s the significance of the film’s release date being just a month before the 2012 federal election?
The interesting thing is that Bigelow says the film was in the works for years, long before his “execution.” I can’t help wondering what kind of a film they would have made with no conclusion already provided for them.
As for the timing of the film’s release, I believe this amounts to a phoney controversy that will help distract all of us from the real unanswered questions. It assumes that the film will help Obama, which in turn assumes the validity of the official stories of 9/11 and the bin Laden raid.
Bigelow has denied being given access to classified materials relating to the raid on May 1, although the New York Times has reported that she has top level access to information about the planning and execution of the raid. Just a read of the recent New Yorker article about the behind the scenes execution of the raid confirms that incredible access can be granted when a sympathetic treatment is assured.
What is virtually certain is that the Bigelow film will be sympathetic to the U.S. government and that it will reinforce the bin Laden and 9/11 cover stories. If anyone has any doubt about the cozy relationship between Hollywood and the U.S. military and intelligence services, they won’t after this film comes out.
Hollywood makes two things better than anyone: entertainment and propaganda. And we’ll be getting a liberal dose of both in Kill Bin Laden. Too bad we’re going to get so little truth.
Okay, I might have the casting wrong, but the upcoming film Kill bin Laden by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) is certain to be fascinating – and fictional. It will take its place alongside United 93 and World Trade Center – a sort of trilogy of 9/11 propaganda.
The bin Laden chase pic will portray the heroic efforts of the CIA, Pentagon, and president(s) to find bin Laden. There will be some bureaucratic bungling (there has to be some criticism for the account to seem objective), but there will be no hint that the powers that be didn’t want bin Laden caught at all. Or that he was already long dead.
There will be heart-stopping suspense during the heroic midnight raid, along with the courageous decisions to kill bin Laden and dump the body at sea. In the end it will be the good country, with all its lovable imperfections, killing the evil mastermind and preserving democracy. The idea that the whole raid was a piece of theatre and that bin Laden wasn’t even there won’t be considered.
I know, the bin Laden film hasn’t even been shot yet, but with the enthusiastic support of the Obama White House, there is little doubt that the finished product will be pure Hollywood: The Bourne Identity meets Independence Day meets Day of the Jackal.
I can’t help wondering how the film will – or won’t – handle these questions:
What was bin Laden’s role as a CIA asset, and why was he visited in the American Hospital in Dubai by the local CIA station chief just two months before 9/11?
Why did FBI leadership block agents from capturing bin Laden?
Why did the FBI say they had “no hard evidence” against him?
Why didn’t the U.S. provide proof of bin Laden’s guilt to the Taliban, which had agreed to turn him over?
How did an obviously fake confession video (complete with a bin Laden double) become accepted as proof of bin Laden’s guilt?
Why didn’t the U.S. capture bin Laden so they could gain intelligence about future terrorist plans and details about the al-Qaeda organization?
Why did they really bury his body at sea?
What does the 10th anniversary of 9/11 have to do with the timing of the raid?
What’s the significance of the film’s release date being just a month before the 2012 federal election?
The interesting thing is that Bigelow says the film was in the works for years, long before his “execution.” I can’t help wondering what kind of a film they would have made with no conclusion already provided for them.
As for the timing of the film’s release, I believe this amounts to a phoney controversy that will help distract all of us from the real unanswered questions. It assumes that the film will help Obama, which in turn assumes the validity of the official stories of 9/11 and the bin Laden raid.
Bigelow has denied being given access to classified materials relating to the raid on May 1, although the New York Times has reported that she has top level access to information about the planning and execution of the raid. Just a read of the recent New Yorker article about the behind the scenes execution of the raid confirms that incredible access can be granted when a sympathetic treatment is assured.
What is virtually certain is that the Bigelow film will be sympathetic to the U.S. government and that it will reinforce the bin Laden and 9/11 cover stories. If anyone has any doubt about the cozy relationship between Hollywood and the U.S. military and intelligence services, they won’t after this film comes out.
Hollywood makes two things better than anyone: entertainment and propaganda. And we’ll be getting a liberal dose of both in Kill Bin Laden. Too bad we’re going to get so little truth.
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OBL has never been charged with any criminal offense related to the events of 9.11.01, Yet Michelle Bachman recently waxed poetic of the need of accused persons (by a dastardly name) to be convicted by the court of accusation, imprisoned and tortured to gleen useful information, such as was obtained by a long-held detainee at Guantanimo who would have no recent information to give, and yet is given credit for new actionable intelligence. She perpetuated the lie, pandering to the fluor-heads of our nation, claiming confidential access to priviledged propaganda..... Even Goebbels couldn't sell this line of fertilizxer.
Come a certain point, a lie can be so worn from stretching that it is entirely indigestible, much like disco at its most formulaic.
The Empire wears no clothes.
"Truth and Shadows" is a hoax site, plain and simple. Inserting garbage and nonsense claims into activist groups has a long history. Read about it --
http://911review.com/infowars.html
Information Warfare:
Ideas as Weapons in the Era of Deception
At the core of the September 11, 2001 attack is a series of stupendous lies, including:
That jet impacts and fires induced the mammoth steel-framed Twin Towers to explode into dust and shards of steel long after the impacts.
That fires caused 47-story steel-framed Building 7 to implode with all the features of a standard controlled demolition.
That Islamic terrorists hijacked four jetliners with knives and flew them all over the Northeast for nearly two hours without encountering any resistance from the trillion-dollar US Air Force.
That top officials and Bush's Secret Service detail remained unaware that the country was under attack long after it began to be broadcast on TV worldwide.
Adding to the absurdity of the official story are facts such as:
The responsible commanders were promoted after the attack.
The evidence from collapses of the WTC skyscrapers -- the largest and most unanticipated structural failures in world history according to the official explanation -- was destroyed as rapidly as possible.
Only $600,000 was allocated to study the collapses before the steel had been recycled, and the all-volunteer investigators were barred from the site.
There has not been a single successful prosecution of any of the supposed perpetrators anywhere in the world for direct involvement in the attack.
How could such glaring red flags be ignored by the vast majority of Americans, and indeed most people throughout the world? To grasp how this is possible it is helpful to understand the history and sophistication of the "weapons of mass deception" that are used regularly to achieve the aims that the powerful could not attain through legitimate means.
There are many examples of intentional deceptions that, unlike the Big Lie of 9/11/01, are widely recognized, such as the specter of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction concocted by the administrations of George W. Bush and Tony Blair as a pretext to invade Iraq. Other less contemporary examples are described on this site under Historical Precedents for 9/11/01. With each operation, the perpetrators gain more experience about how the news media and the public will react -- experience useful in the planning of subsequent operations. For example, despite reports in local news outlets that responders to the Oklahoma City bombing discovered unexploded bombs inside the building, national media reports remained free of any mention of such contradictions to the official story. It is likely that the success of the cover-up of this operation emboldened the planners of the 9/11/01 attack.
The September 11, 2001 attack was not only bolder than previous attacks, it also likely involved the most careful planning of any psychological operation ever undertaken. We can see in its design and cover-up multiple layers of deception: should the outermost layer be exposed as fraudulent, the deeper layers will serve to continue to obscure the truth. Broadly speaking, there are three layers of cover-up:
The mainstream official story: This is the story as told by the mainstream media since the day of the attack.
The "limited hangouts": These are revelations that seem shocking to adherents to the official story, but fall far short of the whole truth. Examples are the many warnings of the attack that the administration should have acted on.
The "poison pills": These are extreme ideas that have either no basis in evidence or only an illusory one and serve to discredit evidence-based research about the core facts of the attack through guilt-by-association. Examples are the no-planes and pod-planes ideas popularized by propaganda such as In Plane Site, and racist ideas like "the Jews did it."
Remarkably, it appears that the vast majority of propaganda supporting all three layers of deception was produced, not by attack insiders, but by people exploited by the perpetrators using psychological engineering. The perpetrators are apparently highly expert at designing memes that effectively recruit people to unwittingly support such diversions from the true nature of the attack.
http://911review.com/infowars.html
Information Warfare:
Ideas as Weapons in the Era of Deception
At the core of the September 11, 2001 attack is a series of stupendous lies, including:
That jet impacts and fires induced the mammoth steel-framed Twin Towers to explode into dust and shards of steel long after the impacts.
That fires caused 47-story steel-framed Building 7 to implode with all the features of a standard controlled demolition.
That Islamic terrorists hijacked four jetliners with knives and flew them all over the Northeast for nearly two hours without encountering any resistance from the trillion-dollar US Air Force.
That top officials and Bush's Secret Service detail remained unaware that the country was under attack long after it began to be broadcast on TV worldwide.
Adding to the absurdity of the official story are facts such as:
The responsible commanders were promoted after the attack.
The evidence from collapses of the WTC skyscrapers -- the largest and most unanticipated structural failures in world history according to the official explanation -- was destroyed as rapidly as possible.
Only $600,000 was allocated to study the collapses before the steel had been recycled, and the all-volunteer investigators were barred from the site.
There has not been a single successful prosecution of any of the supposed perpetrators anywhere in the world for direct involvement in the attack.
How could such glaring red flags be ignored by the vast majority of Americans, and indeed most people throughout the world? To grasp how this is possible it is helpful to understand the history and sophistication of the "weapons of mass deception" that are used regularly to achieve the aims that the powerful could not attain through legitimate means.
There are many examples of intentional deceptions that, unlike the Big Lie of 9/11/01, are widely recognized, such as the specter of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction concocted by the administrations of George W. Bush and Tony Blair as a pretext to invade Iraq. Other less contemporary examples are described on this site under Historical Precedents for 9/11/01. With each operation, the perpetrators gain more experience about how the news media and the public will react -- experience useful in the planning of subsequent operations. For example, despite reports in local news outlets that responders to the Oklahoma City bombing discovered unexploded bombs inside the building, national media reports remained free of any mention of such contradictions to the official story. It is likely that the success of the cover-up of this operation emboldened the planners of the 9/11/01 attack.
The September 11, 2001 attack was not only bolder than previous attacks, it also likely involved the most careful planning of any psychological operation ever undertaken. We can see in its design and cover-up multiple layers of deception: should the outermost layer be exposed as fraudulent, the deeper layers will serve to continue to obscure the truth. Broadly speaking, there are three layers of cover-up:
The mainstream official story: This is the story as told by the mainstream media since the day of the attack.
The "limited hangouts": These are revelations that seem shocking to adherents to the official story, but fall far short of the whole truth. Examples are the many warnings of the attack that the administration should have acted on.
The "poison pills": These are extreme ideas that have either no basis in evidence or only an illusory one and serve to discredit evidence-based research about the core facts of the attack through guilt-by-association. Examples are the no-planes and pod-planes ideas popularized by propaganda such as In Plane Site, and racist ideas like "the Jews did it."
Remarkably, it appears that the vast majority of propaganda supporting all three layers of deception was produced, not by attack insiders, but by people exploited by the perpetrators using psychological engineering. The perpetrators are apparently highly expert at designing memes that effectively recruit people to unwittingly support such diversions from the true nature of the attack.
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