And it just keeps getting worse…

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AMTRAK_SECUR ITY?SITE=VTBEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Peace.  (in a 4x10 cell…)

Cyrena:

If you would like a few additional important and excellent books to read on this subject, try the following:

The Terror Timeline by Paul Thompson.  Using ONLY mainstream media reports (print, photo, TV, etc.), Thompson is nevertheless able to completely undermine the “official story” of 9/11.

Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert.  Dense, intensely researched look at 9/11 vis-a-vis oil and “empire.”  A must-read for any serious “student” of 9/11 truth.

Plus these three seminal books by David Ray Griffin:

The New Pearl Harbor.  An overall look at 9/11 and its roots in PNAC’s “Rebuilding America’s Defenses.”

The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.  An in-depth study of the Report.

Debunking 9/11 Debunking.  Griffin takes on Popular Mechanics and other defenders of the official story.

Peace.

Yep, they DO like things this way. That’s why all of the above are part of their war OF terror.

Speaking of which, (and this might be of interest to samosamo, and anyone else who has paid any attention to the offical lie of 9/11.

I just leaned of a book that I’d been unaware of until reading an interview that Amy Goodman had with one of the 9/11 Commission liars, Philip Zelikow. (actually, he was the Liar in Chief on that so-called Commission). Anyway, the book is:

“The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11
Investigation” by Philip Shenon.

Sounds like just my kinda book, so I’m anxious to get it. Should add something to my ‘theories’ which have so far been just that…since there’s little proof of anything, other than that they lied.

The interview with the Commission Liar-in-Chief, Philip Zeilkow, is at this link, if anyone is interested.

How Karl Rove and Torture Influenced the 9/11
Report

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!
Posted on February 11, 2008,

http://www.alternet.org/story/76572/

No doubt it’s on the Democracy Now! website as well, but I just happened to read it from the above link at
Alternet.org

It’s semi lengthy to read, though Amy may have it as a pod cast or some other version that you can listen to. I’m only 3 pages into, and so far, Zelikow has spent the entire time lying, denying, and blaming everybody else. He keeps saying…“ask so and so, ask him, ask her, you don’t have to take my word for it, just ask them. (whomever ‘they’ happen to be.)

Needless-to-say, we AREN’T taking his word for ANYTHING other than lies, lies, and more lies.

Man…the truth has never been so funny!

Nice…

Maybe i’m fairly immune to shock, awe, and tragedy…maybe it has something to do with Russian genetics, i don’t know.  But i certainly see what you were saying.  And i was one of those who never stepped forward, if you will.

I think that you hit the nail on the head with that piece.  I wish that more people had been thinking like that two days after the event…i was, but i felt pretty alone in that, so i learned to keep my mouth shut.  I didn’t want to get a flag shoved down my throat.

JS:

“Watching events unfold two years later in the US, was not the shock and awe and fear for me…it was like deja vu.  A more modern, bigger budget Hollywood remake.”

Given the above, I thought you might find the following interesting; it is from an Op-Ed piece I wrote about 9/11 around two years ago:

“Consider.  A magician can make an elephant (or, perhaps more ironically, an airplane) disappear in plain sight of hundreds of people.  Or he can take the watch off your wrist without you even knowing it.  And Hollywood regularly creates amazing special effects – from huge pyrotechnic displays to futuristic cities, from Superman flying to King Kong climbing, from massive battle scenes between Men, Elves, Dwarves and Orcs to massive battle scenes in space between dozens of alien races – that boggle our minds and are unexplainable unless we know the technical details.

“Although the term “smoke and mirrors” is often used to describe these and other “tricks,” they are actually accomplished through something called “misdirection” – when the perpetrator of a trick is able to get you to pay attention to what he WANTS you to see in order to divert your attention from where and how the action is actually taking place: the magician’s other hand, the almost invisible wires, the blue screen, etc.

“So what did we actually see on 9/11?  Is there anyone who was not so caught up in the “shock and awe” of those events – who was not so deeply affected by what was occurring “in the moment” – that he or she would have had the presence of mind to really LOOK at it?  Given the almost instantaneous psycho-emotional trauma of those events, is there anyone who would have had the ability to consciously “step back” and look beyond the misdirection to see the “other hand,” the almost invisible wires, the blue screen?”

Peace.

Cyrena:

Yes, this is getting to be a growing habit now, isn’t it?  LOL

Seriously, though, I am always happy to agree to disagree, as long as it is done respectfully.  And I did see your comment on the Superdelegates thread, and actually agree with it in principle.

Peace.

Ah, the reddest herring of them all.

Most of you probably don’t remember the details surrounding the 1999 Moscow apartment bombings.  I do, because i was living in Russia at the time and had to spend an inordinate amount of time answering emails from family and friends suggesting that maybe it wasn’t safe and maybe i should move home.

A good many Russians, great conspiracy theorists the Russians, had no doubt that the FSB was behind the bombings…right from the beginning.  They were used by the brand new PM, V.V. Putin to launch the second Chechen War.  Western leaders, including the US made underhanded accusations that it was an inside job too, mostly because the Russians never allowed for any forensic examinations of the sites.  Western governments offered to donate teams, but the Russians just bulldozed the buildings.

Now, does that sound familiar?  Watching events unfold two years later in the US, was not the shock and awe and fear for me…it was like deja vu.  A more modern, bigger budget Hollywood remake…with too many similarities for someone who watched the original to be fooled into thinking it was a brand new movie.

Many millions of us knew what the war on terror was all about right from the beginning.

It was about political suppression of the oppostion party. It was a way of crippeling political disent, so the neo con’s could loot the country, rape the constitution and free themselves from the constraints of law.

In short they wanted to take over.

The only terror that really exists in this country, is the terror that exists in poor communites, due to gang violence, drug dealing, pay day loans, bankrupcy reform and credit card reform.

If they really cared about the people of this country they would have done something about that a long time ago.

Which makes me think they must like things this way.

Ok Maani,

Better watch it. I just agreed with you again, on the “Ugliness of the Superdelegates” article, in your response to FarmerTx. We don’t want this to become a habit now do we? (I’m just doing a little joking with you.)

Now I’m not so sure that you’ll appreciate my agreement, since it doesn’t support your own candidate.
But, that’s the stuff of politics and the law. It’s quite a rollercoaster, but it keeps people employed, and hopefully, maybe, sometimes, keeps our social structure in some sort of workable order.

In other words, there’s no denying how awful things have been these past several years, and we’ve only touched the surface here. (I hate saying that things are actually far worse, because we don’t generally talk much about the environmental threat that is, in the opinion of many, far worse than the threat of terrorism. In fact, it’s an IMMINENT threat, in a very real sense of things. My own opinion is that while ‘‘terror’ has been with us since the beginning of time, the alleged ‘terror’ threat now, is far more easily resolved than the issues we’re looking at in the environment. But, that’s for another conversation.

Meantime, thanks Fadel. It’s always good to hear from you.

The slick face of a terrorist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1vEuhBuEU

We are unable to see the forrest through the trees.

Peace

It comes as no surprise that terrorism is coming to the forefront.
Every National election we hear of the dangers of terrorist’s. After the election, it is placed on the back burner so to speak.
The exception is when Shrubs’ handler’s want to chip away some more at the Constitution.
Meanwhile, our Congress Critter’s are investigating steroid use in Major League Baseball. With all the problems facing this Country, that has to rank up there with stopping Gays from getting married.

Fadel:

Thank you.  But you know, you just made the ultimate faux pas: you used my name and Cyrena’s in the same sentence!  LOL.  And even compared us in a positive way!  LOL.  Don’t you know that this is just not done?  LOL.

Seriously, though, I am honored (and I mean that without any sarcasm or facetiousness) to be considered a “comrade” of Cyrena’s.  She’s one smart cookie, even if we don’t see eye to eye most of the time.

Peace.

To Cyrena and Maani:

Two great posts! I enjoyed reading them and I concur with every thing you both said. I call this the “comradeship of seeing eye-to-eye.” If this comradeship can be expanded to become a grass-root movement, then we might have hope about doing something to salvage our country, instead of just lamenting the bad and the sad that had befallen it.

I would be a whole lot happier if there was a definite ongoing investigation into the 9/11 attack but with all the debris ‘cleaned’ up creates a void in gathering evidence. And going back into the 1990s when w and co. were planning the war on terrorism to use as a huge spring board to absolute power.
Republican tricks would be master pieces of art if it wasn’t the criminality of it all that causes to vast amounts of people to suffer at their expense. Take the crappy military records fiasco that not only got little w off the military hook for not being in the national guard, but so conveniently keep the article by Bill Bradley of 60 Minutes about the Niger yellowcake lie from airing to put w into the light of which he truly exists, a goddamn bald faced liar.

•  These set pieces of political discourse in the Bush era inevitably lead to the conclusion that we remain imperiled by terrorism. On this point, there is an undeniable and ugly truth behind the raw rhetoric.

There may indeed be some ‘truth’ to the suggestion that we remain ‘imperiled by terrorism’. I would argue however, that we don’t know the truth behind the rhetoric, in so far as where the terror actually is originating.

As I’ve mentioned multiple times, the “war on terror” is the creation of the Cabal, even so far as setting up an ‘objective’ enemy. (creating one). Yes, al-Qaida is a terrorist organization. Maybe they were responsible for 9/11, and maybe they weren’t. We don’t know. So, in reality, while there certainly is an ugly truth behind the raw rhetoric, we don’t know what it is. In the meantime, what is called ‘the war on terror’ should be called what it IS…It is a ‘war OF terror’ as perpetrated by this corrupt administration, who has effective turned ‘terror’ into lawfulness. Terror is now the law.

•  Seven years into the “war on terror,” with conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq still fought in its name, there should be legitimate anger about why, as Lieberman correctly notes, the terrorist threat has “not diminished.” But if this is so—and the administration most definitely agrees—then what plausible reason is there for cutting prevention and preparedness funding, and eliminating some programs altogether?

How could the ‘terrorist threat’ be DIMISHED, if it was a creation to begin with? Or at best, if it ever DID have any validity, (ie, we actually were attacked by FOREIGN actors on 9/11) then it’s never been investigated or properly addressed to find out the reasons for it, and to thereby DIMINISH the possibility of another threat or attack. (which we haven’t had by the way).

The only thing that has occurred in terms of terror attacks on our soil, has been a huge increase in the number of attacks perpetrated against American citizens going about their daily routines, like school, shopping, church, work, etc, etc. Every other day, there’s a new mass shooting or murder somewhere. And, it’s never by ‘foreign’ terrorists, Islamic, Arab, or otherwise.

So, the kind of ‘terror’ that has supposedly NOT diminished, never existed to begin with. And the terror that was created by that event of 9/11, has simply continued to escalate, as this country falls apart at the seams, for reasons that have nothing to do with the created enemy of an invisible terrorist.

Shell game? That’s one way to put it.

Of course, if the 9/11 Truthers are correct, and Bush & Co. were complicit in the planning and execution of the 9/11 attacks, then that answers why there have been no further “terrorist” attacks on U.S. soil in seven years. (And I bet you thought it was because of the sterling, highly competent work of our top-notch CIA and FBI…)

And if this IS the case, then the fear-mongering of Bush & Co. is all that much more cynical and propagandistic.  First it was color-coded “terror alerts” that had everyone on edge for the first 18 months or so.  Then it was trotting out the dreaded “Osama bin Laden” and “Al Qaeda” as the all-purpose bogeymen.  Does anyone remember that, less than a year after 9/11, Bush said of OBL, “I really don’t give him much thought anymore.  He’s been marginalized, and there is a bigger war on terror to fight?”  Yet a year later, Bush reversed himself, saying, “Make no mistake.  Osama bin Laden is still a threat to us.”  Then he forgot about him AGAIN until it was once again convenient to bring up he-who-must-not-be-named.

The cynicism of this administration truly know no bounds.

Peace.

Most Americans are sick of this terrorism rhetoric. Bush has called wolf so many times. Now, we have terrorism fatigue. I might say something about Bush’s speech.

In response to Bush’s bullshit about terrorists working to attack America in a way to make 9/11 pale in comparison, let me say one statement. If we do get attacked, it will be your fault, George. Your fault we are no more secure now than we were in 2001. Your fault our military arbitrarily invaded the wasp nest to line your friends’ pockets with cash and oil. Your fault we no longer take these threats seriously enough to defend ourself.

How we have not impeached this whole administration, locked them up and washed our hands of their treason enrages me to the point of passing out.

Republicans won’t win this year, and we can at least try to fix this failed administration’s wrong-doings. Impeachment SHOULD STILL BE ON THE TABLE, THOUGH!