Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00394)

Hi All!

Let's part for a moment with our "esoteric speculations" and turn to
"the real world". Here is by far the most sensible and unbiased
website about 9/11 events I've seen: http://www.earth-citizens.net/ No
UFOs or "flying pigs" or missiles there, only tons of evidence and
heaps of sound questions. Mainly it scrutinizes the Flight 77 hitting
the Pentagon, but not only that. Let me quote some phrases from
summarizing pages of that site.

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“There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, as an
“independent” press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of
you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know
beforehand that it would never appear in print.

I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am
connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar
things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest
opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job.

If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in even one issue of my
paper, before twenty-four hours, my occupation would be gone.

The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth: to lie
outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to
sell the country for his daily bread.

You know it and I know it, what folly is this toasting an
‘independent’ press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men
behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and
we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the
property of other men.

We are intellectual prostitutes.” 

­ John Swinton, Editor of the New York Times at his retirement dinner
with the New York Press Club after he was asked to "...toast the
independent press".
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http://www.earth-citizens.net/pages-en/ine-medias.html


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I wrote, higher in this site, that the efforts of some people to
promote odd theories on septembre 11th would put a weapon in the hands
of disseminators of the official version. I used an electrical
engineering metaphor, more precisely from "Signal Processing", a
course that I teach. I believe much is just "noise" injected inside
the information system about 9/11 events, leaving in first evidence
that there are two themes which compete :

+ The official theme, promoted by the US authorities : a terrorist
network hijacked four airplanes on septembre 11, three of them
crashing onto buildings, the fourth one crashing into a field after a
struggle beetween the hijackers and the passengers.
  
+ The conspiracy theory : the events were engineered by the US
governement . The towers of the World Trade Center have been destroyed
by demolition explosives preset inside the buildings before the event,
no plane could have crashed into the Pentagon but it would be a cruise
missile, various tricks being imagined to explain it's camouflage.

What is surprising at first glance is the tremendous effort to promote
the more extremist conspiracy theories, that are technically
unfeasible, like for example :

+ The planes seen on videos crashing into the towers of the World
Trade Center were only holograms, made by a secret military
technology, aimed at masking the final approach of cruise missiles
which destroyed the towers.

+ The Boeing 757 of American Airlines (Flight 77) didn't crashed into
the Pentagon, but just overflew it in a "diversion manoeuvre" before
landing in National Airport. At this precise time, a jet fighter fired
a missile into the Pentagone before crashing into the hole created by
the missile explosion.
  
+ The Pentagon had been planted with explosives and the damage was not
due to a plane or missile.

I explained in more details in other pages of this web site that other
factors of the 911 attacks are being ignored, such that the stand down
of the aerial defense system of the country (NORAD), the insider
trading on airlines and insurance "put" stock options, the coverup of
items like the black boxes of the planes or the videos filmed during
the attack of the Pentagon, the outrageous fakery on the images of the
north parking lot cctv, the oddities in the official report on the
damage inside the Pentagon (ASCE). All this forces one to think that
there has been, indeed, a conspiracy and, along with the analysis of
Pierre Henri Bunel, pushes to the logical deduction that the plane
which crashed into the Pentagon was really the Boeing 757 of American
Airlines Flight 77, but that it had been loaded with an anti building
bomb before take off at Washington Dulles airport.

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Old as the world information / disinformation techniques. Now made
under everybody's eyes in real time in the internet connected global
village.

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Edward N. Luttwak wrote in his book Strategy: the Logic of War and
Peace (The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Ma,
1987):

{p. 9} Secrecy is often recommended to those who practice war as if it
were costless, but an enemy can rarely be denied all knowledge of an
impending action without some sacrifice of valuable preparations. ...
With secrecy rarely absolute, the leakage of the truth can only be {p.
10} countered by deception, so that the "signals" generated by such
preparations as are allowed will be submerged by contrived "noise."
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http://www.earth-citizens.net/pages-en/ine-snois.html


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Conspiracy theories arise from evidence. After the government releases
an explanation of a particular event, a conspiracy theory is only born
because evidence exists to disprove their explanation, or at least
call it into question. There’s nothing insane about it, unless you
define sanity as believing whatever the government tells you. In light
of the fact that our government lies to us regularly, I would define
believing everything they tell you as utter stupidity.

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Then of course, there were the "crazy conspiracy theories" arising
from the bombing of the Alfred Murrah federal building in Oklahoma
City. In that matter, audio tapes and witnesses agree that there were
two explosions, the first of which occurred inside the building
between eight and ten seconds before the truck bomb exploded.
Explosive experts agree that Timothy McVeigh’s fertilizer bomb could
not have destroyed the building, and the FBI’s counter terrorism
chief, and members of BATF lied about their whereabouts during and
prior to the catastrophe. The evening news decided not to tell you any
of this, and they will label anyone who tries to a "paranoid
conspiracy theorist." In light of the evidence, we would be complete
fools if a conspiracy theory didn’t exist.

There were no conspiracy theories arising from the explosion of flight
103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and there were no conspiracy theories
arising from the work of the uni-bomber, so the newly invented
psycho-babble that tries to explain the malady of conspiracy
theorists, also needs to explain why millions of conspiracy theorists
all decided not to theorize about those events. There is no
psychological malady. There was simply no evidence to indicate a
conspiracy.

The real question is not why people theorize about conspiracies, but
why people choose to believe the government’s version of events when
it’s obvious that they’re lying. One reason is that most people never
see the evidence because our "news" industry hides it, and another
reason is that the same news industry will quickly associate anyone
who questions the government with the people who see Elvis, Bigfoot,
and UFO’s.
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http://www.earth-citizens.net/pages-en/ine-jrogers.html