On April 30th 2009, Dr Steven Jones gave a presentation in Sacramento, California. He discussed recent scientific findings regarding the collapse of three World Trade Center steel-framed tower blocks in New York City on 9-11.

When I watched this lecture on YouTube, I found it occasionally hard to navigate. So I’ve made a list of the 12 segments, in sequence, for viewing convenience.

This is the story the BBC, ABC – and all the rest of the lying western mass media – are doing their best to avoid.

Dr Steven Jones lectures on 9-11: he lost his academic job, but retained his integrity

Happily, we don’t have to rely on liars any longer.

Nearly eight years from September 11th 2001, ignorance is no longer an excuse. Those operatives in the mass media who actively continue the 9-11 cover-up must by now be regarded as complicit in this horrible crime.

They will have to live with their own consciences for failing to report accurately on the Crime of the Century.

In a society which took justice seriously they would face criminal charges for conspiring to pervert the course of justice.

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Some people believe that every story churned out by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation newspapers is complete rubbish.

I think that’s unfair.

In the interests of demonstrating this blog is ‘fair and balanced‘, here’s a story from the Murdoch media that’s (a) interesting (b) well-written and (c) amusing.

The Armadillo Magnetic Dog Collar from Total-Tack.co,uk

See Polly the dog swallows 1000 magnets, computer mouse and gloves.

It also has a happy ending.

The only missing ingredient is a reason why the gourmand Blue Healer swallowed 1,000 magnets. I have a theory about that.

I bet Polly became attracted to dogs wearing magnetic collars.

I haven’t visited this blog myself for a while.

The long and short of it is that after a technical glitch broke my flow in early August, I ended up feeling like a holiday from blogging.

So I took a few weeks off.

One of the joys of solo blogging is there’s no-one to fire me for indolence. It’s the freedom to slack off. In a highly evolved society, this would probably be recognized as a human right.

Every day is holy

Over the last few weeks, I’ve spent more time contributing to discussions on other websites. I’ve been quite active on independent Australian blogs such as Crikey and New Matilda. Both are serving a useful role, broadening the political debate in Australia, providing somewhat greater choice of material and opportunities for participation.

Judging by these two ‘alternative’ web media, a significant shift in consciousness is underway in terms of the key topics discussed on this website. But it’s a long slog. Here are a few of the recent articles on which I posted comments:

Articles on the Crikey website

• Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick, the true story by Bob Ellis
• Costello’s ABC attacks should be addressed (Crikey Editorial)
• Warnings of a second economic shock wave by Richard Farmer
• No-one forced Grech to concoct an email by Bernard Keane
• Our parliament sabotages our future by Clive Hamilton

Articles on the New Matilda website

• Oil Talks, And The Dying Scapegoat Walks by Alex Mitchell

This is a natural successor to the earlier post Mom and Dad mean business.

There are Portuguese subtitles on this YouTube version of a recent (American) ABC TV feature about the Rosenblats (watch below). You can also see Good Morning America’s interview with Mr Rosenblat here.

Herman and Roma Rosenblat: it was all true 'in their imagination'

Mr and Mrs Rosenblat are a couple of elderly, romantically-inclined Jewish American fantasists.

Their book Angel at the Fence is an Adam and Eve-style tale of love and apples in a Nazi concentration camp. It held America spellbound for years. But the spell lost some of its charm when it became widely apparent that their story is untrue…

The Rosenblats remain unrepentant. Herman Rosenblat says he’d do it all over again – despite the excruciating embarrassment he’s caused his own son. He claims the book continues to do good and work wonders.

This is an account of the saga from the Huffington Post in December 2008: “Angel At The Fence,” Holocaust Memoir, Publication Canceled

The publisher of a disputed Holocaust memoir has canceled the book, adding the name Herman Rosenblat to an increasingly long list of literary fakers and ending with a heartbreaking crash his story _ embraced by Oprah Winfrey among others _ of meeting his future wife at a concentration camp.

“I wanted to bring happiness to people,” Rosenblat said in a statement issued Saturday through his agent, Andrea Hurst. “I brought hope to a lot of people. My motivation was to make good in this world.”

This morning Australians heard the news that the so-called ‘Coalition of the Willing’ in Iraq will soon be down to just one member.

After the last troops from a humbled, bloodied, bankrupted Britain exit the country, only troops from a humbled, bloodied, bankrupted USA will be left.

Greg Sheridan: an Australian Zionist War-Liar, works for News Corp

In just a couple of days the Coalition of the Willing in Iraq will be a coalition no more.

The only troops remaining will be American, and even they’re continuing to reduce their role towards making a complete withdrawal by the end of 2011.

Those of us who opposed this disgraceful episode in murderous imperial barbarity prior to March 2003 were often accused of ‘appeasement’ . It was facile reference to events in Europe in the late 1930s, based on a skewed, simplistic view of the history of that era.

The blatant dishonesty of these 21st Century war liars has gone unpunished.

In Australia, a cavalcade of pundits and ‘experts’ were paraded before us in 2002/3 to stir up popular enthusiasm for war. Most of them remain on our screens and in our newspapers today.

They were never particularly successful in generating real war fervor – but helped persuade most conformist politicians their interests lay in regurgitating the same nonsense and going along with the media-sponsored war.

Andrew Bolt: another Australian Zionist War-Liar, works for News Corp

Haaretz is the most ‘liberal’ of the major English language Israeli newspapers. It publishes some articles quite critical of Israeli behaviour, including occasional exposes of Israeli brutality against Palestinians.

Haaretz publishes comments on many of the articles published in its online edition. Most commentators tend to be Jewish supporters of Israel, but some are not. From time to time, there’s a lively debate.

Haaretz: 'moderate' existentialist daily from Israel

The following is a comment that I submitted to the article by its correspondent Yossi Melman, with the rather paranoid title ANALYSIS / Iran can rejoice as Israel fails missile defense test.

Most of the discussion had focused on the minutiae of military strategy and paranoia. I wanted to shift the emphasis of the debate.

The comment – submitted under my own name – remains unpublished more than 24 hours later. Apparently, this message is unwelcome: (emphasis added):

When I was a student, we rarely used the word ‘existential’. Years of study were required and the skill to bullshit endlessly about nuances of the views of Jean-Paul Satre et al.

There seems to have been a Zionist-inspired devaluation of the intellectual currency. Everyone yabbers about existentialism these days. It’s sad.

Israel’s ‘existential threat’ – if the term has any meaning at all – is its lack of legitimacy.

Legitimacy cannot be won by building ghettos with kryptonite walls.

At one stage, Israelis were conned into believing that overwhelming force would give their State security. Now they chase the illusion of impregnable defenses.

Even though he’s a bumbling, arrogant, ridiculous humbug of a man, steering his political party towards doom and his nation to financial and moral perdition, Gordon Brown remains in power… just.

Brown is politically weak – and he gets by one long week at a time. Amazing really, that the British Labour caucus puts up with it.

Naively, one might think it’s even more amazing Brown isn’t the butt of a sustained mass media campaign to bring him down. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch for one knows very well how to do that. He did it to the Whitlam Government in Australia in the 1970s. In Britain, he vilified Labor in the late 1970s and 1980s – then dumped on the Tories in 1996 (once Labour was back in safe ‘New’ hands).

Gordon Brown: Hanging onto the keys to No 10 for now, courtesy of his puppetmasters

So why hasn’t this chronically unpopular Prime Minister already been run to ground, with the assistance of a media pack smelling blood?

Gordon must be doing something right. Presumably, he’s continuing to sell out British civil liberties and national interests at a faster rate than his opponents could be expected to match?

Tory Leader David Cameron has been groomed to say the right things about Israel and the current spate of Zionist-inspired wars – and most of the right things about civil liberties – so a relief team is waiting in the wings. But there’s nothing quite so useful as a deeply compromised Prime Minister who’s also politically on the nose. In the ‘Westminster system’. they are the easiest PMs of all to manipulate, for obvious reasons.

A little drama has been playing out in New York City over the last fortnight.

Chrissie Brodigan's Pug: gets too hot in the subway

The story has an interesting cast of characters: a young female writer, the New York Police Department’s first Hassidic Jewish policeman, a few bystanders, a sleazy NYC Scandal sheet, a Police Chief, a media company called Plum TV… and last, but by no means least, a vomiting but otherwise delightful pug dog.

The tale began on June 30th, when 32 year old Chrissie Brodigan was intercepted in the subway by a couple of NYPD cops. She was carrying her pet pug, but he was not, as subway regulations stipulate, secured within a container. As the train-sick pug was temporarily indisposed, Ms Brodigan had let him out of the box.

An argument erupted between Brodigan and Officer Joel Witriol. There was some pushing and shoving. She was eventually arrested and charged with minor offenses.

As is often the case, accounts of what happened at the arrest scene differ.

Ms Brodigan claims the officer manhandled and abused her, grabbed her breasts, punched her in the back, and left her with minor bruising on the arms and legs. She also claims he said repeatedly “If you’re going to act like a woman, I’m going to treat you like a woman.” Two eye-witnesses, one of whom filmed the altercation with a digital camera, apparently corroborate Ms Brodigan’s account of the incident.

Helen Thomas, the extraordinary 89 year old American reporter, whose coverage of US Presidential politics spans five decades, was interviewed a couple of years ago about the quality of the White House press corps in the Bush era.

Her account is damning. Although Helen Thomas didn’t spell it out, the conclusion is inescapable that there was a large measure of collusion in the way the press corp pursed a common agenda.

Helen Thomas

Who decided, from the time Bush arrived in the White House, to hype up the ‘threat’ posed by Iraq? That kind of convergent bias doesn’t happen by accident.

The Bush Administration itself played ball, but virtually no-one in the press corps asked Bush and Cheney hard questions about 9-11, the ‘Patriot Act’, the Anthrax attack, the War on Terror, Afghanistan, Iraq… and Israel.

From 2001 until Bush was elected for a second term, the Bush Administration and US mass media engaged in an orgy of mutual admiration, all directed towards a massive expansion of America’s military and ’security’ budget, the launch of new illegal wars to serve Israel’s agenda that helped bankrupt America, the establishment of police state machinery with the USA and the drastic curtailment of Americans’ civil liberties.

This is what Helen had to say:

Hat-tip to HomePageDaily where I spotted this video, It’s a fine online news service by the Australia’s one and only Richard Neville that goes beyond the enervating mainstream consensus.

Mike Wallace and the Subversion of Democracy

Part 3 of 3: Celebrating Dominance

This is the final segment of a three part series concerning the veteran CBS interviewer Mike Wallace – and issues of freedom, democracy, subversion and manipulation. In Part One, a young Mr Wallace intervewed Aldous Huxley, a man who gave more informed consideration to the likely future directions of authoritarianism that most in his generation. Wallace asks Huxley a very curious question about freedom.

Iranian President Ahmenidijad portrayed as an 'Islamo-fascist'

In the Part 2 – Concealing the Conspiracy – we saw Wallace interview the Shah of Iran in the 1970s – and provide commentary on Iranian affairs at the time. Acting through agents such as Wallace, Zionists in the west pushed to destablize the Shah and usher in Iran’s Islamic Revolution.

Along with the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1982, this had a number of flow-on effects. It split Eygpt from Iran; led to war between Iraq and Iran; set the ‘Iranian hostage crisis’ trap, depriving Jimmy Carter of a second term as President; laid the foundations for the Iran-contra affair; led to a savage new round of repression of the left within Iran.

"And the winner is..." (Zionism?)

The resulting mayhem and bloodshed eventually killed millions in different parts of the middle east, especially Iraq and Iran. The key beneficary was the State of Israel.