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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If you’re under 75 years old and grew up in a ‘western’ country, chances are you remember from childhood that one of the things that made the Nazis especially wicked was their notion of ‘racial’ supremacy and Hitler’s lunatic ambition to spawn a ‘Master Race’.

Whether via my parents, school education, books, comics, movies or the mass media – from a fairly early age I absorbed the notion that under Adolf Hitler’s leadership, the Nazis – and they alone – sought to promote their ‘race’ to superdude status.

Wicked Uncle Adolf: we learnt at school that he wanted a Master Race, of people like him (with blonde hair)

I can’t recall the number of times I’ve heard reasoning along the following lines:

The Nazis believed the Aryans are a Master Race and wanted to lord it over the rest – didn’t they?

That’s why we had to fight them to the end – wasn’t it?

Sure, the 60 million or so deaths (and tens of millions of refugees) of World War Two were a lot of ‘collateral damage’ – but it was all worth it, wasn’t it?

After all, we can’t take chances with nutcases who want to take over the world – can we? Thank heavens for Winston Churchill! etc. etc.

It’s scary, persuasive stuff that may well have convinced all but the most recalcitrant pacifists to join the military struggle against Nazi Germany.

I shall soon be buying a new computer.

I’ve been buying personal computers for a quarter century – on average once every three to five years. I started out with a MacPlus in he mid-1980s. It had no hard-drive – just one drive for 8oo KB floppy discs – and a small, built-in black and white monitor. It cost around $A3,000 in 1980s dollars.

Intel Chips? Just Say NO!

Each time I’ve been back to the shops, buying has been a joy. On every occasion, performance and capability rose dramatically while prices fell. If the entire economy was like this, we’d all be living in cornucopia.

This time I think I may be able to buy a computer that will be fantastic – for less than $A1,000!

That’s something I could only dream about until now. What will happen in 2013?!

It’s great for me that my personal computers have got so much cheaper over time. But they’re cheaper for everyone else too – and that’s even more exciting! Surely it’s now possible to provide internet access to everyone on earth – everyone who wishes to have it – within the next few years? IT is bringing the people of earth together.

I’m facing some purchasing dilemmas, of course – but that’s the fun of buying! Shall I buy local – or via the net? Purchase a package deal – or put the package together myself? There’s a choice of vendors and brands.

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.”

In Israeli-South African Relations : On the Mend?, written in 2004, Kristin Nelson discussed some of the historical background to lingering tensions between the South Africa’s Australian National Congress (now in Government, once a hunted organization) and the Israeli regime.

Here’s an extract (emphasis added):

At the height of Apartheid Israel ignored international sanctions against South Africa, citing its own vulnerability to such tactics. It continued to sell roughly (US$) 600 million worth of arms per year to the white minority government before eventually banning further military contracts in 1987.

Nelson Mandela: when he was younger, Israel collaborated with his jailers

Before the early 1990s and the release of Mandela, mutual aid between the two governments evolved out of a natural fraternity: both were technologically advanced, militarily powerful nations that felt surrounded by hostile neighbours. During the 1970s this affiliation extended into the field of nuclear weaponry when Israeli experts helped South African to develop at least six nuclear warheads.

Although the extent of their covert collaboration is not entirely clear, Israel is known to have supplied technical assistance to South Africa in exchange for no less than 300 tons of uranium. Several Israeli nuclear scientists, including Ernst David Bergmann (the “Oppenheimer of Israel”), visited South Africa in 1967, and evidence of increasingly close relations accumulated throughout the 1970s.

Collaboration between South Africa and Israel over nuclear weapons was well-known 20 years ago – and strongly opposed by the world community as a whole.

Last week, Eileen Fleming reported on Mordechai Vanunu’s Ongoing Ordeal in Dissident Voice.The Israeli State still continues to deny this heroic nuclear whitleblower freedom to travel; by now it has tormented him for 23 years, half in solitary confinement.

Shimon Peres" charlatan with a Nobel Peace Prize who hasn't even let an honest peace activist go free, after 23 years

They’re playing a protracted, very cruel game of game of cat and mouse with Vanunu – who has been a prisoner since 1986. The latest twist is trying to extract pledges that he won’t talk to media or foreigners; they still won’t grant Vanunu the most basic freedom; freedom to walk away and spend his life among less hateful people.

Few cases demonstrate so clearly how low the Israeli State has sunk in moral terms. What a shitty state these tribal fanatics have created! They’re so puffed up with selfish self-importance they won’t even let an honest free spirit leave:

Vanunu returned to court on July 6, 2009 and “his attorney Avigdor Feldman…and the state agreed that after six months, pending a review of his conduct, Vanunu will be able to ask for the restrictions to be lifted and be allowed to travel abroad.

Following the shock and awe of recent developments in New Jersey, the philosopher, jazz musician and anti-Zionist activist Gilad Atzmon has a punchy article in PalestineThinkTank: Time to Talk about the Rise of Jewish Crime?

He concludes:

Here is my suggestion to Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary and everyone else who happens to be ‘concerned’ with the ‘rise of anti-Semitism’.

In the light of Israeli brutality, the conviction of gross swindler Madoff and the latest images of Rabbis being taken away by FBI agents, it is about time we stop discussing the rise of anti-Semitism and start to elaborate on the rise of Jewish Crime.

The New Jersey corruption bust

Certainly, a truly tectonic contest appears to be underway – akin to the irresistible force encountering an immovable object.

The cloying, censorious Judeophilia characteristic of public discourse in contemporary western culture is slowly colliding with the gigantic, largely underground mass of organized Jewish criminality. The unmentionable has become too blatant for surface-dwellers to overlook…

Is this to suggest that all Jews are involved in criminal activity?

Sholom Rubashkin, former boss of Iowa kosher firm 'Agriprocessors': charged in 2008 with 7,000 violations of child labor laws

Only fools believe that, it seems to me. They should check Atzmon’s parentage, for one thing.

Tribal loyalties only afflict those who embrace them; it’s always possible to opt out of the predominant value system. Eton, the famous elite school, produced generations of passionate British imperialists – but George Orwell was an Old Etonian too. Remaining a prisoner of family background or cultural tradition is optional for most people.

If you follow politics, you’ve probably heard plenty of politicians complaining about the lies of their opponents.

It’s a staple diet of democratic political discourse. Does a day go by when Parliament (or Congress) is in session in which copious accusations of lying aren’t hurled across the chamber? If so, I must have missed them.

Arlen Specter: these days, he a Senatorial liar; Adolf would not have been surprised

But how many politicians do you know who admit to telling lies? Telling lies themselves, that is – and not just lies but really big lies. Politicians like that are certainly unusual.

I’ll thicken the plot. How many politicians do you know who brag about telling really big lies in a best selling book published before their political career gets underway? Such a politician would be rare indeed.

Yet that’s what a lot of people seem to believe about Adolf Hitler. If they don’t actually believe this, they certainly like to make out they do.

Take this quotation, which has become famous thanks to its frequent repetition on the Internet:

As a Twitter neophyte I’m still learning about the strange new universe of Tweets, Followers, Following – and the weird ‘Trending Topics’ list on the right hand side of my page.

Some things remain utterly mysterious.

Stephen Fry: super-human Twittering powers

I looked up Stephen Fry, a celebrated Twitterer famous (in part) for his many followers. As of today there are 666,355 of them. That is a lot!

But what really amazed me was how many Twitterers Stephen Fry is following. According to today’s statistics, he follows 54,877 other Twits!

How can Fry possibly find the time? Does he have a small army of assistant Twitterers to predigest Tweets that show up on his page – and report on the Tweets he really needs to know about?

Or is there a technological fix that enables Master Twitterers to read hundreds of thousands of Tweets per day?

Locating a Stash: Today's Trending Topic for the Twittering masses

This morning I noticed Find Marijuana has been a Trending Topic for several hours. After it reached No 1 my curiosity finally got the better of me.

I clicked the link to arrive at a page of seemingly random Twitterers, all tweeting away merrily about what a giggle it is that Find Marijuana has become a Trending Topic.

How in Twitter’s name did that happen? Is it a genuine expression of random global whim? Has a network of mischievous Twitterers conspired to bump the topic into the top ten?  Could it be a gigantic surveillance operation by the combined drugs squads of participating nations?