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Sep 7th, 2009 by Syd Walker
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The saga of the BBC’s amazing journalistic precognition on 9-11 is discussed on A Tale of Three Broadcasters, written in December 2007 but still relevant today.
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.
We’ve all heard of ‘wishful thinking‘ – the very human tendency to believe what we’d like to be true. Wishful think has been around a long time.
More recently, eminent theologian and 9-11 sceptic David Ray Griffin has coined the term ‘fearful thinking‘.
He believes it’s key to understanding what prevents otherwise rational people from recognizing the obvious about 9-11.
As Griffin describes it, fearful thinking is when “you won’t believe what you actually fear to be the truth”. Ironically, the more common expression for this phenomenon is to be in a state of ‘denial’.
Professor Griffin, a scholar whose academic career has delved deeply into the intriguing field of ‘Process Theology’, has performed an enormous service to the world by devoting himself almost full-time, since 2003, to the ‘9-11 Truth Movement’. It can’t be fun for a man with his sights on the higher planes of human existence to spend years analyzing the cesspits of murder and deceit.
David Ray Griffin: A clear voice of reason on 9-11
Since 2003, his output of books about 9-11 has been prolific (and he’s even managed two remarkable new books about philosophy in his spare time!).
Griffin is a calm, reasoned voice in a debate that easily gets over-heated. He’s hard to discredit and sideline. Because Griffin is so hard to knock over, the main reaction of the mainstream media has been to ignore him.
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.
Of the handful of political parties with representatives in the Australian national Parliament, I much prefer the policies of the Australian Greens.
I usually find complimentary things to say about the Greens’ Senators work in the Federal Senate. Senator Ludlum, for instance, has played a smart and constructive role in the Internet censorship debate. Christine Milne is superb on the Climate Change issue. Those are just two examples. Overall, the Greens’ team is grossly overstretched, with only five Senators to cover all issues; it’s also hardworking.
Australian Greens' Leader Bob Brown: vocal about Tibet, silent on Gaza
Yet overstretched or not, the Greens are timid to the point of embarrassed silence on other subjects that cry out for investigation and follow-up.
The leadership of the Australian Greens have been either too ignorant, too stupid, too cowardly or too ‘bought-off’ to raise hard questions about 9-11 in the Australian Senate, questions begging to be asked. I hope it’s just the former, but ignorance, as the saying goes, is really no excuse.
Among people from many lands, Australians died on that tragic day in New York City in quite horrible circumstances. Who in our Parliament pursues justice for them? The answer, as far as I can see, is no-one.
I remain, broadly speaking, a cautious optimist about President Obama’s intentions and basic decency as a human being. Of course, I also remain less than enamored by some of his staff.
Why did Obama pick Zionist extremists with obvious first loyalty to Israel for a range of key positions – men such as Richard Holbrooke, Dennis Ross and Rahm Emanuel?
The Obamas Dance: graceful, but which way is he leading?
Pessimists argued it was Obama showing his true spots as a Zionist and stooge of the Illuminati, Bilderbergers or (insert your favourite term here…)
Well, maybe. I’d have thought at least some consideration should be given to an alternative hypothesis. Barak Obama isn’t Superman, after all. He can’t turn the Titanic round in 5 minutes. It’s going to take time. Meanwhile, the Zionist Lobby in the USA is simply too strong to take on by frontal assault. Obama understands the need for a change of course, domestically and in international affairs. But he has to work at it gradually – and meanwhile, give the Zionists some of the goodies they consider reward for ‘allowing’ his rise to the Presidency.
This issue – Obama’s real intentions – remains obscure to me and to many. Both the man and his administration are an enigma.
Osama Bin Laden has teamed up with Emmanuel Goldstein, Abu Nidal, Jo Stalin and Napoleon Bonaparte to call for the overthrow of Wall Street and the worldwide imposition of Sharia Law.
“We hate your freedoms and I’m sick of being ignored” said Mr Bin Laden from his private villa in heaven.
A de-classified photo of Bin Laden, seen here resting up after a hunting accident with Dick Cheney, c. 2007
“Al Qaida has combined forces with other powerful historical forces to ensure the speedy end of the Great Satan and its lackeys.
“I am also in talks with Genghis Khan and Hannibal. Al Qaida willl soon unveil a Historic Broad Front to terrify everyone, all the time.
Mr Bin Laden angrily refused to answer questions, but added:
“No more videos until I have a complete list of everyone who sniggered at the last one!
“Terror is a terrifying business. Trillions of dollars in new contracts are at stake.
“Everyone must take Islamo-Fascism a lot more seriously” he concluded with a Nazi salute.
(Historical Note: Mr Bin Laden died in 2001, but was resurrected by The Mossad)
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UPDATE: Reuters has rushed out a less informative story – probably an attempt to divert attention from the Bin Laden exclusive reported above. See: Bin Laden criticizes Obama in new tape: report
“It is the duty of the public to tell them that if they keep on lying for much longer, they will lose what little credibility they have left.
“Silence gives consent! Ask questions!!
“Trust yourself. It is not so complicated.
“There were two airliners, but three skyscrapers. You don’t need a scientist to count to three.
“Everyone should push every button and demand truth in the press. This is very serious. Every action, no matter how small, counts.”
- Dr. Niels Harrit
The 9-11 attacks set the world ablaze with the so-called ‘War on Terror’.
Danish scientist Niels Harrit is careful not to assign blame. But he doesn’t buy the official conspiracy theory. He treats it with dignified scorn.
Dr Harrit was recently interviewed by a rather hostile German journalist from GulliNews. This transcript deserves the widest readership. Illustrations, captions and emphases have been added to this version:
9-11: Clearly a Zionist-led false-flag operation, designed to trigger a bogus 'War on Terror'
Questions to Niels Harrit concerning the study “Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe”.
Introduction:
Some time ago, gulli.com featured the news about the work of a team of independent scientists from Denmark, USA and Australia. They claim to have found a substance called Nano Thermite in the dust of the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York City. Nano Thermite is an explosive, normally only used by the military, not available on the normal market. It is a relative to thermite, a substance used for welding.
David Gregory, the Jewish American who moderates the NBC’s Sunday morning talk show Meet the Press, recently interviewed the Pakistani President.
Pakistan President Zadari: keen to explain
You might think that when President Zadari told Gregory that Osama Bin Laden – officially the USA’s No. 1 Public Enemy – was an American ‘intelligence’ operative, the so-called journalist would at least ask a follow-up question.
Aren’t the American public interested to learn more about this claim? Wouldn’t they like this apparent contradiction of the official US Government stance debated? Don’t they want to hear the informed opinion of a major US ally?
NBC's David Gregory: prefers to stick to the script
If so, it’s tough. Gregory knows the Orwellian mantra: America is at War with Al Qaida. America has always been at War with Al Qaida.
It all helps explain why Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on the morning of September 11th 2001, blurted out on TV that “It’s very good…I mean…well, it’s not good, but it will generate immediate sympathy for Israel” – an assertion he repeated more recently to an Israeli audience.
Incidentally, President Zadari’s former wife, the assassinated Benazir Bhutto, also claimed that Bin Laden is dead to British interviewer David Frost less 18 months ago. She even named the man she believed had killed him.
Shortly afterwards, Bhutto herself was murdered in mysterious circumstances, allegedly by associates of ‘Al Qaida’…
In September 1994, John Newman, a member of the New South Wales Parliament, was gunned down outside his home in western Sydney. Mr Newman was the first Australian politician known to be assassinated.
The brutal murder shocked the nation.There was no immediate suspect.
Phuong Ngo and John Newman: a murderer and his victim? (image via ABC)
Eventually arrests were made. Local businessman and aspiring politician Phuong Ngo, along with two alleged accomplices, were tried for the murder. After two aborted trials and a mistrial, Mr Ngo was eventually convicted of the murder in June 2001. He remains in prison to this day.
Not everyone in the community was satisfied by the verdict. Phuong Ngo has defenders who continue to protest his innocence. I have no opinion on the matter, having never taken the time required to study a complex case. Naturally, I hope an innocent man is not in jail for a crime he didn’t commit.
In April last year, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s current affairs program 4-Corners ran a gripping documentary called The Newman Case. 4-Corners suggested Mr Ngo had indeed suffered a serious miscarriage of justice. Various apparent anomalies in the police case were discussed and dramatized. When I watched the program at the time, I thought reporter Debbie Whitmont made a very strong case that an official review was merited.
Reporter Debbie Whitmont: walked off with a Walkley