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:

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.

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.

The crime of 9-11, like all other crimes, left forensic traces.

A WTC tower explodes into dust: only fools believe fuel fires cause explosions like that

Slowly, incrementally, a concerned and vigilant public is assembling evidence that an honest official investigation process would have gathered long ago, had any such investigation ever happened.

The latest key finding has been published as a peer reviewed scientific paper that documents unusual material in dust from four locations close to the 9-11 WTC explosions/collapses. These are interpeted as the chemical fingerprints of hi-tech high explosives.

The paper – Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 Center Catastrophe – is published in the The Open Chemical Physics Journal, 2009. There are several authors including Dr Stephen Jones, a chemist already well-known for earlier work on the mystery of 9-11.

The broader significance of discovering traces of “Active Thermitic Material” is not discussed in this academic paper. But Einstein is not really needed to figure it out.

Traces of these unusual powerful explosives indicate pre-planning was used to bring down the WTC buildings which directly caused nearly 3,000 deaths. The official story is a criminal attempt to cover up the truth and shield the real perpetrators of this appalling mass murder from justice. The criminals clearly had ready ready access to the buildings well in advance of the day – and must include elements of the Bush Administration, ‘Intelligence Agencies’ and mass media. In the case of the 9-11 collapsing skyscrapers, if not in other cases too, ‘Al Qaida’ is a patsy.

DA Jim Garrison demonstates the magic bullet absurdity in the movie 'JFK'

I spotted the highly recommended video featured lower down in this article – Back and to the Left – at Suraci’s blog. View it there to watch it alongside footage of the shooting of President John. F. Kennedy.

The comedian, Bill Hicks, had a meteoric career, tragically cut short by cancer in his early 30s over ten years ago. At the time Hicks gave this perfomance, Oliver Stone’s 1991 movie JFK was fresh in many peoples’ minds.

“Back and to the left” were the words used by Kevin Costner, who played District Attorney Jim Garrison, to describe the motion of Kennedy’s head as he was shot on that fateful day in November 1963. This made it obvious to anyone with a brain that Oswald could not have fired the lethal shot from the Book Depository. A ‘magic bullet’ was invented by the Warren Commission to explain away the inconvenient truth.

The young lawyer working for the Warren Commission back in 1964, who invented the absurd ‘magic bullet’ theory, went by the name Arlen Specter. Today, Arlen Specter is the senior Senator for Pennsylvania.

In the immortal words of Sir John Harrington:

Treason doth never prosper, what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

To see more of Bill Hicks’ brilliance, check out his website or look him up on YouTube. The atheistic Beyond the Fringe website today has an article Devastation is the Bible’s Fault, which features a Hicks skit about the war-mongering hypocrisy of some ‘Christians’.

Readers of this blog will know that I share the view of a growing number of people that that President John F. Kennedy was murdered in a conspiracy that was subsequently covered up.

Some years ago, after reading Final Judgment by Michael Collins Piper, I was persuaded that the mystery is essentially solved. Rightly or wrongly, I now believe that the ultimate perpetrators – the people who organized the assassination and cover-up – were leading figures in the Zionist movement, not only within the USA but elsewhere including Israel.

Yad Kennedy, Jerusalem

I’ve written about this previously – and encourage anyone interested to read a paper written by Mike Piper, available on this website.

Now here’s a minor footnote to the saga. Situated near Jerusalem is Yad Kennedy, a memorial to the slain US President. Built in 1966 with funds donated by Jewish communities in the USA, it’s certainly a striking monument. It also has interesting symbolism that’s clearly the product of some consideration. According to NationMaster.com:

Yad Kennedy is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, near Jerusalem. It consists of a 60-foot-high memorial is in the shape of a cut tree trunk, symbolizing a life cut short. Inside is a bust of John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States who was assassinated in 1963. The mountaintop memorial is encircled by 51 columns, each bearing the emblem of a state of the Union, plus the District of Columbia. It was built in 1966 with funds donated by Jewish communities in the USA. John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy, or Jack Kennedy, was the 35th President of the United States.

Donald Rumsfeld with George Bush - criminals together

In a bye-gone era, back in 1963, the man who would later mature into a multiple (as yet unindicted) war criminal was just finding his feet as a newly-elected Congressman for the 13th congressional district in Illinois.

Donald Rumsfeld wrote the odd letter at the time which provide insights into what was of concern to the ambitious rising political star – a few months before President J.F. Kennedy was murdered.

This is what Congressman Rumsfeld wrote to the Attorney General of the day, whose name was Robert Kennedy. (Thanks to the Israel Lobby Archive where I spotted this letter – copy below):

Donal Rumsfeld's July 1963 Letter to US Attorney General Robert Kennedy

How did RFK reply?

Perhaps we’ll find out at Rumsfeld’s forthcoming trial?____________________________________

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In the opinion of this author, here’s the speech President-elect Barak Obama should give later today…

Obama: Here's hoping for real Change!

My fellow Americans – and fellow human beings all around this wonderful planet

This is a speech I’ve been hoping to make for many years.

It’s the speech in which I share with you some profoundly important truths, upon which our future as a community of free people depends.

This is the speech in which I add substance to fine rhetoric, explain the true depth of the crisis we face and propose a way forward for America – and for humanity as a whole.

The world faces several inter-locking and overlapping crises. It’s hard to untangle this complexity. I’ll try.

First, the world faces an unprecedented and potentially devastating ecological crisis. Our basic way of life is unsustainable. This has been true since the onset of industrialization, but as modern industrial society has spread throughout the planet, combined with rising population levels, the impact of unsustainability has become more noticeable and dangerous. In our times, this impact has become potentially devastating for civilization in totality.

One Whole Earth

Change in our way of life is not an option. We must change – or ecological realities, if nothing else, will impose change upon us in a way we’d experience as suffering on an unprecedented scale.

45 years ago, as young boy, I watched the murder of a US President on TV.

JFK: an Interrupted Legacy

The family gathered round our giant early 60s black and white cathode ray tube and followed the drama agog. Like most of the world, we were truly shocked and awed. The tragedy made a deep impression on me and countless others. It was one of those moments when the world seemed to stop, in astonishment and in fear.

Two days later, I watched as Lee Harvey Oswald, the President’s alleged assassin, was also shot in front of the cameras.

By that time in my life, I’d already seen a few murder mysteries on television and read a few children’s thrillers. When Ruby killed Oswald, I remember thinking this was no ‘normal’ plot. Something was very odd about the murder of JFK. Further episodes could be anticipated before the tale was told.

In the years that followed 1963, I grew into a young man and became quite politically active. At university ten years later I gravitated to people on the left. My main political passion, since my late teens, was the peace movement, but I was interested in social justice and environmental issues too.

Left-wing icon I.F. Stone: known for his saying 'Governments Lie', he defended the Warren Commission