The Noble Lie

What did Obama know about Operation Scare the Shit out of NY?

ABC News reports along with many others that the horrible plane crash in Buffalo claimed the life of Beverley Eckert, 9/11 widow, strong critic of the government’s response to the attack, and founder of victim’s advocacy group Voices of September 11. She was also a member of the Family Steering Committee, along with the (in)famous Jersey Girls. (The Jersey Girls confronted Henry Kissinger, and won, getting him kicked off as the first chair of the 9/11 commission by revealing his business contacts with the Bin Laden family.)

Back to Eckert. She grilled Bush and Republicans in Congress for their stonewalling. She also sued the United States Government, not for money, but for the truth about what happened on 9/11.

In her memory, I share her comments to USA Today, December 19, 2003.

My Silence Cannot be Bought

Beverley Eckert
December 19, 2003

I’ve chosen to go to court rather than accept a payoff from the 9/11 victims compensation fund. Instead, I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited.

I am suing because unlike other investigative avenues, including congressional hearings and the 9/11 commission, my lawsuit requires all testimony be given under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence.

The victims fund was not created in a spirit of compassion. Rather, it was a tacit acknowledgement by Congress that it tampered with our civil justice system in an unprecedented way. Lawmakers capped the liability of the airlines at the behest of lobbyists who descended on Washington while the Sept. 11 fires still smoldered.

And this liability cap protects not just the airlines, but also World Trade Center builders, safety engineers and other defendants.

The caps on liability have consequences for those who want to sue to shed light on the mistakes of 9/11. It means the playing field is tilted steeply in favor of those who need to be held accountable. With the financial consequences other than insurance proceeds removed, there is no incentive for those whose negligence contributed to the death toll to acknowledge their failings or implement reforms. They can afford to deny culpability and play a waiting game.

By suing, I’ve forfeited the “$1.8 million average award” for a death claim I could have collected under the fund. Nor do I have any illusions about winning money in my suit. What I do know is I owe it to my husband, whose death I believe could have been avoided, to see that all of those responsible are held accountable. If we don’t get answers to what went wrong, there will be a next time. And instead of 3,000 dead, it will be 10,000. What will Congress do then?

So I say to Congress, big business and everyone who conspired to divert attention from government and private-sector failures: My husband’s life was priceless, and I will not let his death be meaningless. My silence cannot be bought.

“Ring of Power: Empire of the City” is a spectacular, and very long, documentary. Weighing in at over 4 hours, it covers the Egyptian crypto-history of the Bible including the Hyksos Kings, the “Twelve Tribes of Israel,” secret societies, Queen Elizabeth II, the Rothschilds, the City of London, September 11, and New World Order and Globalism.

If you decide to track down and verify the claims made in this documentary, you are in for quite a ride. Many fascinating discoveries and some false leads are to be had in this documentary.

This film is also the first place I heard and appropriated the wonderful portmentau, bankster. I’ll add notes the next time I watch it (soon).

Part 1

Part 2

I have been reading, watching documentaries (I recommend checking out Uncounted), and spending time with the important people in my life. I have not had the time or inclination to write. I think I am also coming out of the shock this wave of nightmare scenarios has produced — understanding how it works does not make you immune — and starting to catch my breath.

I have been reading a lot and thinking about a lot of stuff, and this post is going to be very scattershot.

You have to really listen to the words

A link shared by Justin from Skilluminati / Brainsturbator, whom I linked to a few posts ago and who apparently followed me back, got me very into the psychological make-up of the words we use. He linked an article with a lexical analysis of the presidential debates, and I have been digging down that hole ever since. This is absolutely fascinating, and ties in with some of the other reading I have been doing about NLP and similar techniques, as well as Median Voter Theory which is a sort of Game Theory applied to elections, stating that rational candidates (or their handlers more to the point) will tend to anticipate and gravitate towards the same policies and positions. I would add that this leaves only image, “character” and minor policy details open to any kind of real debate.

Sarah Palin says over and over, “You have to really listen to the words Obama uses.” The message Palin is implicitly giving when she says that is, “You don’t have to really listen to the words I use.” I think we need to pay attention to the words they all use.

• Lexical analysis of 2008 debates
• Word Watchers – tracking the candidates words in the 2008 election
• Spinning the election
• Wordle – a great visual word-frequency analysis tool

Another issue I am thinking about a lot is how much we assist the fine-tuning of our own propaganda by continually participating in opinion polls and surveys.

I’ve been a reader of Skilluminati / Brainsturbator for a while, and I gave him a long-overdue link on my links page. I added his insightful site and another news source I check daily, with some of the most salient and succinct analysis out there, Cryptogon.

Honesty is such a lonely word

Finally, we get some straight-talk by a JP Morgan Chase executive. Remember that bailout money we spent to help get the loans flowing again and businesses back on their feet? Well, they have no intention of using the money for loans. That money is going straight to their Mergers and Acquisitions department, to buy out their smaller competitors. I love how he says “help the folks who are struggling more than Chase.” When he says folks, he means banks, and when he says help, he means gobble up.

In point of fact, the dirty little secret of the banking industry is that it has no intention of using the money to make new loans. But this executive was the first insider who’s been indiscreet enough to say it within earshot of a journalist.

“Chase recently received $25 billion in federal funding. What effect will that have on the business side and will it change our strategic lending policy?”

“Twenty-five billion dollars is obviously going to help the folks who are struggling more than Chase,” he began. “What we do think it will help us do is perhaps be a little bit more active on the acquisition side or opportunistic side for some banks who are still struggling. And I would not assume that we are done on the acquisition side just because ofthe Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns mergers. I think there are going to be some great opportunities for us to grow in this environment, and I think we have an opportunity to use that $25 billion in that way and obviously depending on whether recession turns into depression or what happens in the future, you know, we have that as a backstop.”

• Joe Nocera – So When Will Banks Give Loans?

I’ve got the eye in the sky

Naomi Klein had a very powerful article in Rolling Stone titled “China’s All-Seeing Eye,” about the high-tech police state which which China has built up with the help of some American know-how. What really struck me the hardest is that the guys who are high in the running to provide face-recognition software for China’s closed-circuit TV surveillance system were also the creators of a very popular Chinese Flickr-like photo sharing site. Naturally, this means the face-recognition software company has a large and ever-growing database of voluntarily-submitted photos with which to analyze faces. It made me think of the American site, whose name should be rather eerie in light of this article — Facebook. One of the features of Facebook allows you and your online friends to “tag” photos, identifying which Facebook users are depicted in each picture.

• Naomi Klein – China’s All Seeing Eye

You’re not just wrong, you’re dangerous and insane

Speaking of the Rolling Stone, one of the most scathing ridicules of “9/11 Truthers” was served up by Stoner Matt Taibbi. He was apparently disgusted that he recieved hate mail after declaring that anybody who questioned the official account of 9/11 is “clinically insane.” That’s one step away from calling them terrorists. In fact, when these people get shipped off to prison camps in China, or the old USSR, that is the pretext under which they were/are taken. They are clinically insane conspiracy theorists, and the only proper treatment for this is sanity-building prison labor.

There are many negative criticisms I could make of the “9/11 Truth Movement” and some of the people who make it up. None of the criticisms could stand up to the criticisms I have to make of the people who take great pleasure in heaping social ridicule on the “Truthers” and spend more time bringing ridicule and social pressure to bear than logic, reason, or good argumentation. Rather than debate, they get off on the fact that they can really unleash their inner sadist and the usual consequences don’t apply because these are freaks that are being abused.

The detached, objective mainstream press really bare their teeth when it comes to tearing into these 9/11 researchers (or Kennedy researchers, for that matter). The outrage some of these people display at the mere thought that our elite would kill 3,000 Americans is unbelievable, not to mention implicitly bigoted because they obviously have no issue whatsoever with ending over a million Iraqi lives to pursue their goals. Do American lives really mean 333x more to them? I know this is going to sound callous, but compared to what Iraq is going through, 9/11 was a Sunday afternoon picnic. Really.

Mat Taibbi is also guilty of trying to characterize the mass of various theories and guesses of what happened on 9/11 into one story, as if “Truthers” must endorse every aspect of every theory that’s ever been put out there.

The only site which makes even a small effort to keep a halfway-polite tone while debunking is ironically the United States Government (link below).

• Matt Taibbi – I, Left Gatekeeper
• BBC Conspiracy Files
• Popular Mechanics
• TIME Magazine – Why the Conspiracy Theories won’t go away
• America.gov debunks 9/11 conspiracy theories
• My piece on 9/11 Holocaust Deniers (how’s that for a reframe?)

Since some people on YouTube have put up video collages of famous people who challenge the official line on 9/11, I have to rotate the other way and put up a small collection of “9/11 Truth Haters.” What is fascinating to me about this issue is that, almost unilaterally, it’s not enough to disagree on the issue, but it has to be refuted forcefully and anybody who ascribes to such an idea has to be ridiculed more vehemently than any other group, including their political or ideological opponents.

Also, I have to challenge the most popular argument among most of these guys. Why do I have to choose between either inside job or government incompetence? Why couldn’t a group of high level insiders take advantage of an incompetent government? It’s too dismissive to say people think “the government” did it. There is a lot of research which names names, with supporting evidence.

Penn and Teller

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Honestly, I like Penn and Teller, and I knew they had an “anti-9/11 truth” episode out. I’ve read a LOT of 9/11 stuff and I’ve read a LOT of anti-and-debunking 9/11 stuff. I haven’t heard of half the theories these guys showcase. They do put in a bit of what I would consider legitimate evidence, but it’s in 2-second mentions of demolitions interspersed with bizarre segues about how the planes were flown to a military base and attached with remote control equipment. I guess that guy doesn’t know that remote control autopilot systems are standard issue in commercial planes.

It’s sad how they talk about how it was obviously fires that brought down the towers, while taking deliberate close-up shots of gaping holes in the tower with no fire, just a bunch of black smoke (a dead or dying fire). I’ve seen some videos of massive skyscraper fires (from buildings that stood, by the way) and they are truly breathtaking.

Greg Palast Disses 9/11 Truthers

Where do any of these people (some of whom make their careers out of chronicling the lies and conspiracies of the powers that be) get off acting so personally, morally outraged at the suggestion that the crooks of the military-industrial complex once again screwed over its own population? At least Greg Palast lost a friend who worked there. The sad thing is that he also broke half the stories that connects the dots of the conspiracy, such as the theft of the election, the Bush/bin Laden link, and the black-balling of CIA and FBI investigations, but just can’t take that last step.

Behind the Cut: Noam Chomsky, Bill Maher, Bill Clinton, Ron Paul, Danny Bonaduce

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A few years ago, we watched as the bin Ladens (one of today’s Warburgs) had to pull out of the Carlyle Group (one today’s IG Farbens) for similar reasons that Max Warburg pulled out of IG Farben, as it would be unbecoming to see the Arab elite making huge profits off the death and enslavement of Arab nations by the United States war machine. Anybody who watched ‘Fahrenheit 9/11′ knows about the love triangle between the Bushes, the bin Ladens, and their intermediary James R. Bath, with whom Bush “served” in the Texas Air Guard.

I have read many times that Marvin Bush and Wirt Walker (a Bush cousin) were on the board of Securicom/Stratasec, the company which provided security services for Dulles Airport (where the highjackers boarded), United Airlines (the planes hijacked), and the World Trade Center. What I have just started learning is that they were also principals in KuwAm, a private Kuwaiti security firm which backed Stratasec. Major non-Bush/Walker shareholders in KuwAm are the Kuwaiti royal family, the Saudi royal family, and the bin Laden family. KuwAm was one of the companies that came in to beef up World Trade Center security after the 1993 bombing.

• Security, Secrecy and a Bush Brother (the story that broke the Bush-Securicom link)
• Marvin Bush Employee’s Mysterious Death [From the Wilderness]
• Center for an Informed America article on Marvin, Securicom and KuwAm
• Political Friendster connection – 9/11 and KuwAm]

Extra Credit

The Bushes have close ties to another infamous family, the wealthy oil baron family of John Hinckley Jr., who tried to assassinate president Reagan at a time when Bush Sr. was first in line for the accession.

• Hinckley and Bush families were close friends
• Bush son had dinner plans with Hinckley brother before shooting
• Hinckley – Bush family friend – nears release
• Bush-Hinckley family connections [Wikipedia]

If the topics covered on this weblog have interested you so far, I thought you might be interested in this collection of DVDs that are not available for online viewing.

People have to make a living. Unfortunately, the people who need this information most will be the hardest-pressed to afford it. If you can, buy these materials, show them to people you know, and spread the word. Here, I am simply linking to their websites so you can learn more from the horse’s mouth.

• The Future of Food
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• ACLU Freedom Files
• In Debt We Trust
• Secret Mysteries of America’s Beginnings
• Richard Dawkins – Growing Up in the Universe

If you have any good DVD documentary picks, list them in the comments section.

Now that I’m starting to build up a small audience, I am so ready to alienate them with weird stuff!

You’ve seen the demolitions analysis of 9/11, the socio-political analysis of 9/11, now you must take in the “synchromystic” analysis of 9/11. This is for the people who are curious about the occultism that seems to run through the ranks of our rulers.

• Brave New World Order

This is the kind of stuff people are usually talking about when they talk about “9/11 was an inside job.” I have watched many (far too many to be honest) documentary films about the physical evidence of 9/11, and this is the one packed with the most information, which makes the strongest case.

I believe in giving credit where credit is due. I saw The Money Masters on a million different websites, but I had to do a bit of research to discover the narrator’s name (William Still) and see what other work he has done. 9/11 Mysteries was created by a woman who calls herself Sofia Smallstorm, and she is now host of a the radio show Expansions on RBN.

Michael Ruppert is a former LAPD narc whose work ran him face-first into drug-running operations of the federal government. Since that time, he has been a speaker, researcher, and publisher of the (now-defunct) newsletter From The Wilderness.

This video is unique among 9/11 films in that it does not spend any time on the physical evidence of the explosions or what happened at ground zero to make his case. His background as an investigator points his detective work in the paper trail leading up to 9/11 (giving Cheney’s office SOLE authority to intercept hijackers, and to coordinate the half-dozen NORAD training exercises that kept their radars filled with false blips and many of our fighters redeployed elsewhere), the put options and other financial fraud which took place on Wall Street, and evidence of that nature. He also gives listeners a crash course in federal government drug-running, and corporate economics, to explain how drug money laundering keeps Wall Street afloat. A must-see.