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Slouching Toward Kristallnacht

"Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about - we were decent people - and kept us so busy with continuous changes and "crises" and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the "national enemies", without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us."

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"Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for the one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even to talk, alone; you don't want to "go out of your way to make trouble." Why not? - Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty."

from the same book, Milton Mayer's They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933 - 1945

go here for a longer excerpt

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One Long Road To Discovery

It's been about four years since I became increasing aware of the anomalous events of 911 and about all that that implies. Prior to those series of events I had been quite content to be caught up in the development of my private practice, raising a son, restoring a house, an Austin Healey sports car and my triumph motorcycle. Enjoying life and not particularly concerned with my government and the affairs of the United States.

Discovering that 911 was an inside job - and I am now convinced that it was - was a terrible jolt that entailed a nearly overwhelming shift in consciousness. Everything changed. The growing sense of disillusionment, coupled with the dawning realization that nearly everything that I thought I knew -about my country, about its leadership, about its goals and relationship to the rest of the world turned out to be very nearly entirely..... False. To use a cliche, I was overcome with shock and dismay and a growing sense of rage.

Like so many others of my generation every morning spent in elementary school and junior high began with a pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States. Like other children, I was being enculturated to be a patriotic citizen of what I once believed was a democratic republic. Indeed, I was then and I continue to be patriotic to that ideal. While it would be trivial to complain that the real doesn't quite match my 'ideal' the truth is that what is really going is absolutely opposite of my 'ideal'. My disillusionment became a catalyst driving a dread and fueling an increasing anger that motivated further investigation.

I explored the web's knowledge base to try to begin to understand not only 911 but as importantly, the who, what , why and so forth. Exploring the information available on the web... that great big hodgepodge of information, disinformation, misinformation, cointelpro and simple nonsense.

On forums, interacting with others, I found myself in disputes with some who took the repetitious attempts to ridicule not only 911 anomalies but any real questioning of official memes. I posted, at times, with that underlying anger sometimes escaping into rhetoric. I was angry. I still am. But I have become somewhat less scathing in my remarks.... most of the time. Somewhat less expressive of the great underlying admixture of fear, anger, disgust and just any other negative emotion you can conjure up. I believe you will begin to experience similar emotions if you begin to open your eyes to patterns of previous events and those currently transpiring. As you begin to formulate your own ideas of what has happened, who really runs this country and possibly some glimpse of why events are unfolding as they are.

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CONSPIRACY THEORIES......

WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY?

The use of the joined term 'conspiracy theory'..... theories, and theorist...as equivalent to or synonomous with 'delusional nut case'became hijacked by the PTB disinfo machines some while ago and and the phrase has been used very successfully (by the increasingly infiltrated and controlled media ever since) to disparage critics of the order of things. ..... Now, if you will, understand that the entire preceding phrase would probably be labelled by an acolyte of the 'faith' (faith meaning whatever the current official government interpretation promulgated to the masses and/or contents of the 'consensus trance'happens to be) as a 'conspiracy theory' in its own right. Yet, each of the propositions contained in it are well-supported evidentially and the middle proposition - about the media - conclusively so. Yet, many will still throw the slur 'conspiracy thoerist' on anybody stating such things hoping it will stick. Thus, in this instance and in a great many similar examples, what is actually true is viewed as not true and evidence of 'craziness'.

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Conspiracy and the State of the Union

by Jamey Hecht, PhD

Assistant Managing Editor, From The Wilderness

Based on a presentation at the Internation Citizen’s Inquiry Into 9-11, Phase Two: Toronto, May 2004

www.jameyhecht.com

www.fromthewilderness.com

John Judge: Call me a conspiracy theorist if you like, so long as you call yourself a coincidence theorist. - Coalition On Political Assassinations (COPA) presentation, 2002

Philip Berg: Conspiracy is among the most common legal categories of crime – conspiracy to commit murder; conspiracy to commit fraud, conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist act, and on and on. -International Citizen’s Inquiry Into 9-11, Phase One: San Francisco presentation, 2004

Greg Palast: People tell me they don’t believe in conspiracy; I tell them, look – I have the minutes of the meetings! What more do you want? -Interview

John Newman: Let me introduce myself. I’m a conspiracy theorist.-JFK Lancer’s ‘November In Dallas’ conference presentation, 1999

Peter Dale Scott: “If a nation decides to live by lies, it has chosen a course of intellectual stagnation, and ultimately of political decay.” -The Assassinations, 1975 (ix).

Kevin Costner in Bull Durham: “I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone; I believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter…”

E. Martin Schotz: “One of the primary means of immobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed and nothing can be known…nothing of significance, that is.” -History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy

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Rant About: Weltanschaunng(s)

We are engaged in a battle for the hearts and minds of people. Neocons and the controlled main stream media are promote the meme of fear and panic. They promulgate the fear, panic and hatred. Many Americans become mindlessly afraid and panicked. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

There are many world views. And many components to each person's view. But the bed rock of a world view is the emotional stance of the individual. All else is seen through the lens of emotions and of these, the lens of fear is particularly potent. It is the easiest to engender. Fear controls citizenry very effectively.

An emotional presupposition such as fear affects how events are interpreted. How they are integrated into consciousness and the web of associations that comprise one's world view.

It gives the illusion of legitimacy to individuals and groups to demonize, dehumanize and attack those the government labels as "threats". By far, the most powerful and insideous threats to the wellbeing of the Republic of the United States are those posed by our own government. Nothing else comes even close. Our government, elements of which were complicit in the false flag operation of 9/11, misinforms and disinforms you.... every day. every way.

Folks still sleeping within the 'consensus trance' will view these words as blasphemy. But they are simply the truth.

Some Thoughts on the 9/11 False Flag

NIST's 10,000 page report has been thoroughly studied and, interestingly, it's conclusions ignore the data derived from its own empirical studies as well as reams of testimony and data from other sources that did not fit into the official government conspiracy theory.... and not only does NIST not make the case for collapse initiation, it purposefully avoids discussing the mechanism of the collapse itself.

However, others have looked at it. For example, Perhaps you should read:

Collapse Time Calculations for WTC 1 (May 9, 2007)
Dr. Kenneth Kuttler, Professor of Mathematics, in which he considers two models of collapse. The most interesting is the:

“The floating floor model: The towers had columns which supported the floors. These were on the outside and on the core. The idealized problem I will consider is to remove all the columns and consider only the floors, pretending they are floating in the air and do not move till struck. I will consider the collapse of this idealized tower of floating floors under the assumption that all collisions are inelastic. If only gravity is involved in collapse and if both the real tower and the idealized tower fall in the same manner, this idealized tower of floating floors should fall faster than the actual tower because in the idealized tower there is no vertical support whatever, and in the real tower, there were many columns. It is assumed the floors fell in such a way that they encountered a succession of lower stationary floors as described in the above quote from the NIST report.”

…..and finds that even when one ignores all of the structural steel framework and merely imagines all those floors just hanging there in the air without any structural support whatsoever, calculated collapse times far exceed actual measured collapse times (both low and high estimates). In other words, structural supports, concrete and all the rest had to be blown out of the way to achieve the actual recorded collapse times. And indeed, that is precisely what you see when you watch recordings of the events. Huge beams blown out laterally. Other material being blown upward. Hundreds of millimeter-long human bone fragments blown on to the top of the Deutche Bank roof. (Gee, just how does that happen in a gravity driven collapse?) Thick pulverized concrete dust deposited all over Manhattan.

One might also consider that well over 200 architects and engineers at Richard Gage’s (architect) site agree that the government’s ‘official conspiracy theory’ doesn’t hold water and are calling for a new investigation.

The apologists for the government's 'official conspiracy theory' can't account for these phenomena nor can they show where the requisite energy came from. Even NIST ignored the conservation of momentum (and of the conservation of angular momentum) just as some folks ignore conservation of momentum and energy requirements. Those arguing in support of the ‘official government conspiracy theory’ choose to ignore the laws of physics so I’m not sure what reality they're operating in. I guess it's 'Their Own Little World'.... devoid of the laws of physics but replete with their own silly imaginings and delusions.

However, focusing on the WTC demolitions ignores the huge mass of other data, other events (such as FOUR successful hijackings occurred - in each of which establish protocols had to be violated and which seasoned pilots state is an absolute impossibility) - occurred on that date that all point to complicity of some elements of the government and perhaps forces from other nations as well.

Part 2 And the issues of simultaneous war games going on, exactly mimicking the real events... I wonder at the odds.….. a few trillion to one? Hey, I’ll go right out and buy the lotto ticket.… And Dick Cheney’s lies about his actions during the attacks.…. And there was that lack of plane debris at the Shanksville crash... of course there was debris --- within a miles’ long radius - beyond - the crash scene... I wonder, when planes crash, do they leave debris fields miles’ away? …. OH.… I thought not... Hey, again, is it of curious note that the highjackers obtained some training from the U.S. military? Or that Al qaeda was created by the CIA and the ISI? And always thereafter, kept ‘in touch’. Oh.… I thought you would ignore that. (btw way, in Persian Al Qaeda means ‘the base’ [a CIA name] or, alternatively, the toilet …. in slang.… more fitting I think.

9/11 was simply another in that long long list of false flag -- 'psyop' operations (see the 'wannabe' Operation Northwoods, Operation Gladio, the Gulf of Tonkin deception, FDR and Pearl Harbor, the Reichstag fire, etc., etc. )that governments have used to terrorize their own populations into supporting increased militarization, wars against other nations and, in most cases, increased fascism within their own borders.

That last, for example, has certainly been the case in the U.S. with the treasonous destruction of Constitutional rights via the obscene Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the Warner Defense Authorization Act, Presidential Directives (esp. #51), creation of FEMA detention camps and now the new 'thought crimes' bill sitting in the senate.

Remember, as well, that military and logistical forces had already been put in place to invade Afghanistan -prior - to 9/11. The plans for the invasion were on Bush's desk - prior - to 9/11, other countries were aware (such as Australia) months - prior - to 9/11 that the U.S. intended to invade Afghanistan in Oct. '01.

U.S. interests met with the Taliban several times before 9/11 to make their 'offerings'. But the Taliban refused to allow Cheney, Enron and the oil companies to build the pipeline across Afghanistan to carry the recently discovered 500 billion barrels of oil and natural gas out of the Caspian Sea basin... too bad for the Taliban, eh? What we can't buy, we'll invade, murder and steal to obtain. Ironically, that amount of oil and natural gas was downsized to 50 billion barrels.…..later on.… ‘chuckle’

While peaking oil (and other natural) resources were certainly driving the desire to fabricate an excuse for invasion and war, it must be noted as that the CIA certainly did not like the Taliban's curtailing the opium crops... profits from which had supported CIA black ops for years (also well-documented).

The government also wished to move the bases that had been in Saudi Arabia into Iraq (and thus avoid the ire of the Wahabists) in order to set the stage for the next big international war crime - aggressive war to steal Iran's and Central Asia’s resources. Unfortunately for the neocon/neolib middle managers, Russia, China and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization now stand firmly against Imperial America’s goals of conquest. But war with Russia and China were always the Neocon's endgame.

Oh, and also regarding 9/11, the Patriot Act was written before 9/11 as well. And the 2 senators' offices to receive mail containing U.S. military grade anthrax were those of Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy.... both objecting to the Patriot Act and standing in the way of its passage. Go Figure.

All of this information is well referenced and available for perusal. You might begin with Paul Thompson's timeline and/or many other journals (e.g. journalof911studies dot com, ae911truth dot org (architects and engineers for 911 truth), Jim Hoffman's excellent site, 911research dot com, etc.) There is so much well-documented information available that it is no surprise that many avoid addressing that data and the physics. And purposefully mislead.

There will always be those who hesitate to look because they are afraid to see. Cognitive dissonance is a powerful psychological force supporting denial. But interestingly, millions upon millions of people in the U.S. and even more world wide are beginning to open their eyes and actually look around themselves.... and what they are seeing about the U.S. and it's allied transnational corporate and financial powers and the military industrial media complex ain't a pretty sight.

Mostly Mockingbirds (remember the CIA's Operation Mockingbird - it hasn't gone away you know) and Pentagon operatives (see Mike Whitney's and BBC FOIA obtained data in - 'The Pentagon's War on the Internet') are always available to argue in support of the government's 'official' conspiracy theory.

For those of you who do not know, from ‘The Pentagon’s War on the Internet’: [Information Operations Roadmap (IOR) recommends that psychological operations (Psyops) “should consider a range of technologies to disseminate propaganda in enemy territory: unmanned aerial vehicles, "miniaturized, scatterable public address systems", wireless devices, cellular phones and the internet.” “No idea is too costly or too far-fetched that it escapes the serious consideration of the Pentagon chieftains. The War Dept. is planning to insert itself into every area of the internet from blogs to chat rooms, from leftist web sites to editorial commentary. The objective is to challenge any tidbit of information that appears on the web that may counter the official narrative; the fairytale of benign American intervention to promote democracy and human rights across the planet. "]   And finally, about 9/11. Always ask, cui bono? There is only one answer...it don’t include Al Qaeda. (and it don't include you or me).

The folks who get so upset when anybody challenges their pleasant little consensus trance world just strike me as terribly naive and woefully uninformed. And worse.

http://www.911inquiry.org/index.html

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Snakes' Eyes......

Most Americans have been held in lock by their hypnotic stare into the media's eyes. With the vast majority of print, radio and video media outlets held by just five corporations (all of whom have interests in maintaining the military-industrial business), Americans have nearly no access to accurate news or thoughtful commentary except via the web. And the majority of Americans will expend no effort to locate truth about their government or world events.

Add to that fact the unavoidable psychological side-steps of denial, avoidance, cognitive dissonance, self-deception, sloth and purposeful ignorance.. and you have the witches brew of a thought-less populace. Ready and willing to manipulated any which way by the well-implaced Mockingbirds of the CIA and other thought and attitude control agencies.

I seriously doubt that enough Americans will ever awaken to the real truths.... either regarding what Bill Moyers called the Shadow Government, the global elitists and corporatists and secret services who truly run the show ... or even the criminality of the neocons or the neoliberals who service the elite so servilely.
 

*Shrink Rat*

"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." William Blum

Marc Welser

Marc Welser (1558-1614)

The Welser family was an old patrician family of Augsburg (southern Germany) and one of the wealthiest in Germany. His uncle, Bartholomeus had been an advisor to the Emperor Charles V and is said to have lent him twelve tons of gold. In 1528 Bartholomeus sent a fleet to the New World and established a colony in Venezuela, which was taken over by the Spanish in 1555.

Marc Welser was sent to Rome at the age of 16 and became a very fine scholar of Greek and Latin; he also became fluent in Italian and studied antiquities. Upon his return to Augsburg, he became a lawyer and in 1592 became a member of the Senate of that city. He was elected the Senate's Council. His passion, however, was history, antiquities, and philology, and he corresponded on these subjects with the foremost scholars in Europe. He published books on the antiquities of Italy and Augsburg, on martyrs of the early church, and early German history. He also prepared an edition of Emperor Frederick II's (13th century) book On the Art of Hunting with Birds, and published several editions of hitherto unpublished Greek sources.

Among Welser's correspondents were a number of Jesuit scholars, such as Christoph Clavius. It was Clavius who assured Welser that Galileo's telescopic discoveries were real. At the end of 1611, the Jesuit mathematician Christoph Scheiner, wrote three letters on sunspots to Welser, and Welser published them early in 1612 at his own press. He sent Galileo a copy of the tract asking for his opinion. Galileo's responses and Scheiner's second tract on the subject were published by the Lyncean Academy in 1613 under the title Istoria e Dimostrazioni intorno alle Macchie Solari e loro Accidenti ("History and Demonstrations concerning Solar Spots and their Properties"). Welser was elected at this time to the Lyncean Academy. After a long and very painful battle with gout, he died in 1614. His collected works (the introduction to which is the source of virtually all information about his life) were published in 1682.

Sources: Mario Biagioli and Albert Van Helden, Galileo, Scheiner, and the Sunspot Controversy: Scientific Practice in the Patronage Context, in preparation.

Image: Portrait is from the 1682 edition of Marc Welser's collected works.