Detroit 9/11 Terror

A look at Detroit's financial connections to 9/11 sent to us by its author, John McDermott.

DETROIT 9/11 TERROR

Has the Metropolitan Detroit area demonstrated any greater connection to domestic terrorism events and developments than have other metropolitan areas?

Which persons from the Metropolitan Detroit area have figured most prominently in terrorism related events and developments?

Have any of those same domestic terrorism events been so-called ‘False Flag’ events intended to mislead public opinion by falsely implicating people who were not wholly responsible for the events?

Are there any demonstrable relationships between or among those persons from Metropolitan Detroit who have figured prominently in these terrorism related events?

Was the GMAC mortgage financing of the July 2001 World Trade Center Towers 1 and 2, Buildings 4 and 5 leasehold sales an ‘arms-length’ transaction done in the ordinary course of business and only done after exercising due diligence?

Was the GMAC mortgage financing of WTC 1, 2, 4 & 5 not ‘arms-length’ due to some unusual external pressure or some unusual internal influence being applied to cause GMAC to hastily enter the unprecedented transaction without exercising due diligence?

While performing the due diligence appropriate to a $563 million mortgage origination and bond issue, had GMAC’s consultants, appraisers, environmental inspectors, building inspectors, mechanical inspectors or surveyors unwittingly discovered and innocently documented property conditions or circumstances which could later be reasonably interpreted as evidence of prior knowledge, preparation for or anticipation of the 9/11 events?

Why did Chubb Group apparently recruit General Motors Executive Vice President and GMAC Chairman John Finnegan to become Chubb CEO and President in late 2002 during litigation involving the Chubb and Swiss Re led insurance consortium’s reimbursement of 9/11 claims including GMAC’s $563 million claim? Had John Finnegan learned something about the 9/11 events which Chubb’s Board hoped might minimize Chubb’s liability?

Why did Geneva based Swiss Re apparently recruit former General Motors Chairman and CEO John F. ‘Jack’ Smith to join the Swiss Re Board of Directors in early 2003 during litigation involving the Chubb and Swiss Re led insurance consortium’s reimbursement of 9/11 claims including GMAC’s $563 million claim? Had Jack Smith learned something about the 9/11 events which Swiss Re’s Board hoped might minimize Swiss Re’s liability?

Why did Silverstein Properties apparently recruit former General Motors Vice President Andy Card’s brother as an Albany lobbyist in October 2001 although A.

Bradford ‘Brad’ Card had not been a lobbyist for-hire before? What other lobbyists did Silverstein Properties hire in the immediate aftermath of 9/11?

When GMAC sued Silverstein Properties in January 2002 to prohibit or enjoin Silverstein Properties from using 9/11 insurance proceeds to hire lobbyists in Albany and Washington, was GMAC concerned with or even aware of Brad Card’s work in Albany?

Were Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin and FBI Congressional Affairs Liaison Unit Chief Arthur Radford Baker in communication between March 2001 and September 11, 2001? Did Carl Levin receive information about the Gomel Chesed Cemetery informant from Arthur Radford Baker? Did Arthur Radford Baker receive instructions from Carl Levin to reject or discourage the Gomel Chesed informant? Why would the FBI assign a Congressional Affairs Liaison to respond to an informant from Newark alleging a terrorism threat? Was Baker assigned to the Gomel Chesed matter by the new Administration’s transitional FBI hierarchy or by the fiat of Carl Levin? Had Baker become Unit Chief of the FBI Congressional Affairs Office due to the Levin Brothers’ patronage or sponsorship?

Why did Committee Chairman Carl Levin interrupt the questioning of VCJCS General Richard Myers by Senator Nelson on September 13, 2001? Was there some collusion between Levin and Myers regarding Myers’ pending confirmation as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff? Was there some collusion between Levin and Myers regarding the apparent NORAD stand down on September 11, 2001? Was Myers’ confirmation as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff a quid pro quo promised by Levin or others for Myers standing down NORAD on 9/11?

Was Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin one of the principal planners of the 9/11 attacks?

Given Senator Levin’s Advise and Consent powers and his Blue Slip veto powers in Judicial and Federal law enforcement appointments in Michigan, is Senator Levin largely responsible for conspicuous False Flag events staged by Federal law enforcement in the Eastern District of Michigan?

TERRY NICHOLS – OKLAHOMA CITY 1995

Michigan native Terry Nichols is a convicted accomplice in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing which claimed the lives of 168 people. Nichols met his future co-conspirator Tim McVeigh during a brief stint in the U.S. Army. In 1994 and perhaps in 1995, Nichols and McVeigh practiced ammonium nitrate bomb making at or near a Nichols’ family property in eastern Michigan’s Thumb region.

No fewer than 24 witnesses saw Timothy McVeigh, just before and after the explosion, with a man who could not have been either Terry Nichols or convicted accomplice Michael Fortier. The FBI refused to release the many security camera videos

from nearby properties which must have captured images of this other unidentified suspect.

http://truthandshadows.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/documentary-a-noble-lie-exposes-oklahoma-city-bombing-as-government-black-op/

Ret. Brigadier General Ben Partin in 1995 prepared technical reports and made public presentations demonstrating why the Murrah Federal Building bomb damage was obviously inconsistent with a single external truck bomb explosion. www.youtube.com/watch?feature=ends creen&v=mOT_wOm3xys&NR=1

At least one already exploded device and at least one unexploded device were found within the Murrah Federal Building and removed by the Oklahoma City bomb squad. Several Oklahoma City broadcast and newspaper reporters reported the discovery of the multiple explosive devices as verified by the local and Federal law enforcement officials at the scene.

One of those many Oklahoma City television newsmen who reported the multiple explosive devices was Devin Scillian Scillian then transferred to Metro Detroit’s Channel 4 NBC affiliate where he has been evening news anchor since the 1990’s. The Metro Detroit television affiliate of NBC is sometimes described as NBC’s single largest local affiliate in the Nation.

According to a June 13, 1995 New York Times article by Jo Thomas, Detroit FBI S.A. Arthur Radford Baker filed a search warrant affidavit in Detroit Federal District Court related to the April 21, 1995 search of the Nichols’ family farm in Decker, Michigan. Detroit FBI attempted unsuccessfully to implicate Terry Nichols’ brother in the Murrah Federal Building attack.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/13/us/bombing-suspect-s-brother-noted-building-s-vulnerability-1988-court-papers-say.html

GOMEL CHESED CEMETERY INCIDENT- NEWARK NJ

An October 2000 conversation spoken in Hebrew and overheard in Newark’s Gomel Chesed Cemetery alarmed a witness sufficiently that he e-mailed a warning to Attorney General Ashcroft. One of the three men speaking in Hebrew allegedly said "The Americans will learn what it is to live with terrorists after the planes hit the twins in September."

According to the informing witness’ account, on February 9, 2001, approximately seven months prior to the airplanes being flown into the ‘twins’, he sent an e-mail to then Attorney General Ashcroft informing the Attorney General that he had important terrorism-related information.

 

The Attorney General did not directly respond to the source. Shortly thereafter, on March 28, 2001, the source received a letter from FBI Congressional Liaison Unit Chief Arthur Radford Baker informing him that if he had information to share, he should contact the FBI Newark Division

The witness then attempted persistently to contact the Newark FBI Office as instructed by Baker. However, the Newark FBI’s apparent lack of a satisfactory response caused the informant to write a letter back to FBI Congressional Liaison Unit Chief Arthur Radford Baker on May 21, 2001. In this letter, the source reiterated that he had important information to share with the government, but would need a guarantee of protection by the FBI before he could disclose all that he knew.

 

On June 26, 2001, the informant received another letter from Arthur Radford Baker. Also on June 26, 2001, two Newark FBI Agents Robin Gritz and Andrew Stengel finally paid a visit to and conducted a three hour interview of the Gomel Chesed informant. See http://rense.com/general74/heard.htm

Partially legible, partially redacted images of Unit Chief Arthur Radford Baker’s two pre-9/11 FBI letters to the Gomel Chesed informant can be seen briefly within this linked documentary diatribe at 7:08 and at 8:21 of the 9 minute 30 second video clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXCdut3E0-o

United Airlines Flight 93 departed from Newark International Airport.

Newark’s N.J. District U.S. Attorney Robert J. Cleary was succeeded by U.S.A. Christopher J. Christie January 17, 2002. Former N.J. U.S.A. Cleary became in 2002 a partner at the Proskauer Rose law firm which had begun representing Silverstein Properties in 9/11 insurance matters on Saturday September 15, 2001. Cleary’s white collar defense clientele at Proskauer Rose has included Marsh executives and Enron et al.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cleary

DETROIT FBI SA ARTHUR RADFORD BAKER

Detroit FBI Special Agent Arthur Radford Baker Jr. was admitted to the Michigan Bar November 22, 1993. P#48852. He used the Detroit FBI’s Michigan Avenue address as his Bar Directory address until 1998 when he used a residential address in Macomb County’s Clinton Township where he owned a home. In 1999 and 2000 Baker used his Ellicott City residential address in Maryland’s Howard County as his Michigan Bar Directory address. The April 2001 Michigan Bar Directory lists Baker’s address as ‘FBI – Congressional Affairs Office, 935 Pennsylvania Avenue.’ Not until the 2003 Bar Directory did Baker identify himself as ‘Unit Chief – Legislative Counsel, FBI Congressional Affairs.’

The Detroit FBI’s offices occupy several floors (19-23) in the McNamara Federal Building at 477 Michigan Avenue Detroit. United States Senator Carl Levin’s Detroit office is Suite 1860, McNamara Federal Building, 477 Michigan Avenue.

During his years of tenure as a Detroit FBI Special Agent, FBI Congressional Affairs Unit Chief Baker must have met or encountered Senator Levin and his Detroit staff rather regularly in the McNamara Building.

http://911blogger.com/news/2007-04-04/follow-%E2%80%9Cprior-knowledge-911-attacks-overheard-hebrew%E2%80%9D-story-fbi-looks-documents-where-they-cannot-be-found

GENERAL MOTORS VICE PRESIDENT ANDY CARD

From 1993 to 1998, Card was President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association (AAMA), the trade association whose members were Detroit’s Big Three - Chrysler Corporation, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corporation. The AAMA dissolved in December 1998. From 1999 until his selection as President Bush's Chief of Staff, Card was General Motors' Vice President of Government Relations. Card directed the company's international, national, state and local government affairs activities and represented GM on matters of public policy before Congress and the Administration.

Chief of Staff Andy Card whispered to the seated President that a second plane had struck the second World Trade Center Tower, but did not interrupt the children’s reading, did not remove the President from the classroom and did not immediately provide communications equipment to the President.

General Motors Acceptance Corp Commercial Mortgage (GMACCM) as Silverstein Properties’ WTC 1, 2, 4 & 5 Financier

On February 22, 2001, Vornado Realty Trust of New Jersey was declared the winning $3.25 Billion bidder to purchase the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s (PANY&NJ) publicly bid leasehold interest in World Trade Center Towers 1 & 2 and Buildings 4 and 5.

On May 2, 2001, PANY&NJ announced it would revert to the second place bidder Silverstein Properties’ now increased $3.215B bid after the winning $3.25B bidder Vornado Realty Trust failed to complete the extraordinarily complex contract negotiations within the several weeks allowed by the PANY&NJ. An example of the complexity of the leasehold transaction is that the insurance consortium alone involved twenty five insurance companies led by Chubb and Swiss Re.

New York Governor Pataki hailed the July 2001 WTC leasehold sale as both the largest real estate transaction in New York and the largest privatization of public property anywhere.

Silverstein Properties’ ability to aggressively negotiate the mammoth WTC leasehold acquisition may have been due in significant part to GMACCM’s willingness to finance the unprecedented transaction within an unusually brief period.

The GMAC Executive whose aggression or internal influence may have enabled Silverstein Properties to accomplish what Vornado Realty Trust had not accomplished may have been Eric A Feldstein, according to investigative journalist Chris Bollyn. Feldstein had been General Motors Treasurer since 1997 and became G.M. Vice President Finance beginning June 2001 just as the WTC deal must have been nearing closing. Eric Feldstein’s father and Larry Silverstein are or were contemporaries and had reportedly both long been Officers of certain of the same New York City charities according to Bollyn.

http://www.truthforever.com/The%20Zionists%20Behind%20The%20Destruction%20of%20General%20Motors.htm

Silverstein Properties reportedly supplied $125 million in equity of which $100 million may have been a letter of credit tendered at the inception of the negotiation. GMACCM supplied at the July closing approximately $563 million in purchase money funding derived from its issuance of bonds (CMBS – commercial mortgage backed securities) to investors. The balance of the $3.21 billion purchase/sale price of the leasehold might be regarded as seller financing owed to PANY&NJ by the purchaser.

GMACCM sued Silverstein Properties January 16, 2002 alleging insurance proceeds received from the Chubb and Swiss Re led insurance consortium were not being properly applied to the many costs and liabilities of the physically destroyed but legally still-existing WTC leasehold, but were instead used to hire lobbyists in Albany and Washington. GMACCM and Silverstein Properties reached a compromise and stipulation in April 2002.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/17/nyregion/lender-sues-trade-center-leaseholder-over-insurance-money.html .

http://library.calstate.edu/sanfrancisco/articles/record?id=FETCH-proquest_dll_893404961

In December 2002 Chubb Group named former General Motors Executive Vice President John Finnegan as Chubb’s Chief Executive Officer. Finnegan became Chairman of the Chubb Group Board of Directors in December 2003. Finnegan served as Vice President and Group Executive of General Motors as well as President of GMAC from November 1997 to April 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Finnegan

At its May 12 2003 shareholder meeting in Geneva Swiss Re elected former General Motors Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John F. ‘Jack’ Smith to the Swiss Re Board of Directors. http://www.swissre.com/media/news_releases/swiss_re_annual_general_meeting_approves_dividend_of_chf_1_per_share_and_changes_to_the_board_of_directors.html

GMACCM again sued Silverstein Properties and also sued the PANY&NJ on September 5, 2003, alleging the proceeds of insurance payments were not being retained sufficiently to ensure the payments owed to GMACCM would be repaid.

http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/10819260/gmac-sues-wtc-developer

In late November 2003, Silverstein Properties, GMACCM and various parties reached agreements which would pay off GMACCM and its bondholders by year end besides returning nearly all of Silverstein Properties’ initial equity investment.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/22/nyregion/silverstein-will-get-most-of-his-cash-back-in-trade-center-deal.html

FORMER DETROIT CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT CARL LEVIN

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin presided over a September 13, 2001 confirmation Hearing of Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers’s nomination to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Besides being Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, on September 11 General Myers was also Acting Chairman due to Chairman Shelton’s overseas travel departure that morning.

http://www.public-action.com/911/levin.html

Armed Services Committee Chairman Levin seemed to shield General Myers from answering the first probing 9/11 questions by interrupting Senator Nelson during Myers' Sept. 13 Armed Services Committee Hearing.

http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/mycon.htm

Richard Myers was commander of NORAD from August, 1998 to February, 2000 before becoming Vice Chairman of JCS. Myers and NORAD have given a variety of conflicting accounts of the 9/11 events:

http://www.public-action.com/911/noradsend2.html

AUSA RICHARD CONVERTINO

Richard Convertino was a federal prosecutor in the Detroit U.S. Attorney’s Office. Convertino was the lead Assistant U.S. Attorney in the "Detroit Sleeper Cell" prosecutions which resulted in the Nation’s first post 9/11 terrorism convictions. However, the U.S. Department of Justice subsequently removed Convertino from the case and asked courts to dismiss those convictions, on the grounds that Convertino had failed to disclose exculpatory evidence to which the defense was entitled. Deputy Attorney General James Comey made an unusual public apology in Detroit for Convertino’s conduct and the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the matter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/13/politics/13terror.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/national/07detroit.html?pagewanted=print&position=

Former AUSA Convertino was indicted by Federal Grand Jury with conspiracy to conceal possibly exculpatory evidence from the defense and lying to a Federal Judge. Harry Smith III, formerly a U.S. Department of State investigator who had testified in the terrorism case prosecuted by Convertino, was allegedly part of the conspiracy.

A jury in Detroit acquitted Convertino and Smith on October 31, 2007.

UNDERWEAR BOMBER

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (also known as Umar Abdul Mutallab ), popularly referred to as the "Underwear Bomber", is a Nigerian man who at the age of 23 confessed to and was convicted in Detroit of attempting to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day, December 25, 2009

Earlier on Christmas Day 2009, Abdulmutallab had traveled from Ghana to Amsterdam, where he boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 253 en route to Detroit. He had a Nigerian passport and valid U.S. tourist visa, and purchased his ticket with cash in Ghana on December 16.

Flight 253 passengers Kurt and Lori Haskell told the Detroit News that prior to boarding the plane they witnessed a "smartly dressed man" possibly of Indian descent, around 50 years old, and who spoke "in an American accent similar to my own" helping a passenger they identified as Abdulmutallab onto the plane without a passport, apparently posed as a Sudanese refugee.

The Haskell’s observations suggest the Underwear Bomber may have been placed on the plane by the Government itself. Kurt Haskell, an attorney, also reports other irregularities including the arrest at Detroit Metro Airport of a second man although no second man has ever been charged as an accomplice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHbL10Q8gRY

HUTAREE CHRISTIAN MILITIA

The false flag Federal prosecution of the Hutaree Militia involved Detroit FBI placement of a paid informant within the group who then provided material support and encouragement to group members to commit violent anti-government acts.

The Detroit FBI’s paid confidential informant wound up exposing his own personal troubles during the Hutaree trial. The FBI’s paid informant was cross examined about a shooting incident involving himself and his wife, a knifing incident in which he stabbed himself in the gut with a 14-inch knife and initially blamed his wife, his battle with alcohol abuse, and his failure to pay taxes on the $30,000 he earned as an FBI informant spying on the Hutaree.

In a sharp rebuke, U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts on March 27, 2012, acquitted the seven members of the Lenawee County Hutaree Militia group of plotting to overthrow the U.S. government with weapons of mass destruction. Judge Roberts said federal prosecutors failed in five weeks of trial to prove that the Hutaree had any specific plan to kill a police officer and attack law enforcement personnel.

http://www.freep.com/article/20120327/NEWS06/120327048/Judge-dismisses-critical-charges-in-Hutaree-case

LEVIN - McCAIN sponsored National Defense Authorization Act of 2012

Section 1021 of the NDAA bill of 2012 allowed for the "indefinite detention of American citizens without due process at the discretion of the President." Section 1021 has been challenged as a violation of constitutional principles and the United States Bill of Rights. The indefinite detention clause has been broadly denounced nationally and internationally. It may very well be the only thing that has true bi-partisan support. The Act was strongly opposed by the ACLU, Amnesty International, Human Rights First, Human Rights Watch, and The Center for Constitutional Rights, the Cato Institute, Reason Magazine and The Council on American-Islamic Relations. It was criticized in editorials published in The New York Times, Al-Jazeera, and The Guardian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DNDHbT44cY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vld1h94tHvM

PATRIOTS QUESTION 9/11

Corbett 9/11 Conspiracy Humor - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7XS6OtsSOk

Pilots for 9/11 Truth - http://pilotsfor911truth.org/

Consensus 9/11 Best Evidence Panel - http://www.consensus911.org/

Major General Stubblebine, Ret.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/08/i-can-prove-that-it-was-not-an-airplane-that-hit-the-pentagon-major-general-albert-n-stubblebine/

Lou Grant on WTC #7- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZEvA8BCoBw

Thermite residue at WTC Architects and Engineers – www.ae911truth.org

C. Bollyn on WTC #6-crater http://www.bollyn.com/what-caused-the-wtc-6-crater

Where did the Towers go? Dr. Wood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWjktDuIhR8

Were Mini nukes used at WTC? G. Duff - Veterans Today

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/03/21/intel-disclosure-march-21-2012/

Painful Deceptions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5wkyEDIxTk

Northside C.I.T.GO witnesses http://citizeninvestigationteam.com/

…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth… 11/19/63

More Nonsense From Fake 'Truthers'

A review of Kevin Ryan's book Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects. 

The Roman Empire Did Not Fall

It just changed forms.

Happy 4th of July

What could be more appropriate than this?

Update: McGowan's Boston Series

McGowan is up to 9 installments. In part 8, he challenges naysayers like Finkton Dunne to a debate. Thus far Dunne has not responded. Doubtful he will.

Memorial to the late Angie Riedel by Vyz

Angela Riedel, who brought us the world of Think Or Be Eaten and was a friend to and a supporter of many who were truly independent activists and who provided a massive amount of good information for free, has passed away.

Details about her death are few, but Tuesday, May 28, a Sunnyvale, Calif., police department commander informed me—in response to a welfare check I requested at her home—that she was deceased and apparently from natural causes.

Two days later, I received information through a third party, who contacted the Santa Clara County Coroner’s office, that confirmed Angie had died of natural causes. She succumbed to a ruptured aortic aneurysm.

Most people who have them don’t ever know it. Folks often live a lifetime without the aneurysm causing a fatal event. However, the aortic aneurysm is called “the widow maker” because death is without warning and swift and painless.

The coroner determined that Angie suffered from hypertension—which she complained about on occasion—and that condition—and this is my speculation—coupled with the rigorous task of packing, might have triggered the rupture of the aorta. Or, perhaps, the aneurysm simply did its thing at this particular time in her life. Either way, she did not suffer.

Although Angie was not at all happy about being forced to move, she described to me in an e-mail the apartment she had secured—I believe around San Jose—and seemed optimistic about the chances for her and her cat to be comfortable there. The apartment had a loft, with an entrance on the ground floor, with plenty of open space and an in-unit washer and dryer. It did sound very good and I had asked her to send pictures when she could.

As far as I know, she must have died between the day after our last contact, April 23, and May 5, the day she was to have moved.

I became concerned when I hadn’t heard from her either in response to e-mails or by calls to what was supposed to be her “old” phone number. By May 17, I couldn’t get a new phone listing—or even be told the number was unlisted—in the area code covering the new locale to which she was to have moved. I didn’t like the fact that the old number had not been disconnected with the message machine still working.

I was hoping she, at the worst, was in a depressed state and just wanted to get herself back together before she communicated with anyone. I wanted to not push it, thinking it was best to just give her space. But a call to her on the Friday morning before the Memorial Day—at which time I left a message—and a follow-up call the Tuesday after Memorial Day—during which the phone rang endlessly with no machine pick up—convinced me I had to inquire.

There was no doubt Angie didn’t want to be uprooted. She loved her home. And I think the home loved her. Across the years, she’d tell me about strange sounds and the moving of objects that could not be attributed to her cat. It seemed as if she knew she had a, let’s say, spritely poltergeist in the house, not malevolent by any stretch.

Considering how I wish to remember her for all time, I’d advance this: Could it be that the house didn’t want her to leave as much she didn’t want to leave the house? If so, then could it be that both house and Angie now have what they wanted and are content?

And could it be that whatever family takes possession of the home may one day come to find there is not one but two spritely poltergeists in residence?

I’ll end with an excerpt from Angie’s last post “Dogs Explaining Cats to Other Dogs” on http://thinkorbeeaten.blogspot.com dated Dec. 25, 2012. It is quintessential Angie.

Life is a miracle. 

And with that final thought I will wrap it up for today.  I wish you everything good and bright and meaningful and happy for the holiday.  Loiter under the mistletoe for me.  I'll just be kissing the cat tonight.  If I can catch him.  He's a fast sucker.

Below is a link to the last interview I did with Angie. Enjoy her voice and her persona, both of which will live on forever.

http://thinkorbeeaten.com/007vyz/ang.mp3

More on the Boston Marathon Bombing

From writer Sheila Casey.

Aurora, Sandy Hook and the Valley of the Ashes

From S.K. Bain, author of "the Most Dangerous book in the World: 9/11 as Mass Ritual." Some of Bain's connections concern me but this is a primer into the occultism of terrorism (the real kind). Thanks to "Dissident."

Dave McGowan on the Boston Marathon Bombing

We try not to rush to judgement on this site but when Dave McGowan weighs in on a topic, it's usually worth a look. Was the man who supposedly had his legs shredded, an amputee actor? McGowan says yes.

Here's his report.

Update: McGowan is up to 5 parts now.

Damn, I missed this

Loyalty Day.

We Don't Whether to Laugh or Retain Legal Counsel

Maybe both.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was an Alex Jones Fan

Seriously, if there are certain free-range (or any other) terrorists who follow us, please knock it off. We know that crap is going to get thrown at those who deny the Official Theory of 9/11 as a result of this development.

Here's all you need to know about us: We love everybody, even people we don't particularly like.

Bogus Official 9/11 Science

The "Anonymous Physicist's" critiques of scientific articles by  supporters of the official 9/11 theory of the destruction of the WTC buildings can be read here. The works of Steven Jones and Judy Wood are also critically examined. 

Pentagon Damage

A poster on the CIT Research Forum produced a very detailed analysis of the damage at the Pentagon and the ASCE Report.

The Black Pope

Text of an interview with Eric John Phelps.

VYZYGOTH'S CLUBHOUSE with ADAM GORIGHTLY

Saturday, April 14, 9 to 11 PM ET. Owing to technical difficulties a live stream will not be available. Stream the archived audio here.

9/11 Physics for Dumbasses

A short video explaining NIST physics.

Roseanne vs. the Jesuits

On Roseanne Barr's Blog she prints the Jesuit oath. Is Roseanne controlled opposition? I don't know but I've always liked her and at its peak I think her sitcom was one of the best ever.

William Ramsey - Abomination

Randy Maugans interviews Ramsey on his new book covering the West Memphis Three murders and satanism. This is completely new to me but I get the sense of a mind blower a la "Programmed to Kill."

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Flight 77 Data Analysis

Flight data recorder expert Denis Cimono. It's technical but worth a checking out. It's government data so it's suspect, but it still must be addressed.

More regarding Flight 77 from Cimino and Pilots for 9/11 Truth.

No Evidence Linking Fdr Data To American 77, FDR Data Exceeds Capabilities Of A 757, Does Not Support Impact

Also, Where was Flight 77 after 8:56? by "Woody Box." 

F'ing Lawyers

Harvard-trained lawyers  Cass Sunstein (Obama's former information czar) and Adrian Vermeule  penned the juvenile  paper Conspiracy Theories calling for the government to employ agents to infiltrate conspiracy groups like '9/11 truthers' that don't trust the government. Got irony? David Ray Griffin did a pretty good job of addressing this nonsense in his book "Cognitive Infiltration" however he never mentions the possibility  that the government (establishment is a better term) created the 9/11 movement in the first place.

Jesuit General Wlodimir Ledochowski

The Dancing Israelis

FBI documents of reports on Israeli company Urban Moving Systems and dancing Israelis on 9/11.

New Pope in Town

And he's the first Jesuit  pope. Oh boy, this can't be good.  From the Dept. Of Coincidences, last Saturday night religious station EWTN ran an old Spanish film "Loyola, The Soldier Saint" which was about the founder of the Society of Jesus, Ignatius of Loyola.

Conspiracy of Silence

The documentary regarding a nationwide pedophilia ring in the 80's whose existence is still officially denied.

The Pedophocracy

A few chapters from Dave McGowan's excellent book "Programmed to Kill."

Another 9/11 Predictive Anomaly

This is a new one for us. (From Cracked)

CREDO (Version 2.0)

I believe when the extent of the universe is determined it will describe the vague but significant shape of a horse apple.

A NEW STAR IN THE FIRMAMENT

I turned on the radio last night (since the internet was painfully slow) and rather than hearing the usual program about refinancing one's mortgage there was this guy: Ground Zero with Clyde Lewis. 

Lewis was hitting all the Alex Jones grace notes about the "elites," etc., but his whacking at the mainstream media felt hollow amid all the paid advertising. Also, it's hard to be parapolitical and subversive on WIBX, which is the big Limbaugh/Hannity station in our area.

According to his self-promotional Wikipedia entry he's been around a while. To my jaded and cynical ears he comes off as the perfect straw man "conspiracy theorist" put forward to discredit any of us who seriously question the official version of events. Kind of like good ol' Alex.

KEEP WATCHING THE SKIES!

No home should be without its own drone: Maisto Fresh Metal Tailwinds 1:97 Scale Die Cast United States Military Aircraft - US Air Force Medium Altitude, Long Endurance, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) RQ-1 Predator with Display Stand (Dimension: 6" x 3-1/2" x 1")

To be fair, the seller is a small hobby shop and apparently has never sold one of these items, which are die-cast precision models for collectors and not toys for children. That being said, the comments are hilarious.

The real thing operates out of Hancock Field, Syracuse which is close enough to make Uticans sweat.

ALEX THE GREAT RAISES THE BAR

Suddenly, I'm feeling a lot more normal. Thanks, Alex! 

GRASSY KNOLL 2012 XMAS PARTY!!

UPDATE: Stream the archived show from the Knoll home page.

Herb Smith on "The Wringer"

On Wed. 11/7, 9:00 AM I'll be appearing on Pete Bianco's program "The Wringer" on WHCL. Using the Government's own data and basic laws of physics I'll show the official claim that the Towers were struck by hijacked 767's is false.

Pilots for 911 Truth Articles

The first piece is an analysis of the speeds of the aircraft alleged to have hit the Towers. And secondly, government data shows Flight 11 and Flight 93 were still airborne after their crashes.

Parody for Arlen

The Magic Loogie.

Popular Mechanics 9/11 IQ Test

What's most interesting about this look at some of PM's lies is how the term "conspiracy theorist" came from a CIA memorandum regarding the Kennedy assassination.

Idiotic Quote of the Week

"When you want to prove something you first try to disprove it. This is empirical. Conspiracy theorists don't do this to their own theories." -- Phil Hendrie

Postscript: Checking Hendrie's Twitter feed, there's also this:  "Ron Paul would be president today if he didn't have 9/11 Truthers pulling him to the bottom." Where's the empiricism in that statement?

Mae Brussell Audio

Mae Brussell was known as the "Queen of Conspiracy." Virtually all of her broadcasts from 1971- 1986 (she broadcast until her death in 1988) can be heard here. To make things easier, a list of some of the topics of her shows can be found here under the link "MP3 Audio of Mae's Broadcasts." She was one if the first researchers to discuss the Nazi links to the JFK assassination and also covered historical events as well as the news of her day. Definitely worth checking out.

Saying something today . . .

. . .would be like telling all the kids on Christmas morning that there's no Santa Claus. I haven't the heart for it.

They're going to cut Defense! Somebody do something!

Got milk?

Gordon Comstock talks with Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price Foundation on the science and politics of certified, raw milk and why it's superior to pasteurized milk. This excellent, eye-opening show can be downloaded here.

The Aurora Shooting

Stop me if you've heard this before.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE

Original footage of the Shanksville non-event. (Thanks to Vyz!)

Vyz: That's All, Brother!

Keith Hansen, aka Vyzygoth, is hitting the trail. I know he doesn't want a big maudlin deal made of his departure from internet radio, so I'll respect his wishes. But I do appreciate this: he always leveled with us. As one who has been lied to his whole life by everyone, that means more to me than I can say. And we did have fun playing on the Grassy Knoll. We all need to find serenity as well as truth, and they are not mutually exclusive. But they are least likely found on the internet or anything else that passes for the agora in a dim LED light. Thanks, Vyz, for all the shows, and the guests, and the laughs, and the truth. It's been grand.

Plane Deceit at the World Trade Center

By Morgan Reynolds can be read here.

Overall this is pretty good, especially where Reynolds shows how the planes' entries violate Newton's first 3 Laws of Motion. Although I'm not necessarily a "September Clues" guy, I believe what we saw was an illusion. Boeing 767's, hijacked or otherwise, cannot cut through steel buildings as they would through air.

JUNK FOOD

Just as I can't tolerate all the junk food that used to taste so great when I was a kid, the better a political statement sounds to me the less likely I am to swallow it. In fact, the only people I believe are those who say "Everything you've been told is a lie" and then walk away without trying to sell me anything.

MAD, CRACKED, AND SEVERIN

Herb Smith and I discussed Mad, Cracked, and the great John Severin with Vyzygoth last week. This was a fun show. We love this stuff!

Thanks to Vyz, here's the classic piece on 43 Man Squamish. Frullips to the ready!

What Plane?

Random Grumblings

Herb and I began this site six years ago because we were sick of being lied to. Not that we really expected to have any positive impact on the larger world of information and events (although we briefly had hopes that we could make a difference) but we've published bits and pieces of the jigsaw puzzle that when properly assembled would depict reality. Assembling the pieces in their proper configuration is the responsibility of the reader.

I have been lied to my whole life and I'm still being told big lies by those whom I should be able to trust. I have learned to be skeptical of almost every source of opinion and information. All forms of media, all authority, and all venues of scholarship come under my scrutiny--and though some are admittedly well-intentioned they almost always fall short. Friends and family are much more problematic, and I have determined very recently that one should regard them with special caution.

It has nothing to do with the topic of this site, but it is illustrative that I was burned by my own trust of a family member who told me a whopping lie which I then repeated. Only after closely examining what was told to me did I understand that it did not hold up to logic and was almost certainly false. Since it was about a party against whom I have some grievance, I wanted to believe it. But I should have considered that this relative of mine has a lifelong history of compulsive lying and/or confabulation.

Whom do you trust? On the subject of the events of September 11, 2001 I regard Herb Smith as reliable. I have known him since 1974 and know that he has the same abhorrence of untruth as I do. We publish this site with a consensus and I consider his researches and conclusions to speak for both of us.

But I must maintain a skeptical view toward everyone else who offers theories and information on topics that concern us--including, and perhaps especially, people we like. I may think about what you say, but I will defend to the death my right not to believe a word of it. (But I still like you.)

The only thing I believe without reservation is that we must be kind to each other.

Happy New Year!

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

The man who has done the most to lend credence and dignity to the proud name of "Conspiracy Theorist," Mr. Alex Jones.

Letter from My Fellow Americans Project

Hello again,

I thought that you and the readers of Uticans for 9/11 Truth would be interested to know that last week Lowe’s Home Improvement pulled its ads from the TLC show All-American Muslim in response to an organization claiming the show "falsely humanized Muslims in America.” The Lowe’s controversy has exposed more Islamophobia in America. This issue falls directly in line with what the My Fellow American project is trying to prevent and overcome in America.

As a supporter of the project, would you please visit www.myfellowamerican.us to share what this controversy means to you? I encourage you to ask your readers to do the same to help spread the message of tolerance to fight back against intolerance and fear-mongering. We've just posted a host of new content from various entertainers and faith leaders on this topic.

Thank you for your continued support!

Elizabeth
--
Elizabeth Potter
Unity Productions Foundation
myfellowamerican.us
facebook.com/MyFellowAmericanProject
@usmuslimstories

The Informer and Montgomery on Vyzygoth Raw!

Not coming soon to a theater near you. (Image by Jeff Long)

The audio for Vyz's recent program with The Informer and James Montgomery (as well as links to many of their articles) is posted on Redacted News.

Direct download of the mp3 is at this link.

Craig Ranke vs. Anthony Summers

Yeah, man!

UTICANS WITH VYZYGOTH THIS SUNDAY (OCT. 16)

UPDATE: This show is may be heard HERE.

Listen here: http://untameddimensions.com/

Click in about five minutes before 7 PM EDT to secure a stream to listen to.

By the way . . .

Allen Dulles, the Nazis and the CIA

Or is that redundant? Allen Dulles' only loyalty was to the bottom line. Read about it here.

The Secret of Oz

Was The Wizard of Oz an allegory for monetary reform? William Still explores this hypothesis in his award-winning documentary which also serves as an excellent primer on our monetary system. (Of local interest: Still visits L. Frank Baum's hometown of Chittenango, NY.)

Yep, All Our Work Is Finally Paying Off!

Introducing 9-11cc.org. Ballot initiatives sponsored by prominent Movers and Shakers? That'll work.

Our sense is that "cc" actually stands for "Children's Crusade."

Al Qaida to Ahmadinejad: Knock Off The 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

No joke, apparently. I am starting to think the Guardian is the British version of the Onion.

The al-Qaida article insisted it had been behind the attacks and criticised the Iranian president for discrediting the terrorist group.

"For them, al-Qaida was a competitor for the hearts and minds of the disenfranchised Muslims around the world," said the article published in the Inspire magazine. "Al-Qaida … succeeded in what Iran couldn't. Therefore it was necessary for the Iranians to discredit 9/11 and what better way to do so? Conspiracy theories."

Hope for the Cognitively Dissonant

DRG makes nice between the sheep and the wolves

And slights the only Pentagon researchers worth considering. (Thanks again to Jeff!)

9/11: The Condensed Version

Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. (Thanks, Jeff!)

Vyzygoth's 9/11 Marathon

Vyzygoth's 9-11 Marathon : Sunday, Sept. 4 beginning at 7 pm ET to completion on Labor Day

Listen at http://untameddimensions.com

12 shows will be aired twice.

Featured Guests:

Eric Hufschmid , author of “Painful Questions” and producer of “Painful Deceptions” (three parts)

Emergency Search and Rescue responders Sgt. Matthew Tartaglia and Michael Silin (two parts)

WingTv’s Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani on Flight 93 anomalies

Uticans for 9-11 Truth’s Herb Smith and Andy Senior (two parts)

Dave McGowan on Flight 93

CNN correspondent Jamie McIntyre’s damage control piece on
his first report from the Pentagon on 9-11 (two audio bytes)

Craig Ranke of CIT on the Pentagon

Tom Scott Gordon on the instability of WTC 1 & 2

Alfons Olszewski of Veterans for 9/11 Truth


Playlist (Eastern Time) start times (approximate):

7 pm hufschmid1

8 pm 911responders1

9 pm hufschmid2

10 pm 93anomalieswingtv

Midnight uticans1

1 am mcgowan

macpentagon (140 sec.)

2 am ranke2010

3 am tomscottgordon

4 am responders2

5 am hufschmid3

6 am olszewski

7 am uticans2

Repeat times:

8 am hufschmid1

9 am 911responders1

10 am hufschmid2

11 am 93anomalieswingtv

1 pm uticans1

2 pm mcgowan

Macpentagon (140 sec.)

3 pm ranke2010

4 pm tomscottgordon

5 pm responders2

6 pm hufschmid3

7 pm olszewski

8 pm uticans2

A Plea For Tolerance

We recently received this request and thought we'd pass it along. Obviously Islam had nothing to do with 9/11.

Hello

In memory of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I would like to offer you and your readers of Uticans for 9/11 Truth a message of peace in a short video and a pledge of tolerance.

http://myfellowamerican.us

If you are able to post or tweet about the video and the pledge, please let me know. I am here if you have any questions.

Thank you so much,

Elizabeth
--
Unity Productions Foundation
myfellowamerican.us
facebook.com/MyFellowAmericanProject
@usmuslimstories

What to think about on Sept. 11

I commend to your attention the two most recent "Stuff and Things" episodes on Vyzygoth Raw. "Stuff and Things 13" "Stuff and Things 14"

As the tenth anniversary of 9/11/2001 approaches Vyz's comments offer suitable material for reflection.

When the murder of thousands is used as the basis for intellectual parlor games it's time to find a less ghastly pursuit.

What we must always bear in mind is that people did die that day and that their deaths were instigated and used to promote a vicious agenda.

And the promoters of that agenda are most certainly not done with us.

July Fourth Grassy Knoll Archives Marathon

This just in, from Vyz:

July Fourth Grassy Knoll Archives Marathon
Begins at 6 pm CT July 3 through completion on July 4
Over 24 hours of programming
Listen at http://untameddimensions.com

Muir on Millennium – 1
McGowan on Laurel Canyon – 1
Mauri: Reflections in the Night
Muir on Millennium – 2
Dave from 9-11 org
Tonnies on Mars, Sci Fi and Cryptoterrestials
The Mysterious Michael Elliot on Post 9-11 Terrorism
Chris Jurgenson on the Schon Scandal
Alexandra Bruce on UFOs
Dr. Daniel Paul We Were Not the Savages
Hidden Dangers of the New World Order – 1
Hidden Dangers of the New World Order – 2
Chris Pinto: Megiddo
Sole Clip from the Banned Blogtalkradio Show
Bruce McBurney on 100 mi/gal carburetors
Muir on Millennium – 3
McGowan on Laurel Canyon – 2
Andrew Colvin & Robert Denton
Tom Scott Gordon on Instability of WTC 1 & 2
Philip Coppens
Bill Still: The Money Masters
Uticans for 9-11 Truth
Thorn & Guliani on Flight 93 – 1
Thorn & Guliani on Flight 93 – 2
Muir on Millennium - 4

Also, this coming Saturday:

Untamed Dimensions: Beyond The Blue Horizon
Saturday June 25 8 pm CT

First Hour: Gordon Comstock on the Orwellian Scoreboard
Second Hour: Stuff & Things & Surprises

Call in Number: 618-912-4681
Listen at http://untameddimensions.com

Memorial Day Special with Vyz on Think Or Be Eaten

Friday I recorded a special two-part Memorial Day program with my friend Keith Hansen (aka Vyzygoth) for Think Or Be Eaten. It's a different kind of observance in which we discuss and demonstrate how music was used in preparing people for both World Wars. Download the show here: PART 1 and PART 2.

The latest edition (Issue 7) of Inside The Grassy Knoll can be found HERE. Many thanks to Ang Riedel who designs this beautiful publication.

Jonathan Swift: The Day of Judgment (1731)

I just had to move this to the top of the page, for obvious reasons. By the way, "bit" means "bamboozled."

With a whirl of thought oppressed,
I sunk from reverie to rest.
A horrid vision seized my head,
I saw the graves give up their dead!
Jove, armed with terrors, bursts the skies,
And thunder roars and lightning flies!
Amazed, confused, its fate unknown,
The world stands trembling at his throne!
While each pale sinner hangs his head,
Jove, nodding, shook the heavens, and said:
'Offending race of human kind,
By nature, reason, learning, blind;
You who, through frailty, stepped aside;
And you who never fell through pride:
You who in different sects have shammed,
And come to see each other damned;
(So some folks told you, but they knew
No more of Jove's designs than you)
The world's mad business now is o'er,
And I resent these pranks no more.
I to such blockheads set my wit!
I damn such fools! Go, go, you're bit!'

Human Ipecac

Rep. Ron Paul tap dances and sings the official line on OBL and 9/11 on The Diane Rehm Show.



In listening to the whole program, one has to come to the conclusion that Ron Paul is one of the dumbest men ever to run for president. He makes Shrub look like a rocket scientist and Palin sound like a Rhodes scholar. There's much in the libertarian view that I endorse, but Paul pushes it to its most absurd extreme. He's "pro-life" but offering relief to disaster victims is a "moral danger?" He babbles stuff cribbed from Ayn Rand and tries to make it all fit into reality. (Ayn Rand, after whom Paul named his son, was not only a prat but a hypocrite.)

The more extreme one's position, the harder it is to maintain consistency. In the program with Diane Rehm, Rep. Paul contradicts himself constantly--bashing government but maintaining the necessity of his own job. Most people want to be let alone in their own homes, vehicles, and persons--which is the valid basis of libertarianism. Going beyond that, they have to be inconsistent if they want things like police and fire departments, public libraries, and the potholes filled on the streets they travel. (To say nothing of being rescued if the river flows over its banks or if a tornado uproots their homes.)

Ron Paul says that the proper business of government is a strong national defense but if you're treading water where your home used to be you should have lived somewhere else and better luck next time.

All this bears more consideration than his slipperiness on the issue of 9/11 as he "celebrates" the death (or thawing out) of Osama bin Laden. If you can listen to Ron Paul weave, babble, and prevaricate on this program and still vote for him, you're an idiot.

UPDATE: Speaking of Ayn Rand, she was worse than a prat. What matters more than what you believe is where it comes from. Yecch.

Horse Hockey

Just what it says on the box. The new National Pastime.

So who lasts ten freaking years on dialysis?

The burial at sea was just so people wouldn't see the freezer burn.

On The Other Hand. . .

Two things. first, this note from Victor Thorn to Vyz regarding Dr. Wood's practice of charging for review copies of her book:

Vyz,

Today, somebody sent me an e-mail re: Judy Wood's new 9-11 book. I didn't even know that she had one out, but I contacted her "people" and requested a review copy, and also possibly an interview.

Get this - they wanted me to SPEND $40.00 to BUY the book so that I could then review it.

$40.00 !!!!!!!

Can you fucking believe it ?????

I was polite the entire time with them, and said that of the hundreds of interviews and/or reviews that I've done over the years, not once has somebody actually told me to BUY their book.

Amazing.

And there's this brief rebuttal by Vyz to the email response posted earlier:

Wood has no presence. She’s as hard to listen to as Sarah Palid—er, Palin. Please—I beg you—stop scratching your nails down the chalkboard. The combination of her with Fetzer was too much for anyone who likes to digest solid food. Unlike Fetzer, though, Judy is not an ass clown, just hangs out with them.

Wood will win no one over to the truth of 9-11 out there in the great unwashed masses. Not with her presentation. She’s better off read than heard and seen. Not her fault, but that is the way it is. The fact that she is also being touted by Hoagland, a major handler for Spook Central, is not a good sign.

But back to Wood and her theory: I must admit I’ve had enough of what might have happened to the towers. There’s a much better success ratio with proving it didn’t happen the way the government said it did. After several years of the arguments over exotic weaponry, blah, blah, blah, it’s just all turning to noise and, to me, it’s kind of turning a very catastrophic event into a food fight. Herb’s right: Dave the Blimp has it down the best.

The deal with Coast to Coast is just flat out bad business. Georgie Boy and Iam Pundit and Hoagie are major disinfo units. That’s why Alexander the Jones, Quayle, Ventura and others who pop up there are not clean. And, by the way, when did Ventura get hip to 9-11 and conspiracies? Where was he 10 years ago? Once WWF, always WWF.

In Defense of Dr. Judy Wood

A listener to the Top Ten Smackdown With Jeff Long and Vyz wrote yesterday with an eloquent, well-reasoned response to our program, particularly focusing on what was said regarding Dr. Judy Wood. In the spirit of fairness, I am reposting the whole email here for your consideration.

I enjoyed the free wheeling discussion you had with Jeff Long and Vyz the other day (4/14/11) with the Top Ten Smackdown. Discerning observers (like most Vyz listeners and guests) have come to understand that the world is populated by media operatives, disinfo agents, greedy hucksters, flakes and whack jobs. So--it was very interesting to hear some of the back story and historical perspective from you guys about the managed breakdown / meltdown / hopeless muddle of the 911 “truth” and PAYtriot movements and of the controlling voices and personalities involved.

When all is said and done, what really happened on 9/11/01 still eludes us all. And I agree with you that nobody will ever be held accountable for this crime. Although we don’t know exactly what happened, or exactly who did it, there are a few things we can confidently say did NOT happen—such as the official government fairy tale. And we can definitely speculate based upon the best research—as to what DID happen. For example—the investigative research of Craig Ranke and Aldo Marquis sheds a lot of light on the events at the Pentagon. I find their evidence of a fly-over to be quite compelling.

Similarly, for the events at the WTC I have followed the work of Dr. Wood for several years—mostly from her website, but more recently in reading her new book (Where did the Towers Go?), and find in her technical breakdown a lot of reasons why the popular WTC controlled demolition theories -- thermite, mini-nukes, etc, --are also not viable explanations. In addition, the evidence of the use of directed free energy technology Wood offers is interesting and compelling. Not a slam-dunk—but worth looking at, IMO.

I know you guys are not enamored of Wood, her presentation or her work, and I am not challenging you. It’s hard to know who’s who and what is going on anymore. You may be correct that she is putting out disinfo, knowingly or unknowingly. True, she isn’t a polished public speaker and yes she is skeptical that commercial passenger jets were used in the attacks on the trade centers. And she also did have early association with Morgan Reynolds and Jim Fetzer.

But--if you look at the way Wood has been mocked and vilified and her work managed, marginalized, mischaracterized (space beams) or ignored by the major 911 “truth” movement personalities, and also look at the fact that she is the only one of these guys who has put her money where her mouth is (with Request for Correction, Qui-Tam case, new book) it makes you wonder. Plus it definitely looks as if she was “handled” by Fetzer. Like Ranke’s information, Wood’s info is pretty much banned from major 9/11 sites. Finally—I have yet to find anybody taking her information apart point by point on technical grounds. It’s usually a non-technical dismissal: coma, Reynolds association, Fetzer association, Blacksburg VA association, deer in the headlights presentation, etc. Why not address the actual evidence?

So--long story short—-I am wondering if we are not throwing the baby out with the bath water here when it comes to Wood. Is it possible that her DEW information is pretty solid, and that explains why she was targeted by the likes of Fetzer et al? Could the demise of her info be part of just another plan to throw us off? An op to put the truth out there, then discredit the hell out of it? Or maybe it’s me who is missing something? I dunno. Your (polite) comments are welcomed.

On another completely weird note—I see that Wood’s work is now being heavily promoted by Richard Hoagland— first during his recent presentation at the Secret Space Program conference in Amsterdam, and then also on C2C with Noory and Jesse Ventura. This is an astonishing development on many levels, not the least of which is the sudden promotion of her work by gatekeepers of the PTB. What it means? I don't know yet....

Anyway—thanks again for a great discussion.

PRO-MUSLIN DOESN'T MEAN ANTI-MUSLIM

Apparently, the Klan wishes to disassociate itself from Koran-burning pastors, the Westboro Baptist Church, and the excesses of the Tea Party. Seriously. I did check The Onion and this is not one of theirs. And it's way past April First. (More from Wonkette.)

Meanwhile, 9/11 first responders are being screened by the FBI as terrorists. Who says it's not the Bizarro World?

TOP TEN SMACKDOWN WITH JEFF LONG AND VYZ

Last Wednesday I took a wrong turn down Memory Lane with Jeff Long (of the Rock Creek Free Press) and Vyzygoth on Vyz's Think Or Be Eaten program. We spent over two hours discussing our top ten least-loved figures in the 9/11 Truth arena with due dispatch.

Listen to or download this program here: PART ONE and PART TWO.

Note: this site still does not permit anonymous comments, so those posting scripture scrollies, off-topic ad hominem attacks, or vast link farms will have to identify themselves. If you must express yourself anonymously there are plenty of toilet-stall walls--or your own damn blogs. Thanks.

Well, That About Does It For 9/11 Truth

Thanks, Charlie.

Selling Smack for Loose Change

Korey Rowe was picked up in Oneonta for selling heroin to an undercover cop. A set up? Mebbe.

Not for nothing but stuff like this no longer shocks us. At every turn the most public and visible members of the 9/11 Truth Movement discredit themselves and their cause. The fun began in 2006 with the split between the thermite and space beam factions of the Scholars. It hasn't let up yet.

We've theorized that the Movement itself is a conspiracy to keep the truth about 9/11/2001 from coming out. Whatever they're doing, it's working.

APHORISM OF THE DAY

Politics is just a way to keep unrelated people mad at each other.

Yep!

Mimi and Eunice by Nina Paley -- "The Movement"

Tunes and Tales of Christmas Past

Our friend Vyzygoth has created an engaging historical perspective on the Christmas season over the past century or so, Voices of Christmas Past.

Also, Issue 6 of Inside the Grassy Knoll is now published.

The King of Skeptics is a Fraud

Apparently Michael Shermer, whose stock-in-trade is equating those who doubt the official story of 9/11 to Holocaust Deniers, needs to extinguish the fire in his own trousers.

UTICANS WITH VYZ ON THINK OR BE EATEN!

Herb Smith and I talked with Vyzygoth today, covering the topics of 9/11, the manipulation of information, and ticks in interesting places. Download the program here. Also, reference was made to an older Kee Dewdney interview which may be heard at this link (in real media format).

HERB SMITH TALKS MENA/CLINTON ON THE WRINGER!

This morning Herb Smith appeared on Pete Bianco's WHCL-FM public affairs show The Wringer to discuss Bill Clinton and his connection with Iran-Contra through the activities (and crimes) at Mena, Arkansas. Download the show here.

A much better and more informative program than the one Herb participated in a few weeks ago. Pete Bianco is the anti-Keeler.

BLAME THE TEA PARTY ON THE TRUTHERS!

A letter published in the November 8, 2010 New Yorker. The letter:

While Sean Wilentz provides a deft history of the extremist origins of contemporary conservative opinion, I would argue that the political left shares at least some responsibility for the dumbing down of dissent that we see today in Glenn Beck and the Tea Party (“Confounding Fathers,” October 18th). Wilentz describes how “extremist ideas held at bay for decades inside the Republican Party have exploded anew,” shifting our public discourse, in the words of David Klinghoffer, toward “demagoguery and hucksterism.” During the George W. Bush Presidency, some of Bush’s critics asserted that 9/11 was an inside job plotted by a neoconservative cabal, that the American press was wholly in thrall to corporate and political power, and that the elections of 2000 and 2004 were won by foul means. Such rhetoric then was hardly less corrosive, or less supported by scholarly reasoning, than the crackpot vitriol now spewed by Beck and his ilk. The parallels between these two attitudes—their insistence on governments’ hidden agendas, on a compliant or propagandizing media, and above all on the brave iconoclasm of those who make up the movements themselves—tell us more about a general debasing of protest and logical argument than about any important political divide or intellectual tradition. In each case, the real problems have to do not with the left versus the right but, rather, with serious versus shallow.

George Case
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

"Brave iconoclasm" indeed. I'm hiding under the bed like the rest of you. (But wait--there's a bedbug! Ack!)

Seriously, if the author of this screed wants "serious versus shallow" he can chat about physics with the other administrator of this site. Clever reframing of the Hegelian Dialectic, though. Gotta love these brainy shills from up north.

HERB SMITH ON KEELER IN THE MORNING TUESDAY!

UPDATE: Herb's segment on "Keeler in the Morning" is now available at this link.

Herb Smith will appear Tuesday, October 26 on Bill Keeler's popular WXUR-FM "Keeler In The Morning" program in honor of Bill Clinton's October 29th visit to the area. Herb will discuss the crimes of Mena, Arkansas (drug smuggling, illegal arms trafficking, money laundering and murder) that occurred under Clinton's watchful eye as Governor.

The Keeler show is broadcast on 92.7 FM in the Utica area between 5:30 and 10 AM, with the option of streaming the program throughout the day.

Herb further states that he has no intention of killing himself.

The Mena Connection: Bush, Clinton, and CIA drug smuggling

Part One of Six.

DECOR MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER 2001 ISSUE

That twisted wreckage is, of course, the Guggenheim Museum. (Thanks to Pete!)

THIS IMAGE SAYS IT ALL

Screenshot from WFMU website.

9/11 101 PART THREE WITH HERB SMITH AND VYZ

On this installment of Think Or Be Eaten, Herb and Vyz discuss the many anomalies at the site in Shanksville, PA. Download this show HERE. The transcript of the CNN reporter talking about the second debris field (cited during the program) is available at this link.

HERB SMITH ON BLOGTALK WITH LOU BARILE

This past Saturday, Herb Smith discussed the events of September 11, 2001 on Lou Barile's CNYURBANGUY live webcast on Blogtalk radio. Download the show through this link.

LOCAL 9/11 ACTIVIST APPEARS ON WKTV!

Local activist and skeptic of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory, Andrew Steele, on WKTV.

The controlled demolition hypothesis is the only possible explanation for the manner in which the buildings were destroyed and the tremendous amount of energy and heat that was released.

Where the architects are wrong is in regards to the molten metal. What's not mentioned is that molten metal was found WEEKS later. Thermite, which produces a brief chemical reaction. can't account for this kind of persistent energy release. That's not to say thermite might not have been used but what happened was beyond conventional explosives.

At any rate, great job Andy.

Here's the full video of this press conference.

9/11 101 PART TWO WITH VYZ, HERB, AND CRAIG RANKE

The second part of Herb Smith's 9/11 101 discussion with Vyz is now posted and available for download HERE.

More from Vyzygoth:

In addition to Herb’s and my discussion, Craig Ranke of Citizen Investigation Team joins in to give an overview of what his research has uncovered.

(Craig Ranke's 2009 interviews are available HERE and HERE.)

The third audio link is excerpted from our main interview. We first play CNN reporter Jamie McIntyre’s damage control appearance to supposedly debunk criticisms of his remarks as he covered the Pentagon “crash” live on Sept. 11, 2001.

In the damage-control piece, a few meaningless fragments of McIntyre’s original report are played beneath his damage-control monologue in which he states he saw thousands of metal shards, saw glass he somehow identified as having come from the plane’s cockpit, and saw part of the fuselage. He also said that his comment about no plane crashing anywhere near the Pentagon was given in answer to someone that had asked a question about a plane crashing near the Pentagon. McIntyre then “clarified” his remarks by stating he went on to say the only crash was at the Pentagon.

Unfortunately, that is not what he said in his original report. In that audio file, which we played second, McIntyre states that the debris is so small you could hold it in your hand, that there were no pieces of the plane that looked like a wing, tail or fuselage, and that there was nothing that would indicate that a plane had crashed into the side of the Pentagon. Would at the Pentagon be the same as the side of the Pentagon? I'm thinking: yes.

As you will hear for yourself, there are good reasons why CNN did not play the entirety of McIntyre’s original comments. This audio proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the damage-control piece was loaded with lies.

And, gee, why would that be?

9/11 101 WITH HERB SMITH AND VYZ

Utican Herb Smith is now featured on a program with Vyzygoth discussing the basics of 9/11. Download this interview at this link: Part 1. (More to follow.)

ISSUE 5 OF BEYOND THE GRASSY KNOLL NOW AVAILABLE

The latest issue of Beyond The Grassy Knoll has been published. This is a truly beautiful publication, designed by Angie Riedel and featuring her amazing artwork. This issue includes pieces by John Bonanno, Paul Sandhu, Gordon Comstock, Vincent C. Vickers, Donald Hall, Vyzygoth, and your humble correspondent.

A NATION OF VEAL

The United States of America is a vast concentration camp in which the inmates labor under the delusion that they are free. They are held in place behind their invisible fences just as securely as if they were imprisoned by razor wire. Rather than being starved and worked to death under the watch of guards with rifles, they are fattened into passivity and hopelessness by corporate nutritionists and purveyors of cheap fatty food, and entertained to distraction from their sad lot by omnipresent and homogeneous media. When the issue of their sloth and obesity arises, they are ridiculed and blamed for their condition--thus keeping them down in their place. Their bad taste is mocked by the same media that feed their acquired craving for hollow, gaudy crap and bad food. As such, they are little more to blame for their state than the veal calf who is held fast within his pen and fattened for the market.

It is a triumph of social engineering that so many Americans are securely kept in the prison of their own indolence and self-hating obesity. While every other form of political correctness holds sway, picking on the fat is actively encouraged, and jokes about their supposed diseases (diabetes, etc.) are chuckled over by the same people who would be outraged at analogous remarks about cancer. The powers that be wink at all this--since it is in their interest to keep people depressed and sedentary within their living rooms, eating junk food and watching television.

Forget about fluoridation. Fat is the real control mechanism.

NOT ABOUT 9/11: "RADIOLA!" INTERVIEW

I'm justified in returning from self-imposed exile for this:

I spent this afternoon talking bout RADIOLA! with Keith Hansen, aka "Vyzygoth," whose excellent interviews have been a web mainstay for the past decade. The interview (with music) is now posted at this link. Vyz's main site is Think Or Be Eaten: The Knoll. Many thanks again to Vyz for hosting this great discussion on a topic that I particularly love.