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.

I'M DONE HERE

There's nothing more I have to say on this site. It's all been said. Anything I say concerning the events of September 11, 2001 will not make the slightest bit of difference in the scheme of things. People have to use their own brains with regard to this issue. I've done so and I highly recommend that course of action.

Telling people what they should think on a particular issue is another form of Fundamentalism. To Hell with it.

Herb will continue to supply facts, but from here on in I'm keeping my opinions to myself.

Anyhow, it's been fun. No regrets.

NIST SIMULATION VS. ACTUAL WTC 7 COLLAPSE

MUCH NEEDED LEVITY WITH VYZ ON TW3

It's been a strange year so far, so the opportunity to sit in with Vyzygoth for an edition of "That Was The Week That Wasn't" was most welcome. I had a rare chance to throw away my cares for an hour and be crude and sophomoric. On the whole, it was a salubrious experience. Listen to the results here.

A NEW HIGH-WATER MARK IN UNMITIGATED GALL

Oy, vey. (Thanks to Vyz!)

In a desperate bid to complete the long-stalled towers, Larry Silverstein has reached out to the Port Authority for financial help, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.

Silverstein is requesting cash for at least two of the three planned office towers, sources told the paper. . .

Silverstein has less than $1 billion left from the $4.5 billion insurance settlement he got after the 2001 terror attacks, The Journal said.

So, just what did he spend the other 3.5 billion bucks on? Spa treatments?

VYZ AND DWIGHT WARD ON HAITI

This is the best discussion I have yet heard on Haiti, featuring our good friends Vyzygoth and Dwight Ward. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Download this program at this link.

PRESCOTT BUSH: A TRAITOR SPEAKS

HERB SMITH DISCUSSES SUTTON ON MINISTRY OF TRUTH

Gordon Comstock of The Ministry of Truth has just posted an excellent interview with Utican Herb Smith which is available for download here. Gordon and Herb discuss Antony Sutton's America's Secret Establishment, with particular attention to far-reaching influence of Yale's Skull and Bones. Thanks to both for a most enlightening and highly enjoyable program!

IF YOU'RE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE, YOU'RE WITH THE TERRORISTS

I don't see how anyone could possibly write satire with stuff like this out there.

In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera, bin Laden criticised George Bush, the former US president, for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations.

"This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions - whether intentionally or unintentionally - and about the action we must take," bin Laden said.

"Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury - the phenomenon is an actual fact."

This is like a great big Dagwood sandwich of riotous disinformation. I love it! (Thanks to Vyz.)

CALIFORNIA SAYS CRAP ON THE MOON A HISTORIC RESOURCE

The absurdity never stops. And when I say "crap on the moon," I'm being literal. Part of the (non-existent) lunar treasure trove includes "bags filled with human waste." I say it's equine waste.

California is poised to become the first state to register the items at Tranquility Base as an official State Historical Resource. If the State Historical Resources Commission approves the idea at a meeting in Sacramento today, it would be a victory for scientists who want to build support for having Tranquility Base designated a United Nations World Heritage Site in advance of what they believe will be unmanned trips to the moon by private groups, and even someday by tourists. Proposals to place the items on historic registries in Texas and New Mexico are planned for later this year.

How can you have "unmanned flights" by private groups and tourists? (Unless, of course, they're using the word "unmanned" to connote something too painful even to contemplate.)

Minor semantic quibbles aside, Dave McGowan must be laughing his ass off.

DOWN GOES THE ANTICHRIST

OUR RECENT (YAWN) MOON MISSION

There's nothing to see here.

DAVE MCGOWAN ON THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH

Dave McGowan discussed his series "Wagging the Moondoggie" with Gordon Comstock on The Ministry of Truth and the program may be downloaded at this link. It's a great show! (And thanks for the nod, Gordon!)

Must Read!

Dave McGowan tackles the moon landing hoax in his latest article "Wagging the Moondoggie." I've kind of stayed away from this because I didn't like all the emphasis put on the photographic evidence. Although McGowan covers much of that he shows there are much better, easier to understand arguments to put this myth to rest.

And of course it's very funny. Enjoy.

Finally, The REAL Lunar Landing Footage

Offical Training Video for NASA's Manned Space Flight Program

Wallace and Gromit - A Grand Day Out
Vezi mai multe video din Animatie

The Theme Song of NASA's Manned Space Flight Program

From 1904!

My Thoughts on Keeler Show...

Good strategy, poor execution. The point I was trying to make was the buildings were being destroyed as they descended meaning they were encountering maximal resistance. Keeler obviously does not have x-ray vision. He wasn't seeing floors hitting floors any more than he was seeing people or desks, chairs, core columns etc.

But even saying floors were pulverizing he was acknowledging the building was being destroyed and I probably still should have went with that.

So close to putting this over.

HERB SMITH ON "KEELER IN THE MORNING" TOMORROW!

UPDATE (11/03): Herb's "post game show" with Vyz is available at THIS LINK.

UPDATE: Herb's interview is now available for download HERE.

Herb Smith will appear on Bill Keeler's popular radio program, "Keeler In The Morning" Thursday, October 29. The show broadcasts daily beginning at 6 AM from WXUR 92.7 FM ("The Drive") in Herkimer, NY. Herb's segment is scheduled for just after 8 AM.

For those outside the Herkimer-Utica listening area, continuous streaming of Bill Keeler's show may be heard HERE.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WTC

Click on image to enlarge.

VOLCANO AT GROUND ZERO?

EXPLODED TO DUST BEFORE IT HIT THE GROUND

HERB WITH VYZ ON TOBE!

UPDATE: The link to Herb's interview is now fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

In response to certain issues raised by Robert Denton, Jr. on a recent episode of Think or Be Eaten, Herb spoke with Vyzygoth Wednesday. This is a most excellent program. (If Herb wasn't someone I've known for 35 years, I'd want to meet him based on this interview.)

There's more on the instability hypothesis here: Tom Scott Gordon's 2007 Interview on the Instability of WTC 1 & 2

ISSUE TWO OF "INSIDE THE GRASSY KNOLL" IS UP!

Another excellent issue of Vyzygoth's e-magazine, Inside The Grassy Knoll, is available for your reading enjoyment. There are articles by Vyz, Gordon Comstock, the Collins Brothers, John Bonanno, Dwight Ward, Michael Trudeau, and your humble correspondent. (And check out Ang Riedel's amazing cover art. Ang designed the look of this e-magazine, which is so nice I wish I could lift it off my monitor and display it on my coffee table.)

The first issue is still available for your perusal here.

ANG WITH VYZ ON THINK OR BE EATEN

Vyzygoth has recently posted a delightful and informative discussion with Angie Riedel, webmistress and designer of Think or Be Eaten. Ang also designed the Inside the Grassy Knoll e-magazine, and her wonderful artistic creations may be seen and purchased at the TOBE shop. (The above image is available as a poster here.)

THE JOY OF NIST SEMANTICS by Dwight Ward

(Author's revision, Oct. 11, 2009)

"The focus of the Investigation was on the sequence of events from the instant of aircraft impact to the initiation of collapse for each tower. For brevity in this report, this sequence is referred to as the 'probable collapse sequence,' although it includes little analysis of the structural behavior of the tower after the conditions for collapse initiation were reached and collapse became inevitable." (NIST, p xxxvii/39)

The preceding paragraph, from The Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, may be a better synopsis of the entirety than any critic could compose. On the face of it, it's absurd, and in a practiced and casual manner it uses.a cognitive shock tactic wherein the logical absurdity is presented openly while simultaneously admitting that absurdity in superficially rational-sounding language. This is a ploy to preempt any close examination or protest of the absurdity. It is a hurried bum's rush past a vital topic.

The nonsense presented here is compact and multi-layered. It consists of the following elements:
a) an arbitrary decision to report on only part of the sequence of events
b) a naming and labeling of that act to characterize it as its own opposite
c) a conscious and blatant admission of the rhetorical, psychologically aggressive tactic that has just been used.

The first sentence is preparatory and an essential part of what is to follow. It acknowledges that the investigatory method to be used will result in deliberately ignoring a huge swath of the sequence of events. It makes the assumption that this method is proper by means of an even deeper and hidden assumption, namely that the events of the actual collapse can be properly separated from the events that lead up to them and that the resulting analysis will be as valid as if the total of all events had been examined. It is as if investigators of a murder ended their formal inquiries at the moment when the bullet was headed from gun to victim, with all subsequent events declared irrelevant.

We have here an attempt to make a highly artificial separation within an anomalous and dramatic series of events - things leading to collapses, then the collapses themselves. One caused the other, of course, and the way the collapses took place contain much vital evidence of what caused the collapses. This would seem trivial from a scientific standpoint and one watches in awe as NIST exhibits the temerity to essentially discard the actual collapses from analysis. The overall presupposition is that such a truncated analysis is as valid as one which did not arbitrarily draw a sharp line dividing those events that would be examined from those to be ignored. This is just bad science, bad logic, bad politics, and, to borrow from Sartre, bad faith.

By truncating their report with the bullet hanging in midair, the police investigators want the assumption to be made that the bullet was the primal and only cause of the victim's death. The NIST report accomplishes a similar thing. By ignoring the way the towers came down, they eliminate from consideration a host of possible causes other than plane impacts and fire. They accomplish this by simple omission of a huge portion of the available facts. In doing so, they destroy the context of the whole event. It's a bold stratagem and completely removes the report from the realm of the scientific and moves it into the political.

With this done the NIST investigators proceed to label their actions as their own opposite. They name the events leading to collapse as the 'probable collapse sequence'. It is done brazenly and with an inadequate explanation, much as if they had just stated that two equals three and then proceeded to more important matters.

To continue with the analogy of the murder investigation given before, it is as if the police investigators titled their report, which ended with the bullet hanging in midair, "What Happened After The Bullet Hit The Victim." The method has the advantage of being so simple as to nearly escape analysis and examination. One reads such things with the thought "Is it just me or did that sentence make no sense at all?" The critical parsing of language needed to show that it makes no sense is of necessity tiresome and tedious.

For a final assault on the reader's sense of congruity and logic the report writers simply acknowledge their own pathology by admitting that the content of the report has little to do with the informal title which they, themselves, have selected. They further state that it is not a random distortion but is in simple and direct opposition to the truth. The reason given? Brevity. Two equals three and we don't have the space or time to explain why this is so. The writers of this report continue the events of 911 with their assumption of the public's credulity. This report is an attack of another sort than 911 but it is an attack, all the same.

UTICANS WITH VYZYGOTH!

Herb Smith and I discussed many pertinent topics last night in a phone interview with our friend Vyz. This is a landmark webcast because it was Vyz's last program before his move to more a congenial neighborhood. Some of the language we used is not suitable for all ages--but it was a fun, relaxed conversation. And we thank Vyz for having us on for the last show recorded at his old digs.

CITIZEN INVESTIGATION TEAM CENSORED ON PRISON PLANET--AND ALMOST EVERYWHERE ELSE

UPDATE: Download the Vyz interview with Craig Ranke where this issue is discussed.

You'd think being a truth-teller in an ostensible Truth Movement would make one popular within said Movement. Not so fast, Diogenes. Craig and Aldo of the Citizen Investigation Team find themselves practically personnae non gratae almost everywhere but here and here. Jeffrey of the Rock Creek Free Press sent me the following screen shot of a post revealing how Alex "Arbiter of Truth" Jones has banned mention of CIT work from his site.

WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT "KINDLE?"

UPDATE (8/13/2009): Not that online petitions ever do a damn bit of good, but here's one regarding Kindle's 1984 hijinks.

UPDATE (8/1/2009): In this week's New Yorker, Nicholson Baker takes a swipe at Kindle (No mention of the disappearing Orwell trick, however.)

In a supreme stroke of irony worthy of Orwell himself, Amazon erased the text of 1984 from its Kindle digital readers--even as said text was being read. Mark Hershon writes about the episode here. (Thanks to Randy Maugans.)

Kindle is on the face of it a useful gadget and offers certain advantages, but paper books are far more simple and elegant in that they are cheap, portable, and require no batteries. And text on dead trees doesn't vanish in mid-sentence due to any glitch, whim, copyright tussle--or government edict. The durability and immutability of the printed word far outweigh the capacity to monkey with typefaces and backlighting. Gutenberg had it right after all.

Major General Stubblebine: 9/11 Was a Fraud

(Thanks to Dr. Lance!)

INTERNECINE STRIFE ON PRISON PLANET

Alex "The Voice of God" Jones and his wife Kelly "Free Speech Incorporated" Jones are revoking the "copy and distribute freely" provision regarding his fearmongering videos. An insider tells all. (Thanks again to Vyz!)

A FURTHER SALIENT NOTE ON FLIGHT 77

Shortly after posting the program mentioned immediately below, Vyz received the following note from a listener:

Keith,

Here's a memory that came back to me as I listened to Craig while pulling up weeds in the garden. I was working my mailman gig on 9/11, listening to the radio as I cased up my route. When I heard the news about the Trade Towers I was as amazed as everyone else around me. But having a suspicious mind forces one to immediately raise up the BS antenna whenever something like this happens. As the day went along and the news of the "plane flying into the Pentagon" reached my ears I knew immediately that something was very wrong.

The military has something called a CIWS (close in weapon system) which serves as a last line of defence. I remember hearing 'speculation' when I was in the Navy (late 70' early 80's) that systems similar to the Pheonix CIWS we had on our ship were in place on the Pentagon and the White House to protect against suicidal flyers or missiles. The CIWS is a automatic machine gun that fires spent uranium projectiles directed by a computerized radar system that controls everything. Turn it on and anything that gets in range is destroyed. Spent uranium projectiles will rip through anything that flies. I never heard any question from the media to the military about the presence of the CIWS. And as far as the videos of the event, I guarantee you that if an unauthorized ant is walking on the pentagon lawn, they have a hidef picture of it.

On that bizarre day in September I remember a gigantic WTF going through my mind when the tale of a plane hitting the Pentagon was told. I remember thinking: "How could those fools (and there are a lot of fools wearing brass) forget to turn on the CIWS system after planes had just hit the WTC and some planes were still unaccounted for?

Just a thought,
JB

Craig Ranke and Vyz on Flight 77

Craig Ranke, of the Citizen Investigation Team, discusses Magical Mystery Flight 77 on Think or Be Eaten with Vyz in a program available for download at this link.

Indeed what, if anything, hit the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001? It sure as hell wasn't American Airlines Flight 77.

I Talk Nock With Vyz on TOBE

My recent conversation with Vyzygoth on Think or Be Eaten regarding Memoirs of a Superfluous Man and other writings of Albert Jay Nock is now available for download at this link.

UTICANS IN PERCALE?

Chip Berlet and Terry Gross got together today to discuss "wacky conspiracy theories" and why they make certain white men get trigger happy. Fortunately, those of us who doubt the Official Conspiracy Theory of Sept. 11, 2001 merely got the usual condescension from Berlet, who accuses us of "oversimplifying" and indulging in "magical thinking," and believing that everything will be peachy once the culprits are caught and convicted.

First of all, and most importantly, most of us who have taken more than a few spins on this planet realize that identifying the Real Criminals of 9/11 isn't going to solve a Goddamn thing. Knowing that the Official Story is crap is its own reward. It will not restore sexual potency or grow hair on a billiard ball. Nor will it feed all the starving children in Africa or provide me the money to buy the exquisite 1916 Steinway Model O I test-drove today. If such knowledge is power, it's like one of those batteries you make by sticking a penny in a potato.

Second of all, we don't hate anybody. We don't even mind dorky shills like Berlet (who used the word "milieu" at least three times today in an attempt to break Dave Emory's old record).

Lastly, we're not "lefties" or "righties," and although we're "whiteys," we're not "tighties." So who's oversimplifying now, eh Chipper?

MIXIN' METAPHORS WITH AJ

The first minute is a psychedelic smorgasbord of Alex's verbal imagery--all by way of introducing renowned reptilian theorist David Icke. Yep. (Thanks to Vyz!)

MY TOP FIVE BOOKS: THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH

UPDATE (6/15/2009): Herb talks about his top five books in an excellent program downloadable at THIS LINK.

Today I had a wonderful conversation with Gordon Comstock to discuss five books I consider indispensible. (I was feeling slightly taciturn--I spoke for only an hour and eight minutes.) The interview is already posted on Gordon's Ministry of Truth audio page, and may be downloaded from this link.

One of my main five is Albert Jay Nock's Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, now deplorably out of print--and commanding rather steep prices on such sites as ABE books. Fortunately, thanks to the Mises Institute, this excellent book may be downloaded in pdf format from this link.

GOTTA LOVE BILL HICKS!

NEW VYZ INTERVIEW ON FLIGHT 93!

Vyzygoth has just posted his recent interview with Dominick DiMaggio of the Citizen Investigation Team regarding Magical Mystery Flight 93. Download it HERE.

INSIDE THE GRASSY KNOLL E-MAG NOW ONLINE!

The Inside the Grassy Knoll electronic magazine, assembled by Keith Hansen (aka Vyzygoth) and Angie Riedel, is now available online here. Besides your humble correspondent, contributors include (in order of appearance) Dwight Ward, Philip Collins, Randy Maugans, Gordon Comstock, Paul Collins, Larry the Contractor Guy, and Vyz himself.

And Ang's layout and design of Inside the Grassy Knoll is delightful. (Check out the STP sticker on the car "made of twine and twigs!") This is a beautiful publication, and one that I'm proud to have contributed to. Enjoy!