The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the XXI Century.

The most important book to read about the global economic crisis is:

The Global Economic Crisis, The Great Depression of the XXI Century (Editors: Michel Chossudovsky and Andrew Gavin Marshall)

BOOK LAUNCH: The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century (Highlights of this Important Collection with Selected Excerpts)

Book's Preface

Michel Chossudovsky: Austerity will lead to economic collapse


Andrew Gavin Marshall: Western civilization on the Titanic

Alex Jones Interview With Birgitta Jónsdóttir

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Author James Bamford Explains Operation Northwoods

James Bamford, author of bestselling books "A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies" and, "The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America," explains the secret false-flag U.S. government plan from 1962 called Operation Northwoods.

Tearing Down The Lies and Myths About 9/11

Veteran firefighter Erik Lawyer, and founder of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, architect Richard Gage, AIA, and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and controlled demolition expert and former employee of Controlled Demolitions Inc, Tom Sullivan, discussed the undeniable evidence that 9/11 was an inside job on KPFA’s Guns and Butter on April 28, 2010. They also did a public lecture together on May 7 and May 8, 2010 in San Rafael and San Leandro, California called, "9/11 Myths Exposed: Firefighters, Architects and Engineers Re-investigate the Destruction of the Three World Trade Center Skyscrapers." You can watch their three hour lecture on the internet by clicking here.

On June 24, 2010, Darcy Wearing and Richard Gage released an article called "Explosive Evidence at WTC Cited by Former CDI Employee," that highlighted Mr. Sullivan’s background, and expertise in the controlled demolition business. They write:

And as Sullivan watched the towers collapse that day, like so many did, he pondered at how fast it all took place, and how suddenly and symmetrically they were brought down. "I knew it was an explosive event as soon as I saw it, there was no question in my mind," said Sullivan. Most of us agree — it’s not by chance that the first tower just happened to collapse — then the second in the same manner. What convinced him completely is when he watched Tower 7 fall that day, "I mean, come on, it was complete destruction. I’ve seen buildings fall like that for years — that was the end game for me."

Sullivan’s public statements about 9/11 are reflective of private concerns of employees in one of the world’s leading civil engineering and construction firms. According to a veteran Middle East reporter, Alan Hart, demolition experts in the firm, who are also his friends, told him straightforward that the towers were not brought down by airplanes, or fires, but by "controlled ground explosion."

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and a former editor of Wall Street Journal, wrote in an article on September 15, 2009 called, "Why Propaganda Trumps Truth":

Another problem that the 9/11 Truth Movement faces is that few people have the education to follow the technical and scientific aspects. The side that they believe tells them one thing; the side that they don’t believe tells them another. Most Americans have no basis to judge the relative merits of the arguments.

Roberts’s point reflects poorly on Americans, but it is true. The claim that fires can bring down giant buildings was accepted as correct by a majority of the American people. The U.S. media’s blatant propaganda in the immediate wake of the 9/11 crime definitely played a huge role, but stupidity is the larger factor. The American mind is like dough, and it was shaped by government terrorists for their own ends. But thanks to the efforts by Richard Gage, Tom Sullivan, and Erik Lawyer, the technical and scientific aspects of the official 9/11 story are being challenged, and their easy and publicly digestible lectures is giving the American people a new perspective on what happened on 9/11.

Lev Grossman, author of the novel "The Magicians," wrote in an article for Time magazine on September 3, 2006 called, "Why the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Won’t Go Away":

You would have thought the age of conspiracy theories might have declined with the rise of digital media. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was a private, intimate affair compared with the attack on the World Trade Center, which was witnessed by millions of bystanders and television viewers and documented by hundreds of Zapruders. You would think there was enough footage and enough forensics to get us past the grassy knoll and the magic bullet, to create a consensus reality, a single version of the truth, a single world we can all live in together.

But there is no event so plain and clear that a determined human being can’t find ambiguity in it. And as divisive as they are, conspiracy theories are part of the process by which Americans deal with traumatic public events like Sept. 11. Conspiracy theories form around them like scar tissue. In a curious way, they’re an American form of national mourning. They’ll be with us as long as we fear lone gunmen, and feel the pain of losses like the one we suffered on Sept. 11, and as long as the past, even the immediate past, is ultimately unknowable. That is to say, forever.

Grossman’s pseudo psychological understanding of mass trauma, and collective memory makes the article fascinatingly stupid. The work done by American Professor Steven Jones, and Danish Professor Niels Harrit in the scientific field proves that the 9/11 crime is not "unknowable" as Grossman claims. The past is never dead. The reading of the past has always been a organic process in history. And it is wrongheaded to say that 9/11 belongs in the dustbin of history, because it is still being justified by the U.S. government for ongoing wars of aggression. We don’t live in a "post-9/11" world, as some like to have it, but in a "9/11" world. We live in a state of emergency. And that is not an exaggeration.

“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Lara Logan; Or Why Bimbos Shouldn't Be Allowed To Cover War

Cenk on the backlash by the establishment press against Michael Hastings and Rolling Stone for the McChrystal article:


Matt Taibbi - Lara Logan, You Suck:

See, according to Logan, not only are reporters not supposed to disclose their agendas to sources at all times, but in the case of covering the military, one isn't even supposed to have an agenda that might upset the brass! Why? Because there is an "element of trust" that you're supposed to have when you hang around the likes of a McChrystal. You cover a war commander, he's got to be able to trust that you're not going to embarrass him. Otherwise, how can he possibly feel confident that the right message will get out?

Jonathan Schwarz - What Howard Kurtz & Lara Logan Left Out:

So both Kurtz and Logan left out the most obvious aspect of this (genuinely gross) relationship between reporters and politicians: they're both trying to manipulate each other. It's not the case that politicians—or generals, who are most definitely politicians—are poor babes in the woods, ruthlessly taken advantage of by the Machiavellian journalists. They're trying to screw the journalists just as hard.

Israel Denis Oxygen Machines To Palestine

Zionists are cruel, heartless bastards. They are denying the Palestinian people food, water, land, and air.

Ha'aretz: Israel seizes oxygen machines donated to PA

Israel confiscated seven oxygen machines en route to hospitals in the West Bank and Gaza based on the claim that there was a chance the generators attached to the machines would not be used for medical purposes, Palestinian news agency Ma'an reported Saturday.

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John Pilger: There Is a War on Journalism

The terrorist-naming game

By Paul Woodward
June 28, 2010
War in Context

On September 11, 2001, George Bush changed the way Americans look at the world and the success with which he accomplished this feat is evident in the fact that his perspective largely remains unchallenged — even among many of his most outspoken critics. Bush’s simplistic for-us-or-against-us formula was transparently emotive yet utterly effective.

For almost a decade, Americans have been told to look at the world through the lens of “terrorism” and while differences of opinion exist about whether the lens has too wide or narrow an angle or about the extent to which it brings things into focus, those of us who say the lens is so deeply flawed that it should be scrapped, remain in a minority.

The Obama administration may now refrain from using the term itself, preferring instead “violent extremists,” but the change is merely cosmetic (as are so many other “changes” in the seamless continuity between the Bush- and post-Bush eras).

A couple of days ago Philip Weiss drew attention to the fact that when former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni described her parents as “freedom fighters,” Deborah Solomon, her interviewer in the New York Times, echoed Livni’s sentiment by saying that the fight for Israel’s independence took place in “a more romantic era.”

As Weiss notes, Livni’s parents belonged to the Irgun, the Zionist group which blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem on July 22, 1946, killing 91 and injuring 46.

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Through the Wormhole: The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet

Through the Wormhole: The Secret State's Mad Scheme to Control the Internet

By Tom Burghardt

Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz once famously wrote that "war is the continuation of politics by other means." A century later, radical French philosopher Michel Foucault turned Clausewitz on his head and declared that "politics is the continuation of war by other means."

In our topsy-turvy world where truth and lies coexist equally and sociopathic business elites reign supreme, it would hardly be a stretch to theorize that cyber war is the continuation of parapolitical crime by other means.

Through the Wormhole

In Speed and Politics, cultural theorist Paul Virilio argued that "history progresses at the speed of its weapons systems." With electronic communications now blanketing the globe, it was only a matter of time before our political masters, (temporarily) outflanked by the subversive uses to which new media lend themselves, would deploy what Virilio called the "integral accident" (9/11 being one of many examples) and gin-up entirely new categories of threats, "Cyber Pearl Harbor" comes to mind, from which of course, they would "save us."

That the revolving door connecting the military and the corporations who service war making is a highly-profitable redoubt for those involved, has been analyzed here at great length. With new moves to tighten the screws on the immediate horizon, and as "Change" reveals itself for what it always was, an Orwellian exercise in public diplomacy, hitting the "kill switch" serves as an apt descriptor for the new, repressive growth sector that links technophilic fantasies of "net-centric" warfare to the burgeoning "homeland security" market.

Back in March, Wired investigative journalist Ryan Singel wrote that the "biggest threat to the open internet" isn't "Chinese hackers" or "greedy ISPs" but corporatist warriors like former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell.

Having retreated to his old haunt as a senior vice president with the ultra-spooky firm Booz Allen Hamilton (a post he held for a decade before joining the Bush administration), McConnell stands to make millions as Booz Allen's parent company, the secretive private equity powerhouse, The Carlyle Group, plans to take the firm public and sell some $300 million worth of shares, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

"With its deep ties to the defense establishment" the Journal notes, "Booz Allen has become embedded in a range of military operations such as planning war games and intelligence initiatives." That Carlyle Group investors have made out like proverbial bandits during the endless "War on Terror" goes without saying. With "relatively low debt levels for a leveraged buyout," the investment "has been a successful one for Carlyle, which has benefited from the U.S. government's increasing reliance on outsourcing in defense."

And with 15,000 employees in the Washington area, most with coveted top secret and above security clearances, Booz Allen's clients include a panoply of secret state agencies such as the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, NSA and the U.S. Air Force. With tentacles enlacing virtually all facets of the secretive world of outsourced intelligence, the firm has emerged as one of the major players in the cybersecurity niche market.

While McConnell and his minions may not know much about "SQL injection hacks," Singel points out that what makes this spook's spook dangerous (after all, he was NSA Director under Clinton) "is that he knows about social engineering. ... And now he says we need to re-engineer the internet."

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Thugs In Uniform

I respect police officers, but not when they're in uniform.

The Real News: Steve Paikin, veteran Canadian journalist, describes arrest and beating of Guardian newspaper journalist


The Real News: TRNN's Jesse Freeston, one of the members of media attacked or arrested at G20


Democracy Now: Journalist Describes Being Beaten, Arrested by Canadian Police While Covering G20 Protest

“The Official 9/11 Story...Accept Without Question”

“The Official 9/11 Story...Accept Without Question”

By Nathan Janes
PUPAGANDA.com

In the United States today, true investigational journalism is rare. Much of the news circulated by mainstream media is only a presentation of information handed down from the government. Major media functions as a gatekeeper of information, creating consensus among Americans on an array of topics including the popularly held beliefs about September 11, 2001. An atmosphere has been created where questioning the official explanation or asking for a reinvestigation is seen as blasphemy. Individuals who do so are labeled anarchist, conspiracy theorist, domestic terrorist, and antigovernment. Politicians and other public figures who have voiced concerns about the 9/11 Commission Report have been invited on national news programs only to be pressured to renounce previous statements about 9/11 and publicly reject any affiliation to the group 9/11 Truth. While a critical analysis of the 9/11 Commission Report is absent from mainstream media, a number of questions go unanswered and unrecognized by most Americans.

In the days following 9/11, government officials claimed they never imagined anyone attacking the nation by flying planes into buildings even though warnings of such an event had been given from both within and outside of the US. On August 6, 2001, President Bush was warned by the President's Daily Brief, headlined, "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." In the year before 9/11, Italy, Morocco, and Britain released detailed and urgent warnings to the US of planned attacks using planes as weapons where the World Trade Center was given as a specific target. These warnings were forwarded to certain government officials yet no warnings were issued to the American people. The security of our borders and airports were never increased to protect from such a threat. However, surface to air missiles were placed on the roof of the Sarasota Florida resort in which President Bush was staying the night before the attacks. This was not a typical security procedure at the time.

On September 11, 2001, war games were being held by the military and intelligence agencies, which included scenarios of a domestic air crisis, a plane striking a government building, and a large-scale emergency in New York. When it was recognized that morning by air traffic control that several commercial airliners were not responding and were off course, a response was delayed significantly as it was confused with the large scale war game taking place. Fighter jets could have easily intercepted the hijacked planes under ordinary circumstances but the jets of nearby Air Force bases were otherwise occupied. Between September 2000 and June 2001, fighter jets were sent by the FAA to intercept errant aircraft 67 times; such a task was routine whenever a plane would lose radio contact or fly off course. Isn't it strange that war games mimicking similar terrorist attacks were taking place at the exact time of the actual events of 9/11 causing confusion and leaving such sensitive locations vulnerable to attack? If this was only an incredible series of coincidences, why did the official investigation avoid reporting on this issue?

The questions that arise from looking closely at the events that preceded the attacks are dwarfed by the volumes of unanswered questions about the attackers, the collapse of the buildings, and the financial gains that resulted from the event.When presented with these troubling questions, most Americans will respond, “Do you really think the government would lie to us and deliberately kill innocent Americans for an agenda?” The American invasion of Iraq, an undeclared act of war, began with the claim that Iraq was a threat due to their possession of weapons of mass destruction. It was found that these weapons did not exist and any ties between the 9/11 terrorists and Saddam Hussein were also found false. As of April 2010, more than 31,000 US troops had been seriously injured and over 4,300 soldiers had died.

Unclassified documents reveal that the United States has planned and engaged in a number of false flag attacks throughout recent history. On August 4, 1964, the Vietnamese were accused of engaging in two unprovoked attacks on the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin. This incident became a pretext for a war that resulted in over 58,000 US soldier deaths. Nearly 140 top-secret documents declassified by the federal government in 2005 revealed that the second Gulf of Tonkin attack, which catalyzed the US into the Vietnam War, never took place. Similarly, in 1898 Spain was accused of destroying the USS Maine. However, evidence is clear that the naval ship was not attacked by Spain but likely exploded due to a coal fire or an external mine. Although the reason for the Maine's explosion was unknown at the time, newspapers and American industrial magnates were quick to blame Spain knowing that a war would likely result, and their financial interests in Cuba would be protected from the Spanish. The propaganda of this time may be best represented by the slogan 'Remember the Maine- To Hell with Spain.'

In 1962, the Pentagon created Operation Northwoods,an effort to build public support for a war against Cuba with the goal of ousting Fidel Castro from power. These plans included destroying a naval ship, hijacking planes, and committing acts of terrorism within US cities that would result in the deaths of innocent citizens. These plans were kept secret for nearly 40 years. Comparably, principals in US foreign policy under the Bush administration created plans in the late 1990s, which clearly stated their intent to invade Iraq for the purpose of "regime change." In their documentation they openly state that the public and Congress would not accept their agenda therefore transition would be slow “absent a catalyzing and catastrophic event like a new Pearl Harbor.”

Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff under President Obama is quoted as saying, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste — and what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you didn’t think you could do before.” It is clear that the events of 9/11 opened the door for the degradation of Americans' civil rights, unprecedented intrusions into citizens' private lives, as well as undeclared and unjustified war. What is not clear is how an event as catastrophic as 9/11 was permitted to happen. If the mainstream media continues to be our source of information, we will certainly never know the answers to such questions.

The majority of Americans have failed to look beyond the television news, radio, and newspapers of major media outlets for information about 9/11. Many have adopted the views of these sources without critical analysis or any outside research. After all, why think for yourself when you can gather your thoughts and opinions from the evening news? In our culture, we have been trained to believe rather than think. The obvious is rejected and the fictitious is accepted. We, the people of this great nation, need to interrupt the transmission of disinformation and demand answers. Do your own research; dig beyond the news presented by the mass media. Although it remains unpopular to ask questions about September 11th, we must summon courage, for, as Thomas Jefferson once said, "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

Dedicated to the lives lost on September 11th, 2001.

Maya Rolbin-Ghanie: The Erosion of "Rights": a quick descent

The Erosion of "Rights": a quick descent

Toronto Media Co-op
By Maya Rolbin-Ghanie

Groups of undercover police were repeatedly identified by protesters at marches occurring between Monday and Wednesday. Some were reportedly wearing black baseball caps, bandanas with marijuana leaf-designs on them, and patches with Che Guevara on them. When asked by journalists if they were police, none denied it. Several arrests were made each day, habitually after the days' demonstrations had dispersed and people were leaving the scene.

On Thursday we all discovered that a regulation created by the authority of the Public Works Act had been passed in secret on June 2nd, which essentially allows for anyone within five metres of the G20 security fence (even if they happen to just be walking by), to be searched eithout reason, asked for their ID, detained, and even possibly arrested. Dave Vasey did not wish to show his ID without reason and consequently was the first person to be arrested under this new regulation. He is facing court on July 28. Many other similar searches, detainments, and arrests have been made since.

One woman accused by police of trying to break into a building. When she spoke to the press it was revealed that the building was her place of work and she had been using her keys to get inside.

On Friday morning at 4:45am Police pre-emptively raided 2 Toronto houses where activists were staying. No warrant for arrest was shown. Police kicked people from their beds and made arrests. A tenant residing upstairs in one of the houses awoke to a gun in his face, and was cuffed and arrested, before being released and told that that he had been mistakenly arrested. Later the same morning, police arrested 15-20 organizers from Montreal. A spokesperson for the Toronto Community Mobilization Network was arrested on his way to a press conference to discuss the roundup of activists and organizers by police. Another organizer slated to be at the press conference was picked up by police, driven around for an hour without being told where she was being taken, and eventually dropped off in Mississagua. What many find most significant here, is the pre-emptive nature of these raids (many arrested were the organizers of demonstrations and events yet to take place), and the appalling lack of due process in making the arrests. Bail is being set high for some: between $1000 and $5000. Some are being faced with charges more severe than others, “conspiracy to committ mischief” among them.

In the early morning, 80 workers from Hotel Novotel' s Unite Here! Local 75 went on strike. The strike was triggered after Accor, the French company that owns Novatel, walked away from negotiations without addressing an offer put on the table by the union, which included basic demands for a pension plan and guaranteeing workers enough hours to make a living.

Emomotimi Azorbo, a deaf man unrelated to G20 organizing, was beaten and arrested because he did not hear police commands to stay off the road. Azorbo was handcuffed, preventing him from communicating with officers, who also refused his friend's offer to interpret. Azorbo was refused an American Sign Language interpreter in the temporary jail where G20 arrestees are being held. He is charged with three counts of assaulting police plus resisting arrest.

While trying to film Azorbo's violent arrest, Jesse Freeston, of the Real News Network, was punched in the face twice by police, and had his microphone temporarily confiscated while other media crowded around and yelled for the police to return it.

On Saturday, there was no sign of protester violence, among the 25, 000 plus people who took to the streets, contrary to what many corporate media reports are conveying. A few banks, franchises and corporations had their wondows smashed in symbolic shows of property damage. On the contrary, levels of police violence have been extreme and brutal. Police repeatedly attacked and arrested peaceful protesters and journalists.

A number of police cars which were set on fire. They were abandoned in the middle of intersections beforehand, and stripped of all their equipment by police--the cars were discovered to have been damaged previously, which led to reports that the police had purposefully left the cars there as bait, hoping to tempt protesters to set the cars on fire, in order to justify their own violent acts. Later accounts have led many to believe that the fires themselves were set by undercover police, or agents provocateurs.

One journalist was beaten by police.

Another community organizer was violently thrown around by police and later arrested, with several “severe” charges.

Jesse Rosenfeld, journalist with The Guardian, was punched in the eye, and violently arrested, being told he “talked too much.” At least four more Alternative Media journalists were arrested throughout the day.

A CTV producer and 2 National Post journalists were also arrested.

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Michael Ruppert's Collapse

Michael Ruppert's Collapse movie. His book: Confronting Collapse: The Crisis of Energy and Money in a Post Peak Oil World.

Police provocateurs at Montebello, Quebec SPP Summit in 2007

The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police engaged in Purposeful Provocation At Tax Payers' Expense

The police are called many things; intelligent isn't one. Next time they are told to protect a large summit, they should go to Payless the day before and buy some new shoes.


Check out this must-read article by Terry Burrows.

(GlobalResearch.ca): The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police engaged in Purposeful Provocation At Tax Payers' Expense

By Terry Burrows

Toronto is right now in the midst of a massive government / media propaganda fraud. As events unfold, it is becoming increasingly clear that the 'Black Bloc' are undercover police operatives engaged in purposeful provocations to eclipse and invalidate legitimate G20 citizen protest by starting a riot. Government agents have been caught doing this before in Canada.

Montebello 2007 Riot Prevented - Identical Boots Exposed Undercover Police Provocateurs

At the ‘Security and Prosperity Partnership’ meeting protests at Montebello Quebec on August 20, 2007, a Quebec union leader caught and outed three masked undercover Quebec Provincial Police operatives dressed as ‘black bloc’ protestors about to start a riot by throwing rocks at the security police. See the following videos documenting this event.

Stop SPP Protest - Union Leader stops provocateurs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St1-WTc1kow

Evidence -- Police provoke Violence at SPP protest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCRsj06wT64&NR=1

The operation was exposed by the following picture of the undercover police wearing combat boots identical to those of the security police arresting them.

(Provocateurs in Montebello wear the same shoes as the Quebec policemen who arrest them!)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emiliep/1206638928/

See the distinctive yellow dots on the thick corrugated soles of the boots which are the giveaway.

The Quebec Provincial Police were then forced after three days of public outrage to admit that these three men were indeed their officers operating undercover.

Fast Forward to the Toronto 2010 G20 Protest Riot

On Saturday June 26, 2010, the Globe and Mail published on their website a number of photographs taken at the afternoon riot in downtown Toronto precipitated by the ‘black bloc.’

Using these photos, I am going to show you that once again, the ‘black bloc’ provocateurs and the armoured police are wearing the exact same shoes.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/g20-day-of-protest/article1619712/

Thanks to the Globe and Mail for these very helpful photos.

Starbucks Vandalised

Here an operative throws a metal chair through a Starbucks window. This man’s physique doesn’t look like a seedy ‘anarchist’ to me. Rather, this is the fit strong body of a trained soldier – somebody who puts in a lot of regular gym time. He is also wearing what is really a uniform and rather specialized equipment on his forearm and possibly his hip. Unfortunately in this picture we cannot see the shoes being worn. But we certainly can in the picture that follows, and this is where it gets interesting.

The Provocateurs’ Combat Boots

Below another operative throws what appears to be a rock at another Starbucks window.

Take a close look at the upturned boot.

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Explosive Evidence at WTC Cited by Former CDI Employee

AE911Truth: Explosive Evidence at WTC Cited by Former CDI Employee

Written by Darcy Wearing and Richard Gage, AIA

Having had the privilege of speaking with Tom Sullivan, an actual explosive-charge placement technician, we have some new insights to pass along as to how controlled demolition works, where it started, and the effect that 9/11 had on the demolition industry. Sullivan gained his experience as an employee of the leading firm in this field, Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI). Sullivan stresses though “I do not in anyway represent CDI and what I have to say is based on my own experience and training.”

Sullivan attended high school with Doug Loizeaux of the Loizeaux family. The Loizeaux family, through the father Jack, independently started the whole controlled-demolition industry and turned it into a highly profitable business. Sullivan, before he became connected to CDI, was an independent photographer during his early years in Maryland. He would be sent to CD sites and take still pictures of the jobs. He became infatuated with the CD industry. The time came when he would do both, being the placer of the “cutter charges” on the primary joints, and photographing the jobs for promoting the business. Soon he would switch to full-time employee status of CDI -- as verified by AE911Truth’s verification team.

"It was very interesting, but also very hard work, long hours, especially in the cold weather," Sullivan reflects. He stated that the days began early, around 6 a.m., and they would work until the sun was down. Sullivan had the experience of preparing a building by placing the cutter charges throughout the primary joints, and then, of course, watching it all come down.

Sullivan notes that many weeks are required to “prep,” or weaken the buildings before demolitions. Steel frame buildings don’t just fall into their footprints at free-fall without major work throughout the building – even some before the placement of explosives. Sullivan emphasized as an aside, “Fire cannot bring down steel-framed high rises -- period.”

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Firefighters, Architects & Engineers Expose 9/11



KPFA's Guns and Butter: "A Firefighter, A Demolition Expert, and an Architect Look at Ground-Zero":
"A Firefighter, A Demolition Expert, and an Architect Look at Ground-Zero" with firefighter and founder of Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, Erik Lawyer; controlled demolition expert, Tom Sullivan; and architect and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Richard Gage.

Guns and Butter - April 28, 2010 at 1:00pm

Click to listen (or download)

Raw Story: New York Times reporter calls Zionist terrorism ‘romantic’

Raw Story: New York Times reporter calls Zionist terrorism ‘romantic’

By Daniel Tencer

A little-noticed comment in a New York Times interview with Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni has critics arguing that it shows the media has a "double standard" when it comes to terrorism.

In an interview published Tuesday, Livni, the leader of Israel's centrist Kadima party, boasted that her parents, both members of the Zionist militant group Irgun in the 1940s, were the first couple to be married in the newly-formed state of Israel.

"Both of them were in the Irgun," Livni said. "They were freedom fighters, and they met while boarding a British train. When the British Mandate was here, they robbed a train to get the money in order to buy weapons."

To which New York Times reporter Deborah Solomon responded: "It was a more romantic era."

"I've met interviewer Deborah Solomon -- smart lady," writes Philip Weiss, who brought attention to the comment on his blog. "I wonder whether she was inoculated, as I was, by Zionism, and to what degree. This is typically one-sided."

Continued. . .

Philip Weiss: ‘NYT’ reporter who grooved on Jewish terrorism made Chomsky out to be ’self-hating’ nut

America's Warriors Are Led By Wimps And War Criminals

Gen. McChrystal's comments in the explosive Rolling Stone article unnerved the "respect Obama's authority" crowd. Gen. McChrystal made a dash through the Emperor's clothes, and exposed him for what he is; a former lawyer that was given the role of the "Commander-in-chief" of a military that he has never served in. And how did he get that role? Did he slay dragons abroad? Did he rose through the political or military ranks? Nope. He got his position because millions of brainwashed idiots voted for him, falsely believing his promises and lies.

So here we are. America is in a global war against "terrorism" with a fake chief in the White House acting like he is in command of the situation by firing disgruntled generals, grabbing new tyrannical powers, and escalating wars that are criminal, immoral, and worst of all in the American political landscape, unwinnable. If Obama made any decisions against the interests of the corporatist-militarist establishment, he would be killed faster than Gen. McChrystal was fired.

The public believes that the chain of command ends with the President, but it doesn't. General Jones, Obama's National Security Advisor, referenced the real chain of command in America's secret government at the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy in February, 2009:

"Thank you for that wonderful tribute to Henry Kissinger yesterday. Congratulations. As the most recent National Security Advisor of the United States, I take my daily orders from Dr. Kissinger, filtered down through Generaal Brent Scowcroft and Sandy Berger, who is also here. We have a chain of command in the National Security Council that exists today."

General Jones's revelation wasn't surprising, but it was stupid for him to make that assertion because Kissinger is a wanted war criminal. The evidence of his crimes are laid out by Christoper Hitchens in "The Case Against Henry Kissinger." The doctor of foreign policy views military men as "dumb, stupid animals to be used" as pawns for America's imperial wars. One of those pawns is Gen. McChrystal.

Pundits claim that Gen. McChrystal showed bad judgment for allowing his belief that the Obama administration is filled with wimps to become public. But they have it wrong. Bad judgment is taking orders from war criminals, and psychopaths like Kissinger. Bad judgment is starting illegal wars, and killing innocent people. Bad judgment is expanding illegal wars, and killing more innocent people. The criticism of Obama's machoness by Gen. McChrystal shouldn't be viewed as something minuscule, and immature. He made a good point. People take a president's manhood into consideration when evaluating his leadership, and personality. Kennedy's manhood was never doubted; and neither was Reagan's. America's most famous presidents, from George Washington to Andrew Jackson to Teddy Roosevelt, enjoyed a high popularity during their presidency partly because of their strong masculinity, and commanding presence.

Don't be fooled by the rhetoric of the country's current "Commander-in-chief." The character of a man and the title are two entirely different things. Obama speaks slowly, and dresses sharply, however, he does not project a commanding presence in a room, and he is “uncomfortable and intimidated” by men who do.

Unlike Gen. McChrystal, Obama has never been exposed to the shadows, and the wild side that exists in every man. The American poet Robert Bly says it is important for a man to get in touch with his wild wide, and master his warrior instincts.The instincts of the wild man, if put to good use, are necessary for a community's survival.

America should be proud that it has warriors like Gen. McChrystal, and the thousands of warriors that are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan; the problem is that their combat skills and fighting spirit is manipulated for corrupt and diabolical ends. Bly writes in his book "Iron John" that, "the warrior in man is the one who is able to pursue a task until it is finished. And the warrior usually has a cause transcendent to himself. The warrior works for the king and the king represents the spirit, or God, the transcendent."

According to Bly, the crisis for the warrior in American society is that the warrior has no king. The brave and committed soldiers in America's military have been tasked with an impossible, and very cynical mission in the "War on Terror." They've been asked to rid the world of evil, and destroy terrorists that want to inflict pain on America, but the world's biggest terrorists are in the U.S. National Security establishment, and evil has no better security today than in the halls of Washington D.C. Moral values and the belief of the divinity in man has been abandoned by America's corrupt and depraved leaders. They've betrayed Americas warriors ever since the war in Vietnam, and even before then. The last president who represented the values of the true King, the values of God, the values of the transcendent, was John F. Kennedy; he realized a path to peace with the Soviet Union, and decided to "splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces," but he was assassinated shortly after.

"The warrior," Bly says, "is not send to harm or cause damage, but to defend the boundaries." That basic truth has been lost in America. America's warriors are not in Iraq and Afghanistan to defend America's security, they're mission is not noble; they're there for commercial, imperialist, and Israeli interests. They've been deceived into occupying two innocent countries, killing its people, and denying them the right of self-determination. Gen. McChrystal tried to diminish the suffering of the people of Afghanistan by focusing on the safety of civilians, but his COIN strategy hasn't worked because it is impossible to defend the boundaries of rightful combat in modern criminal wars. And it is all the more difficult to implement such a strategy in a war that does not have a clear or winnable mission. The biggest scandal is that the War on Terror was designed to be a permanent, and unwinnable war, and warriors can't fight permanent wars without feeling guilt and shame; hence the acceleration of the use of drones and robots.

The troops in Afghanistan were relieved to see Gen. McChrystal leave because he put constraints on their warrior instincts under the false assumption that protecting civilians in a war of occupation is the key to victory. But there are no keys to victory in a fraudulent, deceptive, and destructive war. America is losing in the Middle East despite its military advancement and strong warriors because it is going against human nature by imposing its rule through force. Just as the American colonists and revolutionaries outlasted the Redcoats; the fighters and patriots in Afghanistan and Iraq will survive the Green Berets and the American forces. If Gen. McChrystal was serious about standing up to authority, he would've called for the immediate withdrawal of all American warriors from Afghanistan and Iraq; not for more pawns to die in an immoral and illegal war.

Gonzalo Lira: Is the U.S. a Fascist Police-State?

Gonzalo Lira: Is the U.S. a Fascist Police-State?

I lived in Chile during the Pinochet dictatorship—I can spot a fascist police-state when I see one.

The United States is a fascist police-state.

Harsh words—incendiary, even. And none too clever of me, to use such language: Time was, the crazies and reactionaries wearing tin-foil hats who flung around such a characterization of the United States were disqualified by sensible people as being hysterical nutters—rightfully so.

But with yesterday’s Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project decision (No. 08-1498, also 09-89) of the Supreme Court, coupled with last week’s Arar v. Ashcroft denial of certiorari (No. 09-923), the case for claiming that the U.S. is a fascist police-state just got a whole lot stronger.

First of all, what is a “fascist police-state”?

A police-state uses the law as a mechanism to control any challenges to its power by the citizenry, rather than as a mechanism to insure a civil society among the individuals. The state decides the laws, is the sole arbiter of the law, and can selectively (and capriciously) decide to enforce the law to the benefit or detriment of one individual or group or another.

In a police-state, the citizens are “free” only so long as their actions remain within the confines of the law as dictated by the state. If the individual’s claims of rights or freedoms conflict with the state, or if the individual acts in ways deemed detrimental to the state, then the state will repress the citizenry, by force if necessary. (And in the end, it’s always necessary.)

What’s key to the definition of a police-state is the lack of redress: If there is no justice system which can compel the state to cede to the citizenry, then there is a police-state. If there exists apro forma justice system, but which in practice is unavailable to the ordinary citizen because of systemic obstacles (for instance, cost or bureaucratic hindrance), or which against all logic or reason consistently finds in favor of the state—even in the most egregious and obviously contradictory cases—then that pro forma judiciary system is nothing but a sham: A tool of the state’s repression against its citizens. Consider the Soviet court system the classic example.

A police-state is not necessarily a dictatorship. On the contrary, it can even take the form of a representative democracy. A police-state is not defined by its leadership structure, but rather, by its self-protection against the individual.

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The Lost Decade

"And now they’re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club." - George Carlin

G20: Activists Arrested, Denied Entry into Canada

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
June 25, 2010

Dan Dicks of Press for Truth reports this morning that Charlie Veitch of The Love Police was arrested yesterday in Toronto for refusing to cooperate with the police.

“While using his megaphone to inform the people of Toronto about G20 related issues we were surrounded by police who demanded our identification. When Charlie stated that he wishes to remain anonymous he was immediately detained and placed under arrest. The officer stated that Charlie was being detained under the ‘public works protection act’ for failing to identify himself,” writes Dicks.

Charlie Veitch produces videos of his confrontations with government officials and police. His Love Police blog is popular. Veitch appeared on the Alex Jones Show on May 20, 2010.

“The province has secretly passed an unprecedented regulation that empowers police to arrest anyone near the G20 security zone who refuses to identify themselves or agree to a police search,” the Toronto Star reports today. “The regulation was made under Ontario’s Public Works Protection Act and was not debated in the Legislature. According to a provincial spokesperson, the cabinet action came in response to an ‘extraordinary request’ by Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair, who wanted additional policing powers shortly after learning the G20 was coming to Toronto.”

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The CIA/Likud Sinking of Jimmy Carter

The CIA/Likud Sinking of Jimmy Carter

By Robert Parry (A Special Report)
June 24, 2010
ConsortiumNews.com

As the Official Story of the 1980 October Surprise case crumbles -- with new revelations that key evidence was hidden from investigators of a congressional task force and that internal doubts were suppressed -- history must finally confront the troubling impression that remains: that disgruntled elements of the CIA and Israel's Likud hardliners teamed up to remove a U.S. president from office.

Indeed, it is this disturbing conclusion -- perhaps even more than the idea of a Republican dirty trick -- that may explain the longstanding and determined cover-up of this political scandal.

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The Dark Apocalypto Show

More than 3205 agonizing days have passed since the 9/11 attacks, the most vicious crime of our lifetime. On that day, a great deception was perpetrated against humanity. A deadly myth was sown into grieving and shaken minds; innocent human beings were sacrificed; a scapegoat was targeted, and continues to be targeted to this day. The world was struck by terror from authority like never before. In the wake of that tragedy, the real masterminds of the crime have went unpunished; and their version of events remains virtually undisputed in the public discourse.

Apart from the 2,998 people that died on 9/11, over a million people have met their graves because of the madness that was purposely unleashed by the ultimate terrorists through their original act of terror. In response to the 9/11 attacks, the United States government criminally invaded two innocent countries, poured hundreds of billions of dollars into the Pentagon's treasury, and destroyed the American people's liberties.

The fabric of society is tearing apart with the passing of every day. Good is declared as evil; and evil, as good. Reality was fractured on 9/11 because of the evil lie that was told by the Bush administration to the people of the world. The sense of a broken bond between the elite and the people, and the total betrayal of democracy by the U.S. government since WWII is deeply felt by a lot of people.

The corporate-government propaganda has tried to deaden our minds and our spirits, but our sense of justice is still alive, and our desire for truth instead of illusions has never been greater. What is holding many of us back from fully confronting the hidden monstrosity in our various "democratic" governments is our delusion that we live in a post-9/11 world. We don't; we live in a "9/11 world." The National Security thugs and government "intelligence" spies run things.

The people of the world cannot say goodbye to that day, and live as free human beings, until the truth about who committed and supported the attacks is known, and that they be severely punished. Facing the truth about 9/11 is the greatest task of our generation. Since the truth was the first victim in the "War on Terror" it must also be the first to recover. And facing the truth without deep historical reflection is impossible.

The 24/7 corporate media is the biggest barrier against historical reflection. Since 9/11, it has maintained the central myths in the "War on Terror," and in the Israel/Palestine conflict all day long for every day of the week; all week long for every week of the month; all month long for every month of the year.

Professor David Ray Griffin writes in his article "9/11: The Myth and the Reality" that the official 9/11 story has become a "Sacred Story." The story's inception began before the planes ever hit the towers. It was a pure fictional invention. Professor Griffin explains the significance of the myth in the public mind, and why it must be deconstructed at its core:

According to the official story about 9/11, America, because of its goodness, was attacked by fanatical Arab Muslims who hate our freedoms. This story has functioned as a Sacred Myth for the United States since that fateful day. And this function appears to have been carefully orchestrated. The very next day, President Bush announced his intention to lead "a monumental struggle of Good versus Evil."¹ Then on September 13, he declared that the following day would be a National Day of Prayer and Remembrance for the Victims of the Terrorist Attacks. And on

that next day, the president himself, surrounded by Billy Graham, a cardinal, a rabbi, and an imam, delivered a sermon in the national cathedral, saying:

Our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of Evil. War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. . . . In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom. They have attacked America, because we are freedom's home and defender. And the commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time. . . . [W]e ask almighty God to watch over our nation, and grant us patience and resolve in all that is to come. . . . And may He always guide our country. God bless America.²

Through this unprecedented event, in which the president of the United States issued a declaration of war from a cathedral, French author Thierry Meyssan observed in 2002, "the American government consecrated . . . its version of events. From then on, any questioning of the official truth would be seen as sacrilege."³

That attitude has remained dominant in the public sphere until this day, as the official account has continued to serve as a Sacred Story. When people raise questions about this story, they are either ignored, ridiculed as conspiracy theorists, or---as Charlie Sheen has recently experienced---attacked personally. When anyone asks what right the administration has to invade and occupy other countries, to imprison people indefinitely without due process, or even to ignore various laws, the answer is always the same: "9/11." Those who believe that US law and international law should be respected are dismissed as having "a pre-9/11 mind-set."

Given the role the official account of 9/11 has played and continues to play, the most important question before our country today is whether this account, besides being a Myth in the religious sense, is also a myth in the pejorative sense---that is, whether it is simply false.

I find it impossible to take an anti-war critic seriously if he does not support an independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. By accepting the false premise that non-state violence was committed against the American State on 9/11 means that you believe in the mythic narrative that is defended by the imperialists, Zionists, and neocons.

Separating peace from war can't be done without first separating the truth from the lies. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq will never end unless the mission against terrorism is seen as intellectually bankrupt.

Many people still believe in the government version of 9/11 because acknowledging that you were fooled triggers feelings of shame and guilt. And our memories of how we were, and why we blindly supported a criminal system, will never be forgotten. Two innocent populations, and the religion of Islam was vehemently targeted to avenge the 9/11 attacks by America's criminal empire. The injustice that the people of Iraq and Afghanistan have suffered is incomprehensible. Imagine all the innocent detainees, tortured and killed; all the people that have lost their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, children. Arthur Silber notes that the mass killing in Iraq amounts to "a 9/11 every day for ten and a half years."

And the war crimes against Iraq and Afghanistan can't be explained away as the work of evil forces alone. Evil has been allowed to operate in the open because good people have either kept silent, or decided to remain willfully ignorant. Accepting collective responsibility for the murder of a million people in Iraq, and thousands of people in Afghanistan is hard because the leaders in authority in America and the West have cast a hypnotizing historical spell on the people. It is much harder than simply assigning blame to the war criminals and the paid propagandists, and punishing them for their deeds. The latter simply requires evidence, and the rule of law; but the first requires wide-spread knowledge, political will, collective moral conscience, and psychological understanding of how people can be tamed and trained like sheep.

Arabs and Muslims are the biggest victims in the "War on Terror" because of an age-old mass phenomenon, scapegoating. Ignorant, and brainwashed societies throughout history have targeted, persecuted, and killed innocent people in the aftermath of a mass trauma, or a violent event. Jews were victims of German scapegoating. Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians were of North American scapegoating. If we want to end the "War on Terror," and achieve peace and freedom for everybody, then we must get to the root of this psychological crime, and refuse to scapegoat any group of people for whatever problem that ails us.

René Girard, a French literary critic and philosopher, has important insights on mass scapegoating. He says:

"One of our favorite ways of dealing with scapegoating is to see it as a plot of government leaders, whereas the rest of us have not participated in it. But scapegoating is a collective phenomenon. It would not work if it were not. Of course, leaders can manipulate it, but there must be something to manipulate, which is the belief of the crowd, our own belief."(The Girard Reader, pg. 266).

Girard's work also focuses on revelation, truth, and self-discovery. The films Dark City, Apocalypto, and The Truman Show, deal with these themes, too.

II. Lost In the Dark

In Alex Proyas's Dark City, a dying underworld alien species called The Strangers are in control of a walled planet that is unwittingly inhabited by human beings somewhere in the dark corners of space. The people's basic instincts, and memories are manipulated by The Strangers. Their minds inhabit a slave consciousness as their bodies inhabit a slave system. And the planet is always dark. At midnight the people fall into an automatic sleep, and then wake up as if nothing strange happened to them. In their sleep, The Strangers engineer their memories in a quest to obtain the secrets to the human soul.

The film centers on a protagonist named John Murdoch that wakes up one day without any memory of himself or his past, and is falsely accused of a crime that he didn't commit. Without an identity, and without a home, he runs from the authorities, and searches for the truth of his past, and of his strange society. Along the way, he is drawn to a Utopian place called Shell Beach, believing it exists, but he painfully discovers that there is no escape from the prison planet that he lives on, and that Shell Beach is an illusion.

It is scary how many parallels there are between early 21st century society and Dark City. The corporate-globalist elite that have so much contempt for the mass of humanity are The Strangers. Their social engineering and mass brainwashing through the corporate media, and public schools is just as diabolical as the aliens' manipulation of the people's memories in the film. And they want to establish a system of control that ensures their power for generations to come. But, like The Strangers, they are also a dying species. A mass global political awakening is happening, as CFR strategist Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in December 2008 in a New York Times article called "The global political awakening":

For the first time in history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. Global activism is generating a surge in the quest for cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world scarred by memories of colonial or imperial domination.

The global political awakening is a positive development in human affairs, but let's not fool ourselves: a dying elite is even more dangerous than a powerful and dynamic elite. It is very alarming that depopulation of the majority of the planet is an idea that is openly discussed by leading elitist under the cover of "environmental conservation." Judging by the United States government's atrocities in Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, nothing is out of the question: not even genocide.

The National Security State in America that is controlled by international financiers is one of the most evil government forces that has ever existed in all of human history. And it is dominated by corporate fascism, not free-market economics. Since 9/11, it hasn't even bothered to hide its crimes against humanity. It tortures innocent detainees, spies on American citizens, suppresses legitimate political debate, and continues to illegal occupy two sovereign countries.

The evil forces that control the U.S. government are pushing for a "New World Order" global revolution so that people don't rise up collectively to bring justice to the criminals behind the fraudulent "War on Terror" and Wall Street's heist of America and the world.

A new corporate order behind the veil of a responsible global government is evil genius mixed in with great PR. What better way is there to stopping a revolution than by starting your own? The world's revolutionary oligarchs are seizing even more power by destabilizing global society through manufactured social, and economic crises. Their control of the private Federal Reserve Bank represents their grip of America, but their appetite for power is the whole planet. In the elite's game plan, killing the people may be the final solution.

John Bart Gerald writes in "Essay on State Terrorism" that there is a serious threat of "genocide under US emergency management." Gerald writes:

If society moves ahead as it is, without radically reforming corporate capitalism, without distribution of wealth, without jobs with rights, then the result will be a continued genocide of the poor. That is happening now. It is a continuum, a corollary of capitalism, yet always disguised in other perspectives. Capitalism is simply legalized abuse of humanity at its best, and mass murder/genocide at its worst. As wealth becomes increasingly isolated in a smaller percent of the population, the means of protecting this wealth will become brutal and more and more criminal. If its acquisition is criminal, its maintenance will not suddenly go to church.

Active depopulation of a major percentage of the planet seems crazy and conspiratorial, but the elite's vision for a post-humanist technocratic society is actually very clear headed. But it is a dark vision. The global diabolical elite believe that in a brave new world, the people don't deserve to live. For years, they've described people as "useless eaters", and planet Earth is too precious for such people. Gerald says that conditions exist in the Third World for a genocidal program, and it can be accomplished under the cover of plagues, food crises, and wars. Gerald:

What historical example suggests for the future is that the distillation of extreme wealth will be accomplished - 1. by diminishing the actual numbers of people, particularly in the Third World countries; historically that has been accomplished by war, plague, deprival of local production of food; 2. by driving more people into poverty as a prelude to existence without human rights; 3. by increasingly isolating people from each other so they/we can't work toward or protect common interests; 4. by increasingly isolating government from the people; this is done partly by high government salaries, "buying" elected officials into representing the interests of the wealthy rather than constituent poor, and encouraging control of the people for the benefit of trade; 5. by increasing control of information so the sensibilities of the wealthy don't suffer from the effects of their policies.

The threat of depopulation is only a threat, and if we are vigilant and brave, it won't ever be a reality, but we can't be idle anymore. The admission by some of the world's top oligarchs that a majority of people should be wiped out to "save the planet" should stir us to immediately reclaim power of our democratic governments, and prosecute the criminals who are involved in the conspiracy.

III. An Epoch of Mass Graves

Our civilization, like the Maya civilization as depicted in Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, is ruled by fear, greed, and oppression. Instead of a priestly class to cast future fortunes that existed in Mayan society, there is a criminal banking class that secretly manipulates the global market, but wants everybody else to view them as workers of God.

It is not a new revelation that modern Western society is controlled by a monetary system that is owned by international banking houses for the enrichment of a connected few, but their power was never expressed as directly as it is today. The oligarchical system works like a cartel, and usury is its hallmark. And the banksters power over Western countries is bizarrely real. The analogy between this elite and the elite in Mayan civilization is not perfect, but there are scary resemblances within their systems of control. Corporate raiders on Wall Street, similar to Mayan raiders, have pillaged Third World countries for the past sixty years through the IMF/World Bank/WTO, and now they're pillaging American cities, and European nations.

Also, America's needless killing of a million people in the name of fighting a "War on Terror" is just as insane as what the Mayas did in the name of ritual sacrifice to their gods.

IV. The Show Must Go On For The System To Function

In Peter Weir's The Truman Show, the protagonist Truman Burbank is deceived about his world, and who he is from birth. He is a reality T.V. character that lives in a false reality, and everybody around him is complicit in his conditioning and slavery. Truman eventually realizes his fake surrounding, but he is too afraid to escape, partly because of his own psychological limitations, and partly because of the traps set up by the billionaire owner of the show and T.V. set. Ultimately, however, the powers of reality pulls Truman away from the powers of illusion, and he exits the manufactured world.

We each have to be like Truman and escape our own illusions about the "War on Terror," modern democracy, and the fraudulent banking system. The media machine will never get rid of these illusions for us, we have to take the steps towards reality for ourselves. Controllers of the media will present endless illusions and distractions as our world collapses because without their fiction and lies the current system can't survive.

V. Journey To Freedom

All three protagonists in the films, Jaguar Paw, John Murdoch, and Truman Burbank, go on a journey to freedom, and a new reality. And in their journey, they discover their own strength, and new revelations about their world. Their emancipation from mental, physical, and spiritual slavery is also our destiny. We must all emulate these three heroes because the world needs millions of heroes right now. Individually and collectively, we must ignore the mainstream media, and not be afraid to deconstruct the myths about 9/11, end the insane, monstrous and fictitious "War on Terror," terminate the National Security State, and destroy the usurious monetary system. After that, we can begin thinking about a new reality, a new way of life, and a new civilization.

Gen. McChrystal: "We don't understand Afghanistan"

Russia Today talks with The Nation's Robert Dreyfuss about Gen. McChrystal's comments about Afghanistan. The video is from June 16, 2010, days before Gen. McChrystal's comments in his Rolling Stone profile stirred a huge controversy that led to his termination.

The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order

(Global Research.ca):

The Global Political Awakening and the New World Order

The Technological Revolution and the Future of Freedom, Part 1

by Andrew Gavin Marshall

There is a new and unique development in human history that is taking place around the world; it is unprecedented in reach and volume, and it is also the greatest threat to all global power structures: the ‘global political awakening.’ The term was coined by Zbigniew Brzezinski, and refers to the fact that, as Brzezinski wrote:

For the first time in history almost all of humanity is politically activated, politically conscious and politically interactive. Global activism is generating a surge in the quest for cultural respect and economic opportunity in a world scarred by memories of colonial or imperial domination.[1]

It is, in essence, this massive ‘global political awakening’ which presents the gravest and greatest challenge to the organized powers of globalization and the global political economy: nation-states, multinational corporations and banks, central banks, international organizations, military, intelligence, media and academic institutions. The Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC), or ‘Superclass’ as David Rothkopf refers to them, are globalized like never before. For the first time in history, we have a truly global and heavily integrated elite. As elites have globalized their power, seeking to construct a ‘new world order’ of global governance and ultimately global government, they have simultaneously globalized populations.

The ‘Technological Revolution’ (or ‘Technetronic’ Revolution, as Brzezinski termed it in 1970) involves two major geopolitical developments. The first is that as technology advances, systems of mass communication rapidly accelerate, and the world’s people are able to engage in instant communication with one another and gain access to information from around the world. In it, lies the potential – and ultimately a central source – of a massive global political awakening. Simultaneously, the Technological Revolution has allowed elites to redirect and control society in ways never before imagined, ultimately culminating in a global scientific dictatorship, as many have warned of since the early decades of the 20th century. The potential for controlling the masses has never been so great, as science unleashes the power of genetics, biometrics, surveillance, and new forms of modern eugenics; implemented by a scientific elite equipped with systems of psycho-social control (the use of psychology in controlling the masses).

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