Ten Irrefutable, Devastating 9/11 Facts

Elias Davidsson and Craig McKee
Global Research

Scholars who attempt to elucidate the crime perpetrated on 9/11 – who are commonly referred to as 9/11 truthers – are often criticized for relying on conjecture and speculation in support of their claims. Such criticism may at times be justified, though often made in bad faith. There is actually no need to resort to speculative arguments that the official account of 9/11 is a fraud since there are hard facts that support this conclusion. Here are 10 such undisputed facts:

1. U.S. authorities have failed to trace, arrest, try (prosecute), and punish anyone responsible for the crime against humanity committed on 9/11.

The mass murder committed on September 11, 2001 represents, under international law, a crime against humanity. The State where it was committed – in this case the United States of America – bears the obligation to the international community to trace, arrest, try, and punish individuals responsible for that crime.

Since 2002, U.S. authorities admit they have detained a handful of persons at Guantánamo Bay who are accused of helping to orchestrate 9/11. Their identities remain in doubt; their alleged confessions were made behind closed doors; and their trial by a military court does not fulfill minimal international norms of due process.

U.S. authorities claim to have sentenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life imprisonment for not having warned the FBI about the preparations for 9/11, an allegation he denied. No evidence was presented that he was involved in the preparations for 9/11 or knew anything about these preparations. No evidence was presented that he even knew the alleged hijackers. U.S. authorities also claim to hold, since 2003, a man by the name of Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (KSM) in Guantánamo who allegedly confessed to have masterminded 9/11 and more than 30 other terrorist operations. He also allegedly confessed to having planned an attack on a bank in Washington State that did not exist until after he was already in Guantánamo. The man, whose identity remains murky and whose connection to 9/11 is limited to what he said in his ludicrous confession, has not been prosecuted, let alone sentenced. No one seriously expects him to be ever brought to trial, let alone a trial fulfilling international norms.

2. When announcing to the United Nations their decision to attack Afghanistan, U.S. authorities failed to provide evidence that the crime of 9/11 was in any way connected to Afghanistan. In fact, such evidence has still not been produced.

See the letter from U.S. Representative John Negroponte to the President of the UN Security Council, October 7, 2001 (mirrored here).

3. The United States government did not authorize an investigation of the events of 9/11 that could have fulfilled minimal international standards: The 9/11 Commission was neither independent nor impartial, and its investigation was neither thorough nor transparent.

Regarding minimal standards of investigation, see Elias Davidsson, “The Events of 11 September 2001 and the Right to the Truth.” (See this or this)

4. Despite vilifying Osama bin Laden as a terrorist leader, judicial authorities in the United States have failed to charge him in connection with 9/11. He was not even wanted in connection with this crime.

The FBI admitted in June 2006 that it possesses no concrete evidence linking Osama bin Laden to 9/11. (See: Ed Haas, “FBI says, it has no ‘hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11,” Information Clearing House, June 18, 2006, mirrored here). 

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Bin Laden alive and well in the heads of US warmongers and gullible people everywhere

Joe Quinn
Sott.net

Where would we be without Bin Laden? Or rather, where would the US Empire's rationale to justify wars of aggression be without Bin Laden?

Wherever he is right now, the lanky Saudi playboy cum jihadi has every right to feel proud of the role he was co-opted to play by the pioneers of the phony war on terror. After all, he and he alone 'did' 9/11. The scramble to 'get him' for 'doing 9/11' allowed for a US military take over of Afghanistan and, with a few blatant lies repeated ad nauseam by the Western press, Iraq was overrun too. That's a lot of return on the energy invested in turning the son of a Saudi millionaire into the bete noire of the freedom-loving peoples of the world.

Once Afghanistan and Iraq were 'done' however, Osama was retreated to his mysteriously inaccessible-to-all-but-Allah mountain cave, and 'al-Qaeda' took over for the next few years of securing freedom and democracy for the Middle East, which took the unusual form of destroying as much of it as possible.

By the time 2011 rolled around, US and NATO warmongers were getting a bit peckish again, and Syria and Libya were lined up for obliteration. But al-Qaeda had become a bit 'old' and no one had seen Osama for years, except in the form of grainy videos of some guy who looked a bit like him. So from the rubble of Iraq, "ISIS" was launched onto the geopolitical scene to replace 'al-qaeda' who the USA government was now actively funding and arming in Syria and Libya.

But to facilitate his definitive exit from the stage, bin Laden was to take one last hit for the Secret Team as the victim of the 'heroic Navy Seal raid' on his 'compound' in Abottabad, Pakistan, a popular retirement and holiday retreat for Pakistani military and civilian intelligence. This was a bizarre choice of hiding place for the world's (then) most wanted man, especially since it was located just a few kms away from the Pakistani equivalent of West Point and the CIA had an office there. Then again, very little ever makes sense in the phony war on terror that is used as a cover for imperial wars of aggression.  

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ISIS Beheadings of Journalists: CIA Admitted to Staging Fake Jihadist Videos in 2010

Comment: Another reminder from September 2014 as we continue to view these horrors from ISIL...

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Questions arise after experts say Foley ISIS beheading video likely “staged”

By Mikael Thalen

A 2010 Washington Post article authored by former Army Intelligence Officer Jeff Stein features a detailed account of how the CIA admittedly filmed a fake Bin Laden video during the run up to the 2003 Iraq war.

The article, which includes comments from multiple sources within the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group, explains how the agency had planned to “flood Iraq with the videos” depicting several controversial scenarios.

“The agency actually did make a video purporting to show Osama bin Laden and his cronies sitting around a campfire swigging bottles of liquor and savoring their conquests with boys, one of the former CIA officers recalled, chuckling at the memory,” the article states. “The actors were drawn from ‘some of us darker-skinned employees.’”

Other CIA officials admitted to planning several fake videos featuring former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, one of which would depict the leader engaged in sexual acts with a teenage boy.

“It would look like it was taken by a hidden camera,” said one of the former officials. “Very grainy, like it was a secret videotaping of a sex session.”

According to one official, the video ideas were eventually scrapped due to the CIA officers, who spent their careers in Latin America and East Asia, not understanding “the cultural nuances of the region.”

“Saddam playing with boys would have no resonance in the Middle East — nobody cares,” a third former CIA official said. “Trying to mount such a campaign would show a total misunderstanding of the target. We always mistake our own taboos as universal when, in fact, they are just our taboos.”

The article does however admit that one specific psyop was successfully implemented, linking to a document from the Rand Corporation that explains the program.

“According to histories of the 2003 invasion, the single most effective ‘information warfare’ project, which originated in the Pentagon, was to send faxes and e-mails to Iraqi unit commanders as the fighting began, telling them their situation was hopeless, to round up their tanks, artillery and men, and go home,” the article states. “Many did.”

While the aforementioned videos were never released, the much looked over admission of such psychological operations raises questions in light of the recent ISIS beheading videos.

Only days after Infowars’ questioned several discrepancies in the James Foley beheading video, top British forensic experts concluded that the video was likely staged using “camera trickery and slick post-production techniques.”

“After enhancements, the knife can be seen to be drawn across the upper neck at least six times, with no blood evidence to the point the picture fades to black,” an analyst said.”I think it has been staged. My feeling is that the execution may have happened after the camera was stopped.”

Given the brutality seen in many of ISIS’ grainy, low quality cell phone videos from Iraq and Syria, many have also begun questioning why the “beheading” video’s hide the actual beheading while also exhibiting more advanced editing techniques and high definition cameras.

While no one questions the tragic fate of both James Foley and Steven Sotloff, other questions have been raised in light of who discovered the most recent video: the SITE Intelligence Group (Search for International Terrorist Entities).

“One of SITE’s founders, Rita Katz, is a government insider with close connections to former terrorism czar Richard Clarke and his staff in the White House, as well as investigators in the Department of Justice, Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Homeland Security according to SourceWatch,” notes Infowars’ Kurt Nimmo.

The most glaring issue still remains the United States government’s involvement in creating ISIS, recently pointed out by General Thomas McInerney.

“We backed I believe in some cases, some of the wrong people and not in the right part of the Free Syrian Army and that’s a little confusing to people, so I’ve always maintained….that we were backing the wrong types,” McInerney said.

While the Obama Administration admits to having no strategy against ISIS, internal sources claim the President has received intelligence on their rise for more than a year. Even as reports come in on possible ISIS attacks in the Southern US, the President still refuses to secure the border as border gates are left wide open.

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Twenty-six Things About the Islamic State (ISIL) that Obama Does Not Want You to Know About

The US led war against  the Islamic State is a big lie.

Going after ” Islamic terrorists”, carrying out a worldwide pre-emptive war to “Protect the American Homeland” are used to justify a military agenda.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is a creation of US 
intelligence. Washington’s “Counter-terrorism Agenda” in Iraq and Syria consists in Supporting the Terrorists.  

The incursion of the Islamic State (IS) brigades into Iraq starting in June 2014 was part of a carefully planned military-intelligence operation supported covertly by the US, NATO and Israel.

The counter-terrorism mandate is a fiction. America is the Number One “State Sponsor of Terrorism” .

The Islamic State is protected by the US and its allies. If they had wanted to eliminate the Islamic State brigades, they could have “carpet” bombed their convoys of Toyota pickup trucks when they crossed the desert from Syria into Iraq in June.  

 

The  Syro-Arabian Desert is open territory (see map below). With state of the art jet fighter aircraft (F15, F22 Raptor, CF-18) it would have been  -from a military standpoint-  a rapid and expedient surgical operation  

In this article, we address 26 concepts which refute the big lie.  Portrayed by the media as a humanitarian undertaking, this large scale military operation directed against Syria and Iraq has resulted in countless civilian deaths. 

It could not have been undertaken without the unbending support of  the Western media which has upheld Obama’s initiative as a counter-terrorism operation.  

THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF AL QAEDA

1. The US has supported Al Qaeda and its affiliated organizations for almost half a century since the heyday of the Soviet Afghan war. 

2. CIA training camps were set up in Pakistan.  In the ten year period from 1982 to 1992, some 35,000 jihadists from 43 Islamic countries were recruited by the CIA to fight in the Afghan jihad.

“Advertisements, paid for from CIA funds, were placed in newspapers and newsletters around the world offering inducements and motivations to join the Jihad.”

3. Since the Reagan Administration, Washington has supported the Islamic terror network. 

Ronald Reagan called the terrorists “freedom fighters”. The US supplied weapons to the Islamic brigades.  It was all for “a good cause”: fighting the Soviet Union and regime change, leading to the demise of a secular government in Afghanistan.

Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at the

White House in 1985 (Reagan Archives)

4. Jihadist textbooks  were  published by the University of Nebraska. “. “The United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings”

5. Osama bin Laden, America’s bogyman and founder of Al Qaeda was recruited by the CIA in 1979 at the very outset of the US sponsored jihadist war against Afghanistan . He was 22 years old and was trained in a CIA sponsored guerilla training camp.

Al Qaeda was not behind the 9/11 Attacks. September 11, 2001 provided a justification for waging a war against Afghanistan on the grounds that Afghanistan was a state sponsor of terrorism, supportive of Al Qaeda. The 9/11 attacks were instrumental in the formulation of the “Global War on Terrorism”.

THE ISLAMIC STATE (ISIL)

6. The Islamic State (ISIL) was originally an Al Qaeda affiliated entity created by US intelligence with the support of Britain’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Presidency (GIP), Ri’āsat Al-Istikhbārāt Al-’Āmah ( رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة‎).

7. The ISIL brigades were involved in the US-NATO supported insurgency in Syria directed against the government of  Bashar al Assad.

8.  NATO and the Turkish High Command were responsible for the recruitment of ISIL and Al Nusrah mercenaries from the outset of the Syrian insurgency in March 2011. According to Israeli intelligence sources, this initiative consisted in:

“a campaign to enlist thousands of Muslim volunteers in Middle East countries and the Muslim world to fight alongside the Syrian rebels. The Turkish army would house these volunteers, train them and secure their passage into Syria. (DEBKAfile, NATO to give rebels anti-tank weapons, August 14, 2011.)

9.There are Western Special Forces and Western intelligence operatives within the ranks of the ISIL. British Special Forces and MI6 have been involved in training jihadist rebels in Syria.

10. Western military specialists on contract to the Pentagon have trained the terrorists in the use of chemical weapons.

“The United States and some European allies are using defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria, a senior U.S. official and several senior diplomats told CNN Sunday. ( CNN Report, December 9, 2012)

11. The ISIL’s practice of beheadings is part of the US sponsored terrorist training programs implemented in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

12. Recruited by America’s ally, a large number of ISIL mercenaries are convicted criminals released from Saudi prisons on condition they join the ISIL. Saudi death row inmates were recruited to join the terror brigades.

13. Israel  has supported  the ISIL and Al Nusrah brigades out of the Golan Heights.

Jihadist fighters have met Israeli IDF officers as well as Prime Minister Netanyahu. The IDF top brass tacitly acknowledges that “global jihad elements inside Syria” [ISIL and Al Nusrah] are supported by Israel. See image below:

“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon next to a wounded mercenary, Israeli military field hospital at the occupied Golan Heights’ border with Syria, 18 February 2014″

SYRIA AND IRAQ

14 The ISIL are the foot soldiers  of the Western military alliance. Their unspoken mandate is to wreck havoc and destruction in Syria and Iraq, acting on behalf of their US sponsors.
15. US Senator John McCain has met up with jihadist terrorist leaders in Syria. (see picture right)

16.  The Islamic State (IS) militia, which is currently the alleged target of  a US-NATO bombing campaign under a “counter-terrorism” mandate, continues to be supported covertly by the US.  Washington and its allies continue to provide military aid to the Islamic State.

17. US and allied bombings are not targeting the ISIL, they are bombing the economic infrastructure of Iraq and Syria including factories and oil refineries.

18.  The IS caliphate project is part of a longstanding US foreign policy agenda to carve up Iraq and Syria into separate territories: A Sunni Islamist Caliphate, an Arab Shia Republic, a Republic of Kurdistan.

THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM (GWOT)

19. “The Global War on Terrorism” (GWOT) is presented as a “Clash of Civilizations”, a war between competing values and religions, when in reality it is an outright war of conquest, guided by strategic and economic objectives.

20 U.S. sponsored Al Qaeda terror brigades (covertly supported by Western intelligence) have been deployed in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, the Central African Republic, Somalia and Yemen.

America’s “War on Terrorism” 

By Mchel Chossudovsky

These various affiliated Al Qaeda entities in the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa  and Asia are CIA sponsored “intelligence assets”. They are used by Washington to wreck havoc,  create internal conflicts and destabilize sovereign countries.

21 Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Shabab in Somalia, the Libya Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) (supported by NATO in 2011),  Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM),  Jemaah Islamiah (JI) in Indonesia,  among other Al Qaeda affiliated groups are supported covertly by Western intelligence.

22. The US is also supporting Al Qaeda affiliated terrorist organizations in the Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region of China. The underlying objective is to trigger political instability in Western China.

Chinese jihadists are reported to have received “terrorist training” from the Islamic State “in order to conduct attacks in China”. The declared objective of these Chinese-based jihadist entities (which serves the interests of the US)  is to establish a Islamic caliphate extending into Western China. 

 (Michel Chossudovsky, America’s War on Terrorism, Global Research, Montreal, 2005, Chapter 2).
HOMEGROWN TERRORISTS

23 The Terrorists R Us:  While the US is the unspoken architect of the Islamic State,  Obama’s holy mandate is to protect America against ISIL attacks.

24 The homegrown terrorist threat is a fabrication.  It is promoted by Western governments and the media with a view to repealing civil liberties and installing a police state. The terror attacks by alleged jihadists and terror warnings are invariably staged events. They are used to create an atmosphere of fear and intimidation.

In turn, the arrests, trials and sentences of “Islamic terrorists” sustain the legitimacy of America’s Homeland Security State and law enforcement apparatus, which has become increasingly militarized.

The ultimate objective is to instill in the minds of millions of Americans that the enemy is real and the U.S. Administration will protect the lives of its citizens.

25.  The “counter-terrorism” campaign against the Islamic State has contributed to the demonization of Muslims, who in the eyes of Western public opinion are increasingly  associated with the jihadists.

26  Anybody who dares to question the validity of the “Global War on Terrorism” is branded a terrorist and subjected to the anti-terrorist laws.

The ultimate objective of the “Global War on Terrorism” is to subdue the citizens, totally depoliticize social life in America, prevent people from thinking and conceptualizing, from analyzing facts and challenging the legitimacy of the inquisitorial social order which rules America.

The Obama Administration has imposed a diabolical consensus with the support of its allies, not to mention the complicit role of the United Nations Security Council.  The Western media has embraced the consensus; it has described the Islamic State as an independent entity, an outside enemy which threatens the Western World.

The Big Lie has become the Truth. 

Say no to the “Big Lie”. Spread the message.

The truth is ultimately a powerful weapon.

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ISIS is Run By Simon Elliot a MOSSAD Agent

Aangirfan

Simon Elliot, aka Al-Baghdadi, son of Jewish parents, Mossad agent.

According to Edward Snowden, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the boss of ISIL (aka ISIS),  is a Jewish actor named Simon Elliot.

French Report ISIL Leader Mossad Agent / Simon Elliot, alias Al-Baghdadi, de père et mère juifs

Simon Elliot (aka Elliot Shimon aka Al-Baghdadi) has Jewish parents and is a Mossad agent.
Simon Elliot, having been recruited by Mossad, was trained in espionage and psychological warfare.

The best known examples of Jews running 'Moslem' terror organisations are Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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Michelle Obama’s Kony-style ‘Boko Haram’ PR Stunt Inspires Viral Anti-drone Campaign

 

21st Century Wire

Whenever a First Lady tries to astro-turf over a political event to boost White House approval ratings – it never ends well. Remember Michelle’s foray in the Knucklehead issue?

Michelle Obama made a big splash on Twitter and Facebook this week, but it only took a few days before the predictable blow-back to her PR stunt has turned into a storm of ridicule.

Her detractors are right point out how her own husband has sanctioned the murders of thousands of innocents across central Asia and Africa with his shiny new drone toys, but is immune from giving any testimony, nor any prosecution as he claim Presidential privilege.

It should be obvious to anyone with a functioning brain in America and further afield, that no amount of tweeting and hash-tagging will speed-up to rescue, or recovery of hostages. In fact, excessive political and military meddling by Washington in Lagos could do the opposite – and create a powder keg which could cost lives and fray international relations.

What is obvious, however, is how the seemingly authentic ‘Boko Haram Terror Crisis’ in Nigeria is being used by the White House to swing public opinion back in favour of a walking wounded Obama Administration mired in multiple scandals, and also guilty of backing a NeoNazi fascist military coup in the Ukraine this past winter, and further seeking to capitalise financially in the arms, oil and gas sector through a permanent stand-off with former ally Russia.

Add to this Obama’s under the radar pledge of $1.7 billion of US taxpayer money to armed Islamic terrorist fighters in Syria this week – and it’s not hard at all to see the benefits of a Boko Haram comic book crisis at this moment in time. If the White can somehow stage – and take credit, for some kind of rescue of the African school girls, then it will have all been worth it. Beltway insiders are already saying that plans are already underway for a White House repeat of the dramatic Bin Laden/Navy SEAL Raid. Although the May 2011 raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan failed to produce an actual body of the deceased Osama bin Laden, ironically, it gave the President the only real bounce in the polls he ever had during his two terms.

By cynically targeting school children, the #Bring Our Girls Home campaign is merely a picking up where the globalised ‘Kony 2012′ social zeitgeist movement left off. Kony 2012 was a state-of-the-art, multimillion dollar, US State Department-backed media effort – disguised as a grassroots ‘schools campaign’, designed to engage US school children in the process lobbying Washington for US military intervention in Uganda to hunt down a non-existent villain who hasn’t been seen for 8 years.

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National Security is Where the Executive Branch Hides its Crimes Against Law

Paul Craig Roberts
 
“No legal issue arises when the United States responds to a challenge to its power, position, and prestige.” –Dean Acheson, 1962, speaking to the American Society of International Law

Dean Acheson declared 51 years ago that power, position, and prestige are the ingredients of national security and that national security trumps law. In the United States democracy takes a back seat to “national security,” a prerogative of the executive branch of government.

 

National security is where the executive branch hides its crimes against law, both domestic and international, its crimes against the Constitution, its crimes against innocent citizens both at home and abroad, and its secret agendas that it knows that the American public would never support.

“National security” is the cloak that the executive branch uses to make certain that the US government is unaccountable.

Without accountable government there is no civil liberty and no democracy except for the sham voting that existed in the Soviet Union and now exists in the US.

There have been periods in US history, such as President Lincoln’s war to prevent secession, World War I, and World War II, when accountable government was impaired. 

These were short episodes of the Constitution’s violation, and the Constitution was reinstated in the aftermath of the wars. However, since the Clinton regime, the accountability of government has been declining for more than two decades, longer than the three wars combined.

In law there is the concept of adverse possession, popularly known as “squatters’ rights.” A non-owner who succeeds in occupying a piece of property or some one else’s right for a certain time without being evicted enjoys the ownership title conveyed to him. The reasoning is that by not defending his rights, the owner showed his disinterest and in effect gave his rights away.

Americans have not defended their rights conveyed by the US Constitution for the duration of the terms of three presidents. The Clinton regime was not held accountable for its illegal attack on Serbia. The Bush regime was not held accountable for its illegal invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Obama regime was not held accountable for its renewed attack on Afghanistan and its illegal attacks on Libya, Pakistan, and Yemen, and by its proxies on Syria.

We also have other strictly illegal and unconstitutional acts of government for which the government has not been held accountable. The Bush regimes’ acts of torture, indefinite detention, and warrantless spying, and the Obama regime’s acts of indefinite detention, warrantless spying, and murder of US citizens without due process. As the Obama regime lies through its teeth, we have no way of knowing whether torture is still practiced.

If these numerous criminal acts of the US government spread over the terms of three presidents pass into history as unchallenged events, the US government will have acquired squatters’ rights in lawlessness. The US Constitution will be, as President George W. Bush is reported to have declared, “a scrap of paper.”

Lawlessness is the hallmark of tyranny enforced by the police state. In a police state law is not a protector of rights but a weapon in the hands of government. [see Roberts & Stratton, The Tyranny of Good Intentions] The accused has no recourse to the accusation, which does not require evidence presented to a court. The accused is guilty by accusation alone and can be shot in the back of the head, as under Stalin, or blown up by a drone missile, as under Obama.

As a person aware of the long struggle against the tyrannical state, I have been amazed and disheartened by the acceptance not only by the insouciant American public, but also by law schools, bar associations, media, Congress and the Supreme Court of the executive branch’s claim to be above both law and the US Constitution.

As Lawrence Stratton and I show in our book about how the law was lost, liberals and conservatives chasing after their favorite devils, such as child abusers and drug pushers, and prosecutors, judges, and police devoted to conviction and not to justice, have gradually eroded over time the concept of law as a protection of the innocent, With the atmosphere of threat created by 9/11, the final destruction of the protective features of law was quickly achieved in the name of making us safe from terrorists.

The fact that we are no longer safe from our own government did not register.

This is how liberty was lost, and America with it.

Can liberty be regained? Probably not, but there is a chance if Americans have the necessary strength of character. The chance comes from the now known fact that the neoconservative Bush/Cheney regime took America and its puppet states to war in Afghanistan and Iraq entirely on the basis of lies. As all evidence proves, these wars were not the results of mistaken intelligence. They were the products of intentional lies.

The weapons inspectors told the Bush regime that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Despite this known fact, the Bush regime sent Secretary of State Colin Powell to the UN with fabricated evidence to convince the world that Saddam Hussein had “weapons of mass destruction” and was a threat to the world. Even if such weapons had existed in Iraq, many countries have them, including the US and Israel, and the presence of weapons does not under the Nuremberg Laws justify unprovoked aggression against the possessor. Under the Nuremberg Laws, unprovoked military aggression is a war crime, not the possession of weapons that many countries have. The war crime was committed by the US and its “coalition of the willing,” not by Saddam Hussein.

As for the invasion of Afghanistan, we know from the last video of Osama bin Laden in October 2001, attested by experts to be the last appearance of a man dying of renal failure and other diseases, that he declared that he had no responsibility for 9/11 and that Americans should look to their own government. We know as a reported fact that the Afghan Taliban offered to turn over Osama bin Laden to Washington if the Bush regime would provide the evidence that indicated bin Laden was responsible. The Bush regime refused to hand over the (non-existent) evidence and, with support of the corrupt and cowardly Congress and the presstitute media, attacked Afghanistan without any legal justification. Remember, the FBI has stated publicly that it has no evidence that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 and that that is why the crimes for which the FBI wanted bin Laden did not include responsibility for the 9/11 attack.

The war propaganda campaign was well prepared. Yellow ribbon decals were handed out for cars proclaiming “support the troops.” In other words, anyone who raises the obvious questions is not supporting the troops. Still today insouciant Americans sport these decals on their cars unaware that what they are supporting are the murder of foreign women, children and village elders, the death and physical and mental maiming of American soldiers, and the worldwide destruction of the reputation of the United States, with America’s main rival, China, now calling for a “de-Americanized world.”

A country with a population as insouciant as Americans is a country in which the government can do as it pleases.

Now that we have complete proof that the criminal Bush regime took our country to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq solely on the basis of intentional lies, how can the legal institutions, the courts, the American people possibly tolerate the Obama regime’s ignoring of the obvious crimes? How can America simply accept Obama’s statement that we mustn’t look back, only move ahead? If the US government, which has committed the worst crimes of our generation, cannot be held accountable and punished, how can federal, state, and local courts fill up American prisons with people who smoked pot and with people who did not sufficiently grovel before the police state.

Doubtless, the Obama regime, should it obey the law and prosecute the Bush regime’s crimes, would have to worry about being prosecuted for its own crimes, which are just as terrible. Nevertheless, I believe that the Obama regime could survive if it put all the blame on the Bush regime, prosecuted the Bush criminals, and desisted from the illegal actions that it currently supports. This would save the Constitution and US civil liberty, but it would require the White House to take the risk that by enforcing US law, US law might be enforced against its own illegal and unconstitutional acts by a succeeding regime.

The Bush/Cheney/John Yoo neoconservative regime having got rid of US law, no doubt the Obama regime thinks it is best to leave the situation as it is, rid of law.

Without accountability, America is finished. Not only will Americans live in a police state with no civil liberties, but the rest of the world is already looking at America with a jaundiced eye. The US is being reconstituted as an authoritarian state. All it takes is one failure of accountability for the police state to become entrenched, and we have had numerous failures of accountability. Does anyone really believe that some future government is going to make restitution to persecuted truth-tellers, such as Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, and Edward Snowdon, as was done for Japanese Americans?

Now that we know for a certain fact that the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were based on propaganda and lies, Congress and the world media should demand to know what was the real secret agenda. What are the real reasons for which Afghanistan and Iraq were invaded?

No truthful explanation for these wars exists.

 


Paul O’Neill, the Bush regime’s first Treasury Secretary, is on public record stating that at the very first cabinet meeting, long prior to 9/11, the agenda was a US attack on Iraq.

In other words, the Bush regime’s attack on Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11.

What was the Bush regime’s secret agenda, kept secret by the Obama regime, that required an illegal, war criminal, attack on a sovereign country, an action for which officials of Hitler’s government were executed? What is the real purpose of Washington’s wars?

It is totally and completely obvious that the wars have nothing to do with protecting Americans from terrorism. If anything, the wars stir up and create terrorists. The wars create hatred of America that never previously existed. Despite this, America is free of terrorists attacks except for the ones orchestrated by the FBI. What the fabricated “terror threat” has done is to create a thorough-going domestic police state that is unaccountable.

Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington’s huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.

Duped by Obama? Ask the Organ Grinder not the Monkey

I'm reposting this with editions as I'm so sick of people harping on about how Obama is trying his best and he hasn't had a chance and other ridiculous excuses...

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"The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead the two parties should be almost identical, so the that American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy." - Dr. Carroll Quigley "Tragedy and Hope" (1975)

Infrakshun
M.K. Styllinski


The last article by Arthur Silber uses strong words, emotive you might even say. However, he tells the truth by not masking his words. It is about as objective a truth as you can get. This  truth is sourced from a huge number of innocents murdered for nothing more than the imperial ambitions of a rapidly crumbling USA. And that is the only legacy Obama has right now. There is nothing else.

It is a tragic reality that since the assassinations of the Kennedy Brothers there has not been one president that hasn't been carefully marketed and groomed for the whitehouse by essentially, a pack of psychopaths. There is no democracy in the US. There hasn't been for many decades.

With a vast $billion advertising campaign launched by the very same people that insinuated the Bush monkey into power Barack was catapaulted into the dumbed down and vulnerable consciousness of a primed US populace. The arrival of Mr. Obama was the perfect antidote to theBush-Cheney administration. He was an intelligent, African-American with a pretty wife, some cutsie children and of course, a suitably winning smile. The left, progressive liberals, African-Americans and other ethnic groupings were falling over themselves to welcome this political messiah. Obamamania reigned in all it's vomitable glory.  That famous catch phrase "Yes we can" partnered with the idea of hopey-changey oratory, feel-good visions laced with a whole host of (soon to be broken) promises and a tidal wave of anticipation and genuine fervour to leave behind the Bush Reich. It all seemingly guaranteed the success of a new, chastened face of America.  

Many weren't fooled. Most were.

The problem was most of America didn't read the small print that states the political system had already been bought and sold down the corporate river to nowwhere. The mere fact that Obama arrived in the whitehouse was testament to a future that he would fail to deliver. And that is the whole point. Until we realise that there is no Democrat or Republican party in Congress, only a ONE PARTY SYSTEM giving the illusion of choice, then we will never see the kind of change that offers a way out from endless wars, environmental degradation and the emptiness of a materialist ethos.

Obama has no real power at all for lasting change. Only change that is firmly within the confines of a very narrow view of reality, a reality that is wholly unsustainable and anti-human. Weapons manufacturers, the cult of the CIA, corporate predators and their Zio-Con lobbyists, a wholly corrupt Congress, the trashing of the constitution and civil rights, the myth of Al-qaeda and the phoney war on terror all ensure a particular agenda spawned from an Anglo-American elite.

These people are not like you and I. They do not think in the same way. Thus, they thrive on those who think that their tried and tested formula of manipulation, genocide, murder, torture, rampant resource monopoly and financial and corporate consolidation is just "misguided" or a "failure of intelligence" or that they have merely given in to the all too familiar frailties of greed and incompetence.

To imagine that it is all just human weakness and a lack of political will borne of socio-cultural conditoning is a dangerous illusion. Rather, it is a due to a comprehensive deception from the apex of military-corporate pyramid that is defined by a creeping and institutionlised psychopathology. It can also be seen as a complex networking of interlocking systems that are all following a particular perception of reality that is "entropic" in nature. Such a reality has been allowed to grow unchecked by our collective ignorance with the result that we live under social systems that encourage and propagate the erosion of conscience. The driving force is a minority of psychopaths who consider "normal" people as amusing and inferior; "useless eaters" and the great unwashed. To that end, schizoidal puppets like Obama prove extremely valuable in duping the normal people of this world in accepting chaos as a normal part of life.

I'm afraid realism is something that the US progressives are still sorely lacking in relation to their once bouyant dream-boat that was Obama. The reality MUST tell us that it is actions not words that deliver. And the results were in long before Mr. Obama was even elected. Glenn Greenwald summed it up precisely, showing us what it actually means to support the Obama Administration:

Yes, I’m willing to continue to have Muslim children slaughtered by covert drones and cluster bombs, and America’s minorities imprisoned by the hundreds of thousands for no good reason, and the CIA able to run rampant with no checks or transparency, and privacy eroded further by the unchecked Surveillance State, and American citizens targeted by the President for assassination with no due process, and whistleblowers threatened with life imprisonment for “espionage,” and the Fed able to dole out trillions to bankers in secret, and a substantially higher risk of war with Iran (fought by the U.S. or by Israel with U.S. support) ... - Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies

To support such actions is symptomatic of cognitive dissonance and an unwillingness to face the truth that the progressive left was indeed duped by the marketing and by their own appalling lack of education regarding the mechanics of political power. The Organ grinder, or the shadow government comprises of the Joint chief of staffs, elements within the intelligence agencies, international banking and corporate representatives, several think tank or steerage groups and many members of congress and media. These all make up a non-elected by highly influential body that decides who and who will not be President. Obama was picked a long time ago using an electoral system that is run on game theory, mass marketing and a wholly baised media along with the reduction of choice by supporting "non-candidates" and massive voting fraud.

You see, Obama may be a narcissist, with major delusions of grandeur, an egotistical, arrogant son-of-a-bitch who believes his own lies much the same as Tony Blair does. He may even be a psychopath. It is especially possible when you realise that during his tenure he's actually managed to surpass the toxic legacy of the Bush-Cheney administration by continuing and expanding their policies both in foreign and domestic terms and still manage to collect a Nobel Peace Prize. Surreal is not the word. (Then again if Henry Kissinger can receive one then anyone can.) Yet he is just a symptom, a natural by-product of the system. Our denials of reality will always come back to haunt us. The greater the denials the more painful the eventual shocks.

When are the majority of Americans going to see that Obama NEVER WAS going to change things? Understanding that psychopaths and their singular perception of reality dominated all political, social paradigms and were still in power behind the scenes meant that Obama never had a chance, even if his conscience was intact. It isn't rocket science. Many folks were saying that this was a danger even at the beginning of the Bush administration's "victory". When you know how the "nuts and bolts" of how the beast works, prediction becomes easy.

There is little point in sniggering and looking toward ones peers to confirm the reflexive, media-fed dissing of conspiracy "theory" when the very nature of military-corporate-political complex is conspiriatiorial by nature. Conspiracy "theory" has long since become fact since the creation of the National Security State in the 1950s along with the rat-lines injection of the Post-war, Nazi intelligentsia straight into the heart of the American establishment.

Does it mean we see everything coated in shadows? Of course not. But let's not look at the sunshine until we go blind either.

Obama, like so many presidents before him was chosen for the role that he would play based on his profile that was guaranteed to appeal to the pure-of-heart but willfully ignorant of the way the world works. Even now you see celebrities who jumped on the Obama bandwagon, - even when they were seeing the warning signs that all was not well - say they are "disappointed" or that they feel "let down" yet they would still vote for him "while holding their noses."  

Clearly, there are many in the US that have difficulty distinguishing between fact and fiction and willingly gulp the kool-aid. Touchy-feely, liberal-minded activism means diddly-squat if there is not an awareness of the political process and our present understanding of media-touted capitalism which is woefully misplaced. We do not have capitalism and haven't had it since the fifties. We have rampant and endemic corruption and exploitation. Geo-political manipulations in a variety of countries that happen to be an impediment to Anglo-American-Israeli world domination IS the reality. Terrorist attacks the world over are directly or indirectly perpertrated by OUR GOVERNMENTS with the help of a compliant media. Without this understanding which means some cherished beliefs must fall by the wayside, we end up being part of the problem. Despite what some fool said: ignorance is not bliss. It is dangerous and stupid.

GOVERNMENTS DO NOT EXIST TO FOSTER FREEDOM AND THINKING IN ITS PEOPLE. GOVERNMENTS EXIST TO CONTROL THE PEOPLE AND MAINTAIN A CAST IRON FENCE AROUND THEIR POTENTIAL TO THINK CREATIVELY.

That's it. In a nutshell. If you think that centralised government in its present form is redeemable then you are living in a dreamworld of the Psychopath's making. And they will love you for it, rather like a butcher loves his carcasses: they provide an income.

Obama is one of the best examples of a wolf in sheep's clothing I have ever seen. And those "progressives" who are still seeing Obama as someone worth supporting really need to get with the picture and start seeing him for what he is. If it howls like a wolf, it's a wolf. He is a representative of a system that is rotten to the core. It's done. Spent. Over. We have to start again from scratch and ensure that if there is to be something resembling an authentic electoral process or consensus, that the individuals in question must have led lives that are examples of life sustaining, cooperative, inclusive and just principles rather than the ruthless, violent, rapacious and cruel. In other words, it is not Obama per se, that is the problem, it is the very notion of politics and our socio-economic and cultural systems as they presently stand which mirror the perceptions of the psychopath and his prediliction for consumption and exploitation, war and elitism.

However, the first port of call in ridding ourselves of thumb-sucking belief-traps is to see that ALL politicians under this current disease of pathology are non-starters. Those that are genuine are fighting against a very filthy tide indeed. There are those that harp on about Ron Paul being the next President. This is simply a waste of time. The system will not allow it. Strike at the roots of the system then folks like Ron Paul (and better) may actually stand a chance. Which is why Obama is so dangerous. He was hand-picked for a purpose, but it was not to draw a line under the Bush-Cheney era. It was to continue and expand such a mindset and it's policies as part of a very long term strategy.

It doesn't matter if Obama is "just a politician" he is presiding over the worst erosion of US civil rights and liberties in history along with the the instignation and escalation of wars abroad the likes of which would make Atilla the Hun blush. Don't forget that it is this man who gave the go-ahead for an active assassination team that is tasked with taking out American citizens without trial and without the rule of law for God's sake! That is a dictatorship. Just beacuse you can still drive your car down the highway and go to the mall when you want doesn't mean that your rights are safe. This is the arrival of a "soft dictatorship" along the route of "Brave New World" rather than "1984." There is still time for these two expressions of totalitarianism to merge.

If you are still one of those reading this with a smirk on your face with the thoughts: "Gee this guy is extreme...Hold off on the sensationalism." Well, you simply haven't dug deep enough. And frankly, there's no excuse, not while we are now firmly racing along the information superhighway. It's up to you whether we crash and burn or start networking and making sense of all this mess. It is up to everyone to face the fear and put a cap on apathy.

Americans (and all of us) have been brainwashed into thinking that their social systems and institutions are not run by pathological folks. There is a reason why we repeat the same tired cycle of wars and disease, famine and poverty; economic boom and busts with the lid firmly shut on a more spiritual, creative and cooperative world. Many of us still don't want to see the truth that we have been comprehensively duped having willingly given our power and vision away to a minority of psychopathological individuals and "elite" families that presently have a stranglehold on what we watch on the TV, what we read, what we buy, who we elect and how our children our educated. We have followed the pied piper down the entropic road to nowhere and now it's crunch time.

It doesn't have to be like this. We do not have to be "normalised" to the Psychopath's world.

There are signs that the Occupy Movement, maybe heralding a change. But for that to be successful and for the human spirit to blossom and act as a much needed antidote to all the above we must revolutionize what we know about the psychology of the human and find ways to manage those anti-human individuals, to include them in societies but to exclude them from ANY positions of power and responsibility. Unless we recognise and engage with this truth, then ALL movements, ideologies and systems of betterment for human kind that could emerge from this new dispensation will be infected from the outset, and it will be our refusal to take aboard psychopathological knowledge that will have doomed us to repeat, yet again, another cycle of darkness.

Utopia is not possible. But a more equitable and just world certainly is. We only have to have the courage to step out of our beliefs together and have the willingness to re-enchant truth through wiser eyes and ears.

Don't place your trust in pathological systems you have grown up with. By all means, let's take the best that they had to offer and discard the rotten and the corrupted. But above all, let's not place our trust in government but return to having faith and trust in binding communities and the natural self-organising, self-regulating of ordinary people and the boundless potential for creative change.

One thing is for certain. It is now or never. 

Background reading: 

How Obama picked up where George Bush left off and assassinated the rule of law 

20 Examples of the Obama Administration Assault on Domestic Civil Liberties

Obama Worse than Bush 

Peace prize winner Obama waging seven wars 

Obama: A Disaster for Civil Liberties

Political Ponerology: A Science on The Nature of Evil adjusted for Political Purposes

Twilight of the Psychopaths