Vice President Richard V. Cheney watches the September 11 attacks on New York City in his White House office on a live television feed on Sept. 11, 2001.
As I resume writing in this blog after a years-long absence, it is the twenty-second anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. A recent Newsweek story focused on current viral songster-sensation Oliver Anthony. The Jewish Anti-Defamation League accuses him of promoting “anti-Semitic 9/11 Conspiracy Theories.”
I am painfully aware that many highly significant videos made on 9/11 and formerly posted to YouTube have been scrubbed over the past eight years or so, since government officials begged social media channels to do some censoring of dangerous speech for them. But I can point out that Oliver Anthony has a playlist link called “Videos that make your noggin get bigger;” where the supposedly offensive material is posted.
I’d hazard a guess that, here in the USA, most of us are just about unable to distinguish “anti-Semitic” from “antiseptic.” We’re, most of us, not very worldly here, nor do we pay much attention to the language that we use. Sometimes, being a language stickler, I find some certain type of sloppy tendency in our use of language to be annoying. For instance, one of my pet peeves is that somehow, the phrase “one of the only…” has become commonplace. But you can’t have it both ways, scribes and pundits! Something is either unique, therefore, “the only,” or else it is uncommon, so “one of the few.”
Something similar occurs with the frequent use of “anti-Semitic.” Using dictionary.com, one finds the primary definition of “Semitic” to be: “a member of any of various ancient and modern peoples originating in southwestern Asia, including the Akkadians, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs.” Secondarily, it means, “a Jew.” This latter, kidding aside, is the commonly-accepted meaning of “Semitic” here in the USA, but… that’s a bit misleading, don’t you think? A bit too… exclusive?
One of the most valuable things you can own is a word. Or, a phrase, such as “conspiracy theory.” “Conspiracy theory” is owned by the Central Intelligence Agency, though anyone is encouraged to borrow and use it — “royalty-free.” A book titled Conspiracy Theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith explains how the term was invented by the Agency to slur skeptics of the Warren Commission, whose job was to convince the American public that it was a “MAGIC” assassin’s bullet which felled President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, TX on November 23, 1963.
What, exactly, has Oliver Anthony done to earn the ire of the ADL? Well, he has dredged up material which many probably never took note of, even twenty-two years ago when they were current events. This material reminds us, or reveals, as the case may be, of the existence of five men spotted in Jersey City, celebrating the strike on the North Tower at the World Trade Center, then the South Tower, apparently by airliners. These men were “dressed like Arabs,” according to the reports. A tenant in a building adjacent to the parking lot where they were laughing, high-fiving, and videotaping each other with the burning WTC tower in the background, called the police.
Long story short, these men and others were arrested by police. Some of the arrestees, later nabbed near the George Washington Bridge, had a lot of cash and even some explosives they were hauling around. One of the officers spoke on camera about one of them stating, while riding in the squad car, “We are not your enemy. The Palestinians are your enemy.”
The five who became known as “The Dancing Israelis,” which Oliver Anthony is now taking heat for reminding us about, were held for, evidently, quite a while, perhaps up to 71 days or so, by some accounts. They were identified as Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Oded Ellner, Yaron Shimuel and Omar Marmari. The story becomes murky after their apprehension; ultimately, they were deported back to their home country — Israel — on passport violations. Some have claimed their release was on the orders of Michael Chertoff. The men were reportedly identified, before their release, as being agents of Israeli military intelligence.
ABC News and Fox News’s Carl Cameron (believe it or not) were the two television channels which reported on the Five Dancing Israelis. Fox tried a follow-up by interviewing an FBI agent. The agent said, “Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.” Hmmm.
Newsweek informs us, in their article linked above, that, “”dancing Israelis,” which is a term used by people who claim the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad was behind the attacks, that the ADL disputes those reports as “false.”
“The most common ‘proof’ cited is the false claim that five Israeli Mossad agents were arrested on 9/11 by police who observed them filming and celebrating the attack,” the ADL wrote on its website.”
“‘False’ claim?” Really? Is this based on a technicality or something? Some of the men were agents, perhaps, not of “the Mossad,” whose motto at that point had long been, “By deception thou shalt do war,” but of some other intelligence/espionage department of the Israeli government? Or, were all the reports at the time simply lying to us?
Nor were these the only Israelis arrested around this time. There were two hundred other spies attempting to penetrate sensitive US installations under the guise of being “art students” trying to peddle artwork. 140 Israeli spies, aged between 20 and 30, had been arrested since March 2001, while 60 more were arrested after September 11. Generally posing as art students, they visited at least “36 sensitive sites of the Department of Defense.” “A majority of those questioned have stated they served in military intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordnance units. Some had been linked to high-ranking officials in the Israeli military. One was the son of a two-star general, one served as the bodyguard to the head of the Israeli Army, one served in a Patriot mission unit.” Another, Peer Segalovitz, officer in the 605 Battalion of the Golan Heights, “acknowledged he could blow up buildings, bridges, cars, and anything else that he needed to.”
On September 10, 2001, The Washington Times, the newspaper owned by self-proclaimed Korean Messiah and major Republican political donor in the US, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, published a report on an Army War College analysis of foreign covert actors on the world stage. Its assessment on the topic of the Israeli Mossad’s capabilities: “Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.”
The head of the Army War College at that time, Alan Sabrosky, stated publicly in 2006 that “it is 100% certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation.” But, my guess is that we should not discount the roles of Saudi Arabia in supplying operatives to play hijacker parts, nor of Pakistan’s ISI in funneling money toward the operation… nor of the members of the George W. Bush Administration in diverting all but eight fighter jets away from the North East Air Defense System System (NEADS) to far-flung parts of the world on military training exercises, not to mention making sure no fighters took off from Andrews Air Force Base to defend Washington, DC, even though the “Flying Pentagon” plane was spotted circling overheard.. It’s a book chapter just trying to take into account the actions of our own Federal government under Bush & Cheney in arranging for the success of the operations and trying to cover up their role afterward. Study up on the “Iran-Contra scandal” of the 1980s to see highly complex, illegal partnerships along these lines, involving the same nations and the same political actors, the Bushes and their circles. There is also evidence of various US corporations with a heavy vested interest in the “opportunities” presented by the effects of the “shock and awe” 9/11 produced in the collective American psyche — but don’t get me started!…
When it came to 9/11. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, when asked what it meant to him, apparently couldn’t resist blurting out, as his first words, “It’s very good.” He apologetically then corrected himself, saying it wasn’t “very good,” but it would generate sympathy for Israel.I don’t believe Israel alone perpetrated the 9/11 attacks. But his statement reflected perfectly Israel’s interest in their success. Netanyahu was also caught on tape reassuring his colleagues, “Don’t worry about the Americans because it was so easy to outmaneuver them in obtaining what Israeli leadership desires.
We could assume the five men arrested in Jersey City (which Donald Trump, catering to bigoted fans, of course, claimed were “thousands of cheering Muslims”), were simply moving men. They were, after all, employees of Urban Moving Systems. Three days after the catastrophic events of 9/11, the owner of that company, Dominik Suter, fled the country — back to Israel. A young American who had worked at the company was quoted in follow-up stories as saying that the Israelis staffing the place taunted him with remarks to the effect that they were going to own his country. There were also the police reports and a photograph which showed the remarkable imagery which had been painted on at least a few of their vans, which was useful in helping police spot their suspects that day.
Notice anything unusual?
William Casey was the name of Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaign manager. Once Reagan won the office, he made Casey the head of the CIA. A Reagan employee named Barbara Honegger made public a note she had made during a meeting with Casey in attendance. According to her, Casey stated, “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.”
The long-running disinformation program, otherwise known as Operation Mockingbird, has made a lot of progress, as far as I can tell. And how could it be otherwise, in an age of information overload, where information mingles with incidental misinformation, a la the gossip fence, and disinformation, the lifeblood of politics, particularly so for the G.O.P., which I now realize stands for “Government Overthrow Party.”
I found it interesting that the Newsweek article chose the following phraseology: “[the playlist] features a discussion with {Richard] Gage, who has described himself as a ‘9/11 truth leader,’ [he, in fact, led Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth for many years] about whether a Jewish businessman took out an insurance policy before the attack from which he may have profited.” The “Jewish businessman” is actually known as NYC property mogul Lawrence, or Larry, Silverstein.
The Twin Towers in the World Trade Center complex, originally nicknamed “Nelson” and “David” after the Rockefeller brothers who commissioned the building of the WTC, were, by 9/11, “white elephants,” barely able to maintain 50% or higher occupancy rates. In other words, they were basically half-empty buildings with a troubled legal and financial history.
The buildings were considered toxic, not just financially due to the high vacancy rate, but literally, with an estimated several thousand tons of their construction content being asbestos, the source of asbestosis, causing chronic cough, mesothelioma, pulmonary fibrosis, and cancer. The buildings tested 112,000 times above the legal limit, once such limits were established.
By the mid-1990s, this situation had become a pressing dilemma for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which had always been the management entity for the complex. Port Authority officials knew they couldn’t demolish the towers due to the release of asbestos upon the city that would have entailed. Already faced with an estimated billion-dollar bill for asbestos removal, the Authority knew the towers could not be dismantled in sections to scour out the asbestos because that would multiply that already-staggering cost, and inflation had made even the $1 billion dollar price tag now attached to the Towers twelve times the buildings’ original cost of construction in the 1970s.
The Authority tried to get their insurer, Affiliated FM, to cover the asbestos removal/abatement costs. But the company refused, and won a lawsuit in mid-May of 2001, settling the matter on the basis that the Port Authority’s claim against them did not involve the contractual obligation to cover “physical loss or damage.”
Enter Larry Silverstein. Working a deal with Lewis Eisenberg of the Port Authority, and in accordance with a campaign pledge made by then- New York Governor Pataki to privatize the problematic World Trade Center (not only asbestos-ridden, but with only about a 50% occupancy rate, to boot) , six weeks before 9/11, the real estate mogul and his partner, Frank Lowy, signed a 99-year lease with the Port Authority at a cost of $14 million dollars.
Then they took out a $3.55 billion terrorism insurance policy on the complex. They sued to collect that sum twice after 9/11. in fact, claiming that, after all, there had been two attacks. He and his business partners won $4,550,000,000 in the court. “Lucky” Larry Silverstein also claimed “negligence” on the part of the airlines for his “losses,” and fought and won a 13-year legal battle decided by Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who awarded the real estate mogul another $97 million.
Many Americans probably don’t realize, to this day, that a third tall building in New York, the 47-story Salomon Brothers Building, a.k.a., “Building Seven,” also came straight down into its own footprint on 9/11, about 5:20 PM, Eastern time.
On-site Reporters in New York had more or less punctuated that day of terror with briefly-mentioned and confused rumors over the course of seven hours that a third skyscraper might have fallen, or might be about to fall… but no one seemed to have known for sure… until Britain’s Channel Four broadcast a report from reporter Jane Standley about 4:57 PM EST stating definitively that this particular steel skyscraper had collapsed. The only trouble came if you actually knew what that building looked like. Behind her, out the window of the room in which she stood, reporting an apparent spoon-fed falsehood, “Seven” could be seen over her left shoulder, still standing. It stood about a hundred yards from the other six WTC buildings, across Vessey Street.
As the British anchorman at his UK desk tried to get further details, the feed from New York vanished from the screen in a blizzard of visual white noise. The building came straight down into its own footprint within about fifteen to twenty minutes afterward. Like the Twin Towers, it plunged into the path of greatest resistance at a nearly free-fall speed, as if meeting no resistance. Fire alone, with the help of gravity, of course, was officially pronounced to us as the sole cause.
The George W. Bush years were awash in corporate scandals and financial malfeasance, the bitter fruits of Republican “voluntary self-regulation.” As researchers were soon to comment, Building Seven housed branch offices of the FBI and the CIA ; the records of the Securities and Exchange Commission (several major financial scandals were primed to explode, defrauding the American public of billions, which soon thereafter did so, Enron, Tyco, Worldcomm, etc., etc.); and an “OEM,” Operations Emergency Management command center on the 23nd floor which Mayor Rudolph Guiliani had installed in 1999. Established in Building Seven’s twenty-second floor only two years prior, his OEM apparently did not perform the very tasks it was ostensibly designed to carry out, at a time when its services were most needed.
In fact, Barry Jennings, of the New York Housing Authority, showed up for a meeting that morning at the OEM. Jennings was the deputy director of the Emergency Services Department of the Housing Authority. That morning, he and a colleague, Michael Hess, New York City’s corporate counsel, had been called to a meeting in Guiliani’s command center. They arrived around 9:00 AM, shortly after the initial strike of the first airliner on the North Tower, only to find that everyone (for reasons no one has ever explained) had already evacuated the building! — and suddenly — because Jennings saw that steam was still rising from coffee cups, and there were half-eaten sandwiches lying on desks. The OEM personnel evacuated immediately, instead of trying to manage the emergency.
The net result of 9/11 in regard to this building is that the cases for prosecuting some of the most egregious financial crimes of the era were destroyed.
Later the Mayor stated his people were “ordered out” because of a phone call — by some unnamed entity. Years later, when confronted with this fact in public by some activists, he denied he had ever said that. (I know, it’s hard to question his honesty, isn’t it?) In the period after his initial claim, he had come to realize people were rightly asking, if he knew, and he was hoofing it around for news cameras all over the area as seen on television, why didn’t he let any fire chiefs know and perhaps avoid most, if not all of the casualties New York suffered from more than seventy fire stations whose personnel were present at the scene?) As usual with such slips regarding 9/11, who did the ordering and why, at such an early moment in the day, was never revealed.
Silverstein also caused controversy among those paying attention. Interviewed on camera, recent leaseholder “Lucky” Larry Silverstein stated on camera, as broadcast by PBS on September 10, 2002: “I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, ‘We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.’ And they made that decision to pull — and we watched the [WTC 7] building collapse.”
Demolition experts say they are going to “pull” demolished buildings because they apply shaped charges at angles to support beams from the base of the building. As these cutter charges shear the steel, the beams come apart, sliding down at lateral angles with the weight of the severed uprights pulling down the floors they had previously supported. This physical transaction pulls the supports inward, causing the exact kind of straight-down fall witnessed as Building Seven transformed from a 47-story skyscraper to a two-story pile of rubble in a mere 6.6 seconds.
Once the researchers of the 9/11 Truth movement seized on Silverstein’s comment, the latter realized he had made a mistake and said no more except through spokesmen who tried on for size the spin-meme that “pull it” was not a use of the traditional demolition jargon at all. Silverstein, you see, meant “pull the Fire Department’s search and rescue contingent” from the building, they told us. If you believe them, it is as if Silverstein had said, “And they made that decision to withdraw the firefighters and we watched the building collapse,” spoken as if there were a causal relationship which could not have existed in such a case.
It takes time to prepare a building for demolition, leaving open the question as to how it might have been done within a single day. But the entire scenario of localized damage utterly destroying such large structures entirely as in the WTC upends all that is known of physics and re-writes the methodology of building demolition. All that careful, advance planning and strategic placement of “well-placed dynamite to knock down a building,” as Dan Rather phrased it on CBS, turns out to be unnecessary, according to the proponents of “the official conspiracy theory of 9/11.” If the sum of the government/ media complex claims were true, all one would have to do is swing a ball of kerosene outfitted with an ignitor switch into some random point on a skyscraper — 78th floor, 93rd floor, it would evidently make no difference — puncture the outer structure, just anywhere, and light a fire. Then, the building would be guaranteed, within an hour, apparently, to suddenly and rapidly disintegrate.
In my mid-forties at the time, I remember being utterly amazed that nearly everyone around me was actually hornswaggled by whatever far-fetched claim the government / media complex stated explained the unnatural “physics” of that day. One day it was “pancaking,” the next, it was “unzipping.” Every day, for me, it was “bull shit.”
For example, something, that struck me within a day or so, a photo was published of the South Tower, second struck, first to fall after 56 minutes, with the upper floors above an estimated 78th floor of strike to the top, up through floor 110, leaning over, falling to one side. What, then, was left to crush the other 77 floors to tangled bits of steel and finely pulverized concrete, its granules measuring about 100 microns — more like talcum powder than steel-reinforced concrete?
The North Tower fell in virtually identical fashion, except for that top portion not breaking off. The rooftop broadcast antenna fell straight downward first, then the rest of the structure began a rapid disintegration. 10.5 seconds later, nothing was left but but billowing, pyroclastic clouds of dust expanding across the cityscape. During the fall, debris was seen ejecting upward from the center and outward. I remember, watching that ugly spectacle on live broadcast, that it reminded me of the sparks flying off a sparkler — so extremely unnatural it begged for explanation. I was suspicious that very day, and I carefully watched the situation evolve for about another five years as earnest citizens investigated and the media tarred any skeptics as mental patients on the loose.
Three of the five “dancing Israelis” appeared on an Israeli talk show in November 2001, On the program, one of them ingenuously declared: “Our purpose was simply to document the event.” They positioned themselves in the right place, at the right time, to videotape themselves celebrating the cataclysms, without knowing in advance the attacks were going to take place? How does that work? Their comments upon their arrest matched those of the talk show, however… their mission was to make the USA feel the terrible sting of massive terrorism.
This all occurred one year to the month after a heavily-Zionist-laden group calling themselves The Project for a New American Century published a “manifesto” called Rebuilding America’s Defenses. These were all hard-right figures politically, many of whom went on to staff the Bush Administration, including key controlling positions within the Pentagon.
There is nigh-infinitely more that’s wrong with the official conspiracy theory propagated by the government/ media complex, but I suspect any reasonable person reading this post gets the point by now.
To anyone reading this, please, please do not let the wrong-headed notion form in your mind that “Jews are evil.” Religion has done immense harm to the human race all around. Fueling bigotry is not my intention. Organized white-collar crime syndicates are international and they involve Christians, Muslims, Americans, Russians, Turks…. the list goes on and on. NO GROUP OF PEOPLE ARE CATEGORICALLY GUILTY — or “innocent.”
It is important to resist the paranoia of bigotry and to simply remember that those among the Neo-Cons who are Jewish, who may lay down the guidance markers, do not comprise the whole body of the “movement” they represent, a movement I consider wholly subversive.
For instance, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was never known to be a Jew, but he faithfully proved to be an extremely willing and valuable ally for the cabal of Straussian Neo-Cons.
Former US House Majority Leader, Republican Tom Delay, was a staunch proponent of a Christian group calling itself “Stand for Israel.” A similar group calling itself “Christians United for Israel” claims over ten million members.
The massive NSA super-surveillance headquarters built in the state of Utah may well have had its site chosen for the dominance of the Mormons in that state. The Mormon Church is an avowedly Zionist organization in nature — until recent times, its web site so stated on page one. So, among its zealous religious members, it would presumably be very easy to recruit many who would also place the interests of Israel above the US, even while employed by the US, while working for Israel’s global ambitions through the sacrificial vehicles of the blood and treasure of Americans.
Most Americans will dismiss such notions simply because the mainstream media calls Israel a US “ally,” and they don’t report on the atrocities that nation perpetrates against Palestinians, Lebanon, and other Arab targets. The American people are trained not to criticize Israel (should they manage to even suss out any real information about its activities), because to do that is “anti-Semitic.”
Most Americans probably do not want to be bigots. Despite what some may say after they read this article, I do not harbor hatred in my heart for people who happen to have been born under Judaism or any other religion. That is an accident of birth. What counts are people’s character determinations made in their individual adult lifetimes. I would not wish to be thought of as “an evil schemer and liar,” for instance, simply because I am, like Dick Cheney, “an old white man.” There the similarities end, and he and I are worlds apart. To be ethical, one must not make assumptions about individuals due to accidents of birth, skin color, religion, what have you. To do so is not the path of righteousness, by any measure.
And by all means, “Jews” are not all “Zionists.” Some have protested Zionism, believing the diaspora, rather than a supremacist nationalism, as embodied by the nation of Israel, founded in deceptions and terrorism perpetrated by Jewish gangsters, and exerted most oppressively by its right-wing Likud Party, is the properly ordained course.
At times, in my lifetime it has, at times, seemed that it is certain Jewish commentators and elected officeholders who alone served as the conscience of the US nation in their writings opposing our own country’s most belligerent and lawless actions.
But it is also a fact that it is Jews who have tended to succeed in the gold and diamond trades, in law, in global high finance, and it is undeniable that Zionist Jews, through AIPAC and their other powerful lobbies, are virtually all-powerful in managing the US governments at the states and Federal levels. They hold the levers of power through granting access to the mother’s milk of politics — money. And this undoubtedly takes the form of granting ever more credit to national governments who spend more than they receive in tax revenues, ever-reduced by tax cuts for the wealthiest persons and business concerns in our society for more than forty years at this point.
All Jews can justly take pride in the successes of their small minority of the world’s people. in earlier centuries, Christian majorities had banned Jews in various societies from engaging in most trades. The Jews strove hard over the centuries to gain prominence via the roads left open to them, and they have succeeded. And some of them, and allied Christians as well, comprise the Neo-Conservative view that we, the people, must be “channeled” to serve as all-conquering, self-sacrificing imperialists — slaves to “noble” lies, per Neoconservative “guru,” Leo Strauss. Some may take satisfaction in getting revenge for those earlier centuries. Most, however, strive mainly to earn a good living and bring up baby, just like most of the rest of us.
The George W. Bush Administration, once inserted into power via some extremely questionable electoral and legal maneuvering in 2000, was the opportunity this cabal of lying warmongers, nominally Jews, Christians, or nihilists, needed to carry out their plans. The firepower they have aimed at the Muslim nations for purposes of imperialist conquest was the fruit of a false flag operation perpetrated twenty-two years ago today.
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