- The blind flagwaving is receding into the rearview mirror
of history. So too is the righteous rage over suspicious questions about
government behavior in the midst of tragedy.
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- My friend spoke out in a supermarket checkout line the
other night that he didn't believe what U.S. political leaders were saying
about 9/11. To his surprise, everyone in the crowded market was eager to
agree. This would not have happened a year ago.
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- Much of the thinking American public already knows something
is very wrong with the official government version of what happened on
September 11, 2001.
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- The glib declarations that Muslim hijackers did it, now
let's go bomb the hell out of them continues to ring tinnier as more and
more American kids return home in flag-draped boxes, and the screams of
dying Iraqi women and children become louder despite the blackout of such
inconvenient noises by the disgracefully deceptive American media.
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- The official commission of political functionaries continues
to belabor trivial points of bureaucratic procedures rather than tackle
the obvious anomalies in the accepted version of events: the tiny hole
in the Pentagon, the way the Twin Towers fell as if demolished, the fact
that most of those cellphone calls couldn't possibly have been made the
way they say they were made, the suspicious investments, the flip-flop
stories by government officials.
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- The flames of the American public discontent are fanned
by an unending series of stories about U.S. atrocities overseas. 4,000
Iraqis have been raped by the invading American forces. U.S. soldiers are
returning home with bizarre and fatal symptoms attributed to depleted uranium
ammunition. Or returning home in boxes which are not allowed to be photographed.
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- But ironically, as a growing segment of the public thirsts
for a deeper analysis of what surely is a coverup by the Bush administration
and its lackey Kean Commission, the 9/11 truth movement appears to be losing
its focus; many major researchers appear to be going in different directions.
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- Cheerleader groups like the 9/11 Visibility Project and
the 9/11 Truth Alliance do the best they can recruiting supporters to help
ask the unanswered questions, and the general public finally seems ready
to hear them, dissatisfied as they are by the continuing government coverup
and the dissembling triviality of the official commission.
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- But ironically, as the public becomes more receptive
to allegations their government was involved in the treasonous mass murders
of 9/11, the small cadre of researchers devoted to exposed official lies
and anomalies in the government's stories seems unable to come up with
a universally recognizable smoking gun - a real blockbuster - that the
public can rally behind, and demand an honest accounting of the government's
dishonest behavior.
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- A recent 9/11 conference in San Francisco was really
subverted into a discussion about peak oil, leaving some observers worried
that the more famous researchers in the 9/11 truth movement were actually
and inadvertently working to justify Bush's war policies. One of the top
researchers early on has now become a shill for Israel, casting doubt on
all the comprehensive research he did on the military standdown that purportedly
enabled the attacks to happen.
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- Many of the other major 9/11 sites have focused on small
specific items that tend to confuse the public with an endless repetition
of theoretical suppositions.
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- After all, if one fact in the official version is found
to have been deliberately false - Was the flight over Pennsylvania shot
down? Did a missile hit the Pentagon? What if the so-called hijackers never
got on the planes? Were bombs planted in the World Trade Center? - then
the whole story is false, and should come crumbling down, just like the
towers.
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- But the paid-off political functionaries comprising the
Kean commission aren't pursuing the important questions. Instead, they're
locked in this pre-scripted political vaudeville with Condi Rice and Richard
Clarke debating the finer points of presidential briefings. It's a classic
distraction. The contemporary term is limited hang-out.
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- I mean, Osama bin Laden was declared guilty at the outset
of the commission's deliberations on the basis of no evidence that would
hold up in a court of law. Nothing much has been said about hijackers ever
since.
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- Can you say Lee Harvey Oswald?
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- The real problem seems to be that law enforcement has
no interest in actually investigating 9/11, only in assuring that the official
story holds up, that the designated culprits remain targets, thereby justifying
new totalitarian laws against freedom and validating a new U.S. foreign
policy that seems aimed at making large amounts of money for government
contractors rather than pursuing actualized justice.
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- Which is why the FBI can come out and say there was nothing
suspicious about pre-9/11 trading activities when the whole world knows
that there was. There hasn't been a single peep about this red-flag issue
from the official commission.
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- Recent weeks have brought two major revelations among
the minor details of 9/11. First, a new website revealed footage that appears
to show the jetliner that hit the South Tower firing a missile just before
impact. You can only see this in slow motion, but it's there, if you look
carefully.
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- The other shocker actually showed up in an e-mail to
me that recounted a "power-down" situation on the upper floors
of the WTC on the very weekend before 9/11, providing a window of opportunity
to plant bombs in the towers, had anyone so desired.
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- And yet, something is missing. Perhaps it's just the
media blockade. Just like they won't tell you that American soldiers are
being outmaneuvered and slaughtered by the Iraqi resistance (they're not
"insurgents," they're ordinary people defending their homes against
American sociopaths - who incidentally now have no legitimate reason to
even be there - now that Saddam has been captured - not that they ever
did).
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- As far as 9/11 goes, we seem to still not have a truly
significant smoking gun, at least as recognized by the media and disseminated
to the general public, even though we have many smoldering guns, many mentioned
above. But what Americans really believe and what action is taken is all
shaped by the media, which refuse en masse to admit that everything Bush
and his accomplices say about practically every topic is a false story
designed to deceive the public.
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- So in the face of this media mindlock, the 9/11 truth
troops are rattling, reverberating in frustration in the echoes of their
own rhetoric. They've presented plenty of compelling arguments, but can't
fight through this blanket of corporate censorship.
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- A couple of fertile areas for new 9/11 revelations continue
to be investigated by tireless researchers who don't do things for money
like those highly paid anchormen and reporters do. The researchers simply
want the truth; the so-called reporters who regurgitate Pentagon press
releases and call it news simply want their money.
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- One interesting factoid was unearthed by Gerard Holmgren,
one of the truly legendary 9/11 sleuths, who found out by checking FAA
records that two of the so-called death flights never even existed, never
took off, so they couldn't have crashed into anything, despite all the
official hype about flight times and radar tracking.
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- To be clear about this, the flights Holmgren pinpoints
USUALLY fly every day, but the FAA logs reveal they didn't fly THAT day.
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- The other provocative tangent being scrutinized by several
researchers (including me) seem to indicate that many of the names on the
airline passenger death lists don't appear to be real people. There are
plenty of names, for sure, but they don't seem to be matching up with birthdates
in available records. Further, certain foundations created to honor a couple
of very famous names in the mythology of the fatal day appear to have ties
to neocon businesses.
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- Though the state of this research is still in its infancy,
the thought that motivates this work is that if the names on the passenger
lists were not actual individuals, and at least two of the planes never
took off from their points of departure .... well, that would be another
rack of smoking guns in a situation that already has plenty.
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- I've done a lot of radio over the past year, trying to
plant the seed among the general populace that the sheer number of lies
told by the government about 9/11 merits more than a passing outrage by
a majority of U.S. citizens.
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- Back along the trail, when I was chatting with Bill Boshears
on WLW-AM in Cincinnati, we received a phone call from somebody known as
The Webfairy, who tried to tell us that no planes were involved in the
9/11 attacks. I must admit I was caught off guard.
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- My objective on the show was to present the basic fundamental
facts - the most understandable ones - to try to get people who hadn't
comtemplated versions of events other than the government's to at least
recognize there were some basic parts of the official story that were preposterous,
and many others that were very questionable.
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- So I wasn't very receptive to The Webfairy's perspective,
and frankly, we gave her the bum's rush out of the door (if you can do
that on the telephone).
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- However, I always check back on people I disagree with,
to make sure I haven't deceived myself. What got me started on my search
was something totally unrelated.
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- I've always been puzzled by the apparent metamorphosis
of the Emperor's Clothes website from the vanguard of 9/11 alternative
versions right after the terrible day to what it has become now - a blatantly
pro-Israel website that is always yowling about what bad people the Palestinians
are. In my mind, it just didn't compute that a site that could so concisely
enumerate the flaws in the U.S. government's story and have such incredible
reporting about the so-called military standdown that enabled these supposedly
hijacked airliners to wreak so much damage could suddenly turn and become
predictable Zionist public relations of the same stripe as Fox news and
the rest of that fascist network joke.
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- Since I remain convinced that Israel played a major role
in the 9/11 attacks (simply because through its neocon double agents it
has almost total control over America's foreign policy), I mulled over
how a pro-Israeli reporter could have done so well itemizing the flaws
in Washington's official story.
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- Then, the thought dawned on me. What if there were no
planes? And I took a harder look at what The Webfairy had to say.
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- Basically, her comprehensive analysis of the video footage
of the two WTC crashes has led her to believe that no plane hit either
structure.
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- Why? Because planes don't cut into buildings like butter.
They splinter and explode on contact. Parts go flying everywhere.
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- In the case of the Pentagon crash, for instance, the
government argues that the jetliner that supposedly hit it completely disintegrated
in a fire so hot it melted every trace of the airplane and its passengers.
Disintegrated into invisibility. This opinion made preposterous the later
report that government officials were able to extract enough DNA from the
scene to identify every passenger on the ill-fated plane.
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- However, in the case of the WTC, we are supposed to believe
that the facade of the Twin Towers was so flimsy that the planes could
cut into the walls like a finger into a chocolate cake without losing a
single part. Hmmm?
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- And then there are the videos themselves. The only view
of the first impact is known to most by now, the famous Naudet brothers
video. Two French filmmakers were supposedly filming a random event of
the New York Fire Department, and just happened to swerve their camera
skyward to serendipitously capture the final moments of the flight that
hit the North Tower.
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- Except that you can barely make out the plane, because
the image is so fuzzy. Is it a plane? Was it added to the film? Were there
any eyewitnesses who actually saw the impact? I don't know of any.
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- And then there's the way the plane disappears into the
building. There seems to be an explosion before it hits. The image of the
plane, fuzzy as it is, looks square-winged, not like the jetliner the government
said it was.
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- Even more enigmatic is the plane everyone "saw"
hit the South Tower, the one that now turns up with an apparent extra fuel
tank on its bottom, and in one recent film analysis apparently fires a
missile an instant before impact.
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- But what is most curious is the impact itself. On the
famous Fairbanks video, taken from the street below, there is not only
no sound of the plane hitting the building, there is also no evidence of
anything breaking - not the wall, not the plane - just a silent, smooth
entrance of a very solid airliner into a very solid building that at that
moment evinces the solidity of marshmallow.
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- And what really piqued my suspicions were a couple of
comments made by The Webfairy when we were on the radio together the other
night. It is her suspicion that the Naudet brothers weren't in the position
they were in to film a documentary on the fire department. She believes
they were there to film the apparent crash.
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- And further, she claims to have discovered that the so-called
Czech video of the South Tower crash was nothing of the sort, because her
frame-by-frame analysis shows, by carefully examining the reflections in
incidental windows on the film, that the camera was riding in a fire engine,
not in a car as some claim. A fire engine in which all the crew died in
the WTC collapse, by the way.
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- Two more little smoking pistols to be filed away for
that rainy day when freedom of speech and government integrity are finally
restored in America. I know, I know - dream on.
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- Now, I've heard the arguments against holograms. How
could they possibly be projected so as to be visible from so many different
angles? Don't know. I'm not a scientist. And what happened to all the people
on the planes? Don't know that, either. I'm not a police detective, or
an FBI agent.
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- But I do know that the government has lied about so many
aspects about 9/11, and that the reporting of the standdown was best done
but someone who did not remain true to form.
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- I suggest everyone take a look at http://www.thewebfairy.com/
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- Look carefully at those film clips. Tell me it was a
plane, and not a trick. If you can ...
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- Some observers have claimed that all this talk about
holograms is just disinformation meant to throw people off the track of
the real story.
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- Yet just today I received another e-mail talking about
the advanced holography of the military that could disguise a missile as
a jetliner. But that will be tomorrow's story.
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- In the meantime, I'd just like to say, if we were a truly
free country, we could all get Al-Jazeerah on our cable TV, and then we
would really see what America is doing to the rest of the world. It's only
a matter of time, on the present course, before they do the same things
to us here in America as well.
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- John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy
Report," a collection of his Internet essays seen on hundreds of websites
around the world, and also "The Day America Died: Why You Shouldn't
Believe the Official Version of What Happened on September 11, 2001,"
a 48-booklet written for those who still believe what the U.S. government
says about 9/11. For more information about both, go to http://www.johnkaminski.com/
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