9/11 – A Cheap Magic Trick

by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research,
February 20, 2012

In 2010 the FBI invaded the homes of peace activists in several states and seized personal possessions in what the FBI–the lead orchestrator of fake “terrorist plots”–called an investigation of “activities concerning the material support of terrorism.”

Subpoenas were issued to compel antiwar protestors to testify before grand juries as prosecutors set about building their case that opposing Washington’s wars of aggression constitutes giving aid and comfort to terrorists. The purpose of the raids and grand jury subpoenas was to chill the anti-war movement into inaction.

Last week in one fell swoop the last two remaining critics of Washington/Tel Aviv imperialism were removed from the mainstream media. Judge Napolitano’s popular program, Freedom Watch, was cancelled by Fox TV, and Pat Buchanan was fired by MSNBC. Both pundits had wide followings and were appreciated for speaking frankly.

Many suspect that the Israel Lobby used its clout with TV advertisers to silence critics of the Israeli government’s efforts to lead Washington to war with Iran. Regardless, the point before us is that the voice of the mainstream media is now uniform. Americans hear one voice, one message, and the message is propaganda. Dissent is tolerated only on such issues as to whether employer-paid health benefits should pay for contraceptive devices. Constitutional rights have been replaced with rights to free condoms.

The western media demonizes those at whom Washington points a finger. The lies pour forth to justify Washington’s naked aggression: the Taliban are conflated with al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction, Gaddafi is a terrorist and, even worse, fortified his troops with Viagra in order to commit mass rape against Libyan women.

President Obama and members of Congress along with Tel Aviv continue to assert that Iran is making a nuclear weapon despite public contradiction by the US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate. According to news reports, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta told members of the House of Representatives on February 16 that “Tehran has not made a decision to proceed with developing a nuclear weapon.” http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_19978801?source=rss However, in Washington facts don’t count. Only the material interests of powerful interest groups matter.

At the moment the american Ministry of Truth is splitting its time between lying about Iran and lying about Syria. Recently, there were some explosions in far away Thailand, and the explosions were blamed on Iran. Last October the FBI announced that the bureau had uncovered an Iranian plot to pay a used car salesman to hire a Mexican drug gang to kill the Saudi Ambassador to the US. The White House idiot professed to believe the unbelievable plot and declared that he had “strong evidence,” but no evidence was ever released. The purpose for announcing the non-existent plot was to justify Obama’s sanctions, which amount to an embargo–an act of war–against Iran for developing nuclear energy.

As a signatory to the non-proliferation treaty, Iran has the right to develop nuclear energy. IAEA inspectors are permanently in Iran and report no diversion of nuclear material to a weapons program.

In other words, according to the reports of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the US National Intelligence Estimate, and the current Secretary of Defense, there is no evidence that Iran has nukes or is making nukes. Yet, Obama has placed illegal sanctions on Iran and continues to threaten Iran with military attack on the basis of an accusation that is contradicted by all known evidence.

How can such a thing happen? It can happen because there is no Helen Thomas, who also was eliminated by the Israel Lobby, to question, as a member of the White House press, President Obama why he placed war-like sanctions on Iran when his own CIA and his own Secretary of Defense, along with the IAEA, report that there is no basis for the sanctions.

The idea that the US is a democracy when it most definitely does not have a free watchdog press is laughable. But the media is not laughing. It is lying. Just like the government, every time the US mainstream media opens its mouth or writes one word, it is lying. Indeed, its corporate masters pay its employees to tell lies. That is their job. Tell the truth, and you are history like Buchanan and Napolitano and Helen Thomas.

What the Ministry of Truth calls “peaceful protesters brutalized by Assad’s military” are in fact rebels armed and financed by Washington. Washington has fomented a civil war. Washington claims its intention is to rescue the oppressed and abused Syrian people from Assad, just as Washington rescued the oppressed and abused Libyan people from Gaddafi. Today “liberated” Libya is a shell of its former self terrorized by clashing militias. Thanks to Obama, another country has been destroyed.

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Russ Baker talks about deep history, the origins of the intelligence establishment, the military-industrial-financial-oil complex, the JFK assassination, and his book Family of Secrets, with Craig Barnes on KSFR-FM, Santa Fe, NM, January 27, 2012

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February 04, 2012
American Free Press

Editor’s Note: Seventeen years ago, Hoppy Heidelberg, then 55 and president of the Oklahoma Thoroughbred Breeders Association, was drafted to serve on the Oklahoma City federal grand jury that only a few months later became immersed in the Murrah Building bombing investigation. However, after several weeks of asking penetrating questions, requesting certain witnesses and evidence be brought forward, only to be frustrated by hollow promises from the U.S. attorney who was “obviously controlling what evidence would be presented,” Heidelberg eventually arrived at the only plausible conclusion: Not only was the atrocity carried out as a government “false flag” operation in order to get restrictive anti-terrorist legislation passed but the same federal agencies assigned to investigate it were actually hiding any evidence that did not help implicate the two patsies, Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols. In October 1995, a federal judge ordered that Heidelberg be removed from the grand jury. Recently, Heidelberg became outraged when he saw the most recent documentary supporting the government cover story that the 1995 OKC bombing was accidental—“a sting operation gone bad.” His letter further details his strong feelings on the subject:

January 28, 2012

Dear AMERICAN FREE PRESS:

AFP writer Victor Thorn’s interviews regarding A Noble Lie, a new DVD on the Murrah Building bombing in Oklahoma City, were spot on. The refusal by former Oklahoma state Rep. Charles Key to be interviewed was the most telling of all. That was the last dot to be connected to expose his true involvement in the cover-up of the OKC bombing. For 16 years, I had assumed that the damage to my reputation by Key’s activities had been unintentional. After all, we were friends, right? I thought the terrible damage done by his multi-county grand jury when it backed up the findings of the federal grand jury, and had the effect of making me look like a fool, was as they are prone to say, an “unintended consequence.” It took me 16 years to come to the inescapable conclusion that the consequences were actually intentional. Pat Shannan is such a wordsmith. His written observation on Key’s refusal to be interviewed is, “In my opinion, Key’s refusal to stand up and be heard amounts to no less than a confession of his own disingenuous stand.” How diplomatic. Others might have said, “Key is a liar, or a coward or an agent provocateur, or all three.”

It was [Noble Lie producer] Chris Emery’s rhetorical question near the end of the DVD that exploded all my excuses for my friend’s behavior. There it was. The motive for making the DVD: to establish, on behalf of the government, that the whole operation was an “accident,” a “sting gone bad.” Then they proceeded to have three men verify that indeed it was, with no one refuting it.

I ran the DVD back to my interviews to see if the Noble Lie producers had included my opinion that it was done to pass the anti-terrorism bill, originally known as the Omnibus Crime Bill, and was to be passed upon the 1993 World Trade Center operation. They had edited my interviews to make sure none had mentioned any legislation. Later, I learned that they had done the same thing to Craig Roberts, editing out his opinion regarding the “Clinton files.” I contacted Craig, and it did not take us long to figure out we had been had. Our names, faces and our reputations had been used to sell something opposite of what we actually believed.

This had been the plan since Emery and James Lane hit Oklahoma City. Emery was taken in immediately by Key, and, according to one member of Key’s OKC Bombing Investigation Committee, began taking over the meetings, replacing Key. Key became the de jure chairman of the committee, and Emery became the de facto chairman.

I only learned this when I began making noise about the deception perpetrated on the DVD. The more I asked around, the more I learned and the more the dots began to line up. It had never occurred to me to distrust anyone in the inner circle.

I pressed for answers as to how Emery and Lane were making a living, as they had no visible means of support. Emery danced around, not really answering my questions, with a lengthy explanation that made no sense. I became curious about where all the high-tech equipment came from, including the tiniest high-definition TV camera I had ever seen, which was about the size of a round cigarette lighter. This thing looked to be straight from the CIA in Langley, Va. It had high-resolution “undercover” written all over it.

The more people I called, the more surprises I got. I had been a fool, allowing these agents provocateurs to seduce me into helping them destroy myself. But most important of all, I had no alternative but to conclude that my good friend, Charles Key, had been undermining me all along. It was difficult to accept. All the damage was intentional and planned. Unfortunately, the DVD is finished, and it is out there and cannot be altered.

They have cleverly accomplished their mission. All I can do is warn people that it is a fraud. Pity, too, because it was so well done.

HOPPY HEIDELBERG
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

February 10, 2012
American Free Press
By Pete Papaherakles

Could gaining control of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran (CBI) be one of the main reasons that Iran is being targeted by Western and Israeli powers? As tensions are building up for an unthinkable war with Iran, it is worth exploring Iran’s banking system compared to its U.S., British and Israeli counterparts.

Some researchers are pointing out that Iran is one of only three countries left in the world whose central bank is not under Rothschild control. Before 9-11 there were reportedly seven: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Cuba, North Korea and Iran. By 2003, however, Afghanistan and Iraq were swallowed up by the Rothschild octopus, and by 2011 Sudan and Libya were also gone. In Libya, a Rothschild bank was established in Benghazi while the country was still at war.

Islam forbids the charging of usury, the practice of charging excessive, unreasonably high, and often illegal interestrates on loans,and that is a major problem for the Rothschild banking system. Until a few hundred years ago usury was also forbidden in the Christian world and was even punishable by death. It was considered exploitation and enslavement.

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Saturday, February 4, 2012

If you thought Andrew “assassinate Obama for Israel” Adler was the last word in chutzpah…think again.

Larry “blow up the World Trade Center for Israel” Silverstein is light-years beyond Adler.

Larry Silverstein, you may recall, is a reputed mobster who allegedly got his start in the sex services business and then oozed into real estate. Two months before 9/11, Silverstein finalized his 100-year-lease on the white elephant, condemned-for-asbestos World Trade Center complex – and proceeded to double the insurance and hardball his insurers into changing the policy to “cash payout.”

On 9/11/01, Silverstein skipped his usual breakfast at the top of the North Tower. He says his wife reminded him of an appointment with his dermatologist. Other family members also stayed away, with other excuses. All of those who breakfasted there died. Silverstein and family survived.

After confessing on national television to blowing up World Trade Center 7, Silverstein went to court and asked for – and received – double indemnity, including almost a billion dollars for WTC-7 – the very building he had confessed to blowing up. Larry had the chutzpah to claim that there were two separate, unrelated terrorist attacks (the two planes) so he should get twice the money. Somehow that worked, presumably thanks to a mobbed-up judge. “Lucky Larry” walked away with more than five billion dollars, plus rights to rebuild.

But that wasn’t enough chutzpah for Larry. For the past several years he’s been back in court, asking for 11 billion dollars from the airlines’ insurers. Now Silverstein has somehow convinced AMR, the parent company of American Airlines, to give him a special dispensation. Even though AMR has filed bankruptcy, which theoretically should stop all lawsuits against it, the company’s attorneys have – for unstated reasons – chosen to insert a special rider into their bankruptcy agreement which allows Silverstein to continue suing the company.

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Attorney Jesse Trentadue talks to Lew Rockwell about the torture-murder of his brother, Kenneth, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and a highly suspicious sting operation.

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Interview of the producers of the film A Noble Lie about the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing: Lies And Coverup by ResistanceRadio

By Pepe Escobar
January 26, 2012
Asia Times Online

n his State of the Union address, United States President Barack Obama said, “Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal.”

In the real world, this means Washington is willing to go to war – the economic war is already on – against a country that subscribes to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and is not seeking nuclear weapons, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency and the latest US National Intelligence Estimate.

Obama also said, “The [Tehran] regime is more isolated than ever before; its leaders are faced with crippling sanctions, and as long as they shirk their responsibilities, this pressure will not relent.”

“Isolated”? Not really; see The myth of ‘isolated’ Iran (Asia Times)

Online, January 18). And it’s not the Iranian leadership that is subjected to crippling sanctions; it’s the absolute majority of 78 million impoverished Iranians who will pay the price.

In an earlier statement, Obama had “applauded” the European Union’s decision to slap its own Iranian oil embargo, adding, “These sanctions demonstrate once more the unity of the international community.”

So, let’s talk about the “unity of the international community” – which comprises the US, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries, Israel and the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council, also known as Gulf Counter-revolution Club); the rest of the world is just a mirage.

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By Pepe Escobar
January 7, 2012
Asia Times online

NEW YORK – Here’s a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy.

A key amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed by United States President Barack Obama on the last day of 2011 – when no one was paying attention – imposes sanctions on any countries or companies that buy Iranian oil and pay for it through Iran’s central bank. Starting this summer, anybody who does it is prevented from doing business with the US.

This amendment – for all practical purposes a declaration of economic war – was brought to you by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on direct orders of the Israeli
government under Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu.

Torrents of spin have tried to rationalize it as the Obama administration’s plan B as opposed to letting the Israeli dogs of war conduct an unilateral attack on Iran over its supposed nuclear weapons program.

Yet the original Israeli strategy was in fact even more hysterical – as in effectively preventing any country or company from paying for imported Iranian oil, with the possible exceptions of China and India. On top of it, American Israel-firsters were trying to convince anyone this would not result in relentless oil price hikes.

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Interview of Dr. Paul Craig Roberts on the Alex Jones show.