- "Nothing would be what it is. Because
everything
would be what it isn't. And contrary-wise, what it is, it wouldn't be.
And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?" -- Alice in
Wonderland
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- WHAT NOW?
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- Rightly or wrongly, Alice had it right. Or, as that great
Yogi named Berra once said, "When you come to a fork in the road,
take it."
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- Confuse people long enough (about 25 seconds for the
average TV viewer) - and they will click channels, tune into less arduous
distractions, and reset their brains to "snooz" control.
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- It's a time-tested formula. Everyone who runs a scam
for personal, political or financial gain relies on their audience's
fractured
attention to get away with story lines that seem absolutely compelling
in the heat of some manufactured moment - but collapse into complete
nonsense
if we run the tape back and view it frame-by-frame.
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- Take the events Sept. 11, 2001. Absolutely riveting
video,
relentlessly repeated. Authoritative news anchors looking dazed and grim,
throwing out official statements like lifelines to millions of dazed and
desperate viewers drowning in shock and disorientation.
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- " It couldn't be real, but it had to be
true".
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- So we bought it. Or most of it anyway. We didn't ask
why intelligence agencies who couldn't catch a whiff of the most complex
"hit" since the invasion of Normandy knew the names of 19
cremated
hijackers and their renal-challenged ringleader within 48 hours of attacks
that killed 50,000, no 25,000, no 6,000, no 2,500 people..
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- We didn't ask how frightened young men who couldn't fly
Cessnas could navigate and steer heavy jets into their targets. Or why
none of their names turned up on the passenger lists of the four airplanes
they were supposed to have commandeered. (Total number of Middle Easterners
among 257 passengers and crew: zero.)
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- We didn't ask what the United and American pilots (three
of them military veterans) were doing while men armed with quarter-inch
knives demanded death to fellow Americans, why their cockpit conversations
were never released, why eight indestructible "black boxes"
holding
the keys to so many -questions were rendered "inoperable" while
hijackers' paper passports escaped explosions and fire unscathed.
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- We didn't ask why a plane supposedly driven by its
passengers
into two separate crash sites in the Pennsylvania countryside came apart
in mid-air. Or why the president of the United States remained more
interested
in the story of a pet goat than reports of airliners crashing into
Manhattan
skyscrapers and the Pentagon.
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- We didn't ask why U.S. forces were poised to attack
across
the Tajikistan border into Afghanistan in an assault announced last June
- but could not scramble a single fighter to defend the U.S. capitol before
three airliners hit their targets on a sunny morning in September.
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- We didn't ask why the CIA met with an ailing Osama bin
Laden in an American hospital as the biggest British battle fleet since
the Falklands sailed for waters off Afghanistan, why Washington gave the
Taliban $43 millions in May, or why the FBI and Attorney General of the
United States repeatedly ignored warnings and blocked investigations into
the impending attacks.
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- We didn't ask what the CIA was doing in the upper
echelons
of Big Banks that profited hugely from "short-selling" United
and American Airlines stocks in the final days before someone dialed
9.11.
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- We didn't ask why the head of the WTC arson investigation
told reporters there were "explosive devices" in the building,
why so few survivors were burned, or why New York firefighters were dragged
away from Ground Zero just when the site was becoming safe and they were
getting close to the bottom of things.
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- "We did not ask because we were not told what had
really happened."
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- Like good Germans in Hitler's heyday, we looked the other
way when more than 1,100 not-quite-white people bearing Middle Eastern
names were thrown into U.S. prisons, interrogated, abused, held without
notifying their families or lawyers - without ever being charged with
terrorist
acts. We were sure it couldn't happen to us.
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- Anthrax held us enthralled. Instead of asking what a
"weaponized" strain of a decades old "Made In The USA"
bacteria was doing in silent letter bombs, we clamored for risky antidotes
and even more dangerous vaccines without stopping to consider that anthrax
is not contagious, easily treated, rarely fatal - and that bee stings pose
a far more serious threat to most Americans.
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- Like frightened Germans after the Reichstag fire, we
demanded that authorities "do something". They did. A
Constitution
generations of Americans had given their lives to defend was suspended.
Laws were -quickly passed permitting surveillance, assets seizure, arrest
and detention of "suspects" - without formal charges or judicial
oversight. Evidence will be sealed. Special tribunals will hear these
cases.
Forcible -quarantine and inoculations are next.
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- A president who told Americans the day he
"took"
office - "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier,
just so long as I'm the dictator" - appointed himself supreme ruler
of a his new Supreme National Security Council. A hundred thousand troops
were called up for "internal security". And we said thank God,
not realizing that soon perhaps we could be busted for that, too.
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- Everyone knows the score by now.
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- FEMA is only for hurricanes, the Florida recount can
wait, Timothy McVeigh blew up a big building with the same sort of
fertilizer
used to cover up his cohorts, Osama bin Laden is an ungrateful madman just
like Saddam and Noriega and all the other thugs we've hugged, Bush's
"War
on Drugs" is just as urgent and honest as his "War on
Terrorism".
And kids as precious as our own being blown up in Afghanistan should just
get out of the way.
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- We have to get bin Laden. Or maybe we don't. It's no
longer clear. For sure, we have to topple the Taliban. What they're doing
to women must be stopped. But now our leaders say maybe it would be okay
if they rule the southern half of the country and let us take the rest
where the pipelines have to go through.
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- Pakistan is our ally. They are sending troops to fight
on the side of the Taliban. They have nukes. The general who heads their
intelligence service sent $100,000 to a fanatic the FBI says led the
suicide
planes against Manhattan. But it's okay now. The FBI complained and the
general has resigned.
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- Already the vultures are gathering.
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- On Oct. 10, 2001 U.S. Ambassador Wendy Chamberlain called
on the Pakistani oil minister to get moving on the stalled Unocal pipeline
from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to a Pakistani port. Selling oil and
gas to China is back on the table she says, "in view of recent
geopolitical
developments."
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- In the context of appeasing China, Chamberlain is an
interesting name.
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- In the context of Sept. 11, China's ascension to the
WTO before the WTC's dust had settled seemed almost scripted. Like some
kind of quid pro quo - you give us oil and a seat on the organization
divvying
up the world, we do something for you.
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- What could that be? At least 15,000 Chinese Muslim troops
have been sent to the defense of the Taliban.
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- Some people think President Bush II's second modern
"crusade"
is a contest between Allah and Christ. They are dangerously wrong. This
war is being fought to reinstate the real "god" - gold, oil and
drugs.
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- You and I can switch to bicycles or electric cars. But
militaries cannot convert to battery-operated battleships or B-52s. The
hi-tech allied armed forces needed to keep a lid on people being ripped
off - which includes just about everyone on the planet - is running out
of oil. The world's biggest remaining oil reserves are in the Caspian
basin.
A 20 billion barrel transfusion must begin flowing through 48-inch arteries
just as soon as they can be laid across Afghanistan - and injected into
the industrialized veins of increasingly desperate oil addicts.
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- Forget global warming, catastrophic climate change, the
oppressed women of Afghanistan, the starving millions shivering with the
onset of winter, and millions more moderate Muslims who are beginning to
believe that Osama bin Laden is right. We're talking serious money here:
$3 to $5 trillion worth of oil and natural gas, and hundreds of billions
more in that other addiction supplied by a country called
Afghanistan.
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- An American administration intimately linked to the
international
drug trade and the banks that launder its dirty money has been beside
itself
since the Taliban declared poppy-growing against Shariah Islamic law. Maybe
the mullahs were miffed at the CIA for cranking up Afghanistan's heroin
production to finance Osama bin Laden.
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- Their decree was issued 19 months ago. The fields are
fallow; 60% of U.S. heroin imports have been shut off. Junkies are having
withdrawals almost as bad as the White House, where some $250 billion a
year in illicit drug money waters Wall Street, Big Banks, and various
Bushes.
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- On the scale of national budgets, the only usable amounts
of cash are in the drug trade. Everything else is a digital dream. If the
drugs stop flowing, the world economy will instantly collapse.
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- The "shadow" administration hopes Columbia
can pick up the slack. But a few dedicated drug enforcement officials
haven't
gotten the word. They keep cracking down on drug lords like Lehder linked
to people with names like Cheney and Bush.
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- All the details are in the lawsuits brought by a former
Green Beret, a Contra drugs-for-arms dealer and smugglers gone
straight.
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- But the media ignores the news.
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- It's imperative that the Taliban get turfed and fresh
poppies planted. Don't get confused. These aren't the poppies for
Remembrance
Day. Though in a way they are. Americans have been conned into wars for
oil and drug profits beyond their knowledge or imagination since the U.S.
Navy tracked the Japanese carriers steaming toward Pearl Harbor, the Maddox
fought phantom Viet Cong gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin, and Iraqi soldiers
ignored the incubator babies in Kuwait.
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- The documentation is voluminous. Much it comes from
government
sources. Does anyone really believe the puppeteers behind the Sept. 11
attackers do not have a similar agenda?
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- You decide. Search the Internet. Check the references
in the back of this book. Cultivate independent news sources. Evaluate.
Read the evidence presented in All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and
Mass Persuasion. See if it resonates.
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- Ask yourself: "Who benefits? Who gains?"
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- "Well," says David Icke, "The Illuminati
want a world government and army, a world currency and centralized global
financial dictatorship and control. They want micro-chipped people and
a society based on constant surveillance of all kinds at all times. And
they want a frightened, docile, subservient, people who give their power
away to the "authorities" who can save them from what they have
been manipulated to fear."
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- That pretty well nails it down.
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- Note - The following is an excerpt from Mr. Thomas'
new book 'All Fall Down' which is available here: http://www.island.net/~lbnews
/9_11/AFD.html
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