Most people who are aware and capable of thought have given up on what is called the “mainstream media.” The presstitutes have destroyed their credibility by helping Washington to lie—“Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction,” “Iranian nukes,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” “Russian invasion of Ukraine,” and so forth. The “mainstream media” has also destroyed its credibility by its complete acceptance of whatever government authorities say about alleged “terrorist events,” such as 9/11 and Boston Marathon Bombing, or alleged mass shootings such as Sandy Hook and San Bernardino. Despite glaring inconsistencies, contradictions, and security failures that seem too unlikely to be believable, the “mainstream media” never asks questions or investigates. It merely reports as fact whatever authorities say.
The sign of a totalitarian or authoritarian state is a media that feels no responsibility to investigate and to find the truth, accepting the role of propagandist instead. The entire Western media has been in the propaganda mode for a long time. In the US the transformation of journalists into propagandists was completed with the concentration of a diverse and independent media in six mega-corporations that are no longer run by journalists.
As a consequence, thoughtful and aware people increasingly rely on alternative media that does question, marshall facts, and offers analysis in place of an unbelievable official story line.
The prime example is 9/11. Large numbers of experts have destroyed the official story that has no factual evidence in its behalf. However, even without the hard evidence that 9/11 truthers have provided, the official story gives itself away. We are supposed to believe that a few Saudi Arabians with no technology beyond box cutters and no support from any government’s intelligence service were able to outwit the massive surveillance technology created by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and NSA (National Security Agency) and deal the most humiliating blow to a superpower ever delivered in human history. Moreover, they were able to do this without the President of the United States, the US Congress, and the “mainstream media” demanding accountability for such a total failure of the high-tech national security state. Instead of a White House led investigation of such a massive security failure, the White House resisted for more than one year any investigation whatsoever until finally giving in to demands from 9/11 families that could not be bought off and agreeing to a 9/11 Commission.
The Commission did not investigate but merely sat and wrote down the story told to it by the government. Afterwards, the Commission’s chairman, co-chairman, and legal counsel wrote books in which they said that information was withheld from the Commission, that the Commission was lied to by officials of the government, and that the Commission “was set up to fail.” Despite all of this, the presstitutes still repeat the official propaganda, and there remain enough gullible Americans to prevent accountability.
Competent historians know that false flag events are used to bring to fruition agendas that cannot otherwise be achieved. 9/11 gave the neoconservatives, who controlled the George W. Bush administration, the New Pearl Harbor that they said was necessary in order to launch their hegemonic military invasions of Muslim countries. The Boston Marathon Bombing permitted a trial run of the American Police State, complete with shutting down a large American city, putting 10,000 armed troops and SWAT teams on the streets where the troops conducted house to house searches forcing the residents out of their homes at gunpoint. This unprecedented operation was justified as necessary in order to locate one wounded 19 year old man, who clearly was a patsy.
There are so many anomalies in the Sandy Hook story that it has generated a cottage industry of skeptics. I agree that there are anomalies, but I don’t have the time to study the issue and come to my own conclusion. What I have noticed is that we are not given many good explanations of the anomalies. For example, in this video made from the TV news coverage, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaHtxlSDgbk the video’s creator makes a case that the person who is the grieving father who lost his son is the same person outfitted in SWAT clothes at Sandy Hook following the shooting. The person is identified as a known actor. Now, it seems to me that this is easy to test. The grieving father is known, the actor is known, and the authorities have to know who the SWAT team member is. If these three people, who can pass for one another, can be assembled in one room at the same time, we can dismiss the expose claimed in this one video. However, if three separate people cannot be produced together, then we must ask why this deception, which raises questions about the entire story. You can watch the entire video or just skip to the 9:30 mark and observe what appears to be the same person in two different roles.
The “mainstream media” has the ability to make these simple investigations, but does not. Instead, the “mainstream media” calls skeptics “conspiracy theorists.”
There is a book by Professor Jim Fetzer and Mike Palecek that says Sandy Hook was a FEMA drill to promote gun control and that no one died at Sandy Hook. The book was available on amazon.com but was suddenly banned. Why ban a book?
Here is a free download of the book: http://rense.com/general96/nobodydied.html I have not read the book and have no opinion. I do know, however, that the police state that America is becoming certainly has a powerful interest in disarming the public. I also heard today a news report that people said to be parents of the dead children are bringing a lawsuit against the gun manufacturer, which is consistent with Fetzer’s claim.
Here is a Buzzsaw interview with Jim Fetzer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-W3rIEe-ag If the information Fetzer provides is correct, clearly the US government has an authoritarian agenda and is using orchestrated events to create a false reality for Americans in order to achieve the agenda.
It seems to me that Fetzer’s facts can be easily checked. If his facts check out, then a real investigation is required. If his facts do not check out, the official story gains credibility as Fetzer is one of the most energetic skeptics.
Fetzer cannot be dismissed as a kook. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, has a Ph.D. from Indiana University and was Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota until his retirement in 2006. He has had a National Science Foundation fellowship, and he has published more than 100 articles and 20 books on philosophy of science and philosophy of cognitive science. He is an expert in artificial intelligence and computer science and founded the international journal Minds and Machines. In the late 1990s, Fetzer was asked to organize a symposium on philosophy of mind.
For an intelligent person, the official stories of President Kennedy’s assassination and 9/11 are simply not believable, because the official stories are not consistent with the evidence and what we know. Fetzer’s frustration with less capable and less observant people increasingly shows, and this works to his disadvantage.
It seems to me that if the authorities behind the official Sandy Hook story are secure with the official story, they would jump on the opportunity to confront and disprove Fetzer’s facts. Moreover, somewhere there must be photographs of the dead children, but, like the alleged large number of recordings by security cameras of an airliner hitting the Pentagon, no one has ever seen them. At least not that I know of.
What disturbs me is that no one in authority or in the mainstream media has any interest in checking the facts. Instead, those who raise awkward matters are dismissed as conspiracy theorists.
Why this is damning is puzzling. The government’s story of 9/11 is a story of a conspiracy as is the government’s story of the Boston Marathon Bombing. These things happen because of conspiracies. What is at issue is: whose conspiracy? We know from Operation Gladio and Operation Northwoods that governments do engage in murderous conspiracies against their own citizens. Therefore, it is a mistake to conclude that governments do not engage in conspiracies.
One often hears the objection that if 9/11 was a false flag attack, someone would have talked.
Why would they have talked? Only those who organized the conspiracy would know. Why would they undermine their own conspiracy?
Why would they have talked? Only those who organized the conspiracy would know. Why would they undermine their own conspiracy?
Recall William Binney. He developed the surveillance system used by NSA. When he saw that it was being used against the American people, he talked. But he had taken no documents with which to prove his claims, which saved him from successful prosecution but gave him no evidence for his claims. This is why Edward Snowden took the documents and released them. Nevertheless, many see Snowden as a spy who stole national security secrets, not as a whistleblower warning us that the Constitution that protects us is being overthrown.
High level government officials have contradicted parts of the 9/11 official story and the official story that links the invasion of Iraq to 9/11 and to weapons of mass destruction. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta contradicted Vice President Cheney and the official 9/11 story timeline. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill has said that overthrowing Saddam Hussein was the subject of the first cabinet meeting in the George W. Bush administration long before 9/11. He wrote it in a book and told it on CBS News’ 60 Minutes. CNN and other news stations reported it. But it had no effect.
Whistleblowers pay a high price. Many of them are in prison. Obama has prosecuted and imprisoned a record number. Once they are thrown in prison, the question becomes: “Who would believe a criminal?”
As for 9/11 all sorts of people have talked. Over 100 police, firemen and first responders have
reported hearing and experiencing a large number of explosions in the Twin Towers. Maintanence personnel report experiencing massive explosions in the sub-basements prior to the building being hit by an airplane. None of this testimony has had any effect on the authorities behind the official story or on the presstitutes.
reported hearing and experiencing a large number of explosions in the Twin Towers. Maintanence personnel report experiencing massive explosions in the sub-basements prior to the building being hit by an airplane. None of this testimony has had any effect on the authorities behind the official story or on the presstitutes.
There are 2,300 architects and engineers who have written to Congress requesting a real investigation. Instead of the request being treated with the respect that 2,300 professionals deserve, the professionals are dismissed as “conspiracy theorists.”
An international panel of scientists have reported the presence of reacted and unreacted nanothermite in the dust of the World Trade Centers. They have offered their samples to government agencies and to scientists for confirmation. No one will touch it. The reason is clear. Today science funding is heavily dependent on the federal government and on private companies that have federal contracts. Scientists understand that speaking out about 9/11 means the termination of their career.
The government has us where it wants us—powerless and disinformed. Most Americans are too uneducated to be able to tell the difference between a building falling down from asymetrical damage and one blowing up. Mainstream journalists cannot question and investigate and keep their jobs. Scientists cannot speak out and continue to be funded.
Truth telling has been shoved off into the alternative Internet media where I would wager the government runs sites that proclaim wild conspiracies, the purpose of which is to discredit all skeptics.
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. He was columnist for Business Week, Scripps Howard News Service, and Creators Syndicate. He has had many university appointments. His internet columns have attracted a worldwide following. Roberts’ latest books are The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West, How America Was Lost, and The Neoconservative Threat to World Order.
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Does anyone really believe any of these whores presently candidates for our president will do anything to end this international obscenity? Obama even was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Did he do anything about it in almost 8 years? How many innocent victims is he responsible for killing around the planet? I doubt if he or any of the current new whores possess a conscience. "Conscience doth make cowards of us all". By the way, yesterday at a campaign event in South Carolina a man who claimed to be a former 8 year Marine asked Bill Clinton some rude questions about his wife's traitorous conduct in Benghazi. But who was escorted out the the room by armed officers? The Marine was. This incident illustrates what is wrong with America today. The Clintons should be the ones escorted out to a jail cell for life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWSwz0TTRyY
A picture is worth a thousand words. Palestine before and after 1948. America has aided and abetted this situation by sending our hard earned tax money and weapons of mass destruction. This is a shameful disgrace. America is like the getaway driver of a bank robber or even worse than the robber himself.
The joke about the time God threatened to sue the Devil. The Devil merely laughed and replied,“How can you? I’ve got all the lawyers!”“If you want to sue the Devil, you will have to do it as a Pro Se. Then you are faced with the predicament that the Devil will probably move the case to federal court where he has all the judges too.” Quoted from:“IBM and the Corruption of Justice in America” by Earl Carey, Bismarck House, St. Louis, 1992, page 318. This remarkable book lists no less than 42 federal judges by name and location, who patently violated the rules they took a meaningless oath to follow. He proves it by dotting every i and crossing every t.
Excellent column, PCR.
I thought this part was stated particularly well:
"One often hears the objection that if 9/11 was a false flag attack, someone would have talked. Why would they have talked? Only those who organized the conspiracy would know. Why would they undermine their own conspiracy?"
I think intel shills spread that "someone would have talked" meme, and others blindly repeat it. Organized crime (which is what govt basically has become) has existed for centuries and they don't go blabbing about it. THAT'S PART OF IT! In order for it to work, you have to STFU.
Vito Corleone: "Never tell anyone outside the family what you're thinking."
Jimmy Conway: "Never rat out your friends and always keep your mouth shut."
It ain't rocket science.
Thank you Ed, I agree completely.
I am fortunate to know Jim personally, and he is of the highest quality and integrity.
I have watched him listen carefully to an opinion that seemed to contradict his own, and enthusiastically ask for more information so he could incorporate it in to his vast storehouse of knowledge.
PCR is right, anyone who disagrees with Jim has many avenues available for analyzing evidence. I have frequently invited some of them on to the Seattle TV show, and all have proven to be craven cowards. Like our first "anonymous" above.
The good guys are winning thanks to people like Paul Craig Roberts and Dr. James Fetzer.
J.B.,I don't roll around in pig slop with cranks like you.
The mere fact that you'd debate the "death" of Paul McCartney proves that you're extremely low wattage.
"Pull" means pull,as in pull back,pull away,pull for safety.
Fire departments don't blow up burning buildings.
Judy Wood is certifiable,I've been around her and the space program wasn't faked for 50 years.Besides which if tyhe moon landing was faked the Soviets would have been all over that like,well,Fetzer' all over every nutty,ridiculous conspiracy theory that floats by.
Exactly,how startling it is that PCR would throw down with the guy who says the Beatles covered up Paul McCartney's death.
I mean,how could even one adult person ever go for such rubbish?
You really are as dumb as a bag of hammers.
I don't have the academic credentials Jim Fetzer has, but I have much more experience in analyzing evidence, knowing how witnesses experience, remember, and recall events, and people's motives than Fetzer has. I have a lot of experience in having to justify my opinions to society's sharpest critics. That said, there's no one is the MSM or in the independent press who can research, analyze, and evaluate evidence like Jim Fetzer. Time and time again, this Doubting Thomas has pooh-poohed Fetzer (fortunately not publicly) and has had to admit that Jim was right again. I agree with what PCR wrote about Jim Fetzer.
The current situation in America is A LOT WORSE than PCR states. Americans live in a country run by TRAITORS and CRIMINALS who are CONTROLLED by the dip-shit and ROGUE state of Zionist Israel! There is NOT ONE presidential candidate (in addition to the current WH occupant) who does not crawl up "Bibi's" rear end at every opportunity!
PCR endorses a book by Fetzer but then admits he has not even read it! What kind of scholarship is this?
You are correct about graduates of our colleges today. Most of them major in business or other such garbage and don't know anything about politics, history, science or philosophy. And, to top it off, they are positively proud of their ignorance. Who spends time studying when you can be drinking and having sex with girls you don't know? And the sad thing is, if they make a lot of money in business, they think they are a success.
Paul Craig Roberts has misstated soemthing. Fetzer wasn't a Professor at the University of Minnesota (a good, if not great, school). He was a Professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth (a school a tier or two lower than the main campus). If that is the highest you can get in academia after 20 years(a third-tier school), you can't be that original or great of a researcher!
Only a true fool would believe PCR endorses everything Fetzer has ever said or written… if you want to debate any of these topics, bring evidence.
To the above poster: If poor Lucky Larry has been harmed by the truth about his nefarious activities why doesn’t he hire a lawyer and make some more easy money? The towers were already slated for demolition anyway. He bought them for a song a few months earlier in a corrupt transaction from the corrupt NY Port Authority. Why would he buy them at all if they needed a billion dollars worth of asbestos remediation? Well that took care of that problem didn’t it? He normally had breakfast every day at Windows of the World on the top floor; except that day. He also had the foresight to insure them for billions of dollars in terrorism insurance. This guy is some kind of genius isn’t he? He is prescient. In any other normal crime scene investigation a district attorney would have had him immediately arrested and charged and let a jury decide any issues. He would likely be sitting in jail for life or more. He would have likely made a deal to trade for all the inside information about this horrible crime which killed thousands. But NOTHING. This was a totally corrupt inside job by Israel plain and simple, with the aid and abetting of Bush, Cheney and a number of traitorous four star generals who all sold out their country that day but every cowardly traitorous Justice Department lawyer has looked the other way. Disgraceful is far too polite a word to describe this obscenity. Israel had motive, opportunity and benefit and resources and intelligence to carry out this crime on America. In fact, they are the only country who satisfies all the conditions to do so. Anyone who believes the BS that ignorant fools walking around the rocks half way around the world with cellphones planned and carried out this attack is also an ignorant fool. The motto of the secret police in Israel the MOSSAD is “Conduct War by Deception”. American fools are the most easily deceived idiots on planet earth. This is the price we pay for allowing ignorant college graduates to party instead of learning mathematics, physics, chemistry, history.. and all the other tough courses instead of basket weaving garbage. This is why America is going straight down the tubes. One learns to think and develop brain function by challenging and developing the mind, not having party time 24/7as happens in most of the worthless so called institutions of higher learning in the US today.
How indescribably sad that the estimable Mr. Roberts is now throwing down with the certifiable kook who:
A)Buys into the "moon landing was a hoax" nuttery.
B)Buys into the absolutely ridiculous slander that says Larry Silverstein suggested and the FDNY "made that decision" to blow up Building 7 as it burned out of control.
C)Actually buys into the malarkey being promoted by nutty Dr, Judy Wood that weapons from outer space disintegrated the Twin Towers,and:
D)Is on record and proud of believing that Paul McCartney died in 1966 and was replaced by a doppelganger who not only looked like him but walked like him,talked like him,composed like him and thought like him.
A very sad man is James Fetzer and he's not fooling anyone.