Month: June 2010

I used to admire and respect Jim Hoffman, whose classic studies of the WTC demolitions were among the best of their time. Then he and his girlfriend Victronix appointed themselves the 9/11 Truth Thought Police and embarked on an ever-accelerating course of destructive criticism of some of the best 9/11 researchers and activists. They protested a David Ray Griffin event in Oakland because Griffin (along with at least 90% of the truth movement) doesn’t support their claim that Flight 77 really did hit the Pentagon. They attacked Loose Change, 9/11 in Plane Site, and 9/11 Mysteries — the three best…

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I thought this bit of dialogue from the comments on Cognitively Infiltrating Cass Sunstein deserved its own blog entry.  My response to the psychologist draws on Shadia Drury’s reading of neocon cult founder Leo Strauss, as well as my own readings of Strauss. Speaking of which, I will be giving a talk entitled “”Islam, Neoconservatism, and the Unwarranted ‘War on Terror’” at the upcoming London symposium Debunking the War on Terror on July 14th. -KB Anonymous says: I’m retired from a private practice in psychology. Not ‘psychotherapy’ but teaching Cognitive Psych. At points it sounds like somebody is using the…

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Terrorism is a military tactic. Conventional armies use it all the time. So so the ragtag bands of irregulars who oppose them. Like all military tactics, terrorism is rational, deployed in carefully-calculated doses aimed at achieving the one overriding objective of all military effort: to get the other side to stop fighting. The so-called Global War on Terror (GWOT) has been accompanied by a septic tidal wave of propaganda designed to obscure the simple facts stated above. We are told that that terrorists are irrational fanatics bent on destruction for its own sake. That, of course, is why we must…

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MondoWeiss reports that nearly 1000 demonstrators turned out at 5 a.m. yesterday morning in Oakand to stop the Israeli freighter Zim Shenzhen from docking–and were successful when workers from Local 10 of the International Longshore & Warehouse Union refused to cross the picket line. The Zim Shenzhen is owned by Zim Shipping Lines, which is 50% owned by the Israeli government. According to journalists Mike Ruppert and Christopher Bollyn, Zim broke its lease, and took a big financial hit, in order to move out of the 16th and 17th floors of the North Tower shortly before 9/11. This story is confirmed…

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Tony Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge, writes: Hi Kevin. Here’s an effort at a brief overview  with a point of entry to the 28 YouTubes we made in our Bush-STS-McKinney-Clark events. Put it to whatever use you so wish (or not). Thanks for being the number one media interpreter of our action.  Ramsey Clark Comes To Calgary to Help in the Case of Splitting The Sky versus George W. Bush: An Introduction to a New Series of You TubesBy Anthony J. HallProfessor of Globalization Studies andCo-Founder of Our Own CBC (Citizens’ Broadcasting Cooperative) 20 June,…

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Noun  1.    doublespeak  – any language that pretends to communicate but actually does not; equivocation, evasion. 2. – a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth.      –  online dictionary Remember Catch 22‘s The Man Who Saw Everything Twice? The leader of this team of doctors was a dignified,solicitous gentleman who held one finger up directlyin front of Yossarian and demanded, ‘How manyfingers do you see?”Two,’ said Yossarian.’How many fingers do you see now?’ asked the doctor,holding up two.’Two,’ said Yossarian.’And how many now?’ asked the doctor, holding up none.’Two,’ said Yossarian.The doctor’s face…

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