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Quality Video of Twin Towers
This is one of the clearest videos of the towers. After the second tower is hit (around the 11:40 - 12:16 mark), the viewer said it was a "military plane."
"We watched and filmed the attack on the WTC out the window of home, 36 floors up and 500 yards away from the North tower."
Editor Note: I do not know if this video has been edited or if this is the entire footage.
"We watched and filmed the attack on the WTC out the window of home, 36 floors up and 500 yards away from the North tower."
Editor Note: I do not know if this video has been edited or if this is the entire footage.
More than 1,000 Professionals Refuse to Ignore the Laws of Physics
Architects and Engineers Ask for New Investigation of 9/11
On February 19, 2010, Representatives of more than 1,000 Architects and Engineers, and members of ae911truth.org put their reputations on the line and visited selected members of Congressional delegations across the United States. This project was spearheaded by Richard Gage, member of the American Institute of Architects, and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. His multimedia presentation “9/11: Blueprint for Truth” has opened many eyes across our country and around the world.
According to the signers of the petition, the “official story” does not jibe with what the following evidence shows:
Each of the WTC Twin Towers produced sounds of explosions well before the collapses began - reported by over 100 FDNY first responders. These professionals also reported numerous sightings of “flashes of light,” also indicative of demolition charges. Video footage reveals the striking symmetry, explosiveness and rapidity of the Towers’ destruction. Their destruction differed from the “classic” controlled demolition of WTC 7 described below, in that they exhibited upward and outward streamers indicative of explosions.
Each rubble site contained several tons of molten metal “flowing like lava” in the basements as attested to by first responders. Leslie Robertson, WTC structural engineer, and numerous other contractors and first responders reported running molten metal. Scientists have determined conclusively that nano-thermite – an extremely sophisticated aluminothermic explosive composite - was found in the dust
samples.
The chemical signature of thermite was found in the molten iron, steel beams, and throughout the ubiquitous dust. Each “collapse” exhibited thick, billowing, pyroclastic-like dust clouds that rapidly expanded to over ten times the volume of the buildings. Each showed squibs (explosive ejections of pulverized building materials ) easily visible in all of the videos.
The twin towers were presumed to have “pancaked” down, but there was no stack of floors found at the bottom - almost everything was blown outside the footprint of the buildings in a 600-foot radius. 90,000 tons of concrete, metal decking and floor trusses were completely pulverized and missing from the debris field.
Most damaging to the official story was WTC Building 7 - a 47 story high-rise not hit by an airplane and yet the third modern steel-framed skyscraper to collapse symmetrically at near free-fall speed on 9/11 - in the exact manner of a controlled demolition with explosives.
WTC 7 collapsed into a neat, compact pile, exhibiting the classic features of controlled demolition:
On February 22, 2010, Peter wells received the following letter from Rep. Paul Hodes:
Dear Mr. Wells,
Thank you for contacting me about the investigations regarding the events and responses surrounding the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. I truly appreciate hearing from you, and I am working hard to stand up for New Hampshire's interests in Congress.
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 touched the lives of every American. As a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I am committed to exercising oversight to eliminate fraud, waste, abuse and corruption in government.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), was an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation in late 2002. This Commission was chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
On July 22, 2004 the Commission released its public report. You can find the report athttp://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/index.htm. Please know that if Congress considers any future legislation on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, I will keep your views in mind.
I encourage you to continue to contact me about the issues that are important to you. Please feel free to visit my website atwww.hodes.house.gov where you can share your ideas with me, learn about the services I can provide to you, and sign up for my periodic e-mail updates on what I am doing to help New Hampshire.
Sincerely,
Paul Hodes + 9/11 Truth
Member of Congress
An Architects & Engineers Press Conference was held concurrently in 19 states plus Washington DC, 3 continents, 6 countries, 38 cities and 48 locations on 2/19/10. This one was in San Francisco.
On February 19, 2010, Representatives of more than 1,000 Architects and Engineers, and members of ae911truth.org put their reputations on the line and visited selected members of Congressional delegations across the United States. This project was spearheaded by Richard Gage, member of the American Institute of Architects, and founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. His multimedia presentation “9/11: Blueprint for Truth” has opened many eyes across our country and around the world.
According to the signers of the petition, the “official story” does not jibe with what the following evidence shows:
Each of the WTC Twin Towers produced sounds of explosions well before the collapses began - reported by over 100 FDNY first responders. These professionals also reported numerous sightings of “flashes of light,” also indicative of demolition charges. Video footage reveals the striking symmetry, explosiveness and rapidity of the Towers’ destruction. Their destruction differed from the “classic” controlled demolition of WTC 7 described below, in that they exhibited upward and outward streamers indicative of explosions.
Each rubble site contained several tons of molten metal “flowing like lava” in the basements as attested to by first responders. Leslie Robertson, WTC structural engineer, and numerous other contractors and first responders reported running molten metal. Scientists have determined conclusively that nano-thermite – an extremely sophisticated aluminothermic explosive composite - was found in the dust
samples.
The chemical signature of thermite was found in the molten iron, steel beams, and throughout the ubiquitous dust. Each “collapse” exhibited thick, billowing, pyroclastic-like dust clouds that rapidly expanded to over ten times the volume of the buildings. Each showed squibs (explosive ejections of pulverized building materials ) easily visible in all of the videos.
The twin towers were presumed to have “pancaked” down, but there was no stack of floors found at the bottom - almost everything was blown outside the footprint of the buildings in a 600-foot radius. 90,000 tons of concrete, metal decking and floor trusses were completely pulverized and missing from the debris field.
Most damaging to the official story was WTC Building 7 - a 47 story high-rise not hit by an airplane and yet the third modern steel-framed skyscraper to collapse symmetrically at near free-fall speed on 9/11 - in the exact manner of a controlled demolition with explosives.
WTC 7 collapsed into a neat, compact pile, exhibiting the classic features of controlled demolition:
- Rapid onset of collapse
- Sounds of explosions at ground floor at the onset
- Symmetrical collapse - through the path of (what was) greatest resistance - at freefall acceleration (i.e., the columns offered no resistance, therefore had to have been“removed”)
- Collapses nearly into its own footprint - with the steel skeleton almost completely broken up
- Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic-like dust clouds
- Several tons of molten metal found in the debris pile by firefighters & contractors
- Chemical signature of thermite (a high-tech incendiary) found in beams, slag and dust samples
- “Rapid oxidation and intergranular melting” found and documented (by FEMA in Appendix “C” of their May 2002 Assessment Report) in the structural steel samples
- Expert corroboration from controlled demolition professionals
- Foreknowledge of collapse by first responders, media, NYPD, FDNY
Peter Wells, representing Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, delivers a copy of a petition for a new investigation, signed by more than 1,000 members, to the Concord New Hampshire office of U.S. Congressman Paul Hodes on Friday, Feb. 19th.
On February 22, 2010, Peter wells received the following letter from Rep. Paul Hodes:
Dear Mr. Wells,
Thank you for contacting me about the investigations regarding the events and responses surrounding the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. I truly appreciate hearing from you, and I am working hard to stand up for New Hampshire's interests in Congress.
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 touched the lives of every American. As a member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I am committed to exercising oversight to eliminate fraud, waste, abuse and corruption in government.
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), was an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation in late 2002. This Commission was chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
On July 22, 2004 the Commission released its public report. You can find the report athttp://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/index.htm. Please know that if Congress considers any future legislation on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, I will keep your views in mind.
I encourage you to continue to contact me about the issues that are important to you. Please feel free to visit my website atwww.hodes.house.gov where you can share your ideas with me, learn about the services I can provide to you, and sign up for my periodic e-mail updates on what I am doing to help New Hampshire.
Sincerely,
Paul Hodes + 9/11 Truth
Member of Congress
An Architects & Engineers Press Conference was held concurrently in 19 states plus Washington DC, 3 continents, 6 countries, 38 cities and 48 locations on 2/19/10. This one was in San Francisco.
New 9/11 Photos "Prove WTC Exploded from Inside"
"We see a building turning to dust and a pile of rubble." -Manny Badillo
New picture releases are shedding light on September 11th, some say they prove that the assault on America proves a homegrown attack. The new photos are provided by US national institute of standards and technology. There are over 2,000 new photos that have been made public. Manny Badillo says that you see an explosion from the inside, not what it has seemed to be, he says there has never been a building taken down by a plane.
Over 2000 photos have just been released - but where are they? We have only see 12 of them.
The Government Doesn't Want 9/11 Public Trial
Manny Badillo whose Uncle was killed on 9/11 speaks out eloquently in his call for a public 9/11 trial in New York City:
Manny Badillo Talks with Russia Today About the New 9/11 Photos - Just Released
New picture releases are shedding light on September 11th. The new photos are provided by US National Institute of Standards and Technology. There are over 2,000 new photos that have been made public. Manny Badillo says that you see an explosion from the inside, not what it has seemed to be, he says there has never been a building taken down by a plane.
Jesse Ventura Talks 9/11 & Fox New Anchor Leaves in a Huff
Jesse Ventura On Fox News causes Fox Anchor to leave the stage after his government sponsored act goes nowhere when talking with Ventura.
RADIO SHOW: Jesse Ventura talks with Howard Stern about 9/11:
Jesse with Larry King:
RADIO SHOW: Jesse Ventura talks with Howard Stern about 9/11:
Jesse with Larry King:
The 9/11 Jumpers Remembered
It took me a while to decide to post videos about "the jumpers." My decision came after a conversation with someone who said "What does it matter now - forget it - it's time to move on. We've already had an investigation and it would cost too much to begin a new one." I disagreed - we cannot ignore the evidence nor deny those huge unanswered questions about the "official story."
- Editor, NHTruth Blog
- Editor, NHTruth Blog
The shock of the events of 9/11 hasn't been forgotten - especially those who witnessed the “Jumpers.” This man remembers photographing the people who jumped.
The story of the victims who jumped to their deaths is one of the more poignant aspects of the September 11th attacks. It is most certainly one of the harder aspects to deal with - even after all these years. Photographs of people falling to their deaths shocked the world. Most newspapers and magazines ran only one or two photos, then chose to not publish any more.
But the few images that were out there, like The Falling Man (above), resonated with unbelief. Many who survived or witnessed the attacks on the WTC say the sight of victims jumping to a certain death is their most horrible memory of that day.
It is estimated that at least 200 people jumped to their deaths that morning, far more than can be seen in the photographs available to the public. Nearly all were from the north tower, which you will remember was hit first and collapsed last. Fewer than a dozen of the jumpers were from the south tower.
The jumping started shortly after the first jet hit at 8:46 a.m. People jumped continuously during the 102 minutes that the north tower stood. Two people jumped as the north tower began to fall at 10:28 a.m., witnesses said. For those who jumped, the fall lasted just 10 seconds. They struck the ground at 150 miles per hour — not fast enough to cause unconsciousness while falling, but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact.
Desperate people jumped from all four sides of the north tower. They jumped alone, they jumped in pairs and they jumped in groups. They jumped holding hands.
Nobody survived on the floors from which people jumped. Ultimately the jumpers, often called the day’s most public victims, chose not whether to die but how they would die. I am quite certain I would not have such courage.
CAUTION: The following 8 minute video clip is sad and painful to watch. (Note that the opening words of this video reflect the "official story.")
There are so many unanswered questions surrounding the tragic events of 9/11 and this is why we need a new and independent investigation of 9/11.
The following video is very disturbing and is not advised to be watched if you do not want to see anything that may offend as it shows people falling then shows images of them on the ground. This video has been uploaded to show the true horror of that day. I apologize in advance for any offense.
Shot from Street Level: South Tower collapsing
Shot from street level of South Tower collapsing. This is a clip from the CameraPlanet 9/11 Archive. For information regarding full resolution clips of this material, or the archive, email: Archive@CameraPlanet.com
Change Blindness
Research and history about how Americans are as blind to US fascism as Nazi-era Germans:
By Carl Herman, LA County Nonpartisan Examiner
Psychological research demonstrates that large-scale dramatic change can escape attention when the change is unsuspected, unannounced, and agents causing the change act as if nothing is different. Two areas of this cognitive study are “change blindness” and “inattentional blindness.”
When we include consideration of “cognitive dissonance,” the rejection of facts when they conflict with important beliefs, we can approach an explanation of how educated citizens could accept fascism when it was unsuspected, unannounced, and the responsible agents fraudulently represented the new government as no different from the old. Cognitive dissonance would deter many people to accept the new reality, even when the facts were clear.
The definition of “fascism” has some academic variance, but is essentially collusion among corporatocracy, authoritarian government, and controlled media and education. This “leadership” is only possible with a nationalistic public accepting policies of war, empire, and limited civil and political rights.
Yes, I am making the argument that the US is no longer a constitutinal republic, but a fascist regime that Americans are struggling with cognitive dissonance, change blindness, and inattentional blindness to recognize. Let’s look to history before we consider the US of the present and if we are afflicted with a kind of cognitive blindness to American fascism.
Fascism in Germany
Historically in Nazi Germany, Hitler wrote of the power of the “Big Lie”:
"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so are brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes."
- Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf , vol.1, ch. 10, 1925
This psychological factor, combined with German resentment against blame and payment for WW1, the Nazi partial implementation of monetary reform that created full employment and a successful economy in the middle of the Great Depression, set a frame of relative trust in government. Dissent was “re-educated” or crushed in work camps, propaganda and education lauded genuine economic infrastructure improvement parallel to military build-up. The downfall was the result of a critical mass of the public believing their government’s overall trustworthiness, and subsequently their story that the invasion of Poland was defensive against Germany being attacked. Germany framed their War of Aggression as their “War to save Europe;” a noble national defense against Britain and France's determination to keep Germany weak and non-competitive to their goals for imperialistic global domination, and against the rise of Bolshevism in Russia.
The demonized Jews were at first framed as dangerous to German national achievement. Their economic success as a group was framed as parasitism, and influence in the press as self-serving rather than in service to the nation. As a group, they became synonymous to terrorists.
Nazi Germany’s Master Plan
We now know that Nazi leadership’s goals were European domination and partnership with Britain in exchange for non-competition of their empire, and written by Hitler in his unpublished second book in 1928. The Nazi’s saw their goal of a unified Europe under their “superior” governance as a greater good that justified their “creative destruction” of inferior humans. They would lie to the German public as they advanced forward to accomplish what they perceived as a noble future for Germany, Europe, and eventually the world when Britain and Germany’s alliance would eventually absorb or defeat the US around 1980.
Does the US have a similar plan of fascist Nazi Germany for a “superior” American future that is worth wars and lies to accomplish? Let’s explore.
America’s Master Plan?
The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) contributed over 20 of the Bush Administration’s “leadership,” including Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and other key positions in Defense and State Departments.
In 1992, then Secretary of Defense Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz produced a paper for the future strategic goals of the US following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The paper was leaked; among the goals was for the US to expand as the world's Superpower through our military to "establish and protect a new order." The report endorsed “pre-emptive” attacks and ad hoc coalitions for military objectives, but as an unrivaled Superpower should act independent of international agreement if "collective action cannot be orchestrated." The strategy included military plans for intervention in Iraq for US "access to vital raw material, primarily Persian Gulf oil."
In 1998, PNAC lobbied President Clinton for war with Iraq, independent of UN Security Council legal authority. In 2000, PNAC issued its report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for the New Century" (summary here). The report stated the goal of a “Pax Americana,” an American “peace” that would achieve US interests by the method of "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major-theater wars." The US would usurp UN authority: "demand American political leadership rather than that of the United Nations." The US would ensure its dominance through expansion of global military bases, now at over 700.
The report ominously included on page 63: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor." This would conveniently happen on 9/11; kicking in plans for invasion and hegemony in Afghanistan, Iraq, rhetoric for war with Iran, and now attacks in Pakistan.
How close is the US to fascism?
We’re there; the US is fascist. As a teacher of US government, I spend a lot of time with these basic definitions. Let’s look.
The US was formed as a constitutional republic; a political philosophy of limited government, separated powers with checks and balances to ensure the federal government’s power stays limited within the Constitution, protected civil liberties, and elected representatives responsible to the people who retain the most political power.
The US ideals that we embrace is equality under just laws, freedom of opportunity expressed through inalienable rights of the Declaration of Independence, and creative independence to cooperatively compete for our best ideas to be rewarded.
Is this what we have today? Hardly. Let’s consider the salient evidence.
The US brazenly violates our laws of war, both demanded by the Constitution and the UN Charter, with open invasion of Afghanistan in abject violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1373 and their government’s agreement to help extradite Osama bin Laden upon US presentment of evidence that he was involved in any crime of UN and/or international law. The US refused both the Afghan standard legal requirement of extradition and the UN resolution for cooperation under law and attacked. The new administration of Obama does not acknowledge this illegal history, but expands the invasion and attacks Pakistan. This policy is fascist, not limited by US law.
The US openly lied about reasons to justify an attack upon Iraq, destroying any semblance of argument of “self-defense.” The Obama administration won’t acknowledge the disclosed history from our own House and Senate investigations, and violates his oath of office to prosecute clear crimes. This policy is authoritarian, fascist, and does not hold equality under just laws. It is an un-American policy by definition.
The US tortured, with Obama refusing to prosecute and giving empty rhetoric to end it. The destruction of civil liberties to enforce authoritarian government is fascist, not American.
The US lies for more war with Iran, rejecting inalienable and legal rights for Iranians. Obama continues this policy of unlawful aggression, including official policy for first-strike nuclear weapons upon conclusion that Iran poses a possible future threat to the US and/or our allies. Political leaders and corporate media ignore the ignoble history of US vicious domination of Iranian government through coup and backed invasion. Fascist policy; un-American.
The US violates numerous treaty law with WMD, and hypocritically asserts our war targets' alleged violations justify US armed attack. This rejection of limited government under the law is a fascist empire on the loose, not a law-abiding neighbor. Added hypocrisy is the psychopathic front of American political leaders as Christians.
American corporatocracy is dominated by Enron-like cartels, headed by banks receiving the transfer of TRILLIONS of our tax dollars to pay-off their gambling debts in exotic derivative markets the federal government regulates only in more empty rhetoric. This socialization of corporate-insiders’ losses is fascist, and fundamentally in opposition of the American ideal of cooperative competition on a level playing field. Obvious financial solutions for the public good are ignored in their corporate and not public policy commitment.
While our government's official line is respect for Islam, their wars betray this analysis. If extremists were the small minority, why not peacefully cooperate to marginalize and arrest those in violation of just laws? Muslims as a group are often demonized in US media, and often the entire group is branded as terrorists. For example, consider the segment from the radio talk show of Michael Savage below.
The corporate media will not present such disturbing facts and analysis. Their outright lies of commission and omission are prima facie evidence of a controlled media, supported by revealed documentation from whistle-blowers. American freedom of the press is left to independent websites and those few media outlets who tolerate reporting such as you read now.
I was not rehired as a government teacher for presenting these documented facts in consideration of the most basic definitions among the first lessons in studying government. I am a Harvard-educated and National Board Certified teacher with a history including two Los Angeles mayors honoring me as one of the city’s top few teachers. I present facts far more boldly to a targeted adult journal audience than to high school-aged children preparing to enter adult civic participation. I put the disturbing information of US disclosed facts of war (mostly from House and Senate Committee reports) in writing and submitted it to peer-review to my social studies department colleagues and principal before distribution to students. No factual errors or bias was reported; the department chair and I met for an hour’s conversation of how to bridge expected denial of facts from cognitive dissonance. We concluded our first step to send a co-signed e-mail in affirmation of allowing professional factual discovery and discourse to lead our teaching. Despite having no error in fact or pedagogy reported to me, I was not rehired by the school board (we had moved back to California and as a second-year teacher in that district they could do so without explanation). I was denied any opportunity of discussion regarding the reason for my non-rehire. Although not a federal government example, I think it suggests a de facto control.
This is a good transition to consider cognitive blindness.
The 20th Century German public were well-educated, leaders in cultural achievement, and on the forefront of science. They were duped by emotionally-laden and polished propaganda to support brutal military aggression and mass murder.
We know from the Milgram Experiment and Stanford Prison Experiment that human beings are susceptible to vicious behavior under the veneer of authorized actions.
And we know from the following 4-minute video documenting a form of cognitive blindness, that unexpected fundamental change can go unrecognized when authority pretends nothing changed and nobody is there to point it out.
Policy response: Gandhi and Martin Luther King advocated public understanding of the facts and non-cooperation with evil. I’m among hundreds who advocate:
Understand the laws of war. These were legislated after WW2 and are crystal-clear that only self-defense, in a narrow legal meaning, can justify war. This investment of your time takes less than an hour and empowers you to legally stand for ending these Wars of Aggression.
Refuse and end all orders and acts associated with these unlawful wars. Those involved with US military, government, and law enforcement have an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution. Unlawful acts only move forward with sufficient cooperation and public tolerance. Stop cooperating with the most vicious crime a nation can commit: war. Stop tolerating it.
Prosecute the war leaders for obvious violation of the letter and spirit of US war laws. You can only understand how these wars are specifically unlawful by investing the time to do so. Because the crimes are so broad and deep, I recommend Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) to exchange full truth and return of stolen US assets for non-prosecution. This is the most expeditious way to understand and end all unlawful and harmful acts. Those who reject T&R either by volunteering their name and/or responding when named are subject to prosecution after the window of T&R closes.
Please share this article with all who can benefit and use the archive of my work to help build a brighter future. - Carl Herman
It should be noted to most people in any society the type of government matters not. Most people get up and work to feed their family and if they have extra money spend it on luxury items or travel if they have the ability or a passport. Most people don't travel and don't have luxury and don't need "freedoms" or protection of their rights in ANY form of government. Most people simply function on a level which runs society and is not concerned with larger issues.
Virtually all workers are exploited and wealth extracted from their labor. Virtually all workers are kept ignorant and in survival mode, unorganized and powerless to change anything. Most people have no idea of anything better or different and how they can know it.
Americans believe that they vote and get the government they want and deserve. But increasingly Americans have come to realize that voting, elections and government does not represent them but "special interests" which are those with wealth and power who want more - and trans national corporations which use the government simply to extract wealth from the working classes.
And most Americans have been too busy with pop culture and other personal distraction to learn about or understand that they are exploited and being poisoned, robbed and turned into wage slaves for their entire lives. And most American bought into the myth of endless growth and better living through "innovation" made possible by wall street.
Both the collapse and the clamp down are coming . . .
By Carl Herman, LA County Nonpartisan Examiner
Psychological research demonstrates that large-scale dramatic change can escape attention when the change is unsuspected, unannounced, and agents causing the change act as if nothing is different. Two areas of this cognitive study are “change blindness” and “inattentional blindness.”
When we include consideration of “cognitive dissonance,” the rejection of facts when they conflict with important beliefs, we can approach an explanation of how educated citizens could accept fascism when it was unsuspected, unannounced, and the responsible agents fraudulently represented the new government as no different from the old. Cognitive dissonance would deter many people to accept the new reality, even when the facts were clear.
The definition of “fascism” has some academic variance, but is essentially collusion among corporatocracy, authoritarian government, and controlled media and education. This “leadership” is only possible with a nationalistic public accepting policies of war, empire, and limited civil and political rights.
Yes, I am making the argument that the US is no longer a constitutinal republic, but a fascist regime that Americans are struggling with cognitive dissonance, change blindness, and inattentional blindness to recognize. Let’s look to history before we consider the US of the present and if we are afflicted with a kind of cognitive blindness to American fascism.
Fascism in Germany
Historically in Nazi Germany, Hitler wrote of the power of the “Big Lie”:
"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so are brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying. These people know only too well how to use falsehood for the basest purposes."
- Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf , vol.1, ch. 10, 1925
This psychological factor, combined with German resentment against blame and payment for WW1, the Nazi partial implementation of monetary reform that created full employment and a successful economy in the middle of the Great Depression, set a frame of relative trust in government. Dissent was “re-educated” or crushed in work camps, propaganda and education lauded genuine economic infrastructure improvement parallel to military build-up. The downfall was the result of a critical mass of the public believing their government’s overall trustworthiness, and subsequently their story that the invasion of Poland was defensive against Germany being attacked. Germany framed their War of Aggression as their “War to save Europe;” a noble national defense against Britain and France's determination to keep Germany weak and non-competitive to their goals for imperialistic global domination, and against the rise of Bolshevism in Russia.
The demonized Jews were at first framed as dangerous to German national achievement. Their economic success as a group was framed as parasitism, and influence in the press as self-serving rather than in service to the nation. As a group, they became synonymous to terrorists.
Nazi Germany’s Master Plan
We now know that Nazi leadership’s goals were European domination and partnership with Britain in exchange for non-competition of their empire, and written by Hitler in his unpublished second book in 1928. The Nazi’s saw their goal of a unified Europe under their “superior” governance as a greater good that justified their “creative destruction” of inferior humans. They would lie to the German public as they advanced forward to accomplish what they perceived as a noble future for Germany, Europe, and eventually the world when Britain and Germany’s alliance would eventually absorb or defeat the US around 1980.
Does the US have a similar plan of fascist Nazi Germany for a “superior” American future that is worth wars and lies to accomplish? Let’s explore.
America’s Master Plan?
The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) contributed over 20 of the Bush Administration’s “leadership,” including Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and other key positions in Defense and State Departments.
In 1992, then Secretary of Defense Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz produced a paper for the future strategic goals of the US following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The paper was leaked; among the goals was for the US to expand as the world's Superpower through our military to "establish and protect a new order." The report endorsed “pre-emptive” attacks and ad hoc coalitions for military objectives, but as an unrivaled Superpower should act independent of international agreement if "collective action cannot be orchestrated." The strategy included military plans for intervention in Iraq for US "access to vital raw material, primarily Persian Gulf oil."
In 1998, PNAC lobbied President Clinton for war with Iraq, independent of UN Security Council legal authority. In 2000, PNAC issued its report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for the New Century" (summary here). The report stated the goal of a “Pax Americana,” an American “peace” that would achieve US interests by the method of "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major-theater wars." The US would usurp UN authority: "demand American political leadership rather than that of the United Nations." The US would ensure its dominance through expansion of global military bases, now at over 700.
The report ominously included on page 63: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor." This would conveniently happen on 9/11; kicking in plans for invasion and hegemony in Afghanistan, Iraq, rhetoric for war with Iran, and now attacks in Pakistan.
How close is the US to fascism?
We’re there; the US is fascist. As a teacher of US government, I spend a lot of time with these basic definitions. Let’s look.
The US was formed as a constitutional republic; a political philosophy of limited government, separated powers with checks and balances to ensure the federal government’s power stays limited within the Constitution, protected civil liberties, and elected representatives responsible to the people who retain the most political power.
The US ideals that we embrace is equality under just laws, freedom of opportunity expressed through inalienable rights of the Declaration of Independence, and creative independence to cooperatively compete for our best ideas to be rewarded.
Is this what we have today? Hardly. Let’s consider the salient evidence.
The US brazenly violates our laws of war, both demanded by the Constitution and the UN Charter, with open invasion of Afghanistan in abject violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1373 and their government’s agreement to help extradite Osama bin Laden upon US presentment of evidence that he was involved in any crime of UN and/or international law. The US refused both the Afghan standard legal requirement of extradition and the UN resolution for cooperation under law and attacked. The new administration of Obama does not acknowledge this illegal history, but expands the invasion and attacks Pakistan. This policy is fascist, not limited by US law.
The US openly lied about reasons to justify an attack upon Iraq, destroying any semblance of argument of “self-defense.” The Obama administration won’t acknowledge the disclosed history from our own House and Senate investigations, and violates his oath of office to prosecute clear crimes. This policy is authoritarian, fascist, and does not hold equality under just laws. It is an un-American policy by definition.
The US tortured, with Obama refusing to prosecute and giving empty rhetoric to end it. The destruction of civil liberties to enforce authoritarian government is fascist, not American.
The US lies for more war with Iran, rejecting inalienable and legal rights for Iranians. Obama continues this policy of unlawful aggression, including official policy for first-strike nuclear weapons upon conclusion that Iran poses a possible future threat to the US and/or our allies. Political leaders and corporate media ignore the ignoble history of US vicious domination of Iranian government through coup and backed invasion. Fascist policy; un-American.
The US violates numerous treaty law with WMD, and hypocritically asserts our war targets' alleged violations justify US armed attack. This rejection of limited government under the law is a fascist empire on the loose, not a law-abiding neighbor. Added hypocrisy is the psychopathic front of American political leaders as Christians.
American corporatocracy is dominated by Enron-like cartels, headed by banks receiving the transfer of TRILLIONS of our tax dollars to pay-off their gambling debts in exotic derivative markets the federal government regulates only in more empty rhetoric. This socialization of corporate-insiders’ losses is fascist, and fundamentally in opposition of the American ideal of cooperative competition on a level playing field. Obvious financial solutions for the public good are ignored in their corporate and not public policy commitment.
While our government's official line is respect for Islam, their wars betray this analysis. If extremists were the small minority, why not peacefully cooperate to marginalize and arrest those in violation of just laws? Muslims as a group are often demonized in US media, and often the entire group is branded as terrorists. For example, consider the segment from the radio talk show of Michael Savage below.
The corporate media will not present such disturbing facts and analysis. Their outright lies of commission and omission are prima facie evidence of a controlled media, supported by revealed documentation from whistle-blowers. American freedom of the press is left to independent websites and those few media outlets who tolerate reporting such as you read now.
I was not rehired as a government teacher for presenting these documented facts in consideration of the most basic definitions among the first lessons in studying government. I am a Harvard-educated and National Board Certified teacher with a history including two Los Angeles mayors honoring me as one of the city’s top few teachers. I present facts far more boldly to a targeted adult journal audience than to high school-aged children preparing to enter adult civic participation. I put the disturbing information of US disclosed facts of war (mostly from House and Senate Committee reports) in writing and submitted it to peer-review to my social studies department colleagues and principal before distribution to students. No factual errors or bias was reported; the department chair and I met for an hour’s conversation of how to bridge expected denial of facts from cognitive dissonance. We concluded our first step to send a co-signed e-mail in affirmation of allowing professional factual discovery and discourse to lead our teaching. Despite having no error in fact or pedagogy reported to me, I was not rehired by the school board (we had moved back to California and as a second-year teacher in that district they could do so without explanation). I was denied any opportunity of discussion regarding the reason for my non-rehire. Although not a federal government example, I think it suggests a de facto control.
This is a good transition to consider cognitive blindness.
The 20th Century German public were well-educated, leaders in cultural achievement, and on the forefront of science. They were duped by emotionally-laden and polished propaganda to support brutal military aggression and mass murder.
We know from the Milgram Experiment and Stanford Prison Experiment that human beings are susceptible to vicious behavior under the veneer of authorized actions.
And we know from the following 4-minute video documenting a form of cognitive blindness, that unexpected fundamental change can go unrecognized when authority pretends nothing changed and nobody is there to point it out.
Policy response: Gandhi and Martin Luther King advocated public understanding of the facts and non-cooperation with evil. I’m among hundreds who advocate:
Understand the laws of war. These were legislated after WW2 and are crystal-clear that only self-defense, in a narrow legal meaning, can justify war. This investment of your time takes less than an hour and empowers you to legally stand for ending these Wars of Aggression.
Refuse and end all orders and acts associated with these unlawful wars. Those involved with US military, government, and law enforcement have an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution. Unlawful acts only move forward with sufficient cooperation and public tolerance. Stop cooperating with the most vicious crime a nation can commit: war. Stop tolerating it.
Prosecute the war leaders for obvious violation of the letter and spirit of US war laws. You can only understand how these wars are specifically unlawful by investing the time to do so. Because the crimes are so broad and deep, I recommend Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) to exchange full truth and return of stolen US assets for non-prosecution. This is the most expeditious way to understand and end all unlawful and harmful acts. Those who reject T&R either by volunteering their name and/or responding when named are subject to prosecution after the window of T&R closes.
Please share this article with all who can benefit and use the archive of my work to help build a brighter future. - Carl Herman
It should be noted to most people in any society the type of government matters not. Most people get up and work to feed their family and if they have extra money spend it on luxury items or travel if they have the ability or a passport. Most people don't travel and don't have luxury and don't need "freedoms" or protection of their rights in ANY form of government. Most people simply function on a level which runs society and is not concerned with larger issues.
Virtually all workers are exploited and wealth extracted from their labor. Virtually all workers are kept ignorant and in survival mode, unorganized and powerless to change anything. Most people have no idea of anything better or different and how they can know it.
Americans believe that they vote and get the government they want and deserve. But increasingly Americans have come to realize that voting, elections and government does not represent them but "special interests" which are those with wealth and power who want more - and trans national corporations which use the government simply to extract wealth from the working classes.
And most Americans have been too busy with pop culture and other personal distraction to learn about or understand that they are exploited and being poisoned, robbed and turned into wage slaves for their entire lives. And most American bought into the myth of endless growth and better living through "innovation" made possible by wall street.
Both the collapse and the clamp down are coming . . .
Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Finally Testifies Under Oath
Former FBI Language Specialist Sibel Edmonds finally gets to testify under oath, after being hit with a gag order. For more information on her and the deposition click here.
What Can I Do? Plenty.
It doesn't matter who you are or where you live, if you're wondering what one person or a small group can do - look and see what others have done all over the world.
And Mange Tak to Denmark's citizens for their efforts to bring 9/11 truth.
Explosion BEFORE the Plane Hit the Tower
Here is the important eye-witness account of Mr. William Rodriguez, a Janitor working in the North Tower. He was in the basement, when he heard an explosion - BEFORE the plane hit the building.
He is something of a hero on many levels, helping to rescue victims from the building - he also sued the Bush Administration for the attacks. You can see his website here.
On the day however, he clearly told the press about the first explosion - thought to be a bomb in the building - heard before the plane hit. However, in one famous TV news interview, his testimony is 'edited' in such a way, so as to suggest that he is saying that ONLY the plane hit the building.
Below is a newscast on 9/11/06 - five years later, William Rodriguez is featured on National Network News. His comments were cleverly edited after he says BOOM!! - which completely changes the meaning so that nobody will question the "official story."
And just to make sure that anything William says isn't to be taken seriously, the news reader brings up the current explosive issue of "undocumented workers" and links it to William Rodriguez. (You can thank the racist Lou Dobbs for making that an issue in order to distract the public from what is really happening in this country. Please see posts on "disinformation.")
Also, please note that William Rodriguez is a native of Puerto Rico and is, of course, an American citizen. He saved fifteen people by leading and helping them out of the Basement of Tower One. He was the only person at the site with the master key to the North Tower stairwells amd he bravely led firefighters up the stairwell, unlocking doors as they ascended. This brave act helped hundreds of people get out of that building alive. Rodriguez is believed to be the last person to exit the falling North Tower alive.
Anthony Saltalamacia was with Rodriguez in the basement. For the first time after 6 years, they meet and his recollection was taped.
William has a DVD he edited entitled, What really happened on 9/11? You can order it here:
"As part of the fundraising effort to spread the truth, I have edited a video of my presentation in California earlier this year. A very emotional video where I take you through the events of that day. After the event I needed some time to recover. I am asking a donation of 15 dollars for the video plus postage. Anybody donating will receive the DVD signed by me. I will forever be grateful for your order and I will personally sign each one of them that is ordered."
William Rodriguez
Did you know that William Rodriguez (after his job was demolished at the WTC) was homeless for a year? He spends all of his time and all of his money speaking about his experience on 9/11 in an effort to spread the truth that 9/11 was a controlled demolition!
The world could use a few more men like William Rodriguez, eh? Please support this man to spread his personal 9/11 Truth....the link can be found in his words above.
He is something of a hero on many levels, helping to rescue victims from the building - he also sued the Bush Administration for the attacks. You can see his website here.
On the day however, he clearly told the press about the first explosion - thought to be a bomb in the building - heard before the plane hit. However, in one famous TV news interview, his testimony is 'edited' in such a way, so as to suggest that he is saying that ONLY the plane hit the building.
Below is a newscast on 9/11/06 - five years later, William Rodriguez is featured on National Network News. His comments were cleverly edited after he says BOOM!! - which completely changes the meaning so that nobody will question the "official story."
And just to make sure that anything William says isn't to be taken seriously, the news reader brings up the current explosive issue of "undocumented workers" and links it to William Rodriguez. (You can thank the racist Lou Dobbs for making that an issue in order to distract the public from what is really happening in this country. Please see posts on "disinformation.")
Also, please note that William Rodriguez is a native of Puerto Rico and is, of course, an American citizen. He saved fifteen people by leading and helping them out of the Basement of Tower One. He was the only person at the site with the master key to the North Tower stairwells amd he bravely led firefighters up the stairwell, unlocking doors as they ascended. This brave act helped hundreds of people get out of that building alive. Rodriguez is believed to be the last person to exit the falling North Tower alive.
Anthony Saltalamacia was with Rodriguez in the basement. For the first time after 6 years, they meet and his recollection was taped.
William has a DVD he edited entitled, What really happened on 9/11? You can order it here:
"As part of the fundraising effort to spread the truth, I have edited a video of my presentation in California earlier this year. A very emotional video where I take you through the events of that day. After the event I needed some time to recover. I am asking a donation of 15 dollars for the video plus postage. Anybody donating will receive the DVD signed by me. I will forever be grateful for your order and I will personally sign each one of them that is ordered."
William Rodriguez
Did you know that William Rodriguez (after his job was demolished at the WTC) was homeless for a year? He spends all of his time and all of his money speaking about his experience on 9/11 in an effort to spread the truth that 9/11 was a controlled demolition!
The world could use a few more men like William Rodriguez, eh? Please support this man to spread his personal 9/11 Truth....the link can be found in his words above.
NSA Runs Amok to Plug Leaks About 9/11
The US Government has allegedly set up a special security wing of NSA with the sole task of distancing Washington from any involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
The silent corporate mainstream media on the subject of 9/11 suggests that the NSA Security Group has been effective.
The silent corporate mainstream media on the subject of 9/11 suggests that the NSA Security Group has been effective.
Cutter Charges in the North Tower of the WTC
By David Chandler
This project began with an email from Graeme MacQueen to me describing an explosion on the NW corner of WTC1.
I started looking for other such explosions and found a prominent one right at the initiation point on the 98th floor. I further noticed a corner column sticking up after the roofline had fallen past. The top of the surviving column matched the height of the corner ejection moments before. This seemed to be the event that cut the column. The column hovered and swayed for several seconds then precipitously dropped. I wondered if Graeme's explosion was the one that triggered the drop. I found a way to synchronize the videos and then was able to verify that Graeme's "puff" occurred exactly at the moment of drop of the column.
The main significant points I see in this observation are:
1) The building is doing more than just blowing smoke out the windows. The puffs we see are part of the cause of the collapse.
2) We are seeing charges that can cut through the steel corners of the buildings
3) We are seeing a specific 14" column cut by explosives in two places: one to set it loose, and one to cause it to drop.
4) The two explosions occur in a time-delayed sequence, indicative of demolition
(Tony Szamboti and Carolyn Chandler, also made observations that contributed toward this video. All are acknowledged in a credits screen before the closing logo.)
This project began with an email from Graeme MacQueen to me describing an explosion on the NW corner of WTC1.
I started looking for other such explosions and found a prominent one right at the initiation point on the 98th floor. I further noticed a corner column sticking up after the roofline had fallen past. The top of the surviving column matched the height of the corner ejection moments before. This seemed to be the event that cut the column. The column hovered and swayed for several seconds then precipitously dropped. I wondered if Graeme's explosion was the one that triggered the drop. I found a way to synchronize the videos and then was able to verify that Graeme's "puff" occurred exactly at the moment of drop of the column.
The main significant points I see in this observation are:
1) The building is doing more than just blowing smoke out the windows. The puffs we see are part of the cause of the collapse.
2) We are seeing charges that can cut through the steel corners of the buildings
3) We are seeing a specific 14" column cut by explosives in two places: one to set it loose, and one to cause it to drop.
4) The two explosions occur in a time-delayed sequence, indicative of demolition
(Tony Szamboti and Carolyn Chandler, also made observations that contributed toward this video. All are acknowledged in a credits screen before the closing logo.)
New Ground Level Footage With Demolition Truck
Ground level footage starting shortly after the first tower was hit. At one point a Manhattan Demolitions Co. Inc. truck can be seen driving in front of the camera (slowed down in the film so you can see it clearly). The company is based only 2.4 miles outside of NYC so it may be totally normal that it was there - or maybe not.
Part 2 of 2 has the Demolition Truck:
Part 1 of 2 can be seen here - No truck but an odd piece of debris falls to the sidewalk. In this part you will see people jumping...
Part 2 of 2 has the Demolition Truck:
Part 1 of 2 can be seen here - No truck but an odd piece of debris falls to the sidewalk. In this part you will see people jumping...
Richard Gage on KMPH Fox 26 in Fresno, California
Richard Gage & other Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth, need to be on mainstream TV much more often. This local channel deserves a LOT of credit for putting him on.
"Reliable information on these issues is systematically missing in corporate media outlets, where the vast majority of the American people continue to turn for news and information.
Tens of thousands of Americans engaged in various social justice issues constantly witness how corporate media marginalize, denigrate, or simply ignore their concerns. Activist groups working on issues like 9/11 Truth have been systematically excluded from mainstream news and the national conversation leading to a genuine Truth Emergency in the country as a whole."
The comments above have been excerpted from an article entitled: "Inside the Military Media Industrial Complex: Impacts on Movements for Peace and Social Justice." You can read it here.
9/11 Who Knew?
A compilation of media clips (mostly mainstream) indicating prior knowledge of the 911 attacks. These are highlights of important stories that mainstream news does NOT focus on or follow up on. Further online research will reveal a wealth of information on any of the points presented here (Google, Wiki-Pedia, YouTube, etc).
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