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Thomas R. Ascher [lifeforce]

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:30 PM

 

Key Reagan advisor Hon. Paul Roberts:

 

" Gullible Americans have been duped by the 9/11 Hoax... Wise up -- the

world

is laughing at you. "

 

Who is Paul Craig Roberts?

 

* Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under Ronald

Reagan (awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service Award

for " his

outstanding contributions to the formulation of United States economic

policy. " )

* Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford

University, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.

* Former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and

columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service

* Held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center

for Strategic and International Studies (1982 -1993)

* Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996

* Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy

* Nationally syndicated columnist for Investor's Business Daily

* Winner of the 1992 Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism

 

* Ranked " One of the top seven journalists " by the Forbes Media Guide

(1993)

* Author of, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, and Marx's Theory of

Exchange, Alienation and Crisis

 

Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology

(B.S.), the

University of Virginia (Ph.D.), the University of California at

Berkeley and

Oxford University where he was a member of Merton College.

 

He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The

Dictionary

of International Biography, Outstanding People of the Twentieth

Century, and

1000 Leaders of World Influence.

 

Could anyone in their right mind consider this man a crackpot " conspiracy

theorist " ?

 

________

 

Gullible Americans

 

By Paul Craig Roberts

Information Clearing House

08/14/06

 

 

I was in China when a July Harris Poll reported that 50 percent of

Americans

still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when Bush invaded

that country, and that 64 percent of Americans still believe that Saddam

Hussein had strong links with Al Qaeda.

 

The Chinese leaders and intellectuals with whom I was meeting were

incredulous. How could a majority of the population in an allegedly free

country with an allegedly free press be so totally misinformed?

 

The only answer I could give the Chinese is that Americans would have been

the perfect population for Mao and the Gang of Four, because Americans

believe anything their government tells them.

 

Americans never check any facts. Who do you know, for example, who has

even

read the Report of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the alleged

facts

reported in that document. I can answer for you. You don't know anyone who

has read the report or checked the facts.

 

The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission Report, Thomas Kean and Lee

Hamilton, have just released a new book, " Without Precedent: The Inside

Story of the 9/11 Commission. " Kean and Hamilton reveal that the

commission

suppressed the fact that Muslim ire toward the US is due to US support for

Israel's persecution and dispossession of the Palestinians, not to our

" freedom and democracy " as Bush propagandistically claims. Kean and

Hamilton also reveal that the US military committed perjury and lied about

its failure to intercept the hijacked airliners. The commission even

debated referring the military's lies to the Justice Department for

criminal

investigation. Why should we assume that these admissions are the only

coverups and lies in the 9/11 Commission Report?

 

How do you know that 9/11 was a Muslim terrorist plot? How do you know

that

THREE World Trade Center buildings collapsed because TWO were hit by

airliners? You only " know " because the government gave you the explanation

of what you saw on TV. (Did you even know that three WTC buildings

collapsed?)

 

I still remember the enlightenment I experienced as a student in Russian

Studies when I learned that the Czarist secret police would set off bombs

and then blame those whom they wanted to arrest.

 

When Hitler seized dictatorial power in 1933, he told the Germans that his

new powers were made necessary by a communist terrorist attack on the

Reichstag. When Hitler started World War II by invading Poland, he

told the

Germans that Poland had crossed the frontier and attacked Germany.

 

Governments lie all the time--especially governments staffed by

neoconservatives whose intellectual godfather, Leo Strauss, taught

them that

it is permissible to deceive the public in order to achieve their agenda.

 

Some readers will write to me to say that they saw a TV documentary or

read

a magazine article verifying the government's explanation of 9/11. But, of

course, these Americans did not check the facts either--and neither

did the

people who made the documentary and wrote the magazine article.

 

Scientists and engineers, such as Clemson University Professor of

Engineering Dr. Judy Woods and BYU Professor of Physics Dr. Steven Jones,

have raised compelling questions about the official account of the

collapse

of the three WTC buildings. The basic problem for the government's account

is that the buildings are known to have fallen at freefall speed, a fact

that is inconsistent with the government's " pancaking " theory in which

debris from above collapsed the floors below. If the buildings actually

" pancaked, " then each floor below would have offered resistance to the

floors above, and the elapsed time would have been much longer. These

experts have also calculated that the buildings did not have sufficient

gravitational energy to accommodate the government's theory of the

collapse. It is certainly a known and non-controversial fact among

physicists and engineers that the only way buildings can collapse at

freefall speed into their own footprints is by engineered demolition.

Explosives are used to remove the support of floors below before the

debris

from above arrives. Otherwise, resistance is encountered and the time

required for fall increases. Engineered demolition also explains the

symmetrical collapse of the buildings into their own foot prints. As it is

otherwise improbable for every point in floors below to weaken uniformly,

" pancaking " would result in asymmetrical collapse as some elements of the

floor would give sooner than others.

 

Scientific evidence is a tough thing for the American public to

handle, and

the government knows it. The government can rely on people dismissing

things that they cannot understand as " conspiracy theory. " But if you are

inclined to try to make up your own mind, you can find Dr. Jones' and Dr.

Woods' papers, which have been formally presented to their peers at

scientific meetings, on line at http://www.st911.org/

 

Experts have also pointed out that the buildings' massive steel skeletons

comprised a massive heat sink that wicked away the heat from the limited,

short-lived fires, thus preventing a heat buildup. Experts also point out

that the short-lived, scattered, low-intensity fires could barely

reach half

the melting point of steel even if they burned all day instead of

merely an

hour.

 

Don't ask me to tell you what happened on 9/11. All I know is that the

official account of the buildings' collapse is improbable.

 

Now we are being told another improbable tale. Muslim terrorists in London

and Pakistan were caught plotting to commit mass murder by smuggling

bottles

of explosive liquids on board airliners in hand luggage. Baby formula,

shampoo and water bottles allegedly contained the tools of suicide

bombers.

 

How do we know about this plot? Well, the police learned it from an

" Islamic militant arrested near the Afghan-Pakistan border several weeks

ago. " And how did someone so far away know what British-born people in

London were plotting?

 

Do you really believe that Western and Israeli intelligence services,

which

were too incompetent to prevent the 9/11 attack, can uncover a London plot

by capturing a person on the Afghan border in Pakistan? Why would " an

Islamic militant " rat on such a plot even if he knew of it?

 

More probable explanations of the " plot " are readily available. According

to the August 11 Wayne Madsen Report, informed sources in the UK

report that

" the Tony Blair government, under siege by a Labor Party revolt, cleverly

cooked up a new 'terror' scare to avert the public's eyes away from

Blair's

increasing political woes. British law enforcement, neocon and

intelligence

operatives in the US, Israel, and Britain, and Rupert Murdoch's global

media

empire cooked up the terrorist plot, liberally borrowing from the failed

1995 'Oplan Bjinka' plot by Pakistan- and Philippines-based terrorist

Ramzi

Ahmad Yousef to crash 11 trans-Pacific airliners bound from Asia to

the US. "

 

There are other plausible explanations. For example, our puppet in

Pakistan

decided to arrest some people who were a threat to him. With Bush's

commitment to " building democracy in the Middle East, " our puppet can't

arrest his political enemies without cause, so he lays the blame on a

plot.

 

Any testimony against Muslim plotters by " an Islamic militant " is

certain to

have been bought and paid for.

 

Or consider this explanation. Under the Nuremberg standard, Bush and Blair

are war criminals. Bush is so worried that he will be held accountable

that

he has sent his attorney general to consult with the Republican

Congress to

work out legislation to protect Bush retroactively from his violations of

the Geneva Conventions.

 

Tony Blair is in more danger of finding himself in the dock. Britain is

signatory to a treaty that, if justice is done, will place Blair

before the

International Criminal Court in the Hague.

 

What better justification for the two war criminals' illegal actions than

the need to foil dastardly plots by Muslims recruited in sting

operations by

Western intelligence services? The more Bush and Blair can convince their

publics that terrorist danger abounds, the less likely Bush and Blair are

ever to be held accountable for their crimes.

 

But surely, some readers might object, our great moral leaders wouldn't do

something political like that!

 

They most certainly would. As Joshua Micah Marshall wrote in the July 7

issue of Time magazine, the suspicion is " quite reasonable " that " the Bush

Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to goose the

GOP's

poll numbers. "

 

Joshua Micah Marshall proves his conclusion by examining the barrage of

color-coded terror alerts, none of which were real, and, yes, it all fits

with political needs.

 

And don't forget the plot unearthed in Miami to blow up the Sears Tower in

Chicago. Described by Vice President Cheney as a " very real threat, " the

plot turned out to be nothing more than a few harmless whackos

recruited by

an FBI agent sent out to organize a sting.

 

There was also the " foiled plot " to blow up the Holland Tunnel and flood

downtown New York City with sea water. Thinking New Orleans, the FBI

invented this plot without realizing that New York City is above sea

level.

Of course, most Americans didn't realize it either.

 

For six years the Bush regime has been able to count on the ignorant and

naive American public to believe whatever tale that is told them. American

gullibility has yet to fail the Bush regime.

 

The government has an endless number of conspiracy theories, but only

people

who question the government's conspiracies are derided for " having a

conspiracy theory. "

 

The implication is even worse if we assume that the explosive bottle

plot is

genuine. It means that America and Britain by their own aggression in Iraq

and Afghanistan, and by enabling Israel's war crimes in Palestine and

Lebanon, have created such hatred that Muslims, who identify with Bush's,

Blair's, and Israel's victims, are plotting retaliation.

 

But Bush is prepared. He has taught his untutored public that " they

hate us

for our freedom and democracy. "

 

Gentle reader, wise up. The entire world is laughing at you.

 

 

 

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Thomas R. Ascher [lifeforce]

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:30 PM

 

 

 

Key Reagan advisor Hon. Paul Roberts:

 

" Gullible Americans have been duped by the 9/11 Hoax... Wise up -- the

world is laughing at you. "

 

Who is Paul Craig Roberts?

 

* Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy under

Ronald Reagan (awarded the Treasury Department's Meritorious Service

Award for " his outstanding contributions to the formulation of United

States economic policy. " )

* Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford

University, and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute.

* Former editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and

columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service

* Held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the

Center for Strategic and International Studies (1982 –1993)

* Distinguished Fellow at the Cato Institute from 1993 to 1996

* Olin Fellow at the Institute for Political Economy

* Nationally syndicated columnist for Investor's Business Daily

* Winner of the 1992 Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism

* Ranked " One of the top seven journalists " by the Forbes Media

Guide (1993)

* Author of, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, and Marx's Theory of

Exchange, Alienation and Crisis

 

 

Dr. Roberts was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology

(B.S.), the University of Virginia (Ph.D.), the University of

California at Berkeley and Oxford University where he was a member of

Merton College.

 

He is listed in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The

Dictionary of International Biography, Outstanding People of the

Twentieth Century, and 1000 Leaders of World Influence.

 

 

Could anyone in their right mind consider this man a crackpot

" conspiracy theorist " ?

 

_________________________

 

 

Gullible Americans

 

By Paul Craig Roberts

Information Clearing House

08/14/06

 

 

I was in China when a July Harris Poll reported that 50 percent of

Americans still believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when

Bush invaded that country, and that 64 percent of Americans still

believe that Saddam Hussein had strong links with Al Qaeda.

 

The Chinese leaders and intellectuals with whom I was meeting were

incredulous. How could a majority of the population in an allegedly

free country with an allegedly free press be so totally misinformed?

 

The only answer I could give the Chinese is that Americans would have

been the perfect population for Mao and the Gang of Four, because

Americans believe anything their government tells them.

 

Americans never check any facts. Who do you know, for example, who

has even read the Report of the 9/11 Commission, much less checked the

alleged facts reported in that document. I can answer for you. You

don't know anyone who has read the report or checked the facts.

 

The two co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission Report, Thomas Kean and Lee

Hamilton, have just released a new book, " Without Precedent: The

Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission. " Kean and Hamilton reveal that

the commission suppressed the fact that Muslim ire toward the US is

due to US support for Israel's persecution and dispossession of the

Palestinians, not to our " freedom and democracy " as Bush

propagandistically claims. Kean and Hamilton also reveal that the US

military committed perjury and lied about its failure to intercept the

hijacked airliners. The commission even debated referring the

military's lies to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.

Why should we assume that these admissions are the only coverups and

lies in the 9/11 Commission Report?

 

How do you know that 9/11 was a Muslim terrorist plot? How do you

know that THREE World Trade Center buildings collapsed because TWO

were hit by airliners? You only " know " because the government gave

you the explanation of what you saw on TV. (Did you even know that

three WTC buildings collapsed?)

 

I still remember the enlightenment I experienced as a student in

Russian Studies when I learned that the Czarist secret police would

set off bombs and then blame those whom they wanted to arrest.

 

When Hitler seized dictatorial power in 1933, he told the Germans that

his new powers were made necessary by a communist terrorist attack on

the Reichstag. When Hitler started World War II by invading Poland,

he told the Germans that Poland had crossed the frontier and attacked

Germany.

 

Governments lie all the time--especially governments staffed by

neoconservatives whose intellectual godfather, Leo Strauss, taught

them that it is permissible to deceive the public in order to achieve

their agenda.

 

Some readers will write to me to say that they saw a TV documentary or

read a magazine article verifying the government's explanation of

9/11. But, of course, these Americans did not check the facts

either--and neither did the people who made the documentary and wrote

the magazine article.

 

Scientists and engineers, such as Clemson University Professor of

Engineering Dr. Judy Woods and BYU Professor of Physics Dr. Steven

Jones, have raised compelling questions about the official account of

the collapse of the three WTC buildings. The basic problem for the

government's account is that the buildings are known to have fallen at

freefall speed, a fact that is inconsistent with the government's

" pancaking " theory in which debris from above collapsed the floors

below. If the buildings actually " pancaked, " then each floor below

would have offered resistance to the floors above, and the elapsed

time would have been much longer. These experts have also calculated

that the buildings did not have sufficient gravitational energy to

accommodate the government's theory of the collapse. It is certainly

a known and non-controversial fact among physicists and engineers that

the only way buildings can collapse at freefall speed into their own

footprints is by engineered demolition. Explosives are used to remove

the support of floors below before the debris from above arrives.

Otherwise, resistance is encountered and the time required for fall

increases. Engineered demolition also explains the symmetrical

collapse of the buildings into their own foot prints. As it is

otherwise improbable for every point in floors below to weaken

uniformly, " pancaking " would result in asymmetrical collapse as some

elements of the floor would give sooner than others.

 

Scientific evidence is a tough thing for the American public to

handle, and the government knows it. The government can rely on

people dismissing things that they cannot understand as " conspiracy

theory. " But if you are inclined to try to make up your own mind, you

can find Dr. Jones' and Dr. Woods' papers, which have been formally

presented to their peers at scientific meetings, on line at

http://www.st911.org/

 

Experts have also pointed out that the buildings' massive steel

skeletons comprised a massive heat sink that wicked away the heat from

the limited, short-lived fires, thus preventing a heat buildup.

Experts also point out that the short-lived, scattered, low-intensity

fires could barely reach half the melting point of steel even if they

burned all day instead of merely an hour.

 

Don't ask me to tell you what happened on 9/11. All I know is that

the official account of the buildings' collapse is improbable.

 

Now we are being told another improbable tale. Muslim terrorists in

London and Pakistan were caught plotting to commit mass murder by

smuggling bottles of explosive liquids on board airliners in hand

luggage. Baby formula, shampoo and water bottles allegedly contained

the tools of suicide bombers.

 

How do we know about this plot? Well, the police learned it from an

" Islamic militant arrested near the Afghan-Pakistan border several

weeks ago. " And how did someone so far away know what British-born

people in London were plotting?

 

Do you really believe that Western and Israeli intelligence services,

which were too incompetent to prevent the 9/11 attack, can uncover a

London plot by capturing a person on the Afghan border in Pakistan?

Why would " an Islamic militant " rat on such a plot even if he knew of it?

 

More probable explanations of the " plot " are readily available.

According to the August 11 Wayne Madsen Report, informed sources in

the UK report that " the Tony Blair government, under siege by a Labor

Party revolt, cleverly cooked up a new `terror' scare to avert the

public's eyes away from Blair's increasing political woes. British

law enforcement, neocon and intelligence operatives in the US, Israel,

and Britain, and Rupert Murdoch's global media empire cooked up the

terrorist plot, liberally borrowing from the failed 1995 `Oplan

Bjinka' plot by Pakistan- and Philippines-based terrorist Ramzi Ahmad

Yousef to crash 11 trans-Pacific airliners bound from Asia to the US. "

 

There are other plausible explanations. For example, our puppet in

Pakistan decided to arrest some people who were a threat to him. With

Bush's commitment to " building democracy in the Middle East, " our

puppet can't arrest his political enemies without cause, so he lays

the blame on a plot.

 

Any testimony against Muslim plotters by " an Islamic militant " is

certain to have been bought and paid for.

 

Or consider this explanation. Under the Nuremberg standard, Bush and

Blair are war criminals. Bush is so worried that he will be held

accountable that he has sent his attorney general to consult with the

Republican Congress to work out legislation to protect Bush

retroactively from his violations of the Geneva Conventions.

 

Tony Blair is in more danger of finding himself in the dock. Britain

is signatory to a treaty that, if justice is done, will place Blair

before the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

 

What better justification for the two war criminals' illegal actions

than the need to foil dastardly plots by Muslims recruited in sting

operations by Western intelligence services? The more Bush and Blair

can convince their publics that terrorist danger abounds, the less

likely Bush and Blair are ever to be held accountable for their crimes.

 

But surely, some readers might object, our great moral leaders

wouldn't do something political like that!

 

They most certainly would. As Joshua Micah Marshall wrote in the July

7 issue of Time magazine, the suspicion is " quite reasonable " that

" the Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to

goose the GOP's poll numbers. "

 

Joshua Micah Marshall proves his conclusion by examining the barrage

of color-coded terror alerts, none of which were real, and, yes, it

all fits with political needs.

 

And don't forget the plot unearthed in Miami to blow up the Sears

Tower in Chicago. Described by Vice President Cheney as a " very real

threat, " the plot turned out to be nothing more than a few harmless

whackos recruited by an FBI agent sent out to organize a sting.

 

There was also the " foiled plot " to blow up the Holland Tunnel and

flood downtown New York City with sea water. Thinking New Orleans,

the FBI invented this plot without realizing that New York City is

above sea level. Of course, most Americans didn't realize it either.

 

For six years the Bush regime has been able to count on the ignorant

and naive American public to believe whatever tale that is told them.

American gullibility has yet to fail the Bush regime.

 

The government has an endless number of conspiracy theories, but only

people who question the government's conspiracies are derided for

" having a conspiracy theory. "

 

The implication is even worse if we assume that the explosive bottle

plot is genuine. It means that America and Britain by their own

aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by enabling Israel's war

crimes in Palestine and Lebanon, have created such hatred that

Muslims, who identify with Bush's, Blair's, and Israel's victims, are

plotting retaliation.

 

But Bush is prepared. He has taught his untutored public that " they

hate us for our freedom and democracy. "

 

Gentle reader, wise up. The entire world is laughing at you.