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A License to Lie

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

As BuzzFlash readers know by now, the ABC Television Network, owned by entertainment behemoth Disney, has spent $40 million to run a commercial-free, fictionally-"enhanced" account of the events leading up to and surrounding 9/11.

The fiction, by all accounts, comes from fabricated scenes that place much of the blame, were they actually true, for 9/11 on the Clinton Administration. Some of these television "moments" were made up out of whole cloth. In short, like the Bush Administration itself, you won’t be able to tell the truth from the lies.

A project of an avowed right wing shill, the 9/11 "Disney in Wonderland" television drama appears to be a pre-election pay-off to the Bush Administration.

We have been running a slew of stories about this travesty on BuzzFlash this past week, so we won’t get into the details. But we bet our bottom dollar that you won’t see a scene of Bush kicking a CIA briefing officer out of the room after the man gave Bush a document entitled ""Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US." This occurred on August 6, 2001.

According to a recent book by Ron Suskind, Bush’s reaction to being told that our nation was about to come under likely terrorist attack was to get peevish for having his vacation disrupted. He kicked the briefer out of the room by dismissing him with these words, "'All right, you’ve covered your ass."

Bush then did nothing – absolutely nothing – to attempt to forestall the attack or prevent hijackings by having heightened screening implemented at airports. He did nothing at all, except go back to relax on his month-long vacation in Crawford.

Do you think that will be in the film?

Or how about the scene of Bush cluelessly reading "My Pet Goat" in a classroom at the Booker Elementary School while America was under attack and people were leaping from the twin towers in New York. Will that be in this piece of Mickey Mouse GOP propaganda?

We somehow doubt it.

Anyone who reads BuzzFlash knows that we never stop raising the alarm about how Republican politics, entertainment, news and corporate profits have morphed, for the most part, into one synergistic pump. All the "news coverage" water, more or less, comes from the same well. Or, perhaps a more apt description, as the ABC-Bushevik vision of 9/11 aptly illustrates, the Republicans and the news and entertainment television companies are on the same script – in this case, literally.

Suffice it to say, ABC would not run a $40 million film that is a hit job on the Democrats – and leaves Bush barely grazed – a few weeks before a national election if it weren’t expecting something in return from the White House.

For-profit companies don’t blow $40 million without advertising revenue out of "goodwill." They want something in return – and you can be sure, if the Republicans maintain control of both houses of Congress, Disney will be well-rewarded by the Bush Administration -– well-rewarded indeed.

We long ago arrived at the point in the world of television that broadcast networks were given the public airwaves basically free of cost – and then abused that privilege by putting profits before service to the public. They are given a license to lie in order to ingratiate themselves with the GOP and reap a return on their political investment by getting legislative and regulatory financial "advantages."

The uproar over the ABC propaganda film – and it is heartening to see the Democrats fighting so aggressively against this shameful act of collusion on the part of ABC – is a symbolic apotheosis of sorts. It represents a recognition that the entire Bush administration is based on rule by a series of mutually complementary "scripts." All of these scripts, including the ABC 9/11 rewrite of history and Bush’s ongoing "War on Terrorism" mini-series, are part of a larger "narrative" stitched together by Karl Rove.

It’s a narrative that has little to do with reality. It’s storytelling at its best, like reading a nightmarish bedtime tale to a child and then reassuring him or her that all will be well because Daddy is guarding the house against goblins and evil doers with a big gun.

But, needless to say, in a democracy, a major broadcast network, owned by the company that is synonymous with the creation of "branded" fantasy for children, should not be in the business of providing campaign support to a political party through a $40 million television program (for which, we repeat, they will receive no advertising revenue).

Democracy in America is on the endangered species list as long as big media companies are given a license to lie and influence election outcomes, even though we, the public, own the airwaves.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

If you were writing a script about 9/11, what three key actual historical scenes would you include? Add your suggestions below.

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I'm sure we all remember that 'Al Qaeda' translate: 'The List'

Somehow a former CIA front organization, which helped Afghanistan against the russians, turns against US because Bush I stages the Army in Mecca and Medina, the two holiest places in Islam. Then, After 9/11, Bush II removes said troops. But Clinton is the coward? Democracy in America is dead, thanks to Diebold and feckless Democrats. No truth will see the light of day as long as the gutless, corporatized Democrats are still in office. There is no 'loyal opposition'. Alito's presence on the Supreme Court is proof. And just like the Kennedy Assassination, nothing useful will be done. Beating up on BUZZFLASH won't do any good. Taking to the streets (remember that?) was how the issues were resolved 40 years ago. But today, no one is willing to close their browser window and do shit about their lot in life. Post a blog, send an email.... and then wonder why your billionaire, murderous, spoiled-brat preznitwit can turn the real power over to Cheney(remember the Hume Interview) and be a front conman for the Military-InfotainmentPlex. I plan to be a bit more active, doing something about my life, not just whining and blaming someone for not agreeing with me or posting something that reflects my opinion. Being a citizen means being responsible for my citizenship.

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what 3 events i would include in 9/11 ad

This is not original on my part, but I believe that the little clip fest presented by David Letterman, depicting real speeches given by FDR and JFK, usually followed by one of the numerous blathering bloviations of GWB, encapsulates brilliantly how we are being led and manipulated by a moron of gigantic proportions. Just witnessing FDR regalling us with "There is nothing to fear, but FEAR itself." and JFK eloquently pronouncing "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country", demonstrates what great leadership once resembled and how their inspirational words and actions instilled pride in our country along with the earnest belief that we would overcome adversity if we did not cave into fear. Then, cut, go to any one of GWB's clown-prince performances where he fruitlessly, haplessly and, in excruciatingly painful reality -in-your-face detail, gives his moronic impersonation of a Rushmore-worthy historical figure. Then - paste, frame, and voila, the pants are down and his once larger than life cod piece covered organ is exposed as it limply hangs out, portraying our national embarrassment and his utter ineptitude, signifying America's diminishing pride. The only problem I can forsee it picking which clip to use. There's such a massive batch o'crap to choose from, it will be time consuming as well as stomach churning and surely very 'hard work'. I'm in!

If I owned a TV network I

If I owned a TV network I would show 'In Plane Sight' over and over so many times it would make the viewers want to puke. By the way are you going to send our comments about TV commercials along to the Democrat headquarters or just sit on them so the Republicans can steal them?

How about a scene . . .

where the WTC management schedules a complete shutdown of the electrical power to one of the towers about a week or so before 9/11 and unspecified engineers come in and climb all over the building for hours while none of the tenants' security systems are operating.

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Did this happen

Can you point to some evidence of it?

"Can you point to some evidence of this?"

Oh my God! Can you point to some evidence of this? You see, this is what pisses me off about these so-called "progressive" websites. Not only is there evidence of this (look here: http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/8/26/195425/883). But please... don't stop there! The evidence of much greater complicity is overwhelming. Google search the following: "WTC7", "Steven Jones Thermite", "Pentagon Missile", "Bombs WTC", "9/11 Inside Job", etc., etc., etc. Then visit www.911blogger.com. I pass all of this along to you because your question makes it sound is if you still need convincing. Which leads me to my question... "WHY HAS BUZZFLASH BEEN SO DERELICT IN COVERING 9/11 TRUTH"?

In case you're too lazy to visit the link provided. It says this

When it comes to 9/11, the very crisis that prompted the Giuliani national boomlet, however, many questions remain unanswered. Some of the most disturbing questions arise from the discovery and subsequent comments of Scott Forbes, someone who should have become a household name had the mainstream media done its job properly and raised important questions that have been largely left begging. Scott Forbes was an employee of Fiduciary Trust, a firm located on floors 90 and 94-97 of the South Tower of the World Trade Center. Forbes reported that over the weekend of September 8-9, 2001, floors 50 and above of the South Tower experienced a power down, meaning that all electrical currents were shut off for about 36 hours. The officially stated reason was that the electrical cables in the building were being upgraded. In that Forbes functioned as a senior database administrator in charge of Fiduciary Trust's computer division, he was entrusted to shut down the company's computers before the shut down occurred. After the power down he had to turn the computers back on and restore service to the network. Because there was no electric power above the fiftieth floor there were also no security cameras or security locks. There were many outside engineering personnel, however, coming and going in and out of the tower all weekend.

If NBC Were Smart

They would go head-to-head with this ABC Farce with programming that accurately depicts the lead-up to 9/11. And, perhaps Keith Olberman can convince his network to do the same. If not then perhaps the CBS News Department can put a one-hour newscast up addressing the inaccuracies of the ABC Report.

Buzzflash I love ya but it's time.

Five years out now.. time for the truth. If you won't cover those who are asking the questions, who will?

Scene One, 9-11-2001 - NTSB officials vainly searching for the parts to flight 93 in a field in Pennsylvania. The only visible deformity is a trench in the ground about 10-15 feet long. (You know they always reconstruct the plane in a giant hangar somewhere to determine what caused the crash!) They stand there scratching their heads and the small amount of debris, nothing recognizable as coming from a massive passenger airplane, eventually shrugging their shoulders and walking away. Cut to the county coroner saying, "I stopped being a coroner after 20 minutes. There are no bodies."
 

Scene Two - Flashback to Rudy Guiliana, Larry Silverstein and Marvin Bush in an exquisitely outfitted room in WTC7. They are looking at the schematics for the WTC buildings and making notes on a calendar. The year is 2000. Zoom in on a document on the table, bearing the official letterhead of the EPA, titled, "Order to Decommision the World Trade Center Towers by 2007." They finish their meeting, stand up and shake hands, and leave the room.
 

Scene Three, 9-11-2001 - Guards and office workers, covered in dust, emerge from the Lobby of WTC2 after the plane has struck, but well before its collapse. Pan the lobby with its broken glass and dislodged marble panels on the wall. Cut to the basement where a large explosion shakes the foundations of the building. Another explosion can be heard a few minutes later, higher up in the building... followed by yet another explosion. Shift camera to the building exterior, looking up the side of the building. Watch as the top part of the building explodes into dust and then follow the squibs of smoke puffing out every several floors, well in advance of the debris that is expelled upwards and sideways in a mushroom that descends. Show a clock with a second-hand, timing how long it takes the entire building to freefall down. (Elapsed time 12 seconds.)
 


Scenes One and Three are real, historical, proven. Scene Two is partly fiction, based on real people involved in the WTC security, and derived from information given in a deposition reported to have been filed in July 2006.
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Aliens are running our govt

Folks, we have long lists of genuine suspicions, and at the top of the list is why didnt George Bush want to have an investigation? We dont need these conspiracy theories, they serve the interests of the coverup by making it look like perhaps all suspicions about 911 are based on baseless conspiracy theories. These stories may well be intentionally planted mis-information. What should not be included: 1. Theories that airplanes hijacked by terrorists didnt bring down the towers Besides, the REAL issue here is that grey aliens from space have been running our govt for decades.

My Pet Goat

There is no other scene that is more telling than Bush........frozen in indecision and fear, staring at a children's book and doing nothing while we are under attack. I am so angry today. Bush arrogantly announces that we have secret prisons where we torture suspects, a national network prepares to insult Americans with lies about our greatest national tragedy and to choose the welfare of one political party over the welfare of America. My head is about to explode because of the unwillingness of 50% of Americans to fight for their country while they expect our troops to die for the rights they no longer care about. Is this the home of the brave? Every American who still believes that Bush is good for our country should be sent a copy of My Pet Goat with a note, " Sleep with this book under your pillow. Denial is comforting to those who are afraid of truth."

The Dog that Did Not Bark

The most amazing thing about this is not Bush sitting there looking stupid for seven plus minutes after being told the incredible words "Mr. President, the United States is under attack."

The amazing thing is that the Secret Service -- whose sole duty (even to the exclusion of protecting themselves or other civilians) is to protect the President of the United States -- did not rush in there and carry the POTUS to a "secure and safe location" (which an exposed, single-story classroom of a pre-announced event is definitely NOT) as they did with the VPOTUS (literally carrying him under the arms out of the much more secure West Wing).

Why didn't the Secret Service act? They take orders from NOBODY but the AG. They act only to protect the POTUS. Yet they did NOTHING? HOw could that be?

Hmmmmm.

Interesting.

Makes one think. Or, at least it SHOULD.

Now that the Impeachment of Clinton has made it OK to interrogate and question the Secret Service under oath about their work practices, we should ask them a few questions. We should get some answers.

God bless Steven Jones!

Actual historical scenes: 1) The look on the face of the Convar data recovery analyst when he discovers the source of the massive spike of money transfers through the WTC computers on the morning of 9/11. http://www.rediff.com/money/2001/dec/17wtc.htm http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/12/20/wtc.harddrives.idg/ 2) The exchange between the Secret Service agent who said "We're out of here!" and his superior at Booker Elementary at 9:05am. 3) President Bush watching the first tower hit live on tv. 4) The meeting between the ISI Chief who ordered $100,000 wired to Atta and Porter Goss on the morning of 9/11.

911 script

Dear Editor, A quick reply from the Netherlands. My wife and I had the pleasure to have travelled the East coast by boat for 2 years and we had just sailed back to Europe, that horrible day of 911. That day sitting in front of the TV, I cried a lot, and that's all there is to it. My script would be a simple one. No spectacular computerized imagery, not too much real footage, but soberness all over, to respect the victims and those they left behind. Stick to the people who did it! I guess it would be sufficient to: 1) questioning the speedy (illegal!) clean-out of the CRIME-SCENE. 2) questioning the blocking of a real investigation of the crime-scene, instead screening off the place. 3) questioning the refusal and feet-dragging from the Bush gang to testify under Oath. 4) questioning the 'export' from the steel remnants save a measely few pieces, (like your country is as tiny as Holland and lack sufficient space!). 5) questioning the many military "drills" that tragic day. Best wishes in your struggle for the truth! Regards, Geert

Nominee for GOP Hypocrite of the Week!

I hereby nominate BUZZFLASH for GOP Hypocrite of the week. Surely BUZZFLASH must be operated by some secret cabal of right wing neocons. Its all clear now... lure us in with your light weight liberal outrage, all the while ignoring the BIG LIES like the fact that 9/11 was a self-inflicted wound. Feign outrage over dubious mockumentaries, all the while simultaneously directing people away from more substantive news stories such as the fact that 10 year BYU professor Steven Jones has been forced on administration leave by BYU for having the temerity to voice the truth of what actually brought down the Towers on 9/11. Oh yes, BUZZFLASH represents the worst kind of HYPOCRITE. The one who pretends to be your friend, but slips in the back door to bed your wife while you're off at work. So BUZZFLASH, as we enter the 5th Anniversary week of the 9/11 attack... I hereby name you the GOP HYPOCRITE OF THE WEEK. Congratulations you left-wing gatekeeping shills! You've earned it!!

Factual 911

I guess I would try to add the truth about Osama bin laden meeting with the 9/11 hijackers. Maybe I don't recall, but I thought terrorist cells work independently. Therefore, how is it possible that bin Laden met with them to discuss the plot? There is so much misinformation. I don't know who to believe. Everytime there is an election, a new tape surfaces. So for 5 years we keep seeing tapes and getting different stories. I would like to know what is the truth. I doubt the miniseries will show anything but fiction. Just like these tapes.

9/11

It takes a determined effort to deny the fact that on 9/11 controlled demolition was used to bring down the three WTC buildings. That day, watching on TV at work , I said ,How on earth did the terrorists get into the buildings to set explosives? I didn't think it was our government , but I knew that the buildings were destroyed by controlled demolition. It was only later after the lies and coverups that I realized that it was my own government behind the attacks. How on earth can people deny what they see with their own eyes. But then, whoever wrote The Emperor's New Clothes had a pretty good view into the human capacity for self delusion.

Irrelevancy : copy of letter sent to ABC re "Path to 911"

ABC: The 911 miniseries you are about to air is an insult to Americans who deserve the truth. It is an even greater insult to the concept of an independent media, and places ABC along side other right-wing non-news sounces, most notably FOX, rendering it essentially irrelevant as a new source.---------------------------------------- ABC is billing the movie as an objective account based on the 9/11 Commission Report, but the miniseries is riddled with misinformation.[1]--------------------------------------------------------------- ABC has stated, "Let people decide for themselves", which is a terrific idea, but one that implies people are given a CHOICE between two opposing viewpoints. There is no opposing viewpoint given in this "docudrama"; it is CLEARLY driven by right wing propoganda and talking points, and not by the truth. But you already know all that, don't you.------------------------------------------------------ The right wing is working hard to whitewash the Bush administration's total failure on terrorism. The Path to 9/11 glosses over the terrible negligence of President Bush and Condoleezza Rice, who ignored the now infamous August 6th intelligence briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." The Bush administration ignored warnings from outgoing Clinton security officials to focus on the threat of a domestic terrorist attack. Hmmmm. Wonder why ...... Rumsfeld himself said "We need another Pearl Harbor". For what? you may ask. To create the WMD myth and feed it to Americans as a "reason" (albeit an entirely bogus one ) justifiying their pre-planned invasion. Invade and occupy Iraq, grab their oil, gift Halliburton astronomically lucrative no-bid contracts, create chaos to facilitate stealilng, etc. This has always been there goal. Mission accomplished, don't you think?------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How's THAT for real news, huh? Oughta try it sometime. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar, has already exposed a key scene as pure fiction: "this scene—which makes the incendiary claim that the Clinton administration passed on a surefire chance to kill or catch bin Laden—never happened. It was completely made up by [writer and producer Cyrus] Nowrasteh."

That's good!

LOVE the fairy tale! I need to save that. That points to the absurdity of the 'official story' that even morons can understand. I think if I were to do a REAL docudrama on 911, my first scene would be the Skull & Bones guys with their initiation ritual in the coffin. And then we go to these guys where they start to discuss their plans for the New World Order.......and then from there, we see an aged Dickie Cheney on 9/11/01 putting the plan made way back then into play.... After the attack we see another scene. An angry bush screaming at cheney why he couldn't have been at the White House or Pentagon when they decided to pull it all off. Why did they send him off to a school with a bunch of kids to read a book (He already read ONE book in his life, why did they have to make him read a second)?

Sandy and his pants`

Let's see what on earth Sandy had in his pants and why Bush let it slide! Let's see that the GOP was as uninterested in our Nation's defence as was Bush's daddy and the Clintons.

The Liar in Chief

I'm emailing anyone that I know to send protest letters to Disney/ABC. I don't know how the public can forget the implosion of the Twin Towers. Yes, that's right. That building was brought down. Look at the pictures. The building came straight down. By the way, Guilliani was told to not have his office on the first/basement floor because of the building set to drop due to implosion. The current occupant of the White House, who is labeled president likes to torture people and thinks that God talks to him. If that isn't adequate evidence for criminal insanity, I don't know what is? Everything about this presidency stinks. George W. Bush is so embarrassing, being photographed while talking with his mouth full of food at the G-8 meeting. Absolutely disgusting. Now remember. On March 21, 2003, Bush stated during a speech on T.V. after staring his pre-emptive war on Iraq with "Shock & Awe" that "We're all sinners!". Unfortunately, Barbara, the female canine domineering mother, raised a serial killer. Obviously, George W. Bush did drink himself into oblivion regularly and a family friend, Billy Graham, told him that "we're all sinners" and George with his phychopathic mind thinks that all he has to do to be a Christian is to "sin", which he regularly does. He makes no mention of the teachings of Jesus. His treatment for alcoholism-None. This country can only go further down with both co-president criminals still in power.

I'd love to see:

Juli in JAX says: I'd love to see Marvin Bush's contract as Administrator in charge of Security for the WTC. I'd love to see just how many debunked theories there have been for the collapse of WTC Building Seven. I'd love to see a panel of Demolitions experts discussing the amazing "freefall" destruction of the WTC towers. I'd love to see the "good samaritan" who just happened upon Mohammed Atta's passport amidst all the snowfall of papers from the two towers. I'd love to see the Greg Palast interviews with the "dead" suicide terrorists. I'd love to see transcripts of or hear John O'Neill's last phone calls from his new office in the WTC. I'd love to see the list of people who were "absent" from work that day at the WTC. I'd love to see one bit of DNA evidence of passengers from the planes that purportedly went down in PA and at the Pentagon. I'd love to see the video tape of the Pentagon confiscated from the nearby hotel and gas station in DC on 9/11. Heck, I'd just like to see the plane that supposedly hit the Pentagon. Peek-a-boo! Where's the plane?!?! It was the Reichstag all over again. You've got to give Rove and the other traitors credit for being good students of history, unlike the American public.

I's love to see

You and me both

I'd love to see

Hear, hear! Add to that: I'd love to see the eye (&ear) witness testimony of witnesses on the scene to "huge explosions" in the basement area of the Twin Towers prior to their collapse given the attention they so obviously deserve. I'd like to know why the steel girders (reportedly all about 30' long) were removed from the 9/11 site without an investigation by FEMA, which is mandated by law. Most of all, I'd like to know WHAT REALLY HAPPENED on 9/11, who was REALLY responsible for it, and what our "leaders" are doing to accomplish this.

I'd love to See

Amen, brother! I'd love to see all that too. And it would be so easy to show. Just one program with intelligent people asking the right questions about 9/11 would be an energizing event. Instead we get screeming wackos offering dialogue loaded with base accusations and insults. Why would any President concerned with the safety and security of his countrymen fight the investigation of these events? We all know why.

another smoke bomb

Well, now that we're all talking about Disney (justifiably so), look what else is happening today. The Senate is releasing it's Iraq pre-war intelligence report. Hmmm.

ABC's biased 911 "docudrama"

Oskie623 As a viewer of ABC's DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and GREY'S ANATOMY, I want ABC to know that I will NOT be watching these shows because of the irresponsible and biased ABC "docudrama" on 911. The audience for these shows are the more liberal minded among us, not the GOP conservatives ABC corporate is courting. As one of those liberals, I'm doing what I can to put a dent in the numbers for these shows by spreading the word. Hope you will too.

How much did fox news pay

How much did fox news pay for ABC news??????

911 - A Modern Fairy Tale

Reposted from www.rense.com By Douglas Herman 9-6-6 Once upon a time in America, the land of opportunity, a group of foreign guys at a Florida strip club said: "Let's get Korans and boxcutters and hijack airplanes and crash them into skyscrapers." And so they did. They bought flight manuals and lapdances, Korans and double martinis. They took flight lessons and bad photos. But most of all they flew badly and partied and flunked flight school. "But how will we deceive NORAD," said one flunky? "And how will we get past airport security," asked another? "And how many millions should we invest in Put Options," said a third? They discovered that NORAD and the Pentagon would be having some military exercises on the exact same day they chose for their mission. Although several top US officials knew in advance not to fly that day, nobody warned any average citizen. Next the G-string jihadists outwitted the FBI. They outfoxed the Bureau's top officials by brilliantly exposing their plans to FBI field agents months in advance. The plotters seemed to know that the FBI head honchos would never believe their most patriotic field agents. Instead they would harass these agents long after the plot unfolded. Next the 19 outlined their plan. "We'll get past Israeli security at Logan airport in Boston by posing as Arab terrorists. We won't even check in or show proper credentials. We'll just go right on through, like ghosts." And so they did. But one BIG problem vexed them greatly. How exactly would steel skyscrapers, seven of them, fall down once two aluminum airplanes hit them? So they went bowling and decided that the two airplanes would be like the bowling ball and the WTC buildings would be like the pins. Still they wondered: How to make these massive towers, built with an enormous inner core to withstand 180 mph hurricanes, engineered to survive the impact of a jumbo jet, actually fall down? So the 19 flight school dropouts put their minds together and thought and thought. The Newtonian laws of gravity and physics, and the long history of burning steel skyscrapers (None had ever fallen down before--or since) seemed to be against them. "What if we make the Twin Towers pancake down," said one flunky, with a face full of buttermilk hotcake? The plotters were all eating a pre-dawn breakfast special with their bleary-eyed lapdancers. A group of Iraqi undercover agents, Saddam's finest, had joined them, savoring a short stack of blueberry pancakes. And so the laws of physics and logic waffled that day. "We can also knock down the CIA headquarters in New York City, demolish the mayor's command post, and wreck the SEC records building while we're at it, crushing the entire building while smacking the structure with a few objects the size of an I-beam" said one bright plotter, remembering his Put Options. And so they did. The mighty Pentagon was next to fall. A fortress guarded by many layers of security, the trillion dollar war toy shopping mall seemed impregnable. But not to the 19 G-string jihadists. They had discovered, by trial and error, that it was mush easier to fly a hijacked jumbo jet with screaming passengers than to control a small Cessna with a calm instructor beside them. The flew those jumbo jets like Blue Angels--except better--pulling ten G's before leveling off and smacking the Pentagon exactly where it had been recently remodeled. But unfortunately for the G-string jihadists, the Pentagon bigwigs knew months in advance. The Pentagonals even published a report with a hijacked plane exactly in the center. They knew no hijacker could ever score a bull's eye---and they were right. The flight school dropouts only hit the edge. But by outflanking, outfighting, and outthinking the combined resources of the Pentagon, CIA, NSA and FBI,, the flight school dropouts had succeeded. Sure, they never received their certification in small planes but they had outfoxed NORAD, Israeli security and the combined resources of the US Air Force in the airspace over America. And even more amazing: the 19 stripclub afficiandos had engineered their own deaths to look like deaths. Nearly half of them were still alive the next day. Call it a modern mission impossible. 19 flight school dropouts who couldn't control a Cessna had destroyed seven heavily-insured steel skyscrapers and the recently remodeled wing of the Pentagon, while outwitting airport security, smashing CIA and SEC headquarteras in a 47-story New York skyscraper they hadn't even hit, while devising a brand new scientific "pancake" theory. All while remaining alive and forcing the entire US population to live in terror, utterly taxed for the unforeseeable future, to pay for the trillions in new war toys and security measures, in a fruitless manhunt to find the alleged mastermind. In conclusion, the 19 boxcutter boyz were either the Ultimate Fighting Champions, or the the above account remains a modern fairy tale, fabricated by the very same people who placed those Put Options and demolition charges and continue to profit today. USAF veteran and amateur historian, Douglas Herman is the contorversial author of The Guns of Dallas. He recieves mail at douglasherman7@yahoo.com

Osama's Path Post 911: Three Scenes

Osama being sued by the Securities Exchange Commission for insider trading when Bin Laden Ventures Inc shorted various US airlines and went long in petroleum futures just before 911. Osama, amazed that Bush was reading Camu, opens his subsequent video with "Greetings to my new existentialist buddy. How about an internets chess game?" Osama registering to vote in both Ohio and Florida.

BUZZFLASH lies about 9/11

You know there are two ways to tell lies. There are lies of commission. Bush is good at this. You can tell when he's doing this rather easily... his lips are moving. There are also lies of OMISSION. Ironically, this is what the 9/11 Commission is guilty of. For example, there is no mention of WTC 7 in the official "9/11 Commission Report". This 47 story steel and concrete building collapsed into its own foot print at 5:20 on 9/11/01. This was a huge ommission and it was done to keep people ignorant. This is the same form of lying that left-wing gatekeepers like BUZZFLASH is guilty of. I didn't bother to check, but I'm guessing there was no link to the huge article in the Washington Post this morning called "The Disbelievers". Check it out for yourself here http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/07/AR2006090701669_pf.html Then ask yourself, why would BUZZFLASH omit a story like this from its front page? The answer: Because they LIE. They are LIARS. It's not just them however, it's The NATION, MOTHER JONES, HUFFINGTON, MEDIA MATTERS, AIR AMERICA, DAILY KOS, TRUTHOUT. There are very few so-called "progressive" media outlets that have the courage to tell you the truth. When you get tired of being lied to regarding 9/11, visit www.911blogger.com. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!

Stupidity hurts your friends most

There are many good leads to look into about 9/11. Some questions do not have answers and perhaps never shall, (barring some "Nixon Tapes" discovery,)but inventing answers to those questions, much less answers that ignore the laws of materials and physics, get ALL opposition to the partisan use (and probable creation) of the 9/11 tragedy, bushed aside as loonies.

No bombs are needed to explain how heavily heated bare steel had a catastrophic collapse that propagated itself like a row of dominos. Nor is the collapse of a building that had two other buildings fall on it.

Many other things are unlikely, and many others are criminal, but if I was a Bushie Neo-con operative I would be out undercover making up stories to entrap honest people who lacked understanding of the real situation, and by making fools of them, discredit all the legitimate concerns.

If you doubt it look at the Bush "AWOL to avoid drug test and general fecklessness" story. The documentation is extensive and not refuted by any credable evidence, but by feeding a reasonably accurate document of faked provenance the Hippocrats managed to remove both the accurate story and the last vestige of reality based Media. Your continued pushing of imaginary bombs in the Towers smacks of such a subtrefuge.

If you are winger provocetures you will continue, till, like the ones in the antiwar movement folk just ignore you. But if you wish for thew real truth to come out, please recomend looking deeper into the Put options, the special training day, the PNAC need for a "Pearl Harbor", or any of dozens of more fruitful lines of inquiry.

Buzzflash lies(?)

Do you call one dubious article in the WP a rebuttal of the mountains of evidence pointing to a controlled demolition of the WTC towers and WTC # 7? Do you dismiss, out of hand the testimony of eminent scientists and engineers with no political positions to defend and who KNOW WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT? Do you actually,for one minute, believe the dirty lies in the 9/11 Commission Report? If you do, I've got some choice oceanfront property in Nebraska for you to look at.

Stupidity hurts your friends most (Response)

You believe that WTC7 fell because two other buildings fell on it? And you have the temerity to call me stupid? I shouldn't even waste a response on you, but unfortunately it is your brand of self-righteous arrogance that I think represents the worst of the so-called progressives. Where on earth did you get that story about WTC7? It couldn't have been from the 9/11 Commission report, because they omitted any reference to WTC7. That in and of itself is a story worth reporting, but you haven't seen it reported on any of the MSM media, have you? Does that mean we should ignore it? BUZZFLASH has... why? Why is BUZZFLASH throwing so much weight behind a meaningless mockumentary who's only real purpose is to prop up the official version of what transpired on 9/11. Don't you get it? It doesn't matter if Clinton failed to get Osama when he had the chance, because Osama had NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11! He certainly had nothing to do with those Towers falling, or NORAD standing down (and then lying about it), or the Pentagon being hit by whatever the hell hit it! I wouldn't be so quick to throw the word "stupid" around until you've done your homework my friend. www.911blogger.com would be a good place to start. Good day.

Loose Change 2nd Edition

There are several films out which actually document the real events around 9-11. One that is being shared, as in 'file sharing', freely with the permission of the producers is Loose Change 2nd Edition. If you search, with a file sharing program such as Acquisition or LimeWire, you can find, download, and also help to share this important documentary. The more people that are sharing it the faster it will distribute. The more people that are informed of these and other criminal activities associated with the current administration, the more likely we are to overturn the House and Senate in November. Then real investigations of this administration become a likely possibility.

Try Visiting the Website

http://www.loosechange911.com/

Three scenes

1. Bush on the WTC wreckage - only if it's suddenly turned to black and white in the way that cues you to know you're watching an actual investigative report, with the accompanying voiceover. ("But could he have prevented it? Could we have seen this coming?")

2. Bush reading "My Pet Goat." I know Michael Moore had a field day with it, but you could do something different - like bring in facial expression/body language experts to interpret Bush in that moment.

3. An "America's Most Wanted" type dramatization of the events surrounding the delivery of the 8/6/03 "Osama wants to use planes to attack the US" Presidential Daily Brief.

BONUS: You might as well add the footage of Bush flipping off a camera. Kinda sums it all up, dontcha think?

Allen Voivod
Editor, DeadBrain.com and
Co-creator of "The Rumsfeld Diaries Political Action Pak"
www.RumsfeldDiaries.com

My 3, well 4, scenes

Here are my scenes for the Path to 911. Also, it now could actually be called a documentary, because my scenes all actually happened: 1. Pan out on Clinton administration folk, during the transition to the Bush admin, informing Bush and Cheney that the number one threat to the country is al Kaeda and Osama bin Laden. Zoom in closer as reams of documentation on this matter are handed over. Then, zoom in closer as Cheney shelves the information. 2. Pan out on Dumbya, on vacation as usual back then, coming into a room where a CIA briefer presents him with a PDB entitled "bin Laden determined to attack within U.S.". Zoom in on Dumbya literally kicking the guy out while saying, "OK, you've covered your ass". 3. Pan out on the smoldering twin towers. Pan in on Dumbya reading a book about a pet goat while people are jumping out of the twin towers. Then, pan in on Dumbya saying something like, "I thought, man, that's one bad pilot!". This scene could end with Dumbya flying all over the country, criss-crossing back and forth like the scared rabbit he was, literally shitting his pants while Richard Clarke is holding down the fort at the White House. May I suggest just one more scene: Pan in on Dumbya in March of 2002 saying the following about bin Laden: "I don't where he is. You know, I don't spend that much time on him. I truly am not that concerned about him". Truth is, Dumbya was never serious about bin Laden, that's why 911 happened on his watch.

Our president

You need a couple of more scenes. Before the "I don't think much about Bin Laden " comment, you need the I am going to get him dead of alive , and after the, I don't think much.... you need the, .. I don't think I ever said I don't think much about Bin Laden.

Scenes I would include:

First, I would show Osama bin Laden going to the Saudi Royal Family asking permission to take out Saddam Hussein when he was about to invade Kuwait in 1990. After he is rebuffed and the Americans called in instead, he heads for the hills plotting his jihad. Second, I would show the CIA targeting OBL in Afghanistan later on in the 1990s. But he is in a hunting camp with the Dubai Royal Family, and the CIA can't risk that kind of collateral damage. The CIA then gets the message to the Dubai people to step aside, and instead, they warn OBL to get out of the way. This, by the way, is the same Dubai Royal Family that Bush wants to turn over the running of our ports to. Third, I would show Dick Cheney on 9/11 cowering in his "undisclosed location" like the chickenhawk he is.

Scenes I would include

I would have to include a scene showing Bush Sr.'s breakfast meeting with Bin Laden's brother and maybe flashback to Jr's early business relationship with Salim Bin Laden.

Lift this scene out of Richard Clarke's "Against All Enemies"

Found on pages 140- 145, Clarke recounts Clinton Administration plans to "snatch" Osama bin Laden off the streets of Khartoum, Sudan, were he was living in the 1990s, and the Department of Defense and the CIA's reticence to carry out the request.

But in 1996 disacussion of Sudan, [National Security Advisor Sandy] Berger turned to George Tenent, asking if the CIA could snatch the man [bin Laden] in the Khartoum hotel room. Tenet responded that they had no capability to do that in that hostile environment, nor could they find a friendly intelligence service that could (or would) do it.

...To the complete frustration of Berger, [State Secretary Madeleine] Albright, and me, the CIA finally admitted it could do nothing to effect a snatch in Khartoum. DOD was only able to generate options, once again, that looked like going to war with Sudan.

...The White House wanted action. The senior military did not and made it almost impossible for the President to overcome their objections. When in 1993 the White House had leaned on the military to snatch Aideed in Somilia, they had bobbled the operation and blamed the White House in off-the-record conversations with reporters and Congressmen....Often though, we learned, senior military officers let the word spread down the ranks that the politicians in the White House were the ones reluctant to act. The fact is, President Clinton approved every snatch that he was asked to review. Every snatch CIA, Justice, or Defense proposed during my tenure as CSG chairman, from 1992 to 2001, was approved."
pp. 144-145, Against All Enemies,Inside America's War on Terror, Richard Clarke, Simon & Schuster, NY,NY 2004
Now Clarke is ABCNews' terrorism expert, yet here he paints of scene of of military reluctance and CIA fecklessness as opposed to the Mouse-Ka-Toon depiction of Clinton administration cowardice. Clarke was there. He is a primary source.

Clarke not part of Mockumentry

Clarke has come out opposed to the depictions and denounced it. Saying he was a source is just another can in a landfill of lies.

FedUp If as Richard Clarke

FedUp If as Richard Clarke (so-called terrorism expert for ABC News)says, scenes from this "docu-drama" are "180 degrees" from the truth I have a question: Has Clarke resigned in protest or is he still collecting a paycheck as a consultant?

Three simple scenes

I'd like to see some historical background in the form of CHENEY and RUMSFELD drafting the PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY . . . they'd be seen as the scene fades laughing maniacally and gleefully over "Rulng the world!!" Then some of the ENERGY POLICY MEETINGS would be fun . . . we've never seen or heard any part of them. There could be some more gleeful and insane laughter as the scene fades. Then it would be great to get into that interview that the 9-11 Commission had with W and DICK, as they held hands and remembered, together, the tragic day . . . NOT under oath, of course. As they leave the interview they could be seen in a discrete wink to each other and a HI-5 when they're finally out of the Commission's view

a scene from a 9-11 documentary:

how about a scene showing some of the hijackers training at supposedly secure US military facilities?

Did Some Hijackers Get US Military Training?

A series of articles suggest that at least seven of the 9/11 hijackers trained in US military bases. [New York Times, 9/15/2001; Newsweek, 9/15/2001] Ahmed Alnami, Ahmed Alghamdi, and Saeed Alghamdi even listed the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida, as their permanent address on their driver’s licenses. Hamza Alghamdi was also connected to the Pensacola base [Pensacola News Journal, 9/17/2001; Washington Post, 9/16/2001] A defense official confirms that Saeed Alghamdi is a former Saudi fighter pilot who attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. [Los Angeles Times, 9/15/2001; Gannett News Service, 9/17/2001] Abdulaziz Alomari attended Brooks Air Force Base Aerospace Medical School in San Antonio, Texas. [Gannett News Service, 9/17/2001] A defense official confirms Mohamed Atta is a former Saudi fighter pilot who graduated from the US International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. [Los Angeles Times, 9/15/2001; Washington Post, 9/16/2001

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/context.jsp?item=a091501militarytraining

"On the Saturday following the Tuesday attack, the Los Angeles Times broke the story in a long article on their front page.

"A defense official said two of the hijackers were former Saudi fighter pilots," reported the paper, "who had studied in exchange programs at the Defense Language School at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and the Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama."

The story went wide the next day, Sunday, September 15th. Newsweek, the Washington Post and the Miami Herald all reported as many as seven of the terrorist hijackers in the September 11th attacks received training at secure U.S. military installations.

"Two of 19 suspects named by the FBI, Saeed Alghamdi and Ahmed Alghamdi, have the same names as men listed at a housing facility for foreign military trainees at Pensacola. Two others, Hamza Alghamdi and Ahmed Alnami, have names similar to individuals listed in public records as using the same address inside the base," the Washington Post reported.

"In addition, a man named Saeed Alghamdi graduated from the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, while men with the same names as two other hijackers, Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz Alomari, appear as graduates of the U.S. International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, and the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, respectively," the Post said."

http://www.organicconsumers.org/Politics/911scandal052305.cfm

Call the RICO Squad

What the Bushites have been running is nothing less than a mob-like protection racket. The GOPs campaign slogan for the last two elections has been : "Wet your pants and vote for us." This year, it seems to have gone a step futher: "Vote for us or Die." If Americans fall for this again, the only conclusion I can come to is that we are not the land of the free nor the home of the brave. People who live in fear are not free, nor brave. They are chicken-shit cowards in a prison of their own making.

Waiting for Dubbya

I still recall with astonishment that while the footage of the towers falling was being repeated over and over and over, there was no sign of the president. Some brief nonsense of him being on Air Force One or in a secure spot somewhere just in case 'this was it.' And into the evening as the images of 9/11 were being burned into brains, still no sign of Bush. A flimsy squeak from beyond, but he was keeping safe and clear from DC. People standing in stark horror and dumbly asking "Where is the president? Why isn't Bush doing something?" Then some further nonsense that Air Force One was a target. A moment of utter disbelief. And of outrage.

Look at the raw courage displayed by others

*The first responders, esp. the NYFD fire captains, leading the way up an obviously doomed stairwell. These were old men, close to retirement, who could have sent others.
*Every other member of a uniformed service, from air force fighter pilots to transit cops, risking their lives without hesitation.
*Bill Clinton, arriving in a still-smoking NYC all the way from Australia ahead the dilatory Bush.
*Credit where it's due: Mayor Giuiliani, covered with debris, at the scene; Dick Cheney, running the country for the AWOL commander-in-chief; Don Rumsfeld, returning to the destroyed Pentagon to help others.

Where in the HELL was Lt. Mission Accomplished?