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'War on Terror' Narrative Case Study: The Christmas Day Bombing Attempt

2010-04-25T23:02:00.000-07:00

aka Die Hard Like It's 2009!
Essay - ↓ Assumptions - ↓ Data Dump - ↓ Stocks

A couple days after Christmas, a loved one asked me if my gut said this terrorist attempt was a false flag event or other not as officially covered. My reply was yes, but that much more research was needed for a more serious response. So the primary goal of this narrative case study is to clarify the kind of research and mental processes many alternative media followers and researchers use to read between the lines of mass media. This is always research in progress, and there is not yet any specific group(s) to blame beyond the obvious, but we can at least trace some indicators we see in many other narratives, past and present...

Early planning and implementation stages of research, function and integration of new 'security' technologies
Security versus privacy discussions with slow, gradual mental conditioning of the masses to accept the desired changes, whether or not the propaganda succeeds
Testing implementation of technology and related propaganda in small locals long before creating a nationwide policy (no, there's nothing inherently wrong with this process, but it does point to some level of conscious intent)
The rarity of alternative analysis evidence breaking out for a full news cycle in the mainstream discussion, reaching echo chamber status and becoming a 'valid' talking point (all these seem to be relative whitewash in this case study)
Parallel implementation, media spin and narratives in other 'developed' countries
Sometimes finding the key differences in the coverage between the different 'developed' countries expand perspective on an issue ten-fold (nothing big in this case study)

Full disclosure: immediately after learning of these impressive naked x-ray body scanners in December, i fundamentally disagreed with widespread use of this new technology on moral and privacy grounds. As a Burner who does get nude when the time and place is right, it would surely be a different discussion if public nudity was not so taboo. But with today's social norms it is definitely unreasonable (Fourth Amendment style) to perform any equivalence of a strip search on everyone boarding every plane, and it seems high standards of reasonable, documented suspicion should be required for boarding any plane or even passing through Customs.

Comparison of international media coverage before, during and after the event often teaches n facts and shines light if any narratives are being sold at home. This particular narrative is part of a 10 YEAR documented effort to trade new specific privacy concessions for new false senses of security when boarding planes. Testing in a few airports in a country at a time, [AP, 1999] we have gradually been prepared for this. They have used this time to hone their messaging and propaganda arguments for the inevitable nationwide discussion on whether the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) should even be using these. In different local trials, results are always promoted as very favorable. [London Guardian, Independent, CSMonitor] Manufacturers would also simultaneously discuss both how high-resolution details were required in order for the machines to be effective [Washington Times] and how they blur the images for privacy (presumably reducing their effectiveness). [UK Daily Mail] The manufacturers have gone through countless difference animation styles in search for the proper balance of security and privacy, [Global Security, London Telegraph] but either way, England has drawn a line where they consider its use child porn. [The Register, London Guardian] Promoters of the technology have always insisted that all the images captured are immediately destroyed, [CNN] like the London Evening Standard just days before a Bollywood superstar autographed print-outs for girls running his naked body scan in February. [ACLU]

To this day, naked x-ray scanning is voluntary in the places the machines are installed, and "more intense" pat-down searches are offered as the alternative, [AP] but given the decade of novel infringements of our rights, we cannot afford to give up any more fundamental ground we are pushed toward raising the bar yet another notch. [Chicago Tribune, BBC] A few years ago, the UK started the discussion of also adding similar x-ray scanners into their jaw-dropping arsenals of cameras on city streets! [BBC] The mainstream media is already starting to line up the next manufactured security need, as real terrorists can still take their cause one step forward by putting explosives in a body cavity. [UK Daily Mail, New York Post]

If they are implemented on a larger scale as an optional choice to a pat-down, then they can be avoided and are logically useless. Some experts have even demonstrated how these machines might be worked around by hypothetical terrorists. [The Register] If they will be required for all searches of that level, then would they want to use a virtual strip search to search many more people who they wouldn't regularly strip search? So what, other than pure profit-maximizing greed, could the real motive of advance this security arms race? This seems at best a modest transfer of wealth, and at worst a self-fulfilling prophecy for increased terrorism and erosion of constitutional rights.

These are some examples of the narrative's red flags of consistent messaging/conditioning. These omissions of certain topics in the mainstream debate increases suspicion that this event was, in some way, staged by some [small] component[s] of the military-intelligence-industrial complex. The primary motives are assumed to at least be what we've historically seen: short and/or long-term profit while tip-toeing forward a reduction of individual privacy. It is also interesting that when state legislatures pass pro-active laws to protect from more widespread us of similarly invasive technologies, [Idaho Reporter] they are generally generalized as paranoid nuts or coverage focuses on straw man religious arguments instead of constitutional or law-based arguments. [MSNBC]

Since performing the majority of my historical narrative research on this topic in mid-January, a bit more information has been confirmed which seriously conflict with the official story still being referenced weekly. Alex Jones/Infowars/Prison Planet and his now rapidly increasing ~3 million weekly listeners have become something of a hub in the alternative media world, similar to WikiLeaks. One of his listeners was a lawyer from Michigan named Kurt Haskell was one of the first-hand eye-witnesses on the plan, and his story which after being shared with the Infowars audience was covered locally in Michigan Live on Dec 31, Jan 2 and others, but not picked up at all by any other mainstream media except 5 minutes on NPR. His story includes these highlights:

There was initially a second man on the plane (his "man in orange") who was arrested/being held and who allegedly videotaping the incident.
A sharp dressed "Indian man" attempting to talk a ticket agent into letting a supposed "Sudanese refugee" (Abdulmutallab) onto flight 253 without a passport.
If his eye witness account is false, it could easily be proven by releasing the Amsterdam airport video tapes showing the "sharp dressed man".

His story was officially denied by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for about a month, until being confirmed in just a few mainstream places in the next month as the story faded and the presumed truth is used as justification for future measures. The Detroit News, Jan 27 covered some alternate aspect of this event, but has now taken this article down from their own web site, among others, Terror suspect kept visa to avoid tipping off larger investigation:

Patrick F. Kennedy, an undersecretary for management at the State Department, said Abdulmutallab's visa wasn't taken away because intelligence officials asked his agency not to deny a visa to the suspected terrorist over concerns that a denial would've foiled a larger investigation into al-Qaida threats against the United States.

ABC News, Jan 22 also gave it the final three short paragraphs in a two-page online article with the unrelated headline, Alert: Female Suicide Bombers May Be Heading Here From Yemen:

As part of the additional scrutiny, federal agents are conducting extensive background checks on every passenger who flew to Detroit on the Northwest flight in case one of them might have been sent as a "spotter" on the mission. Federal agents also tell ABCNews.com they are attempting to identify a man who passengers said helped Abdulmutallab change planes for Detroit when he landed in Amsterdam from Lagos, Nigeria. Authorities had initially discounted the passenger accounts, but the agents say there is a growing belief the man have played a role to make sure Abdulmutallab "did not get cold feet."

The mainstream media brings up other obvious factors of the investigation related to previous knowledge and information gathering on this alleged terrorist, [ABC] or with his father alerting US officials in advance. [CNN, BBC] But currently, this alternative analysis of events does get a significant mention on Wikipedia, but it is not even being discussed enough to be denied by the mainstream media. It would be more satisfying if some of these harder questions were at least brought up by the US mainstream media, instead of this drum beat to trade more security for privacy. [McClatchy] In this case, and the status quo, the corporate media left and right usually aren't interested in solve any underlying problems. They enjoyed focusing on things like...

Whether or not the Obama administration, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Justice (DoJ) properly responded to the terrorist attempt
Whether or not if he was read his Miranda rights [Democracy Now]
Politicians running campaigns fear mongering fund-raising [MSNBC]
His father alerted officials and Abdulmutallab was on intelligence lists before his terrorist attempt (but stop short of investigating intelligence complicity or enabling) [CNN]

Neither side wanted to ask: Should the less ethical parts of our government/security-complex have better planned or enabled this drill/false flag terrorist attempt in advance, for a faster roll-out of these shiny new machines we already budgeted and bought...to save our tax dollars on the psychological warfare convincing us we need all this? (*tongue, cheek*)

Similar to the sting felt every subsequent time the official story of 9/11 is used to justify policy, i will continue to cringe every time this Christmas Day Bombing Attempt is used as an example of recent terrorist attacks on the US which demand forcing solutions of varying oppression/freedom to people around the world.

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General Background Assumptions

False flags and acts of treason stay quiet longest by requiring as few people involved as possible. So the benefit of the doubt is generally given to the vast majority of the people involved in such a 'conspiracy,' as they do not realize any involvement. Following the motive, money, media, name and organization trails, the owners, stakeholders of the suspicious organizations (and their associates who also profit) almost always have the most to gain, but does not make them guilty, even by association. Nonetheless, the question is important: Who has motives enough to justify such costs to innocent life, liberty or justice?

Historically, those most effectively controlling populations almost always use The Hegelian Dialectic, [Wikipedia] aka the Problem Reaction Solution paradigm, to progress their agendas generally in three steps:

1. Create or exploit a problem, blaming it on others
2. The people react by asking for help, and are willing to trade something
3. Offer the solution that was planned long before the crisis

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Deconstructing A Narrative: Data Dump

I've cataloged over 200 mainstream articles here in my documentation database beyond the highlights in the data dump below:
http://InfoWarDocs.org/?s=x-ray+airports

The media coverage of the privacy debate on these naked x-ray scanners goes back over 10 years. Here is a simplified time line of personal highlights, mingling multiple sides to this narrative with articles in GREEN if they are generally supporting/within the official narrative/discussion, and in RED if they contradict/hurt at least some aspect of the promoted narrative. This is a crude 0/1 spectrum, but also just the first experiment, advice welcome.

Washington Post Dec 30, 1999 - 6 international airports in the US start offering naked x-ray scanners as alternative to a pat-down search. The ACLU raises flags immediately. American Science and Engineering Inc was building them.

Seattle Times Oct 23, 2001 - Mentioned, post-9/11, as another security option. ACLU advocates a go-slow approach, "If there is a less-invasive alternative, it should be used."

Dec 23 2001 - Richard Reid's shoe bombing attempt

New York Times Aug 8, 2002 - Bob Barr, John Edwards and Charles Schumer request a programming change to blur body parts but still detect weapons.

London Telegraph Aug 11, 2002 - First mention found of Rapiscan/OSI Systems building and supplying naked x-ray scanners for TSA. First UK media hit.

Wall Street Journal July 3, 2003 - Mission Accomplished a year and a half after Richard Reid's Shoe bombing attempt... "Ever since Richard Reid was caught on an airliner trying to detonate plastic explosives in one of his shoes, passengers have had to endure occasional footwear inspections in the airport."

New Scientist July 12, 2004 - Announcement that Smiths Detection (of Smiths Group) is starting to work on the naked x-ray scanners, later purchased by TSA.

London Times Nov 7, 2004 - First time naked body scanners used in random UK airport security searches in London Heathrow. Default search, with an opt-out for a hand search.

Boston Globe Dec 28, 2004 - "The technology has proven itself in prisons and among Customs and Border Protection agents who use it to search for drugs, illegal weapons, and contraband." But what would happen, he wondered, if people began outsmarting the technology? ''It would be easy for people to start wearing clothes that are hard to X-ray. If so, then, what's the point?"

Baltimore Sun Dec 31, 2004 - "For most people, even frequent flyers, this low exposure is probably safe - it would take at least 2,500 scans a year to reach the maximum recommended exposure. In fact, it's less than the background radiation from the cosmic rays that you get from flying cross-country, far less than a dental X-ray, hundreds of thousands of times less than a whole body CT scan and millions and millions of times less than X-rays used to treat, say, prostate cancer."

The Register (UK) July 11, 2005 - Report says the naked x-ray machines made by QinetiQ in the UK, at the time, would probably not have stopped the 7/7 London Underground bombings.

Washington Post Mar 4, 2007 - "When American Science and Engineering, which makes the backscatter machines, introduced the technology in prisons nine years ago, the point was to replace strip searches." reprints in a few local papers

Technology Review Oct 30, 2009 - How some of these Terahertz Waves Tear Apart DNA A new model of the way the THz waves interact with DNA explains how the damage is done and why evidence has been so hard to gather.

ATW Dec 14, 2009 (airline industry news outlet) - Transportation Security Administration buy Rapiscan Systems and Smiths Detection machines in the next 30 days, but already had some steps in motion.

Smiths Group Dec 23, 2009! (Press Release) - Pitch for Smiths Medical, but mentions their Smiths Detection branch. This timing is curious, but may be for the 'coincidence theorists'.

Dec 25, 2009 - Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's crotch bombing attempt

CNN Dec 26, 2009 - Passenger: Terror suspect seemed 'stunned'. A man, sitting three or four rows behind Jafry jumped over a group of seats, tackled the suspect and put him in a headlock.

Associated Press Dec 26, 2009 - "US officials knew name of terror suspect who tried to blow up airliner in Detroit - King, the ranking Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, said no federal air marshals were on the flights from Nigeria to Amsterdam and from Amsterdam to Detroit. Abdulmutallab did not go through full-body image screening at either airport, the congressman said."

Michigan Live Dec 26, 2009 - First coverage of Kurt Haskell's story: Flight 253 passenger: Sharp-dressed man aided terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab onto plane without passport (MLive.com exclusive)...While Mutallab was poorly dressed, his friend was dressed in an expensive suit, Haskell said. He says the suited man asked ticket agents whether Mutallab could board without a passport. “The guy said, 'He's from Sudan and we do this all the time.'”

BBC Dec 27, 2009 - Summarizes the official corporate media whitewash analysis of this story: "Father alerted US about Nigerian plane bomb suspect."..."US sources confirm a file was opened, but say the information did not warrant placing the accused on a "no-fly" list. Airports worldwide have increased security after the alleged attack."

Time Dec 28, 2009 - This really shows the system worked because he had to smuggle a bomb that was so difficult to ignite.

National Public Radio Dec 28, 2009 - NPR Interviews Mark Haskell! "Did someone help Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab get onboard the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit? Well, according to two American passengers on Flight 253, an older man - tall and elegantly dressed - accompanied the young Nigerian to a counter before boarding. And they say the older man explained to a woman at the counter that the younger man had no passport."

Michigan Live Dec 29, 2009 - Kurt and Lori Haskell talk Flight 253, passport 'accomplice' and FBI questioning - This week, he and his wife shared their story with several national media outlets.

The Detroit News Dec 30, 2009 - One of a few mainstream acknowledgments of Kurt Haskell's account: 'Ron Smith, chief Customs and Border Protection officer in the Detroit field office, said passengers from Flight 253 are likely giving accurate accounts when they say they saw dogs sniffing bags in the luggage area and a man led away in handcuffs shortly after they got off their Christmas Day flight on which a man created a small fire while trying to detonate explosive chemicals hidden under his clothes. 'There was a second person taken into custody, but it had nothing to do with Flight 253,' Smith said. 'They did see dogs, but again, it was a totally different incident.'"

-- I am also very pleased to announce that it is the first interesting article quickly removed by a mainstream news source which my InfoWarDocs database has been able to archived here via its automated backup. My crude script often gives this very rough layout, but all the original text content has been preserved.

Xinhuanet (China) Dec 30, 2009 - One of only a few articles found mentioning the stocks of any related companies, who benefits. Almost only in international news, and Business Week. Thanks China.

Democracy Now Dec 30, 2009 - A Look at Obama’s Handling of the Case and the Media’s Coverage. President Obama has acknowledged that a “systemic failure” of the nation’s intelligence and security measures paved the way for last week’s aborted bomb attack on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.

Boston Globe Jan 2, 2010 - A more heavily covered aspect: The Chertoff Group, Michael Chertoff's security consulting agency, includes a client that manufactures the machines. In the summer, TSA purchased 150 more machines from Rapiscan with $25 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds.

HomelandDefenseStocks.com Jan 4, 2010 - American Science and Engineering announces $39 million dollar govt contract for cargo x-ray machines.

St Petersburg Times Jan 5, 2010 - The Transportation Security Administration last week awarded a contract to L-3 Communications to buy up to $165 million worth of its ProVision scanners. The TSA recently said it ordered 150 Rapiscan scanners to be installed this year and had funding for an additional 300 from an unidentified source.

MSNBC Jan 5, 2010 - Olbermann - Detroit bomber intel failure: ‘Conspiracy or cock up?’ "That has got to be an area that the White House is looking into and, you know, motives can be hard to assess because it's not clear that this person was easily identified as a terrorist. Even with the father coming forward saying they had concerns, was that more of a family concern or were there enough fingerprints here about the radicalization of this individual to suggest that it should have been taken to a different level - at the very least a security level beyond more than a nominal sharing of information. That's where this inquiry, this internal inquiry, for the moment, has to go."

Toledo Blade Jan 8, 2010 - Obama orders $1B spent in advanced-technology equipment, including body scanners, for screening passengers at airports.

McClatchy Jan 12, 2010 - Poll: Most Americans would trim liberties to be safer - The survey found 51 percent of Americans agreeing that "it is necessary to give up some civil liberties in order to make the country safe from terrorism." At the same time, 36 percent agreed that "some of the government's proposals will go too far in restricting the public's civil liberties."

CNN Jan 22, 2010 - Authorities were watching different Nigerian on Christmas Day flight - Emmanuel Chukwu shared the same travel itinerary with Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab, the suspect in the unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Amsterdam, Netherlands-to-Detroit flight. Both men were originally from Nigeria and had studied as engineers. - Federal agents pulled Chukwu aside for several hours of intense screening when Northwest 253 landed in Detroit, shortly after authorities say AbdulMutallab tried to set off an explosive device concealed in his underwear.

London Guardian Jan 26, 2010 - UK goes ahead and announced the pat-down will NOT be an alternative to the naked x-ray when it goes on trial a week from now in Heathrow airport.

The Detroit News Jan 27, 2010 - Admission that AbdulMutallab was more than just on a list, but actively being used in part of a larger project. "Revocation action would've disclosed what they were doing," Kennedy said in testimony before the House Committee on Homeland Security. Allowing Adbulmutallab to keep the visa increased chances federal investigators would be able to get closer to apprehending the terror network he is accused of working with, "rather than simply knocking out one solider in that effort."

Kurt Haskell via Prison Planet Jan 30, 2010 - "Since our flight landed on Christmas Day, Lori and I have been doing everything in our power to uncover the truth about why we were almost blown up in the air over Detroit. The truth is now finally out after the publication of the following Detroit News article"

UK Daily Mail Jan 30, 2010 - "Terrorists 'plan attack on Britain with bombs INSIDE their bodies' to foil new airport scanners"

BBC Feb 1, 2010 - "'No scan, no flight' at Heathrow and Manchester"..."It is now compulsory for people selected for a scan to take part, or they will not be allowed to fly. The new security rules have been introduced following the attempt to blow up a plane over Detroit on Christmas Day."

Bloomberg Feb 5, 2010 - Airport Body Scanning Raises Radiation Exposure, Inter-Agency Committee on Radiation Safety says

Times of India Feb 9, 2010 - Australia to introduce body scanners after failed US attack

IBN Live Feb 10, 2010 - New 3D scanner at airports not to show body parts - Canada has also ordered installation of 44 scanners at all its important airports.

American Civil Liberties Union Feb 10, 2010 - Body Scanner = Naked Movie Star Pictures; That Didn't Take Long - We're not the type to say "I told you so." Alright maybe we are. In this case we just couldn't help ourselves.

NPR Feb 17, 2010 - Accused Christmas Bomber Listened to Music, Slept - "Well, I mean, it was a threat, of course, it was a threat because initially, he was trying to blow up the plane but he didn't succeed. I mainly treat him this way because of how he reacted towards what he was doing. And what his actions told me on the plane was that he was in over his head, and that he didn't exactly know what he was doing would entail."

Reuters March 16, 2010 - U.S. air travelers complain about body scans

Chicago Tribune March 16, 2010 - Body scans eventually mandatory, TSA official says - Currently, air travelers have the option to submit to a pat-down and metal-detecting wanding. - “We expect at some point all passengers will receive a body scan”

CNN April 21, 2010 - Groups ask DHS to suspend full-body imagers - More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of full body imagers at airports, saying there is evidence that privacy safeguards don't work and the devices are not effective.

So it was announced on Dec 14th that the companies building and selling the selected machines, Rapiscan Systems (interestingly run by Deepak Chopra) and Smiths Detection (British company), that the TSA would buy their machines in the next 30 days {ATW}, and i performed many thorough Google News searches in January to compile a history of this shorter narrative. Starting with a more general searches like: "X-ray body scanners terrorists", sorted by date, then start filtering by eye for articles related to this kind of x-ray technology. Google News archive searches were also done, sorted by date, for each of the companies now making the x-ray naked scanning machines for airports, and each of the terrorists.

Though i was later able to find some more articles with different searches, this acted as one benchmark of how likely most people had heard the news on this terrorism narrative around Christmas. Google News, Default (Recent) Searches done in mid-January:

Rapiscan - 13 Pages, but only one article before Christmas, on Dec 14th
Smiths Detection - 6 Pages, about a dozen articles before Christmas mostly on announcement of new VP, earliest was Dec 14th
American Science and Engineering - 4 Pages, all after Christmas, earliest Dec 28, 2009
ICx Technologies - 8 Pages, all after Christmas, earliest Dec 30, 2009

You might notice how parallel the United Kingdom paths on homeland security and privacy, it's often described as the Anglo-American Empire, they're usually a few years ahead of us. Also notice (by article tags) how long the ACLU has been fighting this.

Since Christmas, the media coverage of course skyrockets, but the basic discussion is the same as it has been for 10 years. But now it is in all major headlines everywhere, and not just more local mentions for the areas with airports testing the technology. All the aspects and arguments summarized above were out there, but whichever ones you remember hearing from the mainstream is likely the version of the narrative desired at the top.

From reading through its media history, and reviewing the full time line generated on my database, it seems clear that elements of the military-industrial complex have been building and consistently pushing a wide variety of these naked x-ray scanners. But since such security equipment manufacturing corporations are lawfully required to maximize their profits for their shareholders, can we really even blame them if they did orchestrate this one? Brutal.

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Stock Prices: Scratching One More Surface

Given the potential contract with TSA, the high predictability of a rise in the stock price immediately after the bombing attempt is itself an opportunity for anyone with foreknowledge to profit on the short-term. But even if nobody took advantage of their foreknowledge, there's a clear long-term benefit for shareholders and helping secure their next round of government contracts.

So it was announced on Dec 14th that the companies building and selling the selected machines, Rapiscan Systems (interestingly run by Deepak Chopra) of OSI Systems and Smiths Detection (British company), that the Transportation Security Administration would buy their machines in the next 30 days {ATW}

...without major change in OSI Systems stock price,
...then a negligable rise after a press release from Smiths Group on Dec 23rd
...and finally jumping from 22.02 just before the bombing, to 32.64 by Jan 8th, just shy of a 50% increase, and is the highest point in their 12 year history!

Smiths Detection, part of Smiths Group, is on the British market and while it did have some gains following the attempt, it was no outlier in the big picture of their stock.

Given the way in which this terrorist attempt should help solidify their pending contract with TSA and is likely to continue inflating their stock, i would be completely happy if i at least heard a US mainstream media outlet MENTION this obvious potential motive. But it seems possible that the TIMING of the bombing attempt could not have been any better for Rapiscan and Smiths.

Another company, though not mentioned as part of this month's purchase is American Science and Engineering Inc, first mentioned regarding naked x-rays in airports in October 2001, but had been building these devices for PRISONS at least since 1998:

...ASEI had its first big stock doubling immediately after 9/11, with an August high of ~6 and September high of ~15
...with slow decline until the second half of 2004 when it rose to an all-time high in March '06 of ~93
...waffling until a low of ~58 in March '09, and rising steadily since then
...Dec 24th closed at 71.70, rising five points alone on the 28th, then announcing another $39 million govt contract for cargo x-ray machines on Jan 4th [HomelandDefenseStocks.com]
...then rising up to 83.53 by Jan 8th.

And the final company, which i learned of at the very end of this phase of the research, ICx Technologies, who makes other security devices:

...while closing it's first day in Nov '07 at 12.60, dropping to 4.39 in Mar '08, rising for a year then sharing ASEI's Mar '09 drop bringing them back down to 4.12
...they close at 4.98 on Christmas Eve, and close out 2009 at 9.52, nearly doubling!

Interestingly, the deal merging Northwest Airlines with Delta Airlines had also just been completed and is in the final steps. [ABC] But Delta's stock appeared unaffected by the incident.

But again, many defense contractor stocks increased in response to this terrorist attempt, as most such companies and government directly benefit from 9/11. This is just meant to demonstrate how tangible and concrete this motive is, both for these companies and financial speculators with inside information. After all, Wall Street is where the largest sum of wealth and power in world history are currently being consolidated.

Corrections, Additions, Feedback
Open Source Intelligence. I am 100% open to receiving constructive criticisms of this analysis in progress, and will incorporate anything else interesting learned into the essay to keep improving it (maybe until some massive new development in the story). So please teach me more, and add your comments on this essay with help like...

Other articles or documents deserving highlights in the streamlined data dump, for any side of any sub-topic
Important sub-topics missing from discussion
Finding any more info on how the stocks lay over the narrative
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Revolving Door Reversal! Brief Case Study with Swine Flu

2010-02-04T21:18:00.000-08:00

Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg, until just a few months ago he was a leader of the Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe, the oldest institution uniting Europe since 1949, now representing 47 countries. He obtained his postgraduate qualifications in internal medicine and pneumology, in public health, social medicine, hygiene and environmental medicine in Germany and further training in epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University.

After resigning he immediately joined the fraud investigation regarding the Swine Flu Panic of '09, he pushed it to the Council, and received their consensus in confirming various acts of corruption. In part, this must be due to the dozens of independent journalists around the world who have been collecting information since the months before the flu even started. Their flags of interest were raised by the FEMA/military preparations for pandemics and/or the growing billions of dollars of vaccine stockpiles approaching their expiration date.

We must encourage more of this kind of Revolving Door Reversal, where people leave to fight for justice, instead of succumbing to the greedy gravitation towards corporations. Push 100% for rational discussion and debate on any topic upon leaving, as we have been at a loss for checks and balances. Perhaps this can be the more typical Revolving Door of the next century, thank you Dr. Wodarg!

Key Points Now Officially Confirmed:
- World Health Organization (WHO) drastically changed the definition of "pandemic"
- Mass produced vaccine was not nearly adequately tested, and used adjuvants with unknown side-effects
- Officials received alternate vaccines without adjuvants
- Vaccines were patented, so supply and profits bottle-necked through a few big Pharma giants. He argues the better alternative is to allow no patents and share the process everywhere to enable local production.
- Some WHO officials were paid off to help promote the panic
- Poland, France and Germany were right not to take the vaccine
- Japanese already bought the vaccines, but now know, and aren't sure whether to administer them
- One of his stated goals in pushing for this justice is to repair the WHO and restore its honor and trust with the world's people

Full Interview from Feb 3rd. It's in 3 parts, 30 minutes total:
...please start with 5 minutes if you're nervous, and hopefully you'll be interested

Part 1:

Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=x7xy1cM45XI

Part 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=xqOX8Q-Y4h4

There are layers of scandals i will not go into detail on, but each of the pharmaceutical companies making the vaccines have an offense track record to be chosen again by WHO. There was lots of obvious media to prepare our minds to accept martial law, quarantines and forced inoculations as the logical reactions to such a pandemic.

My foreknowledge of almost all of this fraud since the beginning, because Alex Jones/ Prison Planet/ Infowars is ONE OF my sources for news...

For two years, I have learned a lot from watching nearly every episode of Rachel Maddow, The Daily Show, Colbert Nation, many Democracy Now and Infowars broadcasts. A few times a month, Infowars will break a story they have received from listeners, then verified, by the over 3 million awakening people a week between radio, internet broadcast and people re-post on YouTube, etc. Then two or three weeks later the online buzz from inescapable facts covered by alternative media forces the information into the mainstream. We are often validated again by being able to accurately predict the narrative for the reaction to these facts, as presented in the mainstream media. Once you get the feel of their narratives, you'll give the movie three thumbs down for predictability and unnecessary gore.

Thus watching the frequency of accurate analysis in my experience, the Infowars method is far more historically accurate for past, present and future events that the top-down media outlets, though the rest of those shows aren't too terrible, they have topic limits. Alex Jones has evolving into more of a hub for this kind of information, and not some unilateral source. The bigger it gets, the more it becomes like a Wiki style media, collaborating with a broad variety of people with shared root concerns. And yes he can have a shock-style presentation sometimes, but given the gravity of his content i can rarely blame him for his passion. One should compensate for the bias behind any presentation of information, and even without any spin, the facts scream for themselves.

Here is a fairly clear prediction aired 11 months ago on the Alex Jones show...ONE MONTH before the flu startedand then hit the headlines. Dr. Rebecca Carley explains how she was already watching these companies because of the millions of vaccines about to expire. They also discuss some of the potential directions the conspirators could go with a consciously initiated pandemic, but there is more modern eugenics background needed to accept the possibility of those more hypothetical parts of their predictions. We can certainly now prove the basic fraud confirmed the Council of Europe this week.

Full disclosure on this doctor...this apparently happened: http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/carley.html

It looks like her license was revoked because people thought she was crazy, largely due to her vocal anti-vaccination position and trauma from her child's vaccine reactions, "Dr. Labins also stated that the Respondent believes that the government is interested in pursuing all persons who are opposed to vaccinating children, which is part of a global government plot in collusion with the drug industry." It is therefore ironic that almost a year after making these predictions she should be at least partially vindicated for her fears of vaccine conspiracies. She also charged fear of being discriminated against for her vaccine beliefs, which sounds like a discriminatory charge. I have not delved to her history, found this side-note interesting, and it does little to invalidate her now confirmed prediction in my mind.

Infowardocs.org also has over 200 articles chronicled, largely from those first months of Swine Flu Panic '09:

http://infowardocs.org/index.php?allchron=1&x=OR&tag1=3366

And after watching media narratives and coverage trends for years, these are some more interesting articles which i felt were mentally preparing me/us for some kind of pandemic (dangerous or not) coming soon to a city near you...

Wired Mar 24, 2008 - flashback to March 24, 1976: Ford Orders Swine-Flu Shots for All - first observed at Fort Dix, New Jersey
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/dayintech_0324

Bloomberg Feb 10, 2009 - Panasonic Sends Workers' Families Home on Flu Risk - Panasonic Corp. has instructed Japanese workers assigned to parts of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South America to send family members back to Japan because of the risk of outbreaks of new influenza strains, Nikkei English News said, without citing anyone.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aXjbg7pIcXo4&refer=japan

Bloomberg Feb 24, 2009 - Baxter Sent Bird Flu Virus to European Labs by Error - The contamination was discovered when ferrets at a laboratory in the Czech Republic died after being inoculated with vaccine made from the samples early this month - experts later explain how this could not possibly be an accident with much of the Biosafety Level 3 standards which were supposedly in place
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aTo3LbhcA75I

Times of India Mar 6, 2009 - Virus mix-up by lab could have resulted in pandemic - It's emerged that virulent H5N1 bird flu was sent out by accident from an Austrian lab last year and given to ferrets in the Czech Republic before anyone realized. As well as the risk of it escaping into the wild, the H5N1 got mixed with a human strain, which might have spawned a hybrid that could unleash a pandemic.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Health--Science/Science/Virus-mix-up-by-lab-could-have-resulted-in-pandemic/articleshow/4230882.cms

Scientific American April 2009 - Our Sick Farms, Our Infected Food - Congress and the FDA must upend the nation's agricultural policies to keep its food supply safe - Graphic shows pigs, and explains how dirty farms can give humans diseases. Note that to make it in this issue, this was written before the outbreak.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sick-farms-infected-food

CNN Apr 22, 2009 - (Two days beforethe virus news breaks) 3 virus vials missing from Fort Detrick, MD - In 97 percent of cases, humans with the virus suffer flu-like symptoms, but it can be deadly in about 1 out of 100 cases, according to Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for the Army's Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/22/missing.virus.sample/index.html

Following these hints,the first big Swine Flu story of the year breaks on April 24, 2009:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=swine+flu&scoring=n&hl=en&ned=us&um=1&sa=N&sugg=d&as_ldate=2009/04&as_hdate=2009/04&lnav=dt

A CONCEPT: Wikication, a Wiki-Based Education Curriculum

2010-02-03T19:14:00.000-08:00

So i had an idea this week which i'm throwing out there:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikication, but they promptly notified that it would be deleted for not being a real thing so...
http://www.youthrights.net/index.php?title=Wikication
http://educationalwikis.wikispaces.com/Wikication
http://ideas.wikia.com/wiki/Wikication
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=283309491091

Here is a copy of how it's been started...

Goals - Foster curiosity and ability to research and think critically, by allowing students wider flexibility in study topics. Develop a more balanced history of the world based on less biased minds, if enough schools in the world incorporated this simple idea into their curriculum. Empowers students by publishing their work to the world to submit it.

University/High School/Middle School Classes

Assignment Prerequisites: Basic knowledge on the process of researching (to level desired), both in the Card Catalog and the Google. The students are taught the basic syntax and method of properly documenting their writing, Wiki-style.
The concept is one assignment template which could be integrated once into a curriculum, of be used for most parts of a curriculum, as appropriate. Multiple assignments could focus on specific a range, or each assignment having its own range, as required.

Basic Assignment Template

A broad range of topics is defined for the assignment, hypothetical examples:
- Any Biology subjects
- Any topics/events related to Political Science from the 1990s
- Any Physics topics related to centrifugal forces
- Any biographies of European fiction writers
Select the appropriate Wiki on the Web
- Wikipedia - wikipedia.org - more for older students
- Simple English Wikipedia - http://simple.wikipedia.org - Intended for English as a Second Language, but maybe appropriate for younger students?
- Wikidia - http://wikidia.wikispaces.com - Another Wiki for young peopler
Each student finds an article on the Wiki which is either
- Empty, or nearly empty
- Has some substance but could use more details and whole areas of discussion yet to be explored
- Has thorough documentation, but lacks a key perspective and/or contains significant, prolonged inaccuracies
The teacher approves the topic or asks them to choose another, until it is appropriate
Each student does research to write or modify the Wiki page and publishes their final work, giving their teacher:
- A link to the article on the Wiki
- A separate copy of their contribution
After grading, the students would be expected to correct any [unintentional] misinformation they contributed to the Wiki

Homework Revisited - Even Better Media Tips

2010-02-03T18:45:00.000-08:00

Over the last six months i have had deep, satisfying, and encouraging discussions with many of my friends and it seems that many ideas are just under the skin of many people. In this process, i have learned of more great options for media to help introduce these ideas to newcomers who have not already been hooked into researching random topics more deeply.

The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear (BBC 3 hours)
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-power-of-nightmares/
Wasn't previously available online for free, but it is now, a big thank you to my hero at TopDocumentaryFilms.com! This explains how US intelligence created what is now called Al Qaeda using Bin Laden as a front to fight Russia in Afghanistan. Filled with history like how "Al Qaeda" roughly translates to "the database" and it was just the name of the database they had of these potential terrorists/assets in this fight. Also mind-blowing realization that these warmonger neocons Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz have been pulling this crap off for 3 decades.
David Ray Griffin: 9/11 The Myth and The Reality (99 min)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4069714733894389451
Steps through an amazing analysis of nine core myths of 9/11. Much less sensational presentation, and more scholarly. All sources mentioned here are also cataloged in infowardocs.org.
Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency of Barack H Obama (144 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VebOTc-7shU
Alex Jones' latest and best, he finally took himself out of it much more...key as he has a tendency to turn off many liberals on first impressions. This is a thorough and sobering overview about the real geo-political structures running our world. It is much less about Obama himself, but about those above him.
The Pinky Show (on and off YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/user/pinkyshow
Much more liberal-biased presentation, but similar depth into many issues of imperialism and conspiracy.
Intelligence Squared Debates
I've cataloged many right here: http://infowardocs.org/about.php#iq2
But here are the official sites with more recent debates:
Intelligence Squared, Intelligence Squared US
Reflections And Warnings - An Interview With Aaron Russo (95 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGAaPjqdbgQ
Major interview with an outspoken rebel friend of one of the Rockefellers, about the ways in he woke up to the large-scale injustices of the world.

My Introductory Letter to Friends and Family

2009-06-07T14:19:00.000-07:00

Dearest Friends and Family,

“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.” – Socrates (probably)

I wish to unite a somewhat urgent meeting with you and several other closest and most trusted minds. While being aware of certain information and ideas since 2001, perhaps I was intimidated by the breath and scope. Or perhaps my focus on fighting the absurd ‘war on drugs,’ which had affected me more directly, seemed like a more manageable goal. But over the past seven years, I have done my best to research and rationalize away from what increasingly seems to be an Orwellian reality, without adequate success. Therefore, I feel this need to reveal my opinions to an unprecedented degree. In this endeavor, I hope I am not, though assume I am, unknowingly plagiarizing ideas of great minds past. But rest assured: I am still, and always will be, an absolute pacifist.

The topics I am touching on here are only being raised here because I have found enough solid evidence to support them. The bits of evidence I do briefly touch upon can found via Google and my research database, InfowarDocs.org, described at the end. My hope is that some of these issues alarm you too, and we can find solutions together.

Background On My World View

These are the most difficult, and highest level issues to wrestle with in search of truth. Usually we have the official story on one side and the ‘conspiracy theorists’ providing an alternate story. But rarely do we receive rational debate based on facts and evidence from both sides, let alone an official response to accusations. Instead, the two sides endlessly write off each others’ arguments as coming from the crazies, blinded or corrupted. My tendencies lean on the side of those promoting transparency over secrecy. Therefore, I am particularly skeptical of the motives of those who categorically deny the evidence for such theories, no matter how strongly it is based in science or public record.

Raised solidly from the left, one of my earliest memories from elementary school is of writing George H W Bush a letter, including silly clip art, pleading against the war in

Iraq

. I have always voted for Democrats except a protest vote for Nader in 2000 when Maryland was safe for Gore. But my belief in the right for anybody to put anything into their bodies, absent harm to others, (all drugs should be taxed and regulated) opened me to many of the libertarian concepts. But at the end of the day, I disagree with the right-left paradigm and do not think any two parties could ever provide a true democracy.

While raised with a firm belief in capitalism, I simultaneously believe that certain things should be not be based in profit, like basic food, shelter, health care and protection of the environment…to the extreme that it would be far more effective to feed and shelter peoples of the Middle East rather than invade and murder them in reaction to the 9/11 attacks. Hence, I do not think the appropriate question is asking what form of capitalism or socialism is best, but rather we must accept the fact that we have no working examples of superior forms of government which could obey truth and citizens’ interest.

Similarly, I am not against globalization, but rather I am concerned with the motives and methods which have thus far been used to covertly bring in world governmental bodies that we already know like the United Nations and World Trade Organization. I do think most people in these organizations have good intentions. Have you heard of the North American Union, which quietly began merging the United States with Canada and Mexico in 2005? While there are certain realities which require countries to coordinate closely with each other, but this can be done without loss of sovereignty and human rights, using transparent and honest methods.

9/11 Was A False Flag Attack

“False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations or other organizations, which are designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities.” (Wikipedia)

In the days following 9/11, the official story developing and the war drum beating towards the Middle East was inherently illogical to me (blaming Osama bin Laden the ex-CIA asset and Al Qaeda, which we now know was at the time merely the name of one of our intelligence databases). First, how could our citizens assume we did not deserve such an attack despite the [covertly] inflicted terrorism and wars we have promoted around the world through the decades? Second, how could unilaterally invading any country possibly improve our national security? Of course, it was clear to everyone that such logic pales to the forces of the military-industrial complex, and yet I felt very nervous about making many of my ‘unpatriotic’ views public.

The ‘USA Patriot Act’ earned my attention both as a drug policy activist and as one with an open ear to ‘conspiracy theorists.’ As it was clear to most, this was a blatant slap in the face to our Constitution and our basic rights, sold to the public as a required trade of freedoms for security. While we have never had something close to a pure democracy, now even our basic liberties and rights are too threatened. And of course, our country’s invasions of the Middle East were fear-mongered missteps in defiance of US and international law.

But as increasing 9/11 evidence and analysis have come out over the years, it has become increasing conclusive in my mind that the official story was at best, a gross mismanagement of foreknowledge by multiple agencies. At worst, it is much closer to an intentional plot including some of the nation’s highest leaders to quickly progress their pre-declared goals of war and a state of security. But from years of interest and study in basic physics, simply watching the nearly free-fall collapse of the World Trade Center buildings, through the path of most resistance, inherently screamed to me that these were controlled demolitions…and I knew I was not alone (patriotsquestion911.com).

To this day, the victims of 9/11 still have not had 70% of their questions answered, including two of the most smoking guns, in my opinion:

The controlled demolition of World Trade Center Building 7, not hit by any planes
This statement from the 9/11 Commission Report: “To date, the US Government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance.”

It is my opinion that the origin of the money is of the most practical significance, and this mentality completely discredits the efforts and motivations of the 9/11 Commission.

Intelligence whistle blowers and rare media outlets have found fairly convincing paper trails, much more informative than the official 9/11 Commission. Far beyond that, just two months ago Niels Harrit and his team of chemists at the University of Copenhagen published a peer-reviewed paper confirming the discovery of un-reacted nano-thermite (thermate) explosives in World Trade Center dust in New York City. Nano-thermite, is extremely advanced and currently only publicly known to be used by the US Department of Defense and military. This finding is in direct conflict with the conclusions of fire-based collapse provided by FEMA, NIST and the 9/11 Commission.

So while the attacks gave all governments across the world a great boost in power, increasingly clear to me that our US leaders allowed, if not provided, this problem to which they could directly push through their narrow-scoped set of solutions. These are the conclusions I have come to thus far on this event, and I strongly encourage you to learn as much as you can to reach your own conclusions. Unfortunately, given all the evidence I have reviewed, I can only believe that 9/11 was a false flag attack.

Is A Policy Paradigm Shift Actually Happening?

While it is good for people to come to these realizations now, it is obviously far too late to stop the mass deaths from wars and torture. We are almost eight years out from this event, and people reaching these conclusions are still categorically considered ‘crazies’ by the mainstream media. This sets an extremely dangerous precedent as to how much the government is still able to get away despite this budding age of information, a renaissance which I hope ushers in a paradigm of ultimate respect for truth…but this is clearly not the agenda of the top policy makers.

Ever since the 9/11 false flag, we have seen such a rapid disassembly of our constitutional liberties and rights, but more importantly President Obama seems to be defending far too many of these abominations. One major turning point for me was his recent speech delivered in the National Archives in front of the US Constitution, during which he defended the use of prolonged detentions, the guilty before proven innocent logic (we still have plenty of legal loopholes remaining open for torture and rendition)…it felt straight out of Orwell, and offended me to my very core. Simultaneously, the new administration is saying we should not investigate and prosecute the crimes of the past administration, and instead focus on the future…one must remember that we are only supposed to prosecute crimes which have occurred in the past.

During his excellent speech in Cairo, A New Beginning, he echoed another core George W Bush principle, “I am aware that some question or justify the events of 9/11. But let us be clear: Al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 people on that day.”

President Obama’s constitutional law background (which I was so naively counting on) does not appear to be enough for truly fundamental change, absent widespread pressure from citizens. While much of the rhetoric is still sounding good, there seem to be inadequate actions on most fronts to back it up. Since I was a supporter of the Obama campaign (knowing Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul would probably not be able to win), I still like to believe that he has good intentions deep down but we must free him from his handlers to see them enacted.

Grave Concerns About ‘State Of Emergency’ Executive Powers

Even our internet is now (publicly) being threatened with the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, by Senator John D Rockefeller IV, Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. This would give the executive branch the power to shut down or retrieve loosely defined ‘critical’ data throughout the internet in a case of emergency (which is absolutely possible from a technical standpoint). If passed this gives the power to end our key source of free speech or fully shut down the internet as we know it.

This is only the most recent in the growing ‘emergency’ powers the executive branch has been accumulating over the past 50 years to the point where the US President can truly act as a dictator, and martial law can be imposed over every aspect of our country. Unfortunately, martial law is also much more realistic than it might sound. The military and police have become increasingly integrated across the country since 9/11, in addition to the availability of international forces if need be (North American Union, United Nations). While some would argue that we need policies in place as contingency plans, to me this argument does not hold to me. The same people providing such solutions are also creating, or at least driving us towards, the crises in which it could be ‘needed.’

The threat of martial law really hit me a month ago during the height of the bogus swine flu scare, which the World Health Organization used to practice pandemic alert level 5 (after tweaking the requirements to declare it). With George W. Bush’s Executive Directive 51 and other directives, the US President can declare a ‘state of emergency’ from this alert level (the final level 6 would have made it far more likely). That week I watched a lawyer on a FOX news show rationalizing and mentally preparing people to accept martial law should it be imposed, and now there are discussions in the media debating forced inoculations for the fall.

Even if this spring’s harmless yet unprecedented swine flu was not hatched in a US military lab, as many voices argue, I feel our world leaders and their industry counterparts have far too much control over our collective and individual fate. To me, this is yet another largely unseen example of how far we have strayed from the democracy I was taught; just how little voice we effectively have, and the potential for certain interests to force their problem on us, followed by their solution, without a care for our principles or liberties.

While I am in no way an economist, my research on our financial system as we’ve known it for the past 100 years points to its acute design for inevitable collapse. Even without ridiculous blank checks to banks (and who knows what’s in the stimulus package), we pay interest on the money which is privately printed for us, and we can therefore never break even with our collective debt. Through this inherent debt on currency, derivatives tools and exponentially growing government spending (in the past decades for tools of destruction rather than creation), there are many indicators and economic experts say our current economic collapse will shortly include the end of our fiat dollar.

Taking The Next Steps

I would like to believe we can solve all these core problems with the right kind of policy actions, even if we cannot determine what, if any, specific group(s) of individuals are enclosing this trap upon us. But I am conflicted because this strategy, as with any policy-based activist movement, it would require the broadest public mobilization. While maybe this may be a possibility given the impending financial collapse of our society, one of my key questions is if we have time before our financial collapse is combined with one state of emergency of choice to usher in a new darker age in place of a renaissance.

Furthermore, I cannot help but feel that in retrospect, our human race will be defined by whether we can resist our own self-destruction and evolve past violence and corruption, to possibly become more significant force of creation and truth in our universe.

When I hit my breaking point a month or two ago and needed to start taking action, I built a simple online database to help me catalog and aggregate the mostly mainstream articles and public records upon which these ‘conspiracy theories’ are based, or as I find more appropriate, ‘agenda analysis.’ INFOWARdocs.org now has over 2,300 links to news articles, documents (both government and corporate) and videos, organized by over 1,700 keywords, with basic options to filter and search. To get started on your research, I would advise loading the site and filtering for topics that interest you, reading some headlines, then reading the details than interest you.

So I find myself in desperate need of your counsel as to what we must do to preserve the rights and ideals we were all raised to hold most dear. I would love to be proven wrong by you on as much of this as possible, but know we are all crippled by the filters through which all evidence is processed. So I wish to recruit you to check my work, bring your perspective to the table, and to collaborate on potential solutions and strategies. Thus far, here are some of the concrete solutions I feel may give us a chance without full-blown revolution:

Campaign Finance Reform
so long as the politician with the most money usually gets elected we can never shed their corruption
End the Federal Reserve
so long as we have no control over, and are indebted by the printing of our own currency, we are always at least partial slaves to some banking elite
End Nuclear and Biological Weapons (world development and stockpiles)
as this is the easiest and most straight-forward ways for us to destroy ourselves
End the Corporation
so long as corporations are entities which are legally obligated to maximize profits for the benefit of their shareholders, we can never shed their corruption
End the Central Intelligence Agency (and possibly the National Security Agency)
even if we need covertly collected intelligence, citizens cannot make informed decisions without transparency

I implore you to do as much research as you can, and join me for an initial meeting of our minds to help decide how we might best lead our generations away from Orwell’s world and towards positive and sustainable prosperity. I will be contacting you to try to organize one or two meetings between August and October at my house (maybe one on west coast if needed)…even though I understand very few will want to get involved with any of these issues (via activism), I need to gather your perspectives on these issues to determine their validity and strategies for solutions as thoroughly as possible. While sharing our ideas, it is also my hope that we will all learn a great deal and evolve our personal filters with which we each view our respective fields and lives. If you have a trusted friend who might be, it would be great to invite them too. I must thank my beloved parents and girlfriend for so patiently, rationally and respectfully debating these issues with me over the past few months, allowing me to clarify and verbalize what all of this means to me.

What do you think about a working title for these informal meetings?
2009 InfoWar and Peace Summit

Much love,
Morgan

PS. I am also posting this letter online at http://infowarandpeace.blogspot.com with some imbedded hyperlinks regarding certain key information mentioned.

HOMEWORK:
Requested Viewing Material For Your Review

Yes, most of this is blatant propaganda promoted by various ‘conspiracy theorists.’ But they distribute the videos for free, don’t seem to own the mainstream media, must compete with the main line to the best of their abilities, and I assume none of us have the time to read all of the books one might need to grasp these concepts. As I strive to be, please be open-minded yet skeptical of all, and investigate deeper into topics which you may find particularly interesting, offensive or alarming. I would like to discuss, and possibly re-watch, some of these films when we meet. These should be accessible online through a Google search:

America

: Freedom to Fascism (2006, 111 minutes)

Important documentary by Aaron Russo, on the unconstitutionality of the federal income tax and the federal reserve system. Ties in a bit with the USA Patriot Act and its atrocities to our constitution.

2. The Obama Deception (2009, 111 minutes)

A decent post-partisan overview as to where we stand today as of May 15^th, by Alex Jones who has also made some of the most damning documentaries of the Bushes. The only significant statement of fact I have found to be false is that Timothy Geithner, not Barack Obama, got his first job from Henry Kissinger, the majority is simply public record. All accessible source articles displayed can be quickly found in my INFOWARdocs.org database.

3. Loose Change Final Cut (2007, 130 minutes)

The brute logic, eyewitness and scientific evidence one can use to cut through the official conspiracy theory sold by the 9/11 Commission. The third version of a classic, started by some of the original 9/11 Truthers in New York, contains much updated information. An earlier edition of this film was one of the few things specifically debated by the editors of Popular Mechanics, though I have not found their arguments to hold up. All accessible source articles displayed can be quickly found in my INFOWARdocs.org database.

4. Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008, 123 minutes)

The first Zeitgeist film’s first 1/3 focusing on religion has been widely contested and discredited information, and the rest of the 9/11 info is covered elsewhere. But this sequel focuses on the inherently illogical Federal Reserve system and an extensive interview with John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Then in the end the Venus Project advocates for a new technologically-based social system (utopia), elements of which I find quite debatable, but if nothing else, is an important thought experiment.

5. Fabled Enemies (2008, 102 minutes)

This film, by one of the makers of Loose Change, Jason Bermas, does not focus on what happened on 9/11 but who did it and where the money trails lead. It follows the intelligence ties of Osama Bin Laden, the alleged hijackers, and those who were actually detained on 9/11. All accessible source articles displayed are found in my INFOWARdocs.org database.

6. End Game – Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007, 139 minutes)

This Alex Jones film depicts a more hard-core doomsday analysis of the publicly stated goals of the elite, covering the Bilderberg Group, North American Union, eugenics and depopulation. While the depopulation agenda is so vast and integrated it might be impossible to conclusively prove, it is nonetheless a very important concept to be familiar with. All accessible source articles displayed are found in my INFOWARdocs.org database.

7. The Capitalist Conspiracy (1969, 47 minutes)

Similar to The Obama Deception, this is not so much about evils of capitalism, but the structures controlling both sides (capitalism and communism). Amazing how long these ideas have been around and little public opinion has changed since the 60s. Slightly harder to find online, but it is there.

8. Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State (2005, 96 minutes)

This Alex Jones film provides specific examples and video footage of our country’s integration of the police and military forces since 9/11. All accessible source articles displayed are found in my INFOWARdocs.org database.

Welcome to InfoWar and Peace

2009-06-05T21:55:00.000-07:00

While I have not classically been a blogger, this blog will act as an outlet for any writings I have to complement my INFOWAR database:

http://infowardocs.org

This research database now has over 2,200 links to news articles, documents (government and corporate) and video clips, organized by over 1,700 keywords/tags and basic options to filter and search for specific topics.

Thank you for your interest in these topics vital to this century!