Reflections on the Bangsa Moro

The media, especially the Lopez-owned ABS-CBN, made sure that all Filipinos would read about, listen and/or watch the Cory Aquino wake and funeral rites. While watching the seemingly endless media coverage of the affair, I realized that there are only TWO groups in the Philippine political class today – the Marcos group and the Aquino group. All of them were “made” either by Marcos or Aquino or their cronies. Those who (or whose family) came before Marcos time re-entered the political class through either Marcos or Cory.

There were, of course, exceptions. They came from nowhere. Manny Villar came to the political scene by way of becoming a billionaire. Noli de Castro came via the TV/radio media.

AGENDA-SETTING

The unheard of news coverage (which is still on-going) of Cory’s death evidently points to an agenda by media.

The media trumpeted that Cory’s death supposedly “buried Cha-Cha (Charter Change)”. Later, they built up Cory’s son, Noynoy as the “anointed”, a veritable new Messiah.

The Lopezes, who own the ABS-CBN network, owed practically everything to Cory. Cory gave them back ABS-CBN – lock, stock and barrel and even more.

The leading newspaper, the Philippine Daily Inquirer, had a bad experience with Joseph Estrada, who is planning a comeback.

The second leading newspaper, the Philippine Star, has always been pro-Cory.

AQUINO GROUP UNITED

The power of the media is now proven with the unity of the Aquino group. The Aquino political class has closed ranks behind Benigno Aquino III or “Noynoy”, the lackluster son of Ninoy and Cory Aquino.

Mar Roxas, the Liberal Party standard bearer, was forced to take a back seat to the Anointed. Roxas’s fiancée, TV/radio broadcaster Korina Sanchez, must be fuming. Incidentally, Sanchez was supposedly romantically linked to Noynoy before Mar.

MARCOS GROUP SCATTERED

While the Aquino political class has united, the Marcos political class is still divided. The patriarchs of the group are former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada and his 1992 presidential running mate, Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco, Cory’s first cousin.

Erap still dreams of becoming president again. Danding has two surrogates – Chiz Escudero and his nephew, Gilbert Teodoro.

Teodoro is trying to get the nod of the ruling party, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Lakas-Kampi-CMD.

By definition (as mentioned above), GMA belongs to the Aquino group. But because of circumstances, she is now the Aquino group’s Public Enemy No. 1.

To unite the Marcos group, Chiz should unite with Erap. An Erap-Chiz tandem would be a match to the Noynoy-Mar team-up. Noynoy should team-up with Mar. It is the gentlemanly thing to do. But for pragmatic reasons, the group would probably get another guy. They should not get one from their group, like Makati kingpin Jejomar Binay. It would be better if they get somebody from the Marcos political class like Senator Richard Gordon. Or, they could get Supreme Court Chief Justice Puno, who is waging a “morality” campaign, whatever that means.

NOT LIKE THEIR FATHERS

I truly feel sorry for both Mar and Noynoy. They are not their fathers yet their families / clans expect them to follow their fathers’ footsteps. Mar is not Gerry and Noynoy is almost the opposite of Ninoy.

As a child and a young man, I had great respect and admiration for Gerry Roxas and Ninoy Aquino. Unfortunately, I think their sons did not get their fathers’ charismatic charms.

Villar and de Castro do not belong to either political class. The two can team up but they will lack the political clout or the so-called “command votes” enjoyed by members of the political class. Villar’s Nacionalista Party has very few members.

De Castro is still weighing his options. He could either join GMA’s or Villar’s party.

GMA AGENDA

Whatever GMA’s agenda is, her party should get a fairly popular president. Teodoro and Bayani Fernando come last in all surveys on presidential candidates. On the other hand, the Vice President is a very popular fellow. He can give the very popular Estrada a run for his money. Their constituencies belong to the lower classes – C,D and E. And that is where most of the Philippine populace belong.

A Noli de Castro – Gilbert Teodoro tandem would do well for Gloria’s party.

If everyone play their cards well, the 2010  presidential elections could be very interesting.

In CNN’s Larry King Show, former US President Jimmy Carter said that THE key factor in the Middle East problem is the US. He explained that the US has the power to force Israel into accepting a peace agreement because the US government gives Israel TEN MILLION DOLLARS A DAY. Plus, the US protects and defends Israel militarily and diplomatically (through the UN).

As a former US President who was able to forge an agreement between Israel’s Menahem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, no one can dispute Mr. Carter.

While Larry King took on the Western media’s argument that Hamas is the culprit, Mr. Carter said that everything should be taken into perspective – like comparing the deaths on both sides due to the Hamas rockets and due to the Israeli air strikes and tank invasion.

Larry King, again mouthing the usual US-Israeli argument, asked Mr. Carter if somebody sends rockets to Atlanta, would he not answer back. The former president answered that he would; but, he would look for other options first. And the option Israel had was merely to open “the gates” of Gaza so water, food and gasoline could be delivered to 1.5 million people in Gaza.

Mr. Carter also mentioned that Israel bombed UN buildings, mosques and schools. Mr. King, playing the devil’s advocate, argued that Israel said these buildings were used by Hamas to fire rockets from. Mr. Carter answered that he knows only what the United Nations reported (which said that there were no Hamas people in the UN buildings). And, Mr. Carter added that if one wants to destroy a city, – and Israel bombed TWENTY-TWO THOUSAND (22,000) buildings – one could not pick one building from another. It was inevitable that UN offices and warehouses, schools and mosques would be among the 22,000 buildings destroyed.

Mr. Carter also said that if Israel did not want to kill civilians, it could have just bombed the tunnels that Hamas uses to smuggle goods into Gaza.

AMERICA SUBSIDIZES ISRAEL

With the immense power of media, one hopes that the Americans would now realize that Israel is nothing without American support.

During the 1972 Arab-Israeli war, Israel was losing in the first few days. But thanks to then US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, America sent air-lifted tanks, ammo and other war materiel on a DAILY basis to save Israel from defeat. It was then that the Arabs, especially Egypt’s Anwar Sadat, realized that they were not fighting the Israel. They were fighting America.

With America going into economic Depression, the American people might re-consider subsidizing war-freak Israel. If the American Jews would like to continue propping up the state of Israel, then they should do so in a PRIVATE manner. The Hollywood Jews and other American multi-millionaire Jews should donate their private money to Israel. The other Americans, many of them are now unemployed or homeless or facing the specter of unemployment or homelessness, need all the money the government can give them directly or indirectly.

 Mr. George W. Bush, "The Decider", was shooed away in Baghdad with a couple of shoes. Just like driving away an unwanted alley cat or dog, Iraqi TV journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi, threw his pair of shoes at the US president during Mr. Bush’s press conference in Baghdad on Dec. 14, 2008. According to news reports, just after the speeches by Bush and the Iraqi Prime minister, al Zeidi took off his shoe and threw it at Mr. Bush exclaiming: "This is a gift from the Iraqis; this is the farewell kiss, you dog". (Chicago Tribune, see the video here,too)

 Before the Secret Service agents got to him, al-Zeidi threw his other shoe, this time exclaiming, "This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq."

Just before the shoe-throwing incident, Mr. Bush again, just like Mr. McCain during the US presidential elections, boasted of the "success of the Surge".  

 I am so proud of Mr. Muntadar al-Zaidi. He has shown the world the real sentiments of the ordinary Iraqi people. Millions of people in the world, including most Christian Filipinos, still believe that Bush and America "saved Iraq for Democracy."

 I must say, Mr. Bush has pretty quick reflexes. I know he is quite good at dodging questions. I didn’t know he is also good at dodging shoes. I wonder if Madame Bush has given him a lot of practice.

Mr. & Ms. magazine is widely known for its fearless journalism during the last years of the Marcos dictatorship. For more than 30 years, the magazine survived the ups and downs of the magazine business. The founding publisher and editor of the magazine is a highly respected journalist and a winner of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism.

However, the latest issue of the magazine  (Sept-Oct 2008) has truly degraded and even disgraced the name of Mr. & Ms. magazine. It is filled with almost nothing but advertorials. Its cover story, which is really a PR piece, talks about an award-giving body in the Philippines, which is described as “evolving as the greatest global peace award today.” Wow, talk about hyperbole!

I don’t mind the bad English or the wrong grammar. But I can’t tolerate plagiarism, especially blatant and shameless plagiarism.

PURE PLAGIARISM

The magazine’s Lifestyle Editor Leslie Michelle Co’ article Global Warming: Let’s do something before it’s too late, Ms. Co blatantly plagiarized whole paragraphs from other articles.

From the World Wildlife Fund article Global Warming to Cause Global Hunger, says WWF at http://www.wwf.org.ph/newsfacts.php?pg=det&id=72, she copied the ff.:

“These gases emanate from burning fossil fuels, unwise agricultural practices and extensive, unsustainable land-use. Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels are now at the highest in 650,000 years - prompting scientists to link this with the worsening global warming crisis.

Left unabated, this may warm the Earth by as much as 6.3°C in the next century alone. If this happens, it will spell catastrophe for the planet….

 

The Philippine Situation

Communities in both developed and developing countries are already suffering from these impacts, and small island nations, such as the Maldives and Tuvalu are planning evacuations because of the serious threat of rising sea levels. The Philippines is no exception.

Last year alone, the country was subjected to a slew of destructive storms, floods and droughts. Material damage ran into the billions. The human toll was far greater. Massive waves swept away thousands of homes in Tawi-Tawi, Mindanao and the Visayas. Closer to the capital, EDSA’s impermeable billboards lay toppled. And in our very own backyards, centuries-old trees were ripped apart. Currently the country experiences abnormal weather in the form of a cold spell. PAGASA data indicates that extreme weather events have been increasing here over the last four years.

WWF has been working to stop and eventually reverse the worsening effects of climate change in the Philippines and throughout the world.

Immediate Action Needed

Raf Senga, WWF Climate Change Manager says, “The government must take this opportunity for immediate and positive action to avert the damaging consequences of climate change. Mitigation is only one part of the equation. An adaptation response should be crafted and set in place without delay. Extreme weather is not some future forecast – it is happening here, now. If we are to make it through this with minimal damage to our country – our government must act now. “

Rather than spending scarce resources in a never-ending cycle to repair damage, WWF calls for a policy of prevention - a proactive and strategic solution that can effectively deal with the increasing global temperatures caused by rising carbon dioxide levels in the environment.

Lack of Food

“Food scarcity is a real danger,” says WWF CEO Lory Tan. “40 million Filipinos rely on the sea for food. Coral bleaching, algal blooms and marine acidification brought about by global warming will definitely take its toll on our declining fisheries.”

Rice too, might be in short supply. Tan says, “It takes 4700 litres of water to produce a kilo of rice. We face a drought this 2007. No water, no rice. No rice - no food.”

Climate Change is here. There is no longer any doubt. The challenge we face is to help reverse the trends humankind has created over one hundred years, in the next decade. We are all going to have pay for it, sooner or later. Science seems to indicate that, if we act decisively, collectively and soon, we can still manage global climate. The sooner our nation acts on this, the cheaper it will be. We cannot afford to wait.”

From The New York Times’  Global Warming  article (at http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/news/science/topics/globalwarming/index.html), she copied:

“…scientific evidence that the release of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases from smokestacks, tailpipes and burning forests has played a central role in raising the average surface temperature of the earth by more than 1 degree Fahrenheit since 1900.”

“…The latest report … predicted that the global climate is likely to rise between 3.5 and 8 degrees Fahrenheit if the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere reaches twice the level of 1750. By 2100, sea levels are likely to rise between 7 to 23 inches, it said, and the changes now underway will continue for centuries to come.”

…In recent months, business groups have banded together to make unprecedented calls for federal regulation of greenhouse gases. The subject had a red-carpet moment when former Vice President Al Gore’s documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," was awarded an Oscar;…

…the Supreme Court made its first global warming-related decision, ruling 5 to 4 that the Environmental Protection Agency had not justified its position that it was not authorized to regulate carbon dioxide.”

 

From Canada Free Press’  Climate Extremism: The Real Threat to Civilization (at http://www.canadafreepress.com/2007/global-warming072007.htm), she copied:

 

“The exploitation of climate science for purely political goals is occurring throughout the developed world.  For example, politicians in Canada have started to ban inexpensive and convenient technologies such as light bulbs, coal fired electricity generation and used oil heating to "stop climate change."  They can’t show how the alternatives being promoted will actually help the environment – we are expected to simply believe that such sacrifices for the climate will benefit us all, even if real pollution levels rise, food prices increase as agricultural land is converted to biofuels production and millions of birds are cut to pieces by wind turbines.  ‘Believe’ is the key word here, not ‘think’.

Even the United States, previously one of the last bastions of common sense in climate wars, is being swept up in this dangerous movement. Besides the rise of ex-Vice President Al Gore to the status of climate change ’superstar’… To date, (the movement) has attracted over 77,000 endorsers.”

Poor Ms. Co, she did not even realize that what she quoted was from an anti-Climate Change article.

From Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming) Ms. Co got her definition of Global Warming: “Global warming is the increase in the average measured temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century.”

CRIME OF PLAGIARISM

In the University of the Philippines, the maximum penalty for plagiarism is expulsion. There should be a mechanism in the media industry to punish those who plagiarize.

Plagiarism is pure dishonesty and fraud. The writer passes off other people’s writing as his/her own.

In this example, Leslie Michelle Co, who claims to be a beauty expert with a magazine column on Beauty, tries to pass herself off as an environmental journalist. She quoted sources as if she interviewed them herself. She even quoted lines from the documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” as if she had seen the documentary.

This is so shameful. Nakakahiya.

I am so sorry for the Mr. & Ms. magazine. It does not deserve to have such a shameful fate. The issue of plagiarism is more than enough to show the depths the magazine has fallen into. The new custodians of the magazine have brought it to the pits. I hope the old owners will do something about this.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the lady champion for State Terrorism, is now in India in the Bush-Cheney Gang’s  last ditch effort to promote Fear and Anxiety in the world and maintain the US miltary-industrial complex’s hold on its own and other countries’ security policies and programs and these countries’ commitment to purchase US military, intelligence and security goods and services.

In a New Delhi press conference, Dr. Rice said, " "Whether there is a direct al-Qaida hand or not, this is clearly the kind of terror in which al-Qaida participates." So now, a group does not have to be "believed to have links with al-Qaeda" to be considered public enemy no. 1.

I suppose the Bush-Cheney gang realized that if they continue to portray all rebel groups in the world to be "linked to al-Qaeda", then people would just not believe it. How can all rebel groups in the Muslim world be linked to al-Qaeda whose leader is hiding in the mountain fastness of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border? If this rich Saudi Arab is the leader of this giant terror network, then why are his rich relatives — brothers, sisters, uncles and cousins — freely doing business with the Americans, Europeans and others? How can he be a great leader of so many in the Muslim world yet not of his own family?

Rice’s mission to India is to sow intrigue and promote conflict between the two countries (India and Pakistan). Failing that, she would instill fear between the two so they will support American terror policies and program.

Really, the Bush-Cheney Gang should cease and desist promoting their Fear and Terror commodities. The world now knows better. We are now in a new era. The Bush wars are over.

The Bush-Cheney Gang should re-focus their sights to domestic affairs. America is now in Recession. It might even sink into another Great Depression. Dick Cheney could re-invent himself as the new John Dillinger while Bush and Rice could be the new Bonnie and Clyde.

 See post: Mumbai Attacks and Joe Biden’s Warning

During the last days of the US presidential elections, good old Joe Biden couldn’t stop himself from telling his party’s supporters to give all the help they can – not for the elections but AFTER the elections –  to would-be president Obama because he would be immediately “tested” with a “generated crisis”. He told his audience: “Mark my words!”

That generated crisis is the Attack on Mumbai.

From the news reports, it looks like it is another False Flag Terrorism masterminded by the cabal that controls the Bush-Cheney administration which closely adheres to Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations theory.

WHO WILL GAIN?

All viewers of the top TV series CSI, Law and Order, etc. know that the first question crime investigators ask is “What’s the motive?”

Big Business from the military-industrial complex got and is getting huge windfall from the Afghanistan and Iraq invasions. These companies – oil, security, construction, etc. – got and are getting hundreds of billions of dollars in revenues, even overcharging the US government by as much as 1000% as reported by investigative journalists. Plus, these firms act as consultants to other countries as well. They would not just give up all these revenues and profits without a fight. Thus, they have the motive for the crime.

And the best weapon would be again FEAR brought about by another false flag terroristic act.

False Flag Terrorism is terrorism done or masterminded by one group but blamed entirely on another group.

TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE

The attack on Mumbai is like hitting two birds with one stone. The two birds are India and Pakistan. The US and Western Europe are in Recession. (The US just officially declared yesterday that the US has been in recession since December 2007.) The major emerging economic markets – India and China – are challenging Western economic dominance.

If Bush and company claim that the destruction of the Twin Towers is a challenge to the American (and Western) way of life, then the decline of Western economic dominance and the rise of Chinese and Indian economic dominance would be a far, far greater danger to the US and the West.

By sowing terror on India’s financial capital, Mumbai, the perpetrators of the attack hope that foreign investors would be petrified with fear and will abandon Mumbai and thus bring the collapse of Indian economy.

PAKISTAN

When Russia invaded Afghanistan, Pakistan became America’s best friend. In exchange for a few billion dollars worth of aid, Pakistan provided the base to recruit and train Muslims from all over the world (including Mindanao) to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. The American government and the CIA, together with Pakistan, convinced Arab governments to help finance the scheme. Osama Bin Laden, a son of a Saudi billionaire businessman was chosen as the CIA fund-raiser.

When the Afghani rebels known as the Taliban (students) won and forced the Russians out of their country, USA and the West celebrated.

But Pakistan had a longer-term agenda. It continued to support the Taliban, whom they created.

After 9/11, Bush, Cheney and company decided that the fall guys for the 9.11 event would be their former allies — the Taliban and the former CIA fund-raiser, Osama bin Laden. (In Michael Moore’s documentary, George W. Bush was shown meeting a Taliban delegation in the US just a month or so before 9/11.)

However, Pakistan was a thorn in Bush’s plans. Pakistan created the Taliban so it could not just abandon them. The price has to be quite considerable. So the US promptly paid / gave Pakistan a huge some of money / aid.

But President Musharraf continued to maintain ties with the Taliban and their allies in Pakistan. This enraged the Americans. They thought that the Pakistani president would be a docile lapdog. And so the US organized the return of the opposition party leaders – former Pakistani Prime Ministers Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto – and orchestrated the fall of Musharraf. And so, Musharraf had to go.

In the last days of Bush in the White House, his group wants to show the world that the threat from Bin Laden is as strong as ever. The CIA (as reported by CNN and BBC) conducted bombing operations in the border villages in Pakistan. The Pakistani government, although partly installed by the CIA, refused to take the bombings sitting down. They protested the violation of their sovereignty and threatened to take action.

Obviously, those who masterminded the attack on Mumbai by Pakistani terrorists hope to create conflict between India and Pakistan. This would weaken both countries and would be punishment for a recalcitrant Pakistan and an emerging economic rival that is India. It is like hitting two birds with one stone.

Besides, India and Pakistan are not like Iraq and Afghanistan. They can stand up to the Americans. So, the good schemers at the CIA probably thought that “if they can’t lick ’em, let ‘em lick each other”.

US KNEW OF THE ATTACK

The US just announced that it had informed the Indian government in October that a sea-borne attack against hotels and other establishments in Mumbai was being planned in a month or so.

Of course the Americans knew in advance. They probably planned the whole thing themselves – just like the “sinking” of USS Maine (which brought the Spanish-American War), Gulf of Tonkin PT boats attack (which started the Vietnam War), the Pearl Harbor attack (which made the US enter World War II) and the 9/11 attack (which led to the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the start of the so-called War on Terror).

CLIMATE OF FEAR

The military-industrial cabal that has been lording over the Bush, Jr. presidency needs to maintain its control.

When Barack Obama started his run for the presidency, he called for an end to the climate of fear and attacked Hilary Clinton et al for supporting the Iraq invasion. As the campaign progressed, he was slowly changing his tune. Now, he will re-appoint Bush’s Defense Secretary, former CIA Director Robert Gates. The man, who promised to bring Change to America and probably the world, has a former TOP SPY and Bush’s Defense Chief in his team. Incredible!

THE WORLD NEED NOT FEAR

Whatever the Fear merchants do, the world is much the wiser now. India and Pakistan will not take the bait. They know better.

Samuel Huntington’s Clash of Civilizations doctrine has been discredited. The Americans themselves chose a hyphenated American (African-American) for its President.

The Western (American and European) way of life is indeed under siege – but not by terrorists. It is under siege by the abusers of their economic (capitalistic) doctrines. Adam Smith had warned that Capitalism encourages Greed. The Americans and Europeans (and some Westernized people like many Filipinos) idolized the Gordon Gekko character in the film, Wall Street. Gekko (played by Michael Douglas) declared “Greed is Good!” and let loose the greedy people in the West who made money out of thin air through the economic principles of their capitalistic system like the Fractional Reserve Banking principle which allows banks to accept money from the public and lend out ten times as much from that money (thus creating ten times as much [commercial] money from a certain amount of [central bank] money). From this 300 (or so)  - year old principle came other concepts like second or third mortgages and the creation of a huge derivatives market dealing in financial instruments whose values are derived from the value of something else.

Incidentally, I used to have a sexagenarian office colleague who kept on telling me that he admired people like John D. Rockefeller who made “real money” unlike Bill Gates whose worth is measured in “paper money”, as he called it. Gates’ worth, he said, goes up and down depending on the stock market.

Indeed, as the stocks and financial markets in the Western world go down, the real worth of these countries go down as well. We are now witnessing the Decline and Fall of America and the West.

SHOULD THE WORLD BE AFRAID?

The real danger now to the world is the possibility that these falling empires would decide to strike fear and terror to their perceived enemies or to one another. They have, after all, weapons of mass destruction – the nuclear bombs.

As the saying goes, “Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad.”

FALSE FLAG TERRORISM

Webster Tarpley, author of 9/11 Terror Fraud: A Coup Against Civilization, explained what he called “State-Sponsored False Flag Terrorism.” False Flag Terrorism means creating terror and blaming it on somebody else much like what Hitler did when his group burned the German Parliament building and blamed it on the rival communists.

Tarpley said that such projects need four ingredients. The first are the PATSIES. They are the FALL GUYS or “oswalds” (as in Lee Harvey Oswald) who are “dupes, useful idots, fanatics, police agents, double agents, and provocateurs.” The second are the MOLES. They are government officials loyal to a PRIVATE  network. The third are the PROFESSIONAL KILLERS or “asteroids”. They are the technicians, CIA and special forces and the “old boys”.

These three groups are used by the government to plan and execute their schemes – the false flag terror projects. But they need the cooperation of one group to make the project believable. That group is the CORPORATE-CONTROLLED MEDIA. This is the “indispensable ingredient” to a successful project.

The Media handles the “main propaganda in favor of the official explanation of events despite inevitable absurdities, contradictions, etc.” The media is responsible for the “mass brainwashing in Anglo-American tradition.”

BUSH’S FIRST AWARENESS OF 9/11 ATTACK

The documentary showed George W. Bush speaking in a town hall in Orlando, Florida on December 4, 2001. Somebody from the audience asked him, “How did you feel when you heard of the terror attack?”

His answer: “…I was sitting outside the classroom and I saw an airplane hit the first tower, the TV was obviously on. I used to fly myself and I said to myself, ‘There’s one terrible pilot.’…It must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked out there and did not have much time to think about that.”

Goodness Gracious! The President of the United States saw the plane crash on the First World Trade Center Tower and the only thing that came to his mind was that it was a horrible accident and the plane had a horrible pilot? And his Chief of Staff, advisers and Secret Service escort whisked him out of the room in order to meet with a group of elementary school children?

Not only that. Most of the world saw on TV or on Michael Moore’s documentary that when the second plane hit the other tower, his Chief of Staff whispered to him, “A second plane has hit” and he remained seated listening to the teacher read a children story to a bunch of kids.

This was the reaction of the man who later called on the world to wage a War on Terror because the World Trade Center towers were attacked. He then went on to bomb and cause the death of millions of Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as thousands of his own soldiers.

BUSH SAW THE PLANE ON TV IN SEPTEMBER 11

Mr. Bush, Jr. said he saw on TV in the morning of Sept. 11 the plane hit the tower. According to Zwicker, Bush repeated that story on at least one more occasion. But, as the documentary showed, no TV station showed on Sept. 11, 2001 a plane hitting the tower.

The footage which showed the first plane hitting the tower was first aired only the day after, on Sept. 12, 2001.

Was Mr. Bush lying? Or he just couldn’t remember what happened on that momentous day, which occurred just less than three months earlier? Or, as the documentary insinuated, did Mr. Bush truly see that footage on TV on that day – privately – when nobody else had the chance to see it?

In another documentary I saw earlier, the documentarians asked what was a French TV crew doing in the middle of New York, on the street, with such heavy equipment lying on the road just in time to get a perfect shot of the first plane hitting the tower?

In that documentary, one can see obvious video manipulation. The car’s wind shield reflected the plane hitting the tower perfectly yet the building was way way behind it. It simply defied the laws of physics or optics.

9/11 COMMISSION

The documentary asked if the 9/11 was that important – the US entered two wars for it, why then was the Commission tasked to investigate it was created only 411 days (more than a year and a month) after the event? In fact, Mr. Bush grudgingly agreed to it amidst calls for its investigation.

And Bush first appointed Mr. Henry Kissinger, the prime adviser of President Nixon of the Watrergate scandal fame. The New York Times remarked that it was clear that Bush wanted “to contain the investigation (the White House) long opposed.”

The program also reminded the viewers that Mr. K , with the help of the CIA, had Chile’s President Salvador Allende killed. And that Mr. K was an expert at cover-ups.Mr. K had to back out because of an almost universal backlash.

But 431 days after 9/11, Bush named two people to lead the Commission – Thomas Cain and Lee Hamilton. Both are cover-up experts themselves and its Executive Director is a right-wing hawk.

As to the mandate of the commission, its leaders declared: “We are not out to blame anyone.” So what were they out to do? No one was to be held accountable for the failure of intelligence in 9/11?

And what was the budget of the Commission? Only $ 3 Million! A 1996 commission on Casino gambling had a bigger budget - $ 5 million. The Columbia Shuttle Explosion Commission had a budget of $ 50 Million as did Clinton’s Whitewater deal Commission.

9/11 COMMISSION REPORT

Zwicker said that the Commission requested 11,000 documents from the White House but the White House released only 25 % of that with many portions of the documents blocked out. White House officials also resisted requests that officials testify under oath and Bush rushed the Commission’s deadline.

According to the documentary, Bush and Cheney met the Commission behind closed doors. They refused to testify under oath. No tape recorders were allowed. The President did not give any opening statement. And those taking notes were asked to submit them to security personnel.

Mr. Zwicker concluded that in law, Bush and Cheney’s actions are considered GUILTY DEMEANOR.

And according to the 9/11 Commission, the ultimate cause of the 9/11 event was “a failure of imagination.”

The Commission actually blamed some people. They blamed the FAA or Federal Aviation Administration. According to the Commission, ‘The US military is itself blind, being wholly dependent on the FAA to inform it about what is going on in US airspace.”

Only imbeciles would believe that. The country that spends more on military arms and technology than Russia, England, France, Germany and China put together depends solely on a civilian agency for information regarding its airspace? That is preposterous, incredulous, absurd, ridiculous, and absolutely idiotic.

Thierry Meyssan in his book PENTAGATE wrote that the military possesses “several very sophisticated radar monitoring systems, incomparable with civilian systems.”

Zwicker added that according to the website of these systems, they are “capable of detecting and monitoring a great number of targets that would be consistent with a massive Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile or SLBM attack.

The Commission wants people to believe that America can defend itself from massive missile attacks but was unprepared for a couple of airline passenger jets attacking the Twin Towers.

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

The documentary then enumerated some questions left unanswered by the Commission like:

-         What caused the collapse of the Twin Towers? Heat from the burning jet fuel could not possibly destroy the steel structure of the buildings.

-         What hit the Pentagon? The hole is not big enough for a 757 jumbo plane.

-         What is the connection between the Bush and the Bin Laden families?

-         What caused the startling case of the World Trade Center Bldg. 7, which collapsed without even being hit by anything?

CONCLUSION

The documentary concluded that the US Constitution demands from its citizens to “guard against enemies foreign and DOMESTIC.”

The documentary asks – Why do most people still remain blind to the possibility that 9/11 was an INSIDE JOB?

The answer: Because of the media. It says that “today’s media feast on, profit from and join in the trumpeting of outside threats, demonization of designated goons…”

The documentary concludes by calling on the Americans to be vigilant and make their MEDIA and GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE.

 9/11 LEGACY

History will certainly show that the 9/11 attack was a great hoax foisted by the Bush-Cheney clique on an unsuspecting world.

For years now, there are numerous books, articles, documentaries, websites and blogs that document all the contradictions and absurdities of the official 9/11 narrative.

But it is a great crime to humanity if the perpetrators of this Great Conspiracy will go unscathed. Millions have died, been maimed, wounded, displaced, tortured or simply made miserable by this hoax. Americans have lost many of their civil liberties in the name of Homeland Security. The same goes with the citizens of other countries like the United Kingdom and even the Philippines which has its very own Anti-Terror Law.

In the land of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin, there is now a Thought Crime Bill or HR 1955 a.k.a. Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Act of 2007. 400 congressmen voted for this bill as against 6 (3 democrats and 3 republicans). This Act will effectively criminalize dissent as well as control the Internet. No more freedom of speech and expression for Americans. I hope the American Senate will throw this Act into the dustbin.

As for the Muslim world, the Muslim masses should make their leaders accountable for being so cowardly and worse, for helping the West in killing millions of Muslims. A crime is done not only by commission but also by omission. In other words, a crime is done not only by doing it but also by NOT doing anything to prevent it. And so the Muslim leaders, especially the Arabs in the case of Iraq and Pakistan in the case of Afghanistan, are just as guilty as Messrs. Bush and Blair and their cohorts.

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