Just before her death, Benazir Bhutto said something that very likely shocked the neo-cons’ created reality of our time.She said she believed that Osama Bin Laden has been dead for a long time.And that he’d been murdered by Omar Sheikh, whom the Sunday Times once described as "no ordinary terrorist but a man who has connections that reach high into Pakistan's military and intelligence elite and into the innermost circles" of bin Laden and al-Qaeda.
You see, the neo-cons depend on the image of Osama Bin Laden because he is the modern “Goldstein” who they use to keep us terrified enough to give away our rights, and give most of our federal spending for militarism.
Pakistan’s intelligence service is very tight with the CIA.If they had killed Bin Laden, we’d know about it.So, what is the story with Bin Laden?
Immediately after the attacks of 9/11, Osama Bin Laden actually denied any connection with the 9/11 attacks, and denounced them as a tactic:
Source: Khilafah.com, 10 Oct 2001
The Al-Qaidah group had nothing to do with the 11 September attacks on the USA, according to Usama bin Ladin in an interview with the Pakistani newspaper Ummat. Usama bin Ladin went on to suggest that Jews or US secret services were behind the attacks, and to express gratitude and support for Pakistan, urging Pakistan’s people to jihad against the West. The following is the text of an interview conducted by a "special correspondent", published in the Pakistani newspaper Ummat on 28 September, place and date of interview not given.
THEN, two months later the infamous “Fat Bin Laden” video tape is supposedly found by the CIA in some house the Taliban forces had held in Afghanistan, and conveniently left behind for the CIA to find.This video has been analyzed by experts who say, exactly what your eyes tell you when you look at it, it is NOT Bin Laden.BUT, this fake Bin Laden DOES take responsibility for the 9/11 attacks.View the FAT Bin Laden at:
The Bush Admin, CIA’s Goldstein is born.The similarity between this manufactured Bin Laden and Goldstein in 1984, has not gone unnoticed.Steve Watson in an insightful article for Prisonplanet.com wrote,
“Spying? Torture? Illegal airstrikes? SHUT UP and hate Bin Laden.
The NeoCon use of Osama Bin Laden as a tool of fear and control is a tried and tested method whenever the going gets tough. It's predictable and it's tiresome, but the masses buy it every time and that's why he has reappeared once again.
Just as the NSA spying tidal wave gathers increasing momentum, as the media demand more answers on rendition and torture and days after the bizarre airstrike on innocent women and children in Pakistan, we all magically get a timely reminder of just why the government is spying on its own citizens and torturing and killing anyone it likes anywhere in the world.
Just like Orwell's ubiquitous Emmanuel Goldstein, Bin Laden always seems to pop up right on cue so we can disengage our minds from reality and join in the two minutes hate.
We are reliably informed by the mainstream media that this is because he is a very clever man and has an impeccable sense of timing. Yet if this is the case, why can he not work out that EVERYTIME he has released a video or a tape it has HELPED Bush and the NeoCon agenda tenfold?
By William E. Douglas, Jr., who is author of "The Amateur Parent – A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace, and Everything Else in the Universe." Bill has been a guest columnist for the Kansas City Star, The Business Journal, and other media worldwide. His past essays include, "Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts," "The Explosion of the 9-11 Truth Movement -- US Media's Dirty Little Secret," "Good Night, and Good Luck - WMD, NIST, Popular Mechanics, 9/11 and Media Crimes" and also "Why the Jewish Community Should Demand 9/11 Truth."
Most aren't aware that the FBI has never charged Bin Laden w
Most aren't aware that the FBI has never charged Bin Laden with the 9/11 attacks. Why? When they were asked they said its because they do not have evidence that he did it.
When millions of people read "The Shell Game" and see the video trailers of it, there will be a stampede of angry demands to know exactly what we've been lied to about.
Mike Rivero of Whatreallyhappened.com has this comment
'Now then, with regard to "The Shell Game." Be careful of this one. I interviewed the author, Steve Alten, on last week's radio show, and I asked him why, when he had so much accurate information about 9-11, there was no mention of the Israelis arrested on 9-11, or the revelation in Carl Cameron's four-part FOX News story that there was evidence linking the Mossad to 9-11, but that our own government had classified it. Steve dismissed it all saying that he was convinced that Israel had nothing to do with 9-11.
I had only read the first half of the book when I had Steve on the show, and having now finished the book, I must report that I regret allowing Steve onto my show. The book goes out of its way to portray the Saudis as "bad guys" unworthy of sympathy, and in a way this book is very reminiscent of "Fahrenheit 9-11" which used real facts about 9-11 to point the finger of blame at the Saudis and away from Israel.
So, be appropriately cautious.
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brian (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 120 comments)
on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 4:06:33 PM
This book, "The Shell Game" is about a false flag op, meaning INSIDE JOB. The above is very disengenuous.
Now regarding the Saudis. Guess what folks, there are Saudi's that play ball with the CIA/militarist empire . . . that's how they get to be in power, even though their people don't like them. (See Syrianna).
This 9/11 truth fundamentalism, where people like the above poster say, "IF YOU WANT A 9/11 INVESTIGATION . . . BUT YOU DON'T AGREE WITH EVERYTHING I SAY AND HAVE EVER SAID . . . THEN YOU ARE MY ENEMY . . ."
IS KILLING THIS FRIGGIN' MOVEMENT.
Helloooooo??? If we can get a mass movement demanding a new 9/11 investigation THEN WE'LL SEE WHERE THE GUILT LEADS, RIGHT??
BUT, IF POSTERS LIKE THE ABOVE KEEP DIVIDING ALL FROM ALL, TO KEEP THE 9/11 MOVEMENT FRACTURED AND SMALL . . .
We'll never get a 9/11 investigation will we.
GUESS WHAT, THERE ARE MANY MANY PEOPLE IN THE 9/11 MOVEMENT I DISAGREE WITH ON MANY ISSUES, BUT I SUPPORT AND APPLAUD ALL THE WORK THEY DO TO GET A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION !!!
That is how mass movements are built, by coalition.
If you want to read more on how "9/11 fundamentalists" are keeping the 9/11 new investigation movement fractured, small, and constipated . . . read more at:
If the book doesn't even address that point, then whatever else it may be, it's clearly intended as a whitewash as well. It's the equivalent of CB_Brooklyn's absurd Star Trek weapons nonsense.
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Harold Smith (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 470 comments)
on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 7:52:17 PM
With a doctorate in Sports Administration from Temple University, unhappy in his job, and struggling to support a family, Steve Alten wanted to write, but his rigorous schedule left no discretionary time for doing so.
Nevertheless, he began writing every night from 10PM to 3 AM and on weekends, delivering in eight months a novel which would evolve into a novel/movie series about a pre-historic great white shark. After a long chain of science fiction thrillers, Alten has taken a decidedly political turn, and tomorrow, January 22, 2008, will release his new futuristic page-turner, The Shell Game (Sweetwater Books), subtitled: The End of Oil, The Next 9/11, and The End Of Civilization.
Change is avalanching upon our heads, and most people are grotesquely unprepared to cope with it. ~Alvin Toffler~
When Steve sent me a review copy of Shell Game, despite glowing reviews of it from people I know and respect, I sighed and squirmed in my chair. Anyone who knows me well knows that I don't DO fiction-or to be more specific, I resist it because of the difficulty I usually experience with trying to organize the characters of a novel in my mind. Nevertheless, I emailed Steve and assured him that I would review the book and began skimming it with dread. Peeking into the pages with immense caution and aloofness, something completely astounding happened: I found myself inexplicably riveted. That someone like me could not put the book down speaks volumes, and no one was more surprised than I was.
As reviewer Bill Douglas points out, Shell Game opens from the perspective of the neocons "THEN, the novel proceeds to dis-assemble that 'reality' taking the reader on a journey that shows the ugly underbelly of false flag terrorism, diminishing civil and human rights, and the lies that led into past wars, and portend to lead us all into future wars."
Early on in the book, we hear protagonist Ace Futrell, a petroleum geologist and former college football star, testifying before Congress regarding the precariousness of world oil supplies, his grim report engulfed and lost in a morass of political posturing by both parties. Futrell is married to Kelli Doyle, who had worked undercover for the CIA and the neocons, but is now gravely ill with terminal cancer. In her final days, Doyle is penning an expose entitled "To The Brink Of Hell: An Apology To The Survivors" in which she is disclosing the machinations of empire which are driving humanity to the collapse of civilization. The first sentence reads: "Frankly, I hope this scares the hell out of you." In another portion of Doyle's tell-all memoir she unleashes a litany of the lies of empire, noting that "All presidents lie." Roosevelt, she says, lied about Pearl Harbor, Lyndon Johnson about Vietnam, Reagan about Iran-Contra, and Clinton about personal affairs in the Oval Office. Yet she emphasizes that:
"...it was the lies coming from the Bush-Cheney White House after the events of September 11, 2001 that led us to the invasion if Iraq and to a crossroads in western civilization that will affect you and your loved ones and a billion more innocent people.
Did the U.S. intelligence community know al Qaeda's attack was coming?
Yes.
But did we try to stop them?
Yes, but we were prevented from doing so."(77)
Doyle's subsequent revelations then echo the exhaustive research of Mike Ruppert in Crossing The Rubicon and the work of countless other 9/11 truth researchers, which explains the posting of the Bill Douglas review on 9/11 Blogger. In fact, Alten's mesmerizing novel is already being embraced by many in the 9/11 Truth movement and is likely to take root in its fertile soil-possibly giving birth to a movie version of Shell Game which would be nothing less than a two-hour nail-biter.
Like any good story, Shell Game is not linear but rather unfolds in a spiral of intrigue that culminates in a second 9/11-this time a nuclear one occurring in Los Angeles. But first and second 9/11's are not the principal focus of Alten's captivating novel. He has painstakingly clarified the corruption, greed, and power-driven madness that makes such catastrophes possible in the twenty-first century and intertwines these with the reality of a planet in the throes of unprecedented resource depletion. One is tempted to ask, "With all we actually know, how could this happen?" until Ace Futrell in Shell Game is rudely awakened by a conversation with Kelli's cousin, Jennifer.
This fictional dialog could not be more timely than in the non-fiction election year of 2008, and Jennifer, a former campaign strategist trained under Karl Rove, enlightens Ace regarding the duplicity of the mainstream political process. Insisting that Jennifer explain why in the face of all of the evidence regarding climate change and energy depletion, Congress essentially takes no meaningful action, he asks:
So, despite all the evidence of climate changes, despite rising gas prices, despite air pollution and respiratory problems...despite the fact that the world is running out of oil and we're ill prepared for what will happen next-nothing will change?
Jennifer replies:
Not in Washington. Ace, it's not about the problem, it's all about the message. Most candidates' policies run counter to their own voters' interests. They get elected on sound bites and staying on message. Repeat the biggest lie often enough, and the public will accept it as truth. Give me enough money to blitz the media, and I could get Elmer Fudd elected, assuming he occasionally went to church and could lose the lisp....You begin with the message, something you can sell. Doesn't matter if it's true. Then you spend a million dollars in ads hammering it into the American psyche. (133-134)
In my opinion, Shell Game was worth the read for this particular dialog alone between Ace and Jennifer of which I have quoted only a small portion. Without having access to a former campaign strategist's explanation as Ace has in the story, I grasped the same realities several years ago which is one of a plethora of reasons that I personally have no intention of ever again voting in a federal election in America-at least until the present political system has thoroughly collapsed.
Shell Game's value lies not only in underscoring the catastrophes toward which the human race is hurtling but in analyzing the mindset of empire that has made them inevitable. Alten's novel feels eerily prescient and replete with tragic scenarios that now seem probable-perhaps unstoppable.
The book ends with the closing comments of Kelli Doyle's memoir, simply: "Will we ever learn?"
I sit with that question, and as I do, another question comes: "How do we learn? What will it take for us to learn?"
Other civilizations have created and maintained natural cultures and lived harmoniously with each other and the ecosystems for millennia, so we know that such functioning among humans is possible. It is absolutely possible that humans can once again create and maintain similar cultures for significant periods of time, but can we do this without having to experience the collapse of the current civilization? I think not, yet as one who sincerely believes in miracles, I dare not preclude the possibility. However, I'm no longer willing to say that "time is running out" because time has already run out. I must now answer Kelli Doyle's question with another question: What will it take to wake us up? What will it take for us to learn? Shell Game demonstrates some horrifying possible answers to those questions. It will not offer solutions, but it will take you on a spellbinding adventure that even a fiction-phobe like me could not resist.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 11:46:18 PM
A great read, and a real eye opener for those who haven't looked (or wont look for fear of bursting the faith in govt) at the facts of 9-11. I do agree, though that leaving out the Mossad angle is disapointing. A reader who emailed the author and brought this up has posted their emails and Altens responses to them at this website below. check it out. I agree that this book could do a world of good opening people's eyes, but not every angle is exposed...hopefully people will investigate and discover that portion of the truth for themselves. A tougher read, but worth the tinme is "The War on Truth"
A Novel Reaches People by Being Fast Paced - Not Comprehensi
A Novel Reaches People by Being Fast Paced - Not Comprehensive.
What this novel does is it engages the mass public in an awareness that they've been lied to about 9/11.
It doesn't tell them all their answers. HOWEVER, at www.TheShellGame.net the author of this novel, offers links to ALL the major respected 9/11 truth websites, documentaries, books, INCLUDING NAFEEZ AHMED'S BOOKS.
This author is sticking his neck out for a new 9/11 investigation . . . and all I see here are these intellectualizations of what would be the most perfect book in the most perfect world.
ANYONE WHO WANTS A MASS PUSH FOR A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION . . . AND HAS SEEN THE CORPORATE MEDIA BOYCOTT OF THIS ISSUE . . . SHOULD BE THANKFUL TO THIS GUY FOR PUTTING IT ALL ON THE LINE FOR TRUTH . . .
If anyone looked at these threads, they'd have to walk away thinking, geez, what a snotty bunch of elitists . . . I don't think I want to be a part of that movement.
As it happens, I think that when the threads are followed when we get a real 9/11 investigation that there may very well be links to Moussad, BUT our CIA and FBI seem to have been right in the thick of it as well.
SO, IF OUR FBI AND CIA ARE RIGHT IN THE THICK OF IT, WHY NOT OBSESS ABOUT THAT ???
WE WILL NEVER GET A REAL 9/11 INVESTIGATION, AND IT WON'T BE BECAUSE OF CORPORATE MEDIA, OR A LAZY COWARDLY CONGRESS . . .
IT WILL BE BECAUSE THIS 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT HAS ACTED LIKE SNOTTY FRATERNITY BRATS, AND ANYONE WHO DOESN'T THINK AND ACT EXACTLY LIKE THEY DO . . .
EVEN IF THAT PERSON IS LAYING IT ALL ON THE LINE TO FIGHT FOR A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION . . .
BUT, IF THEY DON'T TOW THE FRATERNITY LINE EXACTLY AS WHOEVER IT IS THAT IS POISED TO ATTACK THEM DOES . . . THEN THEY DON'T BELONG IN THE CLUB . . . AND WHAT THEY OFFER TO THE FIGHT FOR A NEW INVESTIGATION IS NOT APPRECIATED OR WANTED.
IF I DIDN'T HAVE 7 YEARS IN THIS, AND I CAME NEW TO THIS, AND WAS TREATED THE WAY ALMOST EVERYONE IS WHO DOESN'T GOOSE-STEP IN THE 9/11 TRUTH PARTY LINE . . . I'D WALK AWAY FROM IT IN DISGUST.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 1:01:07 AM
*yawn* Are we there yet? When does this thing get distributed? This endless repetition is just a wee l'il bit - overkill! By this point, either the book stands on its own or it flops.
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 1719 comments)
on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7:26:38 AM
Hey, Tom, there's a thing called "free will". Like dude, there's a whole bunch of articles at OpEd. And like, nobody forces you to read any particular one of them.
My question is, why does Tommy go to threads that he has no interest in, and in fact his interests run completely counter to the thread . . . and yet he hangs out, like a dude staring at you when you're trying to make a move on your date . . . . and he's too dense to see that he's not welcome . . .
Oh, yeah. I remember, because Tom's entire existence here is to distract, cause rancor, and try to get things his mind can't handle banned from being read by others through his droll little snippings, that sound like that old Republican English teacher we all had that a tractor couldn't pull a needle from her tight *ss.
Tom, go out into cyberspace and read what you want to read, and stop trying to get others to not talk about whatever it is your mind can't handle.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 7:35:45 AM
In 1936 in the Hall of the League of Nations in Geneva a Hungarian Jew, photographer Stephan Lux killed himself in front of the delegates. He was carrying a briefcase full of incriminating documents about the abuse of Jews in Germany by the Hitler's regime. The reaction of the delegates at that time was that he was 'nuts' and the corpse was carried away with no consequences whatsoever. Well, in about 4 years the consequences really kicked in bigtime.
Now we have the same situation. We already have killed hundreds of thousands of people on the basis of the by no means a clear perception of what happened on 9/11. The blood spilled is much more than Stephan Lux's and if his death cost us all 50mln people we only can imagine the extrapolation for now. This is for the people like Tom Murphy. Many of those who cried 'nuts' in that hall in 1936 did not live to see the 1945. You may not agree with the discontent but you have to acknowledge that it does have merit. And either you help or just stand aside and really, go where the greener pastures are and enjoy yourself. That is while you still can.
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Mark Sashine (51 articles, 19 quicklinks, 244 diaries, 3462 comments)
on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 at 8:49:29 AM
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