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"Why I strongly support "The Shell Game"!‏"

By Bill Douglas (about the author)

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He even WELL presents the point-of-view of a grown-up child of Japanese extraction, now nuclear scientist, whose mom's family was vaporized at Nagasaki.

True, Alten does not address any of Israel's specific machinations that many of us have discovered behind 9/11.  But he certainly roughs up the neo-cons in America who are deeply politically connected to Israel.  And as I have elsewhere emphasized, this book is not ABOUT all the facts of 9/11. It's about a 9/11-like-event in the near future -- a much worse one -- which in reality IS likely to happen -- and which the author desperately wants an educated public to help prevent.

This page-turner novel has no requirement to present "what really happened" -- especially not ALL that really happened -- on that September day in 2001.  But it does provide DOZENS of factual news items and testimonies pertaining to 9/11 which most Americans don't know -- and which leave the reader with no doubt it was an inside job.  The reader inevitably KNOWS:  The powers-that-be did it once, and they are planning to do it again!

There is even a discourse, page 77, which NAMES NAMES regarding who exactly blocked the intel informing that 9/11 was about to occur!  And who then -- were promoted!

This book is therefore incalculably valuable to the 9/11 Truth movement, and I agree with the author's current promos that there is an urgent need for it to be widely read and discussed NOW as a deterrent to the real plots probably in motion -- such as a martial law crackdown in the U.S. and the cancellation of a presidential election.

The problem with people who have not read the whole book is that they miss out on all the context which effectively educates on all the points of view.  And therefore such reviewers/critics are not being fair to the author who has so conscientiously researched and addressed more than enough key elements in this compelling and extremely important story.

As for peak oil and global warming being artificial constructs, even though Steve Alten is deeply earnest and well-documented in his concerns on these fronts, and even though I was exposed throughout the book to his excellent problem/solution-oriented characters' dialogues and political speeches on these topics -- some speeches are quite visionary! -- I nevertheless have come away as yet unpersuaded about peak oil -- because of my own research into it. 

However:  this idea does dominate our world and drives our geopolitical policies.  Thus it is a highly valid premise for the unfolding of Political Plots, past and present. 

As for global warming, his sincerity about preserving this planet for our children is unimpeachable. And his passion for clean energy is inspiring and educational -- including his information about Dick Cheney deliberately derailing such efforts as far back as the 1970's.   I feel that what Alten has to say on this topic is worth reading, regardless of our own as-yet-unformed, or even adamant point of view, to the contrary.

Regarding criticism of his promotional efforts on the book, now urgently going around -- what he's doing is a Paul-Revere type warning that the neo-cons are NO DOUBT plotting an attack on American soil again -- far worse ones.  That this will indeed mean martial law upon all of us Truth-Workers, and All Citizens -- AND the cancellation of the upcoming election.  (In the book, it's 2012 -- but in reality?  I would say 2008!)

So!  SORRY if Paul Revere galloping around and yelling about all the danger we're in is seen as some sort of author's self-serving prance through the park! 

In my opinion, Alten has already done SO MUCH WORK -- yet now he feels further driven to continue to STRIVE and make sure the public GETS the warnings -- and GETS all of the educational insights behind them.

His well-laid-out plan to guide Truth-Workers on possibly how to do this, is also a service.  We don't have to take time and ponder how to go about it.  If we want to help with his urgent message to humanity, he's come up with some means for us to use, if we so choose.  (Below.)

Such solution-oriented thinking (and providing!) is also a delightful factor in his book.  It's not just a big fearful rant about what's happened to us and what worse is likely coming.  The author is a Guide and a Teacher regarding what we can possibly do about it.

For all these reasons, I feel that author Steve Alten deserves enormous support and respect.  And for the sake of all humanity, his book NEEDS to be a success.

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