“. . . they [the majority of Americans] shall come to realize what I now realize… that the 9/11 Truth Movement are the real patriots in 21st century America!" -- Steve Alten, New York Times Best Selling Novelist (author of “The Shell Game”)
Commercial fiction and 9/11 truth have formed a strange marriage, and a mutually beneficial relationship. The original 40,000 book print run of “The Shell Game” is almost sold out even before the book has even hit the bookstores. A big part of that success may be from the growing support of the 9/11 truth community who has come to largely enthusiastically realize, although for a few some times begrudgingly, that “The Shell Game” will, in the end, help draw a much larger audience to the 9/11 truth movement.
Using fiction to fight for factual truth, was a stretch for some 9/11 activists, but the tide is quickly changing. For example, within one day, one prominent 9/11 truth activist went from condemning use of “The Shell Game” as a 9/11 truth spreading tool, . . . to wholly and enthusiastically endorsing it to help open the public mind to 9/11 truth. This is a growing pattern. The more 9/11 truth activists learn about this upcoming blockbuster book, the more excited they become.
“I’m changing my vote to Thumbs Up on Shell Game . . .” said the above activist.
What had changed his mind was that when he’d only read clips of the novel he saw a neo-con demonization-of-Arabs perspective that he feared because it fell into line with the corporate media propaganda that has deceived Americans into two illegal wars.
HOWEVER, as he learned more about “The Shell Game,” he realized that the author begins the novel from the neo-con perspective, and from the perspective of the average citizen spoon fed a distorted reality by corporate media daily. 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.
Yet, even more brilliant is that the novel is peppered with REAL 9/11 truth research used as chapter introductions, leaving the action fiction reader educated as well as entertained.
Dr. Robert Bowman (rtd. Air Force Colonel), and Director of ThePatriot.us a 9/11 truth seeking organization, was an early advocate of “The Shell Game,” as was renowned 9/11 researcher and author, David Ray Griffin, and Kevin Ryan (a UL NIST report whistleblower), and many other major voices for 9/11 truth. But, there was resistance in some activists of using “fiction” to push “truth.”
So some early 9/11 truth supporters of “The Shell Game,” are now enjoying a breath of relief as the activists out there, are now seeing the potential of “The Shell Game,” and embracing it’s success as a possibility to dramatically expand 9/11 truth. Robert Bowman, after seeing such activist’s turn around, wrote:
“Glad to see a turn-around. Fortunately, I started at the beginning and read through the whole book carefully. It is a riveting page-turner, with characters you can really care about, and plenty of plot twists. Along the way, it educates the reader on all sorts of issues related to the neocon danger to our republic and our people. (9/11 is just one of them.) I wholeheartedly endorse this book. Read it ... and start at the beginning. You'll be glad you did.”
Dr. Bowman gained 9/11 truth notoriety early on, when he analyzed the US Air Force behavior on 9/11 and as a former fighter pilot knew that if standard procedures would have been followed on 9/11 the 2nd WTC tower, the Pentagon, and likely even the first WTC tower would never have been taken down. Dr. Bowman spoke out with a soul force as he said, “Some call it treason!”
In the last week, the ad hoc coalition of 9/11 truth seekers advocating “The Shell Game” has grown more, adding Professor Steven Jones (whose research found the official story of the WTC collapses defies the laws of physics), Pilots for 9/11 Truth, and Visibility911 have also joined into the growing coalition for this edu-tainment novel, and its value to expand the 9/11 truth movement’s audience.
With the original print run of “The Shell Game,” almost sold out already, nearly three weeks before official release . . . the 9/11 truth movement may take a well deserved bow for doing what they could to expand “The Shell Game” out into the public eye. There is more to do. Our sights should be set on “The Shell Game” breaking as many sales records as possible, thereby making it impossible for the corporate media to ignore the novel, its author, or the book’s website which will provide links to 9/11 truth seeking organizations and information.
2008 is beginning to look like a very hopeful year. Thanks to the 9/11 truth movement leaders with the vision to see that a work of fiction could be a jet fuel to in the long run launch facts into the public mind over time, and to Steve Alten, the courageous successful author who laid his career on the line, when he produced, “The Shell Game,” because he cared about truth and justice.
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."
"Fortunately, I started at the beginning and read through the whole book carefully. It is a riveting page-turner, with characters you can really care about, and plenty of plot twists. Along the way, it educates the reader on all sorts of issues related to the neocon danger to our republic and our people. (9/11 is just one of them.) I wholeheartedly endorse this book. Read it ... and start at the beginning. You'll be glad you did.”
-- Dr. Robert Bowman (rtd. US Air Force Colonel, and 9/11 truth activist, speaking out on Air Force stand down on 9/11/2001)
"Let me assure you, my friends, this is an incredible page-turner... a fantastic story that pulls you into the personal lives and deaths of the characters, while at the same time incorporating 9/11 truth and world history, especially relating to oil and Saudi Arabia, that most mainstream fiction readers just won't get from any other books. No wonder Steve is a #1 best-selling author--I was not be able to put this novel down -- it definitely kept me up late into the night!"
-- Janice Matthews, 911Truth.org Executive Director
Here are a few clips from real 9/11 truth researcher's quotes, that lead into various chapters in "THE SHELL GAME":
“Where was the military?General Richard Myers [Acting Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] and Mike Snyder [NORAD spokesperson] both said no military jets were sent up until after the strike on the Pentagon [9:38].Yet American Airlines Flight 11 had shown two of the standard signs of hijacking at 8:15.This means that procedures that usually result in interception within ten or so minutes had not been carried out in eighty minutes.That enormous delay suggested that a stand-down order, canceling standard procedures, must have been given.”
-- Professor David Ray Griffin,
The 9/11 Commission’s Incredible Tales“Over the course of two years [independent journalist Daniel] Hopsicker not only added information to what was known about [the 9/11 hijackers] military training, he established that some of the hijackers associated with wealthy Floridians had both intelligence and Bush family connections.Hopsicker also confirmed that within hours after the attacks, Florida Governor Jeb Bush had a military C-130 Hercules transport fly into the Venice [Florida] airport where a hastily loaded rental truck, filled with the records of Huffman Aviation – where Atta, Alshehri, and others had trained – was driven directly into the plane.The C-130 immediately took off for parts unknown.”
-- Michael C. Ruppert, from Crossing the Rubicon: TheDecline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
LITERARY REVIEWS:
"Steve Alten proves his versatility in his latest thriller THE SHELL GAME, a tour-de-force thriller tackling oil, politics, and the state of the world. Controversial, shocking, meticulously researched, and sure to raise many eyebrows in Washington, Alten has produced both a dazzling political thriller and a cautionary tale for our times. Anyone interested in the labyrinthine world of politics, international gamesmanship, and the control of oil in society needs to read this book."
--James Rollins, New York Times bestseller of The Judas Strain
“A nerve-wracking thriller about America’s addiction to Middle-Eastern sweet crude and the network of enablers who keep our dependent nation away from detox.”
--Kirkus Review
"Whether you embrace it or refute it, 'The Shell Game' cannot, and should not, be easily dismissed. This is Steve Alten's boldest, bravest book to date. He's fearless, in fact, and his skills as a storyteller have not dulled. 'The Shell Game' leaves you shattered, angry and demanding change."
--Andrew Tallackson, Michigan City (Ind.) News-Dispatch entertainment editor
“Action packed, intense and politically probing, "The Shell Game" is an intriguing blend of fiction and non-fiction that will most certainly disturb the practitioners of the game, because it will make readers stop and think about American foreign policy in the oil-rich Middle East.”
--Richard Folsom, Washington Daily News
“Do we really trust our leaders on how much oil actually remains untapped? Do we want to leave our future, much less our children's future in the hands of power hungry government officials and greedy corporations who care little or nothing about the common individual? After reading this book I think that you will agree that fiction or not; "The Shell Game" is one of the most prolific and important books of our time. Highly recommended.”
--Craig Harvey – MOVEMENT MAGAZINE
by
Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 9:16:35 PM
9/11 Truth Movement Activists and Leaders on "The Shell Game
We, the undersigned, urge everyone seeking truth, peace and justice, to not only purchase this new novel, "The Shell Game," but also to email out this appeal to all you know who seek truth, peace and justice in the form of 9/11 truth coming out.In turn, please urge them to do the same with all their contacts and urge them to do the same.We can break 9/11 truth open if we work together and focus on this project for the next 30 days.
Yours in 9/11 truth, peace and justice,
Bill Douglas, National 911 Visibility Project
Dr. Steven Jones – Physicist who discovered controlled demolition substances in WTC debris
Janice Matthews - 911Truth.org Executive Director
David Ray Griffin - 9/11 Researcher and Author
Kevin Ryan -former UL chemistry laboratory manager & NIST report whistle blower
Dr. Robert Bowman - Rtd. Colonel US Air Force, 9/11 truth leader; thepatriots.us/
Rob Balsamo – Pilots for 9/11 Truth
Carol Brouillet - Organizer of 1st National 9/11 Truth Conference in San Francisco
Mike Berger - "Improbable Collapse" Documentary Producer - 911Truth Spokesman
David Kubiak - 911Truth.org Board member
Kevin Barrett – Muslim/Christian/Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth
Michael Wolsey – Visibility911.com
by
Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 9:21:44 PM
"The 9/11 Truth movement is growing exponentially..."
Sure it is. So, let's take a look at reality, shall we? Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth ( http://www.aetruth911.org/ ) has been praised by a majority of Truthers for offering scientifically valid analyses of the 9/11 events. The group is composed on architects, engineers, and like-minded people that apply for differing types of membership based largely upon their credentials. There is also a membership fee that's required as part of the application, which varies depending upon your credentials.
This is all very fair and legitimate and no different than other similar scientific bodies. However, as an applicant you must also agree to sign their petition so that your name and title are bandied about to add "legitimacy" to their claiming to be a scientific body. This requirement, though, is not in keeping with other science-minded organizations and should raise a little flag for someone wanting to join.
Regardless, what's their growth been like among it architect and engineer membership since its inception in May 2007? Indeed, Richard Gage – the web sites founder – makes the following claim, "Maybe now you understand why our membership of architects, engineers, and other building professionals, who are all calling for a science-based forensic investigation - which has yet to be performed - is growing exponentially!" - http://www.ae911truth.org/info/23 .
Is this statement true? Unfortunately for Mr. Gage, it is not true – which again should be raising a little flag for someone wanting to join a body of people dedicated to revealing what (?) – the truth. Yet, the web site's founder has no problem lying when it comes to promoting the site and its cause.
And how do we know he's lying? Let's review the ae911truth .org membership growth - http://911guide.googlepages.com/ae911truth . As the graph shows in stark reality, the growth for this group of Truthers is linear (at best) with a plateau starting to form (has membership peaked?). Where he started with 48 members in May 2007, Mr. Gage should have about 6,150 members by the end of December 2007 to demonstrate exponential growth. He still doesn't have anywhere near that number of members, if we include the non-credentialed folks, whose number appears in reduced font compared to the credentialed people.
As of today, January 4, 2008, ae911truth.org has a total of 860 members.
Therefore, unless your using imaginary numbers, differential equations, or even "fuzzy math", the 9/11 Truth movement, as detailed in a sample population, is NOT growing exponentially. The far more important question is, "Why isn't it growing exponentially, if what the Truth movement offers is readily apparent?"
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Tom Murphy (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1339 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 8:13:58 AM
Tom apparently hasn't read the polls and checked viewership
According to public opinion polls the number of people who now believe there's a 9/11 cover up, and those believing there was govt. complicity has grown by the millions over the years.
Loose Change has been viewed on national TV in many nations, and is so popular in the UK that its distribution is now being expanded.
Tom simply doesn't want to see reality . . . oh, yeah, that's why he still believes the official 9/11 myth. Nuff said.
As all of us urge all we know to read this great new action novel "The Shell Game," it'll cause more and more people to want to know more and more about what happened on 9/11 and to demand a real investigation.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 10:07:10 AM
"According to public opinion polls the number of people who now believe there's a 9/11 cover up, and those believing there was govt. complicity has grown by the millions over the years."
And now we see Mr. Douglas stretching the numbers, as well. You mentioned polls, so let's take a look at those. For the record, I don't really care for them because the results are easily manipulated via the questions, but I understand that 911Truthers live and die by the things.
(1) "How about that some people think the federal government had specific [sic] warnings of the 9/11 attacks in New york [sic] and Washington, but chose to ignore these warnings. Is this very likely, somewhat likely or not likely?
There's no news here because it parallels what the 9/11 Commission Report noted in the Chapter entitled "The System was Blinking Red" - http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report_Ch8.htm . The government did take it's "eye of the prize" here with regard to the warnings, which resulted in the tragedy of 9/11. But to allege that this was due to intention instead of incompetence is another matter entirely.
So , let's see what Americans believe regarding the government's intention and possible involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
(2) "There are also accusations being made following the 9/11 terrorist attack. One of these is: People in the federal government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted to United States to go to war in the Middle East.
Huh! It appears as though the great majority of people believe in the implied incompetence issue as opposed to the intention because 59% think it unlikely that the government was involved in any "inside job".
Perhaps, this is an aberration because it fails to match the often-exclaimed "the majority of Americans think..." statements made by 911Truthers. Is the "devil in the details" as to the source of such statements being present within specific 9/11 events?
(3) "The Pentagon was not struck by an airliner captured by terrorists but, instead was hit by a cruise missle [sic] fired by the U.S. military.
Well, those results were interesting, no? It's apparent that slim minorities (i.e., 6% on each) actually believe that the government was the perpetrator behind "the inside job" of 9/11.
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Tom Murphy (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1339 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 11:58:37 AM
More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll.
Thirty-six percent of respondents overall said it is "very likely" or "somewhat likely" that federal officials either participated in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon or took no action to stop them "because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East."
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Tom is just here to confuse issues. The 9/11 truth seekers who want a new investigation can help further and broaden the demand for a new 9/11 investigation, by urging all they know to get "The Shell Game"
The new 9/11 truth seeking novel "The Shell Game."
by
Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 12:35:51 PM
Zogby Poll: 51% of Americans Want Congress to Probe Bush/Cheney Regarding 9/11 Attacks; Over 30% Seek Immediate Impeachment
67% also fault 9/11 Commission for not investigating anomalous collapse of World Trade Center 7
Kansas City, MO (Zogby International) September 6, 2007 - As America nears the sixth anniversary of the world-churning events of September 11, 2001, a new Zogby International poll finds a majority of Americans still await a Congressional investigation of President Bush' and Vice President Cheney's actions before, during and after the 9/11 attacks. Over 30% also believe Bush and/or Cheney should be immediately impeached by the House of Representatives.
The 911truth.org–sponsored poll also found that over two-thirds of Americans say the 9/11 Commission should have investigated the still unexplained collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 at 5:20 p.m. on September 11, 2001.
WTC 7 housed the mayor's emergency bunker and offices of the SEC, IRS, CIA and Secret Service and was not hit by any planes but still completely collapsed into its own footprint nearly eight hours after the Twin Tower attacks. FEMA did not explain this collapse, the 911 Commission ignored it, and the promised official study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now 2 years overdue.
So, if you are asleep . . . I mean content with the official 9/11 myth as Tom is . . . then hit the snooze button . . .
BUT, IF YOU ARE WITH THE MAJORITY OF AMERICANS WHO WANT BUSH/CHENEY INVESTIGATED FOR 9/11 . . .
Then you have a chance to help wake up the rest of America by urging all you know to enjoy a great action fiction novel called "The Shell Game."
I know Tom wants us to talk about anything else but "THE SHELL GAME" because "THE SHELL GAME" may help us break 9/11 truth into the mainstream.
Tom gets nervous and angry when things like "THE SHELL GAME BY NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR STEVE ALTEN" comes along . . . because when things like "THE SHELL GAME" come along, then Tom's efforts to obfuscate and confuse anyone who knows that we've been lied to about 9/11 . . . will all be for naught.
TELL ALL YOU KNOW ABOUT "THE SHELL GAME" By Steve Alten, NY Times best selling novelist.
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Bill Douglas (68 articles, 2 quicklinks, 11 diaries, 434 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 12:42:34 PM
I give you sourced facts, and you respond with faith in the form of "Shed Light" with a capital S and L to boot. Additionally, I give you the primary sources of the polls and you respond by referencing a secondary source to the very same primary sources - too, too funny.
If you want people to make conclusions for themselves, them shown them the primary source and not your spin on the primary via another's interpretation.
Tom isn't worried about more people "knowing" about 9/11. I think it's in every American's interest to research the issue thoroughly. What Tom DOES want is the proper label and context be placed on "The Shell Game" - Fictional Thriller and not "This is based on a true story". And Tom doesn't think that unreasonable.
Those polls are from 2006, and they directly contradict the Zogby polls of the same time which put your 6% at almost 40%. Check your sources my friend.
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Bruno (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 2:37:52 PM
Get out on the streets. I see a HUGE difference between a year ago and today. The truth about 9/11 is spreading and you are obviously frustrated about this. That brings such joy to me! I love how the debunkers are starting to pound their fists on the table out of frustration! Sorry, Tom, but 9/11 Truth movement is growing exponentially. LOL. Are you still pounding your fists on the table?
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Bruno (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 4 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 2:44:43 PM
Nope. No pounding from me. The only thing that I KNOW I have the ability to control are my expectations and acceptance of them. All the rest is outside my domain and the last thing I'd wish to do is claim control over those things. I don't get upset when people disgaree because they are not mine to control. They are their own persons to control. So, how are you doing with your control?
I don't doubt that the raw numbers of people involved with the Movement have probably grown, but the majority of those increases appear to be curiousity seekers and not the "it was an inside job" core of people. However, they certainly have not grown exponentially. My comments were directed at correcting that little bit of "misinformation".
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Tom Murphy (2 articles, 3 quicklinks, 9 diaries, 1339 comments)
on Friday, January 4, 2008 at 3:26:48 PM
