by wordspeak » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:26 pm
Nomo, mr. grown-up, sir- you're now changing your tone.<br>I agree, too, that <br>"Focusing on who did what, who paid for what, who benefitted is a helluva lot more useful than debating the size of the hole in the Pentagon."<br>But that's not what the Rolling Stone writer says. He says, paraphrased: "I'm ignoring all specific criminal-style evidence for now and focusing on the general implausibility of it being an inside job."<br>It's a joke to think 9/11 was an inside job, he says.<br><br>It's ironic, because all the circumstantial evidence- "physical" evidence aside, points to 9/11 being an inside job. You can say, "Oh, we'll never really know," but of course you can know. That "postmodernist" attitude has a crippling effect. We know who killed JFK. It's the "you can't really know" meme that's most harmful to actually understanding the worlds and changing it.<br><br>Matt Taibbi wants a story, OK. I agree with everything sin70 wrote, but it's not just PNAC, which gets far too much attention. There's a long history of psychological operations coming from an entrenched power elite that's transnational in nature but effectively hires out the CIA. It doesn't take much research to understand that the same handful of people operating through a handful of financial networks started all of the most powerful transnational organizations in the world- from the World Bank and IMF to the CFR and Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, and U.N.- and these "globalists" have always had ties to the CIA. It's a far-right fascist cabal, and it was behind the assassination of JFK. Obviously, Bush Sr. is very much part of it. It's not Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfield sitting down making the plans for 9/11. It's a massive, highly-practiced black-ops operation funded by American tax money plus illegal drugs sales. You might remember BCCI and Iran-Contra, too, for some reference.<br>This is like intro-to-the-real-world, nomo. Am I talking down to you, to take a tactic from smug people like Matt Taibbi?<br>In the perpetual battle between fascism and people rising up and taking power (whatever you choose to call that; it's happening a lot around Latin America right now), psychology is the most important tool. 9/11 changed the entire global psyche, especially the American psyche, and opened the door not just for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but for the rise of a domestic police state. It created a "permanent war." Who benefits from a permanent war? You tell me, nomo. <br>Matt Taibbi thinks he hits a home run by pointing out that the war-makers didn't need a 9/11 to invade Iraq the first time, or to invade Kosovo, etc. But "9/11" was much more than an excuse to invade some countries; it was about a dramatic shift towards living in fear of an outside threat; that was its result. Trust your leaders. There is an very treacherous enemy. We will take care of you. Never mind that we fund and arm this enemy, and that its soldiers were trained at our CIA-connected flight schools in Florida. Trust us, and you will be safe. <br>Everything about 9/11 represented a classic psychological operation.<br><br>Wikipedia on "psychological operations":<br>Psychological Operations (PSYOP[US] or PSYOPS[UK, GE, NATO]) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to specific foreign and (in certain countries) domestic audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of governments, organizations, groups, and individuals. Sometimes combined with black operations or false flag tactics, the purpose of psychological operations is to induce or reinforce attitudes and behaviors favorable to the originator's objectives....<br>This concept has been used by military institutions throughout history, but it is only since the twentieth century that it has been accorded the organizational and professional status it enjoys now.<br> <p></p><i></i>
