Most main stream U.S. media journalists think it is wrong to even ask certain questions about the Bush II Commission that prepared the "official" 9/11 conspiracy theory and report.
That official report tells a story about planners in Afghani caves who together with 19 mostly Saudi Arabian menconspired together (the very definition of conspiracy theory) to damage the Pentagon as well as destroy two buildings in Manhattan, N.Y. in 2001.
But millions of questioning citizens, including members of the Commission itself, do not rely on that report alone, because too many experts have stated on the record that the Bush II Commission made colossal omissions following their short investigation which produced a technical report that also contains obvious mistakes:
In 2006, The Washington Post reported ... "Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources. Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission ..."
(Salem News, emphasis added; Washington Post). Unfair mainstream U.S. journalists tend to give "equal time" to every story under the sun, except the version presented by architects, engineers, and others who raise science based counter points to support their analysis.
We have pointed out, by quoting psychologists, sociologists, and professionals in related disciplines who have analyzed this behavior of U.S. journalists, and who have thereafter concluded that the 9/11 denial by U.S. journalists is a danger to the security of the populace, because it abandons the purpose of the fourth estate, better known as the free press (see here, here, here, here, and here).
Journalists in other nations, who lost people on 9/11 too, are more open minded, so they tend to be able to cover both sides of the story more freely and fearlessly.
Nevertheless, some U.S. journalists will present the news about the skeptical architects, engineers, and others who have amassed challenges to the Bush II Commission's report: Journalists, educators, and government have not stopped evils on this planet, so blind faith in them in place of self determination has consequences such as this:
Despite more than a dozen international conventions banning slavery in the past 150 years, there are more slaves today than at any point in human history. Slaves are those forced to perform services for no pay beyond subsistence and for the profit of others who hold them through fraud and violence.
(Time Magazine, emphasis added). A while back Dredd Blog quoted Aldous Huxley who saw this coming:
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.”
(Glory Daze, emphasis added). When the questioning of government explanations of reality goes away freedom goes away with it.
Fear is known to have the capacity to paralyze the mind to such a degree that it cannot function in an unbiased manner.
Previous posts on Dredd Blog addressed the psychological impairment done to journalists and scholars by the events on 9/11/01 and the directly related wars that followed.
In the series State Crimes Against Democracy (SCAD), we covered those issues as revealed in crisp, clear quotes from a scholarly behavioral journal which focuses specifically on those fear based behavioral dynamics that to this day are plaguing journalism and government in America, both still swirling in the long wake of 9/11 events.
We have perused the subject in many ways, including not only the quoting of shocking statements from professional publications specifically dedicated to the behavioral impairment we call fear, and other such impairments, but also including contemplation of the very structure of the brain itself, isolating the very brain component where fear is known to flow.
So, each day beginning 9/4/11 up to and including 9/11/11, Dredd Blog is doing posts that deal with the questions and concerns millions of people around the world still have about the Bush II Commission and their 9/11 report, which started the ongoing controversy.
We are doing this series because journalists in the main stream media tend to give "equal time" to every story under the sun except the opposing view of 9/11 events.
Therefore, in proper journalistic tradition, Dredd Blog will present the counter points raised by various expert professionals who are unabashedly contrary.
It is the scholarly thing to do, in as much as a university in Canada is doing the same thing during this time frame (see Toronto Hearings).
A university professor of 30 years tenure is interviewed in the short clip below:
In yesterday's post the architect Les Young explained that their only concern is to find out the truth of how the buildings, WTC-1, WTC-2, and WTC-7, on 9/11/01 came down, not to determine who did it.
That requires an independent professional Commission, unlike the original committee.
That new group composition needs to include an independent professional fire and explosives investigation team.
Who did the activities that brought the three skyscrapers down is for another type of authority, a team of detectives, to determine.
Each day from 9/4/11 up to and including 9/11/11, Dredd Blog is doing posts that deal with the questions millions have about the Bush II Commission 9/11 report.
Each day from today up to and including September 11, Dredd Blog will do posts that deal with the questions millions have about the Bush II Commission that explained the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about 9/11 (according to the Bushies).
On the other hand, the original skeptics, the families of 9/11 victims who started the "9/11 Truth Movement", cite the lies about Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, lies about Iraq being involved in 9/11, and other news as a cautionary tale about the dangers of unquestioned belief in the Bush II version of anything, including 9/11.
Journalists give "equal time" to every story under the sun except the 9/11 story, therefore, in proper journalistic tradition, Dredd Blog will present the counter points raised by various expert professionals.
When a person is ill the doctor first determines the cause before administering a treatment plan.
The cause is determined by an analysis of the ill effects, the symptoms, which is part of a map of sorts.
Through experience and education, which develop the ability to read that map, the doctor follows the trail that the symptoms will leave.
The exercise involved in any such analysis is to follow the trail across the map all the way back to the cause.
That cause will then be the key determinant for developing the cure or treatment plan.
The treatment plan is, then, nexus based, meaning that it is focused on the trail, the link, from the symptoms back to the source, back to the cause of the illness.
The basic treatment strategy is to remove the cause which will axiomatically remove the ill effects, the symptoms.
Why would that diagnostics first then treatment later process not work (knowing the cause, not just the symptoms) for an economic illness, such as a recession or depression?
The symptoms of national economic illness are high unemployment rates, a drop in output showing up as a decreasing Gross National Product (GNP), home foreclosures, an imbalance in debt-to-income ratios, an unprecedented disparity between the wealthy 1% compared to the unwealthy 99%, and a general consumer spending decrease.
What are the causes?
There can be no effective treatment or cure of any economic malady absent a tracing of the contours of the nexus from a symptom back to a cause.
Instead of the give it all to the banks approach, Dredd Blog came up with a trust the people approach.
That approach functions as a grass roots up economics approach which is admittedly biased in favor of the betterment of the public (99%), not the 1% who actually own the country.
To the contrary of the Dredd Blog approach, the government chose a trust the banks approach that functions as a trickle down economics policy, which failed, so now the government is suing the banks:
The agency that oversees mortgage markets is preparing to file suit against "more than a dozen" big U.S. banks, accusing them of misrepresenting the quality of mortgages they packaged and sold during the housing bubble, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
(News Daily, see also Huffington Post). Is something wrong with this picture in the sense that the policy has been to dump hundreds of billions of dollars on those banks, but to now sue them?
The economic policy concerning "Too Big To Fail" banks, since the 9/11 trance set in, has been "Ready, Fire, Aim" in place of "Ready, Aim, Fire".
The government lawsuit mentioned above, so far contains the following specifics:
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), today filed lawsuits against 17 financial institutions, certain of their officers and various unaffiliated lead underwriters. The suits allege violations of federal securities laws and common law in the sale of residential private-label mortgage-backed securities (PLS) to the Enterprises.
Complaints have been filed against the following lead defendants, in alphabetical order:
1. Ally Financial Inc. f/k/a GMAC, LLC 2. Bank of America Corporation 3. Barclays Bank PLC 4. Citigroup, Inc. 5. Countrywide Financial Corporation 6. Credit Suisse Holdings (USA), Inc. 7. Deutsche Bank AG 8. First Horizon National Corporation 9. General Electric Company 10. Goldman Sachs & Co. 11. HSBC North America Holdings, Inc. 12. JPMorgan Chase & Co. 13. Merrill Lynch & Co. / First Franklin Financial Corp. 14. Morgan Stanley 15. Nomura Holding America Inc. 16. The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC 17. Société Générale
These complaints were filed in federal or state court in New York or the federal court in Connecticut. The complaints seek damages and civil penalties under the Securities Act of 1933, similar in content to the complaint FHFA filed against UBS Americas, Inc. on July 27, 2011. In addition, each complaint seeks compensatory damages for negligent misrepresentation. Certain complaints also allege state securities law violations or common law fraud.
(US vs THEM, PDF). As Dredd Blog has pointed out ad nauseum, we entered the Age of Plunder (see Series Page under "PLUNDER") during the Bush II regime, and it may be the last age of MOMCOM, if we consider that it also includes the Peak of The Oil Wars and The Peak of Sanity.
At that time two years ago we did not know that the work GE corporate media helped the military with was linked to a Pentagon secret document, now unclassified, which defined the contours of the media propaganda efforts.
Those efforts are called Information Operations Roadmap, detailed in that once-classified but evidently unwittingly declassified document, produced by Donald Rumsfeld when he was Secretary of Defense.
A copy of the document is available through the link in the comments at the end of this post of two years ago:GE looks at the media as one of its tools for selling ideas as if ideas were toothpaste.
This echoes the observation of Professor Noam Chomsky, who said:
One of the most important comments on deceit, I think, was made by Adam Smith. He pointed out that a major goal of business is to deceive and oppress the public.
And one of the striking features of the modern period is the institutionalization of that process, so that we now have huge industries deceiving the public — and they're very conscious about it, the public relations industry. Interestingly, this developed in the freest countries—in Britain and the US—roughly around time of WWI, when it was recognized that enough freedom had been won that people could no longer be controlled by force. So modes of deception and manipulation had to be developed in order to keep them under control.
And by now these are huge industries. They not only dominate marketing of commodities, but they also control the political system. As anyone who watches a US election knows, it's marketing. It's the same techniques that are used to market toothpaste.
And, of course, there are power systems in place to facilitate this. Throughout history it's been mostly the property holders or the educated classes who've tended to support power systems. And that's a large part of what I think education is—it's a form of indoctrination. You have to reconstruct a picture of the world in order to be conducive to the interests and concerns of the educated classes, and this involves a lot of self-deceit.
(Noam Chomsky, Professor, MIT, emphasis mine). Notice how GE calls various entities "Brands" on its own website:
BRANDS
* Bravo * CNBC * Focus Features & Rogue Pictures * Global Networks * MSNBC * Mun2 * NBC Entertainment * NBC News * NBC Sports & Olympics * NBC Universal Television Group * NBC Universal Television Stations * SCI FI * Telemundo * USA Network * Universal Parks & Resorts * Universal Pictures * Universal Studios Home Entertainment * iVillage
(General Electric Website, UPDATE: they took the page down to hide this egregious reality, so to see this use The WayBack Machine). The GE website points out that they are also into military contracts in war zones as well as oil, gas, healthcare, and banking.
This blog has a series of posts which show the roots of this system which worships war and deceit, our worst enemy.
The Pentagon needed to help Bush II get elected, to save the military oil complex from becoming a class like the military in other countries of the world:
Until more money arrives, the defense apparatus is literally feeding on its own parts, pinching this and that, scrimping here and there, in order to keep the same Cold War force structure in place and the same lineup of new weapons moving through the pipeline of development. During the Cold War era, the military institution acquired a reflexive appetite for growth that it's now unwilling to give up. Instead, it lumbers toward a self-induced crisis of malnourishment, as when an addict's starving body eats its own liver.
(Is There A Shadow Government - 2). That was the state of the military just as Bush II was being elected, with the help of GE and the GE CEO, Bush II's greatest campaign contributor.
The author observed "the defense apparatus" (a.k.a. "military industrial complex") as being an addict to public money, which is synonymous with dangerous, aberrant behaviour.
The Pentagon had the choice of easing the burden of the nation it is sworn to uphold, by dropping the cold war habit, or instead staying addicted and becoming too big to fail - continuing to impoverish the nation.
The Pentagon did not wait long after installing Bush II to begin their wars, which still continue to this day, to fatten them at the expense of millions of Americans who are losing homes, jobs, and healthcare.
We have written some posts exposing some of how the Pentagon, through puppets like MSNBC's Morning Joe, habitually deceives the public.
GE financials looked at here.Here are some quotes from the Information Operations Roadmap document mentioned at the top of this post:
We Must Fight the Net. DoD is building an information-centric-force. Networks are increasingly the operational center of gravity, and the Department must be prepared to "fight the net." (page 6 [PDF page 10])
We Must Improve PSYOP. Military forces must be better prepared to use PSYOP in support of military operations and the themes and messages employed in a PSYOP campaign must be consistent with the broader national security objectives and national-level themes and messages. (page 6 [PDF page 10])
The integrated employment of the core capabilities of Electronic Warfare, Computer Network Operations, Psychological Operations, Military Deception and Operations Security, in concert with specified supporting and related capabilities, to influence, disrupt, corrupt or usurp adversarial human and automated decision-making ... (page 11 [PDF page 15])
SOCOM's ongoing PSYOP Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration and modernization efforts should permit the timely, long-range dissemination of products with various PSYOP delivery systems. This includes satellite, radio and television, cellular phones and other wireless devices, the Internet and upgrades to traditional delivery systems such as leaflets and loudspeakers that are highly responsive to maneuver commanders. (page 15 [PDF page 19])
USD(P), in coordination with ASD(PA) will analyze and make recommendations on those policy, strategy and legal issues affected by and related to the proper role for public diplomacy and public affairs in relation to IO. Particular emphasis will be given to examining the appropriate relationship of PSYOP to public affairs as they relate to [U.S. Government] communications strategies for both adversaries and non-adversaries. (page 24 [PDF page 28])
(Information Operations Roadmap, emphasis added). The roadmap includes the ways the information operation is to be carried out, such as:
Brokering press availability for senior leaders (speeches, interviews, etc.)
Inoculations: Preemptive global communications to demonstrate past behavior or spotlight transgressions
Rapid Response/Truth Squads and "Briefings Plus"
Media embeds
Official press releases
Domestic opinion pieces and editorials by senior DoD officials
Most main stream U.S. media journalists think it is wrong to even ask certain questions about the Bush II Commission that prepared the "official" 9/11 conspiracy theory and report.
