Renewable energy: key to future long-term economic stability
By Abel Ashes Hull Simmons 8/4/09

Perhaps the most overlooked aspect of the current recession is the role that oil prices played in bringing about the economic crisis. Often forgotten in all of the talk of credit default swaps and real estate bubbles is the fact that shortly before the economy began to go into a steep decline the nation was facing nearly $150 dollar per barrel oil and nearly $5 per gallon gasoline.

Neither the oil issue nor the real estate issue worked in isolation to cause the current recession, but rather exacerbated one another making the economic meltdown inevitable. With so much of new home ownership concentrated in areas of suburban sprawl where gas guzzling SUVs were the norm and the prevailing culture encouraged the use of homes “as ATMs” the effects of gasoline prices on households alone had potential to send the economy into a tailspin. However, when one considers the effects of high oil prices on industry we can clearly see that recession may have happened whether or not the real estate bubble had burst. In fact the high oil prices may have been the prick that finally burst the bubble.

Just as an entire neighborhood suffers the after effects of the foreclosures of neighbors in declining home values, so to does the entire nation suffer the after effects of high oil prices due to cost increases being passed on to the consumer as well as the potential of lay-offs and business closings due to out of control business expenses. These expenses can manifest themselves as cost increases in mining, logging, manufacturing, farming, packaging, and transportation of goods. In fact many of the employment sectors to suffer first were those heavily dependant upon low oil prices to sustain profitability; such as trucking, airlines, non-organic farming, and construction.

Concurrent with the recession triggering oil price increases of July 2008 was the arrival of a record setting world crude oil production level of 74.8 million barrels per day. In other words, while oil prices may have risen due to a variety of factors, the most essential was obvious; oil demand was feared to be approaching a level in excess of available supply.

Just as elements of the real estate market were aware of the potentially devastating bubble they helped to create, individuals and institutions involved in world oil markets were playing dangerous games designed to maximize profits in the short-term at the expense of long-term stability. The real estate sector was devastated by a perfect storm of greedy speculators, deceptive appraisers, manipulative home loan officers and self-delusional home owners. The industries and individuals most reliant upon low oil prices were dealt a heavy blow by a combination of petroleum geology, excess consumption, geopolitics, and oil price speculation. The most important factors in this stew will prove to be petrol-geology and excessive consumption. In fact it can be stated that geology and consumption are the factors driving petrol-politics and petrol-speculation.

As the economy fell deeper and deeper into a recession, production slowed, trucking slowed, shipping slowed, air travel slowed, and people drove less. The price of oil dropped due to less oil being purchased. This substantial drop in oil prices will prove to be one of the most important factors leading to economic recovery, a sobering thought considering that economic recovery will likely mean a return to high oil prices.

The only hope of getting off of the oil price rollercoaster in the short-term is if individuals, industry, and government recognize that conservation of energy must increase, while consumption and growth driven economics decreases. Absent that sort of miraculous transformation of the American mindset our next best short-term hope is that strong regulation of financial markets will be instituted to, if not eliminate, then severely rein-in the type of irresponsible speculation that leads to boom and bust economic cycles. If the rest of the economy is built on a strong foundation of realistic expectations we will be better situated to absorb the shock of future oil price spikes while sustaining less damage to the economy.

Our greatest hope for economic stability in the long-term is that the issue of future energy supply decreases combined with the equaling frightening prospect of economic and ecological destruction due to global climate change will break through the fog of ignorance and denial and lead to a massive, rapid, and sustained global push for clean, sustainable energy that develops the most cutting edge renewable energy technologies beyond the “alternative” stage and into the mainstream of energy consumption where they belong.

Would anyone care to answer a few questions for me?1. If Osama Bin Laden is a secret CIA and/or Mossad agent and the CIA and/or Mossad orchestrated 9/11 and blamed it on him, wouldn’t he (as a secret CIA and/or Mossad agent) still be guilty for the crimes of 9/11?

2. When the original plans for what became the 9/11 attacks were discovered in the Philippines in 1994 and possibly earlier during investigation of the WTC bombing and “The Day of Terror” plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was known to have been a leader of all three plots.
Why was Ramzi Yousef’s wanted poster printed on millions of matchbooks throughout the Middle East, when his equally involved uncle was not equally pursued?

3. Is KSM a CIA and/or Mossad agent?

4. If so why is he at Guantanamo Bay?

Nico Haupt created the idiotic terms “LIHOP” and “MIHOP”, introducing a hobson’s choice into the 9/11 truth movement that continues to keep almost everyone from looking at all of the evidence.DISINFO:

Pods on the planes

No hijackers

Al-Qaeda doesn’t exist

Flight 77 didn’t hit The Pentagon

KSM is innocent

Some of the hijackers are still alive

The fact that hijackers went to strip clubs means that they weren’t really Muslims. (Far-right pious Christians are caught with prostitutes all the time.) It’s called “sexual repression” and it’s a part of most major religions.

No planes. (Duh)

et cetera.

One of the greatest hoaxes perpetuated upon the 9/11 Truth Movement is the BS disinfo that this video is fake and is not really Bin Laden.By the way, this is not the entire video. I’ve seen it and if I can find it online I’ll post a link. If I remeber correctly it’s well over an hour long.

QUESTION: If Bin Laden is a CIA and/or Mossad agent wouldn’t part of his job be to confess to the 9/11 attacks so that it could be used as propaganda by the evil USA so that they could remove the loving socially progressive Taliban from power and force Afghani girls to go to school?
In other words…why make a fake Bin Laden video if Bin Laden is a CIA agent whose job is to take the blame for the 9/11 attacks?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4088893001507017921&ei=v5NnSJTJKYT-qgLYktzGBA&hl=en

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4088893001507017921&ei=v5NnSJTJKYT-qgLYktzGBA&hl=en

VIDEO: I Met Bin Laden
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3437198214313887354&q=bin+laden&ei=T4RnSLb1EoKwrAKpve2cDQ&hl=en

VIDEO: Peter Bergen speech on “The Osama Bin Laden I Know”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5441231480820818855&q=bin%20laden&hl=en

“ANNOYMOUSE” WROTE:
Recall in 6/05 Lance was a guest in a “9/11 Roundtable” show on Coast to Coast with host George Noory, alongside guests Michael Levine, Alex Jones, & David Ray Griffin. I see the MP3s available here.

ABEL ASHES WROTE:

The 9/11 Truth Movement must acknowledge that both “false flag” and “non-false flag” terrorism exist and will continue to exist and that both are equally wrong. Neither the mother whose child was blown apart by a suicide bomber in Iraq nor the woman whose husband was killed in the Twin Towers would care a thing about the BS politics behind their own personal tragedy if they could have their loved ones back.

The 9/11 Truth Movement must quit “cherry picking” evidence. And don’t respond by saying that those that support the “official story” cherry pick so we can to. That’s wrong. If we want to claim, moral, ethical, political, and evidentiary higher ground and be the more credible and reliable option, we have to be willing to look at all of the evidence and cross reference it and come to conclusions based upon cumulative evidence not isolated pices of information taken out of context.

thx for the reading list;

YOU’RE WELCOME.

I suggest you reread The Terror Timeline, Road to 9/11 and War on Truth by Nafeez Ahmed;

I DO REGULARLY.

in your years of research and disinfo debunking, how have you come to the conclusion that “al Qaeda” is really separate from the CIA, ISI and other agencies?

ARE YOU SAYING BIN LADEN IS A CIA AGENT? BIN LADEN IS AN AGENT OF HIS OWN TWISTED VERSION OF “ALLAH”. AL-QAEDA MUCH LIKE THE USSR DURING THE COLD WAR) HAS BEEN HEAVILY INFILTRATED BY THE CIA AND OTHERS AND AL-QAEDA KNOWS THIS AND HAS OFTEN EXPLOITED THE SITUATION TO THEIR OWN ADVANTAGE JUST LIKE THE US USED AL-QAEDA’S “BIG WEDDING”/”PLANES OPERATION” TO US GEOSTRATEGIC ADVANTAGE. BUT YES, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES (SUCH AS THE CIA) HAVE CREATED, PROMOTED, AND PROVOKED TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS MANY TIMES. BIN LADEN WAS WORKING WITH THE ISI WHO WERE WORKING WITH THE CIA DURING THE WAR. LATER THE CIA FUNDED THE AL-KIFAH REFUGEE CENTER IN BROOKLYN. THE BLIND SHEIKH ABDEL RAHMAN WORKED WITH THE CIA IN “OPERATION CYCLONE”. ALI MOHAMED WORKED FOR THE CIA AND THE US ARMY BEFORE MOVING ON TO BEING A PAID FBI SPY IN AL-QAEDA AND A PAID AL-QAEDA SPY IN THE FBI. $100,000 DOLLARS WAS WIRED FROM OMAR SAEED SHEIKH UNDER ORDERS OF THE ISI DIRECTOR MAHMOUD AHMAD. AL-QAEDA IS NOT A PRO-CIA ORGANIZATION. AL-QAEDA IS AN ANTI-CIA ORGANIZATION. MY BOOK WILL FOCUS ON DOUBLE AGENTS INSIDE AL-QAEDA.

Surely you are aware the US govt was creating terror textbooks that were used in Afghanistan for 20 years- evil geniuses like Brzezinski thought radicalizing Muslims would be helpful in a proxy war against the USSR- did he/they also not realize that, like Operation Gladio, they might be useful for future proxy wars as well as populace “shock & awe” to justify a surveillance state and an endless war on terror for geostrategic resources?

YES AND YES. THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY ARE A PRO-USA PUT-ON. SURELY YOU ARE AWARE THAT BIN LADEN HAS STATED THE DESIRE TO CREATE AN “AMERICAN HIROSHIMA” CAUSING 200,000 PLUS CIVILIAN DEATHS. I AGREE THAT OUR GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ARE OFTEN MORE INTERESTED IN INFILTRATING, SPYING ON, AND PROVOKING AL-QAEDA INTO GEO-STRATEGIC ACTION IN ORDER TO USE THEM AS AN EXCUSE FOR FUTURE INVASIONS THAN IN PROTECTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE (OR THE IRAQI OR AFGHANI PEOPLE).

If 9/11 and the subsequent history of terror alerts have proved anything, it’s that the disaffected and prone to violence Muslims are a minority in Islam, and the philosophy has been heavily cultivated by Western states thru their imam operatives.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18056504/truth_or_terrorism_the_real_story_behind_five_years_of_high_alerts

I AGREE WITH YOU. THE MAJORITY OF MUSLIMS DON’T SUPPORT AL-QAEDA, HAMAS, OR HEZBOLLAH JUST LIKE THE MAJORITY OF WHITE PEOPLE DON’T SUPPORT THE KU KLUX KLAN OR ARYAN NATIONS AND THE MAJORITY OF PRO-LIFERS DON’T SUPPORT CLINIC BOMBINGS AND THE MAJORITY OF POLYGAMISTS DON’T SUPPORT CHILD RAPE AND THE MAJORITY OF POLICE DON’T WANT TO MURDER UNARMED BLACK TEENAGERS. HOWEVER, THAT DOESN’T MEAN THAT ISLAMIC TERROR GROUPS, WHITE SUPREMICIST GROUPS, CLINIC BOMBERS, CHILD MOLESTERS, AND RACIST COPS DON’T EXIST. IT DOESN’T MEAN THEY AREN’T DANGEROUS. AL-QAEDA HAS KILLED MORE MUSLIMS THAN NON-MUSLIMS. MUSLIMS THAT DON’T SUPPORT AL-QAEDA DO NOT APPRECIATE THE US EXPLOITING AL-QAEDA FOR GEO-STRATEGIC REASONS AND THEY ALSO DON’T APPRECIATE NAIVE WESTERNERS RUSHING TO DEFEND AL-QAEDA’S REPUTATION WITH SOME CONVOLUTED ILLOGICAL MUMBO JUMBO. IT OFTEN GOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS, “AL-QAEDA DIDN’T DO 9/11. THE CIA/BUSH/ISI/SAUDI ARABIA/ISRAEL/GREAT BRITAIN DID.BUT AL-QAEDA IS RUN BY THE CIA/BUSH/ISI/SAUDI ARABIA/ISRAEL/GREAT BRITAIN. BUT AL-QAEDA DOESN’T EXIST. HUH?

The People don’t want war- most people are not robbers, killers or terrorists- however our political process and media have been hijacked and many Americans are dumbed down by public ed and TV, and in a food coma.

I AGREE WITH THE FIRST PART, DISAGREE SOMEWHAT WITH THE SECOND. MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT ROBBERS, KILLERS, OR TERRORISTS. HOWEVER SOME ARE AND MANY IN GOVERNMENTS DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN ARE AS WELL. “THE TERROR TIMELINE” IS A COLLECTION OF ARTICLES FROM “MEDIA”. MOST JOURNALISTS ARE INTERESTED IN TELLING THE TRUTH. MOST MAJOR MEDIA IS INFILTRATED BY GOVERNMENT OPERATIVES OF ONE SORT OR ANOTHER (SEE “OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD”). HOWEVER THAT PROBLEM EXISTS AT THE MANAGEMENT LEVEL NOT THE JOURNALISTIC LEVEL. THE ONLY REASON WE KNOW 3/4 OF WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HOW MUCH WE’VE BEEN LIED TO ABOUT 9/11 IS BECAUSE REPORTERS IN “THE MEDIA” TOLD US. AMERICANS NEED TO QUIT WORRYING ABOUT HAVING AN OPINION AND GET THEIR FACTS STRAIGHT. WE ALSO NEED TO READ THE NEWS INSTEAD THE OP-EDS.

The numbers are changing- both economic hardships and technological breakthrus like the internet and wireless are improving access to info and communications- we can create a more transparent system that keeps robbers, killers and terrorists out of high office.

YES, BUT ONLY IF WE’RE SMART AND BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO DISCERN BETWEEN FACTS AND OPINIONS, BETWEEN HERESAY AND DOCUMENTATION, BETWEEN PROPAGANDA AND INFORMATION, BETWEEN IDEOLOGY AND ETHICS, BETWEEN BELIEVING AND THINKING, BETWEEN OVERSIMPLIFIED HALF-TRUTH AND THE ALWAYS MORE COMPLEX REALITY, BETWEEN REVOLUTIONARY POSTURING AND A TRUE DESIRE TO MAKE THINGS BETTER FOR EVERYONE.
I SUPPORT A NEW INVESTIGATION INTO 9/11 INVOLVING 9/11 FAMILY MEMBERS (NOT JUST THE “9/11 TRUTH FAMILIES”, BUT ALL OF THEM THAT DESIRE TO BE INVOLVED), AND EXPERTS IN VARIOUS RELEVENT FIELDS. THERE SHOULD BE A QUESTIONAIRE THAT IS USED TO QUALIFY OR DISQUALIFY EXPERTS FROM INVOLVEMENT. SOMETHING LIKE THIS:

1. DO YOU OBJECT TO THE INCLUSION OF EVIDENCE IMPLICATING AL-QAEDA?
2. DO YOU OBJECT TO THE INCLUSION OF EVIDENCE IMPLICATING THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION?
…THE ISI?
…THE CIA?
…MOSSAD?
…IRAQ?
…IRAN?
…SAUDI ARABIA?
…THE FBI?
…REPUBLICANS?
…DEMOCRATS?
…ET CETERA.

IF YOU ANSWER YES TO ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD BE DISQUALIFIED FROM INVOLVEMENT DUE TO UNREASONABLE PREJUDICIAL BIAS.

YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT AL-QAEDA HAS TO SAY ABOUT AL-QAEDA.
ALSO PLEASE WATCH THE “SANTA BIN LADEN”/’FAKE BIN LADEN” VIDEO. DON’T LOOK AT DISTORTED STILLS OR WATCH ONE BLURRY DISTORTED FIVE SECOND CLIP. WATCH THE WHOLE THING. HE DOESN’T LOOK FAT OR CHUBBY AT ALL AND IT’S DEFINITELY HIM.

If you ever come across child pornography online you should report it immediately to the FBI.

It’s easy. Copy the URL, then go to http://IC3.gov and fill out the form and send. If the URL is short enough you can also call your local FBI office and report the images of child rape over the phone to an FBI agent. You can find your local FBI office phone number at http://FBI.gov .

Child molestation, child rape, child pornography, and human trafficking are among the worst forms of human rights abuse. If you believe in “freedom”, “justice”, “equality”, or “peace” it is your duty to stop child porn in anyway that you can. If you ever come across child porn online (or anywhere else) report it immediately.

Child molesters should be given life without parole if not the death penalty (the Supreme Court recently ruled against death for child rape). I’m not talking about a 21 year old convicted of having sex with a seventeen year old. I’m talking about a 30, 40, 50 year old raping a 9, 10, 11, 12 year old child.

Religious and political leaders that rape and molest should be locked up for life at the very least. Until the Catholic Church take that position everything else they have to say about “right and wrong” is pure bullshit.

Soldiers, rebel armies, and “revolutionaries” that rape and molest children during time of war should never know freedom for the rest of their lives. Period.

Parents that sexually abuse their own kids should lose custody forever and go to prison for the rest of their lives. In some states parents get their kids back and go on parole after raping or molesting their children.

Child rape and child molestation should always be considered to be even worse than rape or sexual abuse committed against adults, both under the law and in society in general. Until that is universally the case our value system is extremely disturbed.

Of course as in all other cases we must be careful not to convict those that may be innocent, but those who are proven to be guilty should be treated as what they are, the worst of the worst that humanity has to offer. They should be regarded as among the most dangerous individuals (and groups) in society right up there with terrorists, dictators, and serial killers.

Why I’m tempted to disassociate myself from the “9/11 Truth Movement”

Abel Ashes

6-12-2008

Prior to the 9/11 tragedy I had been researching the Oklahoma City and CIA involvement with drug smuggling. Of those two issues the one I felt more comfortable speaking openly about was the CIA/drugs issue, mainly due to the fact that I could speak out on the issue without anyone falsely assuming that I supported narcotics smuggling. You see, in Southern California in the 1990s it was almost impossible to get anyone left of David Duke to even consider the possibility that a wider conspiracy existed because all evidence that contradicted the “official story” was thought to be aimed at acquitting that mass murdering psycho Timothy McVeigh. As it was for McVeigh so it is for Al-Qaeda.

When the 9/11 attacks happened I immediately suspected Osama Bin Laden’s involvement and I immediately suspected that some individuals connected with the petro/narcotics/weapons world probably knew and wanted it to happen. Within the first week I was using my music performances as an excuse to get on the microphone and read from news articles that began coming out in the mainstream press documenting multiple warnings. I was protesting in the streets of San Diego with a sign linking terrorism with the CIA less than two weeks after the attacks.

I spent the entire first year after 9/11 learning how to give up on happiness, give up my dreams, starve myself even though it was the first time in my life I was making a livable wage all for the cause of getting everything out into the open so that I could at least know that I did everything I could to prevent a long and bloody World War 4. I gave 9/11 timelines out by the hundreds to Republicans attending an award ceremony for Dick Cheney. I covered San Francisco in 9/11 info graffiti for months. Then on 9/11/02 I met Cosmos, Carol Broullet, Scott Munson, and some folks from the Uhuru Movement offshoot All Peeps Coalition and we did some “Bush Did It” demos where the theme was “Whether it was incompetence, complicity, or conspiracy…Bush Did It!.” I was one of the cofounders of the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. I helped promote the work of Mike Ruppert, John Judge, Nafeez Ahmed, and Don Paul. I met Jim Hoffman and encouraged him to challenge Mike Ruppert to take up the demolition issue and to start his own website.

I gave away free copies of Alex Jones 9/11 videos (mostly because he gave permission to do so) even though I might have preferred some more careful analysis. After giving one video to a friend at work I was tackled, handcuffed, and fired. I contacted Stanley Hilton, an attorney who was suing Bush over 9/11 allegedly on behalf of 400 9/11 victims’ family members (that turned out to be a lie). He agreed to sue my employer pro-bono and then asked me to join the 9/11 lawsuit which he said was being rewritten to include violations related to the use of 9/11 to promote the Iraq War. Basically any American taxpayer could join the new lawsuit under the Federal Taxpayer section related to recouping misappropriated funds related to the War in Iraq (this money would be taken from contractors and returned to the US Treasury). However, people such as myself were not included as plaintiffs in the RICO section dealing with 9/11. Unfortunately Mark Robinowitz (who is generally more accurate than your average 9/11 Truther, did not and does not understand that there were two lawsuits. Making matters worse Stanley began filing documents based on the nonsense theories included in films such as “In Plane Site” and Loose Change”. He then revealed that there were only 40 plaintiffs not 400 and claimed to have never said “400 plaintiffs”. He said “400” to the SF Examiner. He said “400” on the “Alex Jones Show” multiple times. He said “400” to me multiple times. He lied.

So far I had wasted 4 years on this issue, while all kinds of human rights abuses, environmental degradation, economic stupidity, and other problems continued to devastate our world I remained fixated on the events of 9/11 because I was convinced (still am) that government secrecy and acquiescence to organized crime are two of the most neglected root causes of much of the suffering that ordinary people are subjected to around the world. I began organizing here in Louisville and eventually got a small group together. Cosmos founded Truth Action and The 11^th of Every Month campaign and I immediately saw the potential for this being the campaign that would break through. I’ve been a part of this from day one, but I don’t know if I can be anymore. At least not in the way I have been in the past.

Over the past 7 years I’ve studied a lot. I read nonfiction exclusively. I read “truther” books. I read “debunker” books. I read “mainstream” books. My opinions have changed frequently over the years as I fell for disinformation, then realized my mistake and corrected it. However, in all of that time two things have not changed. I remain convinced that Al-Qaeda was involved in 9/11 and that a small group of individuals inside my nation’s government were too. But if I had to name the best 9/11 investigators only a few “truthers” would make the list. Let me cut to the chase…I cannot live with myself if I remain associated with a movement that at times at least borders of being sympathetic Jihadist terrorists and at the very least frequently denies that any “terrorism” exists aside from “false flag terrorism”. My conscience, my intellect and my sense of self respect will not allow me to fly the banner of “9/11 Truth” as long as “9/11 Truth” remains in denial of the very real danger of radical Islamism and other violent fanatics on the far-right and far-left.

Until the “9/11 Truth Movement” realizes that our responsibility is to tell the truth not to defend everyone accused of terrorism (even the guilty ones) I cannot be a part of this anymore.

Unfortunately the Truth Movement has begun focusing exclusively on evidence (both real and imagined) linking 9/11 to The Bush Administration, the neo-cons, Israel, The CIA, “the globalists” (which “globalists?”), “The Illuminati” (which hasn’t existed since the 1700s), while ignoring evidence linking Al-Qaeda to 9/11. It reminds me of an incident in Reno, Nevada when I handed a girl a flier about 9/11 and she put her fingers in her ears and said, “la, la, la, la, la, la, la!” That’s similar to how most “Truthers” behave when any evidence implicating Al-Qaeda is brought up. It’s denial plain and simple.

I am still very interested in getting to the whole truth about 9/11 and I think that the best way is by writing a book. Fliers are not the best way to analyze such a complex issue and truth be told, most of the time documentary videos barely scratch the surface.

If I had one wish for the 9/11 truth Movement, the thing that would cure the social disease that has corrupted this once promising movement, it is simply this: read about Al-Qaeda, read the statements of Al-Qaeda, read the statements of ex-Al-Qaeda members, read the statements of Bin Laden’s family members and childhood friends. Read “The Terror Timeline” by Paul Thompson in it’s entirety, front to back. Read the longer timeline at http://cooperativeresearch.org and the astounding research of terrorism investigator J.M. Berger at http://intelwire.com . Read all three of Peter Lance’s books “1,000 Years For Revenge”, Cover-Up” and especially “Triple Cross”. Read “The Osama Bin Laden I Know” by Peter Bergen. Read “The Al-Qaeda Connection” by Paul L. Williams. Read “Masterminds of Terror” by Yosri Fouda and Nick Fielding. Read “Perfect Soldiers” by Terry McDermott. If you don’t have time for all that at least read “The Road To 9/11” by Peter Dale Scott.

As for the 11^th of every month…I’ll be working on my book.

Investigate the Oklahoma City Bombing!
Category: News and Politics

Regarding Oklahoma City resources I’d recommend the following books (which does not mean I endorse everything in all of them). Some of them are out-of-print but they are all available for fairly reasonable prices on Amazon.com.

The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror
by David Hoffman
(The largest book covering a little bit of almost every angle, that makes a number of errors along the way and includes a chapter on unfounded speculation that McVeigh was a “mind control” victim, et cetera. Most of it is very good and it is the most thorough book on the OK City bombing by far. It can be read for FREE online and although out-of-print due to court order after a law suit by one of the characters investigated, is available to purchase used.) Read the book online: http://www.constitution.org/ocbpt/ocbpt.htm

After Oklahoma City
by Kathy Sanders
(Written by a woman who lost her two grandsons in the day care center of the Murrah Building, a short concise introduction to some of the unanswered questions and cover-up.)
 
Deathtrap: Oklahoma City
by Chuck Harder and J.D. Cash
(Covers the Elohim City/white supremicist/Aryan Republican Army and BATF/FBI connections but pretends that the Middle East/al-Qaeda connections don’t exist.)
 
Those three are the best introductory books I’ve found. There are a few others that cover individual issues very well.
 
The single best reporting on Andreas Carl Strassmeir (who was used to instigate the bombing as a “sting operation” and may be the lynch-pin to understanding the whole set-up) is in: The Secret Life of Bill Clinton by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
 
The best reporting on another likely agent provocateur (of Iraqi descent), named Hussain Hasem Al-Hussaini, is in the book The Third Terrorist by Jayna Davis
(BEWARE: Jayna Davis got in with James Wolsey (Ex-CIA DCI) and Laurie Mylroie (AEI) and they have convinced her that Al-Hussaini was an Iraqi agent loyal to Saddam Hussein, of which there is not evidence since he was a defector and political refugee that fled Saddam’s regime. He was reportedly working baggage at Boston Logan Airport on 9/11 and may have been the source of Atta’s security passes that gave him access to off-limits areas of the airport.)
 
…and finally, the great Peter Lance covers the Oklahoma City/Ramzi Yousef connection well in short chapters in each of his three books on 9/11:
1000 Years For Revenge
Cover-Up
Triple Cross (On the FBI/Al-Qaeda double agent, Ali Mohamed).
 
Recommended websites on Oklahoma City (again I do NOT endorse all views on these sites!):
 
http://www.akdart.com/okc.html
 
http://www.webcom.com/lpease/collections/mass/okcjuror.htm
 
http://www.newswithviews.com/Briley/PatrickA.htm
 
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/ok.html
 
http://www.mccurtain.com/okcarchives.shtml
 
http://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=115
 
http://comeandtakeit.com/okc1.html
 
http://wwwtmrcom.blogspot.com/2007/05/reporter-j-d-cash-dead-at-55.html
 
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/okc_coverup.htm
 
Also http://911Truth.org has 4 or 5 interesting DVDs on Oklahoma City and there are many videos available to watch online at Google Video and YouTube and MySpace too.

9/11 TRUTH LOUISVILLE & KENTUCKIANA WE ARE CHANGE CONFRONT 9/11 COMMISSION VICE-CHAIRMAN LEE HAMILTON

ARTICLE BY ABEL ASHES

On Thursday March 13^th 2008 activists from 9/11 Truth Louisville and Kentuckiana We Are Change waited outside The Grand Convention Center in downtown New Albany, Indiana for 9/11 Commission Vice-Chairman Lee Hamilton who was the guest speaker at the Floyd County Democratic Party’s 2008 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner.

We brought fliers on insider trading, 9/11 financing, thwarted FBI investigations, and WTC demolition issues and gave them to guests as they arrived. Most people were very nice and I only had two people refuse a flier. Many of them asked questions and seemed very concerned about the unanswered questions and lack of a criminal investigation. I personally handed out at least 50 fliers to the crowd of mostly middle to upper class Southern Indiana Democrats many of whom hold political office and/or are running for office.

I spoke with a Democratic Precinct Leader who was very concerned about the 9/11 cover-up and shortly after she went inside the theater she came back out and handed me a ticket to get in! Tickets were $45! She said if her friend didn’t show up I could have the ticket and then she handed it to me. So I asked “what if your friend does show up?” She said, “Then I’ll buy her another ticket.”

So I grabbed my copies of Triple Cross and The Terror Timeline from the car and Lego loaned me his copy of the 9/11 Commission Report and I went inside sat down and waited. I had some cordial conversation with the people at my table, a couple of whom were running for office.

Before the preliminary speeches everyone stood for The Pledge of Allegiance and a very Christian prayer with lots of mentions of “The Lord”. I didn’t participate in the prayer since I am an atheist and hence don’t believe in “God” and I am an American and hence advocate separation of church and state.

Lego called me on my cell phone to let me know that Lee Hamilton was on his way in. Lego and Potato were waiting outside by the red carpet with video camera ready and were distracted by conversation with an attendee when Lee Hamilton appeared out of nowhere and introduced himself to them very quickly and went inside before they could get a word with him.

Mr. Hamilton walked quickly to the front of the room then slowly made his way toward the back where the food was, shaking people’s hands and chatting along the way. When he got to me he noticed my copy of Triple Cross by Peter Lance and said, “Triple Cross?” I asked, “Have you read it?” He said, “No” He said, “Peter Lance?”  I said, “Yeah, I believe you met him during the 9/11 Commission. He gave behind-closed-doors testimony.” He said “I don’t recall” I said “Well you met a lot of people so I understand.”

Then I told Lee Hamilton that I’m working on a book about 9/11 and would be honored to ask him one or two questions since he was on the 9/11 Commission after all. He said, “Well, I’ll be around afterwards, maybe then.” I thanked him and he walked on to get his dinner. Shortly thereafter a couple of party members came over and in an aggressive tone demanded to know if I was handing out fliers inside the event. I let them know that I was not and they seemed satisfied and left me alone.

One of the women at my table started asking me questions about 9/11. I was explaining to her that in 1995 the Philippine National Police gave both the CIA and the FBI computer files from Ramzi Yousef’s laptop and Colonel Rodolpho Mendoza’s reports on the results of his interrogation of Abdul Hakim Murad, which spelled out plainly that Ramzi Yousef and his uncle Khalid Sheik Mohammed had a plan to hijack commercial planes and fly them into the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, CIA Headquarters, The Sears Tower in Chicago, The Transamerica Building in San Francisco, The John Hancock Tower in Boston, The White House, and The Capital Building.

All of a sudden the Mayor of New Albany, Douglas B. England,  was in my face angrily telling me that I was not allowed to talk about my “philosophy” with anyone in the theater! I asked him what I had done wrong and he said I was “harassing” Lee Hamilton and making some of the guests “nervous”. He said he’d have me kicked out if I talked to anyone else about my “ideas”. We argued for quite a while and both of our voices were raised a few decibels. I demanded to know what I had done wrong and explained that I had politely asked Lee Hamilton if he minded answering a question or two and that Mr. Hamilton sounded happy to oblige. Mayor England told me that he is a Vietnam Vet and probably agrees with me more than not, but that a Democratic Party fundraiser was not the place for “politics”. He told me that it is his job as Mayor to keep the people of New Albany “quiet” and that he’s “tired” because he’s “getting old”.

I told him that I had not initiated any “political” conversations or conversations about 9/11 with anyone and had only spoken about those topics when someone else brought them up and that I hadn’t handed out fliers inside. I also told him that the topic of “9/11″ is not a matter of “philosophy” but a matter for criminal investigation. He bizarrely insisted that 9/11 is a philosophical subject. I guess I didn’t realize that counterterrorism, law enforcement, and civic activism were just trivial cerebral exercises in pointlessly pondering existentialist conundrums but according to the Mayor of New Albany, Indiana they are.

He told me that I had “no right” to talk about such things even if someone else asked me about them. I told him that I not only had a “right” but that it was in fact my responsibility. He said “it is not your responsibility” I said “yes it is my responsibility and it’s your responsibility too.” I told him that as a poor person I do not have access to my So-called “representatives” and that when I try to contact them they brush me off and act condescending and so if a political figure makes a public appearance I’m going to be there to have my say.

The next thing I knew the Floyd County Chief of Police, Ted Heavlin, was in my face saying “Mr. Hamilton doesn’t want you bothering him.” And “If you ask him any questions I’ll arrest you. I’m the Chief of Police and I know what kind of power I’ve got.” I let him know that I hadn’t done anything wrong and I would not tolerate his attempts to bully me. I told him the Lee Hamilton and I had a brief, cordial conversation and that Mr. Hamilton said that he didn’t mind answering a question or two “afterwards” if he had time. Police Chief Heavlin told me that Lee Hamilton told him that I was bothering him and that he didn’t want to talk to me. This nonsense ended with the Mayor and the Chief of Police telling me that I should eat dinner and have a good time and listen to the speeches but not talk to anyone especially Lee Hamilton because I was “making people nervous” And that if I tried to talk to Hamilton I’d be arrested.

Meanwhile outside my friends from Kentuckiana We Are Change were given tickets by other good hearted Democrats in attendance. When they came in I told them about the strange behavior of the Mayor and Chief of Police and how what the Chief of Police had told me that Lee Hamilton had said to him directly contradicted what Lee Hamilton told me. In other words either Lee Hamilton lied to me or the Chief of Police did. They told me that they had been talking with a very high profile attorney outside who had been the defense attorney in one of the biggest murder trials in recent Southern Indiana history. They decided to go back outside and ask his advice.

He not only said that it was unlawful for us to be arrested for simply asking Lee Hamilton a question, but that if we were arrested he’d sue on our behalf, pro-bono! He gave my friends all his contact info and said he’d give us legal advice and help us out if we were ever wrongfully arrested, assaulted, et cetera. Apparently he also remarked that he didn’t care what most of the people in attendance thought of him since he knew that most of them already didn’t like him since he’s “sued most of them.”

Lee Hamilton gave a long speech about supporting civil liberties, fiscal responsibility, ending the war in Iraq, electing a Democrat to the Presidency, and electing Democrats in general. He also spoke about eliminating poverty in America. When the speech ended he shook hands with people up front near the stage.

As Police Chief Heavlin was walking out the door he spotted me and pointed at me and said, “Remember what I told you!” I asked him why it was that Lee Hamilton said he didn’t mind answering my questions while he had threatened to arrest me because Hamilton didn’t want to be “bothered” He said that it was okay to ask Mr. Hamilton if he had time to answer my questions, but that if Hamilton said “no” I should leave him alone. I asked the Sherriff if he had lied to me earlier. He just smiled and walked on.

When Lee Hamilton started to pass me I asked him again if he could answer a couple of questions about the 9/11 Commission for my book. He said, “I don’t want to get into it” And proceeded to walk into the lobby. I went outside and positioned myself with my video camera to capture Lego asking him a question. Lego asked him why the 9/11 Commission thought that the issue of who financed the 9/11 attacks was “of little practical significance”. Mr. Hamilton responded that “there was some funding, but…mumble, mumble”. Then Lego asked Mr. Hamilton about his role in rejecting Sudan’s offer to give the US Government information on Osama Bin Laden. Hamilton did not respond and seemed very eager to get in his car and drive away. I approached the car and shouted that Mahmud Ahmed of the ISI should have been arrested for his role in financing 9/11 and that Mr. Hamilton should join us in supporting a criminal investigation into 9/11. He quickly got into the passenger side of his car and I held up two books to his window, Triple Cross by Peter Lance and The Terror Timeline by Paul Thompson and the Center for Cooperative Research, while Lego and I shouted that the 9/11 Truth Movement was doing the real 9/11 investigation. He rode off looking right at the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth postcard stuck under the windshield wiper of his car directly in front of his face.

We spoke briefly with the attorney again and thanked him. We joked that we should have shouted “9/11! Dick and Don did it!” in reference to Lee Hamilton’s two close personal friends, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

It was a very successful night! We got quality 9/11 information into the hands of at least one hundred prominent Southern Indiana Democrats. We let Lee Hamilton know that the whitewash of 9/11 will not stand. We made the acquaintance of an attorney who will give our local movement legal advice and representation if any of our civil rights are violated.  

We got video on two different cameras and will be posting separately and hopefully will have time to edit both videos together in the next couple of weeks. I’ll post some stills soon.