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wheresthemind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-03 03:09 PM
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Whats a good site for info on 9-11?
Information on conspiracy theories, inconsistencies in the story, etc...

SOmeone told me about a couple but I didn't write them down...
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-03 03:14 PM
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1. Sorry 'bout that; wrong thread.
Edited on Thu Jul-24-03 03:19 PM by Lars39
Realize now that my saved 911 links must have slipped off the archive cliff. Now I need some good sites, too.
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-03 03:16 PM
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2. whatreallyhappened.com
is great.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-03 03:18 PM
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3. there's nothing better than paulthompson's timeline
http://cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/

check out globalfreepress.com too
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LuCifer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 07:29 AM
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11. oh man you ain't kiddin'
"there's nothing better than paulthompson's timeline" FOR SURE. It took me 3 days, reading it for 7 hour each day, to get thru it, and when I was done, I sure wish I had had an IV drip bad of Demoral & Valium! Chilling is the word...
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Isome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-03 03:19 PM
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4. Try these:
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JackRiddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-03 03:20 PM
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5. Here's enough for more than a start!
************ THE 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT *************

Selected Resources for Researchers and Activists

(DEUTSCH: siehe unten.)

By Jack Riddler - osamaskidneys@snafu.de

The 9/11 Truth Movement is networking, organizing and growing. THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF SITES AND FORUMS. This list is meant to promote some of the most useful information and activist resources in text, books, video, graphic and other media.

Caveat lector! each site is responsible for its own content and in the author's view, much disinformation and wacky material ends up in otherwise sound sites.

Feel free to distribute this list far and wide, and feel free to re-post them on your site. NOTE: If you make any changes to the list, please put your own byline on it - okay?

"THE ENEMY WITHIN" By Gore Vidal
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/EnemyWithin.html
The full text of Gore Vidal's stunning indictment of the Bush regime for having intentionally allowed the Sept. 11 attacks to occur. Here the text is annotated with links to other sites that document and verify his claims.
Vidal's article can also be found here:
http://burningbush.netfirms.com/Vidal.html
Copy and send this article to the media, politicians, academics and your friends! For a list of media and political contacts, see "World Action's Media Page" at http://www.world-action.co.uk/media.html

COMPLETE 9/11 RESEARCH TIMELINE
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/index.htm
Paul Thompson's comprehensive timeline, in many sections, dates back to 1979 (beginning of Afghanistan war), with many topics covered in separate sections. Goes through 9/11 minute-by-minute and covers the anthrax attacks and most everything since. Complete with a HUGE ARCHIVE of all sources used and links to hundreds of news stories from the mainstream media, local and foreign press, official and alternative sources. Indispensible and constantly evolving. The mini-version for beginners is here:
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/AAtimelineshort.html
The timeline site also includes articles with top-flight scholarship on the identities and known movements of the 9/11 hijackers, and many other topics. At the moment, this is the definitive online resource for 9/11 research.

COOPERATIVE RESEARCH
More excellent material on the site that features the comprehensive timeline.
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/index-old1.htm
Frame: Click on "Evidence Challenging Official Sept. 11 Story" or to avoid the frame go to
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/September%2011.htm

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL CONDEMNS BUSH OBSTRUCTION OF 9/11 INQUIRY
"Acting more like the Soviet Kremlin than the American government..."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071003B.shtml
On the same page: an AP article about the National Commission's complaints about White House obstruction of its investigation. Quote:
"But some victims' advocates who pressed for the commission's creation said the commission started late, has been stonewalled by government agencies and seems destined to produce a document that lacks specific answers about how and why the events of Sept. 11 happened. "Let's extend this investigation,'' said Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband Ronald died at the World Trade Center. "Let's do it thoroughly. Let's get all the documents needed. Let's let no branch or agency of government drag its feet and run out the clock.''

(TOP REPORTERS AND RESEARCHERS)

http://www.copvcia.com
http://www.fromthewilderness.com
The "From The Wilderness" newsletter, by Mike Ruppert, a.k.a. "Cop versus CIA." Ruppert's never-ending nationwide lecture tour has been the lightning rod for 9/11 skepticism. The video of his Portland lecture, available on this site, is the best single outreach resource available. (Activists may show "The Truth and Lies of 9/11" to crowds of up to 50 people free of charge, if admission is free.) The former LAPD narcotics officer who uncovered evidence of drug-dealing by the CIA will soon be publishing the book, "Crossing the Rubicon."
One article here reads: "A dispassionate examination of existing reliable, open-source evidence on advance warnings of the Sept. 11 attacks provides strong and sustainable grounds to conclude the Bush Administration was in possession of sufficient advance intelligence to have prevented the attacks, had it wished to do so."
See http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/042202_bushknows.html

http://www.TENC.net
"The Emperor's New Clothes," Jared Israel and Illarion Bykov, published the breakthrough articles on the 9/11 air-defense stand-down, the President and the Pet Goat, and many other obvious inconsistencies in the official story.
9/11 PAGE at http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm
"What Really Happened on 9/11" transcript of radio interview with Jared Israel:
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/radio-1a.htm

http://www.gregpalast.com
Greg Palast, greatest investigative reporter in the universe, broke the story of how Jeb Bush's government fixed the 2000 presidential election in Florida by means of a "racial coup." As soon as the Bush regime came to power, as Palast discovered, they killed all ongoing FBI investigations into one of the Bush family's most important financial partners: the Saudi Binladin family.

http://www.globalresearch.ca
"Center for Research on Globlalization" - many groundbreaking 9/11 research articles. See especially the articles by Chaim Kupferberg and Michel Chossudovsky, author of "War and Globalisation: The Truth Behind September 11."

http://www.flight93crash.com/
Complete analysis and article archive on Flight 93, showing that the plane broke up in the air. The heroes were heroes the moment they resisted, but the official hero story (that they caused the crash) is an unlikely piece of propaganda.

http://www.madcowprod.com
"Mad Cow Morning News," Daniel Hopsicker's investigative series on what the alleged 9/11 hijackers were doing in Florida in the two years before the attacks, reveals a vipers' nest of spook and Bush connections. Absolutely exclusive, must-read material. Many videos to order, including a first summary of Hopsicker's 9/11 findings, "Mohamed Atta and The Venice Flying Circus."

http://ist-socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q.html
Background on 9/11, the war and the Middle East and Central Asia by Peter Dale Scott, poet, historian and author of the upcoming "Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina."

http://www.narconews.com
NARCO NEWS: The future of authentic journalism on two continents called America.

http://xymphora.blogspot.com
Who were the men who hijacked the planes? The anonymous author of this well-written and highly original weblog has focused on the complex shell-game of "musical identities" played for years by the men who later turned up as the alleged 9/11 terrorists.

John Judge's 9/11 commentaries
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/index.html#911
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/911dec2001.html
Links to Dozens of Primary 9/11 News Stories at "Crimes Against Humanity"
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/


(THE 9/11 TRUTH MOVEMENT - NETWORKING)

9/11 TRUTH ALLIANCE
http://www.911truth.org
As yet loose-knit, the alliance is working to formally establish a Citizens' Truth Commission on 9/11 and to hold a 9/11 researchers' conference in New York City later this year.

9/11 CitizensWatch
NEW GROUP TRACKING THE KEAN COMMISSION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 9/11 FAMILIES
www.911citizenswatch.org

The People's Investigation of 9/11
http://www.911pi.com
An evolving central switchboard of the 9/11 research effort. Based in San Francisco, where the 9/11 Truth movement is most active.

LIHOP: Letting It Happen On Purpose.
http://www.globalfreepress.com
Home of the New York 9/11 Truth Alliance activists. This is where you can order or download the incredible videos by SGTV - Shadow Government Television, including "Wat Tyler's Revenge."

UNANSWERED QUESTIONS COALITION
http://www.unansweredquestions.org
The "Unanswered Questions" coalition aims at organizing a citizens' truth commission. UQ held the groundbreaking June 10th press conference at the National Press Club in DC.
TRANSCRIPT OF JUNE 10th PRESS CONFERENCE http://www.unansweredquestions.org/transcript.php
ORDER THE VIDEO http://www.unansweredquestions.org/video.php
"11 Top Talking Points" http://www.unansweredquestions.org/top_11.html


(WEB FORUMS FOR 9/11 RESEARCH)

Many research forums at www.911pi.com (in various formats)
See: http://911pi.com/main_byTopic.htm

9/11 Forum at Global Free Press
http://bbs.globalfreepress.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID11&conf=DCConfID2

Democratic Underground 9/11 Forum
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=125

Guerilla News Forums
www.guerrillanews.com/cgi-bin/wwwthreads/wwwthreads.pl




(MORE WRITERS AND SECONDARY TREATMENTS)

WAR ON FREEDOM
http://www.thewaronfreedom.org
A comprehensive book treatment of the "oddities" and political background to Sept. 11, by Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed. Also an activist center.

Two essays by Carol Brouillet: "The Truth About Sept. 11" and "Questioning the War On Terrorism"
http://www.communitycurrency.org/Truth.html --- http://www.communitycurrency.org/9-11.html

"UNANSWERED QUESTIONS" (the groundbreaking essay)
http://www.communitycurrency.org/MainIndexMX.html
The original path-breaking book-length report by "MalcontentX" that helped kick-start the 9/11 Truth Movement.

OIL EMPIRE http://oilempire.us

ONLINE JOURNAL http://www.onlinejournal.com/

HERMES PRESS http://www.hermes-press.com/index.html

NICO HAUPT http://www.ourDNA.org

DAVE McGOWAN http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/

QUESTIONS QUESTIONS http://www.questionsquestions.net
A lucid presentation of the skeptical case, with arguments against the cheap accusations of "conspiracy theory."

ODDITIES http://www.falloutshelternews.com/9_11_ODDITIES.html


(ACTIVIST RESOURCES - FLYERS, VIDEOS & GREAT WEB PRESENTATIONS)

BUSH AT THE SCHOOL http://www.koolpages.com/killtown/bush.html
What were Bush and his entourage thinking, when they went ahead with a scheduled visit to a Florida elementary school for more than 45 minutes starting at 8:46 am, just as the "Attack on America" became known to the world? After he was informed about the second strike on the WTC, why did the President keep listening to second-graders recite the story of "A Girl and Her Pet Goat"? A complete, beautifully designed timeline on the President's Day leaves no doubt that Bush and his staff were complicit in the attacks, whether through criminal negligence or as conscious accomplices.

BUSH TREK http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com/shockwave/startrek.htm
A hilarious animated "Star Trek" spoof with Bush, Rice, Powell, Cheney, Ashcroft et al. meeting on "the bridge" to discuss imminent terror warnings on "Star Date August 6, 2001." If this were to air 100 times on television, it would probably spell the end of the regime. See the rest of the site: http://www.toostupidtobepresident.com
Many other excellent anti-regime animations, in the spirit of John Heartfield.

http://www.hereinreality.com/911/
Go here to download an excellent 9/11 trifold flyer, ideal for mass distribution at a shopping mall near you. A good site with a clever, humorous approach.

www.deceptiondollar.com
DECEPTION DOLLARS very clever work, make for great leaflets, list many of the same sites as here.

9/11 rap song by Paris - "What Would You Do?"
http://www.911timeline.net/whatwouldyoudo.htm
Paris responds to critics and lays out what he believes -- http://www.daveyd.com/parisrespondsback.html

BBC TELEVISION - BUSH / CIA 9-11 TERROR COMPLICITY
Real Player Video of a report by Greg Palast on BBC Newsnight:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/cta/progs/newsnight/attack22.ram

Russian Air Force Chief Says Official 9-11 Story Impossible <13 September 2001>
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/airf.htm


(NEWSWIRES & DAILY LINKS)

ANTIWAR http://www.antiwar.com

HOMEPAGE OF ORLIN GRABBE http://www.orlingrabbe.org/homepage.html

GUERRILLA NEWS NETWORK (GNN) http://www.guerrillanews.com
See the "Aftermath" video, a cooperative project with "unansweredquestions.org," including interviews with a dozen of the leading 9/11 researchers. A great, independent news site, updated daily.

The UQ News Wire - updated (almost) daily - http://www.unansweredquestions.org/headlines.php

http://www.legitgov.org/9_1_1_oddities.html
Citizens for a Legitimate Government - Michael Rechtenwald, frequent updates both to the 9/11 oddities page and to the main page. "CLG is a pro-democracy activist group established to expose the Bush coup d'etat, and to oppose the Bush occupation in all of its manifestations."


(MANY MORE LINKS IN ENGLISH)

See http://www.osamaskidneys.com/links.html for a listing of many other 9/11 Skeptic sites, with reviews, as of June 19th, 2002. An update is coming one day this century - plus an online book on the open questions of September 11th.


(BOOKS IN ENGLISH)

-Nafeez Ahmed, "The War On Freedom" - excellent research summary of the skeptical case.
-Michel Chossudovsky, "War and Globalisation" - excellent overview with broader context.
-Richard Labeviere, "Dollars for Terror" - history of Islamist terrorism and U.S. foreign policy (2000).
-Dasquie & Brisard, "The Forbidden Truth" - French bestseller
-"Police State America," ed. Tom Burghardt (By Frank Morales, Doug Valentine et al.)
-Greg Palast, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"
-Eric Hufschmid, "Painful Questions" - a fascinating but speculative wild card - no direct endorsement here.


(VIDEOS TO ORDER AND SHOW)

-Michael Ruppert, "The Truth and Lies of Sept. 11" (www.copvcia.com)
-Unanswered Questions and GNN, "Aftermath" (www.guerrillanews.com)
-Daniel Hopsicker, "Mohamed Atta and The Venice Flying Circus" (www.madcowprod.com)
-Sterling of Global Free Press, "Wat Tyler's Revenge" (www.globalfreepress.com)
-Alex Jones, "9-11 - THE ROAD TO TYRANNY" (www.infowars.com)

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Greg Palast, interview on GNN (italics mine)
<http://www.guerrillanews.com/counter_intelligence/233.html>

"There is no question we had what looked like the biggest failure of the intelligence community since Pearl Harbor but what we are learning now is it wasn't a failure, it was a *directive.* Now I am not part of the conspiracy nut crowd that believes George Bush came up with a plan for an attack on the United States to save his popularity. There is no evidence of that. That is completely outside of any evidence I have seen. But what we find is something that, in a way, where the effect is just the same - and it's chilling. Which is that they blinded the intelligence agencies and said you cannot look at the Saudis."

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(IN DEUTSCH)

Matthias Bröckers - "Die WTC Conspiracy" www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/wtc/default.html
Sein Buch, "Verschwörungen, Verschwörungstheorien und die Geheimnisse des 11.9." ist schon 100,000 mal verkauft worden! - Siehe auch www.broeckers.com/wtc_links.htm

Internationales Institut für Medienanalyse und Friedensforschung
www.medienanalyse-international.de/index1.html
www.medienanalyse-international.de/finger.html

"Arbeiterfotografie" Ausstellung: Der Krieg begann nicht am 11. September
www.arbeiterfotografie.com/no-war
www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/index.html

CeiberWeiber Magazine War Reports
www.ceiberweiber.at/wahl/krieg.htm


(WEB RADIO)

http://www.rise4news.net
R.I.S.E. - "Radio Internet Story Exchange"

http://www.Meria.net
Meria Heller's show has included among its guests "everyone who's anyone discussing 9/11," in her words.

http://members.shaw.ca/revelation18/newworld.htm
"Counterpropaganda Alternative Audio Archive"

Alex Jones radio show and website:
http://infowars.com
See "Prior Knowledge Page" for many links to documented evidence, and see especially the copy of the 1962 Northwoods Document. Therein, the Joint Chiefs of Staff signed off on a plan to wage terror attacks in the United States, including faked hijackings and aviation shootdowns and sniper killings in Washington, DC. They wanted to blame these on Castro and invade Cuba, but President Kennedy rejected the idea:
http://infowars.com/northwoods.htm

WHILE THERE'S STILL AN INTERNET - VISIT AND DOWNLOAD YOUR FAVORITE SITES IN THEIR ENTIRETY WITH THIS GREAT "SITE SUCKER" PROGRAM: http://www.httrack.com/index.php?p=0

The truth is out there - speculation is cheap - demand full disclosure.

9/11 Truth Is the Achilles Heel of the Bush Regime and Its Perpetual War

by Jack Riddler, www.osamaskidneys.com

Was it "the Pearl Harbor of the 21st century" or the American Reichstag Fire? Though we still don't know what really happened, the massacre of Sept. 11, 2001 became casus belli for an endless global war.

At home, the Bush regime, illegitimate and unelected, seized on the attacks as the enabling event for a new system of total power and total surveillance.

Yet for fourteen months, the regime has constantly blocked public investigation into 9/11 and its background. As though to stress their intent never to reveal the truth about 9/11, they appointed America's best-known liar, Henry Kissinger, himself a master of terrorism, to lead the so-called independent investigation.

Why Kissinger? Was the Bush regime unaware of his obvious conflicts of interest, as a consultant to UNOCAL who once helped cut an oil-pipeline deal with the former friends of the U.S. government, the Taliban? Did they not realize that naming the likes of him would ignite the storm of protest that caused him to withdraw from the nomination? Did they not trust anyone less compromised, or less conspicuous, to do the work of whitewashing?

Is the official story really that flimsy?

The Kissinger appointment was tantamount to a confession that it is, indeed, that flimsy.

We may not know exactly what happened on Sept. 11, but we knew, long before the brief-lived Kissinger appointment, that the official story is a farce. Seekers of the "9/11 Truth" have established at least that much in their volumes of research. The kindest explanation for the oddities and numerous disturbing coincidences of Sept. 11 is that the regime is criminally negligent, an active danger to its own citizens.

How dare they plead incompetence for 9/11 and then embark on an insanely aggressive war policy against countries that had nothing to do with it? The Bush regime's "War on Terra" almost seems designed to provoke half the world into attacking America.

Given the weakness of the official story -the official conspiracy theory of the 9/11 attacks- we take no particular risk in at least asking whether elements within the government had sufficient prior knowledge of what was coming to prevent it, and whether they knowingly allowed the Qaeda attacks to happen on purpose. After all, the Sept. 11 massacre has allowed the regime to save itself from the laughter of the American and international majority; to shred the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights; and to implement longstanding plans for "homeland security" and serial wars against endless enemies. Developments since 9/11 do not merely suggest a regime concerned about getting a pipeline through Afghanistan, but one looking to take the whole planetary pie: mobilizing the U.S. population to fight an endless crusade, in a time of economic meltdown.

Not a week passes without dire warnings that new attacks are guaranteed to come soon. Cheney and his ilk, the same people who have blocked a real investigation into 9/11, have repeatedly guaranteed that even more horrible terror hits can come anywhere, at any time, in any form, in America, Europe or Asia. With the whole planet at stake, can we afford anything less than full disclosure of the 9/11 Truth? From the lengths that the regime has so far taken to enshroud everything about that day in secrecy, we can certainly see that they cannot afford to have the truth see light of day.

Be patriotic. Remember the victims of that day and honor them by demanding the truth! 9/11 Truth is the key to the doors of perception for the majority of the American public. Its disclosure can stop the war, reverse the police state, bring down the regime, initiate a public learning process about our own history, and set us sailing for a different world.

----------------------------

And now for the Caveat Lector (an essay)

"Don't believe half of what you see, and none of what you hear." Lou Reed

What should you believe? Don't let me decide for you, and don't let CNN or the pundits decide. Don't let anyone tell you that information on a website is automatically less valid than what you see on NBC, or what you read in the New York Times. Trust only what you can verify. Do your own research. Trace all stories back to their original sources. Learn the basics of fact-checking. Study the history of lies, that you may be armed against new ones. Internet lets you read the local and international press, and gives access to much of the world's scholarship. It also spreads dangerous myths and rumors, but this is also true of word-of-mouth among cave people 50,000 years ago. Caveat lector! (Latin: "Reader beware.")

Demand Investigation

And then, what happens when you still don't know what really happened on Sept. 11? So much of the real story has been classified, and so much of the evidence has been suppressed, that of course you cannot possibly know. And this is the point when you need to ask: Why don't you know? How does "homeland security" justify keeping any secrets about what already happened on Sept. 11, 2001? The terrorists know exactly what they did, so the secrets are actually being kept from you: the American and international public. What is the reason for keeping the details of 9/11 suppressed? What do members of the U.S. government want to hide? Starting with Dick Cheney, the most stubborn and consistent opponent of an independent 9/11 commission?

Clearly, those who would know the truth must organize to demand it, and search for it themselves. That is the only avenue open to us.

If you have caught the government lying enough times, when do you stop assuming that they ever tell the truth? When is it enough for people to begin conducting their own investigation?

Conspiracy and Analysis

Aha, that tired all-purpose argumentative bludgeon, "conspiracy theory." The official story of 9/11 is a conspiracy theory. It posits a conspiracy of Islamist terrorists who caught their adversaries entirely by surprise. Agents of the government and many in the media routinely posit a terrorist conspiracy that links Qaeda to Iraq, or Iran, or both, or even North Korea, though the evidence is lacking. Why aren't they dismissed as "conspiracy theorists"?

For many years, Americans were told they faced the specter of an organized Communist plan to overthrow the Free World. When the Pope was shot, we heard that this was a hit ordered by the KGB through Bulgarian proxies, who hired the Turkish assassin. Why wasn't that attacked as "conspiracy theory"? Because the "conspiracy" part of theory doesn't matter as such, only whether it is true or false.

An institution that works in secrecy is by definition conspiratorial. Two people planning to conceal their actions from a third can qualify as a conspiracy under the law. Law books are full of conspiracy statutes, and these allow for consideration of circumstantial evidence. Conspiracies are not everywhere, but it is natural and sensible to look for signs of secret machinations in mysterious political events.

In practice, those who attack with the "conspiracy theory" label generally do so to discredit lines of investigation that suggest their own government's involvement in crimes. Yet history has seen many cases of such criminal involvement, not just by the U.S. government, but by most governments. There is nothing unusual about conspiracies (secret dealings) per se. They are the stuff of normal power politics.

The conspiracy theory label is easily wielded by those who are too lazy to think for themselves, or who do not want to learn the actual details of history and politics.

How do we evaluate what happens behind the official scenes? When was the last time you were allowed to read the minutes of a corporate boardroom meeting, or of a cabinet? We move in a world of appearances and deceptions. How do we explore connections among power brokers and power elites? Should we not investigate deep politics, meaning the decision-making processes that are hidden from democratic control? Should we not investigate parapolitics, meaning decisions made in secret by self-appointed, informal groups such as mafias, secret societies, and covert networks within the "clandestine services"? If we are interested in the politics and history of our times, then we need to study hidden connections in a way that is often attacked as conspiracy theory.

Many of the "anti-conspiratorialists" suffer from obvious institutional or ideological blindspots. They tend to be apologists for the system. Among the most stubborn are a brand of left-liberal intellectuals who want to dismiss the existence of parapolitics because it conflicts with their commitment to a neatly-defined social theory. Certain kinds of leftists hate thinking that there is anything they don't already know, or that is not accounted for in their prefabricated models.

Genuine inquiry does not entrap itself in spurious abstractions like "conspiracy theory" versus "institutional theory." To prefer either option as a methodology sets up a rigid paradigm and determines conclusions in advance. If we choose one or the other, we will always see either "conspiracies" or "institutions" as the driving force of all social phenomena.

In genuine practice, the study of elites ("conspiracy") and the study of structures ("institution") tend to yield microscopic and macroscopic views of the same phenomena. In other words, "conspiracy" is micro and "institution" is macro, though the terms are both of limited descriptive value, since both suggest something essential and timeless. Time was when social analysts preferred vigorous and truly descriptive terms, terms like power, elite, class, capital, interest, structure, networks, groups, dynamics, peoples, the state. These are the phrases that can describe actors making decisions according to mindset, perception, and resources, within constantly evolving situations and constraints.

Real scholarship begins with *empirical* observation and derives hypotheses by using logic. Then we can analyze, debate, and rule out or support our hypotheses. Finally, genuine reflection hunts for the paradigms that predetermine our thinking, in an effort to overcome them, to go beyond them, and not to enshrine or condemn them.

What is the most powerful such hidden paradigm at the moment in the United States, the one that blocks the American public from understanding their world? In my view, it is the idea that all the great crimes committed over the years by agents and allies of the U.S. government, openly and in secret, came simply as the product of incompetence, or of well-meaning mistakes with the best interest of Americans in mind. The truth behind Sept. 11th, when it becomes known in full, is sure to topple that illusion.

Jack Riddler
www.osamaskidneys.com
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JackieO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-24-03 03:38 PM
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6. LOL
ask and you shall receive...
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gandalf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 01:54 AM
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7. 911pi.com link does not work any longer
As already noted in the 911 thread, due to unknown reasons the very good discussion forum with a lot of information, "The People's Investigation" (911pi.com) that you mentionend above is closed since 07/17/03.
The page says only "the service for this site has been suspended".

To the links I would like to add
http://www.serendipity.li/,
especially
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/bollyn2.htm for some questions about the demolition of the WTC (where do the seismic spikes at the BEGINNING of the crash come from?)
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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 04:10 AM
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8. Thanks for all the links
This is one somebody might also want to look at, pulled from another 9/11 thread by one of our fellow DUers a couple of weeks ago a long with a few of the words.

Here's something you might want to read:

http://standdown.net/

The Duer Elsewheresdaughter also posted out this Link for a search engine software and service. I Tried the free service for a few days and had very good results, picked up a the "personal" version yesterday and is way better than the free version also.

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/agent/friend.html

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Ani Yun Wiya Donating Member (639 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 05:04 AM
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9. This is one for the Pentagon event.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/flight77.htm

It does take a while for it to fully load due to many images.
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RedSock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-25-03 07:22 AM
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10. paul thompson timeline
no wacky shit, no tinfoil ... just hard facts from mainstream sources.
http://cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/


also a must read about 9/11, iraq, etc.:
http://xymphora.blogspot.com/
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