The 9/11 Attacks and Views on the WTC 7 Collapse and the Pentagon Impact Zone

AD1184

Celestial
That was only a “civil war” in the sense of the Syria “civil war” – US/Saudi intelligence arming terrorists to overthrow the existing government while the corporate news media propaganda outlets call it a “civil war” and refer to jihadist terrorists as "rebels."

We knew exactly who we were backing. The CIA renditioned Abdelhakim Belhadj, a known Taliban terrorist, a decade before we backed his militia in the overthrow of Qaddafi, so it was no surprise when he joined the Islamic State after the CIA/Saudi coup:

CIA worked with Libya in terror suspect renditions, documents show

CIA Asset Joins Islamic State in Libya – Abdelhakim Belhadj Worked with U.S. and NATO to Overthrow Gaddafi
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-asset-joins-islamic-state-in-libya-abdelhakim-belhadj-worked-with-u-s-and-nato-to-overthrow-gaddafi - /5434923
There was a popular uprising in Libya in 2011. I know that the US government took people whom they called terrorists when they were captured on the battlefields in Afghanistan in the previous decade and transferred them from Guantanamo Bay to Libya to aid in the fighting against Gadaffi's forces. I wrote extensively about this and other events at the time on the old Alien Hub board (although it was known as Alien-Ufos.com at the time). However, that does not mean that these men typify all anti-government fighters in Libya. I believe that the assistance of the Libyan rebellion was more opportunistic, poorly thought-out and, yes, without an adequate understanding of the opposition to Gadaffi by western governments.

I know also that since aggression was outlawed internationally in 1946, governments have had to resort to clandestine means in order to initiate aggressive wars of choice. I am aware also that the US strongly favours the interests of Saudi Arabia in the middle east, over those of its main adversary Iran. I have no doubt that the ousting of the unlovely, but democratically-elected, Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine in 2014 was a US-backed putsch, employing 'people power' and behind-the-scenes manipulation. However, just because they employ this tactic does not mean they use it everywhere. I think the involvement in Libya and Syria is more reactive than pre-planned.

Yeah Hillary Clinton is one of the most bloodthirsty neocons warmongers in US history, who touts the endorsements of war criminals like Henry Kissinger and John Negroponte. How anyone can believe that she’s left-wing in any sense totally baffles me. Reports indicate that she was the loudest voice in the room pushing Obama to bomb Libya.
I do not believe that being left wing and war-like are mutually exclusive categories of people. There are many left wing persons in the press and in politics who support wars. It seems to me that it is the logical end point of their utopian views that you are going to have to fight wars. Christopher Hitchens and David Aaronovitch, for example, are two left-wing luminaries who supported the war in Iraq, and there are many others.

The left mostly (but not wholly) opposed the war in Iraq but the war in Libya, and the wished-for war in Syria, seem a lot less controversial and I believe that the reason is that the left broadly supports them, and they both really began during a Democractic presidency. Left wing news publications around the western world congratulated Donald Trump when he attacked Assad in 2017 and earlier this year. I think a part of the leftist opposition to Trump was because he appeared, before he became president, not to endorse their wars and even wanted to make nice with Vladmir Putin. So when he appeared to show a change of heart, they temporarily overlooked much of their disgust to commend him for it.

Boom. Yep – that’s what political campaign donations buy: war profits. But the bankers may be even more central to all of this – every nation that has threatened the Petrodollar has either been destroyed, or is currently the focus of media hate campaigns with the intent to garner public support for military action against them.
I do not think that everything here under discussion is fully explained by monetary interests. (In relation to another point I made at the end of my last post, if the bankers are central, and 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government at the behest of bankers, then the bankers targeted themselves.) Nor is Clinton's decision to expand NATO so crudely simple as a politician soliciting campaign donations. The defence business is a significant segment of the US economy and employs hundreds of thousands of people. It props up the regional economies in parts of the US. There is in fact an aspect of national interest in maintaining, or expanding, it, especially with the benefit of external funding through new military allies. This also attracts not merely donations, but votes, from those who are employed thanks to this policy.

The present tensions with Russia are manufactured essentially from nothing, but the reasons that cause someone to support escalating them, and for engaging in wars in the Middle East, amongst those in politics, the press and among the general public are varied. The political and ideological dimension, and the allure of prestige should not be ignored. Political leaders like going to war because they believe that it earns them a reputation as real statesmen. I think also a large swathe of the general public relish the prospect of a war just generally, and can support one without guilt so long as a thin veneer of justice can be put over it, such as atrocity propaganda, or allegations about weapons of mass destruction.

In the press, I already mentioned that for one reason or another people's politics and ideological views will compel them into supporting wars. They may know that the official reasons are nonsense, but support the wars for reasons of practicality, or their own ideological blinkers might blind them to the lack of justice in the action.

The samples tested did have nanothermite, a military-grade variety of thermite, so that’s suspicious as hell.
They had substances alleged to be nanothermite. I do not think it is conclusive. The Twin Towers are alleged by conspiracy theorists to have collapsed in a controlled manner apparently either because they fell downwards and not sideways, or because the collapse proceeded progressively. However, the collapse did not resemble other controlled demolitions and if it was a controlled demolition, it was the most elaborate ever carried out, on possibly the largest structures to be demolished, under the most difficult of circumstances, with a novel method and at a high risk of discovery. The most parsimonious conclusion is that, having been impacted by airlines and having had fires raging within them, the towers collapsed on their own.

I don’t think you can argue the key point: it worked. Americans saw it as an attack on America, not an attack on the American elite class.
Yes, but it was an attack on the elite class. I meant for you to look it from the other end, that of a would-be conspirator. Why would the elite choose to attack itself? If they had done the thing that I had suggested, it would give credence to the nonsense claim by George W. Bush after the fact that the 9/11 attacks were for the reason that the hijackers 'hated our way of life'. This was a bit of misdirection due to the terrorists actually hating American foreign policy, and because the US government subsequently took some concessionary steps in the aftermath.

Most people never questioned any of the insane wars that we started as a result of those attacks, or the expansion of those wars all across the Mideast over the last 15 years. If that was the point (and I’m not saying that it was, because it can’t be proven), then it worked perfectly.
A lot of people have questioned the wisdom of the Iraq war in particular, although few seem able to learn a lesson from it.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
This woman is campaigning for a seat in the House and is also a 9/11 conspiracy nut, she says there's no evidence for a plane hitting the Pentagon...



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nivek

As Above So Below
There was a popular uprising in Libya in 2011. I know that the US government took people whom they called terrorists when they were captured on the battlefields in Afghanistan in the previous decade and transferred them from Guantanamo Bay to Libya to aid in the fighting against Gadaffi's forces. I wrote extensively about this and other events at the time on the old Alien Hub board (although it was known as Alien-Ufos.com at the time). However, that does not mean that these men typify all anti-government fighters in Libya. I believe that the assistance of the Libyan rebellion was more opportunistic, poorly thought-out and, yes, without an adequate understanding of the opposition to Gadaffi by western governments.

I know also that since aggression was outlawed internationally in 1946, governments have had to resort to clandestine means in order to initiate aggressive wars of choice. I am aware also that the US strongly favours the interests of Saudi Arabia in the middle east, over those of its main adversary Iran. I have no doubt that the ousting of the unlovely, but democratically-elected, Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine in 2014 was a US-backed putsch, employing 'people power' and behind-the-scenes manipulation. However, just because they employ this tactic does not mean they use it everywhere. I think the involvement in Libya and Syria is more reactive than pre-planned.

What happened in Libya was so disgraceful and shameful as well as barbaric...Gadaffi may not have been liked by western governments but he created a society of stability and good fortune for his country, beautiful cities and landscape gone now, so much ruin and instability in its place...Gadaffi was good for Libya and good for Africa, he did not deserve what they did to him, I saw Gadaffi as one of the better leaders in the world...

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The shadow

The shadow knows!
This woman is campaigning for a seat in the House and is also a 9/11 conspiracy nut, she says there's no evidence for a plane hitting the Pentagon...



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Wow.. the evidence of a plane is overwhelming..I really need to find her Twitter and educate her...
 
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