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The Phantom Enemy

This is a clip from the excellent three-part BBC documentary “The Power of Nightmares”. You can watch the whole thing on Google Video or download it at scholarsfor911truth.org. The premise of this clip is there’s no such thing as al Qaeda. al Qaeda is a phantom enemy created by the US government and a fraud perpetrated on the American people to scare us and the world into submission for their wars on terrorism. Ultimately this is used to keep those in power, locked in the top seats and profitering off the war opportunities that present themselves.

“It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad”
–James Madison

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Reactions to the Mumbai, India bombings

Today a coordinated attack was executed on the public train system in Mumbai, India during afternoon rush hour. 7 blasts in less than 11 minutes killed more than 200 people and more than 300 are injured. Shortly after the blasts, New York went on high alert and will continue to be so throughout the week as a precautionary measure to the events.

At this point US media is putting the blame on only Al-Qaeda which is to be expected since our administration is continuing its front face against terrorism. Newer reports claim Islamic terrorism is to blame:

Reported in Time (Link): India is home to a Muslim insurgency in Kashmir, and earlier in the day militants killed eight people and injured 30 in five separate bomb attacks in the capital, Srinagar. And while no one said those same insurgents carried out Tuesday’s rush-hour train attacks in Bombay which police said killed at least 130 people and injured 260 security sources told TIME they suspected a shadowy alliance of the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) working with indigenous Indian Muslims from the banned Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI).

It was noted to me that the day of the 11th has Islamic significance and that it’s not a coincidence that the WTC bombings (Sept 2001), the bombings on Madrid trains (March 2004) and these now in Mumbai (July 2006) were all perpetrated on the 11th day of the month. Here are some pictures from the scene in Mumbai, India and may are hearts and sympathies go out to the people in that region:


Photos courtesy of www.timesofindia.com

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I go off the net and the American saftey bubble pops!

This seems like the most inopportune time to update this page on mundane details of my life and what I’ve been doing the last week but I already had this post written before the events of yesterday occured.

My thoughts and well wishes go out to everyone in New York City and the rest of America. What a horrible event and I’m sure it will change the lives of every American. I was up early yesterday getting ready for work with my 6:30 am call, when my phone rang from Tracy. I never hear personal phone calls this early but the frantic voice on the other end stumbled over her words asking if I had the TV on. “No and why do you care?” I asked surprised.

“Turn it on now!”

I did, and it didn’t matter what channel as each had a different picture of the same event. One tower of the World Trade Center was smoking. “Fuck!” I said involuntarily.

I work with New Yorkers on a daily basis and all I could think about were all my friends and co-workers in the city. What were they doing now? what happened? How? Who? Is everyone alright?

My collared shirt was half on and I was brushing my teeth when the second plane hit the towers on live TV. “Fuck!” or something to that effect I said again…and all I though was we were under attack.

I rinsed, tucked in my shirt and jumped in my car, headed to work to start calling my friends in NY… Nothing has been the same since then…

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EDIT – the rest of this doesn’t make sense to post but it’s here…. feel free to skip as it was supposed to be posted last week.

(cont.) …Original 960 Roommate #1 Morgan moved to the city, taking DSL with him so I haven’t had an opportunity to comment. Main reason I didn’t update and because I hardly have a moment to do anything personally constructive at work (which I guess is ideal for the employer) I didn’t give the low down about the previous week. Original 960 Roommate #2 will be moving back for a few months and we look for a new pad *something with out fleas, ants, and the occasional morning spider bite – spa and a sterile house a plus!*. I had a great time and thank you all for coming out to Mosaic. Excellent party guys!

Sunday though was the hit for the weekend for me. Yet another 2nd Sundays and without fail… another fine day. Great music especially by the man named Norman Stradley. He never fails to get the crowd of their ass rocking none other than the breakbeat and jerkin’ house music. Ellen F. rocked on the pier as well, or I should say as usual. Mass friends in a attendance and another great day on the bay… makes this my favorite party of the summer. One left so you have to check this one out of wait 7 months : 2nd Sundays.

Then to the final news for this fine Tuesday…I got Cable installed!!! Yeah @home will probably go out of business by the end of the year, which means I hope to keep the router they “lend” you and I will only hopefully pay about 1 month of service by then…you never know though. AOHELL could buy them out…. Oh wait did someone hear about some planes crashing or something….This is a whole ‘nother post so wait till tomorrow for my 2 cents…

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.
— David Friedman

Well, don’t worry about it’. It’s nothing.
— Lt. Kermit Tyler (Duty Officer of Shafter Information Center, Hawaii), upon being informed that Private Joseph Lockard had picked up a radar signal of what appeared to be at least 50 planes soaring toward Oahu at almost 180 miles per hour, December 7, 1941.

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