Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

[Solve et Coagula]

Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth?

by Paul Craig Roberts*, 11 JANUARY 2010

By stitching together a string of "terrorist" events, Paul Craig Roberts zooms in on a modus operandi of false-flag and cover up operations stretching back to the Cold War period and the NATO/CIA-sponsored Operation Gladio with tentacles across Western Europe, but most famously in Italy. The bombings, which were blamed on communists to discredit them politically, were also used to create a climate of fear prompting the population turn to the state for greater security, in an all but too familiar present-day scenario.

An image of a courtroom drawing by artist Janet Hamlin, shows Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ©, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and co-defendant Walid Bin Attash (L) attending a pre-trial session on December 8, 2008 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11.

If we are to believe the U.S. government, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged al-Qaida “mastermind” behind 9/11, outwitted the CIA, the NSA, indeed all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies as well as those of all U.S. allies including Mossad, the National Security Council, NORAD, Air Traffic Control, Airport Security four times on one morning, and Dick Cheney, and with untrained and inexperienced pilots pulled off skilled piloting feats of crashing hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, where a battery of state of the art air defenses somehow failed to function.

After such amazing success, al-Qaida would have attracted the best minds in the business, but, instead, it has been reduced to amateur stunts.

The Underwear Bomb plot is being played to the hilt on the TV media and especially on Fox “news.” After reading recently that The Washington Post allowed a lobbyist to write a news story that preached the lobbyist’s interest, I wondered if the manufacturers of full body scanners were behind the heavy coverage of the Underwear Bomber, if not behind the plot itself. In America, everything is for sale. Integrity is gone with the wind.

Recently I read a column by an author who has a “convenience theory” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info...e24285.htm about the Underwear Bomber being a Nigerian allegedly trained by al-Qaida in Yemen. As the U.S. is involved in an undeclared war in Yemen, about which neither the American public nor Congress were informed or consulted, the Underwear Bomb plot provided a convenient excuse for Washington’s new war, regardless of whether it was a real attack or a put-up job.

Once you start to ask yourself about whose agenda is served by events and their news spin, other things come to mind. For example, last July there was a news report that the government in Yemen had disbanded a terrorist cell, which was operating under the supervision of Israeli intelligence services. According to the news report, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told Saba news agency that a terrorist cell was arrested and that the case was referred to judicial authorities “for its links with the Israeli intelligence services.” http://www.daily.pk/evidence-mounts-for-...ism-13666/

Could the Underwear Bomber have been one of the Israeli terrorist recruits? Certainly Israel has an interest in keeping the US fully engaged militarily against all potential foes of Israel’s territorial expansion.

The thought brought back memory of my Russian studies at Oxford University where I learned that the Tsar’s secret police set off bombs so that they could blame those whom they wanted to arrest.

I next remembered that Francesco Cossiga, the president of Italy from 1985-1992, revealed the existence of Operation Gladio,(*) a false flag operation under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. The bombings were blamed on communists and were used to discredit communist parties in elections.

An Italian parliamentary investigation unearthed the fact that the attacks were overseen by the CIA. Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated in sworn testimony that the attacks targeted innocent civilians, including women and children, in order “to force the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.”

What a coincidence. That is exactly what 9/11 succeeded in accomplishing in the U.S.

Among the well-meaning and the gullible in the West, the supposition still exists that government represents the public interest. Political parties keep this myth alive by fighting over which party best represents the public’s interest. In truth, government represents private interests, those of the office holders themselves and those of the lobby groups that finance their political campaigns. The public is in the dark as to the real agendas.

The U.S. and its puppet state allies were led to war in the Middle East and Afghanistan entirely on the basis of lies and deception. Iraqi weapons of mass destruction did not exist and were known by the U.S. and British governments not to exist. Forged documents, such as the “yellowcake documents,” were leaked to newspapers in order to create news reporting that would bring the public along with the government’s war agenda.

Now the same thing is happening in regard to the nonexistent Iranian nuclear weapons program. Forged documents leaked to The Times (London) that indicated Iran was developing a “nuclear trigger” mechanism have been revealed as forgeries.

Who benefits? Clearly, attacking Iran is on the Israeli-U.S. agenda, and someone is creating the “evidence” to support the case, just as the leaked secret “Downing Street Memo” to the British cabinet informed Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government that President Bush had already made the decision to invade Iraq and “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.” http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk...387374.ece

The willingness of people to believe their rulers and the propaganda ministries that serve the rulers is astonishing. Many Americans believe Iran has a nuclear weapons program despite the unanimous conclusion of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies to the contrary.

Vice President Dick Cheney and the neoconservatives fought hard with limited success to change the CIA’s role from intelligence agency to a political agency that manufactures facts in support of the neoconservative agenda. For the Bush Regime creating “new realities” was more important than knowing the facts.

Recently I read a proposal from a person purporting to favor an independent media that stated that we must save the print media from financial failure with government subsidies. Such a subsidy would complete the subservience of the media to government.

Even in Stalinist Russia, a totalitarian political system where everyone knew that there was no free press, a gullible or intimidated public and Communist Party enabled Joseph Stalin to put the heroes of the Bolshevik Revolution on show trial and execute them as capitalist spies.

In the U.S. we are developing our own show trials. Sheikh Mohammed’s will be a big one. As Chris Hedges http://vdare.com/roberts/100104_liberty_lost.htm recently pointed out http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/one_..._20091228/ , once government uses demonized Muslims to get the new justice (sic) system going, the rest of us will be next.

(*) Operation Gladio reference articles:
The new Gladio in action? Ukrainian postmodern coup completes testing of new template, by Jonathan Mowat, Online Journal, March 19, 2005.
NATO’s Hidden Terrorism http://www.voltairenet.org/article144748.html , Interview of Daniele Ganser http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714656...0714656070 by Silvia Cattori, Voltaire Network, 22 January 2007.
The Technique of a Coup d’État http://www.voltairenet.org/article163453.html , by John Laughland, Voltaire Network, 5 January 2010.

http://www.voltairenet.org/article163507.html

[FastTadpole]

Supplemental:

Chertoff and Company - The Cover Up (Body Scanners)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5FBCHKu2KU

[h3rm35]

Paul Craig Roberts is a badass!

[NickHedge]

Question: Is Anyone Telling Us the Truth?
Answer: In a word - NO.

Think man, think. Who controls the media? All forms of the media? Even the "Alternative media". The man controls it. Try to start up some piss ant little net radio station and talk against the government and see just how long you stay on the air and that should be sufficient evidence as to who is being watched and who isn't. The only folks that are doing the talking are the ones who are supposed to be doing the talking.

Ask yourself this question seriously. Look at the mainstream media and look at the lineage of the reporters. They aren't just regular schmucks like you and me. They are tied back somehow to elites. They always are.

Example: Anderson Cooper of CNN comes from the Vanderbilt family. His mother is a Vanderbilt. The O'Donnell's include Nora, Kelly, Lawrence and Chris. Chris - Hollywood Actor; Lawrence - Political Advisor; Nora and Kelly - News Reporters. Mika Bryzinski from MSNBC - Father is Zbigniew Bryzinski, former National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter and part founder of the Trilateral Commission. This is just a handful.

Most of the news anchors if you check them out you can't even find out who their parents are and it's not because they aren't anyone, it's because it's none of our business. Those who are former politicians who know how to lie and spin that are talking heads. Look at the rest who are lawyers. Think about this for a minute. Everyone who is talking to you in the media is groomed and trained and approved to be there. You try and get a job as a news reporter or news anchor and see just how far you get.

We are told what to do and how to think by three systems - Media, Hollywood and Washington. Those are the three voices that shape who we are as "useless eaters". They hate us. We don't deserve to be sucking air. But they are solving that problem. It's the old frog in the pot trick. Put him in when the water is cool and he will swim around. By the time he figures out the water is getting too hot - HE'S DEAD. Same thing for us. It's already too late.

The threats that we are TOLD we are facing are coming from our controllers. They are the threats. Whip us into submission and make us dependent on them. It's working. America is fat and lazy and complacent. All she wants is her "reality" tv, poisoned food, tainted water, meds, something flashy to drive and the toys to keep them occupied. We deserve to implode on ourselves for losing sight of what is important as a culture. Why do you think one of the main reasons America is hated? Stop and think. Every single time that America goes into any other country to try and EDUCATE them we destroy them instead? Capitalism and democracy KILLS. It's no good.

The alternative media is a false choice. It's not alternative. It sounds just different enough to make most people think they are breaking their conditioning. Okay, fine. But you are thinking exactly like they want you to. What do you think the Newark situation was this past week? It was a dry run to see if they can control and contain large amounts of people for long periods of time. 3-4 thousand people in an airport for 6-7 hours? And not a peep out of any of them. Why do you think the term SHEEPLE is so accurate? Because that is what we are. Learn how to listen and recognize the lies when you hear them dressed in truth. And just barely dressed at that.

They couldn't find some flake who got past security? Right, yeah I'm buying that one. It was a setup and the saddest part of all is that no one challenges the lameness of that whole story. The stories are getting weaker and weaker and weaker, because the people are getting more and more confused. Hit them hard and fast with multiple things and you knock them off balance. The whole scam is simple if you just think about it.

You really think the body scanners are to protect us from the bad guys? Hell if they had only had them back in Germany. You're getting ready to be shipped off to the camps soon. Newark was a huge sign of things to come. Body scanners? Just a way to make sure the inmates aren't carrying anything on them that they shouldn't be. Another control mechanism dressed up to look like something wonderful from our mommies and daddies in DC (when it is anything but that). Here, drink this medicine (kool-aid), it's not oonly good BUT good for you.

Bring on another trojan horse.

Is anyone telling us the truth? I don't know, you tell me.

[h3rm35]

@ solve:

Quote:Recently I read a column by an author who has a “convenience theory”

more on yemen, etc.

best sources on this type of thing I've found are Al J and Russian media.
you can (and probably do) find a lot of this stuff on I.C.House, but some other really good resources are inteldaily.com and globalresearch.ca

I've seen this Yemen thing brewing since April '08, and none of the democratic cheer-leading punks on the last forum I was on would listen... now that it's pretty much dead, I don't get the chance to say "I told you so!"

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(01-12-2010 12:54 AM)NickHedge Wrote:  Question: Is Anyone Telling Us the Truth?
Answer: In a word - NO.

Think man, think. Who controls the media? All forms of the media? Even the "Alternative media". The man controls it. Try to start up some piss ant little net radio station and talk against the government and see just how long you stay on the air and that should be sufficient evidence as to who is being watched and who isn't. The only folks that are doing the talking are the ones who are supposed to be doing the talking.

Ask yourself this question seriously. Look at the mainstream media and look at the lineage of the reporters. They aren't just regular schmucks like you and me. They are tied back somehow to elites. They always are.

Example: Anderson Cooper of CNN comes from the Vanderbilt family. His mother is a Vanderbilt. The O'Donnell's include Nora, Kelly, Lawrence and Chris...

Great points, and of course they're not telling us the truth. They're all in it for a seat at the table after the culling - the separation of the wheat from the chaff, the dross from the gold...

but kelly o'donnell's hot, so she can stay.