by Bruce Henry
Just to remind you of our ongoing [but temporarily interrupted] walk across Massachusetts.
We undertake this walk in order to promote open discussion of all angles of the crime of the century. It killed nearly 3,000 people on one day and led to a string of wars costing trillions of dollars and visiting incalculable bloodshed and destruction abroad. We aim to help penetrate a seeming conspiracy of silence on the part of the news media, which behave as if being disciplined gatekeepers is more important than digging into the meat of an uncomfortable but pivotal chapter in history.
We were carrying a copy of Barrie Zwicker’s book, Towers of Deception, but had to give it away to lighten the backpack. The trip began on April 10, from Providence, Rhode Island. At first we did only 14 miles a day but got up to 28 miles and then 30. After that day, one of us got a sprained ankle and the relevant wife insisted on our returning by Peter Pan (that’s the name of a bus company) to the home front in Pittsfield, MA. But we plan to bus it back to Worcester and continue west again as if nothing happened.
We want to talk with as many people as people as possible to get their views about it and how they have come to hold them. The 9/11 Truth Action Project (TAP) has already lent us a hand. We hope to speak at more colleges, on sidewalks and luncheonettes. We’ll distribute leaflets packed with information. We’ll be respectful of others’ feelings and perspectives. And we invite fellow and sister walkers, for whatever distances.
Words relevant to 9/11 truthism are practically everywhere. Fellow walker Mark Miller found this example from three days ago:
“We are a family,” Marcus Halley writes. “We are incredibly connected to one another, even if at times we fail to live into that relationship with integrity, and even if at times we would like our relationship to be different or even not exist. Nevertheless, we are connected across oceans, cultures, languages, and religions. God calls us to be concerned about others because they are human and worthy of life and love. Our well-being is tied together.
“Regardless of our nation of origin or current residence,” He goes on, “we all live in the midst of some strained relationships. In learning how to love each other well — especially when we don’t agree — we would do well to remember the Xhosa proverb popularized by Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the height of apartheid in South Africa. ‘I am because we are,’ illustrates that the fullest version of our humanity is expressed in relationship to other people.”
[Mary Maxwell adds, so as to explain the title!]:
Isaiah 52:7
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth.
I had always found the manner of the falling of the towers very strange, same for the Pentagon damage, but I’d simply gone along with the official story. As you do.
My skepticism was aroused not by skeptics but by watching an Italian TV show where Alitalia pilots and ground staff were doing their best not to be skeptical about the supposed flying manoeuvres and damage involved in the Pentagon “attack”. They were having too much trouble believing their own speculations. These were guys with jobs to keep and families to feed, yet it was clear they were not convinced. After that I found an interview of commercial pilots in France who’d retired and didn’t have jobs to keep. They were convinced that none of the flying part of the story made sense. They were sure.
From there I realised that no part of the official 9/11 account made sense when one was looking at the facts and details. As a life-long conservative type, I’d been taking all on faith. Not any more. I’m still a conservative type…and I still say the official story is bunk. It’s not plausible bunk, it’s childish bunk; and I’m cranky with myself for going with the media flow as long as I did.
I wouldn’t mind so much if the evil people were more successful in their evil. But on top of everything else, they lose. The combined forces of NATO and the US/Israel/Saudi/Jihadi axis would have trouble taking out the Northbridge Bowling Club on Ladies’ Afternoon. So what’s the point?
So far as I can see no cost to environment and ecology have been made, the pollution of war, the cost of infrastructure, the cost of the maimed? and many other costs do not seem to accountable, it is fairly obvious the profot from a land mine, the cost of a the loss of the victim and loss of work and cost to a society has not been tabulated that I know of, consodering the cost to the first world taxpayers who pay for tthe indulgencies of our military and the cost to civilians who are the main victims of war, is of no benefit to first world taxpayers in fact cost the first world for the destruction of individuals who are victims, becomes the only profit from these sagas are a few who are hidden power and the masses are fed propaganda of our safety is the price of our freedom? who is who?
IMHO Being free of the Bush Administration pack of liars is a great step forward ,then the next dud and now all they do is try and smear President Trump over a bit of a fling while thousands around us are getting divorced.
“We are conditioned to think that conspiracies are only conjectures and the domain of the lunatic fringe – when a conspiracy is nothing but another name for cartels , monopolies ,cabals , combines , etc . This is simply another bait and switch tactic to confuse us from seeing the truth “
Chris Gupta
Rightie-ho. The Sherman Anti-trust Act of 1890 is against COMBINATIONS — as they conspire to fix prices etc. This law has never been repealed or even al;tered:
“Section 1. Trusts, etc., in restraint of trade illegal; penalty
Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or
conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several
States, or with foreign nations, is declared to be illegal. Every
person who shall make any contract or engage in any combination or
conspiracy hereby declared to be illegal shall be deemed guilty of
a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine
not exceeding $10,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other
person, $350,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding three years,
or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.
“Section 2. Monopolizing trade a felony; penalty
Every person who shall monopolize, or attempt to monopolize, or
combine or conspire with any other person or persons, to monopolize any part of the trade or commerce among the several States, or with
foreign nations, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on
conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding
$10,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $350,000, or
by imprisonment not exceeding three years, or by both said
punishments, in the discretion of the court.”
REWARD
I personally guarantee that Dee will bake one dozen chocolate chip cookies for any persons – up to a maximum of five — who, in the next 48 hours (Melbourne time, or the next 48-and–a-half hours, Adelaide time) submits a valid (or at least valid-sounding) scheme for applying the Sherman Antitrust Act in regard to the Larry-and-Frank leasing of the Twin Towers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (and the Port of Darwin if you can devise a way to work it in) on July 24, 2001.
Dee and her half-baked legal team will have final judgement, and discretion will be the better part of valor. As soon as we find five persons qualifying we will post a notice here to “Stop Sending!” The contest is “first in, best dressed.”
As I said, I personally guarantee that the Editor does what she is supposed to do in regard to the Reward. Should she fail, I will do the baking myself and offer a Vegan substitute if any of the five winners so wishes. (Note: I don’t do gluten-free.)
They can be gluten free, vegan, if req.
Come on, participate. Do you recall in 2010 the “Bed Intruder” song? It inspired dozens of entries. I can’t find them on Youtube, some were brilliant. There was even a Madrigal arrangement…
I think this may have been one of the spoofs:
So what’s the latest count on the terminal cancers caused by inhaling the toxic 9/11 fumes ?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2201044/Feds-acknowledge-link-9-11-aftermath-50-cancers.html
Holy smoke! I found the set of Bed Intruder songs. Most of them got a million views. This is what we want for Gumshoe. Come on. I laid out the Sherman anti-trust Act for you. Get to work!
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In the US “Section 2. Monopolizing trade a felony; penalty…….. I wonder if the current “Royal Commission into Banks and Saving Institutions” in Australia is aware of the American law. Do we have such a law that can be thrown at the Big Four?
It is my opinion that when the large banks take over or merge with the smaller savings institutions as they have done numerous times in the last 30 years, they are guilty of the above crime.
Mal, in America the DOJ is supposed to enforce it but does not do so. Oz has similar legislation, but also not much enforcement. Look up “Competition law.”
[I got this from legalvision’ website]:
Anti-Competitive Agreements
Section 45 of the Competition and Consumer Act prohibits businesses from making or giving effect to contracts, arrangements or understandings that:
Include an exclusionary provision; or
Have the purpose, effect or likely effect of substantially lessening competition.
An exclusionary provision is a clause in a contract between two or more competitors that has the purpose of preventing, restricting or limiting the supply of goods or services to (or the acquisition of goods or services from) particular persons. Exclusionary provisions are illegal regardless of the effect they have on competition.
Speaking of which, Mal, I saw a billboard downtown today that says “Optus covers 99% of Adelaide”. — I mean they were boasting about that.
The Competition and Consumer Act is, like so many other pieces of legislation, a mere showpiece, as evidenced by the amount of Chinese junk that’s being flogged off to Aus consumers with no come-back.
W. A. doesn’t even have the infrastructure to enforce compliance. Given the trend toward cost-cutting I can’t imagine that it would any different anywhere else
Berry, allegedly you have an ombudsman:
http://www.ombudsman.wa.gov.au/
Welcome to the Ombudsman Western Australia website. The Ombudsman serves Parliament and Western Australians by investigating and resolving complaints about the decision making of government agencies, local governments and universities, undertaking own motion investigations, reviewing child deaths and family …
[reviewing child deaths???]
There needs to be some sort of Authority that has the power to black-list a business purely on the basis of transaction and correspondence records: As opposed to a system that forces a victim of patent lawlessness to prove, at his/her own expense, that any sort of loss has been sustained.
When I sent such a paper trail to the ACCC I was just given the return-to-sender routine. What needs to be understood is that all coverups, including 9/11, amount to obviating some systemic failure or other.
Don’t give up, Mal. The law CAN be enforced; it just takes awareness. Here is a case I learned about when studying the EU’s competition law (when I did an exchange semester from Adelaide at University of Mannheim). Ice cream wholesaler “Smith” bought freezers for deli owners and told them they could only put Smith ice cream in those freezers. Ice cream wholesaler “Jones” cried unfair!
How do you think the court resolved it? Did Jones get a foot in the door? I mean did he get some of his ice cream into those freezers? Sure. The practice was anti-competion hence a no-no.
We had a professor X, I can’t recall his name, in Oz who was head of the ACC. He also would fight for cases like that (he was more like the DoJ than a court).
Ahem. Connecting this to my recent article on the Queen, Senator John Sherman of the Anti-trust Act said, in 1890:
“If we will not endure a king as a political power we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.”
Excellent article.