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Left Media Icons Still Promoting
9/11 "Modified Limited Hangout" Legend
By Shiu M. Hung
2.1.04

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Not long ago, Pacifica Radio’s National Political Correspondent, Larry Bensky smugly labeled 9/11 alternative analysis as "recreational speculation". On the same show, he interviewed an alleged expert on Chinese Fung Sui to educate Pacifica Radio listeners on how to cope with 9/11 tragedies with Fung Sui, in keeping with KPFA's New-Age escapist culture. The message Bensky is sending is that there’s plenty of time to pontificate on issues such as how to take care of one’s emotional state, but constructive alternative analysis of 9/11 is off limits. Of course, Bensky will continue to shovel out his lineup of so-called experts to further marginalise the 9/11 skeptic position and needlessly continue to prop up the official story as the gospel truth. His show, Sunday Salon has recently featured Gerald Posner with his new book: Why America Slept? And Chip "John Foster" Berlet’s ridiculous comments concerning US air defense’s stand down on 9/11. According to Berlet the Stand down was because the Pentagon didn’t want to bother the East Coast Corridor suburbanite’s with loud jet noises. Practically, every expert guest Bensky had on since 9/11 repeats the official lies and disinformation, and analysis from Amy Goodman of Pacifica Radio’s "flagship" political affairs program – Democracy Now Inc.! – promote the same message. Furthermore, instead of promoting a radical message to the left of the Democratic Party, Amy Goodman lend plenty of airtime to promote the latter, and with joint appearances at a recent town hall gathering in Berkeley, California, MoveOn.org and DN’s, Amy Goodman are evidently working together to promote the Democratic Party. Even their websites are listed together on the Internet – how quaint and tactical. Run of the mill “Neo-liberal-progressives” can now go information shopping on the Internet for Democratic Party solutions via “Moveon.org and DN Inc.”Mall.

On January 18th, 2004, KPFA’s Sunday Salon program had on a guest Kevin Phillips – author of the new book; American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush – interviewed by Larry Bensky about the Bush family. During the listener’s call-in period, a nationally known and widely respected 9/11 skeptic movement activist, Carol Brouillet phoned in to the show to announce her upcoming 9/11 informational events in the San Francisco Bay Region. After her announcement, Bensky asked his guest what he thought about the information given by Carol, and his overall perspective on 9/11. Kevin Phillips’ response was disingenuous at best but misinformation at worse – mirroring the entrenched censorship habits and tactics by the left media icons and their counterpart guests -- to whom these people really work for remains a mystery? Kevin Phillips insinuated that the current 9/11 alternative analysis movement is nothing more than a "Halloween Mask" and "conspiratorial", and it’s a detriment to the advancement of the 9/11 discovery by the 9/11 independent investigation commission. He further went on to imply that the current commission is doing its best to seek unanswered questions about 9/11, and any research work done outside of the purview of the commission is a waste of time and a detriment to the commission’s effort to seek the truth, and that these ‘conspiracies mongering’ will only discredit any real effort on the part of the US government. Is this just wishful thinking on Kevin Phillip’s part, or is he some political operative for the Democratic Party’s attempt to persuade the progressive electorate into remaining ignorant on the issue of 9/11?

Can we trust the commission’s intent at this point? Weren’t Senator Robert Graham and Representative Porter Goss the two politicians who met with Parkistani ISI Chief Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Ahmed at the nation’s capital on the morning of 9/11 – while the nation was under attack?

http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO308C.html

This same ISI Chief also met with Bush’s State Department high officials during the week of 9/11. According to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, this same Parkistani ISI Chief also approved a wire transfer of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta – the original legendary ringleader:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP310A.html

-- weeks before 9/11? Is there a conflict of interest taking place here? Are we to trust that the commission won’t merely "whitewash" the investigation that which will serve the agenda of the USG eventually to hide the most likely possibility that they themselves were complicit in 9/11? Even if Bush were found to have foreknowledge prior to 9/11 from the commission findings, wouldn’t the democrats take advantage of the discovery and use it to their advantage to oust Bush? At best, the election outcome will perpetuate the myth of US democracy? At worse, it will allow the Democratic Party to operate at the helm at the White House to continue their “war of conquest”. Is 9/11 complicity a bipartisan criminal activity, not just the work of Bush and his so-called PNAC Neo-cons?

Again, Pacifica listeners are trusted to accept the word of someone whose credentials to appear on Sunday Salon was his new book about the Bush family, and this somehow lends him credibility to assume a position of authority on a topic which he appears to have no credentials, nor respectability to opined on. Furthermore, the fact that this person who used to operate inside the Republican Party political apparatus go unchallenged and welcomed with open arms, at the same time, serious researcher such as Michael Ruppert is labeled as “right winger” trying to infiltrate the left with his “conspiracy” nonsense violates fairness and defies logic. Meanwhile, prominent researchers such as Professor Michel Chossudovsky of University of Ottawa

http://www.globalresearch.ca

and Michael Ruppert of http://www.copvcia.com

and notable 9/11 "physical evidence" researchers Jim Hoffman of

http://911research.wtc7.net

never gets invited to share information on Bensky’s program, nor on Democracy Now, Inc. The fact that Amy Goodman’s censorship of 9/11 alternative analysis goes against her own motto” in my investigative work, I go where the silence is”, doesn’t seemed to bother anyone who continues to prop her up on the pedestal as some “left media goddess”.

The two long years of dedicated research and discovery by skeptic researchers are, according to Kevin Phillips, conspiracy theories. Isn’t Phillips’ book about the Bush family conspiratorial in nature? Or did he gather the information for his book by way of "Structural analysis?" Better yet, Bush’s family long tradition of political malfeasance and machination has been ignored for over two decades and only now coming into light on Pacifica Airwaves at the opportune time when this exposure will benefit the Democratic Party. When callers broached the subject of Bush family/Nazi connection back in the early 90’s on his Sunday morning talk show, Bensky consigned these as "conspiracy theories". How pitiful, a decade later, he encounters this same topic by promoting someone who wrote a book on the Bush family -- when it’s safe to do so -- because now the Bush family/Nazi connection is exposed in the mainstream media, and it’s a ‘popular’ topic. How trite that he now seeks expert opinion from this author, with Republican Party background, of a subject which a decade earlier, he described as “conspiracy theories.” Furthermore, based on this author’s comments about 9/11, he hardly knows anything about the topic, and if he did, he certainly didn’t show it. More importantly, his negative criticism certainly did not do much to contribute to advance the discovery established by the 9/11 grassroots researchers. Regardless, these types of practices are a ‘norm’ on Larry Bensky’s program as well as throughout majority of the left press/media, and as long as he remains the National political correspondent on Pacifica Radio, and left pundits such as Norman Soloman; David Corn; Michael Albert; Noam Chomsky, et al continues to rule the mindsets of the left, majority on the left will remain ignorant about 9/11, and it will only perpetuate business as usual – vote Bush out and everything will be fine again. Only Lord Bensky can determine when a political subject is considered legitimate to pass his “conspiracy theory/recreational speculation” smell test.

Thanks for alerting us that there is something worth hearing on Sunday morning, June 12. I refuse to listen to Larry Bensky; he is not only a Democratic Party mouthpiece, he is simply awful.

Mike Ruppert's milestone must read, Crossing the Rubicon, quotes the World Socialist Website, correctly views Israel as a junior partner to US imperialism, and points the finger directly at the perpetrators of the 9/11 Inside Job, Dick Cheney, George Bush, Rumsfeld & Condi Rice. He also points the finger at lots of other Bush Administration people, all correctly. Ruppert deserves all the accolades his solid gold non-fiction expose can possibly receive. Amazon.com gives it their top 5-star rating; I give it a 10-star rating, with a gold medal for every page, and every page is solid gold.

It should have been obvious to everyone on 9/11/01 that our excellent air defense system could have stopped the first plane crash, as well as all the rest, unless they were told to stand down, which only Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld could do. We soon learned, and Ruppert carefully documents, that the Air Force had war games planned for 9/11/01, which could not be a coincidence, and these war games essentially paralyzed our air defense as no one could distinguish the real from the game. Thus, as Ruppert, explains and documents with 900 footnotes, the Air Force and the CIA perpetrated this Reichstag Fire, with the planes on automatic pilot, with no hijackers on board, 9 of the so-called hijackers being alive today.

Other people, notably, David Ray Griffin in his 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions and Eric Hufschmid's Painful Questions on 9/11, go into greater detail describing the fact that the Twin Towers and Building 7 were brought down by construction explosives. Ruppert does point out the Building 7 was not hit by any plane and yet collapsed in seconds, which only construction explosives can do. We have testimony now that the Towers were shut down the weekend before 9/11 supposedly for rewiring. That is obviously when the construction explosives were set. The Pentagon was most likely damaged by construction explosives. The plane over Pennsylvania was shot down by the US military.

Anyone who claims to be for peace has to support the 9/11 Truth Movement as that who has the obvious evidence that this was an inside job to perpetate fascism at home and war abroad. It is ludicrous and reactionary to support the government's obvious lie.

We are all waiting to hear what is going on with KPFA. This latest scene with Flashpoints is disturbing. We hear reports of physical fights, which is bizarre. If that happened in any workplace I ever heard about, the fighting parties would be fired. The programming is not worth much. The only worthwhile show is the 6 pm news, and that is only because the commercial news stations are so terrible. Promoting the Democratic Party, which KPFA does all day long, is simply not programming; it is garbage.

I SCREAM LIKE AN IDIOT BECAUSE IT HELPS DISTRACT YOU FROM THE FACT THAT MOST OF WHAT I SAY IS INACCURATE

And so is anyone else who supports the Palestinians!

The pro-Palestinian Jew-haters won't stop until they exterminate all the Jews in Israel. That's what they want. They want to burn all the Jews! That's why we're going to get the Palestinians first and anyone who supports them. Have you heard of the JDL? Israel belongs to the Jews and the Jews ONLY and that's they way it's going to stay until the last Palestinian is driven out or killed. We know how to take care of people who get in our way. Just ask the IDF and Mossad.

We don't need to forge JA's name to make our point. True, Israel does and forever belong to the Jews. We were there, conquered and held part of Palestine 2,000 years ago. 2,000 years later, we're just coming back for what's ours: but this time for the whole thing. The Palestinians knew we were there before when the Romans drove us out. The Palestinians knew what they were getting into when their ancient ancestors stayed and didn't leave. We gave the Palestinians a chance to leave voluntarily. They didn't. So, like Frank says, we just had to take care of things for ourselves. Yes, we drove them out and had to kill many in the process. Israel is a strong nation and we're there to stay. Deal with it you twisted anti-Semites.


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Anti-Semites like JA don't understand why we Jews need a state of our own. Somebody had to pay the price and it might as well have been the Palestinians. Look, we had a choice: we obviously couldn't take over New York state and we obviously couldn't take over, for example, Provence or Wales, or a provence of Australia, so that only left us with someplace in the 3rd World to go to. We took over Palestine. Our once ancient homeland. Gehrig is right. Anyone living in Palestine for the past 2,000 years knew that it was ours. We conquered it 2,000 years ago from other people living there then. Israel was God's promise to we Jews. We intend to keep it and to drive any other people out who don't leave. If the Palestinians don't leave, then we will kill them. One by one if we have to. Anyone who speaks of "Palestinian rights is a raving anti-Semite who just wants to kill all the Jews. Period.

3,000 years ago God promised Palestine to the Jews. It's ours. The Palestinians must leave or die.

What I don't understand about 9-11 is just how those Mossad agents (posing as a New York moving company van crew) let themselves get caught cheering the destruction of the Twin Towers that day on the New Jersey side of the Hudson. That's what I mean to tell about you, Critical Thinker, or whatever numskulls you were that forge JA's name. We've got to be more subtle. I'm not saying that Israel necessarily caused 9-11 to happen (maybe Israel LET it happen or even set it up), but geeesh, you don't go openly cheering it either where other people can see you. Look, any cursory reading of the Old Testament and even Wehrmacht Wendy could see that God promised Palestine to the Jews. The Bible should be good enough for all those twisted, raving anti-Semites like JA.


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Well, it'll be my bedtime in Israel when the program airs, so one of you guys will have to tell me what happened. Gehrig, it'll still be day time in Illinois, so you will be awake to hear it. By the way, anyone heard from Sefarad lately?