Saturday 20 September 2014
Friday 19 September 2014
Clive Palmer would you like some help
http://www.theaustralian.com.
I saw the article on the television. You have a resort without people.
I would like to take control, well, if I have found the Holy Grail in the heart of Kings Cross would you donate this resort to the healing of sick and dying people to one area within the resort, then another area within the resort to the corporate group.
I am looking for a venue, probably in each state, which will work with sick people working on returning our DNA to the original source. Im no greeny, however I can see where we lack organic, vegan, healthy lifestyle alternatives.
When you have followed so many of the children's cancers as I have who have DPIG and where the family in many cases would be able to have a week's holiday where nurses and Doctor's around around.
The Dinosaur park would be amazing for the boys and girls. The way you had the Luna Park images with your face. Yes I have a story or too I can add about the Ghost Train Fire in Sydney.
I would like you to think about my offer, I don't believe the place is running to it's full potential and I will be looking for a venue for my alternative healing. With a visit with the Holy Grail from time to time.
In Many their is a home for terminal sick children near Sydney, yet we can do more by having areas where alternative medicines can be offered to patients where they can not get this loving service at home.
In 2009 I joined with Alexander Petrovic to bring down the drug network in Sydney, what I hit upon is the drug network around the world and the corruption.
THe corruption has hurt me, it has hurt Alex too.
As we move on for the answers in the search for a cure for cancer please remember us Act and Grow Rich, with Jennifer Stone The Kings Cross Sting series, hopefully you will hear? Allegedly the King of the Cross will go down in history as the Biggest Drug bust in history.
Holy Grail? Helping sick children? And this would remove the problem for you I can see.
Regards,
Jennifer
Thursday 18 September 2014
Drug offences Potts Point
Two women charged with drug offences - Potts Point
Friday, 19 September 2014 05:03:02 AM
Two women have been charged with drug offences after a search warrant was executed in Potts Point overnight.
Police received information about the alleged supply of prohibited drugs at a unit in Kellett Way and executed a search warrant just before 8pm (Thursday 18 September 2014).
During the search police seized drugs, including methamphetamine (‘ice’), and a machete.
Two women were home at the time. They were issued with Field Court Attendance Notices to appear in court next month regarding possess prohibited drugs.
Inquiries are continuing.
Police are urging anyone with information about this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.
Sex bribery, blackmail and threats of Financial Ruin
Use monetary and sex bribery to obtain control of men already in high places, in the various levels of all governments and other fields of endeavour. Once influential persons had fallen for the lies, deceits, and temptations of the Illuminati they were to be held in bondage by application of political and other forms of blackmail, threats of financial ruin, public exposure, and fiscal harm, even death to themselves and loved members of their families.
Wednesday 17 September 2014
Conspiracy by Jim Marrs
CONSPIRACY IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE DEPT.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Marrs/107367532680105
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, rehabilitated the term “conspiracy theory” since 9/11 obviously involved more than one lone person. For too long—and to some extent still today, this term was used to disparage anyone whose information differed from another. In this article, Shawn Hamilton has gathered some of the more documented and horrendous conspiracies of recent years. Study these and the next time someone you know brushes off the account of an event as a “conspiracy theory,” remind them this is the last refuge of those who either have failed to consider all the evidence or have a hidden agenda. If it’s not an act of God, it’s a conspiracy.
Jim
Rethinking Conspiracy
By Shawn Hamilton
OpEdNews.com
September 14, 2014
The terms "conspiracy theorist" and "conspiracy nut" are used frequently to discredit a perceived adversary using emotional, rather than logical, appeals. It's important for the sake of true argument that we define the term "conspiracy" and use it appropriately, not as an ad hominem attack on someone whose point of view we don't share.
According to my Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, the word "conspiracy" derives from the Latin "conspirare" which means literally "to breath together" in the sense of agreeing to commit a crime. The primary definition is "planning and acting together secretly, especially for a harmful or unlawful purpose, such as murder or treason."
It was in this sense that Mark Twain astutely observed, "A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public."
Conspiracies are common. If they weren't, police stations would not need conspiracy units to investigate and prosecute crimes such as "conspiracy to import cocaine" or any other collusion on the part of two or more people to subvert the law.
Unfortunately, too many people smugly chide "conspiracy theories" as if they imagine that such a derisive characterization reflects superior intellect--whether or not they know anything about the issue in question. It's a pitiful display of ego inflation and intellectual dishonesty, yet it appears to be a common approach preferred by those short on information and critical thinking skills.
Here are a few examples of past "conspiracy theories" that were commonly derided at the time of their occurrence but were later determined to be credible:
1933 Business Plot: Smedley Butler, a decorated United States Marine Corps major general who wrote a book called War is a Racket, testified before a congressional committee that a group of powerful industrialists, who had tried to recruit him, were planning to form a fascist veterans' group that intended to assassinate Franklin Roosevelt and overthrow the government in a coup. While news media at the time belittled Butler and called the affair a hoax, the congressional committee determined that Butler's allegations were credible although no-one was prosecuted.
Operation Paperclip: After "winning" WW2, the US imported hundreds of Nazis and their families through "Operation Paperclip," so-named because ID photos were clipped to paper dossiers. It was set up by an agency within the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor of the CIA. Along with creating false identities and political biographies, Paperclip operatives expunged or altered Nazi records and other criminal histories in order to illegally circumvent President Truman's edict that prohibited Nazis from obtaining security clearances. Thus, high-level Nazis waltzed into sensitive positions of authority and secrecy in the US military-industrial establishment, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), major corporations, and universities. These Germans were conveniently referred to as "former Nazis," but "former" was commonly just a euphemism for "active" and "ardent."
Consider the irony of the United States' moon mission. In order to successfully land men on the lunar surface and return them to Earth, the US depended almost exclusively on Nazis. A notable example was rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, a member of the Allgemeine SS, who would eventually lead the US space program. Von Braun had exploited concentration camp labor in Germany to build V-2 rockets at Peenemünde, and German aviation doctors' gruesome and often fatal experiments at Dachau and other prisons afforded information that would help keep American astronauts alive in space.
While many Americans prefer to call this a conspiracy theory, the United States defeated the Nazi organization in Germany only to transplant that ideology directly into the US after the war, and not just among members of the lay population but, more significantly, among members of the very "military-industrial complex" that President Eisenhower (a five-star general during World War Two) had presciently warned the nation about in his 1961 message of leave-taking and farewell.
Operation Northwoods: Declassified documents revealed that in 1962 the CIA was planning to execute false flag terrorist attacks, such as killing random American citizens and blowing up civilian targets, including a ship and US airliner, in order to blame Castro and justify invading Cuba.
Gulf of Tonkin: President Lyndon Johnson used a contrived version of this 1964 event to justify escalation of the Vietnam War. It was claimed that Vietnamese gunboats had fired on the USS Maddox. It never happened--or at best was grossly distorted and overblown--yet the story served to prompt Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which provided the public justification Johnson needed to attack North Vietnam. This led to the deaths of about two million Vietnamese people and fifty thousand Americans.
MK-ULTRA: As its code name suggests, MK-ULTRA was a mind control program run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence for the ostensible purpose of discovering ways to glean information from Communist spies although its applications were undoubtedly more far-reaching. It employed various methodologies including sensory deprivation and isolation, sexual abuse, and the administration of powerful psychotropic drugs such as LSD to unwitting subjects, including military personnel, prisoners, and college students. Many of them suffered serious consequences. One biochemist, Frank Olson, who was secretly slipped a strong dose of LSD at a staff party, suffered a severe psychotic break and died when, for whatever reason, he plummeted from his apartment window to the pavement below. Such revelations came to light in 1975 during hearings by the congressional Church Committee (Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) and the presidential Rockefeller Commission. These investigations were hindered by CIA Director Richard Helms who in 1973 had ordered the MK-ULTRA files destroyed.
Operation Mockingbird: This was a CIA media control program exposed by the Church Committee in 1975. It revealed the CIA's efforts from the 1950s through the 1970s to pay well-known foreign and domestic journalists from "reputable" media agencies such as the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Newsweek, the Miami Herald, the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, Miami News, and CBS, among others, to publish CIA propaganda, manipulating the news by planting stories in domestic and foreign news outlets. During the hearings, Senator Church asked an agency representative, "Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?" The speaker eyed his lawyer then replied, "This I think gets into the details, Mr. Chairman, that I'd like to get into in executive session." In other words, he didn't want to admit the truth publicly. He gave the same response when asked if the CIA planted stories with the major wire services United Press International (UPI) and the Associated Press (AP). According to Alex Constantine's book, Mockingbird: The Subversion of The Free Press by the CIA, in the 1950s "some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts." I'm curious to know what the estimate would be today.
CIA Drug Smuggling: It's no longer a secret that clandestine arms of US Intelligence have profited from running drugs for many years. I first became aware of the issue when a Vietnam veteran claimed he had helped load opium cultivated in Laos onto military transport planes. The opium was turned into heroin and shipped around the world, sometimes in the visceral cavities of dead soldiers. A Hollywood version of these events is portrayed in the film Air America, but the movie is based on historical truth. When the US military presence in Southeast Asia declined and the focus shifted to Central America, cocaine became the new revenue source. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb ran a well-documented three-part series in the San Jose Mercury News called "Dark Alliance," alleging that traffickers with US intelligence ties had marketed the cocaine in Los Angeles it its new and highly addictive form known as "crack," sparking a scourge that claimed the lives and freedom of thousands. One guy I met in Compton who had been arrested for crack possession described the drug this way: "It doesn't really get you high," he said. "You just want more." Webb's allegations were confirmed by an LAPD Narcotics Officer and whistleblower, Michael Ruppert, and the story received additional confirmation from CIA contract pilot Terry Reed, whose story is revealed in his 1994 book Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA. According to Reed, the sale of cocaine was used to finance the Contras in Central America when congressional funding was blocked by the Boland Amendment. He claimed the operation was run out of Mena, Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor. Military cargo planes were flown to Central America with military hardware, he said, then returned to Mena loaded with tons of coke.
I could add to the list, and it would be a long one. The Iran-Contra scandal, Watergate, the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), the Tuskegee syphilis experiment--there is no shortage of crimes that were planned and committed by two or more people and thus constituted conspiracy. Conspiracies happen, and before any crime is solved it spawns theories. There are people who look at these theories rationally using logic and discernment, and there are others who are illogical, engage in fallacious and emotion-based thinking, jumping to unjustified conclusions based on little or no evidence. The term "conspiracy theorist," however, has been manipulated to suggest only those in the latter category.
The John Kennedy assassination provides a good example of how the term "conspiracy" is misapplied to disparage people who find fault with official versions of major events. After Kennedy was murdered, very few people questioned the Warren Commission's verdict that Lee Oswald had shot the president unassisted, and anyone who challenged that belief was branded a "conspiracy nut (or buff)" unworthy of respect or consideration. 40 years later, a 2003 Gallup poll revealed that 75% of the US population believed there had been a conspiracy to kill JFK.
Apparently a certain portion of the population has a psychological need to protect themselves from unpleasant realities, so it is easier for such people to label others as conspiracy nuts than to assimilate hard but discomforting facts. In the case of the John Kennedy assassination, even a congressional committee, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, concluded in 1979 that there had been a conspiracy to kill John Kennedy. They tried to soften that reality by calling it a "limited conspiracy," as if Oswald's drunken cousin had helped him and didn't involve elements of US Intelligence, but the fact remains that the US government has officially admitted there had been a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy. "Conspiracy theorists" were finally vindicated, but I've never heard anyone apologize for disparaging their names and questioning their sanity.
"9/11," of course, is the current topic that yields the most accusations of conspiracy nuttiness. Anyone who challenges the 9/11 Commission's conclusions are branded "conspiracy theorists" (or nuts, wackos or kooks) as were their predecessors when JFK was killed.
History repeats itself.
One of the strange truths about the 9/11 affair is that members of the 9/11 Commission also called the event a conspiracy. That alone shows the term is being intentionally manipulated. In the Commission's view, the conspirators were exclusively fanatical Muslims, but somehow that investigative body has been exempt from accusations of conspiracy theorizing even though they called the event a conspiracy. Apparently one must challenge the official version of events to qualify as a "conspiracy theorist."
I asked Jim Marrs, the popular author and critic of various official versions of history, what he considered to be the origin of "conspiracy" as a derogatory term and how it has been manipulated: "The term 'conspiracy theory' was consciously submitted to assets of the CIA back in a document from the 1960s to be used to counter factual information that was continually being made public regarding the Kennedy assassination. From there, these assets, including media personalities, pundits, academics and government officials, expanded the term to become a pejorative for any statements not complying with the Establishment line," Marrs said. "However, its repetitive overuse, plus the fact that the 9/11 attacks obviously involved a conspiracy, today has lessened the impact of the term."
Many critics of the 9/11 Commission report make some valid points, and it's not fair to simply dismiss them as conspiracy theorists when the very people they're countering also claim there was a conspiracy. The only question is simply: whose conspiracy was it?
Even officials tasked with investigating 9/11 knew there was plenty of deception involved. Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, said on page four of his book The Ground Truth, "At some level of government, at some point in time, there was an agreement not to tell the people the truth about what happened." In their book Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission, the two co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, outlined reasons they believe the government established the Commission in a manner that ensured its failure. These reasons included delay in initiating the proceedings, too short a deadline for the scope of the work, insufficient funding, and lack of cooperation by politicians and key government agencies including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NORAD. "So there were all kinds of reasons we thought we were set up to fail," the chairmen said.
How much clearer can they be?
Conspiracies exist. They have always existed, and not wanting them to be true does not invalidate their existence. I think it's time we reject the intentional misappropriation of the term "conspiracy" by forces attempting to manipulate public opinion and restore the term to its original and proper meaning. As long as we observe logic and reason, there is no intellectual dishonor in contemplating and discussing conspiracies, and doing so is imperative if we wish to retain our liberty.
Shawn Hamilton is a writing teacher by trade and has taught in both the United States and Taiwan. He authored a recently published book with the satirical title, "Be All You Can Be" (the old US Army recruiting slogan) about an Air Force major who, in the latter part of his life, rejected use of our military as an instrument of US imperialism. He has worked as a capitol reporter in Sacramento for KPFA Radio (Pacifica) and written for various print publications. He received a Project Censored award in 2011 and writes poetry for fun.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jim-Marrs/107367532680105
The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, rehabilitated the term “conspiracy theory” since 9/11 obviously involved more than one lone person. For too long—and to some extent still today, this term was used to disparage anyone whose information differed from another. In this article, Shawn Hamilton has gathered some of the more documented and horrendous conspiracies of recent years. Study these and the next time someone you know brushes off the account of an event as a “conspiracy theory,” remind them this is the last refuge of those who either have failed to consider all the evidence or have a hidden agenda. If it’s not an act of God, it’s a conspiracy.
Jim
Rethinking Conspiracy
By Shawn Hamilton
OpEdNews.com
September 14, 2014
The terms "conspiracy theorist" and "conspiracy nut" are used frequently to discredit a perceived adversary using emotional, rather than logical, appeals. It's important for the sake of true argument that we define the term "conspiracy" and use it appropriately, not as an ad hominem attack on someone whose point of view we don't share.
According to my Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, the word "conspiracy" derives from the Latin "conspirare" which means literally "to breath together" in the sense of agreeing to commit a crime. The primary definition is "planning and acting together secretly, especially for a harmful or unlawful purpose, such as murder or treason."
It was in this sense that Mark Twain astutely observed, "A conspiracy is nothing but a secret agreement of a number of men for the pursuance of policies which they dare not admit in public."
Conspiracies are common. If they weren't, police stations would not need conspiracy units to investigate and prosecute crimes such as "conspiracy to import cocaine" or any other collusion on the part of two or more people to subvert the law.
Unfortunately, too many people smugly chide "conspiracy theories" as if they imagine that such a derisive characterization reflects superior intellect--whether or not they know anything about the issue in question. It's a pitiful display of ego inflation and intellectual dishonesty, yet it appears to be a common approach preferred by those short on information and critical thinking skills.
Here are a few examples of past "conspiracy theories" that were commonly derided at the time of their occurrence but were later determined to be credible:
1933 Business Plot: Smedley Butler, a decorated United States Marine Corps major general who wrote a book called War is a Racket, testified before a congressional committee that a group of powerful industrialists, who had tried to recruit him, were planning to form a fascist veterans' group that intended to assassinate Franklin Roosevelt and overthrow the government in a coup. While news media at the time belittled Butler and called the affair a hoax, the congressional committee determined that Butler's allegations were credible although no-one was prosecuted.
Operation Paperclip: After "winning" WW2, the US imported hundreds of Nazis and their families through "Operation Paperclip," so-named because ID photos were clipped to paper dossiers. It was set up by an agency within the Office of Strategic Services, predecessor of the CIA. Along with creating false identities and political biographies, Paperclip operatives expunged or altered Nazi records and other criminal histories in order to illegally circumvent President Truman's edict that prohibited Nazis from obtaining security clearances. Thus, high-level Nazis waltzed into sensitive positions of authority and secrecy in the US military-industrial establishment, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), major corporations, and universities. These Germans were conveniently referred to as "former Nazis," but "former" was commonly just a euphemism for "active" and "ardent."
Consider the irony of the United States' moon mission. In order to successfully land men on the lunar surface and return them to Earth, the US depended almost exclusively on Nazis. A notable example was rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, a member of the Allgemeine SS, who would eventually lead the US space program. Von Braun had exploited concentration camp labor in Germany to build V-2 rockets at Peenemünde, and German aviation doctors' gruesome and often fatal experiments at Dachau and other prisons afforded information that would help keep American astronauts alive in space.
While many Americans prefer to call this a conspiracy theory, the United States defeated the Nazi organization in Germany only to transplant that ideology directly into the US after the war, and not just among members of the lay population but, more significantly, among members of the very "military-industrial complex" that President Eisenhower (a five-star general during World War Two) had presciently warned the nation about in his 1961 message of leave-taking and farewell.
Operation Northwoods: Declassified documents revealed that in 1962 the CIA was planning to execute false flag terrorist attacks, such as killing random American citizens and blowing up civilian targets, including a ship and US airliner, in order to blame Castro and justify invading Cuba.
Gulf of Tonkin: President Lyndon Johnson used a contrived version of this 1964 event to justify escalation of the Vietnam War. It was claimed that Vietnamese gunboats had fired on the USS Maddox. It never happened--or at best was grossly distorted and overblown--yet the story served to prompt Congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which provided the public justification Johnson needed to attack North Vietnam. This led to the deaths of about two million Vietnamese people and fifty thousand Americans.
MK-ULTRA: As its code name suggests, MK-ULTRA was a mind control program run by the Office of Scientific Intelligence for the ostensible purpose of discovering ways to glean information from Communist spies although its applications were undoubtedly more far-reaching. It employed various methodologies including sensory deprivation and isolation, sexual abuse, and the administration of powerful psychotropic drugs such as LSD to unwitting subjects, including military personnel, prisoners, and college students. Many of them suffered serious consequences. One biochemist, Frank Olson, who was secretly slipped a strong dose of LSD at a staff party, suffered a severe psychotic break and died when, for whatever reason, he plummeted from his apartment window to the pavement below. Such revelations came to light in 1975 during hearings by the congressional Church Committee (Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities) and the presidential Rockefeller Commission. These investigations were hindered by CIA Director Richard Helms who in 1973 had ordered the MK-ULTRA files destroyed.
Operation Mockingbird: This was a CIA media control program exposed by the Church Committee in 1975. It revealed the CIA's efforts from the 1950s through the 1970s to pay well-known foreign and domestic journalists from "reputable" media agencies such as the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Newsweek, the Miami Herald, the New York Times, the New York Herald Tribune, Miami News, and CBS, among others, to publish CIA propaganda, manipulating the news by planting stories in domestic and foreign news outlets. During the hearings, Senator Church asked an agency representative, "Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?" The speaker eyed his lawyer then replied, "This I think gets into the details, Mr. Chairman, that I'd like to get into in executive session." In other words, he didn't want to admit the truth publicly. He gave the same response when asked if the CIA planted stories with the major wire services United Press International (UPI) and the Associated Press (AP). According to Alex Constantine's book, Mockingbird: The Subversion of The Free Press by the CIA, in the 1950s "some 3,000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts." I'm curious to know what the estimate would be today.
CIA Drug Smuggling: It's no longer a secret that clandestine arms of US Intelligence have profited from running drugs for many years. I first became aware of the issue when a Vietnam veteran claimed he had helped load opium cultivated in Laos onto military transport planes. The opium was turned into heroin and shipped around the world, sometimes in the visceral cavities of dead soldiers. A Hollywood version of these events is portrayed in the film Air America, but the movie is based on historical truth. When the US military presence in Southeast Asia declined and the focus shifted to Central America, cocaine became the new revenue source. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb ran a well-documented three-part series in the San Jose Mercury News called "Dark Alliance," alleging that traffickers with US intelligence ties had marketed the cocaine in Los Angeles it its new and highly addictive form known as "crack," sparking a scourge that claimed the lives and freedom of thousands. One guy I met in Compton who had been arrested for crack possession described the drug this way: "It doesn't really get you high," he said. "You just want more." Webb's allegations were confirmed by an LAPD Narcotics Officer and whistleblower, Michael Ruppert, and the story received additional confirmation from CIA contract pilot Terry Reed, whose story is revealed in his 1994 book Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA. According to Reed, the sale of cocaine was used to finance the Contras in Central America when congressional funding was blocked by the Boland Amendment. He claimed the operation was run out of Mena, Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor. Military cargo planes were flown to Central America with military hardware, he said, then returned to Mena loaded with tons of coke.
I could add to the list, and it would be a long one. The Iran-Contra scandal, Watergate, the FBI's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), the Tuskegee syphilis experiment--there is no shortage of crimes that were planned and committed by two or more people and thus constituted conspiracy. Conspiracies happen, and before any crime is solved it spawns theories. There are people who look at these theories rationally using logic and discernment, and there are others who are illogical, engage in fallacious and emotion-based thinking, jumping to unjustified conclusions based on little or no evidence. The term "conspiracy theorist," however, has been manipulated to suggest only those in the latter category.
The John Kennedy assassination provides a good example of how the term "conspiracy" is misapplied to disparage people who find fault with official versions of major events. After Kennedy was murdered, very few people questioned the Warren Commission's verdict that Lee Oswald had shot the president unassisted, and anyone who challenged that belief was branded a "conspiracy nut (or buff)" unworthy of respect or consideration. 40 years later, a 2003 Gallup poll revealed that 75% of the US population believed there had been a conspiracy to kill JFK.
Apparently a certain portion of the population has a psychological need to protect themselves from unpleasant realities, so it is easier for such people to label others as conspiracy nuts than to assimilate hard but discomforting facts. In the case of the John Kennedy assassination, even a congressional committee, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, concluded in 1979 that there had been a conspiracy to kill John Kennedy. They tried to soften that reality by calling it a "limited conspiracy," as if Oswald's drunken cousin had helped him and didn't involve elements of US Intelligence, but the fact remains that the US government has officially admitted there had been a conspiracy to assassinate Kennedy. "Conspiracy theorists" were finally vindicated, but I've never heard anyone apologize for disparaging their names and questioning their sanity.
"9/11," of course, is the current topic that yields the most accusations of conspiracy nuttiness. Anyone who challenges the 9/11 Commission's conclusions are branded "conspiracy theorists" (or nuts, wackos or kooks) as were their predecessors when JFK was killed.
History repeats itself.
One of the strange truths about the 9/11 affair is that members of the 9/11 Commission also called the event a conspiracy. That alone shows the term is being intentionally manipulated. In the Commission's view, the conspirators were exclusively fanatical Muslims, but somehow that investigative body has been exempt from accusations of conspiracy theorizing even though they called the event a conspiracy. Apparently one must challenge the official version of events to qualify as a "conspiracy theorist."
I asked Jim Marrs, the popular author and critic of various official versions of history, what he considered to be the origin of "conspiracy" as a derogatory term and how it has been manipulated: "The term 'conspiracy theory' was consciously submitted to assets of the CIA back in a document from the 1960s to be used to counter factual information that was continually being made public regarding the Kennedy assassination. From there, these assets, including media personalities, pundits, academics and government officials, expanded the term to become a pejorative for any statements not complying with the Establishment line," Marrs said. "However, its repetitive overuse, plus the fact that the 9/11 attacks obviously involved a conspiracy, today has lessened the impact of the term."
Many critics of the 9/11 Commission report make some valid points, and it's not fair to simply dismiss them as conspiracy theorists when the very people they're countering also claim there was a conspiracy. The only question is simply: whose conspiracy was it?
Even officials tasked with investigating 9/11 knew there was plenty of deception involved. Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, John Farmer, said on page four of his book The Ground Truth, "At some level of government, at some point in time, there was an agreement not to tell the people the truth about what happened." In their book Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission, the two co-chairs of the 9/11 Commission, Lee Hamilton and Thomas Kean, outlined reasons they believe the government established the Commission in a manner that ensured its failure. These reasons included delay in initiating the proceedings, too short a deadline for the scope of the work, insufficient funding, and lack of cooperation by politicians and key government agencies including the Department of Defense, the Federal Aviation Administration, and NORAD. "So there were all kinds of reasons we thought we were set up to fail," the chairmen said.
How much clearer can they be?
Conspiracies exist. They have always existed, and not wanting them to be true does not invalidate their existence. I think it's time we reject the intentional misappropriation of the term "conspiracy" by forces attempting to manipulate public opinion and restore the term to its original and proper meaning. As long as we observe logic and reason, there is no intellectual dishonor in contemplating and discussing conspiracies, and doing so is imperative if we wish to retain our liberty.
Shawn Hamilton is a writing teacher by trade and has taught in both the United States and Taiwan. He authored a recently published book with the satirical title, "Be All You Can Be" (the old US Army recruiting slogan) about an Air Force major who, in the latter part of his life, rejected use of our military as an instrument of US imperialism. He has worked as a capitol reporter in Sacramento for KPFA Radio (Pacifica) and written for various print publications. He received a Project Censored award in 2011 and writes poetry for fun.
Fire Tattoo Parlour
Behind a tattoo parlour is a gang by what I have studied in The Kings Cross Sting.
Appeal for information after fire at tattoo parlour - Chippendale
Wednesday, 17 September 2014 01:16:14 PM
Police are appealing for information after a fire at a tattoo parlour in Chippendale overnight.
At 2.50am (Wednesday 17 September 2014) emergency services were called to Abercrombie Street following reports of a fire.
Police have been told a neighbour woke to the sound of a loud bang and, when he went outside, saw smoke and fire coming from the nearby shopfront.
He grabbed a fire extinguisher and his partner contacted Triple Zero. The neighbour extinguished the small fire prior to police and Fire & Rescue NSW arrival.
The shop suffered minor damage as a result and inquiries into the cause are continuing.
Police are treating the fire as suspicious as a substance, believed to be an accelerant, was located within the premises.
The shop doesn’t have a residential area and no one was inside at the time.
A crime scene has been established and police are urging anyone with any information that could assist to contact them.
Police are urging anyone with information about this incident to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.
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