Kyle Hence to Discuss Alten's 9/11 Novel "The Shell Game" on Dynamic Duo, GCN Network 4, 4-6 pm CT Today

Kyle Hence, maker of 9/11 Press for Truth and (I gather) an informal member of Steve Alten's publicity team, will join me on Dynamic Duo today 4 - 6 pm CT, http://www.gcnlive.com Network 4. We will be discussing Alten's terrific new novel The Shell Game, which (like Kyle's film) could do a lot to push 9/11 truth into the mainstream.

To help get this information to a wider audience, please comment on George Washington's post about Alten at Op Ed News: http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5324 Here is my comment:

Alten novel The Shell Game is a major cultural event

During my defense of my MA thesis on Philip K. Dick back in 1991, a committee member asked: Can we really take seriously an author who wrote in such obvious haste, and whose style reeks of garden-variety pulp fiction? I answered that Dick used his pulp style brilliantly. That cracked up the committee--but it was true. Dick was the most important American writer of the second half of the twentieth century, because he saw more deeply than most what America was becoming, and conveyed his vision effectively despite (or because of) the limits of his chosen popular fiction genre.

Steve Alten's novel The Shell Game, like Dick's work, effectively conveys a powerful and important message in the guise of popular fiction. It is a very well-constructed book--a gripping thriller that takes all the crucial issues that the mainstream media has suppressed during the past six years and serves them up in a form that will be hard for even hardcore "I don't believe in conspiracy theories" people to resist. The kind of folks who find it hard to pick up the books of David Griffin and Webster Tarpley and Mike Ruppert will find The Shell Game hard to put down.

Those who disagree with Alten's take on various matters will still find the book a must-read and a conversation starter. Frankly, I am one of those people. I have serious reservations about the way the book uncritically embraces Islamophobic stereotypes. But I recognize that The Shell Game will start many conversations that America desperately needs to have, including ones about the pervasive Islamophobia in mainstream discourse, so I can get over my disgust at the Islamophobic passages and recognize that Alten's novel is an important, potentially monumental event that deserves to be read and discussed by everyone--ESPECIALLY those of us who find something in it to disagree with.

Note: I will be interviewing Kyle Hence, a member of Alten's informal publicity team, later today, Friday 12/28/07, 4-6 pm CT on Dyamic Duo, http://www.gcnlive.com Network 4 Then I will interview Alten himself Tuesday, 1/22 9-11 pm on 9/11 and Empire Radio, http://www.wtprn.com

We should all pre-order this book on Amazon.com

Just to repeat my comment from the last post mentioning this book....

Pre-ordering this book on amazon.com will help with its sales and publicity. Of course I hope that the book will be a worthwhile read, so it's not a waste of money! Anyhow, if enough people pre-order it, it will show up nicely in the rankings and be more visible to the mainstream. So ... please help get the suggestion out.

http://www.amazon.com/Shell-Game-Steve-Alten/dp/1599550946

(disclaimer)

I should note that I have no vested interest in Amazon.com, and this is not a referral link. I don't particularly like them as a company. But the pre-orders do tend to have some clout in the publishing world, which is why I have pre-ordered there, and encourage others to do the same.

I just pre-ordered from Amazon

Ditto

Ditto

I ordered one copy at amazon, and another at bn.com

I ordered one copy at amazon, and another at bn.com, to give as a gift to a family member who wouldn't consider 9/11 being an inside job.

This action novel gives all of us an opportunity to give an "action novel" as a gift to all those friends and relatives that the 9/11 truth research was too overwhelming for.

I plan to purchase additional copies at both amazon.com and bn.com to give to other friends and family.

I got a Barnes & Noble gift card for Christmas

and will be using it towards purchasing this book.

Just so you know, it's hitting the shelves at Barnes & Noble tomorrow.

I have mine already reserved. :)

George Washington's Blog Interviews "The Shell Game" NY Times Be

George Washington's Blog Interviews "The Shell Game" NY Times Best Selling Author

Urge everyone to visit the GW interview at the OpEdNews link below to post comments, so that this post will go to the top of OpEdNews and expose progressives who may not be aware of 9/11 truth issues to this truth novel.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5324

Interview with New York Times Bestselling Author Steve Alten

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New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten is releasing a novel January 22nd which addresses the 9/11 stand down, the injection of false radar blips into air traffic controllers' screens, PNAC, the 9/11 Commission whitewash, the Anthrax attacks, and related issues.

Written in the exciting, cloak-and-dagger style of Tom Clancy, the novel -- The Shell Game -- has a shot at educating a large segment of the American public who would otherwise remain in the dark about some aspects of 9/11.

Alten is well-aware of media censorship of 9/11 truth (for example, he agrees with this analysis, he also sent me an advance copy of the book), and is trying to break through the media blockade using his resume as bestselling author to spread his message.

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=5324

Rats!

Supposedly the orders for the book at Barnes & Noble have not come in yet.

I reserved a copy anyway.

EDIT 12-30-07:

Thank you for your order. Due to an unexpected delay, this part of your order is now scheduled to arrive 01/24/2008:
1 copy of Shell Game, 1599550946

If you need to change this order in any way, please call us at the phone number below and reference the order number above. If we do not hear from you, we will assume that you still want to purchase this merchandise and will notify you when it arrives. Please accept our apologies for the delay.

Sincerely,
The Booksellers at Barnes & Noble Booksellers

MP3 Audio Clip - Kevin Barrett & Kyle Hence

Friday December 28, 2007
Kyle Hence, Maker of 9/11 Press For Truth, Discusses Steve Alten's 9/11 Novel "The Shell Game" With Kevin Barrett On GCN Radio

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Thanks for posting this AJF!

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Dear AlexJonesFan (above poster), Alex Should Interview Steve Al

Dear AlexJonesFan (above poster), Alex Should Interview "The Shell Game" author, Steve Alten.

If anyone has contacts with Alex Jones, he really needs to interview Steve Alten on his national program (on Sunday's I think).

Everyone with contacts please urge Alex Jones to do an interview on "The Shell Game."

Good Idea

Alex suggests that listeners contact aaron@infowars.com with tips/suggestions.

Just Received this email from Bill Douglas

Dear DFW 9-11 Truth,

PLEASE HELP SPREAD THE WORD, on a mass 9/11 Truth coalition effort.
See below to learn of this coalition effort and the explosive
opportunity we have to expand 9/11 truth into mainstream media!!

Yours in truth & justice,
Bill Douglas, National 911Visibility Project

David Ray Griffin, Kevin Ryan, 911Truth.org, and a MASS 9/11 TRUTH
COALITION SPREADING THE WORD ON A NEW [9/11 TRUTH] NOVEL, "BY A NEW
YORK TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR"
We, the undersigned, urge everyone seeking truth, peace and justice,
to not only purchase this new novel, "The Shell Game," but also to
email out this appeal to all you know who seek truth, peace and
justice in the form of 9/11 truth coming out. In turn, please urge
them to do the same with all their contacts and urge them to do the
same. We can break 9/11 truth open if we work together and focus on
this project for the next 30 days.

Yours in 9/11 truth, peace and justice,

Bill Douglas, 911 Visibility Project
Co-Signatories:
Janice Matthews - 911Truth.org Executive Director
David Ray Griffin - 9/11 Researcher and Author
Kevin Ryan -former UL chemistry laboratory manager & NIST report
whistle blower
Dr. Robert Bowman - Rtd. Colonel US Air Force, 9/11 truth leader;
thepatriots. us/
Cosmos - TruthAction. org "The Eleventh Day of Every Month" Campaign
Carol Brouillet - Organizer of 1st National 9/11 Truth Conference in
San Francisco
Mike Berger - "Improbable Collapse" Documentary Producer - 911Truth
Spokesman
David Kubiak - 911Truth.org Board member
Kevin Barrett – Muslim/Christian/ Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth
URGENT 9/11 Truth Action: New York Times Best Selling Author's 9/11
Truth Novel

Dear 9/11 Truth Seekers Demanding a New 9/11 Investigation,

Today we have an amazing opportunity, if we work together, to launch
9/11 truth into a new mainstream American paradigm.

In the formation of the global 9/11 truth movement there have been
landmark moments that catapulted this truth movement forward:

* Mike Ruppert's early work with copvcia.com and his crucial early
research (which got me in this)
* The first national truth conference, formed by Carol Brouillet/Ken
Jenkins in San Francisco
* The formation of 911Truth.org after that conference
* The dissemination of the "Stop the 9/11 Cover Up" signs to groups
nationwide (911visibility)
* David Ray Griffin's earth shaking work
* Professor Steven Jones physics research
* Kevin Ryan's blowing the whistle on inaccuracies of UL's report to
NIST
* The release of Loose Change, which exploded the movement
* The "Eleventh Day of Every Month" TruthAction. org Campaign
* The release of PatriotsQuestion911 .org
* We Are Change's national television exposure on 9/11 truth issues
* The release of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth,
ae911truth.org

Today, we have an opportunity to explode 9/11 truth issues into the
mainstream mind, in the form of a soon to be released popular action
fiction novel by New York Times Best Selling Novelist, Steve Alten
(stevealten. com). If we can get 30,000 copies of this profound
novel purchased in the first month of its release, we can drive it
to #1 on the New York Times best seller list. The 9/11 truth
movement can do this, if we ALL push for it to happen.

Why is this such an incredible opportunity?

1) It is written by a New York Times Best Selling novelist - He's
established an "adopt-a-writer" program, that has connected him with
hundreds of english departments/ teachers in high schools all across
America and donated many copies of his book to US troops overseas,
with a huge audience there.

2) Americans love action fiction (which "The Shell Game" definitely
is)

3) The publisher has already purchased prime display space in the
front of Barnes & Noble and Borders stores for its release

4) The author's webmaster is now creating a website for the book's
release that will include major 9/11 truth websites, youtube video
links, and recommended non-fiction reading on 9/11 (DRG, Ruppert,
etc.)

We, the undersigned, urge everyone seeking truth, peace and justice,
to not only purchase this new novel, "The Shell Game," but also to
email out this appeal to all you know who seek truth, peace and
justice in the form of 9/11 truth coming out. In turn, please urge
them to do the same with all their contacts and urge them to do the
same. We can break 9/11 truth open if we work together and focus on
this project for the next 30 days.

Yours in 9/11 truth, peace and justice,

Bill Douglas, 911 Visibility Project
Co-Signatories:
Janice Matthews - 911Truth.org Executive Director
David Ray Griffin - 9/11 Researcher and Author
Kevin Ryan -former UL chemistry laboratory manager & NIST report
whistle blower
Dr. Robert Bowman - Rtd. Colonel US Air Force, 9/11 truth leader;
thepatriots. us/
Cosmos - TruthAction. org "The Eleventh Day of Every Month" Campaign
Carol Brouillet - Organizer of 1st National 9/11 Truth Conference in
San Francisco
Mike Berger - "Improbable Collapse" Documentary Producer - 911Truth
Spokesman
David Kubiak - 911Truth.org Board member
Kevin Barrett – Muslim/Christian/ Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth
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Below is a review of "The Shell Game" by Janice Matthews,
911Truth.org Executive Director:
"Let me assure you, my friends, this is an incredible page-turner. ..
a fantastic story that pulls you into the personal lives and deaths
of the characters, while at the same time incorporating 9/11 truth
and world history, especially relating to oil and Saudi Arabia, that
most mainstream fiction readers just won't get from any other books.
No wonder Steve is a #1 best-selling author--I was not be able to
put this novel down -- it definitely kept me up late into the night!"

This is not an acceptable tradeoff.

Do you realize how much 9/11 'Truth' the PTB are willing to let slip, especially of the ISI porkchop transfer variety, if only the myth of international Islamic terrorism can be preserved?

wtcdemolition.com/blog

I've previewed the book. It is a 9/11 TRUTH novel

THOSE WHO SEEK 9/11 TRUTH AND A REAL 9/11 INVESTIGATION WILL BE ELECTRIFIED BY THIS BOOK!

This novel will do worlds of good for advancing the desire in a much larger segment of the public for a REAL 9/11 investigation. Although it is a novel it is peppered with REAL quotes from 9/11 researchers that leads the reader to understand that 9/11 was not what they thought it was.

The novel's website will soon offer 9/11 truth links to educate its fiction readers on a wide array of 9/11 truth issues, and connect them to activist organizations.

TWO EXCERPTS FROM "THE SHELL GAME":

“Where was the military? General Richard Myers [Acting Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] and Mike Snyder [NORAD spokesperson] both said no military jets were sent up until after the strike on the Pentagon [9:38]. Yet American Airlines Flight 11 had shown two of the standard signs of hijacking at 8:15. This means that procedures that usually result in interception within ten or so minutes had not been carried out in eighty minutes. That enormous delay suggested that a stand-down order, canceling standard procedures, must have been given.”

-- Professor David Ray Griffin,
The 9/11 Commission’s Incredible Tales

“Over the course of two years [independent journalist Daniel] Hopsicker not only added information to what was known about [the 9/11 hijackers] military training, he established that some of the hijackers associated with wealthy Floridians had both intelligence and Bush family connections. Hopsicker also confirmed that within hours after the attacks, Florida Governor Jeb Bush had a military C-130 Hercules transport fly into the Venice [Florida] airport where a hastily loaded rental truck, filled with the records of Huffman Aviation – where Atta, Alshehri, and others had trained – was driven directly into the plane. The C-130 immediately took off for parts unknown.”

-- Michael C. Ruppert, from Crossing the Rubicon: The
Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

THIS NOVEL IS AN EXTRAORDINARY OPPORTUNITY TO ENFLAME MILLIONS OF READERS, WHO WOULD NEVER PICK UP A FLYER OR WATCH A DOCUMENTARY. URGE ALL TO GET IT.

I hope this book helps

We are running out of time. 9/11 happened seven years ago and Bushwacker won't be president much longer. I would sure hate to see 9/11/2001 go the way of 11/22/1963. I don't need to tell you all that the public has a very short memory and if the truth about 9/11 surfaces a few years from now I fear no one will do anything about it. They will refer to it as ancient history. We just can't let that happen.

We can keep up the momentum

by tapping into the Ron Paul phenomenon. Here is my most recent contribution to 9/11 truth outside of the normal 9/11 truth sphere:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/usa/2007/12/creating_a_ron_paulvalanche.html...

While I agree with most everything that has been posted here in the comments section of this article about Ron Paul's reputation as a stand-up politician and the true hope for at least America's near future, there is something else I would like to add. I am a 9/11 truth activist who typically blogs at 911blogger.com under the name Mekt_Ranzz and who has been a Ron Paul supporter pretty much since he first put in his bid for the presidential race of 2008. While Ron Paul has made clear his position on 9/11 truth -- which is that he does not believe 9/11 was a conspiracy involving the United States government -- he still has overwhelming support from the 9/11 truth movement. Why? Because his kind of presidency would provide transparent government which would ensure that if the evidence supported it (and I hate to tell you all, but it most certainly does) a new truly independent investigation into 9/11 would be in order. So you see, if my example says anything it's that people don't have to agree with Ron Paul on every issue in order to qualify him for president. What ultimately matters most is having the freedom to make our own destiny through a constitutionally-sized government that is accountable to, and not in the business of keeping secrets from, the people. And in a Ron Paul presidency, we would certainly have that.

9/11 truth ends war.

Excelent Post

I couldn't agree more. Even though Ron Paul isn't backing 9/11 truth, if he does become president I think he would be open to a new investigation into the happenings on 9/11/2001.

Plus . . .

amend the Constitution to put prayer in the schools, present the "scientific facts" on creationism, and also amend the Constitution so that children born from immigrants in the US are not allowed to become citizens -- sounds great everyone! Plus women will lose their right to have an abortion! Wonderful! I can't wait! Just like Bush and Reagan, any support for family planning, contraception or anything other way to stop nonstop population explosion will end! Whoopie!

"This is the real reason the collectivist Left hates religion: Churches as institutions compete with the state for the people's allegiance, and many devout people put their faith in God before their faith in the state. Knowing this, the secularists wage an ongoing war against religion, chipping away bit by bit at our nation's Christian heritage. Christmas itself may soon be a casualty of that war.”
Christmas in Secular America
Ron Paul, December 29, 2003, house.gov
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2003/tst122903.htm

Gee, I don't hate religion, nor do I wage war on it, nor is Christmas at risk of ever being a "casualty" with the amount of spending it rakes in for US businesses, I just don't want to live in a Christian Theocracy or amend the Constitution to make it fit ONE religion.

Ron Paul says, "The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance. "

This is just wrong.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention religion, except in exclusionary terms. The words "Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, and God" are never mentioned in the Constitution-- not once.
Our Founding Fathers Were Not Christians
July 2000, freethought.mbdojo.com
http://freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html

People who are talking about what a great candidate Paul is are ignoring a lot of problems. It's not a bed of roses and he openly says, over and over, that 9/11 was only about government ineptitude, nothing more.

He never mentions the families.

That's wrong.

I don't suppose this is the

I don't suppose this is the place to get in a protracted argument about whether Paul is the best presidential candidate regarding all the issues with which a president deals. I think the point of the earlier messages was that (1) like them or not, many Ron Paul activists are people whom the 9/11 truth movement can work with, and (2) though far from perfect on the subject, a Ron Paul in the White House is our best bet among the viable candidates to create an environment favorable for the advance of 9/11 truth.

Okay, I can't resist. You've got many things about Paul wrong. He doesn't support amending the Constitution to allow prayer in schools. (He does, though, as do many scholars, believe there was no legal basis for the federal courts interfering in the education policies, including prayers, in the states.) He's an evolutionist. (Are you confusing him with Huckabee there?) He does oppose automatic citizenship for the "anchor babies" of illegal immigrants. (Do you mean to say that illegals should be rewarded for sneaking into the U.S. so as to have babies to be then granted automatic citizenship?) As with school prayer, he seeks to return policy to the states, in accordance with the Constitution. Nor does the Constitution authorize the federal government to support contraception and "family planning," or invade foreign countries or have a standing covert operations agency like the CIA without a declaration of war. (And if you fear a "population explosion," why don't you oppose easy immigration policies, the overwhelming source of U.S. population growth?) Of course, if the federal government had stuck to its size and scope as authorized by the Constitution that's supposed to bind it, there's no way there would've been an operation like 9/11 in the first place.

Your Paul quote about the Founding Fathers, which you cite dismissively, is actually correct in its understanding. The Founding Fathers wrote about this extensively. (A good overview of the subject can be found in *The Theme Is Freedom*, by M. Stanton Evans [Regnery, 1994].) The idea of not elaborating on religion in the text of the Constitution was that there was to be no favored denomination, but rather a small federal government within which various denominations would be free to flourish in the lives of their voluntary supporters.

That sits well with me. By the way, I've been an agnostic for over 35 years.

Let me refine that further

Frankly -- and I'm an avid Ron Paul supporter myself -- I'm not at all confident that he'd call for a new investigation. If he's in denial about 9/11, I don't see why he'd want to be calling for the government to investigate itself.

But I do think he and his appointive workers would stop actively covering up the incriminating evidence the way the Bush administration does -- and the way the Clinton/Obama/Edwards/Richardson/Romney/Giuliani/McCain/Thompson cluster of Beltway insider types doubtless have every intention of continuing to do.

In other words, the 9/11 truth movement would remain on its own, but would no longer face determined obstruction by the presidency.

MP3 Audio Clip - Ron Paul and Paul Garmin

Thursday June 21, 2007
Ron Paul Talks About Government Run Investigations Such As the 9/11

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(sounds like he knows the score . . . let him play the game and get elected . . . their MO is to paint him with the crazy brush)

Ron Paul says 9/11 was ineptness and NOT "an Inside Job"

Ron Paul says 9/11 was ineptness and NOT "an Inside Job"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g08WCZTc6VU

He specifically says that it was not inside job, LIHOP or anything but ineptness. You can't get any more clear than this.

He says "that's why I think investigations are always a cover-up of government ineptness."

I've already explained the importance of electing Ron Paul

to the presidency. That you keep pretending otherwise is really getting annoying.

Ron Paul Supporters - TELL OTHER RON PAUL SUPPORTERS ABOUT THIS

Ron Paul Supporters - TELL OTHER RON PAUL SUPPORTERS ABOUT THIS 9/11 TRUTH NOVEL. Most Ron Paul supporters appear to know that we've been lied to about 9/11. PLEASE, anyone with contacts in the Ron Paul network, URGE THEM TO GET THIS NOVEL - AND TO URGE OTHERS TOO.

We, the undersigned, urge everyone seeking truth, peace and justice, to not only purchase this new novel, "The Shell Game," but also to email out this appeal to all you know who seek truth, peace and justice in the form of 9/11 truth coming out. In turn, please urge them to do the same with all their contacts and urge them to do the same. We can break 9/11 truth open if we work together and focus on this project for the next 30 days.

Yours in 9/11 truth, peace and justice,

Bill Douglas, 911 Visibility Project
Co-Signatories:
Janice Matthews - 911Truth.org Executive Director
David Ray Griffin - 9/11 Researcher and Author
Kevin Ryan -former UL chemistry laboratory manager & NIST report whistle blower
Dr. Robert Bowman - Rtd. Colonel US Air Force, 9/11 truth leader; thepatriots.us/
Cosmos - TruthAction.org "The Eleventh Day of Every Month" Campaign
Carol Brouillet - Organizer of 1st National 9/11 Truth Conference in San Francisco
Mike Berger - "Improbable Collapse" Documentary Producer - 911Truth Spokesman
David Kubiak - 911Truth.org Board member
Kevin Barrett – Muslim/Christian/Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth

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Below is a review of "The Shell Game" by Janice Matthews, 911Truth.org Executive Director:
"Let me assure you, my friends, this is an incredible page-turner... a fantastic story that pulls you into the personal lives and deaths of the characters, while at the same time incorporating 9/11 truth and world history, especially relating to oil and Saudi Arabia, that most mainstream fiction readers just won't get from any other books. No wonder Steve is a #1 best-selling author--I was not be able to put this novel down -- it definitely kept me up late into the night!"

'al Qaeda did 9/11' - Ron Paul

Just the facts on Paul. There are some decent votes that Paul has made, but at what cost? Here is the cost we are asked to pay:

* Property rights are the foundation of all rights. (Sep 2007)

* Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)

* Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)

* Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)

* Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer

* Voted NO on increasing AMTRAK funding by adding $214M to $900M. (Jun 2006)

* Unlimited campaign contributions; with full disclosure. (Dec 2000)

* Voted NO on requiring lobbyist disclosure of bundled donations. (May 2007)

* Voted NO on granting Washington DC an Electoral vote & vote in Congress. (Apr 2007)

* Voted YES on building a fence along the Mexican border. (Sep 2006)

* Voted NO on increasing minimum wage to $7.25. (Jan 2007)

* Voted NO on restricting employer interference in union organizing. (Mar 2007)

* Voted YES on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends. (Dec 2005)

* Voted YES on eliminating the Estate Tax ("death tax"). (Apr 2001)

* Voted NO on strengthening the Social Security Lockbox. (May 1999)

* Voted YES on making the Bush tax cuts permanent. (Apr 2002)

* Abolish the federal Department of Education. (Dec 2000)

* 'Take marching orders from Constitution; not from al Qaeda.' (Sep 2007)

* Present scientific facts that support creationism. (Sep 2007)

* Tax-credited programs for Christian schooling. (Sep 2007)

* Disallow lawsuits that stop public officials invoking God. (Sep 2007)

* Socialized medicine won't work; nor managed care. (Oct 2007)

* Oppose mandated health insurance and universal coverage. (Sep 2007)

* Voted YES on continuing military recruitment on college campuses. (Feb 2005)

* Voted YES on deploying SDI. (Mar 1999)

* Allow young people to get out of the system. (Oct 2007)

* Personal retirement accounts allow investing in one's future. (Sep 2007)

* Federal government won't keep its entitlement promises. (Mar 2007)

* Rated 30% by the ARA, indicating an anti-senior voting record. (Dec 2003)

Republican Representative (TX-14): Ron Paul on the Issues
http://activote.ontheissues.org/AVA/Ron_Paul.htm

Thanks for clearing that up

You're right: Ron Paul doesn't support the agenda of those on the left who prefer a powerful, centralized federal government.

We should have our own poll here

to determine how many 9/11 truth activists actually support Ron Paul over say Dennis Kucinich or Mike Gravel (or even any of the other candidates, for that matter).

Reprehensor: 911Blogger.com should participate in Newsvine's ElectionVine poll not only to participate in the larger spectrum of presidential polls but also to get 911Blogger.com better noticed by the mainstream media:

http://elections.newsvine.com/

http://elections.newsvine.com/electionwidget_unregistered

Folks, I urge all to STAY FOCUSED for the next 30 days on "The S

Folks, I urge all to STAY FOCUSED for the next 30 days on "The Shell Game,"s success.

As you all know, the media had betrayed us again and again. So, we have little opportunity to send this important 9/11 truth novel to the #1 spot WHERE IT CANNOT BE IGNORED.

We are the media in this new world. Those hungering for 9/11 truth now number in the millions, but we are not organized and have no corporate media access.

Therefore, it is UP TO US, to send info out about "The Shell Game," and post it on every blog, newsgroup, etc. etc. that we can find.

I urge all to stay focused and be creative. We have a 30 day window to blast this 9/11 truth novel to the top of the charts and break records, by simply making sure the 9/11 truth seekers throughout the country know about it.

This will take some work on all our parts, but if we can get this novel's author on the national talk shows demanding a new 9/11 investigation . . . we will have moved mountains into reaching the broad mainstream America.

This novel also, according to pre-reviews, has movie potential. A blockbuster well funded highly publicized 9/11 truth movie, would be profoundly beneficial to our nation and the world. This is within our grasp. Again, the 9/11 truth movement itself is now large enough to make this novel break sales records, and put it in a position to be a mainstream film release.

BUT ONLY, if we can all focus for the next 30 days, and use our creativity, and our computers, and the internet in every way necessary to get the word out on this historic 9/11 truth novel. BY A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLING NOVELIST.

WE'VE GOT A GLIMMER OF POSSIBILITY HERE, LET'S RIDE THIS HORSE FOR ALL ITS WORTH !!

right

A poll of anonymous internet users on blogger, each of whom could have any number of different personalities on here?

Sounds real.

You don't have to participate

if you don't want to.

Oh, please

I think this is divisive. We ought to be focusing our energies and credibility to advance 9/11 truth. Supporters of Paul, Kucinich, Gravel, McKinney etc. are all fertile camps for recruiting 9/11 truth supporters and researchers. It's a coalition enterprise. We ought to encourage all candidate supporters to seek recruits for 9/11 truth in those campaigns. At the same time, let's not get sidetracked and dispirited trying to convert one another ideologically, an undertaking in its own right far beyond the scope of 9/11 truth. Let's work together, despite our ideological differences, to advance 9/11 truth in all arenas.

Ron Paul supporters, please quit making gratuitous plugs for his candidacy. Anti-Paul leftists, please quit using this forum for gratuitous snipes against Paul's domestic agenda.

9/11 truth is a non-partisan issue and should remain that way

Ideally, any discussion here about presidential candidates will be about how to insert 9/11 truth into various campaigns or specific comments candidates have made and precise questions said candidates should be asked.

After we are successful in leveraging 9/11 truth to restore our republic and reinvigorate our political heritage, we can engage each other in a highly spirited debate over the role of government (federal, state and local) in modern society.

Until then, let's keep our eyes on the prize, brothers and sisters.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

(I think some shills have unfairly voted this, and other blogs,

downward. Please take note.)

I agree

I concluded the same thing when I saw some very productive and encouraging comments voted down.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions.

The BELOW post is WAY OFF BASE, "The Shell Game" is a GREAT 9/11

The BELOW post is WAY OFF BASE, "The Shell Game" is a GREAT 9/11 truth novel.

The only mention in the below pdf to Saudis is that they have a corrupt govt. that is unresponsive to their people. If you have seen the movie "Syrianna" written by a former CIA agent, you'll know that the US/CIA has systematically murdered leaders who wanted to do right by their people, and bolstered into power those who sold out to corporate interests. THIS IS A FACT.

I've read "The Shell Game," as have many 9/11 truth leaders who are working to get it out there, and we know that this is a poweful 9/11 truth book, that can reach millions and enflame them into joining our demands for a new 9/11 investigation.

The below referred pdf spoke of Saudis training at US military bases. THIS IS FACT, but it doesn't point to Saudi's being the perpetrators of 9/11, it points to the US govt. being involved in creating PATSIES that they could then blame 9/11 on.

"The Shell Game" is the best opportunity for 9/11 truth to get blown wide open in the mainstream public mind. The author of it has done a great service to 9/11 truth, and to the 9/11 truth movement.

SPREAD THE WORD!! Urge all you can to get "The Shell Game."

Bill Douglas, National 911Visibility Project Founder

Yup.

I think the same thing (that there is a conspiracy to vote down many of the comments here).

no doubt. look at all of

no doubt. look at all of Barrett's threads. all voted down, regardless of topic thanks to the self appointed disinfo police force.

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA

Regarding Dr. Barrett and 911blogger

There are those who consistently vote all of his blogs down because of his continuing relationship with Jim Fetzer and defense of Webster Tarpley, both of whom have fallen out of favor with significant numbers of regular blogger readers (for not insignificant reasons, I might add).

While I do understand their point of view, I don't vote down any blog based solely on the author.

I will leave you to your own opinions on the relevant issues/causes for this unfortunate situation.

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

I read the excerpt, it was

I read the excerpt, it was almost a silly, stupid full endorsement of neocon/zionist myths regarding terrorists and the middle east.

While there are claims that it will expose the neocons, I have yet to see this. I hope there is no shielding of their co conspirators, the pro Israel Zionists.

I don't get the big deal at all. Frankly, the Islamophobic parts were revolting because they were exactly the attitudes responsible for the countless murder of people in Iraq and Afghanistan by US armed forces.

http://www.stevealten.com/Shell_excerpt.pdf

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US Marines for 911 Truth-http://truthaction.org/?q=node/16
The WTC was destroyed by controlled demo-http://www.ae911truth.

The above post is WAY OFF BASE, "The Shell Game" is a GREAT 9/11

The above post is WAY OFF BASE, "The Shell Game" is a GREAT 9/11 truth novel.

The only mention in the above pdf to Saudis is that they have a corrupt govt. that is unresponsive to their people. If you have seen the movie "Syrianna" written by a former CIA agent, you'll know that the US/CIA has systematically murdered leaders who wanted to do right by their people, and bolstered into power those who sold out to corporate interests. THIS IS A FACT.

I've read "The Shell Game," as have many 9/11 truth leaders who are working to get it out there, and we know that this is a poweful 9/11 truth book, that can reach millions and enflame them into joining our demands for a new 9/11 investigation.

The above referred pdf spoke of Saudis training at US military bases. THIS IS FACT, but it doesn't point to Saudi's being the perpetrators of 9/11, it points to the US govt. being involved in creating PATSIES that they could then blame 9/11 on.

"The Shell Game" is the best opportunity for 9/11 truth to get blown wide open in the mainstream public mind. The author of it has done a great service to 9/11 truth, and to the 9/11 truth movement.

SPREAD THE WORD!! Urge all you can to get "The Shell Game."

Bill Douglas, National 911Visibility Project Founder

The greatest 9/11 researchers are part of "The Shell Games" page

Although "The Shell Game" is an action fiction, it is peppered with REAL quotes from real 9/11 researchers, leading the reader to the knowing that the official 9/11 myth is a lie, and a new investigation is absolutely necessary.

TWO POWERFUL EXCERPTS FROM "THE SHELL GAME":

“Where was the military? General Richard Myers [Acting Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] and Mike Snyder [NORAD spokesperson] both said no military jets were sent up until after the strike on the Pentagon [9:38]. Yet American Airlines Flight 11 had shown two of the standard signs of hijacking at 8:15. This means that procedures that usually result in interception within ten or so minutes had not been carried out in eighty minutes. That enormous delay suggested that a stand-down order, canceling standard procedures, must have been given.”

-- Professor David Ray Griffin,
The 9/11 Commission’s Incredible Tales

“Over the course of two years [independent journalist Daniel] Hopsicker not only added information to what was known about [the 9/11 hijackers] military training, he established that some of the hijackers associated with wealthy Floridians had both intelligence and Bush family connections. Hopsicker also confirmed that within hours after the attacks, Florida Governor Jeb Bush had a military C-130 Hercules transport fly into the Venice [Florida] airport where a hastily loaded rental truck, filled with the records of Huffman Aviation – where Atta, Alshehri, and others had trained – was driven directly into the plane. The C-130 immediately took off for parts unknown.”

-- Michael C. Ruppert, from Crossing the Rubicon: The
Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

Go ahead and keep pushing it...

I also read the excerpt, and I just can't wait to read the rest of the story and hear more from the blonde spook lady with 'taut breasts' who fears that an 'asshole in a turban' wants to noook her family, because the Iranians want to 'annihilate us' (not sure who exactly is included) in the same way the Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews.

I'm not going to condemn the whole novel before I read it, but it's not looking good. You assume that the reader will be galvanized into seeking a new investigation -- perhaps, but I think there is a good chance the reader will merely be entertained, vaguely believe that we were lied to by a Republican administration (what else is new), and have further solidified in her mind the specter of international jihadi terrorists who want to kill us. We'll see.

wtcdemolition.com/blog

"The Shell Game" is peppered with REAL 9/11 research !!

Anyone who REALLY wants 9/11 truth to explode into the mainstream would want this book to explode in popularity.

It is written brilliantly in that it is an action fiction novel, HOWEVER, I say again, because some seem to not hear what I've said again and again. The novel has chapter lead ins that are from REAL 9/11 truth researchers, David Ray Griffin, Mike Ruppert, etc. etc.

How ANYONE who truly wants 9/11 truth into the mainstream mind can dismiss this historic novel . . . I find hard to fathom.

"The Shell Game," is a book that can change America and the world by reaching millions of readers with the message that FALSE FLAG TERRORISM HAPPENS, and through the chapter lead ins of real 9/11 researchers, shows the reader in no uncertain terms 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB !!

The above reader does his readers a disservice

When I read a preview copy of "The Shell Game," what I found so brilliant is that it starts from the persepctive of characters who are part of the neo-con perspective . . . and then it takes them on a journey of awakening that dis-assembles the myths around 9/11 that mainstream media has pumped into people's minds.

"The Shell Game" can take a brainwashed mainstream media victim . . . and lead them to the realization that 9/11 was an inside job.

Those who I call "9/11 fundamentalists" are only happy if a novel would scream, "9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!" on the cover.

Intelligent, thinking people know that that would diminish the readership of the novel, and no one would ever get to the parts of "David Ray Griffin and Mike Ruppert's 9/11 RESEARCH."

ONLY THE 9/11 CHOIR WOULD PICK UP A BOOK LIKE THAT. We'd get no where.

Only someone who DOES NOT WANT 9/11 TRUTH TO OUT, would demand that of an action fiction author.

The 9/11 truth movement has been given a GIFT, in the fact that a New York Times best selling fiction author, has taken up the cause of 9/11 truth.

It is unbelievable to me that anyone truly interested in 9/11 truth outting, would spit in the face of that gift, without even reading the entire book.

Most of the major 9/11 truth movement leaders have expressed the desire to find vast readership for "The Shell Game," because they want the truth out.

"The Shell Game" delivers BIG TIME in exposing 9/11 truth research the mainstream media has worked hard to stop from coming out.

Hi Bill,

Hi Bill,

At this stage of 9-11 truth gaining traction in the public, I perceive a concerted effort by the perps to divert the blame to certain parties. The blame is heaped on AlQuaeda -the orginal patsies- and now I believe to some of the Neo-Cons, US gov't agencies and foreign governments (except Israel) for their incompetence and maybe complicity. We already saw how the CIA alone was asked to take the fall for the Iraq intelligence even though the Neocons and Zionists have been actively pushing for the invasion since the PNAC document and even earlier. I do not want to endorse this novel because it can very well be used as a vehicle by the Zionists to push all the blame on their partners, the Neocons. Creating a popular myth that puts the blame on the Neocons alone gives the Zionists a dangerous leverage and allows them to ask for more favors from the Neocons who currently hold the positions of power in the US government - that is in addition to shielding the Zionists from their involvement in 9-11.

That's just my opinion though.

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The WTC was destroyed by controlled demo-http://www.ae911truth.

What is it called when you mix fact and fiction?

DISINFORMATION

Never a good idea when you are trying to persuade a skeptical public to consider a controversial point of view.

From what little I have heard and read about this book, I think it will only make our work that much harder.

The 9/11 truth movement is 100% fact based, let's keep it that way.

I reserve the right to alter my opinion after I have read the entire book, but it doesn't look like a road we want to go down to me.

Let's keep our eyes on the prize, brothers and sisters, and make 2008 the Year of TRUTH!

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

I was concerned about that too

My concern was that fact and fiction would get mixed up - muddying the waters on the subject of 9/11 and making it easier for people to write off our cause as fiction. This is well handled in the book with the fiction of the story taking place in the future but referring back to facts about 9/11 as a basis. At the end of the book there is a section which clearly lays out what in the book is fact, with references.

I get the sense that Alten has really stepped forward and chosen to use the skills that he has to do what he can to expose 9/11. I was very skeptical but I'm thinking that this could indeed be a very powerful educational tool.

The Eleventh Day of Every Month

You've just made me...

Want to read it.


Who Is? Archives

some discussion....

http://wtcdemolition.com/blog/node/575#new

"The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA

This is not a Ron Paul forum!

I am glad to see some people are taking the time to counter the Ron Paul myth/fraud. The utopian "libertarians" who flock to sites like this in order to promote him are one of the main reasons -- along with the no-planers, and LaRouchies, and other shills -- that the tens of millions of progressive voters avoid 9/11 truth.

THIS IS A 9/11 TRUTH FORUM, NOT A GOD DAMNED RON PAUL FORUM!!!

Strawman

that was a whopper!

MP3 Audio Clip - Ron Paul

Thursday December 27, 2007
Ron Paul Tells Fox News That The U.S. Should Halt Aid To Pakistan Following Bhutto Assassination

* source = http://www.foxnews.com/yourworld/
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More MP3 Audio Clips >

I like Ron Paul, Kucinich, and Cynthia McKinney . . .and Gravel

BUT LET'S STAY FOCUSED FOLKS !!!

We, as a 9/11 truth movement have about 30 days to utilize the best opportunity we've had to break 9/11 truth into the mainstream.

"The Shell Game" by NY Times best selling novelist, Steve Alten, is our opportunity, our golden opportunity, to get the mainstream talking about 9/11 truth.

The 9/11 truth movement is large enough to drive this novel up to #1. HOWEVER, IT WILL TAKE FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS TO DO SO.

EVERYONE . . . PLEASE . . . USE ALL YOUR CREATIVE ENERGY AND PRECIOUS TIME FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS TO SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THE UPCOMING BLOCK BUSTER RELEASE OF "THE SHELL GAME," THE MOST IMPORTANT ACTION THRILLER ANYONE CAN READ!!

Ron Paul

I'd like to support Ronny. But it turns out he doesn't even believe in evolution...

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2007/12/ron_paul_rejects_evolution.php

You've gotta wonder a bit about the guy. And he's always disowned 9/11 Truth - so why is he here ?

McKinney and Dennis seem to make a lot more sense.

Thanks!

I can add that to my new essay . . . along with his views about how we are a "Christian nation." It's so wrong for people to talk about "freedom" but try to force their religion into the Constitution and our schools and educations.

Myra99:

Quiet or it's off with your head!!!

No-planers? Give me a break!

I don't think most pro-Ron Paul posters came here just to shill for his candidacy. I certainly didn't. I was a supporter of 9/11 truth long before Ron Paul began talking of running in the '08 election. Any comments about him I've made here have only been in direct response to others' comments.

I propose a truce. Ron Paul supporters, please quit plugging his candidacy. If you want to discuss his candidacy in such terms as, what Ron Paul has said or done that pertains to 9/11, or how we can bring more Ron Paul supporters into the 9/11 movement, good. But let's not create animosities and otherwise disrupt this website by posting Ron Paul advocacy.

Conversely, those who oppose Ron Paul's political career should stop posting against him here (unless it directly pertains to 9/11 and 9/11 fallout). This puts pressure on his supporters here to defend him, which isn't what this website is for.

Can't we just put our ideologies out of this -- and I recognize that many here have a lifetime of ideological commitments behind them -- and focus on the discovery and maximized dissemination of 9/11 truth?

RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008!!!!!!

heh. :)

Alten's 100% Political Correctness Isn't the Issue

9/11 truth movement folks need to stop insisting that their comrades be 100% perfect on everything. Pick a truther--I can find something to disagree with him or her about. But we shouldn't let these disagreements become wedge issues that fracture our movement and destroy our effectiveness.

I'm as sick of Islamophobia as anyone. I had to pull my kids out of school, I get death threats, blah blah blah. But I wouldn't dream of trashing Alten or his book because of this. It's far too important for that. If you want the USA to get over its Islamophobia, help push this book to the top of the bestseller lists--because it's 9/11 truth that will ultimately solve the Islamophobia problem, and Alten's book could help push 9/11 truth over the top.

Amen! Thank you Kevin Barrett

Kevin Barrett is yet another 9/11 truth movement hero, who recognizes that "The Shell Game" is a golden and fleeting opportunity to shift mainstream opinion, and perhaps stop another false flag 9/11 type inside job.

Ditto

Kevin walks the walk.

What political correctness?

This is not about political correctness or asking 'our comrades' to agree with us on everything. This is about one crucial aspect of 9/11 Truth -- the War on Terra -- and whether this book will help or hinder its dismantlement. 9/11 Truth may be the best antidote to Islamophobia, but *a new investigation* in and of itself -- and especially along LIHOP lines -- may only shore Islamophobia up. It may be fuel on the fire of the present holocaust. Sorry -- but for Truthers who take this as a global issue and who are concerned more with the million Arabs, Muslims, and others who have died in the 9/11 Wars than with the family members of 3000 people who died on US soil on 9/11, that is NOT ACCEPTABLE.

I also just cringe when I hear someone talking about 'the oldest' or 'the most important' members of the truth movement, as Douglas does. Their approval is no guarantee of nada, as many of us know. We may or may not agree with the agendas of some of the long-standing members of the Truth Movement, some of whom, it is now clear, have been busy since Day One with a little shell game of their own, emphasizing certain readings of history and helping to obscure others. Descending on a group of hardcore critical thinkers with a plea to help promote this book before it is available to be read was silly.

Asking us to join you in pimping this book -- err, pushing it to the top of a bestseller's list BEFORE we have the opportunity to read it AND GIVEN the crap in the excerpt that is available online was not a wise decision. The more Bill Douglas foams at the mouth about how mandatory our enthusiasm is, the less I believe it. There is NO WAY IN HELL I will promote this book until I can read it, based on what I know so far.

wtcdemolition.com/blog

The above post is grossly misinformed

If the above poster wants to believe Bill Douglas is flawed, I'm fine with that. BUT, the above poster hasn't read the book. Many 9/11 truth movement leaders HAVE.

His assertion "The Shell Game" is LIHOP, is absolutely catagorically FALSE.

"The Shell Game," although a novel has an explicitely MIHOP narrative.

Folks, if you want 9/11 truth to come out, WORK TO MAKE IT COME OUT. Steve Alten did!!

The above poster is only interested in discrediting everyone else, apparently, without reading the damn book before he does it.

"The Shell Game" will be a tremendous help to the goal of creating a mass movement for a new 9/11 investigation.

I will reiterate

that unlike these legions of 9/11 truth movement leaders, I have not read the whole book. I have only had available the nineteen-page excerpt, which features such gems as a character describing the Nazis using human fat to fuel crematoria in the camps. I'm ASSUMING Alten had a choice about what to put online as a freebie.

It's delusional to come here (and to various local groups) and demand that we support the book before it is available AND to shut up about misgivings when that kind of material is chosen as a representative chapter.

wtcdemolition.com/blog

I'll work by purchasing the book and reading it

and deciding for myself whether it is good. That will help push it to the top of the best seller list.

By the way, please consider purchasing from an independent bookseller. Some reasons are stated here:

http://www.elliottbaybook.com/about/chains.jsp

Here's a database of independents:

http://www.bookweb.org/aba/booksense/storeSearch.do?giftcardOnly=yes

In terms of 9/11 truth, I find that my local independents have a greater variety of books about 9/11 -- another reason to support them. I don't know if all stores do preorders, but if you agree with my suggestion, please check it out.

Here is a review from B&N:

Here is a review from B&N: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9781...

In 2012, 'centrist conservative' David McKuin is the President of the United States. However, much of the secretive centralize controls gained after 9/11 are gone following the excesses of his predecessor President Bush. Thus they cannot do what they feel is needed to keep Americans safe take out Iran and its radical fundamentalist leadership and insure reelection of an at war president. --- However, some of his Neocon advisors believe a 9/11 sting needs to occur so once again they can centralize power and provide security to the American people. They concoct a plan to have the Feds nuke an American city and hold Iran culpable. Energy guru Ace Futrell wants to know who killed his wife as he thinks it was government agents. He soon uncovers the scheme to use a nuclear strike to attack Iran and to strengthen their power he plans to expose this horrific American tragedy. --- Except for those who believe President Bush directed the 9/11 attack, this thriller is over the stratosphere of plausibility sinister Feds planning to nuke an American city and believing they can not only hide the attack but blame Iran seems unreal in spite of some recent slam dunk CIA revelations. Still conspiracy buffs will appreciate the exciting action-packed thriller especially those on the extreme right as Hilary was the latest Democrat to lose to a sound bite conservative while the Middle East country building contingent find neo con work with reengineering Iran starting with blowing up an American city. --- HK

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WTC 9-11-2001 was a Neocon-Zionist conspiracy-http://wtcdemolition.com/blog/node/384
US Marines for 911 Truth-http://truthaction.org/?q=node/16
The WTC was destroyed by controlled demo-http://www.ae911truth.

Reviewer has to be PC to some extent?

The reviewer seems to overlook our government's despicable track record! Gee, let's see, CIA Mind Control experiments, Gulf of Tonkin, Operation Phoenix, USS Liberty, and on and on.....

This government is capable of anything? It's out of control and I hate to fathom what they are capable of?

Wouldn't it be ironic, years later, it's discovered Steve Fossett saw too much in the Nevada desert and someone on the inside whistleblows at a war crimes trial Fossett was "removed." And, it was at that time the missing nuke was planted in downtown Portland, OR during the last Military Drill before the "dirty bomb" (obfuscation of an actual low yield blast) went off?

All that would be needed as a propellent for this strastospheric fiction would be tthe cadaverous Chertoff admitting to a drill at the precise moment of the terrorist act ala Peter Power. And, Cheney without direct eye contact reminding Americans of his greatest fear!

Reality is much stranger than fiction, especially, these past several years!

...don't believe them!

Which is why we should all tell everyone about "The Shell Game."

Which is why we should all tell everyone about "The Shell Game." So that average joe action fiction reader will "stop believing the govt. lies."

Justifying 9/11?

http://www.stevealten.com/shell_game.htm

". . . Meanwhile, Iran’s pursuit of nuclear energy will yield enriched uranium within five years -- uranium that can be used to manufacture suitcase nukes.

"The United States’ military is too drained to invade Iran, and a preemptive strike is out of the question...unless a nuclear detonation were to occur on in American city -- the enriched uranium traced back to Iran. A U.S. reprisal would strike a death-blow against radical Islam, quell the insurgent violence in Iraq...and yield more oil. Yes, the cost is unthinkable – but if we sit back and do nothing then one day a dozen suitcase bombs could go off in a dozen American cities – bringing with it anarchy and the collapse of Western civilization."

So this book offers a justification for 9/11 -- peak oil -- and a justification for another 9/11 -- Iran's pursuit of nuclear energy that will bring the "anarchy and the collapse of Western civilization." This appears to be the fall back I always expected -- we did it for the good of the country. I assume that many of the perpetrators genuinely believed that. I think they should be allowed to offer this in mitigation at sentencing.

Goethe said "We are never deceived, we deceive ourselves." The biggest obstacle to 9/11 truth is that people don't want to know. People want a nice justification for wars over control of resources. An argument can be made that this book provides that justification -- read it and dismiss it, and still feel good about yourself.

I'm not saying this is Alten's purpose. I will read the book and recommend it to others if I like it.

Here's an earlier example of justification, in Three Days of the Condor:

Higgins: It's simple economics. Today it's oil, right? In ten or fifteen years, food. Plutonium. Maybe even sooner. Now, what do you think the people are gonna want us to do then?
Joe Turner: Ask them?
Higgins: Not now - then! Ask 'em when they're running out. Ask 'em when there's no heat in their homes and they're cold. Ask 'em when their engines stop. Ask 'em when people who have never known hunger start going hungry. You wanna know something? They won't want us to ask 'em. They'll just want us to get it for 'em!

When you read the entire book you'll see it does the opposite

When you read the entire book you'll see it does the opposite of what you are saying.

It is an indictment of the neocon vision.

What makes the novel brilliant is that it begins from the neocon mass media perspective, and then exposes it as a lie and manipulation.

Let's not punish this author for being brilliant . . . especially without reading the book.

This book is the consumate 9/11 truth book, for the mass public.