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The usual dilemma over conspiracy theories. An action or a cover-up is either a conspiracy or a conspiracy theory, depending on which side you’re on.
There is serious censorship being applied in the US, the ‘land of the free’, because the government will not accept criticism, and truth becomes ‘conspiracy theory’.
Paul Craig Roberts, Global Research, posted this at Sott.net.
© Global ResearchWhile we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition.
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps.
For example, online news broadcasts of RT have been equated with conspiracy theories by the New York Times simply because RT reports news and opinions that the New York Times does not report and the US government does not endorse.
In other words, as truth becomes uncomfortable for government and its Ministry of Propaganda, truth is redefined as conspiracy theory, by which is meant an absurd and laughable explanation that we should ignore.
When piles of carefully researched books, released government documents, and testimony of eye witnesses made it clear that Oswald was not President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, the voluminous research, government documents, and verified testimony was dismissed as “conspiracy theory.”
In other words, the truth of the event was unacceptable to the authorities and to the Ministry of Propaganda that represents the interests of authorities.
The purest example of how Americans are shielded from truth is the media’s (including many Internet sites’) response to the large number of professionals who find the official explanation of September 11, 2001, inconsistent with everything they, as experts, know about physics, chemistry, structural engineering, architecture, fires, structural damage, the piloting of airplanes, the security procedures of the United States, NORAD‘s capabilities, air traffic control, airport security, and other matters. These experts, numbering in the thousands, have been shouted down by know-nothings in the media who brand the experts as “conspiracy theorists.”
This despite the fact that the official explanation endorsed by the official media is the most extravagant conspiracy theory in human history.
Let’s take a minute to re-acquaint ourselves with the official explanation, which is not regarded as a conspiracy theory despite the fact that it comprises an amazing conspiracy. The official truth is that a handful of young Muslim Arabs who could not fly airplanes, mainly Saudi Arabians who came neither from Iraq nor from Afghanistan, outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies and all intelligence agencies of US allies including Israel’s Mossad, which is believed to have penetrated every terrorist organization and which carries out assassinations of those whom Mossad marks as terrorists.
In addition to outwitting every intelligence agency of the United States and its allies, the handful of young Saudi Arabians outwitted the National Security Council, the State Department, NORAD, airport security four times in the same hour on the same morning, air traffic control, caused the US Air Force to be unable to launch interceptor aircraft, and caused three well-built steel-structured buildings, including one not hit by an airplane, to fail suddenly in a few seconds as a result of limited structural damage and small, short-lived, low-temperature fires that burned on a few floors.
The Saudi terrorists were even able to confound the laws of physics and cause WTC building seven to collapse at free fall speed for several seconds, a physical impossibility in the absence of explosives used in controlled demolition.
The story that the government and the media have told us amounts to a gigantic conspiracy, really a script for a James Bond film. Yet, anyone who doubts this improbable conspiracy theory is defined into irrelevance by the obedient media.
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A bit of confusion, perhaps deserving clarification, or at least an attempt.
‘That Guy Joe’ offered a comment that can be summarised “So. Don’t believe everything you hear but remember the old saying “just because you are paranoid, doesn’t mean they are not out to get you”.
I checked his web site and he offers arguments basically saying that some conspiracy theories are wrong and that’s ok with me. But he seems to say therefore all conspiracy theories are wrong.
I would just like to say to him that each conspiracy theory and fact need to be assessed for their merit. The last advice you would want would be from politicians, vested interests or organizations with an agenda to discredit a theory without an open mind.
So Joe, your comment didn’t make it here, it would have been better a detailed comment rather than just an indirect referral to your web page, you have my response, Ken. (Apologies to Crystal)
comments like that, if I remember it, really do no good. AJ calls them trolls. No worries
great to see a face with your name Ken
Hi Crystal, I think these comments fairly ok. An encouragement for new input. If found lacking in substance or if negative content, can be controlled.
At last I found a not-too-bad photo, wearing my table tennis top which looks a bit odd, thought it good enough for this purpose.
An improvement over the ‘angry little red man’.
Regards, Ken.
In reply.. My comment about being paranoid was an effort to say that, while I believe some conspiracy throries are untrue and unbelievable, I would have to say that I am not wise enough to say they are all false…
An open mind is a good thing to have and allows us to look at various incidents with out a preconceived idea about what happened.. Much in the way any investication should be carried out..
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