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The Terrorism Issue That Wasn’t Discussed
In the commentary on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the news and infotainment media have predictably framed the discussion by the question of how successful the CIA and the military have been in destroying al Qaeda. Absent from the torrent of opinion and analysis was any mention of how the U.S. military occupation of Muslim lands and wars that continue to kill Muslim civilians fuel jihadist sentiment that will keep the threat of terrorism high for many years to come.
The failure to have that discussion is not an accident. In December 2007, at a conference in Washington, D.C. on al Qaeda, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism Daniel Benjamin offered a laundry list of things the United States could do to reduce the threat from al Qaeda. But he said nothing about the most important thing to be done: pledging to the Islamic world that the United States would pull its military forces out of Afghanistan and Iraq and end its warfare against those in Islamic countries resisting U.S. military presence.
During the coffee break, I asked him whether that item shouldn’t have been on his list. “You’re right,” he answered. And then he added, “But we can’t do that.”
“Why not,” I asked.
“Because,” he said, “we would have to tell the families of the soldiers who have died in those wars that their loved ones died in vain.”
His explanation was obviously bogus. But in agreeing that America’s continuing wars actually increase the risk of terrorism against the United States, Benjamin was merely reflecting the conclusions that the intelligence and counter-terrorism communities had already reached.
The National Intelligence Estimate on “Trends in Global Terrorism” issued in April 2006 concluded that the war in Iraq was “breeding deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim World and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.” It found that “activists identifying themselves as jihadists, although a small percentage of Muslims, are increasing in both number and geographic dispersion.” And in a prophetic warning, it said “the operational threat from self-radicalized cells will grow in importance…particularly abroad but also at home.”
Given the way intelligence assessments get watered down as they ascend the hierarchy of officials, these were remarkably alarming conclusions about the peril that U.S. occupation of Iraq posed to the United States. And that alarm was shared by at least some counter-terrorism officials as well. Robert Grenier, who had been head of the CIA’s Counter-Terrorism Center in 2005-06, was quoted in the July 25, 2007 Los Angeles Times as saying the war “has convinced many Muslims that the United States is the enemy of Islam and is attacking Muslims, and they have become jihadists as a result of their experience in Iraq.”
As the war in Iraq wound down, the U.S. war in Afghanistan -- especially the war being waged by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) -- was generating more hatred for the United States. As JSOC scaled up its “night raids” in Afghanistan, it never got the right person in more than 50 percent of the raids, as even senior commanders in JSOC recently admitted to the Washington Post. That indicated that a very large proportion of those killed and detained were innocent civilians. Not surprisingly, the populations of entire districts and provinces were enraged by those raids.
If there is one place on earth where it is obviously irrational to antagonize the male population on a long-term basis, it is the Pashtun region that straddles Afghanistan and Pakistan, with its tribal culture of honor and revenge for the killing of family and friends.
Meanwhile, after fleeing from Afghanistan to Pakistan in 2001, al Qaeda had rebuilt a large network of Pashtun militants in the Pashtun northwest. As the murdered Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad recounted in Inside Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, President Pervez Musharraf, under pressure from Washington, began in 2003 to use the Pakistani army to try to destroy the remnants of al Qaeda by force with helicopter strikes and ground forces. But instead of crushing al Qaeda, those operations further radicalized the population of those al Qaeda base areas, by convincing them that the Pakistani government and army was merely a tool of U.S. control.
Frustrated by the failure of Musharraf to finish off al Qaeda and by the swift rise of the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Bush administration launched a drone war that killed large numbers of civilians in northwest Pakistan. An opinion survey by New American Foundation in the region last year found that 77 percent believed the real purpose of the U.S. “war on terror” is to “weaken and divide the Muslim world” and to “ensure American domination.” And more than two-thirds of the entire population of Pakistan view the United States as the enemy, not as a friend, according to the Pew Global Attitudes Project.
The CIA and the Bush and Obama administrations understood that drone strikes could never end the threat of terrorist plots in Pakistan, as outgoing CIA Director Michael Hayden had told the incoming President, according to Bob Woodward’s Obama’s Wars. And if the Obama administration didn’t understand then that the drone war was stoking popular anger at the government and the United States, it certainly does now. Former DIrector of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has pointed out that “hatred of America is increasing in Pakistan” because of the drone strikes.
Yet the night raids and the drone strikes continue, as though the risk of widespread and intense anger toward the United States in those countries doesn’t make any difference to the policymakers.
There is only one way to understand this conundrum: there are winners and losers in the “war on terrorism”. Ordinary Americans are clearly the losers, and the institutions and leaders of the military, the Pentagon and the CIA and their political and corporate allies are the winners. They have accumulated enormous resources and power in a collapsing economy and society.
They are not going to do anything about the increased risk to Americans from the hatred their wars have provoked until they are forced to do so by a combination of resistance from people within those countries and an unprecedented rebellion by millions of Americans. It’s long past time to start organizing that rebellion.
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Show AllPorter almost reaches the obvious conclusion, except that the negative impacts to the "losers" are not just the unintended consequences he seems to assume:
The destruction of American civil society is the primary *purpose* of the bogus "war on terror."
A telling comment but only partly right. The 'purpose' is the enrichment of a select few at the expense of not only American civil society but also all others.
The reaction of the US citizens indicates they constitute a society in ethical collapse. Death and destruction may be the only way they will be changed. You can bet the select few know this. So while the US citizen remains in a state of collapse he is safe no matter how much he complains. This is a false safety. The moment he moves to stop that violent rape of other men women and children plain in his sight or even just his own degradation he will be effectively designated as the enemy of the USA and is fair game for the entirely immoral select. He is now.
The USA is in trouble far beyond the understandings of its people.
The large and interesting question is how such a large group of people became so stupid and cowardly? These frank words are unfortunately true. To find the answer is the first step towards the termination of the development of the present carnage that is slowly and presently introducing Armageddon to US citizens.
The answer to the stupidity lies in US language ie in US culture. Premises of 'American' understanding, long held and venerated, have to be examined. US democracy, unity, freedom, prosperity, peace, war, love of neighbour, the 'American' identity, have to be inspected. This is urgent. Not to do so is to be responsible not only for the death of Muslims and others but also for the destruction of the living of, and increasingly the cause for death of, US citizens; men women and children. The longer it takes fro US people to face up to what they are, now clearly and embarrassingly on display to mankind, the more unlikely they will be able to do so without associated carnage in which US people will increasingly, dedicatedly and desperately, stupidly and blindly kill more and more people including US people.
They are on the road now.
This has to be done if the US citizen (amongst all other English speaking communities) is to retain face ( Chinese mianzi) ie any valid reason for being on this earth as a human amongst human beings. To use an 'American' word, what war there is is clearly one for the humanity of US citizens and US citizens are losing this war.
They blame Obama and his milieu; the 'American' Punch and Judy show.
It is an obsessively cruel joke.
I am often amazed at the inability of otherwise intelligent, committed journalists such as Porter--whose work in debunking the bogus "Iranian threat" has been invaluable and among the best--to see the bigger picture when it comes to the US's dubious "War on Terror." He writes:
"Absent from the torrent of opinion and analysis was any mention of how the U.S. military occupation of Muslim lands and wars that continue to kill Muslim civilians fuel jihadist sentiment that will keep the threat of terrorism high for many years to come."
But my dear Mr Porter, that is precisely the point! We need an enemy to keep the ball rolling! This has been common knowledge for over sixty years! And when an enemy is lacking, we create one!
How else are we going to justify the astronomically inflated military budget and the need for oil and the need to protect the most racist state in the world and the fact that we hardly produce anything anymore besides weapons?
Bring 'em on!
Agreed, Clovis. But why doesn't Porter see it too? Probably he does. He just isn't allowed to see it professionally. If he wrote that, the people he needs to talk to wouldn't bother to meet with him anymore.
In 2004 the BBC — not exactly a radical fringe group — produced a documentary, The Power of Nightmares, that showed Al Qaeda was a fiction, much like the "Viet Cong."
Through all the years of the Vietnam War the U.S. Government insisted it was fighting the Cong. Once chased out of the country, it admitted (or at least the Army did) there was never any such organization, that it really didn't know who it was fighting and the name for a fictitious enemy undeground was cooked up by someone at the U.S. Embassy in Saigon.
Yet I still hear Americans, even some who were stationed in Vietnam, speak of the Cong. Maybe just out of habit.
Long after it becomes clear "Al Qaeda" was the name the U.S. State Department gave to a database (not a "training base") of names of Moslems who might be recruited to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan — that there never was any Al Qaeda terrorist group fighting the West — probably Americans will still speak of Al Qaeda, just as they still do of the Viet Cong.
Along with the bogus viet cong, there was no country of south Vietnam. Both were conjured up for propaganda purposes. I met Al Kaiduh and he's pissed at the misspelling of his name. He lives in Idaho, next to Mark Thurman I think. FYI, on a more serious note, JFK didn't refer to south/ north Vietnam, just Vietnam. This was a tell to the MIC that he wasn't buying the bogus country charge and having stopped 6 war in his 3 years, they had no confidence JFK would create war in Vietnam, which the MIC wanted badly. There is a documentary about JFK when then Curtis LeMay General of the Air Force, a truly mad bomber the genius behind the incendiary bombing of Japan, threatened JFK, a veiled threat, that if JFK didn't war against Vietnam his Presidency was precarious.
Having read and responded to Mr. Porter's missive under a different title on Consortiumnews.com, prior to reading the same text here, one is obliged to wonder at the creative enterprise that is thus fostered by electronic diversity. The new title herein has not changed my earlier assessment however (cited below); and I respectfully disagree that successful "rebellion" can be founded on such a partial "analysis", rather it is "sufficient" to attract the interest of the uninformed or not.
"Gareth Porter enunciates a succinct and cogent synopsis of both the underlying cause and aftermath of “9/11″. The closing two paragraphs of his narrative, however, appear to parse what he construes as a “winners and losers” “conundrum” into a mix of ill-defined generalization and rhetorical abstraction, culminating in a call for popular “rebellion”. Any such “rebellion”, should it actually become organized or, more importantly, have a chance for success, would have to be informed by less timid expression of both the depth and degree of political and economic malfeasance at the core of this murderous decade. Sadly, amongst the American citizenry, it is the United States citizens that are more commonly uninformed and misinformed on these matters; and it is their Progressive intellectuals and activists that have yet to understand that continuing to sacrifice unvarnished truth on the alter of political correctness is not the language of honest “rebellion”".
Yes Professor. CLOVIS and BRIAN are muddying the waters. It would satisfy me if they could tell us why.
Further to my point about language, given the present reality it is necessary to agree with Porter and use the word rebellion for any organised resistance. Those altering the established structures of meaning of 'American' English would be rebels in 'America' now. Both Democrats and Republicans have long been 'Americans'. This is a dearly held conceit central to the political reality in the area known as the USA and the establishment of an anti-'American' Party would effectively constitute a rebellion. Massive incidents of civil disobedience would be one of the rebels' tactics. The 'American Way' has without any doubt now been shown to be a destructive, even evil way. The massive and superficially fractious conformity in the name of individualism is a fraud.
I could go on but it is people living in 'America' that must.
All members of the Anti-American Party have to sign an oath to support the core rallying point of the organisation:
"In the beginning is the word and I support the statement that the word AMERICAN in US English has long been used to compromise the humanity of all people other than US citizens living on the continents of the Americas. I will, with great discipline, do all in my physical and intellectual power to correct this and all other conceits now in common use in US English."
This is of course a humorous initiative, as I am not US'n, but then there is nothing wrong with humour.
The funniest part is that the statement is topically valid.
Anyone proposing to raise taxes on the MEGA-RICH are accused by Republican representatives as proposing to raise taxes on AMERICANS. By following this logic, only wealthy persons are americans, and those who are not wealthy are either anti-americans or aliens.
I have to take issue, we also produce prisons, all around the world.
“... we would have to tell the families of the soldiers who have died in those wars that their loved ones died in vain.”
It is the media that broadcasts these lies and washes brains. Silencing the lying machine should be the first step in cleansing the polluted dialog.
Read Dave Foreman's "Confessions of an Eco-warrior" and draw your own conclusion.
The problem with the American media, unlike those of, say, Western Europe is that they don't think and certainly don't analyze, so the nearest they get to the truth is "balance." Get someone to say X and then hunt around to find someone else who will deny X and claim Y. Both will be presented with no attempt to ascertain the truth or even to analyze the likelihood of it's being true. And more unfortunately than that is that the "War onTairr" cowed them all into leaving out even the (admittedly stupid) "Y" and simply quoting (usually anonymous) government sources. This is how news is reported in 3rd world dictatorships and in the old fascist and "communist" states of the 2nd World War era. And in the year of Our Lord 2011 it is firmly enthroned in the "great democracy" of the USA. God help America!
Balance would be an improvement.
It's slanted.
As another columnist pointed out recently: "They died in vain; get over it."
I agree with Clovis. The neo-cons always want permanent war and this has always been the plan. They use 1984 as a how-to manual.
Mr. Porter has started a debate that has been ignored but needs to occur...our democracy and civilian control of the military is being dangerous harmed by the endless 'wars' and assorted military adventures abroad. Bush was wrong and acted in violation of the Constitution as he claimed military powers of a dictator...Obama should be condemned because he has further expanded and institutionalized many, if not all, of Bush's undemocratic self-proclaimed, unconstitutional war, and liberty threatening military and counter-terrorism powers.
The institution of the military, its warmongering generals, its desire for prestige, a mission and indeed empire and its need for a purpose as well as an enemy after the demise of the Soviet Union is as responsible as any other actor for the serious damage endless, undeclared, undemocratic war has caused our democracy. The power of the military in our country needs to be confronted if our democracy is not going to be further damaged...the undemocratic power of the military cannot be fed with dubious, illogical claims from unthinking individuals that in waging endless, highly questionable pseudo-wars the military is "defending our freedom".
Defending freedom requires defending the elements of democracy, the Constitution, when, why and for how long war is waged and keeping powerful, undemocratic institutions like the military in check.
The militaristic, martial, aggressive displays of "force" by police in NYC and D.C. where police in full military combat gear stand ominously on street corners reminds people of life in a police-state not a constitutional democracy where there important limitations on the power of the state. This certainly can't be an effort to make us safer because if a terrorist were determined to attack there are countless targets. But this is beside the point...in reality the threat of terrorism is very low. Very few Americans, outside of warzones, have died of terrorist attacks since 9-11.
The fascist displays of force seems to be about keeping the public in a state of fear where the power and bloated budgets attained by the "authorities" in recent years in not questioned and to the gullible seems justified. The most identifiable result of these pervasive "counter-terrorism surveillance" is unconstitutional surveillance of minority religious groups and 1st and 4th amendment violations of protesters and peace activists...all in addition to police harassment of Americans who are deemed "suspicious" because they acted like civilians and photographed a bridge or the Statue of Liberty.
We need to safeguard our rights, Constitution and way of life from the authoritarian impulse which is now common in many police departments and the "Homeland Security Department".
The public should see the full cost of war, gravely injured and dead young men and women, while at the same time hearing a full debate over the often ambiguous and dubious justifications for continuing the incredibly costly war in Afghanistan.
People opposed to very questionable war and militarism often shudder when they hear members of the public and politicians say to active duty members of the military..."Thank you for your sacrifice", or "Thank you for your service". This is due to the fact that war's justifications coming from power hungry politicians and often warmongering uniformed military leaders are misleading and ambiguous at best and based on outright untruths and lies at worst. Simply put, our fellow citizens' (who are temporarily in military uniform) service and "sacrifice" have been wasted and were in vain.
These facts will not change when we avoid the real debate about war as we offer soldiers (and ourselves) misleading, shallow and cheap platitudes about "honoring" soldiers....the truth is the American people want less war, militarism, and needless deaths and injury of their brothers, sisters, family members and neighbors.
“Because,” he said, “we would have to tell the families of the soldiers who have died in those wars that their loved ones died in vain.”
this is a justification for continuing so many armed conflicts, including I suspect, the Hatfields and McCoys
real reason to continue wars?
money?
Porter knows that an enemy is necessary to fuel popular support for the imperial wars. He also knows that many bureaucrats in Washington don't quite get it. I think in some ways his article is intended to stimulate critical analysis by the same bureaucrats in D.C. so that they may eventually connect the dots instead of spewing out such nonsense as... "they would have died in vain" or my favorite..."they hate our freedom".
Hell, I hate our 'freedom'. Because it's only an illusion.
Wars 12 time zones away - fighting for my freedom? What a bunch of crap.
From the Masters who wrote the playbook:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
Joseph Goebbels, MiniProp for Hitler’s Third Reich
1897-1945
"Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same for any country."
Herman Goering to Gustave Gilbert at Nuremberg, 18 April, 1946
It is now gone beyond 9/11 "smoke and mirrors". We have serious professional architects and engineers who have issued their final report on what took down the three World Trade Center buildings on 9/11, and it wasn't planes, as the government has been telling us. It is time to formally charge, arrest and bring to trial members of NIST, of the 9/11 Commission, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfield, Condoleezza Rice, George Dubya, and scores of others for their complicit involvement in the perpetration and coverup of 9/11.
http://www.ae911truth.org/
Get the DVD, 9/11 Explosive Evidence, Experts Speak Out. And look at the facts; see the NIST reports and see the pictures that contradict them. They are all exposed.
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-09-07/
9/11 conspiracy theorists please read the above and think hard about it. You are really a scourge on useful debate, have perverted the minds of an ever gullible public and are doing a disservice to your country.
I am an admirer of the American people who I think have been criminally abused by their politicians starting with Ronald Reagan and his deregulation of the financial industry that set the stage for the Global economic meltdown. In fact the rest of the world has also been victims of the US State's insane politics as has President Obama. Now there's a conspiracy theory for you - let's make the first half white American president the fall guy for the biggest cock-up of modern times since WW2.
Compared to Canada and Britain both American political parties are extremely right wing with the Republicans in my opinion indecipherable from Fascists.
I've been expecting Americans to start shooting any time now. I recall fondly a friends statement that, "I need to bear arms in order to defend myself against my government". Never a truer word was spoken in jest I thought but no, he meant it!
"9/11 conspiracy theorists please read the above and think hard about it. You are really a scourge on useful debate, have perverted the minds of an ever gullible public and are doing a disservice to your country."
I couldn't agree more. The kooks who believe the official Bush-Cheney-Zelikow conspiracy theory are anti-science, anti-truth, anti-intellectual and anti-democratic. Their "useful debate" consists almost entirely of ad hominem attacks, straw man arguments, pop psychology and blind faith in dominant institutions. They have perverted the minds of a gullible public, and are not only doing a profound disservice to Americans but people around the world.
harriet and durrutrix are working very hard to demonize and/or ridicule anyone who is skeptical of the official reports of 9/ll.
I read harriet's link and found her expert's testimony to be very weak with lots of holes.
If someone is not willing to face and embrace the truth, no matter what it is, then one is just lost.
Donnalou-- no argument about harriethedgehog.
But I suggest that you re-read Durrutix's 6:35pm comment-- assuming you didn't stop reading after "I couldn't agree more." the first time around.
Here's a nifty little video by James Corbett entitled 9/11: A Conspiracy Theory, currently going viral.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the (official) 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98&feature=player_embedded
It's incredible so many people bought into the official fairy tale. It is literally absurd.
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Why not have the discussion that everything the U.S. has done since the inception of the 'war on terror' - and for nearly its entire history of expansion and empire - absolutely fits the definition of 'terrorism' - that is if terrorism is the threat and/or use of violence to further political/economic/religious/ideological goals.
Every fucking person living in fear, or who has died as a result of our imperial wars - as well as every person facing joblessness and/or homelessness in the U.S. is a victim of terror. Every word spewed from the fawning corporate media is terrorism if it is used to frighten people into giving up more of their money and rights to the corporatocracy.
If we were consistent we would recognize that what the 'mafia' has done to unions in the U.S., through racketeering and extortion is nearly exactly the same thing being done by the banks (in which the Fed Res is institutionalized skimming/shylocking) to the entire world. The IMF and WTO make the mafia look like pikers - that is till you realize that organized crime has serviced empires for thousands of years - often with a stipend from government itself. They certainly have provided 'plausible deniability' for acts done in service to governments which government cannot be seen to have had a hand in - similar to Al Qaeda.
American support for Israeli occupation of and war crimes in Palestine has traditionally been an equally potent fuel for Islamic retaliation ("terrorism").
(parenthesis: the USA media are currently erasing the actual history of yet another "Ugly American" event: America has no right to celebrate the restoration of democracy in Chile, because it was American copper interests and the CIA that installed the Pinochet dictatorship in 1973, and helped murder tens of thousands of democracy-minded Chileans)
Not only was power of al queda a myth generated to justify the military actions in muslim lands, the myth of Osama being a live threat after 2001 was fueled by "messages" from Osama, none of which were ever authenticated. Even the CIA closed down its committee to find OBL a few years after 9/11.
Operation "Geronimo" should have been named operation "shooting holes in a ghost".
Terrorism against the planet is the basis of the global economy. Find another way to pollute the Earth, and you can work that into a morally bankrupt fortune. It has been thus throughout our lives, so we accept what is as normal. It isn't. Burning gasoline is extinctionistic for the environmental, economic and social imbalances it generates. War is simply a symptom of imbalance, resulting from imposed scarcity of an unique and essential agricultural resource.
Stop blaming "them" and start a new regional economy, based in heirloom seeds, inclusive of Cannabis "hemp" agriculture. If your socially conditioned, knee-jerk reflex to dismiss what I write from here on hasn't kicked-in yet, as the result of my use of -- and proper capitalization of -- the word Cannabis (ref: CBE Style Manual) then there may be hope for our species yet. See www.shastashares.com for a template you can apply in your area before "the shift hits the fan."
We don't need revolution -- we need revaluation. Money based in toxic, "Gaiacidal" resources requires mass denial, on our (everyone's) part, to work. The predictable, inevitable result is extinction. The wars, the terrorism, the compounding, integrated problems are all the result of people not having what they need to survive.
If we revalue toxics as negatives, economically unacceptable and undesirable; and Cannabis agriculture manufacture and trade, as the overwhelming, sustainable, uniquely essential positive resource that it truly is, then we will have to give up our mass denial of the stark reality that we've been totally duped and manipulated by chemically-based economics and the infrastructure of thinking that has protected from rational, objective observation, for all of our lives.
'Time' is the limiting factor in the equation of survival. Every spring planting season that passes is gone forever. How bad do things have to get before all solutions are considered? Expansion of the arable base remineralization of depleted soils, phytoremediation of our poisoned planet, and a restructuring of governance based on 21st Century technological capabilities needs to happen immediately. If Jefferson had a laptop our government would look a lot different, and we wouldn't be locked into a state of perpetual war.
Right now "we have nothing to fear but the atmosphere itself``` If we don't solve climate change, it won't matter what else we do. The priority is to shield the planet from increasing UV-B radiation and to de-contaminate the environment using "Gaiatherapeutic" Cannabis-based agricultural rotations, organic, non-GMO agricultural methods and technologies, and increased efficiency through regional production of biofuels and vegetable protein, paper, biodegradable plastics and building materials, safe&effective herbal therapeutics and preventative nutrition.
Cannabis is unique and essential for three reasons: Ecologically (to produce atmospheric monoterpenes to stop global broiling and sequester atmospheric carbon); Nutritionally (the only common seed with three essential fatty acids, and all of the essential amino acids, and the world's best available source of organic vegetable protein); industrially (only crop that produces complete nutrition and sustainable biofuels from the same harvest).
Viva la révaluacion!
Google "global broiling" to find out more about the most proximate and ubiquitous threat to our existence on this planet.
Don't worry.
Get busy.
terror 's purpose is revenge. Why Did US revenged? Hate. Why did US hated?
Because of US's foreign policy.I remember Palestine child rejoiced when 9/11 attack? Why did they rejoiced?You knew.
Oh Norton 17, I saw the dancing Israelis in NY within view of the destruction. Dancing.
"“Because,” he said, “we would have to tell the families of the soldiers who have died in those wars that their loved ones died in vain.”"
I think the intelligent ones are already aware of that fact. Ask the Tillmans.
The issue that was not discussed if Nazi-like ideology of Islamists who had targeted World Trade Center, Pentagon and US Congress on 9/11!
The mea culpa crowd on this board should read history of middle east and the role of the Nazi WWII criminal, Amin al Husseyni (Mufti of Jerusalem) on inflaming this Jihadists' ideology prior to creation of Israel.
If you do not understand this history you are bound to repeat it as Matrew Kunze points out in his book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11 ...
The foolish mea culpa apologists for Islamic terror are like those in Europe who thought that Chamberlain had to negotiate with Hitler to avoid WWII.
YOU don't understand history or deliberately take a bias position. Amin el-Husseini was a Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader in the British Mandate of Palestine. From as early as 1920, in order to secure the independence of Palestine as an Arab state he actively opposed Zionism. If it wasn't for the annexation of Palestine by the WW2 'winners' under the whining of the Zionist council there would have been no 9/11. Zionism is the plague of this planet and has hijacked Judaism.
see the video and full transcript from this link:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/jacobs-response-broke-curse-native-american-cannibals
Go to this link for the video: please forward this to people who care!
American Home grown Taliban arrive: the advent of Rigtheous right wing Republican Terrorism has arrived.
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Jacobs: 'The Response' Broke The Curse Of Native American Cannibals
Submitted by Brian Tashman on September 12, 2011 - 5:01pm
"Jacobs claims that lands are cursed with violence because they were previously inhabited by Native Americans who “did blood sacrifice” and “were cannibals and they ate people.”
Fortunately, Jacobs maintains, Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s The Response prayer rally in Houston broke the curse and “the land is starting to rejoice, you see, because of that prayer.”
This concept of curses left by Native Americans has a large foothold in the New Apostolic Reformation, and today Bruce Wilson reported that NAR figures Chuck Pierce, John Benefiel, Tom Schlueter and Jay Swallow recently participated in an event in Teas that involved “smashing of Native American art objects” in order to “divorce and tear down the principalities of Baal, Asherah and Leviathan.” Like Benefiel and Swallow, Jacobs was an official endorser of The Response."
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The destruction of Native art and artifacts is virtually identical to the Taliban rule. It is a hate crime in this country and should be prosecuted...we, as anthropologists, must get the word out that this is absolutely despicable and intolerable in America. The American public across the nation should be outraged and demand criminal actions for this hate crime and deliberate destruction of Native artifacts.
Hmmm
The project for the New American (Israeli) Century called for the US to attack all of Israel's enemies in the Middle East. We can't possibly pull out of the Middle East yet. After all we still haven't destroyed Iran or Syria. We have managed to completely destroy the entire infrastructure of the rest however. Not to worry you can rest assured that Israel will allow the US Military to leave the Middle East just as soon as the job of securing the entire Middle East and all its gas, oil, water and minerals for Israel is complete. In fact once that is done if we don't leave, Israel will order the US government via its agents in Congress and the White House to get out.
People the profits garnered by the oil and military industrial complexes was the carrot used to bribe the people at the highest levels necessary to allow the mass murder of over 2.5 Million Muslims and the destruction of half a dozen countries for the greater good of Israel. 9-11 was merely the "Pearl Harbor type event" spelled out in the Project for a New American Century that was used as the excuse to start the ball rolling. Think all this is nonsense? Look back over the last 10 years since 9-11. Only ONE country has actually benefited from 9-11 and the phony war on terror that ensued. That country was and is Israel. Israel had the means, motive opportunity and in fact directly benefited from 9-11. Massive amounts of physical evidence directly tie Israel to 9-11. From the Israeli "security" company that provided security at all 3 airports used on 9-11. To the dancing Israelis that had video set up before the attacks and later announced on TV that they had been sent to "document" the event. To the curious fact that over 4000 people that normally worked in the towers didn't show up that day. That included its owner and family that had breakfast in the towers every day except 9-11. Then look at the laundry list of Jewish Americans most of whom have Israeli passports that were directly involved before and after in the cover up of the attack. From Chertoff, to the federal judges, to mediators the list is endless. And of course after 9-11 look at all the Jewish "Americans" in the federal government particularly in the White House and key committees in Congress that were not just cheerleaders of the wars but actively engaged in falsifying intelligence data and public perception about terrorism in general and Muslims in particular. Of course looking at the concentration of ownership and control of the US media shows that it is controlled by less than a dozen men. All of whom are Jewish and all of whom are zionists. And to those who say Israel would never do that I say bullsh*t. Just look at what Israel has doing and is continuing to do to the Palestinian people.
Yes, they died in vain...You win, we lose. Now we can go home.