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The Clancy book was "Debt of Honor." And when I read it, I thought that Clancy's ultimate focus was less on the airplane crashing into the Capitol during the State of the Union speech, and more on the idea of a "clean sweep" to rid the country of the cesspool that Congress, the Supreme Court, and the Administrative branch had become, the better to be able to start over again. At the time, I thought, "That's the only way this mess in Washington will ever be repaired." Nevertheless, the seed of airplane-as-weapon was surely planted then.

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Apr 7, 2022·edited Apr 7, 2022

Huge Clancy fan (not his co-written books though) - the scenario above occurred to me right after 9/11 happened. Yet there was seldom a mention of it.

Side note - the circumstances around Clancy's relatively young death (66?) seem murky too.

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Do you seriously still believe that those buildings came down because of planes? I'm amazed.

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This is why objective truths can not be ignored. Twitter the Elite media create a false Narrative and destroy lives and economy. Just look what Fauci Twitter and the Elite media has done in the Past 2 years now they think they can push everything under the rug with WW3. All of a sudden we are supposed to believe Putin is Bad if the elite media covered Putin 20 years ago they would see that he has only got more dangerous. It's the Adults who allowed Putin to get as far as he has this also goes for Uncle Joey he is no Leader he doesn't even know his way to the Bathroom.

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Wow. 2 years ago I would have said you were nuts. Now? Well it is all making sense.

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Apr 7, 2022·edited Apr 7, 2022

I'm really envious of my dad. He grew up in a time when he trusted the government and believed the government was making wise, sensible decisions for the benefit of the nation.

In one generation, my father listens to his daughter--me--who doesn't trust the government and who doesn't believe the government acts for the benefit of its citizens.

Dad realizes now he's been naive; but I don't think I'm too cynical.

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Everything is spelled out very clearly in the last chapter of RFK’s book. One of the most important things I’ve ever read. I had learned some of the names earlier on through my personal origins research but there was always a lingering doubt as to whether I’d gone down a rabbit hole especially related to potential CIA involvement. I don’t know if I speak for others in the community but I really wish Alex would opine on this instead of teasing it along for the uninitiated.

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RFK Jr’s book makes yours look like Hop on Pop

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Bioweapons don't work very well - ask the Japanese who used them in China... I have a chapter coving that in "COVIDsteria: An Oral History of America's Great Reset": WARNING SIGNS: Maj. Robert J. Wayne, Former Military Biological Weapons Expert

- https://covidsteria.substack.com/p/covidsteria-warning-signs-biological-weapons

THIS HOWEVER IS AN INTERESTING PIECE:

- Denninger, Karl (February 13, 2021). "The West's Obituary." The Market Ticker.

https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241577

"Ordinary vaccines we have lots of experience with, such as measles, the flu shot, mumps and similar do not carry a risk beyond that of natural infection and cannot be weaponized because they produce the exact same antibody response as a natural infection. If you have had either the measles or the shot you will have antibodies but an antibody test will not tell you which since they're not distinguishable.

I suspected from the start that due to the way these mRNA shots work -- they are not actually a vaccine at all in that they do not "mimic" natural infection but rather cause your cells to produce the spike protein that the virus has and that elicits an immune response -- that the antibodies produced by those jabs would be distinct and distinguishable from natural infection.

All of the so-called "experts" who worked to develop these and the firms involved knew damn well this was the case when they started developing them -- and did it anyway.

Now we have hard, scientific confirmation of that and it's very bad.

In fact it's potentially nation-ending bad.

An adversary that develops a virus (e.g. another modified/mutated bat virus, for example) that selectively targets ADE in people with the specific antibodies from vaccination, which are distinct from natural infection, could easily kill every single person who was vaccinated and not harm or only make mildly sick those who either had Covid-19 naturally or who were uninfected and unvaccinated.

The nightmare scenario that has always driven bioweapons research is the push to discover some genetically distinct means of targeting a bioweapon such that it only kills your adversary and leaves everyone else alone. It's even worse for your adversary if your side gets and transmits it but doesn't get sick. This has never been found despite diligent effort in the past; all attempts to find such a distinct vulnerability have failed, showing reactivity across the board and thus strongly suggesting that if that "thing" was completed and got out it would kill indiscriminately. That you cannot stop a virus from circulating (even isolated islands eventually got hit by the 1918 pandemic flu!) means that releasing a virus or bacteria that nobody on "your" side has been sensitized to yet doesn't help because when (not if) the sensitizing agent gets into your population all your people die too.

This has now, for the first time in human history, been changed by the idiotic actions of our governments and pharmaceutical companies in that we are now tagging people for death by the literal millions and they will die if an adversary is able to develop a virus that targets those specific antibodies."

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Stories are powerful, far more powerful than political moderates give them credit for. Harry Potter and Star Wars have been the teachers of ethics (too often, badly) to millennials and zoomers.

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In Clancy's next book, "Rainbow Six," environmentalists create a disease whose main purpose is to scare people into taking a vaccine which will kill them/ spread the disease further...🤔

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Without Remorse was a great Tom Clancy book. What Hollywood did to that amazing story makes me sick. I tried watching that woke, garbage ass movie and had to turn it off after a few minutes. Other than the name, the movie and book have nothing in common. Someone with balls like Clint Eastwood or Mel Gibson should make an actual movie based on the book.

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Lots of good books out there around these subjects however most have plots supporting delivery process rather than anything really new as far as technology. My bet is DARPA, CIA et al have already had their fingers in the pie of published theories well before the printing press rolls.

Just more proof our representatives know very little and care even less about how our tax dollars get spent in the name of Homeland Security by the deep, dark state. America has turned into a sick, corrupt, failing society led by corrupt idiots and the worst part is 90% of the "voters" don't know or care. Pray, plan, prepare and RESIST.

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There is no benefit to being in front of a crisis if you are a politician seeking fame and wealth, or a government wonk working for retirement. Better results can be derived milking the crises in reaction... mostly because the same journalism profession you are attempting to promote is prone to reporting only the sensationalist reaction to the crisis.

Of course this sucks. The idea of politics in this country was that regular people would take time from their regular lives to serve in office and then exit after a term or two to go back to their regular lives. In this model more people would be less likely to be pursuing fame and fortune as a politician and would be more prone to actually solve problems and prevent negative events before they occur. Because less than 10% of people can visualize a future state and 90% are only professional critics of those that do, any leader working on future opportunities and problems will get toasted... will not be popular... until they are long done with their work and history lauds their brilliance.

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Rainbow Six is also interesting.

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In that case then, there’s the unfortunate matter of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, where a pandemic is intentionally caused and a vaccine is employed that is a slow kill version of the original virus…

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a lot fictional ideations chasing the tail of reality here. In June 2001, the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (predecessor org to the Center for Health Security which held event 201) did this wargame, Dark Winter, about an Iraqi smallpox attack on the US (the thinktank was founded by smallpox eradicator Henderson, so their early wargames were all about smallpox attacks). at one moment in the script, major press outlets receive letters threatening attacks of anthrax, plague and smallpox ... just months before the actual anthrax attacks in 2001.

googling suggests the Clancy novel in question came out in 1996, so the Ebola was probably inspired by the 1995 Congo outbreak.

this interplay between biowarfare planning and pandemic events is very interesting. you get the sense of public health-type scientists chasing defence grant funding, by reimagining standard pandemic threats as biowarfare events.

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I'm not as concerned with where the inspiration for a biowarfare state came from as I am with where it went and how congress allowed it. I'm convinced that many of the problems in our republic are rooted in the abdication by congress of its obligations to provide oversight. The executive and judicial branches have accumulated much of the legislative's power and the legislators seem fine with that. But this is exactly why all the partisans go nuts with presidential elections. Presidents ostensibly control the bureaucracy (the most important part of government in terms of how it affects our daily lives) and presidents appoint the judiciary. Congress needs to claw back its power or we're doomed.

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Clancy's earliest books were written by Clancy alone. In a literary world that was woke decades ago, his books were a great exception and the works of a great American patriot who knew the foils of the residents of the Swamp all too well.

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Apr 7, 2022·edited Apr 7, 2022

I worked in WTC 1 103rd-105th Floor for two years until July 2001. Something I found odd even before 9-11 was that all of the Coffee/Doughnut stands that surrounded the WTC complex were manned by Afghanis, many of whom always seemed to be in bad moods. One of them, the guy I used to buy my morning coffee and Boston Creme doughnut from, even looked like bin Laden, who I came to recognize from television news reports after the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. I used to joke with these vendors that they were Mujahadeen looking for a new war. The guy who looked like bin Laden disappeared for a few months in early 2001 and then returned in the summer of that year. He told me he had to go home to take care of some family affairs.

After 9-11 it dawned on me that a lot of these vendors likely had been watching the complex, noting the times of day when people would come to work and perhaps other factors such as traffic patterns and wind flows. I reported all this info to the New York City office of the FBI in the days after 9-11 but never received a return call.

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Sooo, . . . We need Journalists who believe in Journalism?

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Clancy was always a step ahead. Nicaragua, Russia…

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Never a Clancy fan, but kind of curious: did he ever write a book about a demon witch who organized a rolling coup against a duly-elected president consisting of a Russia collusion hoax, two fake impeachments, an insurrection hoax, a bioweapons attack and a hijacked election? Just wonderin’.

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There were no surprises 9/11 and there have been no surprises with covid. All has been announced publicly in advance to those paying attention. Gates, Schwab, Fauci etc. all give advance notice - then everyone is shocked and surprised when what they just predicted is going to happen, happens. Really? Stop with the 'they couldn't possibly mean that'....

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The wealthy have to see far ahead so that they minimize risks and maximize profits, and we have a strong paranoid and cynical thread that runs through American consciousness that does not trust government and believes that the rich and powerful are trying to exploit and destroy others.

"Qui bono" is the question we all want to know the answer to. We don't need masterminds in a vast conspiracy as wealthy people can just be counted on to do what they need to be to save their own skins no matter what happens to others. The JFK assassination was clearly a conspiracy but The NY Times and other major publications cannot afford tell the truth because it would destroy trust in government. The same goes for 9/11, if it was an Israeli plot, the consequences of the truth coming out would shatter trust in government. The same could be said of the pandemic, Fauci saying he didn't want to be found slumped over his desk indicated the political calculus, that there are many people in government who know what is going on and want the psycho gone and his beastly wife.

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At this point I really hope my flat earth friend is right. Then everything will finally make sense.

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My father-in-law was Ex military and when Red October came out, he called some of his contacts who told them many things in the book were too close to the truth of capabilities which is why Tom Clancy was investigated to prove everything he wrote about was open-source information. A retired Admiral he knew shared with him about the reality of many of Clancy's books requiring the intelligence community to tighten up what was made public after that.

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Great quote---"America and the world needs people who believe in journalism as an investigative and analytical undertaking, not a narrative-building one." -Alex Berenson

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The plot of Rainbow Six more closely parallels current events. Don't take the jab:

(Wikipedia): "Henriksen plans to use a bioweapon containing the Shiva virus, a strengthened form of the Ebola virus that had been used by Iran in its biological attack on the U.S. Since people from virtually every country in the world are present at the Olympics, infecting them would ensure the swift worldwide spread of the virus. The resulting epidemic would kill millions, and Horizon would distribute a "vaccine" that actually contains a slow-acting version of the virus itself, which would then kill the rest of the world's population. The "chosen few", having been provided with the real vaccine, would then be allowed to inherit the emptied world, justifying their genocidal actions as "saving the world" from the destructive nature of humanity."

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I've been screaming at every Bush supporter since Condi Rice blurted out that lie that it was the plot of the #1 best selling Debt of Homor.

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https://thehuntfortomclancy.substack.com/ - Highly recommended.

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The biggest cesspool in America is the government. They go to DC and get indoctrinated into the underbelly. How to grift the America taxpayer is the first course. Snake oil salesman have more integrity.

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So no original thinkers in gubment...That's so believable. Perhaps we should only elect fiction writers to positions of power...I hear Mammy Abrams, the self-appointed Governor of Georgia, is something of an author...

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Ebola was weaponized in Stephen King’s book, “The Stand” which was published in 1978. I think. I believe it was made into a miniseries in 1994. Ahead of Clancy’s book.

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It is just as plausible that cause and effect are the opposite of that which you propose.

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Covid outbreak at Wuhan games follows plot of Rainbow 6 and covers crazyness of conspirators

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I lived down the street from Tom and he ate dinner on Friday nights at the Rod n Reel on occasion and I would see him there dressed in a flannel, he was a cool guy that blended in and was very polite to everyone. His house may still be on the market, last price was 6.2 million but possibly bought or much higher. Calvert county MD.

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CIA pitched an airliner false flag to Kennedy to justify a Cuban invasion. To say nobody thought of it is lime saying Pfizer didn't think about anyone dying from their love juice. Calling bullshit on that.

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I've thought about something similar ever since January 2020. Some of my favorite games of all time where The Division series by Tom Clancy, incidentally the last IP he was working on before his death...and wouldn't you know, it was about a bio-terror incident that splinters New York City (the entire world, but gameplay is situated in NYC && DC for the first two games), however this isn't my thesis...

Like a fever dream, the jumbled thought-pieces assembled themselves in my mind one afternoon a few months ago: what if Tom Clancy was aware that the next likely threat was an internal bio-terror threat, from within (Deep state or rogue agents) and that the likeliest way to survive, to press forward, to recover and to rebuild society following such a catastrophic attack not only on our healthcare systems but on our sensemaking - was individual "agents" who would self-activate, and work without a support or a main organizing body, with most of society "dead" around them to their detective work and to their "awoken" and activated perceptions, they alone would have to forge forward and light the way for others to find.

You, Alex in a very meta sense, were a "Division" agent who self-activated following a capital strike on our civilization, one brought forth not by a Mother Nature but a rogue Uncle, (which uncle, sam or lee is still up in the air) and your work in recovery and collating sensemaking back into a reasonable and logical frame, to help us not only combat the healthcare crisis but the mental and sensemaking one - There is now a non-zero chance Tom Clancy perceived the milky inklings of such a future, and desperately attempted to encode a behavioral "time-capsule" or memetic "cornerstone" that society would subconsciously coalesce and gather around when the time came. Maybe.

or maybe that was just some really good weed.

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Michael Crichton's State of Fear is a must read, or re-read, in these times as well.

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Alex, we need you to start a school--The Berenson School of Journalism. This is how you can make the maximum impact. I can't write one check for it but maybe I can help find enough checks to get the project started. Let me know if you find this interesting.

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I recall, I think from a PBS doc, that when one of the accused in the 1993 bombing of the WTC told Richard Clarke "next time we will use airplanes"

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Last sentence: "America and the world needs people who believe in journalism as an investigative and analytical undertaking, not a narrative-building one." Hear! Hear!

I'd also add that once the corporate press has helped establish a (dubious or false) narrative, they then work around the clock to PROTECT said dubious narrative.

Somehow, we have to go around these "gatekeepers of the news" if the masses are ever going to get the real truth. Granted, Alex and others are trying to do this with their substack sites, but the censors have devised a program and algorithms to keep important journalism and commentary from "going viral."

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Apr 7, 2022·edited Apr 7, 2022

While I don't doubt that Bush, et al. had read Clancy's "Debt of Honor" with its plane crashing into the Capitol, they might have better enjoyed Ridley Pearson's "Hard Fall," published two years earlier, where the evildoer seeks to crash a plane into the Pentagon.

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Governments are rarely proactive when it comes to threats. The WTC 9/11 attack was not the first attack on the wtc. Remember the blind sheikh and the truck bomb. There was some info on an attack on pearl harbor too prior to it occurring. More recently the Afghan withdrawal debacle where the govt said that the Afghan army was solid too. Never believe a word these sob's tell you. They only operate to get re elected.

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Two other good books in this genre are Frank Herbert's _The White Plague_, 1982, and Terry Hayes's _I Am Pilgrim_, 2013.

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It makes me uncomfortable that Tom Clancy and Aaron Sorkin (West Wing) have such huge influence on policy makers.

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Alex - most of all I concur with the last paragraph above.

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Knowing one who died on 911, I find these comments are from mentally ill conspiracy idiots. You should all be ashamed of yourselves the way this thread has become.

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If you really want to read a Clancy book that will make you think deeply about what we've been through in the last 2+ years .... that book is

Rainbow SIX

The plot of the book is that a group of rich, elite techno and government types have decided to "save the world" from the human parasite - by killing all but a few thousand (themselves - the True Believers).

They plan to do this by developing a bio-weapon (Ebola based) - distribute it to cause panic, THEN - to deploy a VACCINE that they have developed to the masses...

Trouble is - after a few weeks, the VACCINE really starts INFECTING everybody who was injected - with the bio-weapon, neatly encapsulated in some kind of nano-particle which sits around in people's systems for a while before infecting and killing everyone except those who got the REAL vaccine.

Of course - in Clancy's book the good guys save the day at the last minute - and punish the bad guys...

Sound scarily familiar to what we've been doing with COVID and the mRNA vaccine?

Only difference is that COVID is not as deadly (right now) as the bug in Clancy's book.

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