I think there’s something to this. Yes, it would have happened anyway, but Clancy was much loved in the military and civilian defense contracting community (and to a lesser extent the CIA). He was the anti-le Carre for Republicans, he had heroes and villains - and his plots felt deeply real.
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.
My thoughts as well. The idea of the "clean sweep" I think resonates with so many of "we the people" modern day too. The idea of the "swamp is gonna swamp" has to end. The cesspool is REAL and so many evil doings originate within it and are allowed to be implemented!
I keep thinking about the idea that came from somewhere: WHY are all government agencies in Washington?
How about moving Dept of Agriculture to Iowa? Relocating Dept of Interior to Wyoming? Dept of Commerce merged with Transportation--and put it in Kansas City (center of country)?
After all, we learned from covid that "zoom" works just fine.
And while we're at it...cut staff of every agency in HALF and ABOLISH the Dept of Education.
Some pundit once suggested moving the FBI headquarters away from DC to somewhere in the midwest in order to (hopefully) encourage their leadership to concentrate more on crime-fighting than power-brokering.
I'd vote for abolishing the FBI and definitely the CIA ... and the Department of Homeland Defense, etc. That's why I voted for Ron Paul - who all in the MSM agree is either a "kook," an "extremist," a "conspiracy nut" and a "gold bug"(or all of the above). The fact he was right about just about everything doesn't matter at all.
I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate TSA. It's like every idiot congressman had to find a cushy job for a moron brother-in-law (who's so stupid he got kicked out of the infantry)...and that moron brother-in-law now works for TSA.
TSA at Hobby Airport in Houston have 2x stolen stuff from my and my wife's bags. Last time, a few hundred dollars in $20s. They are the scum of the earth and completely ineffectual at that. Test "bombs" and weapons get by them all the time, but they sure rake it in as thieves.
It would make each state become fierce advocates for the jobs represented by those agencies, and it would become impossible to ever get rid of them, like you see with various needless military weapons manufacturing contracts or NASA programs.
For example, the Department of Interior has 70,000 employees, and Wyoming has a population of 580,000 people. If all those employees move there, Wyoming becomes a solid Democrat state, and then there are two more senators voting to expand the federal bureaucracy
I worked as an intern there in 1970. They need that many employees for the social gatherings that took place every morning and afternoon when I was there in the extremely wide hallways. Can't have big social events without a lot of people. Lot of gab but not much work happened 52 years ago.
Aren't our national parks under that agency ? Couldn't the park rangers benefit from assigning some of those 70K to their ranks, or, can't we boost the fire fighting squads of the various parks ? Surely those who clean the lodge/hotel rooms of our parks could use some help ? Even the crews to maintain the forested areas and keep the camp grounds clean and safe could surely use additional help ! So, perhaps (though I AGREE 70K is mind boggling number) it would be possible to re-assign at least 25-30% of these folks without the trauma of just suddenly finding themselves with no job and having thousands of families added to the welfare rolls suddenly. Then, let natural attrition take care of reducing the numbers "we the people" employ.
DoE was the same way in 1990, when I interned there. Must be a government thing. Cookies and coffee in the cafeteria, though, not the hallways. And not in DC, either, deep within a Red State. Location won't save you from the bureaucracy.
If there's one thing the government is good at its waste. Not waste management but wasting money so you can bet every department has more employees than it really needs. The government is the only industry where you're encouraged to use up your budget and exceed it if you can because if you come under your budget you will be penalized for it next year with less money.
Remember: CUT EACH DEPT in HALF and many of the other half would refuse to relocate.
How many government employees who live in snooty suburbs in Virginia and Maryland will move to (egads!) WYOMING! Or (horrors!) IOWA! Where people go to CHURCH!
Thomas Jefferson advocated for placing various Federal Agencies in different parts of the country to keep them closer to the people they are working for.
Now be nice. Not everybody in the fed government is a narcissist, pretentious asshole. Some of us actually think there is a job to do. Except I'm un-jabbed so I don't know if I'm walking this year or get a few years reprieve...
I saw those jobs balloon into orbit and I know many who rail against the current affairs but are detached to the fact it is them who are a major cause of this, their response "My reTirement, my reTirement" it is embarrassing to have a conversation with them because they will not let go of the fact this Illusion is an Inverted Pyramid now and the work force will not be able to sustain the growing retired populace. The FED caused this and needs to be Thrown out and some hung IMO.
Agreed - we can dream... my dream is that each state would be responsible for paying its Senators and Congressmen - including all their health benefits... no more Federal paychecks for any of them!
It would be another reminder that they represent "us"/U.S. - the folks back home - and EACH STATE would set the salary/benefits for their representatives - and they wouldn't be the same from state to state. Also, they shouldn't be allowed to OWN homes in Washington; they have to rent a home, condo or apartment. Each state should move in this direction - another benefit and strength of Federalism.
Never thought of that, what an excellent idea... it would keep them tethered to their constituents instead of going rogue, their home districts out of sight, out of mind.
God Damn right ... the FED is full tilt boogie wrecking the table they set for themselves. Its a tough pill but people need to walk off the job and Reject the FED.
You are right RioRosie, and it would be such a benefit for these people to see what life is like outside their bubble of limos and doormen. I'd love to see them steep in what they've wrought. I worked for many years inside a top network, with tight security, opulence, big money, and every whim satisfied. It's not like that in Butte. (Quick story: I remember one flight with a group of power players, listening to the (benign, in this case) plans being hatched, and it's impressive. Ive tried to explain to my "pedestrian" (I'm smiling) friends how there is monkey business afoot, with the complicity of big media and tech and politicians from both sides of the aisle (but leaning Democrat), often telling themselves they have a moral high ground or they know better than the Great Unwashed. This includes some things that many find hard to believe (even brilliant substackers tirelessly reporting vaccine failures), such as massive election fraud and a concocted Jan. 6 narrative. I have a good friend who tells me I'm wrong on the plandemic and election fraud cuz "Some reporter woulda gleefully broken these stories and collected his or her Pulitzer by now" and it was almost sweet, like watching my beloved Pug barking at a cat on TV. She doesn't know what she might never know.
Corporations and the "monied interest" love federalism and centralization. They want it all in one spot. They want Fed power to eclipse States. This makes it easy to buy the government. It's all in one place. Most efficient. You can purchase one government instead of 50. It's why we have the EU and why Russia and China must be brought into the pyramid.
Trump's biggest missed opportunity and ultimately his failure and downfall. Where he couldn't replace people that would require Senate approval, he could most certainly have transferred them and brought in uncompromised personnel from the rank and file to be next in line and thus de facto acting directors and such. Really tragic this opportunity was missed.
Andrew Yang was advocating for this bc they’re so far removed from the “real world” in the DC bubble. At best it promotes groupthink & cronyism, at worst it metastasizes into corruption.
So what? Are we doing purity tests? He’s right about decentralization, my comment wasn’t a plug or reason to take a swipe at him. Different discussion.
Isn’t decentralizing the whole idea behind most large businesses duplicating and remotely placing their critical computer servers elsewhere and not in one place!? Why hasn’t someone in government figured that out for agencies to be placed remotely.
Actually the Bureau of the Public Debt (savings bonds center) was moved to Parkersburg WV in the 1950s for just that reason. At least one government agency got it right.
Didn’t Reagan try to abolish the Dept. of Education? I loved him as president. Just look at what that department has given us………NOTHING! I have always thought that our government should be decentralized.
They should be decentralized. They know they should. So they stick together to make it really hard. Also , in Australia they are actually social security payment handed out for doing NOTHING IMPACTFUL & creating PERCEPTION for masses as if somebody is taking care of a society. Monumental FRAUD, in my humble opinion.
Read a story a few days ago about Milwaukee public school system grades 1-12 at only a 20% proficient reading and math level for all age groups and yet an average of 15K is spent per pupil. 80% failure rate
50 years plus of heavy Democratic policy in Milwaukee. Highest stolen car rates of all cities in America as well intense crime. Similar to many BLUE run cities for decades and decades
They have been moving them and dept. of Interior is in Montana. After 9-11 they used BRIC to start relocating them to FT Belvoir and built roads for that but I think from there they have spread a lot of it out ... but D C and Hollywood got married and moved the propaganda to Georgia. Not all but many have moved. EPA in TX etc.
They are in TX what they have done is made satellite offices and then ballooned them up. The "my reTirement" actually comes from a friend of mine in Dallas https://www.epa.gov/tx ... this is how they have ballooned
My guess would be this was decided LONG before Zoom meetings, cell phones, instant face to face meetings, communications, so the only focus was close proximity to prevent a day or more of traveling just to communicate with another department or agency ! ? Of course at that time even the economic ADVANTAGES of disseminating these major departments and agencies around the country to boost their economies with additional jobs, restaurants, hotels, taxi companies, and all the other periferies a community gets when they are the recipient of such a major government project would not have even been a consideration ! NOW, all these years later, when the "swamp" is truly vile, may be the time for the Senators of various states to begin vying to bring such assets for their communities ! Would have more positives than can even be listed.
Yep ! Too much down side to that one, but.. there's always the power of the ballot box... Just say NO to vote by mail, internet, and cell phone app. Just say NO to extended voting by weeks, months, etc. Make America great again by going back to A VOTING day, a day when ALL Americans knew they HAD to get up early to make sure they had time to vote without being late to work, and when employers were understanding if an employee arrived or left just a few minutes late on the one day. Let's make voting something people VALUE and place above all else, vacations, business meetings, or any other excuse.
The politicians matter less than the bureaucracy. We need a clean sweep of every permanent government employee from the head of the FBI to your local DMV.
I often think of that book and wonder if that is the only way to get rid of the corrupt government that currently rules this country. Problem is, can we be certain they would not be replaced by Romney Republicans?
I’m thinking Article V of the US Constitution is needed. Convention of Ststes may be our only hope. The swamp will never willingly relinquish their power!
what is the reality of the COS actually happening? How possible is it in getting in place to actually achieve the intent? I do know there are a # of states all ready on board yes
The "replacing" would have to be vetted well for sure. Have these servants sign a contract with those who elected them and if they waver the slightest "we the people" can oust them at a moments notice. They HAVE TO BE held accountable and often!
The rot within our government is so firmly rooted that I doubt we will ever be able to get rid of even a majority of it. Let's say people wake up and vote in a large number of non-establishment owned Reps & senators. Only part of each is up for election every 2 years so what those in power will do is rig the next election so that the primary winners are all establishment owned hacks. We've already seen how brazen they will act with covid so would it really be a shock to see them openly rig the primary's?
No, it would not be surprising at all. In fact, Martin Armstrong predicted it would happen back in 2016, after Trup was elected. (www.armstrongeconomics.com) His AI software, "Socrates", has forecast that we're looking at international war between 2025 and 2027 (assuming we avoid it now), and the dissolution of the United States in 2032.
Does it say anything about what the dissolution leads to? Short of an apocalyptic level event like mas nuclear bombardment or large meteor the US isn't going anywhere but it certainly could become something else due to insurmountable differences between various segments within it. Personally I see TX and several other Sothern states seceding from the US and reforming a new nation I dubbed NFS/NAFS; the North American Free States that's founded on the US constitution with a few changes. I even started a substack to write an outline for how such a thing could come about. A separated form the US TX plus AZ, NM, OK,AR, MS, AL, TN, GA & FL operating under the actual US constitution with a new currency would make for a strong nation. I envision TX leaving first and that act inspiring the rest to eventually leave and join TX as the US Federal government continues to decimate the USA. Once at least 2 or more other states leave and join that is when they'd rename the union something like the NSF or NAFS.
It would be key for just TX to leave so the Feds aren't spooked into desperate action. If TX alone were to leave the Feds would complain and try legal avenues to stop it and maybe even try some level of military threat but because of how bad a shape the US would be in the Feds wouldn't have what they need to prevent the leave like an effective military (from the woke purge they did along with their diverse and inclusivity efforts) so eventually they'd give up. Then another state could leave. If too many left at the same time I fear the Feds would try something really stupid as an act of desperation.
Your sense of how the dissolution of the US might happen isn't too far off from Armstrong's computer prediction. The seeds are sprouting now, through 2024, with runaway inflation, increases in civil violence and government repression. From 2025 thru 2027, large-scale international war becomes a near certainty (not necessarily nuclear, but not excluding it, either). I believe the map we often see of red states and blue states is how the US will fractionate. The chaos that results will be enormous. As that happens, the center of the financial world will shift to China.... for the rest of our lives, in any event.
I checked out the link you sent. For that prediction from Socrates, is that something you got when asking it something or is that something Armstrong shared in a piece which he got from the Socrates AI? I'm trying to figure out how to read that prediction he made that you referenced.
These are not discrete predictions. Armstrong runs his AI program daily, then creates blog posts that summarize what the AI program tells him about specific situations or events. His blog posts include computer-generated arrays from Socrates.
The best thing to do is to go to his public blog, then look in the menu bar at the top for the heading "Models". That should give you information on how the various modules of Socrates work. Scroll down to the bottom of the Models" page and look for "Socrates - Beyond Artificial Intelligence." There are plenty of videos to watch. You could get lost running down everything there is to see on this website.
I'm not all that familiar in detail with how Socrates works. I do know that Armstrong gets general predictions from it. He can query it on trends in economics and politics, and it synthesizes answers. His data base is huge.
Some of Socrates' predictions that came true to the day: the savings & loan crisis in 1987; the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; the failure of the Long Term Vapital Management hedge fund in 1998; the real estate crash of 2007, BREXIT in 2016; the election (for the first time) of a "third party" candidate (i.e., not from the existing political class) in 2016.
Interesting observation, since the 9/11 hijackers apparently logged a lot of sim time. From experience, I can tell you that visu navigation from low altitude (i.e., right after takeoff) in an area as heavily treed as DC is not all that easy. If you've lived in the area all your life and have an intuitive understanding of the spatial relationship between objects large enough to exceed tree height (like the Capitol Building and the WA Monument), it wouldn't be that difficult to find the White House. But these guys weren't "local"... fortunately. Nor were they experienced at low altitude orienteering. Thank goodness. But the Pentagon sits in a huge open space. It was about all they could find...
Oh, you don't think that Colby, after a long day working on his boat at the marina, decides on a whim to abandon his well-deserved & half-eaten dinner & wine, after dark, for a life-vestless canoe trip? Sounds entirely plausible...... for a guy known to be so spontaneous.
Right up there with Seth Rich being killed during a mugging but the mugger didn’t take anything. He was angry with how the DNC and Hillary royally screwed Bernie so he gave his login info to Julian Assange at Wikileaks.
Seth Rich may be my favorite of them all. "Botched Robbery" ? Please.... Or Assange's proclamation shortly after Rich's death, the 'panda' user/avatar coincidences, the brother, and the speed at which the DNC files were taken pointing not to a intrusive hack from afar but rather a flash drive from inside. And anyone who even asked a question about it was casted as a 'right wing conspiracy' peddler. One after another the scandals appear.
Any VIP who supposedly commits suicide probably didn't.....Look to the movies such as "Michael Clayton" on how they are staged. Even the horrible writer Harold Robbins has a realistic staging in "The Betsy" of the blackmailing friend of the son, pushed out the window, the CIA likes that one, but they can't have too many of the same type. It turns out the famous monk Thomas Merton was assassinated in Thailand in 1968, I have death scene photos that were finally released a few years ago. Clearly a CIA hit, the former CIA assassin later confessed to former priest Matthew Fox who reviewed the recent book on the "martyrdom" of Merton. There was no autopsy.
Army LtCol Theodore “Ted” Westhusing, was the highest ranked American to die in Iraq at the time. He uncovered massive fraud by DOD contractors and just before he was scheduled to head home to present his findings , he supposedly committed suicide. Family and friends reject the suicide story. I knew Ted since the 8th grade. He lived in my neighborhood and our moms were friends. I sincerely doubt he would end his life and leave behind his wife and 3 young children. His mother said he was looking forward to coming home to Oklahoma to see her and his friends and family. Look up on Wiki. Theodore Westhusing.
You think of real suicides and why they happen; someone literally with no hope in their lives, who are dying of terminal diseases or terrible addictions. People just do not kill themselves who have families and who are making real contributions into other people's lives. So the "suicide" death is probably a convenient staged event when they can't kill someone accidentally. Many of the staged deaths in the Gresham novels are accidents or car bombs.
Rule on exposing fraud; never warn the powerful what you are going to do--do it, spring your mine unannounced without warning and make sure it is done right. There is a scene in Michael Clayton where the unstable top attorney calls the CEO to tell her what he is about to do--they have the surveillance team neutralize him before he is able to carry out his threat. Supposedly Marilyn Monroe was about to expose her dirty laundry to the world implicating JFK and her diary in a press conference on Monday morning; she was taken out during the weekend in a "suicide".
Good book, well written unlike some of the others on the assassination such as Roger Stone's. Not sure about the "two Oswald theory" though.
There is a good video of various theories and what Kroth thought really happened by Jerry Kroth a retired CA university communications professor. Actually JFK had strong premonitions that his life would be ended. His was physically in rough shape, dysfunctional adrenals, constant use of upper drugs, many sexual trysts.
Merton was very influential, like MLK, who was likely also the victim of a hit, not the accepted version but more likely a government agency. RFK was apparently an agency hit where Sirhan was the fall guy for a security guard who was a malicious bigot well paid for his role.
William E Colby was CIA Station Chief in Vietnam in the early 60's and eventually ran the agency from 73-75. He was a controversial figure in US History (see Phoenix Program) but a hero none the less.. From his early OSS days til the work he did at the end, there was no shortage of enemies or motives against him. Much has been written about his life but shockingly little has been written about his death, which is, on its face, is highly suspicious. Tippecanoe and Colby too is a good start.
Scalia was in poor health, ditto many others. It is surprising that as many people with serious health issues continue to engage in unhealthy behavior.
I'm sure there is more than one Chris.... It will be interesting to see how many ppl ensnared in the various bioweapon webs (Wuhan, Ukraine) commit suicide or die tragically in a car accident. End of the day we are all just spectators.
thanks for the ad hominem,. it could well be, but like this i don't have to believe that jet fuel at 700 deg can melt steel (MP1600 deg). take your pick!
The division of matter into solid, liquid and gas that you learned in elementary school was, I'm sorry to inform you, an oversimplification. Almost all materials change their mechanical properties with temperature particular their shear elasticity. You would not have to reach the melting point to have sufficient mechanical property change to cause the loss of structural integrity.
Exactly. Melting point is wrongly focused on as determinative, it is not. High heat reduces the structural integrity to bear the load above. The pancaking of the towers is visual evidence that load bearing capacity was exceeded.
I worked in WTC 1 103rd-105th Floor for two years until July 2001. We were allowed to smoke cigarettes in the areas on those floors that were stripped down to their girders in preparation for renovation. So I was able to see how the cross beams were attached to the vertical girders that supported the building. Each cross beam was attached to a vertical girder by a flange of about a half inch of steel that was the size of a large index card. As such, if those flanges gave way, the entire cross beam would become un-attached from the vertical girder.
I am not an engineer but it seems to me that those flanges could give way under an intense heat. Thus the heat necessary to dislodge a crossbeam was likely far less than the heat needed to melt a beam or girder. Additionally the weight of a floor supported by crossbeams that had detached from their vertical girders also could be too heavy for the flanges supporting crossbeams on the immediately lower floor to sustain without also becoming detached. That could have created the pancake effect that brought the buildings down.
I am sure that there are other factors involved with a building falling theway the Trade Center buildings fell, but I think the small size of these flanges had something to do with it. I have read that had the crossbeams been attached to the vertical girders with rivets or screws like the old time skyscrapers were built, then the buildings would not have fallen. If so, then these small flanges explain a lot in terms of why andhow the buildings came down.
The dust was mostly sheetrock and some concrete veneer that comprised the floors being pulverized by the weight of 107 floors in each tower pancaking. Most of the steel was intact after the collapse, albeit twisted from the force of the collapse.
The real questions that I think need to be answered concern the speed at which the buildings fell - especially the first floors to collapse - because that would be a good clue as to whether there were controlled demolitions along the way, or if it was just the increasing weight of pancaked floors that determined the speed of the fall. If caused by solely natural forces, the acceleration of the fall should have increased as the buildings fell. If the acceleratrion was constant through the entire collapse then you know that something other than natural force was involved.
Also, you don't have to believe that the laws of physics stop at the NYC city limits. A steel-framed building does not collapse into its own footprint (after an already burned-out fire in upper floor) without demolition. WTC 7 had only the demolition and no plane. Same explosions and collapse as 1 and 2.
The claim that WTC 7 came down as aresult of the fire on the roof caused by hot debris falling on it from the collapse of WTC 1 never made much sense to me.
"already burned-out fire"... boy - you were not watching the same videos that I saw. The fires were raging up and down a large section of the buildings from the impacts until the collapse.
Re-watch the videos of those WTC fires. They show the opposite of what you wrote. They show a few floors at the top of each building with fires and no fire at all at WTC 7. Same demolition type collapse. Then I recommend seeing video of demolition until the pattern is apparent.
You are totally wrong... at the moment of collapse smoke is still pouring from each tower, and when the collapse starts - fire pours out of the windows - indicating that the fires are still raging at the time of the collapse.
But I'm sure you say that was from the demolition explosion.
I'm never going to convert a true believer - and your arguments are insufficient to convert me... so there we are.
I have no idea what you're talking about but sounds like it is time for me to unsubscribe from your Substack. The melting point of your credibility appears to have been reached.
You may indeed have reached that point. Dismissal of A Levy's concern with ad hominem (that his or her argument is made on elementary school learning) is not a valid explanation of why unheated lower floors collapsed as in other demolition.
There are real world examples of regular gas tankers crashing and burning under concrete and steel overpasses where the ensuring fire melted the concrete and steel and brought the overpasses down. You can choose to believe simplistic models that are the equivalent of putting masks on mannequins in lab environments to "prove" that masks stop the spread and infections of airborne respiratory viruses or you can believe real world results that easily debunk them. It's really about you believing what you want to believe rather that pursuits of truth regardless of where it leads.
It didn't have to melt the steel, only soften it. And, how do you know that burning fuel was only 700 degrees? Did you forget about the massive amount of oxygen that would be feeding the fires from the gaping holes in the buildings?
these explanations are getting more ridiculous by the minute. next you'll be telling me that really the buildings were held up by cheese inside the girders. so it all just fell down oh so easily. i hope at least they pay you for posting.
it's worth pointing out that these building were built to withstand multiple planes crashing into them. guess the architects were nuts too.
why did they have full loads of fuel? i thought the journey they were taking only required about a third of the tank full. do airlines put full loads in for shorter journeys?
The stupidity on this thread is alarming. Colleen Huber is losing a bunch of credibility with her responses. If anyone thinks the twin towers collapsed because of something other than commercial airlines crashing into the buildings, they have lost their Ever-loving minds.
@A Levy- they didn't come down because of the planes. They came down because of the inferior steel melting under the heat. Even Bin Laden, a structural engineer, was amazed.
Thats one of the stupidest comments I've ever read. Explain Building 7. You CAN NOT. It had SAME construction as twin towers, was NOT HIT, or burned, but collapsed at 5:30, SAME as twin towers. 9/11 was multi-party FALSE FLAG. Why did Official 9/11 Commission Report OMIT Building 7? You can easily prove everything I say here, IF you ever learn to think for yourself.
Just have to jump in here. Just watched "The Looming Tower" on Hulu. Was interested in which characters were real people vs composite characters. My search (via Bing) led me to a really bizarre (to me) article claiming all three buildings were destroyed by subatomic explosions. And the CIA did it. I stopped reading. Some conspiracy theories are just theories, and some conspiracies exist(ed). Be cautious and analytical, and find proof.
BTW, love both Clancy and le Carre. And John Wells.
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.
You Mean now we all know that Uncle Joey entire family is compromised . This is why none of his Family step up and say that it's time for you to go home now. It's over Uncle Joey. And this goes as well for Anthony Fauci and his wife they are both in over their heads heavily compromised as well. The Elite media has taken Millions of dollars to Push these mRNA shots 1 in 3,500 people have had something happen to them who took these mRNA shots this is unheard of in a true Vaccine.
The FBI his Personal PCP have a lot of explaining that needs to be addressed now. Biden should not be in charge of anything in his Medical condition. His Personal doctor needs to explain why he is allowing Uncle Joey continue.
WILSON: Yes this is Mr Wilson over at the Registry of Presidents & Establishment Hacks.
HEAD OF US INTEL AGENCIES: Yes?
WILSON: I'm calling to let you know that your president, a Mr Joe Biden has failed his competency exam and his license to be president is revoked.
HEAD OF US INTEL AGENCIES: Is he still Corrupt Controlled & Owed certified?
WILSON: Yes I believe so.
HEAD OF US INTEL AGENCIES: Then no you aren’t revoking his license. If his license is not restored within 24 hours your wife will receive a package of pics showing where you actually were last Summer when you told her you were at a conference.
WILSON: Forget I called. Everything’s good. Have a nice day sir.
Yeah they really screwed up with covid in many ways from betting big on a virus that wasn't lethal enough to justify their actions (so they had to up sale/market it to the public) to exposure after exposure via zoom/remote learning of what they've been doing to kids and how they rally think when they don't know what they are saying will be shared publicly (ie Disney execs).
As much damage as covid did it very well may be what helps turn the tide simply because of it so exposed much of what's going on.
People know about sexualization's of kids in school
People know about CRT indoctrination
People know the media is as trustworthy as government
People know government at every level is filled with power hungry tyrants who have no issue with destroying peoples lives for some of that sweet sweet emergency powers
People know government and its agencies are in bed with the pharmaceutical industry
People know that these same power mad people have weaponized institutions like licensing boards (ie for doctors) to keep professionals quiet should they pt not to promote the approved narrative
People know that influential organizations like the World Economic Forum really believe we need to reset society to where peasants like us own nothing and where happy 9or else)
People are seeing more and more that Alex Jones wasn't as crazy as they made him out to be
COvid was quiet possible the worst thing that could have happened for those seeking power behind the scenes for it exposed much of what they are doing.
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.
Just look at all the men and women post WW2 who bought the big Pharma and Big Food propaganda and we cannot forget what the Tobacco industry was allowed to do by our so called Government protection agencies. So many senior citizens especially born between 1910 and 1945 were so misled by the corrupt forces evolving. I remember at one time the average senior citizen was on double digit meds. Which means some were taking 15 or more and some 5 or less. These people (like your dad and mine) believed in what their Dr's were telling them without any real pushback
25 years ago, he came home from a doctor appointment with a prescription for some cholesterol something. We all thought it was bullshit because Dad ate pretty much the same diet as his mother who lived to be 94 with no major health issues. (She died peacefully in her sleep.)
Dad never filled the prescription. The next year, at his annual appointment, the doctor was DELIGHTED with Dad's cholesterol test.
Now, age 91, Dad takes vitamins...and is still eating essentially the same diet he's always eaten.
Excellent story! Should have prefaced the majority of that age group were far too trusting of Pharma and Government in general. That cholesterol rabbit hole was a doozie when Pharma realized that market share and they made incredible profits off that sector alone
My mother in law is the same. Grew up the daughter of an army General. ULTRA- patriotic and trusting of government. She's coming around, but those sentiments die hard!
How'd you like to talk to an elderly parent about sex...as in Dr. Rachel Levine, who claims to be a woman.
I did this last week with my father, after he asked, "Who the hell is that homely woman I saw on TV?" I explained. His analysis, "Well then, there's something wrong with him. He's just crazy."
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.
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
"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."
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.
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...🤔
If "Debt of Honor" was foreboding, "Rainbow Six" was terrifying in the utter "logic" of what it was describing as the potential future. Covid should have resulted in everyone being required to read it while they were being instructed on what to do in response to Covid!
Fortunately, I own a hardback copy of this one. Came out prior to 9-11. Read and reread. It builds on the Ebola bioweapon from the earlier book. The Rainbow 6 team was a multinational counterterror team, brought in to take down and take out terror suspects that seemed to abruptly come out of the woodwork post-fall of the USSR. From the other direction of things, a large pharma/biotech firm was working on a special project, a true believer green/eco group developing and testing a strain of Ebola juiced with cancer cells. They had a plan for delivery of the Ebola worldwide. The hitch was they had to take active measures to make sure that their team was able to access the device they wanted to make delivery, at an Olympic games.
So they came across a former KGB spook who used to work primarily with terrorists back in the day, paying him to reactivate his former "clients" to go back into the field, which accounted for most of the uptick in terror incidents Rainbow 6 dealt with. What they didn't tell the spook was why he was paid (lavishly) to do all this was to manipulate the Olympics host country to hire the front company that planned the Ebloa delivery.
Upon delivery, people at the games would breathe in the bioweapon, then go home all over the world. The bug would incubate, spreading the whole time before people started dropping or feeling sick. This stage, however, was expected to cause the death of a few million.
Big Pharma company would have already developed a vaccine, offering it to the world in a panic over the word and disease "Ebola."
There were two variants of the vax, one was the "A" vax, "the one you don't want to get." It doesn't stop the bug, it enhances and spreads it. The A would be delivered to public health authorities around the world, who would "inject it into every arm they could find."
The B vax was the REAL vax and antidote to the engineered Ebola for the true believers and other "special" save the planet people, with the goal of genocide of 99% of all people. They modeled that the dying off would take a number of months and would be admittedly a hairy time for the co-conspirators.
Amazing characters developed in the book, the one I was most fascinated with his story arc and redemption was the former KGB spook.
I immediately was thinking of this book when learning about and studiously avoiding the mRNA jabs as bioweapons. Lots to think about.
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.
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.
Just rewatching the Planet if the Apes series from the early 2000s, and that involves a aerosolized vaccine for dementia that ends up killing most of humanity. The whole thing seemed very prescient in light of current events.
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.
Politics is just entrepreneurship for ambitious people that prefer power to money. Of course they always use the power to get money, so they never want to give it up.
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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Six_(novel) Too bad this first Clancy Rainbow Six was not made into a movie. I read the Wiki and lots of similarities to the Covid.xxxx scenario we are living through.
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.
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.
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.
Clancy's books helped restore a lot of respect and pride in the armed forces which took a huge hit as a result of a lot of negative books and movies about the armed services in the Vietnam War.
I have clearly come across a fellow Clancy/Silva “nerd” in the Stack - used to have the same exact thought. In fact Silvia’s early books reminded me of “Clancy-lite.”
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.
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’.
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'....
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.
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.
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
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."
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My thoughts as well. The idea of the "clean sweep" I think resonates with so many of "we the people" modern day too. The idea of the "swamp is gonna swamp" has to end. The cesspool is REAL and so many evil doings originate within it and are allowed to be implemented!
I keep thinking about the idea that came from somewhere: WHY are all government agencies in Washington?
How about moving Dept of Agriculture to Iowa? Relocating Dept of Interior to Wyoming? Dept of Commerce merged with Transportation--and put it in Kansas City (center of country)?
After all, we learned from covid that "zoom" works just fine.
And while we're at it...cut staff of every agency in HALF and ABOLISH the Dept of Education.
I guess I can dream, right?
Some pundit once suggested moving the FBI headquarters away from DC to somewhere in the midwest in order to (hopefully) encourage their leadership to concentrate more on crime-fighting than power-brokering.
I'd vote for abolishing the FBI and definitely the CIA ... and the Department of Homeland Defense, etc. That's why I voted for Ron Paul - who all in the MSM agree is either a "kook," an "extremist," a "conspiracy nut" and a "gold bug"(or all of the above). The fact he was right about just about everything doesn't matter at all.
DHS would go first in my ideal world, along with TSA the rest of the unconstitutional Patriot Act.
I cannot begin to tell you how much I hate TSA. It's like every idiot congressman had to find a cushy job for a moron brother-in-law (who's so stupid he got kicked out of the infantry)...and that moron brother-in-law now works for TSA.
TSA at Hobby Airport in Houston have 2x stolen stuff from my and my wife's bags. Last time, a few hundred dollars in $20s. They are the scum of the earth and completely ineffectual at that. Test "bombs" and weapons get by them all the time, but they sure rake it in as thieves.
100% Agreed!
CDC and FDA--they've sucked for decades. NIH: nuke it
I'm thinking Midway or Guam a good location for the FBI HQ.
Guam might actually capsize if that happens. Lol
Shoot. 5 hrs late, wrote something similar.
OMG! I remember that nitwit congressman who actually said that.
😏
I am pretty sure they have an office in Beijing that acts as the ‘Department of How You Should Think’ department…
The moon would be good for me. Maybe the 👽's will watch over them.
Then I can only wish Representative Hank Johnson was right and the extra weight would cause Guam to sink.
Where's the CIA going to go? Pacific Proving Grounds?
Whatever happened to the FBI? It was Ephraim Zimbalist Jr on TV, Sunday nights...and life was good.
It's never been the same since we found out J. Edgar Hoover was a cross-dresser.
OOOH! Maybe J. Edgar was "trans."
“trans” -Maybe his reputation will be rehabilitated now...
OMG! You absolutely crack me up! AND, you have a point there.
(I agree but) Look how well that worked with the Bureau of Land Mgmt.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/585750-land-management-bureau-to-move-senior-leadership-back-to-washington/
Isn't she the eco-terrorist appointed by Biden? Of course, she would move it back.
Thanks or this link. I remembered that Trump had tried to move some agency somewhere but ultimately the move was reversed. The swamp gonna swamp.
Yes!!!
It would make each state become fierce advocates for the jobs represented by those agencies, and it would become impossible to ever get rid of them, like you see with various needless military weapons manufacturing contracts or NASA programs.
For example, the Department of Interior has 70,000 employees, and Wyoming has a population of 580,000 people. If all those employees move there, Wyoming becomes a solid Democrat state, and then there are two more senators voting to expand the federal bureaucracy
I'm a former employee of the Department of the Inferior, as we called it.
Did you work for the Department of Wreck the Nation or the Bureau of Land Manglement? Or maybe the National For Us Agency?
LOL. The Bureau of Mines. I was part of the underground.
70,000 people in the Interior Department? That many? WTF for?
I worked as an intern there in 1970. They need that many employees for the social gatherings that took place every morning and afternoon when I was there in the extremely wide hallways. Can't have big social events without a lot of people. Lot of gab but not much work happened 52 years ago.
Aren't our national parks under that agency ? Couldn't the park rangers benefit from assigning some of those 70K to their ranks, or, can't we boost the fire fighting squads of the various parks ? Surely those who clean the lodge/hotel rooms of our parks could use some help ? Even the crews to maintain the forested areas and keep the camp grounds clean and safe could surely use additional help ! So, perhaps (though I AGREE 70K is mind boggling number) it would be possible to re-assign at least 25-30% of these folks without the trauma of just suddenly finding themselves with no job and having thousands of families added to the welfare rolls suddenly. Then, let natural attrition take care of reducing the numbers "we the people" employ.
DoE was the same way in 1990, when I interned there. Must be a government thing. Cookies and coffee in the cafeteria, though, not the hallways. And not in DC, either, deep within a Red State. Location won't save you from the bureaucracy.
If there's one thing the government is good at its waste. Not waste management but wasting money so you can bet every department has more employees than it really needs. The government is the only industry where you're encouraged to use up your budget and exceed it if you can because if you come under your budget you will be penalized for it next year with less money.
That is exactly what they say every year
Each one cuts one blade of grass at every national park.
70,000 would NOT MOVE. ZOOM, you idiot, ZOOM!.... Duh!
Remember: CUT EACH DEPT in HALF and many of the other half would refuse to relocate.
How many government employees who live in snooty suburbs in Virginia and Maryland will move to (egads!) WYOMING! Or (horrors!) IOWA! Where people go to CHURCH!
If you make everyone go on Zoom it won't be long before they hive it out to Bangladore.
Do the Rangers now zoom. I bet they do.
That was my thought as well plus the concern of future attacks being too spread out.
Oh, my, aren't you a military genius. Yes, one big, death attack is better than several smaller injury attacks....
Thomas Jefferson advocated for placing various Federal Agencies in different parts of the country to keep them closer to the people they are working for.
Trouble is government employees don't think they work for the public. They think they work for themselves.
Some of them think WE work for THEM.
THAT is a reality which must be addressed and often to make these people realize they are servants of the people!
Now be nice. Not everybody in the fed government is a narcissist, pretentious asshole. Some of us actually think there is a job to do. Except I'm un-jabbed so I don't know if I'm walking this year or get a few years reprieve...
I saw those jobs balloon into orbit and I know many who rail against the current affairs but are detached to the fact it is them who are a major cause of this, their response "My reTirement, my reTirement" it is embarrassing to have a conversation with them because they will not let go of the fact this Illusion is an Inverted Pyramid now and the work force will not be able to sustain the growing retired populace. The FED caused this and needs to be Thrown out and some hung IMO.
the idea of separating of them makes perfect sense with a non corrupt mind
Milton Friedman has a huge smile on his face. These bureaucrats are the scourge of society.
Agreed - we can dream... my dream is that each state would be responsible for paying its Senators and Congressmen - including all their health benefits... no more Federal paychecks for any of them!
It would be another reminder that they represent "us"/U.S. - the folks back home - and EACH STATE would set the salary/benefits for their representatives - and they wouldn't be the same from state to state. Also, they shouldn't be allowed to OWN homes in Washington; they have to rent a home, condo or apartment. Each state should move in this direction - another benefit and strength of Federalism.
How's this: abolish the Dept. of Education, and convert the building into a dormitory for Congress.
Let 'em live in public housing.
You're brilliant!
with trap doors ?
At the entry.
Excellent idea!
Lol
Never thought of that, what an excellent idea... it would keep them tethered to their constituents instead of going rogue, their home districts out of sight, out of mind.
God Damn right ... the FED is full tilt boogie wrecking the table they set for themselves. Its a tough pill but people need to walk off the job and Reject the FED.
Another good idea. I agree.
great ideas!
You are right RioRosie, and it would be such a benefit for these people to see what life is like outside their bubble of limos and doormen. I'd love to see them steep in what they've wrought. I worked for many years inside a top network, with tight security, opulence, big money, and every whim satisfied. It's not like that in Butte. (Quick story: I remember one flight with a group of power players, listening to the (benign, in this case) plans being hatched, and it's impressive. Ive tried to explain to my "pedestrian" (I'm smiling) friends how there is monkey business afoot, with the complicity of big media and tech and politicians from both sides of the aisle (but leaning Democrat), often telling themselves they have a moral high ground or they know better than the Great Unwashed. This includes some things that many find hard to believe (even brilliant substackers tirelessly reporting vaccine failures), such as massive election fraud and a concocted Jan. 6 narrative. I have a good friend who tells me I'm wrong on the plandemic and election fraud cuz "Some reporter woulda gleefully broken these stories and collected his or her Pulitzer by now" and it was almost sweet, like watching my beloved Pug barking at a cat on TV. She doesn't know what she might never know.
Corporations and the "monied interest" love federalism and centralization. They want it all in one spot. They want Fed power to eclipse States. This makes it easy to buy the government. It's all in one place. Most efficient. You can purchase one government instead of 50. It's why we have the EU and why Russia and China must be brought into the pyramid.
good idea except lobbyists don't want to live in Wyoming, Iowa and Kansas.
F the lobbyists!
What we really need to do is outlaw lobbying. It's one of the reasons corruption has multiplied exponentially.
"what a wonderful world it would be"
Absolutely. Get rid of them.
you can't "F the lobbyists!"...they don't have any anatomy (or soul)
And that would be a BAD thing?
Trump tried to do this early in his administration and was defeated by "The Swamp".
Trump's biggest missed opportunity and ultimately his failure and downfall. Where he couldn't replace people that would require Senate approval, he could most certainly have transferred them and brought in uncompromised personnel from the rank and file to be next in line and thus de facto acting directors and such. Really tragic this opportunity was missed.
Andrew Yang was advocating for this bc they’re so far removed from the “real world” in the DC bubble. At best it promotes groupthink & cronyism, at worst it metastasizes into corruption.
Andrew Yang also thinks "universal basic income" is a swell idea.
So what? Are we doing purity tests? He’s right about decentralization, my comment wasn’t a plug or reason to take a swipe at him. Different discussion.
Like.
Isn’t decentralizing the whole idea behind most large businesses duplicating and remotely placing their critical computer servers elsewhere and not in one place!? Why hasn’t someone in government figured that out for agencies to be placed remotely.
Actually the Bureau of the Public Debt (savings bonds center) was moved to Parkersburg WV in the 1950s for just that reason. At least one government agency got it right.
So that when they digitally control the masses there’s no way to destroy the companies that control the governments. Makes sense!
Didn’t Reagan try to abolish the Dept. of Education? I loved him as president. Just look at what that department has given us………NOTHING! I have always thought that our government should be decentralized.
They should be decentralized. They know they should. So they stick together to make it really hard. Also , in Australia they are actually social security payment handed out for doing NOTHING IMPACTFUL & creating PERCEPTION for masses as if somebody is taking care of a society. Monumental FRAUD, in my humble opinion.
Read a story a few days ago about Milwaukee public school system grades 1-12 at only a 20% proficient reading and math level for all age groups and yet an average of 15K is spent per pupil. 80% failure rate
Give me $15k per pupil and even without a teaching certificate I'd have those kids doing way better than that.
50 years plus of heavy Democratic policy in Milwaukee. Highest stolen car rates of all cities in America as well intense crime. Similar to many BLUE run cities for decades and decades
A good teacher doesn't need a "certificate."
I lose my mind when I hear about teachers who receive pay raises when they get a master's degree, or a PhD.
WTF???
It makes me sick because we all know that that is just the tip of the iceberg.
Just the tip. And we taxpayers are the ones getting screwed.
They have been moving them and dept. of Interior is in Montana. After 9-11 they used BRIC to start relocating them to FT Belvoir and built roads for that but I think from there they have spread a lot of it out ... but D C and Hollywood got married and moved the propaganda to Georgia. Not all but many have moved. EPA in TX etc.
The EPA in Texas would be fun to watch. Every environmentalist would need high doses of Valium.
Fortunately it's available OTC in Mexico.
(I say that with all affection for Texas, where I lived for 18 glorious years.)
They are in TX what they have done is made satellite offices and then ballooned them up. The "my reTirement" actually comes from a friend of mine in Dallas https://www.epa.gov/tx ... this is how they have ballooned
https://www.doi.gov/iacb/montana ... here's the scary part ... what is the DOI doing with the water (control) EPA's job ? https://news.yahoo.com/us-dept-interior-announces-57m-164042399.html
My guess would be this was decided LONG before Zoom meetings, cell phones, instant face to face meetings, communications, so the only focus was close proximity to prevent a day or more of traveling just to communicate with another department or agency ! ? Of course at that time even the economic ADVANTAGES of disseminating these major departments and agencies around the country to boost their economies with additional jobs, restaurants, hotels, taxi companies, and all the other periferies a community gets when they are the recipient of such a major government project would not have even been a consideration ! NOW, all these years later, when the "swamp" is truly vile, may be the time for the Senators of various states to begin vying to bring such assets for their communities ! Would have more positives than can even be listed.
There’s always the idea of a suitcase nuke for a fresh start.
Just to be clear I think it’s a terrible idea. 😜
Yep ! Too much down side to that one, but.. there's always the power of the ballot box... Just say NO to vote by mail, internet, and cell phone app. Just say NO to extended voting by weeks, months, etc. Make America great again by going back to A VOTING day, a day when ALL Americans knew they HAD to get up early to make sure they had time to vote without being late to work, and when employers were understanding if an employee arrived or left just a few minutes late on the one day. Let's make voting something people VALUE and place above all else, vacations, business meetings, or any other excuse.
The politicians matter less than the bureaucracy. We need a clean sweep of every permanent government employee from the head of the FBI to your local DMV.
I often think of that book and wonder if that is the only way to get rid of the corrupt government that currently rules this country. Problem is, can we be certain they would not be replaced by Romney Republicans?
I’m thinking Article V of the US Constitution is needed. Convention of Ststes may be our only hope. The swamp will never willingly relinquish their power!
www.conventionofststes.com
what is the reality of the COS actually happening? How possible is it in getting in place to actually achieve the intent? I do know there are a # of states all ready on board yes
www.conventionofstates.com
The "replacing" would have to be vetted well for sure. Have these servants sign a contract with those who elected them and if they waver the slightest "we the people" can oust them at a moments notice. They HAVE TO BE held accountable and often!
Perhaps Bin Laden was a Clancy fan too.
🤦🏼🤦🏻♀️🤦🏽♂️ Or maybe it was an inside job?
2 for 1 Dick Cheney - Halliburton and explosives and Lobbyists Love it in Wyoming and meet there yearly https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2015/04/01/cheney911/
NOTHING would surprise me these days... :- |
my thoughts exactly!
Mainly the clean sweep was a plot device to make Jack Ryan president without having him get nominated and elected.
That's true. Clancy was very good at that.
So just where was Flight 93 suppossed to go? Looking back maybe a Clancey scenario would have been a good thing.
The rot within our government is so firmly rooted that I doubt we will ever be able to get rid of even a majority of it. Let's say people wake up and vote in a large number of non-establishment owned Reps & senators. Only part of each is up for election every 2 years so what those in power will do is rig the next election so that the primary winners are all establishment owned hacks. We've already seen how brazen they will act with covid so would it really be a shock to see them openly rig the primary's?
No, it would not be surprising at all. In fact, Martin Armstrong predicted it would happen back in 2016, after Trup was elected. (www.armstrongeconomics.com) His AI software, "Socrates", has forecast that we're looking at international war between 2025 and 2027 (assuming we avoid it now), and the dissolution of the United States in 2032.
Does it say anything about what the dissolution leads to? Short of an apocalyptic level event like mas nuclear bombardment or large meteor the US isn't going anywhere but it certainly could become something else due to insurmountable differences between various segments within it. Personally I see TX and several other Sothern states seceding from the US and reforming a new nation I dubbed NFS/NAFS; the North American Free States that's founded on the US constitution with a few changes. I even started a substack to write an outline for how such a thing could come about. A separated form the US TX plus AZ, NM, OK,AR, MS, AL, TN, GA & FL operating under the actual US constitution with a new currency would make for a strong nation. I envision TX leaving first and that act inspiring the rest to eventually leave and join TX as the US Federal government continues to decimate the USA. Once at least 2 or more other states leave and join that is when they'd rename the union something like the NSF or NAFS.
It would be key for just TX to leave so the Feds aren't spooked into desperate action. If TX alone were to leave the Feds would complain and try legal avenues to stop it and maybe even try some level of military threat but because of how bad a shape the US would be in the Feds wouldn't have what they need to prevent the leave like an effective military (from the woke purge they did along with their diverse and inclusivity efforts) so eventually they'd give up. Then another state could leave. If too many left at the same time I fear the Feds would try something really stupid as an act of desperation.
Your sense of how the dissolution of the US might happen isn't too far off from Armstrong's computer prediction. The seeds are sprouting now, through 2024, with runaway inflation, increases in civil violence and government repression. From 2025 thru 2027, large-scale international war becomes a near certainty (not necessarily nuclear, but not excluding it, either). I believe the map we often see of red states and blue states is how the US will fractionate. The chaos that results will be enormous. As that happens, the center of the financial world will shift to China.... for the rest of our lives, in any event.
I checked out the link you sent. For that prediction from Socrates, is that something you got when asking it something or is that something Armstrong shared in a piece which he got from the Socrates AI? I'm trying to figure out how to read that prediction he made that you referenced.
Thanks
These are not discrete predictions. Armstrong runs his AI program daily, then creates blog posts that summarize what the AI program tells him about specific situations or events. His blog posts include computer-generated arrays from Socrates.
The best thing to do is to go to his public blog, then look in the menu bar at the top for the heading "Models". That should give you information on how the various modules of Socrates work. Scroll down to the bottom of the Models" page and look for "Socrates - Beyond Artificial Intelligence." There are plenty of videos to watch. You could get lost running down everything there is to see on this website.
I'm not all that familiar in detail with how Socrates works. I do know that Armstrong gets general predictions from it. He can query it on trends in economics and politics, and it synthesizes answers. His data base is huge.
Some of Socrates' predictions that came true to the day: the savings & loan crisis in 1987; the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; the failure of the Long Term Vapital Management hedge fund in 1998; the real estate crash of 2007, BREXIT in 2016; the election (for the first time) of a "third party" candidate (i.e., not from the existing political class) in 2016.
Buckle up buttercup!
Interesting observation, since the 9/11 hijackers apparently logged a lot of sim time. From experience, I can tell you that visu navigation from low altitude (i.e., right after takeoff) in an area as heavily treed as DC is not all that easy. If you've lived in the area all your life and have an intuitive understanding of the spatial relationship between objects large enough to exceed tree height (like the Capitol Building and the WA Monument), it wouldn't be that difficult to find the White House. But these guys weren't "local"... fortunately. Nor were they experienced at low altitude orienteering. Thank goodness. But the Pentagon sits in a huge open space. It was about all they could find...
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.
He and former CIA head Colby and many others.
Oh, you don't think that Colby, after a long day working on his boat at the marina, decides on a whim to abandon his well-deserved & half-eaten dinner & wine, after dark, for a life-vestless canoe trip? Sounds entirely plausible...... for a guy known to be so spontaneous.
Now do Epstein! LOL.
🎯
Right up there with Seth Rich being killed during a mugging but the mugger didn’t take anything. He was angry with how the DNC and Hillary royally screwed Bernie so he gave his login info to Julian Assange at Wikileaks.
Seth Rich may be my favorite of them all. "Botched Robbery" ? Please.... Or Assange's proclamation shortly after Rich's death, the 'panda' user/avatar coincidences, the brother, and the speed at which the DNC files were taken pointing not to a intrusive hack from afar but rather a flash drive from inside. And anyone who even asked a question about it was casted as a 'right wing conspiracy' peddler. One after another the scandals appear.
Not to mention he crossed the Clinton’s.
Any VIP who supposedly commits suicide probably didn't.....Look to the movies such as "Michael Clayton" on how they are staged. Even the horrible writer Harold Robbins has a realistic staging in "The Betsy" of the blackmailing friend of the son, pushed out the window, the CIA likes that one, but they can't have too many of the same type. It turns out the famous monk Thomas Merton was assassinated in Thailand in 1968, I have death scene photos that were finally released a few years ago. Clearly a CIA hit, the former CIA assassin later confessed to former priest Matthew Fox who reviewed the recent book on the "martyrdom" of Merton. There was no autopsy.
Army LtCol Theodore “Ted” Westhusing, was the highest ranked American to die in Iraq at the time. He uncovered massive fraud by DOD contractors and just before he was scheduled to head home to present his findings , he supposedly committed suicide. Family and friends reject the suicide story. I knew Ted since the 8th grade. He lived in my neighborhood and our moms were friends. I sincerely doubt he would end his life and leave behind his wife and 3 young children. His mother said he was looking forward to coming home to Oklahoma to see her and his friends and family. Look up on Wiki. Theodore Westhusing.
You think of real suicides and why they happen; someone literally with no hope in their lives, who are dying of terminal diseases or terrible addictions. People just do not kill themselves who have families and who are making real contributions into other people's lives. So the "suicide" death is probably a convenient staged event when they can't kill someone accidentally. Many of the staged deaths in the Gresham novels are accidents or car bombs.
Rule on exposing fraud; never warn the powerful what you are going to do--do it, spring your mine unannounced without warning and make sure it is done right. There is a scene in Michael Clayton where the unstable top attorney calls the CEO to tell her what he is about to do--they have the surveillance team neutralize him before he is able to carry out his threat. Supposedly Marilyn Monroe was about to expose her dirty laundry to the world implicating JFK and her diary in a press conference on Monday morning; she was taken out during the weekend in a "suicide".
This is a link to the article, based on a book that came out around 10 years ago: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9750993/Did-Bobby-Kennedy-murder-Marilyn-Monroe-poison.html
Wow, reading the JFK and the unspeakable book, rn. I would not have known who Thomas Merton was until now. Coincidence? I think not.
Good book, well written unlike some of the others on the assassination such as Roger Stone's. Not sure about the "two Oswald theory" though.
There is a good video of various theories and what Kroth thought really happened by Jerry Kroth a retired CA university communications professor. Actually JFK had strong premonitions that his life would be ended. His was physically in rough shape, dysfunctional adrenals, constant use of upper drugs, many sexual trysts.
Merton was very influential, like MLK, who was likely also the victim of a hit, not the accepted version but more likely a government agency. RFK was apparently an agency hit where Sirhan was the fall guy for a security guard who was a malicious bigot well paid for his role.
Great book and great reference. I read it a decade or so ago after the book first came out. It demands a re-read in light of current events.
Did he have 2 hots in the back of the head and they labeled it a suicide?
Its getting to the point where the intel agencies are just trolling us b/c they know they can do it.
Is this what happened? Who is Colby?
William E Colby was CIA Station Chief in Vietnam in the early 60's and eventually ran the agency from 73-75. He was a controversial figure in US History (see Phoenix Program) but a hero none the less.. From his early OSS days til the work he did at the end, there was no shortage of enemies or motives against him. Much has been written about his life but shockingly little has been written about his death, which is, on its face, is highly suspicious. Tippecanoe and Colby too is a good start.
Thank you! This is fascinating,
Justice Scalia, Andrew Brietbart
Scalia was in poor health, ditto many others. It is surprising that as many people with serious health issues continue to engage in unhealthy behavior.
I can think of one more…Philip Haney..
I'm sure there is more than one Chris.... It will be interesting to see how many ppl ensnared in the various bioweapon webs (Wuhan, Ukraine) commit suicide or die tragically in a car accident. End of the day we are all just spectators.
or of covid or a stroke or heart attack
Jeffrey Epstein…
Do you seriously still believe that those buildings came down because of planes? I'm amazed.
You are nuts.
thanks for the ad hominem,. it could well be, but like this i don't have to believe that jet fuel at 700 deg can melt steel (MP1600 deg). take your pick!
The division of matter into solid, liquid and gas that you learned in elementary school was, I'm sorry to inform you, an oversimplification. Almost all materials change their mechanical properties with temperature particular their shear elasticity. You would not have to reach the melting point to have sufficient mechanical property change to cause the loss of structural integrity.
Exactly. Melting point is wrongly focused on as determinative, it is not. High heat reduces the structural integrity to bear the load above. The pancaking of the towers is visual evidence that load bearing capacity was exceeded.
i don't see that they pancaked. they vaporised.
I patiently await your presentation of the video evidence of such "vaporizing."
Vaporized?? It took them months to cart out all the rubble.
Dude, you're embarrassing yourself.
Correct.
great stuff. i guess the shear elasticity change was also responsible for the transformation of 90k tons of steel and concrete into dust. powerful!!
I worked in WTC 1 103rd-105th Floor for two years until July 2001. We were allowed to smoke cigarettes in the areas on those floors that were stripped down to their girders in preparation for renovation. So I was able to see how the cross beams were attached to the vertical girders that supported the building. Each cross beam was attached to a vertical girder by a flange of about a half inch of steel that was the size of a large index card. As such, if those flanges gave way, the entire cross beam would become un-attached from the vertical girder.
I am not an engineer but it seems to me that those flanges could give way under an intense heat. Thus the heat necessary to dislodge a crossbeam was likely far less than the heat needed to melt a beam or girder. Additionally the weight of a floor supported by crossbeams that had detached from their vertical girders also could be too heavy for the flanges supporting crossbeams on the immediately lower floor to sustain without also becoming detached. That could have created the pancake effect that brought the buildings down.
I am sure that there are other factors involved with a building falling theway the Trade Center buildings fell, but I think the small size of these flanges had something to do with it. I have read that had the crossbeams been attached to the vertical girders with rivets or screws like the old time skyscrapers were built, then the buildings would not have fallen. If so, then these small flanges explain a lot in terms of why andhow the buildings came down.
And WTC 7 ?
Commisso, does the fact that that section of the building had renovations two months prior to the event ever give you pause for thought???
Correct. You are NOT an engineer. You're an over-educated, gullible, naive idiot, & a brainwashed sheeple. Um, with all due respect, my friend....
Ever heard of drywall?
You are digging yourself a hole you may find hard to crawl out of.
The dust was mostly sheetrock and some concrete veneer that comprised the floors being pulverized by the weight of 107 floors in each tower pancaking. Most of the steel was intact after the collapse, albeit twisted from the force of the collapse.
The real questions that I think need to be answered concern the speed at which the buildings fell - especially the first floors to collapse - because that would be a good clue as to whether there were controlled demolitions along the way, or if it was just the increasing weight of pancaked floors that determined the speed of the fall. If caused by solely natural forces, the acceleration of the fall should have increased as the buildings fell. If the acceleratrion was constant through the entire collapse then you know that something other than natural force was involved.
Also, you don't have to believe that the laws of physics stop at the NYC city limits. A steel-framed building does not collapse into its own footprint (after an already burned-out fire in upper floor) without demolition. WTC 7 had only the demolition and no plane. Same explosions and collapse as 1 and 2.
The claim that WTC 7 came down as aresult of the fire on the roof caused by hot debris falling on it from the collapse of WTC 1 never made much sense to me.
"already burned-out fire"... boy - you were not watching the same videos that I saw. The fires were raging up and down a large section of the buildings from the impacts until the collapse.
Re-watch the videos of those WTC fires. They show the opposite of what you wrote. They show a few floors at the top of each building with fires and no fire at all at WTC 7. Same demolition type collapse. Then I recommend seeing video of demolition until the pattern is apparent.
You are totally wrong... at the moment of collapse smoke is still pouring from each tower, and when the collapse starts - fire pours out of the windows - indicating that the fires are still raging at the time of the collapse.
But I'm sure you say that was from the demolition explosion.
I'm never going to convert a true believer - and your arguments are insufficient to convert me... so there we are.
I have no idea what you're talking about but sounds like it is time for me to unsubscribe from your Substack. The melting point of your credibility appears to have been reached.
You may indeed have reached that point. Dismissal of A Levy's concern with ad hominem (that his or her argument is made on elementary school learning) is not a valid explanation of why unheated lower floors collapsed as in other demolition.
Mass and gravity are pretty good explanations.
I made a physics based argument not an ad hominem argument. Sounds like you don't understand much about science or argumentation either.
There are real world examples of regular gas tankers crashing and burning under concrete and steel overpasses where the ensuring fire melted the concrete and steel and brought the overpasses down. You can choose to believe simplistic models that are the equivalent of putting masks on mannequins in lab environments to "prove" that masks stop the spread and infections of airborne respiratory viruses or you can believe real world results that easily debunk them. It's really about you believing what you want to believe rather that pursuits of truth regardless of where it leads.
It didn't have to melt the steel, only soften it. And, how do you know that burning fuel was only 700 degrees? Did you forget about the massive amount of oxygen that would be feeding the fires from the gaping holes in the buildings?
these explanations are getting more ridiculous by the minute. next you'll be telling me that really the buildings were held up by cheese inside the girders. so it all just fell down oh so easily. i hope at least they pay you for posting.
it's worth pointing out that these building were built to withstand multiple planes crashing into them. guess the architects were nuts too.
You're right. Crashing those airplanes with full loads of fuel was probably just a distraction
why did they have full loads of fuel? i thought the journey they were taking only required about a third of the tank full. do airlines put full loads in for shorter journeys?
Such complete nonsense that's easily verified if you had a modicum of actual curiosity.
They were not built to withstand commercial jet airliner strikes. They were built to withstand small, prop aircraft strikes.
Yawn.
The stupidity on this thread is alarming. Colleen Huber is losing a bunch of credibility with her responses. If anyone thinks the twin towers collapsed because of something other than commercial airlines crashing into the buildings, they have lost their Ever-loving minds.
Maybe it was all a hologram? Or Jewish space lasers?
Nope. But the three buildings that were taken down that day used a combination of explosives and other means to get it done.
Here is the crater of one of the many bombs many eye witness said they heard.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/nyregion/22rocks.html
Quoting from the NYT? Ya that’s credible.😑
I suggest you read the article. They claim the craters from the bombs are actually evidence of the ice age that were never noticed before.
I'm going with the JSL theory.
@A Levy- they didn't come down because of the planes. They came down because of the inferior steel melting under the heat. Even Bin Laden, a structural engineer, was amazed.
Exactly!
Thank You Kittynana
Thats one of the stupidest comments I've ever read. Explain Building 7. You CAN NOT. It had SAME construction as twin towers, was NOT HIT, or burned, but collapsed at 5:30, SAME as twin towers. 9/11 was multi-party FALSE FLAG. Why did Official 9/11 Commission Report OMIT Building 7? You can easily prove everything I say here, IF you ever learn to think for yourself.
I see Substack has become the new Facebook
https://www.ae911truth.org/
Now do WTC 7.
Just have to jump in here. Just watched "The Looming Tower" on Hulu. Was interested in which characters were real people vs composite characters. My search (via Bing) led me to a really bizarre (to me) article claiming all three buildings were destroyed by subatomic explosions. And the CIA did it. I stopped reading. Some conspiracy theories are just theories, and some conspiracies exist(ed). Be cautious and analytical, and find proof.
BTW, love both Clancy and le Carre. And John Wells.
Yes, that's exactly what happened and it's easily verified with only a little research and critical thinking.
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.
That's why they always have a spare suit available. Sometimes the depends fail.
You Mean now we all know that Uncle Joey entire family is compromised . This is why none of his Family step up and say that it's time for you to go home now. It's over Uncle Joey. And this goes as well for Anthony Fauci and his wife they are both in over their heads heavily compromised as well. The Elite media has taken Millions of dollars to Push these mRNA shots 1 in 3,500 people have had something happen to them who took these mRNA shots this is unheard of in a true Vaccine.
The Uncle Joey family increasingly looks like one big influence peddling and selling operation and borders on a RICO enterprise
The FBI his Personal PCP have a lot of explaining that needs to be addressed now. Biden should not be in charge of anything in his Medical condition. His Personal doctor needs to explain why he is allowing Uncle Joey continue.
I'm just glad I wasn't in the numerator. So far.
Well if you are blind you doctor is supposed to let the Registry of Motor vehicles now that you are blind and you are not safe for driving.
HEAD OF US INTEL AGENCIES: Hello?
WILSON: Yes this is Mr Wilson over at the Registry of Presidents & Establishment Hacks.
HEAD OF US INTEL AGENCIES: Yes?
WILSON: I'm calling to let you know that your president, a Mr Joe Biden has failed his competency exam and his license to be president is revoked.
HEAD OF US INTEL AGENCIES: Is he still Corrupt Controlled & Owed certified?
WILSON: Yes I believe so.
HEAD OF US INTEL AGENCIES: Then no you aren’t revoking his license. If his license is not restored within 24 hours your wife will receive a package of pics showing where you actually were last Summer when you told her you were at a conference.
WILSON: Forget I called. Everything’s good. Have a nice day sir.
It just depends….
If you live in Disney world or objective reality.
Yeah they really screwed up with covid in many ways from betting big on a virus that wasn't lethal enough to justify their actions (so they had to up sale/market it to the public) to exposure after exposure via zoom/remote learning of what they've been doing to kids and how they rally think when they don't know what they are saying will be shared publicly (ie Disney execs).
As much damage as covid did it very well may be what helps turn the tide simply because of it so exposed much of what's going on.
People know about sexualization's of kids in school
People know about CRT indoctrination
People know the media is as trustworthy as government
People know government at every level is filled with power hungry tyrants who have no issue with destroying peoples lives for some of that sweet sweet emergency powers
People know government and its agencies are in bed with the pharmaceutical industry
People know that these same power mad people have weaponized institutions like licensing boards (ie for doctors) to keep professionals quiet should they pt not to promote the approved narrative
People know that influential organizations like the World Economic Forum really believe we need to reset society to where peasants like us own nothing and where happy 9or else)
People are seeing more and more that Alex Jones wasn't as crazy as they made him out to be
COvid was quiet possible the worst thing that could have happened for those seeking power behind the scenes for it exposed much of what they are doing.
Wow. 2 years ago I would have said you were nuts. Now? Well it is all making sense.
Absolutely WP5! There are far far more awake to the reality you mention after these past two years +
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.
Just look at all the men and women post WW2 who bought the big Pharma and Big Food propaganda and we cannot forget what the Tobacco industry was allowed to do by our so called Government protection agencies. So many senior citizens especially born between 1910 and 1945 were so misled by the corrupt forces evolving. I remember at one time the average senior citizen was on double digit meds. Which means some were taking 15 or more and some 5 or less. These people (like your dad and mine) believed in what their Dr's were telling them without any real pushback
We've had a triumph with my dad and his meds.
25 years ago, he came home from a doctor appointment with a prescription for some cholesterol something. We all thought it was bullshit because Dad ate pretty much the same diet as his mother who lived to be 94 with no major health issues. (She died peacefully in her sleep.)
Dad never filled the prescription. The next year, at his annual appointment, the doctor was DELIGHTED with Dad's cholesterol test.
Now, age 91, Dad takes vitamins...and is still eating essentially the same diet he's always eaten.
BTW, he still has most of his teeth, too.
Excellent story! Should have prefaced the majority of that age group were far too trusting of Pharma and Government in general. That cholesterol rabbit hole was a doozie when Pharma realized that market share and they made incredible profits off that sector alone
Dad's grandparents came from Italy. I'm convinced Italians don't trust any bureaucrats, probably because Italy's government is nuts.
Then there's Dad's lifetime diet with plenty of garlic & olive oil. (Seriously: people who live around the Mediterranean are pretty damned healthy.)
Correct. A Mediterranean is a healthy diet. Good against diabetes, heart disease.
My mother in law is the same. Grew up the daughter of an army General. ULTRA- patriotic and trusting of government. She's coming around, but those sentiments die hard!
How'd you like to talk to an elderly parent about sex...as in Dr. Rachel Levine, who claims to be a woman.
I did this last week with my father, after he asked, "Who the hell is that homely woman I saw on TV?" I explained. His analysis, "Well then, there's something wrong with him. He's just crazy."
Dad used the correct pronouns.
Sad. But you are Not too cynical: funny, but not cynical.
Makes me sad.
About your dad.
OMG...can't stop laughing about the glitter!
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.
Haven’t read the last chapter yet. RFK’s book is truly amazing. And scary
RFK Jr’s book makes yours look like Hop on Pop
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."
Karl is always worth reading. Highly recommend his blog.
I’ve had exactly the same thoughts.
Japanese Unit 731's history in Manchuria and China is also very interesting: https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/Unit_731
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.
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...🤔
Damn. I'd say that should be on the required reading list for Berenson's subscribers.
If "Debt of Honor" was foreboding, "Rainbow Six" was terrifying in the utter "logic" of what it was describing as the potential future. Covid should have resulted in everyone being required to read it while they were being instructed on what to do in response to Covid!
Fortunately, I own a hardback copy of this one. Came out prior to 9-11. Read and reread. It builds on the Ebola bioweapon from the earlier book. The Rainbow 6 team was a multinational counterterror team, brought in to take down and take out terror suspects that seemed to abruptly come out of the woodwork post-fall of the USSR. From the other direction of things, a large pharma/biotech firm was working on a special project, a true believer green/eco group developing and testing a strain of Ebola juiced with cancer cells. They had a plan for delivery of the Ebola worldwide. The hitch was they had to take active measures to make sure that their team was able to access the device they wanted to make delivery, at an Olympic games.
So they came across a former KGB spook who used to work primarily with terrorists back in the day, paying him to reactivate his former "clients" to go back into the field, which accounted for most of the uptick in terror incidents Rainbow 6 dealt with. What they didn't tell the spook was why he was paid (lavishly) to do all this was to manipulate the Olympics host country to hire the front company that planned the Ebloa delivery.
Upon delivery, people at the games would breathe in the bioweapon, then go home all over the world. The bug would incubate, spreading the whole time before people started dropping or feeling sick. This stage, however, was expected to cause the death of a few million.
Big Pharma company would have already developed a vaccine, offering it to the world in a panic over the word and disease "Ebola."
There were two variants of the vax, one was the "A" vax, "the one you don't want to get." It doesn't stop the bug, it enhances and spreads it. The A would be delivered to public health authorities around the world, who would "inject it into every arm they could find."
The B vax was the REAL vax and antidote to the engineered Ebola for the true believers and other "special" save the planet people, with the goal of genocide of 99% of all people. They modeled that the dying off would take a number of months and would be admittedly a hairy time for the co-conspirators.
Amazing characters developed in the book, the one I was most fascinated with his story arc and redemption was the former KGB spook.
I immediately was thinking of this book when learning about and studiously avoiding the mRNA jabs as bioweapons. Lots to think about.
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.
Oh no haven’t seen it but the book is one of the best Clancy books. Sad to hear.
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.
Just rewatching the Planet if the Apes series from the early 2000s, and that involves a aerosolized vaccine for dementia that ends up killing most of humanity. The whole thing seemed very prescient in light of current events.
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.
Politics is just entrepreneurship for ambitious people that prefer power to money. Of course they always use the power to get money, so they never want to give it up.
Rainbow Six is also interesting.
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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Six_(novel) Too bad this first Clancy Rainbow Six was not made into a movie. I read the Wiki and lots of similarities to the Covid.xxxx scenario we are living through.
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.
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.
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.
Agree 100%.
Clancy's books helped restore a lot of respect and pride in the armed forces which took a huge hit as a result of a lot of negative books and movies about the armed services in the Vietnam War.
Exactly right.
John Clark is one of my favorite characters of any book or movie I’ve ever read/seen.
A true American MAN and HERO.
Clark was a true hero.
And his son-in-law Ding 🥰
I think that a Clancy -Silva collaboration would have produced a great read
I have clearly come across a fellow Clancy/Silva “nerd” in the Stack - used to have the same exact thought. In fact Silvia’s early books reminded me of “Clancy-lite.”
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.
Sooo, . . . We need Journalists who believe in Journalism?
Then you're in the right place.
Clancy was always a step ahead. Nicaragua, Russia…
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’.
He did. It's called The Cunt for Red October.
Booyah!
Hate the "c" word, but loved your comment anyway.
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'....
So believe them when they talk about cyber attacks.....
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.
I just wrote about this yesterday!
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/the-covid-years-werent-terrible-for?s=w
At this point I really hope my flat earth friend is right. Then everything will finally make sense.
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.
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
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."
Sounds like what just happened with COVID, but I'm sure the Psy Op that is Wikipedia won't allow one to edit that part in!
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.
https://thehuntfortomclancy.substack.com/ - Highly recommended.
Wow thanks
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.
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...
The one book I tried I gave up on about page 10. a kindle loan from my public library.
Funny...
not
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.
Phew was obsessed with Stephen King as a kid. Brilliant writer but one crazy dude imho.
Pet Semetary - swore off him forever (even before cancel culture)!
Ha ha totally understand.
It is just as plausible that cause and effect are the opposite of that which you propose.
Yup!
Covid outbreak at Wuhan games follows plot of Rainbow 6 and covers crazyness of conspirators
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.
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.
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.
Michael Crichton's State of Fear is a must read, or re-read, in these times as well.
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.
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"
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."
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.
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.
Two other good books in this genre are Frank Herbert's _The White Plague_, 1982, and Terry Hayes's _I Am Pilgrim_, 2013.
It makes me uncomfortable that Tom Clancy and Aaron Sorkin (West Wing) have such huge influence on policy makers.
Alex - most of all I concur with the last paragraph above.
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.
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.