Delusional Ventura Hosts Serial Predatory Skeptic

 "The Moral Arc"?  That's some extreme narcissist bollocks.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel there.

But what else do persons connected to trutherism have left but the fringe of the fringe?  Ventura isn't alone in using dubious associations to promote trutherism.

Manny Badillo was many "truthers" Facebook and Twitter friend in spite of his sex offender status


 

Manny at Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009794138066

[For the record, when I first heard of these charges, it took repeated questions before people finally said, "Yeah, okay, he's probably guilty.".  To which my response was, "WTF? Then why is he still around?"
No good answers were forthcoming... ]

For instance, Bursill has Manny among his fwiends:

https://www.facebook.com/johnbursill/friends

As does Cindy Sheehan:

https://www.facebook.com/cindyleesheehan/friends

[Historical note: Bursill registered to Craig Lazo's defunct forum a couple days before it was deleted to promote an Aussy truth tour, months after starting a thread at truthaction.org claiming to be concerned about Lazo's 'Killtown' disinfo.  Evidence like that I don't publish, but I do keep to give to authorities the next time these sleazeballs push a con.]

Sex Offenders aren't just popular with two faced scammers or people taking photo ops with racists.   Richard Gage roped a guy called DiNatale into pushing his non profit AETruther scam, and either is so far gone he really doesn't see the problem  or believes even the worst publicity is good publicity.

So it's not too much of a shock Ventura doesn't see interviewing a man strongly suspected of sexual predation in the skeptic community as a problem.

What is slightly more surprising is a well known "skeptic" blog run by two fools found it newsworthy:

http://screwloosechange.blogspot.com/2015/12/jesse-ventura-and-michael-shermer.html

'Fools' might sound harsh, but they are either fools or scammers and opportunists if their activities over the years are any indication.  They stopped credible debunking ages ago,  really by early-mid 2007.  There after the blog was little more than copy pasta of other, credible debunkers, with the main course being an amplifier  for "truther" gossip.

The latest blog post is much in the same vein though not as irresponsible as some. JamesB logs in to write it, linking to a video:

"Jesse Ventura and Michael Shermer"

Only a bit on 9/11, but skeptic Michael Shermer and conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Jesse Ventura have what actually is a relatively amiable conversation.

Why this is even slightly newsworthy for skeptics is baffling to me.  As it was blogged 3 days after the interview, it clearly wasn't topical or urgent to anyone.  A search of  "Jesse Ventura and Michael Shermer"
show literally no English language blog besides SLC covered it, not even the usual conspiracy outlets(at least not with that title):

 And why is Shermer still relevant anyway? On Skeptics forum itself are threads detailing Shermer's suspicious relationship with conartist David Cole-stien, as well as the rape allegations.

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=263429&page=118
https://skepchick.org/2015/08/ben-radford-has-threatened-to-sue-me/

What's even more baffling is the SLC bloggers had no problem calling out DiNatalie when  cjnewson pointed out Gage/AETruth's involvement with a sex predator.  They even blogged it.  But Shermer gets a pass.

Hmmm.

It might be because both DiNatale and Badillo were legally convicted as opposed to being convicted in the court of public opinion, which admittedly is very YMMV.  In Shermer's case one could say, well, he's not convicted so he's innocent.  But reading the history this is very unlikely.   Normal, non predatory people do not have a history going back years of predatory behavior.   So even if I don't expect SLC to denounce Shermer, I do expect ethical, responsible people to not give Shermer a platform or publicity.

And while the rape accusations may not be proved in court, Shermer's overly friendly association with Holocaust Denier David Cole is unquestionable thanks to photographic evidence.  Shermer has yet to explain their chumminess TTBOMK.

[This is all aside from another serious issue regarding the SLC blog:  like Mr. Lazo they log into their blog regularly, so, like Mr. Lazo, they have no reason not to clean their blog up.]

Whatever the SLC fools intentions claim to be, giving either Shermer or Ventura publicity isn't helping anyone...except the conspiracy industry they both profit from.

So, unless SLC has a dog in that race, it's an odd choice for an alleged debunking blog. At this point there is no point to discussing trutherism except to expose it--and report its frontmen--as a scam.

9/11 Pentagon Attack Review - American 77

Courtesy of C. Newson.

An excellent blog examining the evidence in the aftermath of the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11.  Refuting most of the so called "theories" of those who would exploit it.

I once doubted a Boeing hit the Pentagon.  I remember the initial reports and, more importantly, the initial images which didn't match up to later accounts.  Perhaps it's the curse of a very good visual memory.   In retrospect the discrepancies are explained by news media making diagrams before they had complete information.  I wish they wouldn't.  A flawed image stays with you and the discrpancies magifiy with time.  And, in the case of the Bush years, were aggravated  by a lack of transparency and accountability .

Of course, the nail in the coffin of the credibility of anyone agressively pushing "flyover" theories was the vicious attacks on Lloyd England, all too reminicent of a cult defending it's dogma.   If one's evidence is solid, or even if one really holds a belief to be true, they don't need to lie to defend it.

An overview of C.Newson's blog:

American Airlines Flight 77 Evidence

The following blog contains a straight forward, easy to follow and to the point list of evidence to show that American Airlines Flight 77, and only American Airlines Flight 77, hit the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.

Table of Contents

• Video Evidence
  - Original Footage (Higher quality and clearer)
  - Still Frames Zoomed In
  - What of the other 85 videos?

• Eye Witnesses
  - Summary of 136 eye witnesses

• Damage to the Pentagon
  - Damage to the Façade
  - Vertical Stabilizer damage from Flight 77
  - Internal Damage

• Damage to Surroundings

• Flight 77's RADAR information
  - Final Radar Track with ATC Audio
  - 84RADES reconstruction with NEADS Audio
  - Last Contact
  - Primary Radar Reconstruction
  - Understanding why AAL77 "dissappeared" from Indianapolis's Radar

• Air Traffic Control Recordings for AAL77

• Arlington County Police Dispatch Call Recording

• The Black Box; AAL77's Flight Data Recorder
  - NTSB Reconstruction
  - Final 4 seconds of FDR information decoded
  - The "Maneuver"; AAL77's final turn and dive
  - Hitting the Pentagon on a full motion Boeing simulator

• High Speed, Low Altitude Performance of Airliners
  - 757 High Speed Fly-by

• Durability of Airliners to handle High Loads & Overspeed
  - Boeing 777 Wing Break Test
  - China Airlines Flight 006
  - Hijacking of Federal Express Flight 705

• Understandings the Speeds Involved
  - 500 MPH Jet vs Concrete Wall

• Passenger DNA Recovered Inside the Pentagon
  - Remains of September 11 Hijackers Held

• Bodies Recovered Inside the Pentagon

• The Pilot Hijacker; Hani Hanjour
  - Commercial Pilot Licence certificate
  - 737 Type Rating Endorsement
  - Flight Experience Summary
  - Security Camera Footage of Hijackers Boarding AAL77
  - AAL77's Original Flight Manifest

• AAL77 Debris Recovered
  - Engine Debris
  - Landing Gear/Undercarriage Assemblies
  - Other Recognisable American Airlines Debris
  - AAL77's Black Box
  - Other Miscellaneous Debris

• AAL77's Time Line
  - Commission Report Except

• Military Response to American 77
  - NORAD Chronology- Langley Scramble Audio- Link to download the tapes for yourself- Clarifying the Record

• The Myths
  - $2.3 Trillion "Missing"?
  - Explaining Norman Mineta's Testimony
  - Dick Cheney Never "in charge" of NORAD
  - NORAD "Stand Down" disproven

• Full Reconstruction of the Flight of American Airlines 77, with ATC and NEADS recordings

• In Summary
  - Final Points
  - Reports of Interest
  - Documentaries of Interest

Read more at:

http://therightbloggerbastard.blogspot.com/

From Russia, With Love--Part 2

Over a week after the controlled dissent Russia Today event, various idiots on Facebook are claiming the Ukrainian protesters are Nazis or anti-semites or some such...(bit ironic as most of the sheeple pushing these memes push a hella mucho anti-semite conspiracy crap):

Oh I see; the west plan to continue with their hypocrisy in complete disregard of the fact that 90% of Crimea wish to secede from the illegally imposed government of Ukraine.

The newly "created" ultra nationalist government of Ukraine wishes to marginalise/victimise ethnic Russians of which the territory of Crimea is predominately made up of. So it is not only the "will of the people" which is normally enough to make any newly forged country legal, it is arguably to prevent a new harsh and deadly reality of a government coming to power which is going to oppress them.

These so called leaders that now say "ILLEGAL" to this vote by a territory's people are so obviously puppets of western corporate and military interests and obviously don't give a flying fk about the safety or the desire of the people of Crimea. Shame on all of you...

Is there any source to these claims?

-90% of Crimea want to secede
-the Ukraine government is "illegally imposed"  
-the Ukraine government is newly "created" and ultra nationalist
-they want to marginalize/victimise Russians

It is doubtful.  Real journalists are getting sick of this disinformation rubbish:

Kiev's protesters: Ukraine uprising was no neo-Nazi power-grab
 
As life returns to normal in Kiev, Luke Harding encounters frustration over Russian claims of a fascist coup 

Luke Harding

The Guardian, Thursday 13 March 2014 16.14 EDT

The Kremlin describes last month's uprising in next-door Ukraine as an illegitimate fascist coup. It says dark rightwing forces have taken over the government, forcing Moscow to "protect" Ukraine's ethnic Russian minority. The local government in Crimea is preparing for a referendum on Sunday which could lead to Russia annexing the region. Yanukovych, meanwhile, has fled to Russia.
Schilling, however, was an unlikely fascist. A father of two daughters, he and his wife Anna had lived in Italy. They had four grandchildren. Moreover, he was Jewish.

Oops.  Not that it's possible to be Jewish and support fascist; that is the purpose of "alibi Jews" promoting anti semitism.  But in this case, it is very unlikely given more compelling reasons for the uprising:

" With Ukraine on the brink of invasion and division, most people in Kiev blame the country's troubles on the former president. "This is Yanukovych's fault," Zhenia, a pensioner, said, surveying the battleground in Institutska Street, where many were gunned down. She was crying.
Nearby, visitors bowed before makeshift brick shrines, some decorated with gas masks and helmets. Others crossed themselves. One child's drawing said: "Eternal glory to the heroes".
According to those who took part in it, the uprising was a broad-based grassroots movement, launched by people fed up with Yanukovych and involving all sections of society. Some demonstrators were indeed nationalists. Others were liberals, socialists and libertarians. There were Christians and atheists. There were workers from the provinces, as well as IT geeks from Kiev more at home with MacBooks than molotovs.
Its victims were a diverse bunch. The first was an ethnic Armenian; another Russian."

Even Russians involved.  Of course Russians are some of the experts on exaclty how corrupt--and manipulative--Russia can be.

"Yanukovych had just announced that he was dumping Ukraine's preparations to sign an association agreement with the European Union."

 Oh, that dastardly European Union!  And now we come to the crux of why  the Tin Foil brigade is being mobilized to defend Russian propaganda:  To fight those New World Order Illumiati Jews.

A brief scanning of the timeline on Wikipedia will show only a delusional fool can insist on believing Russia is only acting to defend ethnic Russians from "oppression ":

On February 24, 2014, Russian Special Forces^[38][39] without insignia arrived^[40] on the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. They seized control of the Crimea region.^[41]

Russian authorities disputed that the forces were Russian military.[42

If they're there to protect ethnic Russians, then why was Russia slow to admit to the action?

Putin Says Those Aren't Russian Forces In Crimea
 --
Russian soldiers have not occupied government buildings and surrounded Ukrainian military bases on the Crimean Peninsula, Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted Tuesday during a news conference near Moscow at which he gave an account of recent events that contradicts reports from the ground.
Instead, he told reporters that the heavily armed men are "local self-defense forces."
What's more, anything Russia has done, Putin said without offering specifics, has been part of a "humanitarian mission" to protect ethnic Russians in Crimea.
--
In Kiev, Kerry seemed surprised by a reporter's question about Putin's remarks earlier Tuesday.
"He really denied there are troops in Crimea?" he asked, interrupting the question.

Ah, a non denial, denial:  "We didn't do it, but if we are doing it, it's because of a noble cause."
The idea that Russia is "protecting " anyone, is right out of Putin's mouth:

A statement from the Kremlin said Putin emphasized to Obama the existence of “real threats” to the life and health of Russian citizens and compatriots who are in Ukrainian territory. The statement indicated that Russia might send its troops not only to the Crimea but also to predominantly ethnic Russian regions of eastern Ukraine.
“Vladimir Putin emphasized that, in the case of a further spread in violence in eastern regions (of Ukraine) and Crimea, Russia maintains the right to protect its interests and the Russian-speaking population that lives there,” the Kremlin statement said.

Obama even diplomatically  pretends he thinks Putin is not lying, and offers a saner solution:

Obama told Putin that he would support sending international monitors to Ukraine to help protect ethnic Russians.

From the DUH files.    

Comments in the Guardian article get quite fiesty and on point regarding the blatant propaganda:

Polvilho BlikSnyman

14 March 2014 9:48am

I'm also starting to suspect that Russia is pulling a Koch brothers stunt.

Oh, they've been doing it for years. Witness the comments below the line on any of the recent articles about Russia's homophobic legislation.

I really don't understand what they're trying to achieve. NO ONE takes any notice of the bottom half of the internet.

Do they send a report back to the FSB "We have successfully infiltrated a small cohort of bored office workers and shut-ins with our propaganda. Victory to Mother Russia!".

Substitute "small cohort of bored office workers and shut-ins" with washed up "truthers" on Facebook pinning for the glory days, and they nailed it fair and square.

That veteran webwarriors from the "Truth" movement are pushing Putin's propaganda is depressing, but not unexpected.  Russia Today embracing "truther" stories almost from day one was always suspect.   I personally believe the people who run Russian Today also know the "truth" movement is a fraud.  But maybe they think they're demoralizing the USA by having conspiracy bobble heads claim the US government is run by Jews?  

If so, they didn't understand exactly how fringe the "truth" movement is.  If Russia Today had reached market penetration no later than 2004, maybe 2006, things might have been different.  Hell,they might have done some good by sheer force of "dumb luck", by say promoting the Feal Good foundation.   

But RT didn't get traction pushing "truther"/Ron Paul news until 2009, and the writing was already on the wall for the "truth" movement.  Any potential critical mass of Americans to manipulate to undermine the presidency or American politics to the tune of Russian propaganda had long since left by 2007-2008.

One last thing:  I'll just put this here:

Russia Today Drops All Pretense Of Editorial Independence, Publishes Pro-Putin Propaganda

When Russia Today launched in 2005, its operators insisted that despite being funded by the Russian government, the news outlet would function independently of Moscow. The channel even rebranded to simply RT in 2009 to avoid being seen as an entirely Russian news network.

 On Wednesday, however, RT seemingly dropped all pretense of being editorially independent, by praising Russian President Vladimir Putin’s highly controversial annexation of Crimea.

This can't end well.

American Freedom Party in Oregon: Return of the Nazis

Now that the extreme conspiracy front groups for organizing racists while posing as leftists have all but been demolished by antifascists in Oregon, the White Pride people now must fall back on being "out and proud" about it:

Meet the Oregon Chapter of the American Freedom Party: Part One

01/12/2014

The American Freedom Party (AFP) is a nationwide white supremacist organization that markets itself as an upstanding, family-friendly, and nonviolent political party by portraying white people as an oppressed group, and themselves as an advocacy organization similar to the NAACP. However, locally, they have embraced a number of white power veterans with histories of race-based violence and murder, such as Kyle Brewster. Scratch the surface and it is apparent that AFP is a fascist party with an extermination agenda.   

AFP uses tactics and rhetoric borrowed from the activist left and libertarian right as part of their work to build a white nationalist political party. AFP is part of a fascist tradition known as Third Positionism. Third Positionism presents itself as a new, ‘third” alternative to both right and left-wing politics by advancing hard-right ideas through adopting and deploying radical left signifiers in ways that confound mainstream expectations for what the right looks like; an example of this is utilizing environmentalist framing to promote neo-Eugenicist policies. However, rather than being a new dimension of political thought, Third Positionism actually harkens back to the very origins of fascism--in Mussolini’s Italy, populist trappings were paradoxically used to crush the working class.

For reader reference the American Freedom Party is a renamed and re-branded American Third Position party.    The banner style matches the old banner found at Wikipedia, where the racist leanings are dead obvious:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Freedom_Party

The American Freedom Party (formerly the American Third Position Party or A3P) is a third positionist American political party which promotes white supremacy.^[1][2][3][4] It was officially launched in January 2010^[5] (although in November 2009 it filed papers to get on a ballot in California) partially to channel the right-wing populist resentment engendered by the financial crisis of 2007–2010 and the policies of the Obama administration.^[6]

Compare banners:

They're not really trying too hard to hide their roots...

Extreme Makeover: Nazi Edition

Shortly after the collapse of the fleeting Golden State Party, on October 15th of 2009, Freedom 14 held a meeting to elect a new leader and a new party name. The leader they chose was William Daniel Johnson and it was then that they became known as American Third Position (A3P).  Officially launched on January 4th, 2012 A3P’s website stated that they were, "both a political party and activist organization dedicated to the interests vital to the preservation and continuity of ethnic European communities within the United States of America." This new description was a more focused and sophisticated version of GSP’s original statement of purpose.

In February of 2012, as a part of #OpBlitzkrieg, which targeted various Neo-Nazi organizations around the world, members of the Anonymous Movement hacked A3P's website as well as forums and email accounts connected to the group. One year later, on February 1st, 2013, A3P announced that they would be changing their name to the American Freedom Party, though their "passionate defense of freedom," as well as their platform and values would remain the same.

Even though the Golden State Party has changed their name and leadership multiple times, their affiliations have remained the same. In a photo posted on October 31st to AFP’s Facebook page, Tyler Cole (left) is seen standing next to current party directors Tom Sunic (center) and Kevin B. McDonald (back) at a conference in Washington D.C. for the National Policy Institute (NPI), a white nationalist think tank “dedicated to the heritage, identity, and future of European people in the United States, and around the world.”

The passage highlighted refers to a tactic most 911 "Truth" groups use, especially when a member is caught in an indiscretion.   But it's the associations that will out them; that's what happened to "Killtown" Lazo's group, when their reach exceeded their grasp.  

And speaking of 911 "truth":

Circular Logic: “Anti-Racist is a Code for Anti-White”

“Anti-Racist is a Code for Anti-White” is the mantra of the American Freedom Party. AFP promulgates the idea that people that oppose racism are actually trying to destroy the white race. This idea alchemizes anyone promoting anti-racism into an enemy bent on destroying whites, which proves the existence of the anti-white conspiracy. The use of the word ‘code’ is deliberate--it implies dishonesty and a secret agenda, and portrays anti-racists as liars, misinformation agents of the imaginary “Zionist Occupational Government,” or ZOG, an ever-popular theory among white supremacists.

Conspiracy theories have their origins in very old antisemitic narratives. Jews are called “bankers,” “Rothchilds,” or “Illuminati” in contemporary adaptations. The 911 Truth Movement and swaths of the Occupy movement both disseminated narratives that blended populism with antisemitism. Conspiracy theory catches hold where there is a twinkle of political consciousness, but still a strong incentive or desire to maintain the existing order. In the case of AFP, the hope is that white men will once again have easy access to decent, middle class lifestyles once the underhanded oppressors are overthrown. The truth is that poor white people are being exploited and screwed over, but it isn’t by a secret anti-white cabal. Poor white people are being screwed over alongside everybody else by the horrors of a capitalist system which sees people only as resources to use up and throw away. People sense that they are being lied to in the mass media, and that there is some hidden danger lurking. Unfortunately this gets redirected by white nationalists onto people they view as enemies, rather than at the systems that are actually oppressing them.  

I don't know how many times I've read that bollox "anti racist is code for anti white".  Please, could you people all just GDIAF?    

This is where it gets grim, er, grimmer.  Because one of the fronts of the fake activist 9/11 groups, while claiming to be anti-racist, published links to PressTv coverage of American Third Position Merlin Miller without outcry:

http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ten-years-of-september-elevens/conversations/topics/167

Roy McCoy

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That's news to me, and my first occasion to possibly regret not voting this year - though, er, maybe not (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Third_Position_Party).

There is objection about Roy regretting not voting for a racist party, while linking to a racist fake news propaganda outlet.  This is hypocritically contrary to the list's supposed prohibition against promoting racist content, Roy's "maybe not" cutsiness notwithstanding:

 

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This group will have no tolerance for any forms of bias and discrimination in the form of racism, sexism, homophobia, or other prejudice on the basis of faith, religion, language, origin, ability, age, sexuality, spirituality, geographical origins.

We invite you to join us and help us make an efficient and productive exploration of the Truth and its applications toward the Global Liberation of humanity.

But it gets better.  Reader can follow the links to Rose City Antifa to learn more about the white power wankers.   Right now we're going to examine what happened to the PressTV link Roy shared, because it disappeared :

Perhaps because they were promoting American Third Position's white power candidate Merlin Miller(highlighted in red, along with the author blaming the Jews for 911) from archive of the same page:

[Apologies for Tl;Dr, but if they care enough to delete it, their racist record should be dragged back into the light of day]

 

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By Kevin Barrett

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been vilified in the Western media for daring to imagine “a world without Israel.”

But according to news reports, Henry Kissinger and sixteen American intelligence agencies agree that in the near future, Israel will no longer exist.

The New York Post quotes Kissinger “word for word”: In 10 years, there will be no more Israel.

Kissinger's statement is flat and unqualified. He is not saying that Israel is in danger, but could be saved if we just gave it additional trillions of dollars and smashed enough of its enemies with our military. He is not saying that if we elect Netanyahu's old friend Mitt Romney, Israel could somehow be salvaged. He is not saying that if we bomb Iran, Israel might survive. He is not offering a way out. He is simply stating a fact: In 2022, Israel will no longer exist.

The US Intelligence Community agrees, though perhaps not on the precise 2022 expiration date. Sixteen US intelligence agencies with a combined budget over USD70 billion have issued an 82-page analysis titled “Preparing for a Post-Israel Middle East.”

The US intelligence report observes that the 700,000 Israeli settlers illegally squatting on land stolen in 1967 - land that the entire world agrees belongs to Palestine, not Israel - are not going to pack up and leave peacefully. Since the world will never accept their ongoing presence on stolen land, Israel is like South Africa in the late 1980s.

The extremist Likud coalition governing Israel, according to the US intelligence report, is increasingly condoning and supporting rampant violence and lawlessness by illegal settlers. The report states that the brutality and criminality of the settlers, and the growing apartheid-style infrastructure including the apartheid wall and the ever-more-draconian system of checkpoints, are indefensible, unsustainable, and out of synch with American values.

The sixteen US intelligence agencies agree that Israel cannot withstand the coming pro-Palestinian juggernaut consisting of the Arab Spring, the Islamic Awakening, and the rise of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In the past, dictatorships in the region kept a lid on the pro-Palestinian aspirations of their people. But those dictatorships began to topple with the fall of the pro-Israel Shah of Iran in 1979 and the establishment of a democratic Islamic Republic, whose government had little choice but to reflect its people's opposition to Israel. The same process - the overthrow of dictators who worked with, or at least tolerated, Israel - is now accelerating throughout the region. The result will be governments that are more democratic, more Islamic, and far less friendly to Israel.

The US intelligence community report says that in light of these realities, the US government simply no longer has the military and financial resources to continue propping up Israel against the wishes of more than a billion of its neighbors. In order to normalize relations with 57 Islamic countries, the report suggests, the US will have to follow its own national interests and pull the plug on Israel.

Interestingly, neither Henry Kissinger nor the authors of the US Intelligence Report give any sign that they are going to mourn the demise of Israel. This is remarkable, given that Kissinger is Jewish and has always been viewed as a friend (if occasionally a tough friend) of Israel, and that all Americans, including those who work for intelligence agencies, have been influenced by the strongly pro-Israel media.

What explains such complacency?

Americans who pay attention to international affairs - a category that surely includes Kissinger and the authors of the Intelligence Report - are growing fed up with Israeli intransigence and fanaticism. Netanyahu's bizarre, widely-ridiculed performance at the United Nations, where he brandished a cartoonish caricature of a bomb in such a way that he himself came across as a caricature of a “mad Zionist,” was the latest in a series of gaffes by Israeli leaders who seem prone to overplaying their hand.

A second factor is the festering resentment many Americans feel over the Israel Lobby's imperious domination of public discourse. Every time a well-known American journalist is fired for going “off-script” about Israel, as happened to Helen Thomas and Rick Sanchez, a mostly-invisible backlash, like a tidal wave rippling beneath the surface of the ocean, grows in power. And every time the Israel lobby slaps down someone like Maureen Dowd, who recently observed that the same Israel-fanatics who dragged the US into the Iraq war are now trying to do the same thing with Iran, the more people begin to wake up and realize that people like Dowd, Thomas, and Sanchez are speaking the truth.

A third reason for complacency in the face of Israel's impending demise: The American Jewish community is no longer united in support of Israel, much less its Likudnik leadership. Sophisticated Jewish journalists and analysts like Philip Weiss are recognizing the insanity of Israel's current leadership and the hopelessness of its predicament. According to recent reports, it is no longer fashionable among young American Jews to care about Israel. And despite Netanyahu's frantic attempts to sway Jewish voters toward the Mormon Likudnik Mitt Romney, polls show that Obama, who is on record saying he “hates” the “liar” Netanyahu, will easily win the majority of Jewish votes.

Finally, we come to the least obvious - but most powerful - reason for Kissinger's and the CIA's complacency in the face of Israel's implosion: The inexorable trickle-down of knowledge that Israel and its supporters, not radical Muslims, carried out the 9/11 false-flag attacks.

Increasingly, it is not fringe anti-Semitic groups, but high-level responsible observers, who are saying this. Alan Sabrosky, the half-Jewish former Director of Strategic Studies at the US Army War College, has come on my radio show to say that he has discussed with his colleagues the “100% certainty” that Israel and its supporters did 9/11. And Alan Hart, the former lead BBC correspondent for the Middle East (and personal friend of Golda Meir and Yasser Arafat) has also come on my radio show to break the story that he, too, knows that Israel and company orchestrated 9/11.

Today, we even have a presidential candidate, Merlin Miller, who is on the record stating that Israel, not al-Qaeda, carried out the 9/11 attacks.

The chief purpose of 9/11 was to “seal in blood” an intense, unbreakable emotional bond between the US and Israel, in a desperate bid to assure Israel's survival by launching a long-term US war against Israel's enemies. As the “dancing Israelis” arrested for celebrating the 9/11 operation tried to convince the police: “Our enemies are your enemies. The Palestinians are your enemies.”

But more and more Americans, including the US intelligence community as a whole, now recognize that the enemies of Israel (the entire Muslim world of over 1.5 billion people, along with most of the non-European world) do not have to be the enemies of the United States. In fact, the US is going broke and sacrificing thousands of lives in wars for Israel - wars that damage, rather than aid, US strategic interests. (One of those interests, of course, is buying oil and gas from stable, cooperative governments.)

As the recognition grows that 9/11 was not a radical Islamic attack, but an act of dastardly, bloody treason by supporters of Israel, it will become ever-easier for American policy makers, following in the footsteps of Kissinger and the sixteen intelligence agencies, to recognize the obvious: Israel has reached the end of its shelf-life.

KB/HGH

 

 The views expressed in this article are those of the author and not necessarily those of Press TV.

Sure they're not.  And I suppose they have a used bridge to sell as well.

It's now well known PressTV is an Iranian outlet for spreading anti Semitic propaganda to an English speaking audience:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_TV_controversies

Press TV has been the subject of several controversies. The station has been criticised for its uncritical embrace of provocative stances. For British journalist Nick Cohen the station is "a platform for the full fascist conspiracy theory of supernatural Jewish power"^[1] and for commentator Douglas Murray it is the "Iranian government’s propaganda channel".^[2]

So it's no wonder Merlin and the Iranian president hit it off so well:

 In September 2012, Miller met with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad for nearly 20 minutes and discussed a number of issues, including what both Miller and Ahmedinejad view as the "Zionist-controlled media" in the West.

Isn't that sweet.  But can't imagine why Merlin Miller has been deleted from the Presstv website. *innocent*