9/11: 2001 to 2012

DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
9/7/2012



The New Year's Eve celebration on Dec. 31, 2000 was drummed up as a very special one.  Man's history was turning not just another year but another century and a new millennium. The year 2001 would begin a new hundred years or century, and 10 of that would end in a New Year's Eve bang toward 3001. Hopes were high in the world as the decade before had been one of massive historical shifts with the end of the Soviet Union and with China's detour toward market-oriented reforms.

But in the Philippines, just 17 days into 2001, a coup against the "dropout" President Estrada was carried out — one that installed an "economist" promising reforms in the form of a diminutive Gloria Arroyo. In the US, too, another change was in the offing as George W. Bush was sworn in as president on Jan. 20 after much electoral and legal wrangle.  In both instances, mainstream failed to read the creeping malevolence beneath the stage-managed "euphoria."

Bush, for one, set the tone for the 21st Century by denouncing the "Axis of Evil" of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea — none of which, it must be stressed, ever invaded his country. Seven years later, Gen. Wesley Clark, in a speech to the Commonwealth Club in Frisco, described what he viewed was "a policy coup" in the weeks after 9/11 by neocons Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and "a half dozen other collaborators from the Project for a New American Century" revealed to him by a fellow officer who said: "We're going to attack and destroy the governments in seven countries in five years… We're going to start with Iraq and then we're going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran."

Iraq has been demolished into perpetual "suicide bombing" of Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds against each other; Afghanistan became a necessary sequel to 9/11's "Hunt Bin Laden" drive; Libya has been reduced to a militia nation; while Syria is being wrecked to open the way to Iran. In the Philippines, the tone for the decade was set by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's speech at the Yellow crowd's coup-plotting Council of Philippine Affairs (Copa)'s fête with military and police generals, "civil society" leaders and media — her co-conspirators in the Edsa II coup. As that "rule of force" of the elite was set in place, the economy and bureaucracy were carved up by power blocks, with the military generals getting their "pabaon" and civilian posts, and the elite getting P10 trillion in profits over the decade (as reported by Arroyo economic adviser Joey Salceda).

Gloria then got the Philippines onboard the "Coalition of the Willing" of Dubya and joined the carnage in Iraq until overseas Filipino worker truck driver Angelo de la Cruz was kidnapped by the Kaleed bin al-Waleed Brigade and later returned in exchange for the withdrawal of the Philippine contingent. Now Arroyo is in and out of prison, spat upon by the Yellow crowd.
Marking the decade, the "War on Terror" has provided justification for the US and global campaign to enforce the "national security state" in US-dominated parts of the world.

Domestically, the US established the Department of Homeland Security. US TV now has a series called "Homeland" about a colonel turned Arab DPA terrorist and a CIA lady out to catch him. "Terror" has led to the reviled TSA (Transportation Security Administration) "total pat down" of airport travelers that includes the grabbing of crotches. In Iraq, the consequence is over a million civilian deaths; a figure the Los Angeles Times reported as far back as 2007. Total Afghanistan war casualties are estimated at 50,000 while Pakistani civilian deaths from US-Afghan drone attacks, suicide- and IED-bombings have reached 35,000. The War on Terror also gave impetus to the numerous anti-money laundering laws in the world.  All these are thanks to Bush and Nobel Peace Prize awardee Barack Obama.

The Sept. 11 tragedy was the most powerful event in television history, according to a new study released Wednesday by Sony Electronics and Nielsen surveying 1,077 American adults — the most "universally impactful" televised moment in 50 years.  
Yahoo reports: "To measure impact, Nielsen and Sony created a score for each event derived by the number of people who viewed the event live, the number who could recall details about where they were during the occurrence, and the number who could remember discussing what happened with others." Conversely, surveys have also been made of what citizens think of the connection of 9/11 to the notion of a conspiracy. In 2006, Zogby Polls found that over 70 million Americans distrusted the official government investigation of the event and supported new investigations. Today, activist Alex Jones reports a survey by Gok NOP with the BBC finding 14 percent of Britons and Americans believing the US government staged the 9/11 attack.

I believe all the evidence that point to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) attacks as an "inside job," with the neocons at the helm (watch YouTube, Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth; Experts speak out). A third building (WTC 7), never hit by a plane and a football field away from WTC 1 and 2, later also collapsed on its footprint at the speed of gravity (i.e. free falling to the ground with no resistance from the floors below). While they have fooled 86 percent of Americans even after 11 years, the ruling cabal, Virginia, can have that fantastic degree of control of events, but truth will always out.

Now, would you wonder why BS Aquino III would defy an alliance with the Catholic Church bequeathed by Cory Aquino on the Reproductive Health bill?  That's Uncle Sam's order, you see. Only a fool would defy it at the risk of Hocus PCOS being exposed by Uncle Thomas.

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