Gage, Barrett and Farrakhan: Together At Last

It's the trifecta of nuttery!  Gage is going to appear at the Nation of Islam's annual convention to tell them that Muslims didn't do 9-11:

The plenary session, hosted by Southwestern Regional Representative of the Nation of Islam Robert Muhammad, will separate fact from fiction answering tough questions such as: “Was 9/11 an inside job?” and “Does America have a history of false flag operations?”

Information will be presented by members of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth as they deliver historical narratives, and technical knowledge to those at Saviours’ Day and watching throughout the world via internet.

Richard Gage, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth told The Final Call he is looking forward to presenting the fact regarding 9/11 to those gathered.

“We’re excited to bring this information to a group of people who have already been primed for it by in this case the Minister,” said Mr. Gage. “He’s taken some very courageous stands for 9/11 truth and so we’re honored to come and speak to what I understand may be up to three thousand people at one time, which is about five times larger than any group of people we’ve ever spoken to. So we’re delighted that the information will get out all at once to that many people and live streaming as well to many times that many people.”

 BTW, check out the latest craze for Farrakhan, who has dabbled in numerology in the past:

Last year, Minister Farrakhan announced to the world that he found something in the technology of auditing developed by Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Many members of the Nation of Islam embarked on the journey to study beneficial aspects of Scientology with hundreds becoming Certified Hubbard Dianetics Auditors.

Sounds like Gage will find a ready audience for his swill, and perhaps some more sustaining members to keep the money flowing into Box Boy's bank account.

And yes, I suspect there will be the requisite Jew-bashing:

Dr. Leonard Jeffries is a panelist for the Feb. 24 Plenary Sesson "Business is Warfare: The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews."

 The book's subtitle is "How Jews Gained Control of the Black American Economy".  Note that it is Volume II; Volume I claims that Jews were behind the slave trade.

Henry Louis Gates Jr, head of the department of Afro-American studies at Harvard University, called the book "the Bible of new anti-Semitism" and added that "the book massively misinterprets the historical record, largely through a process of cunningly selective quotations of often reputable sources"

 I am reliably informed that Barrett will be featured in the 9-11 Denial section.

Sibel Edmonds: Jews Run the USA

I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you to learn that Sibel is parroting the usual anti-Semitic tropes.

Are the elections results of US presidential elections determined by 2% of the population? Can the five million or so Jewish population be counted as the US majority? Does the Israel lobby shape the majority of US voters’ decisions? Is Israel the main determinant of political elections’ results when it comes to high US public offices? I don’t know your take or answers to these questions, but we do have ‘theirs, on the record, loud and clear, and of course, delivered with hubris and cockiness:

Her proof? Well, an article in the Jerusalem Post notes that some rabbi in Israel claims that Obama's reelection depends on whether or not he releases Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard from prison.

Of course, the rabbi is blowing it out his hindquarters. For one thing, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush managed to get reelected without releasing Pollard. Indeed, Sibel acknowledges this in the comments, but look how she phrases it:

For example: Pollard remained inside through several presidents, and ’some’ got reelected;-)

"Some"? Sibel is clearly trying to imply that the one that didn't, George Bush, Sr., lost because he failed to pardon Pollard. Never mind that, as Wikipedia's page on Pollard notes, the first Israeli effort to free Pollard came during Clinton's first term.

Sibel goes on to make the usual claim about how the Jews control the media:

Click here if you want to read the report detailing how ‘they’ successfully control, direct and shape American media.

Alex Jones: No Tolerance for Anti-Semitism?

At least, that's what Rolling Stone assured its readers in its coverage of the Truther In Chief in the article James linked last week:

Unlike many of his conspiracy-minded predecessors — Henry Ford, the Ku Klux Klan, the militia movement — Jones has no tolerance for racism or anti-Semitism. "There is no globalist command center, and I never make it about certain groups," says Jones, whose wife is of Jewish descent and whose adopted sister Marley is Asian-American. "All humans do the same stuff. Class solidarity should transcend race and religion in the fight against the globalists. Everything they touch turns to mutated death."

Perhaps the writer, Alexander Zaitchik, just took Old Leatherlungs' word for it? Because emailer Jonathan Leman just pointed out to me that Jones sure seems to tolerate some anti-Semitic nonsense on his site. Like this:

The other subtext is that Jews (and Israelis), who are prominent in the banker-run New World Order, are special people, incapable of wrongdoing and immune to criticism. Anyone who opposes their political agenda is a Nazi.

And this:

Jews think Israel was created as a refuge from anti Semitism. In fact, the Jewish holocaust was engineered to induce Jews to build Israel, intended as the capital of the New World Order.

"Inside Zionism", Chapter One of Jewish historian Alfred Lilienthal's The Other Side of the Coin (1965) documents how Zionists had no use for their fellow Jews except as Israelis. Zionists vetoed plans to rescue people like Hana Brady. For example, FDR had a plan to rescue 500,000 Jews but said: "We can't put it over because the Zionist movement won't stand for it."

The same author previously wrote an article for Jones' site on how the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was not a forgery.

We are told that The Protocols of Zion is a hoax, a "proven forgery" concocted by the Tsarist Political Police (the Okhrana) to incite anti Semitism and discredit revolutionaries.

But the "proof" is far from convincing.

With Jewish bankers coming up, can the Jewish-run media be far behind? Nope:

As Jewish-dominated media increasingly persuades the public and government to agree with this stereotype, it will become easier to pass Christian-restricting hate crime laws. All who adhere to the Bible on homosexuality or Jewish complicity in Christ’s death could be subject to state-sponsored prosecution.

None of these articles were written by Alex himself. But they are clearly tolerated on his website. Several of them were written by Henry Makow, who is third on the list of Independent Contributors to Prison Planet, after Alex himself and top flunky Paul Watson.

Who Is Payday Monsanto?

Or, it just wouldn't be a Troof-fest without Jew-bashing. One of the "acts" scheduled for Jon Gold's upcoming "Treason in America" event is Payday Monsanto. As you can probably guess, his music is the usual paranoid stew that we see from the kooks every day; chemtrails, the New World Order, etc. And yes, the requisite "anti-Zionism". Here's just a sample:

Or this image:

The World Without Zionism was the title of a conference held by that great humanitarian, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


Payday's friends on MySpace include the trifecta of stupid: Alex Jones, Charlie Sheen and Jesse Ventura:


He's what we could call a crapper:


I wonder if Time Magazine's Person of the Year for 2002 knows the kind of people she's going to be associated with at this confab.

Kudos to our commenter, New Yorker, for pointing this out. Great find!

David Ray Griffin Hosted in Sweden by Anti-Semites

This is a bit old, but I have been so busy I haven't had a chance to get around to going through all of it. Plus much of it is in Swedish as it was sent to me by a Swedish reader who was kind enough to translate parts for me, so I have been trying to figure out how to write about it effectively.

On May 11th of this year, David Ray Griffin, the retired theologian and infamous corruptor of history spoke in Stockholm, Sweden at a speech hosted by his Swedish publisher Alhambra. In fact Hesham Bahari, from Alhambra introduced him. You can find various videos of the actual speech, but it is pretty much Griffin's stock speech which he has given dozens of times already. What is more interesting is who his friends at Alhambra are.

Well, from Bahari himself:

"Judarna genom sitt enorma inflytande över USA:s inrikes- och utrikespolitik måste betecknas som den stora segraren efter Andra världskriget."

Which translates as:

"The Jews, with their enormous influence over US domestic and forign policy, must be regarded as the big winner of the second world war."

Ahh, but apparently Mr. Bahari is willing to give the Jews another chance.

"Men judarna har fortfarande en chans: att ta avstånd från Israels politik och från sionismen är räddningen."

"But the Jews still have a chance: Dissociation from the politics of Israel and Zionism is their only way out."

What he proposes for them as an option, I don't really want to know.

Lasse Wilhelmson, who is listed as one of the contacts for Griffin's speech, has some even more offensive statements here and here.

“Judefientlighet har det funnits genom historien. Men ofta är det så att det är judarna själva som genom sitt eget beteende har framkallat den.”

"There has been hostility towards Jews throughout history, But often it is the Jews who have brought on themselves through their actions."

"Historiska fakta är att den så kallade världsjudendomen förklarade krig mot Tyskland redan 1933 [...] Denna krigsförklaring innebar ju att judarna i Tyskland på goda grunder blev betraktade som presumtiva landsförrädare av Hitler.

"It is a historical fact that world Jewry declared war on Germany already in 1933 [...] This declaration of war led to the Jews being rightfully regarded by Hitler as potential traitors."

“Allting med Förintelsen är heligt. Det får inte ifrågasättas. Siffran 6 miljoner är helig. Redan på 20-talet pratade sionister på Wall Street om 6 miljoner judar som skulle dö. Siffran kommer därifrån.”

"Everything regarding the Holocaust is Holy. It must not be questioned. The number 6 million is holy. Already in the 20's Zionists on Wall Street spoke of 6 million Jews who would die. The number comes from there."

I could go on, but it is apparent what type of characters Mr. Griffin was hanging out with.

Update: Incidentally, all the credit for this work goes to Jonathan Leman, who has spent quite a bit of time researching all this. He runs a Swedish language blog, focusing mainly on the topic of anti-Semitism at http://jonathanleman.blogspot.com/.

Cynthia McKinney and Daryl Bradford Smith

Wow, if you need to get your quota of "Jews and Zionists did 9-11", it's all here in this incredible interview between McNutty and McNumbnuts.

Learn that:

70% of the Bush Administration was Jewish.
70% of the Barry Soweto Administration is Jewish (for those unaware, there is a kooky theory that Obama's real last name is Soetero, because that was the name of his adoptive father for a few years when he was a kid. But Smith even blows the pronunciation of the name, claims to have seen a birth certificate with that name on it, which would be quite a bit of news to the Birthers, and then piles hilarity on hilarity by saying that he got that name from Obama's Kenyan grandmother. Earth to Smith: Obama's Kenyan grandmother is Grandma Obama.)
Janet Napolitano is Jewish. Yep, that clever Italian name didn't fool Daryl for a moment.

Of course, the most ridiculous part is that McKinney has any reputation left to soil by appearing on Holocaust Denier and all-around anti-Semite DBS's radio show. Adam Holland has been covering McNinney's nonsense for those of us who haven't been paying attention.

Troof Creep

Well, I am back from the Secret European Bilderberg conference. We finally decided who the next president is going to be. I can't tell you of course, but let me just say, Michelle Shouldn't be picking out any new drapes yet...

I was able to follow the blog on my PDA, but I am still trying to catch up to the nutters in general. One thing I was a bit surprised to see was how much attention was being given in the troof movement to the Russian invasion of Georgia, with over a dozen posts on 911 Blogger, and even more on Alex Jones' Prisonplanet.

I have always found it ironic that while the conspiracy theorists constantly claim that they are the victim of some neo-fascist police state trying to eliminate any opposition, they often support countries that actually are like this (paging Hugo Chavez).

In the numerous troofer articles I have seen on this, I have not seen single one, which did not take the side of Russia in this conflict, most of which uncritically accept the word of the Russian side, as portrayed in their press. Ironically, the troofers, who claim that the mainstream media can not be trusted, and that even such benign sources as Popular Mechanics are in fact fronts for the neo-facist state, uncritically accept such Russian media sources as the increasingly inaccurately named Pravda, which has accomplished the amazing feat of actually having a decrease in respectability since the days when it was merely the propaganda mouthpiece of the Soviet Communist Party. In the Reporters Without Frontiers survey of freedom of the press, Russia ranked a less-than-stellar 144 out of 169 countries. Just ask Anna Politkovskaya what happens to Russian reporters who criticize the government.

Also amazing is the complete lack of Russian conspiracy theories. Russia managed to invade Georgia with an army of over 60,000 soldiers, less than 2 days after the onset of conflict. Where are the claims of a Russian "false-flag" operation, which we are told is the cause of every military conflict on the modern era? Where is Alex Jones, claiming that Russia had secretly stationed 40,000 troops in "Uzbeakistan" months before the war started?

The most bizarre troofer post I have seen on this actually is a conspiracy theory, not involving Russia, but the US and the Jews (who else) by none other than the self-styled Tony Stark of the truth movement himself, Karl Schwarz. I found out about this article in an e-mail forward from Kevin "I swear I am not a Holocaust denier" Barrett, ironically.

Uh...here's a hint to President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili ­ do not piss-off a Russian bear if you do not want to end up fighting it. Every other nation in that region of the world, including Armenia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan have figured out they can trust the New Russia a hell of a lot more than they can trust the US or the Zionist zhids of Israel. Also, none of those nations consider themselves as 'European' nations.

Yeah, this is definitely a Georgie W. Bush plan that failed the moment he dreamed it up. Yet another very nasty, dirty diaper. More dead people, no secure pipeline. In fact, the only pipeline through Georgia and the only oil port and now piles of trash.

As a bit of an aside, Schwarz leaves no question of where he stands in the schema of anti-Semitism with this subsequent article on the subject.

As I explained in a recent article, the Russian word 'zhid' is many times worse than using the 'N' word for a Black in America.

Its literal meaning is along the lines of 'piece of shit Zionist Jew' - and NO the Russians do NOT apply the term to ALL Jews, and neither do I. Russians firmly differentiate between pious Jews of good heart and intent, and murderous lying deceitful Zionist thugs - who were, as we now know, directly responsible for a key role in the WWII suffering of their own alleged brethren. See the writings of the brave WWII Rabbi Michael Dov Weissmandl here:

They started using that word after about 30 million Russians had been slaughtered by Russian Zionist zhid communists and then lost another 20 million in World War II. Imagine that ­ 50 million dead at the hands of Zionist zhids...and yet they rant and whine like psychotic little bitches about 6 million they cannot document and about which they refuse all efforts to scientifically, academically investigate their claims about that number 'lost' in that alleged nightmare during WWII.

When You Lie Down With Dogs

Don't be surprised if nobody wants to invite you to the dinner table. I haven't covered HR1955 much around here, because unlike the kooks, I know it won't affect them. But while discussing hate and pro-terrorism groups, a representative of the Simon Wiesenthal Center included Richard Gage's nutty group, the Architects & Engineers for 9-11 Crackpottery. The shrieks of anguish have not died out yet. The Wiesenthal Center also apparently monitors 911truth.org.

Now for the most part, those places have not been hotbeds for the particularly nasty form of 9-11 Denial which rails against the "Zionists". But they have also made insufficient efforts to remove these influences from their midst. For example, 911truth.org features at least one article by Holocaust Denier and fugitive Christopher Bollyn.

Many of the movement's most cherished "facts" come from Bollyn, which is why David Ray Griffin seems to be unable to publish a paper or a book without citing Bollyn.

Any possible doubt about the statement's meaning was reportedly dispelled by Christopher Maletz, assistant director of PNAC. Christopher Bollyn says that when he asked Maletz what was meant by the need for "a new Pearl Harbor," he replied: "They need more money to up the defense budget for raises, new arms, and future capabilities," and neither the politicians nor the military would have approved "without some disaster or catastrophic event." Christopher Bollyn, "America 'Pearl Harbored,'" American Free Press, updated April 12, 2004.

There are also lots of mentions of Holocaust Denier Eric Hufschmid at that site as well. Even when they acknowledge that they don't endorse him, they can't denounce him:

Eric Hufschmid, Painful Questions (2001). A fascinating but highly speculative wild card - no direct endorsement here.

And of course Holocaust Denier Kevin Barrett gets laurels from that site.

Having won his initial battles with rightwing censors in the Wisconsin legislature, 9/11 truth champion Kevin Barrett continues to stoke illuminating controversey (sic) at the university and in the local press.

(Bolding added for emphasis).

AE911Truth is a little more circumspect, but you don't have to poke around long to find some goofy stuff. Like Judith Ann Clayton's member page, where she notes:

911 was an inside job. Our government was not simply aware, but deeply involved with all phases as was Israel.

Gee, I can't imagine how the Wiesenthal Center could find that objectionable!

More, Please!

We have hammered the 9-11 Troofers for their continued association with Holocaust Deniers and other disreputable characters. So it is only fair to note when somebody makes an effort to clean house.

By no means do all believers in either the “Illuminati” or demonized “bankers” hate Jews. Many do not. Some are even Jews themselves. However, these ideologies are historically intertwined with and closely parallel classic Jew-hating myths. For example, some anti-Illuminists have claimed that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Jewish forgery, is entirely true and accurate if you just substitute “Illuminati” for “Jews.” And a lot of the rhetoric we’ve been hearing in the alternative media about the Federal Reserve System is derived from writings such as Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins, a notorious Jew-hater who also believed that Jews ritually kill Christian children. Speaking of ritual murder, there’s also the “Satanic Ritual Abuse” scare, which often goes hand-in-hand with anti-Illuminism.

Alex Jones' Cremation of Care claims anybody? Solid and interesting post by Diane. Further discussion of the topic is here and here.

An aside here: I am never certain when praising some element of the 9-11 "Truth" movement for something whether I am helping them within the movement or if I'm just serving to marginalize them. Either outcome is reasonably logical, and probably has more to do with the individual reader than with what I actually wrote. Therefore, I don't consider the reactions of the Troofers when I post. I post what I believe and let the chips fall where they may.

Hat tip to emailer Michael P.

The Anti-Semitic Abbott And Costello of 9-11 Truth

Lots of profanity here.







This pair is pretty dumb even for Deniers.

Nativism and Anti-Semitism

I remarked just a couple of posts ago that maybe David Ray Griffin cites Christopher Bollyn not despite his clear anti-semitism, but because of it. And as if on cue, another major 9-11 Crackpot, George Washington, aka Alex Floum demonstrates the same in a startlingly jingoistic post:

If a foreign invader tries to seize someone's home, destroy him and his way of life, that person is going to fight hard to repel the invader. History has shown that people fight harder to defend their home and town from foreign invaders than in any other situation.

Well, foreign invaders are trying to destroy my way of life. Some of the invaders - many of whom call themselves "neocons" - have dual citizenship, and their loyalty lies primarily with the foreign nation.

Give us a hint, here, Alex. Are you talking about the Jooooooos?

I was born in the U.S. and I've spent my entire life here. This is my home. I am not willing to let these foreigners, these burglars, these invaders, take my home and my way of life away without a fight.

I'm beginning to think we ought to start looking at who's not an anti-semite in this movement; it would probably take less time.

The Dancing Jews Redux

Justin Retardo couldn't resist the new CounterPunch article giving him a hook to republish his crap about the five dancing Jews and the Israeli art students.

The story of how this line of investigation was suppressed, both in the law enforcement community and in the media, is a saga in itself. I know that Ketcham worked on this story long and hard, and had supposedly firm commitments from both Salon.com and The Nation to publish his work. Both projects were killed at the last minute, in one case an hour before it was scheduled to run. What’s particularly stupid, in the case of Salon, is that they ran his previous piece, on the "Israeli Art Student Mystery," years ago – and now refuse to follow up their own story.

And the reason for this mysterious refusal? It's because Ketcham is just recycling the same old story, with no new revelations.

As usual, Retardo takes basic facts--that five Israelis were jailed on 9-11 for suspicious behavior, that some Israeli art students were trying to infiltrate the Drug Enforcement Adminstration--and tries to weave it into Israeli foreknowledge of 9-11. But of course, the weak link is always this last part.

Ketcham, utilizing the public record, news reports, and his own sources, has painted the clearest portrait yet of the "urban mover" Mossad cell, and how they shadowed the five hijackers who took over American Airlines flight 77, which struck the Pentagon to such devastating effect. Living, working, and socializing within a six-mile radius of Bergen County, these two groups circled each other until, on 9/11, as a dark pall fell over Manhattan and much of the rest of the world, one applauded the others’ handiwork.

Oooooh, they lived within a six-mile radius of the hijackers on Flight 77! Now, as it happens, I grew up in Bergen County, New Jersey. According to the Census Bureau, Bergen County had a population density of 3,774 persons per square mile in 2000. A circle with a radius of 6 miles has an area of 113 square miles. Thus on average, there are approximately 425,000 people in a 6-mile radius in Bergen County, and that increases as you get closer to New York City, where the population is even denser.

Retardo isn't above patting himself on the back for his bravery in covering this story:

I have to tell you that it hasn’t been easy following this story over the years. I was told in the beginning, and in no uncertain terms, that this line of investigation is forbidden, that it’s "too hot to handle," and, implicitly, that the truth and the facts have to take second place to political correctness. To even mention this story, in certain quarters, is considered prima facie evidence of anti-Semitism. Case closed.

But hey, he's a tough guy and can handle the pressure; we can tell by that cigarette drooping from his lower lip.

Look, do I buy the notion that the Israelis may have been spying on the US, or on radical Muslim groups in New Jersey? Sure. Do I buy the possibility that the five dancing Jews may have insensitively celebrated the attacks because they saw it as waking up America to the dangers of terrorism? Sure. But do I buy that Raimondo and Ketcham have proven that Israel had foreknowledge of the attacks? Nope.

Update: For an exercise, check out the laughable comments on this story over at 9-11 Blogger. Remember, many of the Deniers don't believe that the hijackers existed and the rest think they were just "patsies", so Raimondo's claim that the Israelis were shadowing them causes quite a bit of cognitive dissonance, although of course many of them want to believe the Jews were responsible. When John Albanese rightly points out how hard it is to fit this into the rest of the conspiracy theory, they promptly vote his comment down three points. LOL!

They don't care if it fits any theory, it's just an opportunity to say, "Woo!"

But Don't Accuse Them of Being Anti-Semites...

The 9/11 deniers constantly express outrage whenever we compare them to anti-Semites or Holocaust deniers. Nothing could be further from the truth, they insist. Well if this is so, then why do they constantly use them as sources for their arguments? I missed this when I first posted on Adri Mehra's latest editorial in the University of Minnesota's student newspaper, but some of the commenters, and a letter writer caught it:

Bad sourcing Whatever shreds of credibility Adri Mehra might have possessed vanished in his last article, in which he cited David Irving's Action Report Web site, seemingly in good faith. Irving is a renowned racist and is classified as a Holocaust denier by 11 countries and by countless organizations and academics. How can Mehra invoke Irving's name in good conscience? I think he owes the Daily and its readers an explanation for this unprecedented and offensive choice of sources.

Anders Imboden

University undergraduate

Paula Zahn on Anti-Semitism and 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

I hate to knock Pat's post off the top, so please, when you are done reading this, scroll down and read his last post, but since this is appropriate to the topic, I didn't want to wait anymore to post it. CNN's Paula Zahn recently interviewed some of the 9/11 deniers that we discuss here, including Chris Bollyn, and did a segment yesterday on it. The full transcript of the show, which also includes 9/11 denier personality Eric Hufschmid, can be found at CNN.com.

ZAHN: We have all heard some absolutely incredible 9/11 conspiracy theories. The web of course is full of them. But tonight we're bringing one out that feeds on racism out in the open. We were absolutely shocked by one recent poll that found out that one in every three Americans believe the terror attacks were not the work of America's enemies, but some sort of inside job. And Deborah Feyerick found a smaller percentage who believe an even uglier theory.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This 9/11 attack was not by 19 Arabs. It was not by Muslims.

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They talk about a Jewish plot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everywhere you look you find a Zionist agent.

FEYERICK: A conspiracy by Zionist Israeli intelligence or by Zionist moles in the Bush administration allegedly calling the shots in the Middle East. Websites, magazines, documentaries, radio programs, dozens of them disputing the fact that al Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was done by a group of Zionists.

FEYERICK: Are you suggesting that al Qaeda had nothing to do with it, that this was all part of a large conspiracy, Zionist or otherwise?

CHRISTOPHER BOLLYN, WRITER: Al Qaeda is in my opinion -- has been exploited. I question whether such a group even exists.

FEYERICK: Chicago writer Christopher Bollyn is one of the conspiracy theorists.

BOLLYN: I believe that there are Israeli elements that are connected to the Mossad, that are involved in this attack.