It is unfortunate that the good professor conflates two very controversial topics, namely Global Warming and Peak Oil, with the subject of 9/11 Research.

It is to my mind also a bit mischeivous. There are many here among us who dispute the mainstream version of both, while at the same time strongly supporting the 9/11 truth arguments.

The professor needs to understand that there is genuine controversy over Peak Oil and Global Warming, and he should note that the mainstream media has been deluging us with hysterical propaganda about global warming for many years now - this alone should give him reason to pause and reflect. Why do all the mainstream media so uncritically parrot the global warming dogma while at the same time ignoring 9/11 truth? What does this suggest about the real agenda behind the global warming theory - is it science or politcs?

I only bring this up because the Professor chose to make these other controversies central to his paper. He could have easily avoided bringing up these two very divisive topics.

Curiouser and Curiouser
Editor - www.911oz.com

FYI: Cockburn has also written scathing screeds about uncovered high-level pedophile/ pornography rings. From the book "Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder" by Dave McGowan, which uses only mainstream media accounts:

"The investigation came about as a result of a raid on the Ft. Worth, Texas home of Thomas and Janice Reedy, who had been operating a business called Landslide Productions, which offered child pornography for sale over the Internet. The Reedy's website, according to the Independent, functioned as a portal to "more than 5,700 websites with names such as Child Rape and Cyber Lolita." The Reedys had made millions of dollars from their child porn business, which "employed more than a dozen staff, including a customer service representative and a receptionist." This financial empire was built with "money raised from the torture, rape and sexual abuse of children as young as two."

"The raid on the Reedy's home, conducted in September 1999, unexpectedly yielded a database of the names and addresses of a reported 75,000 subscribers around the world. According to a report carried in February 2002 by TechTV, "more than 35,000 [of those] individual subscribers [were] in the United States." Nevertheless, only 100 arrests had been made at that time of the report - a number that remained unchanged in the months after the initial arrests. By early 2003, the story had dropped out of sight with little indication that there would be any further arrests, despite Chief Postal Inspector Kenneth Weaver's earlier insistence that the initial arrests were just "the tip of the iceberg."

"More than 7,000 subscribers to the site were British citizens. Their names, addresses and credit card information were provided by the FBI to British authorities, who launched an investigation paralleling Operation Avalanche that was dubbed Operation Ore. As in America, only a few of the known offenders have thus far been arrested. Included among those questioned by police have been television personality Matthew Kelly and legendary guitarist Pete Townshend.

"Rushing to Townshend's defense was The Nation columnist Alexander Cockburn, who earlier played a prominent role in denouncing the McMartin prosecutions. In a posting on his Counterpunch website from February 2003, Cockburn grossly misrepresented the nature of the charges against Townshend. He charged that, according to the Supreme Court, "'porn' encompass[es] even clothed images of children if they are construed as arousing. 'Child' means anyone under 18." Cockburn labeled Townshend's arrest "absurd," and claimed that if you "have a photo of a kid in a bath on your hard drive, and the prosecutor says you were looking at it with lust in your heart, [then] that is tantamount to sexually molesting an actual kid in an actual bath."

"Cockburn was clearly trying to convey the impression that Townshend and others are the innocent victims of overzealous prosecutors. It will be recalled, however, that the images that the Landslide website was offering to Townshend and other subscribers were images of "the torture, rape and sexual abuse of children as young as two." Those are not the types of images that would easily be mistaken for innocent pictures of a child taking a bath.

"Also included among the 7,272 suspects in the United Kingdom, according to the Observer, were "hundreds of child welfare professionals, including police officers, care workers and teachers," all of whom were "identified as 'extremely high-risk' paedophiles." Particularly well represented on the list were law enforcement personnel: "Investigators now believe as many as 90 police officers have so far been identified from an initial trawl of 200 of the British names found in the U.S. Many of the other suspects work in other sensitive professions, often linked to the criminal justice system."

This isn't the first protection racket in which he's participated. Bastard.