Buzzflash Reviews The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
Buzzflash is a left gatekeeper website that hasn't touched 9/11 with a 10-foot pole. So when they favorably review a book touching on 9/11, that's news.
This is a brilliant book, impeccably documented, that sees the executive branch of the American goverment through a prism of skepticism and alarm, bolstered by heavily footnoted sources.
Dale raises vital unanswered questions about the emergence of the secret state within a state in the United States, while avoiding the pitfall of descending into adamant conspiracy theories.
Yet, Dale gets to the heart of the underlying conspiracy at the heart of what is basically the Cheney Administration, a parallel secret government run by those who believe that they must make decisions on behalf of the rabble of democracy, because democracy cannot be trusted and is too cumbersome.
The challenge with many conspiracy theories is that they try to answer all the questions with "confirmed facts," when in fact that is a impossible task because the nature of a secret shadow government is to hide the facts. We can speculate about what we don't know, but we are left, for the most part, only seeing the shadow in Plato's cave.
Peter Scott Dale understands that it is first necessary to understand the historical underpinnings of an unaccountable executive branch, and that its very existence, in violation of our checks and balances, could lead to almost any conspiracy theory being possible, but that the very nature of clandestine activity leaves us begging for answers.
In short, Dale connects the documented facts and unanswered questions into a damning indictment of a United States where a secretive authoritarian head has lost any connection to its democracy-based body.
The logical result of this historical trend was the event known as 9/11, and the implications that Rumsfeld and Cheney used it to achieve covert goals that they had been hatching back during their White House years in the '70s.
Dale pretty much represents the BuzzFlash perspective on 9/11 when he notes: "When asked for my opinon of what happened on 9/11, I customarily answer that I am sure of one thing only: that there has been a significant cover-up of vital issues."
This is an important, provocative book that understands the dangers "The Road to 9/11" poses to our democracy by exposing the threat from within our own nation of an institutionalized shadow government that has been amassing powers for years.
Cheney and Rumsfeld (with Bush as their beard) just brought up to steroid levels.
The University of California press has done us a great service by going ahead, having it peer reviewed and fact checked, and then publishing it.
From an online reviewer:
Peter Dale Scott's long-in-the-works THE ROAD TO 9/11 is outstanding, powerful, sad, in a way, and quietly gripping. (It's also notable for the fact that the University of California Press only reportedly published it after they'd spent the better part of a year scrupulously fact checking and cautiously vetting it for accuracy). Glib summaries aren't likely to do it justice. There have been several books published so far that address the official story offered about 9/11 with a critical eye, all of which basically allege that the White House and US intelligence agencies have covered up their own, complicated roles in the terror attacks of 2001. Scott's new book makes some reference to and generally builds upon a number of those works, but simultaneously encompasses a far broader sweep, wields (conversely) a simpler, more direct argument, and provides a new level of hard-to-argue-with credibility to the process of naming specific names....
Scott's powerful, involving analysis of US covert policy and its relationship to the events of 9/11 is a tour-de-force. I'll also note that, though the book is heavily footnoted and carries a lengthy bibliography, I found it to be more readable and emotionally engaging than some of his earlier works. (There are some thoughtful and appropriate personal touches). It's worth finally mentioning that Scott cleverly begins each new section of the book with highly appropriate quotes pertaining to the chapter that follows. After reading this book, and thinking quietly for a while about the detailed, disquieting picture it reveals, the most resonant to me was the all-too-relevant comment from onetime US intelligence-linked al Qaeda trainer Ali Mohamed: "Americans see what they want to see, and hear what they want to hear."
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Congratulations Dr. Scott...
You deserve it.
A "Full And Complete Accounting" Of The 9/11 Attacks
I sent Buzzflash a link to this video
I saw that this morning. I've been working on educating BuzzFlash for about two years.
I once received a reply from their editor stating in essence: " We do not believe 9/11 was an inside job..END OF STORY"
buzzflash@buzzflash.com
From the BuzzFlash Review:
Dale pretty much represents the BuzzFlash perspective on 9/11 when he notes: "When asked for my opinon of what happened on 9/11, I customarily answer that I am sure of one thing only: that there has been a significant cover-up of vital issues."
uh
Aside from the sophomoric writing (high school sophomore), this "argument"...
"The challenge with many conspiracy theories is that they try to answer all the questions with "confirmed facts," when in fact that is a impossible task because the nature of a secret shadow government is to hide the facts. "
...allows me to really not give a shit what Buzzflash thinks. That statement is moronic to the point that I can hardly believe someone with a readership wrote it. In fact, it sounds like Bush said it. Try reading it again in Bush's smirky voice.
LOL.
UC press
It's should be noteworthy that Daniel Coit Gilman was a member of Skull and Bones back in the 19th century and was the second president of UC Berkeley and the first president of John Hopkins University.
Indeed, Skull and Bones members managed to head many of our countries "prestigious" universities. I would suspect that they still maintain a grip on a large swath of the academia in the United States.
Dave Heller
http://www.garlicandgrass.org/issue6/Dave_Heller.cfm
UC press
It's should be noteworthy that Daniel Coit Gilman was a member of Skull and Bones back in the 19th century and was the second president of UC Berkeley and the first president of John Hopkins University.
Indeed, Skull and Bones members managed to head many of our countries "prestigious" universities. I would suspect that they still maintain a grip on a large swath of the academia in the United States.
Dave Heller
http://www.garlicandgrass.org/issue6/Dave_Heller.cfm
Brown Brothers Harriman - The Thread
The thread that ties all of this together:
"Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank"
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Prescott Sheldon Bush
Prescott Sheldon Bush (May 15, 1895 – October 8, 1972) was a United States Senator from Connecticut and a Wall Street executive banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. He was the father of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of current President George W. Bush.
Bush attended the Douglas School in Columbus and then St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island from 1908 to 1913. In 1913, he enrolled at Yale University, officially creating a long-standing family legacy; four subsequent generations of Bushes have been Yale alumni. Prescott Bush was admitted to the ?? fraternity while at Yale, though two of his sons and grandson would opt for ???. All four Bushes, however, would be members of the Skull and Bones secret society (along with several Walkers), and Bush has long been implicated in the society's alleged theft of the skull of Native American leader Geronimo, when three Bonesmen were stationed at Fort Sill.[1] Some historians, and Cecil Adams, regard this claim as false.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush#Military_service
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London Guardian
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power
Rumours of a link between the US first family and the Nazi war machine have circulated for decades. Now the Guardian can reveal how repercussions of events that culminated in action under the Trading with the Enemy Act are still being felt by today's president
George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html
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Suspicious profits sit uncollected
Airline investors seem to be lying low
Christian Berthelsen, Scott Winokur, Chronicle Staff Writers
Saturday, September 29, 2001
Investors have yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they made trading options in the stock of United Airlines before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, according to a source familiar with the trades and market data.
The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors -- whose identities and nationalities have not been made public -- had advance knowledge of the strikes.
"Usually, if someone has a windfall like that, you take the money and run," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Whoever did this thought the exchange would not be closed for four days.
"This smells real bad."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/0...
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On September 29, 2001, The San Fransisco Chronicle reported that investors had yet to collect more than $2.5 million in profits they had made trading options in the stock of United Airlines — before the September 11 attacks. The newspaper said: "The uncollected money raises suspicions that the investors — whose identities and nationalities have not been made public — had advance knowledge of the strikes. They don't dare to show up now.
The suspension of trading for four days after the attacks made it impossible to cash-out quickly and claim the prize before investigators started looking."
"...October series options for UAL Corp were purchased in highly unusual volumes for three trading days before the terrorist attacks for a total outlay of $2,070; investors bought the options contracts, each representing 100 shares, for 90 cents each. (This represents 2,30,000 shares.) These options are now selling at more than $12 each.
There are still 2,313 so-called `put' options outstanding (valued at $2.77 million and representing 2,31,000 shares), according to the Options Clearinghouse Corp."
"The source familiar with the United trades identified Deutsche Bank Alex Brown, the American investment banking arm of German giant Deutsche Bank, as the investment bank used to purchase at least some of these options."
Things get pretty murky at this point. Because, as the investigative writer, Mr Tom Flocco, has pointed out, Deutsche Bank Alex Brown was once headed by a gentleman called A. B. `Buzzy' Krongard who is currently Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
This fact may not be significant. And then again, it may. After all, there has traditionally been a close link between the CIA, big banks and the brokerage business.
http://www.blonnet.com/2002/02/11/stories/2002021100100900.htm
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Buzzy Krongard
Let Bin Laden stay free, says CIA man
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article410125.ece
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Howard Krongard
Democrat Opens Inquiry Into Whether State Dept. Official Impeded Investigations
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/washington/19inspector.html?_r=1&adxnn...
State Dept. Agents Say Jobs Were Threatened
Investigators in IG Office Were Told Not to Cooperate With Probe of Their Boss, House Panel Alleges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/28/AR200709...
Peter Dale Scott is a credit to the 9/11 movement
I've ordered his new book on the strength of his presentations. I took in one presentation personally at the Vancouver 9/11 Conference. His experience is evident and his thought clear. I can't wait to read it!
...don't believe them!