Geez John, wish you had read "The Shell Game" before you attacked it, and then used it as an opportunity to advertise your website book store :-)

Anyone who's written fiction goes into various minds in various ways to create an overarching picture.

"The Shell Game's" over arching reality is that 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB.

Sorry, John Leonard is slashing a work that can boost the truth movement out into the mainstream mind, without reading the book first.

Steve Alten's brilliance is in that he begins the book from a neo-con perspective, as novelists do in writing from within various character's minds, and coming from a point where the average American is . . . given the mass media propaganda machine. THEN as the journey of the book advances the myth of this "reality" is exposed.

The ugly under belly of false flag terrorism is made clear, and REAL 9/11 truth research is used to head chapters.

If John wants the mass public to demand a new 9/11 investigation . . . he's shooting himself in both feet, to attack this profound novel, "The Shell Game." and WITHOUT READING IT, before he does so, and then turning his unfounded attack into a "go to my site and buy my stuff instead" opportunity.

Folks, "The Shell Game," is a golden opportunity to expose the mass public to the certain reality WE'VE BEEN LIED TO ABOUT 9/11.

The growing coalition advocating this novel's 9/11 truth telling potential includes the most effective and dedicated heroes of the 9/11 truth efforts.

If you want 9/11 truth out there in a big way . . . you'd be shooting yourself in both feet to swollow John's attack (WHO I REMIND YOU HASN'T EVEN READ THE BOOK YET).

However, if you too joined the massive growing coalition of 9/11 truth activists and movement heroes, and get everyone you know to get "The Shell Game", you will be advancing what you want . . . A MASSIVELY EXPANDED DEMAND FOR A NEW 9/11 INVESTIGATION.

Having said all this I DO ENCOURAGE ALL TO PERUSE JOHN AND OTHER'S 9/11 TRUTH SITES. GET AS MUCH INFORMATION AS YOU CAN. I RARELY AGREE 100% WITH ALL RESEARCHERS, BUT I DO LEARN SOMETHING FROM ALMOST ALL OF THEM.

than Fiction.

Sometimes we may need "Fiction" of a different type to open the eyes of the sleeping masses.

"Folks, "The Shell Game," is a golden opportunity to expose the mass public to the certain reality WE'VE BEEN LIED TO ABOUT 9/11."

Agreed. The lies never stopped just with 911.

After the dosage of the Fiction from the FOX guarding the media hen house, I think it is worth giving Steve Alten a chance to make an impact for 911 Truth.

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The CONSTITUTION is NOT going to "collapse" into pulverized dust no matter how much thermate/explosives or planes they throw at it

I have to admit I jumped to conclusions. I'm not able to edit my first post, so please read this.
Kevin Barrett, who has read the whole book, filled me in.
The key point is that the two Iraqi terrorist types in the book are patsies, being run by a neo-con controller.
This is the important mole-and-patsy methodology you should know from 9/11 Synthetic Terror. Any book that helps people understand the concept of false-flag terrorism is to the good.
Rather than starting at random in the middle, I would have done better to start from the front, with the message from the author. It gives a pretty clear idea where the book is going. It's in a message Bill Douglas sent around, but I didn't realize it's in the front of the book.
That introduction helps answer the question, who is the audience. I'd say it's the 60% of people who realize something has gone very wrong in this country, but don't really know what it is.
Shell Game is pretty explicit on this, about the police state, about CIA-manufactured war pretexts, even vote fraud. So this is the right message to the right audience.
As for the depiction of Muslims that worried me, that may be necessary for the story to work and to fit in with the reader's point of departure, so that the real message can be sneaked through. The book's criticism of the Saudi monarchy is not unjustified. It looks like it probably also touches on how the US-UK empire has supported reactionaries and extremists in the Middle East.
We should support this book, it may not have an easy time. One good way to do that will be to post a review on Amazon.com and the Barnes & Noble website, BN.com.

Kevin Barrett, who has read it, wrote me:
"It definitely isn't a trap. It's BEYOND MIHOP -- not only is it MIHOP on 9/11 but also has the neocons nuking US cities!!"
Well, that's pretty sensational. Maybe what offended me about it is exactly what will appeal to the broader public.
I'm just wondering - in the book, does Iran have nukes or not in 2012?
If it does, that could still be seen by some as a justification for "taking out Iran."
To protect us from the neocons. Or for the neocons to protect us from Iran. Or just to shoot first.
I'll try and find time to at least scan it, Bill.

Those that are likely to see the nuances are ALREADY on the side of truth. I'm concerned that those who want to remain in denial or who accept the Straussian logic of the neocons will only find sustenance in this book.

I guess I should try to borrow a pre-pub copy from someone so I can read it sooner rather than later and have a fully informed opinion, but pushing something before knowing what it is is ALWAYS a bad idea, IMO.

What about Israels 300+ nukes? What about the U.S.S. Liberty?

9/11 truth as FICTION, hmmm, WHY does that not sound like a good idea?

Slippery slope, anyone?

Better to hang with Joe Friday, "Just the facts,ma'am".

Cheers!

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

"Those that are likely to see the nuances are ALREADY on the side of truth. I'm concerned that those who want to remain in denial or who accept the Straussian logic of the neocons will only find sustenance in this book."

Great points LeftWright

Can't Stop 9/11 Fever

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Or should that be gov? (gov luv? luv gov? Hmmm, I digress..or do I need more hair for that?)

How are things up your way?

I have several projects in mind that could involve everyone out here on the coast.

Let's conspire, shall we?

Happy Truth Year!

All the best to you and yours.

The truth shall set us free (as long as we keep our critical thinking caps on).

Love is the only way forward. (anyone want to go backward or in circles?)

Subject: Re: [9-11-NeXuS] New York Times Best Selling [9/11 truth] Author of “The Shell Game” Issues New Y

Hi All,

It appears as if Steve Alten is concerned that his Zionist-approved book “The Shell Game” won’t be the big blockbuster book he had hoped it would be along the lines of “The Da Vinci Code” by Dan Brown, EVEN WITH the support of The New York Times.

First of all, let’s face it, those of us in the know with regards to who actually orchestrated the tragic events of 9-11 know that the Zionist-approved and Zionist-collaborator New York Times simply cannot be trusted as an endorser of any 9-11 Truth effort.  The New York Times is GUILTY of helping to suppress the Truth about 9-11 from DAY ONE of that tragic day.  In fact, the New York Times is an instrument of the real perps behind 9-11.  The New York Times is an Israel-firster rag and pushes Zionist propaganda day in and day out.  EVERYONE knows that.  The very fact that the New York Times touts “The Shell Game” proves in itself proves that this book must be ignored by serious 9-11 Truth seekers.

Not only does the New York Times suppress the Truth about 9-11, but it also suppresses the Truth about the racist, apartheid, Jewish  supremacist, ethnic-cleansing, terrorist state of Israel, otherwise known as the Zionist entity, a key player in having orchestrated the 9-11 attacks.

Note how competely ridiculous it is for Bill Douglas to make the claim that Steve Alten, author of “The Shell Game” is “willing to put it all on the line to write a profound truth telling story.”  HOW ABSURD IS THAT?  After all, Zionist-approved Michael Moore (whose agent is Ari Emanuel, who is brother of arch Zionist congressman Rahm Emanuel, both of whom are Israeli-Americans and the sons of a Zionist terrorist—just google it for the research) made the Zionist-approved “Fahrenheit 9-11” and he suddenly became a millionaire!!!  “Putting it all on the line” MY FOOT!  >>>Read my article about this: Wendy Campbell vs. Michael Moore at http://www.marwenmedia.com/articles_images/campbellvsmoore.html

Steve Alten is following the footsteps of Zionist-approved Michael Moore in pointing the finger at the Zionist-approved “safe” targets such as Bush, Cheney and the “usual suspects” the Arab “terrorists” and “Al Qada” and “Big Oil” all the while overlooking the OBVIOUS HUMONGOUS role of Israel— its spies, its dual citizen Israeli-American perps such as Wolfowitz, Perle, Abrams, etc, (look at http://www.whodidit.org) and all the rest of the Zionist NeoCons including Netanyahu and his best buddy Silverstein, all the neocons, etc., the “dancing Israeli spies”, the neocon Isareli-firsters’ over-riding quest for a “free” pipeline from Iraq to Israel, and so on and on.  DON’T tell me you didn’t see the Fox News 4 part series on “Israeli Spying in the US” which was broadcast shortly after 9-11 but then spiked because of complaints from Abe Foxman of the ADL!  Don’t tell me you don’t know about the warnings Odigo received, etc.!  PLEASE! CATCH A CLUE!

Steve Alten and his ilk are NOT seeking the WHOLE TRUTH and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH about 9-11!  They are actually seeking to SUPPRESS the WHOLE TRUTH and NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH about 9-11 if they OVERLOOK the MAJOR ROLE that Israel-firsters and Zionism played in orchestrating the 9-11 attacks, and people like Atlen and Moore seek to make lots of money by touting the Zionist point of view and averting the attention of the real Truth-seekers’ quest for ALL the TRUTH INCLUDING the Israeli connection to 911.

Here are just two excellent links for books from REAL 9-11 TRUTH seekers:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11neocon.php

AND

http://www.wingtv.net/911evil.html

Please NOTE that the New York Times does NOT endorse these two books, which actually lends a great deal to their credibility right there.

The New York Times has always and continues to always suppress the Truth about 9-11 AND racist, apartheid Israel, aka, the Zionist entity, the main beneficiary of the 9-11 attacks. EVERYBODY  should know that by now, and we know it’s generally true for ALL of the US mainstream media.  Thank God for the internet!!!!  SPREAD THE WORD OF TRUTH.

Sincerely,
Wendy Campbell
MarWenMedia.com

Even if there is, you can't fight all battles on all fronts at once. You can't lose your readers.
Looks to me like Alten has made good choices in deploying his truth resources

You mean the New York Times didn't investigate the single largest one day crime in U.S. history, even though much of it took place in its front yard?

I'm shocked!

(please look behind this curtain, just ignore THAT curtain, it's not important, TRUST ME)

Happy Truth Year!

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

Ridiculous.

No planes is absolutely unfounded, discredited disinformation, period.

Peak Oil, on the other hand, is an imminent reality supported by the following, in our face evidence:

1) The Iraq occupation and its vast reserves, now outsourced to Western oil companies (BP, Shell, etc.)

2) The Afghanistan occupation and its Caspian Sea pipeline

3) Rising cost of gasoline worldwide; supply is down, demand is up, price goes UP

4) No new infrastructure for petroleum processing having been built since the 1970s

5) Draconian police state preparations including detention centers in the US, PATRIOT ACTS I and II, Military Commissions Act - for when the oil crash is no longer mutable, September 11th is going to be a pleasant memory compared to what can and will most likely happen to the American economy and its consequences to a desperate, impoverished population.

Never seen you on here before. Liked it better that way.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

SaiGirl makes no sense. She calls this issue of supporting a mainstream 9/11 truth fiction novel "Orwellian."

HELLLLOOOOOOO? Why do you and I know what "orwellian" means?

BECAUSE A FICTION WRITER, NAMED GEORGE ORWELL WROTE A PROPHETIC "NOVEL", THAT'S FICTION, AS IN "NOVEL" THAT MASSIVELY AFFECTED THE PUBLIC MIND . . . TO MAKE US ALL VERY LEARY OF UNCONTROLLED GOVERNMENT AND SPYING ON US.

Yes, just like "The Shell Game" does.

Folks, I don't know why some "9/11 truth activist" hyperventilate anytime there is an opportunity to really break 9/11 truth and foment mass public skepticism into the MASS PUBLIC.

They are simply horribly misguided . . . or . . . I dont' want to go there.

Where I want to go, is to where we can get the average Joe sixpack action fiction reader to see quotes from David Ray Griffin, and Mike Ruppert's non-fiction 9/11 truth research.

NOW HOW COULD WE DO THAT? Oooohhh. Yeaahhh. We could get them to read, "THE SHELL GAME" because it is filled with REAL 9/11 FACTS FROM REAL 9/11 TRUTH RESEARCHERS.

Get a grip, folks. I know most of you see that "The Shell Game" is an incredible opportunity because it came from a New York Times best selling novelist WHO'S PUT HIS CAREER ON THE LINE . . .

But again, for those few BUT LOUD people who don't want anyone to get mass public attention to 911 truth . . . to you . . . I say "get a clue."

No one individual in this movement has all the answers.

Kyle Hence and 911 Press for Truth have done wonders for this movement, and it is certainly possible that this book could do much, much more to spread the gospel.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

But that's all of an apology you are going to get from me, as well as a response regarding this growing flame. The point is, the more the movement grows, the closer it will approach a universal truth - which does NOT include 'no planes' and the like.

Here's another expression:

"Don't feed the trolls."

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Who is SAIGIRL, and why would anyone take this bitter person seriously?

Kyle Hence stood toe to toe with the 9/11 Commission and demanded questions be answered.

Steven Jones sacrificed his career to do physics research that showed the official myth of the WTC collapses was false.

Lt. Colonel Robert Bowman stood up from the beginning and said the obvious, there was an Air Force stand down, and there needs to be an investigation.

Folks, does anyone smell sulphur when people like SaiGirl, who "purport" to be for 9/11 truth, use every once of their energy to try to tear apart, and tear down anyone who's actually fighting for 9/11 truth.

If anyone knew to the 9/11 truth movement is reading these posts, what you have to ask yourself is:

1) WHO IS LAYING EVERYTHING ON THE LINE TO EXPOSE THE PUBLIC TO THE FACT THAT WE'VE BEEN LIED TO ABOUT 9/11?

2) AND WHO IS USING ALL THEIR ENERGY TO TRY TO DESTROY AND DIVIDE THOSE WORKING TO BUILD A DEMAND FOR A 9/11 INVESTIGATION?

The answer to the 2nd question, is "SaiGirl"

The answer to the 1st question is everyone she spends all this time attacking.

I think you can figure out what's going on here.

Least that's what me sources say...;-)
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You display your ignorance on "the gospel". This can best be translated as "the good news".

And truth is always good news.

Who is this theSaiGirl?

Everyone needs to see maybe the best video to come out on 9/11 truth so far; added to Google Sunday, Dec. 30th , 2007:

{Follow up to "Press For Truth}
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: THE UNTOLD STORIES OF THE 9/11 FAMILIES

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4399917864007973679

SaiGirl makes no sense. She calls this issue of supporting a mainstream 9/11 truth fiction novel "Orwellian."

HELLLLOOOOOOO? Why do you and I know what "orwellian" means?

BECAUSE A FICTION WRITER, NAMED GEORGE ORWELL WROTE A PROPHETIC "NOVEL", THAT'S FICTION, AS IN "NOVEL" THAT MASSIVELY AFFECTED THE PUBLIC MIND . . . TO MAKE US ALL VERY LEARY OF UNCONTROLLED GOVERNMENT AND SPYING ON US.

Yes, just like "The Shell Game" does.

No, that's not directed at you, Bill--I don't know you--it's directed at the right infestation what that's come here. Sorry mates--this looks like another manufactured "seagull" drama--and you, Bill, have been sucked into it.

As for the book, I've no opinion until I read the bugger. But really, saying anything like this publication is going to take 9/11 Truth to the next level sounds like over-optimistic bollox. There are no "magic bullets" in this movement, sorry to say.
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Kevin Ryan, formerly a dept. manager at Underwriter Laboratories, read the UL report to NIST, and blew the whistle on the false hoods in that report. HE WAS FIRED. The man gave up his career for truth.

Steven Jones, Professor of Physics at Brigham Young University, relentlessy persued research on the WTC towers collapse. He found a smoking gun pointing to controlled demolition. His work awakened Richard Gage who then founded Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. JONES LOST HIS JOB FIGHTING FOR TRUTH.

Mike Ruppert's truth seeking career began along time ago, costing him his job as well as death threats when he was a whistle blowing LAPD detective.

The list of sacrifices by people hungering for 9/11 truth goes on and on.

Steve Alten, a New York Times Best Selling Author, is one of the latest TO PUT EVERYTHING ON THE LINE FOR 9/11 TRUTH. If you don't see what he's laid on the line with his career . . . why don't you go into your corporate job tomorrow, and stand up on a desk and start screaming at the top of your lungs, " 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB! 9/11 WAS AN INSIDE JOB!"

Do that, and see how that feels, and then you might have a taste of what the author of "The Shell Game" has felt, and is feeling.

Now the 9/11 truth seeker who REALLY want a mass demand for 9/11 truth WILL WELCOME STEVE ALTEN'S WORK INTO THE PUBLIC MIND. And would honor what he's done and is offering for truth.