What The Elite Media Doesn't Say About The War

Toogood Reports ^ | January 8, 2002 | Henry Makow Ph.D.

[Starmaker]

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." — George Orwell

America´s leading TV networks and newspapers are called "the elite media." The adjective ¨elite¨ does not indicate distinction. It indicates ownership.

Every day, elite news sources compete to offer the identical version of recent events. It is a mighty thin gruel: reporters masticate for hours on the tiniest morsels provided by their stingy masters.

As with Russians raised on Pravda, we are forced to read between the lines: A convoy of Afghanis is incinerated; 65 are killed. The military says they were Taliban. To its credit, the elite media picks up reports they were Afghani tribal leaders en route to the inauguration in Kabul. Who were they really? Afghanis who were too "independent”? The elite media, with all its resources, never says.

People who look for answers must rely on the Internet. There, independent researchers provide a schizophrenia-inducing alternate reality.

For example, we learn that ¨9-11¨ is the oldest deception in the political play book, evoking Hitler´s 1933 Reichstag fire which allowed him to assume dictatorial powers. The war was planned years ago in order to build an oil pipeline from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean. (See Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1998). The new Afghani leader, Hamid Karzai, was employed as a consultant by the pipeline company, Unocal. Condoleezza Rice was a director of Chevron from 1991-2001, and even has a tanker named for her. Chevron is the principle partner with Kazakhstan in the development of the huge Caspian Sea oil reserves. When the Taliban refused a pipeline right-of-way, the US threatened,"if we can't bury you in gold, we'll bury you in bombs." See this story in South Asian Outlook.

What follows is a sampler from a few more web sites. This is a more nourishing stew but buyer beware!

Peter Goodgame has a fascinating essay,¨America Is Falling into an Illuminati Trap¨ which says Osama Bin Ladin is a pawn of global elites who use Islamic terrorism to undermine nation states (eg. US, Israel, India, Pakistan) and bring about elite-controlled world government. Many Islamic terror groups are still head quartered in London and some are trained there by ¨former British army officers.¨

He cites an interview with Dr. Tatyana Koryagina, a member of Russian President Putin´s brain trust who said the Sept. 11 strike was aimed at "the de stabilization and destruction of America.¨

She said the operation was not the work of 19 terrorists but a larger group seeking to reshape the world. She claimed a group of extremely powerful private persons, with total assets of about $300 trillion, intends to legalize its power and to become the new world government. The Sept. 11 strikes "showed that this group is afraid of nothing: human lives have zero value for them.¨

A story by Carl Cameron, a senior correspondent with Fox News is an illustration of what happens when the elite media stray from the beaten path. This story documents massive Israeli spying in the US including the arrest of 200 Israelis. This spying would have given Israel foreknowledge of Sept. 11. And if Israel knew, others must have known. This story apparently was suppressed from the Fox News Archives. Inquiries are greeted with the notice:¨This story does not exist.¨ It can now be found here.

Another web site,"What Really Happened" contains much provocative information. Here are some examples:

• A growing number of fire protection engineers have theorized that "the structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves were not enough to bring down the towers." Fire Engineering Magazine is calling for an inquiry.

• Three articles that appeared in the international press prior to Sept. 11 state that the US had secured Indian and Russian support for a war against the Taliban as early as last March.

• The names of the alleged hijackers released by the FBI do not even appear on the published passenger lists of the four hijacked flights. Indeed the passenger lists are notable for the scarcity of any Arabic sounding names. The web site gives the passenger lists, and says seven of the alleged hijackers were found alive and well in the Middle East:
  
  

  ¨Because the IDs used by the hijackers were phony, we cannot know who they really were or who they really worked for... Not only does the drinking in strip bars not fit the profile of a fanatically religious Muslim willing to die for his cause, but the witness reports of the men in the bars are of men going out of their way to be noticed and remembered, while waving around phony identifications.¨

Investigator Michael C. Ruppert´s web site has much important information including a story which traces huge speculation in United Airlines put options, in advance of Sept. 11, to a firm connected to the top echelons of the CIA. A companion piece suggests that under the UN, opium poppy production will soon be up and running again.

Ruppert, a former LAPD investigator, has begun a speaking tour to expose the current war on terror as a hoax. Noam Chomsky has a book entitled 9-11 which is reviewed by a former WTC employee on Barnes and Noble, as follows:¨ You will learn more about the September 11th attacks from this little book than you will from watching Fox News for 100 years.´´

William Thomas also has a important book All Fall Down: The Politics of Terror and Mass Persuasion which describes the events of Sept. 11 as a ¨silent coup in America.¨ There is a another great web site with links to pictures of smoke pouring out of one WTC tower before the plane crash.

Conservatives should consider what these people are saying. If they are correct, the old divisions between Left and Right are obsolete. We may now face a brazen seizure of dictatorial power by the elites. Most patriotic Americans, including some members of the Bush administration, may not realize what is happening.

Furthermore, as the facts of 9-11 emerge, I sense a new anti-war movement will swell the ranks of the anti globalization cause. It will make the Kennedy Assassination and the anti-Vietnam protests look like picnics. Will opponents of the ¨war on terror¨ also be branded terrorists?

Finally, recent events prove that information is power. The elite media has shown itself to be a cringing servant of power, and an effective instrument of propaganda and social control.

The Internet may be our only source of information, and our only hope for the preservation of freedom.

[VoodooEconomics]

Gee, what a great idea. Go long Oil and put the world in a massive recession. Go long oil and motivate the US to expand drilling and generate more supply. Gee maybe go long oil and then ensure a Kazakh pipeline for more supply. Hmmmmmm

[Honcho]

Starmaker, these nice men are going to take you to a wonderful place. Just try on the nice white jacket they brought you and everything will be alright.

[philosofy123]

I think the elite media is now part of the estrablishment. The concerns about the dead Afghanis is questionable. That is because we went out of our way to use smart expensive bombs to save civilians lifes. Mind you, these are worthless civilians any way. These Moslem people do not care about the US, so why are you crying for them?

[Howlin]

It's not all that smart to post an article with Michael Rivero's web site as a source. Just my opinion.

[LenS]

Where's the barf alert? It becomes clearer every day that the anti-globalization forces are enemies of the US, freedom and democracy. While their reasons are extremely disparate, they all have reached a "Blame America First and Last" conclusion. No problem, it's good to know who our enemies are. This author doesn't realize it, but the Internet actually helps us to identify traitors by their willingness to proclaim their animosity to all that's good and just on the Net.

Oh yeah, they also seem to be all anti-Semitic for some reason. I guess they must all read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

[js1138]

I love theories like this. Like the Inquirer's psychics, they make no useful predictions, but no matter what happens, it fits the theory.

Just one I'd like to see how conspiracy theorists, kept in a cave away from the elite media, would interpret an imaginary world. I bet they could make any news fit their theories.

[verity]

Looney Tunes!!!!

[american spirit]

You might want to do some research on something known as a CAFR (Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports) which some analysts believe contain enormous sums of $$ that somehow most conveniently are never discussed during "budget" discussions of cities, states, schools systems, fed's, etc. Pay particular attention to the name Walter Burien and get back to me.

[the Wayne]

So we're told that Islamic Terrorists didn't do it (Reichstag and all), then a few paragraphs later we're told that Islamic Terrorists did it but they're just pawns, then we read that no they weren't Islamic terrorists since they went to a topless bar. Which is it?

(By the way, everyone I've seen comment on the topless bat episode has it entirely backwards! The narrow-minded, self-reflecting analysis is that they went to sneak a peek at the forbidden a day before they died.

The real answer is that they went to psych themselves up to kill decadant filthy Americans. They went to see how depraved we are and to dehumanize us so they could more effectively carry out their mission.)

[Poohbah]

$300 TRILLION in assets, though...to give you an idea, that's $50,000 for every man, woman, and child in the world. There aren't $300 TRILLION in assets out there, IMNHO.

[american spirit]

My post wasn't intended to prove or disprove the 300T pricetag. For anyone who understands the whole CAFR discussion and the very real possibility that huge sums of $ exist right under our very noses (while still being taxed into oblivion) it may not total 300T but it's probably a heckuva lot more than we could even conceive.

[Poohbah]

Fine. It's about as relevant to this topic as the Afghani Luge Team is to the Winter Olympics.

The problem is that this screed makes specific claims and can't back them up. The author engages in varying shades of intellectual dishonesty instead of using real facts. He's a slimeball.

[constitution]

Please supply link.

[techcor]

No kidding on the Noam Chomsky statement.

assets of about $300 trillion, intends to legalize its power and to become the new world government.

If they have 30 times the budget of the world's largest economy, why do they have to "take over"? Really I've never seen the conspiracy nuts explain that. If "they" are going to "take over", to what purpose? It can't be money. They have more than the world. To rule over people? "They" could give a million dollars to a million people and never even have to wipe their own butts again.

To make new laws? What laws? Outlaw gum chewing? Arrest all red-heads? Never heard what "they" are actually going to do. Probably never will.

[american spirit]

Based on your posting record I doubt very seriously that you're much of an authority on what's relevant or not. It's already a proven fact that you're one of the leaders of the rectal/crainial inversion crowd.

[RightWhale]

$12 trillion is the American public + private debt. Perhaps they are counting land values including mineral and other potential development as assets. An example is the 20 to 40 years of proven oil and gas reserves in the world. Perhaps they are counting all the debt all of us can accumulate in our lifetimes, we are assets, too. What is the value of the entire planet? Not just the Gross World Annual Product, but the whole planet itself and all the people? $300 trillion seems low, if the secret societies do in fact own it all.