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Thanks, Robert Sterling Editor, The Konformist http://www.konformist.com FAQ #1 on 9-11: "Emperor's Clothes is Wrong Because the U.S. Was Unprepared." 12/29/01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is being sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of the mailing list that you joined. List: emperorsclothes URL: http://www.emperors-clothes.com ------------------------------------------------------------ URL for this article: http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/faq1.htm Join our email list at http://emperors-clothes.com/f.htm. Receive about one article/day. We encourage readers to reprint and re-post any Emperor's Clothes article. Please include the article's Web address and author(s). www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] Dear readers, We have received a lot of email about the Summary of Evidence, "GUILTY FOR 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld Myers," Section 1 & Section 2." (1) Based on that email, we are compiling a FAQ - "Frequently Asked Questions about 9-11." We will post new questions and answers several times a week, and compile them on the FAQ page at http://www.emperors- clothes.com/indict/faq.htm . ============================================= FAQ #1: "You guys forget that nobody was prepared for a big terrorist attack on America. How could they have responded on 9-11?" [Posted 29 December 2001] ============================================= Answer: This argument has been made repeatedly by the media: "...The coordinated assault on the world's financial and political capitals caught the United States completely off guard -- despite a massive intelligence and law enforcement network devoted to detecting and thwarting such attacks...[This was because efforts were] focused largely on guarding against bomb threats to overseas targets... " ('The Washington Post,' September 12, 2001) It has been made by top government/military officials: "We're pretty good if the threat's coming from outside. We're not so good if the threat's coming from inside." (General Richard B. Myers in testimony at Senate hearing on is nomination to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, September 13, 2001) (2) The argument resonates with many Americans because it corresponds to how they experienced 9-11. They were shocked and unsure what to do. But most Americans are not part of the air traffic control system, which is run by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), or the air defense system, run by the military. Most are unaware that these systems have routine procedures developed over many years. These procedures, practiced in drills and used in day-to-day situations, are meant to ensure that air safety and air defense personnel can function when confronted with unexpected events, even though ordinary people are understandably at a loss. Consider this, by way of comparison. Imagine that one night a Canadian arsonist slips into Buffalo, New York, and using a new incendiary device, starts fires in four elementary schools. People pull fire alarms near two of the schools. A neighbor calls the Fire Department when he sees smoke billowing out of the third school. And there is a Fire Station right across the street from the fourth school. Yet not one fire truck arrives until after the schools have burned to the ground. When asked why, the Buffalo Fire Chief explains, "We're good at dealing with Buffalo arsonists but nobody expected some guy to sneak in from Canada!" The Chief would be laughed out of court. People would say, "When the alarms came in, how could anyone in the Fire Department have known that these fires were started by a Canadian arsonist? And even if they did know, why wouldn't they just follow their normal procedures - you know, slide down the pole, put on their coats, climb into the fire truck, turn on the siren. Why didn't they at least show up and try to put out these fires?" The same holds true for 9-11. As we have documented in 'Mr. Cheney's Cover Story,' the FAA and the military have routine procedures for intercepting commercial jets. (3) An Air Traffic Controller can call for an escort (that is, a military jet) to be sent up to find out why a commercial jet has flown off course and guide it to a safe landing place. Or an escort can be used to put pressure on an uncooperative pilot or to intimidate a hijacker with a show of force. (4) Which brings us to the matter of Andrews Air Force base. Andrews is ten miles from the Pentagon. It is the airport used by the President and other top officials, so of course it has to have escort planes. This was especially true on 9-11 because Air Force One, the President's jet, was in flight that day. In fact, Andrews keeps jet fighters "in the highest state of combat readiness." (5) So here is the question that leaders such as George Bush, General Richard Myers and Donald Rumsfeld refuse to answer because they have no acceptable answer: Why weren't jet fighters scrambled from Andrew Air Force base to intercept American Flight 77 before it crashed into the Pentagon? ************************************* FOOTNOTES & FURTHER READING: ************************************* (1) For facts and analysis contradicting the official position on 9- 11, see 'EMPEROR'S CLOTHES ARTICLES ON 9-11 * A GUIDE,' which can be read at http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm Alternative address is http://emperor.vwh.net/indict/911page.htm (2) Gen. Richard B. Myers at Senate confirmation hearing 13 September 2001 Full transcript at: http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/mycon.htm The particular quotation about the U.S. being ill prepared to deal with internal terrorism was reprinted by mainstream media sources. (3) 'Mr. Cheney's Cover Story,' which is Part 2 of 'Guilty for 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers.' Can be read at http://emperors- clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm (4) 'The Associated Press State & Local Wire' 13 September 2001, Thursday, BC cycle, "Small private plane ordered to land in vicinity of Bush ranch." Full text posted at: http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/bushranch.htm (5) This quote comes from the 'DCANG' Webite. The Website was changed after 911; the quote was removed. The pre-911 DCANG Website can still be read, at a Website archive site. Go to http://web.archive.org/web/20000824024659/www.dcandr.ang.af.mil/hq/def ault.htm In case the archived Web page should be altered, you may read it at http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/dcandr.htm and http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/dcandr2.htm If you can, please back up these Web pages in case they are modified or become unavailable. 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Thank you for reading Emperor's Clothes. www.emperors-clothes.com or www.tenc.net [Emperor's Clothes] ***** Published on Wednesday, December 19, 2001 in the New York Observer Whitewater Critics Quiet About Enron by Joe Conason While the implosion of Enron is almost as murky as the bankrupt company's financing schemes, its self-dealing and scamming have evoked memories of other great business scandals, such as Teapot Dome and the South Sea Bubble. Whether or not those analogies ever prove to be justified, the most compelling political comparison for the moment is with another scandal that turned out, despite the investigative zeal of journalists, pols and prosecutors, to be more squib than bombshell: Whitewater. Consider the stated purposes of the long, costly probe into that tiny, troubled land deal, as expressed in the final report of the Senate's Special Committee to Investigate the Whitewater Development Corporation and Related Matters (Alfonse M. D'Amato, chairman). According to the report's preface, its mission was to investigate "the complex web of intermingled funds, fraudulent transactions, political favors and conflicted relationships," all of them "woven together by common and recurring themes of abuse of power, fraud on federal institutions and theft of public funds, and frequent neglect, if not deliberate disregard, of professional, ethical, and at times, legal standards," including "clearly identifiable patterns of motivation, conduct and, at times, concealment." If those damning phrases sound familiar, then perhaps you've been reading some of the better coverage of Enron in periodicals like Fortune, which concluded that even if no one ever goes to jail, "it feels as though a crime has been committed." That question will be decided by the courts, which must determine whether Enron was sunk by "fraudulent transactions" as well as more mundane abuses of corporate authority. But there is no question that Enron's corporate history is laden with "political favors" and "conflicted relationships" with leading figures in the White House, regulatory agencies and the Senate itself. Those relationships extend well beyond the $2 million bestowed on the President and other politicians by Enron executives, or the substantial blocks of stock held by Bush appointees, or the formidable cadre of connected lobbyists, consultants and officials that make the White House resemble an Enron branch office. One place to start untangling the Enron tale might be the moment in early 1993 when Bush appointees on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted to exempt energy traders from its anti-fraud regulations. The commissioner who initiated that convenient rule- making process, following a post-election request from Enron and several similar companies, was Wendy Gramm, wife of the Texas Senator. She left the CFTC just before the actual vote and, five weeks later, joined the Enron board of directors. This was merely a coincidence, as she and her benefactors in Houston later explained. Coincidence or not, that decision pulled open the "regulatory black hole" in which Enron thrived and connived. It also represented the beginning of an unwholesome pattern that culminated earlier this year, when Enron's generosity to the Bush-Cheney campaign evidently won its executives the right to choose their own regulators in Washington. (Meanwhile, those same strutting geniuses were unloading their watered-down stock into the pension portfolios of their unfortunate employees.) The immediate justification for the Senate probe of Whitewater was that Madison Guaranty, the storefront savings-and-loan operated by small-time hustler James McDougal, had cost the government about $65 million in bailout funding. Setting that pitiful amount against the $60 billion or so that suddenly evaporated from Enron's market capitalization�as Gene Lyons and Molly Ivins have noted�offers a way to chart the difference in magnitude. Yet so far, thanks to the "war on terrorism" and perhaps other, less patriotic factors, the level of public indignation is inverted; Enron seems to generate about one- tenth of 1 percent as much concern as Whitewater did. The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission are examining Enron, of course, and various committees of Congress are also looking into the matter. Their approach, however, is strangely desultory and deferential. Enron founder and chief executive Kenneth Lay blew off an invitation to appear before a House committee the other day, prompting an audible yawn from the same media outfits that screamed incessantly about "the Whitewater scandal" year after year. Those excitable editorialists at The Wall Street Journal have dismissed Enron's problems as an example of "bad accounting." Imagine the outcry if, instead of providing a million pages of documents to the Senate Whitewater Committee, the Clinton White House had withheld all relevant papers. That is precisely what Vice President Dick Cheney has done to date, in response to requests from the House Government Reform Committee about private meetings that he and his energy task force held with Enron executives. And imagine what Mr. Lay might have said to Mr. Cheney and Larry Lindsey, the former Enron consultant who now serves as the President's chief economic advisor, during those secret sessions. You'll have to imagine, at least for now, because the Vice President and his cronies aren't talking�and because nobody in the media is even asking. Copyright 2001 The New York Observer ***** The Sucker Traps - Part One By Sherman H. Skolnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.skolnicksreport.com 12-29-1 Some people are just busy with their personal lives. So all they know about the world is what they ingest from the oil-soaked, spy-riddled monopoly press. If it is not mentioned there, well, it did not happen. And common Americans, occupied with their personal circles, often do not make time to sit and listen to their elders. Some rather ship their elders into expensive warehouses called nursing homes. [The nursing home rackets are a story for another time.] So the wisdom to be learned from past generations and their mistakes falls into the black hole of the unknown. Here is a list of what ordinary people should have learned but often have not. Such as the blunders of the 1920s and 1930s: SUCKER TRAP NUMBER ONE: "Business cycles have been abolished". Oh yeah? By whom and when and how? "Prosperity is just around the corner". Slogans like that were mouthed off by President Herbert Hoover. Not surprisingly nowadays, some mistake that name for the infamous FBI Dictator. A possibility that we are NOT facing a "great prosperity" returned, is sent off to be studied by a "Presidential Commission". Their report, if any, if ever, is filed in Never-Never land. SUCKER TRAP NUMBER TWO: Invest in the "Great American Dream". Yes, if you are young, and somehow survived a world war just ended, and was not shot or bombed to pieces, you can rightfully buy stock in American big business and expect a period of prosperity. Many born into the tail-end of business cycles, however, refuse to realize their position in time and place. Endlessly mouthing off "now is my time" may avail you nothing. Do not expect the newsfakers to set you wise. Well-oiled press whores are not about to risk their jobs to bring you harsh reality. They write and speak on-air what they understand the presslords want said. Contradictions are not specified clearly. The ultra-rich want to even further enrich themselves by having as many Americans as possible paid only minimum wage or just above that. "We have to be productive and competitive". At the same time, they are flooding the nation with non-citizens who do not protest being paid, under the table, LESS than minimum wages. What we call "the liars and whores of the press" have advertisers urging us to buy fifteen and twenty thousand dollar cars. What? To be paid with cheap wages? Some grow up never having read Ferdinand Lundberg's great work, "The Rich and the Super-Rich" (Lyle Stuart publishers, 1968, still more or less available hardcover and paperback). Lundberg points out the ultra rich are often just plain stupid. Certainly with a lot less sense than the average working person. The very rich are forever beating down the common people who sooner or later, as Lundberg shows, rise up and smash their tormentors. One reason there was no revolution in the Great Depression of the 1930s, was the great number of newly arrived immigrants. They were quite satisfied to be in America, even to sleep under bridges when it rains. Better than elsewhere. Will common Americans, moreso born here not elsewhere, now act also somewhat subdued in the face of adversity? Of course, there were labor riots in the 1930s, beaten down by goons from General Motors and hired thugs of Ford Motor Company. [The unemployment and food riots in Argentina, December, 2001. Can THAT also happen here?] SUCKER TRAP NUMBER THREE: "Interest rates are reasonable. So now is the time to suck the equity out of your house". That is, pile up on yourself more mortgages? The so-called mortgage peddlers have multiplied like a swarm of locusts, to eat out our substance. Basically, they are urging ordinary Americans to wreck themselves. With a recession belatedly officially proclaimed and an apparent new Great Depression again looming, it is a time not to pull a wagon of rocks. Too many ordinary Americans find their wagons so heavy, it requires two horses, both husband and wife working. And everyone over the age of ten should be working not schooling? Hey, have we all forgotten the terrible struggles of bygone years to stop mis-using Child Labor? Have corrupt public officials stopped enforcing Child Labor Laws put on the statute books after great turmoil and bloodshed? If you do not comprehend what is here being said, well, spend time at a unit of McDonald's Hamburgers. The Child Labor rushes around polishing doorknobs and such. And, often they work after closing hours, not paid for that, while cleaning up the fake milk-shake equipment. McDonald's seems to encourage their Child Labor to be illiterate. Cash registers have pictures, not numbers. In plain talk, it should be a time of no mortgages, no credit cards, no vast installment payments. And Child Labor should be wide-awake in school being educated, not sleepy-eyed, with no time for homework, not used at cheap wages to enrich fast food giants. Late night COMMERCIAL television is laughable. There is an ad basically telling you that even deadbeats will be given credit to a buy a car. A moment later, your local bankruptcy lawyer (or liar?) is announcing he is available to save you. Oh yeah? As we have pointed out on our website and on our NON-COMMERCIAL television programs (public access Cable TV), the bankruptcy courts too often are a giant fraud, seizing for the vultures of the local "Bankruptcy Club" what is left of the property and assets of the sick and the unemployed. Do the monopoly press ever tell you HOW to protect your hind-quarter? SUCKER TRAP NUMBER FOUR: "I do not have to worry about my stockbroker. After all, they are insured by the Government". Really? If your broker goes under in a crash or scandal, your account in the meantime is frozen. Your "great long-term investment" may melt to almost nothing while you are powerless and forbidden to do anything about it. And, are there adequate reserve funds in the supposed "government" set up insurance fund? Really? Not everyone thinks so. If you really understand finance, ask your broker a forbidden question: "What if the Clearing House itself goes down?" The reply may be, "Stop asking. That cannot happen". Well, in 1984, when Continental Bank of Chicago collapsed, a Clearing House came within a hair of going down as well. [I had the distinction of accurately predicting the downfall of Continental Bank, a major owner of which was the highly corrupt Chief Judge of the Federal Appeals Court in Chicago, 7th Circuit. I was a few months ahead of my time, and some in key places enjoyed a brief period of calling me a "liar". Later did they eat their words?] Also, the regulations of insurance for failing and failed brokers are riddled with traps and loop-holes. Such as, your stock was bought through ANOTHER firm which is actually holding the shares. Hence, YOUR broker is not responsible. More sucker traps identified. Stay tuned. If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit: http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist ------------------------ "In little more than a year we have gone from enjoying peace and the most prosperous economy in our history, to a nation plunged into war, recession and fear. 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