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Warming to this conspiracy

^{October 29, 2005}

AS you know, bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11. The World Trade Center was destroyed on Israel's orders by Mossad. Incontrovertible evidence includes the indisputable fact that 3000 New York Jews failed to report for work that day.

Echoing this widely held view in the Middle East, ratbags in the local Islamic clergy also insist that no plane hit the Pentagon. Proof? "Not a single fragment of any aircraft has ever been produced."

Yes and no, say members of Australia's lunar left in emails they send to philadams@ozemail.com.au. Yes, the official story is a total fabrication. And nor did planes hit the WTC – those images of exploding Boeings were simply state-of-the-art holograms. But no, it wasn't the Jews: 9/11 was a stunt organised by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the CIA to provide their foundering administration with a Pearl Harbor (which, everyone knows, President Roosevelt welcomed – let happen – to force the US into backing his war). Nine-eleven was all done with mirrors – and carefully positioned explosives, so that Bush could launch his war.

Moreover, according to a strange coalition of lefty and Islamic loonies, the London bombings were inside jobs, carried out by MI5 operatives on the orders of Blair.

It's familiar stuff, symptomatic of the cynicism of groups convinced they've been on the receiving end of Big Lies for decades. This is why they absolutely know that the one person not involved in the Kennedy assassination was Lee Harvey Oswald. JFK was killed by the CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, Castro, Vice-President Johnson and/or the intergalactic aliens who've been running Washington for decades – hence the great UFO cover-up, and the refusal to show us the tiny ET corpses in the White House freezer. It's fair dinkum, dear readers. People keep emailing me the top-secret documents.

In San Francisco, a young audience streams out of one of the first screenings of Close Encounters, comparing the relative merits of Spielberg's film with Lucas's Star Wars. "But don't you see?" I overhear a young woman tell her -boyfriend. "Star Wars was a fantasy".

Speaking of space, the moon landing was, of course, a fraud. Lord Grade's low-budget 1978 film Capricorn One told how NASA faked it in an aircraft hanger. I attended the premiere screening in Hollywood and it was cheered to the rafters by a youthful audience as sceptical of officialdom as of their parents. Like Spielberg's film, this was a documentary.

Real lies, of course, abound. They create a disposition to disbelief and paranoia. Think back before the big lies about "kids overboard", the alleged working arrangements between Baghdad and bin Laden, nonsensical claims of Saddam's role in 9/11, those fictitious WMDs and the rest of the barrage of bullshit so willingly employed by the Bush/Blair/Howard Coalition of the Willing. Many readers will remember Vietnam. President Johnson justified his massive escalation in the war by citing a torpedo attack on a US carrier that never happened. And for years afterwards the Pentagon would provide press and public with fake body counts to prove the US was winning.

Lies, lies, lies. Remember Nixon's lies about bombing Cambodia? Remember Watergate? Or Reagan's lies about Iran-Contra? From LBJ's torpedoes in the Gulf of Tonkin to Howard's termin-ological inexactitudes on Tampa and Telstra, we've been regularly and spectacularly conned. How do you know when a politician is lying? When his lips move.

Which brings us to New Orleans and a conspiracy theory among African-Americans and ultra-lefties that harks back to a golden oldie – that the CIA encouraged addiction in the US ghettoes, pushing heroin and crack cocaine as a pre-Balkan form of ethnic cleansing. Now I'm getting emails that have Washington virtually plotting Katrina and its outcome, fully intending to rid the US of some surplus blacks.

Conspiracy theories reveal fracture lines in societies. And they some-times contain elements of truth. It's a fact that Washington knew Katrina's blows were a certainty, that risk scenarios had the inundation of New Orleans high on the list. Yet they did not begin to plan an adequate response. They knew the levees needed urgent strengthening, yet the Bush administration cut funding. They knew that decades of development in the delta had destroyed the wetlands that provided a buffer zone – yet Bush refused to consider urgent recommendations to do some coastal remodelling.

And as Australian author Tim Flannery points out, Blind Freddy knew that as a result of global warming sea temperatures had risen to a point where hurricanes would increasingly be generated. Yet Bush refused to ratify Kyoto. Flannery says Australia now faces an identical problem – that we'll be copping Katrinas up and down our coasts. Yet Howard won't sign Kyoto either. And we too are ill prepared to face these acts of meteorological terrorism – millions of times more destructive than any suicide bombing.

Of course, conspiracy theorists are an overwrought, overheated, over-excited lot. Yet by some measure they understate the issues. The truth is stranger than their fictions.

Bron: The Weekend Australian

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So, they UNDERSTATE the issues?

Wow...

Ik wou het ten eerste met TRU delen, we hebben alhier nou eenmaal een naam en een geschiedenis.

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So, they UNDERSTATE the issues?