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Zwicker, Barrie, Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11., October 6, 2006
Five years ago and still in the news? This is because the issues are painful and because there is stillso much suffering arising out of the horrific events of September 11, 2001. Much healing has yet to happen. Conspiracy theorists have had a wonderful time with 9/11: 'The CIA did it,' 'It is Reichstag 9/11,' and so on, but if you speak to many Americans in this vein they still respond with pain and then outrage or simply, rage.
There have been a number of books written about 9/11 and there will be another two released in October of this year. So why this one?
Zwicker is not a conspiracy theorist, rather he lays out Exhibits - twenty-six of ehem - about lines of evidence which, if proven (even a few of them), point inescapably to the conclusion of White House complicity in the 9/11 disaster. He talks about conspiracy theory, arguing his points with extraordinarily detailed (and footnoted) research. The book, very well written, finely illustrated, and difficult to put down, tells a story most of us have never heard because the media have not given it coverage. Contained with the book is a DVD: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw.
According to his reasoning one can come away from the events and the evidence of 9/11 with one of four conclusions: 1) that the Official Story is true: the US at all levels was caught totally by surprise and off guard; or 2) that US agencies received some intelligence but it was either too late or insufficient; or 3) that the intelligence received was sufficient but that the White House for some reason let the events unfold as they did; or 4) that the White House or other US agency set the events up to unfold as they did. He outlines rules of evidence and the evidence iteself very carefully, letting the reader conclude which of the four scenarios is the case, subject to responsible inquiry into the evidence.
Here are some of Zwicker's Exhibits:
A: World Trade Center Building 7, a 47 story steel-framed skyscraper, collapsed due to an admitted controlled demolition on the afternoon of 9/11 after suffering minimal damage due to the collapse of the nearby Two Towers. It contained CIA offices as well as the Mayor of New York's Office of Emergency Management. How, when, and why was this building wired for demolition?
B & F: NORAD's duty is to protect this continent; to this end they practise a great deal, intercepting wayward aircraft about a hundred times a year. since the 1960s the time taken to scramble fighters has varied upward from about five minutes but has always been less than thirty. Why, on 9/11 after the FAA had advised NORAD within five minutes of the first highacking, did it take seventy eight nimutes to get fighters on the scene? Way too late, of course. This has to be the greatest military failure ever on the part of the US!
H: The collapse of the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7 exhibited eleven distinct features of controlled demolition.
I: the WTC Towers were over over-engineered for the possibility of aircraft hitting them, and damage to the central core girders from the actual impacts would have been slight. Also, if the floors of the buildings had really pancaked the central core girders would have remained standing, some of them to high levels; instead they were found in thirty foot lengths - consistent with controlled demolition, and convenient for trucking away.
J: Steel-framed high-rises do not collapse due to fires. There have been several such fires (Los Angeles, 1998; and Philadelphia, 1991; as well as others elsewhere) which burned far longer than shose in the WTC buildings, none of which caused significant structural damage. That the fires in the Towers caused their collapse is preposterous.
K: One firefighter gave an oral report that there were 'popping' sounds as though the building were being demolished. In the North Tower he found heavy damage in the lobby and later heard huge explosions while he was within the Tower. A pamedic also tells about 'popping' sounds as the South Tower collapsed into its footprint; he also likens these sounds to those accompanying a controlled demolition. An engineer far below ground in the North Tower was told of a loud explosion and, as he came up toward ground level witnessed scenes of incredible explosive destruction in places not subject to the aircraft impacts. Other witnesses reported hearing loud explosions, and one other employee working on sub-level one reported a massive explosion from below - before the aircraft impacted.
M: President George W. Bush declared that he had seen the first impacting aircraft on regular TV on 9/11. But that French-shot footage was not available until the next day. In addition, the President, reading to an elementary school class and, knowing America was under attack, should have been removed by the Secret Service; after all he's the President and a target. Yet he remained reading calmly for minutes more; did he have knowledge that he was not a target?
Zwickers detailed Exhibits go on and on, the last one being that a neo-conservative group including, among its members Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, asserted that 'a new Pearl Harbor' would be helpful in realizing plans for the New American Century.
But this book is not simply about conspiracies either: Zwicker goes into considerable detail about how we fool ourselves into believing half-truths and lies, and about how we sort of fill in the dots given information bits and the suggestion of a story that is slanted the way someone wants it. This is a very clear heads-up for every single one of us, the Official Story of 9/11 being just a sample, not only of how it is done to us, but also of how we do it to ourselves.
Why do the media not give the real truth to the public? Is this a scandal the scope of which is so devastating as to be the equivalent of war?
Why should we want to pursue this investigation into the truth behind the events of 9/11 - it is because we want to and need to come out of that denial which is such a prominent feature of Western Life. With denial, healing is impossible; coming out of denial, healing although painful becomes possible. Towers of Deception can be a very disturbing book to read and whether you come away believing as some do that Bush and Rumsfeld should be tried for treason is not the point: the point is to wake up. And that is why this review has been written.
Nehesh
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89 of 104 people found the following review helpful:
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RUN OUT AND GET THIS BOOK! , September 4, 2006
This is perhaps the most important lie that has ever been put upon the world and Barrie Zwicker does an excellent job in showing that this is business as usual for the shadow government running the show. Zwicker gives examples of other false flag operations that have plagued humanity and 9/11 is only the latest.
For those of you who still believe that Osama did it (and perhaps that Santa Clause is busy making toys at the North Pole) this book is a jaw dropping presentation of how they pulled off a giant psychological operation and how the media became the cheerleaders.
As mentioned in Barrie Zwicker's work.... How would it be possible - unless there was deliberate paralysis -- that not a single US Air Force interceptor would turn a wheel until it was too late, during a drama in the skies on 9/11, of almost two hours? Sixty-seven times in the previous year fighters were scrambled in minutes for lesser emergencies.
Why have media never challenged President Bush's claim that he saw, on ordinary TV, the first plane hit the WTC? Footage of the first plane hitting was not aired until the next day, September 12th, 2001. Why haven't the media asked Bush about his magic TV?
Why did Larry Silverstein, the lease holder on the World Trade Center, publicly admit he was involved in a decision to "pull" WTC building 7 late on the afternoon of 9/11, even though the building was not hit by a plane and suffered little damage? Controlled demolitions require weeks of preparation: why have media pointedly ignored this glaring anomaly?
In Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11 Zwicker provides readers with 26 "Exhibits" of evidence proving beyond a reasonable doubt that 9/11 was an inside job, what's known as a "false flag operation." In a false flag operation, an attack is self-inflicted in order to mobilize the public against a designated enemy. Eighteen such operations are described in Towers of Deception. They include the non-existent attack on American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964.
This "attack" provided justification for the Vietnam War, costing 58,000 US lives and 3-million Vietnamese lives.
The phenomenon of denial is also explored and there are 16 profiles of fearless investigators who have exposed the fraud of the official story. Also included with the book is a powerful documentary on DVD, entitled The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw, produced by the author.
YOU MUST WATCH THIS DVD IT'S AMAZING!
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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A powerful exposition and a dossier of truth., October 28, 2006
Towers of Deception is one of four scholarly works published in recent months which put forward a logical, reasoned, well sourced and documented theory that the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001 (9/11) were not the work of fanatical Muslims who hate `America, Freedom Liberty etc. etc.'. The attacks were orchestrated and intricately planned by a cabal within the Political-Intelligence-Military-Media-Financial-Corporate-Complex (PIMMFCC) via their various `moles' Cheny, Rumsfeld, and Blair et al. Amongst those that have studied all the available evidence, this theory is termed MIHOP (Made It Happen On Purpose). The motive for committing of this terror is that of control; to exercise full spectrum dominance. This is full spectrum dominance over the entire globe, its inhabitants and the totality of their affairs (economic, military, political, theological, scientific etc.)
The other books which can be accorded this title of scholarly work published recently are Synthetic Terror Made in the USA by Webster Tarpley, Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11 by David Ray Griffin and The Terror Conspiracy by Jim Marrs.
Some of these policies were outlined in the document (now widely publicised), produced by the neo-con think-tank, `Project for a New American Century' entitled `Rebuilding America's Defences'. Other policies are openly exemplified by the attitudes western (US & European) PIMMFCC in their daily modus-operandi.
Barry Zwicker's book at 400 pages (including 28 pages reference/notes section and 7 page index) differs from the fore mentioned scholarly works in many ways. Four of the most important in my opinion are this:
1. The evidence that 9/11 was in fact an inside job and planned and made to happen, is not presented by an endless recitation of anomalies (smoking guns) which expose the official 9/11 "government conspiracy theory" as a fraud. Barry Zwicker presents this evidence as a series of 26 illustrated and methodically described exhibits (A-Z). Anyone reading, who is sceptical can therefore immediately form a `de facto opinion', rather than simply an `opinion'. The latter simple `opinion' is based simply on the misinformation and repetitive parroting of the `official government conspiracy theory'.
2. As a respected journalist and broadcaster Barry Zwicker examines to reasons as to why there has been a media-blackout and media cover-up of the evidence that contradicts the official 9/11 `government conspiracy theory' exposing it as a completely contradictory fraud from beginning to end. The book covers in depth the excuses given by the media, so that the buck can be passed and the hard questions simply ignored and avoided by the main stream media. Barry exposes the duplicity of media coverage by using several recent case histories as examples.
3. The book, written in a journal style includes, short biographical information about key figures in the 9/11 truth investigations, as well as providing relevant illustrations and photographs giving this overall style of a cohesive dossier of intelligent evidence.
4. Titled `The Shame of Noam Chomsky and Gatekeepers of the Left', chapter 5 is a powerful exposé of the duplicity and lies of the Gate-keeping community. In it Barry Zwicker conducts analyses of the work published by Chomsky, exposing it as powerful propaganda aimed at stifling debate, argument and examination of evidence. The motive is simply to perpetuate the left-right political power-system and paradigm. In an analysis worthy of note, (particularly by any scholar of Linguistics and Philosophy) Barry Zwicker conducts an easy to understand textual analysis of Chomsky's opinions on 9/11 and the JFK assassination. He discovers that Chomsky is engaged in the very same use of propaganda and disinformation tactics that he is widely regarding as condemning and exposing. In a paradigm shifting chapter Barry Zwicker concludes that the so called intellectuals simply exist to perpetuate the left-right political system, of which they are an intricate party member.
Chapter 5 alone should make Barry Zwicker's book a widely read and referenced work. It is nothing more than a literary coup d'état exposing the shameful practices of Noam and his intellectual gatekeeping gang. It can be taken as granted that the right wing media will avoid any review of the material presented by Barry Zwicker, but when the left wing media ignore it also - this should make this book compulsory reading and an immediate best seller.
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