1. No kidding. This is SO obvious to anyone who thinks about it for, oh, 2 seconds:
“Threat of Muslim-American terrorism in U.S. exaggerated
A small number of Muslim-Americans have undergone radicalization since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the study found. It compiled a list of 139 individuals it categorized as “Muslim-American terrorism offenders” who had become radicalized in the U.S. in that time — a rate of 17 per year.
That level is “small compared to other violent crime in America, but not insignificant,” according to the study, titled “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans.”
To be included on the list, an offender had to have been wanted, arrested, convicted or killed in connection with terrorism-related activities since 9/11 — and have lived in the United States, regardless of immigration status, for more than a year prior to arrest.
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Despite the all important issue of motivation when addressing and investigating a crime, the only “motivation” that the powers-that-be here in the US have put forward for 9/11, is that “they hate us”. More than likely, it’s case of “we hate them”, the “we” in this instance being the hardline neo-conservative anti-Muslim (ultra hard-line pro-Israel) lobby in Washington DC, who have had a disproportionate influence in formulating US foreign (and some domestic) policy for several decades, especially since the Bush Jr. administration. The original Bush Jr. Cabinet in 2001 was loaded to the rafters with people of that political persuasion, a number of whom have publicly expressed outright hatred for Arabs and Muslims. The “because they hate us” “logic” (?!!) of explaining 9/11, and subsequent false-flags and set-ups framing Islam in the media and administration (7/7, Richard Reid, Madrid, Bali etc etc etc) looks like a classic case of “inversion of guilt”.
Various surveys estimate the muslim US population at anything between a minimum of 2.5 million (Pew), almost 5 million (Encyclopædia Britannica) and almost 7 million (CAIR). The study also found that out of the 136,000 murders in the US since 9/11, fewer than three dozen of these have been as a result of “Muslim American terrorism”. Lets compare that to the number of Muslim civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, slaughtered by a $Trillion worth of warfare based upon lies and “officially sanctioned hatred in DC”….. and there is absolutely ZERO comparison.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/22335
2. The answer of course is that they are similar because both were US government/military false flag attacks on ourselves:
“Thomas Kean and John Farmer: “How 12/25 Was Like 9/11″
how jfk handled the bay of pigs issue, or in his opinion that obama should follow jfk’s example, is that jfk was assassinated (in part) for standing up and firing people. (indeed, one of the officials jfk fired over the bay of pigs fiasco, cia director allen dulles, ended up on the warren commission.) thus, the question becomes, if obama actually wanted to do something about getting to the bottom of this 12/25 incident (or anything else that really matters, e.g., 9/11), how would he go about doing that without getting himself killed?
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Although I did not know John F. Kennedy, I do know Barack Obama does not even have half the balls of the crotch bomber, let alone the gonads of a JFK. Kennedy stood up to and opposed sinister shadow government individuals and institutions from Day 1, actions that eventually did cost him his life. Kennedy was basically at exact opposites with US intelligence and military institutions on Bay of Pigs (4/61), Operation Northwood (3/62), Cuban Missile crisis (10/62), Cuba, Vietnam, and nuclear proliferation with the Soviets (along with Israel’s and China’s nuclear development).
On the other hand, Obama stands for little and is the consummate politician playing the middle of the road to help assure his, and his administration’s, job security. In addition to not standing up to these shadow government players in the case of Flight 253, Obama has given them just about everything else they have wanted including a military surge in Afghanistan, a prolonged withdrawal in Iraq, an inevitable escalation with Yemen, and a decent possibility of an attack on Iran in the future. Instead of standing up to the military and intelligence institutions like Kennedy did, Obama is playing their game and going against the will of a majority of the American people who want the United States out of these unnecessary and expensive Middle Eastern quagmires today, not 5 years from now.
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For beginners, they were both false flag operations that government officials like Kean & Farmer helped to cover up. Of course Kean and Farmer were basically clueless as Philip Zelikow ran the commission’s investigation and wrote the fictional report as these two lap dogs sat idly by. Seriously though, let’s have some fun with this one and start a list of similarities and differences.
Similarities:
* Both were false flag operations
* Both used the same pathetic excuse that “nobody connected the dots”
* US intelligence was helpless because did not have exact target & date
* Both involved planes and Muslim patsies
* NSA and CIA are the two primary agencies for intelligence failures
* CIA did not share information it obtained with other intelligence agencies
* FBI is already assisting in cover-up (Kurt Haskell’s cover-up)
* UK warned us about threat and / or terrorist(s) beforehand
* There is evidence of Israeli complicity and / or anomalies
* Eyewitness are being ignored by government and MSM
* Evidence not supporting “lone wolf” theory being disregarded
* Biggest benefactors US military and energy companies
* Not one single individual or institution has been held accountable
* No real investigation, terrible transparency
Differences (how 12/25 differs from 9/11):
* Nobody’s been tortured or waterboarded 183 times for information
* Information from tortured individuals not basis for report conclusions
* Individual running investigation, not good friend of the National Security Advisor
* There’s no worthless figurehead (i.e., Kean) in the 12/25 investigation
* We have a president that at least pretends to give a damn about an investigation
The moral of the story, if it works the first time, try it again. The perps may even want to take a video to preserve the memories. Oops, I forgot, add one more similarity to the above list.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/22326
3. “
Good Morning, Yemen? The Mouse That Roared Was Funnier
We know how the British-made imperial Mideast production ended. I do not expect a happy ending to the current American remake. If anything, the notion that we are now about to expand our military involvement into Yemen by launching a new front in the “war on terror” in the poorest country in the Arab world, that is not a state but a collection of rival tribes and extended-families, that has proved to be beyond the control of global players (Britain; Russia) and regional players (Ottomans; Saudis; Egypt), and that has no strategic significance, no oil, no notable religious sites, not Christians, no nothing, is, well, mind-boggling.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leon-t-hadar/good-morning-yemen-the-mo_b_413690.html
4. More evidence that global warming is an absurdity:
“Frosty, Frigid Global Warming
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16832
5. “The coming year might go down in history as that of major media consolidation, as in concentration of media ownership in the hands of a few large conglomerates and powerful media moguls. Predictions regarding mergers of media companies are very bleak, and to a degree frightening.
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The continuation of this trend is terrible news for public interest, civil society and democracy as a whole. We must resist shameless efforts of the few at owning everything we see, hear and read. By owning all the influences that shape our views of our surroundings and the world at large, the public will soon be forced to surrender every available outlet of expression, and eventually its very self-definition. Yes, even the way we define ourselves will ultimately be determined by a billionaire in some penthouse, who makes his wealth selling us packaged lies as news and trash as entertainment. “
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16833
6. “American military personnel are continuing to take their own lives in unprecedented numbers, as the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq wars drag on. By late November, at least 334 members of the armed forces had committed suicide in 2009, more than the 319 who were killed in Afghanistan or the 150 who died in Iraq. While a final figure is not available, the toll of military suicides last year was the worst since records began to be kept in 1980.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16814
7. “More cause and effect in our ever-expanding “war”
The principal problem is that by pretending that we do nothing to fuel Islamic radicalism, we stay unaware — blissfully ignorant — of the staggering costs of our actions. I defy anyone to find a political figure in either major party’s leadership who has, in the context of discussing U.S. policy towards Israel, ever even mentioned the fact that undying, endless American support for Israel — making all of their conflicts our own — increases the risk of terrorist violence aimed at the U.S. But it so plainly does. The fact that Israel is now explicitly vowing that its “next wars” against its Muslim neighbors will be “much harsher” than even the grotesque atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon means these costs are almost certain to increase even further.
Again, these facts do not, standing alone, prove that we ought to change these policies. The mere fact that Islamic radicals object to what we do does not prove we should stop, as there may be net benefits to those actions or they may be morally justifiable. But at the very least, rational discussions require that these costs and benefits be weighed, and that can only happen if we acknowledge the costs. But when it comes to our own actions in the Muslim world, and especially our undying devotion to supporting everything Israel does, acknowledging the costs (to say nothing of the morality) is exactly what we steadfastly refuse to do.”
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
