David Ray Griffin, Kevin Ryan

'perhaps it is better to wake up afterall, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life' - kate chopin, taken from a youtube video put out by architects and engineers for 9/11 truth

david ray griffin died last month. he was among the most prominent critics of the false official narrative of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and american imperialism, wrote many books about these subjects, gave many speeches, inspired many others to get involved. below is a link to a compilation of tributes to his life taken from off-guardian, another off the beaten track alternative source of independent journalism seeking to counter the tsunami of disinformation and propaganda that spews 24-7-365 from western lamestream media:

https://off-guardian.org/2022/12/11/offgs-tribute-to-david-ray-griffin/

link to a cspan video produced 16 years ago, featuring mr. griffin, peter dale scott, kevin ryan, and peter phillips:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?194754-1/911-american-empire-intellectuals-speak-out

link to kevin ryan's blog, a treasure trove of 'conspiracy theory' information and speculation:

https://digwithin.net/

“Strategy Of Tension” And 9/11

long pdf article detailing how western government intelligence agencies led by the cia have systematically over decades been involved in false flag terrorist activities which have been used to smear left wing political parties and their supporters throughout much of europe and the u.s., via very secretive operations such as gladio and northwoods. these have also been carried out to create public support for foreign invasions such as those of afghanistan and iraq in the wake of 9/11, the most infamous of all such 'ops'. here is the beginning and conclusion of this article, followed by it's link:

Historians today and in the coming years face a challenging task: they must
write the history of the events of September 11, 2001. What they write will be

taught in history classes. But what will they write? Will they write that Osama Bin
Laden sent 19 Muslims to launch a surprise attack on the U.S.? Or will they write
that the administration of President George W. Bush was responsible for the attack,
either constructing it or deliberately permitting it in order to shock the U.S.
population and to create a pretext for increasing military spending and attacking
Afghanistan and Iraq?

“it is clear that deceiving the public and trumping up wars for Americans to fight and die in was standard, approved policy at the highest levels of the Pentagon.”

Conclusion

The two main arguments against the view that the attacks of 9/11 were
influenced by the US government and its military have been a priori arguments.
One of these is that civilized Western governments in general, and the US
government in particular, would never do such a heinous thing. The other main a
priori argument is that if the attacks of 9/11 were carried out by forces within
America’s own government, this fact could not have remained secret for this long.
The information in this article shows both of these arguments to be dubious at best.

http://www.journalof911studies.com/resources/2014GanserVol39May.pdf

Incentivizing Abusive Policing

another video exposing gross misdeeds of loveland colorado cops. in this case, they were incentivized to make false arrests by federal programs which dish out money to police departments contingent upon their arrest numbers being high enough. as is pointed out, as usual, the officers involved never face any consequences for their misconduct. their bosses defend them.

i read somewhere that an overwhelming majority of police, something like 90%, lean republican/conservative. they generally act like typical 'conservatives' who live by 'alternative facts' and don't have any ethics beyond myopic self interest. only in dystopia!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPEfxgkcuRI

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid (Of American Police)

even though i've posted videos similar to this here very recently, i just keep coming across more and more unbelievable examples of how american police are far more dangerous, corrupt, and violent than any criminal gang. more sadistic, stupid, entitled, and protected from accountability for their own brutality and criminality when dealing with the public they purportedly 'serve and protect'. it's also an extremely sad commentary on the abject stupidity of the american sheeple that they don't en masse object to this state of affairs and demand radical reform. instead, thanks in no small part to a very biased and corrupt corporate media which is constantly pushing the mostly erroneous idea that crime is rampant and out of control and that police officers are these great selfless heroes who are worthy of our utmost trust and respect. it's absolutely sickening!

this video details 4 separate incidents over about a one year period in a relatively safe (except when police get involved!) and crime free american community wherein police officers in mostly routine encounters almost instantaneously resort to brutal or deadly violence. after watching enough of these and thanks to a few unpleasant encounters with police i've personally experienced, i must admit that i'm far more afraid of american police than i am of criminals who aren't police. it's hard to imagine any occupation that employs more violent, dangerous, and sadistic individuals. i doubt very much if any decent intelligent compassionate person could fit into american police culture, or be hired as an officer.

finally, at the end of this video i love the point taya graham makes regarding how american police routinely turn the idea of 'presumption of innocence' on it's head, and immediately treat much if not most of the public they are called on to deal with as though they are criminals, even those who shouldn't even be considered as criminal suspects, like the 'good samaritan' here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S593uFOWNPY

Abby Martin

just discovered to my surprise that i haven't mentioned Abby Martin in this blog previously. she's among the brightest and most outspoken radical critics of american militarism and imperialism to be found in journalism over the past decade. of course as such the corporate lamestream western media wouldn't touch her with a ten meter pole, so like others she had to resort to the only organizations that would hire her kind, in this case one funded by an 'enemy', russia.

here she is speaking with another veteran of russia today (RT), lee camp, about the corruption/bias of western media and the internet in favor of western establishment deceit, hypocrisy, war crimes, and such:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_RVMXZIrIM&t=458s

More Police State Shitfuckery

excellent videos from the real news network which highlight incidences of police misconduct and harassment based upon profiling, and goes on to discuss how ubiquitous this phenomenon is and how psychologically harmful it is to live in a police state in which police officers have essentially unfettered power to engage in this reprehensible behavior. i love how the reporter, taya graham, analyzes it all within the context of systemic social inequality and injustice, and how government abuses power to disempower it's citizens.

there's a lot more videos similar to these from this network (and of course others as well). as i wrote some time ago, there's probably enough videos now on youtube of american police bullying, abusing, and sometimes killing those they supposedly are here to 'serve and protect', that if one had nothing else to do one could watch such videos continuously for months or years. such is life in a police state which leads the world in mass incarceration (and many other negative issues). in such a state, routine encounters between police and citizens are often fraught with well justified anxiety and fear. yet a large proportion of the populace are so brainwashed (mostly by corporate media) that they still think of cops as 'the good guys' and support the police state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7SrKRgkkdA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLVPmRecehM

9/11 Redux

i didn't post anything last year for the 20th anniversary of 9/11. the year before i posted 'september fool's day' which contained a couple of links to some excellent talks on the subject on youtube. i see now that one of them, by richard gage of architects and engineers for 911 truth, is no longer available (it's now a 'private video'). mr. gage was and perhaps still is one of the leading lights of that fine organization which still, after 21 years, is fighting to make the truth known. in that talk he presented a lot of evidence supporting the conclusion that the collapse of 3 steel frame towers on 9/11 was due to controlled demolitions. fortunately, there are other videos of a similar nature which are still available on youtube, some of which are also featured on ae911truth website, for which a link is provided below. i suggest u check it out after watching the other link i've posted previously to a 9/11 related youtube video, a talk given by richard dolan on it's 17th anniversary 4 years ago. it's a tour de force, a must see. if after viewing it u're curious to see a similar presentation of his on the anthrax letters which were mailed to some government officials a month after 9/11, u can find that link by doing a search for 'richard dolan' on this blog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aXVzLMVdWM

https://www.ae911truth.org/