A dozen carefully researched books have exposed the official story of 9/11 to be a terror fraud. Yet the mainstream media have monolithically failed to ask elementary questions about anomalies in this story. So-called alternative media have been little better. Towers of Deception explains why and prescribes actions to break out the truth.
Authored by a lifelong journalist who was for thirty-five years a media critic, Towers of Deception provides twent… More >>
Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11
These are the ravings of a brain dead moonbat. Don’t waste your time reading this trash.
Rating: 1 / 5
After reading this book, I just wanted to laugh and the leaps people can make and others will believe.
Rating: 1 / 5
Almost everybody has seen the headlines in the check-out lines and had a chuckle. We all know there are those who take this stuff seriously. The same can be said of the 911 “conspiracy”. Some folks pay absolutely no attention to the various and many investigations that have disproved 99% of all the bogus claims but go orgasmic over the latest Youtube video by Joe Blow claiming he has the ultimate 911 truth. If you don’t believe my conspiracy theory you are part of the plot – the perfect defense mechanism. I try to point out that despite universal claims of inside knowledge and the real “truth”, the stories contradict each other in almost every detail. For example, the hijackers cannot be (1) alive & well, (2) non-existent, (3) murdered, (4) Mossad agents, (5) al Qaeda agents or (6) under remote mind control by the CIA.
Barrie Zwicker is described as a Canadian alternative writer and a left wing political activist (Wiki). Those phrases should set off warning bells as to his bias before we start. That is not to say that political leanings are always a factor – the liberal Skeptic Magazine came up with the same conclusions as the conseravite Popular Mechanics and the neutral Engineers of America and, for that matter, the 911 commission. Physical evidence is no longer used in the conspiracy since they were quite easy to disprove. A political conspiracy is easier to trot since it is entirely subjective, based on a hodge podge of overheard snatches of conversation, internet chatter and bizarre tales that almost always have a simple explanation, i.e. “pull” down WTC7 meant “pull” the men from the bldg but of course it was taken out of context and transformed into one of the most-quoted pieces of “evidence” around. Zweiker plays it safe – making several proposals that if proved would leave no doubt that indeed it was a conspiracy.
The fallacy of that approach is the same as its construction – its utter subjectivity. If I prove 10 but disprove 5 is it conspiracy? If I can’t prove any but disprove one, does it fall apart? He carefully does not make the error of others and try for exactness. He asserts that the media were part of the “plot” by repeating erroneous stories, relying on unknown sources and in general, supporting the series of events proved by investigations. Someone has calculated the thousands it would take to pull off something of this magnitude and yet not a single soul has come forward with a confession…strange in this day of the confessional.
People are now noticing how other conspiracies are intertwining and becoming part of the mythology. These “odd? ideas are standard fare for the conspiracy addict but not the general public – Jewish bankers (Anti-Semites are drawn to such crap), New World Order, Knights Templar, the Illuminati, Big Oil, CIA remote mind control, the Vatican, aliens… Some sites now headline the catchy phrase – “No Planes, No Holocaust” – further damaging the dwindling credibility of the “movement”. The success of this movement speaks volumes about our inability to think critically about problems. How much easier it is to imagine dark cabals of whispers and payoffs than the horrific truth. It is an exercise in nonsense, irrationality, political ideology and wish fulfillment for big kids. The results, however, are as tragic as any conspiracy buff could imagine. The “Patriot Act”, “Homeland Security”, the war in Iraq, the loss of liberties agreed to by both parties, the never ending war and surveillance…those are outcomes of 9-11 and do not even require a dark, secret plot as an explanation.
Rating: 1 / 5
The author made a significant production effort to deliver a good sized text with quality manufacturing plus video disc at a low retail price. Regardless of one’s agreement or opposition to its presentation of facts and ideas, it’s hard to resist buying it for the 9/11 bookshelf. Sort of like my having to buy a new state-published copy of Mao’s little Red Book in 1970 for 75 cents.
As to content, there seemed to be multiple themes asserted, each interwoven but also contending: (1) America has a long history of deception and violent scheming in order to maintain elite rule. (2) When deception and force fail, then coercion is employed in both subtle and then escalating overt forms to disorient and control. (3) The coercive powers of the state are so great that media voices to the public are negated in revealing the actual long-term aggressive intentions of America.
It’s interesting that the writer does not outright charge the U.S. government with complicity in 9/11 (as far as this reader can tell), leaving that particular allegation to be developed by other conspiracy conjecturalists. The major charge seems to be something less, which is that the media has been cornered and pressured not to go certain places, or to cover-up findings when it stumbles onto a reality at odds with propaganda, and it has been just this way with government conspiracies past and present.
The book certainly was informative reading to better recognize how different the Canadian cultural and psychological mindset might be. Excuse me, but I thought it was the Royalists who moved from the states to Canada. For a well informed American citizen and patriot, it’s sort of like mosquitos, which one can swat and swat but never really diminish in its annoying effect.
I give the writer highest marks for his observations on coercion in everyday life, which is part of virtually every marketing strategy for every product being sold to the presumptive sophisticated consumer worldwide. Logically, the connection I don’t get from the author’s presentation is, if a government has a really great conspiracy, then why does it then need to resort to coercion?
Rating: 3 / 5
Following in the tradition of David Ray Griffin’s sci-fi series of 911 conspiracy books, and the three stooges Loose Change videos, Barrie Zwicker offers a compendium of theirs and other rabid 911 conspiracy cottage industry exploiters easily refuted claims.
Watching the behavior of the “truth” brigade reveals a fascinating phenomenon commonly known as the “Reverse David Brock Syndrome.” Once David Brock was the scourge of the left when he championed Justice Thomas and slimmed Anita Hill. But Brock, the creator of Media Matters, currently enjoys the undying gratitude and blind allegiance of Liberals for his complete transformation into a Hillary Clinton crusader.
Imagine the ultra Liberal/Socialist Noam Chomsky, one of the treasured darlings of the anti American set, being dissed by Zwicker for not embracing the Bush/Israel, and now American media, conspiracy theory. Who is next on Zwicker’s excommunication list? Howard Zinn? Keith Olbermann? Rosie O’Donnell? Charlie Sheen? Possibly even The Boss?
The idea of not only the American media being in on 911, but the British media as well, is a bizarre claim. Considering the “truthers” favorite piece of evidence of the 911 Bush/Israel conspiracy that the BBC reported the collapse of WTC 7, some 20-30 minutes prior to its collapse, would indicate that confiding with the media to help you initiate a massive conspiracy is probably not the swiftest idea. Naturally, when the BBC renounced this false story, the “truthers” claimed they were pressured into retracting the story. But here is the BBC reply:
“We didn’t get told in advance that buildings were going to fall down. We didn’t receive press releases or scripts in advance of events happening. In the chaos and confusion of the day, I’m quite sure we said things which turned out to be untrue or inaccurate – but at the time were based on the best information we had.”
Had Zwicker never heard of the 1999 Payne Stewart incident where his Learjet Model 35 flew for two hours, without any response to FAA controllers, before F-16’s intercepted the jet? I wonder what trumped up maneuvers the government had diverted NORAD with when Stewart’s jet was wandering the skies over the U.S.?
But where in any of these cottage industry 911 conspiracy books and videos do these bastions of truth and enlightenment ever discuss Sandy Burger’s stealing and shredding of stolen 911 documents from the National Archives? I know that the conspiratorial minded loved Waco and Ruby Ridge during the Clinton Administration, but does Clinton get a pass on 911? Maybe it is because his wife is close to getting the Executive Office that the “truthers” excuse Bill’s complicity in 911.
Just as Geraldo was confronted with the embarrassment of no riches in Al Capne’s vault, so to is the inevitable fate of Zwicker and company when the “truthers” realize their Emperor is wearing his birthday suit.
Rating: 2 / 5