Happy New Year!

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The heavens are a picture, a book, a mirror, wherein man can behold and read the form and the laws of supreme goodness, the plan and total of perfection…. From this Spirit, which is One, all being flows; there is one truth and one goodness penetrating and governing all things…. We are surrounded by eternity and by the uniting of love. There is but one centre from which all species issue, as rays from a sun and to which all species return. There is but one celestial expanse, where the stars choir forth unbroken harmony. From this spirit, which is called the life of the Universe, proceeds the life and soul of everything which has soul and life, the which life however, I understand to be immortal, as well in bodies as in their souls, there being no other death than division and congregation.

G. Bruno

 

You Can Rock Or You Can Leave

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I tip on alligators and little rattle snakers
But I’m another flavor
Something like a terminator
Ain’t no equivocating
I fight for what I believe
Why you talkin’ bout it
S-s-she’s talkin’ bout it
Some callin’ me a sinner
Some callin’ me a winner
I’m callin’ you to dinner
And you know exactly what I mean,
Yeah I’m talkin’ bout you
You can rock or you can leave
Watch me tip without you

9/11, Nancy and Me

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Nancy Jo Sales and I are no longer Facebook friends. It was fun while it lasted but I guess I went too far by posting THAT article in comments to one of her posts. I mean, sure, she was the one who WROTE the article, but I suppose it was a bit rude of me.

Why she defriended me, and what the article was about, got me thinking about the grand hustle that is “9/11 Truth.”

But let me back up a bit. Nancy Jo Sales is a writer, with articles often appearing in perfume-scented glossies like Vanity Fair and Bazaar. Here is her website. And she has a blog, too.  Hmm…only has one entry, dated January of 2009:  ”Rosebud will see you soon.” I think Rosebud was the name of Citizen Kane’s sled, wasn’t it?  I’ll look that up.

Meanwhile, what started this whole hullabaloo was her posting an article that suggested that, now get this, the Bush administration LIED about some shit regarding the response to 9/11. It was no big deal, really.  They  told us that planes had been scrambled and were in pursuit of the airliners with shoot down orders, when it turns out the few planes that were scrambled were sent up far too late to shoot down anything. I mean what’s a little white lie between a President and his voters?

So Nancy Jo posted that article and one of her other FB friends brought up the damage he felt the “9/11 Truth Movement” had done to any real chances of learning any actual 9/11 truth.  This angered Nancy Jo, for some reason.  This has nothing to do with “conspiracy theories,” she shot back.

I could not help but jump in and agree with her friend.  Hey, there really are a lot of good questions that have gone unanswered, and even unasked, sacrificed, as they were, on the altars of Thermite and Controlled Demolition. All skepticism about the official story then has gotten lumped in with that crap, and thus no investigations of substance have been launched into things such as: Saudi and Pakistani connections to 9/11, FBI obstruction of investigations of known terrorists before 9/11 and just what the fuck the deal is with Florida.

Nancy was indignant.  Why are you talking about 9/11 conspiracy theories?  Do you see anything on here about conspiracy theories?

So me, trying to be helpful and thinking maybe not all her Facebook friends know much about the strange disinformation attractor that is 9/11 truth, posted one of the articles that helped vault such conspiracy theories into mainstream attention, a Vanity Fair profile of the guys who made the “Loose Change” video, which quick-cut summarized most of the prominent conspiracy theories about that tragic day.

The article, of course, was written by Nancy Jo Sales. 

I don’t know what happened after that, because I was immediately blocked from her Facebook page. Or maybe she pulled her entire profile…I can’t tell.  Y’all try it and see if you can find it…only thing I see now is a fan page.

We can’t be too hard on Nancy Jo, though.  Because you see, she wrote for love.

In 2004 Sales married Frank Morales, an Episcopal priest at St. Mark’s on the Bowery, an activist church which became the hub of NYC “9/11 Truth”.  She would have another chance, a year after the Loose Change article hit the shelves, to pimp for Morales a second time.  There was some unpleasantness on church property that might have cast suspicion on Morales had Nancy Jo’s definitive article on said unpleasantness not assured us of what a swell guy he is.

But that little hustle was just one example of the dozens of hustles that skillfully buried any chances for real light to shine on the sordid mess that lay beneath the surface of 9/11.  I know some of those 9/11 conspiracists were just in it for lulz, like those people who said the planes that hit the towers were actually just holograms, or the guys attributing the collapse of the towers to exotic space-based weapons.

But at the heart of “9/11 Truth” I suspect a much more cynical operation.  The Saudi connections were obvious, but no President was going to freeze assets from the House of Saud or launch cruise missiles into Ryadh.  The complicity with the Saudis and their uber-terrorist creations likely preceded the attacks.  Whether that was because of an actual willingness to allow a terrorist attack on U.S. soil to pump up the militaristic noise or a simple desire not to ruffle Saudi feathers, we may now never be known for sure.

The Saudis have an impressive and expensive propaganda network and I hear the U.S. is pretty good at that stuff as well.  And, of course, either party could always hire a fine P.R. firm like Hill and Knowlton to redirect the enthusiasm of citizen activists looking for answers. It was a kind of magic.  The most obvious solution was obscured behind a lot of Thermite smoke and Mossad mirrors.

Well now I have gone and done it.  I have put out a completely unsubstantiated claim that the Saudis and those who profit from them were behind the 9/11 Truth Movement, in order to obscure their involvement and, whenever possible, blame it on Jews.  I am sorry to have wasted your time with that.  I’m getting older, and sometimes I just tend to ramble.

But at least I found the answer to our trivia question.  It turns out Rosebud was, in fact, the name of his sled.

“Rosebud Was The Name of His Sled (excerpt)” – Baron von Luxxury from Baron von Luxxury on Vimeo.