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shell game

The Shell Game by Steven Alten

The fictional book The Shell Game by best-selling author Steven Alten has received concerted promotion by some 9/11 Truth activists, and is the focus of the Week of Truth "Buy in" -- a campaign to propell the book into best-seller status.

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title: Stacking The Patsies of 9/11
authors: Scott Meredith

It's always absolutely astonishing to me when the average American's first reaction to the idea of 9/11 as an inside job is to gasp "No way the USA gov would murder 3,000 of their own people!" Huh? First of all, where does anybody get off asserting that we are the mil.gov's people? As though they own us? Second, of course nobody is charging that the entire USA mil.gov signed some executive order or legislative proclamation to murder those 3,000. Obviously it was a relatively small and secretive group. The average GS-10 mathematician working for the Bureau of Labor Statistics is innocent and pure as driven snow, ok? And then finally, there's some kind of shocked ascriptive morality behind that reaction, like sure they'd invade and destroy South Vietnam and Iraq, train and equip SAVAK and Pinochet and Guatamalen Death Squads - they'd decimate all kinds of places stocked with non-Caucasian cattle, but surely would hesitate to snuff a few thousand New Yorkers. Those people need to review the classic scene from The Godfather: "Kate, now who's being naive?" (Michael Corleone)

Anyway, you can infer from the paragraph above that yes, Shell Game takes on USA mil.gov false flag terror. But it goes at the project very half-heartedly. Alten's view on 9-11 is pretty tepid - he seems to think that yeah, the 19 Al Qaeda guys did it, but there were warnings that may have been deliberately suppressed or ignored. So one thing I disliked about Shell Game, is that Alten gives very short shrift to the deeper analyses of 9-11 as an inside job. He pretty much just tsks-tsks over missed warnings or faulty intelligence, lack of due diligence, and leaves it at that. Hello champ, it's a whole lot worse than that. Read David Ray Griffin. Listen to Richard Gage. (Neither is listed in his Suggested Reading).

But 9-11 is ancient history right? So over! So 2001! We Americans have always been a forward-looking people, and what we have to look forward to is escalation from boxcutters on planes to nukes in an American city. Alten is not some wild-eyed radical with that prediction - Dick Cheney and others have stated exactly the same many times. And look at the perfect linearly ascending line of escalation of False Flag Firepower and scale of target:

JFK ==>
OKC Federal building ==>
World Trade Center complex ==>
American city nuke.

It makes perfect sense, and probably it will happen.

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Long story short, Los Angeles gets completely obliterated by a suitcase nuke planted by rogue/NeoCon FBI people, coordinated through the Department of Homeland Security and approved by the President. But then one heroic guy exposes the backstory of the crime and due to the resulting firestorm of media investigation and public outcry, the most extreme NeoCon's are chased out of office, and the nation limps onward with a renewed dedication to weaning ourselves off foreign oil.

The idea that some kind of "media exposure" could effectively address a false flag op is ridiculous. In fact, the media is part of the op in the first place. Not that the media is consciously in on the game of course (they are far too stupid to be trusted with any explicit operational role or insider knowledge - honestly they are truly stupid people) but they tacitly understand their place as mil.gov cheerleaders (taking care to nip at The Hand now and then - mustn't be too obvious) and happy to roll over at the merest nod, wink, or nudge from their more clued-in mil.gov handlers. So the end of the book is a ridiculous fairy tale.

But it's clear that:

(a) the Neo-Con's got almost everything desired from 9-11;
(b) that still isn't good enough.

They need more lockdown, the military draft, draconian internet controls, national DNA database; all kinds of cool agendas remain unfulfilled. Now I'm not saying they absolutely must fry one or more USA cities to get the above basket of goodies. Incremental post-9/11-ism will do the job, in due course of time. But isn't it really more fun for them to nudge it along with a Big Fiery Bang? Fortune favors the bold! So I think both Dick Cheney and Alten are correct, an American city probably will be nuked.

In the book, the actual nukes (yeah, real mushroom stuff, not dirty bombs) are clandestinely engineered by a lone rogue Chinese scientist living in the USA. Another unrealistic touch, to me. Probably the bombs will actually come from a USA military unit that agrees with the NeoCon agenda.

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title: Strange Fervor for The Shell Game: A Limited Hang-out Does Not Serve Truth
authors: Don Paul

Over the past two months authors, organizers and websites for '911 Truth' have called on activists to buy copies of Steve Alten's novel The Shell Game, to thus push it to prominence as a New York Times' top-10 best-seller, and to thus bring a 'breakthrough' of mass awareness as to the true crimes of September 11, 2001, a 'breakthrough' so sweeping it might prevent the next 9/11-like act of false-flag terror that's meant to launch the United States into further war for oil in the Middle East.

There are several problems with this pitch for The Shell Game.

Let me list them for clarity.

One, The Shell Game consistently posits that Arabs with box-cutters hijacked four airliners on 9/11/01. It maintains a position that came to be known about four years ago as LIHOP--Let It Happen On Purpose. LIHOP holds that principals within the U. S. Government (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Myers, Eberhart, etc.) let 19 or so patsies, Mohammad Atta most famous among them, carry out the attacks.

For reasons that have been explicated for at least the past six years, LIHOP can't be anything close to the whole story as to the crimes of 9/11/01. LIHOP is not true. It fails to explain or reveal the most central and consequential realities of the crimes of 9/11 and so it fails to help us understand how we can act most crucially to prevent the next 9/11.

Two, demolition of the Twin Towers and World Trade Center Building 7 was the most consequential and revealing of the crimes of 9/11/01 and said demolition is scarcely suggested, much less exposed, in The Shell Game. (The most acknowledged source of 9/11 research in The Shell Game, Michael C. Ruppert's Crossing the Rubicon, does not mention WTC 7, nor does ... Rubicon mention WTC's developer and the Twin Towers' lease-holder, Larry Silverstein.) Recognizing the three Buildings' demolition lets us see through to causes for the 9/11 crimes that are deeper than nations' and Corporations' hunger for oil. Understanding that only those with secure access to planting explosives against the three Buildings' interior and exterior steel columns could have done the crimes lets us identify perpetrators and orchestrators beyond the U.S. Government. Understanding the breadth of the cover-up and mass-messaging that immediately followed the airliners' crashes and the WTC Buildings' demolition lets us understand that orchestrators of the 9/11 crimes must be both supranational and decisively influential in Lower Manhattan real estate. Seeing the depth and breadth of the crimes of 9/11/01--and knowing precedents for 9/11 and the abiding financial reason for these precedents--lets us better know our situation and seek remedies for our peril. A more complete truth more completely empowers and frees us. The " 'War on Terror' " is really one more step by plutocrat elitists toward enslaving us in their 'New World Order' of rule by finances.

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