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    <font size="+3">Stephen,<br>
      <br>
      First of all, there are other people on this list and in AWARE
      besides myself who do NOT believe the " official " Bush Admin /
      Corporate media fairytale about the 9-11-2001 attacks.<br>
      There are many people on the " LEFT " who also do not believe the
      <br>
      " official " story, like ; the late Howard Zinn, Michael
      Parrentti, and Cynthia McKinney, just to name a few.<br>
      <br>
      The problem Stephen is that you have totally discredited yourself
      with the neo-Nazi / anti-semiticsm shit you have posted.<br>
      Therefore nobody is going to take anything you say seriously,
      regardless of how true and accurate it may be.<br>
      <br>
      And by attacking Carl E., Chomsky, and anyone else who has a
      proven record of being anti-war and anti-Zionist and accusing them
      of being " Zionist Gatekeepers ", just because they may differ
      with you on tactics and / or disagree with you about other topics,
      is not helping you either.<br>
      Your just throwing more gasoline on the fire and wondering why you
      keep getting burned.<br>
      <br>
      David Johnson<br>
      <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/4/2014 12:03 PM, Stephen Francis
      via Peace-discuss wrote:<br>
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              <div id="yiv7901158096yui_3_16_0_8_1407168555114_4">The
                9/11 Truth movement utterly destroys the whole premise
                for the 'war on terror' by removing the blame of the
                9/11 attacks on 'Islamic terrorists'.... Is there any
                other argument that could do this?</div>
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              <div id="yiv7901158096yui_3_16_0_8_1407168555114_4">All of
                CGEs or any other person comments on this list, by
                diminishing the importance of 9/11 Truth are by default
                making the assumption that the 'war on terror' is a
                valid phenomena and are taking away the most provable
                and simplest way to focus on the corruption of our
                government.</div>
              <div id="yiv7901158096yui_3_16_0_8_1407168555114_4"><br>
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              <div id="yiv7901158096yui_3_16_0_8_1407168555114_4">There
                are powerful forces that don't want this to happen and
                are pulling out all stops to undermine the 9/11 Truth
                movement.</div>
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              <div id="yiv7901158096yui_3_16_0_8_1407168555114_4">The
                war on Islam was/is an essential ingredient to all the
                wars and chaos perpetrated by the U.S. / Israel /
                Britain / Saudi Arabia that has been pounded into the
                American mind but a relentless MSM barrage of lies and
                propaganda. Take away the Islamophobic premise and all
                you have left is corruption / greed / imperialism / oil
                wars....</div>
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              <div id="yiv7901158096yui_3_16_0_8_1407168555114_4">9/11
                Truth removes the whole Islamic argument and puts two
                illegal wars right at the footsteps of our corrupt
                leaders..... Is there anything more powerful?</div>
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              <div id="yiv7901158096yui_3_16_0_8_1407168555114_4">There
                are those that say that 'they' (1%) would have found
                some way if not 9/11 to accomplish their goals...but the
                fact of the matter is that the 9/11 False Flag attack
                was their method of choice.  The Patriot Act was signed
                within a couple of weeks of 9/11, NSA, the
                militarization of our police departments, .... on and
                on.</div>
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              <div id="yiv7901158096yui_3_16_0_8_1407168555114_4">The
                same people behind the obscene disparity of wealth,
                financial corruption and murder in Palestine are the
                same people that did 9/11.  </div>
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                      <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On
                          Monday, August 4, 2014 7:22 AM, Carl G.
                          Estabrook <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"><galliher@illinois.edu></a> wrote:<br
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                      <div class="yiv7901158096y_msg_container">The
                        reference to the Giant Rat of Sumatra was a
                        response to Francis' Illuminati-like list of
                        conspiracies. The sleep of reason breeds
                        monsters.<br clear="none">
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                        (In "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire",
                        published in 1924, Arthur Conan Doyle has
                        Sherlock Holmes remark to Dr. Watson, "Matilda
                        Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson
                        ... It was a ship which is associated with the
                        giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the
                        world is not yet prepared.")<br clear="none">
                        <br clear="none">
                        As for gatekeeping, I suggest that's the role of
                        the US media, which we need to combat. They're
                        in the position of Aeschylus' watchman (on its
                        belly, like a dog), guarding the secrets of this
                        'house,' the USG:<br clear="none">
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                        As for all the rest, I’m saying nothing.<br
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                            A great ox stands on my tongue. But this
                        house,<br clear="none">
                            if it could speak, might tell some stories.<br
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                            I speak to those who know about these
                        things.<br clear="none">
                            For those who don’t, there’s nothing I
                        remember...<br clear="none">
                        <br clear="none">
                        --CGE<br clear="none">
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                          On Aug 4, 2014, at 8:36 AM, Stephen Francis
                          via Peace-discuss <<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
                            shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
                          <br clear="none">
                          > I'm definitely not accusing you in any
                          way of obscuring my poster...<br clear="none">
                          > I'm just suggesting that the Channel 3
                          person moved her camera to the only place on
                          the corner that placed you and another person
                          in front of my poster.  That was her move not
                          yours.  I thank you for taking the pic
                          included in this message.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > The oversized poster was just my way of
                          communicating my belief that there is
                          gatekeeping going on in this community.<br
                            clear="none">
                          > In my exchange with CGE, he bailed out of
                          the gatekeeping conversation with a David
                          Gehrig tactic (by the way... Where's David? I
                          miss him)...by mentioning a Rat from Sumatra
                          or something....<br clear="none">
                          > So I just responded with a joke about a
                          conspiracy with Channel 3 censoring my sign. 
                          I thought it was curious that she moved her
                          camera.  You would have to ask her why she
                          moved the camera.  Would she admit that she
                          moved to hide my poster....NO....<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > but...<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > A significant question would be: Would
                          Channel 3 actually air a video with a sign
                          that had the term 'ethnic cleansing' and the
                          Israeli national emblem on the same poster.  I
                          think not.<br clear="none">
                          > Would Channel 3 be ok with 'Free Gaza',
                          or 'Illegal settlements'.... yes.... they are
                          obvious and innocuous.<br clear="none">
                          > Combining Israel and Ethnic Cleansing
                          crosses the line for the MSM... or am I being
                          conspiratorial here....??  That's why I did it
                          and it directly confronts CGE's argument that
                          the reason for Israeli aggression is that
                          Israel is an American aircraft carrier (which
                          is true and significant, but not the most
                          underlying issue in the Middle East.... The
                          creation and existence of Israel itself trumps
                          the 'aircraft carrier'.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > The best gatekeepers are the one's that
                          get the most support and have the most
                          influence from the very people that they are
                          gatekeeping.  CGE matches that description and
                          Chomsky does it on a national basis.  <br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Ethnic cleansing gets too close to the
                          territorial expansion schemes by Israel....It
                          gets too close to the reasons for the very
                          creation and existence of Israel and how it
                          actually happened and how it is portrayed by
                          Israel.... and deligitimization.  Gaza and
                          Operation Protective Edge are symptoms not
                          causes...... the American aircraft carrier is
                          innocuous jawboning. 9/11 Truth is about
                          criminal prosecution of the murder of 3000
                          people.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Again, the question has to be asked: How
                          could a people who supposedly suffered the
                          'Holocaust' murder untold thousands of
                          Palestinians who are just trying to reclaim
                          land that was stolen from them.  The Zionists
                          real motive is expansion.  They are threatened
                          by 1,800,000 Palestinian refugee/prisoners
                          that they created in their ethnic cleansing of
                          Palestine and only know violence as a means to
                          remedy their 'problem'.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Its roots are in the 'Holocaust', Israel
                          would not exist without it... and the UN
                          partition plan, and the preemptive strike in
                          1967, the illegal settlements, .... and on and
                          on.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > On , Stephen Francis <<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
                            shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:stephenf1113@yahoo.com"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:stephenf1113@yahoo.com">stephenf1113@yahoo.com</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > I'm definitely not accusing you in any
                          way of obscuring my poster...<br clear="none">
                          > I'm just suggesting that the Channel 3
                          person moved her camera to the only place on
                          the corner that placed you and another person
                          in front of my poster.  That was her move not
                          yours.  I thank you for taking the pic
                          included in this message.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > The oversized poster was just my way of
                          communicating my belief that there is
                          gatekeeping going on in this community.<br
                            clear="none">
                          > In my exchange with CGE, he bailed out of
                          the gatekeeping conversation with a David
                          Gehrig tactic (by the way... Where's David? I
                          miss him)...by mentioning a Rat from Sumatra
                          or something....<br clear="none">
                          > So I just responded with a joke about a
                          conspiracy with Channel 3 censoring my sign. 
                          I thought it was curious that she moved her
                          camera.  You would have to ask her why she
                          moved the camera.  Would she admit that she
                          moved to hide my poster....NO....<br
                            clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > but...<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > A significant question would be: Would
                          Channel 3 actually air a video with a sign
                          that had the term 'ethnic cleansing' and the
                          Israeli national emblem on the same poster.  I
                          think not.<br clear="none">
                          > Would Channel 3 be ok with 'Free Gaza',
                          or 'Illegal settlements'.... yes.... they are
                          obvious and innocuous.<br clear="none">
                          > Combining Israel and Ethnic Cleansing
                          crosses the line for the MSM... or am I being
                          conspiratorial here....??  That's why I did it
                          and it directly confronts CGE's argument that
                          the reason for Israeli aggression is that
                          Israel is an American aircraft carrier (which
                          is true and significant, but not the most
                          underlying issue in the Middle East.... The
                          creation and existence of Israel itself trumps
                          the 'aircraft carrier'.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > The best gatekeepers are the one's that
                          get the most support and have the most
                          influence from the very people that they are
                          gatekeeping.  CGE matches that description and
                          Chomsky does it on a national basis.  <br
                            clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Ethnic cleansing gets too close to the
                          territorial expansion schemes by Israel....It
                          gets too close to the reasons for the very
                          creation and existence of Israel and how it
                          actually happened and how it is portrayed by
                          Israel.... and deligitimization.  Gaza and
                          Operation Protective Edge are symptoms not
                          causes...... the American aircraft carrier is
                          innocuous jawboning. 9/11 Truth is about
                          criminal prosecution of the murder of 3000
                          people.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Again, the question has to be asked: How
                          could a people who supposedly suffered the
                          'Holocaust' murder untold thousands of
                          Palestinians who are just trying to reclaim
                          land that was stolen from them.  The Zionists
                          real motive is expansion.  They are threatened
                          by 1,800,000 Palestinian refugee/prisoners
                          that they created in their ethnic cleansing of
                          Palestine and only know violence as a means to
                          remedy their 'problem'.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Its roots are in the 'Holocaust', Israel
                          would not exist without it... and the UN
                          partition plan, and the preemptive strike in
                          1967, the illegal settlements, .... and on and
                          on.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > On Monday, August 4, 2014 5:42 AM, Karen
                          Aram <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Stephen<br clear="none">
                          >  <br clear="none">
                          > If there is any "conspiracy" here, its
                          probably you, paid by the US government to
                          take up our time and distract us from focusing
                          on the problems and issues of today. That's
                          what they do sometimes, infiltrate, disrupt,
                          distract, .........., It was nice that you
                          showed up yesterday at the demonstration with
                          your huge sign, but how do we know it wasn't
                          just to determine who was there? You now have
                          our names, faces, etc. to turn over to your
                          employer.<br clear="none">
                          > Just kidding.<br clear="none">
                          > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 03:15:09 -0700<br
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                          > To: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org"
                            target="_blank" href="mailto:ewj@pigsqq.org">ewj@pigsqq.org</a>;
                          <a moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
                            shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br
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                          > Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Draft flyer
                          (corrected) for AWARE demo, Aug. 3<br
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                          > From: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a><br
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                          > I was joking about the conspiracy....<br
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                          > But also thought that a couple of you
                          would take the bait and think I was
                          serious......(maybe  :)<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > I just find it very telling and
                          consistent that 9/11 Truth has been carved out
                          of the peace movement and vilified.  This IS a
                          conspiracy whose roots are in NYC.<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Over 2200 professional architects and
                          engineers agree that WTC twin towers and WTC7
                          were demolished murdering 3000 people.  Arab
                          patsies could not have done it the way our
                          corrupt government describes according to the
                          laws of physics.  They also cannot find any
                          like professionals to debate them and their
                          work is peer-reviewed unlike NIST.<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > How can you protest against our
                          government and trust what they say about
                          9/11.... It doesn't make sense unless their is
                          a hidden agenda behind the inconsistency.....
                          You all know what I think about that.... <br
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                          > World Trade Center Building 7 Demolished
                          on 9/11? | AE911Truth<br clear="none">
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                          > World Trade Center Building 7 Demolished
                          on 9/11? | AE91...<br clear="none">
                          > Did you know that 3 towers fell on 9/11?
                          World Trade Center Building 7 collapsed on
                          9/11 after the Twin Towers but was never hit
                          by a plane. How?...<br clear="none">
                          > View on <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ae911truth.org">www.ae911truth.org</a><br
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                          > On Sunday, August 3, 2014 9:58 PM,
                          ewjohnson via Peace-discuss <<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
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                            ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"
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                            href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
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                          > Stephen,<br clear="none">
                          > A lot of what you have to say is useful
                          and relevant.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > CGE has perhaps more than anyone defended
                          your right to say it.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > It isn't very healthy to find a daemon
                          behind every bush.<br clear="none">
                          > (Some of them have several.)<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > On 08/04/2014 10:31 AM, Stephen Francis
                          via Peace-discuss wrote:<br clear="none">
                          > Here's a conspiracy for ya...<br
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                          > Channel 3 sent out a video person to
                          record the massive crowd of 6-8 people at
                          Church and Neil demonstration today.<br
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                          > She first set up her camera at the North
                          East corner then moved it to the Northwest
                          corner when she discovered what my poster
                          said.<br clear="none">
                          > She deliberately set the camera up in a
                          new position where two other protesters
                          obscured the view of my poster....<br
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                          > see attachment....<br clear="none">
                          > Is this a conspiracy or what?  .... <br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > On Sunday, August 3, 2014 6:59 PM, Carl
                          G. Estabrook <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > You left out the Giant Rat of Sumatra, "a
                          story for which the world is not yet
                          prepared."<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Sent from my iPhone<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > On Aug 3, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Stephen
                          Francis <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:stephenf1113@yahoo.com"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:stephenf1113@yahoo.com">stephenf1113@yahoo.com</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > You (CGE) have very eloquently proven my
                          point.  Chomsky's prominence as an
                          intellectual voice for the 99% is undeniable
                          except for 9/11 Truth. Coming from a 9/11
                          Truther, this is a glaring inconsistency,
                          because the same people we all rail against
                          did 9/11 in our view.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > There is an ever growing list of dubious
                          'Commissions' and cover-ups involving
                          international crimes that have not passed the
                          stink test including the Warren Commission,
                          the Dreyfus Affair, The Gladio Stay Behind
                          Network, Dimona, The Tuskegee Syphilis
                          Experiment, Pedophile Priests, Pearl Harbor,
                          The Looting of Russia after the breakup of the
                          Soviet Union, The USS Liberty, Iran Contra,
                          the looting of Japan after WWII, Murdochs
                          Phone Hacking, the Lincoln assassination,
                          Holocaust Hoax, WWI and WWII war profiteering,
                          Stalin's last years, failed Cuban invasion,
                          the Hollywood creation called the Italian
                          mafia, ....on and on... 9/11 has just joined
                          the list.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Once it becomes common knowledge that
                          9/11 really was an inside job (Israel, Saudi
                          Arabia, Britain and the U. S.) Chomsky is
                          going to have more than egg on his face.  He
                          will be proven an accomplice to the crime.<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > On Sunday, August 3, 2014 5:44 PM, Carl
                          G. Estabrook <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:galliher@illinois.edu">galliher@illinois.edu</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
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                          > Chomsky was of course "a nationally
                          recognized figure" for more than 40 years
                          before the events of 9/11/2001.<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > As a young man he did for the study of
                          language roughly what Einstein had done for
                          physics: he established a new model for the
                          subsequent science. <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > In the 1960's he took up writing against
                          Kennedy's war in SE Asia and quickly became
                          one of the most important anti-war voices with
                          articles like "The Responsibility of
                          Intellectuals" (1967) <<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
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                            href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19670223.htm">http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19670223.htm</a>>
                          and "On the Backgrounds of the Pacific War"
                          (1967) <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"
href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/196709--.htm">http://www.chomsky.info/articles/196709--.htm</a>>
                          - still very much worth reading. <br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Chomsky is an anarchist (libertarian
                          socialist, if you prefer). He presents a
                          convincing case for that position in
                          "Government in the Future" (1970) <<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
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href="http://tangibleinfo.blogspot.com/2006/11/noam-chomsky-lecture-from-1970-full.html">http://tangibleinfo.blogspot.com/2006/11/noam-chomsky-lecture-from-1970-full.html</a>>.<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > His brief book "9-11" was a best seller
                          in 2001, because it didn't follow the US
                          government/media line. Here's a summary:<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > "In '9-11', published in November 2001
                          and arguably the single most influential post
                          9-11 book, internationally renowned thinker
                          Noam Chomsky bridged the information gap
                          around the World Trade Center attacks, cutting
                          through the tangle of political opportunism,
                          expedient patriotism, and general conformity
                          that choked off American discourse in the
                          months immediately following. Chomsky placed
                          the attacks in context, marshaling his deep
                          and nuanced knowledge of American foreign
                          policy to trace the history of American
                          political aggression - in the Middle East and
                          throughout Latin America as well as in
                          Indonesia, in Afghanistan, in India and
                          Pakistan - at the same time warning against
                          America’s increasing reliance on military
                          rhetoric and violence in its response to the
                          attacks, and making the critical point that
                          the mainstream media and public intellectuals
                          were failing to make: any escalation of
                          violence as a response to violence will
                          inevitably lead to further, and bloodier,
                          attacks on innocents in America and around the
                          world..."<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > Chomsky's politics are such that he is
                          cordially hated by soi-disant liberals and
                          progressives. In an interview in 2008 he said,
                          <br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > "I should say that the place where I am
                          most feared and despised is probably in left
                          liberal intellectual circles. If you want to
                          see a graphic indication of this, take a look
                          at one of my favorite journal covers, which is
                          framed and posted right outside my door. It’s
                          the more or less official journal of left
                          liberal intellectuals, The American Prospect,
                          and the cover depicts the terrible
                          circumstances in which they try to survive –
                          the enormous forces that are virtually
                          destroying them.<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > "In the picture, two figures are
                          depicted; two faces, sneering and angry. On
                          one side is Dick Cheney and the Pentagon, on
                          the other side is me. The left liberal
                          intellectuals are caught between these two
                          huge forces. This depiction is indicative of
                          the paranoia and concern that there might be
                          some small break in orthodoxy. The liberal
                          intellectuals (and not just in the United
                          States) are typically the guardians at the
                          gates: we’ll go this far, but not one
                          millimeter farther; and it’s terrifying to
                          think that somebody might go a millimeter
                          farther. This extends throughout the major
                          media too. So, yes, the United States is a
                          very free country, in fact it’s the freest
                          country in the world. I don’t think freedom of
                          speech, for example, is protected anywhere in
                          the world as much as it is here. But it’s a
                          very managed society, it’s a business-run
                          society, carefully managed, with strict
                          doctrinal requirements and no deviation
                          tolerated – this would be too dangerous.<br
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                          > <br clear="none">
                          > "One of the reasons it’s too dangerous is
                          that the political establishment, both
                          political parties and the political class, is,
                          on many major issues, well to the right of the
                          population. On health care, for example, which
                          you’ve written about for decades, the
                          population is to the left of the
                          establishment, and has been so forever. And
                          the same is true for many other issues. So,
                          permitting issues to be discussed is
                          threatening, and permitting deviation from a
                          kind of party line is dangerous and has to be
                          carefully controlled."<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > --CGE<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > On Aug 3, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Stephen
                          Francis via Peace-discuss <<a
                            moz-do-not-send="true" rel="nofollow"
                            shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
                          > <br clear="none">
                          > > I accuse CGE of gatekeeping because
                          of his incessant quoting of Chomsky.  <br
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                          > > I think Chomsky is in part a
                          nationally recognized figure because of his
                          views on 9/11 Truth. <br clear="none">
                          > > In efforts to control the opposition
                          he plays a perfect role.<br clear="none">
                          > > He is a prolific author and the vast
                          majority of his positions are acceptable to
                          'liberals', progressives'....etc  (whatever
                          they are?)<br clear="none">
                          > > <br clear="none">
                          > > Zionists are very fearful of 9/11
                          Truth because it really threatens them, so
                          they have to ridicule and keep people
                          distracted from it.<br clear="none">
                          > > <br clear="none">
                          > > Chomsky keeps people talking and not
                          acting.<br clear="none">
                          > > 9/11 Truth is about acting.  It's
                          about prosecuting criminals not jawboning
                          policy. CGE is a jawboner.....<br clear="none">
                          > > NYC CAN's effort was successful and
                          they are in a strong position to challenge any
                          legal obstacles in their path.<br clear="none">
                          > > A heartfelt thank you – We did it! –
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                          High-Rise Safety In...<br clear="none">
                          > > Updates about the High-Rise Safety
                          Initiative A heartfelt thank you – We did it!
                          August 1, 2014 Dear friends,<br clear="none">
                          > > View on highrisesafetynyc.org<br
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                          > > On Sunday, August 3, 2014 8:43 AM,
                          David Johnson <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                            rel="nofollow" shape="rect"
                            ymailto="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net"
                            target="_blank"
                            href="mailto:davidjohnson1451@comcast.net">davidjohnson1451@comcast.net</a>>
                          wrote:<br clear="none">
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                          > > <br clear="none">
                          > > Stephen,<br clear="none">
                          > > <br clear="none">
                          > > Good article about Bolivia and other
                          South American countries pulling their
                          ambassadors from Israel,<br clear="none">
                          > > <br clear="none">
                          > > However, the other article is
                          absolute nonsense. There are no " left-wing "
                          U.S. Congressmen and Senators.<br clear="none">
                          > > Only corporate controlled neo-cons
                          and neo-liberals.<br clear="none">
                          > > The ONLY elected official in the
                          entire U.S. that I am aware of who is<br
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