Annual 9-11 Post (warning: politics ahoy)

Well, 9-11 is back. They've trotted out another fake Osama bin Laden tape to scare us again and take our minds off General Petraeus' bogus report on why we need to stay in Iraq. These guys make money on every bullet and every body bag. Hell, they're just stealing the money without supplying anything at all.

This is my post from last year (I'm too lazy and fed up to re-write it):

911 was carried out by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and their minions. The reasons by now should be obvious. Bush was probably told at the last minute (he's not really the president, you know that right? He's just there to distract attention from what Cheney is doing).

There (probably) were no Arab hijackers. Osama bin Laden was not involved. The (three) towers were dropped by planned demolition. The planes were probably flown by remote. People believe the official conspiracy theory because they find the more probable reality too uncomfortable to contemplate and feel so dis empowered and afraid that any suggestion they themselves might need to do something about it all is rejected out of hand and dismissed with scorn or anger.

Our elections are increasingly fake. Phony opinion surveys tell us about 'razor thin margins' and the poll numbers are electronically manipulated via diebold or ess tabulators. Polititians who no longer have to worry about elections have become increasingly bold in their theft of the commons and embrace of corporate fascism.

We are fighting almost entirely for the sake of profits for the arms merchants,oil companies and Saudis. There is no "war" in Iraq. It is an occupation. There is no exit plan because 'we' have no intention of leaving.

Finally, we are on the brink of an economic depression and collapse. Through outsourcing manufacturing and high tech jobs, consolidation and industrialization of agriculture, de-educating the populace, speculation, and hyper inflation of housing, medical and energy prices, and outright theft of public funds, our economy is on the verge of collapse. Whether this collapse is being brought about by intentional design or short sighted stupidity I really don't know.

Essentially, the USA has been colonized by a larger corporate empire. 911 was just an attempt to further this process by certain elements in the hierarchy. Our mass media is controlled by another arm of this corporate empire and is carefully managed to further its goals. It seems to me almost impossible to plug into the mass media without becoming confused, misled, manipulated or otherwise harmed by despair and fatigue. I think it would be best, for most of us, to abandon it entirely and seek news of the larger world through independent internet sources, as long as that resource is available to us.

And we should all be learning how to grow food, generate power, get along with our neighbors, build with natural materials, and enjoy our time here as best we can.