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Eva Georgia KPFK General Manager (818) 985-2711 Ext: 503 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Ms. Georgia:
I am a member of the 9/11 truth movement, a social justice effort that works to expose evidence for Bush regime complicity in the September 11th attacks. I publish www.oilempire.us -- a website that is part of the "Deception Dollar" campaign. I co-organized a very successful public event with David Ray Griffin on July 28, author of "The New Pearl Harbor," which had about 450 attendees (in Eugene, Oregon). Dr. Griffin was a guest on KPFK last month.
Oilempire.us has very detailed information on the 9/11 wargames done by the military and intelligence agencies that probably paralyzed the response to the hijackings, the circumstantial evidence for remote control of the planes, the role of oil and peak oil in 9/11 and the Iraq war, election tampering, elite selection of candidates, electronic voting machines, the role of the anthrax attacks in the passage of the USA Patriot Act, fascism and Homeland Security. Two of the most important pages are http://www.oilempire.us/understanding.html "Understanding 9/11 paradigms: Incompetence, Blowback, Perle Harbor or Reichstag Fire?" and http://www.oilempire.us/911intro.html "The archeology of 9/11 evidence." These essays are part of what will be a published book in the near future.
It pains me to have to appear as a critic of an effort claiming to expose the 9/11 scam, but the "truth" of this situation is that the film "911: In Plane Site," which KPFK is promoting, is an effort to drown out truth with distraction and disinformation that discredits by association.
I have very mixed feelings about KPFK's promotion next week of the "In Plane Site" film. On the one hand, it is nice to see a Pacifica station clearly stating that 9/11 was probably an "inside job." On the other hand, the "In Plane Site" is a mix of proven evidence and ridiculous, blatant disinformation that "muddies the waters" of truth. In Plane Site has so many severe errors, misrepresentations, doctored video, a fake audio track that pretends to be evidence that it discredits the legitimate indpendent efforts to investigate what actually happened on 9/11. A detailed review of this film is posted at http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html#planesite
A couple of the lies that are in this film:
-- the outrageous nonsense that there was a "pod" attached to the underside of Flight 175, which hit the South Tower (the second strike). None of the "pod people" who promote this claim on various websites that have materialized in the past few months have been able to produce a single quality photo that actually shows this. Blurry, altered photos that magically appear on anonymous websites two years after 9/11 are only evidence of peoples' gullibility (and possibly, an official disinformation COINTELPRO campaign against the 9/11 Truth Movement).
-- the film has a video clip from somewhere in New York showing people screaming as the towers burn. this scene has a woman's voice screaming "That was not American Airlines, That was not American Airlines." The only thing that this is evidence of is that the film's producer is not competent at digital editing as the people who altered the films of the south tower collapse to add extra "flashes" not found on previous films such as "The Great Deception" (a film made shortly after 9/11 that included CNN footage of the Flight 175 crash)
-- In Plane Site shows a photo of the Pentagon repair that claims that there wasn't a severe fire in the area that was struck, although other parts of the film show that the fires went much further than the area in this photo. Their analysis of the Pentagon crash takes a photo of the repair job AFTER THE FIRES HAVE BEEN EXTINGUISHED and makes a variety of claims about how the fires were not intense. This photo clearly shows additional supports placed to shore up the damaged building, placed long after the attack. While it is impossible to say when this photo was taken, it was long enough afterwards that there wasn't any more smoke, and the repair job was already well underway. The film claims that the photo includes a table with a book and the "pages aren't even singed" This claim might be true, but the photo only shows a small blob of light that you can't prove it is even a book, let alone whether the pages are unsinged or not, whether the book was part of the repairs being made weeks after the event or not.. Powerhour's commentator also glossed over one of the most important, not disputed, "hidden in plain sight" pieces of evidence -- the fact that the nearly empty part of the Pentagon was hit (it was mentioned very briefly by the narrator, but not seen as evidence of official complicity). In contrast, the film "Painful Deceptions" has a scene that focuses on this aspect. See http://www.oilempire.us/remote.html for details.The best part of Plane Site is the video footage of WTC Building 7, which clearly was a demolition. But "Painful Deceptions," although flawed, is a much better film, and also includes of these film clips. (The event with David Griffin showed the "Painful Deceptions" segment on Building 7.)
-- In Plane Site claims that a photo of the South Tower collapse is really an image of a giant explosion at the base of the twin towers. If you watch this horrid film, look at the right side of this photo, which clearly shows the dust plume created by the collapse. Other photos of the South Tower collapse also show the gigantic plume to the left of the towers which "plane site" claims is a giant explosion. There is a fair amount of evidence for controlled demolition, especially of the 47 story Building 7 (which was not hit by a plane nor by the collapsing towers), but the bogus material in "Plane Site" isn't helpful to exposing this issue.
In Plane Site's makers have shown that they know how to make simple video effects, to take stock footage of the attacks and show them over and over in their film, and to package it with decent cover art lifted from other people's work (for example, the Osama picture on the cover is the same image as used on Alex Jones's "9/11: The road to tyranny," available through infowars.com) When I was in school, this was called plagiary, and it was cause for being expelled. Now, 9/11 is so important that plagiary in the cause of spreading the truth of 9/11 is probably acceptable in the long run, although I always prefer to credit the original writers or researchers, when possible. However, plagiary in the good parts of "Plane Site" (there is some accurate information in the film) combined with blatant bullshit is evidence of an incompetent scam that should be shunned by KPFK.
I was amused a few weeks ago to be threatened by William Lewis, the producer of "In Plane Site," with a lawsuit for daring to point out that the advertising for this film (http://911inplanesite.com) contains misinformation. (The complete film is much worse than their website, since the most blatant nonsense is buried in the film, and not publicized on their webpage.) The producer posted on his site the claim that I hadn't actually written a review of their website's bogus claims, and that "Mark Rabinowitz" had recanted the claims. However, they did manage to send me via my correct email their threat of litigation, so their claims of incompetence are suspect. Mr. Lewis later admitted to an author who inquired as to their incredible screwup that "I guess it is painfully clear that I am a film director, not a private investigator." Thiis story is described in more detail at http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html#planesite
I hope, if you look closely at this bogus film, that you will choose to substitute a genuine film series that accurate exposes official complicity in 9/11. To date, the best film on the topic is "The Great Deception" by Vision TV of Toronto, Ontario. Barrie Zwicker, who is the host of the film, is currently working on an update (it originally aired in January and February 2002 - the first film to talk about Bush's bizarre behavior in the elementary school that morning). The 911 Truth LA group has a copy of this.
You could also invite Michael Ruppert (www.fromthewilderness.com) to give a presentation about 9/11 evidence and his forthcoming book "The Truth and Lies of 9/11: America's Descent Into Fascism at the End of the Age of Oil." He is local to your station, and is one of the best speakers on this crucial topic. I urge you to invite him onto KPFK to promote his extremely important book, and organize public meetings with him. (After learning about "Plane Site," Fromthewilderness removed their link to "power hour," on their links page.)
Another Los Angeles area website that KPFK should promote is www.cryptogon.com
A great mistake has been made to promote "In Plane Site," a disinformation film that seeks to hijack a growing social movement with easily disproven doctored evidence. I hope that over the next few days, KPFK can rectify this by withdrawing the offer to sponsor this film and its narrator, and substitute genuine experts with an accurate attention to detail. The deceptions by the film's producers constitute a valid reason to withdraw the invitation, and to substitute accurate information about the 9/11 scam for your audiences.
Pacifica's National Correspondent, Larry Bensky, who is based at KPFA in Berkeley, is extremely hostile to any suggestions that the Bush regime was complicit in any way with 9/11. Promoting the obviously bogus 911inplanesite film is going to give supporters of the official story such as Bensky incredible ammunition to attack genuine investigators such as Michael Ruppert and others who have worked very hard to compile enormous amounts of documented evidence for official foreknowledge and complicity in "the event that changed the world." You can read an interesting exchange of letters about 9/11 between Mr. Bensky and I at http://www.oilempire.us/denial.html#pacifica
In solidarity,
Mark Robinowitz
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a detailed review of "In Plane Site," disinformation that seeks to distract and discredit the 9/11 Truth Movement http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html#planesite
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http://www.kpfk.org/calendar/ Events From: 7/29/2004 To: 8/5/2004
911 - In Plane Sight & The Great Deception
Date: Thursday, July 29th 2004 Time: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Location: 7056 Washington Ave. City/State: Whittier, CA Category: Documentary Film
Sponsored by 911 Truth LA and The Whittier Area Peace and Justice Coalition. Start time is 7pm but doors will open at 6:30pm. Admission is by a suggested donation, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. A discussion will follow the screening. Light refreshments will be served and babysitting will be provided. For further information please call 562-716-3516
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http://kpfk.org/content.shtml#plane KPFK PROUDLY PRESENTS 3 FREE SCREENINGS OF "911 IN PLANE SITE"
A DOCUMENTARY ON THE LARGEST COVER-UP IN MODERN HISTORY WITH SPECIAL GUEST DAVE VONKLIEST
Wednesday August 4th - Long Beach 7:30pm-10pm St. Lukes Episcopal Church 525 E 7th St Long Beach 90813
Friday August 6th - Los Angeles 7pm-10pm Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles 90010
Saturday August 7th - Santa Barbara 2pm - 5pm Trinity Episcopal Church 1500 State St Santa Barbara 93101
While these events are FREE to the public on a first come, first served basis, copies of the film will be available for a small donation
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from "Painful Questions" by Eric Hufschmid, page 20 regarding a "blob" seen in some WTC photos that supposedly showed another plane overhead when the second tower was hit (which might or might not be real)
"It is also possible that the blob is just an 'artifact' caused by the software that compressed the video. However, I suspect the person who posted the images deliberately created the blob to make fun of conspiracy theories or to fool people ... the best policy is to ignore theories that are based on compressed images. Demand the original, high resolution images."
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http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html
Disinformation masquerading as 9/11 Truth exposure
In addition to phony evidence in support of the official conspiracy theory, there is also the problem of bogus material pretending to be investigative journalism that does not bother to present even a scintilla of credible evidence. A few fringe 9/11 websites are now claiming that there wasn't a plane at the World Trade Center north tower (even though the photos of the hole in the tower clearly show the impact of the wings). Some of these "no plane at the north tower" sites include letsroll911.org (mirrored at 911uncovered), 911hoax.org, physics911.org and the fairy godmother of this modus operandi - webfairy.org Oilempire.us doesn't provide direct links to these sites, which are a mix of accurate material and disinformation -- but they are easy enough to find.
The "webfairy" theories claim that no planes hit the World Trade Center, it was done with missiles and high-tech hologram, and uses video clips that supposedly prove these arguments. The "letsroll911" site claims that a missile was fired at the South tower just before the plane crashed into it, and also uses poor quality photos to "prove" this argument. However, blurry low resolution photos that magically appear two years later are not evidence of alternative views of what happened, they are only evidence of people's unfamiliarity with photo editing software and their gullibility. The "physical evidence" clearly shows that large jets hit the towers - the hole in the side of the North tower (which was hit first) is the size of a 767. And the idea that a missile was fired a split second before the South tower was hit makes no sense, since there was no "need" for this to happen (no tactical advantage for the attackers, since the towers were not anywhere as strong as the sector of the Pentagon that was hit - which had been strengthened against attack immediately prior to 9/11).
The "pod plane at the WTC," "no plane at the WTC" and "plane plus missile" theories are toxic to the cause of 9/11 truth. It is a sign that our political efforts are having an effect -- that these "theories" (unsupported by any credible evidence) are being distributed to "muddy the waters" to make those who seek to expose the lies of 9/11 as crackpots who have no idea what we are talking about.
There was no extra "pod" that was used to fire a missile from the 767. A quick search on the web will show several sites with photos of 767's with a structure under the plane to hold the wings together. It is sad that 9/11 truth exposers are forced to waste our time dealing with this. There are NO photos with high resolution that show an extra "pod," there is no credible theory to suggest the need for any alleged pod.
The same thing happened during the citizen investigations into the coup against President Kennedy -- people popped up claiming inside knowledge that turned out to be psychotic ravings. One particularly memorable occurrence was during the Jim Garrison prosecution of Clay Shaw, a CIA agent who participated in the plot against Kennedy - the film JFK covers this episode very well. Garrison's legal team had found a witness who claimed to have participated in meetings with Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald and others, but on the stand, the man's claims of participation were totally shredded by his claims that he had fingerprinted his daughter before and after she went to college to prove that she was the same person (and therefore, this obviously insane testimony was used to discredit the genuine evidence that Garrison had used to prosecute Shaw). Shaw was found innocent by the jury (even though subsequent research and official admissions revealed he was CIA), although that jury did admit that there had been a conspiracy to kill JFK, they merely didn't believe that Shaw was a participant.
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from Nicholas Levis, 911truth.org - about "In Plane Site"
The site is full of obvious misinformation:
- There is no "pod" attached to the bottom of the plane hitting the South Tower. What you see there is a part of the normal 767 design. The alleged "pod" is actually one of the bulges on either side, where the wings attach to the lower fuselage. Look at any picture of a 767 undercarriage and you will see these bulges. The pod myth promoters make use extremely low-resolution stills. One bulge appears slightly more prominent because of the shadow. That's it.
- The "flash" that appears during the impact of the jet into the second tower was never noticed until recently. Hmm, could it be the product of photo-shop? Probably not, since if you look carefully the flash happens exactly in the split-second of initial impact, and exactly at the point where the nosecone first touches the building. Which means what? Impact produces heat! You are seeing the spark of metal against metal, before the rest of the plane goes in and obscures it. Nothing on these stills indicates a missile or other "anomaly."
- The site asks, "Why does AN eyewitness report seeing no windows on Flight 175..." Jesus, this is evidence?!
- "If both towers are still standing, what caused this huge explosion at the base of the WTC complex?" The conditional phrase suggests a sense of humor on the part of the likely scam artists who made this video. Look again: both towers are not standing. The South Tower collapsed several seconds before this shot. The "explosion" is actually a Godzilla-sized plume of dust from the South Tower collapse. View footage of the South Tower collapse from a greater distance and you will see clearly how several mammoth dust plumes, including the one in the picture, formed along the lines of least resistance, moved outward, and ran into surrounding buildings.
I have been trying, in vain, to kill this obvious red herring for more than two years. It even appears in "Painful Questions," which generally has a higher standard of evidence. It is the source of the WTC 6 explosion myth. Speaking of which...
- Were there really dozens of reports of bombs and explosions before any buildings collapsed? One could hear bodies and debris hitting the ground, and this was very loud. Why would anyone who wanted to demolish the buildings have foreplay explosions in advance? Does this make any sense to you?
The stronger points made on this site - which could also be wrong - are secondary to these obvious red-herrings, and so are discredited by association. This indicates a misinformation campaign.
They are trying to sell a video commercially. So they present whatever they figure will seem most spectacular to their audience, and screw the standards. Or else they are actively trying to make 9/11 skeptics look ridiculous. Or else they are well meaning but prone to idiocy. (An informant who spoke to the film-maker tends to the latter view.)
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