keskiviikko 11. syyskuuta 2019

World Trade Center’s Infamous 91st-Floor Israeli ‘Art Student’ Project - (GELATIN & E-TEAM)

World Trade Center’s Infamous 91st-Floor Israeli ‘Art Student’ Project

March 2, 2017


Israeli ‘art student’ project on the 91st floor of WTC Tower 1.

By Russ Winter of The New Nationalist
In the period leading up to 9/11, a group of Israelis (non-U.S. citizens) managed to secure “temporary construction” passes to perform work on the 91st floor of Larry “pull it” Silverstein’s leased WTC 1. These passes gave them access to the entire WTC complex. The pretense was an art project called the “B-Thing” and the group is called Gelatin.
After securing their passes, Gelatin proceeded to remove the heavy WTC windows of an office space on the 91st floor and reportedly constructed a prefab balcony outside of the building. Then they stretched “putty” around the windows and filmed it by helicopter as a stunt. 

The New York Times even felt strangely compelled to cover this story and considered it newsworthy, or a backstory. On the right is the photo of the balcony as shown in the newspaper article.

This may sound innocent enough for the dumb dumbs except for the fact that photos — taken from the artists’ book called the “B-Thing” AND used in the Times’ article — from inside the 91st floor camp out revealed boxes stacked to the ceiling with the letters and numbering “BB 18” on the side. BB 18 is the model number for a fuse-holder accessory, as described:



Features/benefits of this product:
“Purpose is to save space and workload in a complicated wiring situation. Decreases wiring terminations, small footprint reduces space requirements, reduces assembly time, prevents accidental finger exposure, quick and safe method of changing fuse holder configurations, allows for future expansion, improves troubleshooting, eliminates power distribution block.”
Also take note that the ceiling tiles have been totally removed and expose the steel girders. The following little gem, and perhaps a calling card, was included in the ops’ egotistical, self-absorbed and freakish book.

BB18 - POWR Busbar SeriesSeries: POWR Busbar
Questions? Contact Littelfuse Support POWR Busbar Series Datasheet

Safe distribution of power to multiple fuse holders in a compact design is a key objective for panel designers. The Littelfuse UL508 bus bar system eliminates most wire
terminations in a time saving package.
A power distribution block and associated conductors are no longer needed to feed multiple POWR-SAFE™ fuse holders.

Features/Benefits:
  • Decreases wiring terminations
  • Small footprint reduces space requirements
  • Reduces assembly time
  • Prevents accidental finger exposure
  • Quick and safe method of changing fuse holder configurations
  • Allows for future expansion
  • Improves troubleshooting
  • Eliminates power distribution block
  • RoHS compliant and lead (Pb) free

Customization:
This product is simple to integrate into one- and three-phase applications. It offers multiple pole configurations and amperage ratings to match the designer’s requirements. Instructions are included for bus bar cutting by the customer for further customization.
Individual power feed lugs are available which allow termination at any point along the bus bar.

https://www.littelfuse.com/products/fuse-blocks-fuseholders-and-fuse-accessories/dead-front-fuse-holders/powr-busbar/bb18.aspx


The impact points of the “planes” were at the 93-98 floors.
Below, cartoon physics of an aircraft imprint created by its flimsy aluminum wings that could not penetrate steel exterior columns.

Buried and apparently long forgotten is this 2002 Daily Mail story about the U.S. arresting and deporting 200 Israelis, some of whom posed as “art students,” for spying and espionage activities in the lead up to 9/11.
In addition, here is the
 DEA’s report on Israeli activities in the U.S. just prior to 9/11. So much for the nonsensical theory that Muslims in Afghan caves pulled off this crime of the century.
A new book, “Methodical Illusion,” explores the details.
Additionally, we have yet another “coincidence.” The building was powered down over a weekend prior to 9/11.
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9/11 and the Israeli Bomb Expert Infiltrated Art Groups: GELATIN (demo wiring team) and E-TEAM (sol-gel team)

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GELATIN and E-TEAM
I want to call your attention to the artist groups (GELATIN & E-TEAM) who were selected to be part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) World Views / Studioscape programs that allowed them and other artists to work and live in the WTC in the four years leading up to 9/11 on different floors, including 91 and 92 of the North Tower. Additionally, they were given seven day a week construction access to the WTC that allowed them to freely move all sorts of materials in and out of the complex.

Construction Pass: 
In early 2000 an Austrian art group (infiltrated by Israeli bomb experts) is working on an art project which they called the B-Thing which was to create a "balcony" off the 91st floor of WTC1.

During this project almost the entire 91st floor of WTC1 was filled with "empty boxes" which are ALL marked with "BB 88" which just so happens to correspond with a specific and interesting product (Littelfuse electrical 3-phase fuse holders).
BB 18 Boxes: 

Shortly after this in March 2001 another art group E-TEAM lights up the WTC tower in the same area with their art group name (E-TEAM) using 127 illuminated windows, which coincidentally just so happen to be in the exact location where the "plane impact" would take place month later.

March 2001
Sept 2001
Anyways... just prior to 9/11 Gelatin then releases a rather fucked up and horribly drawn art book about their project The B-Thing, which contains some odd and quite in your face imagery, including a drawing of someone falling from the towers with the caption "300 meters of pure pleasure", an image of the tower being destroyed with the caption "Depression inside, amazement outside", and even a picture of the towers with a line above them and the caption "Last chance to open a parachute". The book itself is $700+ and isn't meant to the common man to see (more catered to the sicko elites out there that get their jollies from this shit).
Anyways here are a few of the noteworthy images in the book...




Gelatin: The B-Thing – 2001

"An unbelievable, completely illegal, and fully secret stunt when it was performed, "The B-Thing" is now unbearably surreal, weirdly prescient, and forever unrepeatable."
http://www.amazon.com/Gelatin-The-B-Thing-Tex-Rubinowitz/dp/3883755079
"And then the surgical intervention in the World Trade Center in New York City. Everything top secret and illegal of course."
http://www.gelitin.net/publications/the-b-thin
Anyways In my opinion...
Gelatin = Gelatin referring to a type of explosive. Likely the team that was in charge of the wiring/prep for the outer core concussive charges (every 3 floors) as well as the attack zone "visual" wiring at impact point, with their "balcony" being used to as a starting visual/anchor so they could somewhat line up the expected impact zone inside/outside.
E-Team = Possibly referring to Explosive-Team? Likely the team that was in charge of the nano-solgel addition (patented paint-on nano-thermate) to the buildings, mainly targeting the 47 core columns at impact point (initiation), the interior core columns (every 6 floors), and the corner sections (every 12-15 floors) and once done they lit up the entire impact zone with their name E-TEAM to make sure it was perfectly lined up inside/outside)
Then the actual explosives for the impact zone visuals and the outer core column charges were likely added over an ~5 day period starting on Sept 6, 2001 (which just so happens to be the day that "bomb-sniffing dogs were abruptly removed", a large amount of "telecom upgrades" were being done throughout the buildings (which is why the occupancy in the towers was so low, a lot of occupants had Mon/Tues off), and a series of "powerouts" took place over huge sections of each tower (related to the telecom upgrades)).
Added Context:
WTC 1/2 Collapse Demolition
Phase 1 - Collapse Initiation - The 1st attack was a complete horizontal severance of all 47 core columns at each impact zone to initiate the start of each collapse using nano-thermate sol-gel incendiary charges.
Phase 2 - Outer Core Columns - The 2nd attack was on the outer core columns (strongest ones), which were taken down every 3 floors using concussive charges placed adjacent too the welds.
Phase 3 - Exterior Corner Sections - The 3rd attack was on the corner sections of the building (hardest to get to), which were taken down using nano-thermate sol-gel incendiary charges every ~15 floors.
Phase 4 - Inner Core Columns - The 4th attack then followed with a complete severance of the remaining internal core columns (the delayed skeleton collapse) every 6 floors using nano-thermate sol-gel incendiary charges.
These 4 "attacks" then happened in overlapping cycles, in a wave down each building over an ~10 second period in this order... 1 to initiate each collapse at the desired time, followed by 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4... repeated ~10x per tower all the way down.
Sidenote: There is a bit more to each demolition then that, but IMO those 4 phases are the main elements involved.
As a bit of added info about the other art group E-Team, their first public art project in WTC1 consisted of spelling their group name E-Team using 127 illuminated windows on the North face of WTC1 (North Tower). Coincidentally the North face of WTC1 is also where the first "plane" would impact on 9/11, on the same floors as the Gelatin and E-Team art projects.
Shortly after that E-Team then also did a 2nd project in WTC1 which is quite similar to what Gelatin did, which they call "Quick Click" and they even did it on the same exact floor (the 91st floor).
Here is a quick comparison to point out the similarities between Gelatin's "the B-Thing" project and E-Team's "Quick Click" project.
1. Internal Image Comparison:
E-Team: 
VS
Gelatin: 
2. External Image Comparison
E-Team: 
VS
Gelatin: 
3. Project Description Comparison:
E-Team: "In Quick Click, we took pictures of people standing in one window on the 91st floor who, in turn, looked out at the New York City landscape. Once the helicopter hovered in front of the 91st floor, people stepped into the lit window and had their picture taken."
VS
Gelatin: "[In the B-Thing] Using building site refuse they had tediously smuggled into the building under their pullovers, they constructed a functioning load-bearing balcony. Then they extracted it using suction pads, shunted the balcony out (91st floor), posed on it at 6 in the morning and had themselves photographed there from a helicopter for their nearest and dearest back home."
Kinda odd how similar a lot of aspects of these (said to be completely unrelated) art projects/groups are, don't ya think?
Well here are a few more comparisons.
Gelatin: 
9/11: 
E-Team: 
9/11:
Gelatin: 
E-Team: 
9/11: 
E-Team: 
9/11: 
It just all seems too weird to me... and that's without factoring in that these "artists" were being tracked by the DEA prior to 9/11 and tie in with Urban Moving Systems who had multiple people arrested on 9/11 (for celebrating and filming the FIRST ATTACK and being arrested on the George Washington bridge with a van full of explosives) and were deported back to Israel where they stated they were "there to document the event" .
PENTTBOM Investigation: Pentagon and Twin Tower Bombing (the Official FBI investigation into 9/11 attcks)
Based primarily on the inconsistencies found in the statements of the five detained Israelis, and the interviews conducted of T-1 and other tenants of the Doric Towers apartments, FBI-NK conducted polygraphs of (redacted) and (redacted) on the issue of (redacted) both (redacted) and (redacted).
Based upon the aforementioned facts, FBI-NK then obtained a search warrant for a search of the officials of Urban Moving Systems in Weehawken, NJ. The search, conducted on September 13, 2001, met with negative results concerning a video camera.
At this point in the PENTTBOM investigation, Agents of FBI-NK's Foreign Counterintelligence (FCI) squad were consulted for the first time concerning the Israelis. Based upon the odd circumstances surrounding (redacted) and (redacted) denials and deception over the alleged usage of a video camera the Israelis, and the noticeable positive reaction demonstrated by the Israeli detainees to the explosions at WTC, the (redacted).
Sadly most have not heard of most of this due to the fact that at the same time back in the US all possible Israeli involvement in 9/11 was quickly deemed "classified for national security" and fully swept under the rug.
"Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It's classified information."
-US official quoted in Carl Cameron's Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
On 9/11 Urban Moving Systems was owned and operated by an Israeli businessman named Dominick Suter. After the 5 men (dancing Israeli's) were arrested on the George Washington Bridge on 9/11, the FBI searched the offices of the supposed company they worked for (Urban Moving Systems) and as part of this questioned Suter, however upon returning shortly after for a 2nd round of questioning they found that Suter had fled back to Israel before he could be questioned any further. Eventually Suter's name even appeared on the May 2002 FBI Suspect List (via PENTTBOM) along with the 19 Sept 11 hijackers and a few other suspected extremists.
According to Vincent Cannistraro (a former CIA chief of operations for counterterrorism), there was speculation inside the FBI that Urban Moving Systems was more then likely a front for an intelligence operation investigating various fund-raising networks that were channeling money to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. On March 15, 2002, Mr Cannistraro claimed that the FBI had concluded that the van's driver (Paul Kurzberg), and his brother (Sivan Kurzberg), were indeed Mossad operatives, who were in America "spying on local Arabs".
Suspicious Activities Involving Israeli Art Students at DEA Facilities
In January, 2001, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Office of Security Programs (IS), began to receive reports of Israeli art students attempting to penetrate several DEA Field Offices in the continental United States. Additionally, there have been reports of Israeli art students visiting the homes of numerous DEA employees. These incidents have occurred since at least the beginning of 2000, and have continued to the present. The number of reported incidents increased in November/December 2000, and has continued to date. These incidents have involved several other law enforcement and Department of Defense agencies, with contacts made at other agencies' facilities and the residences of their employees.Geographically, these incidents are very widespread, ranging from California to Florida. The majority of the incidents have occurred in the southern half of the continental U.S. with the most activity reported in the state of Florida. Since April 2001, the number of reported incidents has declined, however, the geographic spread of the incidents has increased to Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and Los Angeles.
The activities of these Israeli art students raised the suspicion of IS and other field offices when attempts were made to circumvent the access control systems at DEA offices, and when these individuals began to solicit their paintings at the homes of DEA employees. The nature of the individuals' conduct, combined with intelligence information and historical information regarding past incidents involving Israeli Organized Crime, leads IS to believe the incidents may well be an organized intelligence gathering activity. It is believed by IS that these incidents should not be the basis for any immediate concern for the safety and security of DEA personnel, however, employees should continue to exercise due caution in safeguarding information relating to DEA investigations, or activities.


DEA Orlando has developed the first drug nexus to this group. Telephone numbers obtained from an Israel Art Student encountered at the Orlando D.O. have been linked to several ongoing DEA MDMA (Ecstasy) investigations in Florida, California, Texas, and New York. The Orlando D.O. has opened an investigation that is being coordinated with DEA HQs.

In general, these individuals appear to be organized in teams of 8 to 10 people, with one person described as the "Team Leader". They are usually encountered in pairs or individually carrying a makeshift art portfolio. Several times, they have, been seen or admitted to being dropped off in an area by the Team Leader, who returns later to pick them up. The females are usually described as very attractive, and all are generally in their early to mid-20s. Most admit to having served in the Israeli Military. This is not surprising given the mandatory military service require in Israel, however,a majority of those questioned has stated they served in military intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordinance units.Some have been linked to high-ranking officials in the Israeli military. One was the son of a two-star general, one served as the bodyguard to the head of the Israeli Army, one served in a Patriot missile unit. That these people are now traveling in the U.S. selling art seems not to fit their background.

Their stories are remarkable only in their consistency. At first, they will state that they are art students, either from the University of Jerusalem, or the Bezalel Academy of Arts in Jerusalem. Other times they will purport to be promoting a new art studio in the area. When pressed for details as to the location of the art studio or why they are selling the paintings, they become evasive. Some claim to be the artist who painted the artwork, others claim they promoting the work of others or of Israel. Information has been received which indicates the art is actually produced in China. When told that they cannot solicit on federal facilities, they will claim that the paintings are not for sale, but that they are soliciting interest in the paintings, either for an art studio or for a future art sale.
https://cryptome.org/dea-il-spy.htm

Anyways, lets play a little connect the dots...

Gelatin --> BB 88 Boxes
Sidenote: Several of Gelatin's "art group" images show them standing on the 91st floor of WTC1, with mass amount of boxes marked BB 88 (in 2000).

BB 88 Boxes --> Three Phase Fuse Holders
Sidenote: The BB 88 boxes correspond with a specific product, which are three phase fuse holders.

Three Phase Fuse Holders --> Littelfuse
Sidenote: These specific three phase fuse holders were manufactured by a company called Littelfuse.

(rewind a few years...)

Littelfuse --> Tracor
Sidenote: Tracor went bankrupt (in 1989) and split into 3 companies Tracor Aviation, Tracor Defense Holdings & Littelfuse (in 1991).
Trecor --> Vitro Corporation
Sidenote: Shortly after this Trecor then buys out a company called Vitro Corporation (in 1993).
(rewind a few more years...)
Vitro Corporation --> Kellex Corporation
Sidenote: Virto Corporation acquires a company called Kellex Comportation (1950). The Kellex Corporation (created in 1941) stemmed off a secret branch of the MW Kellogg company, tasked with creating enriched uranium through a gasious-defusion technique as part of the then top secret Manhatten Project at a facility called K-25 (a gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and this facility was the single most expensive part of the Manhattan Project). Not your average breakfast cereal huh? As an added note Kellex company was headquartered in the Woolworth Building in Lower Manhattan (which is right beside where the WTC towers were located).
(fastforward a few years...)
Kellex Corporation --> KBR/Halliburton
Sidenote: Kellex's original parent company M. W. Kellogg Co. was then later absorbed into a company you may have heard of before... Halliburton, through the purchase of Dresser Industries (in 1998) which merges with Brown & Root (a subsidiary of Halliburton) to become Kellogg Brown & Root.
KBR/Halliburton --> Dick Cheney
Sidenote: Dick Cheney was coincidentally the CEO of Halliburton (from 1995 to 2000) during this merger of Kellogg and Brown & Root (in 1998). After leaving his post at Hallibutron (in 2000), less then 2 months later the PNAC document "Rebuilding Americas Defenses" calling for a new pearl Harbor is published (Sept 2000, which he co-authored), and then goes on to becomes Vice President via the Bush regiem during the 9/11 event that would soon follow early in his term, giving him the New Pearl Harbor they were asking for... You know what Cheney, your really are a Dick!
So basically...
Gelatin --> BB 88 Boxes --> Three Phrase Fuse Holders --> Littelfuse --> Tracor --> Vitro Corporation --> Kellex Corporation --> KBR/Halliburton --> Dick Cheney
Sidenote: The DOTs also branch out via a British pathway as well which involves, British Aerospace (BAe), Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), General Electric Company (GEC, not to be mistaken with GE) and more, but I decided to focus more on the US DOTs for this specific post.
Anyways, just my 2 cents...

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 Posted by George Freund on September 14, 2011 at 10:20 AM






What are the odds that an avant garde Austrian art group was given access to the 91st floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center to remove windows, erect platforms outside the structure and leave material that could only be viewed by a close passing helicopter on a clear day? Well they are 100%.

What are the odds the art troupe are named after an explosive called Gelatin? What are the odds this group is sponsored by a cultural group who has an Israeli agent as a member who lived blocks from Mohammed Atta the terrorist who hated modern art and crashed an aircraft into it? Well they are 100%.

What are the odds that the markings on the cases that lined the walls of the space they were using were the same markings used for a special fuse holder assembly that allows for complex wiring? Well they are 100% too.

What are the odds the New York Times actually published a full page feature in August even showing pictures of the artists at work? Yes 100%.

What are the odds the graphic above if found in the hands of a Muslim in Iraq or Afghanistan would get you a one way ticket to Guantanimo with no chance to escape the water boarding season? Well more than 100% for sure.








FULL TEXT IN PRINT



PDF OF ABOVE



Of course not to be outdone Gelatin produced a book on their exploits at the World Trade Center.



The B-Thing
Walter König, Cologne, 2001
ISBN: 3-8837-507-9
32 pages, colour throughout, embossed hard covers
Text: Tex Rubinowitz
Photos: Maria Ziegelböck, Thomas Sandbichler, Susanne Wimmer, gelatin
Layout: Johannes Heuer

The B-Thing uncovers the truth behind the rumours of Gelatin's construction of an improvised balcony on the 91st floor of the World Trade Centre in New York. Through preparatory notes written by the boys, diagrams and colour photographs, we are finally able to glimpse the pink sunrise over New York from Gelatin's eyes.

http://www.gelitin.net/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=20&Itemid=1



The completed project the little white addition in the upper middle. You can clearly see how precious this art is and what a terrible shame it was destroyed on September 11th. I would tend to place my bets it was a homing device for the aircraft to zero in on the target. Mohammed Atta hit two floors above.



90th floor WTC 1 B-Thing Israeli art students ready to remove a window

Members in their construction rigging and apparatus for the observation deck (crop) Notice the BB18


Members in their construction rigging and apparatus for the observation deck (Full) What if these boxes are actually explosives? What if other spaces were similarly packed?


Diagram of observation deck

Boxes framing the observation deck area


There seems to be little mistake in this image that the towers have been doomed and that these artists are a cover for part of the demolition team.



Many people feel the jumpers were staged. Anyway this piece of art has great significance as a pre 9/11 piece. NO ONE COULD HAVE SUSPECTED THAT A PLANE WOULD CRASH INTO THE TRADE CENTER never mind jump from it. 




A PLAN SO DIABOLICAL NO ONE WOULD SUSPECT 



THIS IS THE PIECE DE RESISTANCE. SPIEGEL IS A GERMAN WORD AT THE LOWER LEFT.

Meaning:
Pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel

FICKEN IS THE 'F' WORD
BALKON IS BALCONY. IT IS ALSO A TERM USED IN THE GAME MINECRAFT. THAT SHOULD OFFER A LOT TO THE DEMOLITION THEORY!





TARNUNG IN THE UPPER CENTER MEANS CAMOUFLAGE. FOTO IS PHOTO.

IN THE CENTER AT THE CREASE IS:
SEITE VO ALUGR...
(SITE FOR ALUGR...APHICS A GERMAN GRAPHICS COMPANY)
SCHWA...M...X
(SCHWA...B An American Bank MAX withdrawal?)
Part Number: BB18
Series: POWR-BAR Busbar
POWR-BAR Busbar Data Sheet


Littelfuse_POWR-GARD_POWR-BAR.pdf

Last Uploaded: July 10, 2009

POWR-BAR&trade Bus Bar
Safe distribution of power to multiple fuse holders in a compact design is a key objective for panel designers. The Littelfuse UL508 bus bar system eliminates most wire terminations in a timesaving package. A power distribution block and associated conductors are no longer needed to feed multiple POWR-SAFE™ fuse holders.

Features/Benefits
Decreases wiring terminations
Small footprint reduces space requirements
Reduces assembly time
Prevents accidental finger exposure
Quick and safe method of changing fuse holder configurations
Allows for future expansion
Improves troubleshooting
Eliminates power distribution block
RoHS compliant and lead (Pb) free

http://www.littelfuse.com/products/Fuseholders+and+Accessories/Power+Fuseholders+and+Accessories/POWR-BAR+Busbar/BB18.html





WORKMEN DOING THE FINAL PRE 9/11 WORK ON THE KILL ZONE



An art display at a gallery showing the New York Times feature






This image is on the Gelatin website. Considering the jumpers from the WTC, it implies much. Was it their role to make it look like people jumped or to relish the event in a demented way.



This photo shows human forms in window frames of the dimensions of the WTC. The shot is from the Naudet film on the bridge between the Marriot and the North Tower. If police and fireman saw these things, it's no wonder they were left in the collapsing towers.


The B-Thing

The book is copyright 2001 Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln. I'll include more credits at the end of this post.

In short, the work purports to document a March 6, 2000 attempt by art students occupying "studiospace provided by the lower manhatten cultural council (all quoted passages are reproduced as they originally appear, replete with poetically licensed grammar, punctuation, spelling, and line breaks) on the "91. floor of world trade center 1."
"gelatin is on a floor with other artists who are part of this studio program.
gelatins space (the window, where the action will happen), is walled in with a
system of cardboard boxes.
other artists sharing 91. floor do not know what we are planing and doing.
the construction of the balcony and all other preparations are not visible
for them."

The narrative continues:
"the balcony is a prefabriacted construction, made by gelatin.
one person at a time will be able to stand on it.
the balcony will be camouflaged.
it will be built to be as less visible as possible for any passerby on the street.
it will be taken apart the moment after beeing pulled back in."

Further:
"one window will be taken out.
the removing of the window is done in a professional and secured action.
no constructive parts of the building will be removed or damaged.
there will not be any visible traces, after the window will have been put
back in."

Finally (for this post)"
"nobody but gelatin is officially involved into the project.
there will be an attorney telling gelatin how to behave.
there will be an attorney responsible to handle the case for gelatin."


A brief section of glossy color photographs "documents" the project. Individuals, apparently of college age, are depicted; all males are turned away from the camera. Two Asian females appear in full-face shots. The majority of pages depict drawings and calculations.

Photos of the balcony -- a narrow, cramped space protruding between exterior support columns -- appear to have been taken from ground level, and these images are grainy and, well, unconvincing. Also, there are photos that appear to have been shot from the balcony itself.

This is a most troubling and thought-provoking little publication. If what it documents is nothing more than a successful prank-as-statement by European and Asian art students, then what does it tell us about the vulnerability of the WTC, just prior to the attacks, to this sort of "tampering"?

Or is there more to the story?
Art students ... Hmmm ...

From the copyright page, more credits:
Text: Tex Rubinowitz
Photos: Maria Ziegelbock, Thomas Sandbichler, Susanne Wimmer, Gelatin
Translation: Jonathan Quinn
Reproductions: Cyberlab, Vienna
Layout: Johannes Heuer
Print: Groebner Druck, Oberhart
Binding: Papyrus, Vienna
Courtesy: Leo Koenig Inc./New York
Galerie Meyer Kainer/Vienna

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9/11 Bombshell New Evidence:
Methodical Deception — Rebekah Roth

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(If you are pressed for time, fast forward to the 31:20 mark – but do make sure you listen to this!)
In this interview Rebekah drops some bombshells that prove not only that 9/11 was a false flag event long in the planning, but that the operation leads directly back to companies and intelligence assets deeply rooted in and connected to the state of Israel (as well as American companies like Halliburton). In fact, some of the information shared in this remarkable interview is so critical for every American to understand that if you don’t want to listen to the full interview, at least make sure you fast forward to the 31:20 mark. Because as Rebekah says, “This is the elephant in the room that nobody wanted to talk about.”
https://consciouslifenews.com/911-bombshell-new-evidence-methodical-deception-rebekah-roth/1197045/#
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Israel Did 911 - Has anyone explained why the "Israeli art students" are in the WTC next to stacks, to the ceiling, of Fuse holders?
So let me get this straight: a bunch of poor Israeli art students, who were busted for being Mossad and deported mere weeks after 9/11 happened, are hanging around on the 91st floor of the WTC with boxes of
demolition electrical fuse holders? Are you fucking kidding me???
Spez: BB-18s are electrical fuse holders. Not nearly as damning. I still want to know what the fuck they were really doing up there though.



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It is close to the WTC 1 impact zone.
Here is a video on the E-team project:
The B-Thing:
Lecture by one of the artists:
Going through their book:
Here is the DEA report on Israeli Intelligence posing as ART students:
Lastly is a page from the FBI file on Israeli Nationals pulled over with evidence of explosives and foreign passports.



 

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That DEA Report is fucking ridiculous. On its own, it doesn't offer much to connect these so-called Israeli art students to 9/11... notwithstanding any additional, relevant classified docs that we'll never have access to.
Some of the addresses of these Israeli "art students" and their proximity to the reported addresses of the hijackers is remarkable. If I find the time, I'm going to try and match them up.



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31 points·1 year ago
They are Austrian, not Israeli. They were not busted for being Mossad. They were never deported. This art project happened in March, 2000, eighteen months before 9/11.



 
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See my reply. This thread is far from "destroyed".



 
 
 
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level 4
No. Check again. Either this post had a misleading title, or /u/twsmith is trying to mislead. Or both.



 

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3 points·1 year ago
Having to build and install a balcony certainly would explain welding torches, etc.
I believe that some of them were found to have lived in Hollywood Florida. Same town as some of the hijackers.
Anyone who doesn't think this is totally bizarre is being naive.



 
 

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Not defending anything, but Hollywood, Florida is not so much a town. It's a quite large city that spans in odd, elongated angles that don't make sense for zoning.



 

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Kek



 

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They are Austrian, not Israeli.
No one claimed what country they're from. Only that they are/were Israeli art students. There is additional confusion, because there are two different art projects/teams (E-TEAM, Gelatin) that performed their events at different dates/times.
This art project happened in March, 2000, eighteen months before 9/11.
E-TEAM's "127 Illuminated Windows" event took place March 29th, 2001. Coincidentally, the floors they occupied included a couple of the same floors impacted by the plane that struck the North Tower. Source: E-TEAM's website.
Project Gelatin's "The B-Thing" did happen in March, 2000. One of the controversial elements of their stunt was how they managed to get around the relatively tight security (especially since the 1993 WTC bombings). Here is a PDF version of a New York Times article that discusses it in better detail.
Finally, coincidentally, some the Gelatin boys were in New York in September, 2001. Not that this is a smoking gun whatsoever, perhaps one could argue the opposite... but here is an article (unfortunately behind a paywall):



 

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I hope you know how easy it is for intelligence agencies to fake country of origin for their agents. That's trivial.


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Removed. Rule 1. This is your final warning.



level 2
This group of artists are not Israeli, the title is misleading.



 

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4 points·1 year ago
You are correct. They were spies who also canvassed US government facilities.
The Israeli "art student" story, which first surfaced in 2001 in news reports, has yet to be explained by U.S. authorities. A memorandum sent to the 9/11 Commission, and Senate and House intelligence committees in September 2004, suggests that young Israelis who canvassed dozens of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) offices in 2000 and 2001 trying to sell paintings to federal workers, may have been spying not only on the DEA, but also on Arab extremists in the United States - including the Sept. 11 hijackers who were living in Florida and New Jersey.
Many reports describe incidents of government employees spotting individuals in office hallways or elevators carrying large art portfolio cases. The art sellers would typically make a pitch to sell paintings, but if they were told that soliciting in government offices was prohibited, some replied that the art wasn't actually for sale but was promoting a future art show, the DEA report said.
During the first five months of 2001, according to Shea's memorandum, the "Israeli DEA Groups" visited a total of 57 DEA locations - 28 offices and 29 private residences
Other individuals that Shea calls the "Israeli New Jersey Group" were based in Bergen and Hudson counties, in New Jersey, according to the well-annotated memorandum that also cites the 9/11 Commission report, the 2002 congressional intelligence committees' joint inquiry into the terrorist attacks, newspaper and magazine reports, Fox News telecasts, 9/11 hijacker timelines, FBI suspect lists, and an East Rutherford (New Jersey) Police Department report.
Dozens of the more than 100 Israelis were stopped and questioned by DEA agents, and other federal government authorities. The individuals were vague about why they were in the U.S. or what their purpose was for being here. Dozens were arrested for visa violations and deported, according to the memorandum. Many in the groups had served in the military, which is compulsory for Israeli citizens, and group leaders had been in intelligence and electronic communications units. With such expertise, it strikes many as odd that the Israelis would be hawking inexpensive artwork. In the report, the DEA concluded that the agency was being spied on by the Israelis.
In 2001, a Fox News report by Carl Cameron laid out the Israeli spy scenario, however, the story was short-lived, and Shea was told by a representative at the news organization that there was outside pressure to kill the story.



 
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13 points·1 year ago
This here is a typical paid shill thread slider. Using the common slider strategy to create doubt.
This is not "forum sliding". You have no idea what you're talking about.
They are not Israeli. They're from Vienna,Austria.
Instead of answering him with facts, you attacked him. Any time that someone does that, I conclude that they are unable to answer with facts or reason.
If you still think that /u/accountingisboring is wrong, please explain why and provide some evidence.
Otherwise you may want to apologize to him.



 
 
 

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her
Thanks for the back up. That user seems very angry. First time I've been called a shill. I guess facts are a no no today.



 
 
 
 

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First time I've been called a shill. I guess facts are a no no today.
I read this quickly as the first time you'd been called a shill today, which is the metric I typically have to use now. Hard to keep track of which side I'm supposedly shilling for as I get accused of both now fairly regularly.
I removed the accusation against you.



 
 
 
 
 

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Thank you. I imagine being a new mod here is interesting to say the least. Keep up the good work, I know you only have the best intentions here.



 
 
 
 

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2 points·1 year ago
You're welcome. If I had a penny for every time I've been called a shill I'd be able to buy ... a good cup of coffee, or maybe even a Big Mac Meal.



 
 

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14 points·1 year ago
Held me understand something... which of these Vienna artists are Israeli: Florian Reither Tobias Urban Wolfgang Gantner Ali Janka sources:http://www.gelitin.net/uploaded/PDF/B-Thing/NYT180801.pdfhttps://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelitin (World Trade Center, World Trade Center, New York, USA) https://www.amazon.com/Gelatin-Getting-All-Wrong-Again/dp/3883756539 Answer: None of them. This narrative is just complete antisemitic bullshit.



 
 

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People elsewhere in the thread have shown that these are not Israeli art students, they're an Austrian art group.
I understand the need to be on guard from people pointlessly sowing doubt, but you went way over board here. The person's statement is correct. You should apologize.
9/11 was obviously covered up in some way. This post is not evidence of that, however, since it can be easily debunked.



 
 

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create doubt
The mortal sin.



 
 

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Removed. Rule 10. First Warning.



 
 

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I don't think so. I posted the link to the group in question for users to decide for themselves. This group of artists do all kinds of art projects. This is one of the many they create. I was just pointing out this title is misleading. I honestly believe 9/11 was done with the help of Israel. However, these guys were not part of that.
This is the group in question the project you are looking for is Project B.

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There were several Israeli teams on 9/11.
The Gelatin Crew (pictured.)
The Art Dealers that were showing up at Government and Intelligence Agencies selling artwork.
The Moving Company. "They were there to document the event."
Ace Elevator Company. Small inexperienced elevator company got the contract shortly before 9/11. On 9/11 instead of staying to help first responders, they all bailed.



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If I had to guess they are all fronts for the Mossad.



 

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Absolutely they are. Also, Netanyahu and Larry Silverstein were good friends who talked on the phone weekly.



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2 points·1 year ago
But wait, some random guy in the thread showed up and said we were wrong about the whole thing.



 

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Well, tbf, they said the Gelatin Crew were Austrian not Israeli and that the fuse boxes wouldn't be used for demolition.
Fair enough, but there is still plenty of evidence that there was a large presence of Israeli/Mossad agents in and around the WTC.
Saying that "Israel did 9/11" doesn't make sense. They couldn't have done it alone. There was direct involvement in the crime and the cover up by members of the US Government and I believe Saudi Arabia and Pakistan participated to a lesser extent with the fake highjackers.

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13 points·1 year ago
It makes the "Urban Movers" front even more compelling. Mossad were either involved or had foreknowledge. Dual Israeli citizen Michael Chertoff had the detained Israelis sent back to Israel with barely a peep from the MSM. I was watching the news when they arrested them and I remember shouting to my father "yea they got the bastards!" When it was reported that "Arab looking men" were arrested by the Brooklyn bridge and bomb sniffing dogs detected explosives in their van. I remember my dad and I arguing whether or not the buildings were brought down with explosives and at the time I figured those arrests proved me correct. I was shocked when I found out they were sent back to Israel and the MSM was flooded with the "pancake theory." The computer models they were using at the time were laughably inaccurate. If you go back and watch them, they completely discard the central core columns of the building and only show the outer columns and completely open floor space. The news stories in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 scream of a coverup. With all we know about the MSM today and their complicity with the NWO, it should be obvious that the OS is complete BS.

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32 points·1 year ago·edited 1 year ago
These are electrical fuses. Similar to a circuit breaker in your home electrical panel. NON explosive.
Source: I'm a journeyman electrician. And "little fuse" is a brand name of fuse.
Electrical current flows thru them and if the current gets too high, like during a short circuit, the fuse breaks inside, opening the circuit.
Gotta research this stuff before going on a witch hunt fellas..



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2 points·1 year ago
Agreed.
Have experience in a couple of fields pertinent to this thread, and this image was either made by an ignorant person or is an intentionly weak dis-info distribution IMHO.



level 2
7 points·1 year ago
would an elaborate electrical network for demolition not use fuses?
Further more, these are fuse holders. Not circuit breakers.



 

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13 points·1 year ago
There is no need for an electrical fuse holder for demolition "fuses"
They would use blasting caps, det cord and some kind of C4 or thermite or something. Completely different system that does not require these kind of fuse holders.. Totally wrong application and useless in this scenario.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/63fdd0/israel_did_911_has_anyone_explained_why_the/

perjantai 6. syyskuuta 2019

Dark Agenda - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KARL MARX. YOU WERE WRONG - AND WORSE

In Dark AgendaNew York Times bestselling author David Horowitz exposes not only the progressive war against Christianity, but also a war against America and its founding principles, which are Christian in their origin.


Dark Agenda is about an embattled religion, but most of all, it is about our imperiled nation. Tackling a broad range of issues from prayer in the schools to the globalist mindset, Horowitz traces the anti-Christian movement to its roots in communism.

When the communist empire fell, progressives did not want to give up their utopian anti-God illusions, so instead they merely changed the name of their dream. Instead of “communism,” progressives have re-branded their movement as “social justice.”
Dark Agenda shows how the progressives are prepared to use any means necessary to stifle their opponents who support the concepts of religious liberty that America was founded on, and how the battle to destroy Christianity is really the battle to destroy America.

Dark Agenda – Introduction

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Dark Agenda

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments          xi
Religion Must Die             1
Roots of the War             13
Radical Faith                    27
Christian America           37
Prayer in the Schools     47
The War Begins               63
Moving the World            75
Battle Lines                      93
A Radical Epidemic       109
Obama’s Arc                  127
Religious Liberty           137
Civil War                         159
Endnotes                        173
Index                               185

Chapter 1: Religion Must Die
On Sunday morning, November 5, 2017, a gunman walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.

He wore tactical gear and a black face mask marked with a white skull, and he carried a semiautomatic rifle. He shot and killed two people outside the church, then went inside, walking up and down the aisle, cursing and shooting people in the pews. He reloaded again and again, emptying fifteen magazines of ammunition.
When the gunman emerged from the church, he found an armed citizen facing him from across the street—a former NRA firearms instructor named Stephen Willeford. The two men exchanged fire, and Willeford hit the gunman in the leg and upper body. The wounded shooter limped to his car and sped away. He was later found at the wheel of his crashed car, killed by a self-inflicted gunshot to the head.
The attack killed twenty-six people, ages five to seventy-two, and wounded twenty. The killer had been courtmartialed in the Air Force for domestic violence (he had beaten his wife and cracked the skull of his infant stepson).

The Air Force failed to report his conviction to the FBI’s crime information database.
The slaughter of unarmed Christians in a church sanctuary was a cowardly attack on one church. But what happened after the church shooting was part of a wider war by the political left against Christians and Christianity.
As news of the shooting broke, prominent Christians took to Twitter and urged fellow believers to pray. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, a devout Roman Catholic, tweeted, “Reports out of Texas are devastating. The people of Sutherland Springs need our prayers right now.”

From Hollywood to New York and Washington, the left responded with a chorus of jeers and insults. 
Former MSNBC political commentator Keith Olbermann suggested in a tweet that Speaker Ryan should proctologize himself with his prayers.
Seattle Democrat, Representative Pramila Jayapal, tweeted,
“They were praying when it happened. They don’t need our prayers. They need us to address gun violence . . . .”
Comedian Paula Poundstone sneered: “If prayers were the answer” to mass shootings, “wouldn’t people at a church service be safe?” 

Actor Wil Wheaton tweeted, “The murdered victims were in a church. If prayers did anything, they’d still be alive, you worthless sack of . . . .”






These and other comments from the secular left displayed not only a smug disdain for Christians but an amazing ignorance of how religious Christians view prayer. Christians don’t view prayer as a magic incantation to make themselves bulletproof. Christians believe in the teachings of Christ who warned them: “In the world ye shall have tribulation.” 

In the Garden of Gethsemane Christ prayed to be delivered from the agony of the cross, but he ended his prayer, “nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”
The answer to Christ’s prayer was silence—and he was later crucified on a Roman cross.

In her commentary on the church shooting, MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid tweeted that “when Jesus of Nazareth came upon thousands of hungry people,” he didn’t pray; he fed the people. She’s simply wrong. 

Matthew 14:19 records that, before Jesus fed the people, he looked heavenward and prayed. Jesus prayed and he acted. That’s how his followers still view prayer. They pray and they act.

At around the same time JoyAnn Reid was tweeting, the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team was already in action, rolling into Sutherland Springs with sixteen chaplains to comfort grieving families and help meet their material needs. Two days after the shooting, the Southern Baptist Convention announced it would pay all funeral expenses for the twenty-six slain churchgoers. Because this is a world made by flawed human beings, it will continue to be a world of tribulations. There will be more shootings, attacks, fires, floods, earthquakes, and other tragedies. Christians will call for prayer, and leftists will mock them for it, imagining there are solutions that can perfect this life, and regarding Christians as the enemies of that perfection.
The War
Since its birth in the fires of the French Revolution, the political left has been at war with religion, and with the Christian religion in particular. In a symbolic revolutionary act, the Jacobin leaders of the French Revolution changed the name of the Cathedral of Notre Dame to the “Temple of Reason.” Then, in the name of “reason,” they proceeded to massacre the inhabitants of the Vendée region of west central France because its citizens were Catholics.
This has been called the first modern genocide, but it was far from the last. Karl Marx famously described religion as “the opium of the people” and “the sigh of the oppressed.”
Inspired by his hatred ever since, revolutionaries have regarded religion as the enemy of progress and the mask of oppression. 


In Russia, Marx’s disciples removed religious teaching from the schools, outlawed criticism of atheists and agnostics, and burned 100,000 churches. When priests demanded freedom of religion, they were sentenced to death. Between 1917 and 1935, 130,000 Russian Orthodox priests were arrested, 95,000 of whom were executed by firing squad.Radicals in America today don’t have the political power to execute religious people and destroy their houses of worship.
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The Noahide Laws and the Genocide Treaty

NOAHIDE LAWS PASSED BY CONGRESS 1991 - Death by Guillotine.
NOAHIDE LAWS AND DECAPITATION FOR CONFESSING JESUS IS LORD.

A Gentile observing the Sabbath deserves death
(San0h. 58b)


“…and it speaks words against the Most High, and it wears out the set-apart ones of the Most High, and it intends to change appointed times (Feast Days) and law (Torah), and they are given into its hand for a time and times and half a time.”  (Daniel 7:25) - New King James Version
"He shall speak pompous words against the Most High, Shall persecute the saints of the Most High, And shall intend to change times and law. Then the saints shall be given into his hand For a time and times and half a time."
https://graviolateam.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-noahide-laws-and-genocide-treaty.html
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Yet they openly declare their desire to obliterate religion. In their own minds, their intentions are noble—they want to save the human race from the social injustice and oppression that religion allegedly inflicts on humanity.


“Religion must die in order for mankind to live,” proclaimed left-wing commentator and comedian Bill Maher in Religulous, the most-watched documentary feature of 2008.

 Both title and script were transparent attempts to stigmatize religious people as dangerous morons whose views could not be taken seriously. Throughout the film, Maher travels to Jerusalem, the Vatican, and Salt Lake City, as well as other centers of religion, interviewing believers and making them appear foolish. How did he gain interviews with his victims? He lied to them, saying he was making a film called A Spiritual Journey.
According to Maher, “The irony of religion is that because of its power to divert man to destructive courses, the world could actually come to an end.”
He predicts the destruction of the human race as a result of “religion-inspired nuclear terrorism.”
Hence the need for religion to die if mankind is to live. Maher’s views accurately reflect the attitudes of a movement called the “New Atheism,” whose leaders are prominent scientists and best-selling authors, far superior in intellect to Maher but equally contemptuous of religion and religious believers. Like Maher’s film, the New Atheism movement seeks to discredit all religious belief by caricaturing its adherents as simpletons, and worse. The stated goal of the New Atheism is to delegitimize and extinguish the religious point of view.
Maher’s suggestion that religion—and evidently religion alone—threatens the existence of the human race is simply malicious. Both he and the New Atheists are blind to all the positive influences religion has had on human behavior, and they ignore all the atheist inspired genocides of the last 250 years. In the twentieth century alone, Communist atheists slaughtered more than 100 million people in Russia, China, and Indochina. Not even the bloodthirsty jihadists of radical Islam have killed innocents on anything close to such a scale.
It’s striking that Maher and the New Atheists ignore the appalling body count of Marxism—an ideology that is explicitly atheistic, whose atrocities were committed in the name of social justice. According to Maher it is religious people who are “irrationalists,” and dangerous because they “steer the ship of state not by a compass, but by the equivalent of reading the entrails of a chicken.” Yet civilization was built and improved by such irrationalists—believers like Locke, Newton, Washington, Wilberforce, Sojourner Truth, and Abraham Lincoln. For the five millennia of recorded history, with few exceptions the most rational, compassionate, and successful decision makers, both military and civilian, have
been people guided by a belief in God, including some whose spiritual compass took the form of reading the entrails of a chicken.
Near the end of Maher’s rant, he pauses to address any religionist who may have unwittingly strayed into the cinema where Religulous was playing: “Look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price. If you belonged to a political party or a social club that was tied to as much bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, violence, and sheer ignorance as religion is, you’d resign in protest.”
How myopic! And the crimes and horrors committed by atheism? From the French Revolution to the Bolshevik, from the Vendée to Vietnam, the bigotries and atrocities committed by the forces of godlessness match and even outweigh those committed by the forces of godliness. If a history of violence, persecution, and murder serves to discredit an ideology, why hasn’t Maher resigned in protest from the party of atheism?
The New Atheists

The New Atheism arose in response to the attacks of 9/11, when "Islamist jihadists", crying “Allah is great,” murdered 3,000 innocents in the World Trade Center. 

The 9/11 attacks were indeed a case of religious fanaticism leading to heinous results. In their wake, the New Atheists to their credit, and virtually alone among progressives, did not shrink from connecting the attacks to Islamic beliefs.
They did not, however, limit their attacks to Islamic fanaticism, but maliciously included modern Christianity and Judaism in their screeds about religious terrorism.
They did so despite the fact that Jews and Christians are the primary targets and victims of the Islamic jihadists. Moreover, Judaism and Christianity have undergone reformations and, as a result, have not prosecuted religious wars since the time of the Crusades.
The principal manifesto of the New Atheist movement was published in 2006. Written by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion maintains that post-Darwinian scientific advances have rendered any belief in God irrational and unnecessary. To make the case, Dawkins’s argument drastically narrows the compass of religious teachings, viewing them as crude and fallacy-ridden attempts to provide nonscientific accounts of natural forces and phenomena.
But how many Jews and Christians today actually cling to a literal reading of the Bible? How many go to church or synagogue to challenge the knowledge that science has provided of the workings of the universe?
Dr. Jennifer Wiseman is a devout Christian and the senior astrophysicist (with degrees from MIT and Harvard) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She said, “You have to look at biblical literature from the perspective of when it was written, the original audiences, the original languages, the original purposes . . . the message that was meant to be conveyed by it. The Bible’s not a science text.”
In attacking religious people for their ignorance of science, Richard Dawkins fails to account for the many scientists who, like Wiseman, are religious, who believe in a Divinity, and who see no conflict between faith and science.
He also dismisses the spiritual and moral dimensions of religion—perhaps its most important features. Do the profound moral lessons of Genesis depend on thinking the world was created 6,000 years ago, in six 24-hour days? If Genesis were a work of fiction, it would still provide believers and nonbelievers with guides to a better life.
The most telling aspect of Dawkins’s argument is the unscientific animus with which it is pursued. The vitriol that infuses his book suggests an agenda that is not wholly, or even primarily, intellectual: “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving controlfreak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously
malevolent bully.”
Only a fool would worship such a God. But consider, for a moment, the particulars of Dawkins’s indictment. “Megalomaniacal” means to have delusions of grandeur. If God is God, then His grandeur is hardly a delusion.
“Control freak”? If God is the Author of everything, then isn’t “control” implicit in His job description? And how can “control freak” be applied to Him except by a comedian in search of a laugh line? “Pestilential”? Can Dawkins be referring to the locusts, which Exodus describes as a plague designed to free His people from slavery in Egypt? Is Dawkins siding with the Egyptian slave masters? Or is he misreading a story that might be metaphorical or that actually contains some historical facts?
Dawkins’s writing oozes contempt for people of faith:
Do we know of any . . . examples where stupid ideas have been known to spread like an epidemic? Yes, by God! Religion. Religious ideas are irrational. Religious beliefs are dumb and dumber: super dumb. Religion drives otherwise sensible people into celibate monasteries, or crashing into New York skyscrapers. Religion motivates people to whip their own backs, to set fire to themselves or their daughters, to denounce their own grandmothers as witches, or, in less extreme cases, simply to stand or kneel, week after week, through ceremonies of stupefying boredom.
The idea that all religious people are stupid is, well, stupid. Of course there are dumb religious people, just as there are dumb nonreligious people. However, both Isaac Newton and Galileo were devout Christians, as were virtually all the geniuses who created the scientific revolutions we associate with the Enlightenment, from Galileo to Pascal. In fact, they were inspired to look for order in the universe precisely because they believed it was the work of a Divine designer.
A Dialogue Between Science and Faith
A contemporary example of a devoutly believing scientist is Dr. Francis Collins, who headed the Human Genome Project from 1993 to 2008 and is currently the director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
He once wrote, “I have found there is a wonderful harmony in the complementary truths of science and faith. The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. God can be found in the cathedral or in the laboratory. By investigating God’s majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.”
Dr. Collins is not only a believer, but a former atheist who converted to Christianity as an adult. In 2006, the same year Dawkins’s book appeared, Collins published The Language of God: A Scientist’s Evidence for Belief, which explains the compatibility of science and religious conviction. To mark the publication of both men’s works, Time International organized a debate between them.
In their discussion, Collins maintained that if God is a being outside nature, then God—along with the questions pertaining to God—is outside the scope of science as well, including the question of whether God exists or not.
Collins pointed out that believers have varying views on the Genesis account of creation:
“There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge of the universe’s age or of how living organisms are related to each other. St. Augustine wrote that basically it is not possible to understand what was being described in Genesis. It was not intended as a science textbook. It was intended as a description of who God was, who we are and what our relationship is supposed to be with God. Augustine explicitly warns against a very narrow perspective that will put our faith at risk of looking ridiculous. If you step back from that one narrow interpretation, what the Bible describes is very consistent with the Big Bang.”
Dawkins and Collins did agree that science is the only valid way to explain the processes, laws, and phenomena of the natural world. “The difference,” Collins said, “is that my presumption of the possibility of God and therefore the supernatural is not zero, and yours is.”
Another difference between the two scientists was Dawkins’s ill-concealed contempt for religious people. In response to Collins’s comments about those who interpret Genesis literally, Dawkins remarked that Collins would “save himself an awful lot of trouble if he just simply ceased to give them the time of day. Why bother with these clowns?”
“Richard,” Collins replied, “I think we don’t do a service to dialogue between science and faith to characterize sincere people by calling them names. . . . Atheists sometimes come across as a bit arrogant in this regard, and characterizing faith as something only an idiot would attach themselves to is not likely to help your case.”
So why do Richard Dawkins and his fellow New Atheists demonstrate such hatred and loathing toward religious people? It’s because they have a faith of their own. They see themselves as liberators—pioneers of a new millennium for the human race. They envision a future in which religion has been vanquished and rationality prevails. They want a world in which humanity is finally free from myths and superstitions. They believe in a vision of a world of “new men and women,” liberated from the chains of the past. Science will usher in a utopian age of reason, enlightenment, and social justice.
This is the vision of an earthly redemption. It’s a fantasy in which human beings aspire to act as gods and create new worlds—and it is nothing new. It is the faith of Marxists and Communists who set out to transform the world from the one we know into one that is entirely different—liberated. It is the essence of the original sin recorded in Genesis, when Satan tempted the first man and woman, saying, “Then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods.”
And it is the source of the monstrous catastrophes of the twentieth century, which were engineered by socialists in Germany and the Communist bloc.


http://www.blackbookoftheamericanleft.com/dark-agenda-introduction/

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KARL MARX. YOU WERE WRONG - AND WORSE

A response to the Marxist poison in our media.


Editor's note: The following essay is an excerpt from of David Horowitz's "The Black Book of the American Left, Vol. V: Culture Wars" and is intended as an answer to the April 30, 2018, publication of the article "Happy Birthday, Karl Marx. You Were Right!" in The New York Times. 
With its ninth and final volume now complete, "The Black Book of the American Left," a collection of Horowitz's conservative writings, stands as the most ambitious effort ever undertaken to define the Left and its agenda. (Order HERE.) We encourage our readers to visit BlackBookOfTheAmericanLeft.com – which features Horowitz’s introductions to volumes 1-9 of this series, along with their tables of contents, reviews and interviews with the author.
 https://web.archive.org/web/20190223191913/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx


Karl Marx and the Los Angeles Times.
“The opening statement of Marx’s famous Manifesto, that the history of mankind is the history of class struggle, is really the essence and sum of its message. This message is above all a call to arms. According to Marx, democratic societies are not really different in kind from the aristocratic and slave societies that preceded them. Like their predecessors, liberal societies are divided into classes that are oppressed and those that oppress them. The solution to social problems lies in a civil war that will tear society asunder and create a new revolutionary world from its ruins. This idea of Marx has proven to be as wrong as any idea ever conceived, more destructive in its consequences then any intellectual fallacy in history. Since the Manifesto was written 150 years ago, more than a hundred million people have been killed in its name. Between ten and twenty times that number have been condemned to lives of unnecessary misery and human squalor, deprived of the life-chances afforded the most humble citizens of the industrial democracies that Marxists set out to destroy. Marx was a brilliant mind and a seductive stylist, and many of his insights look reasonable enough on paper. But the evil they have wrought, on those who fell under their practical sway, far outweighs any possible intellectual gain. It would be a healthy development for everyone, rich and poor alike, if future generations put Karl Marx’s manifesto on the same sinister shelf as Mein Kampf and other destructive products of the human soul.”
The above paragraph was written for the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Communist Manifesto in response to a request by Steve Wasserman, the editor of the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Wasserman was an old radical friend from Berkeley who had been a political protégé of Tom Hayden and Robert Scheer, two comrades who at the time were quoting Mao and Kim Il Sung, and attempting to organize guerrilla fronts in American cities, with which they hoped to launch a “war of liberation” in America. Inspired by texts like the Manifesto, Hayden’s troops practiced with weapons at local firing ranges and planned for the day when they would seize power, abolish private property and take over the means of production. It was therefore of some interest to me how Wasserman would treat the Manifesto now that he was an editor of one of the largest metropolitan newspapers in America. After the failure of the revolutionary hopes the 60s had encouraged, Wasserman had entered the literary world to become the editor of Times Books, and then of the L.A. Times Book Review. I kept in touch with him from a distance over the years, and knew him to be of the same mind as many other radicals, chastened by the failures of that revolutionary and destructive left but not willing to give up the intellectual traditions and political ambitions that had given it birth. So I was both curious and ready to respond when he called me to this task.
Wasserman requested a piece assessing the Manifesto and its impact in 250 words. “Yours will be one of six such statements,” he explained. “Well that’s a challenge, Steve,” I said to him halfjokingly. The article I actually wrote and submitted was 255 words, just five over his specification. But in the meantime Was ser man had changed his mind and cut the first 126 words of the piece, so that that the finished copy available to one million Times readers began with the sentence in the middle paragraph that reads, “Since the Manifesto was written 150 years ago, a hundred million people have been killed in its name.” The first part of the paragraph, which described the sinister message of the Manifesto as a call to war, and therefore why so many people had been killed, did not appear.
When the actual newspaper copy appeared, however, I saw the extent of Wasserman’s betrayal of our friendship, such as it was, and also of his readers. The “symposium” of the six mini-pieces, of which mine was one, was actually appended to a two-page spread with a picture of Marx, a poem by the German Communist Bertolt Brecht, and a fatuous 3,000-word lead essay by the unreconstructed Marxist Eric Hobsbawm, a man who had joined the British Communist Party in the 1920s and remained a member through the 1960s and all the slaughter of innocents along the way. This was the impression of the Marx’s Manifesto the Times editor really wanted to make on his readers.
For leftists like Hobsbawm, my comments about the hundred million people the Communists killed were beside the point, even though Marxists like Hobsbawm did the killing or justified it to fellow travelers and credulous audiences in the West. For Hobsbawm, the Manifesto was not a historical document nor a wrongheaded and destructive one. It was a living prophecy. According to him, it correctly analyzed the dynamics of industrial capitalist societies and provided a vision of the social future. The one concession he was willing to make to what actually had transpired in the last 150years was that it did not correctly predict that the proletariat would be the carrier of its revolutionary truth: “However, if at the end of the millennium we must be struck by the acuteness of the Manifesto’s vision of the then remote future of a massively globalized capitalism ... it is now evident that the bourgeoisie has not produced ‘above all, its own gravediggers’ in the proletariat.”
But for Hobsbawm this error was of no consequence since the Manifesto’s central theme is correct: democratic capitalism must be destroyed or it will destroy us. According to Hobsbawm, even Communism’s failure only strengthens this Marxist idea: “The manifesto, it is not the least of its remarkable qualities, is a  document that envisaged failure. It hoped that the outcome of capitalist development would be ‘a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large,’ but, as we have already seen, it did not exclude the alternative ‘common ruin.’ Many years later another Marxian rephrased this as the choice between socialism and barbarity. Which of these will prevail is a question which the 21st century must be left to answer.” In this Marxian fantasy the democratic postindustrial society we inhabit, with living standards higher and living conditions better for the mass of its citizens than available to any other people since the beginning of time, is no more than “barbarity,” a “common ruin.” And the only alternative is the socialism that Marx envisioned.
This, in 1998, is what for the Timeseditor—and in fact the academic establishment that has showered Hobsbawm with its highest honors—is the epitome of progressive thought. Of course the slogan “socialism or barbarism” was coined by Rosa Luxemburg at the end of the First World War, when Communists like Hobsbawm set out to destroy the liberal societies of the West and to create a Marxist utopia in the ruins of the Russian empire. Seventy years and 100 million deaths later, Eric Hobsbawm and Steve Wasserman have learned little from the experience. Steve Wasserman may not be ready to mount the barricades tomorrow and attempt to implement the vision laid out in this intellectual trash. But many, younger than he, will.
I did not call Wasserman when the Times symposium appeared; I wrote him a note instead.
February 16, 1998
Dear Steve,
The 75th anniversary of Mein Kampf is coming up. It’s too bad that Heidegger and Paul de Man are dead, but I’m sure you could get David Irving or David Duke to come up with a 3,000-word spread telling us why, even though it was written so long ago and has resulted in nothing but human misery ever since, it is still one of the most prescient and indispensable works for understanding western civilization and the Jews. You might also try that French Holocaust denier whom Chomsky likes so much. For my part, I’ll be glad to provide you with 250 words of balance again. Of course, if you should need more room for the fascists, feel free to cut whatever I send you in half.
How embarrassing, my friend.
Letters to the Publisher of the Los Angeles Times
[The letter that follows wasn’t merely revenge for the treatment my review of Marx’s Manifesto received. When Wasserman was first hired to edit the Book Review,he had asked me to write a letter defending his appointment, since an interview I had given which mentioned his youthful radicalism caused him some trouble. I did so and we then had a lunch at which I expressed my concerns about the virtual exclusion of conservative viewpoints from the Times. I hoped I had persuaded him of the merits of a pluralism of views, particularly in an institution like the Book Review. I was sorely disappointed in these hopes, and was not really prepared for the degree to which Wasserman actually turned the Review into an ideological journal of the left. The Manifesto episode was the final straw, prompting me to take my concerns to the Times’new publisher, Mark Willes, a former CEO of the Kellogg Corporation. As a very infrequent Timesop-ed page contributor, I had been invited to a Christmas Party at the op-ed editor’s house where I was one of only two conservatives present. I cornered Willes and told him my concerns and said that I would write to him. The futility of this exercise became evident when Willes turned my letter over to Wasserman for a reply]
Dear Mark Willes,
I would like to share with you my recent experience with the Sunday Book Review section of your paper. I am writing this in the spirit of our earlier conversation, and my understanding that the Times aspires to be the voice of the entire Los Angeles community, including those of us who are politically conservative. I am taking the liberty of copying this letter to Michael Parks and Leo Wolinsky, with whom I have shared my concerns on this or parallel matters.
On this particular Sunday, I open my Book Review and typically find four of the six major reviews identified on its cover to be written by leftists: Scheer, Davidson, Breines and Langer. For the purposes of this discussion, I will define “leftist” as someone who either writes regularly, or could write comfortably, for The Nation, the Village Voice or the LA Weekly. The same person probably is suspicious of the economic market and believes that real socialism  hasn’t yet been tried, and that, while Bill Clinton should be defended against Republicans, he generally has “sold out” to the “corporate ruling class.” Thus, in this Sunday’s Book Review, Bob Scheer claims that the professional journalists of the Times itself have “career needs and class ambitions” that “coincide with the moneyed interests of the conglomerates and privileged families who pay their salaries.” I’m sure this will come as news to you (and to Michael and Leo). And I wonder how the Times can have such confidence in an insider [Scheer was a national correspondent for the Times] who should know better, yet who can write such stuff with a straight face. A conservative writer, by contrast, would be someone who writes regularly (or comfortably) for National Review, The American Spectator or The Weekly Standard.
The first thing I note is that there are no reviews by conservatives in today’s issue of the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Nor are there likely to be any such reviews on any given Sunday. Last December, the Review ran a feature on the 100 best books of the Times for the year. It was a selection from actual reviews that had appeared in the Times during 1997. There were 87 Times reviewers represented in the feature, some having reviewed more than one book on the list. There were many, many left-wing reviewers represented, including far-left propagandists like Saul Landau, a lifetime flack for Fidel Castro. On the same list, however, I was only able to locate one reviewer, Walter Laqueur, who could reasonably be defined as conservative, although he is an academic writer rather than a political author in the sense I defined above. Laqueur writes for The New Republic and The New York Review of Books, rather than the three conservative publications, but also, if I’m not mistaken, has written on occasion for Commentary. Though I should probably know better, I find this virtual exclusion of political conservatives shocking and, if not calculated, inexplicable. At the same time, this exclusion is very much the policy, conscious or otherwise, of the Times Book Review, which is currently being edited as though it were The Nation, rather than one of America’s most important journalistic institutions.
I had my own unhappy experience with the Book Review in February, when its editor Steve Wasserman asked me to write 250 words as part of a seven-article symposium on the 150th anniversary of The Communist Manifesto. As edited by Wasserman, my piece and two others that were harshly critical of the Manifesto became mini-appendages to the 3,000-word feature by Eric Hobsbawm, a lifelong Communist and unreconstructed Marxist. Hobsbawm, who joined the Communist Party in the 1920s and stayed for nearly half a century, celebrated Marx’s text as a brilliant and prescient analysis not only of 19th-century capitalism (which would have been bad enough) but of contemporary society as well. His preposterous thesis was supported by another 500-word contribution Wasserman solicited from an East German Marxist, who made similar claims. In his feature essay, Hobsbawm exempted Marx from responsibility for the epic crimes that Marxists had committed, and that he had dedicated his own intellectual life to defending. Hobsbawm concluded his article by proposing that the choice facing Americans now—a choice, in his view, foreseen by Marx—was ‘barbarism or socialism.’ This is exactly how Lenin sold Bolshevism in 1917. How embarrassing for the Times to have featured such a claim. How odd that the Times, a product of American capitalism and its First Amendment freedoms, should construct a symposium not just to include this point of view but to promote it.

I am enclosing a correspondence between Wasserman and myself about this symposium. I think it is clear from this exchange that Wasserman has an agenda in defending Marx, and does not have much respect for a perspective that regards these views as bankrupt, and that is pretty much accepted not only among conservatives but across the spectrum outside the left. I have known Steve for thirty years and our relationship has been perfectly cordial. But my experience with the symposium and our letter-exchange leaves me with the strong feeling that people with views like mine are not really part of the Times’ community—certainly not in the sense that the school of neo-Marxists like Hobsbawm, Scheer, Landau, Davidson, Breines, Langer, Christopher Hitchens, and a host of others who appear regularly in its book pages, are. Nor would it be reasonable for conservatives like me to expect that except on rare and idiosyncratic occasions the Book Review would either include our views in its ongoing dialogue or treat them with the regard they deserve. This is regrettable and hardly in keeping with what ought to be the standards of a great metropolitan paper.
Sincerely, David Horowitz
[Instead of answering my first letter, Mark Willes washed his hands of the problem and turned the letter over to Wasserman about whose editorial policies I was complaining. I should have washed my hands of the matter, too, but instead made another futile stab at opening a discussion.]
[Second Letter]
Dear Mark Willes,
I have received a response from Steve Wasserman to my letter, which he wrote at your request. I have already had a correspondence with Steve that makes clear his unwillingness to acknowledge the problem. It is hardly surprising then that his response is not really a reply to the issue I raised. Moreover, its central argument is incomprehensible.
What can it mean to say, as he does, that the “categories of Left and Right have been rendered hollow and meaningless by the human experience of the recent past?” If that is so, why does the Times print a “Column Left” and a “Column Right” on its op-ed page? Does he really think that the views expressed in The Nation and National Review—my specific points of reference for the terms “left” and “right”—are wildly unpredictable, or indistinguishable from one another? Are there not generally recognizable “left” and “right” views of the role of government in the economy, of affirmative action, of school choice, in fact of virtually every issue the Times treats daily? Of course there are, and the Times editors not only know it but report it that way. Why does the Times print polls categorizing respondents as “liberal” and “conservative” if these categories are meaningless? Why, then, is it so difficult to recognize these divisions in the editing of the Times Book Review?
My issue, of course, was not “to weigh up the anti-Communist credentials of our occasional contributors as the chief criterion of their right to be published,” as Wasserman disingenuously suggests. Such a position would indeed be “vile and shameful,” but it has nothing to do with anything I wrote to you, to Wasserman, or at any time in my long public career. In fact, I raised no objection to any particular author being published, not even Eric Hobsbawm. I have not proposed any political litmus to be applied to contributors to the Review, as Wasserman implies. On the contrary. I am objecting to the political litmus that is presently being applied by Wasserman himself.
Nor is it “bean counting” or asking for “quotas,” as Wasserman suggests, to point out that only one writer for the Review out of eighty-seven represented in the year-end issue can reasonably be called conservative. I have not asked for absolute balance or strict equality of representation, or anything remotely resembling that. The issue I have raised is the overwhelming weight given to one side of the political argument in the selection of contributors and the presentation of points of view. I am concerned about the systematic bias in the editing of the Book Review, which minimizes one side of the national debate, and makes the Review a merely partisan publication—uninteresting to those outside the choir, and unworthy of the Times and its ambition to serve the entire community. In his letter, Wasserman does not respond to the issue I raised, nor does he explain the policy of the Book Review that would lead to the kind of imbalance I pointed out (or the Review’s embarrassing celebration of Marxism in the year 1998). Nor does he provide an intelligible explanation for ignoring this problem. I hope, therefore, that this is not the end of the dialogue. I would be happy to discuss this further with you or with your editors at your convenience.
Sincerely, David Horowitz