Dear friends,
God is merciful indeed! Not only did Hurricane Irma not take the worst possible track (not even close), but she also lost a lot of power right at the ideal moment and then she took a very bad track (for her). In my part of Florida the impact from an already weakened hurricane was, frankly, minimal. My sons just returned home and found it unscathed and even our power returned tonight! I consider myself fantastically lucky indeed :-)
I plan to return home by the end of the week (no point in rushing back and only make things worse for others who really must get back ASAP). I plan to get home, catch my breath, say a prayer of thanksgiving, get organized and resume full work on the blog by Monday, God willing.
Until then, please do not send me emails if at all possible. But starting Monday your emails will have my full attention again, okay?
Thanks again for your kind words and good wishes.
“See” you soon,
The Saker
Alhamdulillah good to hear you safe and sound! God is indeed merciful.
That’s good news your home was spared, Saker.
Good to hear! Thanks to God and safe travels.
Dear The Saker,
That is wonderful to hear that your family are all safe and your home was left intact & with electricity. Have a safe journey back.
Hugs,
Veritas
Good to hear al is well for you, Saker, and you are back in business.
Perhaps God was less pleased with all those people whose homes and lives he/she/it/them disrupted or destroyed or killed in the various islands to the south of Florida, including Cuba which the mainstream media news never mentions, as though it doesn’t exist. The storm did tremendous destruction along the north coast of Cuba as the Category 5 eye travelled along the north coast of the island, demolishing towns and villages like Matanzas, Varadaro, Santa Clara, and of course, Havana.
Anyway, It’s 9/11 again.
No, not the 1973 9/11 coup where the US CIA overthrew the Allende government in Chile, murdering thousands of people and installing a repressive fascist military dictatorship for decades, but rather the False Flag attack on the World Trade Centre intended to rally support for the multiple ongoing US invasions and occupations of the middle east oil fields.
Does anyone with an internet connection and the slightest hint of intelligence still believe the official conspiracy theory that a guy hiding in a cave in Afghanistan and a few zealot followers somehow bypassed all 17 US security agencies and singlehandedly carried out the attacks?
Bin Laden, a long time CIA asset under George Bush Sr when he was head of the CIA, may well have had a hand in recruiting the hijackers, but he didn’t arrange for the entire US Air Force to be off in Alaska and Northern Canada that day, or for the only two fighters left anywhere near Washington to be flown to another base 150 miles away that morning, or for a deliberately very confusing hijacking simulation exercise to be carried out across the northeastern US that morning so air traffic controllers didn’t know whether this was an exercise or real life hijackings. As for the aircraft attacks on the twin towers being a “total surprise” as the Bush gang claimed, the Pentagon had war gamed that exact scenario some years earlier, including hitting the World Trade Centre buildings with hijacked aircraft.
The World Trade twin towers were specifically designed to survive a direct hit from an even larger 4 engined passenger plane, and in fact withstood the aircraft crashes as designed. Most of the jet fuel was vaporized as the fuel tanks ruptured in the crash and burned off in the first few minutes, meaning the remaining fires were low temperature office furniture and paper. Even jet fuel, which is only kerosene, burns far below the temperature needed to weaken steel beams which were specifically formulated steel intended to resist such fires. The buildings dd not collapse because of the airplane strikes and subsequent fires. That was only the cover story.The aircraft strikes were need to explain the building collapses.
Which brings us to Tower 7. Tower 7 was neither hit by an aircraft nor immediately adjacent to Towers 1 and 2. Videos show it collapsing in a classic controlled demolition with the massive reinforced concrete elevator shaft dropping first, pulling the rest of the building inwards toward the dropping centre at free fall speed, which means it wasn’t hitting and crushing solid steel and concrete columns below. That can only happen if the lower supporting columns have been weakened and blasted out of the way by explosions, which is exactly what over 100 surviving New York firefighters reported happening.
The Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, a large group of qualified experts in building design, explain why Tower 7 could only have collapsed as a result of being wired with explosives. You can watch videos of the controlled demolition of Tower 7 here:
http://www.ae911truth.org/g…
What do all three towers have in common? First, all were owned by one person, who already owned Tower 7 and bought the twin towers only a few months before they were destroyed. One of his first acts was to fire the security company that had long been safeguarding all the towers, get rid of all the bomb sniffing dogs, and replace them with a “security” company owned by one of George Bush’s brothers. The same company, incidentally, that Florida Governor Jeb Bush had placed in charge of “security” in the fraudulent 2000 election that saw hundreds of thousand of registered Democrat supporters turned away from the polls in Florida, among other electoral fraud.
Second, all three towers had a serious problem that made them liabilities rather than assets: asbestos insulation covering the entire steel structures. Changes in environmental laws since their construction meant that whenever a floor was vacated, before it could be rented to anyone else a very expensive asbestos removal and remediation process had to be carried out, which meant there were a lot of empty locked off floors on all there buildings. Perfect for someone wanting to place explosives around the columns, especially since the explosive sniffing dogs had been removed. The cost of demolishing such large buildings and replacing them was prohibitive, unless:
Third, after purchasing the towers the new owner took out two separate insurance policies on all three buildings for double their nominal value specifically including destruction by an act of terrorism. After the towers collapsed he attempted to collect double their value twice, but was partially foiled when a court ruled he could only collect from one of the insurance policies. Asbestos and demolition problems solved courtesy of the US taxpayers, with the site being nicely cleared ready for the construction of new asbestos free towers.
Tower 7 also happened to house the largest CIA office in the United States after their Washington headquarters, as well as the government bureau investigating corporate crime, which was in the midst of investigating the massive Enron financial fraud scandal at the time. Enron was George Bush’s largest campaign contributor in the 2000 election. As luck would have it, most of the incriminating documents were “unfortunately” destroyed when Tower 7 collapsed.
No steel frame tower has ever collapsed as a result of a fire before or since, and all three buildings were fully sprinklered and as mentioned earlier, the twin towers specifically designed to survive a hit from a 4 engine jetliner larger than the twin engine 767s which actually struck them. How did the US government explain the collapse of Tower 7? Simple. They just never mentioned it in the official report on 9/11, as though it had never happened.
I won’t get into the Pentagon attack except to note that whatever blew a hole in the side of it happened to pick a location that had just been renovated and reinforced against such attacks, a location which was nearly empty at the time, and on the opposite side of the huge building from Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz’s offices. A “lucky co-incidence”?
Another “lucky co-incidence” is that the people who came to power when George Bush was appointed President by the Supreme Court on a 5-4 split vote on party lines after losing the recount in Florida were mostly involved in the “Project for a New American Century” which stipulated that the US should use its position as the sole superpower after the collapse of the Soviet Union to invade and seize the world’s oil producing regions, including Iraq, Libya, Iran, Syria, and Afghanistan, gateway to the Central Asian oil and gas fields of Kazakstan and the Caspian Basin.
But they identified a catch: to rally public support for their planned wars to seize the oilfields they first needed, to use their exact words, “a new Pearl Harbour” that could be blamed on the countries they intended to invade. And by yet another “lucky co-incidence” less than a year after Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Condeleza Rice, and the rest of the “Project for a New American Century” plotters came to power in a judicial coup, the “new Pearl Harbour” came to fruition exactly as they wished for, and it was off to the middle east to pursue their oil wars.
I won’t belabour the point. As a judge once said in a local court case, “When co-incidence is piled on co-incidence piled on co-incidence, at some point it ceases to be a co-incidence. To repeat my lead question, does anyone with an internet connection and the slightest hint of intelligence still believe the official conspiracy theory about all this being arranged by a guy in a cave in Afghanistan?
Thanks! very interesting. Question: Who owned the towers back then?
Larry Silverstein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Silverstein
check out the bit about the insurance.
Katherine
Silverstein had incredible luck.
He got a lease for buildings 1, 2, 4, and 5 in July 2001.
He used $14 million of his own money.
He changed his plans on the morning of Sept. 11 at his wife’s insistence.
His company got payouts of billions of dollars from insurance cos. and other sources.
Lucky (hey hey) guy!
Katherine
Frank Lowy (Westfield) also had his finger in the ownership pie.
Please can you all take this conversation to the MFC as its off-topic. Thx. Mod
Excellent summary!
I’m still trying to get my head around the question of what actually occurred on the hit on the Pentagon:
If any one can help on a couple of the questions, I would greatly appreciate it (not the only two questions but taking them step by step):
1. Much commentary about Flight 77 and whether the plane actually hit the Pentagon; if it was not a plane, maybe a missile, what happened to Flight 77, the plane, and the passengers??
2. Much commentary about the location of the hit on the Pentagon, accounting offices, accounting personnel destroyed (possible connection to the missing trillions rumsfeld announced on sep 10); Dov Zakheim was pentagon controller on 9/11, attempting to “find” the missing trillions. Where was he physically when the actual hit on the pentagon occurred? Obviously, he was not in the accounting offices which were hit.
He is recognized as an active neo/zio con, signer of PNAC, etc.
thanks in advance for any info on the above!
Thank God! Best wishes!
In the mean time, if you find a moment, see if you are as surprised to see this in the WaPo as I was:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trump-is-making-americans-see-the-us-the-way-the-rest-of-the-world-already-did/2017/09/08/50f7c5ac-8ce8-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?undefined&utm_term=.f95a9718276c&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Dear Saker,
It is a big relief to read that you and your family and your house came out quite unhurt.
At the same time, I have sad feelings about the many inhabitants of the Caribbean islands where Irma payed a visit. On some islands 90% of the houses are destroyed, people lost almost everything, and they are not the ones with the big wallets.
Also at the same time, I have sad feelings of the victims of the tropical storm Harvey that hit Texas. Hell, that storm had about the size of Texas itself, which is about 1.5 times the size of France.
To have an idea of the amount of rain fallen, that was about 35 feet (10 meters), calculated back to 1 square meter. And that in a few days. That is about 12 times the average rainfall in Western Europe in a whole year (including Great Britain).
1 out of 6 inhabitants in Houston is not insured for this. About 100000 homes are heavily damaged or FUBAR. And now?
Also, the large petrochemical industries in the Houston area are hit massively. A company that I have worked for had to close 6 plants there. Try to imagine, that these plants have been under water of 3 meters. Every plant has hundreds of industrial pumps, nearly all located at ground level. An average industrial pump costs about 30000 – 40000 USD, just delivered without installing. The industrial power supply will be destroyed largely, too.
Even when the insurance companies will cover all, those plants will be out of service for more than a year, lacking an immense sum of income for a large petrochemical company that is already in bad weather, financially seen, and they are not the only ones.
Try to realize, that I’m still in contact with my former colleagues, and they might all lose their jobs.
The exact damage still has to be assessed. The aftermath might be comparable to the hurricane Katrina that hit New Orleans years ago.
Finally, for you Saker, God has been merciful too, and I wish you a comfortable and safe trip home.
(Btw, I have had short contact with a friend who also lives in Florida. He has sat it out with his wife and very young baby, but told that it was a rough ride.)
Cheers, Rob
Ah, I saw an error afterwards.
1 out of 6 is INsured for this, meaning 5 out of 6 not.
A significant difference.
To calculate further, my estimate is that my former petrochemical company will be confronted with a loss of revenue (and business, while not able to deliver, clients will leave) comparable to their whole yearly promise of generated cash flow towards their investors.
In this industry companies have no more than about 15% of own capital involved, the rest is borrowed from banks and investors.
I think they will be broke. Just like many citizens having had a visit of these tropical storms.
Doen’t it feel tempting to move to a fly-over state?
Saker, thank you for your most recent articles on statute-building and Nazis. I posted a comment to this blog a few weeks ago supporting the American Cultural Marxists, because they speak to my *own* personal background, but I have totally changed my mind about this now thanks in part to your consistency and your courage to speak out. God bless you and I wish you a safe trip back.
Blagodarim Gospoda!
I think that Irma was man made, it destroyed the caribbean but was pretty weak when it reached the US.
The caribbeans were the ones that voted against a US intervention in Venezuela during OAS asembly. HAARP or whatever you call it could have something to do with it.
Now those countries are in a very bad position and the US will be eager to ‘help’ them.
Nice, Saker! You ´had predicted the the panic hype of the MSM and a lesser fallout.
On 2nd theme, have U read the ‘news’ of the Mnuchin secretary of Treasury feroucious threatens against China and whoever else dares trading with Pyongiang.
Is it pure BS roaring?
Now the time is ripe for moscow and beijing become more machiavellic.
Just prepare a good looking trap to induce and lead the empire bosses into a big irreversible mistake. Bcs the empire is as predictable as an intestine wave noise
Apple is just launching its latest iPhone. Made in China of course. Which means Apple is counting on billions and billions of dollars in new sales. If the Munchin decides to follow through on his bombast and hot air, we’ll get to watch a $45 billion a year corporation remove a secretary-in-charge-of-robbing-the-treasury. And Assange’s prediction that the American corporate power would remove a President that threatens $650 billion in profitable trade probably isn’t very far wrong.
Great stuff.
Relax and enjoy your homecoming.
The Vineyard won’t go anywhere :-)
And thus spoke Zarathustra: eternal recurrence and US turds floating home to roost!
Take care Saker, the rabble are in the streets … but then again new season tomatoes will be plentiful and posibble exceptional.
“Millions of gallons of poorly treated wastewater and raw sewage flowed into the bays, canals and city streets of Florida from facilities serving some of the nation’s fastest-growing counties. In fact, 4 of the 10 fastest-growing coastal counties in the eastern U.S. are in Florida. More than 9 million gallons of releases tied to Irma have been reported as of late Tuesday as inundated plants were submerged, forced to bypass treatment or lost power.”
“Hurricane Irma Released “250 Million Gallons Of Untreated Sewage” Into The Streets Of Florida”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-13/hurricane-irma-released-250-gallons-untreated-sewage-streets-florida
Meanwhile in Cuba and other Islands not so blessed by the raining (sic) Diety — almost total msm silence.
A classic, but seems appropriate for the time. Here’s hoping you had happy trails on the trip home, and arrived to find everything ok and dry at your home. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU9viEhRMQQ
Hmmm, should have put in a title.
“Here Comes Sunshine”, written and performed by the Grateful Dead.
Wake of the flood, laughing water,
Forty-nine,
Get out the pans, don’t just stand there dreamin’
Get out of the way, get out of the way,
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Line up a long shot maybe try it two times,
Maybe more,
Good to know you got shoes to wear when you
Find the floor, Why hold out for more?
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.
Askin’ you nice, now, keep the mother rollin’
One more time,
Been down before, you just don’t have to
Go no more, no more.
Here comes sunshine, here comes sunshine.