By Pepe Escobar – Book Review for The Saker Blog
Nearly 20 years after 9/11, Germany and the German-speaking world are being hit by a formidable one-two.
A ground-breaking study by gifted independent financial journalist Lars Schall, Denken wie der Feind – 20 Jahre Ausnahmezustand 9/11 und die Geopolitik des Terrors
(“Thinking Like the Enemy – 20 Years State of Emergency, 9/11 and the Geopolitics of Terror”) is being published in Germany in two books.
The first one – Das Erdöl, der Dollar und die Drogen (“The Oil, The Dollar and The Drugs”) – is out this week. Volume II will be out next week.
Nomi Prins, formerly from Goldman Sachs, has described Schall’s “investigation of 9/11 insider trading” as “stunning”. Marshall Auerback, researcher at the Levy Institute in the U.S., noted how “most of the MSM still refuse to tackle the broader, more controversial aspects of the 9/11 tragedy”. Schall, he adds, “provides a healthy corrective”.
A sample of Schall’s work, already published by The Saker blog, is this interview on 9/11 terror trading.
I’ve had the pleasure to write the introduction for the German one-two. Here it is – hoping that such an extraordinary achievement may find its way in many other languages, especially across the Global South
9/11, or “The Owls Are Not What They Seem”
Until COVID-19 showed up on the scene in the Spring of 2020, nearly two decades after the fact, the world remained hostage to 9/11. This was the ultimate geopolitical game-changer that set the tone for the young 21st century. The book you have in your hands asks the ultimate question: why 9/11 matters.
Follow the money. It’s quite fitting that this meticulous investigation is conducted by a gifted, extremely serious financial journalist – and, in an unprecedented way, presents a mass of information previously unavailable in German.
I’ve known Lars Schall, virtually, for years – exchanging correspondence on politics and economics. When we met in person in Berlin in 2015, we finally had time, live, to also indulge in our number one pop culture mutual passion: David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. Lars may be a German incarnation of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper. Or, better yet, the compassionate version of Albert Rosenfield, the sarcastic pathologist in Twin Peaks.
Take for instance this dialogue from Twin Peaks:
Albert Rosenfield: We sent a portrait of your long-haired man to every agency from NASA to DEA and came up empty. This cat is in nobody’s database.
Special Agent Dale Cooper: A man that four of us have seen here in Twin Peaks.
Albert Rosenfield: [smiling] Sure. Oh, by the way, you were shot with a Walther PPK. It’s James Bond’s gun, did you know that?
So what you have in your hands is 9/11 dissected by a thoroughly working pathologist, who had “a lot of cutting and pasting to do”. He was aware of myriad red lines from the start, as well as myriad vanishing acts and false non sequiturs. 9/11 may be the ultimate illustration of one of Twin Peaks’ legendary one-liners: “The owls are not what they seem”.
Our pathologist had in fact to disassemble a humongous matryoshka to break it down into smaller dolls. This process had some surprises in store: by following-the-money approach regarding 9/11, for instance, our pathologist was in the end confronted with the case of an anal prolapse at Guantanamo Bay. You don’t believe it? Just wait and read the research.
This journey will take you through hundreds of pages of text and myriads of endnotes, over 2,400 of them, quite a few dealing with many different sources, as well as selected sensitive documents treated by professional translators.
The double volume details the interconnected implications of extremely complex dossiers: the US national energy policy group chaired by former Vice-President Dick Cheney, in secrecy, only four days after the start of the Bush administration; the ramifications of Peak Oil; the interest by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) on Middle East oil, especially Iraq; the CIA’s major role in the drug trade business; the Saudi-U.S. alliance related to the protection of al-Qaeda; what happened with the U.S. air defense on 9/11; and last but not least, insider trading on 9/11, especially anomalies in the option and bond markets.
The nearly mythical computer software program PROMIS, created in the 1970s by former NSA analyst Bill Hamilton, plays a sort of Rosebud role in this narrative – complete with a trail of unexplained deaths and disappearing files that renders some of its avatars, especially those containing backdoor eavesdropping capabilities enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) almost impervious to investigation.
As a matter of fact, Lars had been contacted by Bill Hamilton, who asked him if he could help in relation to the PROMIS affair. It was this request – which took place in the Spring of 2012 after Lars had just published a 9/11-Insider Trading article at Asia Times – that has been the spark which started the investigation you are about to read.
For the German reader, one of the firsts of this sprawling analysis is to take what is considered in the U.S. as a “conspiracy theory” – Mike Ruppert’s seminal 2004 book “Crossing the Rubicon” – and, in Lars’s words, “figure out how far it can be proven correct, more than 15 years after it was published.”
Lars shows in detail how 9/11 enabled a state of emergency, a permanent Continuity of Government (COG) in the U.S. and mass surveillance of U.S. citizens – connecting the dots all the way from missing trillions of dollars in the Pentagon to NSA data mining and leading U.S. neocons. The latter had been praying for a “Pearl Harbor” to reorient US foreign policy since 1997. Their prayers were answered beyond their wildest dreams.
The investigation eventually displays a startling road map: the war on terror as a business model. However, as Lars also shows, in the end, much to the despair of U.S. neocons, all the combined sound and fury of 9/11 and the Global War on Terror, in nearly two decades, ended up bringing about a Russia-China strategic partnership in Eurasia.
It’s fair to ask the author what did he learn as he juggled for years with this immense mass of information. Lars points to the familiarity he acquired with the work of Peter Dale Scott – author, among others of “The Road to 9/11”, and a specialist in the origins of the U.S. Deep State – which is diametrically opposed to the sanitized narrative privileged by the Beltway and U.S. corporate media. Lars presents information by Peter Dale Scott that had never been translated into German before.
Special Agent Lars Cooper / Lars Rosenfield had in effect to kiss goodbye to a career as a journalist, because “I’ll be forever scorned as a ‘conspiracy theorist’,” as he told me. So a stark choice was in play; fearlessness, or a comfortable career as a corporate hack. In the end, Lars chose fearlessness.
In Twin Peaks, Special Agent Dale Cooper has ultimately to confront himself. He knows he’s lost if he tries to run away from his dark self – who is “the dweller on the threshold.” Our Special Agent Lars Cooper definitely did not run away from the dweller on the threshold this time around. He dared to cross to the other side to stare at the abyss. And now he’s back to tell us in a book what it looks like.
Denken wie der Feind – 20 Jahre Ausnahmezustand 9/11 und die Geopolitik des Terrors
(“Thinking Like the Enemy – 20 Years State of Emergency, 9/11 and the Geopolitics of Terror”), by Lars Schall
Book 1: Das Erdöl, der Dollar und die Drogen
(The Oil, The Dollar and The Drugs)
Via Books on Demand (BOD):
ISBN for the book: 9783753442938. For the e-Book: 9783753414737
Book 2: Das “Pearl Harbor” des 21. Jahrhunderts (The “Pearl Harbor “ of the 21st Century)
Via Books on Demand (BOD):
ISBN for the book: 9783753460796. For the e-book: 9783753433882
Looks like a fascinating read. I wonder if an English translation will ever see the light of day in the US. Can’t imagine our current cancel culture will approve of something like this.
No, something like that will not be approved. Not only did the 9/11 conspirators introduce a perfect military police state, they apparently pulled off one of the largest bank heists in history.
The Twin Towers were the largest bank in the US. According to one analyst, prior to being blown up by controlled demolition, they were robbed of 100 billion dollars of gold, 100 billion dollars of diamonds and 100 billion dollars of bonds. After that they were destroyed to conceal the robbery, while at the same time giving a huge excuse for introducing a military police state and war against Iraq.
hi, Leo. the bank heist was around 3/4 trillion.
These 9/11 event had been carried to prevent the people of the world to live in peace and prosperity by opening up NESARA/GESARA “protocol” signed by Bill Clinton in somewhere in 1992.
“After that they were destroyed to conceal the robbery, while at the same time giving a huge excuse for introducing a military police state and war against Iraq.”
And a huge insurance payoff for Larry Silverstein.
Katherine
I note everybody on the planet were sitting on their thumb with open mouth letting it happen.
I think the book will have no trouble getting published here if only because if a few hundred thousand of us read it, that still won’t change anything. We are largely a nation of sheep who would rather watch “American Idol” and the Kardashians than become meaningfully involved.
JFK’s murder; RFK’s murder; MLK, Jr.’s, murder; Iran/Contra; 9/11 – we’ve done nothing about any of them. We never will.
Joel,
You’re spot on there, its like Dr. Judy Woods brilliant book “where did the towers go” this doesn’t get any press here in the U.K. or anyone in the media talking about it and it’s the best book I have ever read for its content and real Science by a fully qualified expert ! Please everyone buy it, it will blow your mind and open your eyes!
WHERE DID THE TOWERS GO ?
By Dr. Judy Wood B.S. M.S. Ph.D
The best book of the 21st Century by far.
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-41256-6
ISBN-10: 0615412564
The ability to read about so-called forbidden topics is the main reason today for an English-speaking person to learn a foreign language. I recommend German, Spanish and/or especially Italian – my main regret is not knowing that language(they appear to have the most fearless book publishers). On the other hand, the French and Dutch being conformists are a waste of time. If you can only read English, you will never learn the truth about many subjects, especially if you are from Fahrenheit Land.
My first great teacher is cited in this article. Mike Ruppert, former LA police officer, was approached by the CIA to help distribute drugs. When he blew the whistle, he was fired and his life nearly ruined.
He made his way back by becoming an independent investigator. So in November, 2001, I attended his talk in San Francisco, a truly life changing event. I mean, I knew the official story was fishy, but he went so much deeper into the criminality that pervades all aspects of the US government, fully documented.
Eventually, his offices were raided and destroyed, he fled to Venezuela for a time, eventually returned but never recovered. Eventually committed suicide, after announcing his intention to friends. He could see where the country was headed and chose to ‘opt out’.
So it’s good to see his work validated.
The only way the country will ever change, is when the people are forced to own their own history. That will probably only happen when it suffers a military defeat and humiliation comparable to what befell German and Japan defeat in WWII.
The only way the country will ever change, is when the people are forced to own their own history. That will probably only happen when it suffers a military defeat and humiliation comparable to what befell German and Japan defeat in WWII.
Agreed. That’s what it will take. Given the cognitive dissonance that such knowledge will provoke, I seriously doubt the country will remain a unified whole in the aftermath, nor should it be allowed to be. The lies and atrocities this one event enabled in its aftermath are beyond mind boggling. The main perps and their immediate coterie will fight its uncovering to their last breath.
There’s a point of principle regarding 9/11 that seems to escape many of us. The determination of what happened that morning in 2001 is not for me to say, nor Peter Dale Scott, or David Griffin (who I believe are basically correct) or Noam Chomsky or Morning Joe or Jack the Ripper for that matter. What all these people have in common is that they are private citizens. Their reasoning’s might be correct but being right isn’t enough. It’s not enough to send the guilty culprits up for a long term sentence in a federal prison (assuming they could be extradited from Israel). To establish the facts of a criminal matter we have special and rigorously distinctive agencies and processes that must be employed so as to come to an authoritative judgement that possesses the weight of a legitimate public decision. It starts with the cops, investigations, interrogations, subpoenas formal charges, and a trial that goes by the book. On the morrow of 9/11 this is what we Did Not get. On the morrow of 9/11 it was the rule of law that went missing in action. Instead, some anonymous voice from within the admin started this talk about 19 hijackers with boxcutters who did this and that. From a rigorously Public method of determining matters of fact to secretively sourced administrative propaganda. There has been a constant tendency with the American government to assert without evidence or any properly public investigation what they claim to be facts ignoring the rules of gathering evidence suited to public inspection. Obama’s ‘trust the intelligence agencies’ is the essence of this general trend.
The ‘Russiagate’ noise of the last years is a piece of what we’re talking about here. Groundless assertions that disdain demands for evidence. And it works. It’s worked wonders with the media. The spooks have destroyed professional journalism. Journalists, academics and PR hustlers are gleefully licensed to just make things up and put it out there as though it were true, as though it qualifies as professional work. If you aim to make a career in journalism; learn to fabricate stories and make lying a way of life. It pays. Or at least until someone denounces you for some poorly considered slip of the tongue from years past. How about internment camps up in Alaska? What do you think? Buy up old 7.65 Makarov’s just for that little touch of authenticity? They appreciate these things in Hollywood. Just give it few more years. They’ll all be denouncing each other.
But returning to the point. 9/11 wasn’t just a false flag extravaganza to license a series of wars against Israeli’s enemies. It was that, but we shouldn’t overlook how it was the American government itself that was hijacked with a view to terminating the rule of law in favor of Star Chamber methods. Finally, Germany might be the very best place for discussions like this to circulate. The spooks are bad for German business, especially for manufacturing industry. This book might just hit the spot. A ‘follow the money’ treatment is just what is needed in the country that most needs to get a grip on it’s own economic future. There’s potential here.
Pepe’s amazing. Everyready Bunny. For him there’s no daylight between work and play (Larchmonter’s insight). He’s so good.
If I remember correctly the second sentence Bush Jr. spoke the day after in the memorable address to the nation, was not to indulge into conspiracy theories. The following sentence then was “You’re either with us or against us”.
Does one need more to know ? It’s all there in plain sight !
Btw. the University of Alaska issued a paper regarding the Building 7 meticolously debunking the NIST – reports and concludes whith it having been brought down in a controlled demolition, that was at the beginning of the last year and has barely been noticed.
The judical system in the US is completly corrupted and a total impasse for the whole country – it must be raized to the ground and then be rebuilt in order to function as indended by the constitution. However most likely the US will simply start to disintegrate, we see that already with Florida, Texas and now Oklahoma whom all have or are in the process of turning their backs to orders out from Washington DC, many more will undoubtly follow.
> the University of Alaska issued a paper regarding the Building 7 meticolously debunking the NIST
Link to source, please.
https://files.wtc7report.org/file/public-download/A-Structural-Reevaluation-of-the-Collapse-of-World-Trade-Center-7-March2020.pdf … mod
That article in Asia Times was already shocking enough.
Lets hope there is, soon, a translation in spanish for readers in the Patria Grande.
I hope he comes to the only logical conclusion.
9/11 was an inside job run by the Mossad and “elements of the CIA and senior US government officials”. 9/11 was the culmination of a forty year effort to place a large volume of American Troops permanently in the middle east purportedly to fight terrorism but primarily to support Israeli/US hegemonic goals and make the world safe for Greater Israel. You know, why have world peace and stability when you can create chaos and steal territory?
Given the insidiousness of this program, it would not comes as a surprise that snakes and insiders like Dick Cheney and Buzzy Krongard (Executive Director of CIA, Alex Brown, Bankers Trust, Deutsche Bank) would use the opportunity to pursue profits for their own financial gain.
So who is Alvin “Buzzy” Krongard ?
http://www.911insidejob.com/911/911_krongard.htm
Hi, Richard. Greater Israel is a plan in progress. The USA is there to facilitate it, as an armed goon flown over by the “God´s Elected”. The more one becomes familiar with the last two centuries of History, the more repulsive one becomes to Kasher cuisine.
It would also be helpful to visit the website of Journalist Christopher Bollyn at bollyn.com.
His book “Solving 9/11” puts all of the pieces together from exposives to insider trading.
https://bollyn.com/#article_16297
An audio version of the book is available for free on the site.
Insider Handel von Lars Schall war einer der besten Artikeln, die ich in Asiatimes jemals gelesen habe.Danach habe ich ihn mehrmals im original Deutsch rekapituliert.Sein Artikel war für mich ein Augenöffner. Einfach Super!
For the moment, I’d like to skip discussing the middle stages of human enlightenment and get right down to its possible or impossible practical results in the real world in which we live.
Just for the fun of it, let’s assume that the 332,000,000+ people living in the US of A suddenly have the veil in front of their eyes lifted or, if you prefer, the curtain pulled and whatever truth/wizard behind it fully exposed (say peoples’ various Gods miraculously implanted in their brains the unvarnished, minutely detailed truth of history while they were sleeping). Let’s also assume that these millions still require all the typical necessities of life such as frequent food, water, a warm place to live, etc.
When they awake in the morning, just exactly HOW will the BEHAVIOR of these hundreds of millions of woke folk change, if at all?
Will the “topics” of conversations between all these people change? For example, will there be any “gee, we’ve go to do something about this horrible situation the US has created around the world”, like there is every day of the week at The Saker?
Will the tens of millions of people directly or indirectly employed by the MIC all quit their jobs, say “damn the portfolios”, start working for peacenik candidates for public office and actually vote for them in the next election? How will these woke millions pay for, literally, their and their childrens next meal or gasoline for their vehicle or hay for their horse, food for their dog, heat for their homes and, most importantly, the monthly Netflix payment?
Will they all “drop everything”, travel to DC and “throw the bums out”; or start chopping off heads, or march in the streets arm-in-arm, demanding that powerful people start behaving better?
What kind of a “new world” will these hundreds of millions of instantly-woke folk first imagine and then bring into being? On what “foundation stone” will this new world be built?
”Ishkabibble”
But isn’t such reasoning a trap for the people, circular, no way out?
We all are aware of what the final resolution of capitalism will be be: we are getting there now! there is/can be, no positive resolution for the people save they rise and take over society, and forge systematically, in whatever ways in one of, or several of the ways in positive combination and relative to circumstances, that are possible… world organisation that responds in whole to popular existential interest.
and especially now as the established world goes south faster every day, the conditions of ordinary people erodes away in front of our eyes: a world in which technological dictatorship/enslavement and Cyborg existence as a possibility begins to loom as horrific eventuality…why would the gremlins or the gods make the 332 mil only partially aware of their reality?
that would not Be logical I think. the gremlins and gods would make the 332 mils aware of the various potential Brave New Worlds they face as well, regardless of what they do ultimately – or do not do about it! for the people there is no getting away from the massive gore and destruction, as well as inescapable massive death to come for them, even if they submit meekly to Brave New World, or resist massively, even ultimately winning the world for themselves.
what the people do, how they respond to the news from the gremlins and gods may also be influenced by current social conditions! these conditions more and more threaten the very existence of the 332mil, all you list as the sweet life they live also, millions having lost that life already!
I see glimmers all the time of opposition in the US. there are millions who wont take vaccines. there are lots of people expressing contrary opinions in all media fora I encounter. and its not as if the elite has all the time in the world. they must speed up or be caught by events. as it is it is a race they may not win.
there is great opposition to American hegemony in the world, building every day. the US dollar is close to being dethroned as world currency. and after Covid it makes no sense for the Russians and Chinese to play the patient game anymore. the western elites are taking no prisoners, see all patience as weakness encouraging greater western attack. the gloves are indeed off…must be off for it makes no sense otherwise.
when US imperialism goes back home to roost what happens to the American people?
Social conditions should become so severe, enough to precipitate popular activity that should shake the system to its roots, popularly vaccinated or not. the vaccines may not kick in fast enough to save the system, if indeed that is what they are calculated to do
All of which brings me right back to my original question about post-fully-woke BEHAVIOR.
Just exactly WHAT will your “popular activity” be that will “shake the system to its roots” AFTER “social conditions should become so severe”? I won’t repeat my options. Please state your own. (But please keep those frequently-necessary, daily, moment-to-moment necissities of life in mind as you describe that “popular activity”.)
As long as the killing and suffering happens mostly to poor brown people abroad nothing will change. However power cant help itself and the divide comes home to roost.
The Elite and their management class are desperate. They grab as much power and surveillance power as they can. And since they can’t engage with the truth massive censorship and propaganda is needed. It’s a clear sign of weakness. War on drugs, war on terror and now War on Virus is mostly a war against your own population. ISIS have no power to dethrone our rulers nor any bad flu. It’s own citizens is the real threat.
But it’s a war they can’t really win unless they get robot AI working soon enough. Hopefully people will react in time but most likely US will decend into totalitarianism and people will endure and suffer for a generation or two before they get fed up and you get some revolution.
Or the globalists get their way and then US will no longer exist. It seems they are much smarter than the local plutocratz and will probably use a big enough carrot to prevent them from being overthrown. Gradually you’ll own nothing, have no privacy but you’ll be very happy..
Lars has been at the forefront of challenging existing power structure and questioning the economic assumptions. One can follow his work and engage at this blog in English.
https://rwer.wordpress.com/2021/03/30/why-do-economists-never-mention-power/
The following article appeared the week after 9/11. Back then I copied and saved a lot of articles and essays. The insider trading was reported in all major news papers in Canada in the days following Sept.11, but disappeared all together in a very short time and was never followed up on. It always struck me as proof that the 9/11 atrocities was an inside job and could not have been pulled off by Osama bin Laden from his cave in Afghanistan.
SEC SECRET PROBE OF STOCK DEALINGS BEFORE 9/11
Between August 26 and September 11, 2001, a group of speculators, identified by the American Securities and Exchange Commission as Israeli citizens, sold “short” a list of 38 stocks that could reasonably be expected to fall in value as a result of the pending attacks. These speculators operated out of the Toronto, Canada and Frankfurt, Germany, stock exchanges and their profits were specifically stated to be “in the millions of dollars.”
Short selling of stocks involves the opportunity to gain large profits by passing shares to a friendly third party, then buying them back when the price falls. Historically, if this precedes a traumatic event, it is an indication of foreknowledge. It is widely known that the CIA uses the Promis software to routinely monitor stock trades as a possible warning sign of a terrorist attack or suspicious economic behavior. A week after the Sept.11 attacks, the London Timesreported that the CIA had asked regulators for the Financial Services Authority in London to investigate the suspicious sales of millions of shares of stock just prior to the terrorist acts. It was hoped the business paper trail might lead to the terrorists.
Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a clandestine but official effort to resolve the market manipulations There has been a great deal of talk about insider trading of American stocks by certain Israeli groups both in Canada and Germany between August 26 and the Sept.11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Lynne Howard, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), stated that information about who made the trades was available immediately. “We would have been aware of any unusual activity right away. It would have been triggered by any unusual volume. There is an automated system called ‘blue sheeting,’ or the CBOE Market Surveillance System, that everyone in the business knows about. It provides information on the trades – the name and even the Social Security number on an account – and these surveillance systems are set up specifically to look into insider trading. The system would look at the volume, and then a real person would take over and review it, going back in time and looking at other unusual activity.”
Howard continued, “The system is so smart that even if there is a news event that triggers a market event it can go back in time, and even the parameters can be changed depending on what is being looked at. It’s a very clever system and it is instantaneous. Even with the system, though, we have very experienced and savvy staff in our market-regulations area who are always looking for things that might be unusual. They’re trained to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Even if it’s offshore, it might take a little longer, but all offshore accounts have to go through U.S. member firms – members of the CBOE – and it is easily and quickly identifiable who made the trades. The member firm who made the trades has to have identifiable information about the client under the ‘Know Your Customer’ regulations (and we share all information with the Securities and Exchange Commission.)”
Given all of this, at a minimum the CBOE and government regulators who are conducting the secret investigations have known for some time who made the options puts on a total of 38 stocks that might reasonably be anticipated to have a sharp drop in value because of an attack similar to the 9/11 episode. The silence from the investigating camps could mean several things: Either terrorists are responsible for the puts on the listed stocks or others besides terrorists had foreknowledge of the attack and used this knowledge to reap a nice financial harvest from the tragedy.
Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLC, a North Dakota-based private consulting company that publishes research on markets worldwide, stated that “I heard that $22 million in profits was made on these put options…”
Federal investigators are continuing to be so closed-mouthed about these stock trades, and it is clear that a much wider net has been cast, apparently looking for bigger international fish involved in dubious financial activity relating to the 9/11 attacks on the world stock markets.
Just a month after the attacks the SEC sent out a list of stocks to various securities firms around the world looking for information. The list includes stocks of American, United, Continental, Northwest, Southwest and US Airways airlines, as well as Martin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin Corp., AIG, American Express Corp, American International Group, AMR Corporation, Axa SA, Bank of America Corp, Bank of New York Corp, Bank One Corp, Cigna Group, CNA Financial, Carnival Corp, Chubb Group, John Hancock Financial Services, Hercules Inc, L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc., LTV Corporation, Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc., MetLife, Progressive Corp., General Motors, Raytheon, W.R. Grace, Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Lone Star Technologies, American Express, the Citigroup Inc. ,Royal & Sun Alliance, Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc., Vornado Reality Trust, Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter & Co., XL Capital Ltd., and Bear Stearns.
The Times said market regulators in Germany, Japan and the US all had received information concerning the short selling of insurance, airlines and arms companies stock, all of which fell sharply in the wake of the attacks.
City of London broker and analyst Richard Crossley noted that someone sold shares in unusually large quantities beginning three weeks before the assault on the WTC and Pentagon.
He said he took this as evidence that someone had insider foreknowledge of the attacks.
“What is more awful than he should aim a stiletto blow at the heart of Western financial markets?” he added. “But to profit from it? Words fail me.”
The US Government also admitted it was investigating short selling, which evinced a compellingly strong foreknowledge of the coming Arab attack.
There was unusually heavy trading in airline and insurance stocks several days before Sept.11, which essentially bet on a drop in the worth of the stocks.
It was reported by the Interdisciplinary Center, a counter-terrorism think tank involving former Israeli intelligence officers, that insiders made nearly $16 million profit by short selling shares in American and United Airlines, the two airlines that suffered hijacking, and the investment firm of Morgan Stanley, which occupied 22 floors of the WTC.
Apparently none of the suspicious transactions could be traced to bin Laden because this news item quietly dropped from sight, leaving many people wondering if it tracked back to American firms or intelligence agencies.
Most of these transactions were handled primarily by Deutsche Bank-A.B.Brown, a firm which until 1998 was chaired by A. B.”Buzzy” Krongard, who later became executive director of the CIA.
More serious was an article in the Sept. 28, 2001 edition of the Washington Post stating that officials with the instant messaging firm of Odigo in New York confirmed that two employees in Israel received text messages warning of an attack on the WTC two hours before the planes crashed into the buildings!
The firm’s vice president of sales and marketing, Alex Diamandis said it was possible that the warning was sent to other Odigo members, but they had not received any reports of such.
The day after, the Jerusalem Post claimed two Israelis died on the hijacked airplanes and that 4,000 were missing at the WTC.
A week later, a Beirut television station reported that 4,000 Israeli employees of the WTC were absent the day of the attack.
This information spread across the Internet but was quickly branded a hoax.
On Sept. 19, the Washington Post reported about 113 Israelis were missing at the WTC and the next day, President Bush noted more than 130 Israelis were victims.
Finally, on Sept. 22, the New York Times stated “There were, in fact, only three Israelis who had been confirmed as dead: two on the planes and another who had been visiting the towers on business and who was identified and buried.”
Investigators from numerous government agencies are part of a clandestine but official effort to resolve the market manipulations There has been a great deal of talk about the insider trading of American stocks by certain Israeli groups both in Canada and Germany between August 26 and the Sept.11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Government investigators have maintained a diplomatic silence about a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe of possible profiteering by interested parties with advance knowledge of the attack.
On Sept. 6, 2001, the Thursday before the tragedy, 2,075 put options were made on United Airlines and on Sept. 10, the day before the attacks, 2,282 put options were recorded for American Airlines. Given the prices at the time, this could have yielded speculators between $2 million and $4 million in profit.
The matter still is under investigation and none of the government investigating bodies -including the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and DOJ -are speaking to reporters about insider trading. Even so, suspicion of insider trading to profit from the Sept. 11 attacks is not limited to U.S. regulators. Investigations were initiated in a number of places including Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Switzerland and Spain. As in the United States, all are treating these inquiries as if they were state secrets.
Excellent article by Blair Fix.
Katherine
What I never see mentioned is the fact that since Bush declared the “War On Terror” the USA is oficially in a state of WAR. The juridical consequence of this is that a president as chief of staff can basically bomb or invade any country without needing approval from congress —– Second, using the term “Conspiracy Theory” the word conspiracy always associated with theory, they are 2 very distinct, different words….. At the time I have made many comments comparing 9/11 with Pearl Harbour, to me it was not a terrorist attack, all very well prepared, took 3 days for Bush to publicly declare WAR. Last, I do not see mentioned that the USA is not a sovereign country, factually, with this I mean financialy and politically in the hands of foreign elements. The FED sceme, intelligence agencies, they call it “DeepState” Kennedy declared publicly to expose them and was assasinated within a matter of weeks, but having already created the silver backed dollar away from the FED so they had to kill Bobby too. I do not know what it will take for the american people to get their country in order, for the rest, this book is not original, no new details so far.
I am a simple guy. Keep it simple stupid is my motto. I appreciate the details which seem to be abundant. However, am I missing the enormously important factor, Operation Gladio?
Michael Ruppert, a pallet of his book, crossing the Rubicon, his attorney tried to get sales for Michael’s needs to continue life. I was at one of Michael’s first presentations, Portland, OR, and he opened my eyes, wide. His attorney assured Michael committed suicide, I still wonder .. after Michael Hastings’ “suicide”, his book “Runaway General”. The Bush Family do not appear to be in the dynamics of politics as they were deeply enmeshed, hmmm. JFK was about the power of US Constitutional Money creation. Follow the Money, cui bono? China a long time, recovered from the Opium War/s. World War “C” did not (nor did GWOT) fool China. Russia has been quite astute since it was raped. Iran also knows the Agenda “Grand Chessboard.” Clearly the time is not exactly an enlightenment, or is it? Israelis are getting how Palestine suffers. Well, no worries the Zionists in control of the largest Israeli nuclear power, got everything under control. I keep Book of the Hopi, Frank Waters, at my bedside. Thanks, Saker, as always!
I read crossing the Rubicon ages ago. The Yellow brick road to 911 was paved with neocon horseshit and with reality challenged losers in charge in Washington the multipolar world is certain to win.
Pepe, Is Lulu going to put the B back in RIC?
And then there is the climate change aspect to all of this for as I have stated on this blog many times climate change is about Divine Communication and not this nonsense of industrial pollution. 2 excellent examples of this is first the shocking news report I watched on TV of a lady news-reporter reporting about a terrifying thunder hailstorm hitting the city of Boston and especially the stadium during some game i don’t remember what. What I do remember is the look of shock and dismay on her face as she read the report. The storm was so severe that there was pandemonium in the stadium. The entire game came to an end with people fleeing their seats for cover scared and terrified from the thunder, rain and hail pelting the place. She had to glance at the report on her desk a couple of times and was so flabbergasted by it she was rendered silent and in awe at it. She didn’t know what to make of it really. I however, knew something wasn’t right, that something had got the attention of God. I knew it was God given the enormous amount of teaching on the subject of climate change within the Bible. Why I kept asking myself why would God do something like this? I got my answer three days later as I watched in disbelief the towers come down. Boston get it? Boston? You see there is a pattern to what is happening with the weather.
The second was that Icestorm of the Century which shut down the Eastern Seaboard of the US in late 1998 -1999. That Icestorm was unbelievable. I doubt very few people will ever forget it, everything covered with so much ice and frozen solid. After 9/11 it got me thinking back in reflection and asking a different set of questions about that very icestorm and guess what? You will find in the bible the explanation of that very icestorm in Job 37:5–13.
“God’s voice thunders in marvellous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding. He says to the snow, “Fall on the earth,” and to the rain shower, “Be a mighty downpour.” So that everyone he has made may know his work, he stops all people from their labor. The animals take cover; they remain in their dens. The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen. He loads the clouds with moisture; he scatters his lightning through them. At his direction they swirl around over the face of the whole earth to do whatever he commands them. He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.” (Job 37:5–13)
Note the words:
‘he stops every man from his labor’
‘The tempest comes out from its chamber, the cold from the driving winds. The breath of God produces ice, and the broad waters become frozen.’
‘He brings the clouds to punish people, or to water his earth and show his love.’
This is all too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence.
It is actually quite frightening because what this informs really is a question of grave concern. Were these planners up to something far more sinister like wanting the towers down much much sooner? Doesn’t it make sense given that rental truck bombing and the Oklahoma bombing which i figure was all connected in some way. The arrival of the millennium though one must figure changed the timetable really otherwise the entire Middle East would be glowing red yes or no?
Can you imagine the party of the ages turned to ash?
So yep, ‘he stops every man from his labor’ and that certainly was the case wasn’t it?
Think well on the words:
“See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven? At that time his voice shook the earth, but now he has promised, “Once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” The words “once more” indicate the removing of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that what cannot be shaken may remain.
Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our “God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:25–29)
And so imagine God following them around so to speak. Bad angry weather should cause one and all to seek for answers in the sin nature of mankind not this bullcarp of industrial pollution.
Now there’s a ‘healthy corrective” for you!
Until people learn about PNAC & the original neocon (& jew) wolfowitz doctrine, they will not understand what is going on, and which is still continuing today in the Donbass and ukraine.
9-11=American Reichstag Fire.
The purpose of this false flag terror attack?
Financial profiteering, creation of a domestic police state (Patriot Act and Homeland Security Department), but also something else…
To launch America’s (fake) War on Terrorism–which in reality is a war for American world domination.
Since the end of the first Cold War, America has been plotting and planning to expand its Unipolar World Order (aka American world empire) to the farthest reaches of the planet and, more importantly, prevent the rise of any nation or group of nations that could eventually challenge America’s sole superpower status.
As Zbig. Brzezinski states in his work _The Grand Chessboard_, the key to American world dominance is to specifically prevent the rise of a *Eurasian* rival that can challenge American Full Spectrum Dominance of the planet.
Hence, the importance of invading Afghanistan and Central Asia as part of these American imperial ambitions and its Project for a New American Century (PNAC).
This war on terrorism is bogus
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/sep/06/september11.iraq
Bush planned Iraq “regime change” before becoming President
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12768368.bush-planned-iraq-regime-change-before-becoming-president/
U.S. STRATEGY PLAN CALLS FOR INSURING NO RIVALS DEVELOP
https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/08/world/us-strategy-plan-calls-for-insuring-no-rivals-develop.html
Manifesto for world dictatorship
https://www.smh.com.au/national/manifesto-for-world-dictatorship-20020922-gdfnoj.html
Were 1998 Memos a Blueprint for War?
https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=128491&page=1
John Pilger reveals the American plan: a new Pearl Harbour
https://www.newstatesman.com/node/192545
“A sample of Schall’s work, already published by The Saker blog, is this interview on 9/11 terror trading.”
Excellent interview.
Schall is admirably relentlessness.
Katherine
Read Lars Schall’s book, then read:
• FREE book 9/11 UNVEILED
• NIXON’s foreign policy advisor: “best short summary”
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There is only one book to read on the 9/11 event and that’s
WHERE DID THE TOWERS GO ?
By Dr. Judy Wood B.S. M.S. Ph.D
The best book of the 21st Century by far.
ISBN-13: 978-0-615-41256-6
ISBN-10: 0615412564
Thanks for the work you do! Is this book available in English?
Claire
I will be trying to get hold of these books in English as soon as possible, they both sound very interesting!
I have also enjoyed the Great chat’s on here, never heard so many intelligent people discussing serious issues, as someone said everyone in the world walks around living their lives with their eyes wide shut !!! All wars are money makers and not only was 9/11 a terrible day for Murders but it was a day that changed the World forever!
Look at today and the scam that is Sars-cov-2 and the Billions being made and the destruction of peoples Liberty and loss of their businesses……..WW1, WW2, Vietnam, Oklahoma Bombing, 9/11. Anthrax Attacks, 7/7 London, Madrid Bombings………JFK, RFK, MLK, Dorothy Kilgallen, Lennon……it goes on and on…….not to mention the Energy weapon used on 9/11, the world wide Free Energy Cover up and the Murders of Dr. Eugene Mallove, Michael Zebuhr and the amazing inventor Stanley Meyer…..all killed to cover up cold fusion or
FREE ENERGY!
Peace and Love to you all.