Weekend Open Thread

by | Jul 16, 2016 | Articles | 18 comments

Before-After-Meme-finalby The Corbett Report community
July 16, 2016

I thought I’d use the slow news days of the mid-summer doldrums to take a weekend off writing the newsletter. “What could possibly happen on a weekend in July?” I thought. Boy did I time that one wrong.

First we had the Nice attack on Thursday night. The body count continues to climb, with 84 now confirmed dead and others still in critical condition. Meanwhile, France has entered three days of mourning (or is that Hollande’s three days of celebration for the extension of the state of emergency?) even as the official story has yet to settle on whether this was the work of an ISIS operative or a non-religious petty thug who liked to drink alcohol, eat pork and take drugs.

But then just when it seemed this weekend’s headlines were going to be dominated by the events in Nice, elements of the Turkish military had to go and attempt a coup to oust Erdogan. Now this won’t be a surprise to Corbett Reporteers; I wrote a newsletter editorial about the possibility of a Turkish coup last December and interviewed Sibel Edmonds about it shortly thereafter. But still, the dramatic events in Ankara are going to have repercussions throughout the entire region in the days and weeks ahead.

And in case you missed it (which you probably did), guess what was quietly released while all of this commotion was happening? The 28 pages! Yes, after much ballyhoo in the corporate media by the likes of 9/11 suspect Bob Graham and others, that limited hangout distraction was finally released to the public. Now we can all say: “Look, there was a 9/11 conspiracy, and the Saudis were behind it!” But I allow my cynicism to get ahead of me. Read the 28 pages for yourself and tell me what you think: Is this a limited hangout with no real new info? Or is this like the Chilcot report, a situation where we should be happy for what we have rather than angry about what we don’t?

Yes, there is an awful lot to parse through this weekend. So, dear subscribers, let me know your own thoughts in the comments below. What’s on your mind today?

18 Comments

  1. Yes! It is the only way. Turn off our tv’s and ignore them, because by giving them our attention, we’re helping them destroy us. I’m in Colorado, and the peace is palpable. Very little drama, and absolutely no mess. If we do this right, and watch them destroy themselves by staying out of the way, we’ll all be better off for it!
    Peace!

  2. Big questions are swirling around in my mind about the upcoming Republican and Democratic conventions in the U.S. With the events of the last five weeks both here and in France, it seems these conventions are too tasty an opportunity to be ignored by the Powers That Shouldn’t Be.

    I’m greatly heartened by the Libertarian surge and coverage in this election, however. Now even Fox and CNN are chiming in and giving Johnson and Weld attention. And they’re moving closer to the magic 15% in the polls that would get them into the presidential debates. There’s also a growing sense that more people in the U.S. are beginning to get wise to these endless false flag events. These are good things to see, hear and contemplate. I hope that two weeks from now the conventions have ended with nothing major or catastrophic.

  3. On the 28 pages: if one is awake to the implausibility of the official 9/11/2001 account the release will most likely been seen as a limited hangout but with the possibility that others somehow still asleep may begin questioning this and what else is redacted from public discourse. For those who cling, for whatever personal reason, to the official story this will be seen as the final word on the matter; which is the intent of the authorities. Why the American authorities have not pushed for reparations or even war with Arabia will either be asked by those just awakening or ignored by those afraid to awaken. The rest of us know why not.

    On the Erdogan coup attempt my immediate thoughts were that if the Americans had not given the instruction or permission for this attempt, or had given a “Kuwaiti go ahead” to flush out all the conspirators, then this coup would fail. Erdogan and the Empire have very sensitive dealings, mostly centered around the Incirlik air base, for such a rash rush to replace the Turk regime without tell tales fluttering in the wind in the lead up. This made me discount that the coup attempt was other than that of amateurs.

    On the tragic attack in Nice France the bogeyman has raised his hand again and as always strikes at the ‘cannon fodder’ rather than the policy makers who have created all the chaos, death and destruction. Need we say more? Other than that the demented souls that commit these atrocities are in league with the Devil who orchestrates such events to further the Devils agenda on many fronts and levels simultaneously. If Islamist nations were running this world hegemony operation then it would be Christian radical fundamentalists committing these acts of murder. The time worn phrase of “know your enemy” comes to mind. Hopefully someday soon the table can be turned on these Devils that plague human kind. Speaking of which I haven’t heard how the “Day of Rage” played out for the on going division of the American people, again along this time worn fault line in that society that proves ever so useful.

  4. Good one Teresa ; I’ve been cycling, weather permitting, and studying the beginnings of the Silk Road in two fascinating texts — John E. Hill’s fabuluous commentary on the Western Regions chapter of the Hou Hanshu, and Joseph Yap’s translations from the amazing, encyclopaedic, Zizhi tongjian such as pertained to the Han wars with the Xiongnu. Yap is a businessman rather than an academic and his English is awful by academic standards ; however not so awful that you can’t understand exactly what he means. For this reason his work is exceedingly charming, and I wouldn’t want to see a single word changed now, so I hope he doesn’t do a revised edition(!). He also chooses texts which have never been rendered in English before. A good man in a pretty good world, give or take a handful of political & financier psychos. Hollande should be exiled to Holland, or better still the Dogger Bank.

    • Hi Teresa,

      my god these days is electric, or the EU (Electric Universe) cosmology which has rapidly supplanted the old gravitational model in the last decade or so. The main organized group pushing all this is here, at least for starters ;
      wwww.thunderbolts.info
      You only need to recall the profoundly electric characteristics of the structure of atoms to realize that they must be on to the real thing.

      Joseph Yap’s excerpts from Zizhi tongjian are grindingly political and military, though interesting enough to me for present purposes. A much better rounded and really profound resource in terms of transmitting Chinese historical culture to English speaking audiences is Victor Mair’s Sino-Platonic Papers series. Now nearly 300 volumes, ranging from 10 page articles to full blown theses of 300-500 pages.
      These used to be pricey(!) but Victor is now digitizing the whole corpus, most of which is now free to download ;
      http://www.sino-platonic.org/

      As for John Hill on the Hou Hanshu excerpt, I’m not sure really how to summarize the most amazing wholistic record of the Silk Road in every political cultural physical and geographic aspect imaginable. Its a peerless reconstruction of human experience and ancient trade by a guy with a background in virology and nursing . . .

      pax equidem

  5. The Rys video identifying most of the perpetrators includes a lot of original footage of the impacts ; in particular the flash from beneath the aircraft immediately before the second impact (proving the ignition of an on-board explosive device) is shown with live footage from three or four different angles.
    It’s somewhere on youtube, but not easy to find because usually blocked/banned a few days after being posted. But Rys or associates keep on reposting.

  6. barry2,
    Hope some of these links help…

    “9/11 Exposed” (2nd Edition) is an excellent film to introduce people to the topic of 9/11, but because of time contraints it does not get into the nanothermite.
    –> It contains eyewitness testimony of the first plane impact.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXRDq9nKJ0U

    This 15 minute video talks about the nanothermite.
    “Architects and Engineers: Solving the Mystery of Building 7 – w/ Ed Asner”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nyogTsrsgI

    Our North Texas group will soon have an online ad in 14 suburban newspapers reaching hundreds of thousands which links the above Ed Asner video.
    Last September 2015, our group had a local University of Texas online ad which linked to the astounding 5 minute CORBETTREPORT “Official 9/11 Story” – (Link to the Corbett Ad at the bottom of this article http://911blogger.com/news/2016-06-28/full-page-911-truth-ad-texas-newspaper )
    “9/11: A Conspiracy Theory” – CorbettReport – 5 minutes
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuC_4mGTs98

    “Witnessing 9/11: Explosions & Explosives” (15 minutes) by Platos Cave is a must see.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTxVIHBRJkw

    This Resource has original NEWS Reports – Prolific – It would take weeks to view all of them.
    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l6Ia1HNWRQffsBAuiPZBHWFfU0ndxz98TMCL_-uCB8Y/edit?pli=1#gid=1737512439

    Another prolific TV footage Resource
    http://www.911conspiracy.tv/

    Encyclopedia (9/11)
    http://911encyclopedia.com/wiki/index.php/World_Trade_Center_Demolition

    Searching “911blogger” with keywords will sometimes provide you with sourced information on the topic you are seeking.

    • Wow, many thanks HRS for such great resources.

      I’ve only got Rys downloaded, and I couldn’t link to it even if I wanted since the focus is directly on who dunnit and why, and every link I’ve saved rapidly gets broken.
      I mean Rys’s FLV vid entitled : “9-11 False Flag Conspiracy – Finally Solved (Names, Connections, Motivations)” runtime 43:28

  7. Well, he may have the same identity, but it’s certainly not the same face.

  8. What’s on my mind today, is that:

    – during the current State of Emergency in France, a relative of mine was stopped two or three times by the police, while driving through that country, for the simple reason of having a foreign license plate, had his car searched, and was asked several questions, including indiscretions like why had he decided to make his trip – while, on the other hand, the terrorist in Nice, who had a police record, was let pass through a police checkpoint, with the simple excuse of going to deliver ice-creams, and didn’t have his truck searched.

    – and, all of this, after al-Qaeda/ISIS had called for this specific type of attacks: http://www.businessinsider.com/isis-al-qaeda-car-attacks-nice-france-2016-7 (Wasn’t the police aware of this? And, especially during the supposed State of Emergency, declared after a series of terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda/ISIS?)

    – also, this recurrent situation of attacks being committed by people who had psychiatric/psychological treatments, reminds me of what Daniel Estulin (whose credibility can be proven for having, among other things, warned of the recent coup d’etat attempt in Turkey months before it happened – https://twitter.com/estulindaniel/status/673775613367439360) talks about, concerning the Tavistock Institute, of people who can be literally brainwashed, by specialists in “mental control” belonging to secret societies, under the disguise of receiving psychiatric/psychological treatment.

  9. Regarding the 28 pages pretty much a dud. We have been given spotty evidence as to the actual identities of the hijackers, only one video provided without airport ID,a hijacker still alive and conveniently left behind passports and wills, yet the report talks of them as the actual hijackers. Veils upon veils. The report is presented as inconclusive despite a preponderance of connections. Most interesting is the mention of ongoing investigations after 2002 to resolve this. What happened to them?

  10. Well, it’s Day 2 of the Republican National Convention, and even Madonna could not have made a more Grand Entrance!!!

    “Oh what a Circus, oh what a show”
    —Evita

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_v1FwosV_U – Video Tube for YouTube – iPhone/iPad

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