Please help to get 45,000 New York City signatures by September for a referendum on the November ballot to create a new, independent Commission with subpoena power.  Because this is a citizens' ballot-initiative campaign, the Commission would be legally recognized.  Its primary purpose would be to REINVESTIGATE 9/11 and to attend to the plight of the First Responders.  Direct your New York City friends to www.nyc911initiative.org, where they can learn more.  Also read New York Magazine's "Intelligencer" write-up here.


30,000 ACTS OF PATRIOTISM!
Update: The minimum of 30,000 signatures WERE obtained by tireless NYC activists, and here's the stack of 30,000 acts of patriotism on the part of those who signed.  See the NYC Initiative website for more details.

We weren't going to say anything, but now we're just going to ask.  A new book has just come out called "The Shell Game," heavily promoted by many in the 9/11 movement as a boon to our cause, and, amazingly, this book hit the NY Times bestseller list having barely reached the stores!  How?  The 9/11 movement was urged by its author and publicity team to rush out and buy copies ($27 each) and promote the book like crazy to "everyone you know." In addition, as publishers who decide to create a bestseller often do, dozens of free copies were mailed to 9/11 Truth organizers and participants (including the bigwigs).  Many admitted that they had not read the book, but were promoting it because they were told to create a buzz.  Some began to read the book and stopped after a few chapters because "it was LIHOP."  Others made it all the way through and decided it was "not that bad."  Many did not seem to know quite why they were promoting it, other than that the author was linking from his website to 9/11 websites.

What is "The Shell Game" all about?  Read one 9/11 Truther's review here.  While this is a very fair and balanced review, giving Mr. Alten credit for trying to "impact a certain audience which 9/11 Truth might not otherwise reach," of note is the fact that the book altogether dodges the issue of the controlled demolition of the Twin Towers and Building 7, which is what most 9/11 Truthers believe themselves to be all about.  In addition, Mr. Alten [blames] 9/11 on a combination of the Neocons and their Arab patsies, without explaining how the Neocons got there in the first place and/or who the "Arabs" really are.  A study of the origins of false-flag terror will give you the answers, but they are not in Mr. Alten's book.

Quote from the jacket: "Though the novel is written as fiction, it is filled with all-too-real details provided by insiders in the oil industry, military and Middle Eastern affairs that extrapolates (sic) real events from the past and present that will lead us down a path of self-destruction ... unless we stop the insanity now!"  What this means is up for grabs.  Real events "will lead us down a path of self-destruction" (a prediction? and how?) "unless we stop this insanity" (whose?) now!

Full of diatribes on peak oil, global warming and Islamic fundamentalism, paging through "The Shell Game" feels a bit like surfing TV.  Also, if Joe Public rushes to read the book because it's on the bestseller list (thanks to 9/11 Truthers), and then learns from 9/11 websites that the buildings were brought down by explosives, will he believe the Arabs put the bombs in the buildings??  Where are the perps?  Not in Mr. Alten's book.

In the first week of February, Mr. Alten's book fell from 31st on the NYT bestseller list to 33rd place.  He dispatched a frantic email to 9/11 Truthers imploring them to buy more books to help him get a movie deal.  "This movie deal would pay me a million dollars (and I desperately need the deal) and here I am risking it all ... my career, my deal with [my] producer ... all to reach the masses on Shell Game so that America can hear the truth about 9/11." What truth?, and join the club, Bub.  We'd all love a million-dollar movie deal.  Alten again is urging Truthers to "buy as many copies of The Shell Game as [you] can afford, but at least one each week for two weeks."  He needs to get on The Daily Show, Anderson Cooper and Letterman!  And, he says, "the difference between #33 and #15 [on the NYT bestseller list] is about 12,000 sales in a week."

So, folks, should we push even harder for Steve?  He got a free marketing force from us already, and now he wants more.  Will the public translate LIHOP into MIHOP from a menu of Muslim-bashing and peak oil?  From page 121: "Oil fuels the economy, the economy fuels the military, and it was a combination of all three that gave birth to the three groups vying for control of the Middle East: the House of Saud, the Neo-Conservatives and the Islamic extremists.  All three played a part in the events of 9/11, and all three will be involved when a nuclear detonation wipes out an American city."  Fair and balanced?  You decide.