Lecture 7: Micro Origin of 911 (II) – American Conspiracy Theory

-- “Real Conspiracy” Vs “American Crisis Management”

19th February 2003 (Wednesday)

Structure of Lecture 7: Logic of Conspiracy Theories

Types of Conspiracy Theories:

“True Believers” and the “Quasi Believers” Motivations of the American Conspiracy in 911 “Evidence” of the True Believers Counter-evidence against the True Believers Conclusion – Our Stand

PART ILogic of Conspiracy Theories

Origin of Conspiracy Theories

Why are there Conspiracy Theories? De-legitimization of Official History

“Trusted History” Vs “Wild History” “Unanswered Questions” in Official

Documents (Deaths/ Mistakes/ Money)

Ancient Palace Politics Yongzheng Dynasty (1722-1735)

The Bottom-up Logic

Assessing the Victors, instead of Victims From Victims to Victors “V-V Logic”

Who are the Victors? Those gained power after the incident (e.g. Bush) Those gained money after the incident (e.g. Military) Those escaped from punishment after the incident

(e.g. Israel)

“Classic Conspiracies”

A Proven History: Imperial Japan & Manchurian

Crisis (1931) An Unproven History:

USA & Pearl Harbor Incident (1941)

Conspiracy of Other Natures

The “Moon Conspiracy” of the US Government and the Aliens

Types of Believers of the 911 Conspiracy

“Quasi-believers”: USA did not plan the whole plot Conspired to the unexpected incident Excellent Crisis Management e.g. anti-war scholars (Noam Chomsky)

“Genuine Believers”: USA planned the whole plot Top-secret: only the few planners know e.g. spy-novel writers (Thierry Meyssan: 911 The Big Lie)

Assigned Readings

Main Text: Noam Chomsky: “Who Are the Global Terrorists?” (B&D P.128-137)

Supplementary Text: Desmond Ball: “Desperately Seeking Bin

Laden: The Intelligence Dimension of the War Against Terrorism.” (B&D P.60-73).

Steve Smith: “Unanswered Questions.” (B&D P.48-59)

Thierry Meyssan: 911 The Big Lie

PART IIMotivations of American

Conspiracy in 911

Deficiencies of Pre-911 World Order

Cold War: Bipolarity Post-Cold War:

Uni-polarity? But what if Multi-polarity?

Potential Rivals: Rising Power: China, European Union, Japan Contained Power: Russia Unexpected Power: Osama Bin Laden

Economic Conspiracies

The Oil Scramble The Iraqi Oil Fields

The Natural Gas Scramble Discovery of Caspian Sea Gas

Fields – the New Middle East Natural Gas Pipe:

Uzbekistan Afghanistan Iran Iraq Turkey (Black Sea)

Alienation from Russia Deposition of Taliban in

Afghanistan

The Natural Gas Plan

Personal Ambition

The Psychological Freudian Analysis

George W Bush The Fraternity Youth Legacy from George Bush Sr. Shadow of Governor Jeb Bush

The 2000 Presidential Election

Yale Tri-centenary Speech

“If you are graduating with A, well done. However, if you are graduating with C+, you are even better, because you can be the American president. Even if you dropped out, you can still be the vice-president.”

-- President George W Bush (2001)

PART III Evidence of the True Believers?

Intelligence “Carelessness”

Ignored Warnings before 911? Annual Reports of Federal Aviation Administration (19

99-2000) Centenary Warning at LAX Airport (2000) Independence Day Warning against US Airports (200

1) “The 20th Hijacker”

Desmond Ball: “The Intelligence Dimension of the War Against Terrorism.”

Steve Smith: “Unanswered Questions”

Iron Triangle: the Source of American Conspiracies

Military Plan against Iraq since Gulf War (1990) “Iron Triangle” in US Politics

Military (weapon makers) Industrial (millionaires who need fuel) Executive (make decisions on war)

Why they conspired to make wars? Distribution of Iraqi Oil Fields among US Industrial

Complex Mass Production of US Weapons Funding from Military and Industrial to the Republican

Party

The JFK Case

Assassination of President John F Kennedy (1963) “Unanswered Questions”:

The Lone Murderer and the “Magic Bullet” The Cover-ups; Murder of the Murderer

Oliver Stone: JFK “Victors”?

President Lyndon Johnson Military-Industrial-Executive Complex The Ones Escalated the Vietnam War

PART IV Counter-Evidence against the

True Believers

Economic Balance Sheet

Economic Losses: The Whole World Trade Tower Wall Street Stock Market Insurance Industry Aviation Industry Auditing Industry Chain Effect, Worldwide Economy

Total: Direct Loss of US$33-36 billions What are the gains?!

Bureaucratic Politics

Federal Government: Departments, Commissions, Advisors… Regional Government, Legislature, Judiciary…

Decision-making Process: Separation of Power

Check and Balance System: Easy Leaking of Information

The Real “Accountability System”: Why do you take the risk?

PART V Conclusion – “Sometimes

Naïve. I’m Angry!”

Blind-spots of the ConspiracyLogics: the Tautology

When you’re the gainer, conspiracies are almost impossible to be proven

But when you become the loser of the situation, there will always be conspiracies to be made against you…

Precedence of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the “Dreamland of Conspiracies”

Usage of the Conspiracy Theory

Alienation between Allied-members and between a united nation

Interests of Readers Money of Writers

Joined-interest of Re-writers!

Position of the Course:America as a Superb Crisis Manager

Iraqi Crisis and the “Saddam-Laden Link” Against Real Conspiracy Believer: why didn’t attack Ir

aq from the first place? “Quasi-Conspiracy Believer:

911 is a surprise to America, their instant response is to revenge, to revenge against the real planner as they believe, Osama Bin Laden.

When time flies, the Americans are aware of the situation become very advantageous to them, so they make use of the whole situation to expand its power in the regions that it wanted to expand for decades.

The Latest Bin Laden Prophecy (Feb 2003)

“It is clear that the preparations to attack Iraq are part of a series of attacks prepared for nations of the region including Syria, Iran, Egypt and Sudan”…

“The aim of the Crusaders’ campaign is to prepare the atmosphere for the establishment of the so-called greater Israel state, which includes great parts of Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Jordan and large portions of (Saudi Arabia)”…

~~The End~~

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