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What's the REAL Risk from Terrorism?
Preface: Bad government policy has increased the level of terrorism. And corruption in our security agencies has allowed attacks to succeed which should have been stopped.
Even so, the levels of terrorism are still much lower than many assume. Government officials and counter-terror experts may hype the terror threat to promote their agendas. But - as shown below - your risk of being killed in a terror attack is actually much lower than being killed by virtually any other cause.
Daniel Benjamin – the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the United States Department of State from 2009 to 2012 – noted in January (at 10:22):
The total number of deaths from terrorism in recent years has been extremely small in the West. And the threat itself has been considerably reduced. Given all the headlines people don’t have that perception; but if you look at the statistics that is the case.
Time Magazine noted in 2013 that the chance of dying in a terrorist attack in the United States from 2007 to 2011, according to Richard Barrett - coordinator of the United Nations al Qaeda/Taliban Monitoring Team - was 1 in 20 million.
Let's look at specific numbers ...
The U.S. Department of State reports that only 17 U.S. citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2011.* That figure includes deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq and all other theaters of war.
In contrast, the American agency which tracks health-related issues – the U.S. Centers for Disease Control – rounds up the most prevalent causes of death in the United States:
Comparing the CDC numbers to terrorism deaths means:
– You are 35,079 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack
– You are 33,842 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack
- You are 4,311 times more likely to die from diabetes than from a terrorist attack
- You are 3,157 times more likely to die from flu or pneumonia than from a terrorist attack
- You are 2,091 times more likely to die from blood poisoning than from a terrorist attack
- You are 1,064 times more likely to die as your lungs swell up after your food or beverage goes down the wrong pipe
(Keep in mind when reading this entire piece that we are consistently and substantially understating the risk of other causes of death as compared to terrorism, because we are comparing deaths from various causes within the United States against deaths from terrorism worldwide.)
Wikipedia notes that obesity is a a contributing factor in 100,000–400,000 deaths in the United States per year. That makes obesity 5,882 to 23,528 times more likely to kill you than a terrorist.
The annual number of deaths in the U.S. due to avoidable medical errors is as high as 100,000. Indeed, one of the world’s leading medical journals – Lancet – reported in 2011:
A November, 2010, document from the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services reported that, when in hospital, one in seven beneficiaries of Medicare (the government-sponsored health-care programme for those aged 65 years and older) have complications from medical errors, which contribute to about 180 000 deaths of patients per year.
That’s just Medicare beneficiaries, not the entire American public. Scientific American noted in 2009:
Preventable medical mistakes and infections are responsible for about 200,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, according to an investigation by the Hearst media corporation.
And a new study in the Journal of Patient Safety says the numbers may be up to 440,000 each year. But let’s use the lower – 100,000 – figure. That still means that you are 5,882 times more likely to die from medical error than terrorism.
The CDC says that some 80,000 deaths each year are attributable to excessive alcohol use. So you’re 4,706 times more likely to drink yourself to death than die from terrorism.
Approximately 38,329 Americans die each year from drug overdoses. That's 2,255 times more than from terrorists.
Wikipedia notes that there were 32,367 automobile accidents in 2011, which means that you are 1,904 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack. As CNN reporter Fareed Zakaria wrote last year:
“Since 9/11, foreign-inspired terrorism has claimed about two dozen lives in the United States. (Meanwhile, more than 100,000 have been killed in gun homicides and more than 400,000 in motor-vehicle accidents.) “
President Obama agreed.
According to a 2011 CDC report, poisoning from prescription drugs is even more likely to kill you than a car crash. Indeed, the CDC stated in 2011 that – in the majority of states – your prescription meds are more likely to kill you than any other source of injury. So your meds are thousands of times more likely to kill you than Al Qaeda.
The financial crisis has also caused quite a few early deaths. The Guardian reported in 2008:
High-income countries such as the UK and US could see a 6.4% surge in deaths from heart disease, while low-income countries could experience a 26% rise in mortality rates.
Since there were 596,339 deaths from heart disease in the U.S. in 2011 (see CDC table above), that means that there are approximately 38, 165 additional deaths a year from the financial crisis ... and Americans are 2,245 times more likely to die from a financial crisis that a terrorist attack.
Financial crises cause deaths in other ways, as well. For example, the poverty rate has skyrocketed in the U.S. since the 2008 crash. For example, the poverty rate in 2010 was the highest in 17 years, and more Americans numerically were in poverty as of 2011 than for more than 50 years. Poverty causes increased deaths from hunger, inability to pay for heat and shelter, and other causes. (And - as mentioned below - suicides have skyrocketed recently; many connect the increase in suicides to the downturn in the economy.)
The number of deaths by suicide has also surpassed car crashes. Around 35,000 Americans kill themselves each year (and more American soldiers die by suicide than combat; the number of veterans committing suicide is astronomical and under-reported). So you’re 2,059 times more likely to kill yourself than die at the hand of a terrorist.
The CDC notes that there were 7,638 deaths from HIV and 45 from syphilis, so you’re 452 times more likely to die from risky sexual behavior than terrorism. (That doesn't include death by autoerotic asphyxiation ... discussed below.)
The National Safety Council reports that more than 6,000 Americans die a year from falls … most of them involve people falling off their roof or ladder trying to clean their gutters, put up Christmas lights and the like. That means that you’re 353 times more likely to fall to your death doing something idiotic than die in a terrorist attack.
The same number - 6,000 - die annually from texting or talking on the cellphone while driving. So you're 353 times more likely to meet your maker while lol'ing than by terrorism.
The agency in charge of workplace safety – the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration – reports that 4,609 workers were killed on the job in 2011 within the U.S. homeland. In other words, you are 271 times more likely to die from a workplace accident than terrorism.
Approximately 4,000 Americans drown each year ... 235 times more than from terror attacks.
The CDC notes that 3,177 people died of “nutritional deficiencies” in 2011, which means you are 187 times more likely to starve to death in American than be killed by terrorism.
About 2,200 Americans die each year from acute alcohol poisoning (i.e. extreme binge drinking) ... 129 times more than from terror attacks.
Some 2,000 Americans die each year from heat or cold. That's 118 times more than from terrorism.
Approximately 1,000 Americans die each year from autoerotic asphyxiation. So you're 59 times more likely to kill yourself doing weird, kinky things than at the hands of a terrorist.
There were an average of 928 Americans killed by police officers in the United States each year in "justifiable homicides". That means that you were more than 55 times more likely to be killed by a law enforcement officer than by a terrorist. That number does not include unjustifiable homicides.
Some 411 Americans are electrocuted each year ... 24 times more than die from terrorism.
Nearly 400 Americans die each year due to drug allergies from penicillin. More than 200 deaths occur each year due to food allergies. Nearly 100 Americans die due to insect allergies. And 10 deaths each year are due to severe reactions to latex. See this. There are many other types of allergies, but that totals 710 deaths each year from just those four types of allergies alone ... making it 42 times more likely that you'll die from an allergic reaction than from a terror attack.
Some 450 Americans die each year when they fall out of bed, 26 times more than are killed by terrorists.
Scientific American notes:
You might have toxoplasmosis, an infection caused by the microscopic parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which the CDC estimates has infected about 22.5 percent of Americans older than 12 years old
Toxoplasmosis is a brain-parasite. The CDC reports that more than 375 Americans die annually due to toxoplasmosis. In addition, 3 Americans died in 2011 after being exposed to a brain-eating amoeba. So you’re about 22 times more likely to die from a brain-eating zombie parasite than a terrorist.
Around 34 Americans a year are killed by dog bites ... around twice as many as by terrorists.
The 2011 Report on Terrorism from the National Counter Terrorism Center notes that Americans are just as likely to be “crushed to death by their televisions or furniture each year” as they are to be killed by terrorists.
Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control show that Americans are 110 times more likely to die from contaminated food than terrorism. And see this.
The Jewish Daily Forward noted in May that – even including the people killed in the Boston bombing – you are more likely to be killed by a toddler than a terrorist. And see these statistics from CNN.
Reason notes:
[The risk of being killed by terrorism] compares annual risk of dying in a car accident of 1 in 19,000; drowning in a bathtub at 1 in 800,000; dying in a building fire at 1 in 99,000; or being struck by lightning at 1 in 5,500,000. In other words, in the last five years you were four times more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by a terrorist.
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) has just published, Background Report: 9/11, Ten Years Later [PDF]. The report notes, excluding the 9/11 atrocities, that fewer than 500 people died in the U.S. from terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2010.
Scientific American reported in 2011:
John Mueller, a political scientist at Ohio State University, and Mark Stewart, a civil engineer and authority on risk assessment at University of Newcastle in Australia ... contended, “a great deal of money appears to have been misspent and would have been far more productive—saved far more lives—if it had been expended in other ways.”
Mueller and Stewart noted that, in general, government regulators around the world view fatality risks—say, from nuclear power, industrial toxins or commercial aviation—above one person per million per year as “acceptable.” Between 1970 and 2007 Mueller and Stewart asserted in a separate paper published last year in Foreign Affairs that a total of 3,292 Americans (not counting those in war zones) were killed by terrorists resulting in an annual risk of one in 3.5 million. Americans were more likely to die in an accident involving a bathtub (one in 950,000), a home appliance (one in 1.5 million), a deer (one in two million) or on a commercial airliner (one in 2.9 million). [Let's throw a couple more fun facts into the mix ... The risk of choking to death on food is 1 in 4,404, and the risk of dying by falling out of furniture (including couches, chairs and beds) is 1 in 4,238. So you're almost a thousand times more likely to die from one of these rare causes of death than terrorism.]
The global mortality rate of death by terrorism is even lower. Worldwide, terrorism killed 13,971 people between 1975 and 2003, an annual rate of one in 12.5 million. Since 9/11 acts of terrorism carried out by Muslim militants outside of war zones have killed about 300 people per year worldwide. This tally includes attacks not only by al Qaeda but also by “imitators, enthusiasts, look-alikes and wannabes,” according to Mueller and Stewart.
Defenders of U.S. counterterrorism efforts might argue that they have kept casualties low by thwarting attacks. But investigations by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies suggest that 9/11 may have been an outlier—an aberration—rather than a harbinger of future attacks. Muslim terrorists are for the most part “short on know-how, prone to make mistakes, poor at planning” and small in number, Mueller and Stewart stated. Although still potentially dangerous, terrorists hardly represent an “existential” threat on a par with those posed by Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union.
In fact, Mueller and Stewart suggested in Homeland Security Affairs, U.S. counterterrorism procedures may indirectly imperil more lives than they preserve: “Increased delays and added costs at U.S. airports due to new security procedures provide incentive for many short-haul passengers to drive to their destination rather than flying, and, since driving is far riskier than air travel, the extra automobile traffic generated has been estimated to result in 500 or more extra road fatalities per year.”
The funds that the U.S. spends on counterterrorism should perhaps be diverted to other more significant perils, such as industrial accidents (one in 53,000), violent crime (one in 22,000), automobile accidents (one in 8,000) and cancer (one in 540). “Overall,” Mueller and Stewart wrote, “vastly more lives could have been saved if counterterrorism funds had instead been spent on combating hazards that present unacceptable risks.” In an e-mail to me, Mueller elaborated:
“The key question, never asked of course, is what would the likelihood be if the added security measures had not been put in place? And, if the chances without the security measures might have been, say, one in 2.5 million per year, were the trillions of dollars in investment (including overseas policing which may have played a major role) worth that gain in security—to move from being unbelievably safe to being unbelievably unbelievably safe? Given that al Qaeda and al Qaeda types have managed to kill some 200 to 400 people throughout the entire world each year outside of war zones since 9/11—including in areas that are far less secure than the U.S.—there is no reason to anticipate that the measures have deterred, foiled or protected against massive casualties in the United States. If the domestic (we leave out overseas) enhanced security measures put into place after 9/11 have saved 100 lives per year in the United States, they would have done so at a cost of $1 billion per saved life. That same money, if invested in a measure that saves lives at a cost of $1 million each—like passive restraints for buses and trucks—would have saved 1,000 times more lives.”
Mueller and Stewart’s analysis is conservative, because it excludes the most lethal and expensive U.S. responses to 9/11. Al Qaeda’s attacks also provoked the U.S. into invading and occupying two countries, at an estimated cost of several trillion dollars. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have resulted in the deaths of more than 6,000 Americans so far—more than twice as many as were killed on September 11, 2001—as well as tens of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans.
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In 2007 New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that people are more likely to be killed by lightning than terrorism. “You can’t sit there and worry about everything,” Bloomberg exclaimed. "Get a life."
Indeed, the Senior Research Scientist for the Space Science Institute (Alan W. Harris) estimates that the odds of being killed by a terrorist attack is about the same as being hit by an asteroid (and see this).
Terrorism pushes our emotional buttons. And politicians and the media tend to blow the risk of terrorism out of proportion. But as the figures above show, terrorism is a very unlikely cause of death.
Indeed, our spending on anti-terrorism measures is way out of whack ... especially because most of the money has been wasted. And see this article, and this 3-minute video by professor Mueller:
Indeed, mission creep in the name of countering terrorism actually makes us more vulnerable to actual terrorist attacks. And corrupt government policy is arguably more dangerous than terrorism.
Indeed, the terrorism deaths Americans have suffered were unnecessary ... and were largely due to corruption in our security agencies. And see this.
* Note: Subsequent official reports - published in 2012 and 2013 - show that even fewer Americans were killed by terrorists than in the previous year.
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Financial terrorism has killed millions and threatens global destruction.
"..investigations by the FBI.."
WTF to the max!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ummm.... the only investigation the FBI was successful at was proving they couldn't find their own vaginas, or their skanky butts when they were sitting on their hands!
Fully agree with q99x2 --- capitalism is the major ISM in the pyramid of 'isms!
Above fascism, and racism and all the other 'isms!
Remember the integration of Ole Miss during the JFK Administration and 37 US Marshals were wounded, yet not a single FBI feeb was hurt, because none of them were to be found as they had cowardly skedaddled into the surrounding environs!
When the FBI carted away the files of the murderer of Rabbi Kahane in NYC, among those files was the plan for 9/11!
When Kenneth Williams, Coleen Rowley and Harry Samit warned Frasca and Maltbie in the FBI's counter-terrorism unit of jihadis learning to only pilot Boeing jets at flight simulator school, and neither land nor take off, and in the agents' terminology, "...as if they were training to fly into the World Trade Center Towers..." the FBI once again behaved true to tradition and buried their skanky heads in the sand!
Or Saudi Arabian money?
And not a single so-called American whorescum newsy could be bothered to look into the relation between Alfreda Bikowsky Silverstein (the CIA jackhole who controlled the 9/11 script from beginning to end) and her husband, David Silverstein, and Shel Silverstein of Silverstein Properties, mortgage owner of record of the WTC Towers on 9/11/01!
When you consider the high likelyhood that 9/11 was an inside job to justify invasion of the Middle East, then the U.S. gov has wasted 100's of 1,000's of civilian lives, the lives of our troops, and over $4 Trillion of taxpayer money. Why the fuck can't we get to the bottom of this and reveal the "terrorism" meme for what it is; namely a tool to enrich the military/industrial complex and gain political power.
Suppose you're one to practice corporal punishment on your children. As right-minded as you are, you wouldn't wallop your 3 y.o. with the same force as a young teenager, right?
Let's take a parking ticket. In my town they're about $65+. For some, that's lunch for two, but for others, that's a weeks worth of groceries. "But the penalty is fair because everyone pays the same amount..."
The wealthy in my town have parking-spaces, garages and driveways. The average Joe parks on the street.
The economy here sucks for Joe-- you gotta have a car if you want to earn more than $10 an hour, as if you could even find a job you could walk to or find public transportation to. Joe's gotta have a car: without one, he's unemployed and soon living in a box under a bridge.
Joe often finds that the month outlasts his paychecks. A ticket might mean immediate hunger. Why's he got some politician telling him that he's got more to fear from some "terrorist" located in some desert half a world away?
When you got revenue rats gunning for you, sandpaper condoms and ghost-pepper lube at the ready, your reality is already a lot more sucky than what the fearmongers are telling you. But I guess it's their way of reminding you to not complain or grumble about a lack justice and fairness, and that things could always be worse.
How's about we try to understand the Big Picture of Financial Terroris --- the real terrorism?
The Dismantling of Amerika
Seattle is a perfect microcosm of their overall leveraged buyout/pump and dump of America by Wall Street.
Today, over 40% of the homes costing over $400,000 are purchased by mainland Chinese.
Back in the early '00s, the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, together with its affiliated Trade Alliance, gave seminars to locally based corporations on the most efficient way to offshore as many jobs as possible.
Now with all those jobs offshored to China, money flows back to Seattle and environs to pump up the real estate prices, including investments in local buildings for more condos downtown stemming from EB-5 investments (EB-5 is the visa aimed at rich Chinese, from those offshored jobs and investment and technology, which are paid for with investment in local real estate development).
Going by official government statistics and data, of the 280,000 jobs created last month, only 1,000 went to people born in America, with 279,000 going to foreign visa workers and undocumented workers, and although the data doesn't distinguish between the two groups, external data strongly suggests the majority goes to foreign visa workers, which have been flooded into this country since 2008, although their numbers have been steadily increasing over the past several decades!
As far as undocumented workers, they are hired, then frequently arrested and deported, with their jobs recycled again and again as "new jobs."
That's the process, that's the plan.
Beginning to understand now how the middle-class has been whittled down to next to nothing?
While this may be true for the masses... Where you work, what you do for a living and where you live can dramatically increase your odds
The REAL Risk from Terrorism comes from us allowing our politicians to succeed in using these tactics to completly revoke our last remaining RIGHTS, the very same RIGHTS that "our forefathers" fought and died for!
my advice: if you get mail from the pentagon don't open it.
Just mark it return to sender.
One by one we can and should take all the dogma out back and shoot them in the head. Twice just to be sure. Think for yourself dont let others lead you by the nose. Go with what you know not what you believe. There is a real differance between knowing and believing.
Look in the mirror and figure it out. Seperate the two in your head first.
What is 9 times larger than the Great Pyramid of Giza, which stood for 43 Centuries as the tallest building in the world?
The answer is the bagged nuclear waste of Japan / Fukushima
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/06/nuke-waste-in-japan-is-10-t...
Its interesting that the terrorist dont seem to ever do any real damage to the beast. They have never gone after a target that would not enable the beast to gain power. It is always to polerize/devide or prevent the consensus from forrming. They are counting on our dogmatic nature. We like our beliefs more than our knowing. Change that my friends and will we be heading in the right dirrection.
That is an awfully narrow definition of Terrorism. Who, after all, terrorizes the world the most, labels notwithstanding? War, DepletedUranium, EnhancedRadiationDevice, WhitePhosphorus, Anthrax, Drones, SpaceWeapons, PlumIsland, EconomicHitMen, Assassinations, CovertOps, DrugTraffic, PoppyFieldProtection, Invasion, PropagandaLies, Confiscations, PoliceBrutality, FalseFlag ..... Let me count the ways.
I totally agree, Earl, since your points were the same ones that I just made above.
Sadly, By Any Measure, the U.S. Is the Largest Sponsor of Terror
After one recognizes that the biggest terrorists were governments, and looks at the history of democides, then the risk of being killed by one's own government becoming criminally insane is significant! Considering that the government of the USA is more and more controlled by sociopathic psychopaths, which situation has been getting worse at about an exponential rate, it is arguable that the greatest of all threats to the American people, and the rest of the world's population, is what the government of the USA has become, namely a "shadow government," or "deep state," based upon the greatest ever system of being able to back up legalized lies with legalized violence, which has been jumping its guide rails, so that it no longer bothers to properly legalize doing that.
The government of the USA has become an oligarchically controlled, runaway fascist plutocracy juggernaut, advancing its agenda by building a fascist police state, which was always based upon being able to back up lies with violence. The public "money" supply was effectively privatized long ago, and since 1971 there has been a nearly perfect match of those debt slavery systems to an exponential growth curve of overall debts, which has driven its numbers to become debt insanities, whose magnitudes have nothing to be compared to in previous human history, because there has never before been anything that was remotely close to globalized systems of electronic frauds, backed by atomic bombs, which systems the government of the USA is the heart of, since the American Dollar is the global reserve currency, as backed by the American Military ... WHILE THAT SYSTEM ACTUALLY SERVES THE INTERERSTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS, NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GENERALLY.
The government of the USA has become almost totally controlled by layer after layer of more or less covertly organized crime, whose spectacular social successfulness through being able to back up lies with violence STILL SUFFERS FROM THE BASIC CONTRADICTION THAT BEING ABLE TO BACK UP LIES WITH VIOLENCE NEVER STOPS THOSE LIES FROM BEING FALSE, AND THEREFORE, THE MORE SOCIALLY SUCCESSFUL THE ESTABLISHED SYSTEMS OF ENFORCING FRAUDS BECOME, THE MORE CRIMINALLY INSANE AND PSYCHOTIC THAT ACTUALLY BECOMES!
In that context, the REAL risk of terrorism from the worst terrorists, namely, those who actually control the government of the USA, is extremely serious, and that risk is increasing at an exponential rate ... It is all too possible that the various genocidal wars based on deceits that the government of the USA has waged on behalf of the international bankers will come home to become democides within the USA.
As above, so below. &
As within, so without!
GW, you should not even mention 9-11 because `it was an inside job’.
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Yet another Washington's blog post regurgitaing the same thing and once again seemingly being done just to bring up 9/11 yet again. Terrorism is a cop-out excuse by governments. We get it.
If the writers at that site could live for 100 more years then you can be sure as shit they will still be bringing up 9/11 then.
Well, lo, since you are so enthralled with 9/11:
When the BCCI investigation reached closer to President Geo. H.W. Bush's White House back in the late '80s, early '90s, Bush appointed Robert Swan (Truesdale) Mueller III to be the chief of the DOJ's Criminal Division to manage the BCCI probe --- or more accurately, to deflect it away from the Bush administration and narrow the scope of the investigation.
Four days prior to 9/11/01, President Geo. W. Bush appoints Robert Mueller III to be director of the FBI -- perfect timing and what a pedigree Mueller possesses.*
One day prior to 9/11/01, the Pentagon's comptroller announces that $2.3 trillion cannot be accounted for. (Uncovered by the DIA's Financial Management staff during their audit.)**
Six to seven hours prior to the events of that 9/11 morning, sometime between 2:00 AM and 3:00 AM (EST) a group email is transmitted to the DIA's financial management staff to attend an emergency meeting that very morning at their Pentagon offices --- located at the Pentagon's west wall. One staff member will fortuitously oversleep, viewing the email late and consequently arrive late -- just in time to view from afar the plane crashing into the super-reinforced west wall, severely injuring or killing almost the entire Financial Management group of the DIA, and those computer systems involved with discovering said missing funds; apparently data backups aren't the order of the day?
That very same morning on 9/11/01, the National Reconnaissance Office's (NRO) ops center would be evacuated due to an exercise simulating an attack by suicide aircraft flying into that facility. (Sound vaguely familiar?) Therefore, no one was on hand to manually task their recon satellites on the airspace above NYC and the Pentagon.
Thanks to further expansion of the Web over the Internet (2003 - 2005), cached pages of dramatically increased data transmission and EFTs, originating from three firms residing in the two WTC towers to offshore locations, could be accessed.
Shortly after 9/2001, in early 2002, an explosive growth occurs in offshore hedge funds.
Background research on those unfortunate passengers aboard the involved airliners (victims who were certain to die that day) indicated that some of the pax fall into three unique groups, along with three unique individuals aboard.
The three groups: (1) developers of remote piloting hardware and software; (2) individuals involved in the creation of a terrorist scenario remarkably similar to that which occurred on 9/11/01 (among that group of victims was an Israeli counterterrorist expert and one of the airliners' pilots, a former career Naval officer); and, (3) some of the individuals involved with the investigation into Flight 800's demise.
The three individuals: (1) wife number three of the solicitor general, who would quickly move on to wife number four once the insurance settlement came through and who had been the coordinator of the hanging chad affair in the 2000 presidential election in Florida (death by opportunity?); (2) a lady attorney, rumored to be involved with a senior married partner of the conservative and politically-connected law firm which successfully defended Fox News on several cases of fictionalizing the news and represented the Blackstone Group [Wiley Rein] (death by opportunity?); and, (3) a physicist with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, who had previously been involved with experiments interweaving nanothermite with fiber optic, detonated by laser pulse. (Over the week and a half prior to 9/11/01, EurekaGGN would install "dark fiber" in the top 20 or so floors of both towers.)
[We are not suggesting any of these victims were aware of the events to transpire on 9/11 --- this appears to be a highly compartmentalized operation.]
Intensive pattern analysis, link analysis, and link and group analysis indicates the five principal players involved: the Blackstone Group, Veritas Capital, AIG, the office of the VP, and the office of the SecDef.
Some time prior to 9/11/01, a financial news announcement would explain an investment by AIG in the Blackstone Group (source document of transaction, along with hard copy source documents of thousands of ongoing SEC investigations resided in the destroyed WTC Building 7 – no source docs, case closed!). The amount of AIG’s investment was approximately the final insurance payout amount to the property management/RE firm for the WTC destruction (classic paper money false transfer and money laundering scheme, relatively simple --- for a far more circuitous, and commonplace, accounting scheme, please see Retirement Heist, by Ellen Schultz, p. 209 on “leveraged ESOPs”).
The mortgage owner of record for WTC Building 7: the Blackstone Group.
The firm awarded the $1 billion captive insurance fund management contract by Bush’s FEMA, for settlement with WTC victims’ families: the Blackstone Group.
The firm which negotiated the largest and quickest real estate deal in NYC history, the WTC lease transfer from the Port Authority of NY and NJ to Silverstein Properties and Westfield America, Inc.: the Blackstone Group.
During the week prior to 9/11/01, the fiber optic installation firm, EurekaGGN, installed dark fiber in the top floors of the two WTC towers (they had the contract for cabling the entire WTC), utilizing a method to pump the fiber optical cables through existing HVAC vents running beneath each floor.
[To reiterate: the west wall of the Pentagon had been reinforced, according to Structure Magazine, which also posed the question as to why only one wall and a plane crashes into it. Fiber optic is being installed, but never verified as to being operational, in the WTC towers, and planes crash into them --- access, access, access!]
Technical details not widely known: two of the four airliners involved didn’t appear on the FAA Flight Registry which logs all commercial flights, per standard procedure, as they were reserved as DoD Special Charters, meaning that each plane must seat those reserved for DoD personnel, and must depart at the schedule time, but any remaining seats may be filled commercially.
Aircraft pointedly flew to shadow zones – where radar coverage was obscured due to topography and ATCC limitations – where the transponders were then powered down – normally, they would have triggered ARTCC radar indicators. (Highly doubtful those Saudi Arabian hijacker cutouts would have known these recondite details?); and recovered black box data, obtained through FOIA requests, give no indication of any hijacking taking place (and yes, there does exist a governmental database of black box hijacking data for comparison purposes).
There were over 1,000 other “coincidences” which took place that morning, all tracking back to the five principal players.Recap: $2.3 trillion announced unaccounted, and DIA’s financial management group is almost entirely wiped out, along with involved computer systems, dramatically increased data transmissions and EFTs out of WTC towers in preceding 12 hours, and people and computer systems involved are killed and destroyed, with explosive growth in offshore hedge funds occurring shortly thereafter.
Veritas Capital, purchaser and owner of former Raytheon subsidiary which employed those remote piloting hardware and software developers and subcontractors aboard some of those airliners involved in 9/11, and Veritas Capital makes some incredibly prescient defense industry investments shortly prior to 9/11/01.
[Containment process: Immediately after the first Anthrax attack, DynCorp's Dynport Vaccine Company was awarded an Anthrax government contract -- therefore any possible future investigation would logically turn up Anthrax. Dynport Vaccine Company was located right by Ft. Detrick, probably point of origin of weaponized Anthrax, but Detrick didn't possess the required lab equipment to weaponize, while Dynport did. (Dynport was owned by DynCorp, government contractor and private military company, later cited for human trafficking crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq -- and was purchased by Veritas Capital, and later sold.)
Recovered disk drives in WTC Towers were strangely -- given their classified and sensitive nature -- sent overseas to a German data recovery firm, Convar, recently purchased by Kroll (and not to the NSA as one would obviously assume???). A spokesman for Convar publicly stated that some data had been recovered, but said data and drives were delivered to the FBI HQ in D.C., where they promptly disappeared.]
*Robert Mueller III, FBI director, is the grandnephew of Richard Bissell, one of the three top CIA types who President Kennedy fired. Mueller’s wife is the granddaughter of Charles Cabell, another of those three CIA people JFK had fired (the third was Allen Dulles, who would later manage the Warren Commission!
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http://www.financial-edu.com/history-of-credit-derivatives.php
2002-Rise of Hedge Funds: Number of funds increases from 4000 in 2002 managing $2 trillion to 8000+ managing $4 trillion. This creates intense demand for new structured products with higher yields.
It should be kept in everyones face until the truth is known and the perpetrators prosecuted.
If you are an American patriot, you should send your donations to ISIS and help what the CIA started. The Palestinians could use some coin too as they haven't had a sponsor since their country was taken from them a number of decades ago and they seem to be losing more ground every year.
Just don't tell Washington.DC what you are doing as it is against the law to help terrorists as long as the government is doing it. Government employees are much smarter than the average citizen, they know who to arm and disarm and when and who to send drones after. They have a spiritual guide telling them where to send drones to, unfortunately the guide only has a success rating of about 70%, + or - 25%
To me, that ISIS is not much different than Saudi Arabia kings and princes who are American allies.
There will be 50,000 unemployed HSBC people soon, they may want to become mercenaries we can fund.
Long on machetes and swords.
The charity to give to is the Friends of the IDF. They are a worthwhile organization of people striving to live in a hostile envoirment that the world decided was just to return to them. There is no palestinean people, yasser and his nazi uncle made that up.
Saudi Inbreds Threaten to Get Nukes:
http://winteractionables.com/?p=21649
Risk you ask? It's a well known fact that terrorism starts right in Langley, and is directed from DC. So, longterm the risk is high to anyone who happens to reside in an area that has desireable natural resources or land that these parasites desire.
Other than that, its not a risk issue so much as its a psycological control tool.
And to think you didn't want endless war, DHS, and universal domestic spying. They have *obviously* kept us safe from the terrorists. "Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm."
The bogeyman is created to control. Rational men are rare. Fear is a government tool. Fear the bogeyman; require government.
Emote to respond hormonally. Think lacks hormonal response. Government is the neo-parent. A child craves protection.
Fear of this government (fed/state) is rational.
Yep, pretty much. Terrorism is a problem because we make it one. It can be dealt with, but not by wetting our pants every time somebody threatens us. My personal preference is bomb the hell out of whatever country the terrorists come from starting with their leadership, but then again, I'm a barbarian who believes that if you try to kill me, I'm going to do my best to kill you first....
He made a desert and called it peace
Is this disinformation?
NEVER go out of your house!
In summary, from the chart:
Terrorism has killed 24,969. National Socialism has killed 61,000,000. Put a stop to the true killer: socialism.