TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Thursday, October 02, 2003

International Herald-Tribune October 1 runs a piece credited to Richard Bernstein of the New York Times trying to whitewash growing 9/11 skepticism in Germany and Europe. NY Times and WashPost jointly own IHT, a (the?) leading daily English-language newspaper on the European continent:

Most distressing. . . "There's a group of people in every country who will believe any nonsense," a senior German government official said, dismissing the popularity of the theories here as nothing unique. But some analysts say there is something about both Germany and Sept. 11 that does make the Germans especially vulnerable to the conspiracy claims. . . .

A prevailing explanation for the popularity of conspiracy theories is that they give psychological comfort to believers. Der Spiegel quotes the American political scientist Michael Barkun as saying that conspiracy theories allow people to "understand everything perfectly" because they disclose that "all the evil in the world can be attributed to a single cause." .

Some people contend that Germany is prone to theories that attribute great evil to somebody else because it gives a sort of exoneration for its Nazi past. . . .

Note nothing in the article responds to any of the facts of the case addressed by the German authors publishing on 9/11. Typical New York Times. Even the German govt official quoted And NYTimes has yet to even run this containment piece itself. It is not on the nytimes.com website.

Meanwhile, reports Global Free Press:

Bizarre Turnout at a public 911Skeptic Panel in Berlin on Monday. While almost 800 visitors listened to the popular analysis of guest author Matthias Broeckers ("..Secrets of 911"), director Gerhard Wisnewski ("File 9/11 unsolved"/ WDR) or former Minister Andreas von Buelow (supporter of "Remote Controle Possibility"), the crowd realised after a while, that one of the visitors had been right wing extremist Horst Mahler.

After the event in- and outside the University of Berlin almost turned into a riot (left wings hit Mahler during a break in his face and yelled "Nazis out!"), german police came and later stopped the event.

The left-wing scene in Berlin thinks, that Horst Mahler's "visit" was part of a planned sabotage, probably even orchestrated by German Intelligence. . . .

Reason of this sabotage: To distract from the event and accuse 911Skeptics of anti-semitism and being "conspiracy nuts".

The independent left-wing media criticised the organisators of the Berlin event with harsh words:

German Indymedia.de: "Why was it allowed to let Mahler into this event in the first place? Why was the focus on Flight93, Global Hawk and the Phantom Plane of the Pentagon only?

Besides the 'neo-Nazi' brouhaha, it is very interesting that the inquiry at the bug German conference seems to have been rather circumscribed.

Back to the Nazis -- check London's Telegraph from July 16 2002:

One in seven of Germany's top neo-Nazis is a secret service agent, the government has admitted in an attempt to sustain faltering efforts to ban a far-Right political party.

Government lawyers have offered the information in the hope that it will save agents from being identified in court. . . .

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