Friday, August 11, 2006 | Non-11 Dear Friend and Reader: Well, it's been an intense two days and I'm plum tired. But I want to write this note to you before I call it a day. I just had an IM conversation with a friend from England who is visiting another friend in the US. Both of them have been pinging me to get a sense of my feelings about the supposed terrorist plot that was supposedly just busted in England. She was concerned about flying back to her country, worried about a sub-plot in the United States, and so on. What did I think? I told her: It's all a load of horse shit. No bombs. Just chaos at the airports, guys in uniform with big rifles, politicians flapping their jaws, etc. But terrorist plot? No. Wait a few days till things calm down at Gatwick or Heathrow, and come home. I have my reasons for feeling this way, but mainly I know it in my gut. Let's start with something really basic: One of the biggest bunches of conniving screw-ups since the year zero are now in control of Western Civ. That is saying a lot, but these people take the cake, the ribbon, the big trophy and the Oscar for Worst Movie. They -- shall I name names? Karl Rove, George Bush, Tony Blair, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Condi Rice and their uptight little colleagues -- are proceeding through life (our lives, that is) on a combination of both subtle and not-so-subtle manipulation tactics, all of which are clear as glass, if you wipe off the crud and look through it. The crud, for the most part, is having been taught that "if it's on the news, it's true." Or, if a guy in a suit says it's time to be scared, then it's bloody well time. Red Alert. What they are doing must, at this point, be driving them a little batty. They have a hard job, I feel so sorry for them. They have to convince us that it's it's dangerous, and that they're keeping us safe, at the same time. But they need to get a response out of the masses. If they actually crash planes and knock down buildings, then what have we been paying for all these years? What about all this PATRIOT act shit we've been putting up with, the NSA wiretapping and the rest? So they can't do that. So what they do is, they have to make it both seem dangerous and like they're doing their jobs; voila. Besides the timing of this all, and setting up the whole thing in England but making a big reaction in the US, and dragging in Pakistan (where Bush just made his secret nuclear deal earlier in the year), one way I can tell you this is bullshit is from the lack of any scientific credibility to what they are saying about the supposed plot. On the one hand, they are saying that this crew was ready to go into action with a plan to use chemicals. On the other hand, they have now made 24 arrests -- but we don't have any word of a laboratory, a supply of chemicals, conspirators with credentials in chemistry, or actual plans of any kind revealed. I am extremely suspicious -- it gets my fucking goat, it is ridiculous and it's an embarrassment that they expect people to believe it, but some people do -- that by this point, we don't have photographs of a facility where the supposed chemicals were created, stored or mixed, nor so much as the name of one substance, one explosive agent, one component, one specific anything. I am a professionally trained reporter, in that I have the same basic training and reporting habits as just about anyone with half a brain working for the New York Times or MSNBC or whatever. It's not so hard; till you get to a certain point, it's all routine. Within 10 minutes of hearing the words "liquid explosives," I was in Wikipedia and Google researching the subject. Editors across the land growled to somebody, "Get me something on liquid explosives." My 10 minute delay was due to checking the astrology chart. Like the rest of them, I started digging and found some interesting stuff, and started saving notes and URLs and thinking of contacts to call up. But, I had to cover other angles, and I had the basic drift. Now, within two days, you have hundreds of articles and video presentations appearing speculating about what might have been done. On August 10, the magic newsroom dart hit the journalism dartboard on the "liquid explosive" spot, and everyone's suddenly an expert; that is journalism for you. It might have been a peroxide bomb. It might have been this or that agent, or...whatever. Next we see animations of Muslims getting up from their seats on 767s and going to be bathrooms and mixing chemicals [cut to drug store] in these kinds of bottles. Scope. Prell. Gatorade. These articles are filling, with Scope and Gatorade, the ONE BIGGEST AND MOST OBVIOUS BLANK in this whole freaking story -- the chemical. The weapon. The facility where it was going to be done. The kitchen with a few boxes stacked up. This was all, we are being told, a carefully made plot in the "final stages." Great -- name a chemical. They all have names. Show me where they were kept. Tell me who got them and how. They are all in the Merck Index. Tell me, I want to look the stuff up and see what it is. Not forthcoming. Just like Hani Hanjour, who could not fly an airplane -- well established fact -- supposedly flying that spectacular mission into the Pentagon, the one where the jetliner, its engines and landing gear, disappeared in a puff of smoke. Well, sure. He could not fly a regular plane. But he was great at flying an invisible one. This is just one angle on this story, but it's one that I'm sensitive to, partly owing to a fetish for science fraud, and partly because a bell keeps ringing in my gut saying: the lie starts right there. That's what I have to say to you tonight. Thanks for reading. Yours & truly,    e PS, here is today's edition, on me -- if you like it, please sign up, and if you can't pay, ask us for a comp. We'll be happy to give you one, it's in our business plan. If you're a subscriber, thank you -- you keep us growing and thriving at Planet Waves. I'm about to go out for dinner after 48 hours of nonstop work and my cash card will work because you subscribed. http://www.planetwavesweekly.com/dadatemp/1530345229.html Here is my original blog from earlier, excerpts from above article: This an excerpt from today's Planet Waves Weekly [subscriber edition], which has been emailed to our client. New subscribers will get instant access. The article is called, "Non-11: The Unbearable Tension of Water." While events of Sept. 11, 2001, to which this is being compared, were used to galvanize something, this week's developments -- so well soaked in Pisces -- will more likely represent an undoing. Yes, plenty of bad things have happened under Saturn-Neptune influences, and plenty are happening now. But there are indications that something has given way, that history has had a transparent moment, and that the energy pattern has shifted in the approximate direction of sanity, or of reality -- the two are related. True, there is more to come. True, the world is in quite a state. True, Dick Cheney is still in office. Several significant aspects are forming, including the intense but not-uncommon Mars-Uranus opposition on Aug. 13, and the first exact alignment of Saturn and Neptune on its numerological twin, Aug. 31. To say the least, these oppositions have been creating an unusually tense psychic atmosphere. They all involve water because Neptune and Pisces are involved, and because Mars is the 'triplicity ruler' of all three water signs. Plus, a set of eclipses is approaching, including a lunar eclipse in Pisces (conjunct Uranus) and a solar eclipse in the last degree of Virgo on Sept. 22, exactly opposite the highly sensitive Aries Point.