https://www.sott.net/topic/22-9-11 Signs of the Times: The World for People who Think. Featuring independent, unbiased, alternative news and commentary on world events. en-us Original content Copyright 2026 by Signs of the Times/Sott.net. For other content, see our Fair Use Policy at www.sott.net. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:33:43 +0000 https://www.sott.net/images/sottlogo_rss.jpg SOTT.net https://www.sott.net https://www.sott.net/article/505793-Scientist-suggests-dark-matter-could-be-product-of-black-holes-from-a-different-universe Claims relic black holes from a pre-Big Bang 'bounce' solve the universe's biggest mystery While the scientific establishment has spent decades chasing invisible particles that never quite show up, a leading cosmologist has dropped a theory that turns everything on its head: dark matter isn't some exotic new particle. It could be ancient black holes that survived from an entirely different universe. This idea, laid out by Professor Enrique Gaztanaga of the University of Portsmouth, doesn't just tackle one cosmic puzzle. It offers a clean fix for the Big Bang's thorniest problems and lines up with fresh observations that have astronomers scrambling. Gaztanaga argues the elusive substance that makes up roughly 27 per cent of the universe's mass may actually be "relic" black holes formed in a previous collapsing phase of the cosmos. https://www.sott.net/article/505793-Scientist-suggests-dark-matter-could-be-product-of-black-holes-from-a-different-universe Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:09:27 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/502915-Trump-vs-the-BBC Donald Trump's threat to sue the BBC for one billion dollars is yet another fake division intended to prop up the make-believe "sides" in the political debate. That's the short version. Here's the backstory. Last month, the BBC's flagship anthology documentary series Panorama aired an episode on the January 6th "insurrection" which "accidentally" edited together two speeches by Donald Trump, making it seem he explicitly ordered people to attack the Capitol (he did no such thing, but that's old news). Under public pressure from the Trump administration, the BBC have now admitted the "error" and both the Director General Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness have resigned. Now, President Donald Trump is threatening to sue the BBC for $1billion unless there is a full retraction and apology by Friday, the 14th of November. This has spurred British pundits and politicians alike to jump to the defence of the BBC, repeating age-old nonsense about being perceived as "biased against both... https://www.sott.net/article/502915-Trump-vs-the-BBC Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:52:36 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/259526-Cheney-admits-that-he-lied-about-9-11 What Else Did He Lie About? The New York Times' Maureen Dowd writes today: In a documentary soon to appear on Showtime, "The World According to Dick Cheney," [Cheney said] "I got on the telephone with the president, who was in Florida, and told him not to be at one location where we could both be taken out." Mr. Cheney kept W. flying aimlessly in the air on 9/11 while he and Lynn left on a helicopter for a secure undisclosed location, leaving Washington in a bleak, scared silence, with no one reassuring the nation in those first terrifying hours. "I gave the instructions that we'd authorize our pilots to take it out," he says, referring to the jet headed to Washington that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. He adds: "After I'd given the order, it was pretty quiet. Everybody had heard it, and it was obviously a significant moment." *** When they testified together before the 9/11 Commission, W. and Mr. Cheney kept up a pretense that in a previous call, the president had authorized the... https://www.sott.net/article/259526-Cheney-admits-that-he-lied-about-9-11 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:25:21 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501748-9-11-Many-Times-Over Last night, I wrote about the 9/11 attack on the twin Towers in New York, comparing it to Israel's attack on Gaza. Gaza is 9/11 many times over - many times worse. Both are "terrorism". But why is Gaza worse? . Scale The first point is scale. Only 3000 people, a little fewer, lost their lives on 9/11. Israel by contrast has killed somewhere between 70,000 and the hundred thousand people in Gaza - not counting the people he has killed in Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen, and now Qatar. Symbolism The 9/11 attack was largely symbolic-- focusing on the US's preeminent symbol of power and hegemony, it was carried out with very limited resources and focused on a target whose vulnerabilities the attackers were well aware of after their attempted bombing in 1993. The World Trade Towers were built in 1960 standards-- but a lot of things had changed. Still, the hijackers could not have expected the towers to collapse in the way they did-- which was the result of engineering for a different era.... https://www.sott.net/article/501748-9-11-Many-Times-Over Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:54:28 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501743-Qatar-9-11-and-the-increasingly-inevitable-Israeli-heel-turn Yesterday, Israel conducted strikes on the Qatari capital city of Doha, allegedly targeting (and supposedly killing) key members of the Hamas leadership. An unprovoked attack in direct violation of another nation's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Textbook breaking of international law. This is not unusual. Israel's contempt for international law is nothing new and is far from under-reported. The wrinkle is the response from world leaders, which has been somewhat chillier than you'd expect. The attacks were roundly criticised by puppets the world over - Canada's Mark Carney, Britain's Keir Starmer, Australia's Albanese, France's Macron and more. In her State of the Union address, EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen warned the EU should "consider our bilateral support" for Israel. Even Donald Trump's White House distanced themselves from the plan, which is as close to a full repudiation as you'll get from that quarter. Earlier in the week, the Spanish government announced they were... https://www.sott.net/article/501743-Qatar-9-11-and-the-increasingly-inevitable-Israeli-heel-turn Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:09:27 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/501741-Language-Mind-Control-and-9-11 "An example that shows the radical devaluation of thought is the transformation of words in propaganda; there, language, the instrument of the mind, become 'pure sound,' a symbol directly evoking feelings and reflexes." - Jacques Ellul, Propaganda "A leader or an interest that can make itself master of current symbols is the master of the current situation." - Walter Lippman, Public Opinion Tuesday, September 11, 2001, was a non-teaching day for me. I was home in Massachusetts when the phone rang at 9 A.M. It was my daughter who lived and worked in New York City and was on a week's vacation with her future husband. "Turn on the TV," she said. "Why?" I asked. "Haven't you heard? A plane hit the World Trade Tower." I turned the TV on and watched a plane crash into the Tower. I said, "They just showed a replay." She quickly corrected me, "No, that's another plane." And we talked as we watched in horror, learning that it was the South Tower this time. Sitting next to my daughter was my... https://www.sott.net/article/501741-Language-Mind-Control-and-9-11 Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:54:49 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/497275-Woman-killed-man-injured-in-dog-attack-in-north-St-Louis-Missouri A woman was left dead and a man was injured Wednesday night after being attacked by several dogs in north St. Louis. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD), the incident occurred around 11:40 p.m. Wednesday night on the 5900 block of Theodore Avenue in the Walnut Park West neighborhood of north St. Louis, involving a husband and wife. SLMPD spokesperson Mitch McCoy says officers were initially called to the scene for reports of shots fired but as authorities were in route, the call was updated to a call for help and that a woman was being attacked by multiple dogs in their backyard. When officers arrived on the scene, they found the couple being bit by the dogs and the husband attempting to save his wife from the attack. Police say officers used pepper spray on the dogs to stop them from attacking and immediately provided aid to the woman by applying tourniquets due to multiple severe bites. The woman was transported to a nearby hospital but was later... https://www.sott.net/article/497275-Woman-killed-man-injured-in-dog-attack-in-north-St-Louis-Missouri Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:23:15 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/124500-Evidence-That-a-Frozen-Fish-Didnt-Impact-the-Pentagon-on-9-11-and-Neither-Did-a-Boeing-757 Comment: As part of our commemoration of 9-11, the opening of 'the gates of hell' 23 years ago, we are running this infamous piece that invoked the ire of the COINTELPRO masters operating behind certain 'alternative media' forums, forcing us to move this article to a different server for 2 years. We sure must have hit a nerve! After the release of the QFG Pentagon Strike Flash Animation on August 23rd, 2004, a virtual deluge of new articles were published that sought to dismiss the "no plane at the Pentagon" theory. One such article, that is frequently referenced by certain '9/11 researchers' was authored by a member of the forum at the "Above Top Secret" (ATS) website. Interestingly, the article was written just a few weeks after the release of the Pentagon Strike Flash animation, which by then, was winging its way around the world and into the inboxes of millions of ordinary citizens. Perhaps you were one of them... https://www.sott.net/article/124500-Evidence-That-a-Frozen-Fish-Didnt-Impact-the-Pentagon-on-9-11-and-Neither-Did-a-Boeing-757 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:12:36 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/469906-In-Eurasia-the-War-of-Economic-Corridors-is-in-full-swing Mega Eurasian organizations and their respective projects are now converging at record speed, with one global pole way ahead of the other. The War of Economic Corridors is now proceeding full speed ahead, with the game-changing first cargo flow of goods from Russia to India via the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) already in effect. Very few, both in the east and west, are aware of how this actually has long been in the making: the Russia-Iran-India agreement for implementing a shorter and cheaper Eurasian trade route via the Caspian Sea (compared to the Suez Canal), was first signed in 2000, in the pre-9/11 era. The INSTC in full operational mode signals a powerful hallmark of Eurasian integration - alongside the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), and last but not least, what I described as "Pipelineistan" two decades ago. https://www.sott.net/article/469906-In-Eurasia-the-War-of-Economic-Corridors-is-in-full-swing Fri, 15 Jul 2022 18:29:13 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/459942-Out-Thought-Out-Bought-Out-Fought-Why-the-9-11-truth-movement-failed Sometimes you have to lie to others to buy time to deal with a problem. But never lie to yourself. -Lt. Gen Bernard C. "Mick" Trainor, USMC (Ret.) I have cited my late friend "Mick" Trainor's words elsewhere, and kept them in mind since he said them to me in the late 1980s.They ought to be graven in granite in the minds of everyone of good heart in public life. They are also an indictment of the "9/11 Truth" movement as a whole, which tried to speak the truth about this atrocity to the people as well as to those in power, but increasingly lied to itself about the effect it was having. It finally ended in complete failure, lacking only a decent funeral oration. An Overview It gives me no pleasure at all to write these words. I personally came to the movement late in 2009, then met many excellent people and worked with many fine editors at a time when overt censorship was still minimal. The best of the "Truthers" shared one thing in common: they were right that the US Government... https://www.sott.net/article/459942-Out-Thought-Out-Bought-Out-Fought-Why-the-9-11-truth-movement-failed Tue, 26 Oct 2021 01:36:37 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/457969-The-rise-of-the-security-industrial-complex-from-9-11-to-COVID-19 I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life. — Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN What a strange and harrowing road we've walked since September 11, 2001, littered with the debris of our once-vaunted liberties. We have gone from a nation that took great pride in being a model of a representative democracy to being a model of how to persuade a freedom-loving people to march in lockstep with a police state. Our losses are mounting with every passing day. What began with the post-9/11 passage of the USA Patriot Act has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. The citizenry's unquestioning acquiescence to anything the government wants to do in exchange for the phantom promise of safety and security has resulted in a society where the nation has been locked down into... https://www.sott.net/article/457969-The-rise-of-the-security-industrial-complex-from-9-11-to-COVID-19 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 18:53:09 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/454387-A-Brief-History-of-Hopium With all these decades and — in the case of the oldest democracies — centuries of broken political promises, you'd think that the public would have caught on to the game by now. But, if anything, recent events have revealed that people are becoming more addicted to this politician-peddled hopium even as the lies and broken promises become ever more ridiculous. . . . https://www.sott.net/article/454387-A-Brief-History-of-Hopium Sat, 19 Jun 2021 19:24:08 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/439528-Signs-and-Portents-A-two-headed-viper-spotted-near-Mumbai-India The wildlife rescuers at Kalyan's Gandhare road area on Mumbai's outskirts rescued a two headed Russel viper snake last Thursday, and the visuals of dangerous reptile are viral ever since. The snake reportedly measures 11 cm with both its heads out there with approximately 2 cm dimensions. Found mostly in and around country's both Eastern and Western Ghats, the Russell's Viper snake is one of the most venomous snake species found in India, and reportedly also causes one of the most incidents of snake bites. The snake was rescued by Mumbai-based War Rescue Foundation, after the wildlife conservation group received a call from a Kalyan resident Dimple Shah, following which two rescuers managed to to rescue the snake from the spot, Mumbai Live reported. https://www.sott.net/article/439528-Signs-and-Portents-A-two-headed-viper-spotted-near-Mumbai-India Mon, 10 Aug 2020 11:35:33 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/435005-Tucker-Carlson-exposes-US-government-involvement-in-Saudi-9-11-coverup For years the families of 9/11 victims have been pursuing a lawsuit against the Saudi Arabian government, believing it was associated with the attacks that left over 2,000 dead. Despite the overwhelming evidence that supports this theory, the United States government has prevented the declassification of critical documents. This includes the identification of the official that is believed to have assisted two of the 9/11 hijackers. Last week, however, the FBI revealed his name, by accident. His name is Mussaed Ahmed al-Jarrah. He worked at the Saudi Embassy from 1999 to 2000. These allegations have escaped the headlines of the mainstream media. That is, until prime time cable host Tucker Carlson decided to report on it. https://www.sott.net/article/435005-Tucker-Carlson-exposes-US-government-involvement-in-Saudi-9-11-coverup Sun, 24 May 2020 11:50:20 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/428959-The-nightmare-of-airport-facial-recognition The ACLU has released an important white paper on airport facial recognition by ACLU senior policy analyst Jay Stanley. Citing some of our previous reporting and analysis, the ACLU white paper focuses, appropriately, not so much on the details of current use of facial recognition at airports, but on where governments and the aviation industry — who share a an explicitly-recognized interest in common use of facial recognition — say it will lead if we don't stop them. Driving the dystopian trend called out in the ACLU white paper is the malign convergence of interest between governments that want to use facial recognition and other techniques of compelled and automated identification for surveillance and control of travelers' movements, and airlines, airports, and other businesses that want to share use of the same identification systems and data for business process automation and commercial tracking and profiling of travel customers. https://www.sott.net/article/428959-The-nightmare-of-airport-facial-recognition Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:16:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/428366-Critically-endangered-orca-that-fathered-20-babies-feared-dead A critically endangered orca is presumed dead following a six-month span without a single sighting, according to a nonprofit dedicated to saving the species. The orca, of the Southern Resident population and named L41 Mega, was not seen with his family on Jan. 24 off Washington's coast, according to Shari Tarantino, president of the Orca Conservancy. Tarantino said the last time L41 was seen was in August 2019. "I hope he comes back, but I don't think so," she told ABC News on Thursday. The presumed loss of L41 is the latest difficulty facing the dwindling population. https://www.sott.net/article/428366-Critically-endangered-orca-that-fathered-20-babies-feared-dead Fri, 31 Jan 2020 18:14:26 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/427816-Rouhani-Iran-will-never-seek-nuclear-weapons-with-or-without-a-deal Earlier this month, President Hassan Rouhani said that Tehran wants to stabilise the situation in the region and strengthen the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran nuclear deal. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stated that Tehran would never look to obtain an atomic weapon, with or without the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), according to his website President.Ir. "We have never sought nuclear weapons [...]. With or without the nuclear deal we will never seek nuclear weapon [...]. The European powers will be responsible for the consequences of violating the pact." The statement comes a week after Rouhani rejected a proposal for a new "Trump deal" to resolve a nuclear spat as a "strange" offer, blaming the US President for his failure to deliver on promises. https://www.sott.net/article/427816-Rouhani-Iran-will-never-seek-nuclear-weapons-with-or-without-a-deal Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:47:08 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/427777-France-apology-after-history-textbook-links-CIA-to-9-11 A French publisher has apologised after a history textbook that appeared in bookshops in recent weeks suggested the 11 September 2001 attacks were probably "orchestrated by the CIA". Comment: Where's the lie? The debunked conspiracy theory was apparently highlighted on social media initially by a group of schoolteachers. The book History of the 20th Century in Flash Cards is aimed at undergraduate students. https://www.sott.net/article/427777-France-apology-after-history-textbook-links-CIA-to-9-11 Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:28:44 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/426142-Earth-entered-transient-Black-Hole-during-9-11-says-new-evidence-provided-by-NASA Washington: The National Institute for Standards in Truth (NIST) issued the final update of its 9/11 investigation today, announcing that all anomalies troubling 9/11 Truther loons have been rationalized, thanks to new evidence provided by NASA. "They can all take their tinfoil hats off now," said NIST chief Henry Swallowfirth. "Science, not moonbat conspiracy theory, has triumphed." The new evidence, from NASA's deep-space probe Voyager 2, puts to rest the three so-called "physical anomalies" that have deranged Truthers: Three steel-framed skyscrapers free-fall collapsing due to fire in a single day, when no others burning far longer have fallen before or since. The aluminum nose and hollow fuselage of Flight 77 plowing through five rings of reinforced concrete at the Pentagon The Shanksville "Gopher Hole" swallowing Flight 93 before burping up a widespread debris field. The latter had particularly troubled NIST, says Mr. Swallowfirth. "How a crater engulfed an entire jetliner,... https://www.sott.net/article/426142-Earth-entered-transient-Black-Hole-during-9-11-says-new-evidence-provided-by-NASA Sun, 22 Dec 2019 21:33:03 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/425293-N-Korean-envoy-at-the-UN-Denuclearization-is-already-off-the-table-in-talks-with-the-US North Korea's ambassador to the UN has rejected Washington's call for "sustained and substantial dialogue," saying that the denuclearization sought by the Trump administration is already "gone out (sic) of the negotiating table." "We do not need to have lengthy talks with the US now and denuclearization is already gone out of the [sic] negotiating table," ambassador Kim Song said in a statement on Saturday. Song added that the Trump administration's calls for dialogue are a "time-saving trick" to push the denuclearization issue past next year's election. As Song released Pyongyang's latest statement, US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in held a telephone discussion, brainstorming ways to restart diplomacy with North Korea. Pyongyang has given the United States a year-end deadline to abandon its demand for unilateral denuclearization, lest leader Kim Jong-un choose a "new approach." https://www.sott.net/article/425293-N-Korean-envoy-at-the-UN-Denuclearization-is-already-off-the-table-in-talks-with-the-US Sat, 07 Dec 2019 21:10:05 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/423898-Two-dogs-kill-man-in-Madera-California The Madera Police Department is looking for the owner of two dogs that attacked and killed a man. It happened Monday near a dry riverbed along Cleveland Avenue and Raymond Road. Police say when officers got to the scene, they found the body of 38-year-old Lasaro Macedo. He had obvious bite marks to his arms, legs and face, police say. As officers tried to investigate, an aggressive dog charged at the officers. https://www.sott.net/article/423898-Two-dogs-kill-man-in-Madera-California Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:42:39 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/418241-24-landslides-in-24-hours-caused-by-incessant-rainfall-across-the-Indian-state-of-Kerala-22-killed-22165-moved Kerala, which is been hit by incessant rainfall, witnessed 24 landslides in the last 24 hours spiking the death toll to 22 on August 9, 2019. Nearly 22,165 people have been shifted to relief camps. Heavy rains have been battering the coastal state since August 7 and have thrown normal life out of gear. This is after the 2018 floods — the worst in the state's history — that killed nearly 500 people and incurred a loss of Rs 31,000 crore worth damages. Of the 14 districts in Kerala, nine in the north have been put on red alert; three in central on orange alert, while two in south on yellow alert. Across the state, 315 flood relief camps have been opened, according to an update from Kerala chief minister's office. https://www.sott.net/article/418241-24-landslides-in-24-hours-caused-by-incessant-rainfall-across-the-Indian-state-of-Kerala-22-killed-22165-moved Fri, 09 Aug 2019 13:14:54 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/416212-Professor-Richard-Wolff-UK-is-ripping-off-the-Libyan-people-by-spending-Gaddafis-billions The British government wants to start spending the money earned in taxes from frozen assets of late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Professor Richard Wolff insists it's the Libyan people who should get their money back. British lawmakers proposed handing over £17 million earned in taxes from the frozen assets to the victims of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) attacks. This follows a parliamentary report disclosure last month that the UK Treasury took millions of pounds in tax over the past three years from £12 billion of Libyan assets linked to Gaddafi. While lawmakers are trying to clarify if it's legal to receive money in taxes from the frozen funds of another state, Professor Richard Wolff says the money belongs to the Libyan people and must be returned. "They deserve every bit of the wealth they created and they ought to have that wealth available to them as soon as it possibly can be turned over... because that's how we run this world. We don't give over to other countries the... https://www.sott.net/article/416212-Professor-Richard-Wolff-UK-is-ripping-off-the-Libyan-people-by-spending-Gaddafis-billions Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:49:09 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/411598-US-border-militia-stops-three-HUNDRED-crossing-migrants-in-SINGLE-intervention-Feds-respond-by-arresting-leader-and-de-banking-group The FBI arrested a 69-year-old New Mexico man who allegedly illegally detained immigrants crossing the border under the guise of working for the United States Border Patrol. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, who runs The United Constitutional Patriots (UCP), an armed border militia group that spreads far-right conspiracies and rounds up asylum seekers on the border, was arrested by FBI in New Mexico Saturday on charges of possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. Recent video footage released by UCP shows two members holding what appear to be semi-automatic rifles near immigrants, many of them children. Comment: Well, yeah, they're armed, as they always have been, and kids are pouring over the border. Here's 300 kids from just ONE intervention the UCP made earlier this month: THAT is why the Feds had to stop them. https://www.sott.net/article/411598-US-border-militia-stops-three-HUNDRED-crossing-migrants-in-SINGLE-intervention-Feds-respond-by-arresting-leader-and-de-banking-group Mon, 22 Apr 2019 10:15:51 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/411132-Embassy-ambushed-Assange-with-arrest-to-avoid-mystery-panic-button-use When Julian Assange learned of his imminent arrest at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Thursday, he wasn't even allowed to go back to his room, because authorities feared he would hit a reported "panic button" with potentially disastrous effects, Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia said. The WikiLeaks founder's arrest Thursday was sudden: immediately after being told of his arrest, British police stormed the Kensington district embassy building and grabbed him, having been warned by Ecuadorian authorities of threats Assange had reportedly made to Jaime Merchan, the Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK: that he would hit a "panic button" that would bring "devastating consequences" to the embassy if he felt threatened or feared arrest. https://www.sott.net/article/411132-Embassy-ambushed-Assange-with-arrest-to-avoid-mystery-panic-button-use Sun, 14 Apr 2019 13:32:55 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/406949-Is-Venezuela-the-straw-that-breaks-the-empires-back Venezuela [is] in the limelight, on practically all the written, audio and visual mainstream media, as well as alternative media. A purposeful constant drip of outright lies and half-truths, "fake news", as well as misleading information of all shades and hues about Venezuela is drumming our brains, slowly bending our minds towards believing that - yes, the US has a vital interest in meddling in Venezuela and bringing about "regime change", because of primarily the huge reserves of oil, but also of gold, coltan and other rare minerals; and, finally, simply because Washington needs full control of its "backyard". BUT, (and yes, there is a huge BUT), as even some of the respected progressive alternative media pretend to know: Amidst all that recognition of the AngloZionist empire's evil hands in Venezuela, their 'BUT' claims that Venezuela, specifically Presidents Chavez and now Maduro, are not blameless in their 'economic chaos'. This distorts already the entire picture and serves... https://www.sott.net/article/406949-Is-Venezuela-the-straw-that-breaks-the-empires-back Sun, 10 Feb 2019 20:49:05 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/400786-We-ll-show-no-restraint-IDF-vows-zero-tolerance-against-Gazans-border-violence The IDF will no longer show any restraint in cracking down on Palestinian protesters who stir trouble at the Gaza border, an Israeli general has warned following the extreme escalation in violence witnessed this week. Just days after Hamas unleashed an unprecedented bombardment of southern Israel which saw over 400 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza, Tel Aviv made it clear that it will no longer tolerate any unrest at the border. "Our patience has broken and we will respond harshly." "We will show no restraint," Maj.-Gen. Kamil Abu Rokon, IDF Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), warned Gazans through his Facebook page. Stressing that weekly border clashes are nothing short of "terrorist acts" which are well planned and coordinated by Hamas, Rokon issued explicit orders to the Palestinians to stay at least 100 meters clear of the border fence. Anyone who approaches the fence and tries to destroy it "will put himself at risk," the general said. Leniency,... https://www.sott.net/article/400786-We-ll-show-no-restraint-IDF-vows-zero-tolerance-against-Gazans-border-violence Fri, 16 Nov 2018 20:16:18 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/396696-New-book-gathers-high-level-testimony-that-CIA-NSA-actively-prevented-sharing-of-intel-that-would-stop-9-11 The book The Watchdogs Didn't Bark by John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski, with new insider interviews and documentary evidence, convincingly establishes that named people at the CIA and NSA actively prevented the FBI from learning information that could have disrupted the 9/11 plot. Principals at these agencies manipulated government investigations to cover up responsibility, and to exploit the public's fear after 9/11 in order to justify the so-called 'war on terror', the Iraq invasion, torture, the NSA's massive warrantless domestic spying programs, indefinite detention and extrajudicial killing even of Americans. The authors don't claim to have proved that US government officials deliberately allowed or facilitated the 9/11 plot, but that's what the actions and inactions of key people accomplished, and the Establishment has rewarded their incompetence or criminality. The authors quote Stafford Beer: "The purpose of a system is what it does." While 'serendipity' for the... https://www.sott.net/article/396696-New-book-gathers-high-level-testimony-that-CIA-NSA-actively-prevented-sharing-of-intel-that-would-stop-9-11 Mon, 24 Sep 2018 10:41:14 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/395657-Why-9-11-Truth-is-More-Relevant-Than-Ever On 9/11 the imperialists considered themselves powerful enough that they could get away with the biggest false flag event in history, now 17 years later this reality is openly being challenged by Russia. Another Imperial war, another false flag. Idlib, the last terrorist stronghold in Syria is about to get crushed. In response, the Empire desperately tries to halt the defeat of their proxies with yet another planned fake chemical attack, as a pretext to bomb Syrian Arab forces. Only this time, Russia, Syria, Iran and other nations who stand at the forefront against the real war on terror try to expose the US, warning them not to go forward with their scheme. https://www.sott.net/article/395657-Why-9-11-Truth-is-More-Relevant-Than-Ever Tue, 11 Sep 2018 16:31:04 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/385842-Giuliani-They-cant-indict-Trump-Mueller-knows-he-cant-charge-a-sitting-president Special counsel Robert Mueller has acknowledged to President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani that a sitting president can't be indicted under current rules, meaning that the year-long Russia probe is unlikely to unseat Trump. "The Justice Department memos going back to before Nixon say that you cannot indict a sitting president, you have to impeach him," Giuliani told CNN on Wednesday. "They acknowledged to us orally that they understand that they can't violate the Justice Department rules. So, what does that leave them with? That leaves them with writing a report." said the former New York City mayor, who recently took over representing Trump in the special counsel probe. "They can't indict. At least they acknowledged that to us after some battling." The former New York City mayor, who recently took over representing Trump in the special counsel probe stated "They can't indict. At least they acknowledged that to us after some battling." Mueller's team has declined to comment... https://www.sott.net/article/385842-Giuliani-They-cant-indict-Trump-Mueller-knows-he-cant-charge-a-sitting-president Thu, 17 May 2018 19:57:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/385056-New-York-Magazines-Olivia-Nuzzi-burglarized-Corey-Lewandowskis-home-now-hes-suing Liberalism has seriously become a mental disorder - to the point where these people have no moral boundaries - proven once again after liberal reporter Olivia Nuzzi with New York Magazine not only broke into Trump associate Corey Lewandowski's home - but then stole - and bragged about it on Twitter. These people have lost their minds, folks, let me tell you, and the more they become unhinged, the greater the risk of the danger they place others in as well as themselves. What kind of person breaks into your home? A criminal. Except, in this case, it was a reporter with New York Magazine. Olivia Nuzzi was assigned a story for New York Magazine to cover former White House Communications Director Hope Hicks, in which she arrived at Lewandowski's home at began knocking. She stood at the entrance for ten minutes pounding on the door, and nobody answered. At that time, Nuzzi took it upon herself to break into the home and began taking pictures. https://www.sott.net/article/385056-New-York-Magazines-Olivia-Nuzzi-burglarized-Corey-Lewandowskis-home-now-hes-suing Tue, 08 May 2018 19:43:53 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/379420-Report-Evidence-of-Trump-effort-to-establish-back-channel-with-Kremlin U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has evidence that a secret meeting in the Seychelles just before U.S. President Donald Trump took office was an effort by his campaign to establish a back channel with the Kremlin, The Washington Post has reported. The meeting in the Indian Ocean island nation in January 2017 was between Erik Prince, a prominent U.S. military contractor who is the brother of Trump's education secretary, and Kirill Dmitriyev, the head of a Russian government-controlled wealth fund who is close to President Vladimir Putin, The Washington Post reported late on March 7. Citing people familiar with the matter, whom it did not identify, The Washington Post said that a witness cooperating with Mueller has told investigators the meeting was set up in advance so that a representative of the Trump transition team could meet with an emissary from Moscow to discuss future relations between the countries. https://www.sott.net/article/379420-Report-Evidence-of-Trump-effort-to-establish-back-channel-with-Kremlin Thu, 08 Mar 2018 20:50:45 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/376631-Amtrak-train-breaks-apart-at-125-mph Tragedy-prone Amtrak suffered another terrifying setback Tuesday - when a high-speed Acela train broke apart as it raced north toward Penn Station at 125 mph, sources said. In the third wreck in just one week - and the fourth in two months - several cars of an Acela Express heading from Washington, DC, to the Big Apple decoupled at about 6:30 a.m. and were left held together only by their air hoses. Sparks flew from dragging cables and the train jerked wildly, but none of the 52 terrified passengers aboard were injured, according to reports. https://www.sott.net/article/376631-Amtrak-train-breaks-apart-at-125-mph Wed, 07 Feb 2018 12:14:52 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/291499-Frances-former-Foreign-Minister-UK-Government-prepared-war-in-Syria-two-years-before-2011-protests Former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas stated in a 2013 televised program on French media (LCP) that British government officials had told him about preparations for "sending rebels into Syria" two years prior to the start of the 2011 "protests" and conflict. Dumas makes it clear that it is Assad's anti-Israel stance that has made him a target for Western-backed "regime change". The fact that over 200,000 Syrian civilians have been killed in the process appears to be of little consequence to Western politicians. https://www.sott.net/article/291499-Frances-former-Foreign-Minister-UK-Government-prepared-war-in-Syria-two-years-before-2011-protests Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:05:31 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/372923-NHS-cuts-and-flu-crisis-push-UK-hospitals-to-the-brink-Doctors-describe-third-world-conditions-and-system-fail Growing numbers of hospitals are struggling to cope with the onset of the NHS's winter crisis, with one A&E doctor apologising to patients for the "third world conditions" in his overcrowded unit. Milton Keynes hospital admitted it was under "extreme and sustained pressure" because of the "very high" number of patients turning up and needing to be treated as medical emergencies. "We are seeing very high numbers of very sick patients in the emergency department and fewer patients being able to be discharged - many because they also remain in need of acute care. Staff are working under incredible pressure to look after the patients in our care. I cannot overstate that. We are doing our best in extraordinarily difficult circumstances," said the hospital's chief executive, Prof Joe Harrison. https://www.sott.net/article/372923-NHS-cuts-and-flu-crisis-push-UK-hospitals-to-the-brink-Doctors-describe-third-world-conditions-and-system-fail Wed, 03 Jan 2018 12:39:56 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/370034-Mueller-removed-FBI-agent-from-Russian-election-meddling-probe-over-anti-Trump-texts Robert Mueller removed an FBI agent from his investigation into alleged Russian election meddling, people briefed on the matter told US media. The move came after the Justice Department began probing whether the agent had sent anti-Trump text messages. Mueller, the special counsel examining alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, removed FBI agent Peter Strzok from the investigation over the summer, according to The New York Times. He was reportedly reassigned from the investigation to the FBI's human resources department, a move which is largely seen within the bureau as a demotion. Three sources told the Times that the catalyst was the discovery of text messages in which Strzok reacted to news events - including presidential debates - in ways that could be deemed critical of Donald Trump. The text message exchange was between Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page, another member of Mueller's team, according to The Washington Post. Strzok and Page, who were... https://www.sott.net/article/370034-Mueller-removed-FBI-agent-from-Russian-election-meddling-probe-over-anti-Trump-texts Sun, 03 Dec 2017 20:18:00 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/369893-Alleged-plans-to-divide-Iran-Iraq-Turkey-and-the-ME Yeni Şafak daily and TVNET Editor-In-Chief İbrahim Karagül assessed developments throughout the U.S., Middle East and Europe in an online discussion shared on social media platforms on Thursday. "The U.S. wants to get its hands on the money in banks in the Gulf," said Karagül during a program with Yeni Şafak's Digital Publications Manager Ersin Çelik that was posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. "The greatest bribery and corruption in the world is in the U.S.," he added. Foreign threats to Turkey Karagül also discussed ongoing regional projects that aim to split Turkey and the Middle East. "There is a project to dismantle this region. There are plans to divide Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey and the Middle East. Those who oppose these plans are being targeted," he said. "Daesh is made to look Islamic, but it operates entirely under the command of Israeli and American intelligence. Saudi Arabia is referring to Israel as an ally. This project is being conducted not on religion but on... https://www.sott.net/article/369893-Alleged-plans-to-divide-Iran-Iraq-Turkey-and-the-ME Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:48:50 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/369389-Journalist-claims-France-is-in-panic-close-to-an-Islamic-explosion In an opinion piece, Italian journalist Giulio Meotti says France's discussion about Islam and Islamisation shows the country's panic about the subject. He reacts to the advice French professor Christian de Moliner gave to split up France in two territories: A part with French law for non-Muslims, and a part with Shariah law for Muslims who choose for it. Meotti says the situation looks like the moment when France was losing the war in Algeria and suggested to split up the country into a part for whites and a part for Muslim Algerians. He adds that the "War over France" is hardly at its beginnings: "Many murderous Islamist attacks have taken place and large territories are already outside the control of the French secular Republic. Even if the conflict is still in its infancy, the notion of 'partition' or secession is advancing in public opinion", he says. Professor Molinor's idea to split up the country tells you that Paris is in panic. While president Emmanuel Macron praised... https://www.sott.net/article/369389-Journalist-claims-France-is-in-panic-close-to-an-Islamic-explosion Tue, 28 Nov 2017 20:29:54 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/170073-Indias-9-11-Who-was-Behind-the-Mumbai-Attacks The Mumbai terror attacks were part of a carefully planned and coordinated operation involving several teams of experienced and trained gunmen. The operation has the fingerprints of a paramilitary-intelligence operation. According to a Russian counter terrorist expert, the Mumbai terrorists "used the same tactics that Chechen field militants employed in the Northern Caucasus attacks where entire towns were terrorized, with homes and hospitals seized". (Russia Today, November 27, 2008). The Mumbai attacks are described as " India's 9/11". The attacks were carried out simultaneously in several locations, within minutes of each other. The first target was in the main hall of Mumbai's Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus railway station (CST), where the gunmen fired indiscriminately into the crowd of passengers. The gunmen " then ran out of the station and into neighboring buildings, including Cama Hospital" Attacks by separate groups of gunmen took place at two of Mumbai's luxury hotels - the... https://www.sott.net/article/170073-Indias-9-11-Who-was-Behind-the-Mumbai-Attacks Sun, 26 Nov 2017 22:41:11 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/367004-Latest-study-says-dogs-are-color-blind Here's a tip for the novice pet owner: don't buy your pooch a red ball and then throw it in a green field. Chances are, neither of you will have a lot of fun. The reason for that, it transpires, is that dogs are colour blind. A team of researchers at the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Bari in Italy made this discovery after conducting a series of tests on dogs to try to determine their visual capacity. The old saying that dogs see only in black and white was found to be only partially true as far back as 1989, when a study identified two types of cones - cells that detect colour - in dog retinas. A 1995 analysis of vision studies in dogs, published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association in 1995, concluded that the two types of cones - sensitive to wavelengths around 450 nanometres and one at about 550 nanometres respectively - meant dogs probably had dichromatic vision. https://www.sott.net/article/367004-Latest-study-says-dogs-are-color-blind Wed, 08 Nov 2017 17:33:49 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/365630-Speeding-space-rock-is-first-interstellar-object-to-be-seen-in-our-solar-system Scientists believe they've just pinpointed the first interstellar comet or asteroid ever detected to pass through the solar system, speeding by at a phenomenal rate. The scale of our star's reach is so large that NASA says you could travel more than 13 billion km into deep space and still not escape the influence of the sun. The sheer distance makes the incursion of an alien object - dubbed A/2017 U1 - into the solar system a significant find, as it has traveled an incredible distance to register on the watchful telescopes of Earth. The object, believed to be a comet or asteroid, was spotted by the University of Hawaii's Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on October 19. According to NASA, the 400-meter-diameter object is traveling at an incredible 25.5km per second, and is destined to vanish from the boundaries of our planetary network. https://www.sott.net/article/365630-Speeding-space-rock-is-first-interstellar-object-to-be-seen-in-our-solar-system Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:16:11 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/365002-Is-the-Left-in-its-last-spasm As far as anybody knows, the November 4th revolution/tantrum/jamboree planned by Antifa and its associate organizations remains on schedule. The "Opposition" - Antifa, the John Brown Clubs, Refuse Fascism, and assorted other scraps have announced that on that date the revolution will begin with a mass nationwide uprising that will continue until the Trump/Pence regime is overcome. Dozens of hundreds of the people's vanguard will hit the streets, squatting at intersections and holding their breaths until the fascists are exorcised and the new epoch of light is fully underway. (Further details can be found here.) Conservatives, as is all too often the case, have overreacted. Numerous sites, publications, and radio shows have featured rhetoric such as "Antifa Planning Communist Revolution for America on November 4," "Patriots beware! ANTIFA plans armed uprising on November 4!," and "The Leftist Chaos Will Be Coming On November 4th." (Links withheld to protect the guilty.) But the... https://www.sott.net/article/365002-Is-the-Left-in-its-last-spasm Sat, 21 Oct 2017 14:48:03 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/124499-Comments-on-the-Pentagon-Strike Flight 77 took off at 8:20 a.m. The pilot had his last routine communication with the control tower at 8:50 a.m. "At 9:09 a.m., being unable to reach the plane by radar, the Indianapolis air controllers warned of a possible crash," the Washington Post reported. Vice-President Dick Cheney would later explain that the terrorists had "turned off the transponder, which led to a later report that a plane had gone down over Ohio, but it really hadn't." [Meet the Press, NBC, 16 Sept 2001] On 12 September it was learned that the transponder had been cut off at about 8:55 a.m., rendering the plane invisible to civilian air controllers. During this period of invisibility, the plane was said to have made a U turn back to Washington. This is, of course, an assumption. The information that the plane turned around has no known source. The problem is: turning off the transponder, under the conditions that prevailed that day, would have been the best way of raising an alert. https://www.sott.net/article/124499-Comments-on-the-Pentagon-Strike Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:04:55 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/358915-Latin-Americas-Wikileaks-Files US diplomatic cables reveal a coordinated assault against Latin America's left-wing governments. Earlier this summer, the world watched Greece try to resist a disastrous neoliberal diktat and get a painful thrashing in the process. When Greece's left government decided to hold a national referendum on the troika-imposed austerity program, the European Central Bank retaliated by restricting liquidity for Greek banks. This triggered a prolonged bank closure and plunged Greece further into recession. Though Greek voters ended up massively rejecting austerity, Germany and the European creditor cartel were able to subvert democracy and get exactly what they wanted: complete submission to their neoliberal agenda. In the last decade and a half, a similar fight against neoliberalism has been waged across the breadth of an entire continent, and mostly outside of the public eye. Although Washington initially sought to quash all dissent, often employing even fiercer tactics than those used... https://www.sott.net/article/358915-Latin-Americas-Wikileaks-Files Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:09:25 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/348268-Interview-Former-president-Ahmadinejad-views-no-threat-from-US-may-run-again Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday he does not view recent U.S. missile strikes on ally Syria as a message for Iran, which he called a "powerful country" that the U.S. cannot harm. The controversial former president made the remarks to The Associated Press on Saturday in his office in northern Tehran, three days after he stunned Iranians by registering to run for president again. His surprise candidacy must still be approved by authorities but has already upended a race that was widely expected to be won by incumbent moderate Hassan Rouhani. Ahmadinejad dismissed suggestions that the U.S. strike on Syria might also be a warning for his country. "I do not think it has a message for Iran. Iran is a powerful country and people like Mr. Trump or the United States administration cannot hurt Iran," he said. U.S. President Donald Trump's administration earlier this year announced it was putting Iran "on notice" in part over its ballistic missile tests, and last... https://www.sott.net/article/348268-Interview-Former-president-Ahmadinejad-views-no-threat-from-US-may-run-again Sat, 15 Apr 2017 20:15:45 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/346971-Sott-Exclusive-Re-released-9-11-Attack-Pictures-Same-Old-Lies The 9/11 attacks 'changed the world' because they were used to justify the 'projection of American military power' around the world, a desperate last push by the self-styled 'reality creators' in Washington to maintain their global dominance. But people are always the architects of their own fortune, and by launching an imperial war of aggression thinly disguised as a 'war on global terror', the USA provoked Russia and China to take the steps necessary to usher in the downfall of the inglorious Empire. The 9/11 attacks themselves bear all the hallmarks of a self-inflicted wound, which makes complete sense from a pathological military strategy point of view. The real authors of the 9/11 attacks broadcast their intentions one year in advance when in September 2000, PNAC published a 90-page report entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century, a blueprint for US foreign policy in the near-future. In referring to the Middle East, and citing... https://www.sott.net/article/346971-Sott-Exclusive-Re-released-9-11-Attack-Pictures-Same-Old-Lies Sat, 01 Apr 2017 15:26:44 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/346820-FBI-Records-Vault-releases-images-of-9-11-attacks Others could be seen as putting to rest a popular theory American Airlines Flight 77 never actually smashed into the Pentagon. But, given the stony silence from the U.S. government toward families of victims of the attacks, even the meager disclosure is a welcome morsel of information with the potential to provide answers. Indeed, in the very first image, labeled plainly, "9-11 Pentagon Debris 1," a single piece of wreckage sits isolated on a parcel of lawn — bearing the American Airlines logo and marked with letters and numbers. Mangled metal in the second image appears obviously to have come from a plane, but — like the entire release — no description accompanies to explain when, where, or how the wreckage was discovered by investigators. https://www.sott.net/article/346820-FBI-Records-Vault-releases-images-of-9-11-attacks Fri, 31 Mar 2017 11:02:28 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/346332-Stonewalling-Shell-concealing-health-and-environmental-hazards-at-stalled-cleanup-of-worst-oil-spill-in-Nigerias-history Royal Dutch Shell's Nigeria subsidiary "fiercely opposed" environmental testing and is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a stalled cleanup of the worst oil spills in the West African nation's history, according to a German geologist contracted by the Dutch-British multinational. An environmental study found "astonishingly high" pollution levels with soil "literally soaked with hydrocarbons," geologist Kay Holtzmann wrote in a letter to the Bodo Mediation Initiative. The people of Bodo in the oil-producing southern Niger Delta should get urgent medical tests, Holtzmann wrote in the letter dated Jan. 26 and seen by The Associated Press. Shell did not immediately respond to requests for comment. https://www.sott.net/article/346332-Stonewalling-Shell-concealing-health-and-environmental-hazards-at-stalled-cleanup-of-worst-oil-spill-in-Nigerias-history Sun, 26 Mar 2017 00:32:27 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/345282-3D-Images-provide-first-look-at-how-DNA-shapes-itself-inside-cells For the first time, scientists have been able to model the physical structure of mammalian genomes from individual cells, giving us a unique 3D perspective on how DNA packages itself inside our cells. Through the new technique, scientists can see how the arrangement of cell chromosomes (DNA strands) are designed to keep some cells active or inactive at any one time. The procedure, which so far has been conducted on mice cells, could help us understand more about how animals grow, as well as how cell malfunction can lead to disease. "Knowing where all the genes and control elements are at a given moment will help us understand the molecular mechanisms that control and maintain their expression," says one of the researchers, Ernest Laue from the University of Cambridge in the UK. https://www.sott.net/article/345282-3D-Images-provide-first-look-at-how-DNA-shapes-itself-inside-cells Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:38:11 +0000 https://www.sott.net/article/343806-Ex-CIA-chief-Brennan-denies-being-source-of-Flynn-intelligence-leaks Former CIA Director John Brennan has denied he is the source of intelligence leaks about the Trump administration, and stressed the importance of a bipartisan investigation into reports of Trump's ties to Russia. Speaking on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, Brennan was asked about House intelligence chairman Devin Nunes' claims that leaks about General Michael Flynn's phone calls could only have come from the "very highest levels of the previous administration." Flynn resigned as Trump's national security adviser after he was exposed as having misinformed senior administration officials over the content of his phone calls with Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, in late December. "I think it's very unhelpful to make allegations about who is responsible for these leaks," Brennan said, stressing the importance of distinguishing between leaking "classified information, which is against the law and leaks of discussions that might be taking place within the administration."... https://www.sott.net/article/343806-Ex-CIA-chief-Brennan-denies-being-source-of-Flynn-intelligence-leaks Mon, 27 Feb 2017 16:17:15 +0000