Below please find the beginnings of three articles published this week, with links to the rest of them. The first captures the experience of the late Port Authority police sergeant Sue Keane, a key witness to the collapses of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The second comments on power politics and justice in the United Kingdom and the United States, in part as they relate to the arrest and continued prisonment of journalist Julian Assange. In the third a New York City lawyer expostulates critically on responses to Covid-19. — MCM
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The Untold Story of Sue Keane — a 9/11 hero, eyewitness, and truth-teller
A few days before the new year, I was greatly saddened to learn about the passing of retired Port Authority Police Department Sergeant Susan Martha Keane. She had died exactly two months earlier, on October 28, 2021, from a heart attack in her home in Palm Bay, Florida. She was only 62 years old.
I had come to know Sue because she was a first responder on 9/11 and a key witness to the blast wind that ripped through the lobby of the World Trade Center’s North Tower when the neighboring South Tower — along with some 800 people inside it — was blown up at 9:59 AM that morning.
I had tracked her down in December 2020 to ask her to give testimony in support of an application for a new inquest into the death of British 9/11 victim Geoff Campbell, who was attending a conference on the 106th floor of the North Tower when it was struck by an airplane at 8:46 AM. His family is seeking to overturn the verdict of his original inquest — which states that the North Tower collapsed due to the airplane impact — and establish that his actual cause of death was the North Tower’s explosive demolition.
I remember leaving a message on Sue’s voicemail and then calling her again a few days later, doubtful that I would ever get to speak to her. To my surprise, she picked up the phone and told me she had been thinking about my message all weekend. After we spoke for an hour, she agreed to provide a statement for the application and to testify in person if the new inquest were granted.
She was not surprised to receive my call. In fact, she had been waiting for it for almost 20 years. Not long after 9/11, a friend of hers predicted that people would eventually come looking for her — perhaps around the 20th anniversary of the event — asking her to tell her story again. After years of mentally preparing for this moment, she had come to see herself as a living historical document. She felt it was her duty to tell the world what happened that day. READ MORE
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How the Establishment Functions
I suggested in my last post that the British Establishment may be looking for a way out of the terrible Assange debacle without raising difficult truths about the United States justice and penal system. The functioning of the Establishment, the way it forms a collective view and how that view is transmitted, is a mystery to many. Some imagine instructions must be transmitted by formal cabals meeting as Freemasons or Bilderbergers or some such grouping. It is not really like that, although different fora of course do provide venues for the powerful to gather and discuss.
I have a bit of a feel for it all, having been a diplomat for 20 years and member of the Senior Civil Service for six. And if I was advising someone who wanted to think of it seriously, I would say human nature doesn’t change; read Thackeray and Trollope, Harold Nicolson and watch the amazing Brian Cox in Succession. All these sources give genuine glimpses of insight.
Former Foreign Office Minister Alan Duncan appears to fancy himself as something of a Harold Nicolson, though sadly lacking the wit or writing ability. Duncan has published his diaries. Duncan is the former . . . READ MORE
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From My Cold, Dead Hands!
Let us start with the benediction. All rise and repeat after me.
- COVID is a religion.
- Vaccines are its sacrament.
- Masks are its vestments.
- Fauci is its Pope.
- The CDC is its Vatican.
Ah, yes. Milgram. How perfect. How relevant. Follow orders. Question nothing. Selectively. You will wear masks indefinitely. Question nothing or else. Sockpuppet media will sort through every episode of the Joe Rogan Show looking for the slightest veiled or blatant reference to the dread N-word but as far as the flight logs of the Epstein human trafficking airlifts, who cares? Follow orders. Follow directions. Trust the science. Trust (some) science. Trust (our) science. Shut up and comply. Get the picture? I knew you would.
But mask regulations are going by the wayside. Good news, right? One would think. . . . READ MORE