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9/11 and Another Short Attention Span Tragedy:

September 12, 2009 By Clare Ultimo

I spent some time yesterday listening to all the buzz around Charlie Sheen, his 20 questions to the president about 9/11, and all the misunderstanding and anger this seemed to create for the sleeping masses and the controlled media.

I don’t watch “Two and a Half Men” but it’s rare for any celebrity to care about anything more than their hairstyle. And it’s rare for anyone in the public to care about a celebrity unless they’re adopting African kids or found drunk in a bathroom so no matter what you think of Sheen, (me included) this is not your usual celebrity fare.

Sheen created a series of 20 questions about 9/11 to ask the president and then artistically answered the questions himself. Everyone got their pants in a bunch about this part, even though every time I heard him talk about it on internet radio, he clearly explained this and I never thought anything else. I understood it the first time I heard him, and thought it was dumb actually. I guess I felt that by just coming out publicly with the questions alone, he would make his point. While Sheen wouldn’t agree with me, adding the “artistic fiction” of the president’s answers brought the attention away from the points everyone needs to look at.

Alex Jones got in a lot of trouble with Coast to Coast AM host, George Noory, who openly said he was disappointed with Alex for putting Sheen’s stuff “out there” without saying the president’s answers were fictitious; lying to people, “misleading” them. At the end of the mock interview transcript on Alex’s site, it did say that the interview didn’t happen, but you’d have to READ THE ENTIRE THING to see that. Of course, I would have put it at the top of the interview myself; I know in advance that people have no attention span and would probably not read it through to the end. What I would have liked Noory to have said instead was “I’m disappointed with the short attention span of the American public…it’s dangerous not to pay attention”….In the end, he and Alex came together on air and cleared it up, but none of this was the discussion we really needed to have: what have the powers that be hidden about 9/11 and why?
This purposeful kind of distraction (“Sheen faked it!!!”) is created by Big Media, and successfully kept the public from the real points Sheen made: the unanswered questions about 9/11 and the fact that 8 years later, they remain unanswered.

Our stupidity and short attention span is what Big Media counts on and I guess it’s still a sure bet. A populace of under-educated, Ipod-distracted people can be told anything; then to add insult to injury, these distracted folks will monitor each other with nonsense and lies and laugh at anyone who disagrees with what they heard on CNN.

Control of our communication when it comes to what is really going on in our world is a dangerous thing to have in the hands of a very very few. Please learn more about actually how few control every piece of information publicly available in the world. 
The distractions and the lies we are fed daily will kill us…like literally.

 

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