{"id":18829,"date":"2016-03-14T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18829"},"modified":"2016-03-14T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:21:37","slug":"noam-chomsky-and-the-war-on-straight-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18829","title":{"rendered":"Noam Chomsky and The War on Straight Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/politicalfilm.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Noam Chomsky and The War on Straight Answers<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/politicalfilm.files.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/911.jpg?w=614\" alt=\"911\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In the wake of Donald Trump\u2019s shocking\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/donald-trump-you-will-find-out-who-really-knocked-dow-1760001430\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><u>pledge<\/u><\/span><\/a>: \u201cYou will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center,\u201d many Americans may find themselves staring into the abyss. The implication has reached the mainstream, that we do\u00a0<i>not<\/i>\u00a0exactly know who was behind the September 11th\u00a0attacks, which are trotted out to justify every policy enacted ever since.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBecause they have papers in there that are very secret,\u201d continued Trump, \u201cyou may find it\u2019s the Saudis, okay? But you will find out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was genuinely a surprise that Trump would commit to uncovering the truth of the September 11thattacks, while the\u00a0<i>de facto<\/i>\u00a0leader of the American left,\u00a0<strong>Professor Noam Chomsky<\/strong>\u00a0of MIT, had long ago and repeatedly dismissed the 9\/11 attacks as holding no importance\u00a0<i>whatsoever<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho cares?\u201d was Noam Chomsky\u2019s now infamous 2007\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TwZ-vIaW6Bc\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><u>quote<\/u><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI mean even if it [a September 11th government conspiracy] were true, which is extremely unlikely, who cares? I mean it doesn\u2019t have any significance.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an email to Professor Chomsky I demanded he answer one very direct, albeit surprisingly controversial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/politicalfilm.wordpress.com\/2015\/12\/01\/a-public-challenge-to-professor-noam-chomsky\/\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><u>question<\/u><\/span><\/a>. His non-response speaks volumes. My public debate challenge stands unanswered.<br \/>\n<span id=\"more-54517\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That vital question I posed to Chomsky, a cornerstone question for our age, concerns reality as we know it today (or as many do not). It is a \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d proposition, and so without the opportunity for any fanciful verbal contortions.<\/p>\n<h6 align=\"CENTER\">Is there a US government cover-up of the facts of the September 11th attacks?<\/h6>\n<h6 align=\"CENTER\">YES or NO?<\/h6>\n<p>You may want to ask Professor Chomsky this question yourself (<a href=\"mailto:chomsky@mit.edu\"><span lang=\"zxx\"><u>chomsky@mit.edu<\/u><\/span><\/a>). Don\u2019t expect a response, although he may double down on \u201cwho cares?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noam Chomsky and The War on Straight Answers In the wake of Donald Trump\u2019s shocking\u00a0pledge: \u201cYou will find out who really knocked down the World Trade Center,\u201d many Americans may find themselves staring into the abyss. The implication has reached the mainstream, that we do\u00a0not\u00a0exactly know who was behind the September 11th\u00a0attacks, which are trotted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[12931,10,120,6788,12932,12929,512,1880,12933,655,12934,12935,4806,12930],"class_list":["post-18829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-28-redacted-pages","tag-10","tag-censorship","tag-debate","tag-hypothetical","tag-joe-giambrone","tag-media","tag-noam-chomsky","tag-professor-noam-chomsky","tag-propaganda","tag-senator-bob-graham","tag-september-11-attacks","tag-speculation","tag-world-trade-centre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18829"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18831,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829\/revisions\/18831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}