update on recent posts

Another news item illustrates our fixation with terrorism. Yesterday, at least 120 people were killed in a Pakistan rail accident.

"One witness told AFP news agency: "It's a painful scene. There are bodies
scattered all over. "People are crying, fathers are looking for children,
husbands for their wives and brothers for their sisters." "

This gets less attention than a bomb attack that killed 50. The bombers must be pleased.

On another topic, I almost did not post the "worst case scenario" message. Let me repeat that the most likely cause of the London bombing was the "crazy fanatic" scenario. I don't want to be labeled a conspiracy theorist. Which is strange, because most major business and government decisions are made in secret, and the most important decisions are kept on a "need to know" basis until such time as it doesn't matter who knows. In other words, the whole world runs on conspiracies.

Anyway, at the close of the item I referred to the Lavon affair, where Israeli agents created a "terrorist" incident to blame on the Arabs. Conspiracy sites can point to many other apparently fake terrorist events, but of course these claims are strongly denied by the governments in question. So it is difficult to point to cases where everyone agrees it happened. In the US, "Operation Northwoods" is the nearest thing to a smoking gun. That plan was never carried out. if it was, you can be sure that the papers would have never been released. So we can continue to tell ourselves it would never happen.

Let me repeat (again) I do not think it is likely that our governments (or their agencies) had any hand in these attacks. But the laws on secrecy mean we simply cannot know for sure.