The following article discusses a work of fiction, The Shell Game.
The article presents the case made by author Steve Alten, and some
experts on international affairs, that the government of the United
States is planning a false flag attack on American soil. This attack is
to be blamed on Iran, and would be used as an excuse to impose martial
law and to attack Iran in order to take out the last remaining hurdle
to the successful completion of the Project for a New American Century.
The term “false flag” is a both a common term, and a specific term of
admiralty parlance, used to describe a ship that flies the colors of
another country in order to disguise its identity.

The Shell Game is an endgame scenario. At stake are 1) the
American empire and its hegemony over the Middle East, and 2) Planet
Earth. The immediate challenges to the players of endgame are democracy
in Saudi Arabia and a hostile Iran. The particular prize is the Ghawar
oil field in Saudi Arabia.

The action takes place mostly in the year 2012, with a
conservative 44th president (David McKuin) and a Neo-Con VP (Ellis
Prescott). Prescott’s Neo-Con masters are planning to nuke an American
city in order to free themselves from the restraints of the
Constitution and international law, and to shake the public from its
naïve belief in such documents as well. The attack is to be blamed on
Iranian terrorists with suitcase nukes. The attack will prove, of
course, that the Neo-Cons were right all along to torture, to spy on
Americans, and to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. The attack will justify
the destruction of what’s left of the Constitution, and will clear the
way for the attack against Iran. The Democrats will concur. But unlike
the events surrounding the real 9/11, there lurks, in this work of
fiction, a hero with the means and courage to bring the perpetrators to
justice . . . maybe.

There are four different aspects to The Shell Game, three of
which are essentially non-fiction. These take the form of quotes, a
journal, and news reports. Among them are a concise history of the
House of Saud, and also a concise and understandable explanation of
Iran/Contra and the BCCI scandal.
The plot, and the characters who carry it forth, are fictional. Each of
its 50 chapters is introduced by appropriate and revealing quotes from
the likes of Clint Eastwood, John Lennon, Dick Cheney, George W. Bush,
Edmund Burke, Osama Bin Laden, John O’Neill, and countless others. The
quotes and the non-fiction sections of the book combine to leave no
doubt that, one way or another, the Neo-Cons in the media and in
government were responsible for the 9/11 attacks. These forces are
furthermore responsible for the failure to develop alternative energy,
for the coming collapse if the US economy, and for shortages of food
and water leading to mass starvation in the U.S. and around the world.
Alten’s reasoning is simple. The world is running out of oil. Oil
supports transportation and food production. Without oil there will
barely be enough food to support 20 percent of the world’s population.
Those who get the oil will eat. Those who don’t will starve.

But fear not. The authorities have a plan: 1) Kill off entire
populations with a pandemic before they get uppity, 2) Control the flow
of oil, 3) Rig and suspend elections, 4) Suppress alternative energy
and sustainable ways of life.

They have heard the trumpets: “Terror, terror, terror to all who belong to this world!”
Revelation, 8:13.

The book is brilliantly called The Shell Game because we are the
objects of a con. Our only role is to pay for it with our money or our
lives.

Elections are fraudulent. News is false. Militarism is for good old-fashioned greed. Patriots are
called traitors and traitors are called defenders of democracy at home
and abroad. It’s a shell game. Pay no attention to the man behind the
curtain. Just watch television, pay your taxes, shut up and shop. But
in Alten’s page-turner of a political thriller, for the most part, “The
good end happily and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction is all
about.” (Thanks Oscar.)

The hero (an oil executive) is pitted against the forces of evil
(the Neo-Cons and their Saudi partners). He does a damn fine job of
saving the planet. His means may come from beyond the grave, but he
does not shirk his duty to this world, despite the dastardly
machinations of the directors of the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security,
the Saudis, Iran, the media, and the executive branch. He surrenders a
few fingernails etc. in the torture cells, but he prevails. The
opposition party (there is one, proving further that the book is
fiction) is poised to win the next election; so the world might just be
saved from mass starvations, pandemics, global warming, and/or blowing
itself up.
But seriously folks, there is a realistic ending in the form of a
compromise that brings us back to earth, lest we think that the monster
is dead. The monster is not dead. It is resting.
The monster in The Shell Game is not only the tyranny of the
totalitarian state, but also the blow-back from the Arab world that the
would-be tyrants have deliberately provoked. Alten’s 2012
Neo-Cons (and ours) have left no stone unturned to find the enemies
they need, real or imaginary.
The book has a slight jingoistic ring to it in its treatment of Iran
and Al Qaeda. In the real world, they are not, perhaps, the threat that
Alten’s characters perceive them to be. For the media, the shell game
is to make us see a threat when there is none. In this regard, Alten
has perhaps contributed to the shell game he so ardently attempts to
expose.

But Alten does not pull his punches. He clearly blames the
Neo-Cons for exacerbating anger and for intentionally driving the
desperate to violence, and for using that anger to perpetrate the next
9/11. Alten points out further that congress has handed every power the
budding dictator could ever want to the executive branch. Congress has
literally given the green light to a false flag attack against the
United States by accepting the presidential directives of martial law
(NSPD-51 and HSPD-20). Congress has also given the president the right
to attack any country at will, imprison dissenters without trial, and
send troops into our communities. All the president has to do is to
declare the next attack on American soil to be terrorist. There will be
no one to refute it, as Congress, the judiciary, the media, and the
peace movement have all made their beds by handing him a pass on 9/11.
Look to Homeland Security via the media to report an increase in
“terrorist activity.” Note the upcoming successes of the FBI. The next
few months (no need to wait for 2012) will uncover chemical weapons,
dirty bombs, Al Qaeda cells, and enriched uranium, all traceable to
Iran. These warnings may prepare us, psychologically, for the next
false flag attack on American soil. The evidence of Iran’s guilt will
be dutifully reported. There will be no contradictory reports. World
War III will begin.

Endgame. And all because no one in authority will investigate
the evidence and accuse the administration of complicity in the 9/11
attacks.

Errata 1: From False Flag Prospects 2008 -- Top Three U.S. Target Cities
by Captain Eric H. May

Captain Eric H. May suggests that Houstonand Portland are the targets
that the Bush Administration has chosen for the next false flag attack.
He quotes a warning from Bush himself.

"Good morning. At this moment, somewhere in the world, terrorists are
planning new attacks on our country. Their goal is to bring destruction
to our shores that will make September the 11th pale by comparison.” --
George W. Bush, Feb. 13, 2008

Writes
Captain May: “I can't think of a more important question than the
one of where the next 9/11 will be attempted. Common sense dictates to
all of us who understand the truth about 9/11 that its perpetrators
must strike again. Indeed, every directive, act, and decision of our
post-9/11 unitary executive, cowards Congress, and Judas judiciary has
increased the power of the federal government to wage the Global War
and impose the Homeland State.

“Why on earth would those guilty of mass murder, high treason
and war crimes fail to follow up on their earlier efforts? They
understand quite well that the Global War is going badly and the
Homeland State is becoming onerous, and that only a reapplication of
false flag terror will force the American people to proceed with our
post-9/11 national insanity.

“Still, for every one person who republishes or constructively
comments on this essay, there will be another who employs division,
abuse, and ridicule against me or anyone else who asserts the common
sense point that false flaggers will continue to false flag.
“We can only stop the deadly drift of America by understanding 9/11 and
anticipating the next 9/11. Many of the vociferous voices impeding our
understanding and anticipation are performing a vital service for
treason.”

(Captain May is a former Army military intelligence and public
affairs officer, as well as a former NBC editorial writer. His
political and military analyses have appeared in The Wall Street
Journal, the Houston Chronicle and Military Intelligence Magazine.)

Errata 2: Anthrax and Leahy

In my interview with Steve Alten on WGDR on March 3, 2008, I
asked him what he thought about Senator Leahy’s silence and obeisance
to the Bushists after receiving the anthrax letter, subsequent to which
Leahy voted for the PATRIOT Act (USAPA). I said to Steve Alten, “You
are a senator. You have, in your possession, the evidence that will
sink the perpetrator of the attack. You find out that the anthrax comes
from the U.S. lab in Fort Dietrich, Maryland. You do nothing. You
pretend it is not relevant. And you vote for an act which you know is
despicable and unconstitutional. You later commend the 9/11 Commission
for its definitive work even though it does not mention the lethal
anthrax attack. How do you explain that?”
Alten’s reply: “Gutless.”
And who among them isn’t?
They have no qualms sending soldiers to their deaths and inflicting
state terror on Afghanistan and Iraq, but they will do nothing to
ruffle the feathers of those responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
“Gutless,” yes. And far worse.

And Alten added that the patriots of today are those Americans
who are honestly involved in the 9/11 Truth movement. Just as the
patriots of yesterday were those who fought for American Independence.

The obvious and frightening conclusion that we must draw is that
the next attack will be covered up as well by the traitors of today,
from its inception through its conclusion. Zbigniew Brzezinski
warned of the next false flag operation, but not one Senator will even
admit that the 9/11 Commission lied.
The alternative to prosecuting the crimes of 9/11 is the next 9/11, for which congress and the media have paved the way.

Jim Hogue operates a small farm and performs as Ethan Allen. He is a member
of Vermonters for Voting Integrity, which wrote the bill banning
electronic voting in Vermont.