Although I am a conspiracy theorist, I don’t believe every conspiracy story that goes floating by. Granted, there are some false-flag events that are so obvious you could hardly fail to identify them as false. But there are other stories out there that may or may not be true.
The first time I bumped into a false flag was in 1990, when my spouse and I were living in the Persian Gulf. It was claimed that Saddam Hussein was about to invade Kuwait, and therefore the US needed to bomb the living daylights out of Saddam. The usual — as we now see it.
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I can’t explain how I knew the event was not cricket. But we did at least know, by that point, that the US had provided arms to both sides during the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, basically the Reagan years. Providing arms to both sides in a war is disgusting. My friend, who was an Anglican vicar in the region, said he saw umpteen amputees in Iraq.
In 1989, George HW Bush became president. By August 1990, we had Operation Desert Shield, and by January 1991, we had Desert Storm. My reaction in early January was to hop up to Boston and make a press release — ask me about that later. (Nobody believed anything other than what our government and media said.)
Anyway, when 2001 rolled around a decade later, you would think I’d be perky enough to see the WTC tragedy, too, as a false flag. (“False flag” refers to incidents that give rise to war and are later seen to have been “arranged.”)
However, shortly before September 2001, one of my respected teachers, himself an Arab, had told me that Osama bin Laden was a real worry. So when the telly said Osama did 9-11, it all made sense. Yes, “blowback,” you know. “Arabs hate us for our involvement in the region.”
It wasn’t until February 2005 that I got the corrected story (Inside job.) I thought I was one of the few who knew, so I was pretty scared. At the time, I was in Canada, so I wrote a letter immediately and delivered it to the local police and to a judge — very typical of me. I also tried to bring a copy to the bishop, but the taxi driver couldn’t find his residence.
Sorry, this is long-winded — I only want to say that every claim of a false flag operation does not win my patronage. I have to get into it with full attention and canvass all the resources. As it happens, I got drawn into four such cases to such an extent that I wrote books about them.
(Two occurred in Australia — the Port Arthur massacre of 1996 and the Sydney siege of 2014. And two in the USA, the Boston Marathon bombing and the Sandy Hook school shooting; all four are false flags. Most of my investigation was done via court documents. And don’tcha be fooled by the current media circus regarding Alex Jones.)
To the Moon, Then
I have never had the opportunity to examine the claim that the US moon landing of 1969 was a hoax. Offhand, it seemed to me that the very story of it being a hoax was a hoax. So I did not pursue it.
Some of my friends think I am being stubborn by believing the official story. That’s not quite correct. I just had nothing strong enough (without doing good research) to push me into disbelieving. There were videos on the Internet that showed what looked to be the astronauts practicing getting out of the spaceship on earth. I thought, “OK, that was a good precaution in case the camera on the big day did not work.” Nothing hoax-y about that.
I have also been chided for not taking seriously the announcement that astronauts cannot pass through the Van Allen Belt without getting radiated to death. The reason I was not moved by that, is that I used to live around the corner, in Adelaide, Australia, from Sir Mark Oliphant. He told me plenty of stories before he died in 2000. I assumed that if he hadn’t quizzed the Van Allen Belt problem, there was nothing to quiz. (Oliphant, in the 1920s, was a protege in of Ernst Rutherford, at Cambridge, who figured out that atoms contain a positively-charged nucleus.)
Long story short, a friend sent me the video today of the son of Cyrus Akers. It is a deathbed confession of the son, dated 2022, telling what his dad told him in 2002. The dad was privy to a government secret. Needless to say, I cannot teach anyone that the moon landing was a hoax based on a video narrated by someone who us not able to be quizzed. (He died in February 22.)
Nevertheless, for my own satisfaction, the video did the trick. I think the son’s story and the dad’s story pass the sniff test. You can watch it below. Here is what he says (from 4 minutes on the tape to 11 minutes):
In 1968 Lyndon Johnson went to Canon Air Force Base, New Mexico, where Dad Akers was stationed. Akers and 14 others were sworn to secrecy. Trucks arrived with all the props needed for a lunar-landing scene. As best as I can attempt the spelling of names, from hearing Son Akers rattle them off, they are as follows:
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Werner von Braun, Robert Eminare (filmmaker), Jean [or Gene?] Crag, James Will, Joe Perrin, Dr. Thomas Payne, Lan Loddy, Dr. Crout [or Kraut?], General Trudeau, Lt Col Donald Sims, Grant Norray “of the FBI or CIA or NSA,” and — wait for it — Dr. James Van Allen (after whom the Belt was named).
I don’t know if you will believe the video. But if you do believe it, you will be mighty pissed off, as I am, to think how we are made fools of. I am particularly furious that my parents were thusly mocked. Not that they were into science; they simply watched it on TV and would have felt proud.
Retch! And the very day of the landing was my father’s 70th birthday. He was born on July 20, 1899. Also, when “we landed on the moon,” it was the day after Ted Kennedy had had a problem at Cape Cod with a girl, Mary Jo Kopechne, who drove off a bridge in his car and drowned at Chappaquiddick.
Come to think of it, that was a false flag of sorts. Let me quote from page 19 of my 2011 book “Prosecution for Treason.” I learned of this from a 1971 book by Zad Rust, entitled Teddy Bare:
“The next morning, July 21, 1969, Mary Jo’s body was sent to her home state on a Kennedy-chartered plane, thus avoiding Massachusetts’ autopsy jurisdiction. A deputy sheriff, Christopher Look, had said he saw the car on dry ground an hour after it supposedly tumbled, but he was not called to testify…
“The grand jury was run by Judge Paquet. At the hearing, he brought with him and invited to his bench the Rev. Donald Cousa who offered a short prayer ‘for prejudice to be set aside and replaced by charity.”
Retch!
Now for the movie. It was uploaded by Bart Sibrel on September 13, 2022. Has 109,000 views so far. And has not been deleted from YouTube!
