Be sure to check out the DVD documentary, 911 Press for Truth, being sold at Cooperative Research.

NOTE: The deception dollar contains links to a variety of websites challenging the US government's official version of the 911 attacks. The websites represent different political views, some of which are not supported by Del Cantón (for example, some sites, while providing very good information on 911 related issues, take a very conservative stance on issues such as immigration). Del Cantón does not manufacture these bills. Rather, its association with the deception dollar is cooperativeresearch.org, which advocates decentralizing the production and distribution of information by providing the public with the tools to conduct grassroots investigations. Cooperative Research hosts the Complete 911 Timeline open-content project which provides an incredible amount of evidence that the some elements within the Bush administration allowed the attacks to happen. The owner of Del Cantón is the founder of cooperativeresearch.org.

NNote: The Deception Dollar bills are 25% larger than real currency.

RUBBER-STAMPING THE ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY IN IRAQ

(House of Representatives - October 08, 2003)

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The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. McDermott) is recognized for 5 minutes.

Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I come to the floor tonight because I know that we are going to next week be in a session of the ``Rubber Stamp Congress.'' Tomorrow the Committee on Appropriations will meet for several hours, and they will pass out $87 billion worth of borrowed money. I brought this because in my district one of my constituents started printing up what he calls ``fraudulent event notes.'' This is a $1 billion note in ``deception dollars.''

Now, 87 of those look something like this. That is what we are going to put out tomorrow, $87 billion of hard-earned money, with very little discussion, and the President wants them to run it through this House next week. We will come in on Wednesday. We will fly in on Wednesday afternoon; on Thursday we will have a little debate; and Thursday it will be gone. Two, three hours of debate, $87 billion .

Now, when you think about that, this Rubber Stamp Congress never says no to this President. It is a failed policy, with the same people in charge today that got us in the mess. Oh, they have rearranged the deck chairs on the Titanic. Ms. Rice is now in charge. She sort of elbowed Colin Powell off to one side, and Mr. Rumsfeld off to the other side, and she is running in and telling Mr. Bremer what to do, the Viceroy we appointed over there to run this place.

What is missing in all of this is a plan to give the control of Iraq to the Iraqis. They say someday. Five years, we are going to be doing this for 5 years. In one year, we have been in here for $79 billion , and now we are back for $87 billion more, all borrowed.

We cannot touch those tax cuts. Oh, no, we gave that money to the rich people, and, I do not know, they are doing something with it somewhere. They are not making jobs. We have got no jobs in this country. But we are printing money. The presses are running like mad printing this money to send over to Iraq.

Now, what are we going to send it there for? You heard from one of my colleagues a little bit of it. We are going to send over a guard system for public property, $15 million. That is just for training and administration.

We are going to send them 80 pickup trucks at $2.6 million. That is $33,000 apiece. That is a pretty good pickup truck. You can get a pickup truck for under $20,000 right now. But, no, we have to send them the $33,000 brand.

We are going to send over a communications system of handheld radios, 400 of them, and 200 satellite telephones, for $6 million. How many of your police departments have that kind of equipment? And yet we can send it over to Iraq. Or we can go and give security for the judges at $200 million. Four hundred judges. We are going to provide security details constantly for $200 million.

These phony dollars that they got us into, they got us into a war on a fraudulent basis. The President stood right here and said things which he now says, ``My, it wasn't true.'' But we are going to pay for it.

We are going to pay for a witness protection program. If any Iraqis come forward, we promise them that we will take them to the United States and set them up someplace in Florida or wherever, I do not know, and spend $100 million on them, like they were crime fighters in the Mafia in the United States.

That is what your money is going for.

Mr. Speaker, there are a lot of things in this country that ought to happen before that happens.
We are going to buy them 200 tanker trucks. We are going to buy them 250 natural gas trucks. More of these dollars. They are going out. They are going out to the people, and they are going to be spent over there, and the Iraqis themselves say, ``Give us 10 cents on the dollar, and we can do it ourselves.'' But this is an American occupation headed by Viceroy Bremer, and there is no intention in this list of turning over control to them.

We are going to set them up an army. We have decided they need a 40,000-man army. They had an army before. Where is it? Why do we have to buy new weapons for all of them? Four hundred thirty-five Members are going to come in here with their rubber stamp, and they are going to say, ``Mr. President, you want it. I close my eyes, it is yours.'' And we are going to send them $87 billion , with no discussion. It is wrong. Keep your eye on them.

Unmasking the Big Deception

By Carol Brouillet

Almost everyone can remember with clarity the moment that they heard of the attacks of September 11th, and in addition to the grief, shock, horror, fear that we felt was the desire to understand, to know- “Why?,” “How?,” and “Who could possibly benefit from such a crime?” These questions were never answered satisfactorily by the press, which soon began beating the war drums and hurtling us towards World War III.

The U.S. government’s attacks upon Afghanistan, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and Iraq, it’s attempt to redefine the world in an Orwellian manner contingent upon the events of September 11,th prompted people to critically examine the events of that day, before, and after to discern the truth from the spin.

Concerned people sought to build a new map of reality, to understand where we were, and what direction we were suddenly facing. Confusion and disorientation make it difficult to know which way to go: with a good map, a sense of where we have been and where we are heading, people are empowered to change course, and not blindly follow “a leader.” The worldwide web facilitated an extraordinary exchange of information, observations, and collaborations in an urgent, spontaneous effort to make sense of what happened, use of the web helped to put together the pieces of a puzzle, and see the big picture of the crisis as it unfolded.

Peoples maps changed as they grasped the significance of 9-11, and how “the story” was being spun to allow the casual observer to quickly and comfortably jump to disingenuous conclusions. Heroic efforts were made to shine light on the criminal conspiracy that culminated in the attacks that day and in the “cover-up” that followed. Many articles were written; websites sprang up; videos were made… art, cartoons, speeches, petitions to demand an investigation of 9-11, proliferated to illuminate fears, doubts, concerns, and shed light on our questions. Across cyber-space isolation was broken, people connected, networks formed, consciousness was raised, an incredibly diverse movement was nurtured. Yet the carefully cordoned “reality” defined by the mainstream press remained unquestioned by many.

When a small group of activists representing peace and human rights groups, marched on Senator Feinstein’s office to Demand a Congressional Investigation of 9-11 on January 8th, 2002, they raised a large number of questions and issues. Bush immediately responded by asking Daschle to limit the inquiry. Indeed, the mandate of the investigation seemed to be “come up with an excuse as to why we failed to prevent September 11th and explain how we could justify increasing our budget to prevent future terrorist attacks.” Most revealing of the official nature of the “whitewash” was the fact that the heads of the Senate and House Intelligence Oversight Committee, responsible for the 9-11 investigation, on the actual morning of September 11, 2001, were having breakfast with Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad (the head of Pakistani Intelligence who helped the US and the Saudis to create the Al Qaeda Network). Ahmad was also identified to be responsible for having $100,000 sent to Mohamed Atta, the lead hijacker in the World Trade Center attacks (according to the FBI).

Damning evidence of government complicity continued to mount, although the U.S. press continued to fail to connect the dots exercising “damage control.” Books were published but information was mixed with disinformation. This threatened to bury the critical analysis and key facts under an avalanche of lies, misinformation, speculation, and propaganda; to muddy the waters, confuse everyone, paralyze the public into inaction or mislead them to waste their energy upon other “issues.” When the headline “Bush Knew” appeared, those who had begun to suspect that the government had been lying, had their fears confirmed.

On June 10th, 2002, UnansweredQuestions.org held a press conference in Washington D.C. raising eleven key questions about September 11th. C-Span cancelled their coverage of the Press Conference at the last minute; the mainstream press tried to ignore it; and the Bush Administration pulled Padilla out of his cell and tried to make a big hoopla over “new evidence of a terrorist threat.”

In July, Nafeez Mossadeq Ahmed’s book, the War on Freedom , was published. Ahmed documented compelling evidence of the complicity of the U.S. government in the September 11th attacks, Ahmed’s voice has helped greatly to give credibility to a growing movement, demanding truth, transparency and accountability from the government. Michel Chossudovsky's book, War and Globalization- The Truth Behind September 11th, has significantly contributed to understanding the role of the U.S. government in 9-11 and the overall geopolitical situation.

In the Fall of 2002, the first "Bush Did It!" marches, rallies, forums were held in San Francisco and Oakland California. Guerrilla News Network provided a rough cut of their 9-11 documentary Aftermath to 9-11 activists in New York and California who began collaborating in new ways to form a People's Investigation of 9-11, a 9-11 Truth Alliance , and working towards creating an Independent Citizen's Commission on 9-11 (Here is the letter sent out by New York WILPF Metro to invite all activists to join our efforts).

In October, 10,000 Deception Dollars were printed and given away at the big anti-war march in San Francisco on the 26th; people loved them. When they ran out, improvements were made and an additional 100,000 were printed. These were distributed at the big anti-war marches on January 18th (and we ran out of them in San Francisco). Our most popular leaflet, consciousness raiser on 9-11, the Deception Dollars help us to reach directly to people who have been bombarded with mainstream and government propaganda and want to know the truth. We firmly believe that the truth will bring together the global majority of the world's people who seek peace, justice, a better world for their children and all life, to see through the lies of a tiny global minority clinging to power through lies, war, terrorism and fear. We invite everyone to join our efforts to learn and expose the truth about 9-11, a crime which is being used to justify a war of terrorism against all of us. We hope to nurture a spirit of cooperation, respect, love amongst all who realize how interdependent our future is.

A Global Dance has begun between the forces of Peace and War, Truth and Lies, Resistance and Repression. All the resources of the U.S. government, and transnational corporations who benefit from war, and the control over the vast majority of the world’s resources by an elite minority, will do what they can to create fear, confusion, maintain their power. All we can do is tell the truth, shatter the BIG LIE, with facts, humor, love, courage, creativity, clarity, to empower all of us to hold those responsible for crimes against humanity accountable for their actions, and to rein them in, before they commit worse acts of terror against people at home and abroad.

The Deception Dollars were created as a portal to the best information we have found on 9-11. There is so much information that no one could possibly keep up with it all and there is a tremendous diversity of ideas, opinions, observations amongst a growing number of sites, research with each site providing links to other sites. Some sites provide a place for dialogue, discussion, organizing opportunities, some just try to convey essential information. There are more urls for 9-11 sites than space on the Deception Dollars to list them, but hopefully- the breadth, diversity, widespread nature of the internet will help to grow an unstoppable movement.

You can help, and only you can decide how and where your talents, skills, energy can be best deployed to further the cause of truth, peace, justice, life.