I've actually steeled myself and examined the site a little more closely. I've started by listening to a sample MP3 of the site, an interview
called "CIA Fakes: the Inside Story".
It starts with the interviewer saying, well, this is going to be a tough interview: well, that's the first lie, because as soon as she asks him,
"who is Fintan Dunne?", it turns out that they both work together on the website.
So... no, it's far from adversarial.
She asks him what he does full-time... and, well, it seems that
this is what he does full time. Any alarm bells ringing for anyone else
here?
The listeners to his radio show have. apparently, been very supportive.
On a personal note - my parents were Irish and it's quite distressing for me to hear these people speak with an accent I know and love.
Anyway, back to the "interview"... how does Dunne judge websites to be CIA controlled? It's because of "the generality of the information they
put out: if I feel that what they put out, is what the CIA wants to achieve, then I feel I have to warn people about that."
No different from the criteria I'm using here, then. Of course, he wouldn't be using any inside sources.
Any disinfo in the interview? Well, he does say that 9/11 was NOT the work of a rogue group within the USG: in fact, the G8 are at least complicit in
this. He's therefore either ignorant of Webster Tarpley's research, or he wants to put out an alternative view.
"So... would you care to explain how the sites get on your list?"
"What I'd rather do is look at the big picture..."
I'm sure. Funnily enough, we never seem to get a proper answer to the question, which is interesting.
As the interview goes on, he refers to
this article: rise of the G8
NWO, which does make some good points. I'm starting to think, ok, maybe he's just a bit injudicious about whom he condemns out of hand... but
then I noticed that while he said a lot of stuff with which I agree, he didn't provide any evidence to back up his assertions. Now that evidence is
available, but without it, a lot of reasonable people are going to just write off Dunne's writing as BS.
But then he starts on Alex Jones. Now, let me be clear about this,
again: I think AJ is a dreadful blowhard at times but he gets some good
info out there. When he starts screaming I just want to curl into a ball with embarrassment or cool him off with a SuperSoaker. But
my
opinion is that the guy is sincere, I think he's attracting a lot of attention, and I think he genuinely is feeling (and being) threatened,
lately.
So Dunne's first argument is that there are a lot of people on the US left who hate AJ for being tabloid.
Well, duh. He is, but this is a sad reflection of the state of the US in general. Who are the popular people? It's the Rushes and O'Reillys who
get the attention, it's the whole shock-jock thing. The US is, to a great extent, a tabloid society. AJ is simply going along that path, but with
his own agenda. And I really don't think that he cares about the left - my impression is that he's kind of a right-wing libertarian. But the
problem with him is, (as far as the PTB are concerned)
he's starting to get some traction. That makes him a threat.
Now, for me, the sensible thing to do is celebrate that traction while at the same time trying to be more considered in my approach. AJ
is a
bull in a china shop, bless him, and he's said a few things I think are just windbaggery. So, ignore those things, just let 'em go, and concentrate
on the fact that he's building a
non partisan power base, and that's something he's conscious of doing.
So... it's also interesting to note at this point that his friend/interviewer says to him, "you were actually friendly with Alex Jones at one point,
weren't you?" Now, it's not like you can't tell what AJ is like from a fairly brief acquaintance with his style... why cosy up to someone you
must have already written off as a windbag, if you're being sincere in your analysis?
His main criticism of AJ is that he promotes fear. Dunne says that by mentioning the FEMA camps, which he calls BS, AJ is just intimidating people.
This is either disingenuous or he doesn't understand the nature of US culture very well. I've been in the US enough, and hung out on these boards
enough, to know that, while some will be intimidated, many will simply prepare themselves. There have been a few more shooting incidents lately, and
I'm actually finding myself starting to wonder about MK-ULTRA style shenanigans involved. The agenda is obvious.
Once you start out down the rabbit hole it's hard to know where it ends.
Back to Dunne. What bothers me is the level of hypocrisy involved, in that he espouses certain values and then attacks sites that live by those
values. For example, he talks about people getting together to work out stuff for themselves and then lists co-operative research. He talks about
people making independent efforts and then attacks information clearing house. It just doesn't sit right.
I'd strongly encourage people to look at all the sites and people he names. I've already mentioned a few that I know and trust,