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US Workers Starved Into Service
Saturday, 31 October 2009 6:45 P GMT-05
It’s hard not to wonder what would happen if, instead of dutifully reading from the Pentagon’s script on October 13, the media had done their job and informed the public about the real nature of the ‘service’ that potential enlistees were signing up for. Maybe if they had, those recruitment officers would not have been quite so busy recruiting – and stealing the lives of – unsuspecting young people in desperate need of employment.
Maybe those eager masses of young men and women wouldn’t have been so hot to sign up if, for instance, they understood that anyone enlisting in the military right now – whatever branch – is required to sign a document that states: "Laws and regulations that govern military personnel may change without notice to me. Such changes may affect my status, pay allowances, benefits and responsibilities as a member of the Armed Forces REGARDLESS of the provisions of this enlistment/re-enlistment document.” (DD Form4/1, 1998, Sec.9.5b).
In their book Army of None, published in 2007, Aimee Allison and David Solnit advise those who expect the military to pay for their college to “read the fine print.” The authors point out that only a fraction of recruits who signed up for the Montgomery GI Bill received a dime, and that 65 percent “received no money at all for college.” If you receive a less than honorable discharge (as one in four do), leave the military early (as one in three do), or later decide not to go to college, “the military will keep your deposit and give you nothing.”
FOX News Recruiting For U.S. Military!
Saturday, 31 October 2009 6:21 P GMT-05
Journalists & Other Media Professionals for 9/11 Truth
Sunday, 25 October 2009 2:14 P GMT-05
We invite you to browse our website, read the materials, and, hopefully, sign our petition of support for a new 9/11 investigation. With your time and effort a new investigation will be increasingly likely. We sincerely appreciate your contribution.
EP Podcast: Building Seven
Monday, 19 October 2009 12:21 A GMT-05
Deaths of 9/11 front-liners renew talk of aid bill NY DAILY NEWS Oct.13th
Saturday, 17 October 2009 9:42 P GMT-05
The deaths of three 9/11 first responders in the past week is enough proof for Mayor Bloomberg that people are getting sick from working at Ground Zero.
"Probably - nobody's sure - but probably contracted during breathing the air down at the World Trade Center site," the mayor said yesterday after the Daily News reported that two cops and a firefighter recently died of cancer.
NYPD Officer Robert Grossman died of cancer Friday at the age of 44. The next day, Firefighter Richard Mannetta, 44, died of cancer. And last Wednesday, 37-year-old Police Officer Cory Diaz also died of cancer. Firefighter John McNamara, 44, died of cancer last month.
Oh the heights of irony...
Monday, 12 October 2009 2:58 P GMT-05
Be that as it may - I would very much rather have an old whore extol the virtues of chastity to me than have mainstream media tell me what is or is not ethical for the simple reason that I expect the former to be far more entertaining than the latter. OK, mainstream media, now that you've heard this little rant - carry on. Keep on doin' Pravda and Der Sturmer proud!
The mainstream media: what - or who - is it made of?
Sunday, 11 October 2009 3:48 A GMT-05
I graduated from the University of Miami with a BS in Broadcast Journalism. In my four years of "higher learning," never once do I recall a professor telling us to be even remotely skeptical of government mouthpieces. Never do I once recall a professor insisting that we do our own research. In fact, everything was about reading AP stories off the wire and re-writing them for our own purposes. It was about using correct grammar... saying "alleged" when appropriate... and meeting deadlines.
Charlie Sheen urges Barack Obama to reopen 9/11 investigation in video message
Sunday, 11 October 2009 1:16 A GMT-05
The six-and-a-half minute video - released on the eighth anniversary of the disaster - opens with news reports and footage of the incident with Sheen's voiceover: "The questions Mr President, the questions."
He then runs through the various "unanswered questions" such as World Trade Center workers and rescuers claiming the building imploded after the collision (as if with detonations), sections of the media supposedly reporting the collapse before it actually happened and FBI translator Sibel Edmonds claiming Osama Bin Laden was working for the CIA up until 9/11.
Reviewing Project Censored's Latest Top 25 Censored Stories
Sunday, 11 October 2009 1:02 A GMT-05
From 1998 - 2007, financial and banking companies "spent $1.7 billion on federal campaign contributions and another $3.4 billion on lobbyists." In 1999, Glass-Steagall was repealed, the landmark 1933 law that curbed speculation and separated commercial from investment banks and insurance companies. In January 2000, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act legitimized swap agreements and other hybrid instruments, at the core of today's problems by preventing regulatory oversight of derivatives and leveraging, thus letting Wall Street legally pillage and speculate, so they did. The result was a financial coup d'etat "cement(ing) the gradual takeover of the government by a small class of connected insiders" who choose candidates, control elections, weaken financial regulations, and run the country for their own self-interest. As a result, Washington today is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Wall Street financial giants. What they want, they get, no questions asked.
Open Letter to the Denver Post
Saturday, 10 October 2009 7:47 P GMT-05
As shown below, the articles fail to meet the Posts’s own published ethical standards for journalism such as the requirements of intellectual honesty, to present all sides, to be fair and even-handed, and to avoid loaded phrasing. None of the authors has attempted to present any facts or a reasoned analysis for their dismissal of these citizens. They instead have all stooped to ad hominem attacks, displaying a striking and perplexing lack of curiosity as to why a new investigation is supported by 45% of American citizens (2006 Zogby poll). Thus, the overall tone of each piece is that of propaganda and not news or journalism.
High Cost of Death Row
Tuesday, 29 September 2009 2:15 A GMT-05
To the many excellent reasons to abolish the death penalty — it’s immoral, does not deter murder and affects minorities disproportionately — we can add one more. It’s an economic drain on governments with already badly depleted budgets.
Vincent Caroll of "The Denver Post" trying his had at hit pieces
Sunday, 27 September 2009 5:39 P GMT-05
Oh, propaganda... I see, Mr Caroll. And of course all the many statements the government has made on the subject through its many mouthpieces have been all unadulterated truth, the whole truth and nothing but... Even when those statements happened to contradict each other. Even when they were later declared to be false, by none other than the very people whose job it was to come up with the governments official interpretation of the events... Yes, Mr Caroll, I mean the members of the 9/11 Commission.
New Statesman Cover Story: David Ray Griffin 41st Most Influential Person in the World!
Saturday, 26 September 2009 7:01 P GMT-05
I'm sending you a few selections from the cover story in the recent New Statesman. Check out # 41. This is rather amazing: Even though it's a backhanded compliment, it is QUITE a compliment to me and the 9/11 Truth Movement. This famous left-wing British magazine does, to be sure, say that we are "pernicious," but it seems to think that we are quite significant, being one of the 50 most important groups in the world at this time. My only regret is the number 41 position: I always hated it in the 1980s when little old ladies would tell me that I looked "just like George Bush. (For those of you in other countries, "41" is the short-hand reference for George H.W. Bush, our 41st president.) Seriously, this appraisal of our importance suggests to me that we need to keep doing what we've been doing (albeit perhaps with some new methods), building up both the percentage of the population that rejects the official story and also the credibility of our movement's public face by means of books, articles, public lectures, DVDs, professional 9/11 groups (3 more, incidentally, are about ready to go public), films, and, when possible, lawsuits (one or two may get going soon), and authorized investigations (such as NYC CAN may succeed in getting). I have just been re-reading about the American war in Vietnam in preparation for writing something about the similarities between it and our war in Afghanistan. The anti-war movement got going in earnest in 1965, and yet the U.S. did not pull out of Vietnam until 8 long years later, in 1973. During that time, the White House tried to pretend that it was indifferent to the anti-war movement, although in reality it spent much of its time trying to decide how to deal with it (see John Prados, "Vietnam"). We don't have the big marches and hence TV coverage that the anti-Vietnam-war movement generated. But we may, in our own way (dealing with a quite different type of problem), be causing similar concerns.
Where Did the H1N1 Late-2009 Flu Season Virus Come From?
Saturday, 26 September 2009 6:10 P GMT-05
The swine flu virus of 2009 appeared suddenly and without warning, and evaded all routine flu surveillance and quarantine. This flu is not like other flu viruses seen in the past. It is a triple-reassortant flu virus. Examination of the longer phylogenetic branch length compared to its nearest genetic neighbors indicates that the appearance of this novel H1N1 swine flu virus of 2009 is unlikely to be a recent event. [Virus Genes, early online, August 20, 2009] But this would mean it had to be in circulation for many years, for which there is no evidence. However, a long development period assumes natural variation and gene mutation rates, not mutations induced by artificial means, or the actual creation of this virus in a laboratory and subsequent instillation into human populations. Six of this flu virus’ genes came from a "triple-reassortant" influenza virus (or viruses).
* These viruses were found in North American pigs more than a decade ago, then completely disappeared, and have never been found in Europe. The other two genes came from Eurasian "avian-like" viruses common in Europe for longer, but never found in North America. However, both groups of H1N1 viruses have been found recently in pigs in southeast Asia. Movement of live pigs between Eurasia and North America may have facilitated mixing of diverse swine influenzas, leading to the multiple reassortant events. This goes unquestioned. But there is a strong reason to think the possibility of swine-to-human transmission is a misdirection. While pigs are exported from one country to another, they are exported from North America to Asia, not the other way around. Strict quarantine measures are employed when pigs are exported so as not to contaminate an existing herd with disease. Usually imported pigs are kept in quarantine, away from a larger herd, for a period of two weeks. If an imported herd brought a suspect gene sequence with it, it would have had to somehow evade quarantine measures. The development of this virus would require at least two trans-continental trips to get together in one place, and hence this theory requires at least two quarantine failures, probably three say Drs. Gibbs and Downie. This is not likely. None of the genes found in this swine influenza had been in current circulation. The NA (nearuaminidase) gene had not been identified in samples for 17 years before it reappeared in early 2009, and the others, including the MP gene, for around 11 years. Drs. Gibbs and Downie say this suggests the virus emanated from a swine herd vaccine. Or it could have emanated from an accidental release from an infected human working at a vaccine plant, or it was intentionally induced into human populations in Mexico.
Doctor Admits Vaccine is more Deadly Than Swine Flu Itself & Will Not Give It To His Kids
Saturday, 26 September 2009 5:58 P GMT-05
9/11 anniversary: a lovely day for a spot of protesting at the BBC
Saturday, 12 September 2009 1:27 P GMT-05
But here’s something I really don’t understand: when did it become uncool to ask questions? When did questioners become imbeciles? Who gets to hand out the tinfoil hats? When did it become cool to believe what we’re told? In the words of Mr Hicks, did I miss a meeting? When did so many of the cynics and sceptics, so many of the sharpest brains I know (hello Charlie Brooker!) think that the cool thing to do is mock the questioners, and defend the party line. How stratospherically uncool is that? You want to know who’s cool? Gareth is cool, Mohsin in the pink shirt is cool, the girl in the pink pants is cool. Charlie Sheen is cool, Julianne Moore is cool, Dario Fo is cool. And today, perhaps for the first time in my life, I’m cool too.
Sheen Challenges 9/11 Truth Debunkers To Larry King Live Debate
Saturday, 12 September 2009 12:37 P GMT-05
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show today to discuss his video address to Barack Obama, Charlie Sheen has challenged those who have publicly attacked him for speaking out on 9/11, particularly Meghan McCain, Rush Limbaugh Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, to debate him on CNN’s Larry King Live.
Eight Years After 9/11, Ground Zero Volunteer Dying of Lung Disease is One of Many Still Fighting for Justice
Saturday, 12 September 2009 12:23 P GMT-05
JOE PICURRO: Well, right now I’m hooked up to my oxygen machine. You know, my lungs are—I went to the doctor yesterday, and it was—we didn’t get good news. Basically, the doctor said, you know, if he could get me another year or two, you know, he would—you know, he’d be surprised. And so, I’m on thirty-seven medications—well, actually thirty-nine; he put me on two more, you know, when I went to see him yesterday. And, you know, most of my problems come from my lungs, but my whole body is racked with pain, all my joints. It’s just like a laundry list of problems. If it’s not one thing, it’s another, you know? Breathing, like I said, is the hardest. Like I said, I’m hooked up to oxygen now. My lungs have concrete and glass and human bone fragments in them. And, you know, so what happens is your lungs are the only organ that rejuvenate themselves, and mine, instead of growing viable lung tissue, they’re growing—it’s growing scar tissue. So it’s making my lungs get bigger and bigger. And when I take a deep breath, my lungs actually rub against my ribs, and it hurts.
The Awful Truth The Media Hides: Highly Credible People Question 9/11
Saturday, 12 September 2009 12:36 A GMT-05
Priceless: How The Federal Reserve Bought The Economics Profession
Friday, 11 September 2009 1:14 A GMT-05
The Federal Reserve, through its extensive network of consultants, visiting scholars, alumni and staff economists, so thoroughly dominates the field of economics that real criticism of the central bank has become a career liability for members of the profession, an investigation by the Huffington Post has found.
Meet the Press's Idea of a 'Debate'
Wednesday, 9 September 2009 2:24 A GMT-05
On Sunday, Meet the Press hosted a panel discussion to debate two primary issues: (1) foreign policy -- specifically, the war in Afghanistan, and (2) health care. The panel: Rudy Giuliani, Tom Friedman, Harold Ford, Jr., and Tom Brokaw (as Jay Rosen often notes, Meet the Press is doing a fantastic job of fulfilling its pledge to present "fresh voices" in its discussions). With regard to Afghanistan, there is a major debate currently taking place about whether we should stay in that country. A majority of Americans now opposes the war. But there was not a single participant there who shares that view. All of them believe that it is imperative we remain, and put on their little General hats to exchange deeply Serious analyses of how we need to adjust our strategy and tactics for greater mission success. Of course, all of three of those whose views were known about Iraq -- Friedman, Ford and Giuliani -- were vehement supporters of the invasion. As always, not only does support for that war not produce shame or even impair one's credibility and Seriousness, but the opposite is true: having supported it is a prerequisite for being considered credible and Serious, which is why those are the only people -- still -- from whom we hear when it's time to convene Serious discussions of foreign policy. What an odd filtering standard for The Liberal Media to use.
AP Photo of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard
Sunday, 6 September 2009 3:10 P GMT-05
The picture created by AP photographer Julie Jacobson, showed Lance Cpl. Joshua “Bernie” Bernard, 21, lying on the ground with severe leg injuries after being struck by a grenade in an ambush on Aug. 14, his fellow Marines tending to him. Bernard later died of his wounds. To AP President and CEO Tom Curley, Gates wrote a strongly worded letter on Thursday, saying it was a matter of “judgment and common decency” not to use the photo. A Pentagon spokesman said Gates followed up with a phone call “begging” Curley not to use it.
Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty
Saturday, 5 September 2009 2:30 A GMT-05
Did Texas execute an innocent man?
Another Rebuttal To Gartner's Psychology Today Hit Piece
Saturday, 5 September 2009 2:15 A GMT-05
So, in your article titled, “Dark Minds: When does incredulity become paranoia” are you suggesting that there are no conspiracies? Are you saying that there are not powerful people who meet and discuss world policy that effects us all? The Bilderberg group doesnt exist? Globalization doesnt exist? If there is no cover-up about 9-11 at all, why is there so much secrecy and hundreds of questions that have been IGNORED by the government and political leaders about it? Why was any mention of World Trade Center 7 completely omitted from the 9-11 Commission report? Are we “crazy” to even ask the questions? And when we get NO answers, we’re “conspiracy nuts”?
National Geographic Does 9/11: Another Icon Debased in Service of the Big Lie
Saturday, 5 September 2009 1:59 A GMT-05
Although I show that every point in the page appears crafted to mislead the reader about a particular issue, the greater misdirection lies in how the article frames the broad subject of the official account of 9/11 and challenges to it. First, the article gives no sense of the scope of those challenges, such as is readily surmised by an enumeration of outstanding anomalies in the official account. In other words, the article implies by omission that it has disposed of the only problems with the official account.
There Are More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human History
Thursday, 27 August 2009 1:47 A GMT-05
Today’s slavery focuses on big profits and cheap lives. It is not about owning people like before, but about using them as completely disposable tools for making money.
$1000 Per Day Fine And 30 Days In Jail For Refusing The Swine Flu Vaccine In Massachusetts?
Tuesday, 25 August 2009 2:50 A GMT-05
A new law just passed in Massachusetts imposes fines of up to $1000 per day and up to a 30 day jail sentence for not obeying authorities during a public health emergency. So if you are instructed to take the swine flu vaccine in Massachusetts and you refuse, you could be facing fines that will bankrupt you and a prison sentence on top of that.
Exclusive Interview with FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
Sunday, 23 August 2009 9:32 P GMT-05
K.M.—The most recent example of the deafening silence of the mainstream media was your deposition during the Schmidt vs. Krikorian case on Aug. 8. There, you spoke, under oath, about how the Turkish government and a network of lobby groups and high-ranking U.S. officials and Congressmen have engaged in treason and blackmail. A big story by any standards, it was only covered by Armenian newspapers and a few blogs. How do you explain this silence?
S.E.—I know field reporters who are so excited and want to chase the story. But when they went to their papers—and I’m talking about mainstream media and very good investigative journalists—their editors are refusing to touch it. When you watch the video or read the transcript, you will see how explosive the deposition was. And remember, I was speaking under oath. If by any standard, if I were to lie or be untruthful in any way, I would go to jail. I am answering these questions under oath, and yet, the mainstream media is refusing to touch it. And this is very similar to what we saw with the AIPAC/Larry Franklin case.
I have emphasized the fact that the American Turkish Council [ATC], the Turkish lobby, and these Turkish networks, they work together, in partnership with AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs Committee] and JINSA [Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs]. So not only is there pressure on media outlets from the Turkish lobby and the corrupt U.S. persons involved, but they also have this pressure placed on the media via their partners from the Israel lobby—and the latter’s influence on the mainstream media in the U.S. is undeniable.
The irony is that my deposition has made it to the front page of Turkish newspapers—and Turkey doesn’t even pride itself with freedom of the media—yet the mainstream media has not written a single word about it.
National Geographic to air new "documentary".
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 11:25 P GMT-05
For example, they say that "Eight years have passed and no stone has been left unturned in the painstaking process of piecing together what happened that fateful day". In what alternate universe?
"Incestuous" relationships between Blackwater and U.S. government
Saturday, 15 August 2009 5:44 P GMT-05
“What we have here is an individual who received billions of dollars in US contracts, and still was under contract with the U.S. government, and fancied himself someone who wanted to wipe out Islam and kill Arabs and Muslims,” Madsen said.
War with Iran: oil, lies and evil
Sunday, 9 August 2009 3:57 P GMT-05
If another attack occurs against the US, false-flag or real, President Obama has the legal authority to declare himself the sole authority of US government, bypassing any authority of Congress and the Federal Court System. Under National Security Presidential Directive 51[8] (NSPD-51), issued May 9, 2007, if the President declares a “national emergency,” all government authority is “coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicial branches.” This means that the President is the legal dictator of the United States, with only his discretion allowing influence by Congress and/or the Courts. Details of this plan are secret for “national security,” even to the members in Congress on the Committee for Homeland Security.[9] Just after passing the MCA, Congress also repealed the Posse Comitatus Act, and gave the President legal authority to command the state’s National Guard without consulting with state governors for the purpose of “suppressing public disorder.”[10] If the President invoked NSPD-51 and the states’ National Guards to suppress public protest, Americans would have to be arrested and detained in large facilities. For the past several years, FEMA has been constructing and renovating such “camps” with Congressional funding.[11] The existence of detention camps for Americans was originally disclosed to the public in Congressional Hearings on the Iran-Contra scandal in 1987 under the name REX-84.[12] Information Operations Roadmap is a program approved by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in 2003, and surprisingly released to George Washington University’s National Security Archive in a Freedom of Information Act request.[13] Wikipedia acknowledges its existence, but fails to inform of its content for government influence of American public opinion for support of US military operations. The existence of this document confirms governmental planning to replace fact with spin for the American public’s consumption.[14] In 2000, CNN reluctantly acknowledged that they employ military PSYOPS (Psychological Operations Group) personnel at their news station.[15] The express purpose of US military PSYOPS is propaganda; to manipulate public opinion in favor of government military policy.
Unspun Newz story - Real Time problems with Bill Maher?
Saturday, 8 August 2009 7:04 P GMT-05
For some years, HBOs satirical talk show host Bill Maher - of Real Time, has repeatedly vocalized his ill opinion on his weekly live cable television show, of those who question the governments account of the events of September 11th. Whether its directed against a Real Time guest or used as a punch line to his entertainment offerings, activists known as 9/11 Truthers have been lambasted as tin foil hat conspiracy theorists. But, then again, Bill Maher also publicly states the Twin Towers burned for more than two hours. This would make little impact on national opinion if it were not for Mahers impressive viewership numbers. Ratings are the mark of a TV man and Bill seems to be holding the high cards however, when it comes to documentation of what actually occurred on that tragic day and the alleged evidence that has since surfaced, it seems, the time has come for Maher to rethink his hand and callor fold. Countless viewers and fans have contacted Real Time - and its producers over the years out of frustration and hope of getting any one - of a growing number, of experts invited onto his show as a guest to openly - without bias, discuss new evidence that appears to contradict most of what we have been told. Maher and his team have not only refused to respond to any of their correspondence, but have also continued the live derision of a people, on a topic he has refused to research in any reputable way. So much so, that even after a $250,000 cash challenge issued by Jock Doubleday (to merely study the evidence), Maher continues his refusal to acknowledge on his show, the possibility, of malice, ill intent, foreknowledge, cover-up, and/or the potential involvement of the United States government in these attacks.
"Well what if there is no tomorrow"
Saturday, 8 August 2009 6:07 P GMT-05
Well then, if we have these essential elements of truth and suffering, why is there still no large, forceful, coherent, and well organized body of popular grassroots resistance in the US? The main reason is simply that the requisite deep suffering and penetrating hard truths are not yet sufficiently widespread. Another reason is the extensive dumbing down of our society, along with the non-stop lies and propaganda spoon fed us daily by mainstream corporate media. Also there’s the ever present fear created by our government, using both rhetoric and legislation designed to consistently reinforce the clear threat so plainly put to us in the wake of 9-11 by George W. Bush: “You’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists.”
In any case, with our Bush initiated upward spiraling national debt, exploding unemployment, and massive war related economic hemorrhaging, all continuing unabated under Obama and our wholly owned Congress, the furtherance of expanded suffering is a foregone conclusion. It will be left to the small but growing numbers of would-be resisters and truth-tellers (citizens Big Brother will vilify as home-grown terrorists) to advance the spread of truth.
Glenn Beck: Government Website Takes Over Your Computer Forever
Friday, 7 August 2009 2:15 A GMT-05
Polls show broad skepticism among Americans of official 9/11 narrative
Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:33 A GMT-05
Below is a summary of opinion polls querying the American public on the viability of the official government narrative for 9/11. Polls have been conducted by such pollsters as Zogby, Scripps Howard, Reuters and Angus Reid and cable news channels such as CNN and MSNBC. Apparently, the official conspiracy theory isn't doing very well. In fact, the numbers are scaring the bejesus out of some of the pollsters, who are left looking for ways to trivialize such large numbers of their fellow citizens as "fringe elements". Tactics include suggesting the respondents are misguided because of ethnocentric bias, inability to cope with events of large magnitude, lack of intelligence, factual ignorance, one-sidedness, the internet or deeply embedded distrust of government. The last suggestion appears to have a chicken-or-egg problem.
Taboo News and Corporate Media
Sunday, 2 August 2009 4:29 P GMT-05
The corporate media in the United States are ignoring valid news stories, based on university quality research. It appears that certain topics are simply forbidden inside the mainstream corporate media today. To openly cover these news stories would stir up questions regarding “inconvenient truths” that many in the US power structure want to avoid. For example, current research indicates that public schools in the United States are more segregated today than they have been in more than four decades. According to a new Civil Rights report, published at the University of California, Los Angeles, schools in the US are 44 percent non-white, and minorities are rapidly emerging as the majority of public school students in the US. Latinos and blacks, the two largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty years ago. Millions of non-white students are locked into “dropout factory” high schools, where huge percentages do not graduate. The most severe segregation in public schools occurs in the Western states, including California—not in the South, as many people believe. Most non-white schools are segregated by poverty as well as race. Schools in low-income communities remain highly unequal in terms of funding, qualified teachers, and curriculum.
9-11 Blueprint for Truth to Debut on Colorado Public Television
Sunday, 26 July 2009 10:03 P GMT-05
Still reeling from the success of the recent historic broadcast of 9-11 Press for Truth, the state of Colorado is about to get another strong dose of 9-11 truth. Making an appearance on Visibility 9-11 with Michael Wolsey, Executive Producer at KBDI Shari Bernson made the major announcement that KBDI will be again making history with the PBS world premier of Richard Gage's excellent documentary, 9-11 Blueprint for Truth on August 15, 2009 from 7:00 - 9:00 pm mountain time.
Spitzer: Federal Reserve is "a Ponzi scheme, an inside job"
Sunday, 26 July 2009 7:33 P GMT-05
The Federal Reserve — the quasi-autonomous body that controls the US’s money supply — is a “Ponzi scheme” that created “bubble after bubble” in the US economy and needs to be held accountable for its actions, says Eliot Spitzer, the former governor and attorney-general of New York. In a wide-ranging discussion of the bank bailouts on MSNBC’s Morning Meeting, host Dylan Ratigan described the process by which the Federal Reserve exchanged $13.9 trillion of bad bank debt for cash that it gave to the struggling banks.
Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation
Sunday, 19 July 2009 3:33 P GMT-05
Built upon Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression by David Martin, the following may be useful to the initiate in the world of dealing with veiled and half-truth, lies, and suppression of truth when serious crimes are studied in public forums. This, sadly, includes every day news media, one of the worst offenders with respect to being a source of disinformation. Where the crime involves a conspiracy, or a conspiracy to cover up the crime, there will invariably be a disinformation campaign launched against those seeking to uncover and expose the truth and/or the conspiracy. There are specific tactics which disinfo artists tend to apply, as revealed here. Also included with this material are seven common traits of the disinfo artist which may also prove useful in identifying players and motives.
Too easy on rogue cops
Friday, 10 July 2009 2:29 A GMT-05
Davis parceled out punishments ranging from written reprimands to a 45-day unpaid suspension to 11 officers who were involved in steroid use or had frequented an afterhours club in Hyde Park where drugs, alcohol, and prostitutes were present. The punishments are a byproduct of a federal investigation in 2006 that culminated in the arrest and lengthy imprisonment of three former Boston Police officers for protecting a large shipment of cocaine arranged by federal agents posing as drug dealers. The head of that protection racket, former officer Roberto Pulido, was a steroid user who also guarded parties at the after-hours club frequented by police.
The Conspiracy Files - 7/7
Sunday, 5 July 2009 4:26 P GMT-05
Well, the BBC's resident "Official Story Protection Team" was at it again last week with the broadcast of "7/7". It seems that the only thing that these hit pieces seem to generate is more public interest in the topic, as evidenced by this piece in the British Daily Mail; Conspiracy fever: As rumours swell that the government staged 7/7, victims' relatives call for a proper inquiry. So, go ahead, BBC, knock yourselves out.
How the spooks took over the news
Sunday, 14 June 2009 11:48 P GMT-05
The letter argued that al-Qa'ida, which is a Sunni network, should attack the Shia population of Iraq: "It is the only way to prolong the duration of the fight between the infidels and us. If we succeed in dragging them into a sectarian war, this will awaken the sleepy Sunnis." Later that day, at a regular US press briefing in Baghdad, US General Mark Kimmitt dealt with a string of questions about The New York Times report: "We believe the report and the document is credible, and we take the report seriously... It is clearly a plan on the part of outsiders to come in to this country and spark civil war, create sectarian violence, try to expose fissures in this society." The story went on to news agency wires and, within 24 hours, it was running around the world. There is very good reason to believe that that letter was a fake – and a significant one because there is equally good reason to believe that it was one product among many from a new machinery of propaganda which has been created by the United States and its allies since the terrorist attacks of September 2001.
9/11 Truth Activist Sues Glenn Beck and Fox News for Defamation
Friday, 12 June 2009 11:26 P GMT-05
Specifically, Greg Hoover will be suing the above-described defendants in Federal Court for Beck’s having repeatedly broadcast statements characterizing those who question the government’s official version of the events of 9/11 as, "anarchists," "terrorists" and as persons denying the Holocaust. The complaint will note that - on October 22, 2007 - Beck suggested that those identifying themselves as associated with the 9/11 truth movement are "dangerous" "anarchists" who deny the Holocaust, and are "the kind of group that Timothy McVeigh would come from." The suit will also note that during Beck’s June 10th broadcast Beck linked the murder of the Washington D.C. holocaust museum guard with "9/11 truthers." As I have previously written, suing people for defamation who falsely claim that 9/11 activists are terrorists could be a good way to stand up to these bullies.
GLENN BECK SAYS 9/11 TRUTHERS ARE DESTROYING AMERICA...
Thursday, 11 June 2009 1:16 A GMT-05
Glenn Beck attempts to tie the Holocaust Museum shooter with the 9/11 truth movement - BE
Allowing Guilty Pleas and Death Penalties Without Trial for Alleged 9/11 Plotters Would Be the Ultimate Obstruction of Justice
Sunday, 7 June 2009 7:01 P GMT-05
This is not simply a ploy to cover up the fact that these prisoners were brutally tortured. It is also a way to silence them forever, so that they can never tell what their real role was in the 9/11 attacks, and who they received assistance from, and how they were able to convince the mightiest military the world has ever known to stand down from standard air defense protocols on 9/11.
This may well be the most powerful letter to the editor...
Sunday, 7 June 2009 5:49 P GMT-05
Regarding the murder of Dr. George Tiller, the antiabortion zealots would like everyone to think late-term abortions are never performed for a good reason. (The woman's life, health and wellbeing and severe fetal defects are not considered good reasons.) Perhaps a real-life example will help everyone (at least the decent people) understand this issue.
A danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust ( english subtitles )
Tuesday, 2 June 2009 9:25 P GMT-05
Niels Harrit and 8 other scientists found nano-thermite in the dust from the World Trade Center. He is interviewed on danish TV2 News. People can see a full transcript, news, forum and the video in high quality here:
Richard Gage on KMPH Fox 26 in Fresno, CA
Saturday, 30 May 2009 2:12 P GMT-05
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth --- Check out more info at:
http://www.ae911truth.org/
Conservative radio host gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture
Saturday, 23 May 2009 11:44 P GMT-05
Chicago radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided he’d get himself waterboarded to prove the technique wasn’t torture. It didn’t turn out that way. “Mancow,” in fact, lasted just six or seven seconds before crying foul. Apparently, the experience went pretty badly — “Witnesses said Muller thrashed on the table, and even instantly threw the toy cow he was holding as his emergency tool to signify when he wanted the experiment to stop,” according to NBC Chicago.
MOCKINGBIRD - The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA
Thursday, 21 May 2009 10:55 A GMT-05
"You could get a journalist cheaper than a good call girl, for a couple hundred dollars a month." - CIA operative discussing with Philip Graham, editor Washington Post, on the availability and prices of journalists willing to peddle CIA propaganda and cover stories. "Katherine The Great," by Deborah Davis (New York: Sheridan Square Press, 1991)
Cheney to Mainstream Media: Terrorists Blew Up WTC
Saturday, 16 May 2009 6:03 P GMT-05
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld each have made curious 9-11 statements on camera that are well worth pondering. Two particular video clips (see links at bottom) have some observers saying that these comments constitute 9-11 “blurt outs” suggesting inside knowledge of what actually happened on 9-11—Freudian slips, if you will. While this phenomenon of slippery lips regarding 9-11 is not altogether new, Cheney’s statement was on Mother’s Day on national television, a day when many moms remember their soldier-sons who died in the war on terror inspired by 9-11.
Disinfo in the Media
Saturday, 16 May 2009 5:56 P GMT-05
He published a magazine for a number of years called Lies Of Our Times which specifically was a magazine about propaganda and disinformation. Also he has been the managing director of the Institute for Media Analysis for a number of years. For about 20 years he was one of the principals in a publishing company called Sheraton Square Press that published books and pamphlets relating to intelligence and the media.
Who killed Nick Berg?
Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:06 A GMT-05
None of this proves a grand conspiracy, but it does raise questions. In the final segment of the tape, Berg is thrown to the ground, but doesn't move. During the decapitation, starting at the front of the throat, there is little sign of blood. The scream is wildly out of sync, sounds female, and is obviously dubbed. Dr John Simpson, executive director for surgical affairs at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, told Ritt Goldstein of the Asia Times, "I would have thought that all the people in the vicinity would have been covered in blood, in a matter of seconds ... if it [the video] was genuine".
Leaked Agenda: Bilderberg Group Plans Economic Depression
Thursday, 7 May 2009 1:47 A GMT-05
Daniel Estulin, Jim Tucker, and other sources who have infiltrated Bilderberg meetings in the past have routinely provided information about the Bilderberg agenda that later plays out on the world stage, proving that the organization is not merely a “talking shop” as debunkers claim, but an integral planning forum for the new world order agenda. Indeed, just last month Belgian viscount and current Bilderberg-chairman Étienne Davignon bragged that Bilderberg helped create the Euro by first introducing the policy agenda for a single currency in the early 1990’s. Bilderberg’s agenda for a European federal superstate and a single currency likely goes back even further. A BBC investigation uncovered documents from the early Bilderberg meetings which confirmed that the European Union was a brainchild of Bilderberg. In spring 2002, when war hawks in the Bush administration were pushing for a summer invasion of Iraq, Bilderbergers expressed their desire for a delay and the attack was not launched until March the following year.
DHS Document Lists "Alternative Media" As Potential Terrorists
Tuesday, 5 May 2009 11:16 A GMT-05
In the same breath as radical Cuban Communists, the “decentralized terrorist movement,” “lone terrorists,” “racist skinheads” and the Mexican separatist movement, we find an entry for “alternative media,” alongside the blurb, “a term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets.” That’s right folks - the federal government is training its enforcers that people who don’t believe everything they see on Fox News, CNN or read in the New York Times are to be treated as a “threat” and a potential violent domestic terrorist. Apparently it’s not enough to treat Ron Paul supporters, people who fly U.S. flags or people who are able to accurately recite the Bill of Rights as potential mass killers, now anyone who merely questions what is reported by the corporate media is also a danger, according to the federal government.
Editor in chief of Open Chemical Physics Journal resigns after controversial article on 9/11
Sunday, 3 May 2009 2:54 P GMT-05
A telephone call reveals that editor in chief Marie-Paule Pileni had never been informed that the article was going to be published in The Open Chemical Physics Journal, which is published by the journal giant Bentham Science Publishers. “They have printed the article without my permission, so when you wrote to me, I did not know that the article had appeared. I cannot accept this, and therefore I have written to Bentham that I resign from all activities with them”, explains Marie Paule Pileni, who is professor with a specialty in nanomaterials at the renowned Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in France.
Legal U.S. Arms Exports May Be Source of Narco Syndicates Rising Firepower
Saturday, 2 May 2009 3:46 P GMT-05
A Narco News investigation into the flow of arms across the U.S. border appears to lead right back to the systemic corruption that afflicts a vast swath of the Mexican government under President Felipe Calderon and this nation’s own embrace of market-driven free-trade policies. The deadliest of the weapons now in the hands of criminal groups in Mexico, particularly along the U.S. border, by any reasonable standard of an analysis of the facts, appear to be getting into that nation through perfectly legal private-sector arms exports, measured in the billions of dollars, and sanctioned by our own State Department. These deadly trade commodities — grenade launchers, explosives and “assault” weapons —are then, in quantities that can fill warehouses, being corruptly transferred to drug trafficking organizations via their reach into the Mexican military and law enforcement agencies, the evidence indicates.
If I only had a gun
Saturday, 11 April 2009 3:57 P GMT-05
Nobody will argue that it isn’t a tragedy when a child accidentally shoots himself or another child. But it is also a tragedy when children are killed by other causes…and as it turns out; guns are among the LEAST likely causes of accidental death. Put another way, does the media ever make people who own swimming pools look like irresponsible / dangerous members of society? (A child is far more likely to drown than to die from a firearms accident.) How about those who own automobiles? Accidental deaths by automobile FAR outnumber those caused by firearms. Should responsible car owners be demonized for the sins of irresponsible or dangerous drivers? Of course not. But this isn’t about intellectual consistency – it’s about furthering an agenda. So….
A danish scientist Niels Harrit, on nano-thermite in the WTC dust ( english subtitles )
Saturday, 11 April 2009 3:09 P GMT-05
Niels Harrit and 8 other scientists found nano-thermite in the dust from the World Trade
Boston ponders future of Globe
Wednesday, 8 April 2009 10:21 A GMT-05
With The New York Times Co. threatening to close The Boston Globe if the Globe's unions don't accept $20 million in concessions, the fate of the paper has become a conversation starter - and stopper - among those near the nexus of power and money in this town. Who, the question goes, might be lining up to buy the newspaper and possibly stave off a shutdown?
New Orleans Murder Blog
Sunday, 29 March 2009 3:52 P GMT-05
Mexican drug lord makes Forbes' billionaire list
Saturday, 14 March 2009 10:29 P GMT-05
Guzman Loera, whose nickname means Shorty, escaped from a Mexican prison in 2001. He heads the powerful Sinaloa cartel, investigators say. Authorities on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border blame the Sinaloa and other cartels for a surge in violence in the region. He ranked 701st on Forbes' yearly report, with an estimated fortune of $1 billion.
Bailout for The Mainstream Media May be Next
Sunday, 8 March 2009 3:02 P GMT-05
The article goes on to say “Politicians have every reason to want to see print media fail. That can be said tongue in cheek, but too many governors and congressmen have lost jobs after newspaper investigations to make the relationship between Fourth Estate and politicians a comfortable one. A neutered press would benefit a number of elected officials.“ I wonder what a “neutered press” would look like? Would they peddle optimism even while the economy was collapsing? Would celebrity gossip become newsworthy? If the government wanted to loot the United States treasury and bailout their campaign contributors on Wall St, would a “neutered press” fail to demand answers or, even worse, scare the American people into submission? Would this neutered press allow the government to use 9-11 as a tool to occupy the middle east, while ignoring the cries of first responders and families of 9-11? I’ve often said that I do not follow the mainstream news for information, I follow it for the lie. Establishment news organizations such as Time magazine should be followed only to figure out what it is they are trying to sell. “They” meaning the Washington “In” crowd of government, lobbyists and mainstream reporters. When US government public relations organizations (Mainstream News) publish an article such as Mr. McIntyre’s, you should be paying attention. The campaign is beginning.
Media Myth: Networks Stick to Warming Theme Despite Avalanche of Chilling News
Saturday, 7 March 2009 5:51 P GMT-05
The fact is a number of studies and scientists have warned that the Earth might be in a cooling phase – despite the networks silence on the matter. Meteorologist Joseph D’Aleo, the executive director of International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP), recently “quibbled” with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) data since 1880 which shows a spike in mean temperature. D’Aleo told CNN anchor Lou Dobbs, “[I]f you look at the satellite data, which is the most reliable data, the best coverage of the globe – 2008 was the 14th coldest in 30 years. That doesn’t jibe with the tenth warmest in 159 years in the Hadley data set or 113 or 114 years in the NOAA set.” Discovery News announced on March 2 that a new study from Geophysical Research Letters suggests “global warming may have hit a speed bump and could go into hiding for decades.”
Our Domestic Torture State: Hero Cop Beats Teenage Girl in Seattle
Sunday, 1 March 2009 3:51 P GMT-05
Deputy Paul Schene of the King County Sheriff's Department, an eight-year law enforcement veteran, was videotaped beating a 15-year-old in a holding cell last November. The video was pried out of police hands just days ago by a Seattle television station that filed an official request under Washington's open records law. After being arrested and booked on a charge of auto theft (the car belongs to her parents, and she was a passenger, not the driver), the teenager displayed a "lippy" disposition toward Schene and another officer. As the door to her cell was being closed, she was ordered to remove her shoes. She complied by kicking one of them in Schene's direction. Perhaps Schene is well-versed in Arab culture and perceived this to be a grave insult to his masculinity, such as it is. In any case, he charged into the cell, kicked her in the stomach, slammed the girl's head against the wall, threw the girl (who weighed roughly half of what he did) face-first to the floor, and -- with the assistance of his fellow tax-feeder -- handcuffed her while striking her twice to the back to the head. Once she was shackled, the girl was pulled to her feet and dragged out of the cell by her hair:
Bush should have executed Gitmo detainees, says former CIA officer
Saturday, 28 February 2009 6:04 P GMT-05
A former CIA officer has said its ridiculous that the Bush administration didn't execute numerous prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, regardless of whether they have had a trial, when it had the chance.
The Abrupt Limits of Glenn Beck's Understanding
Saturday, 28 February 2009 5:46 P GMT-05
Like most other conservative authoritarians, Beck apparently cannot understand the principle involved here, or why some people like myself who neither smoke nor drink nor take drugs of any kind would want to end the murderous fraud called the War on Drugs. As the following interview with Rob Campia of the Marijuana Policy Project demonstrates, Beck -- a former alcoholic and drug addict -- is not willing to endorse an end to the stupid, senseless, destructive policy of drug prohibition. As several observes have noted, Beck the prohibitionist comes off as the one who's on some kind of controlled substance, while Campia -- who has to endure Beck's palpable condescension (first question: "Do you smoke marijuana, Rob?") and constantly misfiring attempts at humor -- is composed, rational, and in command of the facts:
Finally! The Law Goes After Joe Arpaio, The Most Abusive Sheriff In America
Sunday, 15 February 2009 4:19 A GMT-05
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Immigration Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Constitution Subcommittee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), and Crime Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) called on Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to investigate allegations of misconduct by Maricopa County (Arizona) Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
New York Times: The Political Suspicions of 9/11
Wednesday, 4 February 2009 3:58 A GMT-05
A coming episode of the acclaimed FX drama “Rescue Me” will tackle what may sound like a far-fetched plot line: that the attacks of Sept. 11 were an “inside job.” The actor who espouses the theories on camera, it turns out, also subscribes to them in real life. Claims that Al Qaeda terrorists were not solely responsible for the attacks have a lively following on the Internet, including on YouTube, but the second episode of “Rescue Me’s” fifth season, starting in April, may represent the first fictional presentation of 9/11 conspiracy theories by a mainstream media company (FX is operated by the News Corporation). “They’re not discussed a lot in the press,” Daniel Sunjata, the actor who plays Franco Rivera on “Rescue Me,” told reporters at a television press tour last month. He predicted that the episode would be “socio-politically provocative.”
Risen: I May Have Been A Victim Of The NSA's Program Spying On Journalists
Tuesday, 27 January 2009 12:56 A GMT-05
Earlier this week on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” former National Security Agency (NSA) analyst Russell Tice revealed that the agency had “monitored all communications” of Americans — specifically targeting journalists. To discuss this development, Olbermann yesterday hosted Pulitzer-Prize winning New York Times reporter James Risen, who famously angered the Bush administration by revealing the government’s domestic wiretapping program and its secret snooping on the financial records of thousands of Americans allegedly linked to terrorists. Since that time, the Bush Justice Department had been trying to identify Risen’s sources for his book on the nation’s spy agencies, called State of War. In April, the New York Times reported that former government officials had been called before a grand jury and confronted with phone records documenting their calls with Risen. Neither Risen nor the New York Times had received a subpoena for those records.
You Tube Expands 9/11 Truth Purge
Saturday, 24 January 2009 5:34 P GMT-05
You Tube has permanently suspended another major 9/11 truth account in a continuation of the purge that began following efforts by the establishment to smear the 9/11 truth movement as terrorist propaganda. You Tube has previously been caught blocking 9/11 truth videos from entering into top ranking charts for both views and comments despite their enduring popularity. It also has a record of wanton censorship in deleting videos that are artistically crafted compilations and the furthest possible thing from copyright violation, such as the “Question Your Reality” video.
'Conspiracy Blogs' bigger threat than Stalin, Hitler
Monday, 19 January 2009 3:51 P GMT-05
Examples of counterknowledge include the notion that Aids was created in a CIA laboratory, that Princess Diana was murdered by the Secret Intelligence Service, and that the 9/11 attack on New York was orchestrated by the Bush administration. The dramatic decline of traditional moderate forms of religion has resulted in a spiritual void and thus a desperate need to believe intensely in something. This has accompanied the “Wikipedia age”. A populist notion has developed that any individual has the right to correct or change the truth according to their own beliefs. It is, of course, the democratic ideal taken to its most grotesque extreme. But in reality it is the opposite of democratic. It is the easiest way for the demagogue to exploit gullibility and ignorance.
Former Wall St. Journal editor savages the mainstream media
Monday, 19 January 2009 3:33 P GMT-05
Today reporters write the stories that their masters want to hear, or they are out. The function of editors is to make certain that no uncomfortable information reaches the public.
Visibility 9-11 Welcomes Singer/Songwriter Jesse Goplen
Friday, 16 January 2009 3:07 A GMT-05
Although Cowboy is Jesse’s first official full-fledged release, he received great notoriety for September Eleven Blues, his 2007 EP of 9/11 “truth songs” which featured the powerful title track and another called Controlled Demolition. Both tracks received air and podcast play and were popular within the 9/11 truth movement as well as on stations like KRCB; they also received prominent mention on sites like www.911blogger.com.
Israeli PM: I Dictated Bush's Vote on UN Gaza Truce Vote
Thursday, 15 January 2009 8:40 A GMT-05
"I said, 'Get Bush on the phone.' They tried, and told me he was in the middle of a lecture in Philadelphia. I said, 'I need to speak to him now.' He got down from the podium, went out and took the phone call. I told him that the US cannot possibly vote in favor of this resolution. He immediately called [Rice] and told her not to vote for it."
FOX Commentator states WTC 7 "would collapse in a southerly direction"
Thursday, 15 January 2009 8:31 A GMT-05
Yet another instance of WTC 7 foreknowledge. This time describing the manner in which the building would fall.
Does The Government Manipulate Social Media?
Monday, 12 January 2009 1:04 A GMT-05
Finally, under the post-9/11 "homeland security" laws, the government almost certainl routinely demands full access to ISPs and websites. In other words, we've all seen polls at Digg, Reddit, YouTube, and mainstream news sites suddenly disappear entirely if a sufficiently pro-government sentiment was not expressed. Do you doubt that the military and homeland security apparatus would step in to take control of what it considered an "enemy" message? And remember, the government considers any message questioning anything the government does as an enemy message.
The New American Dream
Wednesday, 7 January 2009 1:52 A GMT-05
"First, you've got to get mad. You've got to say, I'm a human being, my life has value, goddammit!"
The Economist: U.S. In Depression, Not Recession
Saturday, 3 January 2009 2:17 P GMT-05
“A depression is the result of a bursting asset and credit bubble, a contraction in credit, and a decline in the general price level,” according to the article. “In the Great Depression average prices in America fell by one-quarter, and nominal GDP ended up shrinking by almost half.” Fast forward to the start of 2009 and house prices have fallen by at least 17 per cent over the last two years with that number only set to plunge further over the coming 18 months. Overall, American homeowners have lost $2 trillion of equity during what has become the worst housing slump since World War II. U.S. GDP in the fourth quarter last year fell an estimated six per cent, but that number is expected to accelerate through 2009.
Warning of the collapse of the Twin Towers and more
Thursday, 1 January 2009 9:43 P GMT-05
One of the most startling stories to come out of 9-11 involves reports of individuals in the south tower (Building 2) who announced only moments after the first plane struck the north tower (Building 1) that it was safe to return to work. I have a particular interest in this issue, as only two years before 9-11, I worked for a short time at Fuji Bank, which occupied the offices where the second plane hit. During my stay, I participated in a fire drill in which the division I was working for walked down all 79 flights of stairs and exited the building, an exercise of the type the 9-11 Commission Report expressly denies ever occurred. [The 9-11 Commission Report, 2006, Barnes and Noble Pub., NY p. 280: "Deputy fire safety directors conducted fire drills at least twice a year." p. 281: "But during these drills, civilians were not directed into the stairwells, or provided with information about their configuration and about the existence of transfer hallways and smoke doors. Neither full nor partial evacuation drills were held."]
Sources: Gaza death toll from Israeli offensive exceeds 375
Tuesday, 30 December 2008 11:01 A GMT-05
CNN correspondent Karl Penhaul was aboard the 60-foot, Gibraltar-registered Dignity when the contact occurred. In a radio message, the Israelis accused the vessel of being involved in terrorist activity, its captain said. The Dignity was carrying 16 passengers and crew who were trying to reach Gaza through an Israeli blockade of the territory. It was "very severely rammed" by an Israeli patrol boat that had been pursuing the volunteer boat for about half an hour before the collision, and the crew said their vessel was struck intentionally, Penhaul said... The boat was carrying boxes of relief supplies, volunteers and journalists to Gaza, the Palestinian territory now subject to an intense Israeli bombing campaign. Among the passengers are physicians from Britain, Germany and Cyprus and several human rights activists, including former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney. The boat was taking on a small amount of water after the collision, its captain said. Palmor said the vessel refused assistance after the incident.
Olbermann refers to Bush 9/11 'lies' as 'Insult the Dead-gate'
Thursday, 25 December 2008 4:01 P GMT-05
As the departing Bush administration frantically attempts to shore up its place in history, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann stands ready to kick the props out from under it again. A renewed claim that "no one could have anticipated" the attacks of 9/11 attracted his scorn in particular on Thursday's Countdown.
Survey: Americans prefer Web over papers to read news
Thursday, 25 December 2008 2:32 P GMT-05
The Internet has surpassed newspapers as the main source for national and international news for Americans, according to a new survey.
Cincinnati 9/11 Truth / WeAreCHANGE Ohio public access TV show Episode 4
Thursday, 25 December 2008 1:37 P GMT-05
We eased the audience in with the financial crisis, which led to discussion of the Fed, which then segued into false flag terrorism, and finally 9/11. We figured it would be more effective than hitting the audience hard with 9/11 stuff from the get-go.
The Homicides You Didn't Hear About in Hurricane Katrina
Wednesday, 24 December 2008 10:35 A GMT-05
What do you do when you notice that there seems to have been a killing spree? While the national and international media were working themselves and much of the public into a frenzy about imaginary hordes of murderers, rapists, snipers, marauders, and general rampagers among the stranded crowds of mostly poor, mostly black people in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, a group of white men went on a shooting spree across the river. Their criminal acts were no secret but they never became part of the official story. The media demonized the city's black population for crimes that turned out not to have happened, and the retractions were, as always, too little too late. At one point FEMA sent a refrigerated 18-wheeler to pick up what a colonel in the National Guard expected to be 200 bodies in New Orleans's Superdome, only to find six, including four who died naturally and a suicide. Meanwhile, the media never paid attention to the real rampage that took place openly across the river, even though there were corpses lying in unflooded streets and testimony everywhere you looked -- or I looked, anyway. The widely reported violent crimes in the Superdome turned out to be little more than hysterical rumor, but they painted African-Americans as out-of-control savages at a critical moment. The result was to shift institutional responses from disaster relief to law enforcement, a decision that resulted in further deaths among the thirsty, hot, stranded multitude. Governor Kathleen Blanco announced, "I have one message for these hoodlums: These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so if necessary, and I expect they will." So would the white vigilantes, and though their exact body count remains unknown, at least 11 black men were apparently shot, some fatally.
James Risen: "9/11 was a fluke"
Wednesday, 17 December 2008 3:48 P GMT-05
Bush likes to tout the fact that there has not been another domestic terror attack since Sept. 11, 2001, as justification for his extreme and perhaps illegal policies, like the warrantless eavesdropping on Americans that Risen and Times colleague Eric Lichtblau first revealed. Risen scoffed at this excuse, comparing it to a joke about a man who puts a "No Elephants" sign in his backyard and credits it with keeping the creatures away. "I think the basic storyline is going to be in the long run that 9/11 was a fluke," Risen said in an interview with the American News Project. "They got lucky. We weren't really ready or prepared to deal with an operation like that; it was really a failure of imagination." Risen said he was skeptical that Bush would pursue a war with Iraq -- another decision the president credits with avoiding another attack -- if he knew in 2003 everything that is known today.
Senate report links Bush to detainee homicides; media yawns
Wednesday, 17 December 2008 2:41 P GMT-05
The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee report issued on Thursday -- which documents that "former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials share much of the blame for detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba" and "that Rumsfeld's actions were 'a direct cause of detainee abuse' at Guantanamo and 'influenced and contributed to the use of abusive techniques ... in Afghanistan and Iraq'" -- raises an obvious and glaring question: how can it possibly be justified that the low-level Army personnel carrying out these policies at Abu Ghraib have been charged, convicted and imprisoned, while the high-level political officials and lawyers who directed and authorized these same policies remain free of any risk of prosecution?
Mumbai Terror: Evidence being deliberately ignored!
Thursday, 4 December 2008 1:20 A GMT-05
Additionally, the terrorists inside the Nariman House Building were reported to have stocked up on supplies on Wednesday evening, buying not just food items but liquor, among other things, from a local store [Source]. Again, it is highly unlikely that a Muslim, let alone a ‘Mujahid’, and especially one politicized enough to carry out such an attack, would consume liquor in normal life, let alone hours before his inevitable ‘martyrdom’.
America's forgotten freedoms
Wednesday, 26 November 2008 4:10 P GMT-05
The study found that no more than 3% of Americans remember “petition” among the First Amendment’s five basic freedoms. However, freedom of speech was remembered by the majority of respondents - 56%. The others freedoms enshrined in the constitution appeared to have made little impression: freedom of religion was named by 15%; the same percentage remembered press freedom as a constitutional right while just 14% knew they had a right to assembly.
Paulson Was Behind Bailout Martial Law Threat
Saturday, 22 November 2008 6:34 P GMT-05
“Somebody in D.C. was feeding you guys quite a story prior to the bailout, a story that if we didn’t do this we were going to see something on the scale of the depression, there were people talking about martial law being instituted, civil unrest….who was feeding you guys this stuff?,” asked host Pat Campbell. “That’s Henry Paulson,” responded Inhofe, “We had a conference call early on, it was on a Friday I think – a week and half before the vote on Oct. 1. So it would have been the middle … what was it – the 19th of September, we had a conference call. In this conference call – and I guess there’s no reason for me not to repeat what he said, but he said – he painted this picture you just described. He said, ‘This is serious. This is the most serious thing that we faced.’”
Wall Street Journal questions McCain's honor
Thursday, 13 November 2008 1:30 P GMT-05
"The first point to make here is the most obvious: This is the language of losers," the Journal says. "This whole display calls to mind those embarrassing codas to each episode of "The Apprentice," when the losing team would sit before Donald Trump in the boardroom and then start blaming everyone but themselves for their failures. The apparent eagerness of Team McCain to indulge in this kind of fingerpointing is similarly unprofessional, and it raises an interesting question. "We are asked to believe that Mrs. Palin was not ready for a national campaign," the paper adds. "On what evidence from any part of this election are we to conclude that anyone on the McCain campaign team was ready for a national campaign?"
(Spain) Richard Gage, AIA - on nationwide TV in Madrid
Monday, 10 November 2008 1:55 P GMT-05
We had overflowing presence at our event, many people had to leave because there was no more room.
Jonathan Kay on the humbling frustrations of debating 9/11 "Truthers"
Monday, 27 October 2008 10:10 P GMT-05
I could lie to Mr. Hansen, and to my readers, and tell them that I’ve read the U.S. government’s 571-page 9/11 Commission Report, or Popular Mechanics magazine’s authoritative report on “Debunking the 9/11 Myths.” But the truth is that I haven’t. I never felt the need to because, on a purely instinctive level, I always believed the Truthers’ case was complete nonsense. I don’t believe any group of people — let alone any group of people in government — could possibly pull off such a fantastically elaborate plot as 9/11, one involving hundreds, if not thousands of conspirators, without being definitively outed many times over. If 9/11 truly had been a U.S. government conspiracy, dozens of collaborators would have come forward by now for their multi-million dollar book deals; the mainstream media, always desperate for a scoop (trust me), would have broken the story open long ago; and respectable peer-reviewed journals would have published the work of professionals debunking the official account of the World Trade Center’s destruction.
Most Major Papers Continue Circ Decline
Monday, 27 October 2008 7:00 P GMT-05
According to ABC for the 507 newspapers reporting in this period, daily circulation slipped 4.6% to 38,165,848 copies. For the 571 papers, Sunday dropped 4.8% to 43,631,646 copies. For comparison purposes, in September 2007 reporting period, daily circ fell 2.6% and Sunday was down 4.6%. Across the country, publishers have put in place plans to cater to core readers and subscribers. It's too expensive to bulk up circulation in unprofitable areas such as third-party, newspapers in education, and bonus day copies. Not in the core market defined by the newspaper? You are out of luck, at least for the print edition.
The Facts Speak For Themselves
Sunday, 26 October 2008 9:14 P GMT-05
Before I begin, I would like to say that theorizing about what happened on 9/11, when you're not being given answers to your questions about that day by the people who SHOULD be able to do so, is PERFECTLY normal. As is suspecting that the reason these answers aren't being given is "sinister" in nature. As Ray McGovern said, "for people to dismiss these questioners as "conspiratorial advocates", or "conspiratorial theorists"... that's completely out of line because the... The questions remain because the President who should be able to answer them, WILL NOT." When you think about everything this Administration has done in almost 8 years, the idea that they might not be giving us the answers we seek because of something "sinister" is not crazy. In fact, it's the most logical conclusion one can come to at this point. After seven plus years of obfuscation, spin, lies, and cover-ups regarding the 9/11 attacks, it is unavoidable to think that criminal complicity is the reason why. That being said, we have not proven it beyond the shadow of doubt. We do not have documentation that shows they planned it. We do not have a signed confession from someone. We have pieces of the puzzle, and to most of us that have been doing this a long time, those pieces point to more than just Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and 19 hijackers. If we could somehow download all of our knowledge to every person on the planet, this fight would be over tomorrow. However, we can't do that. I wish we could. I wish the media would DO THEIR JOB. But, they're not. Therefore, we have to be smart with how we approach people. This is America, and in America, you are innocent until proven guilty. As I have often said, we don't need to come up with a narrative (theory) because our facts speak for themselves. I am going to do my very best to prove my point. A lot of these facts are from mainstream news outlets. Yes, they do report the news, but they DO NOT put the pieces together, they DO NOT ask the tough questions over and over again until they get an answer, they DO NOT give these facts the atte ntion they should, reminiscent of the attention that Britney Spears, Scott Peterson, The Aruba Murders, and The Swift Boat Veterans got, and they DO NOT portray us in any other light except as "Conspiracy Theorists."
Update: KATV's Anne Pressly Passes Away
Sunday, 26 October 2008 3:43 P GMT-05
An Arkansas television anchorwoman found beaten at her home earlier this week has died from her injuries. It is with heavy hearts that we tell you KATV's Anne Pressly, found beaten in her home Monday morning, died Saturday from her injuries.
WeAreChange Debunks the BBC part 2 - A Call to Action
Thursday, 23 October 2008 11:27 A GMT-05
Mike Rudin, producer of the BBC 9/11 Hit-piece 'The Third Tower', recently posted an article called 'Caught up in a conspiracy theory', in response to a video I put out - WeAreChange Debunks the BBC at Ground Zero 9/11/08. In the article, he does not deny (or even attempt to explain, in some instances), the glaring misrepresentations, distortions, and omission that we called him out on at Ground Zero. He does not apologize (as many have called for) for repeatedly exhibiting poor journalistic ethics while covering the most controversial and important issue of our time. Instead he continues to dishonor the victims of 9/11 and insult the intelligence of the BBC audience by digging a deeper hole. Very well Mike Rudin, so be it.
In the Public Spotlight, Chicago, IL and the Web: the Legitimacy of 9/11 Questions
Thursday, 16 October 2008 11:15 A GMT-05
North Shore Democratic congressional candidate Dan Seals' campaign on Tuesday defended using an Iraq War veteran with ties to the 9/11 conspiracy movement in a new TV ad attacking Republican U.S. Rep. Mark Kirk for supporting the war. Seals spokeswoman Elisabeth Smith said she didn't "really see what is so controversial" about using Caleb Davis in the ad. Davis, 25, is a Peoria native who spent five months in Iraq as an Army diver and got an honorable discharge in 2004. Last June, the Peoria Journal Star reported that Davis wore a black T-shirt proclaiming "Investigate 9/ 11@911truth.org" while sitting at a table at a Peoria library where books, fliers and DVDs supporting conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks were on display. The organization argues the government's version of the terrorist attacks is fraudulent and offers a "Top 40 Reasons to Doubt the Official Story" and an "Official Coverup Guide." Kirk, who was in the Pentagon when the airplane crashed into it Sept. 11, 2001, called on Seals to stop airing the ad. "I am disappointed that you would center your campaign on a spokesman who believes the U.S. government murdered nearly 3,000 of its own citizens," Kirk said in his Monday letter to Seals, a Wilmette resident who is challenging Kirk again after coming close in 2006. Smith said Tuesday that Seals has no plans to pull the ad and said the focus should be on the ad's contention that Kirk supported the war and hasn't done enough to help veterans. The 30-second ad does not identify Davis by name. Seals' media consultant Ann Liston, whose firm produced the ad, said the campaign "could have, but we felt he is one soldier, but he also represents the voice of many. It was more of a choice, than a strategic decision." Davis declined to talk to the Tribune. In an e-mail released through the Seals campaign, Davis denied any official affiliation with members of 911truth.org. He also said he does not doubt that Al Qaeda terrorists were responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
The Eleventh Of Every Month Action - 10/11/2008
Saturday, 11 October 2008 7:31 P GMT-05
ABC: NSA agents admit spying on Americans' private calls
Friday, 10 October 2008 1:32 A GMT-05
When asked about President Bush's statement that the intercepts were directed only at known al-Qaeda suspects, Kinne stated, "That is completely a lie." She said that military officers, journalists, and Red Cross workers were among the people whose calls she transcribed. Faulk told ABC that certain calls were even passed around among the intercept operators like office jokes. "I was told, 'Hey, check this out, there's some good phone sex.' ... It was there, stored the way you'd look at songs on your iPod."
FBI Prevents Agents from Telling 'Truth' About 9/11 on PBS
Thursday, 9 October 2008 7:51 P GMT-05
The FBI denied Rossini and Miller permission to participate in the book or the PBS “NOVA” documentary, which is also being written and produced by Bamford, on grounds that the FBI “doesn’t want to stir up old conflicts with the CIA,” according to multiple reliable sources. Bamford, contacted by phone, said he could not comment because his publisher has embargoed his new book for release around Oct. 10.
Boston Tea Party, 2008
Sunday, 5 October 2008 5:47 A GMT-05
How dare you throw that tea into Boston Harbor! Such is the anti-democratic arrogance of the fear-mongering pundits and politicians who tell us if we taxpayers don’t instantly give the Wall Street banking bandits a $700-billion bailout, we are destroying America. Instead of applauding representatives from both parties who, for once, heeded the public rather than the fat cats, the established pundits blasted those who dared get out of line. It was a time for some of the best commentators to fail and, as much as I hate to admit it, for Lou Dobbs, and even Newt Gingrich, to shine. Dobbs called it correctly: The sky is not falling, there is time for reasoned debate, and why isn’t the public being listened to? Gingrich put it best when he said short-circuiting serious congressional oversight over an enormous transfer of taxpayer dollars to an industry is “un-American.” Others, with whom I typically am in far greater agreement, just rolled over to give the bankers what they demanded.
Rice admits officials approved 'harsh interrogation techniques'
Saturday, 27 September 2008 8:17 P GMT-05
According to a written statement provided to the Senate Armed Services Committee earlier this month and released on Wednesday by committee chairman Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), officials were told that waterboarding and other "harsh interrogation measures" routinely used in a survival training program for US soldiers would not cause "significant" harm if used on prisoners. Rice's statement is the first acknowledgment of those meetings by any of the officials involved. Rice did not name the other officials who were present, but reports last spring based on anonymous sources mentioned Vice President Dick Cheney, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.
Dutch WTC witness questions official 9/11 account
Saturday, 27 September 2008 4:04 P GMT-05
Apparently this was broadcast on a local Dutch TV station, RTV Rijnmond on 9/11 this year.
In video, Al Qaeda vows more U.S. attacks
Saturday, 20 September 2008 11:34 P GMT-05
CNN could not independently verify the authenticity of the video posted on jihadi Web sites, purportedly by al Qaeda's video production arm, As Sahab.
9/11 Truth Norway: Why We Fight
Saturday, 20 September 2008 9:13 P GMT-05
DEBATE: WTC Controlled Demolition? Richard Gage, AIA, of AE911Truth.org versus Michael Shermer of Skeptic Magazine
Saturday, 20 September 2008 1:36 P GMT-05
Saturday, Sept 20th at 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern - 18:00 GMT
CJR: Army Alters Photographs, Issues Them To AP
Saturday, 20 September 2008 1:28 P GMT-05
The Associated Press retracted two government-issued photographs last night after a photographer in Texas alerted the agency that the photos in question appeared to be doctored. Bob Owen, chief photographer of the San Antonio Express-News, notified the AP that the photos of two deceased soldiers, who died in Iraq on Sept. 14, were nearly identical. Upon examining the photos, Owens noticed that everything except for the soldier’s face, name, and rank was the same. The most glaring similarity, Owen told CJR, was that the camouflage patterns of the two uniforms were “perfectly identical.”
David Ray Griffin: The 9/11 Interview with Michael Hess: Evidence that NIST Lied about When He and Barry Jennings Were Rescued
Friday, 19 September 2008 11:23 A GMT-05
Shortly after the first strike on the World Trade Center, which occurred at 8:46 AM on 9/11, Michael Hess, New York City’s corporation counsel, and Barry Jennings, the deputy director of the Emergency Services Department of the New York City Housing Authority, headed to the Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operating Center, which was on the 23rd floor of WTC 7, where they assumed that Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be. But when Hess and Jennings arrived, the place was empty. Jennings then telephoned someone to ask what they should do and was told that they should leave immediately. Finding that the elevators would not work, they started down the stairs. When they reached the sixth floor, however, there was a powerful explosion beneath them, which, Jennings told the makers of Loose Change Final Cut, [1] caused the landing on which they were standing to give way. Making their way back up to the eighth floor, they were able to break a window and call for help. Hess later reported: “[W]e were trapped on the eighth floor with smoke, thick smoke, all around us, for about an hour and a half [before] the New York Fire Department . . . came and got us out.” [2] Hess made this statement while being interviewed by Frank Ucciardo of UPN 9 News “on Broadway about a block from City Hall,” almost a half mile from WTC 7. This interview began before noon, most likely at 11:34. The conclusion that it began at 11:34 is based on evidence derived from a DVD containing UPN 9 programs from that morning, in which the Hess interview begins at the 57-minute mark. According to a note on the DVD itself, its video began at 10:37 AM, which would mean that the Hess interview began at 11:34. It is possible, however, that the video might have actually started at 11:00: At the 111-minute mark, the UPN 9 program switched to live coverage by CNN of a Taliban news conference, and the only reference we have been able to find to this coverage indicates that it began at 12:51.[3] This would mean that the video began at 11:00 and the Hess interview, therefore, at 11:57. Nevertheless, whether the earlier or the later starting time is correct, UPN 9 News began interviewing Michael Hess before noon.
RussiaToday.com VIDEO of 9/11 Truth Protesters at Ground Zero on 9/11/08
Sunday, 14 September 2008 11:41 P GMT-05
Yea! We (9/11 Truth activists in NYC) made the news. Please see this glorious video filmed by an uncensored (oh, the irony) Russian news group yesterday at Ground Zero, and other locations nearby as we marched through the streets.
On Morning Of 9/11 Attacks, McCain Immediately Began Making The Case For Iraq War
Sunday, 14 September 2008 6:08 P GMT-05
On the morning of the 9/11, just moments after the World Trade Center collapsed from the terrorist strikes, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) went on television and immediately began focusing the nation’s attention on Iraq. In an interview with CBS’ Dan Rather on 9/11, McCain said:
Evacuee evicted
Saturday, 13 September 2008 2:14 P GMT-05
The Red Cross and Austin Independent School District have formally requested that I leave the shelter. At first, the Red Cross wasn’t quite sure what to do about me, as both an evacuee and a member of the media.
Although one helpful volunteer last night offered to let me come sleep at her house, other volunteers have suggested I need to leave. “It makes us very uncomfortable for a reporter to be inside,” one volunteer, who appears to be one of the ones in charge, told me.
30 Million Will See 9/11 Truth Documentary "ZERO" On Russian State Television Sept. 12
Thursday, 11 September 2008 1:55 A GMT-05
30 Million Will See 9/11 Truth Documentary "ZERO" On Russian State Television
Storm Troopers at the RNC
Tuesday, 9 September 2008 11:17 A GMT-05
Ten days ago, as the nation focused attention on the hurricane nearing the Mississippi delta, another storm was brewing far upstream in St. Paul, Minnesota — a storm far more dangerous, it turned out, but one by and large overlooked by the Fawning Corporate Media (FCM).
Fox host on Code Pink protesters: 'Where's the taser?'
Saturday, 6 September 2008 4:51 P GMT-05
However, Brian Kilmeade appeared disappointed that the women had not been handled more aggressively. "Why did she knock a Secret Service agent off of her?" he wanted to know. "That is a reason where they -- didn't the other guy 'tase him bro' because of that? Where is the taser? They tased the guy at Florida State, but with maybe a future president feet away this woman's allowed to get up and scream? She could have had a gun."
Activist claims unmarked police vans abducted protesters
Saturday, 6 September 2008 4:49 P GMT-05
The strongest accusations were made by RNC Welcoming Committee co-founder William Gillis, who has been among those planning the protests for the last two years.
“Police kicked down doors with guns drawn on families with their children at dinnertime,” Gillis charged. “Reporters and the media at large have been repeatedly targeted for repression. Activists have been abducted off the street in unmarked vans and political prisoners held without access to medical attention."
In a Fascist State, Cameras Equal Terrorism
Friday, 5 September 2008 1:14 A GMT-05
Moreover, the protesters who were targeted in Minnesota were mainly those who were peacefully filming the protests. Indeed, a 2003 FBI memo describes protesters' use of videotaping as an "intimidation" technique, even though - as the ACLU points out - "Most mainstream demonstrators often use videotape during protests to document law enforcement activity and, more importantly, deter police from acting outside the law."
Bush quietly seeks to make war powers permanent, by declaring indefinite state of war
Tuesday, 2 September 2008 6:29 P GMT-05
Part of a proposal for Guantanamo Bay legal detainees, the provision before Congress seeks to “acknowledge again and explicitly that this nation remains engaged in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated organizations, who have already proclaimed themselves at war with us and who are dedicated to the slaughter of Americans.” The New York Times' page 8 placement of the article in its Saturday edition seems to downplay its importance. Such a re-affirmation of war carries broad legal implications that could imperil Americans' civil liberties and the rights of foreign nationals for decades to come. It was under the guise of war that President Bush claimed a legal mandate for his warrantless wiretapping program, giving the National Security Agency power to intercept calls Americans made abroad. More of this program has emerged in recent years, and it includes the surveillance of Americans' information and exchanges online. "War powers" have also given President Bush cover to hold Americans without habeas corpus -- detainment without explanation or charge. Jose Padilla, a Chicago resident arrested in 2002, was held without trial for five years before being convicted of conspiring to kill individuals abroad and provide support for terrorism.
Amy Goodman and Two Democracy Now! Producers Unlawfully Arrested at RNC
Tuesday, 2 September 2008 5:35 P GMT-05
Amy Goodman and producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar have all been released from police custody in St. Paul following their illegal arrest by Minneapolis Police on Monday afternoon. All three were violently manhandled by law enforcement officers. Abdel Kouddous was slammed against a wall and the ground, leaving his arms scraped and bloodied. He sustained other injuries to his chest and back. Salazar's violent arrest by baton-wielding officers, during which she was slammed to the ground while yelling, "I'm Press! Press!," resulted in her nose bleeding, as well as causing facial pain. Goodman's arm was violently yanked by police as she was arrested.
Unhinged At Last: Further Reflections On The NIST/WTC-7 Scam
Sunday, 31 August 2008 3:21 P GMT-05
In short words, NIST ran as far away from reality as they could get. And they came back with a ludicrous conclusion, telling us that they'd identified a whole new phenomenon that can destroy a skyscraper -- without a shred of physical or other evidence to back up their conclusion.
How Old-fashioned: the Fairness Doctrine ... WTC7, NIST, and the Media Today
Sunday, 24 August 2008 7:00 P GMT-05
After reviewing some of the more than 400 mainstream media articles written yesterday about the NIST final report on the collapse of WTC 7, it is easy to get the impression that no credible alternative explanations exist. Why would any American question the NIST report? They have no exposure to opposing views expressed by professional engineers and architects. It is as if none exist if you rely on the mainstream media. Only two outlets quoted members of the professional organization, AE911truth.org. More outlets quoted me than reputable scientists. Go figure. While many of the reports mentioned that NIST dismissed the possibility that explosives were used, not one outlet reported that NIST failed to perform a single scientific test for explosive residue. NIST ruled out the use of explosives because "...the noise associated with such an explosion would have been ten times louder than being in front of the speakers at a rock concert...". There you have it--government funded science at its best. NIST also claimed that no loud noise was heard by witnesses. I guess they did not have access to the oral histories from the New York Fire Department made public after suit by the New York Times, the source for the quote by NIST that there were no witness reports of loud noises. There goes that liberal media again, always attacking the Bush administration at every possible turn. Yesterday, while we were listening to the press conference hosted by AE911truth.org, we received many calls from media outlets inquiring about our take on what the NIST presented. We provided these "journalists" with the number for the conference call and suggested they contact members of AE911truth.org to get the perspective of professional, credentialed engineers and architects. After reviewing the media accounts of how the WTC 7 mystery is now solved, it is apparent that not one of these "journalists" chose to report what these professionals had to say. Based on the misquoted snippet from 911truth.org interviews on the subject, it is clear they neither listened to the press conference nor contacted any of the structural engineers or architects to whom they were referred. In the two and a half years as media coordinator for 911truth.org, I have learned that the reality created by the media is anything but fair and balanced. The producer of CNN's Showbiz Tonight demonstrated more intellectual curiosity about why we continue to raise questions than most of the journalists I have encountered. Earlier in the year, I received a call from a show producer at WOR radio in New York City, asking if I would go on the show to debate the host. I asked how much time we had for the debate. He said, without skipping a beat, 5 minutes. What kind of debate about the complex events of 9/11 can take place in 5 minutes? I accepted the offer on the condition that they play a few short sound bites I would supply in advance so that, at the very least, we would have a few specific issues to discuss. Here are the clips I sent for them to choose from, which include: President Bush at a town hall meeting, Ohio Senator Mark Dayton, Charlie Rose and 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, Secretary of Transportation Norman Minetta and Commissioner Hamilton, Commissioner Ben Veniste questioning Condaleeza Rice, Missouri Representative Ike Skelton, Chris Matthews and Representative Dana Rohrabacher, George Tenet. Listen here. On the morning of the debate, the producer called to let me know that we were going ahead with the "debate" but the station would not play the sound bites. He told me that I could read the text of the sound bites but station management would not let me "program" the show. So let me get this straight, I can read what President Bush repeated at two publicly televised town hall meetings recounting his experience on the morning of 9/11 but the citizens of New York City could not hear him say it in his own words. When I suggested the possibility of media bias, he then told me the "host of the show did not know how to respond to the sound bites."
NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed
Saturday, 23 August 2008 9:12 P GMT-05
NIST completely fails to address prior knowledge of the building’s collapse, including why news outlets like the BBC and CNN reported that the building had collapsed an hour before it actually fell, as well as firefighters on the scene who are heard on video saying, “Keep your eye on that building, it’ll be coming down soon.” If the collapse of WTC 7 came as a result of a “new phenomenon” and an “extraordinary event” that had never happened before in the history of building collapses, then why did news stations and ground zero workers know it was about to happen a hour or more in advance?
Georgia started hostilities in South Ossetia
Sunday, 17 August 2008 5:05 P GMT-05
This report from TWO days before the Russian intervention clearly shows that GEORGIA is the aggressor and that Russia had to intervene. Where was the USA when the Snipers were killing the South Ossetians and the Georgians were shelling the Civilians? UPDATE: Interesting comment from the LEGENDARY Mike Rivero: "Bottom line: We still do not know who shelled the Russian barracks, killing ten men and wounding thirty others. This was the spark that set off the conflict."
Sky News uses footage of ruins of South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, says it is Georgia's key town of Gori
Saturday, 16 August 2008 6:32 P GMT-05
Sky New lies giving ruins of South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, for Georgia’s key town of Gori, which they say Russian bombed. The channel simply used the footage of Tskhinvali, which was literally ruined as a result of Georgia’s attacks, to make reports about the situation in the town of Gori, which the Russian aviation supposedly bombed. Pravda.ru journalists concluded that the footage of destruction, fires and crying civilians used by Sky News in its Gori report was identical to the footage aired by Russian TV channel Zvezda (Star) when it reported about Tskhinvali.
The Truth about Georgia gets censored again on TV
Saturday, 16 August 2008 1:50 A GMT-05
The Truth about Georgia gets censored again on TV. A reporter makes a comparison to the US reaction to 911 to Russia's reaction to Georgian attacks and the satellite feed drops off in the middle of his question. TV is censored every day and every hour but sometimes the censorship is plain to see.
The BBC's Demolition of 9/11 Truth
Wednesday, 13 August 2008 2:37 A GMT-05
You know, I’ve known 9/11 ‘truthers’ to be persistent, pushy, even obnoxious on occasion, but I have never known them to be violent or threatening. Quite the contrary. I’ve also never heard them accuse Controlled Demolition, Inc. of being bombers, just compliant clean up men. I’m also concerned that the words terror and terrorist are being tossed about too frequently these days, especially by Bush backer types like Loizeaux. Controlled Demolition, Inc. is a major contributor to the RNC and has done lots of mop up jobs for the federal government, Oklahoma City for one. Richard Gage puts it best: “Mark Loizeaux is not unbiased… he doesn’t want to lose his top clients.” When BBC reporter Jane Standley announced, live, on air, that WTC 7 had collapsed twenty minutes before it actually did, 9/11 ‘truthers’ naturally took notice. “It was very upsetting about a year ago because of the level of persecution and the virulence in which I was spoken about.” This may have been true but I never heard a word about the reporter herself. It was the BBC that got the attention. “[It’s] just very unfortunate that this whole …rather ridiculous situation has grown out of what’s really a very small and very honest mistake.” Yes, but, honest mistake or not, when a 47 storey building just fell out of the sky for no good reason and you announced it before it happened, people are likely to point it out.
Environmental anomalies at the World Trade Center: evidence for energetic materials
Tuesday, 5 August 2008 1:48 A GMT-05
Abstract Investigators monitoring air quality at the World Trade Center, after the September 11th attacks, found extremely high levels of volatile organic chemicals as well as unusual species that had never been seen before in structure fires. Data collected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency indicate striking spikes in levels of benzene, styrene, and several other products of combustion. These spikes occurred on specific dates in October and November 2001, and February 2002. Additionally, data collected by researchers at the University of California Davis showed similar spikes in the levels of sulfur and silicon compounds, and certain metals, in aerosols. To better explain these data, as well as the unusual detection of 1,3-diphenylpropane, the presence of energetic nanocomposites in the pile at Ground Zero is hypothesized.
Olbermann Covers Dick Cheney Iran Flase Flag Story
Sunday, 3 August 2008 1:08 P GMT-05
Keith Olbermann was the only major U.S. media source to cover this huge story.
AP helps government to brush anthrax attacks of 2001 under the carpet
Sunday, 3 August 2008 11:44 A GMT-05
Just as in 9-11, with the government's version of events getting maximum play in the press, it will become apparent that there will be no need for an investigation. After all, the Justice Department was about to indict the wrongdoer, and, shamed by his guilt, he committed suicide. The party is defamed before a legitimate investigation can be mounted, but the failure of the media to question the government's version of events paints a picture with its own reality. It becomes painfully apparent why a movement with a name like "9-11 Truth" has been created to seek answers to the mysteries surrounding the events of September 11, 2001. If the issue was just about Ivins's guilt or innocence, the whole affair might just be an intellectual exercise. But it is not of just passing interest to the American public, which realizes that it could face the lethal circumstance of opening an anthrax-laced letter, or a multitude of them. It was obvious how effective the dissemination of anthrax was in causing the deaths of several individuals, and how effective a larger attack would be if it were ever to be mounted. It is thus of great public concern to find the culprit.
Media Blackout On Cheney Iran False Flag Story
Saturday, 2 August 2008 4:11 P GMT-05
“There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war,” Hersh explained. “The one that interested me the most was why don’t we build — we in our shipyard — build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats. Put Navy seals on them with a lot of arms. And next time one of our boats goes to the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up.” Given that only a few weeks ago Hersh’s exclusive story concerning the vamping up of covert U.S. military activity inside Iran made headlines everywhere, in every major publication and outlet, it begs the question where are they now for an even bigger story? The Financial Times even carries a story today about how Hersh is “The Last Great American Reporter”, yet the lengthy piece contains no mention of his latest revelations.
Gitmo Al Qaeda Movie Creator Previously Pushed Terror Propaganda
Saturday, 2 August 2008 2:15 P GMT-05
A Pentagon produced documentary on Al Qaeda which was presented as evidence at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial was created by a terrorism consultant who has previously attempted to pass off Pentagon released propaganda as directly released by Al Qaeda. “The Al-Qaida Plan” was shown to an audience of military jurors hearing evidence against a former driver for Osama bin Laden earlier this week. The movie essentially props up the official government version of events on 9/11 and asserts that there was a coordinated “overarching conspiracy” by operatives of Osama Bin Laden to carry out the attacks.
NYT Changes Anthrax Story As I Was Reading It!
Saturday, 2 August 2008 1:59 P GMT-05
They shortened the story to one page by taking out some KEY information that they had originally posted with the story. I knew I should have copy and pasted it! (If anyone still has the original, please let me know!) What they took out was very interesting. They quoted a doctor, who worked with the guy who is now being accused of the anthrax attacks, as saying he didn’t think the guy did it. They took that part out! They also took out the part where this guy received the highest Pentagon award a civilian can get for his research into an anthrax vaccine to be given to our troops in 2003. They took that out!And they also took out the part where this guy was cited for testing areas outside the restricted area for anthrax spores. And he found them, in someones secretary’s desk and keyboard! Remember how this stuff was found on the mail from the drop box? It bleeds through the envelope. So, when he found it in someones secretary’s desk and then on her keyboard, that might be a good place to start looking for the culprit. But they took that part out! But they did add one thing. The reason I was reading the story again was because I was/am working on a story about the one thing they missed: motive. The guy had no motive and the original story lacked any mention of a motive…. Nowhere in the first story and many other MSM versions of this do they mention a possible motive. Nowhere. Well, it seems whomever is checking up on the “official” stories out there caught that little tidbit as well, and they have now added one. On line now in the story that was NOT in the original; “Authorities were investigating whether Ivins released the anthrax as a way to test his vaccine, officials said.” NYT. There we have it! The “official story” complete with motive from the ghostly, unnamed, who the heck were they… ”officials”. Because that is what “they” said.
"Al Qaeda's Mad Scientist" Rises From The Grave... And Is Killed Again
Friday, 1 August 2008 1:04 A GMT-05
Not only are we supposed to believe that Al Qaeda terrorists are everywhere, hiding behind every corner waiting to blow you away in the name of global jihad, we are also expected to believe that they have the power to rise from the dead to commit more atrocities after they have already been killed. Of course, the powers that be have so little respect for you or I that they do not imagine we have the brain power to remember something from two and a half years ago. Either that or they do not even bother to keep tabs on which Al-CIA-da operative they announced killed at what time anymore, safe in the knowledge that the brainwashed and fatigued public will swallow anything if it is dressed up in an eye catching headline.
4,000 U.S. Combat Deaths, and Just a Handful of Images
Saturday, 26 July 2008 3:13 P GMT-05
Zoriah Miller, the photographer who took images of marines killed in a June 26 suicide attack and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in Marine Corps-controlled areas of the country. Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the Marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Mr. Miller barred from all United States military facilities throughout the world. Mr. Miller has since left Iraq. If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists — too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts — the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: after five years and more than 4,000 American combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead American soldiers.
Dan Hind: Wide-ranging conspiracies do take place
Monday, 21 July 2008 2:53 A GMT-05
What happened on 9/11 is, in the end, a matter of fact – whatever our worldview might incline us to consider plausible or possible. The true authorship of the attacks is as difficult to establish as anything else about the world of international terrorism and espionage. For myself, I have no idea what happened, because I have no more idea of how the business-intelligence-political nexus works than I have about what chess grandmasters are up to when they are staring at the board, looking all thoughtful.
Those Who Dared: 30 Who Stood Up for Our Country
Sunday, 20 July 2008 10:44 P GMT-05
Today, CREW has released its newest study, Those Who Dared: 30 Who Stood Up for Our Country, recognizing the brave individuals who have acted and spoken out against unethical and dishonorable conduct in the Bush administration. The full report can be found here.
The Green Party's McKinney on the 'Spoiler' Question
Sunday, 20 July 2008 10:38 P GMT-05
McKinney's goal: a full 5 percent of the vote. Checking in with her just before she won the nomination, NEWSWEEK's Katie Paul spoke with McKinney about her reasons for running and how her campaign might affect the election season. Excerpts:
Richard Gage, AIA, debates Mark Roberts, Tour Guide: NY TV: "HardFire"
Wednesday, 9 July 2008 12:17 A GMT-05
The TV show "Hardfire" debate with Richard Gage, AIA, and Mark Roberts is now posted on Google Video. It is in 2 parts — each about 28 minutes in length. Description: In this two-part program, Richard Gage, AIA, San Francisco Bay area architect and founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, debates Mark Roberts on the events of September 11, 2001. John Clifton, past chair of the Libertarian Party of New York, hosts. Originally (to be) aired July 15 and July 22, 2008. Taped June 18, 2008. Buy a high-resolution copy of the program on DVD, MiniDV, or VHS at the program's web site: www.Hardfire.net
BBC's "The Third Tower"
Tuesday, 8 July 2008 11:32 P GMT-05
The Final Mystery Of 9/11?
Sunday, 6 July 2008 4:20 P GMT-05
Mark Roberts and Richard Gage on "Hardfire"
Saturday, 5 July 2008 5:00 P GMT-05
Richard Gage of Architechts and Engineers for 9/11 Truth vs mark Roberts, a New York City tour guide and independent 9/11 researcher on "HardFire"
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth Stun Vancouver
Saturday, 7 June 2008 3:50 P GMT-05
In this 20 minute Satellite TV interview, Richard Gage, AIA, of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth lays out all the evidence for the controlled demolition of the 3 WTC high-rises on 9/11 . The next day Vancouver 9/11 Truth had to turn away 50 people in this standing room only venue of 300 at the famous Public Library. Here is the 20 minute power packed video that you can play for your friends, colleagues, and, of course your local A/E's! Airdate: April 22, 2008
I AM BLOGGER - HEAR ME ROAR!
Friday, 6 June 2008 5:00 A GMT-05
The mainstream media has long attempted to dismiss blogs as somehow "unprofessional", usually because blogs are not vast centers of commerce. Occasionally there will be a gratuitous hit piece, attempting to portray the internet as a haven for child molesters second only to the clergy. Always there is the implication that blogs should not be taken seriously because the bloggers don't play the game by the same rules as the mainstream media. With regard to that last one, it is true that the blogs don't play by the same rules as the mainstream media. We have neither governments, owners, nor advertisers imposing rules on us. Media entities with huge overheads can be bought. Reporters will trade their souls for a ride on Air Force One. Private Blogs (as opposed to blogs set up by public relations firms pretending to be private blogs) running on spare change are immune to that sort of thing.
McCain Staffer Supports Dictatorship
Friday, 6 June 2008 4:27 A GMT-05
Salon's Glenn Greenwald has reported that Michael Goldfarb, a Weekly Standard staff member, has been named Deputy Communications Director of John McCain’s campaign. Goldfarb believes, or so he says, that a president of the United States has near dictatorial powers.
Lawmaker asks McCain to talk with 9/11 theorists
Wednesday, 4 June 2008 10:37 A GMT-05
An Arizona state senator is petitioning presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain to meet with 9/11 conspiracy theorists, including an adjunct professor from Scottsdale who has been fasting outside McCain's Phoenix office for more than a week. State Sen. Karen Johnson, a Mesa Republican, delivered a letter to McCain's Senate office Tuesday asking that he sit down with Scottsdale activist Blair Gadsby and a pair of leading members of the 9/11 Truth Movement to consider alternative explanations for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Gadsby's fast outside McCain's Senate office entered its 10th day today. "There are so many questions left unanswered," said Johnson, who called for a new, independent investigation into the attacks.
Out-Foxing Fox: Times Totes Water for War Crime Spin
Sunday, 25 May 2008 5:21 P GMT-05
The New York Times, on the other hand, is widely regarded as the nation's leading newspaper: somber, serious, independent. It is also seen as a bastion of "liberal" journalism, forever skeptical of government – especially a government run by Republicans. Thus a dollop of militarist propaganda in its pages has a much broader and deeper impact than whole truckloads of bile on Fox. "Wow, the New York Times says Saddam has WMD – and they hate Bush, so it can't be White House spin!" "Look at this: the New York Times says Iran is killing Americans in Iraq – and those liberals wouldn't publish anything that agreed with Bush unless it was really true." And because innumerable media venues throughout the country take their lead from the Times, a well-planted piece of "credible" spin appearing there immediately becomes "conventional wisdom" on the subject. Not every reporter at the Times serves this function, of course. There is good journalism to be found in the paper; we draw on it here all the time. But Michael Gordon's work is a special case. His by-line on a story (with or without his former warmongering collaborator, Judith Miller) virtually guarantees that militarist propaganda is being "stovepiped" directly from the White House and Pentagon. These days he alternates between pounding the drum for an attack on Iran and prettying up the ghastly, on-going war crime in Iraq. His latest piece of psy-ops involves operations in Baghdad's Sadr City, where a looming massacre has been averted (or postponed) due to a deal brokered by -- not General David Petraeus, Ambassador Ryan Crocker or President George Bush – but by Iran.
Truth Emergency US
Saturday, 24 May 2008 11:03 P GMT-05
We are spun, mislead, propagandized and amused to death by our media conglomerates and as a result the US has become the best entertained and least informed society in the world. There is a literal truth emergency in the United States, not only regarding distant wars, torture camps, and doctored intelligence, but also around issues that most intimately impact our lives at home. For example, few Americans know that there has been a thirty-five year decline in real wages for most workers in the country, while the top 10% now enjoy unparalleled wealth with strikingly low tax burdens.
No Paper Trail Left Behind: the Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election
Saturday, 24 May 2008 4:30 P GMT-05
In the Georgia governor's race Republican Sonny Perdue upset incumbent Democratic Gov. Roy Barnes by a margin of 52 to 45 percent. This was especially strange given that the October 16-17, 2002 Mason Dixon Poll (Mason Dixon Polling and Research, Inc. of Washington, D.C.) had shown Democratic Governor Barnes ahead 48 to 39 percent, with a margin of error of ± 4 points. The final tally was, in other words, a jaw dropping 16-point turn-around! What the Cleland “defeat” by Saxby and the Barnes “defeat” by Perdue both have in common is that nearly all the Georgia votes were recorded on computerized voting machines, which produce no paper trail. In Minnesota, after Democrat Sen. Paul Wellstone's plane crash death,34 ex-vice-president Walter Mondale took Wellstone’s place and was leading Republican Norm Coleman in the days before the election by 47 to 39 percent. Despite the fact that he was trailing just days before the race by 8 points, Coleman beat Mondale by 50 to 47 percent. This was an 11-point turn around! The Minnesota race was conducted with paper ballots, read by optical scan readers, but Mondale never bothered to ask for a recount.35 Welcome to a world where statistical probability and normal arithmetic no longer apply!36 The Democrats, rather than vigorously pursuing these patently obvious signs of election fraud in 2004, have nearly all decided that being gracious losers is better than being winners,37 probably because – and this may be the most important reason for the Democrats’ relative silence - a full-scale uncovering of the fraud runs the risk of mobilizing and unleashing popular forces that the Democrats find just as threatening as the GOP does.
1933 Bush Coup
Saturday, 17 May 2008 8:35 P GMT-05
A BBC Radio 4 investigation sheds new light on a major subject that has received little historical attention, the conspiracy on behalf of a group of influential powerbrokers, led by Prescott Bush, to overthrow FDR and implement a fascist dictatorship in the U.S. based around the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. In 1933, Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush the current President's grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. According to the BBC, the plotters intended to impose a fascist takeover and "Adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression."
The countdown to 9/11 begins...
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 11:28 A GMT-05
Backing my claims about 9/11 questions
Wednesday, 14 May 2008 2:17 A GMT-05
The mainstream media parrot the less-than-credible conclusions of the 9/11 Commission without giving any thought to the many omissions and inconsistencies. In a truly free country, the press would ask hard questions and do real investigating, but this is not happening. Only the alternative media, such as Internet news sites, have done any solid investigating. The events of 9/11 led immediately to the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and passage of the Patriot Act (what double-speak), both of which deprive us of Constitutional rights and have brought us to the brink of becoming a police state. Homeland Security is currently trying to force a national ID card down our throats, although some governors have politely (or not so politely) told Secretary Michael Chertoff where he can go. If we’re going to sacrifice our freedom, there ought to be a very good reason, and we have a right to know what that is. It isn’t enough for government to say, “Trust me.” It’s way past time for Congress to authorize an independent investigation of 9/11 that will consider the mass of new evidence that has been gathered in the past seven years. The longer they stall, the more suspicions grow.
Let's play, 'Imagine If A Democrat Had Said This'
Monday, 5 May 2008 12:23 A GMT-05
Denver City Councilman Charles Brown, a Republican and Limbaugh listener, told the Denver Post, “What an insult. Regardless of political labels, for any radio announcer to wish a riot on a city so his party could win, that’s disgraceful and it’s absurd.” He said he has found Limbaugh to be a “great entertainer, but he’s really gone too far.” Has he? I doubt it. Will John McCain be pressed to address this? Will the Republican National Committee tell Limbaugh he’s not welcome at its convention? Will this have any bearing at all on whether far-right Republican officials — from both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue — appear on his show? It seems highly unlikely. Now try to imagine what would happen if a prominent Democratic voice did the same thing.
Peroxide Plotters
Saturday, 3 May 2008 9:12 P GMT-05
A good summary on the so-called "liquid terror" plot. -BE
Overwhelming Evidence Points To Murder Of DC Madam
Saturday, 3 May 2008 8:09 P GMT-05
"She had one white paper file box that she told me had some important paper with her and then she just kind of raised her eyebrows like you're supposed to think oh yeah, that's all the information that she had on her business in Washington," her building manager said. If Palfrey was planning to commit suicide just three days later then why did she leave with several suitcases and a box of files? According to an AP report, "Blanche Palfrey (her mother) had no sign that her daughter was suicidal, and there was no immediate indication that alcohol or drugs were involved, police Capt. Jeffrey Young said," On at least four previous occasions, both in the past and more recently, Palfrey publicly stated that she would never commit suicide. Twice on The Alex Jones Show, the most recent example being less than two months ago, Palfrey made clear her intention never to kill herself (Click here for MP3). "No I'm not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance in March, "I'm planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government," she said. "Not to be concerned, I have no intention of letting anyone buy me off or make any kind of a deal with me....and I'm not planning to commit suicide either," said Palfrey on a separate occasion. Alex Jones also talked directly to Palfrey during show breaks and she re-stated her intention never to commit suicide and made it clear that if she was found dead to consider it murder. GCN Live radio board operators are also witnesses to these statements.
New England 9/11 Symposium - Reminder - May 17
Saturday, 3 May 2008 2:28 A GMT-05
The New England 9/11 Symposium:
Family Members, Whistleblowers and Researchers Speak Out Saturday, May 17th, 9:30 am-6 pm Keene High School, Keene, NH
General Admission: $15 Students and Seniors: $ 10 Coffee and registration at 9:O0 a.m.
Was 10:45 a.m. the Originally Planned Demolition Time of WTC 7?
Friday, 2 May 2008 11:14 A GMT-05
At 11:07 a.m. in the morning of September 11, 2001, a CNN correspondent in New York reported that a third tower had possibly collapsed. While this report was incorrect, it is interesting to note that the reporter's description could have applied to World Trade Center Building 7. This huge skyscraper was indeed the third tower to collapse on 9/11. However it did not come down until late in the afternoon, more than six hours after this report. CNN correspondent Allan Dodds Frank reported by phone from Lower Manhattan. He described: "[J]ust two or three minutes ago there was yet another collapse or explosion. I'm now out of sight, a Good Samaritan has taken me in on Duane Street. But at a quarter to 11, there was another collapse or explosion following the 10:30 collapse of the second tower. And a firefighter who rushed by us estimated that 50 stories went down. The street filled with smoke. It was like a forest fire roaring down a canyon." [1] WTC 7 was a 47-story tower, so would have fitted the description of the estimated "50 stories" described by Frank. And it did indeed collapse completely. One could in fact accurately describe its demise with Frank's words: "The street filled with smoke. It was like a forest fire roaring down a canyon." However, this collapse did not happen until 5:20 that afternoon. What could have led Frank to make his incorrect report? Surely, even in the chaos of that morning, it would have been quite difficult for a mistaken report of another massive skyscraper coming down to have emerged out of nothing. Could the reason be that WTC 7 had originally been scheduled to be brought down (with explosives) at 10:45 a.m.? The incorrect information Frank reported had therefore been put out, by persons unknown, on the assumption that this would be the case. However, something--as yet unknown to us--happened that meant the demolition had to be delayed, and so Building 7 was not ready to be brought down until late that afternoon.
'Colbie from MySpace' finds fame with help from her friends
Saturday, 26 April 2008 6:37 P GMT-05
Colbie Caillat (rhymes with "valet") is from California. But sometimes when she encounters fans of the laid-back, R&B-tinged pop of her 2007 debut album "Coco" they believe her hometown is MySpace. The 22-year-old singer-songwriter caused such a stir on the social networking site with her songs - uploaded by her friend Dom - that she went from bedroom composer to major-label artist within a year. Since then she's toured with the Goo Goo Dolls and cruised with John Mayer, for whom she'll open this summer. The root of all this good fortune is Caillat's sexy, playful, and inescapable hit song "Bubbly," which describes the toes-to-nose giddiness brought on by the first rush of love. (Or maybe something else.)
We live in an age like no other
Saturday, 26 April 2008 4:06 P GMT-05
Never has it been possible to divorce a woman, take her children, not let her see them, make her pay you to look after them for her, then, if she isn't able to, complain that she must not love her children and throw her in jail. The mere idea is transparently unjust. Yet, today that is exactly what custodial parents can do to non-custodial parents, under the full protection of the law. That almost always means what mothers can do to fathers. No one even seems to notice unless the mother doing it is a lesbian.
Outspoken Arizona Senator Questions 9/11 Official Version Of Events
Saturday, 26 April 2008 2:14 P GMT-05
A senator that actually cares about constitution law and US sovereignty, questions big corporate infested government and promotes freedom? Karen Johnson is undoubtedly kooky and most possibly evil.
Why Rush Limbaugh Ought to Be Force-Fed His Own Liposuctioned Fat (Riot Edition)
Saturday, 26 April 2008 1:33 P GMT-05
Rush Limbaugh wants violence in the streets of an American city. He wants destruction, and he wants people hurt, maybe killed, including police officers. And he has decided to use his followers to make this violence happen. Now, how is he different than Osama bin Laden?
Mainstream Economist Makes Passing Comment About Explosives Taking Down Towers
Friday, 25 April 2008 2:49 A GMT-05
Here's the relevant quote: "I wonder what they would do if they knew about the dangers posed by investment bank credit default swaps, CDSs, a $62 trillion unregulated market that could destroy the global economy as quickly and as easily as charged explosives brought down three towers at the World Trade Center on 9/11." Full article can be found here: http://www.kitco.com/ind/schoon/apr222008.html
BUSH BASHER SMASHES DISABLED TEEN: COPS - New York Post
Friday, 25 April 2008 2:37 A GMT-05
"He began yelling about Iraq and Iran at Jenna Bush. She was waving at the crowd. I told the guy, 'What are you doing? Shut up. This is about a child and books,' " said John Lovetro. "He was unperturbed. I said, 'Get out of here! You're being a moron!' " The next thing he knew, Talis was allegedly punching Maureen - a fan of the first lady since meeting her in 2004.
NY Post Smears Activist For "Wheelchair Assault"
Friday, 25 April 2008 2:35 A GMT-05
The NY Post is facing a lawsuit after it brazenly smeared a 9/11 truth activist for attacking a wheelchair-bound woman in New York last night, when in fact it was the activist himself who was beaten up by the girl's father according to eyewitnesses.
Al-CIAda Sock Puppet Zawahiri Claims Iran Behind 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Tuesday, 22 April 2008 11:01 P GMT-05
His latest comments linking the questioning of the official 9/11 story with America's supposed enemy, Iran, are transparently part of a crude ploy to allow the media to embark on a fresh round of demonizing legitimate 9/11 truth activists.
THE MYTH OF 'AL QAEDA' NOW BEGINNING TO BE RECOGNISED BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
Sunday, 20 April 2008 6:42 P GMT-05
It’s interesting to note that, at long last, the mainstream media is hinting that the words ‘al Qaeda’ has simplistically become a metaphor for those that are fighting the US in Iraq and elsewhere and that ‘al Qaeda’ is not, as they have pushed for years, a specific organisation that is led and organised by the equally metaphoric and very dead ‘Osama bin Laden’.
Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand -NYT April 20, 2008
Sunday, 20 April 2008 4:26 P GMT-05
To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found. The effort, which began with the buildup to the Iraq war and continues to this day, has sought to exploit ideological and military allegiances, and also a powerful financial dynamic: Most of the analysts have ties to military contractors vested in the very war policies they are asked to assess
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Publication in a Peer-reviewed Civil Engineering Journal!
Saturday, 19 April 2008 3:57 P GMT-05
Finally! After submitting a half-dozen papers to established peer-reviewed technical journals over a period of nearly a year, we have two papers which have passed peer-review and have been accepted for publication. One of these was published TODAY! In science, we say that we have “published in the literature,” a major step in a nascent line of scientific inquiry.
Portland Couple Has Refused to Pay Taxes for 30 Years to Protest Military Funding
Thursday, 17 April 2008 9:06 P GMT-05
We have traditionally redirected the money to some other cause. And now, since 2002, our decision has been to take the money that the federal government says we owe and to pay it directly to our local Multnomah County government. And so, day after tomorrow, we're going to go down to the Multnomah County Commission meeting, their weekly meeting, with a check in hand, and we'll give the reasons why we cannot support the federal government, and we'll thank them for not having a military department, and we'll give them the money to be used however they wish. But we have in mind that our county government has a heavy cost to pay for healthcare for people, including people who are in the position they are because of their involvement in the war and the suffering from the war.
MSNBC Slams Fox News For Being Racists "Akin to KKK" 3/22
Thursday, 17 April 2008 7:13 P GMT-05
The Man Banned by Digg
Saturday, 12 April 2008 4:25 P GMT-05
Dale Williams interviews Mike Rivero, webmaster of WhatReallyHappened.com. Most of the content on Mike's site has been banned by Digg. Why the censorship? Find out with this in-depth interview. H.R. 1955 - the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 and the Truth and Freedom Movements are just a few of the topics discussed.
Meet THE SYSTEM
Friday, 11 April 2008 10:13 A GMT-05
"Meet the System" provides a less intimidating way for people to learn about the Federal Reserve System. It is written in simple language and, at just 8 chapters in length, most can read through it in an afternoon.
Ludicrous Hit Piece Attacks Ventura On WTC Collapse Comments
Thursday, 10 April 2008 11:17 P GMT-05
An almost unbelievably absurd and weak hit piece against Jesse Ventura's contention that WTC 7 was deliberately imploded on 9/11 compares a 4-story church that was a stone's throw away from the twin towers with a 47-story skyscraper that was nearly 400 feet away.
Liquid Bombers On Trial: Jury Sees Martyrdom Videos, Crown Identifies Targets
Monday, 7 April 2008 12:18 P GMT-05
Of the twenty-five who were arrested, fourteen were released without charges; the remaining eleven are now on trial. Eight of them are charged with conspiracy to murder, three with lesser offenses. The trial is expected to last six to eight months.
Six of the eight charged with conspiracy to murder made martyrdom videos, excerpts of which were shown to the jury last week. Everyone says these martyrdom videos are "chilling", but nobody says why. And the actual contents are reported almost nowhere.
James Moore, co-author of "Bush's Brain" and "The Architect," has no doubt "that Karl [Rove] was running the 9-11 Commission"
Saturday, 5 April 2008 4:44 P GMT-05
Me: "...I think that this is a very crucial sort-of connection for Karl Rove, because that Commission was highly manipulated and, if it was manipulated and it was a cover-up, then, under Article III Section 3 of the Constitution, I think we can consider it a treasonous cover-up." James Moore: "I don't have any doubt that Karl was running the 9-11 Commission. And, obviously, the people who were the key people on that, Jeremy, were appointed by the Bush administration, were beholden to the Bush administration, obviously there were some Democrats on there. But the people in charge, the people who were issuing and writing the reports and saying "let's look at this evidence and let's not look at this evidence," were people who reported to Karl."
Somalia: The Open Secret Horror Show Continues
Friday, 4 April 2008 10:54 A GMT-05
Our "news" media have been trained to produce fiction revolving around the notion that whatever America does overseas is "right"; and in this case there's no possible argument to be made in favor of our intervention in Somalia; therefore they have no choice but to avert their eyes and pretend it isn't happening. Thus the war in Somalia -- just like many of America's clandestine operations over the years -- is a "secret" to most Americans. But it's not clandestine. It's just a secret. In former days, when the CIA old-timers were staging a regime-change operation, they took pains to make sure nobody found out. They were afraid of the media. Now their successors don't have to be so careful, because they control the media, and they know nobody's gonna make a peep.
MSNBC Keith Olbermann: Foreknowledge of 9/11
Tuesday, 1 April 2008 11:55 P GMT-05
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AROUND THE WORLD
Saturday, 29 March 2008 6:14 P GMT-05
Just one guy persistently reporting the real news... -BE
HONOLULU ADVERTISER FRONT PAGE FROM THE WEEK PRIOR TO PEARL HARBOR
Saturday, 29 March 2008 5:57 P GMT-05
Ron Paul on Coast To Coast AM - Supports A New 9/11 Investigation
Wednesday, 26 March 2008 11:04 A GMT-05
MTV Warns Viewers of Looming Police State
Sunday, 16 March 2008 4:16 A GMT-05
The two MTV commercials below blatantly warn its viewers to wake up and start thinking about the direction our society is headed towards. These small warning chirps coming from the young canaries at MTV are a sign that the human spirit can break the tight grip of the corporate controlled media.
Is the CIA’s “Mighty Wurlitzer” Playing Geraldo Rivera?
Saturday, 15 March 2008 4:14 P GMT-05
On Fox and Friends, Geraldo declared Times Square is a “magnet for these crazy people, for anarchists… that’s what I think this is, this bomber isn’t al-Qaeda, isn’t anything like that, he is more like — it’s a man — he’s more like those 9/11 was an inside job kind of guys, they… they protest things in a violent way, but in a violent way almost like the eco-terrorist where they don’t intend the inflict casualties.” Geraldo has absolutely no evidence the event in question was connected to anybody associated with the 9/11 truth movement and his characterization of the movement and its members as violent, at first glance, is so at odds with the facts as to be ludicrous. No doubt Geraldo, possessing at least a modicum of intelligence — as blithering idiots do not generally become corporate media personalities — understands well the disingenuous nature of his comments. In short, he is reading from a script and that script was prepared well in advance of the event in Times Square.
Geraldo Rivera conflates 9/11 skeptics with Terrorists - March 7, 2008
Saturday, 15 March 2008 3:43 A GMT-05
FOX News says "We Love to Hear From Our Viewers!" Let's take them up on the offer. After all, you're a viewer now... My suggestion is that we all ask for a retraction or apology for this outrageous comment, and Geraldo should have on the air David Ray Griffin to talk about his great new book, 9/11 Contradictions. 1-888-369-4762 ext.4 to leave a comment. Send an email directly to Fox & friends on this page:
How Should 9/11 Truth Activists Respond to Smear Campaign? SUE!
Tuesday, 11 March 2008 3:21 P GMT-05
The Simon Weisenthal Center accused credible 9/11 truth organizations of being terrorists, or at least helping to radicalize people into becoming terrorists. Fox News Commentator Geraldo Rivera reportedly stated that the New York Times Square bombing was carried out by 9/11 truthers. How should 9/11 truth activists respond to these smear campaigns? SUE! It is illegal to make false claims about people. It is called "defamation" ("slander" if it is a spoken lie; "libel" if it is a written lie). There are very clear defamation laws in the United States.
Neocon Bloggers Blame Antiwar Movement for New York Bombing
Sunday, 9 March 2008 4:19 P GMT-05
It was inevitable. Neocon bloggers, hardly satisfied at the ineffectiveness and lethargy of the antiwar movement, are insinuating a reemergence of the Weather Underground and the SLA after a hooded somebody on a bicycle placed a flash-boom device at a recruitment center located in Times Square.
Secret Prisons Are Too Good For Them
Wednesday, 5 March 2008 7:11 A GMT-05
A commenter on Joe Scarborough suggests putting 9-11 Truthers in secret prisons in Eastern Europe. Too expensive and inefficient; I suggest that the Secret Service bring Chinese-made guillotines to every Clinton event. We'd see an end to all this nonsense in about ten seconds.
Fascist Morning Joe: Tase, Take 9/11 Truthers to Concentration Camps
Wednesday, 5 March 2008 7:00 A GMT-05
In other words, the corporate behemoth MSNBC believes people who disagree with the government not only do not deserve First Amendment rights and protection, but also believe demonstrators should be kidnapped by the CIA and taken to a “special prison” to be tortured and ultimately killed, as this is the fate many who disappear suffer. Is it possible the United States is about to become like Pinochet’s Chile? In 1973, thanks to the CIA and U.S. corporations, Chile became a brutal police state. Chileans were subjected to systematic and massive violations of their most basic human rights. Official figures indicate that nearly 3,000 people were executed, disappeared or lost their lives as a result of torture and political violence. It would seem “Morning Joe” would enthusiastically welcome the installation of a fascist state where those he disagrees with are disappeared, tortured, and murdered.
More Americans turning to Web for news
Saturday, 1 March 2008 6:06 P GMT-05
Nearly half of the 1,979 people who responded to the survey said their primary source of news and information is the Internet, up from 40 percent just a year ago. Less than one third use television to get their news, while 11 percent turn to radio and 10 percent to newspapers.
Hardfire WTC7 Show
Friday, 29 February 2008 11:03 A GMT-05
Ron Wieck interviews retired FDNY Fire Chief Arthur Scheurman and debunker Mark Roberts on WTC 7.
Richard Gage at Keene State College
Sunday, 24 February 2008 11:38 P GMT-05
This sit down presentation was incredibly effective. The Monadnock 9/11 Truth Alliance and Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth encourage all 9/11 Truth activists to try and set up similar meetings with local press. One of the main things that needs to happen is the media black out needs to end. Local media is a great place to start.
How the 9/11 Commission Got it Wrong - an Introduction to 9/11 Skepticism on YouTube
Sunday, 24 February 2008 11:03 P GMT-05
So, if you are new to 9/11 Truth, or 9/11 skepticism, or you just have some questions, this is a great start. This briefing does not present much speculation or theory, but does break down the Commission on its bureaucratic failings, and lists a host of anomalies that will send you researching for days if this is all new to you. (This briefing does not discuss controlled demolition theories at all, it wasn't until physicist Steven Jones came on the scene in 2006 that CD "exploded" into the massive topic for 9/11 skeptics that is currently is. There was a lot of research already published online, and some in books, but it took a PhD to kick it over the top.) The YouTube series is in 25 parts, and begins with McKinney's opening statement.
Bill Doyle, Father of 9/11 Victim, Speaks Out On Alex Jones Show
Thursday, 21 February 2008 12:44 A GMT-05
The representative of the largest group of 9/11 families says that the official version of events is a fallacy and that the NORAD stand down and evidence of incendiary devices used to bring down the towers amount to government complicity in the attacks - a conclusion shared by half of the 9/11 families he represents. Bill Doyle heads the Coalition of 9/11 Families and lost his own son Joey in the collapse of the twin towers. “If you want to believe what they want to snow you under on like the 9/11 Commission - that’s a total fallacy,” said Doyle. “The continuing cover-up is beyond belief,” Doyle told GCN radio host Alex Jones.
Barrie Zwicker on TVO - February 13th, 2008
Saturday, 16 February 2008 7:44 P GMT-05
The "agenda" seems to have been to have Zwicker on the show, showcase him as a paranoid "Conspiracy Theorist" and then have a panel follow up and explain why he was a paranoiac. However, Zwicker was so damn good in the opening segment with Paikin, that the episode was re-named, "Barrie Zwicker - Conspiracy Anyone?", and split into two distinct segments, the first with Zwicker, called "The Interview - Fact or fiction? Writer Barrie Zwicker on the real story behind 9/11", and the second segment a rather typical establishment rationalization of "Conspiracy Theories" called "The Debate: Conspiracy Anyone? - Why do some people see things that most don't? The rising popularity and seductive logic of conspiratorial thinking", which you can view as a streaming episode or podcast D/L at the show's website:The "agenda" seems to have been to have Zwicker on the show, showcase him as a paranoid "Conspiracy Theorist" and then have a panel follow up and explain why he was a paranoiac. However, Zwicker was so damn good in the opening segment with Paikin, that the episode was re-named, "Barrie Zwicker - Conspiracy Anyone?", and split into two distinct segments, the first with Zwicker, called "The Interview - Fact or fiction? Writer Barrie Zwicker on the real story behind 9/11", and the second segment a rather typical establishment rationalization of "Conspiracy Theories" called "The Debate: Conspiracy Anyone? - Why do some people see things that most don't? The rising popularity and seductive logic of conspiratorial thinking", which you can view as a streaming episode or podcast D/L at the show's website:
Discovery Channel Drops Plans To Air "Taxi To The Dark Side" Because It Is Too "Controversial"
Sunday, 10 February 2008 10:59 P GMT-05
Now, I am told that ‘it doesn’t fit into Discovery’s plans,’ and that the film’s controversial content might damage Discovery’s public offering. Having directed ‘Enron,’ very little about this kind of corporate behavior shocks me, but I am surprised that a network that touts itself as a supporter of documentaries would be so shamelessly craven. This is a film that, in an election year, is of critical interest to the viewing public. What Discovery is doing is tantamount to political censorship.
FOX-5 Reports 9/11/01: WTC-7 Collapsed Before Actual Event
Saturday, 9 February 2008 2:16 P GMT-05
Another clear cut case of the media on 9/11/01 being fed a cover story on WTC-7's collapse before the actual event. In this clip, the anchors for FOX-5 in Washington DC on 9/11/01 report that WTC-7 had already collapsed and then they watch WTC-7 collapse seconds in their own video footage just after they already reported that the collapse already happened. This is more evidence that WTC-7 was brought down in a controlled demolition. How could anyone know a building with light fire damage is too collapse at free fall speed, unless they know it is going to be brought down with explosives?
Dam Breaks, ABC News Covers Willie Nelson 9/11 Story
Friday, 8 February 2008 4:22 A GMT-05
The dam has broken on mainstream media coverage of Willie Nelson's comments yesterday about the implosion of the WTC twin towers with ABC News picking up the story on their front page this afternoon.
Fox News covers Willie Nelson Story
Friday, 8 February 2008 4:21 A GMT-05
Texas icon Willie Nelson said on a nationally syndicated radio show this week that he questions the official story of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York City. "I certainly do," Nelson said Monday when asked by talk show host Alex Jones if he questions the official story. "I saw those towers fall and I've seen an implosion in Las Vegas, there's too much similarities between the two. And I saw the building fall that didn't get hit by nothing," the singer-songwriter said. "So, how naive are we, you know, what do they think we'll go for?"
An Open Letter to Amy Goodman
Friday, 8 February 2008 3:38 A GMT-05
For rhetorical purposes only, let's say that "Al Qaeda" performed as specified by the 9/11 Commission, (even though, as early as October, 2001, serious analysts of military theory, like Stan Goff, were saying that, "The So-Called Evidence Is a Farce"). If that's so, why are there so many blatant connections between western intelligence and "Al Qaeda"? Connections like Ali Mohamed, for instance, or the Clinton administration's support of the KLA througout the 1990's, or the continued alleged links between CIA and Abu Sayyaf? It seems based on the research of Michel Chossudovsky of Canada, and Nafeez Ahmed of Britain, that if indeed, "Al Qaeda" did pull off 9/11, it did it as a proxy force, or patsy force at best. Doesn't that tweak your conscience just slightly? If "Al Qaeda" is a patsy army, then over One Million dead Iraqi citizens have died for nothing, because the invasion of Iraq was never going to happen without a "Catastrophic Event", like 9/11, that the Neocons were pining for.
Paul for President
Wednesday, 6 February 2008 3:16 A GMT-05
He is the one candidate who sees how the realities of world power have shifted since the 1990s, the one who recognizes that the time of unilateral American hegemony is over—and can’t be maintained even if it was in our interest to do so. He alone understands that the ever expanding federal government is a far greater threat to American liberty than some tinpot dictator in the Caucasus. By speaking about the benefits of smaller government and limited executive power, he has introduced a generation of young Americans to a more traditional and true style of conservatism—to the movement and the country’s benefit.
Seattle-Post Intelligencer Editors to Next Administration: "write a real, nonpartisan report on the [9/11] attacks"
Wednesday, 6 February 2008 1:40 A GMT-05
Zelikow had written a 2002 report for the administration, which seemed to provide justification for a pre-emptive war, and tried in 2004 to create a connection between Osama bin Laden and Iraq in the 9/11 Commission report. Despite saying he wouldn't do so, he also had several conversations with Rice and Karl Rove, which explains why he'd asked his assistant to stop keeping track of his calls to and from the White House.
ATTENTION BLOGOSPHERE!
Monday, 28 January 2008 5:09 A GMT-05
We are actually on the verge of becoming bigger than the audience for tv news. And we are certainly much more involved and active than the couch potatoes passively consuming the drivel coming from the MSN. In fact, mainstream news is a misnomer. Why? Because the corporate, controlled news does not reflect the views of mainstream Americans. Instead, it reflects the views of the government and the large corporations which own or advertise on the news networks.
The Greatest Grassroots Campaign in Political History: IGNORED BY BIG MEDIA
Sunday, 27 January 2008 4:29 P GMT-05
The grassroots campaign that grew around the support of Ron Paul has done everything in their power to earn a respectable place in the national consciousness. Through individual efforts, the Ron Paul grassroots campaign raised $4 million in a single day in early November. Then, in mid-December, the growing group broke the ALL-TIME SINGLE DAY RECORD bringing in $6 million in one 24 hour period. This was reported in the media, but was it reported in the amazing way it should have been? Did this vault Ron Paul into the key “front runners circle” that the large media has had such immense control over? The answer is no. The media summarily ignored Ron Paul and his campaign very soon thereafter. Ron Paul’s supporters have organized to dominate most local straw polls around the country. They have dominated nearly every online poll and both online and text polls after every single Republican debate. Has this vaulted Ron Paul into the media “front runners circle”? No. They ignore him and figuratively spit on his hard working supporters. When Ron Paul does get a rare interview or report, at times he is treated fairly, but most often he has been treated like a second class citizen, called a “long shot”, dismissed as a “kook” and treated generally in a way unbecoming of any respectable interviewer. Like I said, there are exceptions, but the rule is patently ugly treatment by a more and more despicable traditional media.
Big news: History Channel Admits Anthrax Attacks are an Inside Job!
Saturday, 26 January 2008 9:11 P GMT-05
The New Al-Qaeda: Blonde Haired, Blue Eyed Westerners
Tuesday, 15 January 2008 2:37 A GMT-05
You don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure out what the agenda is here. Just as we were told that there were reds under the bed during the cold war era, without the specter of potential terrorists running around our backyards, the war on terror itself and all the fearmongering attached to it is rendered impotent. So the new potential terrorists are our friends, our neighbors and even us - mandating that the whole police state apparatus that has been constructed since 9/11 be swung around to target the American and British people.
Vicious Ron Paul Hit Piece Scrapes The Barrel Of Yellow Journalism
Wednesday, 9 January 2008 2:09 A GMT-05
As one respondent to the New Republic hit piece comments, "That's the problem Ron Paul presents to those trying to smear him, you have to go back 20 years and try to twist somebody else's words to try to make him look bad. With all the other candidates you can just look at what they themselves have actually been doing in the recent past and even the present."
9/11 Contradictions: Bush in the Classroom
Wednesday, 9 January 2008 12:43 A GMT-05
The official story of 9/11 is riddled with internal contradictions. One of these contradictions involves the question of how long President Bush remained in classroom in Sarasota, Florida, on the morning of 9/11.
Q and A with Mike Rivero of whatreallyhappened.com
Sunday, 6 January 2008 12:00 A GMT-05
The old corporate mainstream media is too fossilized to change. Yes, they are building their own websites and in some cases even hiring "cooperative" bloggers, but in the end, it isn't the medium of the internet that defines the new media, but the content. The Internet embodies the diversity of opinion that used to be enforced by law with the mainstream media. But once the mainstream media was allowed to condense to just a few media mega-corporations, that diversity and objectivity was destroyed. The self-proclaimed role of the media as watchdog on government abuse was co-opted and the networks became propaganda ministries. We all saw that when the networks declared that Saddam had 'nookular' bombs when even the poorest bloggers knew that the claim was total fiction.
Big media stands down
Saturday, 5 January 2008 4:15 A GMT-05
The star journalists of 2007 didn't work for The New York Times or The Washington Post or The Globe and Mail. They didn't work for 60 Minutes or "W-5" or "The Fifth Estate." The real star journalists of 2007 were the dogged, artless, perseverant investigators and writers, mostly amateur, who continued to pursue the story of what really happened on 9/11, because the above-named big guys and their kind continued to ignore it.
9/11 Truth in MSM - Denmark
Friday, 4 January 2008 5:49 A GMT-05
The largest tv station in denmark had a live broadcast on "Good Morning, Denmark" with Professor in chemistry, Niels Harrit
( www.911truth.dk/first/en/art_Harrit.htm ) and the creator of the largest 9/11 Forum in denmark, Jakob Hede Madsen. ( www.agenda911.dk ) The interview is with english subtitles.
A tale of three broadcasters
Sunday, 30 December 2007 10:40 P GMT-05
In this tale, written from an Australian perspective, I’ll review an incident that took place overseas several years ago - and the remarkable failure of Australia's premier public broadcaster to report the story. Then I’ll look at equivalent public broadcasters, in Britain and the USA, to examine their bizarre reportage of the same extraordinary event. Publicly-funded mass media can - and should - survive only if they enjoy widespread confidence. Why should the public fund media which lies about very important topics - matters of life and death? Read on - and judge for yourself whether the tangled web woven by these three mass media organizations is evidence of deliberate deception.
Paul: Fox News is 'scared of me'
Sunday, 30 December 2007 8:29 P GMT-05
Ron Paul said the decision to exclude him from a debate on Fox News Sunday the weekend before the New Hampshire Primary is proof that the network "is scared" of him. "They are scared of me and don't want my message to get out, but it will," Paul said in an interview at a diner here. "They are propagandists for this war and I challenge them on the notion that they are conservative." Paul's staff said they are beginning to plan a rally that will take place at the same time the 90-minute debate will air on television. It will be taped at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown.
News Anchor Assaults 9/11 Victim's Family Member
Thursday, 27 December 2007 2:20 A GMT-05
Beck Complains Of Threats, Yet Wanted To "Kill Michael Moore"
Thursday, 20 December 2007 2:24 A GMT-05
The thinly veiled attack was clearly designed to suggest that Ron Paul's supporters are dangerous and that this reflects on his policies, a smear tactic Beck has previously used, and one that most likely landed him with said threats in the first instance. A bemused Ron Paul was of course cornered into condemning any threat of violence, despite not having any knowledge of what Beck was referring to. However it is quite impossible to have any sympathy for Beck given the fact that not only does he regularly regurgitate the "kill those darn Islamists before they kill us" mantra, but has also personally threatened to kill people whose views he condemns, namely those of film maker Michael Moore.
Congratulations To The FealGood Foundation
Friday, 14 December 2007 6:18 A GMT-05
John Feal and the FealGood Foundation are mentioned in the news a lot. It seems a lot of New York papers go to John for comments regarding the problems of the responders. However, this last week has been an outstanding exception. I have seen SEVERAL mentions of the FealGood Foundation in SEVERAL different news articles.
Dan Rea's NightSide to provide 9-11 Truth a fair hearing
Friday, 14 December 2007 5:39 A GMT-05
In the tradition of his courageous journalism career, WBZ AM 1030's Dan Rea will be interviewing three prominent voices from the controversial 9-11 Truth movement. The interview will be broadcast live on the evening of Friday, December 14th, just hours before the following morning's scientific 9-11 symposium at Faneuil Hall, sponsored by Boston911Truth.org. Joining Dan Rea in studio will be the symposium's opening speaker, Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9-11 Truth (http://www.ae911thruth.org); Dr, Robert Bowman, former Director of Advanced Space Programs for the U.S. Air Force; and Donna Marsh O'Connor, mother of 9-11 victim Vanessa Lang Langer.
Ron Paul Scrubbed From Glenn Beck Poll
Thursday, 13 December 2007 1:43 A GMT-05
Neo-Con CNN hack Glenn Beck, who recently called Ron Paul supporters a potential physical threat that should be dealt with by the U.S. military, has conveniently scrubbed the popular Congressman's name from his website poll which asks who will win the Republican nomination.
Fox & Friends debate: Should all Americans carry guns?
Wednesday, 12 December 2007 6:16 A GMT-05
"I hope this represents a change in the way we think about gun-free zones," said Larry Pratt of the Gun Owners of America, "because heretofore, we've had these kinds of bad guys attacking schools and churches and they don't meet any armed resistance ... I think we have to get it through our heads: gun-free zones are criminal-friendly zones."
Are the Wheels Coming Off the Government's 9/11 Myth?
Wednesday, 12 December 2007 5:54 A GMT-05
While the mainstream media is studiously ignoring the deeper issues raised by the destruction of the tapes, there are signs that truth may be slowly rising to the surface after having been held underwater for a long time. For example, while ignoring the real players behind 9/11, even Huffington Post and Digg- which normally avoid any story questioning 9/11 -- have picked up on the possibility that the tapes were destroyed because they showed that people other than a guy on dialysis living in a cave and his 19 pals were behind the 9/11 attacks. Are the wheels are coming off the government's 9/11 myth?
Businessman Set To Walk Length Of Cape Cod For 9/11 Charity Fund | 911Blogger.com
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 12:28 A GMT-05
On Dec. 18 and 19, Jeffrey Liskov, 37, of Plymouth, a vice president at Fidelity Investments, will walk 100 miles, from Provincetown to Plymouth Rock, in hopes of raising at least $2,500 for the Feal Good Foundation - a nonprofit charity founded in 2005 to aid sick or injured 9/11 rescue workers. “I’m doing the charity walk to raise awareness of a situation that is happening to 9/11 first-responders,” Liskov said. The foundation “sends out checks to them to help put food on the table, to pay rent if need be, and pays medical bills,” he said.
This year the organization has made 91 donations to 9/11 rescuers. He may be joined by the Feal Good Foundation founder. John Feal, 41, of New York, was the supervisor of a demolition company when he responded to Ground Zero on Sept. 12, 2001. He was hospitalized for 11 weeks after a beam weighing several tons fell on his feet.
9/11 Truth Radio Show with Jason King, Mia Hamel, Dylan Avery, Monday, December 10, 9-11 pm (CST)
Saturday, 8 December 2007 4:09 P GMT-05
Listen 9:00- 10:00 pm (CST) to Questioning War - Organizing Resistance on the WeThePeopleRadioNetwork.com and to our guests - Jason King and Mia Hamel and 10:00- 11:00 pm (CST) to our guest - Dylan Avery.
Tucker Carlson receives my 'Smarmy Award' for smearing Ron Paul
Saturday, 8 December 2007 8:14 A GMT-05
I am serious when I say this: MSNBC should throw him off the air. No this is not a freedom of speech case or where a racist remark was made; he clearly violated the ethics of journalism and embarrassed MSNBC that is if they have morals. More importantly, I do feel he did this to embarrass Ron Paul and create a controversy to surround him. If anyone owes an apology to a candidate, the viewing public and the American people in general it is Carlson. As this article rightfully points out was a message coming from the Paul campaign, "On a personal basis, he doesn't condone those things. At the same time, from his campaign perspective, it’s not the role of federal government and it's not in the Constitution for federal government to regulate these things." The article continues on to state, “That of course is correct, and in Nevada prostitution is legal in 12 of the state’s 17 counties, including the county where Dennis Hof’s brothel is located.” But this is lost in the AP report in which the voting public will not know that in certain communities such as Las Vegas, prostitution is legal. All they will know is that a brothel owner has endorsed Ron Paul and that is not telling the full story. The AP should have also reported this stunt created by Tucker Carlson in order to be fair and balanced.
Response Letter to the Boston Globe, "The Science of How Buildings Fall Down", 3 Dec 2007
Wednesday, 5 December 2007 10:55 A GMT-05
This experiment provides further reason to doubt the “official story” that gravity alone was enough to cause complete and rapid destruction of the WTC Towers and WTC 7. WTC 7, a 47-story skyscraper, was not even hit by a plane, yet it completely collapsed on the afternoon of 9/11/2001. This experiment confirms our argument that buildings are designed to stand, not give up and fall down completely even if a key support column is destroyed in an instant (see technical articles in the JournalOf911Studies.com). On the other hand, we have all seen controlled demolitions using explosives in which tall buildings are brought straight down – completely and quickly. Of course, such a process leaves behind tell-tale residues. I will discuss the residues our team of investigators has in fact discovered in the WTC dust, at Faneuil Hall on Dec. 15, 2007. (See http://boston911truth.org/teaparty/911conference.php.)
Do 9/11 Conspiracies Stem from a Distrust in the Government?
Tuesday, 27 November 2007 1:01 A GMT-05
The defenders of the official version of 9/11 argue that "the high percentage is a manifestation ... of an American public that increasingly distrusts the federal government." In other words, they argue that the approximately 200 million people who say that the emperor has no clothes have an illogical distrust of the emperor, and so they are seeing things. They've got the whole cause-and-effect backwards. In fact, the American public increasingly distrusts the federal government because it is becoming more and more obvious that elements of the government carried out -- or at the very least -- aided and abetted the 9/11 attacks. Despite the say-nothing media, the American public is getting the fact that the government's story about 9/11 just doesn't add up and that the vast majority of people in every relevant field who have examined 9/11 say so.
Blatant bias and slanted story at Scripps
Monday, 26 November 2007 2:27 A GMT-05
Your publication should apologize and offer to do an honest investigation of the 9/11 government complicity issue. How difficult would it be to assign some professionals to investigate what "two-thirds of Americans" have already discovered on their own? This condescending attack mode (which is prevalant across corporate media) is not carrying the day obviously, as your own polls indicate.
The New Inquisition Against 9/11 Truth
Sunday, 25 November 2007 8:49 P GMT-05
So, What were they thinking? Why would more than 200 architects and engineers who are calling on Congress to hold an independent investigation as to what really happened to the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7 get associated with islamic extremists? It has become painfully obvious that when Glenn Beck (a CNN host who recently said that Truthers were of the same ilk as Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh) and a Homeland Security subcommittee do a smear job on Truthers they are doing so not because they are violent, or because their ideas are helping to recruit terrorists, but because they are threatening to the whole "War on Terror" agenda -- an agenda foisted on us by the military industrial complex and their corporate sponsors.
Murdoch admits editorial control
Sunday, 25 November 2007 4:03 P GMT-05
Rupert Murdoch has admitted to a parliamentary inquiry that he has "editorial control" over which party The Sun and News of the World back in a general election and what line the papers take on Europe.
"Fuck the Corporate Media"
Saturday, 24 November 2007 9:33 P GMT-05
"Fuck The Corporate Media" analyzes the tactics, both subtle and blatant, employed by the corporate media to control your mind. This video covers just one day in the lies of the corporate media. See for yourself how they sell us out in this startling comparison between what really happened on August 21st, 2003 in Portland, Oregon, and what they say about what happened.
Gibson: WH deserves a medal for outing Plame.
Thursday, 22 November 2007 6:20 P GMT-05
In his “My Word” segment this afternoon, Fox News pundit John Gibson applauded the White House’s decision to blow the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. “I’m the guy who said a long, long time ago that whoever outed Valerie Plame should get a medal,” Gibson said. “And if it was Karl Rove, I’d pin it on him myself.” Gibson argued the outing of Plame was justified because “this was about an anti-Bush cabal at the CIA” that needed to be “rooted out.”
O'Reilly: "Truth is Anti-American." Mark Cuban: "Bill O'Reilly is a Moron"
Sunday, 18 November 2007 7:18 P GMT-05
Apparently the ambush wasn’t enough to satisfy Billo, so he then set his sights on Mark Cuban for financing the new movie “Redacted” for its depiction of atrocities committed by some of our soldiers in Iraq, and Cuban had a few choice words to say about it. Note to Billo, this film is not going to incite any more anti-American hatred than the actual criminal actions of a few bad soldiers already did, and nothing could be more anti-American than pretending to report the news and acting like that never happened, and attacking those who won’t. Sweeping the horrors of war under the rug is not the supporting the troops. A public that better understands those horrors is what a democracy needs so that it never unnecessarily sends our soldiers into war in the first place.
Case Dismissed! Charges Against Rashid Rauf Have Been Dropped
Sunday, 18 November 2007 5:47 P GMT-05
The prosecution has dropped all its charges against Rashid Rauf, the alleged mastermind of the alleged "Liquid Bombers" plot.
The Breakdown of the FBI Anti-Terror Team on 9/11
Sunday, 18 November 2007 5:40 P GMT-05
Despite the implications of this incredible information, only one newspaper covered it. In a report published that same day, USA Today briefly described: "The attack was so unexpected that a joint FBI/CIA anti-terrorist task force that specifically prepared for this type of disaster was on a training exercise in Monterey, Calif." The politics website Evote.com also mentioned the incident, concluding: "just as the worst terrorist act was being committed on American lives and property, the chief federal agency responsible for preventing such crimes was being AWOL." But, in the six years since, this information has been ignored, and no mention was made of it in the 9/11 Commission Report. If the official theory about 9/11 is correct, and the attacks were indeed perpetrated by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, then the absence of the FBI's antiterrorist experts at the one time they were most needed must be a freak coincidence. However, if the official theory is wrong, then this could have been part of a deliberate attempt to 'stand down' normal lines of defense, so as to ensure that the attacks succeeded.
Explosive and Revealing Quotations about 9-11 Completely Ignored by the Mainstream Media
Sunday, 18 November 2007 5:37 P GMT-05
Omission is one of the most powerful tools of disinformation used by the MSM. We see this every day when they do not cover those questioning the official story of 9/11, or when they fail to do this job themselves as implied in this Fox Memo. When they do, they highlight the weakest theories and unprovable speculation along with the ad-hominem "conspiracy theorist" and “conspiracy theories”.
What I've Learned From the Old Media
Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:49 A GMT-05
Even so, if you thought the staggering Nov 5th total would finally win significant coverage and respect from the establishment media, you were wrong. It’s obvious now that nothing short of electoral success will (very, very begrudgingly) force the mainstream media to admit that Ron Paul is a serious candidate with a serious chance to be president. (Yes, higher poll numbers would also help, but the polls are controlled in various ways by the establishment, such as with whom gets polled, what types of questions are asked, and what kinds of options are given; a CBS poll last month still didn’t even list Dr. Paul as an option. But fundraising, as Dr. Paul has proven, is much harder to control – even with the restrictive campaign finance laws. And somehow I get the feeling that, if Paul were like Huckabee and had little money, but were polling around 8–10%, suddenly money would be a more important criterion than polling.) The next day’s coverage was limited, compared to the magnitude of the story. And much of the print coverage was as dismissive and sarcastic as ever, continuing to use terms like "extreme long-shot" and "fringe candidate," along with a requisite, out-of-context photo of Dr. Paul scowling; while much of the TV coverage mentioned the story in passing, in between such urgent, earth-shattering news as the current price of gasoline and Britney Spears’ custody battle with Kevin Federline. And in almost every TV interview with Dr. Paul, the interviewer asked if he plans to run as a third-party candidate now that he has all of this money. How come they never ask people like Giuliani or Obama that question? (However, in fairness, some of the coverage was decent.)
Ron Paul's "Fringe Views" Are Supported By The Majority of Americans
Thursday, 15 November 2007 11:32 A GMT-05
"After reading about Ron Paul’s record-breaking fundraising day a couple of weeks ago, then seeing it touted in a recent Daily op-ed, I was concerned. Paul and his views lie on the fringe; it’s never a good sign for social stability when fringe candidates get so much support," whines Baimel. Ron Paul's views lie on the fringe? Absolute bullshit. It seems that Baimel has unfortunately thrown thousands of dollars at a political science degree in vain - and I - the University dropout - am going to have to give him a proper education.
Glenn Beck Deems Ron Paul "Domestic Threat"
Thursday, 15 November 2007 9:41 A GMT-05
It should be obvious by now that there is indeed a concerted effort to go after the “fringe element,” that is to say patriotic Americans who want to put an end to endless neocon wars advocated by the likes of washed-up Marxists and former Trotskyites—or as the patriotic American, Paul Craig Roberts, calls them, “the Jacobins in the Bush administration”—and return America to a constitutional republic.
BBC To Apologize For 9/11 Truth Hit Piece?
Wednesday, 14 November 2007 1:37 A GMT-05
John A. Blacker, a qualified physicist & mechanical engineer and a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, is currently engaged in a pre-action protocol with the BBC in an attempt to settle out of court and get an apology from the broadcaster as well as a guarantee that the program will never be shown on television again. In a letter to the BBC, Blacker cites a catalogue of errors, distortions and outright lies that were contained in the program, arguing that the documentary is an insult to those that lost their lives on 9/11. "The Conspiracy files team spoke to and recorded the testimony of many eyewitnesses, fire fighters, police officers, and public high witnesses, plus also officialdom high witnesses and had access to written testimony from many high witnesses via official sites on the WWW," writes Blacker. "YET NOT ONE SINGLE HIGH WITNESS WAS PRESENTED IN THE DOCUMENTARY TO PUT THE TRUTH PERSPECTIVE," he adds. "The Conspiracy Files Documentary was a work of Total Public deception from start to end, perfectly crafted to stealthily deceive and forward nothing which was conclusive either one way or the other, in other words, perfect propaganda YELLOW journalism by stealth, omission & deception," Blacker concludes, after citing dozens of examples of bias, fraud and agenda-driven presentation. In a clear sign that BBC are struggling to form a case for the legal defense of the program, they have put back a meeting with Blacker for the third time in succession, now agreeing to a late November date.
TV Delirium in Twenty-First Century America
Monday, 12 November 2007 2:07 A GMT-05
According to Nielsen Media Research the average American home now has more television sets than people, while the average person watches four hours, 35 minutes of television each day. All this time spent in front of a television has translated into a sharp decline in the quality of life for the average American. We are sleepwalking through life in a repetitive way, like passive machines, and in the process we have forfeited our humanity. The rabid TV viewer leads an existence that is lacking in the human contact that our higher nature thrives on. This has resulted in the death of community life.
AT&T whistleblower: I was forced to connect 'big brother machine'
Monday, 12 November 2007 1:14 A GMT-05
Appearing on MSNBC's Countdown program, whistleblower Mark Klein told Keith Olbermann that a copy of all internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the company's San Francisco office -- to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access -- via a cable splitting device. "My job was to connect circuits into the splitter device which was hard-wired to the secret room," said Klein. "And effectively, the splitter copied the entire data stream of those internet cables into the secret room -- and we're talking about phone conversations, email web browsing, everything that goes across the internet."
Is This 20-Year CIA Vet Crazy For Saying 9/11 Is a Probable Inside Job?
Thursday, 8 November 2007 9:50 A GMT-05
Robert Baer is no "radical left loony" as Bill O'Reilly would allege and neither does he lean to the right. He is a widely respected expert on intelligence matters and middle eastern foreign policy, an Emmy award nominated documentarian and a strong advocate of the CIA's need to increase Human Intelligence (HUMINT) on the ground. Baer served as a clandestine officer in Madras and New Delhi, India; in Beirut, Lebanon; in Dushanbe, Tajikistan; and in Salah al-Din in Kurdish northern Iraq. While in Iraq, Baer tried to persuade the Clinton administration to back a coup to overthrow Saddam Hussein. So when Baer told a radio host that "the evidence points at" 9/11 having had aspects of being an inside job, the noisy negativists and the trolls were notable by their absence.
Where's The Paper? Did The BBC And A Cambridge Don Commit Fraud To Cover Up Mass Murder?
Wednesday, 7 November 2007 11:29 A GMT-05
If Keith Seffen and the BBC and Cambridge and Ross Corotis and the JEM are all collaborating on such an obvious fraud as pretending there's a paper when there isn't, then the world should know about it, in my view. If there is such a paper, then where is it? Has it been published or not? Is it scheduled to be published or not? Is it available for review? All these questions have been ignored. In other words, there's your answer. If there is such a paper, then we should be able to see it and review it and decide on the basis of the math whether or not it makes sense, whether or not the collapse it describes is plausible, and equally important, whether or not the collapse it describes corresponds to what we know about the events of the day. And if there is no paper, are we looking at accessories-after-the-fact in a case of mass murder?
Japanese TV aired abridged version of "911 MYSTERIES"
Sunday, 28 October 2007 7:09 P GMT-05
Nation wide Japanese TV program aired abridged version of "911 MYSTERIES" at 8 p.m. Oct/15/2007.
News Reporter Arrested For Concealed Carry Gun Near School
Saturday, 27 October 2007 3:53 P GMT-05
The Second Amendment Foundation today called the arrest of WPLG reporter Jeffrey Weinsier a “First Amendment outrage” that only subsequently focused on a concealed handgun he was carrying “simply to deflect public attention from the fact that Weinsier was arrested for doing his job.”
Glenn Beck Losing His Own Poll
Friday, 26 October 2007 12:33 A GMT-05
Glenn Beck is losing his own 9/11 poll:
Hey Glenn Beck...
Thursday, 25 October 2007 5:33 A GMT-05
Also, can you show me where the New York Times reported on the following: On August 4th, 2006, 9/11 family members Lorie Van Auken, Patty Casazza, Mindy Kleinberg, and Monica Gabrielle released a statement that questioned the "entire veracity" of the 9/11 Commission's report. On September 5th, 2006, a documentary endorsed by the families that fought for the creation of the 9/11 Commission was released entitled, "9/11: Press For Truth." On September 11th, 2006, at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., family members Donna Marsh O'Connor, Michelle Little, and Christina Kminek asked for, "a new investigation into the events of September 11th, and this time, a truly bipartisan, global, with families invested from the beginning, middle, and throughout the end."
Creative 9-11 Truth Action on PBS Auction - Colorado911Visibility.org
Wednesday, 17 October 2007 12:36 A GMT-05
NIST IMPLICITLY ADMITS: WTC TOWERS DESTROYED IN CONTROLLED DEMOLITION
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 11:51 P GMT-05
It is not surprising that NIST cannot explain a scenario that blatantly violates the basic laws of physics. What is surprising is that every newspaper in the world is not printing screaming front-page headlines reading NIST IMPLICITLY ADMITS: WTC TOWERS DESTROYED IN CONTROLLED DEMOLITION.
Journalist killed in Iraq
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 2:06 A GMT-05
Salih Saif Aldin, 32, an Iraqi who sometimes wrote under the name Salih Dehema for security reasons, was killed yesterday while reporting on the violence in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Sadiyah, according to a statement from the newspaper. The newspaper said that Aldin's wounds appeared to indicate he was shot at close range. His body was later found on the street, covered with newspapers.
AN ISRAELI JOURNALIST RESPONDS TO ANN COULTER
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 1:45 A GMT-05
Ann Coulter is my enemy. Ann Coulter is the kind of patriotic, persuasive, powerful American who is precisely what is wrong with America. I'll never underestimate her again. Ann Coulter has a plan for the Jews. She has one for Muslims as well. And it's her people who are exactly the kind of Americans who could find the way to try to carry it out.
Student Scholars Interview Dr. David Ray Griffin
Friday, 12 October 2007 11:30 A GMT-05
9/11/07 TRUTH NYC
Sunday, 7 October 2007 9:42 P GMT-05
Rosie O'Donnell: Barbara Walters fired me from 'The View'
Saturday, 6 October 2007 6:05 P GMT-05
Rosie started off by saying, "When I was fired by Barbara Walters" - the first time she didn't stick to "The View's" spin that her departure from the show was by mutual agreement. Rosie claimed onstage that Walters and other "View" couchmates wear earpieces through which producers tell them what to say, which she refused to do.
Who were those hijackers, anyway? A Telling Story Resurrected
Friday, 5 October 2007 4:31 A GMT-05
According to a local news story which has been scrubbed from the Internet, two of the devout fundamentalist hijackers who “hated our freedoms”, were frequently seen to have indulged the seamier side of those freedoms in the small town of Venice, Florida.
Out Of Control School Security Guard Assaults Camerawoman
Friday, 5 October 2007 4:17 A GMT-05
Action 10 News were investigating reports of guards and police beating children at a school in Robstown, Corpus Christi. The film crew were not even on school property as they recorded shots of the building before a security guard walked up and forcefully shoved the camera in video journalist Brandy Dunfee's face. Watch the video.
9/11 Truthers respond to Bill Maher
Wednesday, 3 October 2007 1:10 A GMT-05
Bill Maher attacked 9/11 truthers so we responded.
Do 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Upset You? American Chronicle Hit Piece?
Thursday, 27 September 2007 6:50 A GMT-05
On September 11, 2001 America was attacked. If you wish to believe it was arranged and executed by shadow agents of the U.S. whose brilliant competence is so overwhelming there's no physical evidence of a conspiracy, so be it. Let's emphasize physical evidence, because anyone can look at video or listen to cell phone calls and glean theories: this is conjecture and opinion, not evidence. Furthermore, you must also believe not one person with inside conspiracy knowledge, has sought either because of soul searching or inevitable financial gain of anonymous whistle blowing to a media organization for a staggering fortune, to lay open publicly what would be the most earth shaking conspiracy ever. Or you can, as the majority of the world has, believe a preponderance of evidence that a group of terrorists conceived, trained for and executed a plot to exploit the then rather open nature of airlines turning America's airplanes against itself. After six years, it may be a bitter pill to swallow that this band of hate mongers succeeded in doing the unthinkable, but it's the best supported theory. Also remember it was the World Trade Center - people from many other countries lost lives. It was in every important way an international tragedy. If nations who lost people - suspected "shadow conspiracy" - wouldn't they want answers?
Calgary 9/11 Truth Makes Local Mainstream CTV News
Saturday, 22 September 2007 4:01 P GMT-05
Surprisingly fair news coverage by the local CTV News station from the Calgary 9/11 Truth action on September 11, 2007. Thank you to Nathan Moulton for this video.
Hannity Lies To Discredit Ron Paul After Debate
Sunday, 16 September 2007 11:35 A GMT-05
Establishment darlings were once again afforded shed loads more time and even nobodies like Huckabee and Brownback got twice the amount of questions compared to the Congressman. Paul got the chance to answer just three direct questions in a 90 minute debate. Fox News moderators weighed in with glee in an attempt to ruffle, smear and sidetrack Ron Paul. His first question revolved around a purposeful misquote of the Congressman's position on allowing pilots to be armed and it only went downhill from there.
CNN: Mystery 9/11 aircraft was military 'doomsday plane'
Saturday, 15 September 2007 11:39 P GMT-05
9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton told CNN he was aware of the incident and that it had simply never seemed important enough to make it into the commission's report. He called conspiracy theories involving government complicity in 9/11 "ludicrous." The plane was previously identified as the E-4B a year ago by one researcher on a forum associated with the 9/11 conspiracy film, Loose Change. CNN acknowledges that, despite its identification, the absence of the aircraft from official investigations, together with the Pentagon's denial that it was a military plane and the insistence by the Pentagon, Secret Service, and FAA that they have no explanation for the incident, may continue to raise suspicions. The following video is from CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, broadcast on September 12.
Were War Critic Soldiers Killed To Send Message?
Saturday, 15 September 2007 7:28 P GMT-05
Was this a simple accident or another Pat Tillman style cover-up? Was a message being sent to other soldiers who are considering speaking out against the war that dissent has deadly consequences? Even if we are to dismiss the truck wreck as nothing more than an accident, another factor that has received next to no press attention should send red flags up for everyone. A third author of the letter was also shot in the head in a separate incident during the time when the op-ed was being written. Though Staff Sgt. Jeremy Murphy survived and is expected to make a full recovery, the fact that three of the seven authors of the op-ed were either killed or received life-threatening injuries shortly before and after the publication of the piece is highly suspicious.
Peter Tatchell: '9/11 -- The Big Cover-Up?'
Saturday, 15 September 2007 7:17 P GMT-05
I do not believe in conspiracy theories. I prefer rigorous, evidence-based analysis that sifts through the known facts and utilises expert opinion to draw conclusions that stand up to critical scrutiny. In other words, I believe in everything the 9/11 Commission was not. The failings of the official investigation have fuelled too many half-baked conspiracy theories. Some of the 9/11 "truth" groups promote speculative hypotheses, ignore innocent explanations, cite non-expert sources and jump to conclusions that are not proven by the known facts. They convert mere coincidence and circumstantial evidence into cast-iron proof. This is no way to debunk the obfuscations and evasions of the 9/11 report. But even amid the hype, some of these 9/11 groups raise valid and important questions that were never even considered, let alone answered, by the official investigation. The American public has not been told the complete truth about the events of that fateful autumn morning six years ago.
New Bin Laden Video: 100% Forgery
Tuesday, 11 September 2007 1:47 A GMT-05
The continued perpetuation of this myth has reached the point of farce now. There can be no doubt anymore that these crudely edited and forged propaganda tapes that are being foisted upon the American people represent nothing more than a contrived Neo-Con hoax to reinforce the flagging official version of 9/11 and the legitimacy of the so-called war on terror.
Iran's Unlikely TV Hit
Sunday, 9 September 2007 5:19 P GMT-05
He says he came up with the idea for "Zero Degree Turn" four years ago as he was reading books about World War II and stumbled across literature about charge d'affaires at the Iranian embassy in Paris. Abdol Hussein Sardari saved over a thousand European Jews by forging Iranian passports and claiming they belonged to an Iranian tribe.
Osama bin Laden - The Latest Fake
Sunday, 9 September 2007 3:38 P GMT-05
Close (closer than the last phony) but no cigar. Note the shape of the cheeks and the width of the nose.
** BREAKING** Alex Jones Arrested at 9/11 Protest
Sunday, 9 September 2007 1:50 P GMT-05
WeAreChange and Alex Jones protest Fox’s “Geraldo Live” in Midtown Manhattan Saturday night. According to the live feed the Police have arrested Alex Jones and taken him in for processing. During the broadcast of “Geraldo Live” the protestors shouted down the host for the show’s last half hour. Traitor, criminal, neocon, whore and “9/11 was an inside job,” were just some of the chants directed towards the host of the war mongering Fox New’s live show.
Austria's Largest TV Station to Broadcast 9/11 Mysteries
Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:20 A GMT-05
I just want you to be notified, that ORF1, which belongs to our national broadcast service and is the most viewed TV-Channel in Austria, is going to air the entire documentary "911 Mysteries Part1: Demolitions"!
Progressive sites in denial and funding drives - a possible tactic
Wednesday, 5 September 2007 11:12 A GMT-05
I subscribe to a few sites that routinely ask for money. Others post the appeals on their sites. I can't help fund them all, and have decided to help only those supportive of 9/11 Truth, which is not very many of the general progressive and anti-war sites. Others have suggested reasons for this denial, and I won't repeat the material. Today, I sent the following reply (below) to a site owner. I don't know if this will be effective, or counter productive, but obviously I hope that it will be the former.
NY Times Suggests That Public Get Over 9/11
Monday, 3 September 2007 4:20 A GMT-05
With the 9/11 attacks having successfully served as the 'Pearl Harbor' that White House pre-9/11 war planners confessed they needed and public skepticism about the official story growing, the NY Times is suggesting that the American public now needs to move on.
MSNBC LIVE VOTE--Do you believe any 9/11 conspiracy theories?
Saturday, 1 September 2007 8:04 P GMT-05
This is a live vote. Please vote and pass it on. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14727720
The History Channel takes on 9/11…and fails
Saturday, 1 September 2007 7:59 P GMT-05
The final most striking failure in the program is the absence of mention given to the many omissions, distortions, and outright lies contained in the 9/11 Commission Report, as well as the inclusion of one of the program’s own creation. In a footnote on page 541 of the “Report,” reference is made to the fact that the core of the twin towers were “hollow shafts.” This statement is as blatant a lie as can be told, as any picture of the towers’ construction shows clearly the 47 steel columns that allowed the buildings the stability to achieve their height. A similar striking falsehood now finds space in reference to WTC 7, which on the program loses its 16 steel columns and becomes as hollow as the 9/11 Commission would have the twin towers.
NORAD: Live and Uncut
Saturday, 1 September 2007 2:13 P GMT-05
In August, 2006, Michael Bronner, a writer for Vanity Fair Magazine,
received 30 hours of audiotape from the Northeast Air Defense Sector
that chronicled their response on 9/11. Mr. Bronner released 10 minutes of audio from them in MP3 format. In August, 2007, we received 120 hours of audiotape, and are proud to release them in their entirety to the public.
The History Channel Hit Piece - Hit them where it hurts, the pocket book!
Saturday, 1 September 2007 1:36 P GMT-05
If “The 9/11 Conspiracies: Fact or Fiction” gets listed in the next catalog it will be available to public schools – purchased with your tax dollars! It is currently for sale online for $24.95. A great way to hit back is to hit the History Channel in the pocketbook. Educators and advocates within the truth movement should appoint themselves child advocates and challenge the History Channel in court for inaccuracies in the classroom. A grassroots effort to prevent this 9/11 hit piece from being purchased by public schools should be launched. Furthermore, based on the proven record of misinformation, any future History Channel material should be required to be reviewed and approved by a similar court appointed panel before our public schools can access the information and present it to our impressionable schoolchildren.
Muddying the Waters
Thursday, 30 August 2007 6:56 A GMT-05
For that is the fate of past events, to be lost in time and replaced by the stories we tell about them. Since ancient times the power elite has relied on the short memories of people to erase the wrongdoing of leaders. Even now, humanity is collectively forgetting the lessons learned by the Holocaust. What was it we learned from that again? Oh yeah, something about, um, don't be a Jew, or something. People have short memories, and that usually means that history that isn't taught will be forgotten, and meanwhile any outrageous lies that are taught as history will be remembered. Today our beliefs about the past are a tangled web of lies and half-truths indistinguishable from genuine historical events. But in centuries to come, that may no longer be the case.
History Channel - 9/11 Conspiracies, Fact or Fiction? A Review
Thursday, 30 August 2007 6:08 A GMT-05
In the final analysis, “9/11 Conspiracies, Fact or Fiction?” is so bad that it will actually help the 9/11 Truth movement. This is because the documentary is so obviously condescending to the intelligence of the viewer, and brings up so many questions that it might lead some to actually research the facts—questioning the “fictions” supplied by The History Channel and Popular Mechanics.
Where Fisk Goes Wrong About 9/11
Sunday, 26 August 2007 11:20 P GMT-05
In any case, if he can ever bring himself to think clearly about these three crucial points, Robert Fisk might someday begin to understand what happened on 9/11. And that would be a very good thing, because at the moment he sounds like a nutter.
Family Security Matters Advocates Bush become "President-for-Life"
Sunday, 26 August 2007 6:28 P GMT-05
While many would reject the idea of Bush as permanent dictator as offensive, unlikely, and absurd, this article echoes a document signed by President Bush himself, which would theoretically give him a dictatorship in the aftermath of a “Catastrophic Emergency”. The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive signed on May 9, 2007 reads: “’Catastrophic Emergency’ means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions… The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government.”
Open Letter To Robert Fisk
Sunday, 26 August 2007 5:53 P GMT-05
Finally Mr. Fisk, are you prepared to take the next step by showing real support for the 9/11 Truth Movement and addressing the real issues? If so, you will have to be prepared to lose some of your current privileges. You may have to quit your job. You may have to face the scorn of your colleagues and the wrath of trained attack-dogs such as George Monbiot, who will surely write an article insinuating you have lost your marbles and need to be "retired"? Are you prepared to be marginalised and ignored by the all the press except for these scathing attacks? This is what you must face.
Who is Davin Coburn and why is he an "expert" on 9/11?
Saturday, 25 August 2007 12:27 A GMT-05
I decided to look into one of the "experts," Davin Coburn of Popular Mechanics, and I found out that his expertise on 9/11 came from writing high school sports stories at a newspaper in Pennsylvania a little more than three years ago.
Seven Active U.S. Soldiers Write Iraq Op-Ed for 'NYT'
Wednesday, 22 August 2007 2:31 A GMT-05
An op-ed raising troubling questions about the U.S. effort in Iraq -- and off-kilter press coverage -- is nothing new. But this one, in The New York Times today, was different, and will possibly be more influential than nearly all that came before. For one thing, consider the authors' blurbs at the end of the article: "Buddhika Jayamaha is an Army specialist. Wesley D. Smith is a sergeant. Jeremy Roebuck is a sergeant. Omar Mora is a sergeant. Edward Sandmeier is a sergeant. Yance T. Gray is a staff sergeant. Jeremy A. Murphy is a staff sergeant."
"You got shortchanged on this History Channel program...."
Tuesday, 21 August 2007 11:20 P GMT-05
And yes, I EMPHATICALLY told them about the dust -- the iron-rich microspheres especially, and the molten metal beneath the rubble of the Towers and flowing out the South Tower just before it collapsed. And the many fine, peer-reviewed articles in the Journal of 9/11 Studies. Somehow all those points were missed by these guys... as they hit on the "softer" areas of 9/11 research -- flight 93 (shot down..), missile hitting the Pentagon? and so on... You said it -- I, we -- were short-changed -- out of two hours, scientists and engineers from the 9/11 Truth community were given just a couple of sentences. I would like to see the scientists and engineers who have contributed mightily to the 9/11 truth movement given more time on-air. Kevin Ryan, Richard Gage, Tony Szamboti, Jim Hoffman, Gordon Ross, Cate Jenkins, Greg Jenkins, Kenneth Kuttler, Crockett Grabbe, David Griscom -- I could go on. NONE of these scientists and engineers for 9/11 truth were interviewed or at least none of them were given time. A couple of sentences in two hours of stuff...
Webster Tarpley: "When a Knock is a Boost"
Tuesday, 21 August 2007 11:13 P GMT-05
Part of the genius of the 9/11 truth movement is our ability to make even the financier-controlled media spread our ideas and work for us. Despite the worst intentions of NBC News, I would say that this is what they have accomplished. They have kept 9/11 truth research in the public eye. There is an old Broadway saying – “A knock is a boost.” In other words, if we are so obscure and so crazy, why do we merit any attention at all? Two-hour documentaries are not cheap and need to get some ratings. Clearly we are not so obscure as NBC News would have us believe. In fact, if we can hold off the new 9/11 for a few more months, 2007 may turn out to be our finest hour.
The Truth About George W. Bush
Sunday, 19 August 2007 2:57 P GMT-05
Make no mistake. This is not a conservative group of politicos with an upgraded title. This is, in fact, a group that is extremely, not slightly reactionary. They are, also extremely, not slightly, dangerous. They contradict almost every concepts Americans associate with a democratic republic and they do not adhere to the restrictions and boundaries defined by the US Constitution.
911truth.org exclusive: Peter Dale Scott: "JFK, Watergate, 9/11: Recurring Patterns in America's Deep Events"
Sunday, 19 August 2007 12:28 P GMT-05
In American history there are two types of event: ordinary events which the information systems of the country can understand and establish. There are also deep events, or meta-events, which the mainstream information systems of the country cannot digest. I mean by a “deep event” an event in which it is clear from the outset that there are aspects which will not be dealt with in the mainstream media, and will be studied only by those so-called “conspiracy theorists” who specialize in deep history.
Point by Point Rebuttal to Globe and Mail Hit Piece
Sunday, 19 August 2007 12:20 P GMT-05
In a fitting and prototypical example of the conversive thinking that runs epidemic among our hysterized society, Ivor Tossell of the Globe and Mail demonstrates in a recent article the very fuzzy thinking he attempts to deride. If it wasn't so sad, and so pitiful a look into the lengths to which a seemingly healthy mind will go to hang onto a belief system, it would be humorous. For Tossell, in his article, accuses others of the very things he himself epitomizes, as will be shown in my comments below.
Was 9/11 an Inside Job? Debate Tonight, Sat. 8/18/07 on Truth Jihad Radio
Sunday, 19 August 2007 1:32 A GMT-05
I finally found someone who doesn't think 9/11 was an inside job, and who has the guts to defend his opinions in a public debate! John Brown, a patriotic member of the Special Forces community who disagrees with my argument that 9/11 was an inside job, has become my first opponent with the guts to debate the issue on the air. This comes as a relief, since I have long been frustrated by the "silence of the cowards." I have offered to debate a long list of gutless wonders who have publicly insulted me but chickened out of debate proposals, including Wisconsin Rep. Steve Nass, Wisconsin governor Jim Doyle, Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green, chatter-blogger Ann Althouse, Progressive publisher Matt Rothschild, NIST report quasi-supporter Dr. Frank Greening, vacillating free speech advocate Professor Donald Downs http://mujca.com/academicfreedom.htm and boorish, clueless University of Wisconsin physicist Dr. Orwellian: http://www.mujca.com/fruitcake.htm -- not to mention O'Reilly and Hannity, who snuck away from my FOX appearances licking their wounds and now refuse to return my phone calls ; )
Goading Xerxes: A New Tactical Twist in the Coming War on Iran
Saturday, 18 August 2007 6:05 P GMT-05
I think we can expect to see the "capture" of a truckload of people identified as fighters, carrying weapons – perhaps some of those 190,000 weapons conveniently misplaced by the Pentagon in Iraq –coming over from Iran very soon. (Can you say "Gleiwitz radio station"?) Or some similar incident to "confirm" direct Quds involvement in killing American soldiers.
SADDAM'S INFAMOUS "HUMAN SHREDDING MACHINES"
Saturday, 18 August 2007 5:55 P GMT-05
To anyone who would still believe the shredder story today, one underlying factor should be proof enough that it never occurred. If there was a shredder, the U.S. forces would have found it at Abu Ghraib Prison and there would have been picture-after-picture of it being shown in every newspaper and magazine in the world. Journalistic silence, in this case, is the overwhelming proof of the fantasy of the shredder.
Canada's biggest national newpaper publishes hit piece
Saturday, 18 August 2007 5:19 P GMT-05
Evidently, debunking isn't the issue. You can't argue aliens with someone who has an "I want to believe" poster on his or her office wall. Nor can you cite the findings of the professional, journalistic and academic consensus to someone who has decided that having credibility means being under the sway of shadowy forces. To that line of thinking, an expert who is rejected by his peers - say, for lunatic conspiracy thinking - gains credibility just for being ostracized.
Neo-Cons: Make Bush Dictator Of The World
Saturday, 18 August 2007 5:18 P GMT-05
The sheer abhorrence of the diatribe could lead many to think that this was some kind of attempt at black humor, a faux article written by a liberal intended as a parody to ridicule right-wingers, but it's not, it's real - this is what many of the Neo-Cons actually embrace. To the kind of people who think like this, carrying out a 9/11 style attack is like a walk in the park.
The CIA is Back on Campus
Friday, 17 August 2007 4:51 A GMT-05
The CIA also developed remarkably close ties to the field of journalism and, during the period 1947-77, some 400 American journalists "secretly carried out assignments" for the Agency, according to a classic investigative study by Carl Bernstein. Some 200 of these journalists signed secrecy agreements or employment contracts with the CIA. "By far the most valuable of these associations, according to CIA officials, have been with the New York Times, CBS, and Time Inc."8 Overseas, U.S. intelligence officers funded academics and writers through a series of front organizations and publications, coordinated by the CIA-controlled Congress for Cultural Freedom.
American Hero Suffers For His Bravery
Friday, 17 August 2007 4:23 A GMT-05
Why has so little been said about this true heroes' ailment? Perhaps the situation is so tragic; we don't want to think about it. But every person who knows Valenti's story can no longer turn a blind eye or deaf ear. Valenti dug through the World Trade Center rubble due to his respect for human life...and now, it seems as though nobody in power respects his.
Credibility Of Wikipedia Takes a Dive After Wired Expose
Wednesday, 15 August 2007 10:45 A GMT-05
Trolls were even allowed to delete the Wiki page for Dylan Avery, who has appeared on Fox News, CNN and in hundreds of newspaper reports. Avery is the producer of the most watched documentary film in Internet history, he clearly merits a biography page on an online encyclopedia, but Wikipedia had no qualms in letting Morton Devonshire and other trolls deep six the entry.
Right-Wing Media Give Favorable Platform To 'Another 9/11' Columnist
Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:54 A GMT-05
The Bush administration used the events of 9/11 to launch an unnecessary war, curtail the rights of Americans, torture, illegally spy, and violate the Constitution. The right-wing can’t wait for “another 9/11? so they can take it to the next level.
11th in Tampa FOX NEWS STAKEOUT
Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:31 A GMT-05
This dedicated group of activists invites you to join them, come to Tampa on the 11th of the month or stake out your own local media! FOX 13 is located on a busy street (50 cars per minute) where the traffic goes by around 30 mph. Very favorable reaction from passing cars, even right up the road from CentCom! That new 'Inside Job' sign from Kevin Barrett gets high marks for legibility. Thanks Kevin!
100% Proof Google is Keeping Alternative Media Sites Down
Tuesday, 14 August 2007 1:18 A GMT-05
As if it were not bad enough that we are censored by the main stream media, now there's a new type of suppression being implemented upon conspiracy related websites and alternative media sources. It's called Link Relevance Suppression, and it's being used on most of the alternative media websites to lower traffic being driven to them by the popular search engine Google.
It's Official: Sheehan runs against Pelosi!
Saturday, 11 August 2007 5:58 P GMT-05
Did you see this in the news yesterday? I know I didn't. I'm not surprised. You can count on the mainstream media to keep a lid on Cindy's campaign - like they do on Ron Paul's - for as long as humanly possible.
Fox News Defends Columnist Who Yearns For New 9/11
Saturday, 11 August 2007 5:48 P GMT-05
Two Neo-Cons on the Fox & Friends show repugnantly try to defend columnist Stu Bykofsky, who wrote of his desire for a new 9/11. One of them even appears to outright agree with the sick premise.
To save America, we need another 9/11
Saturday, 11 August 2007 5:44 P GMT-05
America's fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater. What would sew us back together? Another 9/11 attack. The Golden Gate Bridge. Mount Rushmore. Chicago's Wrigley Field. The Philadelphia subway system. The U.S. is a target-rich environment for al Qaeda.
A Review of David Ray Griffin's "Debunking 9/11 Debunking"
Saturday, 11 August 2007 5:13 P GMT-05
I've been toying for awhile about what kind of review to write. If I give an in-depth review of the content for each chapter of this book, the review will be so long people won't want to read it! Several other in-depth reviews have focused on the problems with the NORAD tapes. So I will focus primarily on the Popular Mechanics chapter, since PM is most often cited as the knockout punch which refutes all the movement's claims.
Steven Jones and Other Heartland Activists on Truth Jihad Radio Tonight
Saturday, 11 August 2007 4:51 P GMT-05
Madison, WI activist Rolf Lindgren, Twin Cities activist Nathan Block, and Salt Lake City activist/researcher Dr. Steven Jones will be my guests on a special 11th-of-the-month edition of Truth Jihad Radio tonight, 6-8 pm CT, http://republicbroadcasting.org
Daily Kos: CIA Engineered Controlled Opposition?
Friday, 10 August 2007 4:16 A GMT-05
“Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, owner of the DailyKos website, now admits that he spent six months in the employ of the US Central Intelligence Agency in 2001,” writes Holland. “In a one-hour interview on June 2, 2006 interview at the Commonwealth Club, Moulitsas, also known as ‘Kos,’ admitted that he was a CIA employee and would have ‘no problem working for them’ in the present.”
Terrorists Win: Americans Living In Perpetual Fear
Thursday, 9 August 2007 11:06 A GMT-05
The poll commissioned by Hart/Newhouse and released by The Wall Street Journal and NBC News finds that 37 per cent of respondents feel the U.S. is more vulnerable to an attack today than it was six years ago, that is a significant rise of 14 points since last September.
CNN Omits 9/11 Conspiracy Comments From Video
Saturday, 4 August 2007 10:40 P GMT-05
Why would CNN cut out the 9/11 conspiracy comments? Clearly, they had access to the same footage I did so why did I have to discover this on my own? This looks like a blatant attempt by CNN to make Fred Thompson look bad.
Greg Palast Takes a Dive in The Midnight Hour
Saturday, 4 August 2007 3:34 P GMT-05
This is my problem. When I set about seeking the truth in a matter, I weigh the evidence. When the evidence turns out to be inconsistent with ‘official’ conclusions that are declared to be the truth then I begin to wonder ‘why’ that is. When the evidence shows signs of warping and having been spun, folded and mutilated and when powerful interests begin to apply pressure for compliance with official explanations then I wonder more. I can’t help wondering why someone insists that 2 + 3 equals 4. I can’t just say, “Okay, you’re probably right.” just to avoid conflict or to protect my income and my personal safety. I’m not made that way and that’s a problem you may be sure.
Analyst: Al-Qaeda Videotapes Digitally Doctored
Friday, 3 August 2007 11:08 A GMT-05
Krawetz's most telling discovery comes in the form of a detail contained in a 2006 Ayman al-Zawahiri tape. From his analysis he concludes that the As-Sahab logo (the alleged media arm of Al-Qaeda) and the IntelCenter logo (a U.S. based private intelligence organization that "monitors terrorist activity") were both added to the video at the same time. This clearly indicates IntelCenter itself is directly creating or at least doctoring the Al-Qaeda tapes before their release. After all, why would Al-Qaeda terrorists be interested in branding their videos with the logo of a U.S. based organization that is run by individuals with close ties to the military-industrial complex?
Tampa 9/11 Rally at FOX 13
Tuesday, 31 July 2007 11:47 P GMT-05
In our debut warm up action getting ready for a 9/11 TRUTH presence the 11th of every month starting August in front of FOX NEWS (the state managed propaganda network in Amerika) at a high traffic/high visibility area in Tampa. We stand in solidarity with 9/11 Truth activists all over the world!
New Radio Ad calls for Activism on 9/11/07
Tuesday, 31 July 2007 12:03 A GMT-05
Cheney and Chertoff are warning us of another 9/11 attack in the U.S. this summer. A new false-flag event—a pretext to attack Iran—could plunge America into dictatorship and martial law, and the world into nuclear war. It's time to confront the cancer of deception and corruption within our government, and to stop the ruthless war machine. A tidal wave of truth seekers is rising in America—united by purpose, not politics—that will descend on New York City and Washington DC, and throughout the country on September 11th, to honor the victims of 9/11 and of the wars that followed. Join the new revolution—before it's too late!
How Did the White House Know America was Safe on 9/12/2001?
Wednesday, 25 July 2007 12:46 A GMT-05
How could a government which was supposedly oblivious to the 9/11 plotters know by September 12 that a single coordinated spectacular was the only thing planned?
Attorney For New Black Panther Party: Bush had 9/11 Foreknowledge
Thursday, 19 July 2007 11:04 A GMT-05
Appearing on Fox News' Hannity and Colmes yesterday, Malik Shabazz, the attorney for the New Black Panther Party, reiterated that many 9/11 families are taking action against the government and the FAA for at the very least having foreknowledge of the attacks. Shabazz, also the spokesman for the Black Lawyers For Justice group, appeared as a guest in order to defend Minnesota Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison who compared President Bush to Hitler in a recent speech at an atheists meeting in Minnesota.
McCain Loses It and Flees After 9/11 Truth Questions
Thursday, 19 July 2007 10:52 A GMT-05
McCain, who wrote the forward to Popular Mechanics' Debunking 9/11 Myths, repeatedly told reporters, "I do not support a new investigation" and stated that he believes the "9/11 Commission did a good job." But other reporters continued to hammer the complicit senator with further questions and demands for a new 9/11 investigation. Seemingly frustrated that he could not simply brush off 9/11 truthers, McCain retreated to his SUV where he entertained questions from the mainstream media only.
Proof Bin Laden Tape Is 5-Year-Old, Re-Released Footage
Thursday, 19 July 2007 10:38 A GMT-05
Even if you believe that Al-Qaeda itself is deciding to re-package old footage and constantly re-release it, and that this isn't a crude propaganda ploy on behalf of IntelCenter in collusion with the Neo-Cons, why are the government and the media consistently affording lavish attention and giving prominence to such activity, aiding the terrorists to spread their propaganda ad infinitum?
Ron Paul: "I Guess Liberty Is Just Popular"
Sunday, 15 July 2007 10:57 P GMT-05
In a CNN telephone poll conducted in February 2007, Paul was the candidate with the least name recognition – running just ahead of John Cox, the Chicago businessman and talk show host.
But the congressman from Texas has a knack for shining on the Internet -- and winning Internet polls. After the New Hampshire Republican debate, for instance, MSNBC polls showed Paul winning 69 percent of the vote from viewers who tapped him as the "best candidate in the debate."
Olbermann: Michael Chertoff's Gut
Friday, 13 July 2007 11:54 P GMT-05
Olbermann basically sees Chertoff as a propaganda minister, throwing up a diversion for Bush. I hope you're right Olbermann.
Sheehan: Distinct Chance Of Staged Attack, Martial Law
Friday, 13 July 2007 11:21 A GMT-05
"I definitely think that is a distinct possibility, that there will be some kind of attack whether it's manufactured or real....I think it's really possible that these people will do that - why would he [Bush] put in that presidential directive if he didn't need to use it - I think it's really really frightening," Sheehan told The Alex Jones Show.
9/11 Truth Invades Live Earth
Tuesday, 10 July 2007 11:21 P GMT-05
A giant banner that read '9/11 inside job' was on display at this past weekend's Live Earth concert in London, reaching a potential audience of 2 billion people, before the truthers responsible for the wake-up call had the banner stolen, were briefly detained and then told to leave by security. East Anglia Truth (http://www.eastangliatruth.com), a British group who specialize in 9/11 truth activism, chose to turn Al Gore's Wembley Stadium propaganda bandwagon into a showcase for real issues with a huge black banner that also carried the 'Infowars.com' legend. The banner was visible throughout the performance of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Goebbels Would be Proud.
Saturday, 7 July 2007 6:17 P GMT-05
Lies have become reality. Maybe they always were but they were never so pervasive. Those who chase the money have their lies. The sex-obsessed have their lies; the alcoholics and religious fanatics, the old and the young, those who are afraid they know but don’t want to know, those who just want to get by. Living a lie, dying for a lie, on and on into the darkness they march. The truth that you find at the end of a lying darkness is not a soft truth. It’s not an easy truth. It’s not the lantern in the window at the journeys end to a warm hearth and the welcome of your loved ones.
FOX Officially Names Giuliani "Mr. 9/11"
Saturday, 7 July 2007 7:34 A GMT-05
Fox has taken this bold step not only while conditioning viewers to favor Giuliani but while explaining how the 9/11 conditioning works politically-- allowing the yellow journalism rag to remove the thin veil completely, on the apparent assumption that its target audience has absolutely no discernment. See video.
The Media Monopoly’s ‘Code of Silence’
Wednesday, 4 July 2007 10:43 P GMT-05
You will discover, after examining these 46 articles and broadcasts, that there is indeed ample evidence that the mainstream media (MSM) is not only complicit in a cover-up of the facts and evidence surrounding the most important event in modern times, but that they are co-conspirators in 9/11 – undoubtedly the greatest crime of all time. I encourage you to examine these articles and make up your own mind.
Why do we hate them?
Wednesday, 4 July 2007 7:26 P GMT-05
For those who still fail to realise, to kill is rather simple, to turn towns into piles of rubble isn’t that complicated either. Yet, to raise a child may take a few years, to build a city takes hundreds of years and to establish harmony between human beings takes thousand of years. We should stop lying to others and to ourselves. We know perfectly well why they hate us, they have some good reasons, as things stand momentarily, we are the ones who are killing them en mass. It is us who demolish their towns and kill their kids.
Hopeless, Incompetent, Laughable, Finally The Truth About "Terror"
Wednesday, 4 July 2007 3:36 P GMT-05
Former Scotland Yard detective dismisses "car bombings" as nothing more than a bonfire, but hysteria proves the terrorists have already won
Two Project Censored judges quit over 9/11 Truth story
Monday, 2 July 2007 12:37 A GMT-05
Judges Robert Jensen, a journalism professor, and Norman Solomon, a syndicated columnist, severed their ties with the national media watchdog group over its decision last year to highlight the controversial theories of physics professor Steven Jones, a critic of the 9/11 Commission findings. Jones hypothesizes that the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the World Trade Center towers was the result of controlled detonation of military-grade explosives rather than fires caused by two passenger jets that slammed into the buildings. His views, which are available online at Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice (stj911.org), have been largely passed over or dismissed by mainstream news outlets.
London Bomb--What a Crock of Crap!!
Sunday, 1 July 2007 11:30 P GMT-05
For starters, gasoline is not a high explosive. If we were talking 50 pounds of Semtex or the Al Qaeda standby, TATP, I would be impressed. Those are real high explosives with a detonation rate in excess of 20,000 feet per second. Gasoline can explode (just ask former owners of a Ford Pinto) but it is first and foremost an incendiary. If the initial reports are true, the clown driving the Mercedes was a rank amateur when it comes to constructing an Improvised Explosive Device aka IED. Unlike a Hollywood flick the 50 gallons of gas would not have shredded the Mercedes into lethal chunks of flying shrapenal.
New York Moves To Ban Public Filming And Photography
Sunday, 1 July 2007 11:28 P GMT-05
While the Department of Homeland security is throwing money at cities and towns to put cameras everywhere to film the public, and police routinely film public gatherings, the right of citizens to film and photograph in the streets is under direct attack. In addition, the Mayor of New York is Michael Bloomberg, who owns one of the biggest media outlets in the country. This move also therefore represents a direct conflict of interest on behalf of the mayor's office.
Kevin Barrett: Liberal news media continue to block debate about 9/11 truth
Friday, 29 June 2007 1:55 A GMT-05
Allegedly liberal newspapers seem to go out of their way to avoid mentioning the debate on 9/11 that is raging in the U.S. (where a poll showed 36 percent of the population suspects an "inside job") and around the world. On June 22 the New York Times ran a laudatory article about Rosie O'Donnell's new uncensored video blog -- without even mentioning the elephant in the living room, Rosie's outspoken support for 9/11 truth. Now that Michael Moore has joined O'Donnell in speaking out for 9/11 truth, and Harper's editor Lewis Lapham has admitted to reading David Griffin's "Debunking 9/11 Debunking," will the media on the left rescind their blackout on our most important national debate since the Civil War?
The Trial of Saddam Hussein We Never Saw
Sunday, 24 June 2007 6:41 P GMT-05
The tribunal was established to prosecute those guilty of crimes against humanity during Saddam’s reign. Much as the Nuremburg Tribunal did with the Nazis, It was also supposedly meant to educate Iraqis and the world about Saddam and his barbarous regime and, at the same time, to bring a kind of closure to that nightmarish epoch. That at least was the fiction. The fact is that many of those complicit in Saddam’s crimes—some of the world’s most prominent leaders and businessmen, past and present—are missing from the dock. The full story of Saddam’s crimes will never be told. Which is just as planned. From the start, the tribunal was established, financed and advised by the United States, the same power that once helped arm Saddam, encouraged him and stymied attempts of others to rein him in. Even most of the forensic investigations—the excavation of mass graves and the examination of mountains of documents—were carried out under the supervision of U.S. investigators. To make the rules of the game perfectly clear, one of the tribunal’s regulations, constantly overlooked by the media, is that only Iraqi citizens and residents can be charged with crimes before that court. It is thus understandable that there has been no mention in the Baghdad courtroom of foreign complicity with Saddam’s crimes, such as the genocide of the Kurds. What is surprising, though, is how thoroughly the American media have played along with that charade.
Ronald Swerlein Charged: Ten Counts Of Illegal Explosives, One Count Of Drug Possession
Sunday, 24 June 2007 3:36 P GMT-05
What if -- instead of Ronald Swerlein -- this man's name was Abdul Muhammed? How long do you suppose it would take before he was living on a tropical island, enjoying some lemon chicken sweetened by a choice of two desserts?
Open Letters to Greg Palast
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:11 P GMT-05
I will respond then to your statements which support the Bush/Cheney or "official story" for 9/11 events, and I will assure that the exchange will be made public. I propose publication of our exchange in the letters section of the Journalof911Studies.com, but you may choose another venue which is open to the public. Be sure to include your explanation of the iron-aluminum-rich microspheres which I discovered in the WTC dust if your explanation differs from mine, as well as the rapid straight-down collapse of WTC 7.
9/11 'Truthers' uncovering disturbing anomalies
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 1:05 A GMT-05
Never mind Islam and Christianity-for a culture clash closer to home, you only have to contrast the marginalized 9/11 conspiracy touted on the Internet to the authorized 9/11 conspiracy advanced by government sources and traditional media. These contending belief systems might as well be from parallel worlds. As a media observer, I have never witnessed a greater cultural divide. It's safe to say that the nonofficial viewpoint is far from fringe, at least in numbers. According to a New York Times/CBS News poll, from October 2006, only 16 per cent of Americans think the government is telling the truth about 9/11 and the intelligence prior to the attacks. A Scripps-Howard poll determined that one in every three Americans believe their government aided or abetted the attacks of 9/11. This signals a profoundly deep cynicism and suspicion among Americans about their own government.
How Ronald Reagan Destroyed The Soviet Union With Only Four Words
Thursday, 14 June 2007 12:50 A GMT-05
The Latin phrase "post hoc, ergo proper hoc" translates literally as "after this, therefore because of this". It's a class of logical fallacy, and it's an easy one to spot. Any half-wit can see that it is not always (or even usually) true that because event B followed event A, therefore A caused B. Twenty years ago today, Ronald Reagan made a speech in Berlin, in which he uttered the famous line "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Grassroots Activism Machine, DOWNSIZEDC.ORG, To Tackle 9/11 Truth With New Campaign
Tuesday, 12 June 2007 11:36 P GMT-05
For each and every one of us, there is something in particular that has provided the impetus to look at the events of 9/11 more closely than before. For Jim Babka, of downsizedc.org, the impetus has come in the form of the documentary 9/11: Press For Truth. Please extend a warm welcome to Mr. Babka into the 9/11 Truth movement for recognizing the need and the willingness to now utilize the resources he has created to "Press For Truth.".
Criminal Indictments Sought Against Police, Giuliani Staffers Who Had Reporter Arrested For Asking Question
Thursday, 7 June 2007 3:50 A GMT-05
In addition to the details that were already outlined in our previous article, fellow We Are Change member Luke Rudkowski also related how he was just silently filming the fracas when Giuliani staffers, and in particular one unidentified female, started hitting and attempting to steal his camera, before Lepacek and Rudkowski were pointed out by the staffers and five to seven police arrived to grab them and throw them out of the building. The female staffer was witnessed to be instrumental in alerting the police to the "crime" of Lepacek asking a question that the Giuliani camp weren't comfortable with.
Analysis Shows Debate Was Rigged
Thursday, 7 June 2007 3:24 A GMT-05
In addition, after the debate Giuliani, Romney and McCain all got immediate interviews with either Wolf Blitzer or Larry King whereas Ron Paul was dismissed, despite the fact that he has been making headlines since the last debate after his confrontation with Rudy Giuliani and won CNN's own debate poll. Debunkers can make excuses about Ron Paul not being a frontrunner, but the fact remains that Paul has won nearly every post-debate poll. Industry forecasters like NFLSystems.com are now on record with the fact that the momentum of Ron Paul's campaign has propelled him from being an unknown also-ran to a strong contender - with seven months still left until the nomination. USAElectionPolls.com also confirm that the Texas Congressman's support in telephone polls is higher than first estimated and growing all the time.
Complicit, Cowardly Corporate Media Hides Bilderberg
Wednesday, 6 June 2007 12:32 A GMT-05
Media moguls who attend Bilderberg, such as Washington Post CEO and Chairman Donald E. Graham, swear an oath of secrecy and fulfil a promise each year to omit any coverage of Bilderberg from their news outlets. Is it really any wonder that the traditional media model is dying and that more and more enlightened people in their droves are turning to alternative news sources in search of the truth?
Papers Portray Plot as More Talk Than Action
Tuesday, 5 June 2007 6:35 A GMT-05
“Once again, would-be terrorists have put New York City in their crosshairs,” he said. Mr. Kelly said a disaster had been averted. But the criminal complaint filed by the federal authorities against the four defendants in the case — one of them, Abdel Nur, remained at large yesterday — suggests a less than mature terror plan, a proposed effort longer on evil intent than on operational capability. (Ms. Mauskopf noted in her news release that the “public was never at risk” and told reporters that law enforcement “had stopped this plot long before it ever had a chance to be carried out.”)
9/11: The elephant that will not leave
Tuesday, 5 June 2007 1:18 A GMT-05
The truth movement has now emerged from the caverns of obscurity into the limelight. Last year, The Tidings called for an open and complete investigation into the questions surrounding the 9/11 mysteries. We believe our nation owes that much to the innocent victims that died that day and to the troops deployed to the Middle East based upon the Bush administration's explanations of the events of 9/11. If the White House has nothing to hide, then why has it been so determined to dodge issues and questions posed by the people? We renew that call today. We don't pretend to know the truth, but we insist that the whole truth will only be known when newspapers around the country join us in demanding complete openness from our government. In the meantime, every American interested in truth would do well to revisit this painful issue.
Ashland Daily Tidings - excellent Griffin coverage
Monday, 4 June 2007 11:34 P GMT-05
A Blizzard of Canadian Truth
Sunday, 3 June 2007 1:04 P GMT-05
It's all Barrie Zwicker's fault. He was the first media professional on the planet to start poking holes in the Bush administration's "Official Conspiracy Theory", on cable TV. He's Canadian, so, it must be his fault!
U.S. Government Gave Airtime to Terrorists, Official Admits
Friday, 1 June 2007 11:03 A GMT-05
Al Hurra television, the U.S. government's $63 million-a-year effort at public diplomacy broadcasting in the Middle East, is run by executives and officials who cannot speak Arabic, according to a senior official who oversees the program. That might explain why critics say the service has recently been caught broadcasting terrorist messages, including an hour-long tirade on the importance of anti-Jewish violence, among other questionable pieces.
Dahr Jamail on The New American Way: Torturing Detainees To Death
Monday, 28 May 2007 6:38 P GMT-05
But breaking international and domestic law has not been a concern of an administration led by a “president” who has claimed “authority” to disobey over 750 laws passed by Congress. In fact, when this same individual does things like signing a secret order in 2002 which authorized the National Security Agency to violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act by wiretapping the phones of U.S. citizens, and then goes on to allow the secret collection of the telephone records of tens of millions of Americans, torture is but one portion of this corrupted picture. This is a critical ongoing story, not just because it violates international and domestic law, but this state-sanctioned brutality, bankrupt of any morality and decency, is already coming back home to haunt Americans. When U.S. soldiers are captured in Iraq or another foreign country, what basis does the U.S. have now to ask for their fair and humane treatment? And with police brutality and draconian “security” measures becoming more real within the U.S. with each passing day, why wouldn’t these policies be visited upon U.S. citizens?
ae911truth.org -- Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Monday, 28 May 2007 5:47 P GMT-05
San Francisco architect Richard Gage, AIA, founder of the group, 'Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth,' announced today the official launch of the group's website - www.AE911Truth.org. Gage, along with dozens of other architecture and engineering professionals, have signed onto a petition posted on the site which questions the official reports of the destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) Twin Towers and Building 7 in New York City on 9/11/01, and calls for a new investigation. Gage, who, along with many others in his group suspects that the towers may have been destroyed with explosives rather than plane impact and fire, says he expects the website to also serve as a vehicle for ongoing research into the causes of the destruction of all 3 WTC high-rise buildings that day.
Kyle Hence: An Open Letter to Chris Matthews
Monday, 28 May 2007 5:09 P GMT-05
Dear Mr. Matthews and Company: I'm at a loss as to which internationally televised statement is more absurd and irresponsible; that America needs "a little bit of fascism" a' la Giuliani or that Rudy Giuliani "owns 9/11." What is clear is MSNBC's total failure or refusal to bring forward the facts about Rudy Giuliani's record before, during and after 9/11. If Rudy and the much replayed images of him walking dust covered in downtown streets have you under a spell it's well past time to break it. The man is running for President on a false 9/11 image not on his actual record, which is damning, if only you'd honestly examine it and bring guests on your shows who can credibly speak to it.
Why is the establishment media so out of touch on 9/11?
Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:57 A GMT-05
Last Sunday, C-Span 2 aired a session from the 2007 LA Times Festival of Books, called the “Age of Spin Panel,” whose purpose was to explore media deception during the Bush years – a big topic. The panel consisted of Newsweek journalist Michael Isikoff, political consultant Frank Luntz, Salon.com columnist Joe Conason, and Mother Jones magazine reporter David Goodman, all of whom, with the possible exception of Goodman, are well-known figures within the Washington media establishment. A number of topics were discussed – the Iraq war, the outing of Valerie Plame – but I found the panel chiefly interesting for what was said about 9/11. During the question and answer session, the discussion turned to the attacks, and to what extent the U.S. media failed to do its job in reporting about them. A woman stood up and said that she was from New York, that she had witnessed the collapse of the towers, that what she had seen she felt resembled a controlled demolition, and that she wanted to know what the panel thought about the media’s complicity in establishing an atmosphere of disinformation after the attacks. Instead of responding to her question, however, Mr. Luntz ignored her completely and requested that a man in the back row please lower a sign reading “9/11 Truth Now” so that those who “had traveled a long distance that day” could enjoy the panel. “That,” said Mr. Luntz, “is civility.” Naturally somewhat annoyed, the woman then asked Mr. Luntz why he wasn’t answering her question, at which point Mr. Luntz aggressively interrogated her, “who do you think did it, who do you think did it?” which, as the woman then pointed out, was not the question she was asking. What was so odd about all of this was to see how quickly the established parameters of the debate broke down as soon as the 9/11 question was introduced, how these four highly intelligent professional journalists who a moment ago had been calmly and rationally answering the audience’s questions were changed very quickly into four guys who clearly felt like they were being personally attacked by members of the audience, which, as far as I could tell, wasn’t the case at all. In the end, the thing I took away from watching the whole scene was that, for whatever reason, when it comes to dealing with this 9/11 issue – i.e. how much did the administration know beforehand about the attacks, to what extent can our own government be accountable, just what happened inside the buildings that day, why building 7 collapsed when no plane hit it, all perfectly reasonable questions that the 9/11 Commission itself was at a loss to fully explain – public intellectuals and professional journalists like Michael Isikoff, Joe Conason, Frank Luntz, and David Goodman are liable to experience a certain hysterical excitability that causes them to dismiss the issue outright, without taking the time to have a more nuanced understanding of the facts.
Debunkers Deny Existence Of NAU, JFK Conspiracy
Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:48 A GMT-05
A recent Seattle Times article that scoffs at the very thought of a North American Union being implemented and dismisses it as a conspiracy theory sums up the biggest threat to freedom in America today, blind ignorance in the face of troubling facts.
Debunkaholic Michelle Malkin Was A 9/11 Truther
Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:35 A GMT-05
Back in February we exposed another establishment shill, George Monbiot, as a total hypocrite after he echoed the claim that 9/11 truth was a virus and bashed Loose Change. Shortly after the publication of his London Guardian rant, we uncovered one of Monbiot's earlier articles in which he questioned the official myth tat 19 Muslim hijackers executed the attack. Monbiot even went to the lengths of deleting the article from his own website in an attempt to hide his "truther" history but the piece remained elsehwere on the web. Rest assured, next time Malkin or Monbiot open their mouths to trash 9/11 truth we will throw this back in their faces - but it hardly seems necessary to rebut these people as Malkin and the rest of the debunkaholics seem to do an awfully good job of making themselves look like complete idiots with no effort on our behalf.
9/11 Debunkers Hide From Slam Dunk Evidence Of Controlled Demolition
Wednesday, 23 May 2007 10:29 A GMT-05
Professor Steven Jones presented brand new and compelling evidence for the controlled demolition of the twin towers and WTC 7 recently, but the 9/11 debunkers and the corporate media are loathe to tackle it because it represents a slam dunk on proving the collapse of the buildings was a deliberate act of arson. During a talk at the Rebuilding America's Senses event at the University of Texas last month, Jones laid out facts about steel samples recovered from the WTC site that Popular Mechanics dare not even attempt to debate. Debunkers are scared to even get near this information because the science behind it fundamentally contradicts the official story of what happened on 9/11. Jones detailed his lab experiments in which he attempted to replicate NIST's conclusion that the lava like orange material flowing out of the south tower is aluminum from Flight 175, the plane that hit the building. Jones clearly documents the fact that liquid aluminum is silver and not orange as is seen in the video of the south tower, therefore the material cannot be aluminum. Jones then explains that the material is in fact a compound that can cut through steel like a hot knife through butter, thermite with sulphur added to make thermate.
Much Ado About the Fort Dix Pizza Plot
Tuesday, 22 May 2007 10:35 A GMT-05
The media's reports on the arrests immediately deemed the six as "Muslim fanatics" and "Jersey jihadists." But some of the men were known to be not particularly religious. In fact, according to the New York Times, investigators have quietly admitted that "there is little indication that they were devout--or even practicing--Muslims." Perhaps most troubling, however, is the FBI's use of two paid "informants" in the case. One of the informants, according to the Times, "railed against the United States, helped scout out military installations for attack, offered to introduce his comrades to an arms dealer and gave them a list of weapons he could procure, including machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades." That begs the question: how far would the supposed "plot" have gone had the FBI not been there to push it forward? In fact, in November, Tatar himself contacted police in Philadelphia, telling a sergeant he had been approached by a man who "pressured him to acquire maps of Fort Dix." He even told the sergeant he was worried that that "the incident was terrorist-related." The Feds claim that Tatar was simply trying to throw off suspicion and determine if the first informer was a plant. But the fact that one of the defendants in a supposed terrorist cell actually called police to report possible terrorist activity raises serious questions about the truth of the government's claims.
U.S. media job cuts up 88 percent
Tuesday, 22 May 2007 10:09 A GMT-05
U.S. media job cuts surged 88 percent in 2006 from the previous year, a downsizing trend expected to continue this year, a survey said Thursday. The media industry slashed 17,809 jobs last year, a nearly two-fold increase from the 9,453 cuts in 2005, outplacement consultancy Challenger Gray & Christmas said.
NY Times Attempts To Debunk 9/11 Truth; Fails Miserably
Saturday, 19 May 2007 3:54 P GMT-05
Although it is easily countered, the Times exposure highlights the fact that 9/11 truth movement has exploded into the mainstream. It also underlines the fact that the debunkers are losing the battle to quell the public's desire to uncover the lies and discover what really happened on 9/11 as their line of argument becomes more diluted and weakened with each ill informed and poor researched attack piece they produce.
Alleged Liquid Bombers Plead 'Not Guilty'; Extradition For Alleged Mastermind 'Conditionally Stalled'
Saturday, 19 May 2007 3:39 P GMT-05
It's tough not to speculate that the British media may be growing tired of huge libel suits and wondering how they could have been led so badly astray. And it's also tough not to speculate that the longer Rashid Rauf stays in Pakistan, the better it might be for UK authorities, who could be severely embarrassed by whatever he might say in a British courtroom. At this point it appears that the most incriminating thing he could say would be "Yes, I know the bombing plot was impossible, but I convinced all these aspirational jihadis to pretend they were planning to do it, so that you would have somebody to arrest when you needed to claim you'd made a major achievement and inject another jolt of fear into the bogus War on bogus Terror."
9/11 Survivor Questions Official Story on Local Fox News
Saturday, 19 May 2007 2:49 P GMT-05
William Rodriguez, the “Last Man Standing” on 9/11, appeared on Fox News in Boston, MA. He talked about explosions in the basement, before the plane hit, as well as secondary explosions occurring. Mr. Rodriguez also takes the time to mention the media blackout in the United States on 9/11 Truth issues.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 5:39 P GMT-05
When Ron Paul announced his candidacy much of the mainstream media ignored it. Even further back, when Ron was saying things that no other politician dared to say on the House Floor, the media never mentioned it. I know that when I first found out about Ron, it was when I got sent a link to a speech he gave in the house a little over a year ago. I was shocked. "No one told me a man in Washington is actually telling the truth!" and "Why isn't the media covering THIS?" were my immediate reactions. But the more I read of him, the more I realized that the media was having a black out in regards to him.
CBS Fires Former Iraq Commander for Speaking Out Against Bush Policies in Iraq
Wednesday, 16 May 2007 5:22 P GMT-05
It took CBS two weeks to fire Don Imus for calling a college women’s basketball team “nappy headed hos,” but it only took them two days to fire Major General John Batiste for speaking out against the president and his policies on the war in Iraq. Groups critical of the war and President Bush say it is an outrage. Batiste, a Republican, commanded troops in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. He left the Army on a mision to speak out against what he calls “the president’s reckless policy in Iraq.” A short time after that, CBS hired him as a part-time consultant. But then last week, Batiste appeared in a VoteVets.org TV ad speaking out against the president on Iraq. Just two days later, CBS fired him.
“It’s censorship, pure and simple,” Moveon.org stated. They say they are going to rally over 100,000 people to send messages demanding that CBS re-hire Major General John Batiste by the end of the week. As in the case of Don Imus though, supporters of Batiste are well served to remember that CBS is a business, not a democracy, and they are not necessarily bound to keep any employee around that they deem should no longer work there.
Confirmed: 9/11 Truthers To Appear On The View
Tuesday, 15 May 2007 5:29 P GMT-05
Professor Steven Jones was sounded out for an appearance shortly after O'Donnell first started discussing 9/11 truth on the show and he is expected to be making an appearance very soon. We are confirming who else is set to appear and will have that news in the next day or two.
Cindy Sheehan and Morgan Stack on Jack Blood - Cindy comes out strong for 9/11 Truth
Sunday, 13 May 2007 2:47 P GMT-05
Cindy's words on 9/11 truth are the strongest I've heard from her to date (first few minutes of the second clip below.)
9/11 Truthers Should Thank Fox News
Friday, 11 May 2007 11:15 A GMT-05
In another "fair and balanced" piece Alan Colmes and Sean Hannity again weakly attempted to debunk the inside job evidence while at the same time making themselves look like the playground bullies everyone else has outgrown and now points to and laughs at. Colmes began by stating "The 9/11 conspiracy wingnuts are it again". So let us be as equally fair and balanced by beginning this analysis with the following... The corporate hack establishment government lapdog media whores are at it again. Colmes and Hannity attempted to spin what John Kerry had said to hoodwink their doped up viewers into thinking that Kerry was not referring to building 7 and that his words had been taken completely out of context.
Ron Paul: Total Victory, Yet Censorship Continues
Wednesday, 9 May 2007 2:37 P GMT-05
Ron Paul emerged from last week's GOP debate as completely victorious according to every available benchmark and yet there is still a deliberate ploy to push the Texas Congressman to the sidelines on behalf of a terrified corporate media. Every single major online poll shows conclusively that Ron Paul won the debate by a mammoth margin, trouncing the bought and paid-for shill Neo-Con candidates that the establishment press are sworn to uphold.
Loose Change Press Release: Stop Threatening Free Speech, Release Date for Final Cut
Wednesday, 9 May 2007 2:17 P GMT-05
None of us chose 9/11 as our cause; it chose us. We didn’t want to believe the hoax of 9/11 but our heads and our hearts told us; that the official story just didn’t add up; that the laws of physics can’t lie; that 300 degree celsius fires can’t melt steel; that Building Seven, that 47 story steel and concrete edifice couldn’t just implode suddenly at 5.20PM on the afternoon of 11th September; and the BBC couldn’t have predicted and announced its implosion 20 minutes before it happened, unless forewarned.
How Low Can Monsanto Go?
Tuesday, 8 May 2007 4:58 A GMT-05
For the record, Fox News never denied that it pressured its reporters to broadcast a false story. Fox's entire defense rested on the premise that the First Amendment grants broadcasters the right to lie or deliberately distort news reports. I guess it shouldn't be a shock that companies like Monsanto and Fox are in cahoots, conspiring to peddle their tainted products. Birds of a feather. May an avian flu-like pox plague both their houses, and the FDA's, too, if they cave in to this agribiz avarice.
Corporate Media Censor Ron Paul's Debate Success
Tuesday, 8 May 2007 4:35 A GMT-05
Ron Paul won the debate hands down - all the polls show it - but the establishment media are loathe to report it, because if a tree falls in the forest and the corporate press choose not to report on it then it doesn't make a sound.
Excerpt: Debunking 9/11 Debunking - "Experts"
Monday, 7 May 2007 6:44 P GMT-05
On the one hand, virtually all of the "experts" who have reached - or at least publicly endorsed - the government's theory have been working on behalf of government agencies (such as FEMA and NIST) and/or for private industries that are dependent on government funding. On the other hand, the 9/11 truth movement can appeal to a growing number of experts, including Holland's Danny Jowenko, Switzerland's Hugo Bachmann and Jorg Schneider, and Finland's Heikki Kurttila, who reject the official theory. The debate between the two theories cannot, therefore, be settled by appeal to authority. It must be settled by appeal to the evidence.
Potential terror jurors cite 9/11 doubts
Sunday, 6 May 2007 4:51 P GMT-05
First, isn't it interesting that a person's views about the 9/11 attacks are now the basis for peremptory challenges during jury selection? It's certainly an effective way of weeding out opinions that don't conform to the official line - just as those who don't support the death penalty are automatically dismissed from juries. This is an unjust and pernicious practice. By denying those who don't agree with death sentencing a place on juries, the true breadth of public opinion on the subject cannot be represented on juries. It creates an ideologically lopsided jury pool heavy with conformists. Seems the same thing is in danger of happening with 9/11.
Truth-Teller Lou Dobbs Under Attack For Alleged Hate Speech
Sunday, 6 May 2007 3:46 P GMT-05
And so the truth-twisters who now run our country have managed to turn the opponents of hatred -- as well as its practitioners -- against the Bill of Rights. How long can a former republic divided against itself remain standing?
Truth believers
Saturday, 5 May 2007 4:27 P GMT-05
Contrary to the popularly held belief that anyone who charges that the government had any direct responsibility for the 9/11 attacks should immediately be dismissed as a "conspiracy-theory kook," more and more well-educated, "normal" people--teachers, engineers, computer scientists--are becoming part of the movement. Samuel Ready is one of those normal people. Ready speaks with unagitated zeal of his need to reach out and enlighten others about "9/11 Truth," as it is referred to within the movement. The subtle grandfatherly twinkle in his eye helps put one quickly at ease, while he speaks with the sense of purpose that one often finds in those working to convert others to their religious faith. Ready recalls, beginning in the spring of 2004, trying to talk to fellow members of the Spiritual Enrichment Center (the church he attended at the time) and other people about the 9/11 attacks from a viewpoint questioning the official story. "No one knew what I was talking about," Ready reflected. "I decided that I had to reach out."
Barrett reports on press conference at Nass's office
Saturday, 5 May 2007 2:13 A GMT-05
I assume the mainstream coverage will spin this as yet another adventure of the "wacky conspiracy professor." As with last year's Fox News coverage, the publicity will lead many previously ignorant people to do what so many did last summer, including one pilot who called me later to apologize: Get so angry with me that they decide to research what I'm saying to see just how wrong and crazy I am. It did not take that pilot long to discover that I was right--and he has been helping wake up other pilots ever since. The same thing will happen when people start googling "hijackers still alive."
Maverick Candidate Mike Gravel
Saturday, 5 May 2007 1:28 A GMT-05
Presidential candidate Mike Gravel’s performance in the first Democratic debate took him from off the radar to Truthdigger of the week. Naturally we just had to pick his brain. The former senator from Alaska, who helped end the draft, tells Truthdig why he’s running, why there are so few mavericks in politics these days and why war makes him angry.
Contrails or chemtrails and freak weather
Friday, 4 May 2007 5:02 A GMT-05
According to award-winning Canadian journalist William Thomas, back in August 1997, the late Dr. Edward Teller presented a paper prepared by the US government’s National Academy of Sciences to the 22nd International Seminar on Planetary Emergencies in Sicily, in which he suggested that: “Increases in average world-wide temperature of the magnitude currently predicted can be cancelled by preventing about 1% of incoming solar radiation from reaching the Earth. The total cost of such an enhanced scattering operation would probably be at most $1 billion per year.” Dr Teller proposed that aluminium oxide could be added to jet fuel as a “sunscreen,” and it appears that this is what is now being done, because aluminium is a metal that has been found in far higher than normal concentrations in areas that have had a lot of chemtrail activity overhead.
Potential terror jurors cite 9/11 doubts
Friday, 4 May 2007 2:54 A GMT-05
Many potential jurors in the Jose Padilla terrorism-support case say they aren't sure who directed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks because they don't trust reporters or the federal government. "There are too many ifs, too many things going on," one male juror said. "I don't know the whole story." Others say they just don't pay close enough attention to world events to be certain. "I'm oblivious to that stuff," one prospective female juror said during questioning this week. "I don't watch the news much. I try to avoid it."
Hours after 9/11 attacks, Rumsfeld allegedly said, 'My interest is to hit Saddam'
Thursday, 3 May 2007 11:07 A GMT-05
And sure, why not? After all, that was what PNAC was set to do anyhow - and now that so much had happened and there was no need to answer for those missing $2.3 trillion - why not just go for it?
Kia Baskerville (CBS) learns of both plane crashes in New York before President Bush?
Thursday, 3 May 2007 1:42 A GMT-05
Are we really expected to believe that Kia Baskerville learned of both the 1st and 2nd plane crashes (via cell phone) before the President of the United States? She learned of the first plane while on route to the school in the motorcade, but the POTUS did not?
Bay Area Bridge And WTC Tower Collapses: No Comparison. Here's Why
Wednesday, 2 May 2007 6:30 P GMT-05
No honest comparison of the 2 events can ever proceed until the media begins to include all available evidence for comparison, including the abundant evidence of explosive device use in the World Trade Center tower destructions (evidence first acknowledged, then later suppressed):
A major Italian network has recently aired some conclusive evidence that Building 7 was demolished with explosives | 911Blogger.com
Wednesday, 2 May 2007 6:26 P GMT-05
To us "9/11 victims" are not only the 3,000 people that perished on that day, but also some 650,000 civilians killed in Iraq since the invasion began, 100,000 plus Afghans who've met the same fate in their country, more than 3,000 US soldiers sent by "Dick & Rummy" to die under false pretense, and --sadly but truly -- the ever increasing number of first responders who were knowingly sent to their death by an administration that could be defined "criminal" for this one action alone. It's for them all that we fight.
David Ray Griffin debunks the official 9/11 story Common Ground May 2007
Wednesday, 2 May 2007 6:25 P GMT-05
Point by point, Griffin’s multi-faceted evidence converges on the conclusion that 9/11 was a false flag operation by vested interests seeking public consent to occupy the Middle East. If worldwide calls for an impartial investigation succeed, Griffin’s reference works will help guide the investigators through the growing maze of lies and cover-ups to an understanding of what actually happened that day. The resulting truth could well relieve the world of the fear, hatred and ugliness the event has spawned.
No George Monbiot, These Are The Facts of September 11th 2001
Wednesday, 2 May 2007 3:04 A GMT-05
DISTURBING FACTS ABOUT THE 9/11 ATTACKS
1-Hour Guide to 911 (Version 1.0)
Monday, 30 April 2007 8:05 P GMT-05
If one group accuses another of being delusional, they ought to prepare convincing evidence. For many years now, the mainstream media has played a key role in maintaining the government's official account of 9/11. In all respects, it has done a brilliant job of filtering out everything that might undermine the government's claims, while simultaneously demonizing anyone who dares to challenge those claims. So let's get right to it: Is it really baseless idiocy that drives people to question the official account of 9/11? Are the millions of Americans (including Senators, FBI agents, Doctors, Lawyers, Professors, Scientists, Engineers, etc.) all paranoid loons for suggesting we need a truly independent investigation of 9/11? The government and media would have you think so. They'd also (to help maintain that perception) need to keep you diverted from the information you're about to read.
Dishonorable Non-Mention: Juan Gonzalez and the Daily News’ 9/11 Pulitzer
Monday, 30 April 2007 4:46 P GMT-05
After all, the irony was pretty stunning: The paper won one of journalism’s highest prizes for writing about illnesses that might have been prevented had the paper not bowed to government and corporate pressure in 2001 and instead kept Gonzalez’s prescient warnings in the public eye.
U.S. Media Have Lost The Will To Dig Deep
Saturday, 28 April 2007 7:11 P GMT-05
Are there still aggressive, talented investigative reporters in the U.S.? There are hundreds. I’ll mention two: Seymour Hersh, formerly of the New York Times, and Robert Parry, formerly of the Associated Press, who uncovered the Iran-Contra scandal. The operative word here is “formerly.” Parry tells me that he can no longer do this kind of investigative work within the confines of a U.S. daily newsroom. One of the biggest disincentives to doing investigative journalism is that it jeopardizes future access to politicians and corporate elite. During the I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby trial, the testimony of Judith Miller and other U.S. journalists about the confidences they were willing to keep in order to maintain access seemed to me sadly illuminating. Expose the critters and the door is slammed. That’s not a price many American journalists are willing to pay.
Rosie Hosts Firsts Responders On The View
Friday, 27 April 2007 10:33 P GMT-05
Excerpt: Debunking 9/11 Debunking
Friday, 27 April 2007 6:13 P GMT-05
Let’s summarize. You’ve got a hostile take-over at Popular Mechanics headed by a woman whose husband has worked for the CIA and Department of Defense. Following this take-over, the 25-year-old cousin of the director of Homeland Security serves as the "senior researcher" for an article that defends every last aspect of the government’s fairy tale about 9/11. They’re extremely thorough and fact-driven, yet they can’t even find out if these guys are related?!?
ABC Told Rosie Not To Talk About Dead U.S. Troops
Friday, 27 April 2007 12:07 A GMT-05
Rosie has attempted to get William Rodriguez on the show as a guest on numerous occasions over the last few weeks but was rebuffed by program directors every time due to Rodriguez's vocal stance that 9/11 was an inside job. O'Donnell again attempted to simply mention Rodriguez's today but was shouted down. Rosie was told almost from day one that she could not mention U.S. troop casualty figures in Iraq and the cover-up of the real death count, despite the fact that Neo-Con panelist Elisabeth Hasselbeck was given free reign and allowed to say what she liked, including referring to the Iraqi people as "animals."
When Journalism Became Transcription and Reporting Disappeared
Thursday, 26 April 2007 5:29 P GMT-05
In interview after interview after interview, we hear top journalists and opinionmakers declare that they believe journalism is no longer about basic, hard-scrabble reporting or getting scoops. As the Washington Post’s Walter Pincus says, most reporters today actually try to avoid getting scroops because they “worry about sort of getting out ahead of something” and - gasp! - making their friends inside Official Washington mad at them. So rather than, say, do the real work of reporting news, journalism has become a profession that is almost entirely about PR, transcription and packaging Establishment spin for news copy. This is why, for example, many of the highest-profile political “journalists” like Joe Klein and David Broder never bother to actually report anything anymore - but instead spend most of their time pontificating on horse race polls and campaign gossip, expecting us to believe that’s real “news.”
Olbermann’s Special Comment on Giuliani’s Fearmongering: How Dare You, Sir?
Thursday, 26 April 2007 4:51 P GMT-05
"The Democrats do not understand the full nature and scope of the terrorist war against us," Mr. Giuliani continued to the Rockingham County Lincoln Day Dinner last night. "Never, ever again will this country be on defense waiting for (terrorists) to attack us, if I have anything to say about it. And make no mistake, the Democrats want to put us back on defense." There is no room for this. This is terrorism itself, dressed up as counter-terrorism.
Rosie Tells ABC To Screw Its 9/11 Censorship
Wednesday, 25 April 2007 8:35 P GMT-05
Prominent 9/11 truth sources close to O'Donnell revealed to Alex Jones weeks ago that Rosie had refused to have her first amendment rights restricted and was likely to quit on her own terms after she was asked to stay on the show by ABC with the proviso that she tone down her stance on the issue of 9/11. Today this has been made official. According to our source O'Donnell has described some involved with the production of The View as "Neocon gate-keepers" and found it impossible to continue as she was increasingly being heavily edited during recordings. The same associates were also blocking Rosie from bringing on guests of her own choosing whom she believed would further expose the 9/11 cover up.
Giuliani Caught In Bizarre Building 7 Lie
Wednesday, 25 April 2007 6:22 P GMT-05
"It looked like at some point the top of the building would come off, and then maybe the middle of the building and then maybe there'd be a shell left....the way number 7 came down 4 or 5 o'clock in the afternoon - over a period of time - but the idea that it would implode, the implosion that took place, I actually didn't realize that until much later." Building 7 collapsed in just 6.5 seconds - videos of the structure before its collapse show the building fully intact and suffering sporadic fires across a limited number of floors.
ABC News: VT Killer 'Purchased Ammo' on Ebay... But Ebay Doesn't SELL Ammunition!
Wednesday, 25 April 2007 3:53 P GMT-05
ABC News tries its hand at sensationalism with a story on the VT killer buying "ammo" on the auction site Ebay, but muffs it badly getting all the relevant facts wrong. But it sure is a good headline... Ammo from eBay? VT Killer May Have Used Site ... Problem is, Ebay doesn't sell ammunition... it doesn't even sell guns. What the VT killer bought were clips (magazines), not "ammo"-- if it was even him . Will ABC News correct itself?
William Rodriguez Hits the Mainstream
Wednesday, 25 April 2007 2:58 A GMT-05
"They always left the part about explosions out," Rodriguez says of previous mainstream US media coverage of his story. At first he thought this was because they had to convey the story in just a few minutes or paragraphs. But when the 9/11 Commission made Rodriguez testify in secret and then sealed that testimony, while refusing to hear more than a dozen corroborating witnesses, he realized that the government and mainstream media were hell-bent on covering up the truth. (For a summary of some of the massive eyewitness testimony about the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, see Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 Oral Histories, By Dr. David Ray Griffin.) Since then, Rodriguez has been on a mission of truth on behalf of the family members and other victims of 9/11. "Do not let anyone tell you that the victims do not have the right to ask questions and find out how and why their loved ones died," Rodriguez says. It is long past time for mainstream journalists (if that _expression is not an oxymoron) to take Rodriguez at his word and start asking the hard questions about 9/11. For more information on William Rodriguez, see http://911keymaster.com
The Mystery Of The 9/11 Car Bombs
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 9:46 P GMT-05
It is commonly accepted that the breadth of the 9/11 attack was planned to be larger in scope because Flight 93 did not reach its target. Were the State Department and Washington Mall "bombings" intended to go ahead but for whatever reason failed or were called off? Was the media fed a script too early as in the case of Building 7, which was also reported to have collapsed by both the BBC and CNN up to 30 minutes before it actually fell?
If You're a Truther, Go and See Shooter
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 6:00 P GMT-05
This movie is packed with positive messages about liberty, gun ownership and detailed examples of how government black-ops are run, how patsies are framed and how cover-stories are generated. Elements of how 9/11 was scripted along with the assassination of JFK are clearly used as parallels to map out the course of the plot. The war in Iraq, Abu Ghraib and Big Brother are all critiqued as political commentary is woven into the story at every opportunity.
Fascist America, in 10 Easy Steps
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 5:45 P GMT-05
Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody.They were not figuring these things out as they went along. If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective. It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps.
Mainstream Danish newspaper runs feature article by Professor of Chemistry on unexplained WTC7 collapse
Tuesday, 24 April 2007 5:25 P GMT-05
On 31 March 2007, the Danish newspaper, Information, ran an article by Prof. Niels Harrit of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. In the article, Prof. Harrit argues that the destruction of the World Trade Center has not been adequately explained, and focuses particularly on unanswered questions surrounding the collapse of WTC7. Excerpt: "WTC7 collapsed exactly like a house of cards. If the fires or damage in one corner had played a decisive role, the building would have fallen in that direction. You don't have to be a woodcutter to grasp this."
UL Truth Is Not a Matter of Popularity
Monday, 23 April 2007 8:15 P GMT-05
Those lying to us about 9/11 may feel that they have no reason to fear retribution. For example, we can choose to buy Popular Mechanics’ lies or not buy them, depending on whether we are looking for easy answers or truthful ones. In choosing, we can guess at UL’s motivations for lying, and we know the Hearst Corporation (Popular Mechanics’ parent company) has a long history in the business of propaganda. But we can’t choose whether or not we care to pay UL’s taxes for them. As long as UL remains in good standing with the government, the American public must dole out the corporate welfare that supports them.
A side effect of Iraq war may be higher homicide rates
Monday, 23 April 2007 7:06 P GMT-05
Leyton said his research into mass murderers indicates that as their rage develops against a person or a group or an institution, they begin making destructive plans. And then something triggers deadly action that almost always ends in suicide. "The commonality is first they pronounce their own lives unlivable," he said, "and they blame it on someone else or some institution, and they fantasize what to do about it, and then they build their plan." And inside a twisted mind, the relentless exposure to war may help justify the violence. So in a sense, could Cho and 32 people at Virginia Tech be more casualties of the Iraq war? That's stretching the point. But we do seem to have developed a resigned acceptance of the daily casualty counts from Iraq, even the 200-plus killed just two days after Virginia Tech. And if the campus slaughter wasn't unnerving enough, consider, as the war goes on, the grim forecast from "The Man Who Studies Murder."
9/11 First Responders To Be On "The View" This Wednesday, 4/25
Sunday, 22 April 2007 7:23 P GMT-05
I hope you all get a chance to watch the 9/11 responders on "The View" on ABC @11.00AM this Wednesday the 25th. One of those responders will be Vito Valenti, a 9/11 volunteer, sick with fibrosis of the lungs and needs a double lung transplant.
9/11's Free speech casualties
Friday, 20 April 2007 7:35 P GMT-05
In Grants Pass, Ore., at the Daily Courier, and at the Texas Sun, down in Texas City, journalists Dan Guthrie and Tom Gutting — separated by about 30 years in age but not at all by their conviction — were thinking: Where was Bush? Where was the presence that the nation craved in that terrible aftermath, but wasn't getting? As Guthrie wrote: "He didn't storm back to the capital and lead us through our darkest hour…. He skedaddled" to one Air Force base, then another. Guthrie praised New York firefighters and the passengers aboard United Flight 93 as "the heroes of this rotten week." As for Bush, Guthrie wrote: "We're praying for him." That was after he used, fatally, the word "cowardice." Hundreds of miles away, Gutting, who'd been a newspaperman since he was an Indiana teenager, was writing what turned out to be his last column. He praised Rudy Giuliani's decision to be "highly visible." He lambasted Bush: "It's time we snapped out of the 'support our president' trance and start to be vigilant citizens, as our Constitution demands." Well. The reaction didn't stop with the men's firings. An Alaskan fisherman professed a wish to use Guthrie for crab bait. In Texas, Gutting became, as the more colorful threats went, "a man who needed killin'."
Why the Media Covers Up 9/11
Friday, 20 April 2007 6:48 P GMT-05
As shown above, the cards are stacked against 9/11 truth being covered by the media. But we have the ability to outsmart the bad guys. We can "be the media" ourselves. We can be the movie-makers, the commentators, the reporters and writers. A thousand voices are louder than one voice with a megaphone. We cannot leave governance to our "leaders", as "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" (Jefferson). Similarly, we cannot leave news to the corporate media.
The Cho Seung-Hui Video Show
Thursday, 19 April 2007 7:38 P GMT-05
Add to this a bevy of “experts” on television this evening declaring Cho Seung-Hui to be obviously paranoid schizophrenic. Excuse me, but paranoid schizophrenics, minus medication, have a difficult time stitching two coherent sentences together, let alone methodically engaging in homicide, managing to escape undetected, and then recording thoughts after the fact and conjuring up the wherewithal to send out a press release. I’m not buying it.
William Rodriguez gets balanced media coverage... in Italy
Thursday, 19 April 2007 4:35 P GMT-05
Dear Friends, My story was presented on Italian Television and they got 6 and a half million viewers, no censoring!!!
The War On Terror Looks Like A Fraud Because It Is One!
Wednesday, 18 April 2007 8:47 P GMT-05
I've been saying ever since I started blogging that the war on terror is bogus, and that this conclusion can be reached in all manner of ways. John Gleeson mentions 9/11, the oil law in Iraq and the pipeline through Afghanistan. But here's another way to see the same thing: The Pentagon has sent out memos saying their main priority is now to win the war on terror by October of 2008 -- just in time for the next presidential election. Not just the war in Iraq, mind you. The word has gone out: wrap up the entire Global War on Terror. This was a war that was supposed to last for generations. And it's not as if we've shown any signs of "winning". To be blunt about it, we haven't even shown any sign of understanding what "winning" means, let alone what it takes to "win". If this is a war that can be started and stopped at the pleasure of the President, or the Pentagon, just in time for an election -- or even if the people running it see it that way -- then it's clearly a cynical ploy, not worthy of financial sacrifice, let alone the sacrifice of young men and women. Not to speak of the destruction of foreign countries and innocent victims numbering in the millions.
Imus’s Free-Speech Rights Were Not Violated
Wednesday, 18 April 2007 8:19 P GMT-05
Censorship and violation of freedom of speech occur only when government, not private individuals, suppresses speech. The true test of a free society, with respect to speech, is not whether people are free to publish acceptable and pleasing speech but instead whether they are free to publish vile and unpopular speech without fear of governmental suppression or punishment. For example, if the FCC had been threatening to fine Imus or his employer, CBS, for his racist comment, as the FCC did with Howard Stern and his obscene comments, that would have constituted censorship and violation of freedom of speech. But since there was no threat by the FCC to punish Imus or CBS for his racist remark, the issues of censorship and freedom of speech do not arise.
9/11 Truth In The Edmonton Sun
Wednesday, 18 April 2007 7:00 P GMT-05
With the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, it was seen that 9/11 was amazingly fortuitous to the Bush administration, elements of which had been looking for excuses to invade both countries -- for purely strategic-commercial reasons -- in the months and years prior to the attacks. But it was the release of the 9/11 Commission Report in 2004 that breathed full life into the 9/11 Truth Movement -- because it was now apparent to many that the "official story" relied on massive distortion and evasion.
Neo-Cons To Spin VA Massacre As Terrorist Attack
Wednesday, 18 April 2007 6:45 P GMT-05
By connecting the massacre to militant Islam, the fraudulent war on terror can be perpetuated as the Bush administration lines up its aircraft carriers in the Gulf for an imminent strike on Iran. The base level propaganda that "the enemy" is attacking our college kids would give the Neo-Cons all the pretext they need for selling another pre-emptive war to a dumbed down public. This may not be the false flag we were all fearing, but it certainly puts the population in a semi-comatose state and makes the horrors perpetrated in the name of Empire look insignificant when up against the terror on our doorstep.
Report: French knew of al-Qaida plot
Monday, 16 April 2007 6:07 P GMT-05
A French intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaida was working on a plot to hijack U.S. airliners, and it passed the information on to the CIA, a news report said Monday.
Zionist Groups Killed News Stories About Mossad
Saturday, 14 April 2007 5:21 P GMT-05
The “stuff ” that was causing Foxman so much indigestion that day was a damning, four-part investigative series Fox News had been airing after Sept. 11 dealing with the arrests of several hundred Israeli nationals as well as some of the incriminating circumstances surrounding their activities in the United States. In particular, it was the story dealing with one group, known to investigators and journalists as the “high fivers,” who, according to an arrest report by the Bergen County Police Department, were “seen by New Jersey residents on Sept. 11 making fun of the World Trade Center ruins and going to extreme lengths to photograph themselves in front of the wreckage.” The same police report also indicated that “maps of the city with certain places highlighted” were found in their vehicle, giving all of it the appearance that “they’re hooked in with this” and that “they knew what was going to happen when they were at Liberty State Park.”
The View To Cover The First Responders This Week
Saturday, 14 April 2007 1:43 P GMT-05
9/11 gatekeepers muzzle truth toward societal dumbing-down
Thursday, 12 April 2007 10:21 P GMT-05
In answer to Noam Chomsky's question: "Who cares?" I do. I care because truth is a form of beauty; an absolute good, worth pursuing independent of any perceived agenda. Not only do I reject the absurd notion, that the pursuit of truth is somehow incompatible with progressive causes, but I'm willing to dream of what the gatekeepers fear most: Change. Those of us who believe in the possibility of a kinder world, know that 9/11 is the log-jam, currently blocking any possibility of meaningful progress.
ABC disrespectfully ignores the military service of Ron Paul
Thursday, 12 April 2007 6:57 A GMT-05
ABC wrote a piece which covers the military service, or lack of military service, of almost all 2008 presidential candidates. GOP and Dem candidates ranking lower than Ron Paul in the polls are covered, but the service of Dr. Paul is ignored. With the exception of McCain and Hunter, Ron Paul is the most experienced military man in the race.
Report: BBC reporter may have staged kidnapping
Monday, 9 April 2007 2:42 P GMT-05
Palestinian sources reported that Johnston received notice of his dismissal from the BBC, and subsequently fabricated the kidnapping in order not to lose his job. The BBC refused to comment on the report.
O'REILLY: ROSIE STORY IS BIG!!! (9/11 ISN'T)
Sunday, 8 April 2007 10:45 P GMT-05
O'Reilly's latest installment of attacks against Rosie O'Donnell-- in response to her yet-to-be-addressed 9/11 claims-- have now reached the point of becoming definitively ludicrous. He attempts to link-- fallaciously-- a "lack of coverage" over Rosie O'Donnell's 9/11 statements (after weeks of continuous coverage on The Factor) with lack of coverage on issues with illegal aliens. As thousands of stories go under-reported every day, there is no meaningful link here, though one is certainly implied. Meanwhile, O'Reilly portrays himself as a righteous defender-- policing the press and defending border issues.
Chickenhawk excuses.
Sunday, 8 April 2007 2:20 P GMT-05
"I'm fighting the cultural war. Both need to be fought and both need to be won by Conservatives."
Bill O’Reilly’s head practically explodes as he screams at Geraldo…
Sunday, 8 April 2007 2:03 P GMT-05
Oliver Willis explains: "A young girl was tragically killed by a drunk driver. But this was not enough for O'Reilly. Instead, because the criminal was an illegal alien he added this incident to his ongoing crusade against the brown people. Luckily Geraldo was on the show and he - to his credit - called out O'Reilly's xenophobia for exactly what it was. This drove Bill O'Reilly insane. I was almost certain he was going to reach across the table and hit Geraldo."
stoprosieendamerica.com - Many of us want to destroy America and it's freedom!
Saturday, 7 April 2007 2:45 P GMT-05
we are calling for the boycott of free speech and America's founding ideals and to encourage Congress to hold a public burning of the U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights. We also insist that George Bush be our king until his death. We accept that we cannot live within a free society. Free speech gives us nightmares beyond our collective threshold. We hate America. We want America to end. Leo Strauss was right.
War on Rosie: John Gibson says ABC should take O'Donnell off the air
Saturday, 7 April 2007 2:38 P GMT-05
So let me get this straight - it's OK for John Gibson to have a daily platform from which to spout his racist, xenophobic, anti-Democratic rants, but Rosie O'Donnell should be fired for suggesting that her viewers do some research and draw their own conclusions, rather than swallow the corporate and government reports whole. On today's 4/5/07 My Word segment he suggested just that.
9/11 Physicist Contacted To Appear On The View
Friday, 6 April 2007 2:55 A GMT-05
There are a couple of other potential developments that will strike a blow for 9/11 truth but we cannot reveal their exact nature so as to not compromise the chance of them actually unfolding. One thing we can say for sure is that this entire story is not going away anytime soon.
Bill O'Reilly Is a JFK Truther - (He must really hate his Country!)
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 8:21 P GMT-05
Bill O'Reilly, when he was on Inside Edition, reports on Oswald's association with the CIA. Gee Bill, here you are spouting a conspiracy theory! That's unamerican. Why do you hate this country, you two-faced hypocrite?
On The David Hicks Case And The Mainstreaming Of Modern American Insanity
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 7:41 P GMT-05
The worst of the worst? The first "detainee" to be tried? Held for sixty-four months before he could even get a sham hearing, and then sentenced to nine months more? Doesn't he get credit for time served? He's done the nine months already, plus fifty-five more. For what? For being tortured?
Gibson's 'Big Story' Tells Three Big Lies
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 3:36 P GMT-05
Anti-American Fox Noise Channel's peroxide Neo-Con Bush boot-licker John Gibson and his free speech hating guests told three separate and demonstrably provable lies last night in an attempt to smear Rosie O'Donnell for daring to ask questions about 9/11.
In between trying to start a war, Drudge finds time to mislead about his web site's popularity
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 2:45 P GMT-05
Obviously Drudge still gets a massive amount of traffic, but this is clearly an attempt to mislead his readers into believing his site (and the propaganda which goes with it) is becoming more popular, when in reality, like all the other Neo-Con propaganda organs, Limbaugh, etc., it is losing all its readership and is falling dramatically in popularity.
BABA WAWA'S WHITEWASH
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 2:34 A GMT-05
Israeli spies cheer as WTC burns – not that there's anything wrong with that, says Barbara Walters
How do they stack up?
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 2:19 A GMT-05
The fires could have burned for 1000 hours and they could NEVER have gotten hot enough to create the molten metal found in the basement of WTC 7. This is SCIENCE, not opinion. It is physically impossible for burning diesel fuel and office materials to reduce steel to a molten state; PERIOD. In a logical world, we can't even begin discussing what caused the collapse of the buildings until we've identified what liquefied the steel support columns. Why? Because whatever liquefied the steel support columns is logically the most likely cause of collapse!
Enemies Of Free Speech Launch 'Stop Rosie' Website, Petition
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 2:14 A GMT-05
Anti-American enemies of free speech have launched an official campaign to have Rosie O'Donnell fired for asking questions about 9/11 and the Iranian hostage crisis, setting up a website and a farcical poll - a sizable portion of whose signatories consist of fake names and joke entries.
Live Vodka-Shot Blogging the President's War Funding Hissy Fit
Wednesday, 4 April 2007 12:24 A GMT-05
Donate to help my effort along
Tuesday, 3 April 2007 4:29 P GMT-05
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Rosie O'Donnell's ABC Demonstration 3/21/07 (Video)
Monday, 2 April 2007 6:48 P GMT-05
"I think Democracy is threatened in a way it hasn't been in 200 years and if America doesn't stand up we're in big trouble," - Rosie O'Donnell
O'Reilly Mafia Threatens O'Donnell Over Sex Scandal
Monday, 2 April 2007 6:27 P GMT-05
Bill O'Reilly has repeatedly called for Rosie O'Donnell to be fired by ABC for questioning the official 9/11 story as well as other controversial statements. On Thursday night, MSNBC guest Danny Bonaduce called for O'Donnell to be executed for treason.
"When Joy and I alluded to O'Reilly's sex scandal on The View," writes O'Donnell on her blog, "we were told the following day that we couldn't bring it up anymore or else Bill O'Reilly would "go after" all the hosts of The View."
Rosie O'Donnell Lambasted for Opinions
Sunday, 1 April 2007 8:05 P GMT-05
What no one seems to mention are the many charities and children's efforts that Rosie is involved in. Rosie is a woman some people love to hate. Her views, her sexuality, her weight, her looks - all have come under attack. She is a woman with strong views. And she has the same right to expression that Ann Coulter or Michelle Malkin have. While I don't agree with everything she says, I defend her right to say it. On that note, Go Rosie!
"Mainstream Media & 9/11 - Blatant Mind Control Propaganda!"
Sunday, 1 April 2007 6:36 P GMT-05
This is a presentation worth watching to get a glimpse into how the modern media can by way of selective censorship cover a topic in a way that ridicules one of the sides in the debate from the start and denies the audience an opportunity to acquire knowledge of the subject or form an informed opinion of said subject. It is, of course, shocking when the subject at hand is something as crucially important as the tragic events of 9/11 - which, aside from their own enormity, have since been presented as basis for a revolutionary transformation of the American policy.
Inside Edition and Popular Mechanics Attacks Rosie
Sunday, 1 April 2007 5:23 P GMT-05
What Rosie and other conspiracy theorists don't say is that building 7, since rebuilt, suffered a 10-story gash from huge columns which fell from the twin towers. It was also weakened by fires that burned for 10 hours.
There's Nothing Left But Spin
Sunday, 1 April 2007 12:08 A GMT-05
When the President of the United States of America is reduced to quoting propaganda nonsense fabricated by his own neocon supporters, that's pathetic. When he does so specifically in order to justify failed policies which continue to see dozens, if not hundreds, dead every day in Iraq, that's worse than tragic. It's criminal.
The Terror Entrepreneurs
Saturday, 31 March 2007 7:12 P GMT-05
Together, the government, media and entertainment industries have turned "the terror threat" into a nationwide entrepreneurial venture. Brzezinski writes that "(T)error entrepreneurs," whose never-ending task is to "convince the public that it faces new threats" have found a home on network television. Since "horror scenarios attract audiences," the corporate media give a respectable veneer to fear-mongering through the presentation of these terror "experts" and "consultants" to the public. All of this is happening in a cultural environment in which Islam and Arabs are being vilified for sport and profit.
Demand an apology from MSNBC!
Saturday, 31 March 2007 5:59 P GMT-05
On the MSNBC show Scarborough Country, Danny Bonaduce called for Rosie O'Donnell's death as punishment for expressing her views on Iran, corporate media and WTC 7. Let MSNBC know that broadcasting calls for lynching in response to political speech is unacceptable.
John Gibson and Michelle Malkin Whip Up Frenzy Over Rosie O'Donnell and ABC
Saturday, 31 March 2007 5:46 P GMT-05
Bill O'Reilly started a campaign last night to have Rosie O'Donnell fired from The View, ABC, for expressing her opinions on Iran and 9/11. This morning at 6 AM, Donald Trump was already quoting O'Reilly almost verbatim on The Imus Show demanding that ABC fire O'Donnell. So of course, John Gibson continued the fire Rosie campaign today with noxious Michelle Malkin who added Barbara Walters to the FOX News list of the currently unclean who must be punished.
Did HBO Cover-Up Bomb Evidence At The WTC On 9/11?
Saturday, 31 March 2007 12:16 A GMT-05
Did HBO television deliberately delete frames of video used in their 2002 documentary 'In Memorium - 9/11/2001', that revealed the detonation of an apparent explosive device at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001? Clearly the major explosion can be heard. Can the major corporate media be relied upon to provide the public with complete information or is it simply an establishment tool used to shape public opinions and manufacture desired outcomes?
Neo-Con: 'Execute Rosie For Questioning the Government'
Friday, 30 March 2007 8:40 P GMT-05
Indeed, as part of the last stage of truth before victory, defenders of the official 9/11 story are trying to paint all 9/11 truthers as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. If we give in to fear, we lose. If we redouble our efforts to spread the truth of what occurred on 9/11, we win. Its that simple.
Bonaduce Says O'Donnell Should Be Hung On MSNBC
Friday, 30 March 2007 6:55 P GMT-05
Joe Scarborough Attacks Rosie O'Donnell, Barbara Walters & ABC For debating a serious issue. Scarborough brings in the political expert Danny Bonaduce, who says that O'Donnell should be 'strung up for treason' and 'aiding and abetting the enemy'. He then goes on to seriously defend that point.
Bush’s bloggers from Pajamas Media hackery
Friday, 30 March 2007 4:01 P GMT-05
This is how far he, and his argument for continuing the slaughter in Iraq, has fallen: President Bush today was reduced to quoting two bloggers from Baghdad. He cited them as evidence that his surge/escalation is working. One problem: their posts were written weeks ago, and re-published in the Wall Street Journal on March 5. Only hours later did the White House reveal that the bloggers were brothers, Mohammed and Omar Fadhil, and these supposedly little-known average Joes had met Bush in the Oval Office in 2004. They are dentists and write an English-language blog from Baghdad called IraqTheModel.com, also available via Pajamas Media.
Interview With Penny Little, Director of 911: Dust and Deceit at the World Trade Center
Friday, 30 March 2007 2:46 P GMT-05
With 911: Dust and Deceit at the World Trade Center, Penny Little has made a moving, engrossing indictment of how the federal government failed New York City residents, and the rescue workers and volunteers near the Twin Towers, in the days following 9/11 and continue to do so today.
Breaking News: Rosie Talking Building 7 On The View
Friday, 30 March 2007 1:01 P GMT-05
Rosie just blatantly exposed building 7 on The View this morning. She mentioned how Building 7 was the only steel framed building to be brought down from fire in the world and that she wants to get a physicist on the show to discuss further.
O'Donnell 9/11 Rant Reaches 30 Million Viewers
Friday, 30 March 2007 2:01 A GMT-05
Rosie O'Donnell is certainly not backing away from her public stance about 9/11, and this morning on The View went on a rant about the many questions surrounding the collapse of Building 7, reaching around 30 million viewers in the process. This is the largest single exposure 9/11 truth has enjoyed to date and it represents a watershed moment in the quest to bring the truth to the masses.
9/11 Not First Example Of Media Scripting
Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:52 A GMT-05
Our reports on the BBC Building 7 fiasco have gained overwhelming traction on the Internet but the establishment media has all but blacklisted the story. As an addendum to the issue of the scripting and foreknowledge of major world events and how the official story is prepared ahead of the actual incident, we decided to take a brief look at a couple of other potential historical examples.
'NYT' Reporter Who Got Iraqi WMDs Wrong Now Highlights Iran Claims
Wednesday, 28 March 2007 6:57 P GMT-05
Saturday’s New York Times features an article, posted at the top of its Web site late Friday, that suggests very strongly that Iran is supplying the “deadliest weapon aimed at American troops” in Iraq. The author notes, “Any assertion of an Iranian contribution to attacks on Americans in Iraq is both politically and diplomatically volatile.” What is the source of this volatile information? Nothing less than “civilian and military officials from a broad range of government agencies.” Sound pretty convincing? Well, almost all the sources in the story are unnamed. It also may be worth noting that the author is Michael R. Gordon, the same Times reporter who, on his own, or with Judith Miller, wrote some of the key, and badly misleading or downright inaccurate, articles about Iraqi WMDs in the run-up to the 2003 invasion. Gordon wrote with Miller the paper's most widely criticized -- even by the Times itself -- WMD story of all, the Sept. 8, 2002, “aluminum tubes” story that proved so influential, especially since the administration trumpeted it on TV talk shows.
TIME Magazine thinks US can't handle the truth
Tuesday, 27 March 2007 11:10 P GMT-05
As you'll remember , several months ago Newsweek ran a cover story titled "Losing Afghanistan". Well sort of. They ran the cover story in every edition around the world except in the US, where the cover story was titled "Annie Leibowitz Amazing 'Life in Pictures'". Well this week TIME magazine stole a page out of Newsweek's book (or magazine?). If you click on the link, you'll see TIME's cover story in every edition but the American one is "Talibanistan", a story about the resurgence of the Taliban. TIME's cover for the US: "Why We Should Teach the Bible in Public School".
The crushing fear that stalks America
Tuesday, 27 March 2007 1:15 A GMT-05
Dr Michael Noll's students at Valdosta are as smart and bright-eyed as Dr El-Baradei's in Cairo. They packed into the same lecture I had given in Egypt and seemed to share a lot of the same fears about Iraq. But a sullen seminar that same morning was a miserable affair in which a young woman seemed to break down in anger. If "we" left Iraq, she said in a quavering voice, the jihadists, the "terrorists", could come here to America. They would attack us right here.
I sighed with frustration. I was listening to her voice but it was also the voice of the woman on Fox TV, the repeated, hopeless fantasy of Bush and Blair: that if we fail in Iraq, "they", the monstrous enemy, will arrive on our shores. Every day in the American papers now, I read the same "fear" transformed into irrationality. Luke Boggs - God, how I'd love that byline - announces in his local paper: "I say let the terrorists rot in Guantanamo. And let the Europeans ... howl. We are a serious nation, engaged in the serious business of trying to kill or capture the bad guys before they can do us more harm." He calls Guantanamo's inmates "hardcore jihadists".
The Race
Tuesday, 27 March 2007 12:36 A GMT-05
Yet a far more hopeful picture is emerging. In this scenario the mainstream press, though late to the party, figures out how to make serious money from the Internet, uses the Web to enrich traditional journalistic forms, and retains its professionalism—along with a readership that is part print, part Web. Newspapers stay alive as hybrids. The culture and civic mission of daily print journalism endure. Can that happen? Given the financial squeeze and the shortsightedness of many publishers and investors, will dailies be able to navigate such a transition without sacrificing standards of journalism? Or will cost-cutting owners so thoroughly gut the nation’s newsrooms that they collapse the distinction between the rest of the Internet and everything that makes newspapers uniquely valuable?
Mark Cuban Exposes O'Reilly Hypocrisy On Radio Broadcast
Monday, 26 March 2007 3:56 P GMT-05
Billionaire Mark Cuban, the owner of the Dallas Mavericks who is set to finance a cinema release of Loose Change narrated by Charlie Sheen, exposed Bill O'Reilly's rampant hypocrisy concerning his coverage of the 9/11 truth movement on the Fox News host's radio show yesterday.
The 9/11 lie is in critical condition
Monday, 26 March 2007 1:35 P GMT-05
There was a time, not long ago, when daring to question the official account of 9/11 was risky business. One was almost guaranteed to be attacked as a "crazy person" or a "traitor" or a "terrorist sympathizer." Times have changed. At this point, less than 20% of the population believes they were given the full truth regarding 9/11. Logically one might ask: "Why is that?" It wasn't for lack of trying that the government failed in its propaganda campaign. It wasn't for lack of "helping hands" in the mainstream media. (Though even that support has begun to fall apart.) No, it was one thing and one thing only that caused hundreds of millions of American citizens to openly question the official account of 9/11; the evidence.
Former CIA Official Supports Professor's Claim That 9/11 Is A Lie
Saturday, 24 March 2007 11:29 P GMT-05
Although the 9/11 truth movement was long ignored by the U.S. government and the mainstream media, recent polls have shown that (as Time magazine has acknowledged) the rejection of the official theory has become "a mainstream political phenomenon." It is not surprising, therefore, that the U.S. government and the Big Business controlled media have shifted tactics. No longer ignoring the 9/11 truth movement, they have released a flurry of stories and reports aimed at debunking it. In David Ray Griffin's new book entitled Debunking 9/11, shows that these attempts can themselves be easily debunked.
Media Ignore Syrian Minister’s Claim That CIA Was Behind 2005 London Bombings
Friday, 23 March 2007 6:16 P GMT-05
Now, wouldn’t it be nice if Americans would be made aware when officials from such nations that are assisting our enemies in Iraq made these kinds of statements? Or, would that be too much like actually reporting the news?
Chinese Freelance Writer Sentenced To Six Years Imprisonment
Friday, 23 March 2007 5:34 P GMT-05
The Ningbo Municipal Intermediate Court has sentenced freelance writer Li Hong (whose real name is Zhang Jianhong) to six years imprisonment for "inciting subversion against the state." China's state-run Xinhua News Agency released news of this case on the day he was sentenced, March 19. Li's wife, a cousin, and a friend were present in the courtroom during sentencing. The entire session lasted only 20 minutes. Li and his defense attorney, Li Jianqiang, were not given any opportunity to respond to the sentence, but Li indicated that he was going to appeal.
John Gibson attacks Loose Change, Charlie Sheen in one-sided report
Friday, 23 March 2007 5:30 P GMT-05
Gibson mischaracterized Sheen as "the mastermind" behind "what will be no doubt a ridiculous film." No bias there. Johnson, asked what he thinks about the fact that so many people in this country subscribe to the alternate theories, replied that the better question is why are people posing them in the first place? (Comment: the answert o both questions is lack of trust, and suspicion.) He says that merely being exposed to these theories influences people's perceptions and openness to the ideas. He thinks the wider release will do a tremendous amount of damage (to people still recovering from personal loss) and hoped that proceeds will go to families of victims, so there is no financial incentive to "post this garbage, and promote it."
Fox Bully O'Reilly Says Loose Change Will Destroy Sheen
Friday, 23 March 2007 4:38 P GMT-05
As usual, the exact opposite is true. The success of Sheen's sitcom Two and a Half Men has only increased in the year since he went public on 9/11, and every poll shows the vast majority of the country support Sheen's viewpoint. Meanwhile, Fox News' ratings continue to sink lower and lower because they refuse to act as anything other than whores for the establishment.
O'Donnell, Sheen Back 9/11 Conspiracy Theories
Friday, 23 March 2007 4:22 P GMT-05
"If the government is lying about flight 93, is it hard to believe the rest is a lie?" That line can be heard on the video "Loose Change," which has been floating around the Internet for years, but now Sheen is in talks with Magnolia Pictures to narrate a new version of the video and redistribute it.
CBS NY Covers O Donnells Comments, Poplar Mechanics Attacks Truth Movement
Friday, 23 March 2007 5:59 A GMT-05
Cancel Your Subscriptions
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 5:02 P GMT-05
The time has come to use the only legal and non-lethal tool left available to the public. We must counter the weapons of the power elite that has hijacked our democracy and taken control of the nation. Believe it our not, that tool is MONEY! In this case, however, we are not asking you to spend your money; we are asking you to withhold it! WE MUST STOP FUNDING THE ENEMY - AND THE ENEMY IS OUR CORPORATE MEDIA!
Iraq & Washington's Systemic Failure
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 4:21 P GMT-05
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney may deserve the most blame for the Iraq War, but a core reality shouldn’t be missed: the four-year-old conflict resulted from a systemic failure in Washington – from the White House, to congressional Republicans and Democrats, to an insular national news media, to Inside-the-Beltway think tanks.
Street-Level Explosion Before Collapse of WTC 1
Wednesday, 21 March 2007 12:38 P GMT-05
I don't know what happened at WTC7, but everything I witnessed suggests strongly that the official line is dead wrong. No plane slammed into the skyscraper, and when it fell, it fell exactly as it would have if it had been demolished by contractors. The debris fell in a straight cone, directly onto the foundation of the building. Media silence about the collapse has been frightening in its totality; WTC7 is almost never discussed, and on the few occasions when it is, the FEMA line has been repeated more or less unquestioned. More bothersome to me is that the strange explosion I saw coming from Building Seven between the Tower collapses has never, to my knowledge, even been acknowledged by the city or the government.
Everything You Need To Know About Fox "News" in a Single Image
Tuesday, 20 March 2007 9:27 P GMT-05
There you go, Fox "News" lovers: pro-rich people, pro-has-been comedian, anti-minority, and very pro-sex story exploitation. Like there's no wars, no ongoing White House chicanery on intelligence and U.S. attorneys, no...fuck, no nothing but fluff, nonsense, and money.
Rosie O'Donnell Joins 9/11 Conspiracy Crowd
Tuesday, 20 March 2007 5:15 P GMT-05
Gibson added, "This is what happens when you hate the president and the administration so much that even the world's most evil people look to you like little angels next to George W. Bush."
Another damning admission from the New York Times: whitewashing Iraq war
Monday, 19 March 2007 10:56 P GMT-05
In perhaps the most damning admission made by the newspaper, it fell to the Times public editor last August to admit that the editors had suppressed a story about the Bush administration’s illegal NSA electronic spying program for more than a year, publishing it only in December 2005, and had then lied about it, failing to reveal that it had quashed these revelations on the eve of the November 2004 election.
O'Donnell Comments Garner No Media Coverage
Monday, 19 March 2007 6:42 P GMT-05
Clearly the establishment media knows about this story and has chosen the blackout option, rather than the discrediting method of debunking.
My Letter in New Times....Something Missing?
Monday, 19 March 2007 5:16 P GMT-05
Straight Up: Editor-in-Chief Rick Barrs is guilty of journalistic fraud. After voluminous amounts of letters, legal notices, conferences with lawyers, and emails, Barrs told me he’d print a letter if I got it down to 500 words. He didn’t say he’d hack those 500 words to remove key details that make the letter significantly less comprehensible.
WTC7 The Smoking Gun of 9/11
Sunday, 18 March 2007 6:19 P GMT-05
This video is now on Google Video. It is only 16 minutes long yet contains the BBC-Jump the Gun reports of Bldg 7 collapse, Craig Bartmer-First Responder-Interview, "Lucky Larry" Silverstein "pull it" admission, Danny Jowenko Demolition Expert Interview. It also has numerous clips of the IMPLOSION. This short video is perfect for waking the masses. Let's move it to the TOP 100.
Keeping Our Demons at Bay
Sunday, 18 March 2007 3:17 A GMT-05
Last year, I began to research and write on the case of Pat Tillman. One of the central characters in the Tillman story was Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, who was the regimental executive officer for 75th Ranger Regiment in Afghanistan in 2004 when Tillman was killed by friendly fire. He was also a key figure in the Pentagon’s attempts to first cover up and then spin the fratricide. Kauzlarich was the officer assigned to conduct a second investigation of the circumstances of Tillman’s death. The first investigation—conducted by Capt. Richard Scott—had found criminal negligence and professional incompetence, so a higher-ranking officer was required by law to follow up in the event that a general court-martial would become necessary. Not surprisingly, no one was charged with either crime, though some minor administrative actions were taken, including reassignments out of the Rangers and “letters of reprimand” for two officers. But that is not what this commentary is about. This is about Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich, a Washington Post writer and the power of cultural myths.
The truth should be proclaimed loudly
Sunday, 18 March 2007 2:36 A GMT-05
Here is a publisher in a country negotiating for EU membership for whom Armenian history, the Kurds, Cyprus (unmentioned in my book) - even Turkey's bid to join the EU, for heaven's sake - is reason enough to try to sneak my book out in silence. When in the history of bookselling, I ask myself, has any publisher tried to avoid publicity for his book? Well, I can give you an example. When Taner Akcam's magnificent A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility was first published in Turkish - it uses Ottoman Turkish state documents and contemporary Turkish statements to prove that the genocide was a terrifying historical fact - the Turkish historian experienced an almost identical reaction. His work was published "quietly" in Turkey - and without a single book review.
Rosie O'Donnell Is Not A Terrorist Sympathizer
Saturday, 17 March 2007 11:47 P GMT-05
There's nothing wrong with questioning a trial where the press is not allowed, even though "hundreds of earlier ones were open to coverage." There's nothing wrong with questioning a trial where the "only account of the outcome will come from the US military." There's nothing wrong with questioning Khalid's confession which if obtained through torture, "legal experts say that could taint all his statements."
Mark Crispin Miller: Some Might Call It Treason: An Open Letter to Salon
Saturday, 17 March 2007 8:39 P GMT-05
What explains this eagerness to kill all conversation on an issue of such grave importance? This is not a question just about Farhad Manjoo and/or Salon, because your way of dealing, or not dealing, with this all-important matter has been typical of the entire US political establishment throughout Bush/Cheney's reign. This general silence has prevented us from facing an enormous threat to our democracy, which is now at unprecedented risk. We might start to illuminate this problem by doing now exactly what you claim you want to do: "place this debate in its proper political context."
Are we experiencing the last days of Constitutional rule?
Saturday, 17 March 2007 5:29 P GMT-05
What explains Bush-Cheney invulnerability to accountability? Perhaps the answer is that Bush has desensitized us. Like kids desensitized to violence by violent video games and movies and pornography addicts desensitized to sex, we have become desensitized by the avalanche of Bush-Cheney crimes, lies, and disdain for Congress, courts, and public opinion. Our elected representatives, if not the American people, now regard as normal such heinous actions as war crimes, the rape of the Constitution, self-serving use of government office, and the constant stream of lies and propaganda from the highest offices of the executive branch.
Missoula Independent covers Kevin Barrett in Montana - 3/18 & 3/19
Saturday, 17 March 2007 4:46 P GMT-05
Kevin Barrett’s message to Missoula peacemakers is simple: “…the only way that war can get launched is through deception.” Barrett is the co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, a group of scholars, religious leaders and activists dedicated to uniting members of the various faiths in pursuit of “the truth” behind what happened September 11, 2001. Barrett’s also the University of Wisconsin associate professor of Islamic studies who came under fire last year for his controversial views on 9/11 and his incorporation of conspiracy theories into an introductory course on Islam.
Media Blacklists BBC Fiasco; Google, Digg Censor 9/11 Truth
Saturday, 17 March 2007 6:43 A GMT-05
48 hours after the BBC issued its pathetic rebuttal to startling footage that shows their correspondent Jane Standley live on 9/11 reporting the collapse of Building 7 as it mockingly stands behind her, and the inconceivable excuse that the BBC has lost its 9/11 tapes, no establishment media has picked up on the story, not even to dismiss it as a "conspiracy theory."
O'Donell Out Of The Closet... As A 9/11 Truther
Saturday, 17 March 2007 12:59 A GMT-05
It has been evident for a number of weeks now that talk show host Rosie O'Donnell has been trying to cover 9/11 truth in the best way she can without being yanked off the air - now her latest blog posting confirms this. In her latest blog, dated March 15th, O'Donnell dispenses with the small talk and gets to the nub of the matter by stating some of the facts surrounding the demolition of building 7 on 9/11.
LA 9/11 Truth Protest on KTLA News
Friday, 16 March 2007 11:05 P GMT-05
Before Jon Stewart
Friday, 16 March 2007 7:33 P GMT-05
Fake news has had its lush innings. The Bush administration has worked hand-in-glove with big business to make sure of it. Together, they’ve credentialed fringe scientists and fake experts and sent them in to muddy scientific debates on global warming, stem cell research, evolution, and other matters. And as if that weren’t enough, the Department of Health and Human Services got caught producing a series of deceptive video news releases— VNRs in p.r.-industry parlance—touting the administration’s Medicare plan. The segments, paid political announcements really, ended with a fake journalist signing off like a real one—“In Washington, I’m Karen Ryan reporting,” and they ran on local news shows all over the country without disclosure. All of this fakery taken together, it may be fair to say that the nation’s capital has been giving Comedy Central a run for its money as the real home of fake news.
9/11: Looking for Truth in Credentials: The Peculiar WTC “Experts”
Friday, 16 March 2007 5:03 P GMT-05
Those of us fighting for the truth about 9/11 owe it to the victims of the expanding 9/11 Wars, and to ourselves, to reveal these ongoing lies from corporate criminals and their credentialed “experts”. It is becoming increasingly obvious that those giving us one false story after another, while simultaneously ignoring much of the evidence of 9/11, might have more than just a cozy relationship with this government, and more than a benign past. It seems quite possible that some among those providing these explanations are knowingly complicit in the greater crime of a 9/11 cover-up.
Matt Lauer: Can KSM's "Tortured" Testimony be Trusted?
Friday, 16 March 2007 3:49 P GMT-05
As far as I know, this is the first MSM news source to question the confession. Let's see if any other MSM commentators pick up on this. Of course, KSM may be dead. And he might have been a patsy and an asset. Or he might never have confessed, since we have only the Pentagon's word for it, and KSM's statements supposedly came through a military spokesman. But Lauer's questions about torture will hopefully be the first crack in this Pentagon psyops campaign.
The Government Who Cried Wolf
Friday, 16 March 2007 3:02 P GMT-05
Then, our lying got out of control. It was almost as if we started to glorify lying. Joe Millionaire was a likeable guy despite his steady stream of lies to potential new wives. The biggest and most skilled liar won a million dollars on ‘Survivor’ or earned a position working for Donald Trump. A greedy woman lied about being raped in order to sue a basketball star and escaped punishment when she was found out. Our very own president of the United States chose to perjure himself in a court of law rather than simply say, “Fuck off, it’s none of your damn business.” So how does one explain to a child that lying is wrong when it’s so obviously in vogue?
9/11 Skeptics Want Those Who Disagree At Saturday Event
Friday, 16 March 2007 2:37 P GMT-05
Andy Schmidt wants you to attend Saturday's conference -- especially if you don't agree with him that what he calls the "official story" of 9/11 is false. Three presenters -- all part of the "9/11 truth movement" that questions the conventional explanation of the 9/11 attacks -- will speak at the event, which Schmidt sees as a learning experience. "I would strongly encourage people who doubt the 9/11 truth movement to come to the conference," he wrote in an e-mail, "because they will learn the most (if they remain civil, that is!) We don't want to just be preaching to the choir. It's an educational event that will be of most benefit to folks who are still 'on the fence' about 9/11 truth."
Norway's Le Monde Diplo publishes Griffin's Rebuttal to Cockburn
Thursday, 15 March 2007 4:51 P GMT-05
He calls us “conspiracists,” ignoring the fact that in defending the government’s account, he is defending the original 9/11 conspiracy theory. In claiming that the Bush administration and the military are too incompetent to have organized the 9/11 attacks, he gives an argument that could equally well be used to prove that they could not have organized the military assaults on Afghanistan and Iraq. In claiming that bin Laden took credit for the attacks, Cockburn appears not to be aware that in the video on which this claim is primarily based, the man playing Osama bin Laden is heavier and darker than the bin Laden of all undoubtedly authentic videos, or that the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorist” page on bin Laden does not mention 9/11---because, an FBI spokesman explained, “the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” Although Cockburn says that members of our movement are “immune to reality check,” he endorses the official theory of the collapses of the Twin Towers, which can be held only by ignoring an enormous number of facts.
Questions And Answers With 9/11 Family Member: Bob McIlvaine
Thursday, 15 March 2007 3:49 P GMT-05
Very often, members of the 9/11 Truth Movement hear, "You're being disrespectful to, or dishonoring the family members". In your eyes, how true is that statement? -- Asking questions does not dishonor or disrespect 9/11 family members. Asking questions does make family members irritable and anxious, primarily because they have ignored available 9/11 info. The truth must be heard, regardless who it hurts.
9-11 -- The Truth Matters
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 9:20 P GMT-05
BOMBSHELL: 9/11 COVER-UP UNRAVELING CNN, BBC 24 Reports Conclusively Prove Media Prior Knowledge and False-Start Scripting of Building 7 Controlled Demolition
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 6:59 P GMT-05
CNN, BBC 24 Reports Conclusively Prove Media Prior Knowledge and False-Start Scripting of Building 7 Controlled Demolition
NAFTA Truck "Safety"
Wednesday, 14 March 2007 2:21 A GMT-05
Meanwhile, as the major media continue to avoid reporting anything substantive regarding this issue, The Trucker, an online news site, gave a report in which Todd Spencer, executive vice president of OOIDA, is quoted as saying that "the pilot plan is ignoring homeland security concerns." Testifying before the Senate, he stated: "It is simply abhorrent to think that our government would allow Mexican trucks full access to U.S. highways before all safety, economic and homeland security concerns are completely and appropriately addressed."
Newly Unearthed Footage Exposes 9/11 Media Scripting
Tuesday, 13 March 2007 10:24 P GMT-05
Based on the testimony of the experts who designed and built the twin towers, how on earth could officials and the media be so sure that the towers were going to collapse unless they were being fed a script by individuals who knew they were about to be imploded and were carefully preparing the cover story?
February 2007 - 9/11 Truth and Rumors of War
Monday, 12 March 2007 5:56 P GMT-05
February was an action packed month. Significantly, and ominously, Trilateral Commission and Council on Foreign Relations heavy Zbigniew Brzezinski set the tone with his warning to the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations.
The 20 journalists who have lost their lives in Putin's Russia
Sunday, 11 March 2007 6:30 P GMT-05
Far from being an individual tragedy, the death of Ivan Safronov will be seen by many as part of a grim trend. The Kommersant reporter is at least the 20th Russian journalist to die in suspicious circumstances since 2000, when Vladimir Putin assumed the Russian presidency. Shot, stabbed or poisoned, the journalists have two things in common: no one has been convicted, or in most cases even arrested, after their deaths. And all of them had angered powerful vested interests which appear to suffer little restraint in dealing with their enemies.
Defenestration Row: Convenient Suicides and State Power
Thursday, 8 March 2007 6:31 P GMT-05
This week saw the mysterious death of yet another journalist in Moscow. This time it was Kommersant columnist Ivan Safronov, a former colonel who wrote about Russia's ever-murky military affairs, as the Moscow Times reports. Safronov, who occasionally ran afoul of the "security organs" when digging up dirt on Russia's military-industrial complex (much akin to its American counterpart centered in the north Virginia badlands formerly known as Hell's Bottom but now called the Pentagon), apparently committed suicide by jumping out of a fifth-floor window, head first, with his hat and coat on. And if you believe that "official" explanation, we have some beachfront property in Nizhny Novgorod we'd like to sell you.
Guantanamo authorities punish Al-Jazeera cameraman for going on hunger strike
Thursday, 8 March 2007 6:12 P GMT-05
“Al-Haj has been held by the Americans for five years without being charged, in disgraceful conditions and in violation of all international conventions on the treatment of prisoners,” Reporters Without Borders said. “Legitimately but in vain, he tried to assert his rights to the military authorities. While we could not encourage him to pursue a hunger strike, we strongly condemn the fact that he was fed by force.” Reiterating its call for Al-Haj’s release, Reporters Without Borders added: “We hope that the US supreme court, which is again looking at the issue of the Guantanamo detainees, will once more rule that they should be accorded constitutional guarantees.”
Mineta's Testimony CONFIRMED
Monday, 5 March 2007 7:20 P GMT-05
Defenders of the official myth say that the White House was not being evacuated at the time Mineta said, and that this proves Mineta got his story wrong, and that in fact Cheney wasn't in the PEOC until later -- after the Pentagon was hit. CNN Backs Mineta
Bill Maher: Better If Cheney Is Dead
Monday, 5 March 2007 7:09 P GMT-05
Bill Maher has stirred outrage once again, this time saying it would be better if Vice President Dick Cheney was dead.
BBC's 9/11 Yellow Journalism Backfires
Monday, 5 March 2007 7:07 P GMT-05
Right from the word go the BBC have attempted to cloud this issue by erecting and attacking another strawman framed debate, the accusation they were somehow part of a grand conspiracy on 9/11, in order to try and detract credibility from the questions being asked of them. In reality, this story boils down to two facets and the BBC has not provided an adequate answer to either of them;
Clairvoyant Collapse
Monday, 5 March 2007 7:04 P GMT-05
The file obtained from archive.org shows that the BBC's uncannily clairvoyant news coverage of the event began at 4:57 pm EDT, 23 minutes before the building actually collapsed. [3:19 on the archive.org video] Speaking from London, BBC World News anchorman Philip Hayton says, "We've got some news coming in – the Salomon Brothers Building in New York, right in that part of Manhattan, also has collapsed. This does fit in with a warning from the British Foreign Office a couple of hours ago to British citizens that… there was 'a strong risk of further atrocities in the United States. And it does seem as if there now is another one with the Salomon Brothers Building collapsing. We've got no word yet on casualties, one assumes that the building would have been virtually deserted." Hayton then reports that the US president is on a flight back to Washington from Nebraska, confirming that the broadcast time is just before 5pm EDT.
9/11 Truth Has Already Won the Debate
Monday, 5 March 2007 5:32 P GMT-05
Well then, the grossly "criminally negligent" Bush regime should certainly have been in no position to influence the outcome of the investigation into September 11th 2001. Is that an unreasonable statement? Is it common to allow the suspect to initiate his own investigation? (outside of Washington D.C?) President William Jefferson Clinton was impeached for Obstruction of Justice, raising that particular offense to the level of an impeachable high crime. Has the Bush regime obstructed justice in regard to September 11th 2001?
Open Letter to BBC
Sunday, 4 March 2007 9:08 A GMT-05
In light of the recent controversy regarding the BBC World report referenced above, which inaccurately reported that WTC 7 had collapsed more than 20 minutes before it did, and the unfortunately inadequate response (see www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/02/part_of_the_conspiracy.html) you have offered thus far to the controversy, we at 911truth.org must ask that you answer the following pertinent questions:
Internet Archive Authenticates BBC Video
Saturday, 3 March 2007 7:46 P GMT-05
There is some discussion as to whether or not that time stamp was later edited in by someone tampering with the clip. It is unclear whether that happened or not but the reporting and the time of the reporting as shown does seem to coincide with the other BBC World report.
New WTC 7 Blockbuster One Of The Biggest Stories Of All Time
Friday, 2 March 2007 4:30 P GMT-05
If there is anything to learn from this story, it is for you, yes you personally, to realize you too can have an massive effect on the world. You do not need to be some Prince Blowhard to effect change, you can effect change as you are by just going out on a limb and going for it. As Wilhelm Reich says, "Only you yourself can be your liberator!"
Part of the conspiracy?
Thursday, 1 March 2007 2:30 P GMT-05
We're not part of a conspiracy. Nobody told us what to say or do on September 11th. We didn't get told in advance that buildings were going to fall down. We didn't receive press releases or scripts in advance of events happening.
Wonkette: BBC, CNN Employ Magical Psychic News Announcers
Thursday, 1 March 2007 2:08 P GMT-05
The Internets are buzzing with the bizarre story of BBC News reporting the 9/11 collapse of WTC7 before the building actually collapsed - all over a live shot of Ground Zero, with the 47-story highrise clearly in view and clearly standing. What it "proves" is anyone’s guess, but it sure makes for hilarious viewing. But BBC reporters and anchors who maybe didn’t know the Manhattan skyline so well could possibly be forgiven for reporting an erroneous story and not knowing that great big highrise was World Trade Center 7 (otherwise known as the Salomon Brothers building). So why doesn’t the BBC simply say it got a story wrong and didn’t know any better? Stranger still, why did New York-based CNN anchor Aaron Brown do the same exact thing on September 11, 2001? We’ve got all the creepy video and much more to make your head asplode, after the jump.
Establishment Media Blacklists Nichols' OKC Revelations
Monday, 26 February 2007 5:48 P GMT-05
If Osama bin Laden or one of the other alleged masterminds behind 9/11 publicly accused Dick Cheney as having helped facilitate 9/11, would the media be interested? Why is press coverage so sparse when this testimony fundamentally contradicts the official version of a major chapter in American history? The question answers itself - the establishment is complicit in burying these revelations while Americans are bombarded with 24/7 drivel about Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears shaving her head.
William Rodriguez on BBC "North"
Thursday, 22 February 2007 4:36 P GMT-05
From one of the BBC franchises, not sure of broadcast date, assuming Feb. 2007 as Rodriguez just wrapped up his tour of Great Britain. Rodriguez relates his experience with the sub-basement explosion for the BBC North viewing audience.
Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires
Wednesday, 21 February 2007 9:07 P GMT-05
On the same day that Britney was shaving her head, a guy I know who works in the office of Senator Bernie Sanders sent me an email. He was trying very hard to get news organizations interested in some research his office had done about George Bush's proposed 2008 budget, which was unveiled two weeks ago and received relatively little press, mainly because of the controversy over the Iraq war resolution. All the same, the Bush budget is an amazing document. It would be hard to imagine a document that more clearly articulates the priorities of our current political elite.
Producer Struggles to Defend Flaws & Bias of BBC Hit Piece
Tuesday, 20 February 2007 6:50 P GMT-05
The producer had the gall to claim he had looked at the evidence in an "objective and dispassionate" way when the documentary was laden from beginning to middle to end with emotional manipulation about how asking questions about 9/11 was insulting and hurtful to the victims, a ludicrous and cynical attempt to discredit the 9/11 truth movement. In reality, Bill Doyle, who lost his son in the attack, and represents the largest group of 9/11 victim's family members, says that over half of his members are asking the same questions, not to mention the Jersey Girls and numerous polls of New Yorkers that consistently show the majority believe there is a government cover-up surrounding 9/11.
Is it "Meddling" to Open a Bank in Baghdad? Is it "Meddling" to Occupy Iraq?
Friday, 16 February 2007 5:51 P GMT-05
Today's media weasel word is "meddling." As in, the Bush Administration has accused Iran of "meddling" in Iraq. This weasel word is extremely dangerous, because it's being used to conflate two very different accusations: Accusation One: the government of Iran is supplying weapons to Shiite militias for use in attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. Accusation Two: the government of Iran is attempting to influence the government of Iraq by engaging in legal, peaceful activities that governments around the world routinely practice in attempting to influence countries in which they perceive that they have an interest: advice, economic assistance, military aid, strengthening of commercial relations, and so on.
BBC Pressured to Air 9/11 Hit Piece?
Friday, 16 February 2007 4:34 P GMT-05
The BBC has produced two versions of its documentary on 9/11, one being a balanced example of investigative journalism and the other a sophisticated hit piece. According to a leading UK 9/11 truth activist, recently appointed US chief Garth Ancier is pressuring the corporation to air the version that portrays the 9/11 truth movement as a fringe cult of mythology in a bid to protect BBC's American market.
Is the Military Our Last Hope?
Thursday, 15 February 2007 3:33 P GMT-05
With the "mainstream media," that is, the government’s propaganda ministry, bombarding the American public with "news reports" from unidentified sources that the US government has proof that "the highest reaches of the Iranian government" is supplying weapons to the Iraqi insurgency, Marine General Peter Pace, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, demurred. General Pace told the Voice of America on February 12 that he has no information indicating that Iran’s government is supplying weapons to the Iraqi insurgency. General Pace said that "Iranians are involved," but "what I would not say is that the Iranian government, per se, knows about this . . . I would not say by what I know that the Iranian government clearly knows or is complicit." Unlike the New York Times, Fox "news," CNN, and the TV networks, General Pace refused to lie for the Bush Regime.
US military tells Jack Bauer: Cut out the torture scenes ... or else!
Thursday, 15 February 2007 4:29 A GMT-05
The United States Military Academy at West Point yesterday confirmed that Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan recently travelled to California to meet producers of the show, broadcast on the Fox channel. He told them that promoting illegal behaviour in the series - apparently hugely popular among the US military - was having a damaging effect on young troops. According to the New Yorker magazine, Gen Finnegan, who teaches a course on the laws of war, said of the producers: "I'd like them to stop. They should do a show where torture backfires... The kids see it and say, 'If torture is wrong, what about 24'?
Tim Sparke Responds To George Monbiot
Tuesday, 13 February 2007 7:20 P GMT-05
In uncritically endorsing the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report, Monbiot neglects to say that the collapse mechanism for the entire World Trade Centre building was never documented by NIST - it didn't see it as its job. Additionally, in accepting that the towers collapsed at virtually free-fall speed ("the weight of the collapsing top storeys generated a momentum the rest of the building could not arrest"), Monbiot shows no awareness that this explanation violates the law of conservation of momentum.
Monbiot also appears oblivious to NIST's failure to explain that, although fire could not have melted any steel, there were pools of molten metal under the rubble, and these pools remained molten for weeks after the collapse; that dozens of people, including firefighters, news reporters and fleeing victims, all reported massive explosions; the clear video evidence of explosions taking place; that virtually all the concrete was pulverised into tiny particles; the apparent disintegration of the central steel core; and the destruction of all the evidence from America's biggest crime scene, which was covertly transported to Asian and African shores before any forensic examination could take place.
9/11 Voices
Tuesday, 13 February 2007 5:10 P GMT-05
The 9/11 Voices project is a presentation of 9/11 skepticism through the image and words of 9/11 victims, family members, first responders, activists, politicians and scholars who have publicly questioned the official story of 9/11. The project draws together compelling statements about 9/11 from some of the most ardent defenders of civil rights, social justice, and government transparency, highlighting the ever increasing visibility of 9/11 truth, and the breadth of its public support.
9/11: The Conspiracy Files 2/18/07 9pm on the BBC
Monday, 12 February 2007 7:50 P GMT-05
We all know what happened on 9/11, the day the world changed. Or do we? Sunday 18 February, 9pm The Conspiracy Files investigates the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the 9/11 attacks.
'Wash Post' Joins 'NYT' in Trumpeting 'Anonymous' Claims on Iranian Weapons in Iraq
Monday, 12 February 2007 6:30 P GMT-05
The officials all spoke "on condition of anonymity."
Imagining a World without Newspapers
Saturday, 10 February 2007 5:59 P GMT-05
If Sulzberger had only followed the usual script, he would've assured the reporter that the print edition of the Times would not only be around in five years, the company will have figured out a way to make a profit from online advertising, too. But he ended up saying, "I really don't know whether we'll be printing the Times in five years. And you know what? I don't care, either."
LAPD Brightens My Day with Big Fat Lie
Friday, 9 February 2007 3:14 P GMT-05
A press officer whose name I didn't catch (because she hung up on me when I stood up for TNS) called to complain about our "coverage" of an incident in which LAPD personnel allegedly beat a handcuffed man to death in front of multiple witnesses. Gabriel Voilles put together a bulletin on the matter for our In Other News... section this morning. This officer was very upset by it, immediately accusing TNS of printing lies. I informed her that we were, quite transparently, merely relaying what her hometown newspaper the LA Times had reported, and that we -- as a matter of journalistic policy -- made no claims as to the true narrative of the incident, since no reporter was on the scene. She then claimed that the Times story on which our bulletin was based did not say or suggest the cops had beaten a man to death while he was cuffed, as our bulletin says, and repeated her insistence that we had published "lies."
Why is the US press silent on Brzezinski’s warnings of war against Iran?
Wednesday, 7 February 2007 6:43 P GMT-05
Most significant and disturbing was Brzezinski’s suggestion that the Bush administration might manufacture a pretext to justify a military attack on Iran. Presenting what he called a “plausible scenario for a military collision with Iraq,” Brzezinski laid out the following series of events: “Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in, quote/unquote, ‘defensive’ US military action against Iran...”
The Guardian Publishes Opinion Piece Attacking 9/11 Skeptics Via Loose Change 'Disease'
Wednesday, 7 February 2007 2:59 P GMT-05
The disease is called Loose Change. It is a film made by three young men that airs most of the standard conspiracy theories about the attacks of September 11 2001. Unlike the other 9/11 conspiracy films, Loose Change is sharp and swift, with a thumping soundtrack, slick graphics and a calm and authoritative voiceover. Its makers claim that it has now been watched by 100 million people.
Jailed blogger hits record as supporters rally
Wednesday, 7 February 2007 1:32 P GMT-05
On August 1, Wolf, 24, was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to cooperate with a federal grand jury seeking unpublished footage he shot during a 2005 protest that turned violent. Wolf was released on bail a month later while his appeal was being considered. But a three-judge panel rejected the appeal and revoked bail.
In Brief: Why Michelle Malkin Ought To Be Caged Like a Rabid Shih-Tzu (Pandagon Edition)
Wednesday, 7 February 2007 12:20 P GMT-05
The question isn't how much profanity Amanda Marcotte has used (and you might want to read one or two of her many, many "fuck" free posts). It's why, when dealing with the rank idiocy of the self-fellating chode drinkers and crazed harridans on the right, she didn't use more.
So wrong that it re-defines "wrongness"
Tuesday, 6 February 2007 6:11 A GMT-05
Just go read what Reynolds wrote in that April, 2003 post (first pointed out by Tom Tomorrow) and then contemplate the level of irrationality and reality-denial necessary to defend those statements as accurate, to claim they "hold up pretty well." Many Iraq war advocates were honest enough to admit that they were wrong, that Iraq was and is falling apart, but the most dishonest of them -- the Steyns, Krauthammers and Reynolds -- prefer to embrace transparent falsehoods than change their thinking about anything or admit that they were wrong about anything. Preventing individuals of this type from leading this country into more disasters is genuinely urgent.
Terra Propaganda in London
Monday, 5 February 2007 6:56 P GMT-05
If there is such a plot and the UK authorities really were so concerned, why the hell would they supply this level of detail and possibly risk exposing a mole? Either the British authorities are in need of counter-terrorism schooling or this piece, once again, is total propaganda. I choose the latter for obvious reasons.
By What Definition is Gavin Newsom's Sex Life 'Breaking News'?
Friday, 2 February 2007 6:57 P GMT-05
Our political and media culture clearly regards sex and scandal the same way Vince Lombardi felt about winning: it isn't everything -- it's the only thing. This media fixation on personal peccadilloes is a perfect example of what G.K. Chesterton warned about: "If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals."
9/11 DETAILS THE AMERICAN MEDIA HOPES YOU FORGET
Friday, 2 February 2007 6:24 P GMT-05
Molly Ivins, 1944-2007
Thursday, 1 February 2007 4:37 P GMT-05
She worked as a reporter for The New York Times (1976-82) in New York and Albany and later as Rocky Mountain Bureau Chief covering nine mountain states by herself. After working for the staid Times where she was heavily edited, Molly cut loose and became a columnist for the Dallas Times Herald. When the Herald folded, she signed on as a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In 2001, she became syndicated, eventually appearing in 400 newspapers.
Probe into Boston ad stunt chaos
Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:00 A GMT-05
Police in the US city of Boston are investigating a major American media corporation for causing a security alert that closed bridges and roads. Turner Broadcasting System placed electronic devices with blinking lights around the city as part of a campaign to market a late-night TV cartoon.
9/11 Covered in Ann Arbor News
Tuesday, 30 January 2007 5:10 P GMT-05
Their theory is that explosives planted throughout the World Trade Center - not the burning fuel from the jetliners that crashed into the buildings - brought the Twin Towers down on Sept. 11, 2001. That proposition was intriguing enough that about 300 people showed up Sunday, some out of simple curiosity, at the Michigan Union in Ann Arbor to hear three speakers explain why they believe the U.S. government - not fanatical Muslim terrorists - was behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Open Letter to Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of dailykos.com
Monday, 29 January 2007 7:04 A GMT-05
I don't normally do this, and initially, I had planned on writing you a long and nasty email because of your policy of censorship at your website. It angers me that people like you, not unlike the mainstream media in America, decide what people read and what they don't. You will talk and write about how the media in America is controlled by unseen hands, or biased toward the right, yet you practice the same brand of defacto censorship, most notably surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001.
Crossing the 9/11 Rubicon with Hustler Magazine
Sunday, 28 January 2007 8:10 P GMT-05
Hustler's effort comes almost exactly one year after Maxim's considerably longer and more indepth feature of March 2006, which asks "What Really Brought Down the Towers?" What's going on here? Why has the most important media exposure for the 9/11 Truth Movement come from vehicles for male masturbatory fantasies, locker and bathroom humor, and Charlie Sheen?
Fake Terror: Jose Padilla, not so dirty after all - Updated
Sunday, 28 January 2007 8:03 P GMT-05
The question is: a conspiracy to do what? Who is the conspiracy theorist here? The government that jails people for the crime of intending to do something there's no evidence they intended to do? Or those who point out that maybe there's another reason for the arrest, solitary confinement, sensory deprivation, and abuse of Jose Padilla as an 'enemy combatant' who happens to not have engaged in any combat?
World's oldest newspaper ends print version for Internet format
Saturday, 27 January 2007 11:55 P GMT-05
The world's oldest newspaper, Sweden's Post och Inrikes Tidningar, has embraced the digital age, ending its run as a print publication and opting to be published exclusively on the Internet. Founded in 1645 by Queen Christina, the Post och Inrikes Tidningar (PoIT) -- or Post and Domestic Newspapers -- was a staple for readers in Sweden throughout the late 17th and 18th century.
Wes Clark Just Got Caught up in the Rigged Rules for Discussing Israel-Related Issues in America
Saturday, 27 January 2007 3:40 P GMT-05
And, indeed, it is interesting, for demonstrating the bizarre rules of the road in discussing America's Israel policy. If you're offering commentary that's supportive of America's soi-disant "pro-Israel" forces, as Barone was, it's considered perfectly acceptable to note, albeit elliptically, that said forces are influential in the Democratic Party in part because they contribute large sums of money to Democratic politicians who are willing to toe the line. If, by contrast, one observes this fact by way of criticizing the influence of "pro-Israel" forces, you're denounced as an anti-Semite.
Molly Ivins Hospitalized in Ongoing Battle With Cancer
Saturday, 27 January 2007 12:29 A GMT-05
Almost three weeks ago, Molly Ivins wrote that she would dedicate every single one of her syndicated columns from now on to the issue of stopping the war in Iraq -- until it ended. But she has managed to finish only one more column since. The gravely ill Texas columnist has been hospitalized again this week in her ongoing battle with breast cancer.
Tarpley - Peace Movement Must Embrace 9/11 Truth
Friday, 26 January 2007 2:36 P GMT-05
The only way to attrit and erode Bush’s hard-core base of support is to bring home the leading facts of 9/11 truth: the 9/11 attacks did not emerge from the world of Bin Laden, Atta, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the laptop, and the cave in Pushtunistan; they were a deliberate war provocation and coup d’etat launched by the invisible government or rogue network which infests the highest levels of the Pentagon, CIA, NSA, DIA, and other military and security agencies, all for the purpose of starting the War of Civilizations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Syria and Iran. These are revelations of the greatest explosive power, capable of tearing apart Bush’s political base and opening the way for impeachment and removal from office. They are also capable of defeating the Hillary Clinton-Lieberman-Rahm Emmanuel-Lantos-Stenny Hoyer warmonger wing of the Democratic Party, removing the sabotage of impeachment from that quarter.
9/11 Activists Create Newspaper To Cover 9/11 Truth
Thursday, 25 January 2007 9:17 P GMT-05
Rock Creek Free Press will release its first issue to coincide with the Jan 27 Peace March on Washington. While the paper is not exclusively dedicated to 9/11 truth, it is one of the main topics we will cover. The first issue has no less than 5 articles on 9/11, including articles by Webster Tarpley and Wayne Madsen. In addition, Cynthia McKinney writes about the need for impeachment, while Louis Wolf writes about the looming conflict with Iran, and much more. Read it now at http://RockCreekFreePress.com.
The "Chilling Plot" To Scare New York Senseless
Thursday, 25 January 2007 6:46 P GMT-05
Elsewhere in the world, real news agencies reported that the so-called plot was "more aspirational than operational" and that the group was "years away from pulling it off".
The gov't did it, speakers to argue
Thursday, 25 January 2007 5:36 P GMT-05
A group of scholars who argue that the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by a controlled demolition - not by passenger jets piloted by terrorists - will speak in the Michigan Union Ballroom Sunday. Ann Arbor 9/11 Truth, a recently formed group of Ann Arbor residents who dispute the government's version of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, hope to persuade people that the government is lying.
Hey, Gang of 500 - Fox News is Not a Real News Outlet
Wednesday, 24 January 2007 11:14 P GMT-05
The message: Fox News is not a real news organization! It is not a source of journalism and it is not remotely credible, so stop treating it that way. Fox is the television equivalent of The National Enquirer and deserves zero respect as a news outlet.
UK's 2nd biggest evening paper has full page on '9/11 was an Inside Job'
Wednesday, 24 January 2007 5:40 P GMT-05
Now a member of the 9/11 Truth Movement – formed after the publication, in July 2004, of the official 9/11 Commission Report – Shayler and his partner and fellow former MI5 officer Annie Machon will be in Liverpool later this week, as support for the “inside job” theory gathers momentum. The newly-formed Merseyside Truth Movement is hosting “An Evening With Real Spies Unravelling The Lies” event (free admission) from 7.30pm on Thursday at The Casa in Hope Street.
Boston Globe to close foreign bureaus
Wednesday, 24 January 2007 12:22 A GMT-05
The Boston Globe is closing its foreign bureaus as part of the newspaper's efforts to trim costs, editor Martin Baron said today. The move follows the recent decision by the New York Times Co.'s New England Media Group, of which the Globe is the biggest holding, to offer buyouts to employees to cut some 125 jobs, including 19 in the newsroom and editorial pages. In a memo to staff, Baron said shutting the foreign bureaus avoids cutting about a "dozen or so" additional newsroom jobs.
Nine Theses on Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories
Tuesday, 23 January 2007 5:23 P GMT-05
We all have become witnesses and victims of the biggest brainwashing operation in history - Welcome to Brainwashington D.C. The complexity of 9-11 is huge and it’s important to keep track and not to get lost in the hall of mirrors. So „Keep it simple“ seems a good advice to me and I tried to follow it with my remarks here. There can be no doubt at all that the Bush-regime exploited 9-11 for their long planed wars and their chronies profits - and at the same time did everything to prevent any reasonable investigation.
CNN: Latino Gangs Killing Blacks In L.A.
Tuesday, 23 January 2007 5:17 P GMT-05
Last Night we received an even mixture of support and utter condemnation for simply reporting this issue, and writing a commentary denouncing it. Now CNN is reporting it. Once again we take the brunt of bringing you the facts first. See our article Racist Mexican Gangs "Ethnic Cleansing" Blacks In L.A.
Kevin Barrett on WNTA - AM talk radio at 2pm Central (Tuesday)
Tuesday, 23 January 2007 4:47 P GMT-05
This is a big mainstream talk radio station. (In Rockford, Illinois.) Host Bruce Butler also has a show in Eau Claire, WI. He's friendly to me and open to hearing 9/11 truth arguments but not fully convinced because despite all the evidence he "just can't believe insiders could be that evil." He interviewed me last week before my Altoona/Eau Claire appearance and helped draw the overflow crowd there. Feel free to listen at http://wnta.com and call in! I'll probably be on for at least an hour.
Racist Mexican Gangs "Ethnic Cleansing" Blacks In L.A.
Tuesday, 23 January 2007 1:26 A GMT-05
The author notes that since 1990 the African-American population of Los Angeles has halved, partly as a result of rampant illegal immigration and that there are noticeably fewer blacks walking the streets because many have been forced to relocate in fear of the racist gangs.
9/11 Chronicles: Broeckers Breaks Through Media 9/11 Blitz
Monday, 22 January 2007 6:47 P GMT-05
Journalists possess the same instincts as claims adjusters and Broeckers writes early in the book about the visceral gnawing that disturbed him about the official account being disseminated through the mainstream media about 9/11. What makes Broeckers' work so unique is that it is presented in diary form. He explains that his work initially appeared on the German website telepolis. The reader therefore observes the author's mind at work at various stages of analysis, from his initial gnawing of intellectual discomfort to the conclusions he draws at the end of the work as he stresses the necessity for ongoing investigation of an ongoing tragedy begging for some kind of ultimate resolution.
Bloggers don't pull punches
Monday, 22 January 2007 6:38 P GMT-05
The three blogs are among upward of 65 million worldwide tracked by Technorati Inc., an authority on this freewheeling and frenetic medium -- as well as the newer iterations (focusing on video, podcasting and photo-sharing) of what the California firm collectively calls "citizen media." "About 95 percent of blogs are really personal journals," says Derek Gordon, Technorati's vice president of marketing, adding that technical and gossip-oriented blogs are the most popular on the Web. "There is every kind of obscure blogging community."
Fox smears Sen. Obama, says he 'covered up' Muslim past
Monday, 22 January 2007 6:36 P GMT-05
Host Steve Doocy went on to highlight Obama's middle name, Hussein, and questioned whether Obama was indoctrinated in extremist Muslim doctrine.
Pa. man's letter brings Secret Service
Monday, 22 January 2007 6:29 P GMT-05
An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was threatening President Bush.
Kevin Barrett Interviews 9/11 Family Member Donna Marsh O'Connor - Audio Inside
Sunday, 21 January 2007 9:11 P GMT-05
On the Fifth Anniversary, at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., she demanded, along with fellow 9/11 Family Members Christina Kminek, and Michelle Little, "a new investigation into the events of September 11th, and this time, a truly bipartisan, global, with families invested from the beginning, middle, and throughout the end."
Minnesota Daily Launches Series of 9/11 Truth Columns
Friday, 19 January 2007 5:05 P GMT-05
Adri Mehra will be doing a series of five 9/11 truth related columns for the Minnesota Daily, America's largest-circulation college newspaper. (Contact your local college paper and urge them to pick it up and publish it!) The first one was published today... At 24 this guy is doing what the Woodwards and Hershes and Krugmans and all the other cowards masquerading as journalists apparently cannot bring themselves to do--confront the truth about the most important historical event of the century. If journalism has a future, this is it.
Iran's President Did Not Say "Israel must be wiped off the map"
Friday, 19 January 2007 3:51 A GMT-05
Before we get to the infamous remark, it's important to note that the "quote" in question was itself a quote— they are the words of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, the father of the Islamic Revolution. Although he quoted Khomeini to affirm his own position on Zionism, the actual words belong to Khomeini and not Ahmadinejad. Thus, Ahmadinejad has essentially been credited (or blamed) for a quote that is not only unoriginal, but represents a viewpoint already in place well before he ever took office.
Buchwald's Farewell Column, Written to Be Released at Death
Friday, 19 January 2007 2:48 A GMT-05
Art Buchwald wrote a final column that he asked not be distributed until after he died. The piece was penned on Feb. 8, 2006, after Buchwald decided to check into a hospice. He eventually left the hospice, of course, and resumed his syndicated column. Buchwald died last night at the age of 81. Here's the farewell column, courtesy of Tribune Media Services:
Is 24 Propaganda? Is The Pope Catholic?
Thursday, 18 January 2007 8:13 P GMT-05
Whether by accident or design, 24 is indoctrinating a generation of Americans into believing that the future of the country will be characterized by paranoia, fear and mass terror, and that the only way to combat such chaos is to give the government unlimited power to "protect" us. Only the government itself can benefit from such brainwashing and that's why the Bush administration and 24 are joined at the hip in a coordinated propaganda assault against the American people.
Guest Cites Fox's Fictional "24" as Evidence that Terrorists are "Out There"
Thursday, 18 January 2007 8:06 P GMT-05
At one point Cavuto turned to Dietl and said, "Bo, you have a problem with Northwest apologizing, right?" to which Dietl responded: No, I have a problem because things have changed, Hassan. We have to look at -- a bunch of Irish guys are not going to get on the plane now and blow themselves up or put themselves into buildings. The fact of the matter is, I mean, you don't watch '24?' On Fox TV? They're out there. They're out there. There are cells out there. We have to protect ourselves against them as Americans.
Colbert Nails Dinesh D’Souza
Thursday, 18 January 2007 7:56 P GMT-05
Colbert was in top form last night when conservative pundit Dinesh D'Souza came on the show to promote his new book, The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. In his latest screed, D'Souza, according to Publishers Weekly's review, "roots the blame for the 9/11 attacks in the left wing's 'aggressive global campaign to undermine the traditional patriarchal family'."
Claim: Bin Laden Told Hamza Al-Qaeda Not Behind 9/11
Thursday, 18 January 2007 7:09 P GMT-05
Bin Laden's apparent attempt to distance himself from involvement in 9/11 dovetails with statements made shortly after the event in which he told a Pakistani newspaper that he was not involved in the attacks.
Sam Harris: Believing in Almost Anything
Thursday, 18 January 2007 5:15 P GMT-05
Could the answer be in some significant yet remarkable way that Harris is “politically correct” and “ready-for-prime-time” simply because his "anti-religious" (especially anti-Muslim) views sufficiently comport with those of others supporting the "war on terror," including U.S. interventionism in the Mideast? We already know that the war is supported by an alliance of Wilsonian liberals, neoconservatives, Christian Zionists, Randians, and other militarists of all stripes. Why not someone who considers himself to be an atheist, Hindu, Buddhist, New Age "scientist" of the paranormal?
Journalist on Hot Seat in Court-Martial Case
Wednesday, 17 January 2007 11:49 P GMT-05
“If Olson and Kakesako respond to these subpoenas by testifying, they will essentially be participating in the prosecution of their source,” wrote Hannah Pakula and Larry Siems of the PEN American Center in a January 5 letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates. “Such a role compromises their objectivity and can have chilling effects on the press.”
Improbable Collapse will be showing on Public Access in Manhattan
Wednesday, 17 January 2007 7:26 P GMT-05
A 58 minute, edited version of Michael Berger's Improbable Collapse will be showing on Manhattan's Cable Public Access TV (Manhattan Neighborhood Network). Following are the times and dates, whicn can be confirmed 7 days before the date of airing on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network website. I found out my air times from the director of programming. Day: January 18th, 2007
Time: 5:00 PM EST Channel: Time Warner channel 56 / 17, RCN channel 84
Did The Government Force BBC To Drop Menezes, 7/7 Dramas?
Wednesday, 17 January 2007 7:01 A GMT-05
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes, the innocent man who was gunned down by British police in the wake of the London bombings, has today accused the BBC of aiding a cover up after plans to film a politically sensitive docu-drama about his murder were unceremoniously dropped. The filiming of a docu-drama about the 7/7 London bombers has also been suddenly abandoned.
What's wrong with this picture?
Wednesday, 17 January 2007 6:27 A GMT-05
Again, to the uninformed, websites reside somewhere in the clouds in "internetland" and thus quite elusive, and the corporate media always attempt to reinforce this illusion; have you ever noticed they hardly ever provide their readers with the URL (which is the address) of the website?
The Disrespect for Truth has Brought a New Dark Age
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 11:04 P GMT-05
America’s wars have created hysteria that endanger our freedom. Abraham Lincoln shut down the freedom of the press and arrested editors and state legislators. Woodrow Wilson arrested war critics. Franklin Roosevelt interred American citizens of Japanese descent. George W. Bush has destroyed most of the Bill of Rights. In 2006 Congress appropriated funds for building concentration camps in the US.
Fox Guest Says Iranians are "Looking Forward" to the U.S. Taking Military Action Against Their Country
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 4:13 P GMT-05
The supposed need to invade Iran is a theme that Cavuto is weaving through his show with more frequency of late but this is the first time one of his guests has insisted - as did some of those pushing for the Iraq invasion - that the citizens of Iran would welcome it. The wind blowing out of Fox News is becoming more and more ominous folks. Oh, and by the way Neil, what makes you any better than Ahmadinejad and Chavez? Seems to me you're spreading an awful lot of hate yourself.
PBS Interviews Patty Casazza on Implementing 9/11 Commission Recommendations
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 3:37 P GMT-05
This Week, Maria Hinojosa talks with "Jersey Girl" Patty Casazza about her reaction to Democrats' attempts to implement 9/11 Commission national security recommendations. The "Jersey Girls" are a group of women whose husbands died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Casazza is also a member of the steering committee keeping an eye on the 9/11 Commission's work. Casazza's husband John F. Casazza, a Cantor Fitzgerald employee, died at age 38. She has a teenage son.
Criminal Corporate Media
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 5:38 A GMT-05
A Direct and Personal Challenge to EVERYONE in the Corporate Media
From the Editor of TvNewsLIES.org - May, 2005
Where the Hell Is YOUR 9/11 Proof?
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 5:11 A GMT-05
This is a battle for truth. It’s not a debate over conflicting philosophies. It is a battle between those who are searching for facts and those who choose to deny that a search is necessary. How long do those in blinders have to be engulfed in flames before they believe an independent researcher who warns them of the increasing heat?
FOX Affiliate Shows Video Of Obama Rally During Sex-Offender Story...
Tuesday, 16 January 2007 2:10 A GMT-05
A news segment broadcast by Minneapolis-St. Paul's KMSP-TV, also known as "FOX9," shows footage of people marching with signs and placards supporting Barack Obama while the anchor reports a story about the sentencing of a sex offender. The station is owned and operated by Fox Televisions Stations Group.
Dr. King and the Media
Monday, 15 January 2007 9:39 P GMT-05
Things have only grown worse as media consolidation has led to a dumbing down of our mass communications. As civic and democratic values have been replaced by the commercial and entertainment impulses of bottom-line driven big media companies, coverage of social and economic justice movements has declined. And the relatively serious examinations of fundamental questions of war and peace that were seen during the Vietnam War have been replaced by the embedded – or, as Pultizer Prize winning author Studs Terkel refers to it: "in bed with the administration" -- coverage of the Iraq quagmire.
David Ray Griffin/Kevin Barrett on Dynamic Duo today (Monday)
Monday, 15 January 2007 6:32 P GMT-05
David Griffin will be my guest on gcnlive.com, (Network 2) 3-5 p.m. Central. We'll be discussing his forthcoming book Debunking the Debunkers, as well as his other 9/11 work, including the book he inspired that I helped edit, 9/11 and the American Empire v.2, which should be shipping next week... Please feel free to call in at (800) 259-5791.
Lieberman to Katrina victims: Drop Dead
Saturday, 13 January 2007 7:45 P GMT-05
I would love it if every single victim of Hurricane Katrina were to call up Lieberman’s office asking him, whose interests does he serve? I would also love it if journalists such as Anderson Cooper were to put him on the hot seat as he turns his backs on these people. I remember how Cooper was visibly shaken in covering that story as he saw the bodies float right by him. In fact, at one moment, he had to turn the cameras off to gain his composure. I seem to remember him going off on Senator Mary Landrieu as she congratulated many elected officials. One could feel Anderson Cooper’s wrath and I would love to see that wrath turned on Senator Lieberman.
9-11 Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth - Dec. 16, 2006 (photos)
Saturday, 13 January 2007 3:37 P GMT-05
Scientific American Lies for the Empire
Friday, 12 January 2007 4:23 P GMT-05
If buildings that are "95 percent" air -- virtually all modern office buildings -- can only collapse straight down, one has to wonder why demolition companies are paid millions of dollars to engineer straight-down collapses with hundreds of carefully placed and precision-timed explosives. Shermer fails to note that no structure before or after 9/11/01 has ever exhibited the phenomenon of top-down progressive total collapse, no matter what fraction of it was air. The non-repeatability of this phenomenon will trouble students of the scientific method, but not Shermer.
Father of captured soldier confronts terrorists who took his son
Thursday, 11 January 2007 8:37 P GMT-05
The father of a captured Israeli soldier confronted one of his son's captors in a dramatic joint radio appearance -- pleading with the Hamas-linked terrorists to release his boy and take him instead. The militant rejected the plea from Noam Shalit, saying during the Wednesday interview that the soldier will be freed only when Israel releases large numbers of Palestinian prisoners.
EX-CIA Ray McGovern "Cheney let the plane hit the Pentagon"
Thursday, 11 January 2007 7:52 P GMT-05
C-SPAN Camp Casey interview with Ex-CIA Ray McGovern.
How Israel Helps Saudi Arabia's Rulers Control their Working Class
Thursday, 11 January 2007 7:39 P GMT-05
Even though Saudi Arabia is, in reality, a close ally of the United States, it's ruling family still finds it necessary, purely for purposes of domestic social control, to adopt an anti-Israel and anti-U.S. stance for domestic consumption. This explains why the official Saudi press, like The Arab News, prints so many anti-Israel and anti-U.S. articles and opinions.
9/11 explosives, controlled demolition
Thursday, 11 January 2007 6:37 P GMT-05
Idiocy Is Gender Neutral
Thursday, 11 January 2007 6:03 P GMT-05
Most of all, I wonder if my experiences with men have been mainly positive because I don’t treat them with disgust, suspicion or disdain. True equality cannot exist when one party is constantly being portrayed at superior to the other party. Men will quit being the enemy when you start treating them like friends.
Fox News Anchor Calls Ted Kennedy A ‘Hostile Enemy Right Here On The Home Front’
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 11:51 P GMT-05
This morning on Fox News, anchor Gretchen Carlson called Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) a “hostile enemy” of the United States because he has demanded that Congress vote on whether to approve funding for escalation in Iraq.
Tennessee's "The Chatanoogan" Publishes long anti-New World Order OpEd
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 7:14 P GMT-05
"In the next century, nations as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all." That was the prediction of Strobe Talbot, Clinton's Deputy Secretary of State, as quoted in 'Time', July 20th, 1992. The elite have carefully manufactured major events throughout history in order to bring about this new world order, 911 included. They create the problem. We, the people, react with, "Hey, you must do something about this!" They, in return, give us the solution to the problem that they created in the first place. This is the method used to bring about policy which we would otherwise reject.
"The True Lies of 9/11"
Wednesday, 10 January 2007 6:33 P GMT-05
Kilmeade: OK to Threaten to Shoot Man in Traffic Stop
Tuesday, 9 January 2007 9:57 P GMT-05
Brian Kilmeade, who admitted Tuesday that he's "no genius," endorsed the idea of police threatening to shoot drivers during routine traffic stops. "To me, that's perfect," he said. With video. Kilmeade, one of the co-hosts of "Fox and Friends," was discussing a story Tuesday (January 9, 2007) dealing with a Rhode Island highway patrol officer who stopped a van which had not used a turn signal when changing lanes.
A Year in Review - 9/11 Media Coverage in 2006
Monday, 8 January 2007 7:14 P GMT-05
This listing is NOT a listing of the major news this year, but rather a listing of the major media coverage and discussion which resulted as a response to the growing 9/11 movement.
Manuel Garcia Sees Physics That Don’t Exist
Saturday, 6 January 2007 4:51 P GMT-05
Government scientists get paid to support government policies, particularly in this era of “Bush Science”, and clearly Garcia is willing to play along. But why would political news organizations, like Counterpunch, that present themselves as alternatives to the corporate media, promote these false claims?
Consider for a moment the implications of a breakthrough in the truth about 9/11. If the official story about 9/11 is completely false, as it has proven to be, that fact should call into question those media sources who have helped to cover-up the details over the last five years, even if only through gross negligence of the facts. Whether or not collusion with alternative media was involved, if there is a possibility that the neo-cons actually helped in planning or executing the attacks, then the fact that they pulled it off means that Alexander Cockburn and other (ostensibly) liberal leaders might no longer enjoy the “irreverent and biting” superiority that they identify themselves with. It could be very distressing for some of these rebel leaders to realize that instead of “muckraking with a radical attitude” they have spent years meekly bolstering the status quo.
Terror's Trivial When It's Not Muslims
Friday, 5 January 2007 4:05 P GMT-05
How many people who aren't news junkies know that Madrid Airport was bombed on Saturday? Relatively few I would venture, and that's because major western governments and their media mouthpieces don't hype terror unless Muslims are behind it. I personally only caught the story a couple of days after it happened on an obscure channel on UK digital satellite called Euro News. Operatives of the Basque separatist organization ETA packed 800kg of explosives in a car bomb that ripped apart the parking lot of Barajas Madrid Airport, killing two and injuring twenty people.
The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006
Wednesday, 3 January 2007 4:59 A GMT-05
The Low Profile: CNN and the New York Times Execute a Denial of History
Tuesday, 2 January 2007 4:44 P GMT-05
Conveniently carried out just five minutes past the hour when "Anderson Cooper 360" goes on the air, the execution provided an opportunity for viewers to think about the long story of the Iraqi leader's brutal reign. Yet when it came to informing the audience about one key aspect of that history - the role of the United States in helping to create and maintain the "butcher of Baghdad" - CNN offered only amnesia.
Why I Object to Testifying Against Lt. Watada
Tuesday, 2 January 2007 4:43 P GMT-05
Lieutenant Watada continues to report for duty at Fort Lewis in the state of Washington while awaiting a February 2007 court-martial on one charge of “missing movement” and four charges of “conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.” Each of the latter four charges is based entirely on political speech. If convicted on all charges, Lieutenant Watada could spend up to six years in prison.
Local WI News Reports on 9/11 Truth
Tuesday, 2 January 2007 6:43 A GMT-05
MUJCA News: Happy Truth Year 2007!
Tuesday, 2 January 2007 6:39 A GMT-05
In 2006, MUJCA joined with 911truth.org, the oldest and largest 911
activist group, to sponsor the biggest and best 911 activist conference
to date, 9/11 Revealing The Truth / Reclaiming Our Future. Breakthrough
media coverage of that conference, and the LA Scholars’ conference that
followed, propelled 9/11 truth into popular consciousness worldwide. In
the wake of these successes, I became the target of a vilification
campaign by truth-phobic politicians and pundits like Steve Nass, Sean
Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. That campaign backfired, giving 9/11
skeptics even more publicity and helping turn public opinion against
the war and in favor of 9/11 truth. Today, a clear majority of
Americans opposes the war, and only 16% believe the US government is
telling the truth about 9/11. Polls suggest that religious people, in
particular, are waking up fast. In the five-and-one-half years that
have passed since that day of infamy, we have never been in a better
position to take back our future than we are today.
The GOP's $3 Billion Propaganda Organ
Monday, 1 January 2007 7:38 P GMT-05
The American Right achieved its political dominance in Washington over the past quarter century with the help of more than $3 billion spent by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon on a daily propaganda organ, the Washington Times, according to a 21-year veteran of the newspaper.
Burlington Free Press front page: Investigate 9/11 again, group says
Monday, 1 January 2007 4:39 P GMT-05
Vermont's biggest newspaper, The Burlington Free Press, has covered 9/11 on its front page! "A Burlington, Vermont group has gathered more than 1,200 of the 1,350 signatures needed to place a new investigation"
CNN Exposed Review: CNN, US media disregard condemnation of Saddam execution
Sunday, 31 December 2006 5:49 P GMT-05
Islam Online, however, quoted EU President Erkki Tuomioja, who said the execution could "prove to be divisive for the future of Iraq especially since there has been serious criticism of the way the trial was conducted." And before sentencing began, former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark who aided Saddam's defense team called the trial a "travesty". Clark was thrown out of the courtroom after handing the presiding judge a note saying so, according to the BBC. Correspondents at CNN, NPR, and other US news outlets seemed to ignore such criticism, and focused on the death as being the end of an era, while admitting it will have little overall affect on the worsening situation in Iraq.
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
Saturday, 30 December 2006 4:38 P GMT-05
Invitation to contributors
Friday, 29 December 2006 8:12 P GMT-05
Hence allow me to invite anyone and everyone willing to contribute to this project. A couple of guidelines to follow:
Mike Gallagher Hates the First Amendment
Friday, 29 December 2006 7:01 P GMT-05
It seems Gallagher, the 6th most listened-to radio talk show host in the United States, currently tied with Neal Boortz, who tells his listeners Rep. Cynthia McKinney “looks like a ghetto slut,” at about 3,750,000 listeners, is clueless when it comes to natural rights, George Mason’s 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, the 1689 English Bill of Rights, and the bedrock philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment, all increasingly under attack. Gallagher, and no shortage of other “conservatives,” in essence authoritarian thugs, including Newt Gingrich, who has called for the First Amendment be struck, lest the “terrorists” use the internet and attack us, are routinely provided with substantial airtime to push their fascistic ideas, especially over at the unitary decider network, Fox News, where the Führer Principle (Führerprinzip) is on display 24/7.
Most outrageous comments of 2006
Thursday, 28 December 2006 5:03 P GMT-05
How extreme were conservative commentators in their remarks this year? How about calls to nuke the Middle East and an allegation that a "gay ... mafia" used the congressional page program as its own "personal preserve."
One Of the Most Trusted and Visited Medical Websites Discusses 911 Truth
Wednesday, 27 December 2006 4:12 P GMT-05
The headline of this article may sound pretty provocative, but it's a fact that one-third of Americans believe in some variation of the 9/11 Truth Movement. Considering the government has allowed the NSA to conduct searches of domestic phone records and bank records and made countless intelligence blunders regarding weapons of mass destruction, it's hard for some people not to believe in a conspiracy.
9/11 conspiracy theorists multiply
Tuesday, 26 December 2006 7:56 P GMT-05
"To me, the report read as a cartoon." White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister's voice. "It's a much greater stretch to accept the official conspiracy story than to consider the alternatives." Such as? "There was massive complicity in this attack by U.S. government operatives."
9/11 coincidences and oddities page
Tuesday, 26 December 2006 5:32 P GMT-05
Kevin Barrett Interviews Me On "Truth Jihad Radio" - Audio Inside
Tuesday, 26 December 2006 1:52 A GMT-05
Disbelief Regarding The Official 9/11 Story in the U.S.
Monday, 25 December 2006 10:33 P GMT-05
Over the years people have become increasingly skeptical of official accounts regarding historic events. After the Kennedy assassination everything changed. It is not so much a question of conspiracy theorists using the smallest margin of doubt to support their theories, but rather the increasing loss in prestige of major instutions, and the effect this has had on their credibility. 9/11 is the perfect example of a historic event whose detailed analysis from several different angles produces conclusions different from the official ones. In Spain, there is skepticism over the Madrid bombings of 3/11; in the U.S. - and in the rest of the world - there is skepticism over 9/11.
A man called Jeff
Monday, 25 December 2006 1:05 A GMT-05
So in the end, why does this matter? Why does it matter that Jeff Gannon may have been a gay hooker named James Guckert with a $20,000 defaulted court judgment against him? So he somehow got a job lobbing softball questions to the White House. Big deal. If he was already a prostitute, why not be one in the White House briefing room as well?
CIA Instructions to Media Assets re: Assassination of President Kennedy
Sunday, 24 December 2006 3:36 A GMT-05
To employ propaganda assets to and refute the attacks of the critics. Book reviews and feature articles are particularly appropriate for this purpose. The unclassified attachments to this guidance should provide useful background material for passing to assets. Our ploy should point out, as applicable, that the critics are (I) wedded to theories adopted before the evidence was in, (II) politically interested, (III) financially interested, (IV) hasty and inaccurate in their research, or (V) infatuated with their own theories.
On Saturday, 12/23/2006 At 7PM EST...
Saturday, 23 December 2006 6:27 P GMT-05
Saturday evening, 12/23/2006 at 7pm EST, I will be on Kevin Barrett's RBN Live show called, "The Truth Jihad."
Ellen Mariani: The Story That Could Have Been Big
Saturday, 23 December 2006 6:26 P GMT-05
Ellen Mariani is suing "Bush et al". One would think that I need not go any further here,- anyone suing the US President, one would think, would get so much publicity that I could hardly stand a chance of being able to add anything of value to it. Unfortunately, that is hardly the case. Most people in the US would probably never know whom you are talking about if you mentioned Mrs Mariani's name to them.
Visibility 9-11 Welcomes Ellen Mariani
Saturday, 23 December 2006 6:21 P GMT-05
Visibility 9-11 welcomes special guest, Ellen Mariani, wife of Neil Mariani who was aboard United Flight 175 which was flown into the South Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001.
Media Follies 2006! The Year's Most Overhyped and Underreported Stories
Friday, 22 December 2006 4:14 P GMT-05
On the brighter side of that equation, though, the stranglehold of Big Money on American politics is ending. The 2006 elections showed that activist and especially Internet campaign fundraising can go dollar-for-dollar against corporate-friendly candidates. The technology is now in place to make it far easier for many little donations o match a few big special interest ones. It's no substitute for public financing of campaigns -- which would allow some of that money to be invested in meeting real needs instead -- but it's still a powerful democratizing force. As we enter 2007, we need all of those we can get.
Bush's Year-End Press Conference: It's the End of the Year Because the Year Has Ended
Friday, 22 December 2006 3:28 P GMT-05
Tell you what: next time, the press should bring out some sex toys, maybe some porn, to liven up the whole experience. That way David Gregory can ask about something important, like troop increases, and tickle the Commander-in-Chief's prostate with the very non-hypotetical Turbo-Charged Dimpled Vibrating Twistomatic (that ass reamer takes eight D batteries). Helen Thomas can ask about the mounting civilian casualties in Baghdad and before Bush answers, she can have him look at a DVD of Pierced-Clit Teen Gang Bang, Part 23. Why not, huh? Then at least the press and the President can pretend they still have some spark left.
Kevin Barrett Interviewed by Bill O'Reilly on 'The Factor'
Wednesday, 20 December 2006 9:56 A GMT-05
More Evidence That Mearsheimer and Walt Are Largely Right
Tuesday, 19 December 2006 10:55 P GMT-05
1) They've sent around a roughly 80-page response to their critics, which is largely compelling even though I am one of the people they refute.
Cops Caught Stealing Protestors' Cameras
Tuesday, 19 December 2006 7:16 P GMT-05
Flux was not arrested, nor did he receive a receipt for seized property. Without any warning, he was jumped by two police officers, one of whom is an NYPD captain, and knocked down onto the asphalt of 39th Street. A police officer then snatched the camera out of Flux's hands. As Flux attempted to protect himself and his equipment from being trampled and beaten, the cop with the camera conferred with another officer and scurried back into the building to hide the camera.
Confirmed: Kevin Barrett To Be On The O'Reilly Factor Tonight - 8PM EST
Tuesday, 19 December 2006 7:09 P GMT-05
I just received word from Kevin that he is definitely going to be on tonight. For those that don't know, the O'Reilly Factor starts at 8pm EST.
The Boston Globe Covers The Boston 9/11 Truth Tea Party
Tuesday, 19 December 2006 6:41 P GMT-05
It must be noted that I was unable to find this same article online. The Boston Globe must be really shy about it. BE
In Whose Times?
Sunday, 17 December 2006 3:20 P GMT-05
Yes, the Truth Movement "raises questions", and the questions are of vastly greater importance than any theories that might arise from them. It is not necessary -- perhaps not even desirable -- to resort to scenarios that can then be dashed by the belittling label of "conspiracy" which, like the word "paranoia", can be applied to neutralize valid concerns. The questions themselves are so numerous and significant that demands for honest answers are implicit within them.
Showtime Series 'Sleeper Cell: American Terror' References Theories of U.S. Involvement in 9/11
Tuesday, 12 December 2006 7:59 P GMT-05
"Terrorist" characters on the show mock people who don't believe the official government explanation for Sep. 11. The character of a Bosnian terrorist, Ilija Korjenic (played by Henry Lubatti), shares an intimate moment with fellow terrorist, Mina (portrayed by Thelka Reuten). For a few moments, they sarcastically repeat familiar 9/11 conspiracy theories.
Invitation to contributors
Monday, 11 December 2006 8:06 P GMT-05
And, lastly but not leastly - on more than one occasion I have been accused of presenting things in a one-sided and biased manner. Those accusations have undoubtedly been correct to some extent or other as everyone is by their very nature biased and subjective - though yours truly has tried to present his readers with a diverse variety of viewpoints, some very different from his. But regardless - here's your chance to counter this bias. Do it - or forever hold your peace.
9/11 News Articles
Monday, 11 December 2006 7:22 P GMT-05
Excerpts of Key 9/11 News Articles in Major Media
Media Coverage of Right vs. Islamic 'Terrorism'
Monday, 11 December 2006 7:00 P GMT-05
I just logged on to Nexis and did a search for Demetrius Van Crocker across all US newspapers and wire services, for all time. Crocker has been mentioned in all of 35 stories, many of those being various versions of the same 473-word AP article about his conviction earlier this year (though Google couldn't find any public versions of the story that actually worked, so their cache will have to suffice). Just today, Nexis shows countless versions (scores) of the AP's report about Shareef, as well as a UPI piece (they never published anything about Crocker, that I can find), and many more are on the Web but have yet to be indexed on Nexis. I took a related look early last year, comparing coverge of Christian extremist Eric Rudolph and Muslim extremist Zacarias Moussaoui. But this case is even more parallel, and thus more instructive.
The 9/11 Truth Movement's Dangers
Monday, 11 December 2006 5:45 P GMT-05
The public has been presented with two worldviews, one credulous, one paranoid, and both unsatisfactory. The more the former breaks apart, the greater the appeal of the latter. Conspiracy theories that claim to explain 9/11 are wrongheaded and a terrible waste of time, but the skeptical instinct is, on balance, salutary. It is right to suspect that the operations of government, the power elite and the military-industrial complex are often not what they seem; and proper to raise questions when the answers provided have been unconvincing. Given the untruths to which American citizens have been subjected these past six years, is it any surprise that a majority of them think the government's lying about what happened before and on 9/11?
AN URGENT MESSAGE
Sunday, 10 December 2006 7:27 P GMT-05
In March of 2003, I decided to start a website that would teach the public how to spot media deception. This action was a response to the outrageous lies being sold to the American people by the corporate news media as the Bush administration was preparing to launch an illegal, immoral and unnecessary war on Iraq. Public response to my site was so great that I left my professional career and dedicated myself to a full time battle against media deception. Since that time I have had no outside income with which to wage this vital fight. The entire cost of maintaining and operating the site is my own, and has drained me of my personal life savings. In addition, I have been without health insurance since I left my job, despite having developed severe asthma from the fallout of the 9/11 attacks. I share this with you to emphasize the importance of my purpose, not to evoke sympathy on your part. Getting the truth to the American public has become my most important priority, and I have made some difficult choices towards that end.
Newspapers That Once Called Upon Clinton To Resign Are Silent On Bush
Sunday, 10 December 2006 7:13 P GMT-05
It's great to live in a democracy with a free press. Someday I hope I have such an experience.
9/11: The Roots of Paranoia
Saturday, 9 December 2006 7:42 P GMT-05
The public has been presented with two worldviews, one credulous, one paranoid, and both unsatisfactory. The more the former breaks apart, the greater the appeal of the latter. Conspiracy theories that claim to explain 9/11 are wrongheaded and a terrible waste of time, but the skeptical instinct is, on balance, salutary. It is right to suspect that the operations of government, the power elite and the military-industrial complex are often not what they seem; and proper to raise questions when the answers provided have been unconvincing. Given the untruths to which American citizens have been subjected these past six years, is it any surprise that a majority of them think the government's lying about what happened before and on 9/11? Still, the persistent appeal of paranoid theories reflects a cynicism that the credulous media have failed to address, because they posit a world of good intentions and face-value pronouncements, one in which the suggestion that a government would mislead or abuse its citizens for its own gains or the gains of its benefactors is on its face absurd. The danger is that the more this government's cynicism and deception are laid bare, the more people--on the left in particular and among the public in general--will be drawn down the rabbit hole of delusion of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
World Crisis Radio - Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth interview
Saturday, 9 December 2006 5:11 P GMT-05
Today on World Crisis Radio, Webster Tarpley will interview Jason King, and possibly others involved with the Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth group, and hopefully organizers from the San Francisco event.
Advice To Young Bloggers Wishing To See Their Traffic Expand Exponentially
Saturday, 9 December 2006 5:04 P GMT-05
Apparently, if one includes mention of a pop star's genitalia in the title of a post during a time period when said genitalia has been copiously photographed, oh, the bounty that will follow.
THE OFFICIAL 9/11 STORY IS THE BIGGEST CONSPIRACY
Friday, 8 December 2006 11:10 P GMT-05
BZ: My initial doubts arose before noon on the day of 9/11, based on the absence of any USAF response to the multiple hijackings, over a drama in the skies that lasted almost two hours. As a person always very interested in aviation, I knew that this quite simply was impossible. It turned out I was the first journalist in the world to go on national TV to question the official story.
Alive In Baghdad
Friday, 8 December 2006 10:26 P GMT-05
Alive in Baghdad was formed to counter the sound-bite driven, “Live From” news model. Through the work of a team of Americans and Iraqi correspondents on the ground, Alive in Baghdad shows the occupation through the voices of Iraqis. Alive in Baghdad brings testimonies from individual Iraqis, footage of daily life in Iraq, and short news segments from Iraq to you.
Getting Agnostic About 9/11
Friday, 8 December 2006 6:00 P GMT-05
A society of nonbelievers questions the official version
Study: More Internet Journalists Jailed
Friday, 8 December 2006 4:25 P GMT-05
Nearly one-third of journalists now serving time in prisons around the world published their work on the Internet, the second-largest category behind print journalists, the Committee to Protect Journalists said in an analysis released Thursday. The bulk of Internet journalists in jail - 49 in total - shows that "authoritarian states are becoming more determined to control the Internet," said Joel Simon, the New York-based group's executive director.
Barret's WKRS Interview Available for Download
Thursday, 7 December 2006 8:07 P GMT-05
Kevin Barrett's interview on WKRS the other night is available for download here.
Flirting With Fascism on CNN Headline News
Thursday, 7 December 2006 8:56 A GMT-05
On September 5, Beck took the same message to his CNN Headline News audience, declaring, "In 10 years, Muslims and Arabs will be looking through a razor wire fence at the West."
Al-Jazeera And The Truth
Thursday, 7 December 2006 8:43 A GMT-05
Al-Jazeera, the Arab television network that the Bush administration hates so passionately, has launched its English-language service but is, of course, having trouble finding an American cable or satellite system willing to carry it.
Into the Ring with Counterpunch on 9/11: How Alexander Cockburn, Otherwise So Bright, Blanks Out on 9/11 Evidence
Wednesday, 6 December 2006 7:49 P GMT-05
Another motive for aversion may also be involved: the fear of being mocked as a “conspiracy theorist” or “tinfoil hat wearer,” with a consequent loss of public credibility and professional respect. If such a fear were no more than what it seems, one might well ask what value there could be to markers of professional standing which block inquiry into historical truths and material realities—or what claims to courage or integrity could be made by public intellectuals who fold their tents at the mere threat of scurrilous handling by opponents. But something more profound may be at work. Peter Dale Scott, who like Chalmers Johnson indulges in what he calls the “clichéd analogy” of a comparison between the contemporary United States and Rome in the period of its transition from republic to imperial autocracy, remarks on the refusal of the Roman senatorial class to accept that “real power had migrated out of” the civic institutions in which they continued to participate, and had passed into the hands of “an imperial regime, the armies and the courts of the army commanders.” Their motive, though unacknowledged, was quite simple: “The self-respect of the senatorial classes depended on this denial.”
An analogous motive may be in play among our own class of academics and public intellectuals, for whom a migration of power into military, deep-political, and corporate-media hands may for similar reasons be difficult to acknowledge. István Meszáros has proposed that we are currently facing not merely a “conjunctural crisis” of the kind that occurred at intervals over the past century, but rather an all-embracing “structural crisis”—one which “affects the totality of a social complex” because it throws into question “capital’s mode of social metabolic reproduction” up to the ultimate limits of “the established global structure.” It would be no novelty to argue that the Bush regime’s military aggressions, together with its evident contempt for the constraints of republican governance (the Bill of Rights and habeas corpus among them) and its ever-increasing reliance on deep-political manipulations, are part of the corporatist ruling elite’s response to this structural crisis. Understandably enough, public intellectuals who are habituated to conjunctural crises in which their oppositional function was understood by all concerned, and who have in addition made a lifelong habit of ignoring or belittling political analyses which incorporate deep-political factors, have resisted the gathering evidence that these very factors have been decisive in the political transformations pushed through since 9/11.
Britney Spears's Pussy Saves the World
Wednesday, 6 December 2006 3:52 A GMT-05
It isn't that Britney Spears's pussy's public appearances aren't in and of themselves interesting. The Rude Pundit supports genital revelation of all sorts. But it's just that, other than being attached to Britney Spears, being the stage curtain for the debut of two kids, and acting as the golden door to the slick caves of presumptive paradise, what exactly has Britney Spears's pussy accomplished? Yes, indeed, it's time to make Britney Spears's pussy earn its place in our networks of news, beyond the Page Sixes and Michael Musto columns (he's so bitchy, you know).
William Rodriguez Featured in Devon Newspaper and Interviewed on BBC Bristol
Tuesday, 5 December 2006 5:39 P GMT-05
It was the start of a day that transformed Mr Rodriguez from a maintenance man to the hero of 9/11. He ran back into the crumbling tower three times, and helped save hundreds of people.
Why Expose CNN?
Monday, 4 December 2006 10:34 P GMT-05
Not only are most major media owned by corporations, these companies are becoming larger and fewer in number as the biggest ones absorb their rivals. This concentration of ownership tends to reduce the diversity of media voices and puts great power in the hands of a few companies. As news outlets fall into the hands of large conglomerates with holdings in many industries, conflicts of interest inevitably interfere with newsgathering.
Lapdog Press
Saturday, 2 December 2006 7:26 P GMT-05
Keith Olbermann Proves That Dissent Has An Audience
Saturday, 2 December 2006 6:55 P GMT-05
Olbermann first cast off the traditional reporter's role in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, delivering a powerful indictment of the government's handling of the rescue effort. "These are leaders who won re-election last year largely by portraying their opponents as incapable of keeping this country safe," he said bitterly. The government "has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water." At the time, other newscasters, most famously CNN's Anderson Cooper, also unleashed their outrage, spawning speculation that the natural disaster might also become a watershed event for broadcast news. But most anchors quickly returned to business as usual, censoring their own criticisms no matter how bad the news continued to be. Not Olbermann. Encouraged by rising ratings, he's since turned his distinctive take on the government's incompetence into a regular part of his show.
In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep
Saturday, 2 December 2006 5:07 P GMT-05
At the end of the one-hour show, rich with arguments on why visual identification of "the threat in our midst" would alleviate the public's fears, Klein revealed that he had staged a hoax. It drew out reactions that are not uncommon in post-9/11 America. "I can't believe any of you are sick enough to have agreed for one second with anything I said," he told his audience on the AM station 630 WMAL (http://www.wmal.com/), which covers Washington, Northern Virginia and Maryland.
Kevin Barrett interview Tonight on WKRS Chicago
Friday, 1 December 2006 4:02 P GMT-05
Barrett will be interviewed on WKRS, a big Chicago-area AM station, from 6 to 8 p.m. CT tonight, Thursday 11/30/06. You can listen live at: http://www.wkrs.com/
Limbaugh on Middle East: "Fine, just blow the place up"
Wednesday, 29 November 2006 10:35 P GMT-05
According to Talkers magazine, The Rush Limbaugh Show reaches more than 13.5 million listeners each week, the largest talk radio audience in the nation.
Exposing the 9/11 Conspiracy Wingnuts
Tuesday, 28 November 2006 6:36 P GMT-05
If there is any possibility or doubt about whether the events of 9/11/2001 were participated in by members of our own government, then our entire democracy and world peace would be strengthened by getting to the bottom of the true facts of this pinnacle event of our time. It would be unhealthy to leave a cloud of doubt hanging over such assertions.
The Nuking of Alexander Litvinenko
Monday, 27 November 2006 7:07 P GMT-05
"Most believe the theory is implausible: if the Kremlin wanted to kill Litvinenko, why attract world-wide publicity? A quiet bullet would have been equally effective." Why indeed. And why, pray tell, choose a highly unusual method of offing their target – with polonium-210, a highly radioactive and very rare metal, which is likely to have been produced in tandem with a sophisticated technical and scientific apparatus associated with a state sponsor? The Kremlin might just as well have left its calling card. Yet the hysterical lynch-mob mentality that is now crying out for Putin's blood is completely illogical, given a moment's reflection, for a good number of reasons.
Welcome to America
Monday, 27 November 2006 4:47 P GMT-05
As documented by Reporters Without Borders and by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (Asne) in letters to Colin Powell and Tom Ridge, cases such as mine are part of a systemic policy of harassing media representatives from 27 friendly countries whose citizens - not journalists! - can travel to the US without a visa, for 90 days. According to Asne, this policy "could lead to a degradation of the atmosphere of mutual trust that has traditionally been extended professional journalists in these nations". Asne requested that the state department put pressure on customs and immigration to "repair the injustice that has been visited upon our colleagues". Someone must have listened, because the press office at the department of homeland security recently issued a memo announcing that, although the I-visa is still needed (and I've just received mine), new guidelines now give the "Port Directors leeway when it comes to allowing journalists to enter the US who are clearly no threat to our security". Well, fine, but doesn't that imply some journalists are a threat? Maybe we are. During my surreal interlude at LAX, I told the officer taking my fingerprints that I would be writing about it all. "No doubt," he snorted. "And anything you'll write won't be the truth."
Boogeymongering
Sunday, 26 November 2006 6:47 P GMT-05
There aren't many terrorists in the world, and only a small portion of those direct their anger toward us. Check the mortality tables in any almanac. You'll see clearly that you have more to fear from accidents, too much cream pie, wobbly ladders or nature's own infectious agents than you do from Osama bin Laden. He might want to kill you, but wanting something and having the means to do it are two different things.
We Reported 13 Months Ago Torture Came From Top
Sunday, 26 November 2006 5:26 P GMT-05
The fact that this information is only coming out now proves that the corporate controlled mainstream media was too cowardly to report, or under specific orders not to report the claims a year ago, when Rumsfeld was still in office. Once again this proves that the alternative media is light years ahead of the mainstream and highlights how controlled and restricted the mainstream is now.
The Death Of Newspapers (contd.) Their Immigration Coverage Hasn't Helped.
Saturday, 25 November 2006 6:49 P GMT-05
In those days, this brand of biased and lazy journalism was the exception where today, sadly, it prevails throughout the mainstream media.
9/11 & American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out to Air On C-Span This Weekend
Thursday, 23 November 2006 5:08 P GMT-05
What Else is the Mainstream Media Lying About?
Wednesday, 22 November 2006 10:42 P GMT-05
Needless to say, I could go on and on laying out the case against the 4th estate of journalism. It is fair to say that I disagree with my good friend, who claims that if there is a story, a crackerjack journalist will tell us about it. We are 53rd in the world in press freedom and falling and the government is targeting journalists and passing laws that countermand the Bill of Rights as if it were the most natural thing in the world. The press barely notices. How do I know about all of these things? Because, my fellow citizens, it is all available for discovery and verification on line. I will not wait and I would suggest that the world can't wait for the Washington Post or The Nation to tell us the real truth about anything. If a blogger tells you something about the poison fluoride in our water supply, I say google fluoride and see if what he/she is telling you has any merit. If you are waiting for a journalist to tell you what is real and what is not real, this blogger will tell you, the details of the critical events shaping our destinies are being systematically edited and the good people of this country are being blatantly lied to and deceitfully programmed.
Newspaper lies on page one. I know. I was there.
Saturday, 18 November 2006 1:48 A GMT-05
If the readers had been at the presentation of Dr. Steven Jones at Sonoma State University the night before, like I was, they might have been shocked to see the blatant lies and misrepresentations that greeted them with their morning coffee. Wake up and smell the bullshit.
The New Media Offensive for the Iraq War
Friday, 17 November 2006 6:13 P GMT-05
The present situation is grimly instructive for anyone who might wonder how the Vietnam War could continue for years while opinion polls showed that most Americans were against it. Now, in the wake of midterm elections widely seen as a rebuke to the Iraq war, powerful media institutions are feverishly spinning against a pullout of U.S. troops.
CNN's Beck to first-ever Muslim congressman: "[W]hat I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies' "
Friday, 17 November 2006 12:19 A GMT-05
With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, "Let's cut and run." And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way.
Olbermann on what motivated Coulter 'acolyte' to allegedly send threatening 'white powder' letters
Friday, 17 November 2006 12:08 A GMT-05
39-year-old Chad Castagana was arrested on Saturday, accused of sending more than a dozen envelopes containing "fake anthrax" to anti-war celebrities, journalists, and politicians. "Castagana has also been identified as a gushing online admirer of Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and Laura Ingraham," Olbermann said. "And the Web site RAW STORY reports that many bloggers believe he is also a contributor, under a different name, to the conservative Web site Free Republic."
Why the FBI Is Coming After Me
Thursday, 16 November 2006 3:58 A GMT-05
On Oct. 6, the 30th anniversary of the bombing of the Cuban plane (you have to give them credit for timing), I received a new subpoena. This one, issued by a federal grand jury in Newark, was requested by Gonzales. They may be ambivalent about the war on terrorism over at the Justice Department, but you can't question their dedication to their war against the Fourth Estate. For my part, it raised a peculiar pickle: contemplating how far one should go to protect the civil liberties of an accused terrorist.
First US Newspaper Calls For Complete Independant Council of 9/11
Sunday, 12 November 2006 5:51 P GMT-05
Let's hope this is the first of many editorials callling for a real investigation into the events of 9/11, followed by criminal prosecutions.
Twistedchick's Free Speech Zone -- Bush Revives Espionage Act
Sunday, 12 November 2006 4:38 P GMT-05
These charges potentially eviscerate the primary function of journalism—to gather and publicize information of public concern—particularly where the most vulnerable information to the public . . . is what the government wants to conceal. —Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, with which this Voice columnist is affiliated.
Berlin Humboldt University Bans 9/11 Film
Monday, 6 November 2006 4:34 P GMT-05
It is highly questionable that a film from the United States, which calls on viewers to educate themselves and form their own opinions, would be censored at Humboldt University. This is unusual for a German instiution of higher education, especially in view of the fact that the film "Loose Change" has been shown at dozens of US universities without similar attempts at censorship.
After President Meets Reporters, Sullivan -- Once a Bush Backer -- Now Suggests He May Have 'Lost His Mind'
Friday, 3 November 2006 5:51 A GMT-05
Sullivan said the president was "so in denial," comparing the Rumsfeld endorsement to applauding the job FEMA's Michael Brown did on Katrina: "It's unhinged. It suggests this man has lost his mind. No one objectively could look at the way this war has been conducted, whether you were for it, as I was, or against it, and say that it has been done well. It's a disaster."
Cheers Or Al Jazeers? English Version Of Arabic Channel Comes To America
Thursday, 2 November 2006 8:24 P GMT-05
DESPITE THE POTENTIAL TO BE a tough sell to advertisers, the long-anticipated launch of an English-language version of the controversial Al Jazeera network is expected Nov. 15 in the United States.
Pentagon Will "Catapult the Propaganda" Via U.S. Media
Tuesday, 31 October 2006 7:16 P GMT-05
The new program is simply another wing of the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Influence, publicly announced after 9/11 but simply the latest incarnation of a PR brainwashing scam that spans back decades. The OSI exploited legal loopholes by planting its propaganda in foreign newspapers that would later be picked up by U.S. newswires. In today's environment even that seems quaint, with the Pentagon openly and proudly shouting from the rooftops that they will knowingly violate the law to indoctrinate the American people.
Backers hail 9/11 theorist's speech
Tuesday, 31 October 2006 6:43 P GMT-05
The standing ovation has finally died down, and Steven E. Jones, a soft-spoken physics professor, finds himself pinned against the stage by some of the enthusiastic fans who packed a University of Denver auditorium over the weekend to see him.
Newspaper circulation drops nationally
Tuesday, 31 October 2006 4:43 P GMT-05
The New York Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., reported a 5.1 percent gain to 704,011, edging ahead of its longtime rival the New York Daily News, owned by the real estate developer Mortimer Zuckerman, which had a gain of 1 percent to 693,382.
Now Europe Targets Bloggers As Terrorists
Friday, 27 October 2006 5:49 A GMT-05
Home Secretary John Reid met with ministers from the six largest European Union countries and, according to a BBC report, "agreed to work together to make the internet a "more hostile" place for terrorists." How will they accomplish this? By initiating a crackdown on people who use the Internet to "spread propaganda." The very website you are now reading would be considered propaganda by these neo-fascists- no matter the fact that the criminal syndicates Bush and Blair front for are the most deceitful progenitors of lurid propaganda since the third reich.
Antonin Scalia holds you and me in contempt
Friday, 27 October 2006 5:36 A GMT-05
"You talk about independence as though it is unquestionably and unqualifiably a good thing," Scalia said. "It may not be. It depends on what your courts are doing....The more your courts become policy-makers, the less sense it makes to have them entirely independent." Scalia expressed disdain for the news media and the general reading public and suggested that together they condone inaccurate portrayals of federal judges and courts. "The press is never going to report judicial opinions accurately," he said.
Robert Kennedy Jr: "We Have A Negligent Press In This Country"... Has "Let The American People Down"
Thursday, 26 October 2006 7:29 P GMT-05
"We know more about Tom and Katie than we do about global warming," Kennedy Jr. said. "We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world."us m
Live Vodka-Shot Blogging the President's News Conference
Wednesday, 25 October 2006 6:05 P GMT-05
Why the hell is George W. Bush having another worthless goddamned press conference? He's like an adolescent boy who just discovered that jacking off makes him feel good, so he's gonna thwack that dick as often as he can get it up.
Southern Oregon Newspaper Coverage
Tuesday, 24 October 2006 6:12 P GMT-05
0lbermann slams GOP for imitating terror tactics
Tuesday, 24 October 2006 5:29 P GMT-05
But why is the Republican Party imitating them? Bin Laden puts out what amounts to a commercial of fear; the Republicans put out what is unmistakable as a commercial of fear.
Investing in Fear on Fox
Tuesday, 24 October 2006 4:39 P GMT-05
Let me get this straight. The fact that there was no threat at all against NFL stadiums means we are unsafe and have to spend more money to keep stadiums safe. Huh? The so-called "threat" was so amateurish to begin with that some media never even reported it. Some journalists, like Keith Olbermann, were smart enough to figure out that one of the seven football "stadiums" threatened did not even exist. The hoax had warned that the football stadium in New York City would be targeted, when that city doesn't even have a football stadium (at least one where games are still played.) The closest one is in New Jersey. Nevertheless, Smith thought Americans were not only stupid enough to feel threatened by this hoax, but would be so afraid they would actually demand that stadium owners do something to keep them safe from a non-existent threat.
9/11 Twin Towers Collapse: Independent Media Research Brings Back A Different Story
Monday, 23 October 2006 12:11 P GMT-05
But the official line taken by the global mass media has not gone unquestioned by an increasingly less trusting, increasingly more resourceful public. Powered by internet discussion groups, citizen journalism and the informal networks of video sharing that have sprung up around YouTube and Google Video, questions have been raised as to just who was behind the tragic events of 9/11.
Calling Bob in Baghdad
Saturday, 21 October 2006 8:47 P GMT-05
I'm more puzzled by comments that the violence isn't any worse than any American city. Really? In which American city do 60 bullet-riddled bodies turn up on a given day? In which city do the headless bodies of ordinary citizens turn up every single day? In which city would it not be news if neighborhood school children were blown up? In which neighborhood would you look the other way if gunmen came into restaurants and shot dead the customers?
Exit Habeas Corpus, Enter Night and Fog
Saturday, 21 October 2006 1:14 A GMT-05
On the night of June 30 and Sunday July 1, 1934, Hitler ordered potential political rivals in the Sturmabteilung massacred. Stalin had his Great Purge and “river of blood,” culminating in the assassination of Trotsky. Invariably, totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, unable to withstand even minor disagreement, take out not only the opposition, but allies who may, however tenuously, become the opposition of tomorrow. Bill O’Reilly should take note.
Part II: Iraqi Death Rate May Top Our Civil War -- But Will the Press Confirm It?
Friday, 20 October 2006 1:19 P GMT-05
Would it surprise you to learn that if the Johns Hopkins estimates of 400,000 to 800,000 deaths are correct -- and many experts in the survey field seem to suggest they probably are -- that the supposedly not-yet-civil-war in Iraq has already cost more lives, per capita, than our own Civil War (one in 40 of all Iraqis alive in 2003)? And that these losses are comparable to what some European nations suffered in World War II? You'd never know it from mainstream press coverage in the U.S.
Countdown Special Comment: Death of Habeas Corpus:
Thursday, 19 October 2006 5:48 P GMT-05
For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering: A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.
Why is the New York Times silent on massive Iraq death toll? A question for Bill Keller
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 5:25 P GMT-05
There is every reason to believe that the Times and other US media outlets are refusing to further report and investigate the Johns Hopkins study because its findings demonstrate that both the Bush administration and the American media itself have been carrying out a cover-up of the bloodbath in Iraq.
Popular Mechanics' Editor-in-Cheif Jim Meigs Talks About Response to 9/11 'Hit-Piece'
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 4:12 P GMT-05
On February 7, 2005, I became a member of the Bush/Halliburton/Zionist/CIA/New World Order/ Illuminati conspiracy for global domination. It was on that day the March 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics, with its cover story debunking 9/11 conspiracy theories, hit newsstands. Within hours, the online community of 9/11 conspiracy buffs—which calls itself the “9/11 Truth Movement”—was aflame with wild fantasies about me and my staff, the magazine I edit, and the article we had published.
Journalists from Newsweek, Atlantic Monthly met with Bush to create post-9/11 talking points
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 4:07 P GMT-05
What was more unusual, Mr. Woodward reveals, was the presence of journalists at the meeting. Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International and a Newsweek columnist, and Robert D. Kaplan, now a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, attended the meeting and, according to Mr. Kaplan, signed confidentiality agreements not to discuss what happened. While members of policy research groups often dispense advice to administration officials, journalists do not typically attend secret meetings or help compile government reports. Indeed, many Washington journalists complain that the current administration keeps them at an unhealthy distance.
9/11 Poll Results: 2002-2006
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 3:01 P GMT-05
Then by October 2006, the number of Americans who believe the government is mainly lying almost doubled again, to 28%. This is significant for a number of reasons. First, the 9/11 Commission Report has already been out for a long time. Second, the mainstream media has been defending that fairy tell for many years, calling anyone who questioned it a conspiracy nut case and -- as evidenced by Bill O'Reilly's attack on Jim Fetzer -- attempting to intimidate and harass 9/11 truthers. And third, the boys have spent untold amounts of money on psyops operations, likely including paying a bunch of desk-jockies to troll 9/11 truth discussions (such as those held at this site).
Sami's Shame, and Ours: NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF - Jailed Journalist
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 2:06 P GMT-05
Mr. Hajj, 37, who attended university and speaks English, joined Al Jazeera as a cameraman in April 2000 and covered the war in Afghanistan. He was detained on Dec. 15, 2001, and taken to the American military prison in Bagram, Afghanistan. “They were the longest days of my life,” Mr. Hajj’s lawyers quoted him as saying. He told them he was repeatedly beaten, kicked, starved, left out in the freezing cold and subjected to anal cavity searches in public “just to humiliate me.” In June 2002, Mr. Hajj was flown to Guantánamo, where he says the beatings initially were brutal but have since subsided somewhat.
Time For The Sleeping 9/11 Giant To Awaken
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 4:03 A GMT-05
The official story of 9/11 is on artificial life support. The only thing keeping it alive is the the illusion that those who question it and are demanding the truth are in the minority. The latest scientific poll could be the final nail in the coffin of the official MSM propelled 9/11 propaganda.
"Official" 9/11 story On Life support; The Truth is Taking Over
Tuesday, 17 October 2006 2:06 A GMT-05
It now seems that we are beginning to move from stage one of nineteenth century philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer's three stages of truth, which is ridicule, to stage two, which is violent opposition (stage three is acceptance of the truth as being self-evident). This is apparent in the fact that many in the "debunking" crowd have now taken to equating us with people who deny the Holocaust. That's right folks, we're "9/11 deniers".
These goons can't even make their propaganda make sense. How can a movement of millions seeking the truth about and justice for 9/11 possibly be called deniers? Why would we be seeking answers for something that we're supposedly denying?
O’Reilly Sicks FBI on Fetzer, Barrett
Sunday, 15 October 2006 4:26 P GMT-05
“I’d put the FBI on you and that nutty [professor Kevin] Barrett and find out what the hell you guys are up to,” threatened O’Reilly, basically insinuating that scholarly research is a crime, as of course “everything changed” after nine eleven, including the right to exercise the First Amendment. But then, as we know, or some of us know, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are now effectively dead and, increasingly, it is a crime to question the government, especially in an academic setting, same as it was after the Nazis took over in Germany.
Media Hypes Nutcase Scribblings as "Terror Plot Admission"
Friday, 13 October 2006 6:25 P GMT-05
The hype surrounding this nothing story is especially vacuous when you consider that earlier in the week the "largest ever" haul of explosives was found at a house in Burnley - including a chemicals, bio-suits and even a rocket launcher. The find was briefly reported on by a handful of local town newspapers but completely blacked out by the national print and TV press.
If You Are Not Afraid...
Thursday, 12 October 2006 6:03 P GMT-05
For six years, the American public was carefully and skillfully distracted by bogus fears and overblown villains foisted on the nation by neocons and empire seekers. They were so expertly manipulated that they failed to be terrified of the criminal power brokers and the complicit media they should have feared the most.
Media Cover-up
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 9:44 P GMT-05
These courageous writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major news stories. Some were even fired or laid off. They have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer.
Rep. Suder Plays the Anti-Semitism Card, plus some AP coverage
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 9:29 P GMT-05
Murder and Ethnic Cleansing in Moscow
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 7:21 P GMT-05
No one yet knows who killed Anna Politkovskaya. But it is hard to look at Putin’s government right now with anything other than deep skepticism. The British writer Alex Hollowell wrote on Monday that, “It is time to grasp that we are sharing a continent with a very large tyranny.” It is also a reminder that terrorists don’t just come in the shape of small cells of isolated radicals, but also in the sometimes-scarier forms of governments.
The terrorists who aren't in the news
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 5:28 P GMT-05
Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, this would have been headline news for weeks. But since his target was the Edgerton Women's Health Center, rather than, say, a bank or a police station, media have not called this terrorism - even after three decades of extreme violence by anti-abortion fanatics, mostly fundamentalist Christians who believe they're fighting a holy war.
Who Is William Krar?
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 5:13 P GMT-05
If you don't know, it is OK. You likely got lots and lots of company. Even though Krar was arrested during what appeared to be preparation for major terrorist activity, his arrest attracted minimal attention from the media and caused no press release by the Department of Justice, which under John Ashcroft, as of the press time for this UPI report, had "found at least 2,295 occasions to toot its own horn that are apparently more newsworthy than the Krar arrest".
War, as seen through these soldiers' eyes
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 5:07 P GMT-05
"War Tapes" opens Friday, joining four other Iraq war documentaries released this fall and adding to the burgeoning array of works in this genre. Among these are Zeitgeist Films' "My Country, My Country"; Focus Feature's "The Ground Truth"; director Robert Greenwald's "Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers" and the Sundance Film Festival award winner "Iraq in Fragments," a Typecast Releasing/HBO Documentary Films picture. Each demonstrates that filmmakers, perhaps in the spirit of competition, are doggedly following the ever-changing story in Iraq and finding creative ways to capture it.
Killing Journalists: Reflex Action for the Mobster State
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 6:06 A GMT-05
In Russia, mobsters may gun down journalists in gangland fashion, but here in America we are a bit more circumspect, as we have a flimsy facade of civilized behavior to uphold. Journalist Gary Webb made the mistake of connecting the CIA and the Nicaraguan Contras to the crack epidemic in the 1980s, a mistake that resulted in his “suicide,” a remarkable event, as Webb managed to shoot himself multiple times.
Red October: Killing the Truth in Moscow
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 4:38 A GMT-05
And in this new world order of "dark siders" ruling by fear, force and lies, is it any wonder that an unarmed teller of unwanted truths would be gunned down in the miasma of a Moscow October?
Google Admits Terror Storm Blackout
Tuesday, 10 October 2006 9:24 P GMT-05
Could Google have made the same mistake twice in consecutive weeks? We cannot verify their claim that, "the technical issue affected all videos," as from our careful tracking it only seemed to impact Terror Storm and a handful of other videos about the 9/11 inside job. We have enjoyed using Google's services for years and we do not seek to pick a fight simply to garner attention.
Cover-Up Claim As Judge Rules Bush Memo Trial Must Be Secret
Tuesday, 10 October 2006 6:22 P GMT-05
David Keogh, a former civil servant, and Leo O'Connor, a former MP's researcher, are charged under the Official Secrets Act over a memo of a meeting in which Mr Bush is alleged to have suggested the bombing of the Arabic TV station al-Jazeera. The meeting took place in Washington in April 2004 at a time when the British government and military commanders were expressing serious concern about US tactics in Iraq.
David Frum Is Nuts
Tuesday, 10 October 2006 6:19 P GMT-05
The Rude Pundit has often wondered, especially as the cost of the Iraq war approaches the half-trillion mark, how much it would have cost to just buy Saddam Hussein out of power. Really. If Saddam had said, "Okay, you know what? Howzabout $10 billion for me and $1 billion each for my two sons and here's a list of about 100 people who get ten million each," would it have been so wrong to write the checks, maybe even have spread it out over time, like some lottery winnings, so that the vicious bastard couldn't back out? At the time it would have seemed outrageous, but history is a cruel bitch, and it now seems like a fuckin' bargain.
Olbermann's audience up 69 percent
Monday, 9 October 2006 6:02 P GMT-05
"As a critic of the administration, I will be damned if you can get away with calling me the equivalent of a Nazi appeaser," Olbermann told The Associated Press. "No one has the right to say that about any free-speaking American in this country." Since that first commentary, Olbermann's nightly audience has increased 69 percent, according to Nielsen Media Research. This past Monday 834,000 people tuned in, virtually double his season average and more than CNN competitors Paula Zahn and Nancy Grace. Cable kingpin and Olbermann nemesis Bill O'Reilly (two million viewers that night) stands in his way.
Is this the killer of Russian journalist?
Monday, 9 October 2006 4:13 P GMT-05
Russia's best known investigative journalist was murdered two days before she was due to publish a scathing report on torture by Russian agents in Chechnya, it emerged yesterday, as outrage spread around the world.
Truth in America
Sunday, 8 October 2006 4:44 P GMT-05
An Oprah show special…what is the truth? 9/11, the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, media reports…are we getting the whole story?
Let's Face It, Penises Dominate American Politics
Saturday, 7 October 2006 4:05 P GMT-05
A few years ago,there was a play -- still around -- called the Vagina Monologues. American politics, at the same time, turned into the Penis Monologues. Anything else, in between penises, is just marking time. Fail to get bin Laden, who cares? Discover proof that the administration made up stories so they could have their war in Iraq, no big deal, not even news, according to the New York Times. Best estimate is that US bombs and artillery killed 100,000 Iraqi civilians, it would be rude to mention it. Then there's all that money that disappeared. Paul Bremer blew through twenty billion (yes, Billion) dollars that was supposed to be held in trust for the Iraqi people and there's no records and nothing to show for it. After that was gone, the occupation authorities blew through another twenty billion that was supposed to go for the reconstruction of Iraq. Let's not ask where the money went -- no major media outlet has.
Officials: Russian journalist found dead
Saturday, 7 October 2006 3:40 P GMT-05
Anna Politkovskaya, a tireless investigative reporter, had written a critical book on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his campaign in Chechnya, documenting widespread abuse of civilians by government troops. Her body was found in an elevator in her Moscow apartment building, a duty officer at a police station in central Moscow told The Associated Press. Dmitry Muratov, editor of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, where Politkovskaya worked, told Ekho Moskvy radio that she was killed in the late afternoon.
Folly of the Foley Pervert Scandal: Dangerous Times Straight Ahead
Saturday, 7 October 2006 3:24 P GMT-05
Finally, the Folly of the Foley pervert scandal indicates danger immediately ahead. Between now and the midterm election a mere month away, the neocon Republicans may pull a bloody rabbit out of their hat, lest they go down in flames to the neocon Democrats. Is it possible the Bush neocons will adjust the schedule and shift their shock and awe campaign against Iran into high gear? In order to be effective, such may necessitate a “homegrown” terrorist attack, complete with an exercise of the newly spawned detainee bill and the disappearance of malcontents into the nightmarish maw of Ministry of Homeland Security “detention camps,” freshly constructed by Halliburton-KBR.
The Fairness Doctrine
Saturday, 7 October 2006 1:14 P GMT-05
The necessity for the Fairness Doctrine, according to proponents, arises from the fact that there are many fewer broadcast licenses than people who would like to have them. Unlike publishing, where the tools of the trade are in more or less endless supply, broadcasting licenses are limited by the finite number of available frequencies.
Politics 101: Why third parties don't work well in American politics
Friday, 6 October 2006 5:09 P GMT-05
Liquid Bombing Ruse Does Not Make the Papers
Thursday, 5 October 2006 6:29 P GMT-05
Yet again... a "terrorist plot" falls apart in the weeks that follow the SHOCK and AWE of media coverage. Footage of jammed and panicked airports, bins full of bottled water, hair gel and lipstick gets 24/7 coverage up front... then the mainstream media strangely disappears when it turns out the plot was a complete and total fraud.
Is your daughter a future detainee?
Monday, 2 October 2006 5:33 P GMT-05
The Senate just passed by a vote of 65-34 a bill that, among other things, allows the president to imprison forever, without trial, your neighbor's son -- a lawful permanent resident in the United States -- for emailing his Muslim roommate who went home to visit his family. Your daughter who organizes a protest at the Pentagon that gets a little more attention than the president thinks it should could become a detainee, held indefinitely. The bill says generally what activities qualify one as an "unlawful enemy combatant" subject to detention, but if the government can postpone that review indefinitely, who's going to tell the president that detention is illegal?
9/11 Reveals the Rotten Machine Behind the Curtain
Friday, 29 September 2006 7:54 P GMT-05
One day I received a massive number of emails from people asking for more information regarding 9/11, and the possibility it was an inside job. Stunned, I contacted one of these people to find out how they'd gotten my email address, and found that my email address had been published in a major North American newspaper. The article had begun as a "grassy knoll" "tin foil hats" hit piece on 9/11 truth seekers, but oddly it listed point by point the disturbing facts around 9/11 I had collected and sent out. Then it said if you want more information on 9/11, contact ... and they gave my email address.
I called the reporter, who immediately apologized for the "hit piece" quality of the article. He said that in order to get the facts out about the disturbing questions around 9/11, he had to write it in the form of a hit piece in order to get it past his editor. He spoke of other reporters at major papers who'd already lost their jobs for critically analyzing the events of 9/11, and this was only a few months after 9/11/2001.
Twilight Struggle: Finally Standing Up as the Republic Crashes Down����
Friday, 29 September 2006 7:11 P GMT-05
The Times has taken a good, strong first step; now they need to march forward boldly and tell the rest of the truth. Bush's "War on Terror" is coming to the Homeland, and its target is the American people. Bush and his handlers want to destroy the ability of anyone to oppose their hard-right – and overwhelmingly unpopular – agenda. It's the only way the Faction can maintain its domination – and avoid prosecution for its many crimes. They're fighting for their freedom – so they'll take ours. They're fighting for their lives – so they'll take ours. Next time, the NYT should put a piece like this on the front page – and end it with a call for mass marches in the street, exhorting the American people to rally for their liberty and bring down the bloodstained tyrants who have usurped the Republic and dishonored our name.
Oliver Stone says "conspiracy-mongering on 9/11" a "waste of time"
Friday, 29 September 2006 2:43 P GMT-05
"I think that conspiracy-mongering on 9/11 is a waste of time," he said. "The far greater conspiracy occurred after 9/11 when basically a neo-cabal inside our government hijacked policy and went to war. That was as broad a conspiracy as we can get and it was about 20, 30 people. That's all, they took over and all these books are coming out and they are pointing it out," said Stone.
9/11: Pathetic "Left" Disinformation
Thursday, 28 September 2006 3:51 A GMT-05
Commentators on the left, like pundits elsewhere on the political spectrum, are hesitant to go far astray of the limits on accepted discourse regarding controversial questions, especially, as in the case of 9-11, when corporate media and the state heavily police these boundaries. There is a left bias toward explanations of terror as the result of exploitation and revolt of the underprivileged. Finally, the left is averse to conspiracy theories spun by critics of the system, seeing such theories as antithetical to systematic analysis based on larger factors, like class struggle or globalization.
Keith Olbermann Receives a Death Threat, and the New York Post Thinks It's Pretty Darn Funny
Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:53 P GMT-05
The New York Post's unctuous Page Six "reported" it, but it's also been independently confirmed that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann -- whose brave commentaries of late taking to task the Bush Administration (and President Bush himself) have invited genuine comparisons to Edward R. Murrow -- opened a suspicious letter with a California postmark that was mailed to his New York City home late Tuesday night and out poured a white powdery substance. A threatening note inside reportedly indicated that this represented revenge for his outspoken on-air views of late.
Barbaric Buckley
Wednesday, 27 September 2006 11:36 P GMT-05
Currently, the Administration proposes to torture only "terrorist suspects." Almost none of its victims are American citizens. But no government in history has ever contented itself with torturing foreigners: very soon, it starts on its own people. Political opponents, dissenters, intellectuals and writers are usually among the first to be seized.
Lauro Chavez Clarifies Points For His Critics
Wednesday, 27 September 2006 8:30 P GMT-05
How did I know Cheney was in charge of NORAD, prior to it becoming public?
- Easy, in the Army and whole of the DoD there is a thing called chain of command. Every solider is supposed to be aware of who his superiors are. When Cheney was announced to be taking over NORAD, the CoC was updated and passed out to all of us. This, I’m sure, was prior to the public release of this information. There were many military friends of mine, at the time, that questioned this action.
The Importance of Civil Disobedience in Post Katrina New Orleans
Wednesday, 27 September 2006 8:10 P GMT-05
The virtual, corporate-owned, media blackout is a sure sign that those in power feel intimidation. The ignoring of public housing in the local media, and now apparently acts of civil disobedience, is a sign the ruling class doesn't want the word to get out.
What's Wrong With Calling Bush A Devil?
Monday, 25 September 2006 3:39 P GMT-05
Conservatives were quick to lash out at Hugo Chavez for calling President Bush a "devil," but that's exactly what Rush Limbaugh was calling Democrats only a few years ago.
CHALLENGE TO MAINSTREAM JOURNALISTS... DARE TO REALLY INVESTIGATE 9/11
Sunday, 24 September 2006 4:55 P GMT-05
So guys, do you have the courage to stand up to power? To investigate without a fore drawn conclusion? We need you. We need you to see what we see. Not holographic projections of ghost planes, not alien scalar demolition, but an unbelievably implausible official story, rife with glaring inconsistencies and outright lies. It’s the story of a lifetime begging to be written. I dare you.
Too Much Monkey Business
Sunday, 24 September 2006 4:50 P GMT-05
This time, it's the words of activist and street performer Roberto Borges that stuck with me. Speaking of the opposition, he says "It's not only the weapon that fires. It's the weapon that seeks to make us idiots, which is the media."
Researchers: Homes have more TVs than people
Sunday, 24 September 2006 3:35 P GMT-05
The average American home now has more television sets than people. That threshold was crossed within the past two years, according to Nielsen Media Research. There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people, the researchers said.
Why 9/11 Is the Defining Issue of our Time
Saturday, 23 September 2006 4:06 P GMT-05
U.S. government representatives may have been behind the attacks, or may have simply lied about their lack of knowledge, or a bit of both. Either way, Locke's social contract (ie. to provide protection to the citizenry) was violated, and the damage of that is incalculable. You could say that the contract is null and void. The citizens are now entitled to rebellion. The alternative would be to lie down and suffer the consequences, which in this case, I suggest, will be to intellectually/emotionally cripple a whole generation.
911 Media Roundup
Saturday, 23 September 2006 2:49 P GMT-05
Counterpunch Must Denounce Chavez as "Conspiracy Nut"
Saturday, 23 September 2006 2:49 P GMT-05
Looks like Counterpunch is taking the easy way. It's not difficult to churn out uncritical hit-pieces like JoAnn Wypijewski's "Conversations at Ground Zero". Anyone can do it. These love letters to the oligarchy, couched in the familiar terms of "Government Incompetence" hit with all the power of a wet noodle. How does Counterpunch manage to repeat the mantra of "Government Incompetence" over and over, while at the same time embracing the "Government Approved" conspiracy theory of the intrepid 19, and keep a straight face?
Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007
Wednesday, 20 September 2006 3:30 P GMT-05
The important stories that the mainstream media (MSM) would tend to ignore.
What I Want You to Know About 9-11
Tuesday, 19 September 2006 8:26 P GMT-05
Who in their right mind doesn't want to believe that what happened that day was exactly as presented by the Bush Administration? Any alternative train of thought is beyond painful and requires the individual to look evil straight in the eye. I also find it quite interesting that so many in the media who have questioned the government's actions in cover ups like the OKC bombing, TWA Flight 800, Ron Brown and other tragedies, refuse to ask even one question about the official story sold about 9/11. I suppose that's a tribute to the excellent job done by the Ministry of Propaganda in combating any efforts to find answers. The exception and kudos to Lou Dobbs for stepping up to the plate.
Oriana Fallaci, RIP
Tuesday, 19 September 2006 4:40 P GMT-05
I deeply respected her courage and professionalism in spite of many a disagreement I had with her views. BE
Second Secret Study Surfaces at FCC
Tuesday, 19 September 2006 4:28 P GMT-05
Another Federal Communications Commission study on the negative impacts of media consolidation came to light Monday after being buried at the agency for at least two years -- the second suppressed FCC ownership study to surface in as many weeks. It's clear that FCC's top brass are willing to deep-six any research that contradicts the media industry's pro-consolidation claims.
When the truth is a stranger to fiction
Tuesday, 19 September 2006 6:21 A GMT-05
Did Monica Lewinsky cause the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States? Anyone who watched The Path to 9/11, the ABC two-parter about the events leading up to September 11, might be forgiven for thinking so. The docudrama, hyped by ABC as a "historic broadcast", but seen by its critics as five hours of cynical spin, is a damning indictment of the Clinton administration's failure to derail al-Qaida.
Media ownership study ordered destroyed
Tuesday, 19 September 2006 5:22 A GMT-05
The Federal Communications Commission ordered its staff to destroy all copies of a draft study that suggested greater concentration of media ownership would hurt local TV news coverage, a former lawyer at the agency says.
Pentagon Guantanamo ‘Fact’ Sheet Highlights High-Tops And Harry Potter, Distorts Real Issues
Sunday, 17 September 2006 5:11 P GMT-05
This week, the Department of Defense (DoD) released a document entitled “Ten Facts About Guantanamo.” The document contains relatively insignificant facts — all detainees receive a pair of “high-top sneakers” — and ignores the facility’s real problems.
Why the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Really Won't Go Away
Friday, 15 September 2006 5:42 P GMT-05
THAT is why the 9/11 conspiracy theories won’t go away. Because they shouldn’t go away – not until partisanship is swept aside and each and every valid question they raise is addressed honestly, with candor, detail, science, and an interest in finding the truth about what really happened.
The Elephant in the Room
Friday, 15 September 2006 4:30 P GMT-05
Now that the "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" naked King and Queen of the MSM (NYT & WP) have finally deigned to detect the elephant in the Bush's room so many of us have been howling about for five years, perhaps now you'll feel it's safe to report on the Story of the Millennium and take a peek at and report on the veritable mountain of anomalies, any handful of which, completely shatter the government's conspiracy theory -- not to mention the Baby Elephant crying out for attention, the inexplicable collapse of 52 story Lucky WTC Building Number 7 in a few mere heartbeats longer than a free falling object.
Fear and Perspective
Friday, 15 September 2006 4:13 P GMT-05
Our leaders and media would have us believe that terrorism is the greatest threat our country has ever seen, considering the amount of attention and coverage that is devoted to discussing terrorism, security and war. In reality, however, the odds of dying in a terrorist attack are slim to none. Actually, the odds are 1 in 88,000. Comparatively, the odds of death by lightning are 1 in 55,928. The odds of dying in a car accident are 1 in 81.
Reporter Palast Slips Clutches of Homeland Security
Friday, 15 September 2006 3:56 P GMT-05
I have sworn to Homeland Security that we no longer send our footage to al-Qaeda — which, in any case, can get a much better view of the refinery and other “critical infrastructure” at Google Maps. Given Exxon’s back-down, I hope to confirm with Homeland Security, Baton Rouge, that charges will be dropped today.
The 9/11 story
Thursday, 14 September 2006 9:06 P GMT-05
Was the success of the attacks (from a terrorist's tactical perspective) due to complacency by high officials and intelligence bungling or cleverness on the part of al-Qaida? Was the al-Qaida threat as obvious as it seemed to a few high officials at the time while fools and charlatans ignored it? Or was it only one concern among many that understandably didn't rise to the highest priority until 9/11 happened? Were there really enough dots to be connected that the attacks could have been thwarted, or is such talk 20/20 hindsight? In a more sinister vein, did the government consciously let the plot go forward – or do it itself – to unite the populace behind war plans, as a surprising number of Americans are coming to believe?
Video: C-SPAN "9/11 Press for Truth" press conference
Thursday, 14 September 2006 7:55 P GMT-05
The video is about an hour long, the statements by the 9/11 victim's relatives are very powerful. Donna Marsh O'Connor, Christina Kminek and Michelle Little explain why a new investigation is needed. If someone can make a .torrent for this, please do. Oh, yeah, Paul Thompson does a great job on the fly here as well.
Griffin on BBC (video)
Thursday, 14 September 2006 7:47 P GMT-05
David Ray Griffin appeared on BBC's Heaven & Earth Sunday. Here's the link.
A British 9/11 truther tells me there were approximately 1 million viewers.
It is an excellent interview, and David Shayler was great too.
If you liked this 9-11; you’ll Love the next
Tuesday, 12 September 2006 6:23 P GMT-05
The fact that government officials lie is hardly shocking or newsworthy. What is surprising, however, is the complicity of the media in propagating those deceptions without argument. As Robert Fisk noted some time ago, the news should actually be called, "High-ranking government official said;" since the news exclusively reflects the war-mongering, business-friendly perspective of government.
Video: Olbermann's Special Comment for the anniversary of 9/11
Tuesday, 12 September 2006 6:20 P GMT-05
"And anyone who claims that I and others like me are 'soft,' or have 'forgotten"' the lessons of what happened here is at best a grasping, opportunistic, dilettante and at worst, an idiot whether he is a commentator, or a Vice President, or a President."
Palast Charged with Journalism in the First Degree
Tuesday, 12 September 2006 6:06 P GMT-05
A personal request to readers. Many have written to ask what can be done to protect Matt and me from becoming unwilling guests of the State. First, this ain't no foolin' around: Matt and I are facing these nutty charges. So spread the info. We believe that getting the word out is the best defense. Second, call Homeland Security and turn us in. They seem to have trouble finding us. If you get a reward, you may choose to donate it to the Palast Investigative Fund, a 501(c)(3) educational foundation which supports our work and pays our legal fees.
Ann Coulter To Debate A Jersey Girl On Monday
Monday, 11 September 2006 4:50 P GMT-05
Premise: Ann Coulter appears with one of the 9/11 widows she wrote about in her book “Godless: The Church of Liberalism.” Also: exploring 9/11 conspiracy theories.
CBC Sunday Covers Alternative 9/11 Theories in Detail
Monday, 11 September 2006 2:16 A GMT-05
Dylan Avery to Debate Davin Coburn of Popular Mechanics on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman
Saturday, 9 September 2006 4:40 P GMT-05
Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, 8 AM, September 11th, 2006. I'll be on debating Davin Coburn of Popular Mechanics, in studio, for broadcast on TV and radio.
Reporter Greg Palast faces Homeland Security charges
Saturday, 9 September 2006 4:39 P GMT-05
Writing for Greg's website, Zach Roberts reports that Palast is under criminal investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for filming a site owned by Exxon Mobil for a Hurricane Katrina documentary.
The Path To 9/11 Is The Path To Distraction
Saturday, 9 September 2006 4:32 P GMT-05
The lapdog mainstream media and the left-gatekeeper establishment wannabees have so far succeeded in overshadowing the 9/11 truth movement nearing the fifth anniversary of the attacks, by getting all hot and bothered about a nothing documentary that whitewashes both the Bush and Clinton administration's contribution to facilitating the destruction of the trade towers.
Donate to help my effort along
Friday, 8 September 2006 6:18 P GMT-05
The main point of this project is to fight the bias in the mainstream media and inform the public about issues of import. A major part of that is uncovering the truth of 9/11 and trying to see to it that the great deception most vividly punctuated by the dreadful events of that day comes to an end. I have put a lot of time and effort into this projet. I have heard both praise and scorn - and that I consider a good sign. But no project can be run on enthusiasm alone and, just like everyone else, I need cash.
WAS HOMELAND SECURITY BEHIND ATTACK ON 9/11 INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST?
Friday, 8 September 2006 5:41 P GMT-05
The "undercover tactical unit" involved in the assault and TASERing of a 9/11 investigative journalist at his Chicago-area home was most likely an operation ordered by the Department of Homeland Security, according to a former high-ranking police official.
Olbermann to Bush, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" (video)
Thursday, 7 September 2006 4:03 P GMT-05
Laid Bare for All to See
Thursday, 7 September 2006 2:21 P GMT-05
The mainstream media lapdogs are trying so hard to prop up the official story of 9/11 that their duplicity and bias have been laid bare for all to see.
Father Of 9/11 Victim Says Government Ran Attack As Media Hit Pieces Continue
Monday, 4 September 2006 3:42 P GMT-05
There were another two major 9/11 semi-debunking pieces over the weekend, one in the San Francisco Chronicle and one in Reuters. Expect a deluge of them for the next two weeks as the five year anniversary comes to pass.
AZ Radio Host Deconstructs Popular Mechanics' 9/11 Disinfo Researcher
Sunday, 3 September 2006 11:20 P GMT-05
Ever wonder why prominent "official story" apologists always shun 9/11 truth debates? Here perhaps is the nightmare that they dread. Show host Goyette is not an overt 9/11 skeptic, just a fearless interrogator with a very logical mind. One guesses the battered Mr. Coburn will be picking his interview venues with much more care next time.
The Toronto Sun Shamefully Says "We Should Nuke Iran"
Sunday, 3 September 2006 8:43 P GMT-05
Put boldly and simply, we have to drop a nuclear bomb on Iran.
True Political Courage (video)
Sunday, 3 September 2006 8:35 P GMT-05
What Keith Olbermann did tonight took true courage. Not the faux, pseudo-decisive "stick-to-my-guns" variety of our failing President, but the very real courage of someone who took a chance, that of a man taking a very real career risk to do his job: disturb the comforted and comfort the disturbed. And distrurb the comforted is what Olbermann did tonight. Watch it:
Rupert Murdoch's Victims
Sunday, 3 September 2006 3:36 P GMT-05
The first death known to me, that was precipitated by a Rupert Murdoch headline, occurred in Sydney in March,1964, when a schoolboy committed suicide. More of that later. These days, the casualties resulting from military invasions championed by Murdoch are numbered in the thousands, though he is not the sole agent of destruction.
9/11 Skeptics Challenge WTC Findings
Sunday, 3 September 2006 3:23 P GMT-05
This is the first in a series of articles that will run in amNewYork ahead of the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Coming next week: Muslim teens growing up in post-9/11 New York, health problems of first-responders to Ground Zero and a look at what is left of the Twin Towers.
Going to War with the Leaders you have
Sunday, 3 September 2006 3:18 P GMT-05
Tom Friedman summarized Rumsfeld’s strategy as the “Rumsfeld Doctrine” that is, deploying “just enough troops to lose.” And, as we have already shown, Rumsfeld has failed in every phase of the occupation without exception. It is pointless to dispute Rumsfeld’s allegations that his critics are “appeasers” or “fascist” sympathizers. It’s just a silly attempt to set up a straw man and then knock him down. Rumsfeld is a master at shifting attention from his own wretched performance and dumping the blame on someone else. In this case, he attacks not only those who have lost faith in the war but, also, takes a few swipes at his old nemesis “the media”.
Barrie Zwicker: 9/11 the official story is the biggest conspiracy
Sunday, 3 September 2006 3:03 P GMT-05
BZ: My initial doubts arose before noon on the day of 9/11, based on the absence of any USAF response to the multiple hijackings, over a drama in the skies that lasted almost two hours. As a person always very interested in aviation, I knew that this quite simply was impossible. It turned out I was the first journalist in the world to go on national TV to question the official story.
JonBenet Died - And Bush Lied?
Friday, 1 September 2006 4:17 P GMT-05
Keith Olbermann first compiled, almost a year ago on his "Countdown" program on MSNBC, a list of ten "coincidences" wherein bad news for the Bush administration (or, during the election, good news for John Kerry) was immediately followed by terror alerts that grabbed the headlines and diverted the attention, Teflon-like, away from Republicans and into a media frenzy. Olbermann's list is now up to 13 of these odd "coincidences." An administration that would out a CIA agent and bring down an entire counterterrorism operation just to punish a former ambassador who dared to speak out about administration lies may well be easily capable of cooking up news-grabbing "coincidences."
The Man Who Has Been to America
Friday, 1 September 2006 1:50 P GMT-05
Why should Geneva Convention protections be applied to Guantanamo detainees? One innocent man's journey through the legal black hole of the War on Terror—four prisons, three countries, two years—may be the best argument yet.
Shut Up and Listen
Friday, 1 September 2006 12:40 P GMT-05
Deal with the painful reality that you DO NOT KNOW what is happening around you, and understand that your stubborn resistance to new information will be your own downfall in the long haul. Until you make some attempt at rehabilitation, just stop. We’ve had enough. You’ve done your damage, so just stop.
Video: Olbermann: Rumsfeld is a fascist
Friday, 1 September 2006 12:36 P GMT-05
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet.
MediaCulture: Media Beast vs. Public Interest
Thursday, 31 August 2006 4:05 P GMT-05
Make no mistake: The media beast is every bit as compulsive and out of control as Karr, who may yet end up behind bars for child pornography. But the beast is free to maul again and again.
On the Sacking of Malloy
Thursday, 31 August 2006 3:39 P GMT-05
Hey Truthseekers, Malloy here. My good friend Peter Werbe will be temporarily broadcasting on Air America Radio at night in my old time slot. He's a good guy, a true left-liberal, and now finds himself in an awkward position. He cannot comment about the circumstances of my termination on the air, which I completely understand and support.
Washington Post reporter, Dan Eggen, whistles government tune on Osama bin Laden
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 4:53 P GMT-05
In the article, the Washington Post attempts to explain to its readers why the FBI’s Osama bin Laden Ten Most Wanted poster makes no direct mention to Osama bin Laden being wanted for the events of September 11, 2001. Eggen and Horwitz make no mention whatsoever as to what prompted them to write this article at this time.
9/11 conspiracies are a crying shame
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 5:00 P GMT-05
The fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, is two weeks away, but the screeching from the conspiracy monkey house already is upon us.
On Point: 9/11 theories burst
Tuesday, 29 August 2006 4:56 P GMT-05
With the anniversary of 9/11 just a couple of weeks away, it's time to strike a blow for sanity and, yes, truth. If the polls are accurate, someone you know is flirting with 9/11 denial - or perhaps has succumbed already to the contagious delusion.
WELCOME TO AMERICA. IF YOU'RE A JOURNALIST, BEND OVER AND SPREAD 'EM!
Monday, 28 August 2006 9:03 P GMT-05
Journalists must also provide their addresses in the United States and the names and addresses of those who they will be interviewing. So much for freedom of the press and the protection of journalists' sources.
FBI: Brooklyn HDTV company provided users with 'Hezbollah TV'
Sunday, 27 August 2006 2:39 P GMT-05
A complaint announced today by the FBI alleges that through a company called HDTV Ltd. located in Brooklyn, Iqbal and others provided customers in the New York area with satellite broadcasts of al Manar, which is a television station owned and/or operated by Hezbollah.
Seized journalists freed in Gaza
Sunday, 27 August 2006 1:35 P GMT-05
American Steve Centanni and New Zealander Olaf Wiig of US organisation Fox News were dropped off at a Gaza City beach-front hotel.
Those opposed to nuclear annihilation are appeasers and guilty of "handwringing"
Saturday, 26 August 2006 11:09 A GMT-05
It's plainly time to add pre-emptive nuclear annihilation of entire countries to the list of policies (along with the use of torture as an interrogation tool, rendition, laweless detention of U.S. citizens, and presidential law-breaking) which are so self-evidently contrary to the defining values of our country that they used to be taboo even to advocate, but are now commonly accepted policies among many mainstream pundits, including those who most ardently support the current president.
Dear Democracy Now!
Saturday, 26 August 2006 10:50 A GMT-05
I hope that others will join me in asking Democracy Now! to wake up, clear the fog, abandon the propaganda, and start asking some serious questions about what happened to this country on 9/11/2001.
Popular Mechanics "9/11 Myths" Debunker Cancels Radio Debate
Thursday, 24 August 2006 6:17 P GMT-05
Two hours before he was to debate a member of "Scholars for 9/11 Truth" on a Seattle radio talk show, a research editor for "Popular Mechanics" magazine pulls out.
911 Mainstream Media
Wednesday, 23 August 2006 1:31 A GMT-05
NOTE: SO FAR THIS IS THE LARGEST ARTICLE EVER PRINTED BY THE UK MAINSTREAM MEDIA RAISING MANY OF THE SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 9/11 COVER UP
America's corporate-controlled media: garbage disguised as news
Tuesday, 22 August 2006 4:39 P GMT-05
While many in the developing world are malnourished because of lack of food, America is a nation where people can be gluttonous, and still remain malnourished because of the quality of the food they are consuming.
This analogy also applies to the philosophies of corporate-controlled media: They provide the sensation of being “full” (i.e. informed) while their consumers starve for lack of substance.
The Flying Elephant: Evidence for Involvement of a Third Jet in the WTC Attacks
Monday, 21 August 2006 3:12 P GMT-05
At 9:04am, Diane Sawyer of ABC News made remarks on-air about the "circling" jet she and her
colleagues "all saw" prior to the second strike. She admits she "just assumed" it was the same
one that struck the South Tower.
Media Math: 1 Death 10 Years Ago > 3438 Deaths in July
Sunday, 20 August 2006 8:43 P GMT-05
It is not being callous to state that the death of a little girl 10 years ago, while tragic, certainly does not outweigh the deaths of 3438 people in one month, right here in the summer of 2006. 3438 men, women, children, husbands, wives, grandparents. 3438 individuals who were all living and breathing as recently as June 30th.
Teacher's radical 9/11 views raise red flags
Saturday, 19 August 2006 4:55 P GMT-05
According to Kevin Barrett, the US government planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks, the World Trade Center imploded due to explosives set up ahead of time in the buildings, Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone's plane crash was no accident, and
Osama bin Laden has probably been dead since 2001.
Alex Jones' Terror Alert on FOX News
Tuesday, 15 August 2006 2:20 P GMT-05