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Author and anti-war activist Mike Palecek tours with new books

Sheldon, Iowa — From Tulsa to Denver, noted author and activist Mike Palecek hits the road this spring with two new books: Iowa Terror and Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace and Activism.

Described by Howard Zinn as a writer with “passion, wit,” and “a profound social conscience,” Palecek has been writing antiwar, political novels for over 10 years.

“I write to throw stones,” Palecek says. “Abbie Hoffman said ‘steal this book.’ I hope one day my books will be bricks – toss this brick – through the windows of my comfortable neighbors, neighborhood churches, side windows of SUVs.”

Palecek’s latest work, Iowa Terror, takes on 9/11 through the story of Jesus Iowa, an immigrant who experiences Sept. 11, 2001 along with the rest of America – except that he understood what was really happening. “Jesus did not just go to school the next day and try to forget like the rest of us, carry on with his life, forget about the world,” Palecek says. “It bothered him, tore him up, and he acted, did something, in the great good tradition of an American patriot.”

“And he came to be reviled as The Terrorist,” Palecek adds, “pursued by all the traditional idiots of small-town America in the process.”

Iowa Terror is in large format, with color illustrations. Ruth and Mike Palecek published it with Seventh Street Press.

Palecek also recently co-edited Cost of Freedom: The Anthology of Peace and Activism, released by Howling Dog Press in Fall 2007. “I hear on our hometown radio that I owe my freedom to the soldiers,” says Palecek. “And that of course is b.s. I owe it to the protestors, who have fought Bush and his crew from day one, on the street corners of Duluth, Dalhart, Denver, for years. There are your heroes, America.”

A coffee-table style book crammed with photos, essays, poetry and art from everyday peace activists, Cost of Freedom has garnered praise from Ramsey Clark, Ralph Nader, Thom Hartmann, Harry Belafonte and Noam Chomsky, who writes that Cost of Freedom “should inspire many more to join in these efforts to create a powerful force of concerned citizens that cannot be ignored.”

Palecek is touring with both books this spring, hitting venues in Oklahoma, Texas, Arizona and Nevada before moving up California into Oregon and Washington. After a stop in Idaho and Salt Lake City, Utah, Palecek ends in Colorado, where Howling Dog Press is located.

For specific dates and venues, visit
http://www.mikepalecek.com or http://costoffreedombook.blogspot.com.

To set up an interview, please contact Whitney Trettien at costoffreedombook@yahoo.com.

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9/11 Aircraft ‘Black Box’ Serial Numbers Mysteriously Absent
by Aidan Monaghan

Of all major U.S. airline crashes within the U.S. investigated and published by the National Transportation Safety Board during the past 20 years, the 9/11 ‘black boxes’ are virtually the only ones without listed serial numbers.

NTSB American Airlines flight 77 flight data recorder report, not noting a device serial number:

http://www.911myths.com/AAL77_fdr.pdf

NTSB United Airlines flight 93 flight data recorder report, not noting a device serial number:

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB196/doc04.pdf

The United States government alleges that 4 registered Boeing commercial passenger aircraft were used in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, yet has failed to produce any physical evidence collected from the 3 9/11 crash scenes positively tied to these federally registered United and American airlines aircraft. Despite the release of abundant information regarding the 9/11 flights and the aircraft reportedly used, specific information that would confirm official allegations regarding the identity of these aircraft has been mysteriously withheld or denied upon request.

The federally registered aircraft reportedly used during the 9/11 attacks:

- American Airlines flight 11 (N334AA), United Airlines flight 175 (N612UA), American Airlines flight 77 (N644AA) and United Airlines flight 93 (N591UA).

With flight data recorder serial number data that is virtually always provided within NTSB reports of major U.S. commercial airline crashes that occur within U.S. territory, one can trace an installed device to a particular registered aircraft through manufacturer or Federal Aviation Administration records.

The following e-mail was provided by a Susan Stevenson of the NTSB on 12/26/2007, in response to a 12/16/2007 public correspondence e-mail inquiry:

“Yes. NTSB investigators rarely encounter a scenario when the identification of an accident aircraft is not apparent. But during those occasions, investigators will record serial numbers of major components, and then contact the manufacturer of those components in an attempt to determine what aircraft the component was installed upon.”

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Al Qaeda and the Bogus “War on Terror”
By Arabesque

In an editorial entitled “War on Terrorism is Bogus” Michael Meacher, a former Member of UK parliament wrote:

[The] “global war on terrorism” has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way for a wholly different agenda – the US goal of world hegemony, built around securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole project.

Who is Al Qaeda? As noted by Michel Chossudovsky:

Ironically, Al Qaeda –the ‘outside enemy of America’ as well as the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks– is a creation of the CIA. From the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war in the early 1980s, the US intelligence apparatus has supported the formation of the ‘Islamic brigades’.

As former National Security Adviser to President Jimmy Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski explained:

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahideen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, [on] 24 December 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979, that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

Did this support ever end? As Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed explains in Ties With Terror: The Continuity of Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period:

At every major strategic point in the world, we find that US and Western power is symbiotically melded – through financial, military and intelligence connections – with al-Qaeda; and further that al-Qaeda has in certain places been explicitly used as a military-intelligence asset by Western powers, particularly the United States and United Kingdom. This documentation indicates that international terrorism in the form of al-Qaeda is not merely an enemy to be fought, but rather an unruly asset to be, when possible, controlled and manipulated in the pursuit of quite specific strategic and economic interests. Worse still, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that certain elements of the policy-making establishment are perfectly cognizant that as a direct result of such policies, national security is being fundamentally and continuously undermined with repeatedly fatal consequences. Yet the same brand of policies persists. Without dwelling unnecessarily on the possible theoretical ramifications of this phenomenon, it is sufficient for me to note that these facts fundamentally challenge the entire paradigm of the ‘War on Terror’ as articulated and legitimized by the official narrative.

This “unbroken chain of links between “Al Qaeda” and Western Intelligence agencies from the 1980′s through the 1990′s” has also been documented by Michel Chossudovsky. This “relationship” has continued to the present day:

 

“President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert “black” operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed. Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilise, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs.”

“The CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan.”

This group has ties to the Al-Qaeda organization.

Original article here.

10 Questions About 9/11 Answered
By Arabesque

1. When did the conspiracy theories start to come around?

The 9/11 official story is a “conspiracy” of 19 hijackers and Osama Bin Laden. In response to the attacks, 9/11 Family members demanded an investigation. Mindy Kleinberg, in an opening address to the 9/11 Commission:

“It has been said that the intelligence agencies have to be right 100% of the time. And the terrorists only have to get lucky once. This explanation for the devastating attacks of September 11th, simple on its face, is wrong in its value, because the 9-11 terrorists were not just lucky once. They were lucky over and over again. When you have this repeated pattern of broken protocols, broken laws, broken communication, one cannot still call it luck. If at some point, we don’t look to hold the individuals accountable for not doing their jobs, properly, then how can we ever expect for terrorists to not get lucky again?”

The 9/11 family members demanded accountability for the 9/11 attacks. Who was held responsible for the attacks? Instead of reprimand, key officials were promoted:

Former Senator Gary Hart observes that, “in terms of accountability, I think this is one of the great mysteries of the last three or four years. Three thousand Americans died three years ago, and no one lost his or her job over it. A president who says that he is a strong president, and those around him say he is, did not fire anyone. Either he was misled, in which case, somebody should have been fired. Or he misled us, in which case he should be fired.”[4] Senator Charles Grassley similarly noted that “I can’t think of a single person being held accountable anywhere in government for what went on and what went wrong prior to Sept. 11. It seems that nobody in government makes any mistakes anymore.” According to testimony given to Congress these statements are accurate; not one single individual within the CIA, FBI, and NSA has been reprimanded, punished, or fired for the events of 9/11.

2. Do you think we will ever find out the “truth”? Explain.

It depends. Key facts will remain unknown unless another investigation takes place. Will the truth ever be known? Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains that, “The whole mystique of intelligence is that you acquire this… very valuable information covertly… if truth be told, about 80%—eight, zero—of any of the information that one needs is available in open source materials.” In other words, while the entire truth may or may not be known, a great deal of the facts are available to us. Only another investigation could get answers to some key questions.

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9/11 Truth: Essential Reading
by Arabesque

Articles Available on the Internet-

Steven Jones

Why Indeed Did the World Trade Center Buildings Completely Collapse?

Revisiting 9/11/2001—Applying the Scientific Method

What is the Goal in the 9/11 Truth Community? Debates, or Justice?

Kevin Ryan

What is 9/11 Truth? – The First Steps

Looking for Truth in Credentials: The WTC “Experts”

Propping Up the War on Terror: Lies about the WTC by NIST and Underwriters Laboratories

David Ray Griffin

Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 Oral Histories

The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True

Neocon Imperialism, 9/11, and the Attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq

The American Empire and 9/11

The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie

Flights 11, 175, 77, and 93: The 9/11 Commission’s Incredible Tales

9/11 Live or Fabricated: Do the NORAD Tapes Verify The 9/11 Commission Report?

9/11: The Myth and the Reality

Joseph P. Firmage

Intersecting Facts and Theories on 9/11

Jim Hoffman

Review of ‘A New Standard for Deception: The NIST WTC Report’, a Presentation by Kevin Ryan

Building a Better Mirage: NIST’s 3-Year $20,000,000 Cover-Up of the Crime of the Century

NIST’s World Trade Center FAQ: A Reply to the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s ‘Answers to Frequently Asked Questions’

Forensic Metallurgy: Metallurgical Examination of WTC Steel Suggests Explosives

The 9/11 Commission Report: An Elaborate Fiction

The Pentagon Attack: What the Physical Evidence Shows

‘George Washington’

Mineta’s Testimony CONFIRMED

EVERYONE’S Doing It (questioning 9/11)

Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice

Scholars and Family Members Submit Request for Correction to 9/11 NIST Report

Misc.

9/11 Family Member Steering Committee, Unanswered Questions: ‘70 percent of their questions were either not adequately addressed by the commission or not addressed at all’

Paul Watson, Scientific Analysis Proves Towers Brought Down By Incendiaries

Gregor Holland, The Mineta Testimony: 9/11 Commission Exposed “During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President… the plane is 50 miles out… the plane is 30 miles out… and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president ‘do the orders still stand?’ And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said ‘Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!??’”

911Truth.org, The top 40: Reasons to Doubt the Official Story of September 11^th, 2001

TruthMove.org, Reinvestigate 9/11

911review.com, Information Warfare: Ideas as Weapons in the Era of Deception

9/11 Books-

David Ray Griffin

Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory

The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions

9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out, Vol. 1

Michael C. RuppertCrossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil

9/11 Links-

• 9/11 Truth.org
• 9/11 Research
• Journal of 9/11 Studies
• Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice
• TruthMove
• Visibility 9/11
• 9/11 Proof
• Patriots Question 9/11
• 9/11 Blogger
• Pilots for 9/11 Truth
• 9/11 Disinformation

Original article found here.

Truth as Terrorism

By John Albanese

President Bush holds press conference. Congress urged to pass law making it easier to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mails of suspected terrorists.
- MSNBC – February 28, 2008

Just who are these suspected terrorists that President Bush seeks a blank check to spy on? Recent reports in USA Today indicates that the government’s terrorist watch list has swelled to 755,000 names. In December of 2005 NBC News reported that a secret Defense Department document listed a Quaker Meeting House gathering of anti-war activists as a “threat.”

“This peaceful, educationally oriented group being a threat is incredible,” says Evy Grachow, a member of the Florida group called The Truth Project.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/

MSNBC goes on to report:

… the Pentagon now collects domestic intelligence that goes beyond legitimate concerns about terrorism or protecting U.S. military installations, say critics.

In December 2005 the ACLU published a press release: New Documents Show FBI Targeting Environmental and Animal Rights Groups Activities as ‘Domestic Terrorism’

The ACLU said that some of the documents suggest infiltration by undercover “sources” at animal rights meetings and conferences.

At times, the documents show aggressive attempts by the FBI to link PETA, Greenpeace and other mainstream organizations to activists associated with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) or Earth Liberation Front (ELF), said the ACLU. PETA, in particular, is repeatedly and falsely singled out as a “front” for militant organizations although in at least one document released today the FBI appears to acknowledge that it has no evidence to back up such assertions.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/23124prs20051220.html

Equally disturbing, on November 8, 2007 CSPAN aired a hearing of the Homeland Security Subcommittee’s “Terrorism and the Internet.” These hearings purported to identify “home grown terrorist recruiters” on the internet, in connection with House Bill HR 1955, “Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007.”

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ACLU: 900,000 Names on U.S. Terror Watch Lists

February 27, 2008
Justin Rood Reports

The FBI now keeps a list of over 900,000 names belonging to known or suspected terrorists, the American Civil Liberties Union said today.

If that number is accurate, it would be an all-time high, exponentially more than the 100,000 names on the list several years ago. But the number needs to be taken with a grain of salt: after all, the ACLU doesn’t keep the list, the FBI does, and the bureau doesn’t generally like to talk about it. (Indeed, the FBI has not yet responded to a request for comment for this post.)

But if the ACLU’s figure isn’t accurate, it’s also unlikely to be off by that much. Last September, the ACLU notes, the Department of Justice’s Inspector General reported the FBI watch list was at 700,000 names, and growing at 20,000 names per month.

The ACLU says they “extrapolated” from those figures to determine the list’s current size. ACLU’s Barry Steinhardt added that the group had spoken privately with people familiar with the watch list, who told them the 900,000 figure was not outlandish.

In the past, The FBI has told ABC News that the size of its watch list is classified. Despite that, both the bureau and the DoJ Inspector General have published the total figure in unclassified reports.

There’s no doubt the FBI’s list is growing: just last June, ABC News reported it was at 509,000 names, based on information in an unclassified FBI budget document.

But strangely, the list may be growing not because of swelling legions of foreign terrorists. Instead, it appears the FBI may be adding tens of thousands of names belonging to U.S. persons it suspects of being domestic terrorists — people who have no known ties to international terrorist organizations.

A separate entity, the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), keeps a list of all names believed to belong to terrorists linked to international terror groups. That list, which was at 100,000 names in 2003, grew to 465,000 names by last June – but since then has grown only modestly, according to NCTC spokesman Carl Kropf. Today, Kropf said that list stands at roughly 500,000 names. (Unlike the FBI, the NCTC does not maintain that the size of its watch list is classified information.)

The FBI takes that list and adds to it a new collection of names which belong to U.S. persons believed to be domestic terrorists: people who have links to terrorism but not to any international group.

Last June, the NCTC was responsible for putting 465,000 names on the watch list, and the FBI appeared to add an additional 44,000. By September, extrapolating from the DoJ Inspector General’s report, the FBI’s contribution appears to have grown to somewhere north of 200,000 names.

Today – if the ACLU is to be believed – the FBI’s contribution may be as high as 417,000 names. Which would raise a new question: Where are so many domestic terrorists coming from? Or do they simply use more aliases than foreign terrorists?

Update: The FBI responded late Wednesday afternoon. Spokesman Chad Kolton did not dispute the ACLU’s figure, but noted that the watch list contains names, aliases and name variations for individuals. The number of people on the watch list, he said, was around 300,000, and only 5 percent are U.S. persons. Kolton noted that the list is “regularly reviewed for accuracy.” Last year the bureau removed 100,000 records “related to people cleared of any nexus with terrorism,” Kolton said.

Original article here.

TSA: ‘Thousands of Aliens’ in U.S. Flight Schools Illegally
Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
February 27, 2008

ABC News reports:

Thousands of foreign student pilots have been able to enroll and obtain pilot licenses from U.S. flight schools, despite tough laws passed in the wake of the 9/ll attacks, according to internal government documents obtained by ABC News.

“Some of the very same conditions that allowed the 9-11 tragedy to happen in the first place are still very much in existence today,” wrote one regional security official to his boss at the TSA, the Transportation Security Administration.

But of course. Because foreigners in flight schools had nothing to do with September 11, 2001 — that is to say, foreign students not enrolled in military programs and vetted by the CIA had nothing to do with the attacks.

As we know, the supposed hijackers were alumni of American military schools, a fact reported by the New York Times. “The Defense Department said Mr. Atta had gone to the International Officers School at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama; Mr. al-Omari to the Aerospace Medical School at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas; and Mr. al-Ghamdi to the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio in Monterey, Calif.,” the newspaper reported on September 15, 2001.

These patsy and mentally deficient terrorists were handled by the CIA at the time they were supposedly learning how to fly at Huffmann Aviation in Venice, Florida. “A CIA front company called Air Caribe was also operating out of the very same hangar at Venice airport,” veteran UK intelligence officer Colonel John Hughes-Wilson wrote in his book, Military Intelligence Blunders and Coverups (Carroll & Graf, 2004, pp. 391). According to Hughes-Wilson, “this highly curious coincidence must inevitably raise some suspicions of just how much the CIA really did know before 9/11. Was the CIA trying to infiltrate and ‘double’ the US-based al-Qaeda cell, in the hope of using it against Osama bin Laden’s organization in the future?”

The CIA had little reason to infiltrate Osama bin Laden’s organization, named after a Mujahideen database, because it was created and owned by the CIA. Moreover, if the Transportation Security Administration needs to determine if any of the foreign students are a threat to aviation a la 9/11, all they have to do is a bit of research to see if the students are involved with military intelligence or any of a number of spook agencies. In fact, as ABC informs us, under post-9/11 laws, “American flight schools are only supposed to provide pilot training to foreign students who have been given a background check by the TSA and have a specific type of visa,” so a process is already in place.

Of course, this may prove problematic, especially considering the patsy Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman, now cooling his heels in prison as a convicted terrorist, received six visas between 1986 and 1990, all approved by CIA agents acting as consular officers at US embassies in Sudan and Egypt, a fact reported by the Boston Globe and the New York Times. Michael Springmann, head US consular official in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, confirmed that the CIA was handing out visas like buttered hotcakes at the time. In fact, the number of alleged terrorists and associates who received visas is quite remarkable and included Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, bin Laden’s brother-in-law, pegged 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi, Salem Alhazmi, and Khalid Almihdhar, and the ace stunt pilot Hani Hanjour. So important was big fish KSM, aka Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, that he didn’t even have to appear in person at any point during his visa application process, even though a month earlier the CIA supposedly passed a warning to all U.S. intelligence agencies, certain military commanders, and parts of the Justice and Treasury Departments warning that Mohammed was attempting to enter the country. Sure, and Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, too.

If you are clueless about these inconvenient facts, reported in the corporate media – that is, for those out there in need of news vetted by the corporate media — you may feel a bit at ease now that the “FAA and Homeland Security are now starting to crack down on a number of flight schools suspected of training students illegally.”

“What happened in 9/ll we don’t want to happen again or anything like that so something has to be done,” declares former FAA inspector Bill McNease in an interview with professional propagandist Charlie Gibson.

Great, so we put the Ministry of Homeland Security on the case. I feel so much better now.

Finally, if the neocons and their globalist buddies want another politically expedient attack on the “homeland” — maybe, for instance, to decimate the few shreds of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights that remain and put a few finishing touches on the police state — they certainly won’t let the FAA and TSA stand in the way.

FBI documents contradict 9/11 Commission report
Larisa Alexandrovna
Published: Thursday February 28, 2008
The Raw Story

Hijacker had post-9/11 flights scheduled, files say

Newly-released records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request contradict the 9/11 Commission’s report on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and raise fresh questions about the role of Saudi government officials in connection to the hijackers.

The nearly 300 pages of a Federal Bureau of Investigation timeline used by the 9/11 Commission as the basis for many of its findings were acquired through a FOIA request filed by Kevin Fenton, a 26 year old translator from the Czech Republic. The FBI released the 298-page “hijacker timeline” Feb. 4.

The FBI timeline reveals that alleged hijacker Hamza Al-Ghamdi, who was aboard the United Airlines flight which crashed into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, had booked a future flight to San Francisco. He also had a ticket for a trip from Casablanca to Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

Though referenced repeatedly in the footnotes of the final 9/11 Commission report, the timeline has not previously been made available to the public.

The FBI timeline is dated Nov. 14, 2003 but appears to have been put together earlier (since the last date mentioned in the document is Oct. 22, 2001) and was provided to the 9/11 Commission during its 2003 investigation. The final Commission report cites the FBI timeline 52 times.

Post Sept. 11, 2001 flights

The FBI timeline reveals that Al-Ghamdi, the alleged United hijacker, was booked onto several flights scheduled for after the 9/11 attacks, a piece of information not documented in the Commission’s final report. According to the FBI timeline, Al-Ghamdi was booked on another United Airlines flight on the very day of the attack.

Story continued here.

BETRAYED AGAIN: How Bush betrays the 9/11 first responders once more
February 26, 2008
By Sherman Yellen

It’s amazing. Just when you think there are no new depths of shamelessness and betrayal of trust to which the Bush administration can sink, they manage to sink deeper into unchartered infamy. Hold on now, I’m not even mad yet. I’m talking about the seventy seven percent cut in the medical assistance for 9/11 first responders in the current federal budget. Gravely ill firemen, police, and other workers who labored at that site, workers who have come down with life threatening cancers and respiratory illnesses linked to their heroic efforts at ground zero are being shafted once again.

In the name of full disclosure, I am not writing this from some disinterested “good citizen” viewpoint. I have a young nephew, John McNamarra, a heroic fireman who worked as a first responder at that site and who later volunteered for rescue work after Katrina in New Orleans. For the past few years he has been suffering from various cancers resulting from that work for which he is currently under treatment at Sloan Kettering. Last weekend he called me to talk about the government’s new betrayal. As the father of a one year old son, Jack, John is fighting the battle of his life, and there is no godly reason why men such as John have to fight the government as well for proper medical care and compensation. One pill – yes one small pill that reduces the agonizing nausea of his chemotherapy costs as much as a thousand dollars. Okay, I can rail about the greedy drug companies and their obscene profits, but my first concern is our government’s ingratitude and cruelty, something which the congress must address and remedy to help all these men and women.

As Representative Carolyn Maloney writes, “It’s shocking that the president would use his final budget to take an axe to 9/11 health care programs.” Ms. Maloney is a wonderful representative but her use of shocking seems naïve. Are you shocked? After Katrina? After Walter Reed? Not me. I recall that first lie told by the federal government about the risk at ground zero to workers, one that came through the Bush mouthpiece, Christie Todd Whitman, then head of the Environmental Protection Agency, now a lobbyist for nuclear power. This former New Jersey governor claimed that anyone in the area of ground zero, meaning not only the workers who worked in the rubble trying to rescue the buried and reclaim body parts, but the residents of the apartments in the area, were safe from the toxic fumes that filled the air for days, sometimes weeks. According to a later report of the New York City Department of Health “The collapse of the Twin Towers brought 200,000 tons of steel, 5,000 tons of asbestos, 12,000 miles of electric cables and 425,000 cubic yards of concrete crashing down into lower Manhattan… The combustion produced a toxic cauldron of concrete, dust, glass fibers, and cancer-causing asbestos, as well as particles of lead, chlorine…24 gallons of jet fuel, and burning plastics released carcinogens including dioxins etc.” Read the rest of this entry »

Unraveling Of The Official 911 Story Continues
By Mark H. Gaffney
2-22-8

Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
couldn’t put Humpty together again.

Today in America, we are witness to a great unraveling, the likes of which we have never seen before. There are no historical precedents. For many months now the official narrative about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on America has been coming apart, and I mean: at the seams. The official story about that terrible day is disintegrating. The trend shows no sign of abating and in recent weeks it even appears to have accelerated. At the present rate, soon there will be nothing left of the official version of events but a discordant echo and a series of extremely rude after shocks.

Is our nation prepared to face those rude shocks?

The unraveling began within weeks of the release of the 9/11 Commission Report (in July 2004) with the shocking revelation that members of the 9/11 commission were convinced that government officials, including NORAD generals, had deceived them during the investigation­­­in essence, had lied to their faces during the hearings.[1] According to the Washington Post the members of the commission vented their frustrations at a special meeting in the summer of 2004. The panel even considered referring the matter to the Justice Department for a criminal investigation.

The unraveling continued in 2006 with the release of a follow-up volume, Without Precedent, authored by the two men who had co-chaired the commission, Thomas H. Kean and Lee H. Hamilton. The men had come under increasing fire ever since the release of their final report for presiding over what many now believe was a failed investigation. Stung by so much criticism, Kean and Hamilton felt the need to explain (and defend) themselves. The gist of their 2006 book is easily summarized. They write: “We were set up to fail.”

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Our Friends Are Trying To Tell Us Something
From George Washington’s Blog

If I’ve got something stuck between my teeth, I rely on my best friends to tell me, so I can fix it.

Well, leaders from our close allies in England, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Russia and elsewhere have been trying to tell us something, but we haven’t heard them. Please read what these close allies are trying to tell us about 9/11:

The former Assistant German Defense Minister and a current member of British Parliament (Andreas von Bülow and Michael Meacher)

The former Canadian Minister of Defense (Paul Hellyer)

The commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force (Anatoli Kornukov)

The former chief of staff of the Russian armed forces (General Leonid Ivashov )

The former President of Italy (Francesco Cossiga)

Honorary President, Supreme Court of Italy (Ferdinando Imposimato)

The former Minister of Justice in West Germany, who was also Minister for Research and Technology. Cabinet Member (Horst Emkhe)

A former Member of British Parliament, who is the longest serving MP in the history of the Labour party, also former Minister of Technology, Secretary of State for Industry, Secretary of State for Energy and Postmaster General (Tony Benn)

Members of the German Parliament Heike Hänsel
and Axel Troost, PhD

Member, National Parliament of Japan (Yukihisa Fujita)

Former Member of Parliament, Norway (Berit Ås)

Member of European Parliament, Vice Chairman, Committee on International Trade, member of Committee on Security and Defense (Giulietto Chiesa)

Member of European Parliament, former Vice Chairman, Committee on Energy, Research and Technology, Vice Chairman, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection (Paul Lannoye)

Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs, France, former Deputy of the French National Assembly – equivalent to a U.S. Congressperson (Christine Boutin)

Well-known scholar and frequent UN Contributor (Dr. Hans Koechler)

Of course, many Americans have tried to tell us the same thing. But the American media has censored their message.

Lone Gunmen Producer Questions Government on 9/11
Wonders why TV writers could accurately predict the attack while the government couldn’t
James Corbett
The Corbett Report
February 25, 2008

Cast and crew of the X-Files attended “WonderCon 2008″ in San Diego this weekend to discuss the upcoming X-Files movie. During the question and answer, one intrepid audience member asked Chris Carter, creator of X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, about the pilot episode of The Lone Gunmen, which eerily predicted the events of 9/11 that took place in New York mere months after the episode aired on tv. Carter, looking slightly flustered, turned the question over to the Lone Gunmen producer, Frank Spotnitz. Video of the response is available from YouTube:

After Carter’s bizarre and awkward joke about turning the question over to his producer because he had “a special underground connection” that made him better qualified to answer it, Spotnitz admits he was “disturbed that if we could imagine it [crashing planes into the World Trade Center] our government didn’t, and I didn’t understand why we weren’t prepared for a tragedy like that.” After raising this very valid point about the government and military’s complete lack of response on the morning of 9/11, he then quickly dismisses any suggestion that the pilot episode’s uncanny prediction of that attack was anything more than a coincidence, as the story was produced merely from an “active imagination.”

The episode in question featured rogue elements of the government hijacking a plane by remote control and attempting to fly it into the World Trade Center in order to launch wars in the Middle East. Highlights of the episode can be seen here:

That Spotnitz dismisses the incredible similarities of the episode to the events of 9/11 is perhaps unsurprising, given that he was featured prominently in the BBC Conspiracy Files documentary which attempted—albeit hamhandedly—to discredit the 9/11 “conspiracy theorists”…that is to say, anyone who doesn’t believe that the government is not telling us the truth about 9/11, which just happens to be the majority of the population.

Of course, many serious people have questioned just how the writing team was able to dream up a plot of a government staging an event to launch wars in the Middle East which actually happened six months later only for the government to use it as an excuse to launch wars in the Middle East.

This may well be coincidence, as Spotnitz asserts, but it’s worth questioning whether the writers of that episode were also correct about the supposition that the attacks were carried out by a rogue element within the government itself. Although Spotnitz is quick to dismiss this as “conspiracy theory” some of the crazed conspiracy wingnuts who believe it include ex-CIA field agents, ex-FBI translators, the former German Defense Secretary, the head of the largest victims family group (and the majority of its members) and many others, including Dean Haglund, star of The Lone Gunmen. For more information on these people and their reasons for questioning the government’s account of 9/11, please listen to this Corbett Report documentary:

Click here to download the mp3.

Original article here

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Transcript of the entire briefing and submitted documents here:
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/documents/did-they-get-it-right.zip

In the wake of Philip Shenon’s best-seller, “The Commission”, comes another wave of Americans snapping out of a media-induced trance. On another front, to a different audience, Willie Nelson is waking up another sector of the sleepwalking masses with his skepticism. Whatever route you took that made you take a second look at 9/11, welcome… and, you’ve got some catching up to do.

If Shenon’s book was your introduction to the simple fact that the 9/11 Commission failed in its mandate on several levels, then you are probably unaware that serious criticism of the 9/11 Commission was entered into the Congressional Record of the 109th Congress. This criticism was the result of a Congressional Briefing conducted by former Congressional Representative, Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. (McKinney is currently seeking the Presidential nomination for the Green Party of the United States.)

The briefing was held on July 22nd, 2005, subsequently broadcast by C-SPAN, and studiously ignored by the corporate press. A comprehensive collation of the briefing has not been made available online, but thanks to the magic of YouTube, I have chopped the most pertinent testimonies from that day into neat 10 minute segments that are easily digestible for the busy internet surfer. You may have seen some of the footage from the briefing in the documentary, “Press for Truth”, where Lorie Van Auken talked about her husband’s fate on 9/11. Beyond that, not much of this footage has been circulating on the net.

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;

Thanks to Reprehensor at 911blogger.com for putting this important article together.
To read the rest of the article and find links to the remainging 24 parts of this video series, click here

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Serendipity once again stepped into my life. I caught Paula Nelson’s Band in Alpine Texas last night. The band is quite good and Paula has a great voice.

At break time I approached her and introduced myself as a member of http://ae911truth.org and asked her if she agreed with her dad’s brave public statements questioning the official story of 9/11. She said she most certainly agreed with her dad and thanked me for our work. She took a bunch of ae911truth DVDs and said she’d get one to her dad. She also said she’d be willing to do an interview about her views on 9/11. She is friendly sweet very talented and joyful. Willie could be very proud. Video up as soon as I can.

John Parulis

http://911truthburn.blogspot.com