Debunking the ’9/11 Debunkers’ With Stewart Bradley
October 28, 2008
by John-Michael Talboo
Debunking the Debunkers

John-Michael Talboo (JMT)-Q:

So Stewart, let’s jump right into our shared passion of debunking the so-called 9/11 debunkers shall we? You have put together some great videos on the subject including, 9/11 Debunking for Dummies, History Exposed – Critique of History Channel’s documentary “9/11 Conspiracies- Fact or fiction”, 9/11 Cheney Connection, as well as putting out, 9/11 Cheney Connection rebuttal, where you address the small amount of debunking that was attempted in regard to the piece, and most recently you explained, Why Debunkers Make Lousy Cops! :)

I love your work because while you tackle the physical anomalies surrounding 9/11, you also put much focus on the non-scientific issues. I believe these issues get brushed to the side far too much by “debunkers” for the simple reason that so many of them are just plain public knowledge and un-debunkable. I have often pointed out that even if the 9/11 truth movement were to concede the issue of controlled demolition, for arguments sake, the case for complicity is still very strong.

A Few Facts:

FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, in an open letter to the 9/11 Commission, reported that there was “specific information regarding a terrorist attack being planned by Osama bin Laden”, that mentioned major cities, airplanes, approximate timeframe, and operatives already in place in the US. This was reported by FBI agents to “Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism Thomas Frields at the FBI Washington Field Office”, but was subsequently ignored.

The FAA received 52 pre-9/11 warnings, including five that “specifically mentioned Al Qaeda’s training or capability to conduct hijackings”, and two that “mentioned suicide operations”. Facts such as these are often glossed over, or downplayed. In regard to the FAA warnings a “debunker” would likely focus on the fact that the suicide operations mentioned were “not connected to aviation”, while ignoring that the FAA warned airports that “the intent of the hijacker is not to exchange hostages for prisoners, but to commit suicide in a spectacular explosion, a domestic hijacking would probably be preferable.” In your video “9/11 Cheney Connection” you point out similar and even more damning facts.

So, please speak to these points, and give the readers a run down of some of the facts you expose in this and other pieces that “debunkers” don’t like to tackle much, at least not honestly.

Stewart Bradley-A:

The case that the debunkers try to avoid, and what I believe to be the 9/11 Truth Movement’s best hope for getting a new investigation, is the LIHOP evidence that key members of the Bush Administration knew the attack was coming and took measures to ensure it’s success for the very purpose of building the long sought after oil pipeline through Afghanistan, starting a war in Iraq by falsely connecting Iraq to 9/11, thereby implementing the “Pax Americana” plan purposed by the PNAC while vastly expanding executive secrecy and power.

The evidence to back this claim can be laid out in a thirteen point timeline based on readily available public records easily found by an internet search. Each point taken alone could be brushed off as coincidence, but when taken together presents an incriminating case that only the most thick headed debunker could deny.

1. The Trans-Afghani Pipeline:

Shortly after the end of the Cold War several major American energy companies began buying up oil supplies in the Caspian Sea region, but without a way to transport this oil to the market these companies could not recoup their investments worth billion of dollars. So in 1997 Dick Cheney led a consortium of energy companies, including Unocal and Enron, in an effort to build a pipeline from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, to the Pakistan coast. The problem was the Taliban, who were in power in Afghanistan refused the pipeline deal, and a Unocal spokesman is quoted in the 1998 Congressional Record stating that the pipeline could not happen until the Taliban are removed from power.

2. The PNAC Plan:

Also as a result of the end of the Cold War the Pentagon’s funding was being cut because they no longer had an enemy to justify their massive budget. In response Dick Cheney’s conservative think tank “The Project for a New American Century,” (PNAC) submitted their manifesto, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses“. This report suggests that although “the United States faces no global rival,” (p.i) the U.S. military should prepare “to rapidly deploy and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars,”(mission outlines) and set up “an enduring American military presence” (p.74) in the Persian Gulf, including Afghanistan and Iraq. Chapter 5 admits this would take a long time,”absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor.”

3. First Actions as Vice President:

Dick Cheney then selects himself to run as George W. Bush’s Vice President in a campaign largely funded by Enron. Shortly after the Supreme Court’s intervention made Cheney the VP, he reopened the pipeline negotiations with the Taliban but the original financial offer was now accompanied by threats of military action if the pipeline was not allowed. The Taliban was told, “You either accept our offer of a carpet of gold or we bury you under a carpet of bombs!”

According to Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill, in their very first National Security Council meeting Bush and Cheney began brainstorming ideas for how to start a war in Iraq, and Judicial Watch has exposed secret maps drawn up by Cheney’s Energy Task Force in March of 2001 detailing Iraq’s oil industries size and estimated value.

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Bob McFarland, physician and activist, dies
By Ryan Morgan
Thursday, November 27, 2008

McFarland moved to Boulder with his wife, Zoe, and daughter Laura in 1961. Their son, Bruce, was born that same year. In 1970, McFarland set up the People’s Clinic to help poor, transient youths get good medical care.

Doctors weren’t exactly clamoring to take those patients at the time, Zoe McFarland said Tuesday. But she said her husband didn’t hesitate to reach out and take over the job.

“Most people shy away from causing a hassle for themselves, but he never shied away from that,” she said. “He took care of a lot of people in his practice and didn’t charge them. He took care of hippies when other people wouldn’t.”

The People’s Clinic was just one of McFarland’s causes. He also helped run the Boulder Valley Clinic. After a child-abuse death in the early 1980s, he started the Parenting Place in the early 1980s to educate new parents to prevent child abuse. This year, he helped raise thousands of dollars to open up a similar facility in Boulder’s sister city of Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

He served as a physician at the Boulder County Jail, providing cheap care to inmates.

McFarland embraced sometimes-controversial causes. He helped start a facility to provide abortions, in 1973. He ran a methadone clinic to help people addicted to drugs. Late in his life, he joined groups whose members argued that the U.S. government had a role in the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

He helped organize protests against nuclear arms and joined marches down to Rocky Flats, and made unsuccessful bids for the 2nd Congressional District seat and for a spot on the Boulder Valley school board. If there was a cause he believed in, his wife said, McFarland would join.

He liked to don a tri-cornered hat and carry an American flag as part of an American Revolutionary War era costume to protests.

“He was there to help everyone,” Zoe McFarland said. “The underdogs, those people who were oppressed, the environment. He’d get an idea and just keep on hammering at it until people took notice of what he was trying to say.”

City Councilwoman Lisa Morzel said she admired McFarland’s tirelessness.

“He was a visionary, that’s for sure,” Morzel said. “His interest was in the betterment of the broader community, especially looking out for those people who weren’t so well provided for.”

Len Barron, a friend of 40 years, said he’ll remember McFarland for the energy and relentless sense of justice.

“But when I think about all of the characteristics of Bob, it’s that he was a wonderful friend,” Barron said. “If Bob McFarland was your friend, you really had a friend.”

Zoe McFarland sounded a similar note. Her husband was an activist and relentlessly pursued what he saw as the truth — but, she said, he wasn’t always fighting the establishment.

“With our home life, he was very traditional,” she said. “He read to our kids, he did all of the normal things that fathers do.”

McFarland said her husband was healthy and active, riding around town on his bicycle, until he fell ill early in the summer. He was diagnosed with stomach cancer on July 1, and doctors said he wouldn’t live longer than three months, she said.

He proved them wrong, surviving for another five months.

“One of the doctors treating him said, ‘He’s dying the way he lived,’” McFarland said. “He’s very stubborn.”

Contact Camera Staff Writer Ryan Morgan at 303-473-1333 or morganr@dailycamera.com.

Original article here.

JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O’Connell of Notre Dame Law School and panel colleagues at a recent Washburn University School of Law symposium on “The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism” offer their consensus on the appropriate way forward on critical issues in international law and policy that will confront President Barack Obama’s Administration when it takes office on January 20, 2009…

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Within hours of the attacks of 9/11 the Bush Administration decided to treat the attacks as part of a worldwide war–a new kind of war that would free the Administration to re-write the rules. A “global war on terrorism” was declared and new rules for the targeting, detention and trials of persons suspected of acts of terrorism or membership in terrorist organizations were created. Seven years later, upon the election of a new president, there is an intense debate under way in the United States as to what to do about the “global war” and the laws and institutions resulting from it.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey expressed his views at a meeting of the Federalist Society November 20 and had this to say about the future:

The next Administration will have the opportunity to review the institutions and the legal structures that this Administration has relied upon in keeping the nation safe over the past seven years. I am neither so proud as to think that the next Administration will be unable to make improvements, nor so naïve as to think that the policy choices, or even the legal judgments, that they make will be identical to ours.

What I do hope, however, is that the next Administration understands the threat that we continue to face and that it shares the priority we have placed on remaining on the offense to prevent future terrorist attacks. Remaining on the offense includes not simply relying on the tools that we have established, but also encouraging a climate in which both legal and policy issues are debated responsibly, in a way that does not chill the intelligence community and deter national security lawyers from making the decisions necessary to protect us.

And I am hopeful that some time from now, after the next Administration has had the chance to review the decisions made and the legal advice provided, it will acknowledge that despite any policy differences, the national security lawyers in this Administration acted professionally and in good faith and that the country was safer as a result.

Three of us, all specialists in international law, especially International Humanitarian Law, take a very different view, which we expressed at a recent Washburn University School of Law symposium on “The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism”. The members of the Symposium’s final panel on “The Way Forward”[1], considering important legal issues that will confront President Obama’s Administration when it takes office on January 20, 2009, have framed the following:

Washburn Consensus on Post-9/11 Principles

1. The phrase “Global War on Terrorism” should no longer be used in the sense of an on-going “war” or “armed conflict” being waged against “terrorism”. Nor should it serve as either the legal or security policy basis for the range of counter- and anti-terrorism measures taken by the Administration in addressing the very real and present challenges faced by the United States and other nations in addressing terrorism.

2. The Administration should announce that it is taking immediate steps to close the interrogation and detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with a view to removing all remaining detainees by July 1, 2009.

3. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 should be repealed in its entirety, and all activities currently being conducted under the Military Commission process constituted by the Act should be terminated.

4. Persons accused of committing acts of terrorism, war crimes or other serious human rights violations should be tried, as appropriate, before Article III courts or, as provided for in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, by courts-martial or military commission.

5. The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 should be amended to ensure the application of one standard of treatment and interrogation to all detainees held in U.S. custody or control.

6. The single standard for the treatment and interrogation of all detainees held in U.S. custody or control should be that reflected in Army Field Manual 2-22.3, Human Intelligence Collector Operations.

7. Any presidential findings, statements, Executive Orders, or other forms of authorization related to detainee treatment and interrogation that sanction or authorize methods inconsistent with Field Manual 2-22.3 should be withdrawn.

8. A comprehensive investigation of alleged post-9/11 U.S.-held detainee abuse should be undertaken by an independent, expert commission with the goal of producing a 2009 report detailing both the findings and recommendations of this commission.
David E. Graham, Colonel (ret’d)
Executive Director, The Judge Advocate General’s
Legal Center and School, U.S. Army [2]

Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell
Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law
University of Notre Dame

Professor Philippe Sands QC
University College London
Barrister, Matrix Chambers

1. The Panel was chaired by Dean of the Washburn Law School and former Judge Advocate General of the Army, Thomas J. Romig
2. These views are expressed in Mr. Graham’s private capacity.

Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of The Power and Purpose of International Law (OUP 2008); International Law and the Use of Force (Foundation 2005, 2008). For the ILA Use of Force Committee initial report on “The Meaning of Armed Conflict in International Law” (2008), see http://www.ila-hq.org/en/committees/index.cfm/cid/1022

Source URL: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forumy/2008/11/way-forward-post-911-principles.php

For more information on the event, see this link: Washburn University School of Law symposium on “The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism” and the Selected Works Relating to The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism Presenter and Panelist Bibliographies

Reflections on Gratitude and Resistance
from 911truth.org

Five years ago tomorrow the 9/11 Visibility Project began, in Kansas City and Seattle, holding weekly vigils asking America to support the 9/11 Families in their efforts to demand an investigation of the events of 9/11. For the next 18 months, Kansas City was in the streets every single weekend with signs, flyers, outrage, and courage as we watched the families’ success in forcing the creation of the Commission turn to deception upon deception. City after city began to join us, the Eleventh of Every Month campaign kicked off with monthly actions, groups like Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, We Are Change, and so many others came to life. As we came to realize we were never really going to “reform” the media, we became the media instead, through radio shows, independent newspapers, public access tv productions, dvd, book, and flyer creation, and perhaps most importantly, person to person communication of real truths their corporate media was not telling them.

We have succeeded much more than we usually recognize. In spite of our government “catapulting the propaganda” and their media minions continuing to assist in making sure the lies are disseminated thoroughly, we know (through our last national Zogby poll) that a majority of Americans do not believe the government propaganda narrative of 9/11. We are rejecting, as a people, the fear mongering hatred continuously heaved upon us. We’re asking, “What role do I play in this? If this is being done in MY name, what responsibility do I have to stop the carnage?” And in answer, we the people are overwhelmingly seeing with new eyes the real state of the union. And of the world. And we will NOT be silent.

For these five-plus years, I have had the great honor to come to know hundreds, and indirectly thousands, of compassionate, dedicated, courageous people around this world. For each of you, I am truly grateful. Each of us has brought to this movement different gifts. Some have been able to monetarily support the cause, others are able to use what little they have to get in the streets. We have used our skills to produce materials the rest of us can distribute, facilitated the creation of groups, given speeches and presentations around the world, written books and articles… And for all of us, talking to friends, coworkers, strangers has been the core. We are truly a grassroots movement. People everywhere doing what they can, looking to see what must be done and taking it upon themselves to do it, not waiting for some “great leader” to tell us what to do, or promise us the moon… WE are what we’ve been waiting for, and WE are not waiting any longer! WE are millions, WE are everywhere, and WE have great power!

We must stand strong now, stronger than ever, more visibly than ever, joining with everyone who is genuinely* fighting back–whether or not we agree with their ideology, their specific issues, their general beliefs, their organizational structure–in order to “catapult the truth” in a way that empowers more of the People to stand up with us. The world sees us. The world knows the crimes being committed in our name do NOT reflect the values and heart of we, the People. But we must not back down, in spite of promises of change. We must stand strong until we see real, lasting change has been truly created and implemented. Now is the time for real resistance, not complacence!

So to each of you, I genuinely extend my heartfelt thanks and appreciation, and my honor for your awesome courage, persistence, and compassion in the face of great repression. We are an amazing movement, made up of amazing people, with amazing power. Thank you!

Janice Matthews
Your Director
911truth.org

“The New Pearl Harbor Revisited” selected for “Web Pick of the Week” by Publishers Weekly

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The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé
by David Ray Griffin.

Interlink/Olive Branch, $20 (386p) ISBN 9781566567299

Author and professor Griffin (9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press) knows his work is referred to by officials and the media as conspiracy theory, and he has a rebuttal: “the official theory is itself a conspiracy theory.” In this companion volume to 2004′s The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11, Griffin provides corrections, raises new issues and discusses “the two most important official reports about 9/11,” the 9/11 Commission Report and the National Institute of Standards and Technology report on the Twin Towers, both “prepared by people highly responsive to the wishes of the White House” and riddled with “omission and distortion from beginning to end.” Griffin addresses many points in exhaustive detail, from the physical impossibility of the official explanation of the towers’ collapse to the Commission’s failure to scrutinize the administration to the NIST’s contradiction of its own scientists to the scads of eyewitness and scientific testimony in direct opposition to official claims. Citing hundreds, if not thousands, of sources, Griffin’s detailed analysis is far from reactionary or delusional, building a case that, though not conclusive, raises enough valid and disturbing questions to make his call for a new investigation more convincing than ever.

NIST Releases Final WTC 7 Investigation Report

http://nist.gov/public_affairs/techbeat/tbx2008_1120_wtc7.htm

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released its final report on the Sept. 11, 2001, collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center building 7 (WTC 7) in New York City. The final report is strengthened by clarifications and supplemental text suggested by organizations and individuals worldwide in response to the draft WTC 7 report, released for public comment on Aug. 21, but the revisions did not alter the investigation team’s major findings and recommendations, which include identification of fire as the primary cause for the building’s failure.

The extensive three-year scientific and technical building and fire safety investigation found that the fires on multiple floors in WTC 7, which were uncontrolled but otherwise similar to fires experienced in other tall buildings, caused an extraordinary event. Heating of floor beams and girders caused a critical support column to fail, initiating a fire-induced progressive collapse that brought the building down.

In response to comments from the building community, NIST conducted an additional computer analysis. The goal was to see if the loss of WTC 7’s Column 79—the structural component identified as the one whose failure on 9/11 started the progressive collapse—would still have led to a complete loss of the building if fire or damage from the falling debris of the nearby WTC 1 tower were not factors. The investigation team concluded that the column’s failure under any circumstance would have initiated the destructive sequence of events.

Other revisions to the final WTC 7 report included:

* Expanding the discussion of firestopping, the material placed between floors to prevent floor-to-floor fire spread;
* Clarifying the description of thermal expansion as it related to WTC 7’s shear studs and floor beams; and
* Explaining in greater detail the computer modeling approach used to define where and when the fire in WTC 7 started and the extent of window breakage as a result of fire.

With the release of the final WTC 7 report, NIST has completed its federal building and fire safety investigation of the WTC disaster that began in August 2002. A three-year study of the collapses of the WTC towers (WTC 1 and 2) was completed in October 2005. More than 20 changes in the U.S. model building and fire codes have already been adopted based on the findings and recommendations from the investigation.

NIST will now work with various public and private groups toward implementing additional changes to the U.S. model building and fire codes including those based on the 13 recommendations from the WTC 7 report (one new and 12 reiterated from the towers investigation).

The complete text of the final WTC 7 report, a video describing the WTC 7 investigation findings, a of all comments received on the draft WTC 7 report, a chart tracking the progress toward implementing all of the NIST WTC recommendations, and other materials may be accessed at http://wtc.nist.gov.

Graphic showing the buckling of WTC 7 Column 79 (circled area), the local failure identified as the initiating event in the building’s progressive collapse.
Credit: NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory
View hi-resolution image

Media Contact: Michael E. Newman, michael.newman@nist.gov, (301) 975-3025

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Editor’s Note:

For the first time in the history of modern steel high-rise building construction, fire alone has been blamed for the complete and total destruction of WTC 7, a massive 47 story steel framed high rise, the THIRD building that mysteriously “collapsed” on September 11th, 2001.

Please observe the following videos and ask yourself, could the failure of ONE column (Col. 79) explain the perfectly symmetrical and total failure of the entire structure built from massive steel columns and beams?



Now, please watch the following video and ask yourself, how did the BBC know WTC 7 (Solomon Brothers Building) was going to come down and even report that the building had “collapsed” 20 minutes before the building suddenly came down?

For more information on the mysterious “collapse” of WTC 7, please visit our friends at Architects and Engineers for 9-11 Truth and Richard Gage’s excellent analysis of the destruction of this massive 47 story tower on September 11th, 2001.

Dear Readers and Listeners to Visibility 9-11-

It is with great sorrow that I bring you this update on Sean Fitzgerald.  I have received many emails and inquiries into the status of Sean and had been planning an update for everyone concerned.  Let me pick up where this all started, on November 4th, 2008.

Sean, his wife, and six-year old son had been living in Thailand for several months.  His wife worked at a free clinic there for Burmese refugees.  I was contacted and told that Sean had been involved in an accident, was in a hospital, and was fearful that he was being set up to be arrested under false charges.  I interviewed him and he informed me that he had been threatened and followed due to his speaking openly about 9/11 truth as well as his criticism of the Thai regime while living in Thailand.  He was followed by a car while on his bicycle which lead to a chase which resulted in a head-on collision with a car.  He told me that he was in fear for his life and asked if I would record his experience for posterity and to try to bring some attention to what he felt was happening to him.

I had known Sean in our local 9-11 group and knew him to be a good and trustworthy person.   I took him for his word and agreed to give his story a platform, just in case what he said was true.  While there was a concern on my part, and others in our local group, that Sean may have been suffering from paranoid delusions due to his head injury, we felt that in the event that what Sean perceived was true, then we would be remiss in not giving him all the help we could.  I also learned from others who have lived in Thailand that this type of threat is quite common there, so felt his story had merit.  Many of us in the local 9/11 truth movement considered Sean our friend.

Subsequent to this interview, Sean grew less afraid, felt safer, and was accompanied home to Colorado Springs, Colorado by his father, Dr. Edward Fitzgerald, in order to heal from his head and spinal injury.  His wife and son remained in Thailand to continue working at the well-known Dr. Cynthia’s Clinic.

With that said, it makes it all the harder to say that today I found out that Sean is currently in jail in Colorado Springs for the Thursday morning murder of his father.  Details are still sketchy but you can learn more by clicking here. 

I did not know Sean that well, but had worked with him over the years.  I always knew him to be a very intelligent and kind soul, without a trace of violent behavior.  He was well known by us all as a devoted father.  This has come as a great surprise to us all, and we are still in shock.

My prayers and sincerest condolences go out to the entire Fitzgerald family in this very difficult time.

-Michael

Blast From the Past – Colorado 9-11 Visibility Strikes Again with Another Cover Story, 2004

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The Smoke Clears
Three years after the attacks, the 9/11 Visibility Project opens Coloradans’ eyes to the “truth.”

Rockymountain Bullhorn.com -Issue November 22, 2004
By James Thompson

Awkward is one word to describe how the three stand, huddled, coffeeless in a coffee shop in Old Town Fort Collins. Casually dressed, young and well groomed, they don’t look like a bunch of conspiracy theorists out to expose government treachery—then again, maybe they look exactly that.

Michael Wolsey is the first to offer a handshake. The 41-year-old (he looks 30) Greeley siding contractor’s jeans and zip-up sweatshirt are spattered with caulking, and his baseball cap bears the word Philadelphia, with a Liberty Bell. He grasps a paperback copy of The New Pearl Harbor in his hand.

Aaron Long and Elliot Nesch, both graduates of Fort Collins High and students at Front Range Community College, introduce themselves, Long shifting a conspicuous black metal attaché from right to left hand. A moviegoer might assume the briefcase is a cornucopia of top-secret memos, but in the hands of a 20-year-old kid it’s just—well, awkward.

The uneasiness slowly dissipates, though, when they finally sit down over cappuccinos and begin to explain how in the past year they went from closet skeptics to some of Northern Colorado’s most vocal critics of America’s role in the September 11 terrorist attacks…

“The first thing that got me looking at it was the Patriot Act,” Wolsey says. “We’re talking thousands and thousands of pages worth of law. How could they get such a massive document out in two days?”

Wolsey came to the conclusion that the act already had been drafted, and by someone who knew about 9/11 and was exploiting both for political gain.

“I began to do a lot of research on my own, reading everything I could get a hold of, watching videos and stuff like that,” he says. “Eventually they created the website, and I found it.”

The website Wolsey refers to, septembereleventh.org, is the 9/11 Visibility Project. It’s an educational/activist outlet for the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement, which is backed by such national progressive notables as Howard Zinn, Medea Benjamin, Gore Vidal and Jim Hightower.

Begun about a year ago in the unlikely metropolises of Kansas City and Seattle, the grassroots project coordinates meetings among truth-seekers around the country and now has several local and regional action groups from coast to coast, including in Colorado.

Wolsey hooked up with the Colorado group this summer in Boulder and Denver, and he met Long in August—on the Web, of course. He and Long are now the Northern Colorado contacts for Colorado 9/11 Visibility Project.

Wolsey, Long and Nesch say they log countless hours each week trying to get the word out, with Wolsey developing the Colorado website (his first ever) and the other two copying complimentary DVDs and literature, and coordinating gatherings, like the October 20 standing-room-only event at the Fort Collins Harmony Library.

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Blast From the Past – Colorado 9-11 Visibility Gets Cover Story in the Boulder Weekly, 2004

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by Joel Warner
Boulder Weekly
October 21 – 28, 2004

Tim Gale became a believer one day last January. He was prowling the Internet when he came across a video of one of the World Trade Center towers collapsing on Sept. 11, 2001. It was likely a video Gale had seen before, but this footage was in slow motion. As Gale watched the tower’s 110 floors begin to crumble, he noticed something unusual.

Right before the tower dropped into a cloud of debris, the windows on the upper levels of the towers blew outwards, one floor at a time, like clockwork. That wasn’t caused by the plane slamming into the tower or the ensuing fire, Gale told himself.

There were bombs in the World Trade Center.

“It blew my head off,” says Gale. “I started searching like crazy.”

What Gale found, in countless websites, books and films, was a vast network of information questioning the official story of what happened on Sept. 11. The 42-year-old Boulder resident was inundated with decades-old memos, foreign newspaper clippings, engineering studies and national-defense policies. And he discovered the collapse of the World Trade Center was just the beginningñhe believes he’s witnessing the collapse of the American society.

“I was being confronted with the raw fact that the U.S. government was complicit in the mass murder of its own citizens for geopolitical purposes,” says Gale. “It’s too much to bear in the confines of your mind.”

Gale began spending six to eight hours a day cross-checking evidence he found online or in publications. He wrote a 40-page paper, just to organize and process all the information. He began spouting words like “shadow government,” “false flag” and “black ops.” Then he met up with other people in the Denver-Boulder area who were asking the same questions he was, and they decided to form the Colorado chapter of the 9/11 Visibility Project. Now they’re hosting film screenings and discussions, spreading the word that there’s a whole lot more to 9/11 than we’ve been led to believe.

Gale and his local compatriots are not alone. Across the nation and the world, a growing number of people are joining what’s called the 9/11 Truth Movement. These people say there’s enough evidence or enough holes in the official recordñto suggest that government officials allowed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to occur, if not had a hand in them. While the movement has attracted the support of several notable figures, it also faces the risk of being associated with fringe theories of the Twilight Zone variety and has received the cold shoulder from most of the progressive press and the peace movement. Plus, there’s the fact that some say the 9/11 Truth Movement has no basis in reality whatsoever.

Gale doesn’t necessarily mind being labeled a conspiracy theorist.

“To have a conspiracy all you need is a couple facts that don’t match up,” he says, adding that in the case of 9/11, there’s more than enough questionable facts. “Until you’ve read three or four books about it, don’t tell me I’m quirky, because you have no grasp. You go into this stuff, and it’s a freaking journey.”

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Nov 18, 2008
AE911Truth.org

Actor and activist Ed Asner has signed the AE911Truth online petition and sent a letter of support.

The text of the letter reads: (link to PDF)

EDWARD ASNER

October 6, 2008

To Whom It May Concern:

I would like to thank Richard Gage, AIA and Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth for presenting the scientific facts behind the unprecedented destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers and Building 7. AE911Truth presents solid research that contradicts the official story of the building’s destruction with the overwhelming evidence of explosive controlled demolition.

An accurate understanding of history is required to make good decisions in the future. Over and over again, history has shown that the first public perceptions of historical events are not always correct. I, along with millions of others, have serious questions about our country’s recent history about 9/11.

I have signed the AE911Truth.org petition calling for an unbiased investigation of the “collapses” of these three high-rise buildings. I encourage everyone to do the same, and also become a Sustaining Member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

Sincerely,

/s/

Edward Asner

Source URL: http://www.ae911truth.org/info/41

Top Trend Forecaster Predicts Revolution

November 12, 2008
from Georgewashington2.blogspot.com

Gerald Celente has been a leading trend forecaster for years:

“When CNN wants to know about the Top Trends, we ask Gerald Celente.”
~ CNN Headline News

“A network of 25 experts whose range of specialties would rival many university faculties.”
~ The Economist

“Gerald Celente has a knack for getting the zeitgeist right.”
~ USA Today

“There’s not a better trend forecaster than Gerald Celente. The man knows what he’s talking about.”
- CNBC

“Those who take their predictions seriously … consider the Trends Research Institute.”
~ The Wall Street Journal

“Gerald Celente is always ahead of the curve on trends and uncannily on the mark … he’s one of the most accurate forecasters around.”
~ The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“Mr. Celente tracks the world’s social, economic and business trends for corporate clients.”
~ The New York Times

“Mr. Celente is a very intelligent guy. We are able to learn about trends from an authority.”
~ 48 Hours, CBS News

“Gerald Celente has a solid track record. He has predicted everything from the 1987 stock market crash and the demise of the Soviet Union to green marketing and corporate downsizing.”
~ The Detroit News

“Gerald Celente forecast the 1987 stock market crash, ‘green marketing,’ and the boom in gourmet coffees.”
~ Chicago Tribune

“The Trends Research Institute is the Standard and Poors of Popular Culture.”
~ The Los Angeles Times

“If Nostradamus were alive today, he’d have a hard time keeping up with Gerald Celente.”
~ New York Post

Calente is now predicting revolution in America:

And last month, Calente said:

“There will be a revolution in this country. It’s not going to come yet, but it’s going to come down the line and we’re going to see a third party and this was the catalyst for it: the takeover of Washington, D. C., in broad daylight by Wall Street in this bloodless coup. And it will happen as conditions continue to worsen.

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What’s going on right now – this Wall Street bailout is really taxation without representation. “

Is Calente right?

Remember that Senator Dodd recently said:

“If it turns out that [ the banks] are hoarding, you’ll have a revolution on your hands. People will be so livid and furious that their tax money is going to line their pockets instead of doing the right thing. There will be hell to pay.”

The banks have been hoarding cash.

Note by author: I hope violent revolution never happens. I hope that the trends which are leading Calente to forecast revolution change.

I hope that the government starts to serve its people, starts to act lawfully, and gives up taxation without representation. “The best way to avoid all types of revolution would be for the government to start following the rule of law. I passionately hope it will do so.”

Source URL: http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/11/top-trend-forecaster-says-were-going-to.html

Author Griffin calls for formation of truth and reconciliation commission to heal wounds of 9-11

By Peter Duveen

PETER’S NEW YORK, Nov. 19, 2008–One of the major critics of the U.S. government’s version of the events of September 11, 2001 is calling for the formation of a “truth and reconciliation commission” to get to the bottom of the happenings of that day.

David Ray Griffin, author of seven books on 9-11, including his latest, “A New Pearl Harbor Revisited,” all of which are critical of the government’s 9-11 investigations, said on the Alex Jones radio program today that he believed the administration of incoming U.S. President Barack Obama will be more open to the establishment of such a commission. “With a new administration…there is really a chance” that there could be a new 9-11 investigation, Griffin said. Griffin described Obama as “very bright,” with a strong moral compass and an appreciation of the U.S. constitution. “He and his people will be open to evidence” that contradicts government accounts, Griffin said. He also said that Obama was likely to embrace the idea of forgiveness that would be essential for a truth and reconciliation commission. “He’s willing to let bygones be bygones,” said Griffin.

Similar commissions have been established in countries that have been beset by corruption and the human tragedy it generates. Such a body was established, for example, by the South African government in the 1990s, and offered amnesty to those who freely confessed to committing heinous crimes during the Apartheid regime. Confessions by police and other groups participating in atrocities against black citizens in the white-dominated South African government eventually revealed the scope and character of abuses.

Griffin and other critics of the U.S. government’s 9-11 storyline believe that the events of that day were far more likely to have been carried out by those high in government circles than by the rag tag team of 19 “hijackers” the government alleges took control of four commercial airliners, plunging two of them into each of the twin towers of New York City’s World Trade Center and a third into the Pentagon in northern Virginia. A fourth airliner is said to have crashed in a field in Pennsylvania with military aircraft in hot pursuit. The government has refused to release to investigators information linking any of the commercial flights with serial numbers of recovered wreckage, fueling doubts that the commercial airliners the government claims to have been used by the hijackers were in all instances the ones that crashed on that day.

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My Really, Really Bad Judy Wood Experience
by Reprehensor

(With the recent publication of Jeremy Baker’s essay, “Three Amigos: Reynolds, Wood and Fetzer’s assault on 9/11 Truth”, I think it is important for people to know that Baker is not the only person to have serious reservations about this particular trio. Especially since Judy Wood’s ideas have cropped up again, and have been circulated in a Draft Bill that does not have the unanimous support of 9/11 Truthers, but has already been presented to a few members of Congress. Specifically, this blog entry is about an on-air attack on Steven Jones that occurred in 2006, that reveals planning, and forethought on behalf of the “Three Amigos”. -rep.)

“(How is a tower like a tree?)
Judy, Judy, Judy, Judy would
(Where was the hidden energy?)
La la la la la la la la la la la la
(Can we solve this mystery?)
Judy Wood”
- lyrics from “Judy Would” by Ace Baker.

In the beginning…

In 2005, Dr. Judy Wood joined the DemocraticUnderground.com (DU) message board where I had already been a member for a couple of years. She used the handle “janedoe” and would engage in back and forth posting battles with the resident 9/11 trolls and debunkers, with varying degrees of success. Wood seemed a natural ally, and I engaged in some friendly correspondence with janedoe, via the DU message board, which later moved to email communications…
When Steven Jones publicly posted his paper, “Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?” in late 2005, he attracted the attention of James Fetzer, and they co-founded the original Scholars for 9/11 Truth group. By the time that Jones did his first major public lecture in Utah, in February of 2006, Wood had established contact with Jones, looking to join the Scholars. Soon, Morgan Reynolds would also be a member. Wood’s participation at DU dropped off considerably.
In the space of a few short months, the original Scholars group was building up a large membership, and by June of 2006, Jones had become popular enough within the 9/11 Truth community that he was delivering the Keynote address at the Chicago 9/11 Truth conference, and it really seemed that the Scholars had some serious momentum.
By the beginning of August, 2006, Judy Wood and Morgan Reynolds had decided to put a halt to Steven Jones’ momentum.

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9/11: More than meets the eye

Discussion of the very real doubts over the World Trade Center attacks was conspicuously absent from the US presidential race. But America’s international image will always be tainted as long as the uncertainty remains.

by Richard Falk
Sunday 09 November 2008, The Journal Issue 13