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41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intel Vets Question 9/11

citizen_wayne — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:01:52 GMT

41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11

by Alan Miller

Following in the footsteps of well over 1,000 scientists and other professional groups who have already gone on record questioning the official theory, more than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have come forward to challenge the Government’s rendition of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Their behind-the-scenes knowledge and experience of sensitive and classified issues places them in a uniquely authoritative position. In this sense, their critical stance is all the more damning for the government. Conspicuously absent from the landscape are the mainstream media professionals, as they continue to provide cover for the government’s totally bankrupt theory and fail to report on landmark developments such as this.

Official Account of 9/11:“Terribly Flawed,” “Laced with Contradictions,” “a Joke,” “a Cover-up”

More than 40 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency veterans have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and most have called for a new investigation. It is outrageous that most Americans are entirely unaware of their publicly stated concerns — a direct result of the refusal of national print and broadcast news organizations to cover this extremely important issue. There is no denying the credibility of these individuals or their loyalty to their country as demonstrated by their years of service collecting and analyzing information and planning and carrying out operations critical to the national security of the United States.

These 41 individuals formerly served in the U.S. State Department, the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the branches of the U.S. Military. They are listed below by their branch of service. [To read their individual statements and full complementary information, see attached document "Counterterrorism Veterans"].

DETAILS HERE http://www.fv911truth.org/41_American_Heros.html

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Some real life lessons from the War on Terror: INFO WARS work!

citizen_wayne — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:54:22 GMT

'The Taliban have been winning hands down.' --Architect of Canada's new strategy slams West's failure to grasp Afghans 07 Jun 2009 International forces have failed to quash the insurgency in Afghanistan because they have failed to understand the Taliban's common-touch campaign, a key architect of Canada's bold new "model village" strategy said Sunday. At its heart, Prof. Thomas Johnson said, the counter-insurgency is "essentially an information war" the Taliban have been winning hands down. "We need a change in strategy," said Johnson, the director of the Program for Culture and Conflict studies at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

Read the Full Article Here:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hR-bACxbZDuVf2I9Ey_zEaLE3XNg

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NOTE: this should NOT be mis-construed as "supporting the Taliban".

I think there are some lessons in that article for the Truth Movement too.

I have said for years that the thing which the Enemies of Truth (those who create wars and who profit from them) fear most is average citizens talking to each other on the street and civilly sharing information with each other, because they cannot intervene in that, cannot spin it, and don't have enough people to follow everybody around, or to disrupt (short of all out martial law). Even that failed in Poland and other Eastern Block countries.

We must BE the media and BE the Human Internet. That can only succeed, however, when enough people feel compelled to take personal responsibility and get involved. YOU are the key.

The MSM is losing their market. That is well documented. That means we street activists have had an effect and the MSM is losing credibility. It also means people are tired of fear mongering and propaganda. We MUST fill the void and be there for people with honest information about what is going on in our countries and our world, in a friendly and caring way.

I said recently in Toronto that if we had 10,000 people getting out regularly in their own communities to share information, we would have far more effect than having 10,000 people meeting in one place and holding a demonstration. In fact, it would probably take far less than that. The point is, if we had a few people regularly in every major town, showing their concerns and sharing honest, factual information (not opinions) with their fellow citizens WE WIN. The lies fall away, people open their eyes and minds, the fear diminishes and people feel free to begin to discuss things which they previously were not aware of or were to scared to talk about in public (for fear of what others might think).

Just think, however, about how you like to be treated by others before you act. Nobody likes to be beat over the head or having anything rammed down their throats. I recently heard an interview with Deanna Spingola who, in a discussion about "dealing with the eye-rollers", said "if you bake a big, beautiful, chocolate cake and offer people a slice, they will likely want to try it. But, if you throw it in their face or stuff it into their mouth, they likely won't appreciate it very much." (See her article below)

Marketing and Packaging are everything in a society of consumers. Think about it. We have to resist the urge to throw the whole cake at people. Offer a slice of the cake and let them come back for more. If they like it, they'll be back.

http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/2009/06/some-real-life-lessons-from-war-on.html

Wayne

Listen up, eye rollers! (Part 1 of 2)
Deanna Spingola
December 20, 2007

People who rely on broadcast media and/or government education to formulate their perceptions often roll their eyes in exasperation and conspiracy-nut-contempt . .
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/071220

Listen up, eye rollers! (Part 2 of 2)
Deanna Spingola
January 24, 2008
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/080124

Eye rollers, people who condescendingly roll their eyes when confronted with truth, share common characteristics: apathy, naivety, and of course blissful . . .

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Karzai Agrees with US Strategy, But Says No al-Qaida Bases in Afghanistan

citizen_wayne — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:24:14 GMT

VOA News,
19 April 2009 -

Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he agrees with almost all elements of U.S. President Barack Obama's strategy for Afghanistan, but the Afghan leader does not believe al-Qaida has a presence in his country.

Mr. Karzai made the comments in an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN, on Fareed Zakaria's GPS program.

Mr. Obama's plan involves deploying thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, and it makes defeating al-Qaida and other terrorist groups the top priority.

Mr. Karzai stressed that al-Qaida is not in Afghanistan. He said U.S. and allied forces, and the Afghan people, drove al-Qaida terrorists out of the country in 2001. He said al-Qaida might have sent fighters back into Afghanistan, but he emphasized that he does not believe there are al-Qaida bases there.

On another issue, President Karzai said efforts to make peace with the Taliban must come from the national level, with the backing of the international community, as well as at the local level. Mr. Karzai said peace with the Taliban cannot be made at tactical levels. He said no gains can come from a U.S. commander reaching out to a Taliban commander on the ground.

The U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, also addressed the issue in a separate interview on the same program. Holbrooke called the possibility of reconciliation with some elements of the Taliban a "work in progress" that is being examined on every level. He said Washington did not really know how such a program might work, but he emphasized that it is important to reach out to people who do not agree with Taliban principles but misunderstand why NATO forces are in Afghanistan.

On another issue, Mr. Karzai said any articles of a controversial new law that are not in keeping with the nation's constitution or Islamic law (Sharia) will be changed.

Mr. Karzai was discussing a law that activists say restricts women's rights. It only affects Afghanistan's Shi'ite Muslim minority, and it essentially legalizes marital rape and forbids women from leaving their homes without their husbands' permission.

Mr. Karzai said the law was signed without full knowledge of all the articles it contained.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-19-voa23.cfm

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COMMENT:

Dear Mr. Harper,

President Hamid Karzai says there is no al Qaeda (the people you allege were responsible for 9/11) in his country and that they were defeated in 2001.

So, why is it that the Canadian military remains in Afghanistan? Why are our soldiers dying there. Who is it that we are fighting?

Might those people be "patriotic resisters" or "freedom fighters" who are unhappy with our permanent occupation?

Or might they be various groups being trained and funded by elements in the west to keep chaos alive and well, to maintain the hype and fear and your police state policies alive at home, and the need for military intervention in perpetuity, so that someone can make a lot of money? Or are our good people unknowingly protecting the bumper heroin poppy crops?

In either event, Karzai says they are NOT al Qaeda, which is the reason why we went and which you and your old pal Bush kept telling us about. I support our troops. BRING THEM HOME, and let the people of Afghanistan decide for themselves what they want or do not want in their country. It is NONE of our business!

And then, assuming you truly do want to start building a democracy somewhere, let's start right here at home. Stop kowtowing to Zionist lobby groups (banning Galloway) and the military industrial complex, stop trying to extend and justify your undemocratic police state powers that subvert constitutional rights and freedoms, and start listening to Canadians. (You know, those people who live here who vote, pay taxes, and your salary and who you claim to represent?)

Wayne

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9/11 Commission Counsel: Government Agreed to Lie About 9/11

citizen_wayne — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:40:49 GMT

Paul J. Watson,
Prison Planet.com,
Tues., April 14, 2009 -

The senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission - John Farmer - says that the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11, echoing the assertions of fellow 9/11 Commission members who concluded that the Pentagon were engaged in deliberate deception about their response to the attack.

Farmer served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (officially known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States), and is also a former New Jersey Attorney General.

Farmer’s book about his experiences working for the Commission is entitled The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11, and is set to be released in September.

The book unveils how “the public had been seriously misled about what occurred during the morning of the attacks,” and Farmer himself states that “at some level of the government, at some point in time…there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”

Only the very naive would dispute that an agreement not to tell the truth is an agreement to lie. Farmer’s contention is that the government agreed to create a phony official version of events to cover-up the real story behind 9/11.

The publisher of the book, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, states that, “Farmer builds the inescapably convincing case that the official version not only is almost entirely untrue but serves to create a false impression of order and security.”

In August 2006, the Washington Post reported [3], “Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it reacted to the 2001 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public rather than a reflection of the fog of events on that day, according to sources involved in the debate.”

The report revealed how the 10-member commission deeply suspected deception to the point where they considered referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation.

“We to this day don’t know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us,” said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. “It was just so far from the truth. . . . It’s one of those loose ends that never got tied.”

Farmer himself is quoted in the Post article, stating, “I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described …. The [Norad air defense] tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years…. This is not spin.
This is not true.”

As we also reported in August 2006 [4], released portions of NORAD tapes from 9/11, which were featured in a Vanity Fair article, do little to answer skeptic’s questions about the impotence of U.S. air defenses on 9/11 and if anything only increase focus on the incompatibility of the official version of events with what is actually known to have taken place on that day.

Make no mistake, Farmer is not saying that 9/11 was an inside job, however, Farmer’s testimony, along with that of his fellow 9/11 Commission members, conclusively demonstrates that, whatever really happened on 9/11, the official story as told to the public on the day and that which remains the authorities’ version of events today, is a lie - according to the very people who were tasked by the government to investigate it. This is a fact that no debunker or government apologist can ever legitimately deny.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/911-commission-counsel-government-agreed-to-lie-about-911.html

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A new 9/11 Investigation is warranted and is all that we ask. The victims and their families deserve a full, fair and impartial investigation to report the truth and to hold the responsible persons, agencies and countries accountable. Our soldiers in Afghanistan also deserve nothing less.

George Bush said "you are either with us or with the terrorists!" I say defenders of the official story who dis those of us who are seeking truth and justice, and those who refuse to acknowledge the many unanswered questions of 9/11, who go along to get along, are complicit in this heinous crime, in the cover up, and all the crimes committed in a bogus war on terror.

Those of you who are in a position to effect a new investigation but refuse to do so, and who turn the other way when evidence is presented to you are by definition, under the criminal code, accessories after the fact.

INVESTIGATE 9/11!

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Anti-terror terror: Conservatives to extend Police State powers

citizen_wayne — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:33:17 GMT

CBC, March 26th, 2009, Stefan Christoff -

Conservatives reintroduce legislation that civil liberties groups say erases basic legal rights.

The Conservative government has reintroduced two controversial provisions within the post-9/11 Anti-Terrorism Act. If passed, the recently tabled legislation would once again extend policing powers like investigative hearings and preventive arrests. These extraordinary measures expired in March 2007 when the opposition parties at the time refused to reaffirm them.

"We are totally against this new bill because a strong case has not been made as to their necessity," outlines Roch Tassé, co-ordinator at International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group in Ottawa. "These are laws that have not been used in any post-9/11 national security cases - this is legislation that spells out an erosion of freedoms and civil liberties for people in Canada, a daunting extension of policing powers."

Although the Bloc Québécois and NDP are slated to vote against the legislation, the position of the Liberals, who originally introduced the Anti-Terrorism Act in 2002, is not yet clear.

Under the reintroduced legislation, security services and police can arrest "suspects" of terrorism, and legally hold them for up to three days without approval from the legal system. Authorities can make people testify at closed-door investigative hearings without laying any formal charges or the accusations being brought forward in a court of law.

"Essentially, through the 'investigative hearings' the right to remain silent is erased, a bedrock to legal rights in a democratic society," explains Tassé. "Without any formal charges being brought forward, an individual would be obliged to answer questions. This is a law that clearly could lead to an abuse of policing powers."

http://www.hour.ca/news/news.aspx?iIDArticle=16934

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All the more reason to insist on a proper, thorough, fair and independent investigation into 9/11 !

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Desperately Seeking Accountability in the Canadian Injustice System for Victims of 9/11

citizen_wayne — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:17:45 GMT

Trying to Encounter Competence in RCMP Complaint Process (original title),
by Hal Sisson,
Tuesday, 07 April 2009,
Pacific Free Press -

No one should be above the law but the straightforward manner in which the ‘Commission for Public Complaints Against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’ handles complaints presented to them by the public is a masterpiece of artful dodgery, whitewash and obfuscation. The system, however, is admirable in its efficacy from a strictly RCMP standpoint.

To quote a recent Times Colonist letter to the editor, ‘If you complain to the RCMP they can ignore it. If you complain to the RCMP Complaints Commissioner he can complain to the RCMP (in fact must refer the complaint to the RCMP) and they can again ignore it.’ To put it another way - if the members of the Commission and their employees were florists they would close shop on Mother’s Day.

According to ‘Yes, Prime Minister, BBC’, the standard response to a crisis such as receiving a complaint is to state that they see no problem and nothing is going to happen. Even if there is something to complain about we should do nothing about it. And even if we should do something, there is nothing we can do. Finally, there may have been something we could have done, but now it is too late to do it.

Examples abound of this official response, and the following is a glaring example:

Here’s what happened people, if you will recall. On September 11, 2001 some evil persons or organizations were responsible for flying commercial airplanes into the Twin Towers of the Trade Center in New York City. This was a horrendous crime and should have been investigated as such, rather than to declare war on the noun of “Terror”. The Bush Administration immediately offered a theory of least probability as to how it could have happened, but eight years later have still failed to come forward with any proof whatsoever of the conspiracy theory they espoused involving Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

Twenty-four Canadians were murdered in this atrocity and Prime Minister Stephen Harper publicly stated that this was the reason that Canada would go to war with Afghanistan – which we did and where we have lost four times as many Canadians as were murdered on 9/11 – to say nothing of the Afghani casualties.

The federal police force – the RCMP – has a mandate to investigate the murder of Canadian citizens inside and outside of Canada, and have done so in many individual cases. However, they failed to do so after 9/11 when it involved twenty-four Canadians. "Why?" becomes a pressing and fair question.

A concerned Canadian patriot friend of mine, Dave Fodor, decided to file a complaint regarding the above 9/11 atrocity and ask just why it was that the RCMP failed to do their duty to conduct their own investigation of the crime. There follows verbatim the very revealing correspondence between citizen Fodor and the RCMP Complaints Commission:

File No. 5430-2008-2929
Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP
Nov.4th, 2008,
To Dear Mr. Fodor:
This will acknowledge receipt of the documents you sent to this office and to advise that I was unable to identify specific issues related to the conduct of an RCMP member. I am, therefore, writing to clarify for you the mandate of the commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP.
This commission was established by Parliament to oversee the public policing activities of the RCMP. Part VII of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (“RCMP Act”) describes the mandate of this commission. Its mandate is to review “the conduct, in performance of any duty or function under the (RCMP) act, of any member (of the RCMP)…” Taken as a whole, the concerns outlined in your letter do not appear to qualify as conduct of the RCMP in the performance of a duty or function under the Act and, therefore, do not fall within this commission’s mandate.
As a result, this commission has no role to play in resolving the issues you have raised in your letter. According, we will be unable to process your concerns as a public complaint under Part VII of the RCMP Act.
Yours truly,
Andree Leduc
Enquiries and Complaints Analyst

File No. 5430-2008-2929
Nov. 18, 2008
To: Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP
Dear Andree Leduc,
Thank you for your reply dated November 4, 2008 to my complaint about the RCMP handling of the 9/11 case on behalf of the 24 Canadian victims, the Canadian 9/11 Truth Movement and many other citizens. You indicate in your letter that Part VII of the RCMP Act requires identifying a particular RCMP member before the commission can consider an investigation. That person would be the RCMP commissioner Guiliano Zaccardelli who was in charge on September 11, 2001 and I also indicated him on my original submission.
Who is responsible for the follow-up of this case as there are legitimate questions about the murder of 24 Canadians? The 9/11 Truth Movement is of the legal opinion that this is within the mandate of the RCMP and questions the conduct of the RCMP commissioner on and after 9/11.
You will find enclosed a CD with supporting documents also forwarded to present RCMP commissioner William Elliot and Deputy Commissioner Joe Buckle earlier this year.
Thank you for your attention hereto at earliest convenience.
Sincerely,
Dave Fodor (on behalf of 22% of Canadians (2006 Ipsos-Reid poll result – increasing annually)

File No. 5430-2008-2929
November 27, 2008
From: Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP
Dear Mr. David Fodor,
This will acknowledge receipt of the documents you sent to this office and to advise you that as I advised previously I was unable to identify specific issues relating to the “policing’ conduct of an RCMP member.
This commission was established by Parliament to oversee the public policing activities of the RCMP. Part VII of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act (“RCMP Act” describes the mandate of this commission. Its mandate is to review ”the conduct, in performance of any duty or function under the (RCMP) Act, of any member (of the RCMP)…” Taken as a whole, the concerns outlined in your letter do not appear to qualify as conduct of the RCMP in the performance of a duty or function under the Act and, therefore do not fall within this commission’s mandate.
I would also point out that Commissioner Zaccardelli has retired from the RCMP and can no longer be disciplined under the RCMP Act.
As a result, please be advised that this file is now closed.
Yours truly,
Andree Leduc
Enquiries and Complaints Analyst

File # 5430-2008-2929
December 10th, 2008
Andree Leduc
To: Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP
Dear Mr. Andree Leduc:
Thank you for your reply of Nov. 27, 2008 and acknowledgment of the receipt of the documentation and evidence I had sent to you. However I, nor my legal counsel, fail to comprehend why you are unable to identify specific issues relating too the policing decisions of the individual RCMP officer in charge and serving in force at the time. An “issue” is 24 Canadians murdered in the Twin Trade Towers in NY on 9/11 and no investigation was co9nducted into the crime by the Royal Canadian Police Force.
So, as you state, if past or retired police action or inaction are no longer subject to ‘discipline’ could you cite the reference in the RCMP Act? As well I understand that former Commissioner Zaccardelli is working for Interpol in Africa, so could you confirm that he is not on the payroll of Interpol in Ottawa?
On August 9th of this year I sent a letter and a CD with additional information to RCMP commissioner William Elliot. In that letter I ask him “to implement a Canadian investigation” and for your reference, I attach a copy of that letter.
The public wants the crime of 9/11 to be ‘reviewed’ bay our federal police force in an open and transparent manner and when we do supply the police with verifiable incriminating evidence they refuse to act. And this 9/11 research/investigation is not my job nor is it the job of the Canadian 9/11 Truth community.
In closing, could the commission not collaborate with the Canadian public and the RCMP to at least review the facts that are now available that may not have been available to Mr. Zaccardelli when he was commander of the RCMP?
Your reply will once again be appreciated,
Sincerely,
Dave Fodor

As you will note the complainant Fodor then registered a specific complaint naming Commissioner Zaccardelli’s replacement, William Elliot – as it is only logical the new Commissioner seamlessly takes on the responsibilities of his predecessor. The RCMP Commissioner controls and manages the force and all matters connected therewith under the direction of the Minister of Public Safety Canada.

So, was there any interference in the process of an RCMP 9/11 crime investigation by politicians of the Canadian Government that would widen the blame for the failure of the Force to do so? That type of thing is always shielded from public scrutiny and insulated from parliamentary oversight, so lotsa luck with Freedom of Information requests in that area.

What happened next? Voila! The stonewall gambit is played by the Commission employees. No answer to the complaint is forthcoming, the case is closed and the bureaucrats go back to their coffee break. A shut-out is registered by the RCMP goalie flak-catcher, the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP.

The official complaint form states: ‘By submitting the complaint form, you are authorizing the Commissioner for Public Complaints Against the RCMP to collect your personal information’. So it turns out that any and all complaints received by the Commission along with all other relevant documentation are forwarded to the RCMP for investigation pursuant to subsection 45.35 (3) of the RCMP Act. And the cops decide whether the complaint against them has any merit. The Force regard the Complaints Commission as usurpers who are trying to impose their rulings over those of the RCMP Commissioner, and that statement comes directly from a retired RCMP Chief Superintendent. They ignore complaints, always have, always will; they refuse to give logical reasons for doing so and insult your intelligence with the ones they do give. The RCMP invariably exonerate the illegal or criminal actions of their own members. A ten day forfeiture of pay is the most serious punishment a Mountie can receive short of demotion and dismissal.

Cover your ass and find the victim to blame is another ignorant methodology to justify police action, as clearly illustrated by the Robert Dziekanski case in the Vancouver airport on October 14, 2007. They did their damnedest to cover this up but fortunately someone had a camera and took pictures of what really happened, thus putting the lie to the previous testimony of the four officers who tasered Dziekanski five times when they went to the scene looking for a fight and a chance to test their weapons. Incidentally, police in Victoria recently told a young citizen that he could not take their pictures even when no incident was taking place. When ordered to put away his camera, the young man had the presence of mind to politely inform the female officer that he was a Canadian citizen standing on a public sidewalk, it was his camera and he was entitled to take pictures of anything he wanted. She retreated in confusion when he would not comply with her orders, but citizens beware of this gambit.

The RCMP even went to Poland in an effort to find evidence that would be detrimental to their victim Dziekanski and give warrant to their explosive deadly taser response rather than the help that he obviously required. Poland co-operated fully in accordance with the Canada-Poland treaty on ‘mutual legal assistance in criminal matters’. Upon their return the Canadian government immediately suspended the agreement with Poland, thus effectively preventing Poland from obtaining the release of transcripts of the Dziekanski inquiry, video, audiotapes and other evidence, without a court order. The RCMP is objecting to such an order as they don’t want that material released to the Polish government who has the right to charge persons responsible for the death of Polish citizens abroad – which is a general rule present in a majority of national legal systems.

This is the stuff of which fascist police states are made. So let us ask again – when is the RCMP going to investigate the crime and murder of twenty-four Canadians on 9/11 in New York City. They have two choices:

(1) investigate the crime of 9/11 properly, using the large amount of scientific and other factual evidence that has since then been assiduously supplied to them by scientists, legal, engineering, architectural and sundry professional other experts and eyewitnesses.

(2) Admit that their refusal to do so is a dereliction of duty and that the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP is nothing more than – in legal parlance - cowyard confetti.

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"When you complain against the Mounties they then have all the pertinent information regarding the complainant on file. You can still say what you like about the Mounties but God help you if you say what you don’t like. When I was a kid I was told anyone could join the Mounties or work for the government. I’m beginning to believe it."

Hal Sisson, Q.C.: originally from Moose Jaw, Sask., RCAF armourer in WWII, a reformed lawyer who practiced law in Peace River, Alberta for forty years and has been resident in Victoria, B.C. since 1985. Author of ten published books including the best-selling Coots,Codgers and Curmudgeons (with his partner Justice Dwayne Rowe); and Modus Operandi 9/11 that exposes the White House 9/11 lies, the New World Order and the War on Terror. And does so featuring salty humour in the form of a novel. International Croquet, marble player and collector, his major hobby was stand-up comedy and writing, producing and performing in Western Canada’s longest running (25 years) burlesque revue Sorry ‘Bout That. His latest novel is Potshots, which takes on a couple of society’s taboo subjects – decriminalization of marijuana and problems of prostitution law – with wit and style.

All his books can be obtained from Global Outlook, PO Box 222, Oro, Ontario, Canada, LOL 2X0. Or call free in North America: 1 888-713-8500 or from Overseas: 1-705-728-6500. Web store at www.GlobalOutlook.ca, using PenPal, Mastercard, Visa. (See Website. www.halsisson.ca

http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/3989-desperately-seeking-competence-in-canadian-justice.html

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Explosives Found in World Trade Center Dust - Stop the denial now and deal with reality!

citizen_wayne — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:02:29 GMT

Scientists Discover Both Residues And Unignited Fragments Of Nano-Engineered Thermitic Pyrotechnics In Debris From the Twin Towers.

The scientific paper Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe conclusively shows the presence of unignited aluminothermic explosives in dust samples from the Twin Towers, whose chemical signature matches previously documented aluminothermic residues found in the same dust samples. The present review of the paper and related research is intended to summarize those findings for the non-technical reader. To that end, I first provide a short introduction to the subject of aluminothermic explosives, then outline the methods and results of analysis of the dust samples, and finally explore the significance of these findings.

http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/explosive_residues.html

Traces of explosives in 9/11 dust, scientists say

By Elaine Jarvik
Deseret News

Tiny red and gray chips found in the dust from the collapse of the World Trade Center contain highly explosive materials — proof, according to a former BYU professor, that 9/11 is still a sinister mystery.

Physicist Steven E. Jones, who retired from Brigham Young University in 2006 after the school recoiled from the controversy surrounding his 9/11 theories, is one of nine authors on a paper published last week in the online, peer-reviewed Open Chemical Physics Journal. Also listed as authors are BYU physics professor Jeffrey Farrer and a professor of nanochemistry at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

For several years, Jones has theorized that pre-positioned explosives, not fires from jet fuel, caused the rapid, symmetrical collapse of the two World Trade Center buildings, plus the collapse of a third building, WTC-7.

The newest research, according to the journal authors, shows that dust from the collapsing towers contained a "nano-thermite" material that is highly explosive. Although the article draws no conclusions about the source and purpose of the explosives, Jones has previously supported a theory that the collapse of the WTC towers was part of a government conspiracy to ignore warnings about the 9/11 terrorists so that the attack would propel America to wage war against Afghanistan and Iraq.

he next step, Jones said in a phone interview on Monday, is for someone to investigate "who made the stuff and why it was there."

A layer of dust lay over parts of Manhattan immediately following the collapse of the towers, and it was samples of this dust that Jones and fellow researchers requested in a 2006 paper, hoping to determine "the whole truth of the events of that day." They eventually tested four samples they received from New Yorkers.

One sample was from a man who had swept up a handful of dust on the Brooklyn Bridge, where he was walking when the second tower fell. As the journal authors note, "It was, therefore, definitely not contaminated by the steel-cutting or clean-up operations at Ground Zero, which began later. Furthermore, it is not mixed with dust from WTC-7, which fell hours later."

Another man collected dust in his apartment, about five blocks from the World Trade Center, on the morning of Sept. 12. There was a layer about an inch thick on a stack of folded laundry near an open window.

Red/gray chips, averaging in size between .2 and 3 mm, were found in all four dust samples. The chips were then analyzed using scanning electron microscopy and other high-tech tools.

The red layer of the chips, according to the researchers, contains a "highly energetic" form of thermite. While normal thermite (a mixture of finely granulated aluminum and an oxide of metal) can be incendiary, "super thermite" is explosive. He says there is no benign explanation for the thermite in the WTC dust.

Jones made headlines in 2005 when he argued that the rapid and symmetrical fall of the World Trade Center looked like the result of pre-positioned explosives. He argued that fires alone wouldn't have been hot enough to crumble the buildings; and that even if struck by planes, the towers should have been strong enough to support the weight of the tops as they crumbled — unless they were leveled by explosives.

Essentially forced to retire, Jones says he is now paying for research out of his own pocket. He likens himself to Galileo and Newton, who stood by their consciences. "I would like to think I could stand up for the truth," he says.

The dust study vindicates his earlier theories, Jones says, but he has mixed feelings about the implications. "As a young student said to me a while back: 'It's exciting from a scientific point of view, because things are now making sense. But I feel sad for my country.' "

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705295677/Traces-of-explosives-in-911-dust-scientists-say.html?pg=1

Danish scientist: nano explosive material found in the dust from the World Trade Center

Original Danish
English translation

Wake Up and Smell the Aluminothermic Nanocomposite Explosives

As Documentation of Thermitic Materials
in the WTC Twin Towers Grows,
Official Story Backers Ignore, Deny, Evade, and Dissemble

by
Jim Hoffman
Version 1.0, April 3, 2009

Introduction

The obliteration of the Twin Towers was the centerpiece of the event that launched the 'War on Terror'. Shocking on multiple levels, the events were especially traumatic for Americans, being the first bombing on the US mainland in modern history that killed thousands of people -- civilians -- in one day. Given the collective psychological trauma of the attack, it is not surprising that public discourse would remain free of observations that the destruction of the Twin Towers bore obvious features of controlled demolitions. Early candid public remarks by reporters and demolition experts where quickly retracted or forgotten. Passage of the USA PATRIOT Act and the invasion of Afghanistan would proceed apace.

By 2003 the United States had occupations of two countries, and an international reputation as a rogue state all resting on a shaky-at-best collapse theory whose principal alternative hypothesis -- controlled demolition with pre-planted pyrotechnics -- had not even been tested by the straightforward forensic analysis of debris for residues of such materials.

By early 2009, the residue testing that NIST refused to do had been done by independent researchers, and reported on in a peer-reviewed chemistry journal. Small bi-layered chips, found consistently in dust samples, have layers of red nano-engineered material that is clearly aluminothermic: it has sub-micron-diameter particles of largely of elemental aluminum, and smaller crystalline grains of primarily Fe2O3. On ignition, the chips produce temperatures above the melting point of iron, leaving tiny iron droplets matching the residues of commercial thermite pyrotechnics.

The publication of these results should be astounding to anyone who uncritically accepted the collapse explanations in TV documentaries and never looked seriously at any of the several bodies of evidence for controlled demolition.

The NIST investigation, having posted its Final Report with its absurd Building 7 joint-breaking-thermal-expansion theory in late 2008 and FAQ by Christmas, closed its doors before the independent researchers published their findings of active aluminothermic materials in WTC dust in a mainstream scientific journal; but not before they publicized findings of aluminothermic residues in the same dust samples; and not before they extracted from NIST a series of public statements, in press conferences and in written responses to requests for correction (RFCs), about the conduct of their inquiry into the cause of the skyscrapers' total destruction.

As a result, NIST spokespersons are on the record saying they did not test for pyrotechnics, and offering rationales for failing to perform such tests. Those rationale -- or rationalizations -- summarized toward the end of this essay, include the assertion that testing for pyrotechnics "would not necessarily have been conclusive". That is partially true: failing to find pyrotechnic residues wouldn't rule out demolition, since demolition might have been implemented using an untraceable fuel such as hydrogen gas. But finding abundant and distributed pyrotechnic explosive residues would conclusively favor demolition -- particularly given the persuasive deductive arguments showing that the features of the buildings' destruction are incompatable with a purely gravity-driven collapse.

The following timeline is narrowly focused on the emergence of public evidence indicating the use of aluminothermic pyrotechnics, ranging from incendiaries to high-explosives, in the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7, and on the way official bodies -- particular NIST -- treated that evidence.

http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/explosives_evidence_timeline.html

VIsibility 9/11 Interviews with Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan

http://media.libsyn.com/media/visibility911/visibility911_drjones0309.mp3

http://media.libsyn.com/media/visibility911/visibility911_kevinryan0309.mp3

***

so,. stop the denial now and deal with reality!

Especially you so-called Peace / Anti-War Activists. It has been your denial that allows them to continue waging wars. It is time you learned the reality of False Flag Ops and stop buying into the crap that your "trusted gurus" are feeding you.

Or do you just enjoy protesting for the hell of it and would have nothing better to do if we actually got the citizens motivated to put an end to wars??

9/11 Truth = PEACE!!

Get it?

Denial = WAR!

WE are the real Peace Movement. Get with it.

DIGG IT?? http://digg.com/world_news/Explosives_Found_in_World_Trade_Center_Dust

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Open Letter to Canadian Parliamentarians, by Prof. Anthony J. Hall

citizen_wayne — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:29:04 GMT

March 31st, 2009 -

Dear Parliamentarians,

The minority government of Stephen Harper has spit on the rule of law by welcoming the torturer George Bush and turning away the peace activist George Galloway. Moreover, much of the Canadian mainstream media, including the CBC, has aided and abetted the international crimes of George Bush by covering up the true character of what transpired in Calgary. The arrest of Splitting The Sky culminated a broadly-based citizens' initiative to pressure police to do their duty to enforce domestic and international law. As is well established in the Nuremberg charter, judgement and principles, following orders does not constitute a viable defence for direct involvement or complicity in international crimes.

Compare and contrast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nZ3hq1bxbw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62a53enMtA0

After the historic event in Calgary on March 17, followed by the prohibition on the entry to Canada of a British parliamentarian of 23 years, there can be no doubt that our law enforcement agencies in Canada, including the RCMP, have been transformed into agencies whose highest function is to enforce the political agendas of their political masters. The law and order agenda of the Harper government is a cover for its subversion of the rule of law to advance its own thuggish political agenda.

Anthony J. Hall
Professor of Globalization Studies
University of Lethbridge
www.globalizationstudies.ca

PermaLink http://www.warcriminalsout.com/open_letter_prof_hall.html

Please post on social justice and political activism related forums, as well as forward it to anyone who you think may be interested.

Feel free to re-publish it in full on your own website, if appropriate. Professor Hall will appreciate it.

Thanks!

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9/11 Truth Activist Arrested in Canadian Bush Protest

citizen_wayne — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:05:41 GMT

9/11 Truth Activist Arrested in Canadian Bush Protest

James Corbett - The Corbett Report - 18 March, 2009 -

Noted activist, lecturer, author and 9/11 Truth researcher Splitting The Sky was arrested outside the Telus Convention Center in Calgary, Canada yesterday as ex-U.S. President George W. Bush delivered a speech to an assembly of Canadian oilpatch executives and politicians.

While Bush delivered a $400-per-plate luncheon address extolling the virtues of free trade and illegal wiretapping, protesters outside the event made their voices heard. According to the National Post, 400 protesters gathered to demonstrate against Bush, with four ultimately being arrested, including Splitting The Sky and at least one man who simply threw a sandal at the building where Bush was speaking.

In an interview last week, Splitting The Sky told The Corbett Report "We're basically saying George Bush and [ex-Vice President Dick] Cheney committed war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and that they were behind 9/11. They manufactured 9/11 to justify an incursion into the Mid-East." Continuing, Splitting The Sky explained "We intend to create a big welcoming party and condemn Bush for the war crimes, for the thousands of people who have died because of this manufactured war."

Splitting The Sky's efforts were part of an umbrella effort by protesters to draw attention to a group of Canadian lawyers' attempts to get Bush barred from Canada or tried as a war criminal for torture and other crimes against humanity. The group, Lawyers Against the War, was assisted by grasssroots citizen activist organizations including War Criminals Out and People Vs. Bush.

In an interview with The Corbett Report last week, WarCriminalsOut.com webmaster Wayne Prante stressed that the planned protests were non-violent and strictly within the law: "There's no vigilante justice being called for here, we're just doing our civic and legal duty and asking that the government live up to theirs. We are talking about civil and peaceful protest action here."

WarCriminalsOut.com is now reporting that Splitting The Sky was arrested for assault and obstruction after attempting to enter the Convention Center in an apparent effort to perform a citizen's arrest of Bush on behalf of those tortured and murdered during his reign as president. He is being aided in his defence by Gail Davidson of Lawyers Against the War and former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clarke.

Video of the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aqgBV9lA7k&feature=player_embedded

To listen to The Corbett Report's interview with Splitting:

Related works from The Corbett Report:

Splitting The Sky (interview)
http://www.corbettreport.com/index.php?ii=162&i=Documentation

Wayne Prante (interview)
http://www.corbettreport.com/index.php?i=Documentation&ii=165

Original source with embedded video and links:
http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20090318_sts_arrested.htm

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Anti-Terrorism Act deserves to stay dead

citizen_wayne — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:32:41 GMT

Montreal - The Gazette - March 13, 2009 - Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act, passed in the panic-stricken aftermath of 9/11, died a well-deserved death in 2007.

It was a hastily concocted piece of legislation containing deeply flawed measures. Its Liberal framers seemed to acknowledge these shortcomings by subjecting parts of the law to a five-year sunset clause.

Parts of the act significantly eroded Canadians' civil liberties, allowing "preventive arrest" for 72 hours and detention of up to a year if a suspect did not agree to court-ordered restrictions on his movements.

Investigative hearings allowed courts to hold secret hearings in which people whom police believed knew something of interest about terrorist activity could be made to testify, even if they incriminated themselves

From this brief summary, it is obvious how easily these provisions could be used to remove the civil rights of individuals.

Yet these are the same measures that the Conservative government wants to resurrect. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson wants to reinstate investigative hearings and court-ordered restrictions to "safeguard" Canada's national security.

Yet in the single case that was tried under the anti-terrorism law, neither of the two measures Nicholson wants to see restored were used - with no harm to the successful prosecution of the case. An affront to human rights, they seem not to even be needed.

This week, Mohammed Momin Khawaja, 29, became the first Canadian to be sentenced under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The Ottawa man, who built a bomb detonator for a British-based group of Al-Qa'ida terrorists, was found guilty of five charges of aiding and financing terrorism. He was also found guilty of two Criminal Code charges to do with the bomb detonator.

With some of measures in the 2001 Anti-Terrorism Act, Ottawa had little choice. The provisions dealing with financing and abetting terrorism, for example, were drawn up to meet Canada's obligations to the United Nations Security Council Resolution criminalizing the financial support of terrorism.

Where Canada's laws were inadequate to the threat of international terrorism, the anti-terrorism bill filled in legal gaps. The problem is that with two of these measures, the 2001 legislative initiative went far beyond what was needed or useful.

Unfettered judicial powers are by definition excessive and wrong. Citizens cannot know what is being done in the name of protecting them. Holding people without charge and compelling them to testify should have no place in Canadian law.
© Copyright (c) The Montreal Gazette

http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Anti+Terrorism+deserves+stay+dead/1383719/story.html

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Should George W. Bush Be Arrested in Calgary Alberta To Be Tried For International Crimes?

citizen_wayne — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:53:51 GMT

Bush League Justice -

by Anthony J. Hall,
Professor of Globalization Studies,
University of Lethbridge,
March 6, 2009 -

Serious allegations of criminality are swirling around ex-US President George W. Bush and current Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. In late February of 2009 it was reported that the Hague-based International Criminal Court was preparing to issue a warrant for al-Bashir alleging his culpability for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. As the documents were being prepared against Sudan’s head of state, ex-President Bush was preparing to initiate a series of high-paying speaking engagements beginning in Calgary Alberta on March 17. Bush’s visit to Alberta’s oil capital tests the consistency and authenticity of the Canadian government’s “unequivocal” position that “Canada is not and will not become a safe haven for persons involved in war crimes, crimes against humanity or other reprehensible acts.”

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir. Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/GettyThe contrast between the treatment afforded Bush and al-Bashir was inadvertently highlighted by Geoffrey York, a colleague with whom I conferred frequently when we were both reporting regularly in The Globe and Mail about two decades ago on the surprising twists that repeatedly made Aboriginal Affairs in Manitoba a major source of national news. York introduced his story on the charges against al-Bashir by writing, “For the first time in history, an international criminal court is set to issue an arrest warrant for the leader of a country, accusing him of orchestrating a campaign of murder, torture and rape.” The reporter anticipated that the ICC’s initiative “will be hailed by many as a sign that nobody is above the law.”

The striking contrast between the treatment of al-Bashir and Bush serves to clarify the division of the world’s criminals and suspected criminals into two major categories, one inhabited by a small elite that is essentially above the law and the other populated by figures not rich or influential enough to gain exemptions from the law’s coercive force. It is not without a sense of irony that I arrive at this conclusion. On the one hand the ICC’s decision to press charges against al-Bashir, as well as to initiate in January of 2009 a full-fledged trial against Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga Dyilo, signals a major transformation in the career of the ICC. It indicates that the court is no longer a mere vehicle for the empty expression of lofty idealism but rather a site of real engagement aimed at subjugating the rule of murder, mayhem and intimidation to the higher authority of law.

On the other hand by pointing its initial surge of juridical activism at the local criminality of individuals in those afflicted regions of Africa where resource cartels and their client regimes often dominate, the ICC has called attention to the West’s hypocrisy in shielding its own war lords and war profiteers in the military-industrial complex from any legal accountability for the violent acts its operatives, many of them in the so-called private sector, regularly plan, instigate, finance, arm, facilitate, commit and exploit. Indeed, the double standard promoted by the ICC in the choice of its targets for prosecution replicates in the international arena much of the duplicity of the criminal justice system in the United States.

Download the full article here (pdf)

http://www.peacealliancewinnipeg.ca/wp-content/uploads/BUSH%20LEAGUE%20JUSTICE.pdf

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POLITICAL LEADERS FOR 9/11 TRUTH HAS BEEN LAUNCHED

citizen_wayne — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:44:21 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -

March 6, 2009 - Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth (pl911truth.com) is today being launched as the latest formal group calling for a new investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. The organization is headed by Councilor (Senator) Yukihisa Fujita of Japan and former Senator Karen Johnson of Arizona.

This initiative is formed around a petition asking President Obama "to authorize a new, truly independent, investigation to determine what happened on 9/11."

Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth thus joins other concerned citizens’ groups calling for a new investigation, including Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth, Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Religious Leaders for 9/11 Truth, Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice, and Veterans for 9/11 Truth.

Independent researchers from these professions have established beyond any reasonable doubt that the official account of 9/11 is false and that the official investigations have been cover-up operations.

Senator Yukihisa Fujita explains the new initiative: "Thus far there has been no response from political leaders in Washington or in other capitals around the world. Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth has been formed to encourage such a response."

The organization is being launched with 20 charter members, including a former US governor, a former US senator, former US representatives, and former and present members of the British, German, Japanese, Norwegian, and European parliaments.

Charter member Robert Bowman, former head of the "Star Wars" program, explains the continuing relevance of the issue: "The 9/11 Tragedy has been used as the excuse for two deadly wars of aggression, for taking away our rights, and for committing war crimes that have undermined America’s reputation. Only by exposing the truth about 9/11 can we end this madness."

Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth invites other people who hold, or have held, a political office---whether elected or appointed, whether municipal, state, provincial, national, or international--- to sign the petition at pl911truth.com.

Senator Johnson sums it up: "The organization believes that the truth about 9/11 needs to be exposed now---not in 50 years as a footnote in the history books---so the policies that have been based on the Bush-Cheney administration’s interpretation of the 9/11 attacks can be changed."

Contact:

Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth
http://www.pl911truth.com/

************

Dear 9/11 Truth Community:

Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth has just been launched, and is building quickly.

It is seeking members from all levels of political office -- from the United Nations down to the town council, shool board, or hospital board. People who have been elected or appointed, currently in office or retired, may sign the petition at http://www.pl911truth.com/.

Please circulate this press release widely, and post on websites wherever possible.

Thank you for helping to build a strong political component to the 9/11 truth community.

Elizabeth Woodworth
Coordinator
Political Leaders for 9/11 Truth

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EVENT: FORENSIC METHODS FOR SYNTHETIC TERRORISM

citizen_wayne — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:14:06 GMT

A presentation of evidence arising from the attacks of 9/11 and the physical analysis of that evidence, by Prof. A.K. Dewdney, in London, Ontario, on March 19th, 2009.

Abstract: In addition to a host of contradictions and anomalies arising from a close examination of the photo, video, eyewitness and documentary evidence, there are some major problems with the explanation given by the Bush White House of the events of September 11 2001. We review: the collapse of the twin towers (and building WTC 7) without sufficient heat to weaken the structural steel; evidence of silicate microspherules formed at temperatures of 2600º C by an unknown high-energy process; the impossibility of cell phone communications from a commercial air-liner flying above 1000 metres; the almost complete absence of expected aircraft debris at the Pentagon and Shanksville crash sites.

In addition, we review and summarize the opinions of approx. 2000 well-established professionals from a number of relevant disciplines and professions: physicists, architects, engineers, government officials, airline pilots, air traffic controllers, high-ranking military officers, members of foreign and domestic (US) governments, career intelligence officers, etc.

If time permits, we will review well-established technologies that facilitate the synthesis of such terrorist attacks, principally the remote control of aircraft and voice-morphing equipment.

Note: Alexander Keewatin (A. K.) Dewdney is a well-known campus figure who took early retirement from Computer Science to continue his career as a science writer (Scientific American magazine plus many books on science), as well as to pursue a research program in population biology. Along with a great many other scientists he has also been pursuing the investigation of 9/11. He does not enjoy this work, but considers it a moral imperative. 9/11 remains as important as ever as the main excuse for an ongoing hegemonic military adventure by a handful of western countries.

FORENSIC METHODS FOR SYNTHETIC TERRORISM
A presentation of evidence arising from the attacks of 9/11 and the physical analysis of that evidence.

WHERE: Western Science Centre Room 240
WHEN: 4:30 pm Thursday March 19 2009
WHO: A. K. Dewdney (Computer Science, Biology)

Sponsor: "London Investigates Nine-eleven"
and http://www.physics911.ca/

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Cousin Of Alleged 9/11 Hijacker Exposed As Israeli Spy

citizen_wayne — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:42:39 GMT

Paul Watson,
Prison Planet.com,
Thurs, Feb. 19, 2009 -

The cousin of alleged 9/11 hijacker Ziad al-Jarrah has been exposed as a long standing Israeli spy in yet another startling intelligence connection between the Zionist state and the attacks on New York and Washington.

A New York Times report details how Ali al-Jarrah was a highly valued spy for Israel for no less than 25 years, sending reports and taking clandestine photographs of Palestinian groups and Hezbollah since 1983.

According to the article, “From his home in this Bekaa Valley village, Mr. Jarrah, 50, traveled often to Syria and to south Lebanon, where he photographed roads and convoys that might have been used to transport weapons to Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group, investigators say. He spoke with his handlers by satellite phone, receiving “dead drops” of money, cameras and listening devices. Occasionally, on the pretext of a business trip, he traveled to Belgium and Italy, received an Israeli passport, and flew to Israel, where he was debriefed at length, investigators say.”

To emphasize how highly regarded he was by Israel, Israeli officials even assured Jarrah that his town would be spared at the outset of the 2006 Lebanon-Israel conflict and that it was safe for him to stay at home.

“I never suspected him before,” said Raja Mosleh, the Palestinian doctor who was his partner for years in a school and health clinic. “But now, after linking all the incidents together, I feel he’s 100 percent guilty.”

Despite living the life of an apparent downtrodden pauper and sympathizing with the plight of the Palestinians, Jarrah was actually in receipt of over $300,000 for his work from Israel.Jarrah’s brother Yusuf was also accused of being a spy by Lebanese officials and arrested with Jarrah last July.

Which other members of the Jarrah family were working for Israel as intelligence assets? Surely not Ziad al-Jarrah, one of the infamous “laughing hijackers” and the alleged pilot of Flight 93?

Al-Jarrah’s paper passport was one of those that miraculously survived to be legible, apparently avoiding being consumed by fires that were so intense that it took over 6 months just to identify the actual victims of Flight 93.

Israeli intelligence connections to 9/11 can be traced back to the five “dancing Israelis” who were witnessed setting up video camera equipment pointed at the World Trade Center in New York before the first plane hit the tower. The men were seen jumping and high-fiving with shouts of “joy and mockery” as Flight 11 and Flight 175 slammed into the buildings. They were later seen posing for photographs in front of the debris.

After the men were arrested, the FBI discovered maps of New York City with certain places highlighted, box cutters (the same items that the hijackers supposedly used), $4700 cash stuffed in a sock, and foreign passports.

There were also Israeli news reports that the men were driving a white van packed with explosives that were intended to be detonated on the George Washington bridge.

The men were found to have been working for a removal company called Urban Moving Systems, the owner of which immediately fled the U.S. for Israel after the attacks and was subsequently placed on an FBI terror suspect list.

As the What Really Happened website notes, “The Jewish weekly The Forward reported that the FBI finally concluded that at least two of the detained Israelis were agents working for the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, and that Urban Moving Systems, the ostensible employer of the five Israelis, was a front operation. This was confirmed by two former CIA officers, and they noted that movers’ vans are a common intelligence cover. The Israelis were held in custody for 71 days before being quietly released.”

Ziad al-Jarrah infamously appeared in the “laughing hijackers” video with alleged lead hijacker Mohammed Atta, which was released by Pentagon front group IntelCenter in October 2006. The tape showed Atta and Jarrah allegedly attending a 2000 Al-Qaeda meeting and reading their last will and testament.

Segments of the video that were interspersed with footage of the “laughing hijackers,” Jarrah and Atta, showing Bin Laden giving a speech to an audience in Afghanistan on January 8 2000, were culled from what terror experts described as surveillance footage taken by a “security agency.”

News reports at the time contained the admission that the U.S. government had been in possession of the footage since 2002, while others said it was found when the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, and yet it was still bizarrely reported that the tape, bearing all the hallmarks of having been filmed and edited by undercover US intelligence and having admittedly been in US possession for five years, was released over the weekend of September 31/October 1 by “Al-Qaeda”.

The video also contained segments that were first broadcast in a British documentary called The Road to Guantanamo, which was originally aired in March 2006. The context of the corresponding scene in the dramatized documentary featured U.S. interrogators attempting to coerce Gitmo detainees into confessing Al-Qaeda membership by showing them fake videos where their likeness had been computer generated to appear as if they were in attendance during Bin Laden’s January 8 2000 speech.

Ziad al-Jarrah was questioned by UAE authorities at the request of the CIA in January 2001, eight months before 9/11, about his alleged terrorist activities, but was subsequently released.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cousin-of-alleged-911-hijacker-exposed-as-israeli-spy.html

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9/11 Activist Who Sued Government Killed In Buffalo Plane Crash

citizen_wayne — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:58:59 GMT

Steve Watson,
Infowars.net,
Fri, Feb 13th, 2009 -

One of the passengers aboard the plane that crashed into a house 10 miles from Buffalo, New York, airport late on Thursday was a 9/11 widow who had questioned the official account of the attacks, sued the government and consistently lobbied for an Investigative Commission.

Beverly Eckert was flying to the city for a celebration of what would have been her husband Sean Rooney’s 58th birthday, reports the Press Association. Mr Rooney died on the 98th floor of the World Trade Center’s south tower.

She was among the 44 passengers and four crew on board the Continental Connection flight operated by Colgan Air when it crashed in the Buffalo suburb of Clarence Center.

After 9/11, Ms Eckert refused to accept a cash settlement as compensation and instead sued the government.

“I am suing because unlike other investigative avenues… my lawsuit requires all testimony be given under oath and fully uses powers to compel evidence.” Eckert wrote in December 2003 in a statement entitled My Silence Cannot Be Bought.
http://www.margieadam.com/action/beckert.htm

“The victims’ fund was not created in a spirit of compassion.… Lawmakers capped the liability of the airlines at the behest of lobbyists who descended on Washington while the September 11 fires still smoldered.” she wrote.

Other September 11 relatives who accepted settlements forfeited their right to sue the airlines, airports, security companies, or other US organizations that could have been faulted for negligence and inadequate security measures. This ensured that very little detail of the attacks emerged outside of the government appointed 9/11 Commission.

In the same statement Ms Eckert also wrote:

“I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S. passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited.”

As a co-founder of the steering committee group “Voices For Sept. 11” Ms Eckert joined other activists in pushing for an Investigative Commission.

Only because of the consistent efforts of the relatives groups were the deaths of more than 2800 Americans ever formally investigated by a government who would have rather kept the truth about 9/11 buried.

In 2004 the Ms Eckert also successfully lobbied Congress to pass a sweeping reform of the U.S. intelligence system.

Last week, Ms Eckert was at the White House to talk with President Barack Obama about how the new administration could deal with terror suspects.

According to reports, the Colgan Air flight was on final approach to Buffalo airport, 5 miles from the runway, when the control tower lost all contact. Weather was reported as light snow and fog and a 17 MPH wind. There was no radio message indicating a problem, so whatever happened happened in an instant. Only one house on the ground was destroyed, so the aircraft was on a nearly vertical path when it hit.

http://www.infowars.com/911-activist-who-sued-government-killed-in-buffalo-plane-crash/

***

Thank you Bev, for all that you gave in this struggle, for your integrity and the example you set.
We will not rest and not go away until justice is done.

God rest you and keep you.

Wayne

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Fire Consumes WTC 7-Size Skyscraper, Building Does Not Collapse....surprise, surprise

citizen_wayne — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:57:51 GMT

Paul Watson,
Prison Planet.com,
Mon, Feb. 9, 2009 -

A fierce fire consumed all 44 floors of a skyscraper in Beijing today, shooting 30 foot flames into the air, but unlike the similarly-sized 47-story WTC 7, which suffered limited fires across just eight floors, the building in China did not collapse.

“The fire was burning from the ground floor to the top floor of the large building, the flames reflecting in the glass facade of the main CCTV tower next to the hotel and cultural center,” reports the New York Times.

“The 241-room Mandarin Oriental hotel in the building was due to open this year. Flames were spotted around 7:45 p.m. and within 20 minutes the fire had spread throughout the building, dominating that part of the city.”

“Hundreds of firefighting vehicles and police blocked off all approaches to the building - which was also set to house a luxury hotel due to be opened in 2009 - with flames appearing to leap 20 to 30 feet into the air,” adds The London Times.

Compare images of WTC 7 with those of the skyscraper fire in Beijing. Note that the Beijing skyscraper appears to be leaning due to the unorthodox design of the building - it did not suffer any kind of collapse.

READ THE ARTICLE and SEE PICTURES of this building and WTC7 here:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/fire-consumes- wtc--size-skyscraper-building-does-not-collapse.html

WATCH VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B1OnhSucP8

COMMENT:

Didn't Collapse? Go figure, eh?

http://www.prisonplanet.com/fire-consumes-wtc-7-size-skyscraper-building-does-not-collapse.html

I guess that Chinese steel and technology is far superior to US technology.

And anyone who has ever bought a Chinese made tool set knows that LOL

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Former President Jimmy Carter Supports Call For New 9/11 Investigation

citizen_wayne — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:09:02 GMT

Paul J. Watson,
Prison Planet.com,
Fri, Jan 30, 2009 -

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has become the latest, and perhaps most prominent, public figure to express support for a new investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

We Are Change Ohio attended a book signing by the former President in Chicago. Despite the best efforts of secret service personnel to abduct the person recording the conversation, the audio of Carter’s words were still captured.

Carter was asked, “I was just wondering if you’d support the victims’ family members that want a new investigation into 9/11.”

Carter clarifies the question before responding, “Yeah, I don’t have anything to do with it but I certainly would….it would be nice.

Watch the clip below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO2UGVp--ak

In October 2004, Carter told the London Guardian newspaper that President Bush exploited the 9/11 attacks and that the press had not held him to account.

“The basic reason is that our country suffered, in 9/11, a terrible and shocking attack … and George Bush has been adroit at exploiting that attack, and he has elevated himself, in the consciousness of many Americans, to a heroic commander in chief, fighting a global threat against America,” Carter said.

“He’s repeatedly played that card, and to some degree quite successfully. I think that success has dissipated,” he added.

Carter responded to the atmosphere at the time by slamming the notion that questioning Bush’s actions was unpatriotic.

His rebuke for media cowardice about asking tough questions about the “war on terror” was also stinging.

“The press have been cowed, because they didn’t want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it’s hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved,” said Carter.

Carter’s support for a new investigation into 9/11 has been echoed by innumerable prominent public figures both in and out of politics over the last few years.

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, UK MP Michael Meacher, Japanese MP Fujita Yukihisa, former German Defense Secretary Andreas von Buelow, music icon Willie Nelson, and even vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin have all expressed support for a new inquiry into the September 2001 attacks.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/former-president-jimmy-carter-supports-call-for-new-911-investigation.html

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Career Army Officer Sues Cheney, Rumsfeld For 9/11 Complicity

citizen_wayne — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:14:51 GMT

Paul Watson,
Prison Planet.com,
Thurs, Dec. 18, 2008 -

A career Army officer who was injured in the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 is suing Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld for failing to issue a warning that American Airlines Flight 77 was about to hit the building despite receiving knowledge of its approach some 20 minutes in advance.

Retired Army officer April Gallop, a ranking specialist with top secret clearance who began working at the Pentagon in 2000, has also filed suit against US Air Force General Richard Myers, who was acting chairman of the joint chiefs on 9/11.

Gallop was knocked unconscious when the roof collapsed in her office her and her 2-month-old baby sustained a serious brain injury after suffering the consequences of what Gallop describes as “two explosions”. Gallop does not believe that a Boeing 757 struck the building on 9/11. The lawsuit charges that the attack was “engineered by other means, a planted bomb or bombs and/or a missile,” citing the lack of plane debris witnessed after the attack, along with evidence from the “black box” discovered at the scene, which indicated that the plane passed low over the building immediately before the fireball was observed, as well as the complete failure of ground and air defenses which protect the Pentagon.

Read More:

http://www.prisonpl anet.com/ career-army- officer-sues- cheney-rumsfeld- for-911-complici ty.html

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Unbought and Unbossed Show - Interview with new CAP Leader Andrew Moulden and Robin Hordon

citizen_wayne — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:54:43 GMT

Unbought and Unbossed Show - Episode #100 with host Raymond Geisler -

Aired: Dec 17, 2008 - This episode is only 95 minutes (due to a technical glitch) and includes:

Hour 1:
Telephone interview with Dr. Andrew J. Moulden:
(starts at 0 minutes and lasts 44 minutes), the new leader of the federal Canadian Action Party, CAP. Topics include: his professional medical career background and his introduction to politics; goals of CAP; the SPP, North American Union and CDN sovereignty; Bank of Canada; CDN medical system; CDN military and Afghanistan; plans to put more action into CAP; and the CDN Parliament coalition crisis. http://www.canadianactionparty.ca/

(Due to technical problems this episode starts 19 minutes into the show, but luckily, begins at the beginning of the interview with Dr. Moulden. The first 19 minutes were heard 'on air locally', but the archive server had a glitch, and so unfortunately are lost forever - unless someone else happened to record it.)

Hour 2
Telephone interview with Robin Hordon:
(starts at 58 minutes and goes to the end of show), 9/11 Civil Informationing activist, former pilot and air traffic controller. His experience, expertise and research has been used in books by Dr. David Ray Griffin. Topics include: the failures of the progressive left; critique of Zinn and Chomsky; importance of the internet; 9/11 Truth movement; and the lack of history of false flag operations.
http://www.robinhordon.tk/
http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/

In-studio guests:
-CDN 9/11 Truther Wayne Prante of Fraser Valley 9/11 Truth.
http://www.fv911truth.org/ and Nanaimo Truth activist Chris Stewart.

Audio Clip: Howard Zinn in Montreal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WXU4eir-i8

Song: The Cause Of Death-Freestyle by Immortal Technique

Contact: raymondtruthradio@hotmail.com
http://unbossed.livejournal.com/

This audio is Open Source Audio

Owner: Raymond Geisler

"Unbought and Unbossed is an independent voice dedicated to presenting and discussing issues of great social and political importance. In our post-9/11 Canada, it is more vital than ever to critically examine our collective understanding of contemporary politics and the direction our elected servants are taking us. I strongly encourage listeners to question what you think you know about today's world events, and to analyze the motives behind our traditional media.

It is time to wake up and to educate, to learn to work together,
and to find the courage to act on our love for one another.
Our every freedom is at stake in this battle for truth and accountability,
the prize is nothing less than the health of our collective human soul."

R. Geisler

****

Comments:

I hope you listen to and enjoy the radio show archive and your holiday season and all the best in the New Year!

My personal thanks to all of you have been active for 9/11 Truth in Canada this past year. The fact that we have not had another 9/11 style attack to date, I believe, is a testament to our diligence. It is WE who are waging the true War on Terrorism and who are protecting Canadian sovereignty, rights and freedoms! While we have not yet brought about a new 9/11 investigation, we have succeeded in educating many people across the country about 9/11 and false flag terrorism. We have made our presence felt and our voices heard in many ways. We have been and continue to be the real voice of conscience in Canada. We have also grown now to 22 groups across Canada as well as have added some great new voices and credibility.

I am truly humbled and blown away by the way this movement has continued to grow and expand since the conference in 2007. Simply amazing!

God Bless you all!

Wayne

PS Raymond's show is now also airing on an independent radio station in Portland, Oregon.

Congrats Raymond and keep up the great work!

;-)

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VIDEO: Splitting the Sky presents "9/11 Truth - Follow the Money!"

citizen_wayne — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:02:11 GMT

Presented in Victoria BC, Nov 29th, 2008:

Hal Sisson's Review of "9/11 Follow the Money" by Splitting the Sky -

"In his youth the American justice system knifed John Boncore in the back and then arrested him for carrying a concealed weapon. But their harassment did not stop 'Splitting the Sky' (his Mohawk name) from literally doing just that when it comes to his public speaking persona. He rivets you to your seat with a bolt from the blue. First, he backs up his contentions with meticulous research and then hits the audience with the logical result of the preamble, in an extremely intense and convincing manner.

Every speech by Splitting the Sky is an insurrection that you really have to hear in order to appreciate John's ability and logic – so if you get the chance to hear him do not miss it. The rich are only the poor with money but they control the world; and on the occasion of Splitting the Sky's Victoria speech he dealt with the subject matter and conclusion that 9/11 was verifiably a false flag inside job – particularly focusing on the methodology of 'Follow the Money' – i.e. who stood to gain financially from the events of that horrifically evil day of infamy that has changed the world society in which we live. The perpetrators certainly weren't Osama and the nineteen Arabs alleged by the FBI and the American Government. Better to look at rogue elements of the Bush Administration and at various international so-called intelligence agencies such as the ISI, Mossad, and the ever present CIA, the masters of black operations."

Hal Sisson Q.C.

Watch the video here: http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7682704925540815038

See also: http://splittingthesky.blogspot.com/

and

http://www.splittingthesky.net/

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Radio Interview with Professor Anthony J. Hall on the Unbought and Unbossed Show

citizen_wayne — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:32:05 GMT

Unbought and Unbossed: Canadian Political News and Views
Show #98 Dec 3, 2008 -

An hour long interview with Professor Anthony J. Hall, Founding Coordinator of Globalization Studies at Lethbridge U. Hall made his 911 Truth debut Sept 6, 2008 at the Edmonton Questions 9/11 event, and delivered the essay entitled The Lies and Crimes of 911: A CDN View of the War on Terror’s Origins.

Topics covered during interview:
-Recent roundtable discussion hosted by Hall featuring Professors Graeme MacQueen, Michael Keefer and John McMurtry. All four professors reject the official explanations given for the events of September 11th, 2001.
-Hall is the author of The American Empire and the Fourth World, the first volume from his Bowl With One Spoon series published by McGill-Queens U Press. The 2nd volume Earth into Property: Aboriginal History and the Making of Global Capitalism, will be out shortly.
-Encourage CDN academics to speak publicly about the 911 lie.
-CDN investigation into 9/11.
-The problems with CDN media and CDN academia.
-War on Terror and Manifest Destiny.
-His website http://www.globalizationstudies.ca/
-Halls presentation from Edmonton Sept, 2008.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDU-cJV9Nak&feature=related

AUDIO ARCHIVE
This episode http://www.archive.org/details/UnboughtAndUnbossed98Dec32008
is 102 minutes and includes: (interview starts at 41 minutes)

Unbought and Unbossed is an independent voice dedicated to presenting and discussing issues of great social and political importance. In our post-9/11 Canada, it is more vital than ever to critically examine our collective understanding of contemporary politics and the direction our elected servants are taking us.

SEE: http://unbossed.livejournal.com/

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Financial Times Editorial Admits "Agenda For Dictatorial World Government"

citizen_wayne — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:23:16 GMT

Paul Joseph Watson,
Prison Planet.com,
Tues, Dec. 9, 2008 -

The Financial Times, one of the most respected and widely read newspapers on the planet, features an editorial today that openly admits the agenda to create a world government based on anti-democratic principles and concedes that the term "global governance" is merely a euphemism for the move towards a centralized global government.

For years we were called paranoid nutcases for warning about the elite's plans to centralize global power and destroy American sovereignty. Throughout the 1990's people who talked about the alarming move towards global government were smeared as right-wing lunatics by popular culture and the media.

Now the agenda is out in the open and in our faces, the debunkers have no more ammunition with which to deride us.

A jaw-dropping editorial written by the Financial Times' chief foreign affairs commentator Gideon Rachman entitled 'And now for a world government' lays out the plan for global government and how it is being pushed with deceptive language and euphemisms in order to prevent people from becoming alarmed.

"For the first time in my life, I think the formation of some sort of world government is plausible," writes Rachman, citing the financial crisis, "global warming" and the "global war on terror" as three major pretexts through which it is being introduced.

Rachman writes that "global governance" could be introduced much sooner than many expect and that President elect Barack Obama has already expressed his desire to achieve that goal, making reference to Obama's circle of advisors which includes Strobe Talbott, who in 1992 stated, "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."

Rachman then concedes that the more abstract term "global governance," which is often used by top globalists like David Rockefeller as a veil to offset accusations that a centralized global government is the real agenda, is merely a trick of "soothing language" that is used to prevent "people reaching for their rifles in America's talk-radio heartland".

"But some European thinkers think that they recognise what is going on," says Rachman. "Jacques Attali, an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, argues that: "Global governance is just a euphemism for global government." As far as he is concerned, some form of global government cannot come too soon. Mr Attali believes that the "core of the international financial crisis is that we have global financial markets and no global rule of law".

Rachman proceeds to outline what the first steps to an official world government would look like, including the creation of "A legally binding climate-change agreement negotiated under the auspices of the UN and the creation of a 50,000-strong UN peacekeeping force".

"A "world government" would involve much more than co-operation between nations," writes Rachman. "It would be an entity with state-like characteristics, backed by a body of laws. The European Union has already set up a continental government for 27 countries, which could be a model. The EU has a supreme court, a currency, thousands of pages of law, a large civil service and the ability to deploy military force."

"So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is an argument, an opportunity and a means to make serious steps towards a world government," concludes Rachman, before acknowledging that the path to global government will be "slow and painful".

Tellingly, Rachman concedes that "International governance tends to be effective, only when it is anti-democratic," citing the continual rejection of EU expansion when the question is put to a vote. "In general, the Union has progressed fastest when far-reaching deals have been agreed by technocrats and politicians – and then pushed through without direct reference to the voters," writes Rachman.

So there you have it - one of the world's top newspapers, editorially led by chief economics commentator Martin Wolf, a top Bilderberg luminary, openly proclaiming that not only is world government the agenda, but that world government will only be achieved through dictatorial measures because the majority of the people are dead against it.

Will we still be called paranoid conspiracy theorists for warning that a system of dictatorial world government is being set up, even as one of the world's most influential newspapers admits to the fact? Or will people finally wake up and accept that there is a globalist agenda to destroy sovereignty, any form of real democracy, and freedom itself in the pursuit of an all-powerful, self-interested, centralized, unrepresentative and dictatorial world government?

Source:
http://www.infowars.com/?p=6423

FT article is here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7a03e5b6-c541-11dd-b516-000077b07658.html

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Video: 9/11 and the Global Community with Tony Hall, G. MacQueen, J. McMurtry and M. Keefer

citizen_wayne — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:52:08 GMT

A roundtable discussion hosted by Professor Tony Hall and featuring Professors Graeme MacQueen, Michael Keefer and John McMurtry. Presented by the Centre for Globalization Studies, University of Lethbridge (Alberta, Canada). It was recorded and webcast live from the University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada) on November 19th, 2008. All four of these professors reject the official explanations given for the events of September 11th, 2001. The discussion revolves around 9/11 from Canadian perspective, as well as global implications. Part 2 contains some Q&A with the viewing audience.

9/11 and the Global Community - Part 1 of 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=200239992729359153&hl=en

9/11 and the Global Community - Part 2 of 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5200147217881315775&hl=en

Courtesy of:
http://www.globalizationstudies.ca/

In conjunction with
http://www.911truthcanada.org
(where the video is now featured)

NOTE: the volume levels were low on the original footage and could not be boosted with out a lot of distortion. Be prepared to turn the volume up after the intro music stops.

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VIDEO: 9/11: Attack on the Pentagon - Official Release

citizen_wayne — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:19:07 GMT

by Pilots For 9/11 Truth,

Global Research, November 7, 2008 -

"Pilots For 9/11 Truth brings you analysis never seen before regarding the Attack On The Pentagon. Highly technical analysis presented in a way that the layman will appreciate and understand.

A 757 reported to have caused the damage at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 is analyzed based on topography, obstacles, flight data, physics, and witness statements..."

To watch the video, click on the link below and make up your own mind:

ATTACK ON THE PENTAGON

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10806

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"A Second 9/11": An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine

citizen_wayne — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:51:25 GMT

by Michel Chossudovsky,
Global Research, Oct. 31, 2008 -

For several years now, senior officials of the Bush administration including the President and the Vice President have intimated, in no certain terms, that there will be "a Second 9/11".

Quotations from presidential speeches and official documents abound. America is threatened:

"The near-term attacks ... will either rival or exceed the 9/11 attacks... And it's pretty clear that the nation's capital and New York city would be on any list..." (Former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, December 2003)

"You ask, 'Is it serious?' Yes, you bet your life. People don't do that unless it's a serious situation." (Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, December 2003)

"... Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process... (Former DHS Secretary Tom Ridge, 8 July 2004)

"The enemy that struck on 9/11 is weakened and fractured yet it is still lethal and planning to hit us again." (Vice President Dick Cheney, 7 January 2006)

"We are still a nation at risk. Part of our strategy, of course, is to stay on the offense against terrorists who would do us harm. In other words, it is important to defeat them overseas so we never have to face them here. Nevertheless, we recognize that we've got to be fully prepared here at the homeland." (President George W. Bush February 8, 2006)

"Our main enemy is al Qaeda and its affiliates. Their allies choose their victims indiscriminately. They murder the innocent to advance a focused and clear ideology. They seek to establish a radical Islamic caliphate, so they can impose a brutal new order on unwilling people, much as Nazis and communists sought to do in the last century. This enemy will accept no compromise with the civilized world.... (President George W. Bush, CENTCOM Coalition Conference, May 1, 2007)

"[W]e now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face." (Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security Secretary, Yale University, April 7, 2008.

We're fighting a war on terror because the enemy attacked us first, and hit us hard. ... Al Qaeda's leadership has said they have the right to "kill four million Americans,... For nearly six years now, the United States has been able to defeat their attempts to attack us here at home. Nobody can guarantee that we won't be hit again. ... (Vice President Dick Cheney, United States Military Academy Commencement, West Point, New York, May 26, 2008)

All these "authoritative" statements point in chorus in the same direction: The enemy will strike again!

...

Read the Full Article with embedded materials here
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10767

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Canada's Role in the Middle East War: The United States Of ... Canada

citizen_wayne — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:36:53 GMT

by Hicham Safieddine,
Global Research, Nov. 8, 2008,
The Electronic Intifada - 2008-11-05 -

People around the world, including those in the Middle East, may have paid little attention to Canada's parliamentary elections on 14 October. This should come as no surprise, as Canadians themselves seemed more interested in the developments of the presidential race for the White House south of the border. Besides, the Canadian election brought little change to the makeup of parliament. The Conservatives maintained their lead and formed a minority government while the Liberals lost more seats.

But preserving the status quo and the virtual absence of foreign policy as a topic of public debate in the run up to the vote reinforces the transformation in Canada's geopolitical role in relation to the Middle East. And this must be of extra concern today. Canada may take on an increasingly active role in light of the partial weakening of the United States' ability to maintain its hegemonic status across the globe single-handedly following its invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. This is especially so if Barack Obama becomes president. Canada is among the nations with the largest military presence in Afghanistan. The Conservatives led by George W. Bush's protege Stephen Harper have always pushed for a more aggressive role by Canada at a time when the anti-war movement is on the wane. Harper's policy is more likely to sit well with the public if it is marketed in line with the "moderate" vision of an American president like Obama who doesn't have Bush's bad reputation and who has expressed a desire to shift the war effort from Iraq to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The fact is Canada's current role in aiding American expansionism in the Middle East is larger and more complex than what some might think. This role simply became more evident when Canada led the international occupying forces in the Afghani province of Kandahar. This coincided with a gradual shift towards the militarization of foreign policy in opposition to the (at least official) policy of focusing on peacekeeping and diplomacy. And this shift was adopted by the Liberals and Conservatives alike. In 2005, the Liberals promised to increase the military budget by 13 billion dollars (all Canadian figures) over five years. In 2006, the Conservatives came to power. They announced a 2 percent annual increase in military spending over 20 years in addition to a package of 15 billion dollars aimed at buying new equipment and weaponry. With a military budget of 18 billion, Canada ranks sixth among NATO countries when it comes to military spending and jumped to sixth place worldwide in terms of military exports.

However, Canada's role in aiding the American project isn't limited to Afghanistan. For despite the official decision not to join the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, Canadian forces took on several major tasks during the operation and after. This included logistical missions (transportation of provisions, heavy machinery, securing of supply lines), training by Canadian federal police of their Iraqi counterparts in Jordan, and even taking on leadership positions among the troops (Canadian generals such as Peter Devlin held top positions). Former US ambassador to Canada Paul Celluci confirmed the extent of Canada's complicity when he pointed out during the invasion in March 2003 that "ironically, Canadian naval vessels, aircraft and personnel ... will supply more support to this war in Iraq indirectly ... than most of those 46 countries that are fully supporting our efforts there."

The militarization of Canada's foreign policy was accompanied by the reshaping of the armed forces ideology that produced the phenomenon of the army's former Chief of Staff Rick Hillier. Hillier became a popular face in the media and took on a role similar to that of American Generals David Petraeus and Tommy Franks as a trusted source of authority untainted by political ambition.

Canada's position vis-a-vis the Arab Israeli conflict was no less extreme. Canada's increasing support for Israel is on the rise. The Canadian government was the first among Western powers to cut aid to the Palestinian government following the election of Hamas. The suffocating siege on Gaza did not prevent one of the Liberal's leading candidates for the election, Ken Dryden, from calling to "stop all aid that flows into Gaza" even though it might hurt the Palestinian population.

In relation to Lebanon, Prime Minister Harper described Israel's aggression against Lebanon in 2006 as a "measured response" while Hizballah's military and political wing joined the list of terrorist organizations a few years prior.

Domestically, consecutive governments have failed to live up to their minimal obligations towards the country's citizen of Muslim origin when it comes to the so-called "war on terror." Recent laws have given the Minister of Immigration more say in determining status of visa application, a move interpreted by immigrant activists as undermining transparency and opening the door for ethnic and racial profiling of applicants. Moreover, Canada is the only western country allied to the US that has failed to repatriate its citizen from Guantanamo. A video released this year showed how Canadian diplomats were implicated in the torture of the Canadian detainee, Omar Khadr. The release of the video did not lead to the public uproar that Khadr's lawyers had hoped. This last detail sheds some light on the gap between the gravity of the shift in Canada's policy and the public's awareness and acknowledgment of such a shift. The image of Canada as an international peace keeper remains the dominant one among the public imagination. Not that Canada abided by such a peacekeeping role throughout its history. Indeed, the country has stood by the US in many of its imperialist endeavors, from the Korean War in the 1950s to regime change in Haiti and later in Afghanistan. But often, it was never as aggressive in its approach as the US, and it did show some concern for international law and multilateral diplomacy. That is what is eroding.

All this shows that it is misguided to treat Canada as a moderate force. Canada today squarely belongs to the neo-conservative US camp. And this is the message that politicians, diplomats, and activists opposed to US foreign policy in the region need to convey to their Canadian counterparts in an effort to reverse this shift. Anything less is worthy of blame and possibly prosecution.

Hicham Safieddine is a Lebanese Canadian journalist. This is an edited translation of an article that appeared in Lebanon's Al-Akhbar newspaper on Thursday, 23 October 2008.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10856

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Guy Selzler responds to Lorne Gunter regarding his 9/11 Truth 'hitpiece'

citizen_wayne — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:38:30 GMT

This article is a response by Guy Selzler to Victoria newspaper columnist Lorne Gunter regarding a recent 9/11 Truth 'hitpiece'. ---

Lorne,

I have recently read your article "Be wary of those who say 9/11 was a fake". I can't quite decide if you are simply uninformed or acting as a propagandist for the establishment.

For anyone with the curiosity to actually investigate the events of 9/11 for themselves and draw their own conclusions, which we should all do as concerned citizens, your attack on the 9/11 truth movement appears ridiculous.

There are now hundreds of groups of citizens questioning the official story of 9/11. These include architects, engineers, physicists, pilots, firefighters, ex-military, ex-intelligence officers, former heads of state, police officers, and victims family members.

Your attempt to paint truthers with the anti-semetic brush is very telling since most of the information presented along those lines is for the most part provided by the government under their COINTELPRO (counter intelligence propaganda) programs. Even the authors of the 9/11 Commission Report have admitted they were blocked from interviewing key witnesses and hamstrung by the government at every turn (maybe they can smell the wind).

Your arguments are emotional rather than rational. They are not based on facts but merely emotive responses designed to blind naive readers and instill fear of social disapproval if they should speak about their personal opinions. As such they have no place in an open society.

If you are worthy of being called an honest journalist, you would examine the evidence presented by architect Richard Gage, professor of philosophy and religion David Ray Griffin, physicist Steven E. Jones, PhD and many others before coming to any conclusions.

Your attempts at discrediting the truth will fail and only hasten the demise of the credibility of the mainstream media. You seem to be engaged in a battle based on the old paradigm where information could be tightly controlled. The paradigm has shifted and you are doomed to lose the battle. The move away from mainstream media towards alternative media is growing exponentially as a result. You've already lost the battle and don't seem to know it yet.

The people (or the profane/sheep/cattle as the elite like to call us) are waking up from the lies and propaganda produced by the establishment (more accurately, the scientific dictatorship in which most people have been indoctrinated into) and your attempts to discredit the truth and stifle dissent will only serve to cause more people to wake up more quickly. So keep it up and if down the road when you, and your fellow press members, find yourself on trial as paid propagandists and disinformation agents, remember that you had every opportunity to present a fair, rational and balanced representation of the facts and chose otherwise.

You see, government sponsored terror is nothing new in history and has been used over and over again to stampede the public into participating in events they would otherwise object. We know from declassified documents that the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, used to justify the Vietnam war, was a fabrication - it never happened. We know from declassified documents that the attack on the USS Liberty was staged by the US and Isreal in a failed attempt to justify US involvement in Egypt. We know from admissions by the former Prime Minister of Italy that the CIA, in operation Gladio, deliberately bombed busloads of women and children to justify anti-communist action in that country. We know from declassified documents that the Operation Northwoods was a plan (never approved) to blow up an airliner to be blamed on Cuba to justify an invasion of that country. Government sponsored terror is the norm rather than the exception.

But unlike the elite of this world, we are not without compassion. Should you choose to properly investigate and report your findings, we would be happy to forgive you for your previous uninformed opinions. If you wish to investigate, I have provided a series of links that will require time and effort on your part but will inevitably lead you to at least some of the truth surrounding the events of 9/11.

As an addendum, I leave you with a couple of quotes from history that very much applies to the present circumstances in which we live:

"He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security." - Benjamin Franklin

"All Truth Goes Through Three Stages. First, it is ridiculed. Then, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer

All the best, and it is my sincerest hope you might break through your indoctrination to question in a more honest, open and rational manner than which we have been conditioned to be accept as truth.

And lest we forget what George Orwell said,

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

Sadly, we are living in such times and it is necessary for the few informed and courageous individuals that will stand up for truth in our society to speak out so that others with similar opinions might express them freely without threat of reprisal, and we might all benefit from the realization that the world with which we are presented is not as we are told and we might adjust our course as a society as such.

Sincerely,

Guy Selzler

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911Truth http://911truth.org/
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth http://ae911truth.org/
Patriots Question 9/11 http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Journal of 9/11 Studies http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice http://stj911.org/
Scientists, Engineers & Professionals http://www.physics911.net/
Pilots for 9/11 Truth http://pilotsfor911truth.org/
Veterans for 9/11 Truth http://www.v911t.org/
Firefighters For 9/11 Truth http://firefightersfor911truth.org/

Video Links

Loose Change Final Cut http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-3719259008768610598
Richard Gage: Blueprint for Truth http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-8182697765360042032&hl=en
Zero: An Investigation into 9/11 http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=68882
Terror Storm: A History of Government Sponsored Terror http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230
9/11 Fraud: David Ray Griffin http://youtube.com/watch?v=pCHN-1Yk5LI

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Thanks Guy, and thanks to Peter Zaza for sharing this!

Wayne

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Response to editorial in the Prince George Citizen re: Bev Collins

citizen_wayne — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:46:57 GMT

Dear Editor,

while complaining about your choices for MP you state, in reference to Bev Collins,

"An NDP candidate who has written letters to the editor in this newspaper citing experts who believe a shadow government was actually ruling North America behind the scenes (Sept. 29, 2006) and Dick Cheney was planning a 9/11 attack on America to bring about martial law (Aug. 31, 2007)."

So, apparently you have a problem with "citizens writing letters" as well as with citizens "citing experts"? That seems to say more about your own credibility than that of Ms. Collins.

Collins suspicions regarding Dick Cheney are shared by many Canadians and are quite justified in light of the blatant WMD lies that were told to launch the war against Iraq and the recent revelations of Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh who reported how the neocons had convened around Dick Cheney and brainstormed ways to start a war with Iran. Cheney's idea was to "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.” Now is that not only outrageous, but legally impeachable and justifies Collins' suspicions!

There are many other historical precedents to consider. For example, it was admitted by LBJ that the so-called "Gulf of Tonkin incident" that he used to justify attacking Vietnam "never happened" and is backed up by many other credible sources. In the early 1960s, JFK stopped a US plan called "Operation Northwoods" to blow up airliners and US infrastructure and blame it on Cuba, to justify attacking that nation. Of course, we know what later happened to JFK and most would now agree that the acts of his death have been covered up. It is also well documented that the Bush administration received DOZENS of warnings from foreign intelligence agencies warning of the pending 9/11 attacks and did NOTHING to stop them. Indeed, the neocons themselves, in 2000 wrote about how a "New Pearl Harbor" would benefit their agenda in the "Project for the New American Century”.

These are real "conspiracies" by powerful people in high places to kill Americans. Not theories!

I wish I had someone with Collin's integrity and candor running in my own riding, be they Conservative, Liberal, NDP, Green or otherwise.

Consider yourself fortunate!

(I posted this on the PG Times webpage featuring the editorial shown below and submitted a shorter version of this to the editor via e-mail. Shorter as they only allow 400 words in their online e-mail form)

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The editorial and my response can be found here:

"This unnecessary election part of Harper’s betrayal of Canadian conservatism" .

http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/20081009155550/opinion/columns/this-unnecessary-election-part-of-harper-146s-betrayal-of-canadian-conservatism.html

Wayne Prante

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Hate Speech as Political Rhetoric: Stephen Harper and 911 in the Canadian Election of 2008

citizen_wayne — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:49:33 GMT

By Anthony J. Hall,
Founding Coordinator and Professor of Globalization Studies,
University of Lethbridge,

October 5th, 2008 -

Stephen Harper’s campaign has been so unrelenting in its undifferentiated smearing of the entire international movement seeking 911 Truth that it has extended the frontiers of hate speech as political rhetoric. So ruthless has the Harper Team been on this theme that it can henceforth be identified as one of the world’s foremost agencies in the ongoing 911 Cover Up.

Harper’s campaign applied a variation of the tactics employed during the Cold War by Joseph McCarthy’s infamous Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities. In late September the Harper Team’s news releases went ballistic in its McCarthyesque push to characterize as un-Canadian each and every citizen who calls attention to the simple fact that the Bush-led War on Terror rests on nothing but an unproven conspiracy theory.That untenable official conspiracy theory begins with the premise that 19 Saudi high jackers armed with nothing but box cutters, a smattering of flight training and jihadist zeal succeeded in executing the most devastating attack on the continental United States since the War of 1812.

Harper’s Team leaped to the head of the 911 Cover Up Movement when it attempted to exploit for political gain a factually incorrect point included in a paper written in 2002 by the former Liberal candidate in Winnipeg, Lesley Hughes. While Hughes was wrong in her details, she is far from alone in her more general position that many intelligence services had prior knowledge that something very drastic was about to happen in the days and weeks leading up to 911. One of those intelligence services was indeed that of Israel. The Israeli government’s understanding of the situation was almost certainly connected to the activities of an Israeli spy ring posing as art students especially in the Hollywood Florida region. If I’m inaccurate on the issues of Israeli spies inside the United States prior to 911, then so are the reports I have been reading about it in many mainstream media venues including those of Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Le Monde, CounterPunch, Intelligence.online, BBC, Fox News, the Sunday Herald in Scotland and the Sunday Telegraph in Great Britain to mention only a few. Will the Harperites and their operates in the right-wing blogosphere insist I am un-Canadian and a bigot for reporting what I have seen in these mainstream media vehicles? Are the sources I have read to be scorched from the record in a book burning campaign of information cleansing?

The Harper team crossed the line into lunatic hate talk in its effort to stamp out a citizens’ campaign aimed at securing commitment from politicians that, if elected, they will push for a Canadian investigation into the Canadian angle on the events of 911, including the death of two dozen of our citizens in the Twin Towers. Rather than deal with the nuances and complexities of the 911 issues on their merit, the Harper Team went into high witch hunt mode. It acted more like the thuggish storm troopers of Crown thought police rather than the brain trust of a mainstream Canadian political party.

In the initial Conservative press release on 911 the Harper Team quoted Conservative candidate Peter Kent. Kent collectively slandered all those many individuals seeking 911 Truth as “one of Canada’s most notorious hate mongering fringe movements.” What a self-incriminating slur to fall from the lips of the Scud Stud’s news reading brother. The subsequent Conservative press releases continued to follow this hysterical line labeling all those seeking 911 truth as “fanatics,” “incoherent,” “hateful,” “discredited” “offensive” and “repugnant.” According to the would-be thought police of the 911 Cover Up Party, the movement composed of those seeking 911 truth “is notorious for holding anti-Semitic views.”

Excuse me! Who here is carrying the most heavy burden of the legacy of anti-Jewish barbarity? It needs to be remembered that the terrible genocide of the Holocaust was initiated on the political right, not the social democratic middle; that George Bush’s grandfather was far from alone among US and British investment bankers in siding with Hitler rather than Roosevelt. It need to be remembered that Harper’s right-wing heartland of Alberta was until fairly recently the home of some of the notorious anti-Semites in Canadian history.

Harper’s disinformation and smear campaign lies well outside the sphere of legitimate political debate at this election time. This hate-inspired, hate-generating language is directed not at an individual. Like a carpet bomb, rather, it is calculated to maim indiscriminately a whole group made up of many people of varying ages, backgrounds, abilities and ideologies. We 911 truthers disagree on many things except one. Almost all us who have decided to think independently rather than to accept at face value the public mythology of 911 agree on one thing. In all our diversity, with all our warts and halos, we basically agree on the necessity of a credible investigation conducted by a distinguished panel of disinterested jurists informed by the ideals of genuine third-party adjudication. Only in this way can we overcome the impediments to 911 Truth put in place by the likes of political appointee Philip Zelikow, the Executive Director and primary author of the discredited 9/11 Commission’s report. But don’t take my word for it. Break free from the information monopoly of the media conglomerates . Google the subject and explore the facts, arguments and opinions for yourself.

The Conservative Party hate speech was directed in the first instance at the Liberal Party, who gave in to the shameful rhetorical blackmail. Then the witch hunters turned their attention to the NDP. Although Jack Layton has yet to explain where he agrees or disagrees with his friend Barry Zwicker, the NDP leader chose not to go along with the Inquisition by pulling the plug on Bev Collins.

While the Harper Team’s first target was the political parties, I believe the larger agenda is to prevent the Canadian public from listening to the growing chorus calling attention to the growing litany of lies and crimes embedded at the origins of George Bush’s phony War on Terror. The hate speech of the Harper Conservatives is constructed by design to harm the quality of relations between 911 truthers and their communities, associates and loved ones. The hate speech is so extreme that it effectively attacks the very life support systems of those who proudly proclaim the need for 911 truth. Isn’t the Prime Minister attempting to isolate and stigmatize the 911 truthers in the conduct of our relations with all kinds of authorities, from police officers, to teachers, to employers, to social service agencies. In this way the brutal hate language of the Conservative campaign resembles racist campaigns of other places and times. But instead of targeting the members of a race, Harper’s hate speech operatives target a vast array of ideas and information as if it is all unified by some racist content and inspiration. That is outrageous! The silence has been deafening as the chilling effect has set in.

Rather than ethnic cleansing, the Harper Conservatives have engaged in a concerted attempt of intellectual cleansing aimed at stopping the fast unraveling of the 911 Cover Up. A shared interest in maintaining the 911 Cover Up has long united Bush and Harper. If these like-minded lobbyists for the oil industry had nothing to hide, wouldn’t they be happy to encourage those of us seeking a real investigation into the many documented features of the 911 saga that do not conform with the interpretations we were given just as the Great Shock was beginning to sink in during September of 2001?

The editors of the annual publication listing the top censored stories of 2009 have just included in their most current list the failure of the North American media to report on the inroads of the 911 Truth Movement into the parliamentary proceedings of the Japanese government. Are the decisions of those editors and the viewpoints of Japanese 911 truthers like House of Councillors representative, Yukihisa Fujita, to be explained away by the likes of Stephen Harper as the demented hate mongering of crazed anti-Semites?

http://www.globalizationstudies.ca/

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Open Letter to the Leaders of the Canadian Federal Political Parties, sitting MPs and Candidates

citizen_wayne — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:10:32 GMT

I am Canadian, free to speak without fear!

Thursday, October 2nd 2008 -

Open Letter to the Leaders of the Canadian Federal Political Parties, sitting MPs and Candidates:

In 1960, PM John Diefenbaker (a Conservative) said:

"I am a Canadian,
free to speak without fear,
free to worship in my own way,
free to stand for what I think right,
free to oppose what I believe wrong,
or free to choose those
who shall govern my country.
This heritage of freedom
I pledge to uphold
for myself and all mankind."
From the Canadian Bill of Rights,
July 1, 1960.

Why, in 2008, are the Conservatives under Harper and the Liberals under Dion attacking the character, integrity and personal beliefs of Canadians, including some candidates who have apparently found the courage to look deeper at the events of 9/11 and who now question the prevailing theory? And why are Jack Layton, Gilles Duceppe, and Elizabeth May not challenging Harper and Dion and defending the rights of Canadians to question the "official story" of 9/11 and those who are honestly and sincerely seeking Truth and Justice for the victims of 9/11?

Excuse me. What country is this again?

"I’m sick and tired of hearing things
From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocrites
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth
I’ve had enough of reading things
By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians
All I want is the truth
Just gimme some truth"
– John Lennon

Is it not our political leaders who each November 11th tell us "lest we forget..." in reference to the sacrifices made for our rights and freedoms. Apparently it is they who have forgotten, or do they only care on one day of the year?

On November 11th, 2006 PM Stephen Harper said:
“On this solemn day, Canadians gather together to honour the soldiers, sailors and airmen and women, who served and continue to serve our country, and we pause to remember the more than 116,000 men and women who have laid down their lives in defence of Canada.

Today, as Canadians have done for the past 88 years, we pay tribute to the sacrifice made by generations of Canadian military personnel for the protection of our fundamental values and thank them for our freedom.

“November 11 is a time to mourn. It is also a time to celebrate the proud military traditions of our great country. Canada has always answered the call to stand up for freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law. Our commitment to these values is being tested yet again in Afghanistan, and Canadians are rightly proud of the work our brave soldiers are doing to help those less fortunate than us. Their courage and devotion to duty inspires us all.

“I know I speak for all Canadians in expressing unequivocal support and heartfelt gratitude to all our troops and their families. We are holding the torch high. The Canadian heroes who lie beneath the poppies in Flanders fields can rest in peace.”

Apparently Mr. Harper does not understand that central to freedom and democracy, human rights and rule of law is the right to dissent and the duty to do so!

"In Germany they first came for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.

Then they came for me —
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
- Pastor Martin Niemoeller

Let me now remind you Mr. Harper, Mr. Dion, Mr Layton, Mr. Duceppe, Ms. May, sitting MPs and all candidates that ...

“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.”
- Edmond Burke

This is Canada and we are Canadians. We will not stand by and do nothing and say nothing in the face of evil. We demand not only Truth and Justice for 9/11 Victims, but assert our right to question and are fulfilling our duty to do so. It is we who are respecting the sacrifices of the fallen and ensuring that they did not die in vain, it is we who are practicing democracy and respecting human rights and dignity, and it is you who should be ashamed! It is you who owe all Canadians an apology!

24 Canadians died on September 11th, 2001 and their blood still cries out for truth (the whole truth) and for justice, not unjust wars, imperialism and domestic police states. All of the victims deserve no less. And every Canadian, especially those serving and dying for our nation right now deserves this.

Even if you do not agree with us, you should at very least agree with our right to think, write and speak freely.

To not defend our rights, you also, eventually, sacrifice your own.

Wayne Prante, A-Crim

Co-Founder of Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley 9/11 Truth
http://www.fv911truth.org/
Co-Founder of the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Nine-Eleven Truth (C.A.A.N.E.T.)
http://www.911truth.ca/
and Co-Founder of the 9/11 Civil Information Blog
http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/
Chief Organizer / Coordinator of the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Conference, 2007
http://www.fv911truth.org/conference2007.html

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Canadians, please call and write your MP and other candidates, the party leaders, as well as the newspapers and other media, and remind them that WE ARE CANADIAN and remind them of what that means!

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The Lies and Crimes of 911: A Canadian View of the War on Terror’s Origins

citizen_wayne — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:35:34 GMT

by Prof. Anthony J. Hall,
Founding Coordinator of Globalization Studies,
University of Lethbridge -

Framing the Issues

During this, the season of the seventh anniversary of 911, we must continue to increase the effectiveness of our transnational peace lobby aimed at extending the Nuremberg process towards an international investigation into the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the name of the War on Terror. Such an investigation must begin by asking some foundational questions about the underlying crime that gave rise to the War on Terror. Were the events of 911 orchestrated by a very different cast of characters and for very different motives than those identified in the trial by media that began with unseemly haste on the very day of the Great Shock?[i] Is the War on Terror a War on Truth? Did the official conspiracy theory originate in a web of lies, distortions and cover-ups expressed to this day in the dense shroud of public mythology surrounding the events of 911? We must empower a credible international tribunal of esteemed jurists with sufficient independence to asses on its own merits the growing body of evidence to indicate that the destruction of the Twin Towers and World Trade Centre 7, together with the hit on the Pentagon, were caused by something considerably more elaborate than the actions of nineteen young Saudis equipped with nothing but box cutters, flight training and jihadist zeal.

Too much state terror and too much state criminality has occurred since 911 not to revisit the scene of the crime that created the springboard for such systemic and unrelenting abuses of authority and sacred trusts vested in our governments. Was the whole 911 operation really planned and instigated by a band of Islamic extremists acting alone? Was the whole undertaking really planned and coordinated in distant Eurasian caves, ones conveniently located on planned pipeline routes meant to tap the last large reserves of unexploited Middle Eastern oil? Was the role of Wall Street in the events of 911 confined to that of victim? Or are some central figures in America’s commercial capital more implicated in the crime’s planning, execution and outcomes than our governments and the commercial media would have us believe? Who benefited most from the events of 911? Who had the motives and who had the means? Wouldn’t any truly independent inquiry into what actually transpired on 911 begin by addressing such fundamental questions and then work from there?

From Manifest Destiny to the Cold War to the War on Terror

The War on Terror continues old patterns that developed in the transcontinental, hemispheric and global expansions of the United States. This twenty-first century war without end gives new expression to the old mythology of American Manifest Destiny. The term Manifest Destiny is a code to identify the idea that God himself has given ample manifestation of his wish that the people, government and corporations of the United States have a special role to play in realizing the hegemonic destiny of Western civilization. In the nineteenth century the public mythology of Manifest Destiny generated broad public support for the US annexation of Texas, Mexico, Hawaii, and the Philippines. The adherents of Manifest Destiny also planned to acquire the northern portion of North America. My country, however, was saved from falling under the reign of the Stars and Stripes. As I outline in considerable detail in The American Empire and the Fourth World, my country retained its sovereignty because a strategic alliance between Great Britain and the very effective fighting forces of Tecumseh’s Indian Confederacy repelled the US Armed Force’s invasion of Canada during the War of 1812.[ii]

By presenting the conflict as an epic struggle between savagery and civilization, the War on Terror is being sold to the public in much the same guise as the US Indian wars and the scores of similar invasions that have stripped Indigenous peoples of their lands and resources around the world. The War on Terror’s propagandistic subtext would picture our soldiers as champions of democratic salvation shining the light of Judeo-Christian civilization even into those dark Eurasian caves where Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein and the axis of false and evil religion are said to dwell.

As Kevin Phillips has outlined in American Theocracy, there are strong motivations behind these dangerous flirtations with the imagery and substance of religious warfare.[iii] The imagery of militant Christianity in armed confrontation with demonic Islam helps energize the evangelical base, both Protestant and Roman Catholic, of the governing Republican Party in the United States. Similarly the War on Terror’s religious symbolism helps Canada’s Public Safety Minister, Stockwell Day, deliver some evangelical gravy to his own Born-Again constituency. Many of those on the religious right of western Canada played a central role in the founding of the Alberta-based Reform Party, now in a fragile alliance with the supposedly extinct Progressive Conservatives.

This alliance between the Reform Party’s constituency and the Progressive Conservatives came about in direct violation of the precise terms of a signed agreement between David Orchard and Peter MacKay. MacKay is the ex-leader of the Progressive Conservatives whose willingness to sabotage his Party resulted in his appointment by Prime Minister Stephen Harper as Foreign Affairs Minister and now as Minister of National Defence. Hence MacKay’s violation of his signed promise to David Orchard and his supporters not to join Stephen Harper’s Alliance Party forms the underlying episode of fraud and deceit that created Canada’s current minority government, a government that has invested considerable political capital in elaborating a Canadian version of the War on Terror. Make no mistake about it. Canada’s contribution to George Bush’s War on Terror is enormous because the ecologically brutal assault on the Alberta tar sands is now the source of more energy for the United States than the oil wells of Saudi Arabia. It is largely Canadian energy that is fueling the rise of the US terror economy and the building of the global police state.

Even more than the well orchestrated psychological warfare on the capitalist side in the Cold War, the War on Terror’s propagandists renew, amend and exploit some of the most deep-rooted symbols to emerge from the transcontinental expansion of the United States. The mythology of this saga of Manifest Destiny served to lionize the US Armed Forces, but especially during the era when its main military function was to clear the land of hostile Indians in order to prepare the ground for the operation of railway companies, land speculators and Euro-American settlers. From its inception the close partnership between the US military establishment and the largest US corporations has had as its goal the creation of a New World Wealth Machine. [iv] This partnership between business and the Armed Forces formed the essential axis of collaboration in building up an Anglo-American superpower to the point where it could replace many of the functions of imperial Europe after its internal wars exhausted its capacity to dominate and exploit colonized peoples.

The open ended construction of a never ending War on Terror assures a constant supply of new enemies to justify the unbroken expansion of the most heavily militarized economy the world has ever seen. The US government has continued to finance its permanent wartime economy ever since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. After emerging victorious from the Second World War, the US government extended its imperial control over its informal empire by building the machinery of the national security state, the core polity in charge of capitalism’s primary police force. At the jurisdictional core of the national security state resides the executive power of the US president. Throughout the Cold War the CIA would emerge as one of the most active agencies of the national security state. In its early years the CIA integrated much of the anti-communist apparatus of the defeated Nazi regime into its own worldwide anti-Soviet, anti-communist crusade.

The incorporation of Hitler’s anti-communist brain trust into the CIA’s espionage, assassination, torture, and thought control operations was just one aspect of a more elaborate history that made many of the largest US cartels and financial institutions, including Ford, IBM, and the J.P. Morgan/Rockefeller concerns, major participants in the industrial rise of the fascist axis.[v] Many of the largest US corporations and financiers, therefore, invested in the military industrialization of both sides during the Second World War. This fact goes far to explain the totalitarianism implicit in the Pentagon’s preoccupation with objectives like Full Spectrum Dominance and Total Information Awareness?[vi] The fascistic thrust inherent in this kind of dark enterprise has derived so much momentum from the authoritarian deployment of fear that it will continue no matter who is elected as president of the United States or as Prime Minister of Canada this autumn. As long as the truth of 911 continues to be subordinated to the political exploitation of the event’s public mythology we shall continue to see the evaporation of the freedoms and civil liberties some of us have so long taken for granted .

In Iran, Guatemala, the Congo, Iraq, Indonesia, Chile and many, many other polities, the CIA and other branches of the national security state intervened covertly to oust and kill those leaders who sought to express the principles of decolonization by attempting to nationalize their peoples’ indigenous natural resources. The War on Terror now extends and intensifies the Cold War’s heritage of illegal intervention in the sovereign self-governance of Indigenous peoples the world over. The War on Terror continues to provide cover for the continued promotion of an unjust regime of property relations that empowers an entitled minority at the expense of a disentitled majority. This phony War on Terror entails one of the most ambitious and insidious campaigns of psychological warfare ever mounted. It provides a justification for entrenched elites everywhere to jail, torture and kill their opponents in the name of quelling terrorism. The War on Terror helps draw attention away from the huge and pressing threats to humanity’s environmental security, our health security, our food security, and our education security. This diversionary war is being mounted at a crucial moment when our very survival depends on our collective capacity to plan and implement coordinated global solutions to the very real menaces we collectively face. Most of this threat emerges from the accelerating pace of the industrial degradation of Earth’s ecosystems, the only true source of healthy life and genuine wellbeing available to humanity.

Although the National Security Act was passed in 1947, it was not until the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower that the vast and elaborate national security state went seriously into the business of assassinating foreign leaders and covertly changing regimes in order to protect and advance the global business interests of US corporations. Given his background as America’s most celebrated general in the Second World War and his experience as a two-term Republican president, Eisenhower well understood the elaborate links connecting the US military establishment to the interests of capitalism’s biggest corporations. As Eisenhower was passing the presidential torch to his doomed young successor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the departing Commander-In-Chief coined a telling phrase to identify the tight convergence of political and economic power in a single US sector. Eisenhower warned against the betrayal of democratic ideals through the concentration of too much influence in something he called “the military-industrial complex.”

Eisenhower’s flagging of the military-industrial complex’s potential to generate tyranny is even more apt on the seventh anniversary of the events of 911 than it was in 1960. In the post 911-world the military-industrial complex appears more and more like a force of global mayhem than an asset to protect humanity’s collective security. In the post-911 world the vast influence of the military-industrial complex and the national security state extends deep into the commercial media extending the psychological warfare that began in the Cold War to new extremes of censorship, perception management, and outright thought policing. The depth of the problem is well illustrated in the striking unwillingness of any major commercial news venues to report in a serious and unrelenting way on the growing disconnect between the published evidence on 911 and the public mythology of 911. [vii] But a critical mass of informed public opinion is at this very moment coalescing on the events of 911 and on the appalling litany of lies shot through virtually every aspect of the so-called War on Terror. Some reckoning, however, with all the self-censorship and strategic silence on the part of those with the responsibility to keep the public well informed cannot be postponed indefinitely. The chips shall fall where they will. Indeed, I predict that the day is not too far distant when many of our most influential opinion makers will be in a hurry to declare retroactively that they knew all along that something was terribly inconsistent between the compelling visual evidence of controlled demolitions on 911 and the implausible official explanation that makes burning jet engine fuel, melting steel and the force of gravity the basis of the pancake theory of the Twin Towers’ demise.

Since Eisenhower’s day the military economy of the United States and its satellites is becoming a privatized terror economy dominated by companies like Halliburton and the Blackwater Mercenary Army Corporation.[viii] For the propagandists of the War on Terror and for the primary beneficiaries of the terror economy, even the CIA is seen as too liberal to be trusted in the engineering the New World police state whose capacity for domination is strategically poised on how the public perceives the events of 911.

911 in the Political Culture of Canada, the Public Mythology of the United States, and in the Popular Culture of the Internet

While the War on Terror recycles many old patterns of US conduct in the Indian Wars and in the Cold War, there is, nevertheless, something unprecedented in the intensity of the undisguised contempt displayed by many of the top figures in the US executive branch for the rule of law and the ideals of universal human rights. The official conspiracy theory of the events of 911 has been deployed to bring us to this point where we are being walked through a series of steps that Naomi Wolf, a child of Holocaust survivors, has recently identified as the classic points of transition along the road to fascism.[ix] The national security state is creating the basis of a global police state that violates the sovereign status of every national government on earth. We live in an era when the US government has asserted the unique authority of its president to designate unilaterally any person anywhere in the world as an unlawful enemy combatant. We can guesstimate that possibly tens of thousands of individuals have already been rounded up and transported to known and unknown locations around the world on the basis of the illegitimate claim that the US executive branch possesses some sort of worldwide jurisdiction that supersedes the sovereign character of all national entities. Those targeted by the national security state are being jailed in a global network of gulags and secret concentration camps where they may be tortured or even eliminated without any prospect of receiving a fair trial.

In this country on the eve of a national election, the minority government of Stephen Harper seems thoroughly complicit with many US incursions on Canada’s national sovereignty. Indeed our Prime Minister seemed perfectly content to run his minority government as some sort of franchise or branch plant operation of George Bush’s White House. When has Prime Minister Stephen Harper uttered even a hint of criticism directed at US violations of international law and global human rights inflicted in the name of 911 and the War on Terror? The ongoing incarceration of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr in the infamous US concentration camp at Guantanamo Bay epitomizes the problem. Canadian General Romeo Dallaire recently condemned Khadr’s US jailers and their Canadian enablers for violating those laws and treaties that prohibit the abusive treatment of child soldiers. Khadr was fifteen when he was apprehended in 2002 by US forces in Afghanistan.[x] Dallaire’s insistence on the need to respect international law contrasts dramatically with the attitudes displayed by Gordon O’Connor, a retired Brigadier General in the Canadian Army who served for two years as the Harper government’s Minister of National Defence. In January of 2007 O’Connor was called upon to justify the Canadian commitment of almost 3,000 soldiers to serve the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan.[xi] O’Connor said, “When the Taliban or al-Qaeda came out of Afghanistan, they attacked the Twin Towers and those in the Twin Towers, 25 Canadians were killed [sic]. The previous government and this government will not allow Canadians to be killed without retribution.”[xii]

O’Connor’s comment brings us to the core issues we have come to address at this convention. On what basis did Gordon O’Connor or anyone else in the Canadian government decide who is responsible for the attacks on the Twin Towers and those in the Twin Towers? What is the evidentiary base of the Canadian government’s contention that the portion of the Afghani people who identify themselves as Taliban or supporters of the Taliban are the primary culprits responsible for the crimes of 911 including the murder of 25 Canadians? Why has not the Canadian government undertaken its own independent investigation to decide for itself the identity of those most responsible for the death of our citizens in the explosive pulverization of the Twin Towers? In this season when many politicians in North America are asking us for our vote, what can we do to exact a commitment that a proper investigation will yet take place, ideally in a way that helps stimulate a larger international process aimed at bringing to justice those genuinely responsible for the crimes of 911?

The Canadian investigation will have to address the issues involved in keeping our soldiers in a civil war zone where the factions known variously as the Taliban, al-Qaeda and the Northern Alliance have all in recent times been united mujahadeen backed and armed by the US government in order to overthrow a Soviet-backed puppet regime. This US government’s backing of the mujahadeen through Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency was one episode of a more pervasive pattern during the Cold War when the US national security state encouraged, helped organize, and richly financed religious extremists of all stripes in the name of opposing the atheism of Godless Marxism. In the Canadian investigation of the genesis, events and outcome of 911, careful consideration must be devoted to the role and legacy of CIA agent Osama bin Laden as well as to the background of Hamid Karzai, the current CIA agent and pipeline consultant in charge of the US-client regime in Kabul. Careful consideration must be given to the great increase in the export of opium from Afghanistan since the US-backed Northern Alliance ousted from Kabul the governing Taliban.[xiii] Does it make sense to continue to put our sons and daughters in harm’s way in order to visit Canadian “retribution” on Afghani citizens, Taliban or not? We need our own Canadian inquiry, emphasizing our own national perspectives and our own national interests?

As we mourn the terrible loss of our Canadian soldiers, diplomats and aid workers we must not lose sight of those Afghanis who have been killed and maimed because of the way the events of 911 have been interpreted, spun and exploited? How many Afghani lives have been lost or ruined because of the actions our own military personnel? How many of those Afghanis detained by our own people have ended up in torture chambers, including those reported to exist in the US Armed Force’s notorious Bagram Theatre Internment Facility? How many Afghanis have been wrongfully subjected to the same kinds of nightmares visited on Maher Arar. Arar and his wife, Monia Mazigh, are Canadian heroes with ample cause to understand the kinds of injustice that can occur when overzealous officials abuse the arbitrary powers invested in them by this so-called War on Terror?[xiv] Why should we betray our national identity and international reputation as peacemakers and peacekeepers on the basis a foreign government’s absurd proposition that warfare diminishes terror. How is terror being diminished by the US weaponization of space, by the US financing of newer and ever more devastating technologies of mass destruction, or by the massive privatization of state violence through the large-scale deployment of mercenary armies empowering contractors with guns?

The fast and circus-like media trial that almost immediately assigned blame for the crimes of 911 formed a rude introduction to the attempt by the US executive branch to extinguish habeas corpus—the basis of the principle that individuals are innocent until proven guilty. The appearance of official duplicity and cover-up only grew in 2002 when President George W. Bush tried to appoint Henry Kissinger as the White House’s main investigator into the crimes of 911. As a prime candidate himself for the role of the accused in possible war crimes tribunals of the future, Kissinger’s appointment proved unacceptable.[xv] But the effort to make Kissinger the US agent in charge of covering up what happened on 9/11 established patterns that continued until the 9/11 Commission released its final report. From its inception the Bush White House’s 9/11 Commission had everything to do political protection of the powerful and nothing to do with the substance of an impartial judicial review. The work of the 9/11 Commission was shot through with evasion, fraud and cover-up from beginning to end.

The suspicion generated by George Bush’s original choice of Kissinger led to the appointment of Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton as Chair and Co-Chair of an investigation where the real substance of the process was left to the Commission’s hired staff. Kean and Hamilton began their own book looking back on the work of the Commission by declaring that they had been “set up to fail” by the White House.[xvi] And fail they certainly did. The key figure who drafted much of the report was the 9/11 Commission’s executive director, Philip D. Zelikow. Zelikow is a professor as well as an insider in the Bush White House. He was a member of the Project for a New American Century, a member of President Bush’s transition team and a very close associate of Condolezza Rice with whom he co-authored an academic book. Accordingly, Zelikow’s many conflicts of interest could not be more clear. He used his position to shield his political patrons in the White House from political harm.

Zelikow’s own academic specialty involved studying the relationship between terrorist attacks and the making of public mythology. This background made him the White House’s ideal candidate for his role as the guardian of the 911 myth. The 9/11 Commission didn’t even address the sudden demolition at 5:20 in the afternoon of September 11 of World Trade Centre 7. WTC 7 was the 47 story building that instantly plunged to the ground without being hit by any airplane. Many of those who have studied the 9/11 Commission report in greater detail than I have see it as a farce that is totally unworthy of the gravity of the event it addresses. For instance Benjamin DeMott wrote in Harper’s Magazine, hardly a radical or a marginal publication, that the 9/11 report is a “whitewash… a cheat and a tremendous fraud.” It is full of “evasive manoeuvres that infantilize the audience, transforms candor into iniquity, and conceals realities that demand immediate inspection and confrontation.” DeMott concludes, “The Commission, in sum, offers peace through exculpation, evasion, and entertainment—and in doing so dangerously re-energizes a national relish for fantasy.”[xvii]

The absence of any disinterested third-party investigation and arbitration of the crimes of 911 together with the timidity, laziness, or outright complicity of the commercial news media have opened up a huge field for the intervention of a concerned citizenry who do not buy the officially-sanctioned conspiracy theory. This convention hosted by Edmonton 911 Truth is one expression of the vitality of our fast-spreading grass roots movement. The quest for some measure of truth about the genesis and events of 911 have created a virtual cottage industry of research, book writing, and digitally published movies, texts and radio shows. Increasingly the lies and crimes of 911 are the subject of raprock music videos and all manner of artistic interpretation As a former student of Marshall McLuhan I find this whole phenomenon to be of huge academic interest quite apart from the specifics of the information being presented. It represents a classic display of what McLuhan meant when he said the medium is the message.

The 911 Truth Movement is creating one of the most lively and interesting districts of critical inquiry on the Internet. Of course the material presented in the New Media is of uneven merit and quality. But in its totality, this complex of web sites together with the related books and DVD’s has become the basis of vast and extremely accessible public archives on a huge array of topics joined by their critical importance to the public interest. The topics include, for instance, assessments by engineers of the demolitions that took down the three World Trade Centre structures, the double dealing that goes on to this day in the CIA-backed Inter-Service Intelligence Agency in Pakistan, the complex business dealings in and around the events of 911, and the many military drills that were planned to coincide with the attacks of 911. These drills drew the US Air Force away from intercepting the attack airplanes and the projectile that hit the Pentagon. Yet another rehearsal for a terrorist attack just happened to put in downtown New York on September 10 scores of agents of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA had a major role in coordinating the removal of the structural evidence from the scene of the mass murder as quickly as possible once various caches of gold, including one belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia, were removed. The role of Rudolf Guiliani in this part of the 9/11 cover-up operation incensed many members of the New York Fire Department who were prevented from finding the remains of their killed brethren by the rush to cart off to the dump the evidence of the 911 crime scene.[xviii]

In my estimation there has never been anything quite like this digital challenge to the authority of many institutions, but particularly to the traditional role of commercial news venues as the gatekeepers of information deemed suitable for public consumption. As I have been preparing for this presentation over the summer I have been especially impressed by the many You Tube productions depicting small groups of activists, some of them obviously new to the political process, heading out into their communities, pamphlets and DVDs in hand. As far as I can see their quest is animated for the most part by the simple and sincere hope that the Big Lie of 911 can be transcended so that justice will prevail. Along the journey towards 911 truth the seekers attempt to engage their fellow citizens in meaningful dialogue about the importance of connecting the dots. They encourage those they encounter to see through the official conspiracy theory and its huge negative consequences for all humanity. Doesn’t this kind of community-based and web-based activism epitomize how honest political transactions are supposed to take place among the members of responsible citizenries who understand their civic duty to be as well informed as they can be on the major issues of the day? Doesn’t this example point to an exit from, rather than a manifestation of, “the great derangement” that Rolling Stones journalist Matt Taibbi wrote about in his satirical literary romp that is none-too-flattering to the 911 truth movement.[xix]

The experience of looking through a representative sample of the many thousands of Internet sites and the many hundreds of Internet movies, all devoted to the quest for 911 truth, is giving me some hope that a new form of citizens’ journalism is replacing the form of paid investigative journalism that once was fairly common even in the commercial media. But make no mistake about it. The best of the contributions seeking to explain key elements of the most visually dramatic crime ever committed serve as a marker of how retrograde the commercial media has become in keeping up with an extremely consequential and fast-breaking story. After all their early involvement in helping to create and cultivate the public mythology of the events of 911, what commercial or publicly-funded news venue would dare now to assume the enormous responsibility of confronting the lies of 911? Who in the commercial media would be willing to the lead an unrelenting exploration of the scenario that the War on Terror may be based on the criminal acts of individuals who learned their black arts not in some distant caves in Afghanistan and Pakistan but in locations much closer to home? Nevertheless the chips shall eventually fall where they will. I predict that they day is not too far distant when many of our most influential opinion makers will be in a hurry to declare retroactively that knew all along that something was terribly inconsistent between the compelling visual evidence of controlled demolitions and the official explanation that would make burning jet engine fuel, melting steel and the force of gravity the basis of the pancake theory of the Twin Towers’ demise.

Trying to Move Towards the Truth in Telling the Story of 911

Although I have been documenting the so-called War on Terror from its inception, this presentation is my first formal address on the lies and crimes of 911. In stepping forward I’m aware that Canadians have made many substantial pioneering efforts in the rich scholarship on this topic. For instance Barry Zwicker and Michel Chossudovsky were among the earliest and most clear and consistent scholarly commentators to identify the gross deceptions installed into the public mythology of 911. In putting together the ingredients in 2004 of the Toronto International Citizens Inquiry into 9/11 Zwicker and Chossudovsky helped push the boundaries to create the framework for the kind of citizens’ movement epitomized by this event and the hard work of its organizers. I want also to make special mention of the academic contributions of John McMurtry’s and Peter Dale Scott. Both are hugely accomplished senior academics who helped establish the framework of critical 911 studies. Interestingly both men come from illustrious Canadian families whose members have played significant roles in the academy, in the law, and in social activism at its finest.

A member of the Royal Society of Canada, McMurtry is a retired philosophy professor at the University of Guelph whose very original explorations into the concept of values drew him towards the analysis of how what he calls the life economy is assaulted by the market economy. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and a retired Professor of English at the University of California in Berkeley. In his work on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Scott developed the concept of “deep politics.” This study drew him to explore the intertwined role of oil and drug cartels in the complex workings of our secret governments. Like Chossudovsky and Zwicker, McMurtry and Scott spent decades developing lines of analysis that flowed almost organically into 911 studies. Scott is the son of F.R. Scott, the great constitutional authority, civil libertarian, and poet. Among his many posts, F.R. Scott was once Dean of the McGill Law School. McMurtry’s brother, Roy, is a former Attorney General and Chief Justice of Ontario. The third brother, Bill, who recently passed away, was a legendary lawyer who fought urban sprawl, helped found the Toronto International Film Festival, and made significant strides advancing the legal case for Aboriginal and treaty rights.

My continuing work with Splitting The Sky forced me to realize I could not indefinitely postpone some sort of scholarly reckoning with the lies and crimes of 911. Among the various projects on which Splitting the Sky and I have collaborated is the case of the United States versus James Pitawanakwat. In 2000 I wrote the expert report for the Pitawanakwat’s government-assigned lawyer in the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Portland Oregon. Pitawanakwat is veteran of the Indian war that took place at Gustafsen Lake British Columbia in 1995. The Canadian government put in a request to the US government to extradite Pitawanakwat back to Canada. After hearing the evidence that we put forward Judge Janice Stewart decided not to grant this request. She overruled the US State Department. Judge Stewart agreed with our contention that Pitawanakwat had been criminalized largely for political reasons in a conflict where the Royal Canadian Mounted Police led a media campaign of “disinformation and smear.” The governments of BC and Canada used the media spin doctoring of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to stigmatize the Gustafsen Lake sun dancers as terrorists rather than deal with the serious constitutional arguments they tried to bring forward through their lawyer, Dr. Bruce Clark. Clark was later disbarred by the Law Society of Ontario for his unrelenting efforts to represent his clients under extremely difficult circumstances.

Last spring I invited Splitting The Sky to speak to my class on his years of research into the events of 911. In the process I spent two days with my friend extending my own research into various sites in and around the 911 Truth Movement. The next thing I knew Kevin Barrett, the erudite Dean of 911 Studies, invited me to speak on his Truth Jihad radio show on the Internet. Wayne Prante of Fraser Valley 911 Truth wrote a brief web news story on the webcast. Wayne’s story, I beleve, led to the invitation from Doug Brinkman to address you here today. Splitting The Sky the Sky, a frequent contributor to Kevin’s audio broadcasts, is starting to hit his stride exposing the web of Wall Street and other connections in and around the events of 911. As I’ve come to know him over the years, I appreciate more and more how closely Splitting The Sky’s own harsh experiences reflect the history of ruthless repression of Indigenous peoples over five centuries of colonization in the Americas. This history of repression is now being globalized through the mechanisms of the terror economy and the so-called War on Terror.

When he was nineteen years old Splitting The Sky was charged with killing a guard in the Attica Prison uprising ending with the murder of 39 individuals, most of them inmates. Since then Splitting The Sky has been at the centre of many major controversies involving core issues in the relationship of the ruling class to the underclass. Splitting the Sky’s growing contributions to the 911 Truth Movement embodies the links with the larger quest to transcend the injustices of slavery, colonialism and economic exploitation. The quest for 911 Truth, therefore, carries forward a heritage of resistance against the forces of imperial globalization that gathered force with the genocide and dispossession of the Indigenous peoples in the course of inventing America as a promised land for immigrants and their descendants. I have attempted to elaborate some of these connections in my text, The American Empire and the Fourth World.

I wrote the core text of the preface to that volume one week after the illegal US invasion of Iraq began in 2003. It was quite clear to me that the invasion of Iraq continued many patterns of US conduct in the Indian wars. I did revisions on the preface after viewing live the spectacle of political propaganda on board the USS Abraham Lincoln beginning with George Bush imitating the Hollywood imagery of the US president in Independence Day. Bush began the spectacle by landing his fighter jet on the deck of the giant aircraft carrier. Bush emerged in his combat suit to declare that his mission of freeing the Iraqis had been accomplished. By staging the event on board a US instrument of warfare named after the author of the Gettysburg Address, Bush’s propagandists sought to convey that the US president had freed the Iraqis as Lincoln has freed the slaves; that Bush was handing over the government of those formerly “enslaved” by Saddam Hussein to a regime “of, for and by the Iraqi people.”[xx]

The kinds of lies and distortions of the Bush White House go very far beyond the fiction that Saddam Hussein menaced the whole world with his deadly weapons of mass destruction. The obvious implication, I believe, is that the 911 Truth Movement and the anti-war movement must merge. We must join forces to continue our international quest for a world governed by the rule of law and the self-determination of peoples rather than by the brute force of the military-industrial complex in conjunction with the lawless national security state. I have tried to develop these ideas in Volume 2 of my Bowl With One Spoon series published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. The American Empire and the Fourth World is volume one of the series. Volume 2, which we hope to have on bookshelves by this time next year, is entitled Earth into Property: Aboriginal History and the Making of Global History.

Earth into Property is not a 911 book. It is not specifically about the events in and around the tragedy of 911 although it does touch on them here and there. As in The American Empire and the Fourth World, in Earth into Property I try to present a sweeping panorama of both imperial and anti-imperial globalization in the genesis of world history over more than five centuries. Since working with Splitting The Sky last spring I felt the need to introduce revisions into the draft text of Volume 2 that do specifically address the subject matter of this convention.

Let me share some excerpts from those revisions. The following excerpt concludes the second chapter. In it I return to a discussion earlier in the first chapter of the text about the frontier theory of Frederick Jackson Turner. Turner introduced his famous essay on the significance of the US frontier in the making of American history at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The event was meant to commemorate and celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s “discovery” of America. I write,

In the years before he became the disgraced former governor of New York state, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer made his name and fame as the Sheriff of Wall Street—as a gun slinging investigator with an urge to prosecute some striking high-profile examples of executive criminality. Through his efforts and those of other law enforcement agents a few high-profile CEO’s were eventually prosecuted for insider trading and for stealing corporate assets. The convicted included press baron Conrad Black and the media darling of American domesticity, Martha Stewart. While the public were served up a few show trials, however, there is little doubt that much of malfeasance during the Wild West years of maximum deregulation on Wall Street went largely uninvestigated, unprosecuted, and unconvicted. Moreover, the wholesale commodification of new frontiers mind and matter continued unabated. As The New York Times proclaimed in a headline: “Enron’s Other Legacy: The Idea That Anything Can Be Traded.”[xxi]

The prospect of even larger political scandals coming to light in the unfolding of the Enron debacle may have been significantly diminished when, during the late afternoon of September 11, 2001, World Trade Centre 7 (WTC 7) fell to the ground in a well filmed episode still widely displayed on the Internet. The fall of WTC 7, reported by the BBC fully twenty minutes before it actually occurred, shows all the attributes of a controlled demolition. No airplanes crashed into WTC 7. The official explanation given for the instant destruction of the 600 foot structure is that the building had been damaged by fires caused earlier in the day when World Trade Centers 1 and 2 plunged to the ground at the speed of a free fall. Interestingly, WTC 7 held the offices of the Security Exchange Commission that was then investigating Enron on a number of fronts, including its possible role in apparently manipulating supplies of electricity in California in order to advance its push to elevate profits through further deregulation and privatization of that lucrative energy market. Key records in Enron’s investigation, along with those demonstrating possible infractions in the business activities of about 3,000 other companies, were destroyed in the destruction of WTC 7. WTC 7 also held the New York Offices of the Internal Revenue Service, the CIA, the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, the Defense Department, as well as the New York Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management.

The events of 911 seem to have been anticipated by some traders on the New York Stock Exchange.[xxii] While some corporations suffered heavily after 911, others benefited greatly. The heightened fear of terrorism, for instance, provided a bonanza for the global insurance industry. Moreover the US government’s quick declaration of a global War on Terror significantly heightened the budgets and quickly advanced the further privatization of the world’s largest military-industrial complex through vehicles such as the Blackwater Corporation.[xxiii] Blackwater was one of a whole generation of corporate entities whose operatives are well positioned to benefit most from the rapid development of the post-911 terror economy. The rapid increase in military budgets occurred even in the face of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield’s admission made on September 10, 2001 that the Pentagon’s accountants could not explain the disappearance of $2.3 trillion from the books of the US government’s military spending.[xxiv]

These suggestive facts together with many, many more of their ilk suggest the continuing validity of Frederick Jackson’s Turner’s insights on the importance of violence and lawlessness in those moving zones of frontier interaction where the political culture of the United States takes form. In the first decade of the twenty-first century some of the leading frontiersmen of the capitalist superpower continued to move out in front of the law in order to avoid regulation. In the anything-goes-atmosphere of New World fortune seeking, the frontiersmen of business deregulation staked their claims to new forms of wealth in a globalized Indian Country where the attributes of the Wild West’s new incarnation would extend to the quest to gain expanded ownership and control over the oil fields of the Middle East and Eurasia.[xxv]

In the fifth chapter I make additional references to the frontier historian Frederick Jackson Turner Wall and to Eliot Spitzer. The former Attorney General and Governor of New York, Spitzer recently faced his own lewd trial by media. This following excerpt from the forthcoming Earth into Property concludes a long narrative where I document in considerable detail the role of US business and finance on both sides of the Second World War. From the relevant evidence I develop the thesis that the military-industrial complex emerged from both the fascist Axis and from and the social democracy of Roosevelt and the United Nations. I write,

The dubious official conspiracy theory to explain the events of 911 gave the Republican Party of George W. Bush and the bipartisan leadership of the military-industrial complex some evocative, yet conveniently vague and elastic imagery of an ethnically and religiously defined enemy. Conveniently absent from day one was even a hint from the official sources that there might be some sort of domestic and/or economic motivation woven within the complex texture of an extremely elaborate and multi-faceted crime. As with the Kennedy assassination, those said to be the culprits were identified almost immediately forming the basis of an explanation that was quickly reified in report after report. The enemy appeared just when it was needed to give the US president a rallying cry and the US executive branch a justification for continuing the enormous military expenditures that have continued to grow ever since the United States adopted its permanent wartime economy after the Japanese government attacked the US naval base at Pearl Harbour. The mythology of 911 gave the United States yet another savage other against which to develop its self-understanding of its own civilization’s superiority.[xxvi] As Richard Cizak of the National Association of Evangelicals saw it, many of his constituents responded to the official explanation of 911 by substituting Islam for the Soviet Union. “The Muslims have become the modern-day equivalent of the Evil Empire,” Cizak declared. One poll of right-wing Christian leaders found that two-thirds of those questioned agreed that Islam is “dedicated to world domination.” They agreed that Islam is “ a religion of violence.”[xxvii]

The official interpretation of the events of 911 created a perfect basis to renew the alliance between Christian fundamentalists and Cheney-style business hawks that ushered in the anti-New Deal presidency of Ronald Reagan. In ways that were completely antagonistic to the social democracy of Roosevelt and Keynes, the War on Terror opened the door to ratcheting up right-wing tactics for the expanded reach of government into every facet of human interaction. Patterns began to be repeated that had earlier been deployed when the fascist Axis had first been fashioned as an anti-communist laboratory of totalitarian capitalism.[xxviii] Now terrorism replaced communism as the all-purpose demon to be manipulated as deemed necessary in order to fend off any challenge to the omnipotence of finance capital and those who control it. Even more than the wars on communism, the war on terrorism evoked the mythological encounter between savagery and civilization that Frederick Jackson Turner had identified at the World’s Columbian Exposition as the formative interaction in shaping his country’s political culture.

As in both the Nazi-led and US-led versions of the war on communism, in the War on Terror business cartels were once again dealt lucrative licenses to derive large profits from their expanded function as privatized agents of the state’s expanding claims to police, propaganda and military powers. The Patriot Act of 2001, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and the amendments of 2008 to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are prominent projectiles in the legislative arsenal aimed at piercing the fragile protections of universal human rights both inside and outside the United States.[xxix]

Plans to eliminate habeas corpus—the basis of the principle that individuals are innocent until proven guilty—were already well advanced before the events of 911 created the necessary psychological environment to trigger military invasions abroad and police state transformations at home. The invocation of the ideals of Homeland Security conjured up the same language used by the White minority regime during the height of South African apartheid even as it exposed the outward orientation of so-called national security. In the United States, national security has always meant going outside the so-called Homeland to meddle in other people’s sovereign business. The remarkably quick enactment of the Patriot Act barely a month after the events of 911 suggests that its drafting was already well in the works even before the Twin Towers were instantly pulverized as if in a controlled demolition energized by the coordinated explosions of many thousands of thermite charges. Similarly the growth of the apparatus of so-called Homeland Security applied principles already outlined in January of 2001 in the reports of the United States Commission on National Security co-chaired by Gary Hart and Warren D. Rudman.[xxx]

The technological engines of capitalism have changed significantly since the era when the German subsidiary of IBM Corporation handled the data processing for the Nazi assault on European Jewry. Since the early 1980s much of the most sophisticated intelligence gathering has been done with computer software such as PROMIS and Echelon. These and other programs have enabled spy agencies and banking institutions secretly to observe each other’s data bases, current communications and ongoing transactions through myriad forms of back door access.[xxxi] High-tech spying can also extend to outright manipulation of digital traffic. Indeed, software companies like Ptech, Mitre and AMDOCS have been well positioned to enhance, disrupt or monitor the flow of communications between core agencies in the military-industrial complex. Ultimately it all comes down to who possesses the computer codes or access to technology powerful enough to obtain or break through these codes. This transformation of the so-called intelligence industry in the era of the Internet developed simultaneously with the digitalization of financial transactions in stock markets, venues of buying and selling that make information about what to expect in the future the most valuable of all commodities. Technological transformations such as these have dramatically altered the nature of capitalism during this era of an ascendant terror economy. The terror economy invests tremendous financial advantages in those who possess insiders’ knowledge about the inner workings of the global police state that is being constructed in the War on Terror’s name. Indeed, transactions on stock markets are key sites for the gathering of crucial intelligence about the identity of those interests that sponsor, promote, or exploit major changes in the alignment of geopolitical power.

The core elements of the terror economy informed the compelling script of A Few Days in September. Written and directed in 2006 by Santiago Amigorena, this dramatic feature film focuses on the intrigues swirling around an imaginary cartel of investors who seek to exploit their prior knowledge about how the pretext for the War on Terror would be created. Why has there been no serious public investigation into the activity of the New York stock market to identify those who may have exploited prior knowledge about the global transformations that would be set in motion after the events of September 11, 2001? What insights do Wall Street insiders have about the events of 911? Why did Eliot Spitzer, the former New York state Attorney General who clearly enjoyed his persona as the Sheriff of Wall Street, not seriously investigate the 911 crime scene, the site of a terrible mass murder that decimated the lives and destroyed the morale of thousands of functionaries who inhabit the very core of the commercial capital’s financial district?

Rather than demonstrate due diligence by ordering a thorough investigation of the scene of the crime, the Attorney General forfeited his claim as a disinterested law enforcement officer by submitting an amicus brief to a New York court arguing that the Larry Silverstein, the lease holder of the World Trade Centre buildings, should receive a $4.5 billion settlement from insurance companies for two separate terrorist attacks rather than one. Silverstein’s finances were deeply integrated into a complex set of legal and financial arrangements confused by the fact that the Twin Towers, which were initially nicknamed David and Nelson after their Rockefeller brother builders,[xxxii] had become giant liabilities because they were infested with industrial asbestos that would have cost a fortune to remove.[xxxiii] The evidence at the crime scene was removed as quickly as possible after 911 by operatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency whose agents began arriving in New York on September 10 for a drill named Tripod II on how to respond to a biochemical terrorist attack.[xxxiv] The failure of the US Air Force to identify and intercept the attackers was similarly explained by the coincidence of several drills on September 11 involving mock responses to terrorist attacks.[xxxv] In the months after 911 Silverstein appeared on a PBS documentary where he seemed to refer to the decision to “pull” a mechanism triggering the quick fall of World Trade Center building number 7 in a fashion that epitomized all the attributes of a controlled demolition. This demolition required the insertion of explosives within the structure before its demise.[xxxvi]

The genocide of North American Indians helped clear the way for those who sought to erase the past in their rush to achieve a New World Order. There are striking elements of continuity linking the westward expansion of the United States into Indian Country and the Hitlerian drive to acquire Lebensraum at the expanse of the Slavic nations and the Soviet Union. Similarly there are some undeniable threads of continuity linking the financial and industrial backers of the fascist Axis’s rise and those with the largest interest in promoting the national security state’s so-called War on Terror. The national security state points humanity away from the Fourth World principles of peoples’ security, environmental security, health security, educational security and global security. The citizens of the Fourth World seek a third way between those who would idealize or obliterate the past. The Atlantic Charter and the international institutions and covenants to which it gave rise still point towards the possibility of a world governed by law rather than force. They still point to the possibility of a planetary regime of biocultural diversity governed democratically by a confederacy of many sovereigns. [text removed] They point towards extensions of the vision of Roosevelt and away from the heritage of Hitler.

I’ll include one more excerpt from Earth into Property. When I wrote the initial drafts of this section I accepted the reports that Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks. I took the liberal line that the attacks had more to do with the injustices imposed on the colonized world than with political Islam. I emphasized this point by highlighting the conference which had taken place in Durban just days before 911. The South African government hosted this World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance. In my initial draft I advanced the idea that the attacks might not have taken place if the very serious issues raised at the Durban assembly had been more seriously addressed. While I still want to emphasize the importance of creating more just regimes of human relations as the best guarantee of global security, I also had to incorporate my changing understanding of the crimes and lies of 911. He’s an excerpt from the revised text.

The Durban conference highlighted issues that would be swept from the headlines only days later when the events of September 11, 2001 changed history. There is a growing body theory, some of it serious and well informed and some of it spurious, that the events of 911 were a false flag operation.[xxxvii] Although uneven in substance, the lively citizens’ investigations into these matters on the Internet cannot be categorically dismissed. In false flag operations acts of violence are perpetrated or purposely misinterpreted through the covert activity of governments, corporations and their agents in order to turn public opinion against a previously targeted group. Acts of violence are engineered and portrayed in the media in ways that cause the public to look to their own authorities for protection from groups that those in control want demonized and attacked. The bombing of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1933, for instance, is now generally understood as a false flag operation to prepare public opinion in Germany for Adolf Hitler’s totalitarian rule as initially justified in the name of waging an internal war against a phantom conspiracy of communist Jews. Many media outlets inside and outside Germany, including Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express, helped to repress any alternative interpretations of the fire’s causes. Operation Gladio was a similar covert operation where right-wing operatives planted bombs to blame and demonize left-wing groups in Italy. False flag operation like Operation Gladio or the Tonkin incident in Vietnam took place fairly frequently throughout the Cold War to justify various forms of intervention and aggression.

Regardless of the identity of the true pratongonists behind the events of 911—regardless of whether 911 was a false flag operation or not-- that episode provided the primary justification for significant changes in the world’s political economy in the name of the War on Terror. The War on Terror has been used to explain many intiatives including military invasions, the curtailing of civil liberties, and the further elevation of the national security state and its corporate extensions to positions far above the laws that most common folk are compelled to follow. The psychological dimension of this strange war without end has been mythologically constructed to focus attention on religious and ethnic antagonisms even as it draws attention away from those forms of inequality that regularly materialize in the economic violence that permeates global capitalism. While Arab and Muslim people globally suffer most obviously from the kind of profiling and targeting that flows naturally from the War on Terror’s embrace of the theory that the world is engulfed an inevitable clash between discordant civilizations, the engendered prejudices do not end there.[xxxviii] The War on Terror helps protect the claims of the rich to large concentrations of property even as it helps downplay the plight of those whose marginalized socio-economic status gives them the greatest reason to reject assertively the proprietary status quo. For all these reasons the War on Terror is first and foremost the most concerted and most broadly cast campaign of psychological warfare ever attempted in the global community. The aim of this so-called war is to perpetuate oligarical governance rooted in popular fears and thereby counter the possibility of anti-authoritarian governance rooted in popular hopes.

The main modus operendi of this dubious campaign of control through fear is to manufacture consent for a continuing license for global domination as policed through the instruments of the national security state and its attending military-industrial complex. The War on Terror’s propganda, as epitomized by the work of David Frum and Richard Perle, lend legitimacy to entrenched plutrocacies everywhere even as it arouses suspicion that those who question authority are outright evil.[xxxix] Hence the global War on Terror gives cover to the propensity of ruling elites to repress rivals and dissenters through the denial of civil liberties and suppression of the rule of law. The War on Terror gives credence to the erroneous assumption that history is approaching an end; that there can be no basis for any legitimate revolutionary challenges to the proprietary advantages enjoyed by those who have gained disproportionate amounts of influence over the dominant means of political, economic, military and technological exploitation in today’s world.[xl]

It makes no sense to try to vanquish terror from the world through increased warfare, more systematic and broadly applied methods of torture, or the militarization of space. In the long run global security through peace is only attainable through concerted efforts to ease the maladies identified at gatherings such as the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance.

Concluding Reflections

The people and government of Cuba are engaged in their own War on Terror. Only for them the terrorists are often anti-Castro Cubans who work with the US government to inflict arbitrary murder and mayhem in the effort to undermine and destroy the Cuban Revolution. The most blatent example of this pattern was the full-fledged US military invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. But the violent interventions did not end there. It is widely known that Fidel Castro has faced literally dozens if not hundreds of US-engineered and US-backed assassination attempts since his revolutionary government replaced the US-puppet regime of Fulgencio Batiste in 1959.

Luis Posada Corriles is for many Cuban people the very personification of terrorism. In 1976 this Cuban-American CIA agent engineered the bombing of a Air Cubana passenger jet killing 73 innocent people. This expert in explosives is also thought to have been responsible for many other bombings including those that rocked the tourist district in Havanna in 1997. The Cuban government has sound reason to believe that over 3,000 of its citizens have been murdered and about 2000 maimed in US-engineered or US-backed terrorist terrorist incidents. Several Cuban citizens went to Florida to investigate the possibility of more terrorist attacks directed against their own brothers, sisters, children and parents. Five of them were arrested to face a broad range of charges including those of espionage and conspiracy to commit murder. Like the US legal proceedings surrounding the case of Poseda Corrlies, the legal proceedings surrounding the Cuban Five illustrate the deep internal corruption plaguing the criminal justice system and its political masters in the United States.[xli]

Given their own experience with US-engineered and US-backed terrorism there is nothing particularly surprising in the lies and crimes of 911 from the perspective of many people in Cuba and in Latin America more generally. There is nothing to arouse dismay among the millions who have refused, and continue to refuse, the inevitability of the universalization of capitalism as the primary goal and end of history. The same cannot be said, however, for millions of us who have grown up in the relative comfort of the predominantly White, middle class of North America. It was predominantly for us that the public mythology of 911 was created. It is predomonately in our communities in North America where the public mythology of 911 has acquired the strongest hold over the symbolic cosmologies of the imagination that inform our basic sense of right and wrong, good and bad. Until we can replace the mythology of 911 with the truth of 911, however difficult that inevitably will be, the terror economy shall continue to engulf us all with the devastating implications that it must have for humanity’s future and for that of our many relatives in life’s fragile interconnected web.

Endnotes to the Lies and Crimes of 911

[i] Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2007)

[ii] Anthony J. Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005)

[iii] Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century (New York: Viking, 2006)

[iv] John C. Edmunds, “Securities: The New World Wealth Machine,” Foreign Policy, September, 1996

[v] The literature on this subject is vast and detailed. See , for instance, Max Wallace, American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg, and the Rise of the Third Reich (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003); Edwin Black, IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America’s Most Powerful Corporation (New York: Crown, 2001)

[vi] John Markoff and John Schwartz, Many Tools of Big Brother are Now Up and Running, The New York Times, 1 September, 2008 at

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E6DA173CF930A15751C1A9649C8B63

Rahul Mahajan, Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2008)

[vii] Federally-backed propaganda in the United States goes back at least as far the First World War, when President Woodrow Wilson appointed journalist George Creel in 1917 to head up the US Committee on Public Education. More recent surges of activity to manipulate public opinion built on the foundation of the US Central Intelligence Agency’s very broad and deep infiltration of the domestic and international mass media to promote anti-communist messages as part of the psychological warfare of the Cold War. The CIA’s covert intervention in the workings of the news and information business expanded rapidly to become a central feature of its overall operations. Some elements of the print and broadcast media in many countries, including the United States, were manipulated with varying levels of intensity to serve as vehicles of US-sponsored attempts at thought control. Much of the CIA money earmarked for this purpose was funnelled through the US Information Agency and a front organization known as the Congress for Cultural Freedom. One of the coordinating arms of this work was code-named Project Mockingbird. By the late 1950s the CIA devoted over a third of its budget to media-related operations, with approximately three thousand journalists around the world on its payroll. These journalist/agents both gathered intelligence and planted stories. Sometimes their stories were merely distortions of reality; othertimes they were based on outright disinformation. The amount spent by the CIA on its media-related activities, about $265 million a year, was greater than the combined expenditures of Reuters, United Press International, and Associated Press. The FBI also developed its own network of collaborating journalists who worked with the federal police force in efforts to smear and discredit those voices of internal dissent that had been targeted by Cointelpro operatives.

Henry Luce, the founder of Time/Life publications, together with some of his staff were active participants in building up the US government’s elaborate institutions of propaganda and psychological warfare, a facet of statecraft whose importance the Nazis had powerfully demonstrated under the studious direction of Joseph Goebbels. Charles Douglas Jackson, for instance, went from being managing director of Time-Life International in 1945 and then publisher of Fortune to work in a variety Cold War capacities, including as Eisenhower’s special assistant for psychological warfare. In 1960 Jackson moved back into the corporate sector of the military-industrial complex as publisher of Life. The deployment of the Luce publishing empire to disseminate Cold War propaganda and to gather intelligence throughout the world established patterns that were replicated by other major US media outlets. William Paley of CBS, Arthur Kays Sulzberger of the New York Times, and Katherine and Philip Graham of the Washington Post, for instance, were deeply involved in the mobilization of the commercial mass media to serve the public indoctrination functions of the military-industrial complex. Indeed, almost every major media organization in the United States was involved in some way in CIA operations. The CIA had agents in ABC, NBC, Reuters, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, the Christian Science Monitor, Scripps-Howard, Saturday Evening Post, Miami Herald, the Mutual Broadcasting System, and Copley News, to name but some.

No doubt the outright subversion with public money of anything like a free press is even more pronounced in the era of the War on Terror than it was in the era of the Cold War.

[viii] Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (New York: Nation Books, 2008)

[ix] Naomi Wolf, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (White River Junction Vermont: Chelsea Green, 2007)

[x] Michelle Shepard, Guantanamo’s Child: The Untold Story of Omar Khadr (Mississauga Ontario: Wiley, 2008)

[xi] See Jack Warnock, Creating a Failed State: The US and Canada in Afghanistan (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2008)

[xii] O’Connor quoted by Andrea Sands, “Canadian Troops in Afghanistan as 9/11 Retribution,” The Edmonton Journal, 21 January, 2007

[xiii] See John Pilger’s documentary at

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-210088912352527308

[xiv] Monia Mazigh, Hope and Despair: My Struggle to Free My Husband (Toronto: Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2008)

[xv] Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (London: Verso, 2001)

[xvi] Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 911 Commission (New York: Knopf, 2006), 14

[xvii] Benjamin DeMott, “Whitewash as Public Service: How the 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation,”Harper’s Magazine, October, 2004, at

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/10/0080234

[xviii]Steve Watson, Firefighter Urge “Peeling of Guiliani’s 9/11 Onion” http://www.infowars.net/articles/march2007/120307Giuliani_onion.htm

[xix] Matt Taibbi, The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire (New York: Spiegal and Grau, 2008)

[xx] Hall, The American Empire and the Fourth World, xxi-xxii

[xxi] Alex Berenson, “The Other Legacy of Enron: The Idea That Anything Can Be Traded, The New York Times. 28 May, 2006, section 4, pp. 1,4

[xxii] Barrie Zwicker, Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11 (Gabriola British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2006); Webster Griffin Tarpley, Synthetic Terror: Made in the USA (Joshua Tree California, 2006); David Ray Griffin, The 9/11 Commission: Omissions and Distortions (Northampton Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2005); Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up and the Expose (Northampton Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2008)

[xxiii] Jeremy Scahill, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army (New York: Nation Books, 2008)

[xxiv] Reported by CBS News on September 10, 2001 at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU

[xxv] Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives (New York: Basic Books, 1997); Michael T. Klare, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2008)

[xxvi] See Roy Harvey Pearce, Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind (Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1967)

[xxvii] References and poll results from Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy, 251, 259, 102

[xxviii] Naomi Wolf, The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (White River Junction Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007)

[xxix] David Cole and James X. Dempsey, Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security. Revised and Updated (New York: New Press, 2006); H.L. Polman, Terrorism and the Constitution: The Post 9/11 Cases (Lanham: Rowan and Littlefield, 2008)

[xxx] Reports of the United States Commission on National Security (USCNS) at

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hart-Rudman_Task_Force_on_Homeland_Security

[xxxi] Michael C. Rupert, Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (Gabriola British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2004), 152-174; Jerry Mazza, “The Promis of 9/11 and Beyond, 17 October, 2006, Online Journal at

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1322.shtml

[xxxii] On the history of the Twin Towers see

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/newyork/peopleevents/p_rockefellers.html

[xxxiii] See

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/9/12/192330/380

[xxxiv] See

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/fematape.html

[xxxv] See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_games_in_progress_on_September_11,_2001

[xxxvi] See

http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/cutter.html

[xxxvii] 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out, David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, eds. (Northampton Mass.: Olive Branch Books, 2007); Ian Henshall, 9/11 Revealed: The New Evidence (New York: Carroll and Graf, 2007)

[xxxviii] Bernard Lewis, Islam and the West (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Making of World Order (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996)

[xxxix] David Frum and Richard Perle, An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror (New York: Random House, 2003)

[xl] Phyllis Bennis, “”The Global War on Terror: What It Is, What It’s Done to the World,” in Phyllis Bennis, Arundhati Roy, John Berger et. al., War With No End (London: Verso, 2007), pp. 11-32; Michael Scheuer, Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror (Washington D.C.: Brassey’s, 2004)

[xli] Rodofo Davalos Fernandez, The United States versus the Cuban Five: A Judicial Cover-Up (Habana: Editorial Capitan San Luis, 2006)

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A Clash of Conspiracy Theories: by Prof. Anthony Hall

citizen_wayne — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:09:22 GMT

Reflections on the Decision to Disqualify Lesley Hughes from Running as a Liberal Candidate in the Canadian Election of 2008 -

by Anthony J. Hall,
Founding Coordinator and Professor of Globalization Studies,
University of Lethbridge,
Alberta, Canada -

On September 26 the Canadian Jewish Congress commended the Liberal Party of Canada for dismissing Lesley Hughes, a federal candidate in a Winnipeg riding, for a factually wrong and ill advised comment she made in a paper delivered several years ago exploring a broad array of issues concerning the question of what really transpired to cause the events of 911.
http://members.shaw.ca/mclachla/page3.htm
http://web.archive.org/web/20040514163957/http://slate.msn.com/id/116813

Sylvain Abitol, Co-President of the CJC asserted, “Ms. Hughes crossed a line which cannot be crossed under any circumstances because there is no place in Canada for 9/11 Jewish conspiracy theories.” http://www.cjc.ca/template.php?action=news&story=978

I agree with the CJC’s contention insofar as we must strive to prevent ethnic or religious prejudices from colouring our interpretations of, and responses to, the assaults on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon seven years ago.

The term “Jewish conspiracy theory” quite properly conjures up terrible memories of Auschwitz, Hitler’s anti-Semitic ravings, yellow stars, and Henry Ford’s obsessive dissemination of the ultimate literary prod to racial hatred, the so-called Protocols of the Zion Elders. The heritage of the Holocaust stands as the classic demonstration of the fragility and contingency of the West’s claim to the decency of its civilization. We must never forget the very old legacy of religious and ethnic violence culminating in the industrialized genocide of 6,000,000 European Jews sent to their slaughter by fascist regimes throughout Europe. This travesty, it must be underlined, took place well within the lifetimes of many people still on this planet today.

In drawing a line in the sand of the 2008 federal election, the Canadian Jewish Congress is applying much of the substance of a report authored in 2003 by the Anti-Defamation League. That report is entitled Unravelling Anti-Semitic 911 Jewish Conspiracy Theory. http://www.propagandamatrix.com/020903adl.html There is much in that report that is soundly rooted in fact. Some of the speculation on the real causes of the events of 911 does indeed recycle old prejudices with very deep roots in the darkest chapters—and there are many-- in Western civilization’s history. But the story does not end there. Dealing with the substance of conspiracy as well as the thick public mythologies attending conspiracy theories is an inescapable aspect of addressing the contested meaning of 911. The basic question I have to ask is this: At what point does reference to Europe’s heritage of religious and ethnic intolerance become a shield of obfuscation to prevent us from facing the harsh reality that the officially sanctioned explanation of the events of 911 is itself based on an unproved conspiracy theory whose effect has been to dehumanize and demonize in the minds of many large swaths of the Arab and Islamic world?

There can be no honest escape for our civic duty to confront the substance of conspiracy and as well as layer upon layer of public mythology adhering to the real or imagined causes of 911. The stakes are immense in determining the outcome in this clash of conspiracy theories. Both extremes in this clash of conspiracy theories divert our attention away from rational debate on the events that have plunged the world into the weird nether zone of privatized espionage, torture and militarization that goes by the name of the War on Terror. What are the economics of this conflict? To extend basic questions presently being pressed on politicians during this period of worsening financial crisis, who is reaping the economic rewards of the new terror economy and who is being asked to pay the price? These are the kinds of questions that do not get posed, much less addressed, as long as public perceptions of the meaning of 911 are confined within the framework of competing conspiracy theories emphasizing religion and ethnicity.

This Canadian election, which is currently taking place during the seventh autumn following the events of 911, offers a crucial opening to begin to bring fresh commentary and understanding to rational debate on our most fundamental issue of public policy to arise in this decade. Indeed, given the huge barrage of psychological warfare that has badly deformed the collective mentality of post-911 USA, I believe we as Canadians have a particularly important responsibility at this moment to introduce some measure of calm reason to a discussion that cannot indefinitely be postponed at the highest level of international affairs. It is in countries like France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Norway, Spain, Japan and Canada where a substantial numbers of citizens are waking up to the terrible implications of constructing public policy based on conspiracy theories rather than on clear assessments of the evidentiary base, however partial and imperfect, that is beginning to suggest the real nature rather than the fictional mythology of the events of 911.

Hence I think it appropriate at this moment to pose a simple question of those who made the decision to disqualify Lesley Hughes from running as a Liberal candidate in Canada’s current election. Now that a line has been drawn in the sand on conspiracies theories and 911, I think it fair to ask if there is any public space remaining for serious political debate on this matter. In this season when we are called upon to entrust some politicians with the high responsibilities of public office, how are we to discuss in a civil fashion the contested events of 911? How should the event lying at the origins of the US-led War on Terror be perceived and acted upon by federal authorities? Because the attacks on the Twin Towers included the murder of twenty-five of our citizens, it is particularly important that our leadership contenders clarify their understanding of the meaning of 911 within the framework of Canada’s own requirements, values and interests, both at home and in the larger international community.

The assault on our citizens in New York has now extended to the terrible loss of about four times that number as a result of the Canadian government’s deployment of military force in Afghanistan on the basis of an unproven interpretation of 911. According to the Gordon O’Connor, the Conservative Party’s Minister of National Defence in January of 2007, our soldiers have been sacrificed in the quest for “retribution” against factions who allegedly who “came out of Afghanistan” to attack the Twin Towers. What is the evidentiary base to support this conspiracy theory positioned near the very core of the Harper government’s positioning of Canada in relationship to the rest of the world?
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=3a784a6c-a6fc-490e-bccd-62cefb82cbad

I recently took issue with the officially sanctioned conspiracy theory in a paper entitled “The Lies and Crimes of 911: A Canadian View of the War on Terror’s Origins.” I first presented this essay at the Stanley A. Milner Public Library in Edmonton on the day before this election was called in a fashion that, according to Professor Behiels as quoted in the National Post, put our Governor General in a position where she was pressured by our Prime Minister to violate the Canadian law.
http://www.nationalpost.com/todays_paper/story.html?id=774270
In the hours after I made my presentation the digital version of my essay was circulated widely and published on a number of web sites including that of the Winnipeg-based magazine, Canadian Dimension. http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2008/09/07/2039/ Lesley Hughes has a history of deep involvement with this venerable old publication, one that is as deeply bound up with the long and fruitful academic career of the University of Manitoba political economist, Cy Gonig, In my view Cy Gonig’s connection to Canadian Dimension is as significant an aspect of Canadian intellectual history as is the relationship of the Winnipeg-based Asper family to their Can West Global media empire. As I see both Gonig and the Aspers epitomize the continuing vitality and importance of old and illustrious Jewish community of Winnipeg.

Since almost the time when Louis Riel’s Metis settlement of Red River merged into the post-CPR metropolis of Winnipeg, the Jewish community in Manitoba’s great capital has given Canada some of its most of important movers and shakers in the worlds of show business, commerce, the law, academia, and political activism. I am proud of the mark I have made myself in Winnipeg’s intellectual life. Between 1987 and 1990 I worked with Izzy Asper, Phil Fontaine and others in developing and publicizing some of the underlying analysis that eventually resulted in Elijah Harper’s being able to block the Meech Lake accord at the Manitoba Legislature. I have been a frequent contributor to Canadian Dimension and I have worked along with a gifted team of colleagues from across Canada to help Gail Asper and a New York-based consulting firm to develop suitable content for the great pride of Winnipeg, the soon-to-be-built Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Although this is only speculation, I would be surprised if Lesley Hughes has not also been involved in that project in some way.

When I wrote “Lies and Crimes” I was consciously advancing the idea that neither jewishness nor any other way of categorizing human beings along religious or ethnic lines provides the necessary lens for accurately interpreting what happened on 911 on Wall Street, at the Pentagon, and in an empty field in Pennsylvania. I am trying to put forward a way of looking at 911 that reflects the insights of Bill Clinton when he posted the famous sign in his campaign headquarters to remind him repeatedly, “It’s the economy stupid!” In the name of this stance and that of simple decency I intervened aggressively when I realized that one of many web sites to publish my article is indeed promoting hatred towards all Jews through its religiously and ethnically based interpretation of the events of 911. http://911blogger.com/node/17814

Having said that, there are slanders on both sides of this matter that must be identified and addressed. It is simply wrong to suggest, as some have done, that each and every individual trying to see through even the most obvious official lies of 911 is expressing some form of overt or latent anti-Semitism. This kind of counter conspiracy theory does a profound injustice to all concerned. The fact is that the movement of those seeking 911 truth is no longer on the fringes of public opinion. As Matt Taibbi correctly perceives in his none-too-flattering account of those seeking 911 truth, this movement, which obviously includes its own far share of imperfections, has become a core constituency in the political and intellectual culture of our times. It is extremely important that those seeking public office in the current national elections in North America come to terms with this basic fact.. http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl/9780385520348.html
Millions of individuals around the world have correctly rejected the official conspiracy theory of 911 as being inconsistent with the mounting evidence readily available in the public domain. These millions have identified the lies of those who told us almost
immediately after the Great Shock that all the destruction in New York and Washington could be traced back to the actions of nineteen Saudis armed with only box cutters, flight training, and jihadist zeal. As detailed in http://patriotsquestion911.com/, those who have seen through the lies in the ongoing quest for 911 truth include many hundreds of military and intelligence officials, pilots, professors, and relatives of those killed on 911. I am proud to count myself among them. In the absence of any credible accounting from the responsible authorities in government and in the commercial media concerning what transpired on that day of infamy, there has been an open season for all kinds of speculation, some of it wild and reckless and some of it careful and erudite. This outcome of wholesale public speculation can be directly attributed to the abject failure of our public officials and many of our most highly paid opinion makers even to address the growing frustration felt in many quarters that we are being lied to so consistently in such a fundamental matter of public policy.

The global community has a basic right and need to know how such an event as 911 could have come to pass at the very heart of by far the most expensive and elaborate military-industrial and intelligence complex the world has ever known. How is it that not one public official has been fired in the aftermath of the 911 debacle? What is wrong with this picture? Who benefited most from the crime? Who had the means and who the motivations?

At this stage the 911 Truth Movement performs its greatest public service when we insist on obtaining credible answers about even the most obvious and basic questions concerning the events of September 11, 2001. The 911 Truth Movement performs its greatest public service in calling attention to the huge and glaring contradictions in the official conspiracy theory. Accordingly, while we so-called “troofers” may differ greatly in how we interpret the crimes of 911, most individuals seeking 911 truth share in common a genuine determination to see a credible investigation, ideally by a panel of esteemed and disinterested jurists at the international level. No such investigation has yet taken place. As long as this goal remains unattained, there will be no stopping the proliferation of speculation in an atmosphere where even the most obvious official lies on the crimes of 911 are allowed to fester year after year.

How much longer will politicians such as Liberal Party leader Stephane Dion, Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper together with US Democratic Party presidential candidate Barack Obama, make common cause in sidestepping any real reckoning with a specious interpretation of 911 that has been exploited by executive branches in many countries to reward the institutionalized lawlessness of those elites best situated to cash in on the privatized tyranny of the War on Terror? How does Jack Layton, the leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party, see these issues? When Layton was in Calgary doing a book signing he was taped in a You Tube production telling Nathan Moulton that he was a good friend of Barry Zwicker, a Canadian journalist who did seminal investigative work that helped lay some of the foundations for the 911 Truth Movement. Layton clearly indicated that he has all of Zwicker’s “materials,” which he claimed to have studied. During this crucial time of political decision making in North America the NDP leader owes it to the Canadian electorate to let us know what he thinks of the contents of his friend’s investigations concerning the events of 911. Or are these matters deemed to be too important to be candidly discussed with average Canadians at the very moment when we citizens have it in our power to exert electoral influence over the basic substance of public policy? http://jasoncherniak.blogspot.com/2008/09/is-jack-layton-supporting-911.html

The largest of the professional associations formed to advance 911 Truth is composed of about 500 architects and engineers who have concentrated their professional investigations on the scientific problems with the official contention that three WTC steel sky scrappers were destroyed by two aircraft on September 11, 2001. Like most of those who reject the official explanation of what happened 911, the architects and engineers for 911 truth have devoted considerable attention to the collapse in 6.5 seconds of World Trade Center 7, a 47 storey tower that miraculously fell neatly and symmetrically into its own footprint at 5:30 in the afternoon without being hit by any airplane. There is a large quantity of visual and material evidence pointing to the conclusion that the most likely cause of the explosive destruction of the three towers, which all plunged downward at the speed of a free fall, was controlled demolitions rather than the combination of burning airplane fuel, melting steel, and gravity. Until this probability is properly looked into by a credible agency there will be, and should be, no holding back the growing tide of informed speculation all over the world that 911 was indeed an inside job. If internal explosives were the main means of taking down the three WTC towers, someone had to have planted and connected the explosive devices inside the buildings prior to their destruction on September 11. If that is the case—and I repeat, if that is reality--our world is run in a very different way basis than what most of us have been led to believe.

The 9/11 Commission in the United States neglected even to examine what happened to World Trade Centre 7. This negligence is part of a more general pattern that strips credibility from virtually every aspect of the work of those commissioned by US President George W. Bush to investigate 911. One of the more eloquent commentators to raise his voice in the chorus of detailed criticism directed at the 911 report is Benjamin DeMott. In Harper’s Magazine, hardly a radical or a marginal publication, DeMott concluded that the 9/11 report is a “whitewash… a cheat and a tremendous fraud.” It is full of “evasive manoeuvres that infantilize the audience, transforms candor into iniquity, and conceals realities that demand immediate inspection and confrontation.” DeMott concludes, “The Commission, in sum, offers peace through exculpation, evasion, and entertainment—and in doing so dangerously re-energizes a national relish for fantasy.” (Benjamin DeMott, “Whitewash as Public Service: How the 9/11 Commission Report Defrauds the Nation,” Harper’s Magazine, October, 2004, at
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/10/0080234)

My own work on the lies and crimes of 911 has been informed and inspired by the pioneering work of many colleagues and associates in the emerging academic field of 911 Studies. Some of the key figures in this area of scholarly investigation are professors David Ray Griffin, Peter Dale Scott, John McMurtry, Stephen Jones and Nafeez Ahmed. Of these five, Scott and McMurtry are well known and distinguished Canadians. Richard Gage, the founder of Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth, is another key figure in the trend towards the professionalization of the citizens’ investigation on 911. Also prominent among the many whistle blowers is William Rodriguez, the veteran janitor in the Twin Towers who was honoured at the White House for saving many lives through his selfless efforts to assist others to survive the crimes of 911. Rodriguez has been particularly outspoken in detailing how the official conspiracy theory of 911 ignores and contradicts his own experience of what transpired inside the doomed buildings during the hours and minutes leading up to their instant pulverization. I place Kevin Ryan in a similar category to Rodriguez. A lab manager at Underwriters Laboratories, Ryan was fired when he insisted in pointing out the inadequacies of the studies being conducted into the demise of the WTC towers by his own employer in conjunction National Institute of Standards and Technology. Ryan has been particularly adamant in pointing out that the steel in the Twin Towers, which his former employer certified, could not have melted at the temperatures generated by burning jet airplane fuel, which is essentially kerosene.

Much of the citizens’ journalism on 911 takes the form of many hundreds of digital movies, many of which can be downloaded freely from the Internet. Of course some of these productions are informative and well made while others do not come even close to achieving a high standard. In my view one of the better examples of the genre is Dean Puckett’s The Elephant in the Room, winner of the 2008 award for the best documentary at the London Independent Film Festival. http://www.nosmokewithoutfire.co.uk/
Puckett chronicles the real life stories of some major and minor figures in the 911 Truth Movement. Collectively the members of this movement embody of a new style of international activism aimed increasingly at countering the management of public opinion by media conglomerates whose style of news coverage by and large advances the priorities of those elites who dominate the workings of the national security state.

The final segments of The Elephant in the Room focus on the so-called first responders, the volunteers who headed into the toxic hell of the 911 crime scene in the early hours, days and weeks after the fall of the three World Trade Center towers. As the film documents, many of these first responders are developing fatal lung cancers and other respiratory diseases from the asbestos-laden, chemical-laden dust to which they were exposed in great quantities in their efforts of rescue, recovery and clean up. According to one of these individuals, the federal, state and city governments failed in the early stages of the crisis to send in professional toxicologists to evaluate the environmental dangers facing those most exposed to the atmospheric poisons unleashed through the transformation of three huge structures into thick clouds of poisonous vapor and dust particles. One of the first responders interviewed in the film has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, a fatal disease that can only be caused by exposure to asbestos. This victim of the lies and crimes of 911 pointedly asks where all the energy came from to pulverize three huge towers into a substance that he compares to talcum powder.

If the first responders’ accounts recorded in Puckett’s documentary are to be believed, the responsible officials in the United States are washing their hands of legal liability for the epidemic of lung disease and other ailments currently plaguing some of the real heroes and heroines of 911. The curtailed life spans and diminished health prospects of the first responders must be seen in the context of the fact that Christie Todd Whitman of the federal Environmental Protection Agency assured New York City residents under orders from the National Security Council that all the Big Apple’s “vital resources,” including the air, were safe only days after the 911 attacks. That was not true. Add one more lie to the record.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/136350_epa23.html
http://www.epa.gov/WTC/stories/headline_091801.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/nyregion/26whitman.html

Hence the victimization of many groups through the lies and crimes of 911 may extend beyond the initial victims. It may even extend well beyond the plagues of lung disease and other maladies currently shortening and diminishing the lives of a disproportionately high number of first responders. Given that mesothelioma can remain latent for 10 to 15 years, the extent of this plague of 911-induced illnesses among New York City residents may still be several years away from showing its full extent.

As I note in “The Lies and Crimes,” Naomi Wolf, a child of Holocaust survivors, has drawn on her family’s experiences in her effort to alert her fellow citizens in the United States that they are moving along a continuum of official interventions similar to those resulting in the transformation of the civilized German parliamentary democracy into the Hitlerian nightmare. http://www.chelseagreen.com/bookstore/item/endofamerica
Some might protest that her book displays unwarranted alarmism. Hey, a sceptic might point out, the United States isn’t throwing people in concentration camps, torturing them, murdering and displacing millions of innocent civilians, breaking international treaties and conventions, shutting down the rule of law at home, or conducting campaigns of psychological warfare whose effect is to deny and violate the shared humanity of whole populations defined in the state-orchestrated propaganda exclusively on the grounds religious and ethnic criteria! No?

In the long run one of the most devastating effects of the lies and crimes of 911 may reside in the prospect of alienating many of our brightest and most independent-minded young people who have good cause to question the potential for real democracy in even the most basic of our electoral processes. This risk of alienation is occurring, I believe, in the context of a more general loss of confidence among citizens of all ages in the integrity of our central institutions of self-governance. What lessons will be learned by the significant portion of Canadian youth who have decided to invest themselves wholeheartedly in the push for 911 truth? As demonstrated in scores of short clips on the Internet, many of the so-called “troofers” join their like-minded elders to head out into their communities, pamphlets, DVDs and video cameras firmly in hand. They seek to make a difference in the public arena with the optimistic view that they can in the long run influence public policy through informed engagement with their fellow citizens, including workers, opinion makers, captains of industry and elected officials. Matt Taibbi’s satirical diatribe in The Great Derangement notwithstanding, what could be more reasonable, hopeful and democratic than this way of attempting to bring about meaningful change?

What lessons should these young people derive from the removal of Leslie Hughes from her effort to represent a Winnipeg constituency under the Liberal banner? Are all those Liberals in Winnipeg who elected Lesley Hughes to run on their behalf somehow situated on the wrong side of some clear marker identifying a definitive distinction between virtue and malevolence? At what point does an unfortunate mistake become a punishable crime? What rules should guide those who must, from time to time, arbitrate where mistaken and wrongheaded and even hurtful expression ends and where genuine hate-inspired and hate-generating articulation begins?

Is Lesley Hughes really a reprobate not fit to serve in the House of Commons? Or does the push to relegate her back to the political margins speak to issues that are not being fully and honestly addressed by the politicians and professional pundits of all stripes whose responsibility it is to inform Canadians about what is really at stake in this crucial federal election? How will those seeking a mandate from us at this time of national elections in North America respond to the palpable public appetite, not only for 911 truth but for many other kinds of truth, however inconvenient to the interests of power and wealth? When is there to be some basic reckoning with the litany of lies and crimes that have been committed or are being committed with impunity at the very heights of the world’s inequitable system of political and economic power?

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Canadians searching for '9/11 truth' - MSM news article

citizen_wayne — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:30:50 GMT

Yahoo! Canada News,
Wed Sep 3, 2008 -

They're going across the country in hopes of tracking down what they say is the real story behind the 9/11 attacks.

About 10 members of the so-called Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society rolled into Winnipeg yesterday on a small bus while en route from the West Coast to Ottawa to try to push Canadian authorities to launch a new, independent probe of the World Trade Center catastrophe.

"There's a need for another look at the whole attack," Michael Welch, a Winnipeg resident assisting the Vancouver group, said while pointing to a U.S. commission that investigated the fall of the Twin Towers.

"There are so many holes in the official story. And the official commission is so riddled with fraud, cover-up and conflict of interest that there is no way that responsible people should accept it."

He and his West Coast colleagues "suspect that 9/11 was facilitated, if not orchestrated, by elements within the U.S. government military -- to put it succinctly, an inside job."

And that was because of a desire among U.S. powers "to go into places like Afghanistan and Iraq to control energy and to place strategic military bases proximate for allies," he said.

The group hopes to get a chance to make its case here to Liberal Leader Stephane Dion while he's holding a retreat for his party's caucus in the city.

Member Darren Pearson stressed there is no reason Canada can't investigate 9/11 on its own.

"There are things that happen all over the world that our government looks into for us," said Pearson. "Twenty-four Canadians died in the towers. That alone should be enough."

Copyright © 2008 Canoe Inc

Copyright © 2008 Yahoo! Canada Co. All Rights Reserved.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/03092008/51/canadians-searching-9-11-truth.html

NOTE: I attempted add the following comment to the Yahoo article but it was rejected!

"YES! it is about time Canada investigated this. The official story is bogus and there is a ton of evidence which refutes it. 24 Canadians died that day and many more since in Afghanistan. Good on these people for having the courage to not only look at the evidence and facts, but to also try to do something about it."

I received the following: "Sorry, your comment could not be posted"

Wayne

PS "Splitting the Sky" and I will arrive in Ottawa late September 10th for this event. STS is wound up raring to drop some info bombs and to speak truth to power on Parliament Hill on Sept. 11th, 2008.

See www.splittingthesky.net for more info and previous STS talks and interviews

STS will be presented in Ottawa by Calgary 9/11 Truth and Fraser Valley 9/11 Truth

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NIST WTC 7 Report: Shameful, Embarrassing And Completely Flawed

citizen_wayne — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:07:57 GMT

NIST Claims “New Phenomenon” Occurred For First Time Ever In Collapse Of WTC 7, yet fails to address why ground zero workers and media outlets had prior knowledge of an “extraordinary event” never before observed an hour in advance, plus myriad of other ignored issues

Paul J. Watson,
Prison Planet,
August 22, 2008 -

In its final report on the collapse of WTC 7 that news outlets are reporting “puts 9/11 conspiracy theories to bed,” NIST claims that the never before observed “new phenomenon” of “thermal expansion” was to blame for the destruction of the building, a completely ludicrous conclusion in a report that simply ignores eyewitness testimony and hard evidence that points to the deliberate demolition of the structure.

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?

This on its own completely destroys the very foundation of NIST’s assertion that a “new phenomenon” was responsible for the collapse.

Which is the more likely scenario - that ground zero officials and media outlets got word that the building was going to be “pulled” - or that they employed clairvoyant powers of deduction that enabled them to foresee an event that had never happened before in history to a building that was structurally reinforced and had suffered limited fires?

NIST claims that the collapse of Building 7 is “The first known instance of fire causing the total collapse of a tall building”.

We are actually being asked to believe the impossible - that WTC 7 was the only building in history to have defied all precedent and suffered a complete and almost instantaneous collapse from fire damage alone, despite this being an impossibility if one accepts the basic laws of physics as accurate.

The issue of molten metal, which was discovered under both the twin towers and WTC 7, suggesting an extremely hot burning agent was used in the demolition process, is completely ignored in NIST’s report, despite it being acknowledged in Appendix C of FEMA’s World Trade Center Building Performance Study, which stated:

Evidence of a severe high temperature corrosion attack on the steel, including oxidation and sulfidation with subsequent intergranular melting, was readily visible in the near-surface microstructure. A liquid eutectic mixture containing primarily iron, oxygen, and sulfur formed during this hot corrosion attack on the steel… The severe corrosion and subsequent erosion of Samples 1 and 2 are a very unusual event. No clear explanation for the source of the sulfur has been identified.

Speaking during a press conference that was called to counter NIST, Richard Gage, founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth and a member of the American Institute of Architects, dismissed the report.

“Tons of [molten metal] was found 21 days after the attack,” said Gage in an interview with a Vancouver, Canada television station. “Steel doesn’t begin to melt until 2,700 degrees, which is much hotter than what these fires could have caused.”

“There are holes in this story that you can drive a truck through,” he added, citing NIST’s claim that no evidence suggested loud explosive booms accompanied the collapse of the building by reminding that Thermite, a steel cutting agent, makes no explosive sound.

Even aside from this argument, there were numerous close proximity eyewitnesses who reported loud explosions, including NYPD officer Craig Bartmer and ground zero first responder Kevin McPadden (who also experienced the countdown before the building fell), but this fact was again simply ignored by NIST.

“FEMA found it,” said Gage. “Dr. Steven Jones found it, in the dust that landed in the entire area of lower Manhattan. And he finds it in the chunks of previously molten metal [from the towers].”

The core of NIST’s explanation, that an “extraordinary event” called “thermal expansion” was to blame for the sudden total collapse of the building is of course on the face of it a fraud when one considers the innumerable number of buildings that have suffered roaring fires across the majority of their floors and remained standing, whereas WTC 7 suffered limited fire damage across a handful of floors.

NIST also claims that the building only fell at 40% free fall speed, as if this isn’t suspicious in itself. Remember that this 47-story behemoth took just 7 seconds to completely collapse within its own footprint falling through the path of most resistance.

As the George Washington blog points out, “NIST said that WTC 7 fell at 40% slower than free fall speed. But it collapsed a lot faster than it would have if the structural supports were not all blown away at the same instant. 40% slower isn’t very impressive — that’s like arguing that a rock falling through concrete 40% slower than a rock falling through the air is perfectly normal.”

The George Washington blog has compiled a list of experts in structural engineering and demolition who have all questioned NIST’s conclusion. None of these individuals were approached by NIST to partake in their final report.

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The former head of the Fire Science Division of the government agency which claims that the World Trade Centers collapsed due to fire (the National Institute of Standards and Technology), who is one of the world’s leading fire science researchers and safety engineers, a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (Dr. James Quintiere), called for an independent review of the World Trade Center Twin Tower collapse investigation. “I wish that there would be a peer review of this,” he said, referring to the NIST investigation. “I think all the records that NIST has assembled should be archived. I would really like to see someone else take a look at what they’ve done; both structurally and from a fire point of view. … I think the official conclusion that NIST arrived at is questionable.

* Two professors of structural engineering at a prestigious Swiss university (Dr. Joerg Schneider and Dr. Hugo Bachmann) said that, on 9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition (translation here).

* Kamal S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California, says:

“Photos of the steel, evidence about how the buildings collapsed, the unexplainable collapse of WTC 7, evidence of thermite in the debris as well as several other red flags, are quite troubling indications of well planned and controlled demolition”

* Ronald H. Brookman, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from UC Davis, of Novato California, writes:

“Why would all 47 stories of WTC 7 fall straight down to the ground in about seven seconds… ? It was not struck by any aircraft or engulfed in any fire. An independent investigation is justified for all three collapses including the surviving steel samples and the composition of the dust.”

* Graham John Inman, structural engineer, of London, England, points out:

“WTC 7 Building could not have collapsed as a result of internal fire and external debris. NO plane hit this building. This is the only case of a steel frame building collapsing through fire in the world. The fire on this building was small & localized therefore what is the cause?”

* A Dutch demolition expert (Danny Jowenko) stated that WTC 7 was imploded

* A prominent physicist with 33 years of service for the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC (Dr. David L. Griscom) said that the official theory for why the Twin Towers and world trade center building 7 collapsed “does not match the available facts” and supports the theory that the buildings were brought down by controlled demolition

To claim that the collapse of WTC 7 is “no longer a mystery,” as chief NIST investigator Dr. Shyam Sunder stated yesterday smacks of a desperate attempt to proclaim the authority of the official story by mere words alone, when in reality NIST’s laughable “new phenomenon” claim, the latest in a long line of changing explanations for the obvious demolition of Building 7, only heaps more embarrassment on NIST and makes the official 9/11 story look more untrustworthy than ever before.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/nist-wtc-7-report-shameful-embarrassing-and-completely-flawed.html

(original article contains many embedded source links)

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Event: Dr. Bob Bowman in Vancouver, Aug 22nd, 2008 at the MLC

citizen_wayne — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:01:45 GMT

Vancouver BC. – Dr. Robert Bowman has chosen Vancouver to be one of only two Canadian stops for Dr. Bob Bowman’s Patriot Tour this summer.

In his talk, Dr Bowman will be addressing how Canada can avoid American corporate takeover, including how to take back our future from NAFTA, the North American Union, and from wars of aggression. He will also tell us how he would change America if he were elected President. This includes the closing Guantanamo Bay, withdrawing troops from the Middle East, and ending the drive for a permanent Military-Industrial Complex. Due to his impeccable resume and the clarity and sincerity in which he presents himself, the Los Angeles Times has called Dr. Bowman “the best speaker in the country.” Do not miss this unique chance to find out why.

Biography:

Dr. Robert M. Bowman is President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, Executive Vice President of Millennium III Corporation, recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President's Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Republic Aviation Airpower Award, The Society of American Military Engineers' Gold Medal (twice), the Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters, and numerous other awards, he is one of the country's foremost authorities on national security.

Until July, 1982, he was a Vice President of Space Communications Company. Before that, Dr. Bowman was Manager, Advanced Space Programs at General Dynamics, responsible for the communications spacecraft product line. Culminating a 22-year Air Force career in 1978, Col. Bowman was Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the Air Force Space Division. In that capacity, he controlled about half a billion dollars worth of space programs, including the "Star Wars" programs, the existence of which was (at that time) secret.

Dr. Bowman taught at five colleges and universities, serving as Associate Professor, Department Head, and Assistant Dean. From 1971 to 1974, Dr. Bowman was responsible for Air Force and NASA contracts in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Southern Asia. In 1969 and 1970, Col. Bowman flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam. His PhD is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Caltech. Dr. Bowman has lectured at the National War College, the United Nations, Congressional Caucuses, the Academies of Science of six nations, and the House of Lords. He has appeared on McNeil-Lehrer, ABC News, the Larry King Show, Donohue, and Firing Line. He has hosted radio talk shows in New York, Rhode Island, and Florida.

Lecture Details:

Date and Time: August 22nd, 2008. Doors @ 7:00pm. show at 7:30pm.

Tickets: Advanced tickets / Will call available for purchase at www.vancouver911truth.com

$10 in advance, or $10 at the door.

Tele-fax: 604-608-5667

Location: Maritime Labour Centre - located at 1880 Triumph St. (two blocks north of Victoria and Hastings) Capacity: 500

Other: There will be a 45 minute Q & A session after the lecture. Questions will not be screened No question is off limits. Organized by the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society - www.vancouver911truth.com

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FBI was told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials

citizen_wayne — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:13:52 GMT

BY JAMES GORDON MEEK,
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU,
http://www.nydailynews.com -

Sat, August 2nd 2008 -

WASHINGTON - In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it was a second-wave assault by Al Qaeda, but investigators ruled that out, the Daily News has learned.

After the Oct. 5, 2001, death from anthrax exposure of Sun photo editor Robert Stevens, Mueller was "beaten up" during President Bush's morning intelligence briefings for not producing proof the killer spores were the handiwork of terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden, according to a former aide.

"They really wanted to blame somebody in the Middle East," the retired senior FBI official told The News.

On October 15, 2001, President Bush said, "There may be some possible link" to Bin Laden, adding, "I wouldn't put it past him." Vice President Cheney also said Bin Laden's henchmen were trained "how to deploy and use these kinds of substances, so you start to piece it all together."

But by then the FBI already knew anthrax spilling out of letters addressed to media outlets and to a U.S. senator was a military strain of the bioweapon. "Very quickly [Fort Detrick, Md., experts] told us this was not something some guy in a cave could come up with," the ex-FBI official said. "They couldn't go from box cutters one week to weapons-grade anthrax the next."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/08/02/2008-08-02_fbi_was_told_to_blame_anthrax_scare_on_a.html

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Canada: 9/11 Charges laid - My demonstration of direct democracy: voting with my feet

citizen_wayne — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:36:37 GMT

By Francis Guy Hawkins,
The Republic of East Vancouver -

My demonstration of direct democracy: voting with my feet -

I will go to the German government on Canada day 2008 and ask for asylum.

My request is the result of my treatment by the members of our Parliament: MPs, the Speaker, the Prime Minister, the Governor General, and the Queen who were informed by registered mail that there is compelling evidence that the events of 9/11 did not occur as we have been led to believe by the administration of the US.

None of the Members of Parliament were interested in discussing the vast amount of credible government-level discussion that calls into question the official explanation of the events of that day. By intentionally ignoring such evidence, the Parliament of Canada is failing in its duty to the citizens of Canada to whom Parliament is subservient, according to our laws and constitution, and is in fact acting in collusion with the administration of the US. This collusion constitutes a transfer of sovereignty from Parliament—the most sovereign institution permitted by our constitution—to the administration of the US.

Parliament in support of the geopolitical interests of the US administration has directed the Canadian military to engage in lethal combat in Afghanistan, the pretext for the invasion being the US administration's story of the events of 9/11. However, no proof of the administration's claims has ever been presented to the United Nations. Evidence from credible sources of the unreliability of the claims made by the US administration is compelling. These claims, which are contrary to the version of events provided by the US administration, have never been investigated in the public arena.

Read the rest here: http://www.republic-news.org/archive/193-repub/193_hawkins.html

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There is a mountain of evidence that contradicts the "official story" of 9/11. The fact that not one of our elected members of parliament nor the RCMP or Crown Counsel wants to investigate the circumstances deaths of 24 Canadians speaks volumes about them and the true state of affairs in Canada.

Good on you Mr. Hawkins for attempting to do something to effect a 9/11 Investigation in Canada, however, I don't think leaving is the answer, and Germany nor any other European country for that matter would not be my first place to seek political asylum on these grounds. I think you would be more welcome and well received in Venezuela, as Chavez himself openly questions 9/11. Better still however, stay here and work with us!

Whether or not we (9/11 Truth Movement in Canada) get an Official 9/11 investigation or not, it is our duty to Be the Media and to inform and educate fellow citizens as best we can to the facts of 9/11 that we have uncovered, if only to help ensure that they are not fooled by the next "False Flag Operation" that is surely already being planned and will inevitably be carried out.

An investigation is already happening in the minds of the people who, based upon my own 9/11 Truth street actions, no longer trust nor believe the MSM and their government representatives. This is also born out statistically as their newspaper subscriptions and TV ratings for news programs are in steady decline.

Have some faith in your fellow citizens and stand with us to combat the lies and propaganda. Stand on guard for Canada!

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How Terrorist Groups End - Can we drop the "war on terror" charade now?

citizen_wayne — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:48:17 GMT

Can we drop the "war on terror" charade now?
from George Washington's Blog, July 29, 2008 -

How Terrorist Groups End, Lessons for Countering al Qa'ida -

All terrorist groups eventually end. But how do they end? The evidence since 1968 indicates that most groups have ended because (1) they joined the political process (43 percent) or (2) local police and intelligence agencies arrested or killed key members (40 percent).

Military force has rarely been the primary reason for the end of terrorist groups, and few groups within this time frame have achieved victory.

This has significant implications for dealing with al Qa'ida and suggests fundamentally rethinking post-9/11 U.S. counterterrorism strategy: Policymakers need to understand where to prioritize their efforts with limited resources and attention. The authors report that religious terrorist groups take longer to eliminate than other groups and rarely achieve their objectives. The largest groups achieve their goals more often and last longer than the smallest ones do. Finally, groups from upper-income countries are more likely to be left-wing or nationalist and less likely to have religion as their motivation. The authors conclude that policing and intelligence, rather than military force, should form the backbone of U.S. efforts against al Qa'ida. And U.S. policymakers should end the use of the phrase ?war on terrorism? since there is no battlefield solution to defeating al Qa'ida. Source

U.S. Should Rethink "War On Terrorism" Strategy to Deal with Resurgent Al Qaida: RAND Corporation News Release Tuesday July 29, 2008

"The term we use to describe our strategy toward terrorists is important, because it affects what kinds of forces you use," Jones said. "Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests that there is no battlefield solution to terrorism." NEWS RELEASE

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/07/top-advisor-to-us-military-confirms-war.html

See also:

The War on Terrorism - By Canada's Barry Zwicker (videos)

Part 1 http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1304315142950850319&q=%22The+War+on+Terrorism+-+Barry+Zwicker+1%2F4%22&ei=5qWQSMHSI46g4ALkyKjGCA
Part 2 http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1304315142950850319&q=%22The+War+on+Terrorism+-+Barry+Zwicker+1%2F4%22&ei=5qWQSMHSI46g4ALkyKjGCA
Part 3 http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1304315142950850319&q=%22The+War+on+Terrorism+-+Barry+Zwicker+1%2F4%22&ei=5qWQSMHSI46g4ALkyKjGCA
Part 4 http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=1304315142950850319&q=%22The+War+on+Terrorism+-+Barry+Zwicker+1%2F4%22&ei=5qWQSMHSI46g4ALkyKjGCA

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Comment:

Good article and good points GW, but Rand Corp fails to take into account the fact that many "terrorist groups" are run (trained and / or funded by intelligence agencies) and aid governments (or the elites that control governments) to push through their own agenda by creating terror through fake enemies, or to ensure that police and military funding remains high and consistent (just as private fire brigades in the old days used to set fires to justify themselves, and just as the mob sets up protection rackets, extorting money from small businesses in exchange for "security"). It is the oldest trick in the book.

The RAND Corp (a think tank) of course is a front for the Military Industrial Complex. Their solution "policing and intelligence, rather than military force, should form the backbone of U.S. efforts against al Qa'ida" would mean a larger, more powerful police state with even more citizen surveillance and monitoring and the violation or abolition of constitutionally guaranteed rights and freedoms. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAND

As always, "Qui Bono?" Who benefits ?

The risk to citizens of being killed or harmed by "real" terrorists is so low it is pathetic to even consider it, visa vis the risk of drowning in your own pool or the at the lake, being hurt or killed in a car accident, a house fire, or even going to the doctor for that matter (which ranks at or near the top statistically). Thus, a War on Medicine or War on Big Pharma would be far more warranted and justifiable.

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"CANADA FIRST DEFENCE STRATEGY": War is Still One Big Racket!

citizen_wayne — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:30 GMT

"CANADA FIRST DEFENCE STRATEGY": War is Still One Big Racket!

July 28, 2008

The Canadian government's "Canada First Defence Strategy" (CFDS) is written from the purely capitalistic, profit-making viewpoint while paying lip service to other concerns and interests, such as Indigenous people and the environment. Canadians do not support this war making strategy!

Canada’s war strategists intend to spend $490 billion over the next 20 years.

"... the Government has committed through Budget 2008 to raise the annual INCREASE in defence [warmaking] funding to 2 percent from the current 1.5 percent starting in fiscal year 2011–12... These increases will expand National Defence’s [War Department] annual budget from approximately $18 billion in 2008-09, to over $30 billion in 2027–28."

The 22-page pdf file posted online on June 19 includes color photos of Generalissimo Stephen "Doughboy" Harper and Commandant Peter "PeaBrain" MacKay. US military procurement web sites like DefenseIndustryDaily publish articles on the new Canadian military strategy. DID expresses skepticism about the stability of Canada's government and its ability to follow through with this plan.

The "Strategy" is an outline for an aggressive and profit-making military buildup!! What megalomaniac plans do these warmongers have in mind??

In "A Message from the Prime Minister", "the Doughboy" gets to the point: "Supported by predictable, long-term funding... we are providing Canadian industry the opportunity to..." make piles of money.

Just what does he mean by "predictable, long-term funding"??? Does he anticipate being in power indefinitely or does he know something we don't know. According to “Generalissimo Stevie” on tv recently, he speaks for ALL Canadians. Why are Canadians who oppose war seemingly silent?

In "A Message from the Minister of National Defence", "Peabrain" Pete lists the 3 roles, oft repeated, "... at home... in the defence of North America, and to project leadership abroad ... overseas". That mouthful translates as "attack anyone anywhere if they stand in the way of our greed and ambition."

In the Executive Summary, "...the Strategy identifies ... where investments are most needed... The Canada First Defence Strategy provides the planning certainty required to allow the Government to continue rebuilding the Canadian Forces ...and presents unprecedented opportunities for Canadian industry in its reach for global excellence."
Clearly, they are trying to impress their foreign investors and the subsidized corporations who will build all this warstuff instead of housing, hospitals, safe bridges and roads.

$490 BILLION FROM WHERE!!!!????

Where will they get all this money? Working taxpayers already contribute 10% of their income tax to the military. Your compulsory CPP (Canada Pension Plan) deductions are also invested in the military industry through the Carlyle Group as are many pension funds such as the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’. You have no say in this matter other than to refuse to work. Your retirement pension may be blood money pure and simple.

The document which itself probably cost a pretty penny to produce, continues: "In addition to the acquisition of four C-17 Globemaster strategic lift aircraft already in service [flying in and out at Trenton], the Government is procuring 17 new C-130J Hercules tactical lift aircraft and has announced plans to acquire 16 CH-47F Chinook helicopters, three replenishment ships, 2,300 trucks, up to 100 Leopard 2 tanks and 6–8 Arctic/offshore patrol ships."

The Gov plan to "Increase the number of military personnel to 70,000 Regular Forces and 30,000 Reserve Forces". They are targeting Native youth, especially in the North. The military want to exploit the Indigenous knowledge of the land and destroy Indigenous sovereignty at the same time. Programs like Bold Eagle lure young Native people into thinking the army is a fun place to be and will make you feel like you belong and have power.

The warmongers are very concerned about their ability to control and defend Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic "as activity in northern lands and waters accelerates". The corporation of Canada no more owns the Arctic than any other part of Turtle Island.

"In Canada’s Arctic region, changing weather patterns [probably deliberately caused by HAARP] are altering the environment, making it more accessible to sea traffic and economic activity. Retreating ice cover has opened the way for increased shipping, tourism and resource exploration, and new transportation routes are being considered, including through the Northwest Passage. While this promises substantial economic benefits for Canada, it has also brought new challenges from other shores. These changes in the Arctic could also spark an increase in illegal activity, with important implications for Canadian sovereignty and security and a potential requirement for additional military support."

They don't appear the least bit concerned about climate change. They sound eager and confident that they anticipate the weather going their way, as if it were part of the strategy too. They aren't too worried about the extinction of the polar bears either.

They claim that the "military helped out in natural disasters ...including floods in Manitoba and Quebec, the ice storm in Eastern Canada, and forest fires in British Columbia." We were in eastern Ontario during the ice storm and will never forget the yellow water the military reserves tried to give to us when they were hanging around the “ag hall”.

They spell out some of their "challenges to domestic security... possible terrorist attacks, human and drug trafficking, foreign encroachments on Canada’s natural resources, and potential outbreaks of infectious disease."

This is some extreme delusional paranoia. What terrorist attacks and what human trafficking do they mean? The colonialists are the foreigners encroaching on natural resources. They are the ones making deadly diseases in labs like the one in Winnipeg, with the hopes of killing off a lot of people.

The military have already made plans to be at the 2010 Olympics which Indigenous are already working hard to stop. The G8 summit will also take place in Canada in 2010 with full military protection at taxpayers expense.

"Canada Command" was set up in 2006 to deal with natural disasters and "terrorist attacks". What an interesting combination, sometimes it might be hard to tell the difference. That's why they need lots of surveillance equipment so they can tell the difference even if we cannot.

As the lines become more and more blurred as to their role, "The Forces must also be available to assist other government departments in addressing such security concerns as over-fishing, organized crime, drug- and people-smuggling and environmental degradation." This gives them uncontrolled access to every situation on land, sea and in the air.

The military is the absolute worst for "environmental degradation". Just recently in the USA, Canada's mentor and role model, the Pentagon ignored the ruling of the DEA on cleaning up their mess all over the USA. The long term environmental damage caused by military bases and their activities is shocking. Some of the airforce bases are the worst. Why is this? Canada's largest airforce base is at Trenton near Tyendinaga where they intend to expand and may even put a NATO FOB.

Canada's role in the "defence of North America" is about having credibility with the Pentagon and being able to work UNDER them. They must "conduct daily continental operations (including through NORAD); Carry out bilateral training and exercises with the United States; Respond to crises; and Remain interoperable with the US military". Many of their joint training exercises take place at Fort Drum Military Reservation near Watertown, New York.

Canada and the US have had intimate military relations since 1958 when they formed NORAD which now has expanded roles. They also work together on domestic jobs via Canada Command and the US Northern Command. To maintain what they call "interoperability", their equipment and doctrine must be compatible. To have a compatible doctrine, Canadian soldiers must be prepared to do everything the American soldiers do such as running over civilians in Afghanistan. Clearly Canaduh needs more muscle if it wants to be an "international leader on the world stage".

The warmongers suggest that in addition to continuing their involvement in NATO aggressions, they will also go to war alongside "like minded" allies with or without UN approval as occurred when the US went to war on Iraq.

These warmakers are very concerned about the world stage and their part on it. See how they flex their muscles in Afghanistan, pretending to help the women and children. The compliant media tell us that Canadian soldiers are building schools and hospitals there when, in fact, they are guarding the hundreds of mining developments taking place, such as the Aynak copper mine just a few kilometres from Kabul. This rich mine site was auctioned, in late 2007, to the Chinese metallurgical corporation MCC for a price of more than 3 billion American dollars. All the big mining companies are in there scrambling for a piece of the action.

Surveys indicate there are massive deposits of almost every kind of mineral wealth in Afghanistan, such as gold, iron, uranium, and copper, as well as hydrocarbons, especially coal. Afghanistan is also one of the few locations on Earth where the rare element, tantalum is found. Similarly, Kanehsatake has a huge deposit of niobium, often found with tantalum.

Presumably, the loot plundered from the Earth, here or in Afghanistan will help with their "increased, predictable long-term funding..."

They intend to keep control of the government purse strings to develop a plan much of which is unimaginable to most people. What "full range of challenges" do they mean, does it include the possible Indigenous and grassroots resistance to their insane strategy???

The military planners describe the world as volatile and unpredictable. They make it that way when they go around the world killing people everywhere. They use terms like "failed and failing states, civil wars and global terrorism", phantoms they created. They must be talking about themselves when they say, "nuclear-capable adversarial states headed by unpredictable regimes are particularly worrisome".

They have to refer to "the pernicious influence of Islamist militants in key regions" to have a scapegoat for their military buildup and to please the Israelis who want to go at Iran.

HOW THE $490 BILLION GETS SPENT

Over half, or $250B will go to personnel. With layoffs in factories every week in Ontario, there will be plenty of unemployed lining up for careers in the military. Highly skilled individuals are needed as medical and maintenance technicians, SRI (Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Intelligence)specialists and "special operations" types.

The increased number of personnel will be available for future international operations and the 2010 Olympics which they have mentioned 3 times now.

Equipment purchases will cover 12% or $60B for big toys like the Globemaster and Hercules transport aircraft, 65 new Fighter planes, chinook helicopters, search & rescue planes, UAV's,(unmanned aerial vehicles or drones) ships and trucks, plenty of trucks. And of course, weapons and bombs and communications equipment. They want lots more radar and satellites for the Arctic.

$40B will be spent on "infrastructure" which includes housing for the soldiers and $140B for "readiness" which includes training. How many spare parts do you need to stockpile? How many extra socks and batteries does each guy need? How often do you need to go through the drill? $140 billion worth, they figure for 20 years. That's $7billion per year!

They let us know this phenomenal total of $490billion does NOT include any costs for a new major war. For example, if the US and Israel go at Iran or if the US goes at Russia, and Canada follows, then Canada will introduce NEW spending for that.

They hasten to add that there will be "jobs for tens of thousands of Canadians who work in defence industries and communities with military base". They also emphasize research and development to build up the military industry for the long haul. It's about perpetual war.

"National Defence is the single largest property holder in the federal government, owning approximately 21,000 buildings (many are over 50years old and crumbling), 13,500 works (including 5,500 kilometres of roads, jetties, training areas, etc.) and 800 parcels of land covering 2.25 million hectares", all Indigenous territory. They plan to replace 25 percent of existing infrastructure over 10 years and 50 percent over the next 20 years.

The war planners are developing a "Strategic Investment Plan" to coordinate all this spending. The first version of the Plan will go to the Treasury Board Secretariat in November 2008 as part of a pilot project associated with that agency’s new Policy on Investment Planning.

The Gov has another plan, "'Advantage Canada', the Government’s strategic plan for boosting the economic prosperity, global competitiveness and quality of life of Canadians". This is their sinister plan to establish an elite military society based in the northern part of Turtle Island. All the big smilitary industry corporations like Thales, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and GM are already lining up with hat in hand at DRDC (Defence Research and Development Canada) for the big research and development cheques so they can spruce up their image of "global excellence" and make even more money. A full list of these merchants of death can be found at the CADSI (Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries) web site.

Other countries like Brazil, India and China are making much bigger investments in their military and will need to buy stuff, lots of stuff from military producers like Canada. Perpetual war means a lot of money for the military industry.

The Canadian war makers map out how they will court corporate giants and bring them into the War Department where they can help plan everything. They will change laws to allow them even more tax breaks and corporate welfare. Guys like “Cousin” John Manley will be right in there, filling their pockets. And last but not least, universities can grab funding too if they want to work on military projects.

They conclude by telling us this spending is open to review and regular increases as they see fit.

Iakoha’ko:wa
Eagle Watch, Haudenosaunee Territory

Notes and Sources

http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/focus/first/defstra_e.asp
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/Canada-Lays-Out-Future-Defense-Plans-04894/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080619.wdefence0619/BNStory/National/home

DRDC (Defence Research and Development Canada) GOTOBUTTON BM_1_ http://www.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/
Canada Command GOTOBUTTON BM_2_ http://www.canadacom.forces.gc.ca/
US Northern Command GOTOBUTTON BM_3_ http://www.northcom.mil/home.html

MERCHANTS OF DEATH AT CADSI
https://www.defenceandsecurity.ca/public/index.asp?action=profiles

RECRUITING NATIVE YOUTH
http://www.army.gc.ca/lfwa/feature_boldEagle2006.htm
http://www.army.gc.ca/boldeagle/contents.htm
ttp://www.forces.ca/v3/engraph/resources/subsidizededucation_en.aspx?bhcp=1#36
http://www.airforce.forces.gc.ca/4wing/news/releases_e.asp?cat=92&id=6504

see “War is a Racket” by Smedley Butler

NEW SEARCH TERMS: Policy on Investment Planning, Advantage Canada, Strategic Investment Plan

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The only thing I would have add is that this increase in militarism and military spending is directly predicated upon the BIG LIE of 9/11, which was (as they always are) a "False Flag" event to create war, and to which Canada has become a willing participant without any independent investigation of the events, despite the fact that 24 Canadians dies that day and over 85 Canadians have now been killed in Afghanistan. It is high time to investigate it. The trail of evidence leads not to a cave in Afghanistan, but rather, to the Pentagon, the Whitehouse and the neon lit office towers and board rooms of Wall Street.

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Splitting the Sky will speak in Vancouver, BC Sunday, July 27th

citizen_wayne — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:32:03 GMT

Splitting the Sky will speak in Vancouver, BC
on Sunday, July 27th, 2008 from 3 pm to 5 pm at:

Killarney Community Centre
Room #203
6260 Killarney Street
Vancouver, BC V5S 2X7
www.killarneycentre.ca

(East of 49th and Knight)
GOOGLE MAP HERE
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&q=6260+Killarney+Street+vancouver&ie=UTF8&ll=49.241138,-123.052025&spn=0.09728,0.228996&z=12&iwloc=addr

Admission: minimum $5 donation

Seating is limited and it will be first come first serve !

He will speak for about 90 minutes and have about 10 to 15 copies of his awesome autobiography (653 pages!) available. These books are only available through direct purchase from STS and sell for $50.00. He will be pleased to autograph one for you.

This is a rare opportunity to see, hear and meet a living legend of the resistance movement!

PLEASE FORWARD TO FRIENDS or CALL THEM WITH THE INFO and POST ON LOCAL ACTIVIST FORUMS IMMEDIATELY.

Sorry for the short notice. It was unavoidable!

http://www.splittingthesky.tk/

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Splitting The Sky Speaks: Truth To Power video now up on Google Video

Lazarus — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:27:26 GMT

Recorded at the N.W. Convergence July 5, 2008 in Peace Arch Park, special guest speaker 'Splitting The Sky' wows the crowd with his thoughts and views of European Colonialism, the Gustafson Lake, B.C. incident and, of course, 9/11. Intelligent, thought provoking and thoroughly researched, Splitting The Sky's analysis on the events of 9/11 are compelling and shocking to say the least.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8385141001501618901

You saw it right here first folks!

Enjoy.

Laz

(More to follow soon... once Google has fixed up its annoying technical problems!)

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Robin Hordon - 9/11 Truth For Peace video now up on Google

Lazarus — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:05:33 GMT

Recorded at the N.W. Truth Convergence at Peace Arch Park, July 5th, 2008. Special guest speaker Robin Hordon, ex-air traffic controller and current 9/11 advisor and activist , delivers a philosophical and retrospective look at the peace and protest movements of the past four decades. He concludes by intimating his personal vision and direction for the 9/11 Truth Movement by advocating the of use reasoned and passive 'informationing' to spread the word.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-1635389916434358135

Enjoy!

Laz

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Want some torture with your peanuts? - Post-9/11 airport security madness continues

citizen_wayne — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:17:39 GMT

By Jeffrey Denning,
Washington Times,
July 01 2008 -

Just when you thought you’ve heard it all...

A senior government official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has expressed great interest in a so-called safety bracelet that would serve as a stun device, similar to that of a police Taser®. According to this promotional video found at the Lamperd Less Lethal, Inc. website, the bracelet would be worn by all airline passengers (video also shown below).

This bracelet would:

• Take the place of an airline boarding pass

• Contain personal information about the traveler

• Be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage

• Shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes

The Electronic ID Bracelet, as it’s referred to, would be worn by every traveler “until they disembark the flight at their destination.” Yes, you read that correctly. Every airline passenger would be tracked by a government-funded GPS, containing personal, private and confidential information, and would shock the customer worse than an electronic dog collar if the passenger got out of line.

Clearly the Electronic ID Bracelet is a euphemism for the EMD Safety Bracelet, or at least it has a nefarious hidden ability (thus the term ID Bracelet is ambiguous at best). EMD stands for Electro-Musclar Disruption. Again, according to the promotional video, the bracelet can completely immobilize the wearer for several minutes.

So is the government really that interested in this bracelet?

Apparently so.

According to this letter from DHS official, Paul S. Ruwaldt of the Science and Technology Directorate, office of Research and Development, which was written to the inventor whom he had previously met with, Ruwaldt wrote, “To make it clear, we [the federal government] are interested in . . . the immobilizing security bracelet, and look forward to receiving a written proposal.”

The letterhead, in case you were wondering, is from a U.S. Department of Homeland Security office at the William J. Hughes Technical Center at the Atlantic City International Airport, or the Federal Aviation Administration headquarters.

In another part of the letter, Mr. Ruwaldt confirmed, “In addition, it is conceivable to envision a use to improve air security, on passenger planes.”

Would every paying airline passenger flying on a commercial airplane be mandated to wear one of these devices? I cringe at the thought. Not only could it be used as a physical restraining device, but also as a method of interrogation, according to the same aforementioned letter from Mr. Ruwaldt.

Would you let them put one of those on your wrist? Would you allow the airline employees, which would be mandated by the government, to place such a bracelet on any member of your family?

Why are tax dollars being spent on something like this?

Is this a police state or is this America?

READ MORE http://www.washingtontimes.com/weblogs/aviation-security/2008/Jul/01/want-some-torture-with-your-peanuts/

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Passengers virtually stripped naked by 3-D airport scanner
Last Updated: Friday, June 20, 2008 | 1:48 PM ET

The airport in Kelowna, B.C., will be the first in Canada to test a new type of passenger scanner that creates a three-dimensional image of people's bodies.

The new body imager unveiled on Thursday uses high frequency electromagnetic waves known as millimetre waves to create a detailed 3-D image of what a person looks like underneath their clothes.

The security guard operating the machine only sees a simplified image on a computer screen that indicates where ceramic weapons and plastic explosives or other suspicious items might be concealed.

But in a separate, private room, another officer sees the full detailed black and white image of the person's body.

To be scanned, a passenger simply steps inside a glass pod the size of a large phone booth and puts up his arms above his head.

"The paddles rotate around the body. The radio frequency penetrates the clothing … bounces off the skin and gives … a 3-D holographic image of the body," said Ian McNaugton, the National Sales Manager for L3 Communications, which makes the machines.

If any suspicious items are identified, the passenger is then checked with a conventional security pat down, McNaughton said.

Ron McAdam, who manages technology and testing for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, spent months working with Canada's privacy commissioner to make sure the scanner complies with privacy rules.

"The images themselves are not saved.... They are deleted immediately once the passenger is cleared," said McAdam, who added that the security guard who sees the detailed image never sees the actual passenger.

In addition, passengers don't have to use the machine, McAdam said. If they have concerns, they can use regular screening lines instead.

Body image concerns some

Outside the airport, passengers gave the machine mixed reviews. Hugo Tinno said he would not volunteer. "I think it shows a little bit too much."

But Deena Kamozi, who had just dropped off her 14-year-old son, said anything that makes flying safer is a good thing.

"I'm not a big fan of flying anyway, so the safer I feel, the better," she said.

Kamozi said she had no privacy concerns about the body image.

"Not if it's going to protect my family on the plane."

The trial of the $200,000 machine will last until January, after which Transport Canada will decide whether to use the scanner at other Canadian airports.

The low-level radio frequency is safer than a cellphone, which use radio frequencies a thousand times stronger, according to McNaugton.

Other airports around the world, including in Los Angeles, New York City, Moscow and Osaka, are already using the millimetre wave technology, but the machine being testing at Kelowna International is the first in the world to combine the body imaging with a metal detector, McNaugton said.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/06/20/bc-virtually-naked-airport-scanner.html

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Another Canadian Soldier dead in Afghanistan - 9/11 claims one more victim

citizen_wayne — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:47:06 GMT

Soldier Leaves Behind Son, Unborn Child - Family Says Cpl. Brendan Downey Joined Forces After 9/11 -

Reported By Geoff Smith,
Posted July 6, 2008 - 9:12am,
News-Talk 980, Regina -

He's being described as a patriot who served his country with pride. The family of Cpl. Brendan Downey has released a statement after the death of the Saskatchewan-based soldier overseas.

It was news he greeted with great joy, according to his family. Cpl. Downey and his wife Vanessa, also in the forces, were expecting their second child. Downey won't see his unborn child, or his two year old son Adam grow up. He was found dead early Friday in his quarters at a desert base that provides support to the Afghan mission.

Downey was born in Montreal, his parents and siblings are in Toronto; but his home base was the military police unit at the Dundurn detachment south of Saskatoon.

In the statement, Downey's family says he joined the forces in response to the September 11th attacks.

The death has been ruled non-combat related, as investigators try to find out just what happened.

(Photo: Canadian Forces)

http://www.newstalk980.com/story/20080706/2109
You can submit comments on the above page.

I have offered the following comments:

I salute Downey for his patriotism, willingness to defend Canada and for wanting to do the right thing. I offer my sincere condolences to his family and friends, and ask that our government do the right thing and bring our troops home until they have thoroughly and publicly examined ALL of the facts about 9/11. We owe this to our troops, to those 24 Canadians who died that day, and the other 3000 victims, including the 9/11 rescuers who continue to die to this day). We ALL deserve the facts and the truth about the September 11th events. Who could have anything against that? Except perhaps those who have something to hide or to gain from an unending war on terror.

I hope, that other Canadian soldiers will take the time and personal responsibility to do their own research on 9/11 and the documented history of 'False Flag Operations'. This is how virtually ALL wars are started.

Silence is not patriotism and unquestioning support for war and trust in government decisions are a recipe for fascism and tyranny - something that previous generations of valiant Canadian soldiers gave their lives for. Lest we forget!

It is our duty as citizens to protect our country, our democracy, freedoms and way of life as much (if not more) as anyone who puts on a military uniform. If we are unwilling to do more than wave flags on Canada Day, watch hockey, sing our national anthem, and go along to get along, then we will get what we deserve, as history shows.

Support our troops! Demand a new, fair and impartial 9/11 investigation and bring our fine, patriotic men and women home until we have ALL of the facts.

Thank you Cpl. Downey for your service and sense of duty to your country. May you rest in peace.

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Ralph Schoenman - The Underlying Politics of 9/11

Lazarus — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:06:21 GMT

Various interations of Ralph's thesis is floating around in various video pages and formats but here is the real deal. Recorded about three months ago, Ralph Schoenman -- everyone's favorite Marxist -- proffers some interesting background perspective and detailed research into potential probabilities and causalites of 9/11. Compelling and engaging, Ralph is a master presenter.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=2692828401552537865

Enjoy.

Laz

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62 per cent more Afghan civilians killed in fighting, says UN official

adanac — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:38:20 GMT

Sun Jun 29, 9:50 PM,
By Stephen Graham, Associated Press -

KABUL, Afghanistan - The number of civilians killed in fighting between insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan has soared by nearly two-thirds in the first half of this year, to almost 700 people, a senior UN official said.

The figures are a grim reminder of how the nearly seven-year war has failed to stabilize the country and suggest ordinary civilians are bearing a heavy toll, particularly from stepped-up militant attacks.

John Holmes, the world body's humanitarian affairs chief, said the insecurity is making it increasingly difficult to deliver emergency aid to Afghans hit by the global food crisis.

"The humanitarian situation is clearly affected and made worse by the ongoing conflict in different parts of the country," Holmes said Sunday in Kabul during a visit.

"Most of those casualties are caused by the insurgents, who seem to have no regard for civilian life but there are also still significant numbers caused by the international military forces," he said.

Holmes said UN figures show 698 civilians have died as a result of the fighting in the first half of this year. That compares with 430 in the first six months of 2007, a rise of 62 per cent.

Anti-government militants caused 422 of the recorded civilian casualties - 60 per cent - while government or foreign troops killed 255 people, according to the UN numbers. The cause of 21 other deaths was unclear.

Holmes said the proportion of civilian casualties caused by security forces had dropped from nearly one-half last year.

"It is clear that the international military forces are making every effort to minimize civilian casualties and recognize the damage this does and want to deal with that," he said.

"Nevertheless these problems are still there and we need to deal with them and make sure that the safety of civilians comes first and international humanitarian law is respected by everybody."

NATO's reaction to the UN figures was cool.

"The UN Human Rights rapporteur made an accusation (in May) that we had killed 200 and I said then that those numbers were far, far higher than we would recognize and that is still the case," said Mark Laity, a spokesman for the alliance in Kabul.

He provided no alternative figures.

Afghan leaders including President Hamid Karzai have accused NATO and the U.S.-led coalition of recklessly endangering civilians by using excessive force, including airstrikes, in residential areas.

Foreign commanders insist they take all reasonable precautions to avoid killing innocents and say militants routinely fire on them from houses and flee into villages.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080629/world/afghan_civilian_deaths

Afghan governor says civilians killed in U.S. raid
June 30th, 2008

KABUL (Reuters) - U.S.-led coalition troops, backed by air strikes, killed 28 Taliban insurgents in southwestern Afghanistan, but six to eight civilians were also killed in the operation, the provincial governor said on Monday.

Sunday's raid was aimed at a Taliban meeting in the Khash Rud district of Nimroz province on Sunday, provincial governor Ghulam Dastagir Azad told reporters.

"The operation was carried out on the basis of a tip-off. Twenty-eight Taliban and between six to eight civilians were killed in it," he said, without giving further details.

The U.S. military confirmed the mission, but said nothing of civilian casualties. It said the operation was aimed at disrupting militant activities in Nimroz.

The issue of civilians killed by foreign troops is a sensitive one in Afghanistan as it further undermines public support for the presence of around 71,000 international troops in the country.

In the first six months of this year, 698 civilians were killed, 255 of them by Afghan government and foreign forces. In the same period last year, a total of 430 civilians were killed, the United Nations said.

In the latest operation, U.S.-led coalition forces identified numerous militants armed with AK-47s, rocket-propelled grenades and hand grenades, the U.S. military said in a statement.

"Multiple militant groups engaged the force in a compound and in nearby areas. Coalition forces then killed them using small-arms fire. Two additional groups of armed militants maneuvered against the force and were killed by air strikes," it said.

A Taliban spokesman said no member of the group was killed and the casualties were civilians participating in a party.

Also in Nimroz, 15 Taliban insurgents were killed in a joint Afghan and U.S.-led forces operation after a group of insurgents attacked an Afghan police post in the Dasht-e Bakwa on Sunday, the Afghan Interior Ministry said.

Elsewhere, two Afghan soldiers were killed and three more were wounded when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the eastern province of Paktia on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement issued on Monday.

Afghanistan has faced an upsurge of violence since 2006 and some Western politicians have warned it may slide back into anarchy.

According to Afghan and U.N. officials more than 13,000 people have been killed since 2006 when the Taliban regrouped to overthrow the Afghan government and drive out foreign troops.

(Reporting by Mirwais Afghan; Writing by Sayed Salahuddin; Editing by Alex Richardson)

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/080630/canada/canada_afghan_violence_col

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Canada Day is 'Canada Truth Day' in the Fraser Valley region of BC

citizen_wayne — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:04:03 GMT

Tuesday, July 1st is Canada Day, and Canada needs 9/11 Truth!

Therefore, this will be a special day of action for Fraser Valley 9/11 Truth as we share what we know about 9/11 with our fellow citizens on the streets of Maple Ridge during the official Canada Day celebrations, and we need as many people out as possible to participate in this act of love for our country, fellow citizens and the world at large.

If you can't get out here, please get out in your own cities, towns and neighbourhoods for 9/11 Truth and Justice, and to put an end to the illegal wars that are based upon lies.

If you have never taken action before and not normally inclined to do so, please make this the one day that you do something. Put a sign in your window, on the lawn or in your car, make a banner and hang it at an overpass, print and copy some flyers, burn some DVDs and hand them out, but PLEASE do something to help inform Canadians and to save Canada.

It is up to each of us to expose the 9/11 fraud and to say to the world that "we do not and will not support the global war of terror and the killing being done in our name without a new, fair and impartial investigation of all the facts!"

Our group will be meeting up at the corner of Dewdney and 224th St. in Maple Ridge, BC at 12 Noon, proudly and patriotically serving our country as concerned citizens.

Please meet us there or be somewhere in this great land doing the same!

Where

Dewdney Trunk Rd & 224th St
Maple Ridge, BC, V2X

(aka Truther's Corner)

We will be very obvious ;-)

Our Event RSVP page http://9-11.meetup.com/389/calendar/8237822

Download our Canada Day Flyer Here: http://fv911truth.org/pdf/canada_day.pdf

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NORTHWEST TRUTH CONVERGENCE - July 5th, 2008

citizen_wayne — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:27:37 GMT

On Saturday, July 5th at Peace Arch Park (Blaine, WA and White Rock, BC Border crossing) from 12 Noon til Dusk, Canadians and Americans will come together for common causes and interests for our mutual benefit.

All 'Truth Activists' in the Pacific Northwest (USA and Canada) are invited to attend and participate in this relatively unstructured and informal event. Whether you are interested in 9/11 Truth, the SPP and National Sovereignty issues, the Illegal Wars, Canada's Bill C-51 and other health related issues such as Vaccines and Flouride, the Fake Money System, Blackbox Voting and Voting Reform, the NWO, First Nations issues, or are supporters of the Canadian Action Party, Ron Paul, Kucinich or McKinney (political parties or candidates that do not get coverage), you are invited to join with us for a fun, social event liberally sprinkled with Civil Informationing (ie. friendly, educational conversations with the general public), music, and possibly a speaker or two.

This is NOT a protest nor a demonstration in the usual sense, but rather an "opportunity" to meet like-minded people, find commonality, share information, ideas and materials with each other, as well as with the general public in the parks, on the beach or as they wait in their cars to cross the border ...civilly, respectfully and as positively as possible. The aim is to inform and share knowledge, NOT to confront or disrupt anyone. We want to BE the MEDIA and BE the CHANGE that we want to see.

Wear your Truth T-Shirts (black is OK but it would be good to see some other colors too), bring your flyers, books, DVDs and a sign or banner to highlight your issues of interest. Be creative and informative, and try to spark public interest and curiosity.

As we celebrate both Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day, it is our patriotic duty to exercise the rights and freedoms that others fought and died for, and our civic duty to help inform others about that which the media refuses to cover, or which it distorts.

This should be considered as a "family friendly" event (children, parents and grand parents) and we strongly encourage people of all ages, backgrounds etc to come together this day, peacefully and civilly, for our own individual sake, and for that of our respective countries.

About the Peace Arch:
Peace Arch State Park (WA) is a 20-acre day-use park commemorating treaties and agreements that arose from the war of 1812. The park celebrates the unguarded United States/Canadian border that stretches from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. The park features horticultural exhibitions and the giant, commemorative, concrete arch that straddles the border of the two nations. The countries co-maintain the monument.

More Peace Arch Info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Arch
http://www.peacearchpark.org/tourist.htm
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/peace_arch/ (BC)
http://www.parks.wa.gov/parkpage.asp?selectedpark=Peace%20Arch (WA)

Full Details Here:
http://www.fv911truth.org/convergence2008.html

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New Video - Emergency Official Witnessed Dead Bodies In WTC 7 Before Collapse of Towers

citizen_wayne — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:18:18 GMT

Paul J. Watson,
Prison Planet,
Mon, June 23, 2008 -

Exclusive video of emergency official Barry Jennings discussing explosions inside WTC 7 before either of the twin towers had collapsed and having to step over dead bodies of victims as he attempted to vacate the building has been released for the first time.

The clip, which was originally intended to feature in Loose Change Final Cut but had to be withdrawn according to Jennings' wishes after he had received threats, has now been made public in anticipation of a BBC documentary about Building 7 which is expected to skew Jennings' account in an attempt to reinforce the official story.

In reality, what Jennings witnessed completely contradicts the official story of what happened to Building 7.

On the morning of 9/11 in his capacity as Deputy Director, Emergency Services Department, New York City Housing Authority, Jennings and Michael Hess, who is a founding Partner and Senior Managing Director of Giuliani Partners LLC, visited the Office of Emergency Management inside Building 7 only to find it had been abandoned...

Article continues...
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2008/062308_dead_bodies.htm

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRaKHq2dfCI

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Japanese Lawmaker Yukihisa Fujita takes 9/11 doubts global

citizen_wayne — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 23:38:53 GMT

By JOHN SPIRI
Special to The Japan Times

20/06/08 "Japan Times" -- -- In a September 2003 article for The Guardian newspaper, Michael Meacher, who served as Tony Blair's environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003, shocked the establishment by calling the global war on terrorism "bogus." Even more controversially, he implied that the U.S. government either allowed 9/11 to happen, or played some role in the destruction wrought that day. Besides Meacher, few politicians have publicly questioned America's official 9/11 narrative — until Diet member Yukihisa Fujita.

In January 2008 Fujita, a member of the Democratic Party of Japan, asked the Japanese Parliament and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda to explain gaping holes in the official 9/11 story that various groups — including those who call themselves the "911 Truth Movement" — claim to have exposed.

Fujita, along with a growing number of individuals — including European and American politicians — are leading a charge to conduct a thorough, independent investigation of what happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

"Three or four years ago I saw some Internet videos like 'Loose Change' and '911 In Plane Site' and I began to ask questions," Fujita said in an interview, "but I still couldn't believe this was done by anyone but al-Qaida.

"Last year I watched more videos and read books written by professor David Ray Griffin (a professor emeritus of philosophy of religion and theology at Claremont Graduate University who wrote the most famous Truth Movement book, 'The New Pearl Harbor') about things such as the collapse of World Trade Center No. 7. This building, which was never hit by an airplane, collapsed straight down. Between the videos showing the way it fell, and the numerous reports of explosions, many are convinced that this building was demolished."

Fujita's presentation to the Diet and Fukuda focused a great deal on yet another aspect of 9/11 that now quite a few around the world find extremely suspicious: the Pentagon crash.

"I don't think (a) 767 could have hit the Pentagon," Fujita reckons. "There is no evidence of the plane itself. Almost nothing identifiable was left on the lawn or inside. The official story says the entire plane disintegrated, but the jet engines in particular were very strong (two 6-ton titanium steel turbine engines). And the damage to the building is much smaller than the size of the supposed airplane. The official claims just don't fit the facts."

While some label that claim "wacky" and label critics of the official 9/11 story "conspiracy theorists," Fujita has impressive company. For one, former Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, who was commanding general of U.S. Army Intelligence and Security until 1984, is quoted on the "Patriots Question 911" Web site as saying, "I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. And I said, 'The plane does not fit in that hole.'

"So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What's going on?"

Fujita urges the Bush administration to put the issue to rest simply by showing videos that show the plane that hit the Pentagon. Instead, only a few grainy images have been released to the public. More disconcertingly, many videos taken by surrounding businesses were confiscated by the FBI immediately after the Pentagon explosion.

The Pennsylvania crash, like the Pentagon explosion, also yielded virtually no recognizable plane parts at the crash site. Rather, small pieces of debris were found up to 10 km away. The official story — that the plane "vaporized" when it hit the ground — is inconsistent with the evidence left by every other plane crash in the history of aviation.

Plane crashes always yield plane fragments, Fujita explained, which can be identified by the plane's serial number, but that's not the case for the four planes which crashed on 9/11. Strangely, the U.S. government managed to produce passports and DNA samples of individuals killed, but no identifiable plane parts. In an online article entitled "Physics 911," 34-year U.S. Air Force veteran Col. George Nelson notes, "It seems . . . that all potential evidence was deliberately kept hidden from public view."

Fujita has largely relied on the voluminous amount of video and written material published in books and on the Internet, including the "Patriots Question 911" site, on which hundreds of allegations are leveled against the official story by senior officials from the military, intelligence services, law enforcement, and government, as well as pilots, engineers, architects, firefighters and others.

While not many other Japanese have taken an interest in this story, a few notable individuals besides Fujita have disputed the U.S. government's version, including Akira Dojimaru, a Japanese writer living in Spain. In his book, written in Japanese, "The Anatomy of the WTC Collapses: Flaws in the U.S. Government's Account," he uses photos, drawings and blueprints of the WTC buildings to back up his claim that buildings one and two could not have fallen in the manner they fell due to the plane crashes and subsequent fires. "And even if it was conceivable that they could fall due to the damage that day," Dojimaru wrote in an e-mail, "they never would have collapsed horizontally, and would have scattered steel beams and smashed concrete much farther than 100 meters."

For Fujita, it was Dojimaru's meticulous research, combined with the aforementioned Web sites, that convinced him the official story was nothing more than a house of cards.

One book that Fujita found unconvincing was the "9/11 Commission Report."

"The head of the 9/11 Commission is close with (U.S. Secretary of State) Condoleezza Rice and (Vice President Dick) Cheney. One commission member (Sen. Max Cleland) resigned, saying the White House did not disclose enough information."

On Democracy Now's radio show in March 2004, Cleland even went as far as to say, "This White House wants to cover it (the facts of 9/11) up."

More recently, a New York Times article in January quoted Thomas Kean, the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, as saying that "the CIA destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives," and concluded that that "obstructed our investigation."

Following the lead of Fujita, Karen Johnson, a conservative Republican senator from Arizona, has publicly voiced her doubts about 9/11 before the U.S. Senate. Inspired by Blair Gadsby — who on May 27 started a hunger strike to bring attention to the 911 Truth Movement — Johnson, like Fujita, is encouraging politicians to conduct a thorough, independent investigation.

Fujita, who worked for more than 20 years for the international conflict resolution NGO group MRA and the Japanese Association for Aid and Relief (AAR), has become something of a global cause celebre since his extraordinary questioning at the Diet. In February 2008, he participated in a conference at the European Parliament led by EMP Guilietto Chiesa calling for an independent commission of inquiry into 9/11. While in Europe, he met with NGOs from 11 European countries to discuss 9/11.

One month later Fujita spoke at the "Truth Now" conference in Sydney, Australia. One focus of these meetings was the Italian documentary "ZERO," whose release will mark the first time the 9/11 movement's message has moved from the "cyberworld" to public venues. Fujita has also spoken about his 9/11 doubts on two U.S. radio shows, one hosted by Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, and another by Alex Jones of infowars.com.

He is also making ripples in Japan. Fujita was featured in a March 2 article by well-known critic Takao Iwami on "How to deal with doubts about 9/11" in the Sunday Mainichi weekly. He was also featured in a March 26 Spa! magazine piece headlined, "European conference discusses 9/11 doubts."

However, not everyone is enthralled with Fujita's bold line of questioning.

"One person showed strong anger towards me," Fujita noted, "and another (Japanese person) threatened my life. A few others advised me to be extremely careful."

Still, Fujita says, the vast majority — around 95 percent — have been positive.

"One man said, 'You're a true samurai.' Another man came all the way from Okayama in western Japan to thank me personally. And among other Parliament members, I received only words of encouragement and support."

While in Europe, Fujita met British former MP Meacher, who dared to question the official story when it was still considered gospel. Time, the Iraq war and well-sourced online videos are emboldening many people, including politicians, to step out of the cyberworld and voice their doubts in newspapers, magazines, theaters, and — most importantly — government chambers.

"Now Blair is gone, and Bush will soon be gone," Meacher told Fujita. "Our time is coming."

SOURCE: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20137.htm

See Also

9/11 Special - Dutch Television Documentary http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11222.htm

This war on terrorism is bogus http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4630.htm

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9/11 Civil Information featured on 'Unbought and Unbossed' Show - June 4th

citizen_wayne — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:31:45 GMT

The "Unbought and Unbossed" Show on CHLY 101.7 FM in Nanaimo, BC with host Raymond Geisler - Show #72 - Wed. June 4th, 2008.

This week's episide of Unbought and Unbossed featured an interview with Doug Brinkman of Edmonton 9/11 Truth and Wayne Prante of Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley 9/11 Truth, both of whom traveled to Nanaimo, B.C. (on Vancouver Island) to be Raymond's in-studio guests. Chris Stewart of Nanaimo 9/11 Truth also joined the show in the second hour.

The focus was on the 9/11 Truth Movement in Canada, Civil Information Activism and the importance of "being the media". Other topics included the March on Ottawa and the Petition for a 9/11 Investigation in Canada (which will be delivered to the House of Parliament) on September 11th, 2008, the War in Afghanistan, and the use of Depleted Uranium Weapons. A few calls from listeners were also taken.

Archive page with streams and downloadable files below:

http://www.archive.org/details/UnboughtAndUnbossed72June42008

Length: 1 hour and 51 Minutes (with breaks and announcements edited out)

Audio Tracks Played During the Show:

-Dick Cheney ex-director of CFR talks to David Rockefeller
-Former Air Force and professional pilot Russ Wittenburg doubts official 911 story
-Susan McIlwain Witness to smaller plane in Shanksville
-Anti-War Speech by Floyd, an active duty US military
-Gulf War Syndrome by CBC June 1998

Songs Played:

Actions Speak Louder by Bruce Cockburn
Dirge by Bob Dylan
Running Dry by Neil Young
Bloodletting by Anon Tobin
Red Brother Red Sister by Bruce Cockburn
The Blues Got The World... by Bruce Cockburn
When The President Talks To God byBright Eyes
Relevant Links:

Radio Station CHLY-FM, Nanaimo, BC www.CHLY.ca
Unbought and Unbossed Show: www.unbossed.livejournal.com
Edmonton 9/11 Truth www.Edmonton911truth.com
Nanaimo 9/11 Truth http://tribes.tribe.net/nanaimo911truth
Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley 9/11 Truth www.FV911Truth.org
9/11 Civil Information Blog www.911civilinfo.blogspot.com

Show Description:

Unbought and Unbossed is an independent voice dedicated to presenting and discussing issues of great social and political importance. In our present post-9/11 Canada it is more vital than ever to critically examine our collective understanding of contemporary politics and the direction our elected servants are taking us. We strongly encourage listeners to question what you think you know about todays world events, and to analyse the motives behind where we get our information from.

Our every freedom is at stake in this battle for truth and accountability, the prize is nothing less than the health of our collective human soul.

Listen LIVE each Wednesday from 8 to 10 pm PST on CHLY-FM 101.7 FM in Nanaimo, the Gulf Islands and Sunshine Coast, or worldwide via free streaming audio, or free archives, posted at: www.unbossed.livejournal.com

http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/2008/06/civil-information-on-unbought-and.html

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Donald Rumsfeld on 9/11: An enemy within, By Matthew Everett

citizen_wayne — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:57:13 GMT

Online Journal
May 30, 2007 -

What was Rumsfeld doing on 9/11? He deserted his post. He disappeared. The country was under attack. Where was the guy who controls America’s defense? Out of touch! --A senior White House official

On September 11, 2001, the United States suffered its worst attack since Pearl Harbor. Yet, as evidence shows, the country was in many ways undefended for the entire duration of the assault. The Air Force was nowhere to be seen until it was too late. [1] The commander in chief of the armed forces, President George W. Bush, continued with a pre-planned photo op at a school in Florida, only leaving the place at 9:35, just before the time the Pentagon was struck. [2] The acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers was on Capitol Hill. Despite seeing the television reports of the World Trade Center after it was first hit, he continued with a scheduled meeting there, and supposedly was not notified when the second plane hit at 9:03. He therefore did not head back to the Pentagon until around the time it too was hit, and only joined the critical air threat conference call shortly before 10 a.m. By that time, the attacks were nearly over. [3]

Furthermore, new evidence shows that for the critical two hours in which the attacks occurred, the country was effectively without a secretary of defense. An analysis of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld’s actions on 9/11 reveals several occasions when he was alerted to the attacks that were taking place. Each time, if he were not already doing so, he should have leapt into action and assumed his responsibilities in coordinating a crisis response, and helping to protect the people of America. Yet, instead, his responses were consistent: He did nothing.

Donald Rumsfeld on 9/11

Donald Rumsfeld started the morning of 9/11 with an 8 o’clock breakfast meeting with several members of Congress, held in his private dining room at the Pentagon, to discuss the subject of missile defense. During this meeting, according to his own recollection, Rumsfeld warned that “sometime in the next two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve months there would be an event that would occur in the world that would be sufficiently shocking that it would remind people again how important it is to have a strong healthy defense department that contributes to -- that underpins peace and stability in our world.” He was subsequently informed of the first attack in New York promptly after it happened. He says: “[S]omeone walked in and handed [me] a note that said that a plane had just hit the World Trade Center.” [4]

Larry Di Rita, a special assistant to Rumsfeld, had sent this note. Although initial news reports had been unclear, with some of them suggesting the WTC might have been hit by just a small plane, according to Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Torie Clarke: “Even in the accidental crash scenario, the military might be involved in some way. Rumsfeld needed to know.” Yet after receiving Di Rita’s note, rather than initiating or joining any emergency response process, Rumsfeld continued as if this were just an ordinary day. As he later recounted: “[W]e adjourned the meeting, and I went in to get my CIA briefing.” [5]

Inside her office in the Pentagon, Torie Clarke saw the second plane hitting the World Trade Center live on television. It was now obvious that the U.S. was under attack. As she later described: “[I]mmediately, the crisis management process started up.” Along with Larry Di Rita, she headed to Rumsfeld’s office. When they arrived there, Di Rita told the defense secretary: “Sir, I think your entire schedule is going to be different today.” By this time, the Pentagon’s Executive Support Center (ESC) was going into operation. Located down the hallway from Rumsfeld’s office, the ESC comprises several conference rooms that are secure against electronic eavesdropping. It is, according to Clarke, “the place where the building’s top leadership goes to coordinate military operations during national emergencies.” One would therefore have expected Rumsfeld to have gone straight there, or to the National Military Command Center (NMCC), located next door to it. Yet, as before, he continued as if this were an ordinary day. He told Clarke and Di Rita to go to the ESC and wait for him. “In the meantime, he would get his daily intelligence briefing, which was already scheduled for nine thirty.” Rumsfeld “wanted to make a few phone calls,” so he “stayed in his office.” [6]

What Donald Rumsfeld did in the next half-hour is unclear. Even in his prepared testimony to the 9/11 Commission, he said nothing about his actions during this crucial period leading up to the attack on the Pentagon. [7] But important new details of his response to the Pentagon strike itself have been revealed in the account of Aubrey Davis, an officer with the Pentagon police, who was assigned to be Rumsfeld’s personal bodyguard the morning of 9/11. This account appears in Andrew Cockburn’s recent biography, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy.

From watching televised reports of events in New York, Davis had concluded that America was under attack and the Pentagon could be a target. Of his own initiative, he’d made his way to move the secretary of defense to a better-protected location. Just after 9:37 a.m., while Rumsfeld was in his office with his CIA briefer, Davis was standing outside his door. Then, he says, he heard “an incredibly loud ‘boom,’” as the Pentagon was struck.

Cockburn describes: “Fifteen or twenty seconds later, just as [Davis’s] radio crackled with a message, the door opened and Rumsfeld walked out, looking composed and wearing the jacket he normally discarded while in his office.” Cockburn told an interviewer: “I couldn’t discover what he was wearing inside his office that morning -- but normally he would take off his suit jacket and put on a sort of like a vest, because he found it chilly in the office. So . . . I think he had time to change his clothes, put on his going-outside jacket, come out.” How could Rumsfeld have changed his clothes in the space of just 15 to 20 seconds? If he was already dressed to go outside when the Pentagon was hit, was this just a fortunate coincidence? Or is it possible that he knew in advance that the Pentagon was going to be attacked, and therefore had put on his jacket ready to respond when this happened?

As the defense secretary appeared, Davis repeated to him what he’d just heard on his radio: Reportedly, an airplane had hit a section of the Pentagon known as the Mall. Rumsfeld set off without a word and without informing any of his command staff where he was going, heading swiftly towards the Mall, with Davis and some colleagues trying to keep up behind him. Finding no sign of damage there, Davis told the secretary: “[N]ow we’re hearing it’s by the heliport,” which was the next side of the building.

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2026.shtml

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Corrs guitarist Jim Corr: 9/11 was an inside job, says "overwhelming evidence" exists

citizen_wayne — Fri, 30 May 2008 09:07:35 GMT

belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Friday, May 30, 2008

Corrs guitarist Jim Corr has claimed that there was overwhelming evidence that the 9/11 attacks in America were carried out by "rogue elements" of US President George Bush's "neo-con administration".

In a rare intervention into the political arena, the male singer with The Corrs band also came out against the Lisbon Treaty claiming that it is " tip-toe totalitarianism in the West".

In an interview with Matt Cooper on Ireland's Today FM's 'Last Word', Corr made the case for voting 'No' to Lisbon, claiming it could introduce the death penalty to Ireland and contribute to a "new world order".

Corr's opposition is based on his three years "studying the New World Order which the European Union is a part of".

He said "the EU is a stepping stone towards a world government, they will merge it with the Asia Pacific Union, the African Union and the North American Union". The Lisbon Treaty itself will introduce "a scientific technocracy" to Europe which will erode national sovereignty.

Corr claimed that The Charter of Fundamental Rights allows for the introduction of the death penalty.

"It makes provision for the introduction to law for the death penalty in times of war or imminent threat of war.

"What we are seeing is tip-toe totalitarianism in the West with 9/11 the key to understanding this.

"When you study 9/11 it becomes very apparent... it was a staged terrorist attack, what they call a false flag operation."

Corr said overwhelming evidence suggests 9/11 "was carried out by rogue elements in the Bush neo-con administration".

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article3750417.ece

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What links did Mohammed Atta have to Cheney & the Pentagon?

citizen_wayne — Sat, 24 May 2008 07:27:26 GMT

by Richard Clark
www.opednews.com -

On August 27, 2005, an article, sub-titled, ''9/11 Ringleader Connected to Secret Pentagon Operation,'' by Dr. Daniele Ganser of the Zurich Polytechnic Institute, was published by the International Relations and Security Network (ISN). It identifies the role of 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and three other hijackers in a secret Pentagon operation – an operation that largely refutes the official U.S. government narrative as presented by the 9/11 Commission.

As well, the Australian Department of Defense's highly sophisticated research system shows that numerous meetings took place between Atta and Zacarais Moussaoui, the would-be 20th 9-11 hijacker.

In addition to revealing that Atta was connected to a top-secret operation of the Pentagon's Special Operations Command (SOCOM), Dr. Ganser joins many other investigators in claiming that a top-secret Pentagon project code-named ''Able Danger'' identified Atta as a member of an al-Qaeda cell more than a year before the 9/11 attacks.

So what was the role (or link) that Atta had vis-à-vis the top-secret operation of the Pentagon's Special Operations Command (SOCOM)? Did anyone in the Pentagon or higher (such as Dick Cheney) know in advance what Atta was planning? Was Atta working for (or with) someone in the Bush administration? Who was really in charge of how things went down – or were allowed to go down -- on 9/11?

Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Shaffer, a 42-year-old native of Kansas City who worked for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Washington at the time of the 9/11 attacks, and had insights into the Pentagon's top secret operation, urged the FBI to arrest Atta -- but the Pentagon's lawyers intervened and ''protected Atta for reasons that remain unclear.'' What were those reasons?

Note how similar this protection of Atta is to how Moussaoui has been ''protected.'' When he was arrested, why was the FBI so reluctant to inspect Moussaoui's laptop computer? Why were both men in some ways protected? And on whose orders?

"Moussaoui's computer and apartment were not searched until after 9/11."

SEE http://judiciary.senate.gov/member_statement.cfm?id=1858&wit_id=1011

Perhaps quite significantly, the 9/11 Commission Report fails to even mention Operation Able Danger or any other U.S.-based SOCOM operations.

Also quite significantly, U.S. senators from both parties accused the U.S. Defense Department of obstructing an investigation into ''Able Danger'' and the associated claims that its documents and personnel could have identified Mohammed Atta and other hijackers well before 9/11! The Pentagon blocked several witnesses from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Even Republican Senator Arlen Spector regarded the Able Danger assertions as credible. Democrat Joseph Biden took it further, accusing the Pentagon of a cover-up.

SEE http://www.physics911.net/pdf/jacobs.pdf.

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A longtime Army intelligence officer went public with his allegations about a cover-up in the 9/11 investigation, giving an on-the-record interview Monday night to the New York Times and Fox News, and then further interviews Tuesday to other news outlets.

Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, 42, confirmed that he had been a source for previous reports in the Times and the Norristown Times-Herald, a Philadelphia-area newspaper, about a secret data-mining operation known as Able Danger, which he said had identified Mohammed Atta and three other 9/11 suicide hijackers in 2000, more than a year before the terrorist attacks.

Shaffer said that his unit had contacted the FBI repeatedly during 2000 to warn that a US-based terrorist cell was at work, but three times was forced to cancel meetings to brief the FBI at the instruction of the Strategic Operations Command (SOCOM), the Pentagon unit in charge of all counter-terrorism work.

He charged that the information withheld might have made it possible to arrest Atta and other terrorists before they could carry out their plans. "I was at the point of near insubordination over the fact that this was something important, that this was something that should have been pursued," Shaffer told the Times. He said the Pentagon officials did not want the information circulated because it would reveal the existence of the secret military intelligence project and lead to criticism that the military was collecting information on the American people.

By his account, Shaffer was not directly involved in data collection or analysis, but served as liaison between Able Danger and the Defense Intelligence Agency, the largest unit of the vast US intelligence apparatus. Defense Department officials did not dispute his version of events, but declined any further comment.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_richard__080522_what_links_did__moha.htm

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Neo-Con General Calls For Terror Attacks In Iran / Iran Intercepts U.S. Terrorists Plotting Attack on Russian Consulate

citizen_wayne — Tue, 20 May 2008 05:04:09 GMT

Kurt Nimmo,
Infowars,
May 16, 2008 -

As if to underscore neocon retired general Thomas McInerney's call for terror attacks against Iran (see Paul Joseph Watson, Neo-Con General Calls For Terror Attacks In Iran - below) , the Russian news and information agency RIA Novosti reports "Iran has arrested a terrorist group that planned to blow up the Russian consulate building in the town of Rasht near the Caspian Sea, the Iranian intelligence and security minister said on Wednesday."

It appears the neocons are attempting to drag Russia into the coming conflagration, particularly because Russia has cooperated with Iran, specifically in regard to Iran's light water reactor at Bushehr. In late 2005, Russia proposed an arrangement under which Iran would end its uranium enrichment activities in return for a Russian guarantee to enrich, in Russia, all uranium needed for Iranian nuclear power plants, an arrangement permitted under the NPT. It appears the neocons and their terrorist proxies are now targeting Russia for its perceived impertinence.

As award-winning journalist Seymour Hersh reported back in 2004, U.S. intelligence and Israel's Mossad are busy at work stirring up trouble in Iran in preparation for an attack on that country. In early 2005, the Guardian reported that "American special forces have been on the ground inside Iran scouting for US air strike targets for suspected nuclear weapons sites, according to the renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh."

Obviously, as the foiled attack on the Russian consulate demonstrates, this operation has expanded from simply targeting nuclear facilities — again, entirely legal under the term of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty — and now includes directing terrorist groups against civilian and government targets.

Earlier in the week, Iran's intelligence minister said "those behind a bomb blast in a mosque that killed 14 people last month also planned to target a Russian consulate in the Islamic state," according to Reuters. "President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States, Israel and Britain on Tuesday of being responsible for the blast in the southern city of Shiraz that also wounded 200 people." Intelligence minister Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said his "ministry last week said it had arrested five or six members of a terrorist group with links to Britain and the United States, who it said were involved in the explosion" at the mosque.

McInerney's comments on Fox News were intended to dovetail with this increasing "covert" U.S. and Israeli sponsored violence in Iran. It appears the targeting of a Russian consulate is designed to ratchet up the tension. In the future, if MEK or "al-Qaeda" terrorist groups successfully kill Russians, this may very well start a Third World War, or as the neocons fondly call it, World War Four.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=2187

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Neo-Con General Calls For Terror Attacks In Iran

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Friday, May 16, 2008

Fresh off the revelation of Donald Rumsfeld's 2006 audio tape admission that a method to reinvigorate the Neo-Con agenda would be another terror attack, Neo-Cons like Ret. Gen. Thomas McInerney, who was part of the Pentagon's "message force multipliers" propaganda program, have been calling for the Bush administration to commit acts of terror in Iran.

According to the Crooks and Liars blog, McInerney has appeared on Fox News 144 times since Jan 2002. In one of his recent appearances he publicly called for the U.S. government to support groups like MEK, which is listed by the State Department as a terrorist organization, and carry out deadly bombings in Iran.

McInerney: Here's what I would suggest to you. Number one, we take the National Council for Resistance to Iran off the terrorist list that the Clinton Administration put them on as well as the Mujahedin-e Khalq at the Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Then I would start a tit-for-tat strategy which I wrote up in the Wall Street Journal a year ago: For every EFP that goes off and kills Americans, two go off in Iran. No questions asked. People don't have to know how it was done. It's a covert action. They become the most unlucky country in the world. …

McInerney's frothing desire to see women and children blown to bits in the streets of Tehran may have something to do with the fact that "McInerney is on the Board of Directors for several companies with defense-related contracts that would seem to benefit from his pro-war propaganda. For example, Alloy Surfaces Company (ASC), whose contracts for "ammunition and explosives" with the Department of Defense appear to have grown from $15 million in 2002 to more than $169 million in 2006. A conflict of interest, perhaps?"

McInerney "tit-for-tat" strategy, to support MEK-run terror bombings in Iran in retaliation for Iran supposedly killing U.S. troops in Iraq, a baseless claim in itself, is all the more horribly ironic when one considers the fact that MEK "has killed US troops and civilians before back in the 1970s".

As Crooks and Liars points out, the U.S. government is already funding MEK and the group has been linked with numerous bombings inside Iran over the course of the last few years.

In addition - British SAS have been caught training insurgents in Iraq to carry out hi-tech bombings that are later blamed on Iran.

Another Iranian-based terror group that the Bush administration is already funding as a means of regime change in Iran is Jundullah - a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed by the alleged mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

"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," the London Telegraph reported last year.

The group has been blamed for a number of bombings inside Iran aimed at destabilizing Ahmadinejad's government and is also active in Pakistan, having been fingered for its involvement in attacks on police stations and car bombings at the Pakistan-US Cultural Center in 2004.

Crooks and Liars documents White House efforts to censor reports about MEK and other Iranian terror groups in the U.S. corporate media.

In Dec 2006, just days after Rumsfeld was forced to step down, the NYT published a heavily redacted op-ed by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann. Though none of the info was classified, all of which had previously "been extensively reported in the news media," much of their article was blacked out because the "White House intervened" before it went to print. In response, Leverett and Mann followed up with an accompanying piece "What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran" where they provided citations to previously reported sources for all of the redacted info. Raw Story compiled those sources in their "The redacted Iran op-ed revealed" and, surprise, many of the articles refer directly to the MEK terrorist group, but there had been nary a mention in the portions the White House allowed.

So, to recap: One of the Pentagon's propaganda TV analysts who has clear ties to defense industries that would likely stand to benefit from any increased hostilities is advocating that the US ought to use a terrorist organization to commit acts of terrorism against Iran in response to alleged Iranian involvement in attacks against US forces in Iraq, which might be true, or maybe not. And if that wasn't outrageous enough, it seems that Bush may have been authorizing such tactics already.

http://www.infowars.com/?p=2186

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Congressman questions DOD presence on Capitol Hill as war funding debated

citizen_wayne — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:53:26 GMT

By ERICA WERNER,
AP, Fri May 16, 2008 -

WASHINGTON - An anti-war Democratic congressman is demanding to know why there were uniformed Defense Department personnel watching House proceedings from a public gallery Thursday, who they were and what they were doing.

"If they were here on official duty, this was an abhorrent misallocation of our military resources at a time of war," Northern California Rep. Pete Stark asserted Friday in a letter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

Stark, an 18-term incumbent known for his liberal positions and outbursts of temper, said he observed the contingent of 20 or so officers, apparently Army generals, in the gallery for a couple of hours while the House debated and voted on an Iraq war spending bill.

"At a time when our nation is at war, our troops are overextended, and the administration is literally asking for emergency military spending, what good to the 'war on terror' is having U.S. generals and other top-ranked officers — who were likely accompanied by staff and escorted by their chauffeurs — spending hours sitting in the gallery of the House of Representatives?" Stark asked.

The query drew a stinging response from a Pentagon spokesman.

"It seems that Rep. Stark issued his press release before sending his letter to Secretary Gates because we have yet to receive it, but without knowing the particulars of the incident he is inquiring about I can tell you that there is nothing unusual about military officers visiting and/or observing the workings of Congress," said spokesman Geoff Morrell.

"Secretary Gates has actively encouraged the military to recognize the important role Congress plays in defense and national security," Morrell said. "For that very reason, visits to the Hill and interaction with members and staff is a routine part of many professional military education programs."

Stark said he didn't have a problem if the military personnel were there on their own time, but if they were there on official duty he wanted to know why. He asked Gates for an accounting by Monday of the name, rank, branch and duties of each of the officers as well as how many staff members and drivers were involved.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080516/ap_on_go_co/congressman_pentagon_1

Hmmm. Perhaps they were trying to figure out this thing called "democracy" that they are supposed to be exporting around the world and how best to attach it to bombs and war heads ??

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Rumsfeld On Tape: Terror Attack Could Restore Neo-Con Agenda

citizen_wayne — Tue, 20 May 2008 04:28:18 GMT

Former Defense Secretary's conversation with military analysts on political problems - "The Correction For That...Is An Attack" -

Paul Watson,
Prison Planet,
Fri, May 16, 2008 -

Shocking excerpts of confidential recordings recently released under the Freedom of Information Act feature former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talking with top military analysts about how a flagging Neo-Con political agenda could be successfully restored with the aid of another terrorist attack on America.

The tape also includes a conversation where Rumsfeld and the military analysts agree on the possible necessity of installing a brutal dictator in Iraq to oversee U.S. interests.

The tapes were released as part of the investigation into the Pentagon's "message force multipliers" program in which top military analysts were hired to propagandize for the Iraq war in the corporate media.

In attendance at the valedictory luncheon Rumsfeld hosted on December 12, 2006 were David L. Grange, Donald W. Sheppard, James Marks, Rick Francona, Wayne Downing, and Robert H. Scales, Jr. among others.

The most extraordinary exchange takes place when Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong bemoans shrinking political support for Neo-Con war plans on Capitol Hill and suggests that sympathy for the Bush administration's agenda will only be achieved after a new terror attack.

Rumsfeld agrees that the psychological impact of 9/11 is wearing off and the "behavior pattern" of citizens in both the U.S. and Europe suggests that they are unconcerned about the threat of terror.

DELONG: Politically, what are the challenges because you're not going to have a lot of sympathetic ears up there until it [a terror attack] happens.

RUMSFELD: That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack. And when that happens, then everyone gets energized for another [inaudible] and it's a shame we don't have the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats...the lethality, the carnage, that can be imposed on our society is so real and so present and so serious that you'd think we'd be able to understand it, but as a society, the longer you get away from 9/11, the less...the less...

Click here for the audio clip. http://prisonplanet.com/audio/160508clip1.mp3

In another exchange, after assuring that comments are "off the record," Rumsfeld and one of the military analysts agree that Iraq could use a "Syngman Rhee" to take control of Iraq. Syngman Rhee was the ruthless authoritarian dictator of South Korea from after World War II through the Korean War to 1960. If the invasion of Iraq was about liberating the Iraqis from a tyrant in the form of Saddam Hussein why is Rumsfeld talking about installing an even more brutal dictator?

Click here for the audio clip. Newsvine has the recording in full. http://prisonplanet.com/audio/160508clip2.mp3

Rumsfeld's admission that the correction for dwindling support of the Neo-Con imperial crusade is another terror attack is perhaps the most startling and blatant indication that 9/11 was an inside job.

How much more evidence do we need to confirm that the Neo-Con hierarchy in control of the U.S. government are instigating and exploiting terror in the pursuit of their own domestic and geopolitical agenda?

As Jerry Mazza writes today, "In the seven years since the day, exhaustive and still growing evidence proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the US government, spearheaded by the Bush administration, planned, orchestrated and executed the 9/11 false flag operation. As openly advocated by wide swaths of elites, from the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), of which Rumsfeld has been a member, to the likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski (in his The Grand Chessboard), only an attack “on the order of Pearl Harbor” would, in Brzezinski’s words, cause the American people to support an “imperial mobilization,” and a world war."

Placing the new evidence against previously revealed 9/11-related acts on the part of Rumsfeld, his guilt is overt and obvious. Recall that it was Rumsfeld who enthusiastically penned the "Go Massive" memo, gleefully declaring the Bush administration finally had the green light to kill: “Not only UBL (Usama bin Laden). Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.”

The longing for a new terror attack to corral the masses back behind the Neo-Con agenda is a shared fetish amongst Neo-Cons, policy wonks and academics alike.

In August last year Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky openly called for "another 9/11" that "would help America" restore a "community of outrage and national resolve".

Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, told the Toronto Star last July that "The key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years ago."

The same sentiment was also explicitly expressed in a 2005 GOP memo, which yearned for new attacks that would "validate" the President's war on terror and "restore his image as a leader of the American people."

Also in July 2007, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum suggested that a series of "unfortunate events," namely terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American citizen's perception of the war.

And the month before that, the new chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party Dennis Milligan said that there needed to be more attacks on American soil for President Bush to regain popular approval.

Comments posted on the left-wing Huffington Post website in response to the Rumsfeld tape indicate that even some of the most hardcore conspiracy debunkers have had their beliefs shaken to the core by the former Defense Secretary's admission.

"I have been a very staunch opponent of conspiracy theories," writes one, "but to hear the man most responsible for stopping foreign threats to American lives musing that a successful attack on the USA is somehow a "cure" for us... it almost makes me want to make a tinfoil hat with the nuts I made fun of."

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2008/051608_rumsfeld_tape.htm

(original contains many embedded links)

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Now Admitted - No hard evidence against Iran !!

citizen_wayne — Tue, 13 May 2008 05:10:51 GMT

Quiet US Confession: Weapons Were Not Made In Iran After All -

12/05/08 "ICH" -- - In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all.

According to a report by the LA Times correspondent Tina Susman in Baghdad: "A plan to show some alleged Iranian-supplied explosives to journalists last week in Karbala and then destroy them was cancelled after the United States realized none of them was from Iran. A U.S. military spokesman attributed the confusion to a misunderstanding that emerged after an Iraqi Army general in Karbala erroneously reported the items were of Iranian origin. When U.S. explosives experts went to investigate, they discovered they were not Iranian after all."

The US, which until two weeks ago had never provided any proof for its allegations, finally handed over its "evidence" of the Iranian origin of these weapons to the Iraqi government. Last week, an Iraqi delegation to Iran presented the US "evidence" to Iranian officials. According to Al-Abadi, a parliament member from the ruling United Iraqi Alliance who was on the delegation, the Iranian officials totally refuted "training, financing and arming" militant groups in Iraq . Consequently the Iraqi government announced that there is no hard evidence against Iran.

In another extraordinary event this week, the US spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, for the first time did not blame Iran for the violence in Iraq and in fact did not make any reference to Iran at all in his introductory remarks to the world media on Wednesday when he described the large arsenal of weapons found by Iraqi forces in Karbala.

In contrast, the Pentagon in August 2007 admitted that it had lost track of a third of the weapons distributed to the Iraqi security forces in 2004/2005. The 190,000 assault rifles and pistols roam free in Iraqi streets today.

In the past year, the US leaders have been relentless in propagating their charges of Iranian meddling and fomenting violence in Iraq and since the release of the key judgments of the US National Intelligence Estimate in December that Iran does not have a nuclear weaponisation programme, these accusations have sharply intensified.

The US charges of Iranian interference in Iraq too have now collapsed. Any threat of military strike against Iran is in violation of the UN charter and the IAEA's continued supervision on Iran's uranium enrichment facilities means there is no justification for sanctions.

CASMII calls on the US to change course and enter into comprehensive and unconditional negotiations with Iran.

For more information or to contact CASMII please visit http://www.campaigniran.org

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So what now Neocons? Got another false flag op up your sleeve to shock and awe the people with? Or do you even give a shit what people think or believe anymore and will just go ahead and nuke them anyway??

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Civil Informationing vs. Last Century's "60's Style Protest Tactics"

citizen_wayne — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:09:43 GMT

By Robin Hordon,
May 9th, 2008,
The 9/11 Civil Information Blog -

The concept of "Civil Informationing" came to my mind when I was involved in planning and executing several typical anti-war protests against the upcoming and ensuing war in Iraq while living in Reno, NV in 2002, 2003 and 2004. What stood out to me THIS time around is that NOW we had the Internet...we were only doing the exact same "dated" things that were developed 40 years earlier (again!) And there was not very much integration between the "Internet and Information age", the people protesting in the streets, and the citizens observing our actions. What was frustrating was that although the VAST MAJORITY of feedback was against the war [interesting AYE?], citizens walked and drove past without becoming more informed about what was going on.

It was clear to me that activists' "public protest tactics" needed a change...a complete overhaul...because the "age old" models of protest activities were clearly not working in spite of the fact that we had some new tools at our disposal. In the years since, more and more excellent videos, DVDs, You Tubes, handouts and other "teaching tools" have been developed...mostly at the hand of many wonderful 9/11 Truth activists. YET, the confrontational "challenge authority street actions" have remained exactly the same as they were some 40 years ago.

READ COMPLETE ARTICLE

http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/2008/05/civil-informationing-vs-last-centurys_09.html

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State Says Hundreds Of 9/11 Rescue Workers Now Dead, Admits Undercount

citizen_wayne — Sat, 10 May 2008 10:56:57 GMT

First responders' representitive:"It's the tip of the iceberg"

Steve Watson.
Infowars.net.
Friday, May 9, 2008 -

New York State health officials have released statistics indicating that 360 9/11 rescue workers have since died, but have also admitted that there is an overall undercount.

The New York Daily News reports that of those deaths 154 have been explained and 80 have died of various forms of cancer, mostly impacting the lungs and digestive system while others were related to blood cancers and heart and circulatory diseases.

"It's the tip of the iceberg," said David Worby, who is representing 10,000 workers - 600 with cancer - who say they got sick after working on rescue and recovery efforts.

"These statistics bear out how toxic that site was," Worby said.

The Statistics were released by the World Trade Center Responder Fatality Investigation Program.

While insisting the state is "not making judgment" on whether all the deaths were related to the toxic air around ground zero, which was filled with asbestos, mercury, lead and other contaminants, official Kitty Gelberg did say that she believes there to be an overall undercount of rescuers and workers who have died since 9/11.

In spite of the state's refusal to be drawn on whether there has been an elevation in deaths due to 9/11, it was revealed back In 2006, almost five years on from the disaster, that there has been a startling increase in cases of a particular lung scarring disease, known as sarcoidosis, among firefighters, which rose to five times the expected rate in the two years after the attacks.

At the time the New York Times reported:

"The most worrisome to medical experts are granulomatous pulmonary diseases, which show a particular type of swirling marks left on the lungs by foreign matter like dust. Doctors say the severity of the disease is often dictated by a patient's genetic makeup. The diseases include pulmonary fibrosis and sarcoidosis, a sometimes fatal disorder that can be set off when exposure to dust causes the body's immune system to attack itself. "

Medical experts have stated that it still may be at least another decade before the full effects of the attacks are witnessed as diseases may take longer to develop in some people than others. It is estimated that around 40,000 people were involved in rescue work around the World Trade Center site and the Fresh Kills landfill where debris was taken immediately following the attacks.

The number effected may be significantly more than that however given that a recent study by Mount Sinai Medical Center revealed that out of 70,000 participants, 85 percent are suffering some kind of respiratory problem.

A previous study in 2006 by the medical center also found that of of 9,442 workers, 70% suffer breathing problems. This was also the figure gleened from a further study in 2007.

Though the center's figures have been criticized and questioned by some, they are the only real source to go on given that the city, state and federal governments did not engage in any form of research into or treatment of 9/11 related illnesses for some time after the attacks, and still have not set about a truly committed program to do so.

Dr. Robin Herbert, Co-director of the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring Program at Mount Sinai has indicated that there may be three "waves" of illnesses experienced by ground zero workers. The first wave refers to coughing and respiratory problems, the second wave includes severe chronic lung diseases and the third wave could be fatal cancers.

Dr. Michael Baden, chief forensic pathologist for the New York State Police and the former chief medical examiner of New York City, has reviewed several ground zero-related autopsies, and has commented "Three thousand people may have died, but 100,000 others may have been exposed".

We have extensively reported on the fact that the EPA knowingly gave misleading information to residents and workers regarding the air quality in the aftermath of the attacks and how a cover up, which leads to officials at the very top, has ensued.

The heroes of 9/11 have been shunned by a government that still refuses cover the costs of healthcare for the vast majority of the stricken because to do so would be an admission of culpability.

Last month it was reported that some of the heroes who have since succumbed to dust-related illnesses will be memorialized on the NYPD's "Wall of Heroes" for officers killed in the line of duty.

Sadly, more space will be needed on that wall in the months and years to come as the officials ultimately responsible for this continuing tragedy remain unpunished.

http://infowars.net/articles/may2008/090508Workers.htm

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How to Defeat the Matrix ? The Answer is 9/11 Civil Informationing

citizen_wayne — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:27:56 GMT

The 9/11 Civil Information Blog,
by Wayne Prante,
May 6th, 2008 -

There is a hell of a lot more of us then there are of THEM, but many of us are, to one degree or another under the spell of the Mass Media and the Sacred 9/11 Myth, as well as very busy running on the treadmill, like hamsters in a cage, trying to catch the imaginary "good life" that was sold to them.

Fortunately, many are already turning off the TVs and canceling newspaper subscriptions. Statistics bear this out. They are in decline. Many people know there is a problem but can't put their finger on it, while others are just too frightened to speak out or ask questions. That is why it is essential that we BE the media and be that friendly face in a crowd or on the street with something substantial to offer, that will help them make sense of things, and not add to problem with more fear, anger an hate.

They don't need more "shock and awe". They don't need a "slap upside the head", just to be shown that there is someone else out there who sees "the elephant in the room", who sees "the puppet strings" or, as in the movie They Live, there is "one who can see", who is standing up, speaking out and who is offering something different: Truth, Love and Hope - if they are just willing to take it.

The Matrix does not fear people finding out the Truth and meeting in secret to discuss it, nor does it fear lone crusaders, or small groups of rebels. It loves that and feeds on it, and enables it to create more fear and hate through it's WMDs (media). What the Matrix fears, in my humble opinion, is people getting together in public, talking Truth and sharing information openly, questioning the "official reality" without fear or shame, and others seeing them talking about it, and saying "hey, it's OK to talk about it and question it now". That is when THEY and their power, or their spell will melt away.

We can only slay a beast when we correctly identify it, see it for what it really is, how it lives, what it does how it behaves, what it lives on etc and we lose our fear of it. Railing at it, admonishing and rebuking it while perplexed bystanders who don't see it look on in bewilderment is no solution, though it may feel good to do that for a little while. The beast or the Matrix, however, takes power from that. It is far better to assist others to see the problem, see the beast, or Matrix and help them to step outside of it and begin to gain some fresh perspective and autonomy.

Knowledge is power. It sets people free. It allows them to see choices and to make them, if they wish to, such as how to act, rather than react. That is the value of being the media as opposed to being a lone confronter who is vilified and torn apart by the lions in the media circus.

We may get a new 'official' investigation into 9/11 one day or we may not, but an 'unofficial' one is already taking place in the hearts and minds of the people who receive our information, and in my experience, they are willing to receive it now more than ever before. So let us 'loose change' indeed. Let it begin with US, and let us BE the media and the CHANGE, and not waste time and energy chasing the beast and playing within this illusion that THEY will change. With an awake and informed public, THEY will have no choice but to change or to die.

"Fool me once ..... shame on ... shame on ... you can't be fooled again!"
- GW Bush

No George, we won't be fooled again and we're seeing to it that others won't be either.

Wayne

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Comments by Robin Hordon

The MATRIX fears our numbers...

The very, very simple reason that "the other side" expends so much energy and creativity to control and to misinform us is because they are deathly afraid of our sheer NUMBERS OF TRUTH SEEKERS...

This is an important truth to never forget...

Lets be civil...lets be informational...lets be our own media...lets work in our own local communities and build the movement upward from there...

If we do so, we will be ASTOUNDED at how many folks out there are thinking the way that we all are thinking...

Folks are less asleep than is commonly thought...

BUT...if we confront them as being stupid...WE LOSE...yet if we approach them as being nice folks but somewhat underinformed...usually we will discover yet another ally...

There is no OUTRAGE...but there is INRAGE...

Let's quietly tap this force...

Robin Hordon

Original post is located here

http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-defeat-matrix.html

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9/11 Civil Information on Truth Revolution Radio with Cosmos, Sunday May 4th

citizen_wayne — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:18:05 GMT

On Sunday, May 4th 2008, "Cosmos" of Truth Revolution Radio featured "9/11 Civil Informationing" on his weekly show on WTPRN. His guests were Robin Hordon and Wayne Prante of the http://911CivilInfo.blogspot.com.

Cosmos is the founder of www.TruthAction.org and is the man behind the international "11th of Every Month" Campaign which has done so much to propel 9/11 visibility and action in the past 18 months.

The conversation revolved around "being the media" and marketing the message of 9/11 Truth in the most positive and effective ways, making it appealing to the broadest audience, keeping it simple and personalizing the message to get average people to buy in. Also discussed was the importance of getting active locally with our message in our own communities in addition to large scale events in large cities.

An mp3 of the show can be heard here (8 MBs, 85 minutes) beginning in the second half hour (no commercials)
http://fv911truth.org/audio/cia/Cosmos_with_Robin_and_Wayne_TRR20080504.mp3

To hear the entire program, please visit the archives at WTPRN to whom we are very grateful.
http://mp3.wtprn.com/TRR08.html

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SOME LISTENER FEEDBACK

From 911Blogger.com:

A must listen! Hear expert street activist explain the craft...

It is so obvious why we will win listening to these every day guys becoming once in a century hero's!

Absolutely the best TRR yet 11/10!

Kind regards John

Great Show..

whoever ever voted this down to 1 is a kook !

"We are going to keep up this fight till the end, till the very end... They took it from the top to the bottom. We're gonna take it from the bottom to the top!" -Dan Wallace

From the Truth Action Forum:

Second hour it is said 13 mins in by Wayne "the media has painted a picture of us, and the "one" thing we try to do is show we ar'nt protesting, we are out there as a public resource" and "we're all different ages and all different backgrounds" and ....................."we're them"

we're them, WE'RE THEM!

This if you give a shit about winning this war, is a MUST LISTEN and a glass of whatever you drink is the go!

Regards John

Outstanding show. Very pragmatic advice, & useful political/social/philosophical discussion of feet-on-the-street truthing. I liked the debunking of the '60s image of anti-war demontrating with disorder & arrests etc which deters many 911-aware from getting out there, vs the modern friendly "civil informationing" approach, and the web/dvd/etc tools of this new millennium movement. Also the need to get over moaning about how "if the media would only cover this", as though the MSM are our friends who just aren't awake yet,

Anonymouse

Great show. Civil Informationing is a "paradigm shift." Inspirational broadcast, thanks!

funhouse1970

http://truthaction.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3467

Original post with embedded links here:
http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/2008/05/civil-information-on-truth-revolution.html

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Next 9/11 scheduled for week of May 1-8, with Martial Law as a bonus?

citizen_wayne — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:47:49 GMT

April 27, 2008,
Capitol Hill Blue,
Lese Majeste's blog -

With the next new moon arriving May 5, 2008, which is usually the time the Pentagon War Mongers love to attack countries Israel wants bombed, this next terror drill, coming up next week, could be more than interesting. Especially the part about invoking "Continuity Plans and Capabilities." That's bureaucrat speak for Martial Law. Bet the "Dick", Cheney, has already slithered into his bunker in an undisclosed location.

The overall exercise scenario unfolds as a Category 4 hurricane threatens the National Capitol Region (NCR) while events in the Pacific Northwest include terrorist attacks involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the state of Washington and an accidental release of a chemical agent at chemical stockpile facility in Umatilla, Oregon. The scenario culminates with the hurricane's imminent landfall combined with a credible terror threat to the NCR which causes the federal government to invoke continuity plans and capabilities.

Upcoming Exercises courtesy of FEMA

National Level Exercise 2-08 (NLE 2-08).
The Department of Homeland Security's National Exercise Program (NEP), the nation's overarching homeland security exercise program, will conduct a combined exercise in May 2008 that will test hurricane preparedness planning, assess federal interagency Continuity of Operations (COOP) procedures, exercise a response to terrorist attacks in Washington State and test Defense Support of Civil Authorities (DSCA).

These linked exercises are referred to as National Level Exercise 2-08 (NLE 2-08).

The exercise takes place May 1-8 with a wide range of participants from federal and state departments and agencies.

NLE 2-08 will consolidate into a single exercise the following:

Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) National Continuity Programs' (NCP) Eagle Horizon 2008;

U.S. Northern Command's (USNORTHCOM) Ardent Sentry 08 exercise;

FEMA's Disaster Operation's Hurricane Preparedness Exercise (HPE);

The Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness Program and Army Service Response Force tests for emergency plans, procedures, skills and equipment in response to an accidental chemical agent release.

Planning for NLE 2-08 began in late spring 2007 and is designed to achieve the following objectives:

Exercise and evaluate federal government continuity capabilities and management of emergencies from dispersed locations.

Exercise our response to terrorist WMDs threat and attack capabilities with integration of Defense Support of Civil Authorities; and Exercise hurricane preparedness and response capabilities.

For more information on NLE 2-08 please contact FEMA Office of Public Affairs at 202-646-4600 or USNORTHCOM Public Affairs at 719-554-6889.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/6648

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Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 2:56 PM

Subject: MAYDAY ALERT! -- Terror Drills Could Go Live!

By Dr. James H. Fetzer, Major William B. Fox, Captain Eric H. May, SFC Donald Buswell.

The name "false flag" comes from the old pirate's ruse of flying another country's flag during an attack, thereby shifting blame for the attack to a party that had nothing to do with it. Governments use false flag attacks to push their nations into dictatorship or war. As military experts, we fear that national terror drills, scheduled for May 1-8, could be used to camouflage a false flag attack in the United States.

Strategic Signals
Yesterday an American-flagged ship fired on the Iranian Navy, and now Pentagon sources say that they have been ordered to prepare attack plans. Admiral "Fox" Fallon, the Centcom commander who opposed war with Iran, has been ousted in favor of Bush loyalist General David Petraeus, who has spent the last month accusing Iran for our increasing problems with the Iraqi resistance.

Saudi Arabia has been preparing for nuclear fallout from an attack on Iran since last month, when Dick Cheney paid a visit. Israel has just finished its largest-ever domestic war drills. Israel and the Bush administration are insisting that Syria and North Korea are nuclear collaborators. Syria is preparing for the contingency of an Israeli attack. Iran is preparing for the contingency of a US attack. US government insiders speculate that Bush has promised Israel an expanded Middle East war before he leaves office.
The Neo-Cons are pounding their war drums again, according to Dr. James H. Fetzer, the founder of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, and he believes that nothing would help them spread their imperial war in the Middle East as much as another 9/11.

He has just published "9/11 and the Neo-Con Agenda."
http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/ToolBarTopics/Articles/Other_Topics/9-11_Anomalies/Dr._James_H._Fetzer_2008-04-22_9-11_and_the_Neo-Con_Agenda.html The article is a must-read introduction for anyone wanting to understand the origins and aims of the " global war on terror."

Domestic Discord
Inside the US, Bush approval ratings are well below 30%, and approval ratings for the U.S. Congress and mainstream media are even lower. Over three quarters of the American people believe that the country is on the wrong track, and just as many want to end the quicksand war in the Middle East. The economy is crashing as fuel prices are skyrocketing. The Establishment is losing its grip on power. It would take another 9/11 to make the nation forget its domestic woes and resume its lost zeal for the Neo-Con "new American century" of foreign wars and a domestic police state.

In his much-discussed February article, "False Flag Prospects, 2008," http://www.thepriceofliberty.org/08/02/25/may.htm Captain Eric H. May documented the disturbing fact that military and police exercises were occurring at the same time as the 9/11 US attacks in 2001 and the 7/7 UK bombings in 2005. In that prescient article, he designated the Pacific Northwest as one of the top three target zones for the next US false flag attack, and the Pacific Northwest will be the target of terror drills May 1-8.

Should a major event occur during the drills, the Bush administration is prepared to implement National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD) 51, which establishes dictatorship "in the event of a man-made or natural catastrophe." It is an extraordinary measure, and the White House has stonewalled Homeland Security Committee members from the House of Representatives who wanted to read it. One of those members, Oregon's Peter DeFazio summed up the feeling of many Americans about NSPD 51 when he said "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right."

Fears that a false flag attack might result in martial law are nourished by last week's militaristic Operation Sudden Impact, reported by Infowars.net writer Steve Watson: "Three States Subjected to Martial Law Sweeps" http://www.infowars.net/articles/april2008/180408impact.htm

National Level Exercise 8-02
NLE 2-08 will involve the very highest levels of Homeland Security and the US Northern Command. Both "Homesec" and "Northcom" were established by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11 to take control of the nation in the event of another terrorist attack. They will be joined by FEMA in the May 1-8 exercise, which is one of the two largest terror drills scheduled this year.

On Thursday, May 1, the exercise begins in Washington, when an explosion collapses the Alaska Way viaduct in downtown Seattle and damages surrounding buildings. Twenty minutes later, terrorists explode a highjacked tanker ship filled with highly toxic chemicals at the Seattle Ferry Terminal. Deadly gas soon permeates downtown Seattle.

Emergency responders come in waves. Police and firemen, first to arrive, are quickly overwhelmed. The state deploys its 22-member Civil Support Team, a National Guard unit, to assess the damage and coordinate support. Later, 100 soldiers from a chemical battalion based in Yakima arrive to rescue, decontaminate and treat survivors. Finally, 5,000 troops arrived to handle logistics and security.

On Monday, May 5, the scenario shifts to Oregon where VX, the most toxic nerve agent ever synthesized, erupts from the Umatilla Army Depot. The next day, terrorists blow up a chemical tanker in Ferndale, Washington. The county sheriff requests national support, and a Marine Corps chemical warfare detachment from Ft. Lewis, Washington responds.

According to sources at Northcom, NLE 2-08 will involve "robust play," with "surprise injects" of unanticipated events in which participants are "stretched to the limit" and have "everything thrown at them except the kitchen sink." All of this makes it easier for the exercise to "go live" by having a real catastrophe occur.

As the Pacific Northwest scenario is playing out, Washington, DC will be simulating a catastrophic hurricane as part of the same exercise. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to suggest that this puts Dick Cheney back in the bunker he occupied during 9/11.

Citizens interested in understanding how local, state and national levels of the military can be manipulated into working against us should read "The Real Drill" by Major William B. Fox, about Portland area terror drills last year. http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=2006&z=186

Mission of Conscience
Many American citizens are deeply concerned about police militarization, and about government and media preconditioning of our nation for future terror attacks and martial law. We recommend that they monitor NLE 2-08 closely. Armed with cell phones, cameras and the Internet, they are the single greatest deterrent against false flag terror.

If we, the co-authors of this alert, are in error about anything, then we invite reasonable officials to investigate us and our assertions at the very highest levels. In the past we have too often met with hostility, evasion or deception by officials involved in terror drills. We have been stonewalled when we have requested access to an extended schedule of unclassified military and police terror drills.

We believe that there is a pattern of official retaliation against patriotic service members who ask questions about 9/11 and false flags.

In 2006, Sergeant First Class Donald Buswell, an Army military intelligence NCO, suggested that 9/11 might have been a false flag operation. Within a month the decorated 40-year-old Iraq war veteran suffered a freak pulmonary embolism, which nearly killed him. After he was released from the hospital, his command accused him of disloyalty for his remarks, and subjected him to an extensive military investigation. Ultimately, he was fully exonerated, and the now-retired Buswell has become widely known on the Internet as the "9/11 NCO." Stephen Webster, writing for The Lone Star Iconoclast, gained national attention with his story about Buswell, "Under Fire! U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst Targeted for Suggesting New Independent 9/11 Investigation." http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=426&z=40

The duty to keep the government honest isn't optional for those of us who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It has always been difficult, and even dangerous, to serve the American people. We call on all active-duty soldiers, police and first responders to obey their oaths by asking questions that need to be asked, and by thinking twice before blindly carrying out orders that may result in an a false flag attack against their country. We urge leaders of those soldiers, police and first responders to explain that diligence is not disloyalty, and that no one ceases to be a free American citizen by putting on a uniform.

Issuing an alert -- as we are doing now -- is not an instance of "crying wolf," as Bush administration apologists often assert. As military-trained experts, we are convinced that the US 9/11 and UK 7/7 attacks were set up under the camouflage of terror drills. The existence of a wolf is not in question. The wolf of false flag terror has killed our fellow citizens and frightened our country into needless wars. It's our mission of conscience to keep it from striking again.

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Dr. James H. Fetzer and Major William B. Fox are former Marine Corps officers. Captain Eric H. May and Sergeant First Class Donald Buswell are former members of Army intelligence.

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It's just info to be aware of, not to cause panic. Governments (or evil elements within governments with their own agendas) have done these things in the past and the more people who are aware of these drills, the less chance there is that they can be hijack them again and get away with it.

Canadians should not feel unaffected. Our government recently signed a pact with the US which allows US troops on Canadian soil and vice versa in the event of "civil emergencies".

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Government Refuses to Consider Cause of 47 Story WTC skyscraper Building 7 Demolition

citizen_wayne — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:42:14 GMT

libertyforlife.com
by David R. Kimball -

Everyone remembers the Twin Towers exploding at 9:59AM and 10:28AM EDT on September 11, 2001. Comparatively few people can recall that there was a third massive skyscraper, also a part of the World Trade Center, which fell very rapidly to the ground on that day. This was World Trade Center Building 7.1

One reason that few remember WTC Building 7’s collapse is that after September 11th it has been treated, both in the media and in The 9/11 Commission Report, as if it didn’t happen.

“The total collapse of the third huge skyscraper late in the afternoon September 11th was reported as if it were an insignificant footnote... most people never saw video of Building 7’s collapse… Incredibly, it is virtually impossible to find any mention of Building 7 in newspapers, magazines, or broadcast media reports after September 11th.” 2

“The Commission avoids another embarrassing problem – explaining how WTC 7 could have collapsed, also virtually at free-fall speed – by simply not mentioning the collapse of this building.” 3

The collapse of Building 7 at 5:20PM EDT was in itself a major event; the sudden and unexplained fall to earth of a 47-story steel-framed skyscraper is certainly news. Why has there been almost no mention of this in the U.S. corporate mass-media, and why was there no mention of Building 7’s collapse in The 9/11 Commission Report? These are questions of great significance, and they cry out for answers. To be able to approach any kind of explanation, however, first some pertinent and verified facts of the Building 7 aspect of 9/11 need to be scrutinized.

The following eleven facts have been compiled from the research of reputable sources – those who have dared to question and have devoted innumerable hours into discovering what really happened on 9/11.

FACT 1: WTC Building 7 was one of the largest buildings in downtown Manhattan. It was 47 stories tall, about half the height of the Towers, and took up an entire city block. It was 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower (the North Tower, WTC 1), and was a steel-framed, concrete structure.4

FACT 2: WTC Building 7 – on its 23rd floor – housed an Emergency Command Center for the City of New York that Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had built in the mid-1990’s. On the morning of September 11th, Mayor Giuliani did not go “to his Command Center – with its clear view of the Twin Towers – but to a makeshift, street-level headquarters at 75 Barkley Street.” WTC 7 also held the offices of numerous government agencies, including the U.S. Department of Defense, the CIA, the Secret Service, the IRS, and the Security and Exchange Commission.5 Late 2001 was the time of “the height of the investigation into Enron, so the majority of Enron’s SEC filings were likely destroyed when World Trade Center 7 came down.”6

FACT 3: WTC Building 7 was not hit by airplane or significant debris on September 11th. It had been evacuated after the planes hit the towers. By the afternoon of September 11th, there were a few small fires of unknown origin evident in the building, and these small fires could be seen in only a few of the hundreds and hundreds of windows in the building.7

FACT 4: On 11 September 2001, at 5:20PM, EDT, World Trade Center Building 7 suddenly and rapidly collapsed. Beginning with the penthouse, all 47 stories of it imploded into its own footprint in less than seven seconds. Three different videos of Building 7’s vertical collapse – two from CBS video broadcasts, and one from an NBC news camera – can be seen online, LINK.

FACT 5: On 16 September , NASA flew an airplane over the World Trade Center site, recorded infrared radiation coming from the ground, and created a thermal map. The U.S. Geological Survey analyzed this data, and determined the actual temperature of the rubble. This map shows that five days after the collapse of Building 7, the surface temperature of a section of its rubble was 1,341º F.8 This high a temperature is indicative of the use of explosives.

“WTC 7’s rubble pile continued to smolder for months.”9

FACT 6: Fire Engineering magazine is the 125-year-old paper-of-record of the fire engineering community. Bill Manning, editor-in-chief, wrote an Editor’s Opinion in the January, 2002 edition. His editorial, $elling Out the Investigation, pointed out that destruction of evidence – the hurried removal of rubble which should be examined by investigators – is illegal. He also issued a “call to action”. To quote excerpts:

“For more than three months, structural steel from the World Trade Center has been and continues to be cut up and sold for scrap. Crucial evidence that could answer many questions … is on the slow boat to China …”

“I have combed through our national standard for fire investigation, NFPA 921, but nowhere in it does one find an exemption allowing the destruction of evidence for buildings over 10 stories tall.”

“Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the ‘official investigation’ blessed by FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half baked farce [emphasis mine] that may have already been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. Except for the marginal benefit obtained from a three-day, visual walk-through of evidence sites conducted by ASCE investigation committee members – described by one close source as a ‘tourist trip’ – no one’s checking evidence for anything.”

“The destruction and removal of evidence must stop immediately.”

“Firefighters, this is your call to action. …contact your representatives in Congress and officials in Washington and help us correct this problem immediately.” 10 11

FACT 7: In May of 2002, FEMA published their report #403 titled World Trade Center Building Performance Study. This report claims that the fires caused the building to collapse, but that the specifics of how this is supposed to have occurred “…remain unknown at this time.”12

FACT 8: The collapse of WTC Building 7 shows five characteristics of a controlled demolition:

It “dropped directly into its own footprint in a smooth, vertical motion”;

It “collapsed completely in less than seven seconds”;

“Dust streamed out of the upper floors of Building 7 early in its collapse”;

“WTC 7’s roof inverted toward its middle as the collapse progressed”; and

“WTC 7’s rubble was mostly confined to the block on which the building stood.”13

FACT 9: “Larry Silverstein is a rather large player within the realms of 21st Century real estate, finance, and politics.”14 He “…had taken out a long lease on the World Trade Center only six weeks before 9/11. In a PBS documentary entitled ‘America Rebuilds’, originally aired in September of 2002, Silverstein made the following statement about Building 7:

‘I remember getting a call from the, er, fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, “We’ve had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.” And they made that decision to pull, and we watched the building collapse.’” 15 16

FACT 10: “It is inconceivable that anyone could be running around placing explosives in exactly the right places all within seven hours. In fact, implosions take a minimum of two weeks and up to two months to plan and place the charges. The fire department of New York does not even train their personnel to do controlled demolition. They are done by highly skilled experienced specialists who plan and test far ahead.”17

FACT 11: “… [George W.] Bush’s brother, Marvin Bush, and his cousin, Wirt Walker III, were principles in the company [Stratesec, formerly named Securacom] that was in charge of security for the World Trade Center, with Walker being the CEO from 1999 until January 2002.”18

In summation: A major aspect of 9/11 has been excluded from the entire U.S. media after September 11th, and was also omitted from The 9/11 Commission Report. This was the sudden fall to earth, on September 11th, 2001, of World Trade Center Building 7. Not hit by airplane or significant debris, 300 feet from the closest Twin Tower, and with just a few small fires burning within it, at 5:20PM EDT this massive concrete and steel-framed 47-story skyscraper imploded into its own footprint in less than seven seconds. Its rapid implosion had all of the characteristics of a controlled demolition, and the World Trade Center leaseholder, Larry Silverstein, stated in so many words that the building had been collapsed by demolition. It takes weeks, if not months, to prepare the demolition of a building as large as WTC 7; this implosion could not have been engineered and implemented in seven chaotic hours on September 11th. Therefore, a question emerges:

Who had the means and expertise to engineer such a demolition and acquire needed materiel, and who had access to WTC Building 7 PRIOR TO September 11, 2001 in order to place the explosives?

An inquiry into the answer to this question might be a good place to begin a search for the real perpetrators of 9/11. Do we, the citizens of the United States, have the courage and honesty necessary to initiate an actual investigation, or will we continue living a Lie – and reap the consequences?

Footnotes

1 Jim Hoffman: http://wtc7.net/
2 Jim Hoffman: http://wtc7.net/
3 David Ray Griffin, The 9/11 Commission Report – Omissions and Distortions (Olive Branch Press, 2005), 28
4 Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, Waking Up From Our Nightmare (Irresistible/Revolutionary, 2004), 5-20
5 Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, 18
6 Barry Zwicker, The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw, Global Outlook magazine (Issue 9, Fall/Winter 2005), 19
7 Eric Hufschmid, Painful Questions – An Analysis of the September 11th Attack (Endpoint Software, 2002), 62-65
8 Eric Hufschmid, 69-70
9 Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, 10
10 Eric Hufschmid, 5-6
11 Fire Engineering magazine, January 2002
12 Eric Hufschmid, 7-8
13Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, 8-10
14 Don Paul and Jim Hoffman, 20
15 David Ray Griffin, 28
16 For video footage of Silverstein’s statement, see Eric Hufschmid’s video Painful Deceptions, edited and narrated by ReOpen911.org (911busters.com, www.EricHufschmid.net).
17 Narration from Eric Hufschmid’s video Painful Deceptions, edited and narrated by ReOpen911.org
18 David Ray Griffin, 31-32

http://libertyforlife.com/eye-openers/911/wtc7demolition.htm

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War on Free Thought and Dissent Reaches Our Children

citizen_wayne — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:56:02 GMT

From chyco blog -

Why those who orchestrated 911 must be brought to trial: Italy and Japan question 911 while our children are indoctrinated -

On 11 September 2001, the world changed. Not because the attacks on the United States were unique, since there have been many documented cases of false flag operations throughout history. The world changed because we forfeited the freedom of generations to come to obtain a delusional sense of security from madmen.

The reason that corporations like the United States even bother to release “official” documents so full of holes that you could fly a plane through them, is because by doing so, every branch of government must regurgitate this “official” story. This means that schools, which are meant to educate our children, are actually indoctrinating them into a corrupt system established for the proliferation of war.

This would explain why the government of California is “clamping down on homeschooling by parents” stating that “parents do not have a constitutional right to home school their children.” This is indeed a frightening turn of events, specially if you consider that Governor Schwarzenegger “has proposed cutting nearly $5 billion dollars from California’s education system, sparking the distribution of ‘pink slips’ to over 20,000 teachers.” Close to 90,000 more could be sent out, straining the education system to the breaking point.

Other States are also waging war on free thought. Arizona has passed a measure backing 'American values' in state schools.

Continued...
http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1690

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Tips for 9/11 Truth Activists from a Marketing, Advertising, and PR Professional

citizen_wayne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:03:48 GMT

9/11 Civil Info Blog,
Thursday, April 24, 2008 -

Report from a Grassroots Development Conference Call by 911Truth.org Thurs. April 24, 2008.

Expert on the call was Mr. Tom Monahan one of the nation’s top advertising gurus.

Here is a partial bio:

"Tom Monahan has trained over 200,000 people in the US, as well as in Canada, Europe and Asia in creativity and advertising. His company, Before & After, serves major global companies such as HP, Frito-Lay, AOL, Virgin Atlantic and Dunkin Donuts, as well as many other companies large and small, plus numerous professional organizations and educational institutions internationally.

During his former career as one of the top creative directors in advertising, Tom was a founder of Leonard/Monahan, an agency that served major marketers, was one of the most highly awarded ad agencies in America and was a launching pad for many of today's top advertising talents. Tom was featured in The Wall Street Journal's creative leaders series.

He was also named MVP of the New England Creative All-Star Team and honored as one of the top 10 copywriters in the country. He has been published in many periodicals, written The Do-it-yourself Lobotomy, published by John Wiley & Sons, was the regular ad columnist for CA and has won an Emmy for television editorial writing."

Mr. Monahan fielded questions from Paul Deslaurier and Jason King of the Steering Committee for 911truth.org. Some of the topics and questions covered included:

* Provide a fundamental overview of marketing, PR, and advertising. And how is it used on a grassroots versus regional level

* What is the psychological component in the science of marketing, and how can we use this in our promotions?

* If someone has formed a deep seeded belief about a product or story, like a pattern of buying the same brand your mother bought, what is the science to change the belief? How can we apply this to the truth movement?

* How does branding of products work and how should we apply this to grassroots activism?

* What are marketing “target groups” and how do we craft communication to the different groups?

* With hardly no budget what is the best way to promote local events like speakers, movies, workshops, street action ….

* How do you make a good marketing plan?

* If you had a mandate to market a national event in September, where you would like all citizens to participate as a show of democracy, like a general strike, what strategy and process would you propose?

NOTE: The conference call was recorded and will be available for download at a later date from 911truth.org

In the meantime, here are some of the short answers and themes that Mr. Monahan provided (paraphrasing) from notes we took:

"If people don't know your issue or product matters, it doesn't matter how good your product is".

"PR is far more affordable than advertising"

"Don't worry too much about the MSM, the new media is more important"

"Don't go too heavy too fast"

"Don't slap people around with your method or your message"

"Don't alienate"

"Forget the hard cases"

"Go light (no more info than necessary) to get them to buy in"

"Marketing is to get people to sample the product"

"You are trying to raise awareness and get them to look"

"Loyalty to a product or service requires simplicity"

"Using a big hammer does NOT work!"

"Find something that they can embrace most easily"

"Don't say things that sound too incredible (even if true). People want to believe in their governments, political systems and values like democracy"

"If you do use the MSM, don't try to score a touchdown with a Hail Mary pass. Be methodical and gain yardage"

"Being right is not important. Being credible and believable is more important"

"Don't over-state your case"

"Appeal to the widest possible audience or lowest common denominator"

"Segmenting may work (different target groups) but you must assess how realistic it is to convince them and how much time or resources you may need to spend (and whether or not it is worth it)."

"Networking with other groups on issues of commonality can help"

"You have to earn your way in with people with respect and not force your way in to the market"

"Don't be confrontational"

"Show respect and don't call them an asshole because they don't immediately get it"

"Incrementalism is what governments do, so we should do this too"

"Aggressiveness or too much info does not work"

"Don't discount entertainment"

"Keep it simple"

"Repetition is important"

"People not only need awareness, they need to identify with you or your message"

"A national ad campaign is probably not worth it"

read more:

http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/2008/04/tips-from-marketing-advertising-and-pr.html

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A Salute to Prof. Steven E. Jones

citizen_wayne — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:00:11 GMT

9/11 Civil Info Blog,
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 -

Prof. Steven E. Jones (Journal of 911 Studies.com) has reported the successful publication of a new peer-reviewed paper concerning the destruction of the World Trade Center. We wish to congratulate him and his colleagues on this outstanding achievement, but also to honor him for his moral character and his wonderful, civil demeanor. The entire post and the paper can be read here, along with many, many comments.

For our purposes, while we hope everyone will read the paper itself, we would like to highlight the tone of Dr. Jones presentation:

Excerpts:

"In this Letter, we emphasize “points of agreement” with FEMA and NIST, seeking to build bridges for further communications."

"Approaching this as “Points of Agreement” is NEW, I believe (obviously some “older” quotes are cited in this new context) and we hope this will be a fruitful approach! Mechanical engineer Tony Szamboti and I are the “corresponding authors,” the ones people are invited to write to with comments"

"Further in the spirit of building bridges, I’d like to quote from Prof. Fetzer who wrote today – and I agree: “I would appreciate it… if those who are reaching out to the public would show a degree of appreciation for those who are trying to figure out how these things were done…. I believe we can succeed if we show more tolerance and less disrespect for one another.” Agreed! In this paper, the authors are both reaching out to the public (most can read this Letter with understanding, I think) AND seeking to progress in figuring out how the buildings were destroyed…"

"Now let’s work together to unify the 9/11 truth movement and show some mutual respect, shall we?"

"Finally, I should note that the editor that we worked with was polite and professional throughout the process. We hope others, in their responses, will maintain that decorum. In the final analysis, all THREE reviewers approved publication!"

"Time to celebrate, and move forward together."

Commentary by Robin Hordon of the 9/11 Civil Information Blog:

I have been very fortunate to meet and see the work of many of the tremendous people who call themselves 911 Truthers...and none are more wonderful and commanding than Steve Jones. From my view he gets his power from a deep commitment to the constitution and a highly accredited history in academia, and from something else.

If we truly believe, and have evidence for, what we understand as the many "truths" behind the events associated with 9/11, then we really do not need to confront anyone with anything. We need only to simply assemble our message, back it up with some facts, truths and valid questions, and present it politely, respectfully and with civility to those who we are trying to reach...the middle 40% of the citizenry.

Its THAT 40% group that will bring about the eventual change in this country. This is because both we in the "vanguard 30%" who are usually ahead of the curve, and the 25% who have been identified by John Dean as being hopelessly stuck hiding from their own shadows and in desperate need of ANY type of "father/authority figure" in order to remain emotionally functional on any given day, effectively cancel each other out as each groups tugs on the rope in equal but opposite directions.

But these two groups are actually NOT equal groups...the "Deniers" are hiding and afraid, and we are out standing in the public and displaying unending individual courage.

The longest lasting and TRUEST POWER of Steve Jones is his demeanor, and patience, and self belief in that his work will do the loudest speaking for him. Steve is simply a wonderful man and his "table setting" of information for all of us to dine on is no more important than are his manners when serving these delicacies.

I have been arrested protesting at Seabrook Power Plant, went on a life altering strike against the labor policies within the US Government with PATCO and got fired by Reagan, I have attended rallies and protests [and they feel great but are less effective than what is commonly thought],...was in NYC at the Republican Convention in 04' and stood for hours in front of FOX NEWS with my sign that stated "DEMOCRACY REQUIRES TRUTH", have even quietly used my position to favor young comedians who spoke truth to power as they climbed the SHOW BIZ ladder [Garofalo, Seder, Cross, Maron, Winstead, Crimmins, Tingle, Durst, Credico] believing that when they matured and became more successful that they would continue to speak truth to power [best guerrilla actions that I ever pulled off...]. And the point that I like to make whenever I can is that I am in my fourth decade in the peace movement, my first decade in the 911Truth Movement and my first year in the Civil Informationing Movement.

And in ALL of these experiences, eventual change comes about by supporting a wonderful concept that is so horribly deformed...for now anyway. The two best hidden and underutilized words in our "alleged" democracy are the words INFORMED CONSENT.

Only if the citizenry is informed, and ONLY if we can give or withhold our consent, can this experiment in self governance work. So, maybe the "hammer on the head" approach might force some information into those who are yet to accept some of what we hold to be true about 9/11 and our own government, but afterward, they are unlikely to vote for what we want changed, or to become involved in making that change standing alongside all of us as we try to inform even more citizens.

So, I cannot possibly have deeper appreciation of Steve Jones' science, diligence, integrity and ability to frame irrevocable conclusions. But I hold even higher the fact that he is Steve Jones, a great guy, and a very powerful person with his demeanor and respect that he offers even to his detractors.

I argue that, although few of us Truthers can really get our arms fully around Professor Jones' "science" and deeper understandings of such, we all can become better ourselves by appreciating his more powerful side. Steve Jones IS the person who he wants to be, and I suspect that he would like the world to become more conversational instead of more confrontational. If we are to throw stuff around this planet, I bet he would want it to be powerful but respectful words and discussions in lieu of the horrendous bombs and bullets that are being thrown around. Bombs and bullets that are clearly the result of the nefarious activities surrounding the events of 9/11/2001.

Steve Jones' work is brilliant...and so is that of his parents.

Thanks Steve...and when the 9/11TM swings into other subjects as we move forward, I bet that your oar will somehow be pulling in those waters too!

Lets hope that these truths we are uncovering will last for centuries!

Love, Peace and Progress with:

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We collectively echo Robin's comments and offer our congratulations on the paper and our sincere thanks to Dr. Jones, not only for lending his professional credibility and fine work to the 9/11 Truth Movement, but for being such an outstanding human being, for his inspiration, and for being such a great example for us all to emulate!

Sincerely,

The 9/11 Civil Information Team

Richard D. Brinkman, Cameron O'Connor, Drew Noftle, Robin Hordon, Peter Zaza and Wayne Prante

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http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/2008/04/salute-to-prof-steven-e-jones.html

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Load Up the Pantry - Reported by the Wall Street Journal

citizen_wayne — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:26:37 GMT

April 21, 2008,
Wall Street Journal -

I don't want to alarm anybody, but maybe it's time for Americans to start stockpiling food.

No, this is not a drill.

You've seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they're a long way away from the U.S. But most foodstuffs operate in a global market. When the cost of wheat soars in Asia, it will do the same here.

Reality: Food prices are already rising here much faster than the returns you are likely to get from keeping your money in a bank or money-market fund. And there are very good reasons to believe prices on the shelves are about to start rising a lot faster.

"Load up the pantry," says Manu Daftary, one of Wall Street's top investors and the manager of the Quaker Strategic Growth mutual fund. "I think prices are going higher. People are too complacent. They think it isn't going to happen here. But I don't know how the food companies can absorb higher costs." (Full disclosure: I am an investor in Quaker Strategic)

Stocking up on food may not replace your long-term investments, but it may make a sensible home for some of your shorter-term cash. Do the math. If you keep your standby cash in a money-market fund you'll be lucky to get a 2.5% interest rate. Even the best one-year certificate of deposit you can find is only going to pay you about 4.1%, according to Bankrate.com. And those yields are before tax.

Meanwhile the most recent government data shows food inflation for the average American household is now running at 4.5% a year.

And some prices are rising even more quickly. The latest data show cereal prices rising by more than 8% a year. Both flour and rice are up more than 13%. Milk, cheese, bananas and even peanut butter: They're all up by more than 10%. Eggs have rocketed up 30% in a year. Ground beef prices are up 4.8% and chicken by 5.4%.

These are trends that have been in place for some time.

And if you are hoping they will pass, here's the bad news: They may actually accelerate.

The reason? The prices of many underlying raw materials have risen much more quickly still. Wheat prices, for example, have roughly tripled in the past three years.

Sooner or later, the food companies are going to have to pass those costs on. Kraft saw its raw material costs soar by about $1.25 billion last year, squeezing profit margins. The company recently warned that higher prices are here to stay. Last month the chief executive of General Mills, Kendall Powell, made a similar point.

The main reason for rising prices, of course, is the surge in demand from China and India. Hundreds of millions of people are joining the middle class each year, and that means they want to eat more and better food.

A secondary reason has been the growing demand for ethanol as a fuel additive. That's soaking up some of the corn supply.

You can't easily stock up on perishables like eggs or milk. But other products will keep. Among them: Dried pasta, rice, cereals, and cans of everything from tuna fish to fruit and vegetables. The kicker: You should also save money by buying them in bulk.

If this seems a stretch, ponder this: The emerging bull market in agricultural products is following in the footsteps of oil. A few years ago, many Americans hoped $2 gas was a temporary spike. Now it's the rosy memory of a bygone age.

The good news is that it's easier to store Cap'n Crunch or cans of Starkist in your home than it is to store lots of gasoline. Safer, too.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120881517227532621.html

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Telling the Truth About 9/11: Human & Social Global Health Crises Conference

citizen_wayne — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:06:54 GMT

The Common Cause Medical Research Foundation will host the Ninth Annual Conference on Human and Social Global Health Crises in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada on August 29, 30 and 31 of 2008. The Conference theme this year is: Telling the Truth About 9/11. The three day conference of lectures, workshops and discussion sessions will be chaired by Dr. Harold W. Clark and will feature keynote addresses by:

Professor Peter Dale Scott: The Death of JFK, Forty Five Years Later and the War on Terror Today
Dr. David Ray Griffin: The 9/11 Fraud
Professor Donald Scott: The Advent of AIDS
Dr. Garth Nicolson: The Science of Cancer, AIDS, CFS and Gulf War Illness
William Rodriguez: Surviving the WTC Collapse
Dave von Kleist: 9/11 Ripple Effect
Dr. Donald V. Bodeen: Winning the Secret War, Final Edition

Advance registration for all lectures and sessions including the Annual Banquet is being accepted now. For more information contact William (Bill) Scott at 705 673 0726 (wlcscott@yahoo.ca) or write to:
CCMRF Conference
Box 133, Stn B
Sudbury, Ontario P3E 4N5
Canada

http://www.911blogger.com/node/15168

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Bush Reaffirms North American Union Agenda At Leaders' Summit

citizen_wayne — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:20:00 GMT

Opposition to 'Security and Prosperity Partnership' intensifies -

Steve Watson,
Infowars.net,
Wed, April 23, 2008 -

President Bush yesterday reaffirmed a commitment to progress the much maligned Security and Prosperity Partnership agenda, amid intensified opposition from commentators and critics concerned that the plan constitutes an undermining of national sovereignty.

At a private party to open the fourth North American Leaders' Summit in New Orleans, Bush referred to recently encountered "setbacks" and told bureaucrats and business leaders "the meeting gives three friends the chance to come together to discuss our commitment to security and prosperity, to reconfirm the need for the three of us to work in harmony together for the good of our peoples. It's a chance to talk about how we can best protect our people and extend prosperity."

Bush told leaders from Canada and Mexico "Tomorrow, we will be meeting with the business leaders of the North American Competitiveness Council to listen to their specific recommendations... The United States has an opportunity to continue the trading agenda."

The North American Competitiveness Council (NACC) is an advisory Council Comprised of 30 senior private sector representatives of North American corporations that were selected by the American, Canadian and Mexican governments at the June 2006 trilateral meeting in Cancun, Mexico.

Recently uncovered documents detailed how these corporate representatives have been urged to "humanize" North American integration, promote NAFTA success stories to employees and unions and evolve the harmonization agenda "without fueling protectionism".

The documentation consists of internal memos from Canada's Foreign Affairs and Internal Trade ministry, which were obtained by the World Net Daily reporter Jerome Corsi under an Access to Information Act request.

Business leaders have been beseeched by bureaucratic working groups to launch public relations campaigns in order to counter critics of the secretive Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) and to report back to senior government officials with advice on an ongoing basis.

The memo highlighted how those advancing the North American integration agenda are concerned about the exposure and subsequent public backlash they have encountered recently.

Meanwhile one prominent critic of the SPP agenda, Congressman Ron Paul has vowed to intensify opposition towards the alliance and the intrinsically linked Trans-Texas Corridor and proposed NAFTA “Super Highway.”

“As we all know, there have been significant moves recently to expand the Security and Prosperity Partnership initiated by President Bush and his Mexican and Canadian counterparts in 2005. One such plan is to construct a so-called “NAFTA Superhighway” running from Mexico, through Texas, and up eventually into Canada,” Paul said yesterday.

“I have opposed this project from the beginning, signing on as a co-sponsor of House Concurrent Resolution 40 expressing Congressional disapproval of the NAFTA Superhighway and any moves toward a North American Union.”

“More recently, I introduced an even stronger piece of legislation, H.R.5191, which would prohibit the use of federal funds to carry out this highway project. The federal government has no business being partner to this outrageous plan, according to which countless landowners would have their private property confiscated under eminent domain,” Paul said.

“This prohibition of funds, if passed, would go a long way toward derailing this ill-conceived project and would send a clear message that further attempts to undermine U.S. sovereignty would not be unchallenged in Congress. It is long past time the United States House and Senate start taking our constitutional oversight roles seriously.” The Congressman concluded.

The initial Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement was signed by President Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then-Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Texas, March 23, 2005. It established working groups, under the North American Free Trade Agreement office.

Jerome Corsi brought attention to the SPP two years ago when he obtained SPP documents, under the freedom of information act, showing that a wide range of US administrative law is being re-written in stealth under a program to "integrate" and "harmonize" with administrative law in Mexico and Canada, just as has become commonplace within the EU.

The documents contained references to upwards of 13 working groups within an entire organized infrastructure that has drawn from officials within most areas of administrative government including U.S. departments of State, Homeland Security, Commerce, Treasury, Agriculture, Transportation, Energy, Health and Human Services, and the office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

http://infowars.net/articles/april2008/230408SPP.htm

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TransLink Cops Will Continue To Taser Fare Dodgers

citizen_wayne — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:51:03 GMT

"Non-compliant" passengers will be tortured until they behave properly -

Paul J. Watson,
Prison Planet,
Mon, April 21, 2008 -

Police patrolling Greater Vancouver's TransLink system will continue to Taser "non-compliant" passengers and fare dodgers a news conference heard Friday, providing more evidence to indicate that the notorious stun gun has become a tool of official oppression and torture.

Insp. Bob Huston told media Friday that the South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority Police Service will allow officers to Taser non-threatening passengers at their own discretion following a complaint filed by the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

The group provided documents to indicate that passengers who did not pay fares were tasered by police, but this was denied by Huston, even though those documents were from his own police department.

"The latest controversy over Taser use erupted this week after an article on The Vancouver Sun's editorial pages revealed the TransLink police -- Canada's only armed transit police force -- has used Tasers at least 10 times since last July," reports The Vancouver Sun.

"The department's own records state that in four of those cases, the electro-shock device was used against non-violent, non-threatening passengers. In three of the incidents, the passengers Tasered were being investigated for possible fare evasion."

Asked whether allowing Tasers to be used against anyone who is "non-compliant" is a pretty broad policy, Huston responded, "Yes," "We depend upon the judgment of our officers to deploy the Tasers properly."

Since a Taser is used to ensure fealty by means of "pain compliance," the fact that Canadian cops have now officially asserted the right to torture non-violent citizens who pose no threat whatsoever is proof that Canada is an oppressive police state.

Huston insisted that Taser use was completely safe, despite the international furore that was created last October when Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski died after being Tasered by RCMP officers at Vancouver International Airport.

The use of Tasers as a tool of official oppression is skyrocketing. The United Nations' Committee Against Torture determined the stun guns to be "a form of torture" that "can even cause death." Amnesty International says it has recorded 245 cases of Taser-related deaths.

Perhaps Canadians should even count themselves lucky that police are armed with mere stun guns and not actual machine guns, as is the case with "Viper" teams that patrol subways and trains in major American cities.

How far are we from the day when travelers on all forms of public transport are forced to wear "Taser bracelets" so that authorities may induce electric shocks wirelessly to ensure compliant behavior?

As we previously reported, The Department of Homeland Security is pursuing the introduction of a device known as the Security Bracelet, a wearable tag that would allow authorities to inflict pain compliance on suspects from a distance, while also recommending law enforcement applications and potential use in "crowd control situations".

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/042108_translink_cops.htm

Digg Link: http://digg.com/world_news/TransLink_Cops_Will_Continue_To_Taser_Fare_Dodgers

Comment:
What happened to "innocent til proven guilty" ? What happened to the courts imposing punishment based upon fair trials and evidence? Since when do the cops get to decide guilt and innocence, and mete out punishment? Who gave them that authority? Where will they draw the line? Free country? Rule of law? This is tyranny and slavery. What will be next? Spit out a piece of gum or drop a piece of paper and get tased? You might defend it or rationalize it today, but tomorrow maybe they won't like the clothes you are wearing, your hair style, your body language, or your nose. Don't put up with it folks. Tomorrow it may be you. Sooner it or later it will be. Constitutional rights and freedoms are your's to exercise and to protect.

Translink board@translink.bc.ca

Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan sam.sullivan@vancouver.ca

Vancouver Sun sunletters@png.canwest.com
(200 words max)

Vancouver Province provletters@png.canwest.com

Minister Hon. Stan Hagan (Tourism) TSA.Minister@gov.bc.ca

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New Environics poll reveals Canadians reject SPP priorities

citizen_wayne — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:36:14 GMT

Council of Canadians,
April 15, 2008 -

New Environics poll reveals Canadians reject SPP priorities.

Ottawa - As Stephen Harper prepares to attend the North American leaders’ summit on the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) in New Orleans next week, a new Environics Research poll shows that Canadians disagree with key elements of North American integration. The survey commissioned by the Council of Canadians shows considerable opposition to regulatory harmonization, energy integration and bulk water exports. It also reveals that Canadians are not sold on security cooperation with the U.S. and would overwhelmingly like to see the SPP debated publicly and voted on in Parliament.

“It’s been four years since the launch of the SPP, and while corporations have been given a seat at the negotiating table, the Canadian government has never asked the public how they feel about it,” says Maude Barlow, chairperson of the Council of Canadians.

Highlights:

* 87% of Canadians agree that Canada should be able to set its own independent environmental, health and safety standards and regulations even if it could limit trade with the United States.

The SPP commits Canada to widespread regulatory convergence which has already resulted in Canada adopting weaker standards, most recently through consumer product legislation.

* 89% of Canadians agree that Canada needs an energy policy that protects Canadian supplies and the environment even if it means placing restrictions on exports and foreign ownership.

The SPP calls for greater energy integration and a fivefold expansion of the environmentally destructive tar sands project in Alberta.

* 88% of Canadians want a national water policy that recognizes clean drinking water as a basic human right and that also bans bulk water exports.

But at an SPP-related meeting in Calgary last year, commissioned by all three governments, the issue of bulk water exports was firmly on the table.

* Only 47% of Canadians feel that improving the Canada-U.S. trading relationship would justify harmonizing our security policies with the US and sharing personal information with American security agencies.

This means that Canadians are not sold on the very raison d’être of the SPP, yet the last Harper budget committed an additional $165 million towards security initiatives in the SPP agreement.

* 86% of Canadians feel there should be an open, public debate on the SPP, and that the agreement should be brought to Parliament for a vote.

Four years after the launch of the SPP there has been no public consultation or any parliamentary debate. “How can the government continue to push this agenda behind closed doors, when the public overwhelmingly rejects it?” asks Barlow.

The organization is calling for public consultation and parliamentary debate on the SPP and an end to all talks aimed at promoting continental integration between Canada and the United States.

Environics Research interviewed 1,007 Canadians by telephone during the period: April 7th – 10th, 2008. The margin of error for a survey of this magnitude is +/-3.1 percent, nineteen times out of twenty.

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http://www.canadians.org/media/DI/2008/15-Apr-08.html

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Barrie Zwicker's statement to the grassroots 9/11 Truth Movement in Canada regarding Jack Layton

citizen_wayne — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:38:56 GMT

911civilinfo.blogspot.com,
Monday, April 14, 2008 -

In the past week, members of Calgary 9/11 Truth and Montreal 9/11 Truth publicly questioned NDP Leader Jack Layton regarding 9/11 Truth and our movement. I wish to congratulate both groups on their efforts and on the way they conducted themselves!

Layton's comments in Calgary (in a book store) were very encouraging, while his comments in Montreal (before an audience) were disappointing in some respects.

Calgary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mw-VhY6a2Q

Montreal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5FLP7yyLhw

Many of us were offended and may have the urge to confront and condemn him. I and some of us are advising against reacting too strongly and reflexively with Layton at this point. The door appears to be open, and we (Drew Noftle, Doug Brinkman, myself and some others) caution against doing anything that will see that door being slammed shut on us.

I am not an NDP supporter, but let's look on the bright side, Layton twice publicly acknowledged us and that Barrie Zwicker is a friend of his and that they have had conversations about 9/11.

Barrie Zwicker has just released the following statement via e-mail to the grassroots 9/11 Truth Movement in Canada (April 14th, 2008):

"Within time, energy and other constraints, I’ve been working on the legislative front for 9/11Truth for going on four years. Finally we are seeing some movement. Ian and I met Yuki Fujita in Sydney , Australia last month; he said he will support those of us pressing legislators in any country to endorse the call for a new investigation of 9/11.

I’ll be contacting Jack again in the most positive and effective ways I can. I must say that I absolutely believe that in this particular case civility must be the order of the day. Whatever our disappointments with the NDP (who doesn’t have some?), we must consider the spectrum of party policies in this country and be careful not to throw out any babies in a rush to get rid of all bathwater.

Both Jack and Connie IMO can – and should -- be supported, each appropriately. Each is in a different space, with different constituencies, different pressures and different opportunities. One size definitely does not fit all.

As Michael Parenti wrote of JFK’s policies opposed to the CIA and the Pentagon, his refusal to provide air coverage for the Bay of Pigs invasion, his overtures to Castro and Khruschev (and much more): “These things may not have been enough for some on the Left but they were far too much for many on the Right.”

Let us not devour those marching on a path much closer to our direction than the many forces of reaction.

I think there’s reasonable hope for the future, along with reasonable disappointment at how little legislators worldwide have done to date.

Thanks for listening."

Barrie Zwicker

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I personally would like to add that, that the grassroots 9/11 Truth movement is still very new and young in Canada. While have made great strides in the past year or so and have lots of momentum. To have this amount of recognition is a victory in itself.

Many of us have been at this for a long time, and the untold story of 9/11 has lingered since 2001, so the feelings of frustration are there and I share them, but at this stage, I too urge calm, diplomacy and civility and a measured and articulate response.

Please remember that a March on Ottawa is planned for September 2008 and many are working very hard on that. We hope that it will be well received, at very least by the NDP. With that in mind, please do keep the letters flowing and keep talking to your representatives in Parliament, but I echo Barrie's statement and urge restraint and good judgment when writing to Layton or NDP MPs and candidates. Let's put our best foot forward.

Consider too that popular musician / activist David Rovics turned against us due to the actions of a few people who hounded him zealously and rudely, and this is the risk we run when we become too confrontational.

We also saw this happen with comedian / political commentator Bill Maher.

Change is a process, and it begins with each of us individually. Let's be the change we want to see.

Wayne

(This has article has been circulated via e-mail with Barrie's comments to all groups in Canada)

PermaLink: http://911civilinfo.blogspot.com/2008/04/barrie-zwickers-statement-to-grassroots.html

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The following is my reply to an e-mail i received yesterday regarding the Zwicker-Layton article. For the benefit of others, i am posting it here:

"In all honesty, i do not hold out a lot of hope for Layton, the NDP or any other mainstream party and have little respect for them and this bogus little system we call "parliamentary democracy". I am not at all taken in by this illusion and was not even originally supportive of the March on Ottawa as you may recall. It is likely an exercise in futility, but i have decided, nonetheless, to get behind it, as it is one of the last things we can do, peacefully and can still do legally. So long as we try, there is still some hope.

I am as angry as anyone about 9/11 and as frustrated as anyone to be 7years into this and only be tossed the occasional crumb by some of these people. Layton's comments in Montreal were unacceptable to me and i will indeed be writing to him about that (as i hope others will), but my response will be diplomatic and factual, and not full of expletives and hate. I am NOT "giving him a pass on this". Because he opened the door, i am choosing to give him the benefit of the doubt, for now.

I am indeed in this movement on behalf of the victims of 9/11 and all others who have died or suffered in this fake war on terror or better stated, war of terror - and, like you, i would love nothing more than for this to end immediately. Realistically however, it won't.

We must indeed bring pressure to bear on those who are (or appear to be) in a position to do something about it, and we are doing that and doing it well. Layton has at least acknowledged us and the issue, so i will give credit where it is due - including to ourselves for what we have accomplished. He is also taking notice of the other politicians and celebrities etc worldwide who are speaking out and feeling pressure to come out more strongly - but should also feel more comfortable addressing what we have all been told is a "taboo" subject, because of them.

Do i think Layton will come out and say "9/11 was an inside job!" in the hallowed halls of parliament? Not bloody likely! Even if he knows it and feels that way, it would be political suicide. Or suicide period. But, with persistent, yet civil and articulation of facts, we will be putting him in a position where neither he nor others can discount and dismiss us as "whackjobs", and hopefully he will (and hopefully sooner than later) make a statement supporting the 9/11 victims (and war victims) and admitting that "9/11 was not sufficiently investigated; there are open questions and contradictions in the official story that require re-examination in a fair, unbiased manner and process in the interest of truth and justice - not politics" (or something like that). Is that not what we want?

Please do not equate civil and articulate dissent with "doing nothing". It has obviously been working. Nor should anyone construe being civil as "being nice for the sake of niceness" nor as "groveling or pandering to the gods". It is not, and that is not what i advocate. It is appealing to the human condition (both the person we are addressing, ourselves, as well as the spectators of the dance) with truth and love, and our dignity intact. We are "engaging" them, and engaging the spirit that is within them (and us) to do the honest and right thing, though they may not be naturally so inclined. We are also ensuring that our message is heard and not rejected out of hand based upon hateful behaviors or words, without hearing what we are actually trying to convey.

We are also ensuring that what we are doing cannot be spun by anyone to be used against us publicly to prevent others from hearing what we have to say.

At the moment, we still have these means at our disposal and should be exercising them. No where did i say to stop doing that, but rather, to step back for a minute and see the bigger picture and what we have accomplished. It is working and we need to continue on, while being careful not to shoot ourselves in the foot.

A door has been opened, even if only slightly. There is dialogue between the NDP and us, and amongst the NDP themselves. Layton admits that! Let's ensure it remains so as we continue to do our street actions, etc and awaken the masses. That will ensure that he cannot retreat.

There is no way that he (or others) will "honestly" be able to avoid the issue unless we give him (them) an excuse to do just that. If we play our cards right and he still tosses it all aside, then he will be exposing himself; his true colours and true allegiances.

Change is not up to them. It is up to us! We must be the change we want to see. They are just there to put a stamp on it on our behalf.

We can choose to live in a better world right now, in our own hearts and minds, regardless of how they choose to act. When we do that, we have already won.

If we are reactionary and allow others to push our buttons, and behave as they would like, or which is useful to them, then we have already lost."

Wayne

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. -- Arthur Schopenhauer"

4/15/2008

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Architect Richard Gage speaks in Vancouver, April 19th, 2008

citizen_wayne — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 01:21:37 GMT

The Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society presents Architect Richard Gage of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth - See: www.ae911truth.org to discuss what really happened at the WTC on 9/11 from his professional perspective.

Saturday, April 19th at 7pm,
Vancouver Public Library,
Alice McKay Room,

Get your tickets now! $8 presale / $ 10 at the door.
Ticket Reservations Tel/Fax: 604-608-5667

For more details, please go to: www.vancouver911truth.org/

NOTE: Mr. Gage will also be speaking in Victoria, BC on Sunday April 20th, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008 2-4pm at St. John the Divine Anglican Church, 1611 Quadra Street,
See www.vic911truth.org/ for more info

RELATED ARTICLE: Common Ground: April 2008

"Richard Gage 9/11 Architect - Blueprint for truth"

by Elizabeth Woodworth

http://commonground.ca/iss/201/cg201_blueprint.shtml

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Ralph Nader Supports New Independent Inquiry into 9/11

citizen_wayne — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:54:13 GMT

PETER’S NEW YORK, April 14, 2008--Ralph Nader, the consumer activist and independent presidential candidate, seems to think that the report of the commission assigned to investigate the events of 9-11 should not be the last word.

"There are unanswered questions in the 9-11 investigation, and they should be answered," Nader said at a recent address at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. "How do you go from plausibility to evidence? You have a more independent inquiry."

On the morning of September 11, 2001, airliners collided with each of the twin towers of New York City’s World Trade Center, after which they and a third nearby office building mysteriously collapsed. Other incidents on the same day at the Pentagon and in a field in Pennsylvania were also attributed to aircraft collisions. All were pitched by the government as the result of a terrorist conspiracy, although it is widely believed that the government may have played a direct role in orchestrating the events.

After public cries for an investigation, President George Bush and Congress deputized the 9-11 Commission, which issued its report in 2004. While the report was praised by some, critics contended that it was not much more than a government whitewash.

On another topic, Nader had kind words to say for presidential candidate, Ron Paul.

"Ron Paul is very good on foreign policy," he said. "He's a refreshing voice."

Nader also praised Paul for his outspoken opposition to the aggressive U.S. stance against Iran and the so-called “war-on-drugs.”

Paul is vying with John McCain for the Republican presidential nomination.

Nader’s remarks were made on April 4, and aired on C-SPAN today.

Original at http://www.petersnewyork.com/NADER.htm

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OK you lefties and greens, what will your excuse be now for not joining in the call for a new investigation ???

Will you concede finally that 9/11 Truth is the key to stopping the illegal wars ?

Or will you continue the useless protests that are mostly ignored while war and mass murder rages on ?

Will you continue to trust your phony leaders who tell you not to look at 9/11 ?

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U.N. Official Calls for Study Of Neocons' Role in 9/11

citizen_wayne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:30:23 GMT

By ELI LAKE,
New York Sun,
April 10, 2008 -

WASHINGTON — A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

On March 26, Richard Falk, Milbank professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, was named by unanimous vote to a newly created position to report on human rights in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. While Mr. Falk's specialty is human rights and international law, since the attacks in 2001, he has devoted some of his time to challenging what he calls the "9-11 official version."

On March 24 in an interview with a radio host and former University of Wisconsin instructor, Kevin Barrett, Mr. Falk said, "It is possibly true that especially the neoconservatives thought there was a situation in the country and in the world where something had to happen to wake up the American people. Whether they are innocent about the contention that they made that something happen or not, I don't think we can answer definitively at this point. All we can say is there is a lot of grounds for suspicion, there should be an official investigation of the sort the 9/11 commission did not engage in and that the failure to do these things is cheating the American people and in some sense the people of the world of a greater confidence in what really happened than they presently possess."

Mr. Barrett, who is the co-founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, said in an interview yesterday of Mr. Falk, "I would put him on a list of scholars who are sympathetic to the 9/11 truth movement."

He added, "Unlike most public intellectuals today, he is both honest and very, very knowledgeable in that he understands the probable reality of 9/11. He understands that the evidence that it was a false flag operation is very strong."

The narrative that the attacks from 2001 were a "false flag" operation is a recurring theme in the literature challenging the consensus that 19 Al Qaeda hijackers flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. False flag refers to espionage or covert actions taken by one government made to seem like the work of another. The false flag thesis has it that the Bush administration is somehow responsible for the September 11 attacks as a pretext for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mr. Falk yesterday did not return e-mails and phone calls asking for a comment. But in 2004 he wrote the foreword to the book "The New Pearl Harbor," by David Ray Griffin. Mr. Griffin has posited that such an inside job is the likely explanation for the attacks.

In the preface, Mr. Falk writes, "There have been questions raised here and there and allegations of official complicity made almost from the day of the attacks, especially in Europe, but no one until Griffin has had the patience, the fortitude, the courage, and the intelligence to put the pieces together in a single coherent account."

When asked for a comment about the appointment of Mr. Falk, a former American ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton said, "This is exactly why we voted against the new human rights council." A spokesman for the American embassy at the United Nations offered no comment yesterday when asked.

A spokeswoman at the United Nations, Nancy Groves, yesterday also declined to comment. "I would not make a comment on how the member states vote on appointments. It is their council, they make their decisions," she said.

Mr. Falk's selection to the post as rapporteur has already prompted the government of Israel formally to request that Mr. Falk not be sent to their country. The Israeli press has reported that he may even be barred from entering the country.

The deputy permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations in New York, Daniel Carmon said, "We are asking the U.N. not to send him. We cannot agree to Mr. Falk's entrance into Israel in his capacity as the rapporteur."

One reason the Israelis are concerned about his appointment is that Mr. Falk has compared Israel's treatment of Palestinian Arabs to the Nazi treatment of Jews in the holocaust. In an April 8 BBC interview, Mr. Falk said he stood by the Israel-Nazi comparison.

The national director of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, issued a statement yesterday saying, "This was clearly a singularly inappropriate choice for this position. Falk's startling record of anti-Israel prejudice should have been enough to preclude him from a position where an unbiased observer is needed to report on the status of human rights in the territories."

In a February 16, 1979, op-ed for the New York Times, Mr. Falk praised Ayatollah Khomeini and bemoaned his ill treatment in the American press. He wrote, "The depiction of him as fanatical, reactionary and the bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false."Nearly nine months later, student followers of Khomeini invaded the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 diplomats hostage for the following 444 days.

http://www2.nysun.com/article/74465

DIGG IT!! .... please

http://digg.com/world_news/U_N_Official_Calls_for_Study_Of_Neocons_Role_in_9_11

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Chertoff in Ottawa, says "fingerprints not private, can be shared by governments"

citizen_wayne — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:14 GMT

April 9th, 2008,
By The Canadian Press -

OTTAWA - The American homeland security czar says Canadians shouldn't fear plans for international sharing of biometric information like fingerprints.
Michael Chertoff says fingerprints are like footprints - "They're not particularly private."

The prospect of governments swapping the fingerprints of law-abiding citizens worries privacy advocates.

But Chertoff says officials need to make sure terrorists or criminals can't evade security by exploiting differences in Canadian and American practices.

Chertoff was in Ottawa today for a meeting with Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day on border security issues.

As of June 2009, only a passport or other acceptably secure document will be accepted at the U.S. border.

Chertoff says he's confident the countries can put in place a system of secure driver's licences before the deadline.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080409/national/chertoff_biometrics

I have tried to post the following dissenting comment to the article, but keep getting a message saying "We're having problems with our servers, please try again later". Yeah sure! I wonder what would happen if i praised it?

If you have a Yahoo account, you may want to try and post something too as with key words and phrases that people can research. I don't think they allow URLs (links).

My Message:

Screw you Big Brother and your biometric I.D.s to keep us "safe" from Emmanuel Goldstein! Is this 2008 or 1984?

This is all predicated upon the False Flag Operation / PsyOp known as 9/11 to bring in SPP / NAU to merge our countries. Figure out who the real terrorists are. This is globalization for corporate interests who care nothing about our national security or our rights and freedoms. You don't have to be a rocket scientist but even some of them agree. Google: "patriots question 9/11"

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