Sniffing Out The Higher Truth

Video of rooftop helicopter rescue in Japan's tsunami-hit town

2011-03-13T11:08:00.002-04:00

9500 People Missing In ONE Japanese Coastal Town

2011-03-13T10:47:00.001-04:00

Tent cities in America - here's one of them, complete with photos

2011-03-13T10:23:00.002-04:00

While Americans argue amongst themselves over wages, union bargaining rights, government spending, monetary easing, and a host of other issues, including who’s to blame for the country’s malaise, Minister Brigham and his community trudge on, despite what’s happening outside of their neighborhood microcosm. As millions struggle to hold on to the American Dream, the residents of this New Jersey “Tent City” have already experienced loss, and the emotional roller coaster that inevitably follows. They’ve gone through the first four stages of loss – denial, anger, bargaining, depression. In a situation where everything has been lost, and hope seemingly doesn’t exist, only the fifth stage, acceptance, becomes applicable. These individuals and families have accepted what has happened, and understand that they have a choice. Either give up and wallow in regret and blame. Or, empower oneself, and those around you, and move forward by whatever means are available.

A Visit to an American Tent City
Mac Slavo, March 11, 2011

Jared Loughner: new charges

2011-03-06T11:01:00.003-05:00

A federal grand jury handed up a lengthy superseding indictment against shooting suspect Jared Loughner, accusing him of a variety of federal crimes in the Jan. 8 melee outside a Tucson-area supermarket that left six dead and 13 wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

In an unexpected development, the new indictment includes 49 counts stemming from crimes against all of the victims, rather than solely those five victims who were federal employees.

Feds' new indictment charges Loughner with 49 counts
Michael Kiefer, The Arizona Republic, March 5, 2011

Sounds like a clear case of federal overreach. Mr Loughner stands accused of commiting multiple counts of Murder One which is a capital offense in Arizona. Yet the Feds want to take control right from the get-go.

Jobs may be out there but they don't pay

2011-03-05T23:43:00.002-05:00

But to get to the most important trend you have to dig under the job numbers and look at what kind of new jobs are being created. That’s where the big problem lies.

The National Employment Law Project did just that. Its new data brief shows that most of the new jobs created since February 2010 (about 1.26 million) pay significantly lower wages than the jobs lost (8.4 million) between January 2008 and February 2010.

While the biggest losses were higher-wage jobs paying an average of $19.05 to $31.40 an hour, the biggest gains have been lower-wage jobs paying an average of $9.03 to $12.91 an hour.

In other words, the big news isn’t jobs. It’s wages.

For several years now, conservative economists have blamed high unemployment on the purported fact that many Americans have priced themselves out of the global/high-tech jobs market.

So if we want more jobs, they say, we’ll need to take pay and benefit cuts.

And that’s exactly what Americans have been doing.

Employers have demanded wage and benefit concessions from their unionized workers and often got them. Detroit is creating auto jobs again — but new hires are getting about half the pay that auto workers were getting before. Airline workers are taking home 30 to 50 percent less than they did years ago. And so on.

The Real News on Jobs
Robert Reich, Truthout, March 4, 2011

This matches perfectly with this author's everyday impressions. There seems to be an awful lot of service jobs around which pay wages at around $10 per hour. Quite laughable especially in large metropolitan areas. And by "laughable" I certainly don't mean "funny".

For now what we seems to be doing is just watching the people lose their faith in honest work, lose their hope, their work ethics... What's next? A crime wave? Riots in the streets? Police oppression? All of the above?

Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security

2011-02-21T08:37:00.005-05:00

“Dennis would always say, ‘My technology is real, and it’s worth a fortune,’ ” recounted Steve Crisman, a filmmaker who oversaw business operations for Mr. Montgomery and a partner until a few years ago. “In the end, I’m convinced it wasn’t real.”

Government officials, with billions of dollars in new counterterrorism financing after Sept. 11, eagerly embraced the promise of new tools against militants.

C.I.A. officials, though, came to believe that Mr. Montgomery’s technology was fake in 2003, but their conclusions apparently were not relayed to the military’s Special Operations Command, which had contracted with his firm. In 2006, F.B.I. investigators were told by co-workers of Mr. Montgomery that he had repeatedly doctored test results at presentations for government officials. But Mr. Montgomery still landed more business.

In 2009, the Air Force approved a $3 million deal for his technology, even though a contracting officer acknowledged that other agencies were skeptical about the software, according to e-mails obtained by The New York Times.

Hiding Details of Dubious Deal, U.S. Invokes National Security
Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, New York Times, February 19, 2011

Now this is a real gem. What were Mr Montgomery's technology credentials? How was the effort overseen and supervised? I obviously wouldn't know but as someone who spent close to 3 years as a government parasite I wouldn't be surprised if no one in the government ever read a line of computer code this supposed "security expert" wrote.

So that joker collected millions off Joe The Taxpayer? Good for him - that's what suckers are for! What he did wrong was gamble it away - he should've just stashed it in some safe offshore haven and he would've now been looking at lounging on the beach as opposed to facing charges and dealing with all those legal problems.

Also note the government officials' ubiquitous use of national security as a way to keep things out of public scrutiny. Things being what they are, I am surprised we ever learned of the Deepwater Horizon disaster among other things. So perhaps I should keep quiet about this sort of thing lest our servants and protectors get some funny ideas.

Doctors engaged in widespread medical fraud at Madison protests with fake doctor's notes

2011-02-21T08:10:00.003-05:00

If you're an eighth grader and you show up to school with a fake doctor's note excusing your suspicious absence the day before, you would probably face detention or some other punishment, including a possible investigation for truancy. But if you're a teacher and you call in "sick" with a fake doctor's note handed to you at a protest in Madison, Wisconsin, then that's apparently okay... because that's what countless public school teachers have been doing the past week.

Masterminding the effort are rogue medical doctors committing medical fraud by carrying out obviously contrived conversations with protestors then writing them doctors' notes to excuse them from work for such things as "fatigue" or "emotional stress."

What we have, then, is a tag team of fraud: The teachers who have abandoned their public duties and abandoned their students by calling in "sick," and the medical doctors who are promoting the whole charade by pretending to diagnose these teachers with some sort of ailment that gets them off the hook.

This sends a really powerful message back home to all the students in the Madison public school system: "Do as we say, not as we do."

Doctors engaged in widespread medical fraud at Madison protests with fake doctor's notes
Mike Adams, Natural News, February 20, 2011

545 vs. 300,000,000 People - By Charlie Reese

2011-02-21T08:03:00.003-05:00

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

545 vs. 300,000,000 People - By Charlie Reese
This is billed as Charlie Reese's final column. I don't know whether it is or not - but it certainly is an all-time classic. Few people can match Reese in clarity of thought.

And yes, do check out this poem, allegedly also penned by Reese:

Tax his land,
Tax his bed,
Tax the table,
At which he's fed.

Tax his tractor,
Tax his mule,
Teach him taxes
Are the rule.

Tax his work,
Tax his pay,
He works for
peanuts anyway!

Tax his cow,
Tax his goat,
Tax his pants,
Tax his coat.

Tax his ties,
Tax his shirt,
Tax his work,
Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco,
Tax his drink,
Tax him if he
Tries to think.

Tax his cigars,
Tax his beers,
If he cries
Tax his tears.

Tax his car,
Tax his gas,
Find other ways
To tax his ass.

Tax all he has
Then let him know
That you won't be done
Till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers;
Then tax him some more,
Tax him till
He's good and sore.

Then tax his coffin,
Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in
Which he's laid...

Put these words
Upon his tomb,
'Taxes drove me
to my doom...'

When he's gone,
Do not relax,
Its time to apply
The inheritance tax.

A typical "guns are awful" article

2010-02-11T23:53:00.004-05:00

So you're at your neighborhood Starbucks, maybe with your kids, and you notice a man sitting at the next table with a revolver strapped to his waist. The man next to him has a pistol. In fact, you realize as you look around, there's a table full of gun-toting customers just a few feet away, sipping coffee and doing nothing to conceal their deadly weapons. Aside from steering clear -- or else getting the hell out of there -- what can an unarmed citizen do?

Starbucks' Cop-Out to Gun Nuts: Customers Served Coffee While Strapped
Liliana Segura, AlterNet, 9 February 2010

Note the way the whole debate is being framed: you can either "steer clear" or "get the hell out of there". Well, I can see several other options - such as realize that you may just have found yourself the safest spot within 20 miles to have your cup of coffee.

Clarification: I am not saying that the presence of weapons always makes a location more secure. I am most certainly not attempting to state the reverse either. I am just attempting to show that articles like that are based on assumptions that are not grounded in factual reality.

Northeast 9/11 Truth Conference

2010-01-29T05:30:00.002-05:00

Via an e-mail distribution.
Boris Epstein

Northeast 9/11 Truth Conference

January 31, 2010

10:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Boston, Massachusetts

Encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Avenue, 5^th floor

(near corner of Harrison and Beach; 5 minute walk from either the Orange Line Chinatown T stop or the Green Line Boylston T stop)

Registration Donation to Defray Expenses: $10

Call Richard Krushnic (617-276-7839) or Chris Gruener (617-965-6552) to preregister—preregistration appreciated.

Schedule

10:00 – 10:45 Registration, Brunch

10:45 – 11:00 Discussion of revisions to the following suggested agenda.

11:00 – 11:30 Evaluation of the previous day’s New England Regional Antiwar Strategy Conference and the participation of 9/11 Truth advocates in the conference.

11:30 --1:30 Hearing From Each Other: Short presentations of varying lengths, with brief questions and discussion following each presentation.

1:30 – 1:50 Break, Snacks

1:50 – 2:35 General discussion: Where does 9/11 Truth go from here?

2:35 – 3:20 General discussion, kicked off by Lenny Mather of the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth and Justice and Bill Woodward of Seacoast 9/11 Truth: Organizing a Northeast 9/11 Truth Network and mutual support organization.

3:20 – 4:00 Open. Use of this time will be decided during the proceedings of the conference.

Presenters in the “Hearing From Each Other” part of the program:

This list of presenters is open to change, and the topics listed below are suggested topics, also open to change. In some cases the presenters have agreed to the topics, in others they may decide to alter their presentation. If you would like to have a topic or a presenter included, that can be proposed at the conference, but it would be appreciated if you would send in your suggestion in advance to rkrushnic@gmail.com.

Paul Zarembka, professor of Political Economy, SUNY Buffalo, ed. The Hidden History of 9/11:

The erroneous presentation of the “Institutional Analysis” debunking of 9/11

Truth as presented by Noam Chomsky and Michael Alpert, and the absurd “guilt by association” debunking of 9/11 Truth by Chip Brulet. Paul will also comment on 9/11 Truth in Buffalo.

Barrie Zwicker, editor of Global Outlook, producer of first documentary questioning the official version of 9/11, aired on Canadian TV. Barrie lives in Toronto.

Overview of 9/11 Truth in Canada. Mass Media and 9/11 Truth in Canada.

Peter Dale Scott, author of The Road to 9/11, and many books on “deep politics”—the covert operations and secret strategies of the ruling corporate and government elite, including the assassination of President Kennedy and other assassinations, and US Government involvement in and regulation of the global illegal narcotics trade.

Vice President Cheney’s role in 9/11. What will the next false flag operations be? Thoughts on where 9/11 Truth should go from here.

Bill Woodward, professor of Psychology at University of New Hampshire, leader of Seacoast 9/11 Truth.

Overview of Seacoast 9/11 Truth. Experience of a public university professor fighting to speak out and keep his job.

Alfonse Olszewski, founder of Veterans for 9/11 Truth. Alfonse lives in St. Louis, MO.

Overview of Veterans for 9/11 Truth.

Conal Foley, member of Smedley Brigade of Vets for Peace, operator of a Winthrop, Mass. Cable TV weekly 9/11 Truth program for four years.

The experience of operating a weekly local 9/11 Truth TV program for four years.

Sander Hicks, Canvassing Director for NYCCAN (New York City Coalition for Accountability Now), author of The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistleblowers, and the cover-Up, producer and interviewer for TV program INN World Report (look Sander up on Wikipedia).

Review of NYCCAN’s efforts to get a truly independent New York City investigagion of the events surrounding 9/11, until Sander left NYCCAN in 2009. Where to from here?

Chris Gruener, founder of the Greater Boston Alliance for 9/11 Truth and Justice, psychotherapist.

Overview of Greater Boston 9/11 Truth.

In addition to the above, we hope that we can hear from some or all of the following, who are not yet confirmed for participation:

Wayne Madsen, author of the blog Wayne Madsen Report, and Washington, DC-based free-lance journalist, whose articles have appeared in many key regional newspapers. Former Navy anti-submarine warfare officer. Following his Navy career he worked on National Security Administration contracts for RCA Corp. and the US State Dept., among others (look him up on Wikepedia).

False flag operations, viewed by a former military and intelligence insider.

Barry Kissin, Attorney living in Frederick, Maryland, location of Fort Detrick, US Army Research Labs.

The post-9/11 Anthrax false-flag operation by the Army’s Fort Detrick Labs. What’s it like to publicly debate the District Attorney regarding a front-page news false flag operation?

Gerhard Bedding, from Keen, New Hampshire, leader of Monadnock 9/11 Truth.

Overview of Monadnock 9/11 Truth.

Danny Schechter, author of Embedded: Weapons of Mass Deception. "The News Dissector," is an independent filmmaker, writer and activist who specializes in economic and media issues. He is executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the world's largest online media issues online network. Produces the News Dissector Blog. He spent many years in Boston area media at WBCN, WGBH, and WCVB. He worked for CNN and ABC News, has written ll books on social and political issues, and directed 30 documentaries including his latest, Plunder: The Crime of Our Time, on the financial crisis as a crime story.

What has this all-around media activist been able to say through the media about 9/11? Can 9/11 Truth break through the not-online mass media wall?

NOTE: This Northeast 9/11 Truth Conference on Sunday at Encuentro 5 in Chinatown follows the New England Regional Antiwar Conference on Saturday at MIT. Some Presenters are presenting in both Conferences.

A Few Bios Follow:

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(This page, and my Curriculum Vitae, are not copyrighted. They are available for legitimate public use or reproduction, though not for private gain.)

For those primarily interested in my recent political prose, go to My Politics webpage, formerly entitled "Iraq, al-Qaeda, 9/11". For those primarily interested in my poetry, go to My Selected Writings webpage. In fact the two genres inter-relate, as exhibited by both my most important prose book, The Road to 9/11, and my most important book of poetry, Minding the Darkness.

Click here to learn about a symposium, two all-day seminars on my work, and a poetry reading on March 13, 14, 17, and 20, at the Open Center, 22 East 30th Street, New York, Ny 10016.

Biography

Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is a poet, writer, and researcher. He was born in Montreal in 1929, the only son of the poet F.R. Scott and the painter Marian Scott. He is married to Ronna Kabatznick; and he has three children, Cassie, Mika, and John Scott, by a previous marriage to Maylie Marshall.

His prose books include The War Conspiracy (1972), The Assassinations: Dallas and Beyond (in collaboration, 1976), Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia, and the Dallas-Watergate Connection (1977), The Iran-Contra Connection (in collaboration, 1987), Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America (in collaboration, 1991, 1998), Deep Politics and the Death of JFK (1993, 1996), Deep Politics Two (1994, 1995, 2006), Drugs Oil and War (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, March 2003), The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), and The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War (Ipswich, MA: Mary Ferrell Foundation Press, 2008).

His chief poetry books are the three volumes of his trilogy Seculum: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem About Terror (1989), Listening to the Candle: A Poem on Impulse (1992), and Minding the Darkness: A Poem for the Year 2000. In addition he has published Crossing Borders: Selected Shorter Poems (1994), published in Canada as Murmur of the Stars. In November 2002 he was awarded the Lannan Poetry Award. A new book of poems, Mosaic Orpheus, will appear in Spring 2009 from McGill-Queen's University Press.

An anti-war speaker during the Vietnam and Gulf Wars, he was a co-founder of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at UC Berkeley, and of the Coalition on Political Assassinations (COPA).

His poetry has dealt with both his experience and his research, the latter of which has centered on U.S. covert operations, their impact on democracy at home and abroad, and their relations to the John F. Kennedy assassination and the global drug traffic. The poet-critic Robert Hass has written (Agni, 31/32, p. 335) that "Coming to Jakarta is the most important political poem to appear in the English language in a very long time."

If you have any comments or questions, I would be glad to hear from you at pdscottweb@hotmail.com.

Please click here if you have written to me and failed to receive a reply.

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I do believe that international public opinion, when it becomes powerful enough, will become the most effective restraint to the excesses and follies of particular governments.

Barrie Zwicker

An esteemed Canadian [author, broadcaster, investigative journalist and media critic] since at least 1970, Barrie Zwicker was born in Nova Scotia in 1934, but was raised in rural Manitoba (very near the provincial boundary with Saskatchewan); he began his journalism career working for his local paper from the age of 16, right in the tiny hamlet of Russell, Manitoba.

Thereafter, he studied journalism in college at the University of Michigan (in Ann Arbor), and in 1967 earned a Southam Fellowship, which allowed him to work directly with the great pioneer of media analysis, Marshall McLuhan, renowned author of "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man" (in which the phrase was first introduced, "the 'Medium is the Message' "), at St. Michael's College in Toronto.

From St. Michael's College, he went on to a series of staff-writing assignments in both the U.S. and Canada, including The Toronto Globe and Mail; the Toronto Star; the Vancouver Province; the Sudbury Star; the Detroit News and the Lansing State Journal. During his seven years in Toronto with the Globe and Mail, he won numerous awards with the Education Writers' Association of North America.

For seven years, Zwicker taught a course at Ryerson University in Toronto, on "Media and Society."

For the better part of 15 years, that is from the inception of the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's "Vision TV" in the fall of 1988, until 2003, Barrie Zwicker was the program's in-house, resident "media critic." In the 2001-2002 TV season, Zwicker hosted VisionTV's "Insight: the 'MediaFile' Edition" (a weekly half-hour commercial-free alternative look at the media), moderated its media panel, and provided commentary for each program. Six of his "MediaFile" commentaries that season -- a series titled "What Really Happened on Sept. 11th?" - made him the very first mainstream television journalist in the world, to go on air and [deeply question] the official story of the events of September 11th. The commentaries elicited the greatest response of any programming in the channel's history, which was literally 99% positive. The series became known as "The Great Deception," and was released on video under that title. The updated version (available on VHS and DVD) contains seven segments.

Understandably, he's drawn widespread comparisons to Michael Moore, having in common their mutual penchant for strongly articulating outspoken viewpoints, and for his similar approach to documentary film-making.

He was the very first journalist from the mainstream press (on either side of the U.S./Canadian border) to have voiced an opinion (during a live broadcast) that, the "Terrorist Attacks of Sept. 11th were indeed (and in fact) an inside job" when, on January 21st, 2002, and on national (Canadian) television, he challenged both the U.S. & Canadian media to inquire, and to focus upon.... the following unasked questions:

* Why didn't the president give any orders for 140 minutes after the first plane had been hijacked?

* Why didn't he make a statement in the first 165 minutes after the first plane had been hijacked?

* Why did not a single American Air Force plane make a single interception during these two hours?

In 2002, Zwicker's first documentary on 9/11 aired on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation's "Vision TV." Titled, "The Great Deception," it was the first North American documentary, critical of the mainstream media's "public" discussion about 9/11.

"The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw," is a 70-minute [sequel] to what was his earlier-produced "The Great Deception." This film premiered at the The Citizens' Commission on 9-11.

In this work, Zwicker contends that "fear" was the tool systematically employed, by which the aftermath of the public's reaction to the events of 9/11 was stage-managed, manipulated and controlled, and argues that the "War on Terror" is indeed a "mechanism," or strategic ploy, by recourse to which the actual perpetrators have undertaken a transformation of all the most fundamental, of our socio-economic and political circumstances by which to implement an agenda, to accelerate plans for their own widespread, deep and long-lasting social and political control. He also analyses the military failures and breakdowns on the day of 9/11, and observes how strangely and inappropriately the president and his aides had acted, that entire day. Throughout, mainstream media is held to account for being either compliant with, or complicit in.... systematic, willful and calculated deceit of the general public.

This film was followed by another documentary he made (and which was released in 2004), titled "Deep Complicity: 9/11 and The Media."

His book, "Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-up of 9/11," was published by New Society Publishers in September of 2006.

"Even skeptics like myself will find much in Barrie Zwicker's book to ponder, enjoy and, yes even embrace. Interestingly researched and well written, a valuable aid to correct thinking about conspiracy theory." - Michael Parenti, author of "Culture Struggle and The Assassination of Julius Caesar."

Zwicker was also involved (as the host) in the video documentary called, "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream," first broadcast on VisionTV, and earned a number of awards from local film and video festivals, for his contributions.

* In 1977, Zwicker created a directory of contacts for editors, reporters and researchers, called Sources; and, in 1994, a Canadian government directory called Parliamentary Names & Numbers. He subsequently sold them in 1999.

* In 1996, he founded a media relations newsletter and Web site called HotLink.

* In 1991, he was awarded an honorary membership in the Media Club of Canada.

* Zwicker is also the director of an alternative information web site, 911inquiry.org

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Exactly six months after September 11th, Barrie Zwicker remarked during a live (national) broadcast on VisionTV, i.e., on live national (Canadian) television,

broadcast March 11th, 2002,

and which may be found at:

http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/Prog_Archives/GreatDeception/ArchiveMarch11.html

All printed transcripts from "The Great Deception: What really happened on Sept. 11, 2001," which aired on CBC's VisionTV program called "Insight Media," and was regularly hosted by Barrie Zwicker, who was their in-house "Media Analyst,"

are available online from the website of VisionTV....

which may be found at:

http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/prog_archives_greatdeception.html .

Part One from this transcript,

may be found at:

http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/Prog_Archives/GreatDeception/Archive1.html

Part Two from this transcript,

may be found at:

http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/Prog_Archives/GreatDeception/Archive2.html

Part Three from this transcript,

may be found at:

http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/Prog_Archives/GreatDeception/Archive3.html

Part Four from this transcript,

may be found at:

http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/Prog_Archives/GreatDeception/Archive4.html

Part Five from this transcript,

may be found at:

http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/Prog_Archives/GreatDeception/Archive5.html

Part Six from this transcript,

may be found at:

http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/Prog_Archives/GreatDeception/Archive6.html

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An article about Zwicker's program on CBC's VisionTV was published in the Toronto Star, May 11th, 2003,

which then reappeared on the Common Dreams website,

and may be found at:

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0511-04.htm

Paul Zarembka

Paul Zarembka is a professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Since 1977, he's been the general editor for a series of volumes, called "Research in Political Economy"; he's authored "Toward a Theory of Economic Development"; edited "Frontiers in Econometrics"; and he co-edited a volume titled, "Essays in Modern Capital Theory."

The text is pasted below, which is taken from both the "Abstract" and the "Introduction," appearing on the draft of a paper which is dated this past October 17th (2009), which along with his co-author he recently presented at the annual conference (held in Amherst, Mass. this past Nov. 5th - 8th) which was sponsored by the journal "Rethinking Marxism"; this paper was co-authored by Dr. Zarembka (who's a Political Economist in the Economics Department with "S.U.N.Y." at Buffalo), along with Canadian (fellow Marxist) Sociology Professor, David MacGregor (who's with the University of Western Ontario in London) - the title of their paper is: "Marxism, Conspiracy, and 9/11."

The "Abstract" for the paper ("Marxism, Conspiracy, and 9/11"), follows below:

While left commentators typically agree on the convenience for the U.S. ruling class of the outcomes of 9-11, such as the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq and the demonization of the wider Muslim world, many are unwilling to question whether the attacks actually conformed to officially validated accounts. After recalling a prescient comment by Adam Smith that capitalist interests habitually engage in secret combinations, this paper discusses Karl Marx's account of the hidden machinations behind the rise of Louis Napoleon, an understanding now widely accepted but not at the time. Three twentieth-century examples of a public/conspiratorial dichotomy of state actions are then surveyed -- the role of British bankers in the rise of Hitler, the failed attempt to overthrow President Roosevelt, and the work of Peter Dale Scott regarding the JFK assassination.

The paper thus becomes prepared to review evidence about 9-11, evidence that has cast significant doubt toward the official version. The authors give particular attention to the collapses of three WTC buildings, the numerous war games that were scheduled for the same day, and the evidence regarding the identities of the alleged hijackers. The authors also note how Marxist theory contends that the state operates in the interest of the dominant economic class, yet fails in containing an articulated conceptual distinction between acts of the state that are public and open to direct investigation, and those that are concealed, secret, and indeed conspiratorial.

A few paragraphs from his "Introduction" are next

(Quoting first, from Adam Smith):

"Back at the time of the initiation of the American Revolution against British colonialism, Adam Smith presciently commented that...."

....The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are disposed to combine in order to raise, the latter in order to lower the wages of labour. It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must, upon all ordinary occasions, have the advantage in the dispute, and force the other into a compliance with their terms. The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily; and the law, besides, authorities, or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen....

We rarely hear, it has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of workmen. But whoever imagines, upon this account, that masters rarely combine, is as ignorant of the world as of the subject. Masters are always and every where in a sort of tacit, but constant and uniform combination, not to raise the wages of labour above their actual rate. To violate this combination is every where a most unpopular action, and a sort of reproach to a master among his neighbors and equals. We seldom, indeed, hear of this combination, because it is the usual, and one may say, the natural state of things which nobody ever hears of. Masters too sometimes enter into particular combinations to sink the wages of labour even below this rate. These are always conducted with the utmost silence and secrecy, till the moment of execution, and when the workmen yield, as they sometimes do, without resistance, though severely felt by them, they are never heard of by other people. Such combinations, however, are frequently resisted by a contrary defensive combination of the workmen; who sometimes too, without any provocation of this kind, combine of their own accord to raise the price of their labour. Their usual pretenses are, sometimes the high price of provisions; sometimes the great profit which their masters make by their work. But whether their combinations be offensive or defensive, they are always abundantly heard of. In order to bring the point to a speedy decision, they have always recourse to the loudest clamor, and sometimes to the most shocking violence and outrage. They are desperate, and act with the folly and extravagance of desperate men, who must either starve, or frighten their masters into an immediate compliance with their demands...."

The above citation is sourced at:

http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN3.html#B.I,

Ch. 8, "Of the Wages of Labour" (paragraphs 11, 12, and 13)

Dr. Zarembka then amplifies below:

What can be noticed in Smith is the observation that owners and workers both combine, but owners do so in secret, while workers do not. Thus, workers are not in fact "conspiring" (acting together in secret), while capitalists do "conspire." If Smith's understanding of the class practices is correct, we can say that general opposition to theories of a conspiracy, without considering the merits of a particular argumentation, is a bourgeois construct. That is, the bourgeoisie recognizes that workers do not conspire (as the word is understood) yet take care to ascribe - to ideologist - the same non-conspiracy to themselves. This ideological works most effectively with those who don't experience working-class life and its direct experience of hostility from the capitalist class, i.e., the petit bourgeoisie (including the academic world).

Like all major terrorist incidents, 9-11 sustained social re-direction by instilling widespread fear in the public and inviting retaliation against an alleged enemy. 225 years after Smith remarked upon secret collusions by capitalists, the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., were presented as motivation for retaliatory military adventures, and an ideological campaign that transformed the social and political landscape. Besides dissolving the anti-globalization movement, so strong after Seattle, these attacks made possible a sequence of events that conformed to prior plans set forward by the Bush II White House and its affiliated right-wing think tanks. The plans included encirclement and isolation of Russia and establishment of an American bulwark in Muslim-dominated areas of the globe, including Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran. The project is an extension of US support for the mujaheddin, which, under President Reagan, helped topple the Soviet Union and, during the Bush I and Clinton Administrations, assisted in dismembering and ultimately destroying Yugoslavia. However, given the unsatisfactory character of the official story, the evidence regarding 9-11 has also sustained the charge that it was a form of state terror, a 'false flag' terrorist event that one of us has elsewhere called Machiavellian state terror (MacGregor 2008).

Distance from the version proselytized by U.S state is not a calling card of many "left" U.S. publications. In a 2006 issue, the otherwise critical journal CounterPunch announced that it would not contemplate carrying articles that deny the official story of 9-11, and labeled those who questioned the official story as "conspiracy nuts." Thus, an important left periodical made belief in Washington's account of the fall of the Twin Towers the gold standard for oppositional thought. Rolling Stone pointed readers to one of its own authors dismissing alternative versions of 9-11 as "clinically insane" (see Taibbi, 2006). "Enough of the 9/11 conspiracy theories, already" admonishes Matthew Rothschild (2006), editor of The Progressive. Terry Allen (2006), for In These Times, makes an astonishing comparison to HIV and AIDS: those "who deny that HIV is responsible for AIDS, for example, have contributed to unnecessary infections and deaths." Responding to such presentations, Barrie Zwicker (2006, pp. 190-224) considers the lamentable record of left icon Noam Chomsky (and his multitudinous followers) who denies any problems with the standard narrative of the events of 9-11. Chomsky's resistance to alternative perspectives on the terror attack on the U.S. recalls his stubborn, decades-long battle against critics of the 1964 Warren Report on the assassination of President Kennedy -- an event many compare in its world-historical significance to the 2001 aerial attack on New York and Washington.

Marxist theory of the state has always understood that the state operates in the interest of the dominant economic class, whether the approach has been an instrumentalist view or a structuralist perspective (the latter originating most clearly from the work of Nicos Poulantzas, 1968 and 1970). However, it has no articulated conceptual distinction between acts of the state that are public and open to direct investigation, and acts of the state that are concealed, secret, and indeed conspiratorial. While Marxist commentators typically agree with the outcomes of 9-11 mentioned above, many are unwilling to grant that 9-11 occurred in a manner not officially validated by US authorities, that is, they dismiss the possibility of a conspiracy by the capitalists and its state. While the terrorism on 9-11 offered a reason for US military-state action, it is not investigated as a product of the state apparatus itself. Yet, if Marxism had already included a conceptual distinction between the public and the conspiratorial, at least study of the two possibilities could have become a mandated research topic, whatever the conclusion reached.

Actually, Marx himself was sensitive to the conspiratorial. The most famous example, which we describe in our first section, is Marx's riveting yet under-appreciated account of the rise to power of Louis Napoleon in which there clearly emerges a profound distinction between the public and the conspiratorial. The second section of this paper mentions three twentieth-century examples of the conspiratorial aspect of state actions, the conspiratorial background to the rise of Hitler, the failed attempt to overthrow President Roosevelt in 1933-34, and Scott's (1993) study of the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy introducing his concept of 'deep politics.' Finally, we turn to 9-11 and discuss the some of the overwhelming evidence for state-sponsored terrorism....

1. Marx and Conspiracy

There is hardly space here to provide a fully detailed account of Marx’s recognition of a public/conspiratorial divide, although his work relies partly on a conspiratorial approach to government. Symptomatically, Marx himself warmly embraced one of the most fantastic conspiracy theories of his day, that Lord Palmerston, the charismatic English Foreign Secretary, was a Russian agent who sought to extend Czarist influence during his long term of office. And the fundamental Marxist notion that the capitalist state itself is a masked form of bourgeois rule, a covert meeting of minds among landed property owners, financiers and industrialists to monopolize the means of power, hints rather strongly at conspiracy.

The clearest example of Marx's methodological approach to the public/conspiratorial divide may be his classic, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon." Every page in this account is concerned with covert machinations among various political contenders for power in France but the most prominent motif is the conscious intent of Louis Napoleon and his lumpen-proletarian followers, from the beginning, to bring about, by whatever illegal and covert means, the fall of republican rule in France and its replacement by a dictatorship. Although we now take this conspiracy for granted, given the persuasiveness of Marx's account, it was hardly the conventional view of the period. As Marx points out, one of the most influential voices of the time, the London Economist, portrayed Louis Napoleon as a staunch defender of parliamentary governance who, against his own better judgment, was forced by events beyond his control to seize the helm. While it is true that Marx's chronology of parliamentary seizure relies on a sophisticated and then-unrivaled appreciation of complex social class forces at work in France, especially the cowardice of various factions among the parliamentary bourgeoisie, the dark, conspiratorial figure of Louis Napoleon is an overwhelming presence....

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Buffalo is home to three State University of New York (S.U.N.Y.) institutions. Combined, they account for roughly 40,000 students in the area.

Following are links for two pages from the Wikipedia, that are specific to Paul Zarembka's academic institution, S.U.N.Y. (the State University of New York) at Buffalo,

which may be found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_University_of_New_York

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_at_Buffalo,_The_State_University_of_New_York

Next is the official website of S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo,

which may be found at:

http://www.buffalo.edu/

Here's a link for the webpage of the Department of Economics for S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo,

which may be found at:

http://www.economics.buffalo.edu/

Next is a link for a (*.pdf) map of the "North Campus" (location of the Econ. Dept. at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo), separate from both the "South Campus," and the "Downtown Campus,"

which may be found at:

http://www.buffalo.edu/buildings/maps/NorthCampus.pdf

Then we have a link for Paul Zarembka's own "Faculty Profile" page, in the Department of Economics with S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo,

which may be found at:

http://www.economics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/zarembka/

Next are links for Paul Zarembka's own author page on the university's website that's dedicated to the Department of Economics, for S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo,

which may be found at:

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~zarembka/

http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~zarembka/7S9-11.htm

Danny Schechter

"the News Dissector," is an independent filmmaker, writer and activist who specializes in economic and media issues. He is executive editor of MediaChannel.org, the world's largest online media issues online network, and recipient of many awards including one for his News Dissector Blog. He spent many years in Boston area media at WBCN, WGBH, and WCVB. He worked for CNN and ABC News, has written ll books on social and political issues, and directed 30 documentaries including his latest, Plunder: The Crime of Our Time, on the financial crisis as a crime story.

Oh the heights of irony...

2009-10-12T10:24:00.004-04:00

Supposed experts interviewed by ABC News claim it is unethical to refuse the vaccine. “Does Americans’ right to determine what is best for themselves and their families trump the federal government’s efforts to head off what it believes could be a flu pandemic?” writes Patrick Jonsson for ABC News. “The US government says it has no intention of forcing vaccinations, but its entire flu strategy could be undermined – endangering public health, they say – if a substantial portion of the US population opts out of the $3 billion program.”

The corporate media’s own polls reveal that around two-thirds of parents have serious reservations about the vaccines’ effectiveness and safety. Millions of people simply distrust the government and do not buy into the propaganda.

“Many of the concerns by parents are based on the perception that this vaccine has been rushed into production and may not be safe,” Tom Skinner, a CDC spokesman, told Fox News. “We understand parents’ concerns – they want what is best for their children. We often tell people the best antidote for fear is information. And we ask them to really seek out sound and reliable information from sources they trust.”

According to the CDC, parents need to stop listening to a large number of doctors and virologists who say the vaccines are dangerous and instead get their information exclusively from the corporate media.

Corporate Media: Is Not Taking the Vaccine Unethical?
Kurt Nimmo, Infowars, October 12, 2009

I honestly don't even know where to begin... So the same media outlets that for years have been lying about things they did report on while covering up other things they had an obvious ethical obligation to report on are now trying to tell me what's ethical and what is not. The same people who have no problem quoting unnamed anonymous sources as if their words were the Gospel are now trying to teach me ethics.

Hey, ABC, where were you for Ellen Mariani? Because, see, your viewers may have cared to know that some of the victims of the crime of the century were less than happy about the story they were told about that crime. They may have also cared to know that the most serious post-9/11 terror attack on the US soil was planned not by a Muslim group but by American-born White anti-government extremists. Or those of your viewers who are concerned about their finances -and who isn't? - might want to know what their money is really worth. To that end would be nice of you to try and give them an idea as to what the Federal Reserve is all about. Strangely, I can not recall you ever covering the topic.

Just to clarify things a bit - this rant is not exclusively directed at the ABC News as pretty much all the major news outlets in the US and in much of the Western World act rather similarly. Well, they seem to be owned by pretty much the same group of players so why should that not be so?

Be that as it may - I would very much rather have an old whore extol the virtues of chastity to me than have mainstream media tell me what is or is not ethical for the simple reason that I expect the former to be far more entertaining than the latter. OK, mainstream media, now that you've heard this little rant - carry on. Keep on doin' Pravda and Der Sturmer proud!

The mainstream media: what - or who - is it made of?

2009-10-10T23:17:00.005-04:00

This is just another perfect example of how uninformed these journalists are. But thinking back to my own education, I now see that there is method to this madness.

I graduated from the University of Miami with a BS in Broadcast Journalism. In my four years of "higher learning," never once do I recall a professor telling us to be even remotely skeptical of government mouthpieces. Never do I once recall a professor insisting that we do our own research. In fact, everything was about reading AP stories off the wire and re-writing them for our own purposes. It was about using correct grammar... saying "alleged" when appropriate... and meeting deadlines.

From what I have seen, today's journalists aren't doing any research. They are sitting in front of their computers, pulling stories off the wires and regurgitating facts while intermittently inserting their own opinions.

Whole Country "Saw" Plane Hit the Pentagon?
by Sean Wheeler
Wednesday, April 19, 2006

A nice flashback. Covers both the 9/11 and the media - a very well thought out view, in my humble opinion.

My short response to Ms Stillwell's article can be found here:
The Truth About 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

"I Love My Country" by Larken Rose

2009-10-10T22:31:00.002-04:00

YouTube link

Ain in-depth comment by the author:

About the only complaint, which I got second hand, was that someone didn't like me making fun of his flag and his freedom. Well, the song doesn't make fun of the flag, but it does make fun of his LACK of freedom. What I suspect the person actually felt was that I was mocking his version of patriotism. And in a way, I probably was.

Occasionally someone tells me I'm a "true patriot." I assume they mean it to be nice, but I'm not fond of "patriotism" at all. What I'm loyal to, and what I love, is not about an imaginary line around a piece of dirt, or about people who live inside such a line. It's not about any flag, or any republic "for which it stands." What I care about is humanity, which requires free will, which in turn requires liberty. I don't much care WHERE it happens, or to whom it happens. I don't want freedom any less for the guy in Alberta than I do for the guy in New Mexico, nor do I feel any special connection or bond to one over the other.

The trouble is, what most people call "patriotism" is nothing but mindless pack mentality. They "love" what they call their country based purely on the ACCIDENT of where they were born. So, it follows, if they were born in Germany in 1900, they would have ended up as "patriotic" Nazis. What would be good about that?

Other people, when they speak of "patriotism," mean loyalty to the idea of FREEDOM, because of the role that idea played in the creation of this country. Okay, THAT is something worth feeling attached to, even if the idea was mangled and corrupted along the way (from the very beginning, actually). But I think the difference in how people react to my silly video depends upon WHAT they are loyal to. If they are loyal to a flag, or a piece of dirt, they will probably feel insulted by it. And they should be. If, on the other hand, they are loyal to the idea of FREEDOM, I think they will completely approve of the message.

Sincerely,
Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com

9/11: Blueprint For Truth - The Architecture of Destruction

2009-10-09T07:09:00.002-04:00

Reprinted from Boston 9/11 Truth

Richard Gage to Appear in Three New England Area Events

South Church,
229 State Street, Portsmouth NH
Friday October 9th,
8 PM
For more information: Email
or call: 603-866-3254

First Church of Northhampton,
129 Main Street, Northampton, MA
Saturday October 10th,
7 PM
For more information: Email
or call: 413-584-9392

First Parish Church,
Mass Ave and Church St., Cambridge MA
Sunday October 11th,
4:30 PM
For more information: Email
or call: 617-965-6552

Richard Gage invites you to attend an important presentation on the collapse of the 3 World Trade Center high-rises on 9/11.

I am the founder of the organization Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth which is a fast-growing collaboration of 899 architectural and engineering professionals and 4,945 other supporters. The last few years have witnessed the emergence of mounting scientific evidence that the collapses of the Twin Towers and WTC Building 7 were not adequately explained by the official theories outlined in the 2002 FEMA and 2005 NIST reports. The Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth call for a new, fully funded unimpeachable Congressional investigation with subpoena power.

We are dedicated to presenting the evidence that supports our call in this fascinating and myth-shatteringeducational event:

Come to any of our three New England area events. We will lay out the abundant evidence found at the 3 WTC high-rise “collapses”. Please attend and engage in the Q&A to follow.

What the Evidence Shows

Sounds of explosions coming from each of the WTC Twin Towers were heard well before the collapses began. These were reported by over 118 first responders in the FDNY recorded “oral histories” (the release of which was resisted by the City of NY until forced by a New York Times FOIA filing). Numerous accounts of “flashes of light” which commonly accompany the detonation of demolition charges were also reported. Video footage reveals the striking symmetry, explosiveness and rapidity of the Towers’ destruction. This differed from the more classic controlled demolition of WTC 7 in its extreme explosiveness.

Each rubble site contained tons of molten metal “flowing like lava” in the basements – as observed by Leslie Robertson, WTC structural engineer, and numerous other first responders. The temperatures of these flows were far in excess of anything possible from a jet fuel fire or from the burning contents of the buildings. Scientists have determined conclusively that thermate – a high-tech incendiary - was used. Chemical traces of thermate were found in the steel and dust. Each “collapse” exhibited thick billowing pyroclastic dust clouds that rapidly expanded to over ten times the volume of the buildings. Each also showed squibs (explosive ejections of pulverized building materials) easily observed in many of the videos. The twin towers were explained to have “pancaked” down, however there was no stack of floors found at the bottom – nearly everything was blown outside the footprint of the towers in a symmetrical pattern extending 1,200 feet in diameter around each building – and 90,000 tons of concrete , metal decking and floor trusses were completely missing from the debris field.

Blueprint For Truth - The Architecture of Destruction Produced by Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth (www.ae911Truth.org), this powerful documentary film presents explosive new evidence of controlled demolition in the 2001 attacks upon World Trade Centers 1, 2 and 7!

Most damaging to the official story, WTC building 7 was a 47-story high-rise not hit by an airplane and yet became the 3rd modern steel-framed skyscraper to collapse symmetrically at near free-fall speed on 9/11 – in the exact manner of a controlled demolition with explosives. It collapsed into a neat, compact pile, exhibiting ALL the classic features of controlled demolition:

Rapid onset of “collapse”
Sounds of explosions at ground floor – seconds prior to collapse initiation
Symmetrical “collapse” – through the path of greatest resistance – at near free-fall speed (i.e. the core columns offered no resistance)
“Collapses” into its own footprint – with the steel skeleton broken up for shipment
Massive volume of expanding pyroclastic dust clouds
Tons of molten metal found in basement by demolition workers
Chemical signature of thermate (a high-tech incendiary) found in slag and dust samples
Rapid oxidation and intergranular melting found (by FEMA) in the structural steel samples
Expert corroboration from controlled demolition professionals
Foreknowledge of “collapse” by First Responders, media, NYPD, FDNY, etc.

You can review all of this evidence and much more online at www.AE911Truth.org.

Thank you - we look forward to meeting each of you!

Sincerely, Richard Gage, AIA,

Architect Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Vincent Caroll of "The Denver Post" trying his hand at hit pieces

2009-09-27T13:28:00.003-04:00

The coincidence last Saturday was both ironic and nauseating. At the very moment when authorities were unearthing what could be the most sinister case of domestic terrorist activity since 9/11, with alleged links to the group that took down the World Trade Center, a local public television station blithely devoted much of its schedule to propaganda claiming al-Qaeda did no such thing.

Carroll: Public TV and the Truthers
Vincent Carroll, The Denver Post, Saturday, 26 September 2009

Oh, propaganda... I see, Mr Caroll. And of course all the many statements the government has made on the subject through its many mouthpieces have been all unadulterated truth, the whole truth and nothing but... Even when those statements happened to contradict each other. Even when they were later declared to be false, by none other than the very people whose job it was to come up with the governments official interpretation of the events... Yes, Mr Caroll, I mean the members of the 9/11 Commission.

At any rate, maybe I will write to Mr Caroll and see if he cares to expand on this. For now enjoy the article, the comments (where the author's profound lack of knowledge is exposed, as usual) as well as the discussion on The 9/11 Blogger.

Zero: an investigation into 9/11

2009-09-27T12:37:00.004-04:00

Google Video link

Zero's home website

This is a professional grade documentary examining the many aspects of 9/11 the US government and mainstream media have chosen to ignore, distort or conceal. Highly recommended.

Sicko

2009-08-23T16:40:00.002-04:00

Michael Moore's documentary film on the state of the US healthcare. A must-see in this author's humble opinion.

Razing entire neighborhoods?

2009-06-12T20:18:00.002-04:00

As reported by The Telegraph (US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive, June 12, 2009) about Flint, Michigan:

In Detroit, shattered by the woes of the US car industry, there are already plans to split it into a collection of small urban centres separated from each other by countryside.

"The real question is not whether these cities shrink – we're all shrinking – but whether we let it happen in a destructive or sustainable way," said Mr Kildee. "Decline is a fact of life in Flint. Resisting it is like resisting gravity."

Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens are homeless. But instead of allowing them to find shelter in abandoned buildings we destroy the buildings. The accepted excuse is safety and health concerns. Is facing the elements safer? Try that out one fine Michigan winter...

The Emerging Gitmo Model?

2009-05-16T10:29:00.004-04:00

While much of the "torture debate" has emphasized the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" defined by the twisted legal framework of the Office of Legal Council memos, IRF teams in effect operate at Guantánamo as an extrajudicial terror squad that has regularly brutalized prisoners outside of the interrogation room, gang beating them, forcing their heads into toilets, breaking bones, gouging their eyes, squeezing their testicles, urinating on a prisoner's head, banging their heads on concrete floors and hog-tying them -- sometimes leaving prisoners tied in excruciating positions for hours on end.

Little Known Military Thug Squad Still Brutalizing Prisoners at Gitmo Under Obama
Jeremy Scahill, AlterNet, May 15, 2009

Here's how your truly commented on this article in a private email:

Personally, I don't think even for a minute that this is about Gitmo, Al Qaeda, fighting terrorists, etc. as much as it is about developing and expanding totalitarian law enforcement and penal methods. Everybody and their brother knows that most of those people at Gitmo can be let go and nothing will change; at least, they can be treated with reasonable dignity and chances are they will be quite manageable. Give them their books, let them write letters home and receive letters, feed them three squares, and chances are there won't be any more problems than in any good ole' county jail.

Then what gives? What gives, I think, is that Gitmo is but a prototype, with a view of every police station and every county jail in the US of A being eventually gitmoized. And while they ain't there yet, not by a long shot, I can't help but say that some progress is apparantly being made in that direction.

Funny crimes of our times...

2009-03-14T15:33:00.002-04:00

Boston Police said they made an unusual find after a drug raid Friday on a Roxbury apartment: counterfeit money.

Robert White, 50, was charged with possession of counterfeit money after police allegedly found 14 bogus $20 bills. He also faces a charge of knowingly being present where heroin is kept.

The money was funny: Boston man charged with possessing counterfeit money, The Boston Globe, Saturday, March 14, 2009

14 $20 bills is a grand total of $280. I don't know how well the counterfeiters knew their trade but it is entirely conceivable that they were at least good enough to make the bills look genuine to an untrained eye. And if Mr White was into counterfeiting himself I would guess the amount he would produce would likely exceed $280. So quite likely he is just being charged with not being a currency expert.

As for "knowingly being present where heroin is kept"... Doesn't that have somewhat of a ludicrous ring to it? I used to live in dormitories on campus, I knew there were drugs there... What was I supposed to do - sleep out in the cold?

And what if all that bad stuff was not off-limits?

2009-03-14T12:45:00.003-04:00

In 2001, Portugal became the only EU-member state to decriminalize drugs, a distinction which continues through to the present. Last year, working with the Cato Institute, I went to that country in order to research the effects of the decriminalization law (which applies to all substances, including cocaine and heroin) and to interview both Portuguese and EU drug policy officials and analysts (the central EU drug policy monitoring agency is, by coincidence, based in Lisbon). Evaluating the policy strictly from an empirical perspective, decriminalization has been an unquestionable success, leading to improvements in virtually every relevant category and enabling Portugal to manage drug-related problems (and drug usage rates) far better than most Western nations that continue to treat adult drug consumption as a criminal offense.

Glenn Greenwald, The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal, Saturday, March 14, 2009

By the way, here in the US no drug laws existed prior to 1913 if memory serves. And best I know it's not like everyone here just became a junkie. A nation of junkies would hardly have been as powerful as successful as the US at the time.

New US$1 design

2008-10-09T20:14:00.001-04:00

Unfortunately, I don't know who the author is of this design as it came to me via email but I would be delighted to give that author credit should I find out who that is.
Boris Epstein

U.S. Army prepares to invade U.S.

2008-10-09T19:59:00.000-04:00

The plans to implement martial law in America have been taking shape for decades, hidden behind "Continuity of Government" contingency planning. Now, with public outcry over the banker bailout bill at fever pitch, all of the pieces are in place for the U.S. Army to start policing American citizens.

For more information and analysis, please visit

http://www.corbettreport.com

YouTube link

$700 billion is nothing

2008-10-05T12:13:00.000-04:00

Voters are rightly furious at the proposal to spend $700,000,000,000 that the government doesn't have to bail out Wall Street bankers who created the current economic crisis in the first place. But why then aren't we concerned about the trillions of dollars the Federal Reserve is pumping into the system? Or the trillions missing from the Pentagon? Or the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble.

For more news and economic analysis, visit:

http://www.corbettreport.com

YouTube link

Fellow Alaskans on Sarah Palin

2008-09-07T11:56:00.000-04:00

On a more practical level, many people in Alaska, and particularly Wasilla, are reluctant to speak or be quoted by name because they’re afraid of her as well as the state Republican Party machine. Apparently, the power elite are as mean as the winters.

“The GOP is kind of like organized crime up here,” an insurance agent in Anchorage who knows the Palin family, explained. “It’s corrupt and arrogant. They’re all rich because they do private sweetheart deals with the oil companies, and they can destroy anyone. And they will, if they have to.”

“Once Palin became mayor,” he continued, “She became part of that inner circle.”

Alaskans Speak (In A Frightened Whisper): Palin Is “Racist, Sexist, Vindictive, And Mean”, Charley James, LA Progressive, September 5, 2008

This author has never been to Alaska and knows little about that state. But to him this sounds completely believable and that is, to put it mildly, disturbing.

No, no, they can't do that!

2008-09-07T09:19:00.000-04:00

Speaking to a group of business and political leaders in Italy, Cheney faulted Russia for invading the former Soviet republic, killing civilians and displacing thousands of Georgians, and failing to abide by a ceasefire agreement from the European Union.

"This chain of aggressive moves and diplomatic reversals has only intensified the concern that many have about Russia's larger objectives," he said. "For brutality against a neighbor is simply the latest in a succession of troublesome and unhelpful actions by the Russian government."

Cheney bashes Russia for 'brutality' in Georgia, CNN, September 6, 2008

Some news is just hard to comment on... I mean, sure, war is brutal business. And by war I mean... well, invading Iraq in 2003, for instance. But even if the Russians acted as brutally in Georgia as Mr Cheney says - why would the Vice President for Torture have a problem with that?

Boston Premiere of “Zero – An Investigation Into 9-11”

2008-09-06T11:39:00.000-04:00

Source: Boston 9/11 Truth

August 27, 2008

Boston911Truth.org proudly and respectfully presents the Boston Premiere of the new Italian film “ZERO - INCHIESTA SULL'11 SETTEMBRE” [“ZERO – AN INVESTIGATION INTO 9-11”].

“ZERO” will be exclusively screened at the Regent Theatre, 7 Medford St., Arlington Center on Thursday September 11, 2008 at 7:00pm.
Tickets are $10 at the door, $9 in advance. Free Parking.

“ZERO”, featuring intellectual heavyweights Gore Vidal and Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, includes shocking new evidence exposing the truth of the 9-11-01 crimes!

“ZERO” was a sensation at the 2007 Rome Film Festival last Fall.

“ZERO” has one central thesis - that the official version of events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This new documentary explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, directly conflicting with the US Government's account.

"What results is a sequence of contradictions, gaps and omissions of stunning gravity". (Italian daily newspaper Il Corriere de la Sera)

“The importance of this film can not be overstated, if its thesis is correct, the justification for declaring the war on terror is built on a series of outrageous lies.” -La Repubblica

“The bomb at the Festa del Cinema di Roma is called Zero. An incendiary documentary. The rhythm is breathtaking. The filmmakers entertain and inform with the same dramatic force”. -Il Messaggerro

You can read more about “ZERO” and view trailers at these links: “ZERO - INCHIESTA SULL'11 SETTEMBRE”.

Comment by Boris Epstein:
To learn more about "Zero" please also see the following:
9/11 Truth Debate at European Parliament, February 26
European Parliament Screening for Zero: An Investigation Into 9/11

Architects, Engineers & Educators Speak Out! Conference to be held- Saturday December 15 at Faneuil Hall, Boston

2007-12-09T15:18:00.000-05:00

Reprinted from the Boston 9/11 Truth website (original link).
Minimally adjusted for web usability.
Boris Epstein

There is a growing concern within the international scientific community that the official explanations put forth by the US government vis-à-vis The 9/11 Commission Report and the NIST and FEMA reports concerning the collapse of World Trade Center Towers 1,2 and often ignored Building 7, contain not only scientifically unsubstantiated theories, but, in many cases, either defy or ignore the laws of physics, metallurgy and a host of other applied sciences in their calculations and conclusions. The cross-section of disciplines represented by each of the symposium participants provides applicable scholarly and professional viewpoints concerning the one theory the government and media refuses to entertain – controlled demolition. It is their hope, along with the sponsors of the symposium, that the world-renowned community of scientists, architects and engineers in the Boston area test for themselves the veracity of the claims made by government agencies, as well as those of their opponents, with the understanding that the laws governing the sciences must not be manipulated or ignored for political ends on either side of the controversy. Cont...

This day-long conference on Saturday December 15 at Boston’s historic Faneuil Hall is entitled, “The Destruction of World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7: A Case for Controlled Demolition.” In this scientific look at the collapses, a panel of four well-known and credentialed science and engineering professionals will present the case that the government’s theories could not possibly be true and that most of the evidence points to the one theory that’s been completely avoided by the government and the media – controlled demolition.

The Truth Movement got a huge boost in 2007 when California architect Richard Gage, AIA, exploded onto the scene with “Architects and Engineers for Truth” (AE911Truth). Opening the presentations on Saturday morning at one of America’s most famous meeting halls, Gage will be joined by long-time 9/11 researcher and former BYU physics professor Dr. Steven Jones, Underwriters Laboratories whistle blower Kevin Ryan, and new to the scene, Dr. Joel Hirschhorn, who in September 2007 came out with an unequivocal endorsement of the work of AE911Truth. Dr. Hirschhorn is formerly a professor of Metallurgy at the University of Wisconsin and was a senior staff member at the US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment from 1978 to 1991, testifying more than 50 times before congress on scientific issues. He is the author of several books, including, “Delusional Democracy: Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government.” We enthusiastically welcome Dr. Hirschhorn to the growing list of distinguished scientists and true patriots who are willing to step forward and speak out on the 9/11 cover-up. The Conference will conclude with a panel discussion and Q&A session.

Location:
Faneuil Hall
1 Faneuil Hall Sq
Boston, MA
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2mve4x

Program Schedule:

For the full weekend schedule go here

Architects, Engineers & Educators Speak Out!

December 15, 2007 Conference @ Faneuil Hall, the "Cradle of Liberty"
10:00 AM	Jim Hogue!	as Ethan Allen
10:05 AM	Ray McGovern - MC	Opening Remarks
10:10 AM	Richard Gage	Architecture of Destruction
11:30 AM	Steven Jones	New research on 911: uspheres
12:30 PM	Ray McGovern	Faneuil Hall Marketplace
	Lunch Break
2:00 PM	Kevin Ryan	NIST
2:40 PM	Joel Hirschhorn	Reform without revolution: Article V Convention
3:40 PM	Ray McGovern - Moderator/Panel	Questions from Audience
5:10 PM	Jim Hogue!	as Ethan Allen
5:20 PM	End	Break for Dinner

WITH SPEAKERS:

Joel S. Hirshhorn, Ph.D.
Former Professor, Metallurgical Engineering University of Wisconsin, Former Senior Staff Member - Congressional Office of Technology. Testified more than 50 times before Congress on technology, science, and environmental issues. Former Director of Environment, Energy and Natural Resources, National Governors Association. Dr. Hirschhorn has been a consultant to industrial and chemical companies, DOE laboratories, state governments, and public interest organizations. Co-founder of Friends of the Article V Convention at www.foavc.org. Member, Board of Directors, National Foundation for Environmental Education. Member, Board of Directors, Sustainability Now! Author of more than 150 papers, articles, guest editorials, and book chapters on environmental science and technology. Author of Delusional Democracy: Fixing the Republic Without Overthrowing the Government (2007), Sprawl Kills (2005), New Community Design to the Rescue (2001), Growing pains: Quality of Life in the New Economy (2000), Prosperity without Pollution (1991), Materials Science (1975), Introduction to Powder Metallurgy (1969).

Steven Jones, Ph.D.
Former Professor of Physics at Brigham Young University -- Founder of Scholars for Truth & Justice

B.S. in Physics, Mathematics minor, magna cum laude with honors, from Brigham Young University in 1973, retaining the Presidential (David O. McKay) Scholarship; Ph.D. in Physics, Mathematics/Electronics minors from Vanderbilt University in 1978, retaining full Tuition Scholarship and Research Fellowship (1973-1978); Ph.D. research conducted at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1974-1977); course work completed at Stanford University; Post-doctoral research conducted at Cornell University (CESR) and the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility; Conducted research at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, 1979-1985 (Senior Engineering Specialist); Principal Investigator for experimental muon-catalyzed fusion 1982-1991 for the U.S. Department of Energy, Division of Advanced Energy Projects; Spokesman for LAMPF Experiment #727 and co-spokesman for LAMPF Experiments #963 and #1151 (1982 - 1993); Collaborator in several other experiments, including experiments at TRIUMF (Vancouver, Canada), The National High Energy Laboratory, KEK (Tsukuba, Japan), Rutherford-Appleton Laboratory (Oxford, U.K.), and Kamioka, Japan; Associate Director, Brigham Young University Center for Fusion Studies, 1989-1994 Professor of Physics (retired 2007).

Dr. Jones' peer-reviewed publications (from a list of over fifty), includes:"Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?" The American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out, David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott, editors, Northampton, MA: Interlink Publishing, 2006. Also available here.

Richard Gage, AIA Architect
Founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth. He has been a practicing Architect for 20 years and has designed numerous fireproofed steel-framed buildings. He is employed with a San Francisco Bay Area architecture firm and has most recently performed Construction Administration services for a new $120M High School campus including a $10M steel-framed Gymnasium. Currently he is working on the Design Development for a very large mixed-use urban project with 1.2M sq .ft. of retail and 320K sq .ft. of high-rise office space – altogether about 1,200 tons of steel framing.

Kevin Ryan, BS Chem
Certified Quality Engineer. Former Site Manager for Environmental Health Laboratories, a division of Underwriters Laboratories. Mr. Ryan was fired by Underwriters Laboratories 5 days after sending a letter to a NIST scientist pointing out inconsistencies in the NIST report on the causes of the building collapses at the World Trade Center and asking for clarification. Contributing author to 9/11 and American Empire (Vol I) – Intellectuals Speak Out (2006). His website is ULTruth.

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Directions

If you are driving into the city we recommend that you use the Alewife T station parking garage in Cambridge. park there for the day and take the Red Line Train into Boston. Get out at Park Street Station, and take the Green Line train to Government Center or Haymarket and walk to Sam Adams Park, in front of Faneuil Hall.

Faneuil Hall
1 Faneuil Hall Sq
Boston, MA
Map: http://tinyurl.com/2mve4x

The best approach by car to Alewife is to take RT 2 Eastbound from RT 128.

The Cambridgeside Gallaria Mall also has parking facilities, Public parking facilities are also across from the mall the Leachmere T stop is a short walk. Take the Bleacher train to downtown Boston, get off at Government Center, or Haymarket and walk to Sam Adams Park, in front of Faneuill Hall. [City web page]

If you you're coming into town by train, most likely you will arrive via South Station, take the red line Train to Park Street change for the Green line to Government Center or Haymarket and walk to Sam Adams Park, in front of Faneuil Hall.

If you fly into Logan Airport take The Silver Line Shuttle to South Station then take the Red Line train to Park Street, change for the Green line to Government Center or Haymarket and walk to Sam Adams Park, in front of Faneuil Hall. [City web page]

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Lt . Col. Robert M. Bowman's Open Letter to The US Military Officers

2007-09-17T00:56:00.000-04:00

The letter was emailed to me. It is also published on the front page of The Patriots website.
- Boris Epstein

Duty, Honor, Country 2007

An Open Letter to the New Generation of Military Officers Serving and Protecting Our Nation

By Dr. Robert M. Bowman, Lt. Col., USAF, ret., National Commander, The Patriots

“The Nuremberg Principles says that we in the military have not only the right, but also the DUTY to refuse an illegal order. It was on this basis that we executed Nazi officers who were ‘only carrying out their orders’... The Constitution which we are sworn to uphold says that treaties entered into by the United States are the ‘highest law of the land,’ equivalent to the Constitution itself. Accordingly, we in the military are sworn to uphold treaty law, including the United Nations charter and the Geneva Convention... Based on the above, I contend that should some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order. I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal.”

Dear Comrades in Arms,

You are facing challenges in 2007 that we of previous generations never dreamed of. I'm just an old fighter pilot (101 combat missions in Vietnam , F-4 Phantom, Phu Cat, 1969-1970) who's now a disabled veteran with terminal cancer from Agent Orange. Our mailing list (over 22,000) includes veterans from all branches of the service, all political parties, and all parts of the political spectrum. We are Republicans and Democrats, Greens and Libertarians, Constitutionists and Reformers, and a good many Independents. What unites us is our desire for a government that (1) follows the Constitution, (2) honors the truth, and (3) serves the people.

We see our government going down the wrong path, all too often ignoring military advice, and heading us toward great danger. And we look to you who still serve as the best hope for protecting our nation from disaster.

We see the current Iraq War as having been unnecessary, entered into under false pretenses, and horribly mismanaged by the civilian authorities. Thousands of our brave troops have been needlessly sacrificed in a futile attempt at occupation of a hostile land. Many more thousands have suffered wounds which will change their lives forever. Tens of thousands have severe psychological problems because of what they have seen and what they have done. Potentially hundreds of thousands could be poisoned by depleted uranium, with symptoms appearing years later, just as happened to us exposed to Agent Orange. The military services are depleted and demoralized. The VA system is under-funded and overwhelmed. The National Guard and Reserves have been subjected to tour after tour, disrupting lives for even the lucky ones who return intact. Jobs have been lost, marriages have been destroyed, homes have been foreclosed, and children have been estranged. And for what? We have lost allies, made new enemies, and created thousands of new terrorists, further endangering the American people.

But you know all this. I'm sure you also see the enormous danger in a possible attack on Iran , possibly with nuclear weapons. Such an event, seriously contemplated by the Cheney faction of the Bush administration, would make enemies of Russia and China and turn us into the number one rogue nation on earth. The effect on our long-term national security would be devastating.

Some of us had hoped that the new Democratic Congress would end the occupation of Iraq and take firm steps to prevent an attack on Iran , perhaps by impeaching Bush and Cheney. These hopes have been dashed. The lily-livered Democrats have caved in, turning their backs on those few (like Congressman Jack Murtha) who understand the situation. Many of us have personally walked the halls of Congress, to no avail.

This is where you come in.

We know that many of you share our concern and our determination to protect our republic from an arrogant, out-of-control, imperial presidency and a compliant, namby-pamby Congress (both of which are unduly influenced by the oil companies and other big-money interests). We know that you (like us) wouldn't have pursued a military career unless you were idealistic and devoted to our nation and its people. (None of us do it for the pay and working conditions!) But we also recognize that you may not see how you can influence these events. We in the military have always had a historic subservience to civilian authority.

Perhaps I can help with whatever wisdom I've gathered from age (I retired in 1978, so I am ancient indeed).

Our oath of office is to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Might I suggest that this includes a rogue president and vice-president? Certainly we are bound to carry out the legal orders of our superiors. But the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) which binds all of us enshrines the Nuremberg Principles which this country established after World War II (which you are too young to remember). One of those Nuremberg Principles says that we in the military have not only the right, but also the DUTY to refuse an illegal order. It was on this basis that we executed Nazi officers who were “only carrying out their orders.”

The Constitution which we are sworn to uphold says that treaties entered into by the United States are the “highest law of the land,” equivalent to the Constitution itself. Accordingly, we in the military are sworn to uphold treaty law, including the United Nations charter and the Geneva Convention.

Based on the above, I contend that should some civilian order you to initiate a nuclear attack on Iran (for example), you are duty-bound to refuse that order. I might also suggest that you should consider whether the circumstances demand that you arrest whoever gave the order as a war criminal.

I know for a fact that in recent history (once under Nixon and once under Reagan), the military nuclear chain of command in the White House discussed these things and were prepared to refuse an order to “nuke Russia .” In effect they took the (non-existent) “button” out of the hands of the President.. We were thus never quite as close to World War III as many feared, no matter how irrational any president might have become. They determined that the proper response to any such order was, “Why, sir?” Unless there was (in their words) a “damn good answer,” nothing was going to happen.

I suggest that if you in this generation have not had such a discussion, perhaps it is time you do. In hindsight, it's too bad such a discussion did not take place prior to the preemptive “shock and awe” attack on Baghdad . Many of us at the time spoke out vehemently that such an attack would be an impeachable offense, a war crime against the people of Iraq , and treason against the United States of America . But our voices were drowned out and never reached the ears of the generals in 2003. I now regret that I never sent a letter such as this at that time, but depended on the corporate media to carry my message. I must not make that mistake again.

Also in hindsight, President Bush could be court-martialed for abuse of power as Commander-in-Chief. Vice President Cheney could probably be court-martialed for his performance as Acting Commander-in-Chief in the White House bunker the morning of September 11, 2001 .

We in the U.S. military would never consider a military coup, removing an elected president and installing one of our own. But following our oath of office, obeying the Nuremberg Principles, and preventing a rogue president from committing a war crime is not a military coup. If it requires the detention of executive branch officials, we will not impose a military dictatorship. We will let the Constitutional succession take place. This is what we are sworn to. This is protecting the Constitution, our highest obligation. In 2007, this is what is meant by “Duty, Honor, Country.”

Thank you all for your service to this nation. May God bless America , and sustain us in this difficult time. And thanks for listening to the musings of an old junior officer.

Respectfully,

Robert M. Bowman, PhD, Lt. Col., USAF, ret.

An Open Letter to President Bush Following His Address to the Nation

2007-09-15T14:20:00.000-04:00

Republished from here.
- Boris Epstein

President Bush,

As a New Yorker who lived through the horrors of September 11th firsthand; who lost a family member in the chaos that ensued; and who had colleagues, friends, and fellow students whose lives were forever changed by the actions of a small group of terrorists, I find your comments to the nation tonight, September 13, 2007, to be galling, tactless, and above all else, incredibly insulting.

Your repeated allusions to Al-Qaeda in Iraq and the completely misguided insinuation that our troops are somehow stationed there because of this new terror group is bewildering and enraging. The brave men and women who find themselves in the midst of ethno-sectarian violence and a full-blown civil war are not there because of any Al-Qaeda threat. Instead, they risk their lives daily because of your stubbornness and unwillingness to admit the validity of any position divergent from your own. Your continued poor judgment has wounded over 27,000 servicepeople and stripped over 3,700 families of mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers.

In the face of all who have lost loved ones so near and dear, both on 9/11 and in this misguided arm of your "war on terror," it is reprehensible to suggest that the motivation behind leaving 130,000 troops on duty in Iraq has anything to do with Al-Qaeda or terrorism. Prior to our invasion, Al-Qaeda in Iraq simply did not exist. The quagmire you have inspired has lead to the creation of this offshoot organization--distinct from the Al-Qaeda that has struck us in our country and elsewhere--and to what is quite arguably the most effective, free recruitment campaign that terrorists could have ever dreamed up.

If your decision is to lie unabatedly to the American public, please retain at least a shred of dignity by not invoking Al-Qaeda so incessantly in your rhetoric. We are not an ignorant people, we know when we are not being told the truth, and we are outraged that you continue to denigrate the memory of the innocent men and women who died in what was a legitimate terrorist act. Mr. President, we are not in Iraq because of Al-Qaeda, nor shall we remain there because of a nonexistent threat, and for you to suggest these falsehoods should be an impeachable offense.

Sincerely,

A Loyal American

Vacation Notice

2007-09-09T18:11:00.000-04:00

Well, where do I begin? It has been years. Years since I realized that something was seriously wrong in the world around me and felt that it was imperative that I do what little I can to try and alleviate the problem. It was roughly at the beginning of 2004 that I realized that there was something very wrong with the official explanation for the events of 9/11, with the war on terror, and many other things taking place in the country and the world.

And I started doing what I thought was right at the time. Even though I lost a job in April 2004 I spent my savings on research, writing, campaigning for John Kerry - yes, I was naive enough to believe he was an alternative, I admit it. In 2005 I went down to the Gulf Region after Katrina to help - even though I still had no steady income myself. Well, I can't say I did much - but I did something.

I am happy to see many people awaken to the same truths I awoke to in 2004. I still don't see them putting their money where their mouth is, as they say, to a sufficient degree. And until they start acting on their knowledge the knowledge itself is not going to bring about change. And I am simply tired.

So for now count me out. The truth is out there, and if I helped it become known - that's something. And if not - at least I tried. For some time, I am out of the game. I just want to live my life which is something I haven't been able to do for years. At least not to the extent I would have liked to.

That's it for now, brothers and sisters. Best of luck to you all.

Is there something you are not telling us, Mr Santorum?

2007-07-08T12:26:00.000-04:00

"Between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view," said the former senator from Pennsylvania.

Is Santorum expressing foreknowledge of some coming atrocity or is he merely using a tactic familiar to the leadership of his party - exploiting the fear of terror for the purposes of political rhetoric?

Santorum Suggests New Terror Attacks Will Change View Of War, Prison Planet, July 7, 2007

I don't know about you but I for one am quite curious as to where Mr Santorum draws his prophetic powers from. While expectation of terrorism as a general possibility is fairly mundane it must be noted that Mr Santorum predicts terrorist events with a rather high degree of specificity, at least as far as their timeframe.

A good cop should get suspicious here. Are our counter-terrorism officials good cops? Well, if they are they ought to call Mr Santorum in for a little chat and ask him a few questions. Espeically so if those events he is talking about start becoming reality.

A Connecticut Road Sign

2007-07-04T19:34:00.000-04:00

This photo was emailed to me. Unfortunately, I know neither who the author is, nor whether or not it is real.

"Open Complicity: Anatomy of the 9/11 Cover-Up"

2007-05-04T16:15:00.000-04:00

4 May 2007
By Boris Epstein

The following is a very interesting, though somewhat controversial documentary produced by A2planet/Ann Arbor 9/11 Truth. To preempt any misunderstanding, I would like to restate here - once again - that material I present is not necessarily material I agree with in its entirety. The reason I am restating it here is that the film touches on some very emotive issues and I can foresee a lot of people jumping to conclusions here whereas the truth of the matter is that I have as of yet not even fully formed an opinion about it - other than to say that ideas presented there are certainly worth a look and a thought. So without further ado I am now going to let the film speak for itself.

Google Video link

Hours after 9/11 attacks, Rumsfeld allegedly said, 'My interest is to hit Saddam'

2007-05-03T06:50:00.000-04:00

According to NBC's chief Pentagon correspondent, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that his "interest is to hit Saddam Hussein" just hours after the attacks on September 11, 2001, "even though all indications pointed at al-Qaida as the guilty party," a Rhode Island newspaper reports.
At the annual Business Expo at the Rhode Island Convention Center Tuesday, NBC's Jim Miklaszewski "advanced a theme garnering attention since former CIA director George J. Tenet made his public revelations last week," writes Tom Mooney for the Providence Journal.

"Some things are right on the mark, when he says the Bush administration appeared predisposed to attack Iraq," Miklaszewski says of Tenet's book At the Center of the Storm.

The NBC correspondent's "information" comes from "off the record" notes given to him from an unidentified person who was "in the White House situation room in the hours after the attacks."

"However, the notes describe, Miklaszewski said, then-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld vowing to avenge the terrorist attacks by voicing frustration that attacks against the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983 and the attack on the Cole, in 2000, had gone unavenged," Mooney writes. "Reading from his notes, Miklaszewski quoted Rumsfeld as saying five hours after the terrorist attacks: 'My interest is to hit Saddam Hussein at the same time we go after al-Qaida.'"

Hours after 9/11 attacks, Rumsfeld allegedly said, 'My interest is to hit Saddam', RAW STORY, May 2, 2007

And sure, why not? After all, that was what PNAC was set to do anyhow - and now that so much had happened and there was no need to answer for those missing $2.3 trillion - why not just go for it?

"Improbable Collapse : The Demolition of our Republic"

2007-04-19T15:52:00.000-04:00

Michael Berger
1 hr 9 min 8 sec - Oct 9, 2006
www.improbablecollapse.com

A look at the collapse of the WTC Towers and WTC 7 by scholars for 9/11 truth. To learn more about the 9/11 attacks, visit www.truth911.net; to buy the DVD and support the filmmaker's hard work and personal investment go to www.improbablecollapse.com

Google Video link

“Activism is Terrorism”

2007-04-19T13:44:00.000-04:00

Reprinted from WEARECHANGE.ORG. The reason I decided to reprint this report is due to the fact that WEARECHANGE.ORG does not provide a dedicated link to each of its reports.

This report does an excellent job of illustrating how US authorities try to censor and suppress those who challenge the official theory of 9/11 and seek to educate their fellow citizens about the truth regarding those events. While some of the footage provided below was shot in locations as prominent as the WTC site in Lower Manhattan or even in front of the New York Times Building itself you most likely will not read about this in any mainstream publication in the US. The reason for that is a policy of self-censorship to which most of the media sources adhere. However, whether they cover it or not, the 9/11 Truth Movement is here to stay - and, hopefully, win.

Also note the authorities' attempt to once again link dissent with terrorism. The tactic, while having little if any basis in fact, appears to be clearly designed to alienate the citizenry from the opposition groups as well as pave the way for a potential campaign of repression against said opposition - a campaign that would most likely be run ostensibly under the auspices of the "war on terror".

And - lastly, but not leastly - do consider donating to WEARECHANGE.ORG as they are doing some very important work for all of the humanity.

- Boris Epstein

“Activism is Terrorism”
Well, According To The Police In NYC...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFIaG_B6298

Here is the google video link which is slightly better quality. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4595549125769530433&

You can download your own .wmv of the video (approx. 350MB) below: Right-Click this and save-as

The activists of NY911TRUTH and Change were taking part in street actions for the Eleventh of every month. They started at the new WTC Building 7, in which Larry Silverstein was present in his office. Luke Rudkowski and Tom Foti held the banner up that stated that 911 was an inside job. They were peacefully demonstrating giving out flyers and DVDs to whoever was willing to listen. Soon after undercover police officers and Port Authority officers arrived. They told the activists that the space and Greenwich Street is privately owned by Larry Silverstein. Therefore, the officers ordered the activists to cease and desist and to leave the premise or be arrested. The activists refused since they were not breaking any laws and were constitutionally upholding their civilian duties.

The officers then intimidated the activists by going face to face with them and tried to restrict them from filming the incident. The officers expressed amusement as they stated that the activists were going to jail. The officers quickly labeled us as terrorists and claimed that we had backpack explosives. The officers said, “You could be a terrorist, how should I know you don't have a bomb in your book bag?” They continued saying that Luke Rudkowski’s string on his Northface book bag contained explosive material. Soon after many more police officers arrived and surrounded the activists from a distance.

Another group of police officers detained the activists for an hour, until they were approached directly by the Port Authority officer in charge, who escorted them from the premises. As Luke was filming the incident, about 10 officers surrounded him as well as Tom and actually confiscated Luke’s camera when it was filming and alleged that it was a gun. It should be noted that the officers never identified themselves and many did not show their badges to the activists. When a citizen stated that they have every right to record police altercations, the officer replied, “Yes, but you could have a gun in your camera.” The officers did not return Luke’s camera until the activists were set free.

When Luke tried to use his cell phone to contact Alex Jones on his radio show to make a public statement about what was happening, the police officer snatched Luke’s phone and labeled it a gun as well. As the activists were stating their rights, the police officers mimicked them by bullying and questioning whether they went to law school. Although the activists did not leave the area they moved away from the NYPD and continued holding the banner that stated 911 was an inside job. This altercation shows how far the NYPD can go to hinder free speech.

We stand in defiance and in the memory of one of our fallen members of NY911TRUTH and CHANGE, Dan Wallace. The activists of NY911TRUTH and CHANGE will not stop until the truth about 911 comes out. They will continue to demonstrate on the 11th of every month at locations like the Path Station at Ground Zero, Pace University, the Brooklyn Bridge and Times Square in the hopes of spreading the message that 911 was an inside job.

Please Donate to www.WeAreChange.org so we can buy a hidden camera, so next time the police snatch away our cameras we will be able to show the world these illegal acts.

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2007-04-12T14:27:00.000-04:00

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Boris Epstein

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Contact

E-Mail: borepstein@gmail.com
Phone: 617.816.9654

Summary

Strong analytical abilities derived from both study and hands-on experience. Enjoy challenge and uncertainty. Seeking a position where I could contribute and grow, both professionally and personally.

Technical Summary

Twelve years of full-time experience in the IT industry. That includes programming, systems administration (primarily various versions of UNIX and Linux) as well as network administration.
Participated in development, installation and maintenance of large-scale IT solutions in fields as diverse as telecommunications, financial, internet hosting, e-commerce, etc. Have experience developing standalone applications from scratch as well as working in a team. Diverse client interaction experience both domestically and internationally.
Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, MS Windows (XP, NT), MS DOS, Apollo Aegis, VMS
Programming Languages: C/C++, PERL, JAVA, UNIX (C-Shell, Bourne, Korn), Tcl/Tk, Lisp/Scheme
Tools: Emacs, MS Office, FrameMaker, VI
Hardware: IBM-compatible PC, HP, SUN

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February 2007 - present

Night Owl Deliveries
Boston, MA

On a part-time basis participate in the operation of an eCommerce restaurant delivery startup. Activities include IT consulting, data management, systems integration and sales.

April 2004 - present

Freelance writer and activist

Provide technical assistance to several online projects including Cooperative Research and New England JAVA Users Group.
In 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina helped coordinate volunteer relief activities in the Gulf and personally participated in those activities.
Currently work odd jobs to support myself.

July 2001 - April 2004

ARCON Corporation
Waltham, MA

Worked as a programmer involved in development and support of the ETMS air traffic management software for the FAA at the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Cambridge, MA. Specific area of concentration was the CDM component of the ETMS. The tasks included design and development of new functionality, as well as supporting legacy code. A large codebase together with the need for system reliability provide for a challenging task. The code was originally written in Pascal and later migrated to C.
The system was in essence a large transportation management system receiving and reflecting frequent (mostly once-a-minute) updates regarding the status of flights operating over the US airspace. Near realtime requirements were in place for processing and analyzing data which made for an exciting and challenging task.

December 1999 - April 2001

Boston Internet Group
Boston, MA

Performed multiple roles on a daily basis, including those of a senior system designer and developer, Windows NT and UNIX system administrator and web hosting support engineer. Key player in the technology planning and implementation area. As a sole expertise in a number of areas, including object-oriented design and development, networking, network security and systems management, advised other team members on various technology issues.
Main tasks included web site backend implementation for clients, in-house product design and implementation as well as day-to-day activities mentioned above. Most of the coding was done using object-oriented technology, with JAVA as a programming language of choice.
Provided critical insight which allowed to greatly improve stability and efficiency of the internal systems.
Clients included Davox Corporation (now part of Aspect Software), Pilates Store, Lobsters-Online, Inc. and others.

September 1999 - January 2000

Thomson Financial
Medford, MA

Worked as a UNIX administrator in a large-scale web and dataserver hosting facility. Was responsible for maintenance and troubleshooting of multiple industrial-scale UNIX servers in SUN, HP and IBM platforms. Performed database maintenance of SYBASE and ORACLE databases as well as data recovery and general server troubleshooting.

May 1999 - July 1999

GTE International (currently part of Level3 Communications)
Cambridge, MA

As part of the Y2K team worked on the remediation of custom SUN Solaris machines hosting clients' mission-critical WWW sites and applications. Complex upgrades and modifications had to be accomplished requiring an absolute minimum in customers' downtime. Tasks included upgrades of the OS, DB servers and various other third-party software. Custom scripting and coding was often required to facilitate the necessary transition.

November 1995 - May 1999

WorldCare, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

Originally hired as an outside contractor. Accepted a permanent staff position in a three months' time. Throughout my whole tenure was a critical part of a small and continually overtasked team.
Responsibilities included day-to-day maintenance and support of a network of UNIX hosts. Maintained code control systems. Designed and implemented a data backup/archival system for in-house use. Created web pages using HTML, PERL and JAVA. With the emphasis on publicly available software restructured the environment to optimize and economize the development and production process. Modified publicly available software for local needs using C, Tcl/Tk, PERL, JAVA, etc. Was also involved in equipment and software installation and support at client sites. Worked with medical applications and protocols including DICOM, ISG's VRS graphical application and AWARE wavelet compression. Wrote system installation and maintenance scripts. Modified and integrated various third party software packages. Worked with multimedia devices in medical data capture/processing systems. Set up and supported LANs and WANs.

July 1992 - November 1995

Kenan Systems Corporation (currently part of Alcatel-Lucent)
Denver, CO - Cambridge, MA

Participated in database design of SYBASE databases.As part of a product team supported development effort in a heterogeneous UNIX environment. Oversaw the operation of a distributed development environment which included multiple geographically disjoint locations. Wrote a suite of PERL scripts that encompassed the local customizations to ClearCase as required by the project. Other responsibilities included release/code management using ClearCase code control system, SYBASE database administration, system design activities.

Summers of 1990 and 1991

Unisys Corporation
Cambridge, MA

Participated in the development of ATMS (Automated Traffic Management System), an air traffic management and control system for the FAA. Coding was done in Pascal against a proprietary database. The network consisted of a multitude of Aegis hosts on the Apollo platform. The development was done under DSEE as an integrated code control and management environment.

Personal

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1969. Have lived in the US since 18 years of age. Attended Tver University (website in Russian) in Tver, Russia; Boston University and University of Massachusetts at Amherst graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics/Computer Science in 1992.

References

Available upon request.

'Improbable Collapse' 9/11 Truth Northeast Tour

2007-04-11T11:49:00.000-04:00

Reprinted from 911Truth.org.

Scientists pose the question: How did three “indestructible” steel-framed skyscrapers collapse? “Improbable Collapse: the Demolition of our Republic” with Filmmaker, Michael Berger and Media Coordinator for 911truth.org, tours northeast: CT, MA, NY, VT, and NH; April 10-23, 2007

Contacts:
Michael Berger, Connect the Dots LLC
info@improbablecollapse.com
Jonathan Mark –Tour Coordinator; publisher – Flyby News
Email: noflyby@yahoo.com
Stephen Goodale – Resource Coordinator – valley911truth.org
Email: sggoodale@yahoo.com

Online resource links: FlybyNews.com * 911truth.org * ImprobableCollapse.com

NORTHEAST USA – “Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic” goes on tour for two weeks in April with the support of 9/11 truth groups across the region. The tour opens on April 10, 2007, when Michael Berger presents his film at the University of Hartford, with Q & A following. The 69-minute film documentary examines the startling events of September 11, 2001 from a scientific perspective.

The film closely examines one of the world’s worst catastrophes from a civil engineering perspective. Using photo and video footage, as well as expert scientific testimony, the film thoroughly analyzes the official reports, offering varied criticisms of the official findings, while presenting a more plausible hypothesis. Both government investigations and the mainstream media have quietly ignored the findings from scientific experts.

“The dramatic collapse of World Trade Center 7 is something everyone ought to see…
It really does have the characteristics of an explosive demolition.”
– Dr. Steven Jones, physicist, author of “ Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?”

The World Trade Center Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 disintegrated in a manner that some scientists say resembled deliberately calculated demolitions. The facts open for discussion include: at 5:20 p.m. that same day another building, the 47-story WTC 7, completely collapsed within 70 feet of its footprint in 6.6 seconds. These three buildings became the first such structures to ever suffer complete collapse due to fire and structural damage.

Michael Berger and Connect the Dots produced “Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of our Republic.” Berger is also the media coordinator for 911truth.org. He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, CNN Showbiz Tonight, and Scarborough Country as well as dozens of radio appearances including a recent debate with Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive Magazine.

10 April to 23 April, 2007

4/10 - University of Hartford, CT; 4/11 - First Churches, Northampton, MA;
4/11 Holyoke Community College; 4/12 - Keene State College, Putnam Theater, NH;
4/13 Greenfield Community TV, MA; 4/14 Hooker-Dunham Theater, Brattleboro, VT;
4/15 Berkshire Community College, MA; 4/15 Unitarian Universalists, Springfield, MA;
4/16 University At Albany, New York; 4/17 Bennington Free Library, Bennington VT;
4/18 Best Western.., Concord, NH; 4/19 Dover Friends Meeting House, Dover, NH;
4/20 UMASS Edu.., New Bedford, MA; 4/21 Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA;
4/22 Wilton Town Hall Theater, NH; April 23rd Hampshire College, Amherst, MA

"Improbable Collapse" is available for purchase at the 911truth.org E-store.

That truly is a tough job

2007-04-10T10:39:00.000-04:00

10 April 2007
By Boris Epstein

Defending the indefensible, that is. That must be one of the reasons why few people seem to be willing to argue in defense of the official theory of 9/11.

It's not like they don't get an opportunity. The 9/11 skeptics, or 9/11 truthers, or 9/11 conspiracy theorists - pick your term - have challenged them to a debate time, and time, and time again. Here's independent journalist Ed Haas' experience (Change in Venue or Date will not Alter Decision, July 3, 2006):

The fact is that scientists outside the government’s control have been conducting peer evaluation of the NIST scientists and their “pancake theory” for years now, and the government theory has failed to pass the test. Its failure to pass the test means that the government has yet to provide a sustainable explanation of how the twin towers collapsed.

This is not unusual in the scientific community; the process of working hypothesis, research, presenting a theory, subjecting the theory to peer evaluation, and then if failing peer evaluation, returning to the research and even the hypothesis. What is different in this instance though is the stakes; and they couldn’t be higher because so much of what the U.S. government has done since 9/11 is contingent on the majority of the public believing that those twin towers collapsed as the result of the airplane impacts. With an estimated 42% of the American public now skeptical of the 9/11 Commission Report as well as the NIST “pancake theory”; the government knows it is losing the information war on 9/11, and has recently began to mount its predictable counter-offensive.

...

When faced with the challenge of a National 9/11 Debate, the Muckraker Report turned to the well-respected work of Professor Jones and Professor Fetzer at Scholars for 9/11 Truth. The Muckraker Report contacted Professor Fetzer and asked if he could assemble a highly qualified seven-member civilian debate team that would be willing to debate a seven-member government debate team regarding the government’s account of 9/11 events. Professor Fetzer had a team assembled in two weeks. With the civilian debate team in place, the Muckraker Report identified twenty-nine potential government debate team members to include the ten members of the 9/11 Commission and the thirteen NIST scientists responsible for the government’s “pancake theory” of collapse. Each of these potential government debate team members was mailed numerous invitations. Five of the 9/11 Commissioners had staffers contact the Muckraker Report via telephone to decline invitation due to “prior commitments”. However, the thirteen NIST scientists remained silent.

After three separate mailings of hard copy invitations to the NIST scientists, on June 8, 2006 the Muckraker Report received e-mail from NIST that said, “The project leaders of the NIST World Trade Center investigation team respectfully decline your invitations to participate in the National 9/11 Debate on September 16, 2006.” Not to be deterred, on June 20, 2006 the Muckraker Report e-mailed Michael E. Newman, NIST Director of Media Relations, and asked if there was a better date, time, and location for NIST to participate in the National 9/11 Debate.

On June 25, 2006, NIST Director of Media Relations, Michael E. Newman responded:

The members of the NIST WTC Investigation Team has [sic] respectfully declined your invitation to participate in the National 9/11 Debate. A change in venue or date will not alter that decision.

A change of venue or date will not alter that decision. Fascinating! What Newman is telling the world is that the public servants at NIST, the people paid by the U.S. taxpayers, will never, ever publicly debate their peers regarding the “pancake theory” of collapse of WTC-1, WTC-2, and WTC-7. Taxpayers should be outraged! The public needs to demand accountability. Apparently, the Gang of 13 at NIST does not believe they are accountability to the people. That needs to change, pronto! Newman has repeatedly told the Muckraker Report that NIST “stands solidly behind the collapse mechanisms for each tower and the sequences of events (from aircraft impact to collapse) as described in the report.” The truth is that NIST is hiding behind its unsustainable theory and dares not publicly debate the merits of its report.

Recently, Ann Arbor 911 Truth had a similar experience (9-11 Truth Event in Ann Arbor, April 10, 2007):

On April 7 annarbor911truth.com hosted Kevin Ryan, Kevin Barret and William Rodriguez for an unforgettable afternoon of truth in the League ballroom. We filled over three hundred chairs for this event called "TRUTH STRIKES BACK".

Originally, the group had planned to sponsor a debate. We invited the members of YAF, a popular rightwing organization on campus to to debate us on the following issue: "Have the government and media lied to the public about the events of Sept 11."
Though we issued several polite invitations these were declined.

Next we tried the physics department at the University of Michigan as well as three departments in the school of engineering, Civil, Materials Science and Mechanical. We sent each faculty member a personal invitation as well as a copy of "Improbable Collapse" All of the invitations were declined or not answered; that's over three hundred invitations total for the University faculty. No one would defend the official story as related in the NIST, FEMA and 9-11 Commission Report.

Since we had advertised a "debate", out of desperation Kevin Ryan and Kevin Barret did a mock debate and took turns representing the official story as outlined in NIST and the 9-11 Commission report. Then they took turns showing how these reports failed the public.

Like this author mentioned earlier, "the roar of that silence is deafening." And by all appearances people are slowly waking up to that roar.

Resume

2007-04-04T12:06:00.000-04:00

Revision 2
Revision 1

Boris Epstein

Malden (Metro Boston), Massachusetts, US (map)

Contact

E-Mail: boris.epstein@yahoo.com
Phone: 617.816.9654

Summary

Strong analytical abilities derived from both study and hands-on experience. Enjoy challenge and uncertainty. Seeking a position where I could contribute and grow, both professionally and personally.

Technical Summary

About a dozen years of full-time experience in the IT industry. That includes programming, systems administration (primarily various versions of UNIX and Linux) as well as network administration.
Participated in development, installation and maintenance of large-scale IT solutions in fields as diverse as telecommunications, financial, internet hosting, e-commerce, etc. Have experience developing standalone applications from scratch as well as working in a team. Diverse client interaction experience both domestically and internationally.
Operating Systems: UNIX, Linux, MS Windows (XP, NT), MS DOS, Apollo Aegis, VMS
Programming Languages: C/C++, PERL, JAVA, UNIX (C-Shell, Bourne, Korn), Tcl/Tk, Lisp/Scheme
Tools: Emacs, MS Office, FrameMaker, VI
Hardware: IBM-compatible PC, HP, SUN

Timeline

April 2004 - present

July 2001 - April 2004

December 1999 - April 2001

September 1999 - January 2000

May 1999 - July 1999

November 1995 - May 1999

July 1992 - November 1995

Summers of 1990 and 1991

Personal

References

Just ask - plenty of people will vouch for me!

3/18/07 AntiWar Protest in Albany, NY featuring 9/11 Truth UAlbany

2007-04-03T19:44:00.000-04:00

Check out the antiwar rally in front of the Capitol in Albany, NY on the 4th anniversary of the Iraq War. Included in the march were members of 9/11 Truth UAlbany, who also protested in front of Governor Eliot Spitzer's Mansion in the South End of Albany.

Check out 9/11 Truth UAlbany at: www.911truthualbany.org

Google Video link

"Mainstream Media & 9/11 - Blatant Mind Control Propaganda!"

2007-04-01T14:17:00.000-04:00

1 April 2007
By Boris Epstein

YouTube link

This is a presentation worth watching to get a glimpse into how the modern media can by way of selective censorship cover a topic in a way that ridicules one of the sides in the debate from the start and denies the audience an opportunity to acquire knowledge of the subject or form an informed opinion of said subject. It is, of course, shocking when the subject at hand is something as crucially important as the tragic events of 9/11 - which, aside from their own enormity, have since been presented as basis for a revolutionary transformation of the American policy.

It also shows how myths are created by way of presenting certain opinions as apriori unassailable and subject only to unquestioning acceptance. The "9/11 heretics" are given some air time, of course. I must say that only started after the 9/11 Truth movement has grown too large to be ignored by the mainstream media but let us not dwell on that point. However, when those "heretics" are given the light of day it is generally only after a somewhat derisive introduction, only very briefly and only in such a way as to deny them an opportunity to present their views in any fashion that even smells of seriousness. That is a subtle, though effective, way to reinforce the official 9/11 myth.

For more on the myth making see an excellent article titled 9/11: The Myth and the Reality by Dr. David Ray Griffin's who also happens to be featured in the video above.

Peace March, Boston, Massachusetts, March 24, 2007

2007-03-31T13:50:00.000-04:00

Google Video link

What's Happening at Guantanamo?

2007-03-31T12:52:00.000-04:00

The text below came to me via email. Use this map to navigate your way to the venue.

Regardless of what you think the people held at Guantanamo may have done I believe it is important for all of us as Constitution-respecting Americans to do what we can to make sure the rule of law prevails over the current Administration's dictatorial policies. And Guantanamo is a very important front in that struggle.

Newton Dialogues on Peace & War presents:

WHAT’S HAPPENING AT GUANTANAMO?
Why Should We Care?

Talk by Attorneys Doris Tennant and Ellen Lubell

Newton lawyers Doris Tennant and Ellen Lubell are pro bono representing a Guantanamo detainee who has been held for five years without charges. They have just returned from their first visit there.

Wednesday, April 4, 7 P.M.

Newton Main Library
330 Homer Street, Newton, MA

Hello friends. Please come to this event. Doris Tennant and Ellen Lubell are representing a Guantanamo prisoner pro bono, so they are providing their time at no charge. However, their costs, including their own travel and that of a translator, translator fees, and Freedom of Information Act requests, are running at least $20,000 for this year, and will likely continue at that same pace or more. Most of the other attorneys who are representing Guantanamo detainees are members of large law firms that cover these types of expenses, but in their case the “firm” is just them. If you would like to make a contribution to help them defray costs, it would be much appreciated. Please make your check payable to “Tennant Lubell Detainee Fund.” Your contribution will not be tax-deductible, but they promise to put it to good use to help provide fundamental legal rights to a man who remains in indefinite detention.

Doris Tennant, Esq.
Tennant Lubell, LLC
288 Walnut Street
Suite 500
Newton, MA 02460

617-969-9610, X 101
Fax: 617-969-9611

www.tllawgroup.com

Curriculum Vitae

2007-03-28T21:30:00.000-04:00

Boris Epstein

Malden (Metro Boston), Massachusetts, US (map)

Summary

An analytical thinker with a poetic perception. Have few goals other than attaining fulfillment in life and being of use to the humanity which includes myself. Can be equally content writing a political commentary, diagnosing a piece of equipment or writing software code.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1969. Have lived in the US since 18 years of age. Attended Tver University (website in Russian) in Tver, Russia; Boston University and University of Massachusetts at Amherst graduating in 1992 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics/Computer Science in 1992.

Technical Summary

Timeline

April 2004 - present

Freelance writer and activist

Maintain two websites, Sniffing Out The Higher Truth and Building a Pyramid. Provide technical assistance to several online projects including Cooperative Research and New England JAVA Users Group.
In 2005, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina helped coordinate volunteer relief activities in the Gulf and personally participated in those activities.
Currently work odd jobs to support myself.

July 2001 - April 2004

December 1999 - April 2001

September 1999 - January 2000

May 1999 - July 1999

November 1995 - May 1999

July 1992 - November 1995

Summers of 1990 and 1991

References

Just ask - plenty of people will vouch for me!

“Improbable Collapse” – Spring 9/11 Truth Northeast Tour

2007-02-26T09:53:00.000-05:00

The text below came to me via email.
Boris Epstein

Scientists pose the question: How did three “indestructible” steel-framed skyscrapers collapse? “Improbable Collapse: the Demolition of our Republic” with Filmmaker, Michael Berger and Media Coordinator for 911truth.org tours northeast, CT, MA, NY, VT, and NH; April 10-23, 2007

Contacts:
Michael Berger, Connect the Dots LLC
(314) 308-4893, info@improbablecollapse.com

Jonathan Mark – Valley911Truth; publisher FlybyNews.com
Tel. 978-544-7862 – Email: noflyby@yahoo.com
Stephen Goodale – Resource Coordinator - Northeast911Truth.org
On line resource links 911DVDproject.com * 911blogger.com * ImprobableCollapse.com

NORTHEAST USA – “Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of Our Republic” goes on tour for two weeks in April with the support of 9/11 truth groups across the region. The tour opens on April 10, 2007, when Michael Berger presents his film at the University of Hartford, with Q & A following the 69-minute film to look at the events of September 11, 2001 from a strictly scientific perspective.

On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center Twin Towers disintegrated in a manner that some scientists say resembled deliberately calculated demolitions. The facts open for discussion include: at 5:20 p.m. that same day another building, the 47-story WTC 7, completely collapsed within 70 feet of its footprint in 6.6 seconds. These three buildings became the first such structures to ever suffer complete collapse due to fire and structural damage.

“The dramatic collapse of World Trade Center 7 is something everyone ought to see…
It really does have the characteristics of an explosive demolition.”
– Dr. Steven Jones, physicist, author of
“ Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Completely Collapse?”

The new documentary, “Improbable Collapse – The Demolition of our Republic,” closely examines one of the world’s worst catastrophes from a civil engineering perspective. Using photo and video footage, as well as expert scientific testimony, the film thoroughly analyzes the official reports, offering varied criticisms of the official findings, while presenting a more plausible hypothesis. Both government investigations and the mainstream media have quietly ignored the findings from these scientific experts.

“Improbable Collapse – The Demolition of our Republic” is produced by Michael Berger and Connect the Dots LLC. As the media coordinator for 911truth.org, Berger has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, CNN Showbiz Tonight, and Scarborough Country as well as dozens of radio appearances including a recent debate with Matthew Rothschild, editor of The Progressive Magazine.

10 April to 23 April, 2007

4/10 - University of Hartford, CT; 4/11 - First Churches, Northampton, MA;
4/11 Holyoke Community College, CT; 4/12 - Keene State College, NH; 4/13 TBA;
4/14 Hooker-Dunham Theater, Brattleboro, VT; 4/15 Berkshire Community College;
4/15 Unitarian Universalists Society of Greater Springfield; 4/16 University At Albany, NY;
4/17 Bennington Free Library, VT; 4/18 - TBA; 4/19 Dover, NH (more info coming);
4/20 - TBA; 4/21 Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA; April 22nd - TBA;
April 23rd Hampshire College, Franklin Patterson Main Lecture Hall

Quotes of Dissent

2007-02-15T01:47:00.000-05:00

The text below was emailed to me. BE

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

~Harry S. Truman

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it. ~Edward R. Murrow

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. ~William O. Douglas

We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy. We have seen all too clearly that there are men≈now in power in this country≈who do not respect dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a quiet voice and a business suit. And it is up to us to prove that they are wrong.

JOHN V. LINDSAY, mayor of New York City, speech at University of California, Berkeley, April 2, 1970

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Jacob Bronowski

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity≈much less dissent.

Gore Vidal

"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

:	Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually."

-James Baldwin,

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches. I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American.

-Pete Seeger, [from testimony for the House of Un-American Activities Committee], August 15, 1955

John F. Kennedy:

Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive

Edward R. Murrow:

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. (about Senator Joseph McCarthy's accusations about Communism in the American government)

Barbara Ehrenreich:

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

Archibald Macleish:

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Annotated schedule for 911 Truth film festival

2007-02-10T12:52:00.000-05:00

The text below is extracted from an e-mail. This is the schedule for this event.

First Annual Alternative Media Film Festival Schedule, 2007
The Democracy Center, Cambridge, MA

Friday, February 9th
6:15 9/11: Press for Truth
The victims families explain the fight to get the first "investigation" and some of the questions they still have.

7:45 Refuge of Last Resort
A first hand look at Katrina, before, during and after, from an independent crew on the ground.

9:15 William Rodriguez
The last survivor of the World Trade Center collapse and national hero recounts that day.

10:15 Improbable Collapse
A scientific explanation of the demolition of the twin towers.

11:30 Mike McCormack
The man who found the famous WTC flag speaks.

Saturday, February 10th
12:15 Waco: The Rules of Engagement
An Academy Award nominated documentary on the massacre at Waco.

2:45 Radio Silence
A short on the failure of the FDNY radios on 9/11.

3:45 Who Killed John O'Neill?
A fictional story about real events. Explores the deep evidence as one man comes to grips with 9/11.

6:45 9/11 Mysteries
Explosive evidence.

8:45 Tea Party
A few minutes from the Tea Party event held in Boston.

9:00 Terror Storm
The history of government sponsored terrorism.

11:30 David Miller
A 9/11 first responder speaks.

Sunday, February 11th
12:00 Hacking Democracy
Looks at electronic election fraud.

1:30 The Secret Government
A 1987 PBS special on the history of the secret government, focusing on Iran-Contra, and the ramifications for our republic.

3:30 America: From Freedom to Fascism
The most powerful documentary we are showing. Explores the history of the Federal Reserve, the IRS and the police state.

6:15 Beyond Treason
Atomic soldiers, agent orange, and depleted uranium through the army experts and men harmed.

9/11 Truth Film Festival, February 9-11, 2007, Cambridge, MA

2007-02-08T07:03:00.000-05:00

The text below is extracted from an email. The venue is The Democracy Center (map).

Due to my schedule which as of late has been quite erratic and unconventional I may or may not be able to attend but I would strongly recommend visiting it regardless of what your position is on 9/11.

9/11 Truth Film Festival
February 9-11
The Democracy Center
45 Mt. Auburn St.
Cambridge, MA
Friday 6 PM to 12 AM
Saturday 12 PM to 12 AM
Sunday 12 PM to 8 PM
Free admission and popcorn

An evidence-based, scientifically-sound look into what really happened on 9/11.
26 hours of spellbinding documentaries about 9/11 and related topics.

February 3, 2007: Recent links of interest

2007-02-03T13:19:00.000-05:00

9/11: The Case Isn't Closed

Saturday, 3 February 2007 6:04 P GMT-05

What happened to critical thinking? I thought "the Left" believed that the system's power is based on lies, exploitation and a media controlled by its own culture of overly cautious professionalism. The Left should be leading this 9/11 movement, not taking potshots from outside.

A Clarion Call for Health Independence

Thursday, 1 February 2007 3:53 P GMT-05

Alone and racing against death, the Odones persist for three years before finding the clue that leads them not to a cure but to a treatment; oleic acid can destroy the fatty acids that are destroying Lorenzo’s brain. Augusto develops a formula he calls “Lorenzo’s Oil” — a combination of two fats extracted from olive oil and rapeseed oil. The formula proves remarkably effective in presymptomatic boys with the ALD gene because of its ability to halt the body’s production of the specific acids that attack the myelin sheaths.

Tags: healthcare science us history social issues libertarianism

Dan Wallace of NY911Truth, Fallen Firefighter's Son, Found Dead

Wednesday, 31 January 2007 7:26 P GMT-05

Dan Wallace, 23, was found dead early Monday morning in his bed. The exact cause of death is yet to be determined. He was a young man of great conviction and conscience, and his heart was as big as his smile. Dan will be sorely missed by myself and the members of "We Are Change," as well as all of us in the New York 911 Truth organization. Our hearts go out to his family, especially his mother who must endure the deaths of a husband and child in the span of only a few years.

Tags: dan wallace 911 truth new york us obituary

Open Letter to Markos Moulitsas Zúniga of dailykos.com

Monday, 29 January 2007 7:04 A GMT-05

I don't normally do this, and initially, I had planned on writing you a long and nasty email because of your policy of censorship at your website. It angers me that people like you, not unlike the mainstream media in America, decide what people read and what they don't. You will talk and write about how the media in America is controlled by unseen hands, or biased toward the right, yet you practice the same brand of defacto censorship, most notably surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001.

Tags: 911 truth internet media coverup

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January 26, 2007: Recent links of interest

2007-01-26T11:09:00.000-05:00

Outrageous Injustice

Friday, 26 January 2007 3:10 P GMT-05

When he was a senior in high school, he received oral sex from a 10th grader. He was 17. She was 15. Everyone, including the girl and the prosecution, agreed she initiated the act. But because of an archaic Georgia law, it was a misdemeanor for teenagers less than three years apart to have sexual intercourse, but a felony for the same kids to have oral sex.

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Paramilitary Assault Teams Terrorizing America

Thursday, 25 January 2007 5:23 P GMT-05

The ultimate goal of the paramilitary assault teams, many of whose numbers across the country will be boosted when troops arrive back from Iraq, is mass gun confiscation on the scale that we saw during Hurricane Katrina, where everyone from 80-year-old grandmothers to rich mansion owners in the dry areas had their weapons seized. Soldiers in Iraq have been trained to carry out door to door raids and have been utilized for this function thousands of times. Alex Jones has attended numerous military urban warfare training drills across the U.S. where role players were used to simulate arresting American citizens, confiscating their weapons, and taking them to internment camps. Actors scream out that they have constitutional rights as they are handcuffed and hauled off to the detainment facility.

Tags: us police law dictatorship war on drugs war on terror

MSNBC: New Pentagon detainee manual could lead to executions based on 'hearsay evidence'

Friday, 19 January 2007 3:20 A GMT-05

As required by law, the manual prohibits statements obtained by torture and "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" as prohibited by the Constitution. However, the law does allow statements obtained through coercive interrogation techniques if obtained before Dec. 30, 2005, and deemed reliable by a judge.

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"Nineteen Eighty-Four"

2007-01-26T10:52:00.000-05:00

A film based on George Orwell's famous book, courtesy Google Video.

'The Ground Truth' documentary in Malden, Jan. 24

2007-01-16T14:20:00.000-05:00

The following announcement has been e-mailed to me. You can also watch 'The Ground Truth' online. The location for the screening is 2 Elm Street, Malden, MA 02148.

THE GROUND TRUTH
A documentary film by Patricia Foulkrod
Wednesday, January 24, at 7 pm
First Parish in Malden, Universalist
Elm and Pleasant Streets (Route 60), Malden

Hear and witness the lives of our soldiers in this penetrating film. The
Iraq ground conflict is only a prelude to the challenging battles our
veterans face upon their return home.

This film is one of 15 on the Academy Award's short list for Documentary
Features. This film is recommended for mature audiences. A discussion will
follow. Refreshments served. Donation requested.

Presented by the Malden Area Citizens Against War and the First Parish in
Malden.

Directions:
First Parish in Malden, a Unitarian Universalist
congregation, is located at Elm and Pleasant Streets (Route
60), a few blocks west of the Malden Center T station (Orange line).
Free parking is available in the lot between the church and the
Beebe Elementary School. The church facility is wheelchair
accessible. Call 781-322-0474 or visit www.malden.ma.uua.org
for more information.

"The Ground Truth: The Human Cost of War"

2007-01-16T14:10:00.000-05:00

Hailed as "powerful" and "quietly unflinching," Patricia Foulkrod's searing documentary feature includes exclusive footage that will stir all audiences. The filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young Americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. The terrible conflict in Iraq, depicted with ferocious honesty in the film, is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home – with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government. As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all - the truth.

Google Video link

The Ground Truth homepage

January 16, 2007: Recent links of interest

2007-01-16T11:08:00.000-05:00

Where the Hell Is YOUR 9/11 Proof?

Tuesday, 16 January 2007 5:11 A GMT-05

This is a battle for truth. It’s not a debate over conflicting philosophies. It is a battle between those who are searching for facts and those who choose to deny that a search is necessary. How long do those in blinders have to be engulfed in flames before they believe an independent researcher who warns them of the increasing heat?

Tags: 911 truth propaganda media psychology

Absolute Power

Monday, 15 January 2007 8:19 P GMT-05

But it has finally become clear that the goal of these foolish efforts isn't really to win the war against terrorism; indeed, nothing about Padilla, Guantanamo, or signing statements moves the country an inch closer to eradicating terror. The object is a larger one, and the original overarching goal of this administration: expanding executive power, for its own sake.

Tags: george w bush jose padilla john ashcroft war on terror dictatorship

Pandora's Black Box - Chapter Two - Flight Of American 77 Released!

Saturday, 13 January 2007 4:38 P GMT-05

Pilotsfor911truth.org presents its first full documentary based on the American 77 Flight Data Recorder as provided by the NTSB following the full flight in real time as it happens in the air traffic system on Sept. 11, 2001. For a more in depth analysis of the issues addressed in this film and/or your own personal higher quality DVD with extras and without the watermark (and the 2 split second glitches due to upload), please visit http://pilotsfor911truth.org. We thank you for your support and taking the time to inform yourself.

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January 12, 2007: Recent links of interest

2007-01-12T23:51:00.000-05:00

Saudi torture: a Whitehall cover-up

Friday, 12 January 2007 5:00 P GMT-05

Indeed, far from helping their citizens to get justice, the UK government has hindered them in a number of ways. Most remarkably in our particular case, it intervened on the side of the Saudis. In the Lords, the government's counsel even supported the Saudi claim to immunity. That lawyer was Professor Christopher Greenwood QC, the same man who advised Tony Blair that the invasion of Iraq was lawful, against the views of nearly every other international lawyer.

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Scientific American Lies for the Empire

Friday, 12 January 2007 4:23 P GMT-05

If buildings that are "95 percent" air -- virtually all modern office buildings -- can only collapse straight down, one has to wonder why demolition companies are paid millions of dollars to engineer straight-down collapses with hundreds of carefully placed and precision-timed explosives. Shermer fails to note that no structure before or after 9/11/01 has ever exhibited the phenomenon of top-down progressive total collapse, no matter what fraction of it was air. The non-repeatability of this phenomenon will trouble students of the scientific method, but not Shermer.

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A Peculiar Version of Friendly Fire

Thursday, 11 January 2007 8:03 P GMT-05

Female soldiers, she soon learned, were called “bitches,” “sluts,” and “dykes.” A friend in an all-male unit related a story in which an obligatory equal opportunity class devolved into a rant against servicewomen, who “always” said they’d been raped after regrettable drunken liaisons. A woman in Dougherty’s unit who stayed behind the initial deployment because she was pregnant showed up in Iraq four months later after an abortion—and was congratulated by the platoon commander on getting “the first confirmed kill in the unit.”

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January 10, 2007: Recent links of interest

2007-01-10T14:01:00.000-05:00

Innocents at Gitmo

Wednesday, 10 January 2007 5:34 P GMT-05

And there is this revealing information: "This 86 percent of the detainees captured by Pakistan or the Northern Alliance were handed over to the United States at a time when the U.S. offered large bounties for capture of suspected terrorists." The captives in these mass roundups were hardly screened carefully for their terrorist connections by the bounty hunters -- nor were they carefully screened, according to international law criteria, by our armed forces.

Tags: gitmo guantanamo war on terror law

Eta claims Madrid airport attack

Tuesday, 9 January 2007 7:00 P GMT-05

The Basque separatist group Eta has formally acknowledged it carried out a bomb attack that killed two people at Madrid airport last week. However the statement by the group also said that the "permanent ceasefire" announced in March remained in effect.

Tags: spain eta ethnic issues terrorism

Tortured in the death chamber

Monday, 8 January 2007 8:43 P GMT-05

LETHAL INJECTION was introduced following the reinstatement of capital punishment three decades ago by a state medical examiner in Oklahoma who had no experience in pharmacology or anesthesia, nor did any research on the subject. Despite this, 37 out of 38 states that use the death penalty adopted the untested procedure, claiming that it was a more “humane” way to put someone to death. A recently released Human Rights Watch study “found no evidence that any state seriously investigated whether other drugs or administration methods would be ‘more humane’ than the protocol it adopted.” As a coauthor of the study commented, prison officials “are more concerned with appearances than with the reality.”

Tags: us death penalty healthcare law history

Manuel Garcia Sees Physics That Don’t Exist

Saturday, 6 January 2007 4:51 P GMT-05

Government scientists get paid to support government policies, particularly in this era of “Bush Science”, and clearly Garcia is willing to play along. But why would political news organizations, like Counterpunch, that present themselves as alternatives to the corporate media, promote these false claims? Consider for a moment the implications of a breakthrough in the truth about 9/11. If the official story about 9/11 is completely false, as it has proven to be, that fact should call into question those media sources who have helped to cover-up the details over the last five years, even if only through gross negligence of the facts. Whether or not collusion with alternative media was involved, if there is a possibility that the neo-cons actually helped in planning or executing the attacks, then the fact that they pulled it off means that Alexander Cockburn and other (ostensibly) liberal leaders might no longer enjoy the “irreverent and biting” superiority that they identify themselves with. It could be very distressing for some of these rebel leaders to realize that instead of “muckraking with a radical attitude” they have spent years meekly bolstering the status quo.

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"The True Lies of 9/11"

2007-01-10T13:38:00.000-05:00

By Aidan Monaghan

Part 1

YouTube link

Part 2

YouTube link

Discussion on 911Blogger.com

Announcing an Afternoon of Truth and Activism with Webster G. Tarpley

2007-01-06T12:47:00.000-05:00

The following announcement has been e-mailed to me.
Boris Epstein

Saturday, Jan. 20, 2007, 1- 5:30pm
At the Friends Meeting House, 141 Central Ave., Dover, NH

Noted author Webster Tarpley will be making a special presentation examining the current political party realignment currently taking place in America and whether this transition will take us toward a new progressive phase or a more fascist and draconian society. Mr. Tarpley will also address the war and impending collapse of US forces in Iraq, the dollar collapse, the mounting evidence of 9-11 crimes, and the dangers of another "terrorist" attack.

He will lead the day’s activities for guests will be introduced to the concept of creating "Truth Squads," designed to be a challenging presence to presidential candidates as they campaign in the historically significant New Hampshire primary. This is open to anyone who wants to be a part of the evolving changes in the political scene.

Webster Griffin Tarpley is our most incisive critic of Anglo-American hegemony. As an activist historian he is best known for his book George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), a masterpiece of research which is still must reading, and 911 Synthetic Terror: Made in the USA, Surviving the Cataclysm, and Against Oligarchy. He is host of World Crisis Radio on RBNLive.com. He is a 9/11 Truth Scholar and activist; AB Princeton 1966, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa; Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy; and MA in humanities from Skidmore College. He is fluent in Italian, German, French, Latin and Russian. A decades-long expert on international terrorism, his 1978 study for the Italian parliament "Chi ha ucciso Aldo Moro?" (Who Killed Aldo Moro?) broke open the ownership of the "Red Brigades" by NATO's clandestine "stay-behind" networks.

Additional speakers will be added to the program to address the issues of impeachment and ending the war in Iraq. The event is free and open to the public (voluntary donations are greatly appreciated).

Sponsored by the Seacoast 9-11 Questions Group; Boston 9-11 Truth Committee; Western MA 9-11Truth, and Vermont 9-11 Truth.

For more information please contact:
Peggy Brewster brewstout@roadrunner.com 603-973-1555
Crystal Urbanski crystal718@comcast.net 978-270-5625
Boston 9-11 Truth boston911truth@gmail.com voice mail: 617-401-8047

Web sites:
http://9-11.meetup.com/284 (maps available on this site)
http://boston911truth.org

If You Want Something Done Right...

2007-01-05T14:00:00.000-05:00

By Jon Gold
December 7, 2006

Link to original

By Jon Gold
12/7/2006

This movement, more than anything else in existence, has supported the sick and the dying from the environmental disaster that was 9/11.

As we all know, it was the White House, through Condoleezza Rice's office, that signed off on the infamous press release read by then EPA Director, Christie Todd Whitman that said, "Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink."

Christie denied misleading the public, but a Federal Judge by the name of Deborah A. Batts BLASTED her by saying, "no reasonable person would have thought that telling thousands of people that it was safe to return to lower Manhattan, while knowing that such return could pose long-term health risks and other dire consequences, was conduct sanctioned by our laws."

On January 7th of this year, James Zadroga passed away.

Michael Palladino, head of the Detectives' Endowment Association said that, "He was a hero, he disregarded his own health and life to rescue people at Ground Zero."

I am sad to say that James was the not the only one affected by the environmental disaster. As it stands right now, there are upwards of 70,000 people that are now sick as a result of breathing in those toxins.

Recently, another victim of the disaster passed away. This time, it was a nun by the name of Cindy Mahoney. Before she died, she promised to donate her body to be autopsied in the hopes of helping those that are suffering. She is a hero in her own right.

On December 3rd, it was reported that, Rep. Nadler is investigating whether or not, "five Bloomberg administration officials" [...] "violated congressional intent and misspent federal money to dispute more than 6,400 claims." They apparently believed it was their "duty to defend" against the claims.

These people are sick and dying as a result of actions by our Government, and now that very same Government is letting them suffer. This is unacceptable.

After 9/11, the people of America managed to donate upwards of $5Billion to the people affected by the attacks.

Since it seems the Government does not seem willing to help, it again falls on the shoulders of the people.

As I said, this movement has always supported the sick and the dying from the environmental disaster that was 9/11. It is time to dig deep, and give them the kind of support they need. There are currently first responders who are having problems getting by month to month. We have people like David Miller who walks around with a mobile respirator, and Craig Bartmer going to places like the PSU to inform people of what's going on, but are too proud to ask for money.

There are currently 2 organizations that are accepting money to help the first responders, and a new one that will be announced in the coming weeks.

They are:
The Feal Good Foundation
Heroes Helping Heroes

Very soon, 911Blogger.com is going to start accepting donations that will be split evenly among all of the organizations listed. Obviously, the more that can be raised, the better. These people are heroes, and they deserve so much better than they've gotten.

Craig Bartmer recently said in regards to our efforts as a movement, "You're not offending me. You're doing the right thing."

It's time for us to the right thing again. Please give what you can, and thank you.

January 5, 2007: Recent links of interest

2007-01-05T13:39:00.000-05:00

Hurricane Center Chief Issues Final Warning

Friday, 5 January 2007 4:20 P GMT-05

Frustrated with people and politicians who refuse to listen or learn, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield ends his 34-year government career today in search of a new platform for getting out his unwelcome message: Hurricane Katrina was nothing compared with the big one yet to come. Mayfield, 58, leaves his high-profile job with the National Weather Service more convinced than ever that U.S. residents of the Southeast are risking unprecedented tragedy by continuing to build vulnerable homes in the tropical storm zone and failing to plan escape routes.

Tags: max mayfield hurricane katrina science us

Peanuts Kill More Americans Than Terrorists

Friday, 5 January 2007 4:02 P GMT-05

Only by coming to the understanding that terrorism is such a limited threat to our livelihoods and communicating that to others can we disarm the alarmist propaganda that governments utilize in order to enlist our obedience for the construction of the prison planet.

Tags: terrorism deception propaganda statistics psychology

DON'T READ THIS

Wednesday, 3 January 2007 4:44 A GMT-05

And have you heard that the anthrax attacks -- which were sent along with notes purportedly written by Islamic terrorists -- used a weaponized anthrax strain from the top U.S. bioweapons facility, the Fort Detrick military base? Indeed, top bioweapons experts have stated that the anthrax attack may have been a CIA test "gone wrong"; and see this article by a former NSA and naval intelligence officer. It is also interesting that the only congress people mailed anthrax-containing letters were key democrats, and that the attacks occurred one week before passage of the freedom-curtailing Patriot Act, which seems to have scared them and the rest of congress into passing that act without even reading it. And it might be coincidence, but White House staff began taking the anti-anthrax medicine before the Anthrax attacks occurred.

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January 2, 2007: Recent links of interest

2007-01-02T11:14:00.000-05:00

AT&T Concession Thoroughly Debunks Key Anti-Net Neutrality Myth

Monday, 1 January 2007 7:51 P GMT-05

AT&T’s agreement to Net Neutrality as a condition of their merger with Bell South was a huge victory for Internet freedom. It also debunks a top myth told to the public by Internet freedom opponents like AT&T: that Net Neutrality can’t be defined. It can be – AT&T just did it.

Tags: internet technology att

Burlington Free Press front page: Investigate 9/11 again, group says

Monday, 1 January 2007 4:39 P GMT-05

Vermont's biggest newspaper, The Burlington Free Press, has covered 9/11 on its front page! "A Burlington, Vermont group has gathered more than 1,200 of the 1,350 signatures needed to place a new investigation"

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December 31, 2006: Recent links of interest

2006-12-31T13:31:00.000-05:00

dc911truth Conference at George Mason University Videos Now Available

Sunday, 31 December 2006 5:44 P GMT-05

dc911truth.org hosted a conference entitled 'From 9/11 Truth To 9/11 Justice' at George Mason University on 11/11/06. The lectures are now posted on google video and are hyperlinked below. Enjoy!

Tags: 911 truth activism video audio

Bush - Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951 - Federal Documents

Saturday, 30 December 2006 1:04 A GMT-05

After the seizures in late 1942 of five U.S. enterprises he managed on behalf of Nazi industrialist Fritz Thyssen, Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, failed to divest himself of more than a dozen "enemy national" relationships that continued until as late as 1951, newly-discovered U.S. government documents reveal.

Tags: george w bush prescott bush history germany us law

Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth (video)

Friday, 29 December 2006 7:40 P GMT-05

Tags: video 911 truth protest boston massachusetts local

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December 29, 2006: Recent links of interest

2006-12-29T15:14:00.000-05:00

Mike Gallagher Hates the First Amendment

Friday, 29 December 2006 7:01 P GMT-05

It seems Gallagher, the 6th most listened-to radio talk show host in the United States, currently tied with Neal Boortz, who tells his listeners Rep. Cynthia McKinney “looks like a ghetto slut,” at about 3,750,000 listeners, is clueless when it comes to natural rights, George Mason’s 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, the 1689 English Bill of Rights, and the bedrock philosophy of the Age of Enlightenment, all increasingly under attack. Gallagher, and no shortage of other “conservatives,” in essence authoritarian thugs, including Newt Gingrich, who has called for the First Amendment be struck, lest the “terrorists” use the internet and attack us, are routinely provided with substantial airtime to push their fascistic ideas, especially over at the unitary decider network, Fox News, where the Führer Principle (Führerprinzip) is on display 24/7.

Tags: us media dictatorship

Living in America’s Fringe Economy

Friday, 29 December 2006 5:08 P GMT-05

Maria Guzman and her family are part of the 10% of U.S. households -- more than 12 million -- that have no relationship with a bank, savings institution, credit union, or other mainstream financial service provider. Being "unbanked," the Guzmans turn to the fringe economy for check cashing, bill payment, short-term pawn or payday loans, furniture and appliance rentals, and a host of other financial services. In each case, they face high user fees and exorbitant interest rates. Without credit, the Guzmans must buy a car either for cash or through a "buy-here/pay-here" (BHPH) used car lot. At a BHPH lot they are saddled with a 28% annual percentage rate (APR) on a high-mileage and grossly overpriced vehicle. They also pay weekly, and one missed payment means a repossession. Since the Guzmans have no checking account, they use a check-casher who charges 2.7% for cashing their monthly $1,500 in payroll checks, which costs them $40.50 a month or $486 a year.

Tags: us economics social issues immigration

Lawyer Ends Up Dead After Taking On Rove

Thursday, 28 December 2006 7:06 P GMT-05

Of course, there is no evidence Paul Sanford was pushed from “at least nine floors” above the large ventilation grate where he met his fate. As well, there is no evidence he committed suicide, or did he fit the profile of a suicide. However, there is plenty of evidence Sanford was a thorn in the side of the neocons, committing the ultimate sin of accusing one particularly nasty top drawer neocon, Karl Rove, of treason.

Tags: karl rove paul sanford

Gerald Ford forced to admit the Warren Report fictionalized

Wednesday, 27 December 2006 4:23 P GMT-05

Thirty-three years ago, Gerald R. Ford took pen in hand and changed - ever so slightly - the Warren Commission's key sentence on the place where a bullet entered John F. Kennedy's body when he was killed in Dallas. The effect of Ford's change was to strengthen the commission's conclusion that a single bullet passed through Kennedy and severely wounded Texas Gov. John Connally - a crucial element in its finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole gunman.

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Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth

2006-12-29T14:39:00.000-05:00

Google Video link

See also:

Boston 9/11 Tea Party Inspires Nationwide Events

Scenes from the Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth

Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth

Interview with former Boston Center Air Traffic Controller regarding 9/11

New Orleans: Big Easy to Big Empty

2006-12-26T17:25:00.000-05:00

August 29th, 2006 marked the one year anniversary of the devastation in New Orleans caused by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. This Special Report brings you exclusive footage and the stories you won't hear on the other networks--the hidden political agendas and the suppressed eyewitness reports. Includes on-the-spot reporting from independent journalist Greg Palast.

In this half-hour film, Greg Palast and his team travel to New Orleans to investigate what has happened since Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast last year. On his visit, he discovers that the population of New Orleans is miniscule, the reconstruction sparse, suicide rates are climbing, and many have not, nor know how to, return to the city that care forgot. He examines why residents had to leave, what really caused the flood and why they aren't returning.

Bonus Features Include: Tomorrow's New Orleans - Whose City Will it Be? A half-hour conversation with Amy Goodman and Greg Palast where they sit down to discuss who is accountable for the ongoing disastrous situation in New Orleans.

Google Video link

See also:
Refuge of Last Resort

Spooky Halloween Post: Louisiana's Real-Life Ghost Towns

Katrina trip: short timeline

Fleet of rescue boats was ready to rescue New Orleans residents, but no-one at FEMA could "authorize it"

Incompetence? Crime? You decide

Fifty Dollars and a Dream

Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims

The Forever Elsewhere Management Agency

The federal response to Katrina is a disaster in its own right

My Katrina-related Link Blog entries

December 26, 2006: Recent links of interest

2006-12-26T11:38:00.000-05:00

Death by Dust: The frightening link between the 9-11 toxic cloud and cancer

Tuesday, 26 December 2006 4:15 P GMT-05

And that was before anyone knew of the apparent cancer link, first reported in the New York news media in the spring of 2004. Even more shocking is the incidence of cancer and other life-threatening illnesses that have developed among those participating in the recovery workers' lawsuits. Given the fact that some cancers are slower to develop than others, it seems likely to several doctors and epidemiologists that many more reports of cancer and serious lung illnesses will surface in the months and years to come. The fact that 8,500 recovery workers have already banded together to sue, only five years later--with 400 total cancer patients among their number--leads many experts to predict that these figures are likely to grow, meaning a possible death toll in the thousands. In many ways, these illnesses suggest the slow but deteriorating health issues that faced the atomic-bomb survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where thousands died in the years and decades that followed the United States' use of nuclear weapons. And that similarity has not been lost on David Worby, the 53-year-old attorney leading the joint-action suits on behalf of those workers who are already sick, and even dying. "In the end," Worby declares, "our officials might be responsible for more deaths than Osama bin Laden on 9-11."

Tags: epa wtc 911 911 truth healthcare deception

Congress rebukes FBI's Okla. City probe

Monday, 25 December 2006 9:19 P GMT-05

The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year review as early as Wednesday, declaring there is no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection to the attack but far too many unanswered questions remain. The subcommittee's report will conclude there is no doubt McVeigh and Nichols were the main perpetrators, and it discloses for the first time that Nichols confirmed to House investigators he participated in the robbery of an Arkansas gun dealer that provided the proceeds for the attack.

Tags: okcbomb terrorism history us congress

America Has Become Incarceration Nation

Friday, 22 December 2006 9:50 P GMT-05

Drug policies have been responsible for a disproportionate share of the rise in the inmate population, with the 40,000 drug offenders in prison or jail in 1980 increasing to a half million today. A substantial body of research has documented that these laws have had virtually no effect on the drug trade, as measured by price or availability of drugs. Most of the drug offenders in prison are not the "kingpins" of the drug trade. Indeed, the low-level sellers who are incarcerated are rapidly replaced on the streets by others seeking economic gain.

Tags: prisons us law war on drugs crime

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December 20, 2006: Recent links of interest

2006-12-20T18:57:00.000-05:00

Neocon Lapdogs: "Round Up Traitors And Put Them In Camps"

Wednesday, 20 December 2006 11:12 P GMT-05

So we have a government that will have the right to strip American people of their citizenship, we have current internment camps being restored and pristine new ones being built, and we have a lapdog media not questioning this but instead asserting that anyone who does question it should be thrown into the camps. What was that about Hitler again?

Tags: adolf hitler donald rumsfeld germany us fascism dictatorship jose padilla

Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment

Wednesday, 20 December 2006 1:16 A GMT-05

“Even Saddam Hussein had more legal counsel than I ever had,” said Mr. Vance, who said he planned to sue the former defense secretary, Donald H. Rumsfeld, on grounds that his constitutional rights had been violated. “While we were detained, we wrote a letter to the camp commandant stating that the same democratic ideals we are trying to instill in the fledgling democratic country of Iraq, from simple due process to the Magna Carta, we are absolutely, positively refusing to follow ourselves.”

Tags: iraq war abuse us military donald rumsfeld donald vance nathan ertel

In Whose Times?

Sunday, 17 December 2006 3:20 P GMT-05

Yes, the Truth Movement "raises questions", and the questions are of vastly greater importance than any theories that might arise from them. It is not necessary -- perhaps not even desirable -- to resort to scenarios that can then be dashed by the belittling label of "conspiracy" which, like the word "paranoia", can be applied to neutralize valid concerns. The questions themselves are so numerous and significant that demands for honest answers are implicit within them.

Tags: 911 truth history media philosohy psychology politics

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December 15, 2006: Recent links of interest

2006-12-15T11:40:00.000-05:00

Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth

Friday, 15 December 2006 4:33 P GMT-05

In the spirit of American patriots who on December 16, 1773 rebuked Great Britain's tyranny by tossing crates of British tea into Boston Harbor, the Boston 9/11 Truth Committee will enact a "9/11 Truth Tea Party" on December 16, 2006, calling on "all American Sons and Daughters of Liberty to cast-off the tyranny, deceit and lies imposed on the American public by way of the official 9/11 Commission Report."

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Death by Consensus

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When John Kerry came back from fighting in Vietnam, he famously inquired, How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a mistake? Regarding the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group (ISG), a lot of people would like to know, How do you ask a man to be the last to die for a bipartisan compromise?

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Interview with former Boston Center Air Traffic Controller regarding 9/11

2006-12-14T13:49:00.000-05:00

By Boris Epstein
December 14, 2006

Interview with former Boston Center Air Traffic Controller and pilotsfor911truth.org member Robin Hordon. Visit http://pilotsfor911truth.org for latest analysis into the events of Sept. 11, 2001.

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Partial transcript courtesy Prison Planet.com:

"On September 11th I'm one of the few people who really within quite a few hours of the whole event taking place just simply knew that it was an inside job, and it wasn't because of the visuals, the collapses, whatever....I knew that it was an inside job I think within about four or five o'clock that afternoon and the reason that I knew is because when those aircraft did collide and then we got the news and information on where the aircraft were and where they went....if they knew where the aircraft were and were talking to them at a certain time then normal protocol is to get fighter jet aircraft up assist," said Hordon.

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"I know people who work there who confirmed to me that the FAA was not asleep and the controllers could do the job, they followed their own protocols," he stated.

Hordon said that the only way the airliners could have avoided being intercepted was if a massive electrical and communications failure had occurred which it didn't on that day, adding that there was "no way" the hijacked airliners could have reached their targets otherwise.

He highlighted the fact that only an emergency handling of aircraft protocol change on that day could have interrupted standard operating procedure and hijacking protocol. Hordon said it was unbelievable how far American Airlines Flight 11 was allowed to go off course without the appropriate action being taken on behalf of flight controllers.

"What you do is you don't wait for the judge, jury and executioner to prove it's an emergency, if things start to go wrong you have the authority to simply say I am going to treat this craft as if it is an emergency, because if everybody's wrong then fifteen minutes later no big thing."

Hordon emphasized that the debate has deliberately been channeled by NORAD and the government to focus on reactions to hijackings, when the real issue is the emergency condition of the aircraft well before a hijacking is even confirmed.

He went on to explain how as soon as the hijacking of Flight 11 was confirmed at around 8:24am, the entire system, from every FAA center coast to coast, to the Pentagon, to the President were informed and knew of the hijacking.

"The system now had to make some phone calls and call up Rummy's Pentagon and Rummy's Pentagon is the one that would then make the decision."

"Well, Rummy's Pentagon on American 11 didn't answer the phone, neither 175, didn't answer the phone and they didn't answer the phone until they were absolutely embarrassed into answering the phone somewhere along the flight of United 93 and American 77 - first formal contact was at this particular time," said Hordon.

"That is all distractionary, that is all designed to keep people off the focus - the real focus is what the air traffic controller did immediately upon seeing that American 11 was in trouble and what we do as air traffic controllers is we get eyes and ears on this flight."

Hordon underscored the fact that after the confirmed hijacking of Flight 11, the entire FAA system would have been on full alert and obsessively watching the skies for any unusual activity, and that such activity as the hijacking of Flight 77 would have been immediately reported to supervisors instantaneously, as well as being continually tracked.

"If the air traffic controller were going by emergency procedures which he is trained to do, he would have reached out directly to ADC (NORAD) and say what do you see?" said Hordon.

This highlights the absurdity of Dulles controllers mistaking Flight 77 for a fighter jet as it approached Washington as was reported, and the plane's over 40 minute uninterrupted journey to the Pentagon after a hijack was confirmed.

Hordon debunked the recent Vanity Fair piece that whitewashed NORAD's response as a consequence of confusion and the supposition that NORAD needs exact flight coordinates to enact any kind of response, and that the planes were supposedly invisible to radar and couldn't be tracked properly.

"It's very clear now through testimony and documents given to us by the federal government that indeed....the Boston Center actually tracked American 11 as a primary target after it lost its radar, after it lost its transponder, all the way to World Trade Center," he said.

"Further information indicates later the NORAD radars had it tracked....the bottom line of the story is that all of those aircraft were always tracked all the time by the FAA air traffic control centers," said Hordon, pointing out that information showing air traffic controllers tried insistently to alert military command structures is being locked down because it points to finger of responsibility to Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon, who were also tracking all the aircraft from the point of hijacking to the impact on their targets.

This is the reason why, as Hordon stated, that we don't have complete access to flight data recorders and FAA tapes, which in the case of a conversation between six New York Air Route Traffic Control Center controllers was ordered to be shredded, because if studies of that evidence were undertaken it would become very clear as to who was really behind the attack.

"What they did is they cherry picked transmissions, communications and statements made all on these four flights that were able to paint and write a story that the public would look at and so ooh wow, this really happened - but it wasn't factual, it was a story and it tell not tell anything other than what the high perps wanted the public to hear - they cherry picked this information," said Hordon.

Hordon ended by saying that only with the testimony from the dozens of flight controllers who have been silenced or ignored would the true story about who carried out 9/11 begin to emerge.