Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
CLINTON, LATIN AMERICA AND NEOLIBERALISM
Here is a video that discusses Hillary Clinton's recent disastrous tour in Latin America
The big changes that are taking place in Latin America are changes that took place for real structural reasons. The economic growth failure that has taken place over the last thirty years, s the worse economic performance in over a century an economic policy led by the IMF and the World Bank under US leadership.
The changes that Mark Weisbrot is referring to in this video over the last thirty years is called Neoliberalism by the world and Reaganism, Thatcherism by the local marks.
Jeff Gates is the author of the highly-regarded Democracy At Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street
, a sequel to The Ownership Solution: Toward A Shared Capitalism For The 21st Century
. The latter book was described by one reviewer as "the best book on economics for a generation," and praised by Ralph Nader as "a Capitalist Manifesto, a blueprint for spreading the benefits of capitalism more equitably."From those books comes these quotes
"In financial systems, results are downstream of the 'Chicago model' – a shared mindset from which today's results flow. Over the past half-century, this market-fundamentalist perspective evolved into the 'Washington' consensus to emerge as the guiding principle of the World Trade Organization (WTO) now taking this model to global scale."
"At the core of this worldview lies a premise whose purpose is easily stated: 'maximize financial returns and – trust us – all else will be fine.' Faith in that perspective ensured today's results," Gates explains.
The "law and economics" movement referred to by Gates also traces its origins to the University of Chicago. As key opponents of financial regulation, this movement was heavily funded by the same Olin Foundation that also supported neoconservatism through its funding of neocon think tanks such as the American Enterprise Institute.
"Nowhere in this operating system is there any provision for the values essential to the long-term health of communities: fiscal foresight, civil cohesion and environmental sustainability. Money is the only value granted a voice."
"In the financial domain, 'the people in between' are securities bundlers, rating agencies and, most fundamentally, those who induce "the mark" (the public) to put their faith in the financial premise that enables this ongoing fraud.
"All flows downstream from a 'consensus' perspective – regardless whether the deception is a shared belief in Iraqi weapons of mass destruction or a consensus faith in the infallibility of unfettered financial markets. The modus operandi is identical – the displacement of facts with beliefs."
The countries in BRIC have excused themselves from neoliberalism. The only people still being screwed by this monster is the US and its allies. Far from being an FDR, Obama has hired the very worst of these engineers of neoliberalism, has doubled down, and is throwing this monstrous economic system into overdrive
WHO ARE THE NEOCONS
I recently found this definition of Neoconservative. This strikes me as being a pretty good definition and I think it would be hard to dispute this article/definition as it comes from something called Conservapedia.
Here are a couple of statements from this article:
Neoconservatives are often preferred by liberals to portray the conservative voice in the media, as in television talk shows, newspaper columnists, magazines, think tanks, and advisory positions in Republican Administrations.
This is not a new concept to me, although I don't think I have seen it stated this forcefully.
Wilson, FDR, Harry Truman, JFK, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama, it is hard to look at this list and not see the architects and engineers of empire.
Glenn Greenwald is this era's chronicler of the process, see here,
Paleoconservatives, who dislike Neoconservatism intensely, have argued that it emerged from Trotskyite theories, especially the notion of permanent revolution. There are four fundamental flaws in the paleoconservatives' attack...
Paleoconservatives are basically what used to be called the Goldwater wing of the Republican Party, and before that, the Taft Wing. Their opinions are currently being "aggregated" here.
I think Gore Vidal summed up the process, found here:
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt—until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.[41]
UPDATE: See here
Here are a couple of statements from this article:
Neoconservatives are often preferred by liberals to portray the conservative voice in the media, as in television talk shows, newspaper columnists, magazines, think tanks, and advisory positions in Republican Administrations.
This is not a new concept to me, although I don't think I have seen it stated this forcefully.
Wilson, FDR, Harry Truman, JFK, LBJ, Carter, Clinton, Obama, it is hard to look at this list and not see the architects and engineers of empire.
Glenn Greenwald is this era's chronicler of the process, see here,
Paleoconservatives, who dislike Neoconservatism intensely, have argued that it emerged from Trotskyite theories, especially the notion of permanent revolution. There are four fundamental flaws in the paleoconservatives' attack...
Paleoconservatives are basically what used to be called the Goldwater wing of the Republican Party, and before that, the Taft Wing. Their opinions are currently being "aggregated" here.
I think Gore Vidal summed up the process, found here:
There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt—until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.[41]
UPDATE: See here
Saturday, March 13, 2010
MATT TAIBBI UNDERCOVER WITH JOHN HAGGEE
"Hello," I said, taking a deep breath. "My name is Matt. My father was an alcoholic circus clown who used to beat me with his oversize shoes."
I closed my own eyes and kept going, immediately realizing what a mistake I'd made. There was no way this story was going to fly. But there was no turning back.
"He'd be sitting there in his costume, sucking down a beer and watching television," I heard myself saying. "And then sometimes, even if I just walked in front of the TV, he'd pull off one of those big shoes and just, you know — whap!"
I managed to tie up my confession with a tale about turning into a drug addict in my midtwenties — at least that much was true — and being startled into sobriety and religion after learning of my estranged clown father's passing from cirrhosis.
So it began. Our meetings were a prolonged, cyclical course of group-directed confession and healing that began on Friday evening and continued almost without interruption through Sunday afternoon. The basic gist of our group exercises was this: We were each supposed to reveal to one another what our great childhood wounds were, then write a series of essays and letters on the wound theme, taking time after the writing of each to read our work aloud. The written assignments began with an autobiography, then moved on to a letter written to our "offenders" (i.e., those who had caused our wounds), then a letter written to Jesus confessing our failure to forgive our tormentors.
Unfortunately, my one fleeting error of judgment about my circus-clown dad had left me shackled to a rank character absurdity for the rest of my stay in Texas. I soon found myself reading aloud a passage from my "autobiography" describing a period of my father's life when he quit clowning to hand out fliers in a Fudgie the Whale costume outside a Carvel ice cream store:
I laugh about it now, but once he chased me, drunk, in his Fudgie the Whale costume. He chased me into the bathroom, laid me across the toilet seat and hit me with his fins, which underneath were still a man's hands.
Again no reaction from the group, aside from an affirming nod from José at the last part — his eyes said to me, I know what you mean about those fins.
MAIDHC O'CATHAIL
And that's the problem, according to Jeff Gates, author of the highly-regarded Democracy At Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street, a sequel to The Ownership Solution: Toward A Shared Capitalism For The 21st Century. The latter book was described by one reviewer as "the best book on economics for a generation," and praised by Ralph Nader as "a Capitalist Manifesto, a blueprint for spreading the benefits of capitalism more equitably."
"In financial systems, results are downstream of the 'Chicago model' – a shared mindset from which today's results flow. Over the past half-century, this market-fundamentalist perspective evolved into the 'Washington' consensus to emerge as the guiding principle of the World Trade Organization (WTO) now taking this model to global scale."
Jeff Gates' latest book, Guilt by Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War, traces the corruption
to a network who "share an ideological bias sympathetic to Israel
the intellectual roots of neoconservatism can also be traced to Chicago, where University of Chicago Professor Albert Wohlstetter's cadre of students included Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. Wohlstetter himself had been a protégé of another University of Chicago Professor, Leo Strauss. Considered to be the "intellectual godfather" of the neocons, Strauss significantly advocated a "philosophy of deception."
The pace is poised to quicken in this policy-enabled redistribution of wealth – from the bottom to the top."
* Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely published writer based in Japan.
WHO'S TO BLAME FOR THE IRAQ WAR
Who’s to blame for the Iraq war?
A not-so-trivial quiz
(Islam Times) - Maidhc Ó Cathail presents a detailed 20 question quiz with answers at the end. This quiz clarifies many points about the Iraq War.
This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, about why America made that fateful decision. The following questions are intended to clarify who’s to blame for the Iraq war.
1. Ahmed Chalabi
2. In 1982, “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” appeared in Kivunim
3. “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” a report prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996
4. A November 1997 Weekly Standard editorial titled “Saddam Must Go”
5. In Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein, published by AEI Press in 1999
6. On September 15, 2001 at Camp David, the Deputy Defense Secretary attempted to justify a US attack on Iraq rather than Afghanistan because it was “doable
7. On September 23, 2001, which US senator, who had pushed for the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998
“suggests Saddam Hussein
involved in the September 11 attack
8. A November 12, 2001 New York Times editorial called an alleged meeting between Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent in Prague an “undisputed fact”?
9. A November 20, 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that the US should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism, claiming, “Iraq is the obvious candidate
10. George W. Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union address described Iraq as part of an “axis of evil
1. “Yet whether or not Iraq
no victory in this war if it ends with Saddam Hussein still in power
“How to win World War IV”?
12. Which Pentagon Defense Policy Board member
“I believe that demolishing Hussein’s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk”?
13. “If we win the war, we are in control of Iraq, it is the single largest source of oil in the world
14. In a September 20, 2002 Wall Street Journal
could be hiding nuclear material “in centrifuges the size of washing machines” throughout the country?
15. “Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I’ll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990—it’s the threat against Israel.
16. According to a December 7, 2002 New York Times article
to make sure that Secretary Powell did not make too many concessions
17. Who was Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, until he was indicted
who drafted Colin Powell’s fraudulent February 5, 2003 UN speech?
18. According to Julian Borger’s July 17, 2003 Guardian article titled “The spies who pushed for war,
Who was the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy who headed the OSP
19. Which British-born professor emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University
“Clash of Civilizations,”
Answers: 1. Albert Wohlstetter 2. Oded Yinon 3. Richard Perle 4. William Kristol and Robert Kagan 5. David Wurmser 6. Paul Wolfowitz 7. Joseph Lieberman 8. William Safire 9. Eliot Cohen 10. David Frum 11. Norman Podhoretz 12. Kenneth Adelman 13. Charles Krauthammer 14. Benjamin Netanyahu 15. Philip Zelikow 16. Elliott Abrams 17. Lewis “Scooter” Libby 18. Douglas Feith 19. Bernard Lewis
POPE BENEDICKTUS
Opus Dei took over the Vatican and destroyed Vatican II and Liberation Theology. But they turned out to be a bunch of pedophiles. Too bad. Maybe it will be enough to send this ass walking.
CASS SUNSTEIN
Conspiracy theories and government infiltration
Sunstein co-authored a 2008 paper with Adrian Vermeule, titled Conspiracy Theories, in which they wrote, "The existence of both domestic and foreign conspiracy theories, we suggest, is no trivial matter, posing real risks to the government’s antiterrorism policies, whatever the latter may be." They go on to propose that, "the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups",[20] where they suggest, among other tactics, "Government agents (and their allies) might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories by raising doubts about their factual premises, causal logic or implications for political action."[20]
Sunstein and Vermeule also analyze the practice of secret government payments to outside commentators, who are then held out as independent experts; they suggest that "government can supply these independent experts with information and perhaps prod them into action from behind the scenes," further warning that "too close a connection will be self-defeating if it is exposed."[20] Sunstein and Vermeule argue that the practice of enlisting non-government officials, "might ensure that credible independent experts offer the rebuttal, rather than government officials themselves. There is a tradeoff between credibility and control, however. The price of credibility is that government cannot be seen to control the independent experts." This position has been criticized by some commentators,[21][22] who argue that it would violate prohibitions on government propaganda aimed at domestic citizens.[23]
EVERYONE AGREES THAT IT IS A CONSPIRACY, THE KEY POINT IS MOTIVE
"I think the basic facts here indicate that these attacks occurred as a consequence of a conspiracy," Bob Kerrey, the former Democratic senator from Nebraska who was a member of the commission, told me. "Unlike the Kennedy assassination, we're not asking, 'Was there a conspiracy?' In the case of the attack on the United States you begin with the presumption that there was a conspiracy. The 'conspiracy theorists' are presenting an alternative conspiracy."
Whether you take the official view or the conspiracy theorists' view, the 9/11 attacks were not only spectacularly horrific, they were also spectacularly strange and complex. Ultimately, for many of us who aren't experts, choosing what to believe about 9/11 is something like a leap of faith. If you trust members of the 9/11 Commission and the government's structural engineers you'll put your money on the official explanation; in a larger sense, if you trust your government you'll find it truly difficult to comprehend the possibility that anyone on the inside could have been behind something like this.
And it's on the key point of motive -- why would the government do this?
Bob Kerrey, the former Democratic senator from Nebraska who was a member of the
commission said,
"Unlike the Kennedy assassination, In the case of the attack on the United States you
begin with the presumption that there was a conspiracy.
Whether you take the official view or the conspiracy theorists' view, the 9/11
attacks were spectacularly strange and complex
Choosing what to believe about 9/11 is a leap of faith
That means no matter what you believe about 911. It is a leap of faith. No matter
where you leap, there are consequences.
If you choose to leap into the arms of Cheney/Rove/Zelikow/Bush that means more of the same and a serious acceleration of that "same". This year alone that amounted to a minimum of an unsustainable $1 Trillion military budget and global war.
If you choose to leap the other way and enough people take that leap, then the
logical conclusion of that leap is revolution
There are no decent leaps to choose from.
Friday, March 12, 2010
FROM THE FRONT LINES OF WORLD CLASS STRUGGLE
“cargo chain” as described by radical dockworkers from around the world, meeting in Charleston, S.C.:
“The people who move the world can also stop it,’ radical dockworkers like to say, and that captures the essential fragility of a global production and distribution system that depends on the precise coordination of hundreds of thousands of moving parts. If some of those moving parts—workers at a major trucking hub, a major rail switching network or, especially, a strategic string of ports—refuse to do their part, the whole system gets jammed up. Refuse long enough and broadly enough, and the system would be in crisis. “
“The people who move the world can also stop it,’ radical dockworkers like to say, and that captures the essential fragility of a global production and distribution system that depends on the precise coordination of hundreds of thousands of moving parts. If some of those moving parts—workers at a major trucking hub, a major rail switching network or, especially, a strategic string of ports—refuse to do their part, the whole system gets jammed up. Refuse long enough and broadly enough, and the system would be in crisis. “
CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION
U.S. Supreme Court’s notorious January 21, 2010, ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission,
“The United States was born in rebellion against corporations,” Gaffney writes. “The U.S. Supreme Court soon began restoring their power. When it overreached, strong executives and popular movements set it back: under
- Andrew Jackson,
- Abraham Lincoln,
- Teddy Roosevelt, and
- FDR.
Gaffney assays, “Will ‘ordinary’ taxpayers rebel, as they did in the American Revolution, Emancipation, the Progressive Age of Reform, and the New Deal, or will corporate power wax unchecked until it replaces democracy altogether?
AVATAR VERSUS THE HURT LOCKER
I hoped Avatar would get a big Oscar. It would have honored a truly uncompromising anti-war, anti-American-Empire movie.
The Hurt Locker, including ones for Best Movie and Best Director. The film’s director, Kathryn Bigelow, said at the end of her acceptance speech, “I'd like to dedicate this to the women and men in the military who risk their lives on a daily basis in Iraq and Afghanistan and around the world and may they come home safe.”
There is also surely no way that any movie about a serving unit in Iraq would have been in the running for an Oscar back in Bush time.
The Hurt Locker with scenes shot in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan. “We had these Blackwater guys that were working with us in the Middle East and they taught us like tactical maneuvers and stuff – how to just basically position yourself and move with a gun,” Hurt Locker actor Anthony Mackie told the New York Times’ Melena Ryzik.
“We were shooting in Palestinian refugee camps. We were shooting in some pretty hard places. It wasn't like we were without enemies. There were people there looking at us, 'cuz we were three guys in American military suits runnin' around with guns. It was nothing easy about it. It was always a compromising situation.”
The New York Times writer Melena Ryzik describes how Mackie showed her how the Blackwater men trained him to hold his weapon. “If you're a trained killer,” Mackie told Ryzik, “you're very precise.”
PRESENTATION FIVE
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Mar 11, 2010
CrossTalk on 9/11: Whodunit?
PRESENTATION FOUR
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200+ Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials
1,060+ Engineers and Architects
250+ Pilots and Aviation Professionals
400+ Professors Question 9/11
300+ 9/11 Survivors and Family Members
200+ Artists, Entertainers, and Media Professionals
IMPORTANT ARTICLE
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 – Official Account of 9/11: “Terribly Flawed,” “Laced with Contradictions,” “a Joke,” “a Cover-up” English, Danish, French, German, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish
Senior Military, Intelligence, Law Enforcement,
and Government Officials Question
the 9/11 Commission Report
Many well known and respected senior U.S. military officers, intelligence services and law enforcement veterans, and government officials have expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report or have made public statements that contradict the Report. Several even allege government complicity in the terrible acts of 9/11. This page of the website is a collection of their statements. The website does not represent any organization and it should be made clear that none of these individuals are affiliated with this website.
200+ Senior Military, Intelligence Service, Law Enforcement, and Government Officials
1,060+ Engineers and Architects
250+ Pilots and Aviation Professionals
400+ Professors Question 9/11
300+ 9/11 Survivors and Family Members
200+ Artists, Entertainers, and Media Professionals
IMPORTANT ARTICLE
41 U.S. Counter-Terrorism and Intelligence Agency Veterans Challenge the Official Account of 9/11 – Official Account of 9/11: “Terribly Flawed,” “Laced with Contradictions,” “a Joke,” “a Cover-up” English, Danish, French, German, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish
Senior Military, Intelligence, Law Enforcement,
and Government Officials Question
the 9/11 Commission Report
Many well known and respected senior U.S. military officers, intelligence services and law enforcement veterans, and government officials have expressed significant criticism of the 9/11 Commission Report or have made public statements that contradict the Report. Several even allege government complicity in the terrible acts of 9/11. This page of the website is a collection of their statements. The website does not represent any organization and it should be made clear that none of these individuals are affiliated with this website.
PRESENTATION THREE
A Guide to the 9/11 Whistleblowers
James Corbett
The Corbett Report
5 March, 2010
When losing a discussion on the facts of 9/11, a so-called 9/11 "debunker" will often rely on an old canard to "prove" that 9/11 could not have been an inside job: "So many people want their quarter hour of fame that even the Men in Black couldn't squelch the squealers from spilling the beans," write self-satisfied defenders of the government story. According to the logic of this argument, if there are no 9/11 whistleblowers then 9/11 was not an inside job.
James Corbett
The Corbett Report
5 March, 2010
When losing a discussion on the facts of 9/11, a so-called 9/11 "debunker" will often rely on an old canard to "prove" that 9/11 could not have been an inside job: "So many people want their quarter hour of fame that even the Men in Black couldn't squelch the squealers from spilling the beans," write self-satisfied defenders of the government story. According to the logic of this argument, if there are no 9/11 whistleblowers then 9/11 was not an inside job.
PRESENTATION ONE
Congressman Jason Chafetz just said that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11.
A nutjob, right?
Maybe
But he joins quite a few other Congressmen:
According to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House(confirmed here)
Current Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said "The two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"
Current Republican Congressman Ron Paul calls for a new 9/11 investigationand states that "we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"
Current Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich hints that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11
A nutjob, right?
Maybe
But he joins quite a few other Congressmen:
According to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House(confirmed here)
Current Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said "The two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"
Current Republican Congressman Ron Paul calls for a new 9/11 investigationand states that "we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"
Current Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich hints that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11
NAJLA SAID
Najla Said, daughter of the late great Edward said, is not known for her father’s analytical acumen. She is all American sensibility and speech, and not as politically inclined as some of the rest of her family.
THUS SPOKE ABRAHAM
Less helpful were his (The vice president)comments that Israel's announcement on building in East Jerusalem was endangering American troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the kind of rhetoric that does exactly what Mr. Biden has studiously avoided doing, linking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to America's larger Middle East challenges, and it unnecessarily calls into question Israel's role as an ally and the impact on American interests. The Mearsheimer and Walts of this world will delight in this kind of criticism of Israel.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
SHAY'S REBELLION
Shays’ Rebellion and the American Revolution
Written by John Peterson in the U.S. Thursday, 18 February 2010
The American Revolution shook up the entire world. The thirteen British colonies that would become the United States of America, fought and won against the most powerful imperial power on the planet. In the years following the American victory over the British, the hopes of the masses were betrayed. As a result, there were many popular movements and uprisings. But none had as big an impact on the psychology of the ruling class and the future structure of the U.S. government as Shays’ Rebellion of 1786-87, which some have called “The American Revolution’s Final Battle.”
Friday, March 05, 2010
"‘9/11’" Great Crimes / A Greater Cover-Up
We'd like now to present you with 8 pieces of the evidence that we've promised.
These pieces relate either to physical impossibilities or to logical implausabilties in the Official Story as that Story addresses the U.S. military's unprecedented lack of response, the hijacked airliners, the crash into the Pentagon, and the collapse of the World Trade Center Buildings, on 9/11/01.
THE LACK OF U.S. MILITARY RESPONSE
THE HIJACKERS
THE PENTAGON CRASH
THE WORLD TRADE CENTER BUILDINGS' COLLAPSES
The dust cloud from the North Tower grew to about 5 times the
volume of the building within 30 seconds of the start of the collapse.
volume of the building within 30 seconds of the start of the collapse.
THE SURROUNDING PICTURE: FOREGROUND AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE EVENTS OF 9/11/01
A Guide to the 9/11 Whistleblowers
In an effort to draw more attention to the critical issues and troubling questions raised by the testimony of these insiders, The Corbett Report has just released a documentary exploration of key government and corporate whistleblowers, including a discussion of whistleblower protection and what the public can do to facilitate a wider distribution and awareness of this information. Download an mp3 audio file of the documentary or listen to it in the player below:
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth Press Conference Ignored by World Media
On Feb. 19, 2010, Architects and Engineers for 911 Truth held a press conference at the Mariner's Clu
Visit our PESWiki feature page to view my collection of some of these new 911 videos
Also, be sure to subscribe to the official ae911truth YouTube channel, which posts around 2-4 such videos per week, all of which are excellent
Explosive News - How did 200,000 tons of steel disintegrate and drop in 11 seconds? A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7 at the World Trade Center. (Washington Times Feb. 22, 2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it_f-exnS0M TV report of the press conference., Feb. 21
Review:911 Truth Video Collection from Winter 2010
Contents
[hide]- 1 911 Truth Videos
- 1.1 AE911Truth Press Conference, Feb. 19, 2010
- 1.1.1 Part 1/6 – AE911 Truth 1000 – SF Press Conference
- 1.1.2 Part 2/6 – AE911 Truth 1000 – SF Press Conference
- 1.1.3 Part 3/6 – AE911 Truth 1000 – SF Press Conference
- 1.1.4 Part 4/6 – AE911 Truth 1000 – SF Press Conference
- 1.1.5 Part 5/6 – AE911 Truth 1000 – SF Press Conference
- 1.1.6 Part 6/6 – AE911 Truth 1000 – SF Press Conference
- 1.2 AlienScientist's 911 Videos
- 1.3 Niels M. Harrit - TV 2 News Interview
- 1.1 AE911Truth Press Conference, Feb. 19, 2010
- 2 Resources
- 3 See also
# David Ray Griffin, author of "The Mysterious Collapse of WTC 7", talking about the questionable science of NIST, concluding that they lied and are party to the cover-up;
# Steven E. Jones, professor Emeritus from BYU who talked about evidence found in the WTC dust that can only be explained by intentional demolition; and
# Eric Lawyer, founder of Firefighters for 911 Truth, who pointed out the many ways in which long-established protocols for handling crime scenes involving fire and building collapse were egregiously violated, consistent with a cover-up.
My favorites were the presentations by Eric Lawyer (video 6/6), and Steven E. Jones (videos 4b/6 and 5/6)
RT ON 911
The question isn't who or why anymore so much as how. How could 200 thousand tonnes of steel have dropped to the ground in under 11 seconds because of a fire? Over a thousand engineers and architects say it simlpy couldn't, not the way it happened on September 11, and now they want a new investigation. Tim King has been following this issue in quite some time.
For more from our Washington bureau go to http://www.youtube.com/RTAmerica
Monday, March 01, 2010
CHINA IN ICE FREE ARCTIC
"The prospect of the Arctic being navigable during summer months, leading to both shorter shipping routes and access to untapped energy resources, has impelled the Chinese government to allocate more resources to Arctic research,"
Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are already at odds over how to divvy up the Arctic riches
90 billion untapped barrels of oil -- and wrangling over who should control the still frozen shipping routes
the famed Northwest Passage
could become ice-free in the summer months any time between 2013 and 2060, would cut travel distance by 40 percent.
She points out that the country has one of the world's strongest polar scientific research capabilities and already owns the world's largest non-nuclear icebreaker.
Last year Beijing approved the building of a new high-tech polar expedition research icebreaker, to set sail in 2013.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
NARCO NEWS: HOW TO WRITE A STORY
“How to Write a News Story.”
The first paragraph: “the lead” (in newsroom-speak it is spelled “the lede”).
This second paragraph: is the part of the story that seeks to convince you to drop your preconceptions and take this lesson with us, “the nut ‘graph” because it provides “the context of what the lede is: The lede explains ‘what happened’ and the nut explains ‘what does it mean?’” Truth is, the best writers learn over and over again how to write a news story
“Typically, if you are working in quick news fashion,” George comments, “you want to follow the nut with a quote: A very simple statement from someone who was at the event that gives context, life and meaning to what you have just written.”
Four easy steps to write: A lede, a nut ‘graph, a quote and then add background information
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
early questions for journalists, who is your audience. One: who are your readers? Two: who are your editors? Are you writing for a general audience? Or are you writing for a niche audience?
With a general audience you cannot get into the minutia and fine detail that you would if writing for an audience that already knows about the subject matter.”
two general approaches to write a basic news story
“You either answer these five questions: ‘Who? What? When? Where? Why?’
Or you answer three questions: ‘What? So what? Now what?’
“The lede is sort of a poetic set-up for your story. It must sum up the essence of the news event.”
The power of repetition as a teaching tool.
1. Lede. 2. Nut. 3. Quote. 4. Background
“Background is the historical significance of the event, maybe the events that led up to the moment that you’ve just covered,” the most important history that must be known if your reader can only read four paragraphs or sentences of a story
four paragraphs: Your lead, your nut, your quote, your background. That is a very, very basic structure of a news story.”
George offers an example of a lede: “In Los Angeles the Board of Education today voted to extend eating rights for children.”
George follows it with a sample nut ‘graph: “Although this will improve the health of the district’s two million children, it will cost Los Angeles five million dollars.”
“But he used to say you only get four paragraphs at most. You gotta pack everything in there. George already talked about the structure of a story. Why should your audience care about what you are writing about?”
Erin then outlines five general points to keep in mind when writing: timeliness, conflict, currency, prominence and proximity.
Timeliness, happen recently or did it happen a long time ago?
Conflict, where the conflict is, no conflict not interesting
Currency, are people talking about the issue you are reporting on?
Prominence, to serve the community below, if someone with great power has done something very bad or wrong that is also a story.”
Proximity, relevant to where you are located
“You Can Organize It Later”
“There are lots of problems I see with writing. “One that is common is that a news story will be written like an essay paper. It tells you nothing that you didn’t already know.”
“The second thing, people assume their audience already knows what they know, but only referred to it as the EZLN, they would not know
Three, “Another problem is leaving the audience with unanswered questions,” a prisoner on death row. what he did
Four, facts are stated but no source is given,” 8,000 people died. who is saying that, where the information is coming from
in the end, not about structure or format, experiment with a variety of forms. don’t think about the structure first. Just put it down on paper, organize it later
another set of eyes, someone who doesn’t know the facts
In an interview, not to transcribe every word, knowing which quotes in advance one
will want to use
“writer’s block,”, do something else
“We Are Not Writing a Book”
one genre, Writing a profile of a person, in every phrase there is an idea or information to interest your reader in the person you are profiling
“The first three sentences are very important if they don’t like them then they stop reading.”
important tricks of obtaining a good interview, you will learn many more things if the person that you interview thinks you don’t know anything.”
write a lede, then a nut ‘graph, add a quote, and then offer background
The first paragraph: “the lead” (in newsroom-speak it is spelled “the lede”).
This second paragraph: is the part of the story that seeks to convince you to drop your preconceptions and take this lesson with us, “the nut ‘graph” because it provides “the context of what the lede is: The lede explains ‘what happened’ and the nut explains ‘what does it mean?’” Truth is, the best writers learn over and over again how to write a news story
“Typically, if you are working in quick news fashion,” George comments, “you want to follow the nut with a quote: A very simple statement from someone who was at the event that gives context, life and meaning to what you have just written.”
Four easy steps to write: A lede, a nut ‘graph, a quote and then add background information
Who? What? When? Where? Why?
early questions for journalists, who is your audience. One: who are your readers? Two: who are your editors? Are you writing for a general audience? Or are you writing for a niche audience?
With a general audience you cannot get into the minutia and fine detail that you would if writing for an audience that already knows about the subject matter.”
two general approaches to write a basic news story
“You either answer these five questions: ‘Who? What? When? Where? Why?’
Or you answer three questions: ‘What? So what? Now what?’
“The lede is sort of a poetic set-up for your story. It must sum up the essence of the news event.”
The power of repetition as a teaching tool.
1. Lede. 2. Nut. 3. Quote. 4. Background
“Background is the historical significance of the event, maybe the events that led up to the moment that you’ve just covered,” the most important history that must be known if your reader can only read four paragraphs or sentences of a story
four paragraphs: Your lead, your nut, your quote, your background. That is a very, very basic structure of a news story.”
George offers an example of a lede: “In Los Angeles the Board of Education today voted to extend eating rights for children.”
George follows it with a sample nut ‘graph: “Although this will improve the health of the district’s two million children, it will cost Los Angeles five million dollars.”
“But he used to say you only get four paragraphs at most. You gotta pack everything in there. George already talked about the structure of a story. Why should your audience care about what you are writing about?”
Erin then outlines five general points to keep in mind when writing: timeliness, conflict, currency, prominence and proximity.
Timeliness, happen recently or did it happen a long time ago?
Conflict, where the conflict is, no conflict not interesting
Currency, are people talking about the issue you are reporting on?
Prominence, to serve the community below, if someone with great power has done something very bad or wrong that is also a story.”
Proximity, relevant to where you are located
“You Can Organize It Later”
“There are lots of problems I see with writing. “One that is common is that a news story will be written like an essay paper. It tells you nothing that you didn’t already know.”
“The second thing, people assume their audience already knows what they know, but only referred to it as the EZLN, they would not know
Three, “Another problem is leaving the audience with unanswered questions,” a prisoner on death row. what he did
Four, facts are stated but no source is given,” 8,000 people died. who is saying that, where the information is coming from
in the end, not about structure or format, experiment with a variety of forms. don’t think about the structure first. Just put it down on paper, organize it later
another set of eyes, someone who doesn’t know the facts
In an interview, not to transcribe every word, knowing which quotes in advance one
will want to use
“writer’s block,”, do something else
“We Are Not Writing a Book”
one genre, Writing a profile of a person, in every phrase there is an idea or information to interest your reader in the person you are profiling
“The first three sentences are very important if they don’t like them then they stop reading.”
important tricks of obtaining a good interview, you will learn many more things if the person that you interview thinks you don’t know anything.”
write a lede, then a nut ‘graph, add a quote, and then offer background
THE AP FROM DETAIN THIS
What You Should Know about The Associated Press
And What You’re Not Learning from Them
1. The Associated Press is the largest mouthpiece for the U.S. government and the Military-Industrial Complex in their militaristic enterprise known as the “War on Terror.”
2. The conscience of AP is its board of directors; on that board sits tabloid mogul Rupert Murdoch, president and CEO of News Corporation, which owns Fox News, among many other tabloids.
3. AP’s West Jerusalem bureau is a mouthpiece for the hard-line, genocidal Israeli government and its illegal settler movement.
4. AP perpetuates neocon-Likudnik lies about Iran’s nuclear program and the contrived “existential threat” Iran poses to Israel, the USA, and the world.
5. AP habitually conceals the hideous illegality and immorality of U.S. and Israeli actions in Iraq, the IOPTs, Afghanistan, Syria, and Iran.
Friday, February 26, 2010
TERMINAL GENERATION
Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of convenient myths. the driving force of modern industrial civilization has been individual material gain which is accepted as legitimate even praiseworthy on the grounds that private vices yield public benefit in the classic formulation.
Now it has long been understood very well that a society based on this principle will destroy itself in time. it can only persist with whatever injustice and suffering it entails as long as it is possible to pretend that the destructive forces that humans create are limited, that the world is a infinite resource and that the world is an infinite garbage can.
at this stage of history either one of two things is possible, either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests guided by values of solidarity, sympathy and concern for others or alternatively there will be no destiny for anyone to control.
As long as some specialized class is in a position of authority it is going to set policy for the special interest that it serves, but the conditions of survival, let alone justice require rational social planning in the interest of community as a whole, and by now that means the global community.
The question is whether privileged elites should dominate mass communication and should use this power as they tell us they must , namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority, and remove them from the public arena.
the question in brief is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided. in this possible terminal phase of human existence democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured , they may well be essential to survival
ONE PICTURE
At the time Israel violates all rules and don't stop its daily threats against Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Palestine, one mere picture can do a lot…'
It's the first meeting of its kind, at least in public, since the Israeli war against Lebanon in the summer of 2006…
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Syrian President Bachar Assad were finally united in one and only one picture…
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
His 2005 presidential campaign, supported by the Alliance of Builders of Islamic Iran, garnered 62% of the runoff election votes, and he became President on 3 August 2005
HILLARY CLINTON DISSIMILATES
see news article here
I really dont like Ron Pauls' politics, Right wing libertarians are Fredeerick von Hayek or Ann Ryn types. They are in fact what the neoconservatives claim to be but are not.
But at least they rage against the $1 trillion dollar annual defense budget, which since the demise of the Soviet Union, is driven completely by 911 event and the collapse of the 3 towers on that day.
It is a complete fraud and hustle and sets up RICO capitalism for a very narrow group of people while the rest of us go stratigt to hell. And since the leftist and liberals are out to lunch, Ron Paul is all we have.
But that really isnt my point. In this video Hillary Clinton is found saying
"It breaks my heart that 10 years ago we had a balanced budget, that we were on the way of paying down the debt of the United States of America," Clinton said.
"I served on the budget committee in the Senate, and I remember as vividly as if it were yesterday when we had a hearing in which Alan Greenspan came and justified increasing spending and cutting taxes, saying that we didn't really need to pay down the debt -- outrageous in my view," she said.
What is convenienly left out is that during the Bill Clinton administration:
See Clinton List
Thursday, February 25, 2010
THE BANKRUPTING US EMPIRE
U.S. military as too big and too expensive and recognize spending $1 million to keep a soldier in Afghanistan for one year
U.S. has more than 2,500,000 Dept. of Defense personnel deployed across the planet and 761 military bases on foreign soil, not counting more than 100 in Iraq and more than 400 American and NATO bases in Afghanistan. U.S. troops are now stationed in 148 countries and 11 territories
a military network larger than the Roman Empire, which at its height had 37 major military bases, and the British Empire which had 36.
More bases are planned; billions spent building bases in far off lands while large swaths of American cities degrade into impoverished zones and the infrastructure of the nation crumbles
When the Cold War ended U.S. decided to the sole superpower. U.S. military spending is equal to the whole world combined
U.S. Navy exceeds in firepower the next 13 navies combined
budgets are accounted for – the Pentagon, the wars, the 16 intelligence agencies, the super-sized embassies – total Empire spending is more than $1 trillion annually
the entrenched military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about in 1961 is now so powerful that cutting the military budget is off the table in Washington, DC
The war budget grows and grows despite a fragile if not collapsing economy at home
Undoing a century-old empire that is larger than any that ever existed is no easy task, but for citizen patriots it is an essential one for the survival of the nation and the benefit of the world
BILL MOYERS AND THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT
History of Our Secret Government pt 2 of 2
History of Our Secret Government pt 1 of 2
Secret Government 8/9
Secret Government 7/9
Secret Government 6/9
Secret Government 5/9
Secret Government 4/9
Secret Government 3/9
Secret Government 2/9
The Secret Government (CIA Overthrow of Mossadeq)
History of Our Secret Government pt 1 of 2
Secret Government 8/9
Secret Government 7/9
Secret Government 6/9
Secret Government 5/9
Secret Government 4/9
Secret Government 3/9
Secret Government 2/9
The Secret Government (CIA Overthrow of Mossadeq)
WELL, I JUST HAD TO LAUGH
"Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me and I welcome their hatred."
President Roosevelt, Madison Square Garden, October 31, 1936
There is an astonishing lack of anger among liberals, progressives and radicals who have abandoned emotion to the right. Our role model continues to be not FDR, still less Malcolm X, but our "bipartisan" and apparently tone-deaf President Obama
Michelle Obama lectures us on obesity while one in eight Americans (and one in four children) are on federal food stamps.
Where and when did we lefties lose this vital part of our social language? Was it in pre-school where we're urged as toddlers to use sweet reasonableness to resolve disputes?
the suppression of sane, liberal anger has been around at least half a century, certainly since the sociologist C Wright Mills in his influential book The Power Elite deplored the loss of capacity by the public to experience outrage as contrasted with earlier periods in American history
Why should full-throated emotion be the monopoly of the so-called "populists" who seem to be the only people around unafraid to shout, yell, stomp and scream?
THE MISSILE AND THE PENTAGON
the first video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters building and killing 189 people in the Sept. 11, 2001
made public in response to a December 2004 Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch, a public interest group.
Traveling at an estimated 530 mph, the hijacked plane plowed into the southwest side of the Pentagon at 9:38 a.m. EDT
that a novice pilot who could barely fly a Piper Cub handled a complex passenger jet over hundreds of miles of tightly protected airspace, the last 50 miles the most secure in the world, executed a complicated 270-degree turn while simultaneously dropping thousands of feet, and finally skimmed in at ground level to hit the backside of the Pentagon farthest from important people such as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
FOR A FULL LIST OF 911 DOUBTERS
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9/11 WTC North Tower Exploding - Architects and Engineers
Summary of 9/11 scepticism:
http://outsidethebluepillcave.blogspo...
Sources:
http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/32...
#1
For a full list of doubters:
http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Military leaders questioning the OCT:
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/...
CIA veterans doubting:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/gene...
Engineers & architects doubting:
http://www.ae911truth.org/
Physicists doubting:
http://physics911.net/
Pilots doubting:
http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/
High-level officials doubting:
http://911proof.com/7.html
In a recent Zogby International poll (September 06, 2007):
51% of Americans want Congress to probe Bush/Cheney regarding 9/11 attacks;
over 30% seek immediate impeachment;
67% fault 9/11 Commission for not investigating anomalous collapse of World Trade Center 7
http://911truth.org/article.php?story...
Protest in Brussels for 911 Truth (09 Sep 2007):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyuwQY...
#2
But surely this could not have happened, I mean, governments would not actually resort to terror attacks to advance their interests. Would they?
Unfortunately, yes they would.
Actually, they have a history of doing so.
Operation Ajax:
From the archives of the New York Times, the British and US involvement in overthrowing Mossadegh in Iran:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/...
Operation Northwoods:
Operation Northwoods was a 1962 plan by the US Department of Defense to enact acts of terrorism and violence on US soil or against US interests, blamed on Cuba, in order to generate U.S. public support for military action against the Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatio...
Operation Gladio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatio...
Other false flag operations:
http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/10-false-...
US Marines Major General Smedley Butler, the most decorated Marine in US history, figured out what war is all about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_...
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/w...
#3
Right, I see. What are some good links for further research?
http://911research.wtc7.net/index.html
http://911truth.org/index.php
The Journal of 9/11 Studies is a peer-reviewed, open-access, electronic-only journal covering the whole of research related to 9/11/2001.
http://journalof911studies.com/
Of particular interest is a paper by physicist Dr. Steven Jones (link opens .pdf document):
http://www.journalof911studies.com/vo...
Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice:
http://stj911.org/
Dr. David Ray Griffin's books:
- The new Pearl Harbour (recommended by Gore Vidal)
- Debunking 9/11 debunking
#4
The bigger picture:
Historian and professor Dr. Antony Sutton's book on 'Skull and Bones' (link opens .pdf document):
http://sandiego.indymedia.org/media/2...
or
http://www.4shared.com/account/file.j...
Of particular interest is the chapter: 'How the Order creates war and revolution'
Bilderberg 2007 (Istanbul Turkey) - attendees list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFWLIs...
Guardian article about America on its way to fascism:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story
/0,,2064157,00.html
Guardian article about the connection of Bush's grandfather to Hitler's finances:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany
/article/0,,1312542,00.html
Related video with researcher / journalist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnAUQe...
Money
What it is, how it is created & how its supply is regulated and controlled.
Recommended viewing: Money as debt
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USE5gv...
Zeitgeist (documentary):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUGJMv...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?doc...
Action:
First of all, your actions are important and can make a difference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqK3KC...
What you can do:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11
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