even good economic news can't help the greenback now

from wsj: Summer may be on its way and Osama bin Laden may be dead, but that doesn’t mean the sun is going to shine on the dollar. Ben Bernanke made sure of that. The Fed Chairman’s insistence last week that U.S. ultra-loose monetary policy is here to stay not only indicated his lack of confidence in the recovery but confirmed fears the U.S. Federal Reserve is falling behind the curve. As a result, not even good news will help the U.S. currency now... All this means that even good economic news will not save the dollar now. The true test could well come on Friday with the latest unemployment numbers, data that traditionally should give the dollar direction. But, if the Fed is saying no change is in sight, even strong non-farm payrolls won’t stop the dollar from floundering. This whole “good news is bad news” theme was apparent as Osama bin Laden’s assassination by U.S. forces in Pakistan broke.

1/13 newspurge: good, clean fun for the whole damn family

9/11 updates:
backup national communications system 'miraculously' switched to 'exercise mode' on 9/10*
deutsche's toxic tower finally coming down*

biowars/envirohealth:
more mass die-off's?*
birds fall from sky in california, thousands of dead fish found in chicago*
flashback: the mystery of dead birds & fish*
earth's magnetic pole shift unleashing poisonous space clouds linked to mysterious bird deaths*
weather control is no myth: scientists engineer thunderstorms over abu dhabi*
video: kirk cameron says dead birds aren't the end of the world*
17 other things that have fallen from the sky*
deep water: the devastating flood of brisbane*
'four loko' will now fuel cars, not mayhem*
oregon's umatilla depot to increase weapons destruction rate*
epa blows up industry's plan to blow up a mountaintop in west virginia*
8 'conspiracy theories' about health that mainstream media admits are true*

history/mystery:
jfk ambulance up for auction; transported kennedy from andrews afb to bethesda naval hospital*

9/11 updates: warnings, failures, dead dogs & deutsche

mi5 warned that osama was planning attacks on morning of 9/11*
fbi vet exec calls for special counsel investigation & prosecutions in sibel edmonds case*
farmer claims 9/11 was the result of 'massive bureaucratic failures'*
US concealed interrogation tapes of 9/11 suspect, until now*
video: on hidden camera, fox's carl cameron supports questioning 9/11*
rip: taz, the last 9/11 search & rescue dog*
demolition of ex-deutsche bank building to resume at ground zero*
deutsche ready for rip-down*
video: sunjata says 'govt explanations of 9/11 make no sense'*


updates from 10/8:
judge says silverstein can't sue wtc airlines for $2.8b*
moussaoui trial testimony published*

11 points of contention with the 'official story of 9/11'

using the amazing resources of history commons & core of corruption, let's look at some of the key elements surrounding the events of "the day that everything changed"... this is by no means an exhaustive list, but it should give you a general survey of some of the contradictions contained within the 'official story of 9/11'...

jul26, 2001: attorney general john ashcroft stops
flying commercial airlines; refuses to explain why


sep20, 2001: reports on suspicious trading of companies affected by 9/11 + almost irrefutable proof of insider trading in germany


may17, 2002: multiple reports of terror threats before 9/11


jun2, 2002: intel failures surrounding the hijackers


jun4, 2002: reports of in-fighting & cia infiltration of al-qaeda


jun7, 2002: reports on nsa intercepts of
'tomorrow is zero hour' & 'watch the news'



oct17, 2002: tenet misinforms congressional inquiry
about cia knowledge of hijackers' entry into US


dec6, 2002: US investigators pressed to look into ptech


jul29, 2004: fbi letter vindicates many of
whistleblower sibel edmonds' allegations


feb10, 2005: more reports of faa warnings,
briefs, memos & threats


sep14, 2005: reports on 'able danger' evidence & secret sessions


and hell, let's throw in one more note (out of thousands), just to make it an even dozen:
oct31, 2002: reports on wtc gold that was transported,
allegedly almost stolen & then recovered


update: 50 questions on 9/11*

9/11 anniversary updates: past, present & future

'safe america' announces national 'drill down' for 9/11;
terror tests for pandemic preparedness

9/11 drill for simulated plane crash 5min before pentagon attack
from history commons: Five minutes before the Pentagon was hit on September 11, 2001, a training exercise being run by a US intelligence agency just over 20 miles from the Pentagon was set to include the scenario of a small private jet plane crashing into a building. It is unclear whether the scenario was played out, or if the exercise had been called off by that time. Important details of the exercise, which was being conducted by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) at its headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia, are revealed in a document obtained by the 9/11 Commission. The document, titled “Early Morning Flight Activity September 11, 2001,” was part of a series of 9/11 Commission records moved to the US National Archives at the start of this year... The Associated Press has revealed that no real plane was going to be used in the exercise, and the crash was to be the result of mechanical failure, not terrorism.

nyccan submits 28k more signatures for 9/11 investigation on nov ballot; ny allows petition to go forward

kurt sonnenfeld, fema videographer on 9/11, blows the whistle
from voltairenet: As official videographer for the U.S. government, Kurt Sonnenfeld was detailed to Ground Zero on September 11, 2001, where he spent one month filming 29 tapes: "What I saw at certain moments and in certain places ... is very disturbing!" He never handed them over to the authorities and has been persecuted ever since. Kurt Sonnenfeld lives in exile in Argentina, where he wrote "El Perseguido" (The Persecuted). [Here] is an exclusive interview by The Voltaire Network.

arianna huffington: i 'despise' 9/11 truthers

working toward 2013 opening for 9/11 museum
from newsday: The worn New York Giants T-shirt and Penn State baseball cap were among the prized possessions of Richard Caproni, a former North Babylon High School football captain known for his fierce team loyalties and booming laugh. Already, they are part of the permanent collection of the National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum - a gift from his parents. "What we donated were things very dear to Richie," his father, Richard Caproni, 67, a former North Babylon resident, said in a telephone interview from his home in Ocean Pines, Md. "They had significant meaning to us, but we knew it would be better to have it preserved there for eternity." Construction of the museum, as with many elements at the World Trade Center site, is behind schedule. But there has been progress, with officials working toward a 2013 opening. The foundation work has been completed and some of the permanent artifacts - including the Survivors' Stairs and the Last Column recovered from the trade center rubble - were installed at the site in the past nine months.

flashback: the abc's of numerology -
new york, 9/11; madrid, 3/11; mumbai, 7/11

nyc buildings graft shocker:
mob-tied building inspectors in bribe & drug scandal
from nypost: At least six city building inspectors - some with ties to a powerful crime family - were videotaped taking bribes at construction sites, and some were seen dealing cocaine and prescription pills while on duty, The Post has learned. The corrupt Department of Buildings workers - who lined their pockets by ignoring violations or expediting construction and building work permits - will be arrested later this month, along with about two dozen Luchese crime-family captains, soldiers and associates, sources said...

The nearly two-year probe grew out of a 2007 New Jersey case involving a Luchese faction that ran a staggering $2 billion-a-year gambling operation and supplied drugs and cellphones to Bloods gang members in state prisons. That probe - which netted 32 wiseguys - soon spread across the Hudson River into the family's Big Apple hierarchy, prompting surveillance and wiretapping by the NYPD and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's office, the sources said. The probers, who made hundreds of hours of recordings, quickly found mobsters taking bets and conducting loan-sharking operations worth tens of millions of dollars...

This will be the latest scandal to rock the city's Department of Buildings, which is still reeling from its failures at the doomed Deutsche Bank tower that contributed to the deaths of two city firefighters in August 2007.

doonesbury slams 9/11 truth

islamonoia: 'is another 9/11 set to unfold?'*
world architecture news publishes article:
conspiracy theory or hidden truth? the 9/11 enigmas*
the irrefutable case for 9/11 truth*
too many 9/11 commission questions still left unanswered*
charlie sheen's fantasy meeting with obama over 9/11 cover-up*
video: sheen's message to obama*
national geographic does 9/11:
another icon debased in service of big lie*
video: the world wildlife fund & the 9/11 tsunami*

updates from 9/11/9:
obama, in first 9/11 as president,
honors victims' memory with moment of silence*
this 9/11, obama has the bullhorn on terrorism*
video: informant says fbi threw away chance to catch atta*

econocrash: sachs attack, dollar death & the fdic

US mortgage fraud soared in 2008 & still growing, says fbi

programmer out on bail after stealing software that runs goldman sachs' automated trading systems
from reuters: A former Goldman Sachs Group Inc computer programmer accused of stealing secret trading codes from the financial firm has been released from federal custody after posting bail, authorities said Monday. Sergey Aleynikov, 39, was arrested by the FBI Friday and charged with "theft of trade secrets." He met the terms of his $750,000 bail and was released Monday, said FBI spokesman James Margolin. Aleynikov is accused of misusing computer codes that belong to his former employer, a New York-based financial institution that authorities did not identify in court papers but sources say is Goldman Sachs... Goldman has not seen its business or clients harmed by the purported computer breach, a source familiar with the situation said Monday. The firm declined to comment. The case could shed light on the workings of intricate trading systems developed by Goldman. It also raises questions about the security of lucrative Wall Street proprietary trading operations. However, the New York Stock Exchange said Monday there was no connection between the alleged security breach and an error that dropped Goldman from a trading report the NYSE issued last week.

china 2009 = america 2001 = rome 11 bc?

senate blocks 'audit the fed' bill as govt preps 2nd round of looting
from paul joseph watson: A Senate amendment based on Congressman Ron Paul’s successful House bill to audit the Federal Reserve was blocked by the Senate yesterday evening [jul6] on procedural grounds, as Jim DeMint slammed the Fed for refusing to disclose where trillions in bailout funds had gone, while a top Obama administration advisor called for a second “stimulus” package to be prepared.

video: nyc apt sales down over 50%: reports


replacing the dollar as reserve currency
from reuters: The U.S. dollar is in the line of fire as leaders from the largest developed and developing countries gather in Italy for talks, as China pushes for debate on an eventual shift to a new global reserve currency. Sources have said the dollar's role probably will not be included in the final communique of a G8 meeting. Even if it does rate a mention, the language used would likely be extremely general to avoid destabilizing financial markets. Still, the symbolic importance would be immense, as it would underscore the determination of emerging economies, who will also be present in Italy for the talks, to win greater say in the global financial system and, over time, to reduce their dependence on the U.S. currency.

after 91 yrs, ritz camera announces plans to liquidate

fdic gearing up for more bank closures
from bizjournals: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is gearing up to handle a large number of bank failures expected as a result of bad mortgages, both in residential and commercial real estate, an economist said Tuesday. “They know they’re going to take down a large number of banks and they can’t do it until they’re staffed up,” said Mark Dotzour, chief economist and director of research for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University.

lear files for bankruptcy protection

deutsche bankster in tech probe fell to his death
(nothing to see here, move along please...)
from bcc: A City stockbroker fell to his death from a rooftop restaurant two days after bosses investigating an IT-related matter sent him home early. Anjool Malde, 24, was found on the ground outside Coq d'Argent in London's Square Mile at midday on Sunday. He left his Deutsche Bank office early on Friday afternoon after agreeing to "help" the bank with its inquiry. Police are continuing to investigate the death ahead of an inquest, but are not treating it as suspicious.

US food stamp recipients reached record 33.8m in april

9/11 updates: defamation, derangement & ksm's stories

...now more than ever, as we see another big attack on 9/11 truth, it's important to remember that obama's war of terror is still based on the previous puppet administration's lies about 9/11...

flashback: 2 days before 9/11, military exercise simulated suicide hijack targeting ny

accused 9/11 mastermind, ksm: 'i make up stories'
from ap: Accused al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed complained that interrogators tortured lies out of him, though he proudly took credit for more than two dozen other terror plots, according to newly released sections of government transcripts. "I make up stories," Mohammed said at one point in his 2007 hearing at Guantánamo Bay. In broken English, he described an interrogation in which he was asked the location of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. "Where is he? I don't know," Mohammed said. "Then he torture me. Then I said, 'Yes, he is in this area or this is al Qaeda which I don't know him.' I said no, they torture me." Yet at the same military tribunal hearing, Mohammed ticked off a list of 29 terror plots in which he took part.

air america brings in ben-veniste to push back against 9/11 truth


9/11 truth activist sues glenn beck & fox news for defamation
from washington's blog: An East Coast 9/11 truth activist is preparing to file a defamation lawsuit against TV / radio personality, Glenn Beck, the producers of the Glenn Beck Program, and the Fox News Channel. Specifically, Greg Hoover will be suing the above-described defendants in Federal Court for Beck’s having repeatedly broadcast statements characterizing those who question the government’s official version of the events of 9/11 as, "anarchists," "terrorists" and as persons denying the Holocaust. The complaint will note that - on October 22, 2007 - Beck suggested that those identifying themselves as associated with the 9/11 truth movement are "dangerous" "anarchists" who deny the Holocaust, and are "the kind of group that Timothy McVeigh would come from." The suit will also note that during Beck’s June 10th broadcast Beck linked the murder of the Washington D.C. holocaust museum guard with "9/11 truthers."

law & order w/ deranged artist who believes 9/11 'conspiracies'


author: fitzgerald libel threat aimed at censoring key 9/11 tale
from raw story: Peter Lance should be thanking Patrick Fitzgerald right now, even as the attorney’s checks are being signed. If it were not for the U.S. Attorney who famously prosecuted I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former Vice President’s Chief of Staff, the re-release of Lance’s stunning tale of mishandled espionage leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, might be overlooked. The former ABC News investigative reporter’s book Triple Cross hit relatively few shelves in 2006 as a hardcover and left retail quietly, almost completely ignored. Now, with its paperback release looming, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is threatening to sue over material which he calls “defamatory” and “easily proven to be objectively false,” some of which touches on little known information relating to the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Because of the threat, the reissue of Triple Cross received attention from The Washington Post, Huffington Post, The Wall Street Journal and the Associated Press, among others. “That’s the lesson of censorship,” chided Lance, speaking to RAW STORY.

41 counter-terror & intel agency vets challenge 9/11 official story

faulty equipment stops deutsche bank work again
from tribeca trib: For the second time in a week, faulty equipment has led to the shutdown of decontamination work on the former Deutsche Bank tower, near the World Trade Center site. Responding to reports of smoke outside the building late Tuesday morning, June 9, firefighters discovered a malfunction in part of the building’s negative air pressure machinery, which produces a hermetic seal on the toxic portions of the tower. Crews were told to quit working on the building, and did not return to work until the following morning. The smoke was the result of a piece of overheated equipment outside the building, according to Mike Murphy, spokesman for the tower’s owners, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation. “Right now we’re trying to figure out exactly why that equipment wasn’t working properly,” Murphy said.

classic video: jones smacks down a 9/11 kool-aid drinker


9/11 hero dog cloned for local couple*
dog hailed as 9/11 hero cloned by california company*

9/11 commission & more: additions to 9/11 timeline as of june 16
from history commons: Some of the recently added entries go into more detail about the 9/11 Commission, which discovered the FAA was withholding documents from it in September 2003 and issued its first subpoena for them a month later. Soon after, the commission also subpoenaed the Pentagon, despite a last-ditch bid to avert it by the commission’s Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton, a good friend of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In addition, Commissioner John Lehman repeatedly told the White House of Saudi links to the 9/11 plotters, but the administration was uninterested.

On the day of 9/11, fighters launched from Langley Air Force Base were given the wrong coordinates for Washington at about 9:40 a.m., Otis Air Force Base was ordered to launch all fighters at about 10:20 a.m., and a security officer became trapped in WTC 7 around 10:00 a.m.

The very first entry in the timeline has also changed, and is now for a 1968 advert showing an airliner striking one of the WTC buildings, something that nearly happened in 1981.

Finally, in the late 1990s Yemeni authorities saw Abu Hamza al-Masri, an informer for the British security services, as a terrorist leader in Yemen.

9/11 families meet with ag holder*

study reveals true extent of 'old boys network' between govt & banks

from scotsman: Links between Government and the banking sector have been condemned in a new report that has uncovered the extent of the "old boys network" at the top of British public life.

Britain has a greater culture of cronyism than Europe or the US, according to the study, which identified key individuals who have moved jobs between politics, financial institutions and the bodies charged with regulating the banking industry.

The report warns the close relations between business and politics "lead to a conflict of interest at best and a suspension of critical faculties at worst".

The study of 116 of the world's most successful companies will be presented to a Global Forum on Public Governance, run by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in Paris this week.

The research looked at so-called "revolving door connections", when a company employs former or current politicians, civil servants or members of regulatory bodies, or where individuals move from the financial sector into politics, Government or regulatory bodies...

"The Government and the political classes have very close links to the banking industry," said the report's author David Miller, a Professor of Sociology at Strathclyde University, who specialises in researching lobbying. "I believe this could be one of the factors behind the disaster that has befallen the financial markets. There has not been enough regulation of these connections."

The organisations with more than five revolving door connections were Royal Bank of Scotland, HBOS/Lloyds Group, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Dexia Group, HSBC Holdings, JP Morgan Chase and Co, Standard Chartered Bank and UBS.

banksters team up to buy weather channel

from dealbook: An investor group led by NBC Universal and two private equity firms clinched a deal for the Weather Channel on Sunday, after three weeks of negotiations over the sale of the weather news giant. Though the parties did not disclose the price, the buyers – NBC and the private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group – will pay just under $3.5 billion, people briefed on the matter said... Others financing the deal are Deutsche Bank, which was also the buyers’ lead financial adviser, and General Electric’s GE Commercial Finance unit... JPMorgan Chase worked as Landmark’s financial adviser, while Wilcox & Savage, Kilpatrick Stockton, Venable and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom provided legal advice.