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Thursday, September 09, 2010

9/11 + 9: makeshift patriots

the anniversary of 9/11:
from reagan & the soviet-afghan war to bush, 9/11 & beyond*

the anniversary of 9/11: from reagan & the soviet-afghan war to bush, 9/11 & beyondhistory of wirt dexter walker: russell & co, cia & 9/11*
do the majority of americans blame bush for 9/11?*
america was attacked from within*
construction complete on 9/11 truther memorial*
american muslims nervous about ramadan's end coinciding with 9/11*
obama plans to observe anniversary at the pentagon*
palin to join beck at anchorage 9/11 event*
US wants to buy 1st printing of reservist's memoir*
this 9/11, will terror sites get hacked again?*
list of anniversary events in nyc*
cognitive infiltration: david ray griffin's new book*
condoleezza: i told bush not to come back after 9/11*
condi hung up on george in the the aftermath of 9/11*
secret service tossed 'non-essentials' from bunker*
distress signals indicated planes crashed minutes before flights 11 & 175 hit the wtc*
building 7 implosion: the smoking gun of 9/11*
video: 'zapruder film of 9/11' w/ daniel sunjata*
1,270 architects/engineers reveal hard evidence of explosive demolition on 9/11*
new videos from nist cumulus database posted*
new wtc7 video posted*
9yrs on, no trial in sight for alleged 9/11 plotters*
9yrs + $7b after 9/11, US still waiting for emergency radio networks*

9/11 + 8 flashbacks:
the day before 9/11:
'missing' trillions from the pentagon
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11 points of contention with the 'official story of 9/11'*
9/11 anniversary updates: past, present & future*
9/12 updates: drills & the day after*

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

9/11 updates: heroes, drills, the database & rowley redux

new york '9/11 hero police chief' bernard kerik jailed*
new york '9/11 hero police chief' bernard kerik jailedkevin ryan: top 10 connections between nist & nanothermite*
did drills prevent andrews afb from responding to 9/11?*
flashback: al-qaeda - the database: how the pentagon/cia made an 'enemy'*
'the single database that contains terrorist-related intelligence & law enforcement information in a single repository'*
toxic wtc tactic*
review finds 9/11/09 potomac exercise was a bad idea*
video: 9/11 redux part1 - former fbi agent colleen rowley discusses still unanswered questions about the lead up to 9/11*

and here are parts 2 & 3 of the real news' 9/11 redux ... updates: history commons' reaction to coleen rowley on real news network: where’s wilshire?

update: passport with 9/11 suspect's name found in pakistan
from cnn: A passport bearing the name of Said Bahaji, a suspect linked to the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, has been found in a town captured by the Pakistani military. The passport was found in South Waziristan, where the Pakistani military has been battling to wrest territory from the Taliban in Pakistan. It contained a Pakistani visa issued in August 2001 showing that the bearer entered Pakistan on September 4, 2001, and appeared unusually new for a document eight years old. CNN has not independently confirmed its authenticity.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

9/11 updates: rowley, ryan & a new investigation

ex-fbi agent: why i support a new 9/11 investigation
ex-fbi agent: why i support a new 9/11 investigationfrom coleen rowley: In the absence of my being there in New York City to stand with the 9/11 families, first responders and survivors, I offer the following statement in support of your goal of a new investigation into the attacks of September 11th and the NYC CAN campaign to place it on the ballot for November. At the time of 9/11, I had been an FBI agent for over 20 years... The official dissembling and excuse-making about the true causes and prior mistakes that gave rise to and allowed the terrorist attacks to happen, almost immediately ushered in the Bush-Cheney Administration’s egregious and lawless, post 9/11 “war on terror” agenda which bore no connection to the original causes and no connection to the goal of reducing terrorism and making the world safer. When I got a chance, about 8½ months after 9/11 to tell what I knew, I did so and my disclosures led to further investigation by the Department of Justice Inspector General and figured in the 9/11 Commission Report. But it was way too late for this emerging bit of truth that has continued to leak out in dribs and drabs to have any impact... Therefore, I fully support the 9/11 families, first responders, survivors and over 60,000 other New Yorkers who have endorsed a new 9/11 investigation in New York City as advanced by ballot referendum this coming November election.

gop ties to 3 9/11 hijackers

ex-underwriter's lab manager: demolition access to the wtc towers
ex-underwriter's lab manager: demolition access to the wtc towersfrom kevin ryan: On occasion, the public has been asked by George W. Bush to refrain from considering certain conspiracy theories. Bush has made such requests when people were looking into crimes in which he might be culpable. For example, when in 1994 Bush’s former company Harken Energy was linked to the fraudulent Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) through several investors, Bush’s spokeswoman, Karen Hughes, shut down the inquiry by telling the Associated Press - “We have no response to silly conspiracy theories.” On another occasion, Bush said in a televised speech - “Let us never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of September the 11th.” But paradoxically, we have also been asked to believe Bush’s own outrageous conspiracy theory about 9/11, one that has proven to be false in many ways. One important way to see the false nature of Bush’s conspiracy theory is to note the fact that the World Trade Center buildings could only have fallen as they did through the use of explosives. A number of independent scientific studies have pointed out this fact [1, 2, 3, 4], but it was Bush’s own scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through their inability to provide a convincing defense of the official line, who ultimately proved that explosives were necessary.[2, 5, 6, 7] This leads us to ask the obvious question - Who could have placed explosives in the World Trade Center towers?

flashback: gao easily smuggled bomb materials into govt buildings

post-9/11 surveillance went beyond wiretapping
from ap: The Bush administration authorized secret surveillance activities that still have not been made public, according to a new government report that questions the legal basis for the unprecedented anti-terrorism program. It's unclear how much valuable intelligence was yielded by the surveillance program started after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to the unclassified summary of reports by five inspectors general. The reports mandated by Congress last year were delivered to lawmakers Friday [jul10].

download the the 'presidents surveillance program' [2.7mb PDF]

video: jeff steinberg on new 9/11 developments - 9/11 cover is blown

fbi claims to review hypothesis for exclusive gps guided autopilot control of 9/11 aircraft

video: 9/11 truth still in a cloud of smoke?


worker injured in fall at world trade center site

judge denies bid by airlines to question fbi in 9/11 case
from wsj: A U.S. judge has denied a motion by a group of airlines to depose several Federal Bureau of Investigation agents regarding the government's probes into the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York and Washington. In an order Thursday, U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in Manhattan denied a motion by the airlines to question six current and former FBI agents, a potential setback for their defense. The judge indicated the airline defendants hoped to show at trial that the government's failure to apprehend the terrorists and stop the attacks was so considerable that it mitigates and excuses any alleged faults of the airlines and the terrorists likely would have succeeded even if the defendants had exercised due care. "The government's failures to detect and abort the terrorists' plots would not affect the aviation defendants' potential liability," the judge wrote. "Moreover, efforts to prove these propositions would cause confusion and prejudice, and burden court and jury with long delays and unduly lengthy trial proceedings." The rulings relate to three wrongful death cases and 19 property-damage cases. The defendants include units of UAL Corp. (UAUA), US Airways Group Inc. (LCC), Delta Air Lines Inc. (DAL), Continental Airlines Inc. (CAL) and AirTran Holdings Inc. (AAI). A lawyer for the airlines didn't immediately return a phone call seeking comment Thursday. The judge did allow some of the testimony of two of the FBI agents from the trial of Sept. 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life sentence - namely what they learned in their investigations. "Testimony as to what their superiors did or did not do is not relevant, and is not admissible," the judge said. The judge also denied a motion to admit the 9/11 Commission report as a whole as evidence in the case, instead only admitting the chronology provided in the report.

9/11 lawsuit turns into show trial

new arguments in 9/11 case
from nytimes: A federal appeals court in Richmond ordered new arguments in the case of a Sept. 11 conspirator, Zacharias Moussaoui, the only person to stand trial in an American court for the terrorist attacks. A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit heard arguments in the case in January, but one of the judges retired last week after receiving a diagnosis of early onset Alzheimer’s disease. Mr. Moussaoui is serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to helping plan the attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people. He has changed his story and has asked for a new trial.

5 9/11 detainees boycott guantanamo hearing

relative of 9/11 victim frustrated by obama efforts to close gitmo
from foxnews: President Obama's executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center by January and halt military trials of terrorism suspects there has revived painful memories of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks for some relatives of the victims. Obama has promised relatives of the victims that they would be part of the process of closing the prison. In February, he met with roughly 40 family members of the victims and said he wanted what they do: justice for their loved ones. But some relatives have been frustrated by the administration's effort. "I didn't go in there prepared for how frustrated I'd be afterward," said Melissa Long, referring to a meeting last month with Obama officials. "They listened, only one of them took notes and the rest of them took flak. They took a lot of heat. There was a lot of questions unanswered."

flashback: just 7 days before her death, beverly eckert & other 9/11 victims family members met the obamessiah

Monday, June 29, 2009

9/11 updates: lawsuits, licenses & liquor

...the more things change...
obama administration shuts down 9/11 families lawsuit
obama administration shuts down 9/11 families lawsuitfrom steve watson: The Obama administration has effectively ended the efforts of families of victims of the September 11th attacks to bring lawsuits against members of the Saudi Royal family for financial links to the conspiracy. The Supreme Court today ruled that it will not allow any lawsuits to go ahead, just a few weeks after the government filed a court brief asking that the case be quashed. The court, in an order Monday, is leaving in place the ruling of a federal appeals court that the country and the princes are protected by sovereign immunity, which generally means that foreign countries can’t be sued in American courts, reports the Associated Press. In late May, the Justice Department had sided in court with the Saudi monarchy in seeking to halt further legal action to hold it liable for the attacks. The move came less than a week before Obama was scheduled to meet Saudi King Abdullah as part of his “rebuilding” trip to the Middle East. More than 6000 family members denounced the move as an “apparent effort to appease a sometime ally” in a public statement. The lawsuits claimed that Saudi Arabia and four of its princes actively aided in financing the plot through front groups posing as charities. Last week, the New York Times ran a report highlighting how documents uncovered by lawyers for the 9/11 families “provide new evidence of extensive financial support for Al Qaeda and other extremist groups by members of the Saudi royal family.”

known terrorists were allowed to keep aviation licenses
known terrorists were allowed to keep aviation licensesfrom raw story: Those who were shocked to discover, after 9/11, how easy it is for persons linked to terrorism to acquire pilots' licenses may be surprised to discover that, nearly eight years after that fateful day, at least six people known to have - or suspected of - terrorist links were able to keep their aviation licenses. Among them, says a story in the New York Times, was a Libyan national convicted for his role in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. The Times story, released late Thursday and largely overlooked by the rest of the media, says the Transportation Security Administration and Federal Aviation Administration didn't remove the individuals' aviation licenses until after the Times had inquired about the issue. Evidently, the TSA and FAA didn't know that these people were licensed pilots until a small New York state-based company called Safe Banking Systems uncovered the names while testing out a software application designed to search for suspected terrorists among bank records.

wtc hard hats get hammered
wtc hard hats get hammeredfrom nypost: Hard-drinking hard hats at the World Trade Center site have turned their lunch hour into happy hour, pounding beers and shots of hard liquor before returning to work, a Post investigation found. Dozens of workers belly up to the bar at gin mills on Murray Street - two blocks from the sacred soil of Ground Zero and America's most scrutinized construction project - shortly before noon every day. One group of three workers threw back eight drinks each in less than an hour before returning to the job.


related video: nyc construction workers still drinking on job


naval 'national center for energetics' records of pre-9/11 nano-energetic materials development, nonexistent or destroyed*
were nuclear reactors the cause of the wtc destruction?*
new book claims bin laden spent 2 weeks in america*

former head of cia bin laden unit wants him to nuke us!
from washington's blog: Everyone is appropriately outraged that the former head of the CIA unit which hunted Bin Laden for almost a decade - Michael Scheuer - told Glenn Beck:
The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States
But people aren't putting this in context. In fact, many Neocons have also stated a desperate yearning for another attack on America (and see this). But there is another story here as well.

Remember:
  • A retired Colonel and Fox News military analyst said:
    "We know, with a 70 percent level of certainty — which is huge in the world of intelligence — that in August of 2007, bin Laden was in a convoy headed south from Tora Bora. We had his butt, on camera, on satellite. We were listening to his conversations. We had the world’s best hunters/killers — Seal Team 6 — nearby. We had the world class Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) coordinating with the CIA and other agencies. We had unmanned drones overhead with missiles on their wings; we had the best Air Force on the planet, begging to drop one on the terrorist. We had him in our sights; we had done it ... Unbelievably, and in my opinion, criminally, we did not kill Usama bin Laden."
In other words - as demonstrated above - the U.S. did not really try to capture Bin Laden.

And remember that the Congressional Joint Inquiry into 9/11 discovered that 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 by the Co-Chair of the Joint Inquiry and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham; and see this Newsweek article).

And that a key Al Qaeda trainer actually worked with the Green Berets and the CIA and was an FBI informant.

And that the CIA may have helped most of the 9/11 hijackers get their visas to the U.S.

And that CIA agents allegedly met with Bin Laden two months before 9/11, when he was already supposedly wanted for the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole, and when it was obvious to the intelligence services that he was supposedly planning 9/11.

Given that the government shielded top Al Qaeda members, and give that one of the top guys responsible for capturing Bin Laden now wishes OBL would attack America using weapons of mass destruction, the question must be asked whether people within the U.S. government wanted Bin Laden to attack the U.S. prior to 9/11.

This is an especially interesting question since a delay of a couple of minutes would have allowed the 9/11 attacks to succeed.


spring 2004: zelikow gets memo urging criminal referral of false statements by pentagon, faa; no action taken for months'*

Thursday, August 21, 2008

9/11: nist, wtc7, forbes, ntsb, oem, neo, flight93 & more

nist & cnn say wtc7 'mystery solved': minor fires brought a 47-story steel skyscraper down in seconds
from jones report: NIST’s wizards of balderdash have now officially concluded that fire caused the swift, symmetrical collapse of WTC Building 7 – offering essentially no explanation at all, other than ruling out alternative explanations (which were not scientifically tested in their research) as not credible. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer reports that the WTC7 building collapse is “mystery solved” – showing footage of head NIST ‘investigator’ Dr. Shyam Sunder making claim that the 47-story steel skycraper is the first in history of its kind to collapse ‘mainly due to fire’ despite the fact that NIST’s own report – previously leaked – shows that the visible fires had all died out hours before the collapse, making it impossible for fire to be the cause.

scott forbes: wtc 'power down' & 'elephant in the room'
from 9/11 blogger: Scott Forbes reported a "power down" for approximately 36 hours in the South Tower of the World Trade Center the weekend (8th to 9th) prior to September 11th 2001. The "power down" conditions meant that for the floors his company Fiduciary Trust operated in (floors 90 and 94-97) there was no electricity - meaning CCTV cameras were out of operation and security doors were unlocked. Despite contacting the 9/11 Commission through their website and by mail, Scott was never acknowledged or contacted. Watch him here in his first ever video interview, an excerpt from the new feature-length documentary - 'The Elephant In The Room'

ntsb flight data: 77 couldn't have crashed into pentagon
from existentialist cowboy: NTSB data indicates Flight 77 never dropped below 273 feet! Therefore, Flight 77 could not have crashed into the Pentagon. The Pentagon is only 71 feet tall. Secondly, according to the black box data, Flight 77 could not have damaged the light poles. 77 was much too high (the poles are only 40 feet) and on the wrong trajectory. Dare we hope that this is the wooden stake driven into the heart of vile, evil, official lies about 9/11? Data released by the NTSB in response to an FOIA request by Pilots for 9/11 Truth are nothing less than the raw "block box' file, the official 'flight data' recorded from Flight 77. It's a digital record of everything that happened on that flight from take off. Additionally, altitude and position are confirmed by the beacon at nearby Reagan National Airport. The data proves that the US government is lying to us about 9/11.

dan rather announces giuliani has 'flight data recorder'
from 9/11 blogger: Observations:

- Rather’s language suggests he has knowledge of a news clip in custody of CBS in which Giuliani “holds up” what he claims is a “flight data recorder” from the WTC wreckage.

- Rather introduces this clip, but immediately a BBC-style “technical problem” prevents its being aired.

- Giuliani would not make such an announcement to the national media casually–much less “hold up” the object in question–without confirmation that what had been found was indeed a “flight data recorder” and not the remains of some other electronic appliance from the debris.

This episode supports claims by FDNY personnel and an NTSB “insider” that the WTC “black boxes” were in fact found, and suggests the actual moment the blackout curtain descends on this matter in the corporate media.


wtc7’s oem bunker unmanned on 9/11
from 9/11 blogger: In 1999, NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani constructed a $13 million emergency command retreat on the 23rd floor of World Trade Center Building 7—an armored, self-contained facility designed to provide a safe haven for leadership in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. But several first responders interviewed after 9/11 claim that the Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operations Center (OEMEOC) was empty and “deactivated” as early as 9AM on the morning of September 11th, a time when just such an emergency was in full swing.

9/11 memorial 'shanks' town’s name
from free-lance star: The Pennsylvania Department of Highways Web site notes that the Sept. 11, 2001, crash of United Flight 93 "put Shanksville on the international map of terrorism." Unfortunately, that worldwide reputation hasn't been enough to keep the southwestern Pennsylvania borough's name from being misspelled. Media outlets have done it. Bloggers have done it. Even the Justice Department did it in a news release eight days after the terrorist attacks - adding an extra 'e.' Now that mistake literally is carved in stone.

neo’s passport in the matrix expired on 9/11/2001
neo’s passport in the matrix expired on 9/11/2001from truthnews: Insiders love bragging to one another about being on the inside– perhaps that’s one explanation for an abundance of illuminati symbolism in mainstream media and corporate logos. Among the interesting references to 9/11 that have been uncovered in media released before 9/11 is a passport for ‘Neo’ in blockbuster film The Matrix, released in 1999. The passport– in Neo’s file– shows an expiration date of ‘11 SEP 01,’ seemingly now an eerie coincidence found in the smallest of details.

Thursday, July 31, 2008

boulder/nist plutonium 'mishap' draws stern rebuke

boulder/nist plutonium 'mishap' draws stern rebukefrom denver post: A project to enhance the United States' ability to detect "dirty bombs" went awry at the Boulder campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where dangerous plutonium sources were obtained without management approval and handled by inexperienced and untrained researchers, according to a scathing review released Wednesday.

The result, said the 62-page report by the NIST Ionizing Radiation Committee
(pdf), was the spread of plutonium contamination at the lab and into the Boulder sewer system.

Specifically, the investigators found:
• Three plutonium sources were acquired without adequate hazard analysis or management approval.

• When the plutonium was received, all protective barriers were removed except the screw-topped glass bottle in a sealed plastic bag.

• Inexperienced and untrained researchers worked on the project.

The work area was neither restricted nor controlled for radiological work and was in a busy, multi-use laboratory.

Thursday, June 26, 2008

9/11: wtc7, barry jennings, nist leak & bbc hit piece

bodies in world trade center building 7: barry jennings interview demolishes the official conspiracy theory
bodies in wtc7: jennings interview demolishes official versionfrom kurt nimmo: It is obvious watching the BBC’s trailer of its "The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - The Third Tower," set to air on Sunday, 6 July, that "Auntie Beeb" will attempt to make it appear Building 7 at the WTC complex came down as a result of fire (see trailer below). In other words, it appears the BBC will push - and defend - the government explanation hastily cooked up after attention was focused on the mysterious collapse by researchers, a collapse diligently ignored by the 9/11 Commission in its final report, or that is to say its final whitewash.

The BBC interviewed Dylan Avery, writer and director of the documentary "Loose Change," and during the interview the BBC disputed Avery’s claim that there were dead bodies in the lobby of Building 7 as the result of an explosion prior to the collapse of either WTC buildings. In order to make his point, Dylan showed the BBC video footage of one Barry Jennings, the New York City Housing Authority worker who made the claim of dead bodies strewn in the rubble. The Jennings interview included here was to appear in Loose Change, but Mr. Jennings had reservations after receiving threatening phone calls. He was worried about losing his job and requested the interview not be included.



leaked nist docs: 'unusual' event before collapse of wtc7
leaked nist docs: 'unusual' event before collapse of wtc7from paul joseph watson & aaron dykes: Leaked confidential NIST documents concerning the investigation into the collapse of WTC 7, the 47-storey skyscraper that was not hit by a plane but imploded in under seven seconds on 9/11, reveal that an "unusual" event preceded the collapse of the building - a "jet of flames" that shot out of several windows after most of the fire had already died down. The leaked documents precede a BBC hit piece documentary which airs on July 6th and is set to claim that WTC 7 was the first steel-framed building in history to suffer a complete collapse from fire damage alone - a scientific impossibility.
"Just prior to the collapse of the building at 5:20:52 p.m. a jet of flames was pushed from windows in the same area. The event that caused this unusual behavior has not been identified."

why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before the 9/11 attacks never investigated?
why was the cashing out of billions of dollars just before the 9/11 attacks never investigated?from jim hogue: It's been over six years since 9/11, but U.S. regulatory entities have been slow to follow through with reports about the complex financial transactions that occurred just prior to and following the attacks. Such research could shed light on such questions as who was behind them — and who benefitedand could help lay to rest the rumors that have been festering.

why were '1st responders' de-contaminated at pentagon?
why were 'first responders' de-contaminated at the pentagon?from existentialist cowboy: De-contamination is done when one is exposed to radiation! Why, then, were 911 'first responders' to the Pentagon de-contaminated? That they were is not only compelling evidence that DU [Depleted Uranium] ammunition and armour-piercing technology were present, it is compelling evidence that Bush's 'official conspiracy theory' of 911 is utter bullshit! If DU was used at the Pentagon, then the fire and damage was most certainly not caused by a hijacked 757 airliner.
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