By Brad Friedman on 2/6/2010
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7688

The article brings the story of Edmonds, who was twice-gagged by the Bush Administration's outrageous use/abuse of the "States Secrets Privilege," fully up to date following her naming of names, finally, under oath, in remarkable testimony last summer. (Some of those names: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Lantos, Schakowsky, Wolfowitz, Perle, Grossman, etc.)

The Hustler piece, "Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us," also explores reasons for the perhaps-even-more-remarkable complete avoidance of her 4-hour, detailed, video-taped testimony by the corporate media (Pat Buchanan's American Conservative magazine excepted, if you consider them to be "corporate media") concerning allegations of blackmail of sitting U.S. Congressmembers, the theft and sale of nuclear secrets to the foreign blackmarket, and other allegations of treasonous activities by top State and Defense Department officials over the last decade or more, as we have covered in great detail here at The BRAD BLOG over the years, as the story has unfolded.

Some thoughts of a newcomer to the 9/11 Truth movement - by The Saker

It has been about 6 months now since I wrote my first post here about the 9/11 Truth movement. Following this initial article, I posted another one trying to encourage my readers to go and dig for the facts by themselves. Hoping to encourage independent research, I have now posted some 9/11 links on this blog, and an RSS feed from 911Truth.org. So far, the reactions to the new "truther" orientation of the blog have been rather restrained. My sense is that some of you knew about all this all along, and some are politely refraining for expressing their disapproval for what they probably see as a useless exercise in "conspiracy theories". Fair enough. Having myself spent eight years being a "9/11 agnostic" I certainly can relate to the incredulity of those who believe that while the US government has plenty of ugly deeds on its conscience, the idea that 9/11 was some kind of "inside job" is really "too much".

By SALAH NASRAWI
The Associated Press
Sunday, January 24, 2010; 7:06 AM

CAIRO -- Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the Christmas Day airline bombing attempt in Detroit, in a audio message released Sunday, and vowed further attacks on the U.S.

The message suggests that bin Laden wants to show he remains in direct command of al-Qaida's many branches around the world.

In the short recording carried by the Al-Jazeera Arabic news channel, bin Laden addressed President Barack Obama saying the attack was a message similar to that of Sept. 11 and more attacks against the U.S. would be forthcoming.

"The message delivered to you through the plane of the heroic warrior Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was a confirmation of the previous messages sent by the heroes of the Sept. 11," he said.

"America will never dream of security unless we will have it in reality in Palestine," he added. "God willing, our raids on you will continue as long as your support for the Israelis continues."

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 20, 2010

The grand master Mockingbird operative Glenn Beck said today on his nationally syndicated radio show that there are 9/11 truth activists in the White House and they threaten the life of Obama. “He has invited 9/11 truthers into the White House and into his administration… he is in danger.”

Beck said Obama should never be left alone and the Secret Service needs to pay special attention to this absurd threat.

In fact, there are no 9/11 truth activists in the White House.

Beck’s comment is apparently a reference to Obama’s “green jobs” adviser Van Jones who signed a petition in 2004 calling for an investigation into the Bush administration’s knowledge of an impending attack. Jones resigned from his position as Special Adviser in September 2009 after WorldNetDaily, Americans for Prosperity, and other groups criticized his membership in a socialist group and support for the convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence.

Infowars.com
January 21, 2010

The CIA was created at the behest of the bankers on Wall Street. OSS spook and Wall Street lawyer Frank Wisner was recruited by Dean Acheson to work under Charles Saltzman, at the State Department’s Office of Occupied Territories in 1947. The CIA’s first director, Allen Dulles, was a Wall Street lawyer.

The CIA is Wall Street’s finely honed tool for the neoliberal agenda of the banksters. “A considerable proportion of the developed world’s prosperity rests on paying the lowest possible prices for the poor countries’ primary products and on exporting high-cost capital and finished goods to those countries. Continuation of this kind of prosperity requires continuation of the relative gap between developed and underdeveloped countries – it means keeping poor people poor,” former CIA agent Philip Agee wrote. “Increasingly, the impoverished masses are understanding that the prosperity of the developed countries and of the privileged minorities in their own countries is founded on their poverty.”

Time to flood this nomination process with people who have inspired us in the 9/11 Truth movement. I submitted my nomination for David Ray Griffin. We could all do the same person like we did with the Bill Moyers book nomination. Or we could pick among the many who have inspired us including such examples as Richard Gage, Luke Rudkowski, Robert Wanek, or any other number of activists who have shown courage in the face of adversity regarding 9/11.

Here is where to make your voice heard:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/citizensmedal/?e=26&ref=text

Here is her email:

Good morning,

For over 40 years, the President of the United States has awarded the Citizens Medal -- the second highest civilian honor in our nation -- to Americans who have "performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow citizens."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4ckZ9o2VXs

I briefly met Carl Cameron at the Martha Coakley for Senate rally with president Obama on 1/17/10. Carl Cameron has done some great investigative reporting about 9/11. Some of this footage can be seen for free in Jason Bermas's documentary "Fabled Enemies" via youtube or the web. This link should work for the full film in high quality: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2144933190875239407#
You can also purchase a copy of this film @ InfoWars.com. Here is a candid video We Are Change Minnesota made with Carl Cameron:

Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron shares his views on 9/11 saying, "its really hard to make the case that the buildings just imploded without some sort of an accelerant," and that We Are Change Minnesota is, "right to bang the drum because we dont know," what really happened on 9/11.

Obama advisor Sunstein's "Conspiracy Theory" : Proposals for Silencing Dissent, Misrepresenting the 911 Truth Movement

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"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin

Just when you thought America and her citizens had suffered enough abuse from federal fraudsters demanding that We The People must give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, an ominous doom-cloud looms to further cheat Americans of those sunny rays that are freedom in America - the cloud's name? Cass Sunstein. In this post we will examine his paper "Conspiracy Theories" and contrast some snippets from the paper with videos demonstrating the misrepresentations the paper portrays regarding the 911 Truth Movement and what it stands for.

Vidal Loco - by Christopher Hitchens (February edition of Vanity Fair)

"What has happened to Gore Vidal, the witty, tough-minded subversive of American letters, the 20th century’s only possible answer to Oscar Wilde? After 9/11, the author laments, Vidal’s writings took a graceless lurch toward the crackpot, surpassing even the wilder-eyed efforts of Michael Moore and Oliver Stone, and providing a miserable coda to his brilliant run."

Full verbose and rubbish filled article here:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2010/02/hitchens-201002?currentPage=1

By Paul Craig Roberts

What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11.

If we are to believe the U.S. government, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged al-Qaida "mastermind" behind 9/11, outwitted the CIA, the NSA, indeed all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies as well as those of all U.S. allies including Mossad, the National Security Council, NORAD, Air Traffic Control, Airport Security four times on one morning, and Dick Cheney, and with untrained and inexperienced pilots pulled off skilled piloting feats of crashing hijacked airliners into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, where a battery of state of the art air defenses somehow failed to function.

After such amazing success, al-Qaida would have attracted the best minds in the business, but, instead, it has been reduced to amateur stunts.

Intelligence Officer Anthony Shaffer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shaffer_%28intelligence_officer%29

Shaffer made a protected disclosure to the 9/11 Commission staff director, Philip D. Zelikow, while undercover in Afghanistan in October 2003 regarding the existence of the ABLE DANGER program that had identified alleged 9/11 lead hijacker Mohammed Atta and three other al-Qaeda operatives operating in the United States prior to 9/11.

More info:
http://www.911blogger.com/node/11481

Conspiracy Theory With Jesse Ventura Holds Steady At 1.6 Million Viewers

The second episode of Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura tallied 1.586 million viewers, effectively even with the premiere’s 1.635 million.

Here are all the episodes for the week:

Date Show Net Day Time Viewers (000s)
12/9/09 CONSPIRACY THEORY TRU Wed 10:00P-11:00P 1,586
12/12/09 CONSPIRACY THEORY TRU Sat 05:00P-06:00P 860
12/8/09 CONSPIRACY THEORY TRU Tue 11:00P-12:00A 774
12/9/09 CONSPIRACY THEORY TRU Wed 02:00A-03:00A 638
12/12/09 CONSPIRACY THEORY TRU Sat 04:00P-05:00P 588
12/8/09 CONSPIRACY THEORY TRU Tue 03:00A-04:00A 369

Motivation to keep the Eleventh of Every Month campaign going strong.. We've done a lot and come a long way and some of our work is starting to pay off. Let's keep the momentum always going. Do what you can do.

"Whatever you do [may] be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." ~ Gandhi - Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

http://www.TruthAction.org

Feel free to sign in and participate in an open chat during the airing of the show on TRU Tv. Otherwise hopefully someone can post it soon after the show and everyone can watch it online for free. Peace.

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This Modern World ~ http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/11/23/tomo/index.html

5 compelling reasons not to hold terror trials in New York City

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