February 2007

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Live blogging from Chandler

http://www.citizensadvocate.net/#911schedule

The Citizen's Advocate will be recording and posting lectures from the 9/11 Accountability Conference in Chandler, Arizona.

http://911accountability.org/accountability/

Check their site throughout the weekend...

Thanks, Joe.

More Patriots Question 9/11

Patriots Question 9/11 has a new webpage, a round up of some of the survivors and victim's family members who question the 9/11 Commission Report. Check it out.

The same friend who told me about the new webpage also emailed me a synopsis of quotes from the Patriots Question 9/11 website. If you haven't spent much time looking at that website, or you want to email a synopsis, take a look below (you can delete the testimony you find unpersuasive, and email the rest):

Here are 40 distinguished leaders and experts sounding-off in short quotes about their misgivings with the 9/11 commission and the questions that are still smoldering [NB: Don’t miss the concluding quote]...

Summarized from www.patriotsquestion911.com


Senator Max Cleland - Former member of the 9/11 Commission, resigned in December 2003:
"I, as a member of the [9/11] Commission, cannot look any American in the eye... It is a national scandal... this White House wants to cover [9/11] up."
[GW's note: these quotes are pasted together from several speeches.]

Olbermann: Inflated Terror

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/230207Olbermann.htm

Keith Olbermann asks the key question whether the statistics were intentionally or unintentionally wrong. David Boies, Olbermann's guest and the author or "Courting Justice", basically avoided the question saying it is just important that the data are wrong and we need to do something about it so we are safe.

Wrong answer. This prolongs the presumption that 9/11 was carried out by UBL etc., and that we remain in grave danger from Islamic terrorists. It also absolves anyone/everyone invloved with the bad data of guilt.

Later Olbermann asked "What are the risks going forward using bad data?"

Wrong question. He should have pressed the issue of possible government complicity in falsifying this data.

Maybe someday one of these self-proclaimed newsmen will get a spine and give up their anchor jobs for the truth. Charlie Sheen did not lose his job for 9/11 truth. Would Olbermann? What about Jack Cafferty?

Perhaps a write-in campaign asking them to sacrifice their jobs for truth.

Where are Dan Rather and Ted Koppell on the topics? Doesn't anyone out there in TV newsland have a conscience and a set of cajones?

What I Saw on 9/11. (Part 1)

September 11, 2001

I was concerned about being late for work that morning. It was a crystal clear cloudless morning when I left my apartment and headed into work at 888 7th Avenue in Manhattan. My appointment was for 8:30 to meet with my department head in the corner office of one of this building’s uppermost floors.

I arrived approximately 15 minutes late and was approaching his office, laptop computer still slung over my shoulder, jacket still on, when the loud sound of an approaching plane began to fill the air. An employee with an office immediate adjacent to the corner office I was approaching could suddenly be heard yelling out “Oh My God!” as a very large commercial jet passed over our building. This was a very low flying plane, and given its size we all felt the effects of the illusion that it had almost hit our building. In all probability it was not as close as it felt, and the noise this plane made probably added to the effect of a perceived near miss. But it was indeed flying too low for Manhattan.

Mark H. Gaffney: Will America Face the Truth About 9/11?

Long, interesting read about shoot-down orders, stand-down possibilities, and remote-control technology for commercial aircraft. Thanks, WISDOM, for sending this in.

Mark H. Gaffney: Will America Face the Truth About 9/11?
February 21, 2007

Will America Face the Truth About 9/11? Part I

Will America Face the Truth About 9/11? Part II

Meet the Director of the 9/11 Commission...Philip Zelikow.

I find the history and information about this guy fascinating. Notice his "area of academic expertise." Perfect guy for the job.

Read just the bold for the juicy parts.

Philip D. Zelikow

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Philip D. Zelikow is best known as the executive director of the 9/11 Commission. He also acted as the director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia until February 2005 when he was appointed Counselor of the United States Department of State.

A Collection of Online Activist Handbooks

A collection of online activist handbooks, tips and tricks from a diverse array of sources:

Protest.net offers this reprint of articles from Activism 101 and the Freedom Writer on their website.

http://protest.net/activists_handbook/

The Midnight Law Collective has assembled these materials related to staying safe, even in large demonstrations. They also offer trainings on legal support for small actions as well as for non-violent direct action.

http://www.midnightspecial.net/materials/

Jim Britell's "Organize to Win: A Grassroots Activist's Handbook"
(A Guide to Help People Organize Community Campaigns)

http://www.britell.com/text/tgrassroots.html

"Activist's Grass Roots Handbook"
compiled by William H. Dailey, Esq.

http://www.heall.com/medicalfreedom/grassroots.html

"Managing the Media: A Guide for Activists"
by Carol Fennelly

http://tenant.net/Organize/media.html

Bastard Nation's "Tips for Tabling"

http://www.bastards.org/activism/tabling.html

Mark Levine of "Radio Inside Scoop" is a hitman against 911 Truth

Is the "9/11 Truth Movement" a Front for the CIA?

As I study the 9/11 Truth Movement further, I am coming to a darker conclusion. I am coming to belive the entire "9/11 Truth" movement is ITSELF a conspiracy, possibly paid for by the Cheney/Rove ("Bush") Administration or its right-wing supporters, designed to confuse and conflate real important questions about our Government's massive screw-ups on 9/11 with irrelevant nonsense about the World Trade Center blowing up by itself or some such. Radio talk show host...

The Spanish Connection: Wall Street Journal Admits "Cracks" in Official 9/11 Story

Edward Jay Epstein has an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal that deals with details of the alleged Al Qaeda plot on 9/11 and the CIA's contention that the plot was contained to a small group of Al Qaeda insiders, contrary to what a Spanish investigation into an alleged Madrid cell is saying. It's complicated, but consider this sliver of skepticism that concludes the piece:

"Yet if Mr. Garzon is correct about the Spanish connection to 9/11, it is not only the effectiveness of the CIA's interrogation of its al Qaeda prisoners that is called into question. The information from Binalshibh, KSM and other detainees was used to fill in the missing pieces of the jigsaw, and those gaps concerned the contacts the 9/11 conspirators might have had with others wishing to harm America. By saying that no one else was involved--not in Spain, Iran, Hezbollah, Malaysia, Iraq, the Czech Republic or Pakistan--these detainees allowed the 9/11 Commission to complete its picture of al Qaeda as a solitary entity.

Wall Street Journal: Ramzi and Khalid's Spanish Vacation

(Yet another reason to file the 9/11 Commission Report in the "General Fiction" section. -r.)

The Spanish Connection
What the 9/11 Commission didn't consider.

BY EDWARD JAY EPSTEIN
Thursday, February 22, 2007

The 9/11 Commission relied on information derived from two captured al Qaeda perpetrators for much of its picture of the conspiracy leading up to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The interrogations of these men--Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, or "KSM," ... and Ramzi Binalshibh, who acted as KSM's liaison with ... Mohamed Atta--were performed by the CIA at secret locations.

KSM claimed that he left almost all the tactical details to Atta, and therefore could not say where Atta went, or whom he visited, in the final months of the plot. Binalshibh claimed he was Atta's only contact with al Qaeda during this period and that, other than himself, Atta never met with anyone on his trips abroad in 2001...

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