September 2007

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CounterPunch Watch

"So you got a new fool, huh? I like it like that..." --Jimi Hendrix, Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire

New boy genius Alex Doherty says he's going to expose the UK 9/11 Truth Movement, and those who are "reponsible." He then exposes his gross ignorance and propensity for being misled.

alexjamesdoherty@gmail.com

I'm considering a blog called CounterPunch Watch, devoted to exposing "America's Best Political Newsletter." Maybe someone else has time/inclination for this.

They all rely on the same tired BBC/Popular Mechanics topics, without actually investigating anything at all. They're working from talking points. These numb nuts really aren't worth the time and effort, except that their publication is widely read, and reports responsibly on OTHER topics.

Boy toy laments:

"The decline of orthodox marxism, while welcome in many ways, has unfortunately allowed the most extreme forms of irrationality to proliferate amongst the organised left."

Yeah, sure babe. That's what 9/11 is all about. Get Lenin on the line.

A french site is starting a petition asking new investigation

There's a french (from France) site that is taking the initiative to push forward a petition around the world asking for a new investigation of 9-11. I think that could be a good thing to go there and sign it. Above all this, it would be nice if a judicial movement was coming from outside USA.
This is the URL.

http://www.reopen911.info/petition/

Go there.

Engineer Joel Hirschhorn on 9/11 and Empire Radio tonight, 9/18, 9-11 pm CT, wtprn.com

I will be interviewing my fellow Wisconsin alum Joel Hirschhorn, PhD Former Professor, Metallurgical Engineering University of Wisconsin. Joel is a recent addition to http://patriotsquestion911.com/engineers.html and he says he has some fresh ideas for 9/11 activism.

Joel Hirschhorn is the author Delusional Democracy, and a proponent of an Article V revolution: http://www.mujca.com/articlev.htm I interviewed him on June 16th, 2007 and urged him to make a statement for patriotsquestion911 -- the show is archived at http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/get_archive.php?hn=Barrett&yr=07

It took him a few months, but did Joel ever make a statement!

from http://www.patriotsquestion911.com/engineers.html#Hirschhorn

Essay Painful 9/11 Truth 9/4/07: "Many technical analyses cast doubt on the official explanation of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings, including those presented by an impressive new group: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth. More difficult than discovering the truth, however, is convincing most of the public to accept the bitter truth. ...

Article on Yahoo News

"The Truthers Are Out There" - Weekly Standard Coverage, on Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/weeklystandard/20070918/cm_weeklystandard/thetruthersareoutthere

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review Doesn't Know About Gulf on Tonkin Incident, Attacks 9/11 Truth

Conspiracy buffs dispute motives, causes of attacks
By Robin Acton
Pittsburgh, PA TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, September 9, 2007

Somerset County Coroner Wally Miller has no time or patience to talk about conspiracy theories linked to the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Six years later, he's furious about lingering suggestions that Air Force fighter jets shot the plane from the sky, leaving a trail of debris and human remains over the fields surrounding Shanksville and into nearby Indian Lake.

"The plane crashed. People died. There was debris in Indian Lake. There were no human remains in Indian Lake," Miller said. "I'm not going to get into any conspiracy theories."

Although voluminous evidence exists that proves Islamic hijackers plotted and carried out the Sept. 11 attacks, numerous myths continue to find an audience among people who insist Americans are being denied the truth about what really happened that day in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

story continues below

Who Is Robert Wright?

Thanks to www.cooperativeresearch.org

1991: Portion of Saudi Multimillionaire’s BMI Investment Pays for Hamas Attacks

Bad Science: Keith Seffen And The WTC 'Collapse'

The world awaits the publication of "UK engineer" Keith Seffen's "analysis" of the WTC "collapse", as promised by the BBC in an article of September 11.

The BBC piece, as I mentioned last Tuesday, was changed after it was published. The original version said that Seffen's "findings are published"; the second version says Seffen's findings "are to be published". So, while we wait to find out whether the findings will actually be published, we can't do much more than look at the press release from the University of Cambridge, upon which the BBC article is apparently based.

Aside from the obvious impropriety of reporting on a scientific paper before it's been published, virtually every paragraph of the press release is either misleading or downright false.

Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’

Pls take a good look at this.

One wonders what his (Prez Bush) true motives are.

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml
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Bush on the Constitution: ‘It’s just a goddamned piece of paper’
By By DOUG THOMPSON
Dec 5, 2005, 07:53

Last month, Republican Congressional leaders filed into the Oval Office to meet with President George W. Bush and talk about renewing the controversial USA Patriot Act.

Several provisions of the act, passed in the shell shocked period immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, caused enough anger that liberal groups like the American Civil Liberties Union had joined forces with prominent conservatives like Phyllis Schlafly and Bob Barr to oppose renewal.

GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.

How to respond to a "classic hit piece"??

Caught this on Counterpunch this morning, and started reading, but then its core dishonesty became tiresome, so I thought I would offer it for dismantling and public response (his email address is at the bottom).
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http://www.counterpunch.com/docherty09182007.html

Britain's 9/11 "Truth Movement": Who's Responsible?

By ALEX DOCHERTY

As the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks passes the 9/11 conspiracy industry shows no sign of decline. While most adherents to the various conspiracy theories reside in the United States and the Middle East, the conspiracy circus - or "the 9/11 truth movement" as it styles itself - is an increasingly visible presence in the UK. Initially an internet based affair, the UK conspiracy advocates have developed national and local campaigning groups who organize public meetings, teach-ins and film showings and they have become a visible and vocal presence at anti-war demonstrations. Their most high-profile supporter and organizer in the UK is David Shayler, the former MI5 operative and recent converts to the cause include the journalist Robert Fisk and gay rights and anti-war activist Peter Tatchell.

WHERETHEYLIVE.ORG Launched in Response to Florida Taser Outrage

What can we do to prevent people from being tortured for asking good questions? More generally, how can we respond effectively to abuses of power, in an era when the authorities and the media they own are ignoring most forms of peaceful protest?

After spending many hours of conversation with Father Frank Morales of St. Mark's Church during my recent trip to New York, I think I have an answer.

Frank Morales (who now stands beside David Ray Griffin and Rev. Rich Lang in my pantheon of Christian heroes) has been struggling against military and police abuses of power almost since I was in diapers. In my interview with him on 9/8/07 (archived free at: http://www.republicbroadcasting.org/get_archive.php?hn=Barrett&yr=07) and in private conversations that kept us up till the wee hours, Frank brilliantly analyzed the trends toward martial law and police state tactics. He pointed out that protesting OUTSIDE THE HOMES of those who abuse their power has often been the most effective way to apply pressure on malfeasant police and other authorities. In New York, the mere threat of doing this has gotten immediate results.

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