Day two of the First Ever Hunger Strike for 9/11 Truth was met by an enormous amount of activism. The day began at 5am as Blair continued his visit to the office of John McCain. Meanwhile at 2pm in Mesa, President Bush arrived to speak to the Silverado Cable Co. The location of his speech was changed at the last minute due to lack of interest in the $25,000 a plate fundraiser for Presidential hopeful John McCain. Bush was greeted by 400 anti-war protesters and activists for 9/11 Truth. The police state was in full effect as the police videotaped activists exercising their first amendment rights. At 4pm a larger anti-Bush/McCain protest formed in downtown Phoenix at City Hall, followed by a march through the streets of Phoenix. Fortunately Blair was able to speak with a local television station to make his case for 9/11 issues. It was obvious the media would not come to Blair, so we took Blair to the media. At 7pm we went back to McCain's office and were joined by three members of Code Pink who gave Blair their support and well wishes. One member of Code Pink stated, "if you can't support 9/11 Truth, what can you support?" Blair wants to thank everyone who has sent their support and kind thoughts to him. Please lend your support by contacting our local media here in Phoenix. More photos of this event can be viewed at http://truthaction.org or http://9-11.meetup.com/350 Stay tuned for Day 3 !!!

-Tim King

The fiction film Able Danger premieres in NYC this Friday, May 30th. Showtimes. Here is a short description of the film, clipped from this longer review;

"...Able Danger was a "a classified military intelligence program under the command of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). It was created as a result of a directive from the Joint Chiefs of Staff in early October 1999 by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Hugh Shelton, to develop an Information Operations Campaign Plan against transnational terrorism, 'specifically al-Qaeda.'" The story, as alleged by various journalists as well as Congressman Curt Weldon, former Vice Chairman of the Armed Services committee, is that Able Danger members identified the Mohamed Atta terrorist cell prior to 9/11 but were prevented from passing their information on to the FBI. Subsequently, Weldon claimed that 2.5 terabytes of data collected by the Able Danger group was ordered destroyed two years before the 9/11 attack. The 9/11 commission either did not consider or dismissed these allegations, and 9/11 theorists have gone on to claim that Able Danger was actually a program designed to monitor and control Atta and other "patsies" who were the fall guys for the 9/11 attacks.

Able Danger the movie takes the real-life mystery of the intelligence operation and uses it as the basis for a spirited and blackly comic neo-noir set all over Manhattan and Brooklyn. Thomas Flynn is a 9/11 theorist, author of a conspiracy expose, and manager of a coffee shop named Vox Pop. When an Eastern European femme fatale, Kasia, played by Elina Lowensohn, enters the picture, Flynn is rapidly learns just how much he is on to when he is plunged into a netherworld of shadow ops, New American Century puppeteers, and smartly-accented henchmen. Reworking classic spy movie tropes for the post-9/11 age, Krik uses flashes of dark comedy, an affection for the film noir genre and the perfect eyebrow-half-cocked attitude towards his subject matter to create a fast-paced and entertaining story. He's aided quite a bit by Aaron Nee, one of Filmmaker's "25 New Faces" of 2006, who stars here as Flynn and gives an appealing performance as the Williamsburg underground reporter who, like a character in a '60s John Frankenheimer film, knows a bit more than he should. With its black-and-white cinematography and visual imagination (the film mixes in color dream sequences and text-overwritten surveillance footage), the film is bit reminiscent of Darren Aronofsky's debut, Pi, as well as Hal Hartley's recent Fay Grim, but Krik's low-fi riff on the conspiracy thriller has a charm all its own. "In case you didn't know," Krik writes, Able Danger is based on a 'true story'... Vox Pop really exists, the author and the book featured in the movie really exists, Able Danger program really existed, all the 'conspiracies' mentioned in the movie are true..."

MC Brad Newsham (Challenging Barbara Lee)
(Photos by Tian Harter. More at tian.greens.org

(This photo from 911truthaction.org- flip side of key sign.)

I've long been interested in the techniques demonstrated by Derren Brown on his "Mind Control" programs in the US (SciFi Channel) and the UK (BBC), especially when he demonstrates that by repeating words over and over again in such a way that people don't even notice you're doing it, you can put ideas into their heads that they think are their own. (I think the science-y sounding name for it is "neuro linguistic programming")

I'm sure this was behind the choice of "United" and "American" airlines (instead of TWA, Delta, Southwest, Northwest, Sun Country, Air Alaska, etc etc etc) for the 9/11 attacks. I threw together a little video to demonstrate my point, using only a couple hours of NBC footage from that morning:

No wonder everybody felt like such "united" "americans" in the days following 9/11, obediently waiting for our heroic commander-in-chief to give us our marching orders.