(Without a doubt, this "museum" is a propaganda ploy to cement the OCT firmly as the "truth" of history. But, as Lloyde England said, "history is 'his story.' It has nothing to do with truth, it's his story." I can't think of a better opportunity for DC truthers to show up and sign these beams with some truth. I'm sure y'all can figure out a tasteful way of doing it. - Kam)

Public invited to sign steel beams for 9/11 museum

WASHINGTON (Map, News) -
The public is being invited this weekend to sign steel beams to be used in the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

The beams are available for signing from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Newseum.

Officials from the 9/11 museum under construction at the World Trade Center site have been traveling around the country since 2007 with steel beams. Tens of thousands of people in 27 states have signed their names and shared their thoughts about 9/11.

The memorial is expected to open on Sept. 11, 2011.

Video for this story here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8124540.stm

The author of an internet conspiracy movie about the 7/7 bombings in London was tracked down to a small town in Ireland by the BBC Two series, The Conspiracy Files.

John Hill, also known as Muad Dib, is the author of "7/7 Ripple Effect".

He has since been arrested and is facing extradition to the UK on a charge of perverting the course of justice.

You can watch the full story - The Conspiracy Files 7/7 - on Tuesday, 30 June, 2009 at 2100 BST on BBC Two or catch-up afterwards on iPlayer

Related: The Conspiracy Files: 7/7
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/the_conspiracy_files_77.html

http://www.truthout.org/070309J?n

Eager to Tap Iraq's Vast Oil Reserves, Industry Execs Suggested Invasion

Friday 03 July 2009

by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report

Two years before the invasion of Iraq, oil executives and foreign policy advisers told the Bush administration that the United States would remain "a prisoner of its energy dilemma" as long as Saddam Hussein was in power.

That April 2001 report, "Strategic Policy Challenges for the 21st Century," was prepared by the James A. Baker Institute for Public Policy and the U.S. Council on Foreign Relations at the request of then-Vice President Dick Cheney.

In retrospect, it appears that the report helped focus administration thinking on why it made geopolitical sense to oust Hussein, whose country sat on the world's second largest oil reserves.

"Iraq remains a destabilizing influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East," the report said.

Citizen Kos
From http://backofthebook.ca/media/2009/06/theres-hope-for-internet-yet.html

There's hope for the internet yet. When Michael Jackson died, the web was quickly flooded with hoax death upon hoax death (Jeff Goldblum, Britney Spears, Billy Mays -- oh wait, that one was true). But it just as quickly self-corrected. For every iteration of a false rumour came a fusillade of Twitter and Facebook replies beating it down.

That's the power of the crowd at its worst and best. It's something Markos Moulitsas, proprietor of the allegedly progressive group blog dailykos.com, needs to get a handle on right quick. Moulitsas, who styles himself a Democrat, runs his site with all the democratic instincts of an Iranian mullah. Odd behaviour for a guy who once write a book called Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People-Powered Politics.

In Moulitsas' case, his tyrannical talents manifest themselves in his ban on discussion of 9/11 on his site. Correction: you can discuss 9/11, but only so long as it's within the parameters set out by Mr. Big: