June 2012

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World Premiere of Explosive Evidence Experts Speak Out with Richard Gage & Cynthia McKinney in Atlanta 7/2

http://www.wearechangeatlanta.com/2012/06/03/world-premiere-of-explosive-evidence-experts-speak-out-with-special-guest-ric... World Premiere of Explosive Evidence Experts Speak Out with Special Guests Richard Gage AIA, and Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney! July 2nd 2012 @ 7pm (please arrive early as show will start at 7pm sharp!) facebook event page. Please share this with all of your mailing lists, via facebook, twitter, word of mouth etc. We need volunteers to go out and promote via flyering, postering, donating time and money for promotional materials etc. If you can help please reply with Volunteer in the subject line or body! Please help Ae911Truth.org as they fight for our Liberty and for Truth and Justice for the crimes of 9/11! Love and Liberty! - We Are Change Atlanta

 

Anthrax alert system at risk as cost estimate hits $5.7 billion

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/anthrax-alert-system-at-risk-as-cost-estimate-hits-57-billion/2012/06/18/gJ...

Anthrax alert system at risk as cost estimate hits $5.7 billion

By Carol Wolf, Published: June 18

Funding for BioWatch, an early warning system to detect deadly pathogens in 30 U.S. cities, may be in jeopardy after cost estimates surged to $5.7 billion, six times the initial assessment.

The Department of Homeland Security wants to open bidding before October on the next phase of the program, which monitors the air for pathogens such as anthrax and smallpox.

The five-year contract for as much as $3.1 billion would upgrade the system to automatically transmit collected data to laboratories, eliminating the present manual handling.

BioWatch has suffered cost overruns and delays since then-President George W. Bush, prompted by the post-Sept. 11, 2001, anthrax attacks, started it in 2003. Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.), chairman of the House subcommittee with jurisdiction over BioWatch, says he wants assurances that costs are under control and has asked the Government Accountability Office to analyze the proposed spending.

“The program could find itself in danger of being cut back or completely scrapped if law­makers determine that it’s becoming a major and costly acquisition failure,’’ Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, a partner with Monument Policy Group, a Washington-based consulting firm, said in a telephone interview. Herrera-Flanigan was staff director for the House Homeland Security Committee from 2005 through 2008.

New video released: "Inside 9/11 - 7 facts"

Today a new video about 7 substantial facts regarding 9/11 has been released. The 12-minute long film focuses on these points:

1. Insider trading
2. WTC 7
3. Air defense
4. Wargames
5. Flight 77
6. Identification of hijackers
7. Evidence regarding Bin Laden

The video is available in two different language versions:

English version: http://youtu.be/STICJ9gfB2s

German version: http://youtu.be/MzBdcrEamI0

Furthermore a bilingual English / German website with additional links and sources has been launched today:

http://www.911-facts.info

Hopefully this information will spread! Thanks for your help.

9/11 Truth in the WSJ?

By Josh Mitteldorf

Op-Ed News
http://www.opednews.com/articles/9-11-Truth-in-the-WSJ-by-Josh-Mitteldorf-120614-711.html

Even among progressive news sources on the web, most sites will steer clear of 9/11 Truth. Huffington Post won't touch it. CommonDreams will occasionally flirt with the edges of "conspiracy theories"; Truthout has printed attacks on 9/11 Truth . OpEdNews is one of the few places where readers and authors who believe the outline of the Bush Administration's version of the events of 9/11 and those who think the Bush Administration was itself responsible for the attacks can hang out together and hold heated debates. (The Editorial Board here at OEN is also split. For disclosure, I've been the Board member leading the charge for more coverage.)

You may suspect the heavy hand of censorship, or you may think that these well-established liberal sources are sensibly avoiding speculation and superstition. But whatever your beliefs, you'd have to think that the Wall St Journal is the last place you'd look for revelations about a 9/11 cover-up.

Laura Bush on 9/11: Why Was the President's Wife Left Vulnerable and Unprotected?

Laura Bush appears live on CNN

The wife of the U.S. president is considered one of the nation's "most visible targets," and is therefore provided with a detail of Secret Service agents whose job is to protect her and keep her out of harm's way. And yet on September 11, 2001, Laura Bush, the wife of then-President George W. Bush, was left vulnerable all through the terrorist attacks.

She was allowed to head to her scheduled destination¸ the Russell Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, even after a second plane hit the World Trade Center and it was obvious the U.S. was under attack. She was allowed to spend time there, even though her Secret Service agents should have taken her away to a "secure site." She even appeared live on CNN, thereby revealing her location to any terrorist who might be watching television. And when people were ordered to evacuate, due to reports that a suspicious plane was heading toward Capitol Hill, Bush remained in the Russell Office Building, even though this could have proved fatal had a plane crashed into it. She was only driven away to a "secure location" at 10:10 a.m., after the attacks had ended. And all this time, she was accompanied by her Secret Service detail.

The failure of those agents to properly protect Bush was extraordinary. Examination of their actions raises serious questions. We need to discover what caused these skilled professionals to repeatedly leave the first lady in serious danger.

Dear 9/11 First Responders

Jon Gold
6/14/2012

First, I want to say CONGRATULATIONS!!! Finally. Finally, the 9/11 First Responders that are sick and dying as a result of working down at the pile, have healthcare to take care of them. Healthcare that now includes cancer. It doesn't cover all cancers, so there might still be a fight, but it is certainly better than it was. It has been a long fight. I know. I have been there since almost the very beginning.

I, like many others, have done my best to be supportive of the 9/11 First Responders. To try and bring attention to their issue. I started an archive the day James Zadroga died that has been maintained for years. In January 2007, I held my very first fund-raiser for 9/11 First Responders. I managed to raise $3,290.00 that time. When Mike Bloomberg said that James Zadroga wasn't a hero, people like me were there to get Mike Bloomberg to apologize. Every time the FealGood Foundation went to Washington D.C., I did my best to promote their trips, and the resulting videos.

As I said, it has been a long fight. A hard fight. Because it is difficult to get politicians to do the right thing, sometimes concessions have to be made. Long ago, several 9/11 First Responders were very supportive of the "9/11 Truth Movement." Because of antics in the "9/11 Truth Movement," many 9/11 First Responders started to disassociate from the movement, and understandably so. However, another reason that 9/11 First Responders started to shy away from people in the "9/11 Truth Movement" was because being associated with that group, a group that has been relentlessly slandered and ridiculed by the "mainstream media," meant that it was harder to get politicians to do the right thing. In other words, if the 9/11 First Responders wanted the politicians to play ball, they also had to play the game.

Truth and Why Smart People Are Stupid

Excellent article by Jonah Lehrer of the New Yorker.

"I know so much I don't know where to begin" http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/daniel-kahneman-bias-studies.html

Which is related to "Smart people don't think others are stupid": http://sivers.org/ss

My experience is that I cant tell someone what I think the truth is and expect positive results. I can only present information that may excite them to discover the connections I think are important. A person who discovers something is more likely to become active than a person who is told they were wrong about something.

The difference between the two outcomes is directly related to the way information is presented. Is it adversarial or interesting?

Occasionally people can agree on the input to a function and the function specification, and they will regard the answer as true, but only the experience of evaluating the facts can really convince a person. Just telling them does not work.... and it shouldn't.

FBI Terror Plot: How the Government Is Destroying the Lives of Innocent People June 14, 2012 The Nation/Alternet

http://www.alternet.org/story/155880/fbi_terror_plot%3A_how_the_government_is_destroying_the_lives_of_innocent_people?akid...

The Nation / By Petra Bartosiewicz

FBI Terror Plot: How the Government Is Destroying the Lives of Innocent People
The FBI is using informants to stir up fake terror plots, destroying lives in the process.
June 14, 2012 |

The following article first appeared in The Nation. For more great content from the Nation, sign up for its e-mail newsletters here.

Port Authority continues its extortion of WTC museum Agency has stopped construction to plunder money from 9/11 nonprofit founda

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/port-authority-continues-extortion-wtc-museum-article-1.1095260?print

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Thursday, June 14, 2012, 4:10 AM

POOL/GETTY IMAGES

President Obama visited the finished WTC memorial on 9/11’s 10th anniversary. Will the Port Authority ever finish the WTC museum?

Two weeks ago, we warned the Port Authority and its masters, Govs. Cuomo and Chris Christie, that they would face “national embarrassment” if work on the 9/11 museum was not resumed before President Obama’s impending visit to the World Trade Center site.

No such luck. The President will inspect the project on Thursday, Flag Day, and the construction crews remain off the job.

Responsibility rests with the PA, led by Christie’s Chairman David Samson and Cuomo’s Executive Director Pat Foye.

They have been negotiating a deal to share construction costs with the foundation that oversees the museum and the Trade Center memorial, with Mayor Bloomberg’s team sitting on the foundation’s side of the table.

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