Got this email today, if your in Wisonsin this should definately be worth attending!

"David Ray Griffin's 9/11 and His Critics" study and discussion series. Tuesdays 6:30pm on June 14, 28, July 5, 19, and August 2nd, at the UW-Humanities Builing Rm 1641. The first two sessions will be devoted to Griffin's "The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11" (Olive Branch Press 2004, 254pp.pbk, $15.00). The third and fourth sessions will examine Griffin's newst book 9/11 Commission Report Omissions & Distortions (Olive Branch Press 2004, 352pp. pbk $18). The fifth and final session will be a general wrap-up.

UPI Hears...
This is just a repeat of the previous story, but it is good to see it spreading!

A former Bush team member during his first administration is now voicing serious doubts about the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9-11. Former chief economist for the Department of Labor during President George W. Bush's first term Morgan Reynolds comments that the official story about the collapse of the WTC is "bogus" and that it is more likely that a controlled demolition destroyed the Twin Towers and adjacent Building No.

I got an email today letting me know that the website for the 'Truth Emergency' event in DC July 22nd through July 24th had been updated.

You can read more about this event here:
truthemergency.us

Are there any other upcoming 9/11 related events that I should be listing? Please send them in, or post them in the comments!

USA Patriot Act and the Nazi Enabling Act
This article makes comparisons between our 'Patriot' Act and a similar act passed in Nazi Germany shortly after their Reichstag fire, an event eerily similar to our 9/11. Anyone else find it amazing that the patriot was passed a month and a half after 9/11? Aside from just writing the 342 pages, I couldn't even come up with an acronym spelling 'Patriot' in that time!

Patriot Act = Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001

Former Bush Team Member Says WTC Collapse Likely A Controlled Demolition And 'Inside Job'
This article is a follow up to this article last week. I think a lot of people would be surprised to find how many former presidential aides and government officials believe in a 9/11 cover up, and U.S. involvement. Another example would be Stanley Hilton, former senior advisor to Bob Dole. In fact there are quite a number of foreign government officials who support the idea as well, feel free to post some you are familiar with.

I am not sure where the origional article came from, so here is the entire text.

JIMMY WALTER REOPEN 9-11 TOUR IN MADRID, VIENNA, LONDON, MANCHESTER, ROME

By Webster G. Tarpley

Rome, June 10, 2005 - The second phase of the Jimmy Walter Reopen 9/11 tour of Europe has scored new breakthroughs in Spain, Austria, Great Britain, and Italy, advancing the cause of an International Truth Commission to evaluate the official version and to investigate the reality of these attacks. The tour was made up of two teams of speakers: the red team featured Painful Questions author Eric Hufschmidt, American Free Press reporter Chris Bollyn, North Tower hero and 9/11 Hispanic Victims' Association president William Rodriguez, and philanthropist Jimmy Walter. The blue team, which subsumed 9/11 health, pollution, and environmental issues, included Kennedy assassination researcher Lisa Pease, 9/11 humanitarian volunteer Rachel Hughes, lawyer Phil Berg, filmmaker Penny Little, Canadian media critic Barrie Zwicker, and historian Webster Tarpley.

Kevin Ryan wrote a very famous letter to the NIST last November about the collapses of the WTC, you can read that original letter here.. He was then fired..

Now, over half a year later he is speaking up again, you can check it out here:

Kevin Ryan - A Personal Decision

To me, the report in question represents a decision point, not just for the US, but for humanity as a whole. We’re at a point where we must decide if we will live consciously, or literally give up our entire reality for a thin veneer of lies. In the US these lies include cheap propaganda that passes for journalism, police-state measures that promise security, and mountains of debt that paint a picture of wealth. Additionally we’ve adopted many implicit self-deceptions, like the idea that we’ll always enjoy a limitless share of the world’s resources, no matter where these are located or who might disagree.

I just noticed this link on whatreallyhappened.com. It is a pretty lengthy write up on the WTC collapse, and was just released today..

Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers Collapse? - By Morgan Reynolds

To explain the unanticipated free-fall collapses of the twin towers at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, mainstream experts (also see The American Professional Constructor, October 2004, pp. 12–18) offer a three-stage argument: 1) an airplane impact weakened each structure, 2) an intense fire thermally weakened structural components that may have suffered damage to fireproofing materials, causing buckling failures, which, in turn, 3) allowed the upper floors to pancake onto the floors below.

I don't see anything major in the news today. I did come across a few random quotes that caught my eye though. Also, this is an open thread so be sure to post anything I might have missed.

Chattanoogan - As The War Goes On

Everyone in America who has swallowed the Bush propaganda that we are fighting a War on Terror, rather than taking advantage of the 9/11 attacks to overthrow other nations and install puppet Democracies, regardless of how much terror and death results, is brain dead.

The Village Voice - Felt's Goon-Squad Past

I just noticed that the people at reopen911.org have posted tour videos from both Berlin and Paris. They are promising more videos to come from other stops in the tour soon.

9/11 TRUTH EUROPEAN TOUR VIDEO & PHOTOS

Spending nearly $4 million in America, Jimmy Walter has launched advertising blitzes in the most prominent newspapers and magazines, including full-page color ads in Business Week, Forbes, Newsweek, the New York Times, Washington Post, Readers Digest, New Yorker, etc., entitled "Are We Safer Now? According to Mr. Walter, The 9/11 Report has been published, but some very troubling questions remain unanswered."

I will be out of town for my birthday for the next few days, so I thought I would follow up on some of the newer stuff going on and leave an open thread for people to post anything that happens while I am out.

Following up on Griffin in Hustler, 911truth.org has posted a PDF of the Hustler article which can be found here. They also have a full transcript of the Hustler interview here.

Following up on Griffin on CSPAN, 911truth.org has DVD versions of his appearance available for purchase here for $15.. They are also trying to raise money to ship these DVDs to media figures, you can learn more about donating to their cause here.

You can listen to Ruppert's recent speech in Portland on Peak Oil and 9/11 here:
Audio from Mike Ruppert presentation on Peak Oil

thanks to 'viva audioista' from portland.indymedia.org for the recording!