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Hazardous asbestos fibers at the WTC exposed more than 110,000 people to the dangerous material; this includes 80,000 tower workers, 30,000 area residents and nearly 4,000 first responders. Asbestos exposure is directly linked to mesothelioma cancer and other asbestos-related diseases.
War on Whistleblowers Trailer
bravenewfoundation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcGB3rvhgb8
Whistleblowers are champions of our society. Though often cast as pariahs, the fact is that Whistleblowers have helped us move forward in a variety of ways. From Galileo to Daniel Ellsberg to Frank Serpico to Karen Silkwood these whistleblowers worked through their fears and personal sacrifices to help the greater good.
We are premiering our new documentary War on Whistleblowers: Free Press and the National Security State tonight in Los Angeles and we want you to have a copy!
The film highlights 4 cases where whistleblowers noticed government wrong-doing and had to turn to the media in order to expose the fraud and abuse. The film shines a light on the worsening reality for whistleblowers who are being persecuted for exposing the truth. Click here to get a free DVD of the film and all we ask is that you have a house screening to share the film with your friends. Be sure to send us a picture of the screening.
CISPA Goes to The Floor for a Vote, Privacy Amendments Blocked - Contact Your Senator!
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/04/cispa-goes-floor-vote-privacy-amen...
CISPA is back:
Oppose Cispa if you value any privacy in our digital world:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/18/cispa-2013-house-vot...
http://911blogger.com/news/2013-04-18/110-us-house-just-passed-cispa-und...
Volunteers Needed in Madison, Wisconsin
We're a small group of volunteers beginning our SIXTH year of staffing a 9/11 information table at the Dane County Farmers Market every Saturday during the season. The event draws about 20,000 every Saturday and is held on the State Capital Square across from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. We need some additional volunteers to hand out information, DVDs and talk with people. Please contact us:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Madison-WI-911-Truth/244857988857652?ref=hl
Will Brutal Terror Attack Be Used to Justify Martial Law and More War?
A horrific terror attack in Boston today killed 3 and injured dozens.
5 unexploded bombs have also been found.
As such, it is definitely a terror attack.
Our prayers go out to the families of those hurt, and to the people of Boston.
Posts change, videos disappear, tweets are deleted. Links rot:
http://gigaom.com/2012/09/19/the-disappearing-web-information-decay-is-e...
There are tools to combat this. Please post your own tips and techniques.
General page archiving: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/shelve/
Shelve can be configured to automatically save every page you visit. Each version is saved in a timestamped folder under the domain name (in your Firefox profile folder).
Recommended file name template: %{shelvedir}%/%B%/%Y-%M-%D-%h-%m-%s-%l%/%[ctF]%e
Also see: http://webcitation.org
Youtube Archiving:
Youtube-dl: http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
Recommended command line:
youtube-dl --verbose --write-description --write-info-json --output "%(uploader)s__%(uploader_id)s__%(upload_date)s__%(title)s__%(extractor)s__%(id)s.%(ext)s" [URL]
We have no idea whether or not the Boston bombings were false flag terrorism … the trick which governments from around the world have admitted they use to justify war or consolidate power.
But interest in false flag terrorism is at an all-time high.
Specifically, here’s the interest in the phrase “false flag” between 2004 – when Google Trends was launched – and today:
The “North Texans for 9/11 Truth” Group had the opportunity to participate in the Dallas area RESIST TYRANNY EXPO giving away DVDs and literature to the hundreds who turned out at the all day event held on Saturday, April 13th, 2013.
Bipartisan Report: U.S. Practiced Widespread Torture, Torture Has “No Jusification” and Doesn’t Yield Significant Information, Nation’s Highest Officials Bear Responsibility
The Al-Hijji family abruptly left this home at 4224 Escondito Circle in Prestancia, Sarasota at least a week before the attacks on Sept. 11,2001. - HERALD-TRIBUNE ARCHIVE
Contrary to previous statements made by the FBI to the news media, a family living in the south Sarasota neighborhood of Prestancia had “many connections” to the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, according to newly released FBI documents.
The family, Anoud and Abdulazziz al-Hijji, had links to 9/11 hijackers — including Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, who trained at a Venice flight school in preparation for the assault on New York and Washington, D.C., that killed 2,996.
Anoud al-Hijji is the daughter of Esam Ghazzawi, a powerful Saudi businessman with long ties to the Saudi royal family. The al-Hijjis have denied any involvement or relationship with the 9/11 hijackers.
But the family abruptly left the Prestancia home that they had lived in for six years roughly a week before the 9/11 attacks, leaving behind clothes, food, children's toys and other living essentials.
A Noble Lie The Oklahoma City Bombing of 1995 (Full-2 hours)
Media Roots Radio - Post 9/11, How We All Became Boiled Frogs by Media Roots
Link to official page where we encourage comments (please refrain from posting on the actual timeline)
MEDIA ROOTS – In this episode of Media Roots Radio, Abby and Robbie Martin go over a comprehensive timeline of political events in the decade following the 9/11 attacks by covering the establishment's use of agitation propaganda and psychological warfare to condition the public into accepting a new era of endless war and civil liberties erosions.
The Corbett Report - Apr 19, 2010
James Corbett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJgv39GtcJ0
TRANSCRIPT AND REFERENCES:
http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20100419_false_flags.htm
Those who have studied history know that nothing invigorates and empowers an authoritarian regime more than a spectacular act of violence, some sudden and senseless loss of life that allows the autocrat to stand on the smoking rubble and identify himself as the hero. It is at moments like this that the public—still in shock from the horror of the tragedy that has just unfolded before them—can be led into the most ruthless despotism: despotism that now bears the mantle of "security."
The following article may shed some light on the possibility of aircraft remote control on 9/11. It´s from April 10th, and it led to an article in Germany´s most read online newspaper. ( http://www.bild.de/digital/handy-und-telefon/hacker/per-app-ein-flugzeug... )
Here is the original story:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2033807/vulnerabilities-in-aircraft-syste...
Researcher: Vulnerabilities in aircraft systems allow remote airplane hijacking
Lucian Constantin, IDG News Service
The lack of security in communication technologies used in the aviation industry makes it possible to remotely exploit vulnerabilities in critical on-board systems and attack aircraft in flight, according to research presented Wednesday at the Hack in the Box security conference in Amsterdam.
The presentation, by Hugo Teso, a security consultant at consultancy firm N.runs in Germany, who has also had a commercial pilot license for the past 12 years, was the result of the researcher’s three-yearlong research into the security of avionics.
A 9/11 Free Fall
Original Story--4/11/13
By Andrew Steele
McCain asked about free fall of Building 7 on TV
On April 9th, 2013 Senator John McCain appeared on C-SPAN's live call-in show Washington Journal. Identifying myself under a pseudonym, I asked him the following question:
"The National Institute of Standards and Technology asserts that the collapse of the 47-story World Trade Center Building 7 on 9/11 was caused by fire. Yet they acknowledge that the first 100 feet of that collapse took place at free-fall acceleration. Engineers will tell you that fire cannot do this, that the only method by which it can be accomplished is the use of pre-planted explosives.
How do you explain this discrepancy...of a hundred feet of free-fall, without the use of explosives?"
As the video shows, John McCain claimed ignorance, saying, "To tell you the truth, this is an area that I'm not very familiar...and if you would drop me a note and mention that we talked on C-SPAN, I'd be glad to get you a more complete answer. But...honestly, every once in a while I have to plead ignorance about an issue and this is one that I have not been involved in, but I'll be more than happy to look into it..."
John McCain, of course, is not ignorant of 9/11 Truth. He wrote the foreword for the Popular Mechanics book "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts". In his essay "9/11 Conspiracy Myths: Truth Under Attack" which was adapted from his foreword for Popular Mechanics' book, McCain wrote:
"Any explanation for 9/11 must start and end with the facts. The evidence must be gathered and analyzed. Then—only then—can conclusions be drawn."
By Russ Baker
http://www.ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/748-debunking-the-...
Editor’s note: This is Part 9 of an extensive report by 9/11 researcher Adam Taylor that exposes the fallacies and flaws in the arguments made by the editors of Popular Mechanics (PM) in the latest edition of Debunking 9/11 Myths. We encourage you to submit your own reviews of the book at Amazon.com and other places where it is sold.
On 25th of February this year Tony Rooke went to court in Horsham in the UK. He was refusing to pay the TV licence which is used to fund the BBC on the grounds that paying would constitute funding an organisation which was supporting terrorism. The BBC has refused to address any of the issues regarding the official explanation of 9/11 and has actually produced programs such as the ‘9/11 Conspiracy Road Trip’ which could only be described as blatant propaganda.
On the day Tony wasn’t allowed to show his evidence in the court but Tony is now organising an event in which he will show the three hours of prepared evidence to a ‘jury’ of 12 specially selected members of the general public and a large audience. Tony will produce a film of the event.
For more details please see his new website at killingauntiefilms.co.uk.
A new website, www.scientificmethod911.org is now up and running. Its primary purpose is the discussion of scientific papers on the events of 9/11. In order to maintain dialog at the level of principles inherent in the scientific method, the discussions will be moderated. After evaluation, comments and responses will be posted on the website in a discussion page. Authors are invited to submit their writings, both old and new, for discussion and feedback from the wider community of 9/11 researchers. Send papers to moderator@scimethod911.org. The community at large is invited to read the listed papers and provide comments and feedback.
A new paper is now available, “The Pentagon Attack: The Event Time Revisited,” by John D. Wyndham. From the abstract:
“Since publication of my paper, “The Pentagon Attack: Problems with Theories Alternative to Large Plane Impact,” questions have arisen about some statements made therein, specifically those concerned with the clock evidence for the event time. This paper reviews the evidence and finds that it is much more convincing for an event time around 9:38 am than for a proposed earlier time around 9:32 am. It is shown, by experiment, that the minute hand of the Heliport clock could easily have moved from a time around 9:38 am back to a time around 9:32 am because of the abrupt deceleration that occurred when the clock hit the ground after falling off the wall.”
You can find this paper on the above-mentioned new website at:
http://www.scientificmethod911.org/docs/Pentagon_Event_Time_Mar19_2013.pdf
John D. Wyndham
March 25, 2013
Ultra-secret national security letters that come with a gag order on the recipient are an unconstitutional impingement on free speech, a federal judge in California ruled in a decision released Friday.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston ordered the government to stop issuing so-called NSLs across the board, in a stunning defeat for the Obama administration’s surveillance practices. She also ordered the government to cease enforcing the gag provision in any other cases. However, she stayed her order for 90 days to give the government a chance to appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/03/nsl-found-unconstitutional/
Thank you EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsl
and CREDO Mobile: https://twitter.com/CREDOMobile/status/4326145876
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvoXPROvL1Y
Published on Mar 15, 2013
Abby Martin speaks with independent journalist, and co-host of Media Roots Radio, Robbie Martin, about the recent revelations of former vice president Dick Cheney lying to the 9/11 commission, and what larger implications this could have.
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Preface: This is not a partisan post. We have repeatedly documented that Obama is as bad or worse than the Bush administration.
In the run up to the Iraq war – and for several years thereafter – the program of torture carried out by the Bush administration was specifically specifically aimed at establishing a false justification for war. Dick Cheney is the guy who pushed for torture, pressured the Justice Department lawyers to write memos saying torture was legal, and made the pitch to Congress justifying torture. (The former director of the CIA said Cheney oversaw American torture policies).
The type of torture used by the U.S. on the Guantanamo suspects is of a special type. Senator Levin revealed that the the U.S. used Communist torture techniques specifically aimed at creating false confessions (see this, this, this and this).
According to NBC News:
In fact, the 9/11 Commission Report was largely based on third-hand accounts of what tortured detainees said, with two of the three parties in the communication being government employees.
We would like to announce the publication, in the Journal of 9/11 Studies, of Matthew Witt’s article, “Morewell than Orwell: Paramilitarization in the United States post-9/11”. Matthew Witt is well known as a member of the group of scholars that has encouraged the study of “State Crimes Against Democracy” (SCAD). In this article he looks, not at the events of 9/11 themselves, but at the crisis of legitimation that the U.S. state faces and the way it has, since 9/11, chosen to respond to this crisis. The Occupy Wall Street movement is taken as the central example of state response and repression.
As we announce this publication we also want to announce our intention to broaden the scope of the Journal. The historical importance of the Journal lies in detailed, critical examination of the events of the day of 9/11, and we have no intention of abandoning this focus, but there are many disciplines we would like to invite into the conversation and we would like to include studies of the context and meaning of 9/11. We are aware that there are other journals that attempt to deal with these issues, but with few exceptions these journals accept the official narrative of 9/11 and tend to exclude the writings of authors with a critical perspective. In our view this means that the interpretations of 9/11 developed in these journals are bound to be faulty. We want to create a space where researchers working in the humanities, such as John McMurtry, whose recent article on the moral decoding of 9/11 has drawn a good deal of attention, and Matthew Witt can write without the usual pressure to adhere to flawed accounts of 9/11. In this process we also hope that people who have not traditionally read our Journal will find themselves drawn to it and to its critical perspective on recent history.
Please post links to these articles on all relevant websites so that we can invite as many people as possible into a dialogue on these important events.
Kevin Ryan and Graeme MacQueen
http://www.ae911truth.org/en/news-section/41-articles/728-ae911truth-act...
Will Amy Goodman Break the 9/11 Media Silence?
Is Amy Goodman part of the “silent majority” when it comes to questioning the official 9/11 story?
For a journalist, when something cannot be said, the silence is the most important story. Many people believe that Amy Goodman, host of the popular public radio and TV show Democracy Now!, is among the best when it comes to confronting people in power and asking hard questions. She may be one of the best, but her silence about 9/11 is stunning. For example, she has yet to tell her audience or her readers that nearly 2,000 architects and engineers – all verified and vetted – are calling for a new investigation of the destruction of the three World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11, citing evidence of controlled demolition. That should be headline news for a journalist whose self-described role is to report on alternative voices excluded by the mainstream media.
Corbett Report
March 9, 2013
Episode 261 – International Law?
Podcast: http://www.corbettreport.com/?powerpress_pinw=7047-podcast
James Corbett on 911blogger!!!
http://911blogger.com/search/node/james%20corbett
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_A7FAfm6kg
SHOW NOTES AND MP3: http://www.corbettreport.com/?p=7047
Truth. Justice. Accountability. The idea of an international rule of law appeals to our innate sense of justice, but the most horrific plans are often cloaked in the most beautiful lies. Just as the ideals of international law are used to cloak the imperial ambitions of the globalists, so too is the idea of seeking justice in these controlled courtrooms a phoney pipe dream. Join us today on The Corbett Report as we explore the only real solution to this problem: removing the bodyguard of lies from the power elite and to withdrawing ourselves from the systems that seek to legitimize their rule.
Documentation
League of Nations: Introduction
Time Reference: 00:16
Episode 234 – How To Carve Up The World
Time Reference: 04:35
http://www.straight.com/life/360251/vancouver-bound-author-james-douglas...
Vancouver-bound author James Douglass on JFK and the Unspeakable
by Adrian Mack on Mar 7, 2013 at 10:05 pm
Theologian and peace activist James Douglass, author of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters
Last Christmas I was standing in line at Chapters with a copy of the book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why it Matters when the man behind me commented, “That’s the best book on the subject.”
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RFK Jr says no lone gunman
He might have been right. If it’s not the best, it’s one of them, partly because of the clarity author James Douglass brings to an event that can be overwhelmingly complex in its fine details. Indeed, JFK and the Unspeakable achieved a rare consensus inside the assassination research community for its wise and lucid organization of the known data. If you’re new to the subject, there isn’t a better primer.
