Rescue Me Works 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Into Its Plot - Gothamist.com 2-2-09
http://gothamist.com/2009/02/02/rescue_me_works_actors_911_conspira.php
Rescue Me Works 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Into Its Plot
Word has leaked that in an episode for the upcoming season of the FX firefighter drama Rescue Me, the womanizing fireman Franco—one of the show's main characters—espouses theories that 9/11 was an inside job, carried out as part of a neoconservative plot to change the definition of "preemptive attack" and control the world's oil. The Times says that it marks "the first fictional presentation of 9/11 conspiracy theories by a mainstream media company." Star of the show Denis Leary says that the scene is not far off from scenes in actual fire houses "where some of the younger members don’t even have to completely buy into the theory of 9/11 being an inside job, but want to discuss it."
What is more striking than the fictional plot line is that the show is using the real-life conspiracy beliefs of the actor who plays Franco, Daniel Sunjata, to promote the storyline. In a press tour, Sunjata said that he “absolutely, 100 percent” supports the assertion that “9/11 was an inside job.”
9/11 Truth Band makes FM Radio
Hot on the heels of their 9/11 Benefit Concert that made Channel 9 News in Albany, NY, the Ameros (Formerly Cultural Relativity) are taking their brand of political rock to the airwaves. Last Sunday on 104.9 The Edge their song "One Song at a Time" debuted. Speaking of a false left-right paradigm, deforestation, and more, this song sets out the goal of the Ameros. Changing the world, "one song at a time."
Currently planning their 2009 tour, they are looking to do 50/50 benefit shows for 9/11 Truth groups in the Northeast. If you want us to do one near you, get in touch immediately because dates are filling fast.
Current dates: (More to be announced)
Note: Any of these dates where 14 or more 9/11 Truth people show up, we will split what we make. Make sure to let the doorman know you're there to see the Ameros!
Mar 14 2009 8:00P
Desmond’s Tavern New York, New York
Apr 27 2009 10:00P
Hotshots with Guests TBA Glens Falls, New York
Check out the music at:
www.myspace.com/theAmeros
If you want to do a 50/50 benefit show / group meeting contact us immediately!
jcrelativity@yahoo.com
Jesse Calhoun
(937) 408 3075
WTC Fireproofing Documents
A FOIA request by James Gourley regarding firefproofing upgrades at the WTC has produced the following documents zipped up in a 31 megabyte file that you can download and examine here;
There doesn't appear to be a "smoking gun", but take a look if you are interested.
NIST doesn't know how to run their simulation??
Taking the lead from Aidan I've submitted my own foia asking for instructions to run the WTC 7 collapse simulation. So far the response is that there are no records, so I've submitted an appeal. I'm hoping the instructions will include some information about absurd initial parameters.
Complaint:
I want step by step instructions how to run the WTC 7 collapse simulation. Is this just a matter or rephrasing the request or does NIST not have step by step instructions? Are you seriously telling me that no one either in NIST nor outside is capable of reproducing the collapse simulation because the instructions do not exist?
New York Times: The Political Suspicions of 9/11
[What's this doing in the New York Times business section? And where are the usual derogatory jabs against "conspiracy theorists"?]
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/business/media/02fx.html?ref=business
The Political Suspicions of 9/11
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: February 1, 2009
A coming episode of the acclaimed FX drama “Rescue Me” will tackle what may sound like a far-fetched plot line: that the attacks of Sept. 11 were an “inside job.” The actor who espouses the theories on camera, it turns out, also subscribes to them in real life.
Claims that Al Qaeda terrorists were not solely responsible for the attacks have a lively following on the Internet, including on YouTube, but the second episode of “Rescue Me’s” fifth season, starting in April, may represent the first fictional presentation of 9/11 conspiracy theories by a mainstream media company (FX is operated by the News Corporation).
“They’re not discussed a lot in the press,” Daniel Sunjata, the actor who plays Franco Rivera on “Rescue Me,” told reporters at a television press tour last month. He predicted that the episode would be “socio-politically provocative.”
Sydney to Break Australian Media Silence with the "The Hard Evidence - 9/11 was an Inside Job!"
From: John Bursill - Truth Action Australia and 911oz.com
Calling all media, academics, peace activists and politicians, to look at the "hard evidence that 9/11 was an inside job"!
Sydney 9/11 Truth Advocates are to bring together the "Best of the Best" that the International 9/11 Truth Movement has to offer to an explosive weekend of truth in November 2009!
As it is widely accepted in the 9/11 research circles that the Controlled Demolition of World Trade Centre 7 and the Twin Towers has provided the best argument that "9/11 was an inside job", so it stands to reason that we must continue to present this evidence to our communities. We must also be very confident that we have the "hard evidence" to bring to trial individuals and organisations that assisted, organised and carried out the demolition of those buildings in broad daylight on September the 11th, 2001. To do that we continue to call for an international investigation into the events of 9/11 and support the victims families for their call for a re-investigation in the USA! This re-investigation being completely independent and one that has the power to answer all of the well researched questions that the family members of the 9/11 Commission Steering Committee have already put on the record.
Sydney 9/11 Truth Action - 11 Jan 2009
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=kFHhMpEwWUA
The Australian 9/11 truth movement is not going away.
We will continue to press for truth and justice - for as long as it takes.
The Sydney group meets on the 11th of every month, usually at the Town Hall.
Obama preserves rendition two days after taking office
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Obama_preserves_rendition_in__0201.html
Jeremy Gantz
Sunday February 1, 2009
Two days after taking the helm of a country ready for change after eight years of George W. Bush, President Obama has allowed one controversial "War on Terror" tactic to remain in place: rendition.
Despite frequent condemnation of the practice around the world, rendition -- the secret capture, transportation and detention of suspected terrorists to foreign prisons in countries that cooperate with the U.S. -- remains in the CIA's playbook, thanks to a Jan. 22 executive order issued by President Obama.
Other executive orders shuttered the CIA's secret prisons and banned the harsh interrogation techniques that have been termed torture. And in his most widely noticed break with his predecessor, Obama signed an order to close Guantanamo Bay's prison within one year.
REUTERS: Protesters rally against World Economic Forum
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE50U1F320090131
Sat Jan 31, 2009 1:19pm EST
GENEVA/DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Hundreds of people rallied in Geneva and Davos Saturday to protest against the World Economic Forum, saying the elite gathered for it annual meeting are not qualified to fix the world's problems.
Carrying banners reading 'You are the Crisis' and throwing snowballs, several hundred protesters marched to fences surrounding the heavily guarded Hotel Seehof in the Davos ski resort, where many world leaders and business people stay during the forum.
Protester Alex Heideger, a member of the Davos Green Party, said these were the people to blame for the economic mess.
"It's the same people who came last year and said the world economic situation is fine, and now we're in a financial crisis. Now it's the taxpayer who has to solve the whole problem.
"It's people like you and me who have to pay for it with their tax money," he said.
Nafeez Ahmed - Obama: Regime Rotation
by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed - Monday, January 26, 2009
The arrival of the Obama administration will not fundamentally alter the course of military expansion accelerated during the Bush era. The origins of these policies do not lie uniquely in neoconservative ideology. While the election of President Obama may offer new opportunities for progressive forces to delimit the damage, their space for movement will ultimately be constrained by deep-seated structural pressures that will attempt to exploit Obama to rehabilitate American imperial hegemony, rather than transform it.
Indeed, the radicalization of Anglo-American political ideology represented by the rise of neoconservative principles and the militarization processes of the 'War on Terror', constituted a strategic response to global systemic crises supported by the American business classes. The same classes, recognizing the extent to which the Bush era has discredited this response, have rallied around Obama. Therefore, as global crises intensify, this militarization response is likely to undergo further radicalization, rather than a meaningful change in course. The key differences will be in language and method, not substance.