National Lawyers Guild og IADL krever torturister straffet

NIFS: National Lawyers Guild og IADL krever torturister straffet

Amerikanske National Lawyers Guild og den internasjonale advokatorganisasjonen International Association of Democratic Lawyers publiserer et dokument (whitepaper) som gjør det helt klart at menneskene i Bush-administrasjonen som har støttet bruk av tortur i avhør må straffes. Les hele dokumentet her.

Disinformation Distracts and Discredits - a field guide to how disinformation is used by the government

“One of the primary means of immobilizing the American people politically today is to hold them in a state of confusion in which anything can be believed and nothing can be known… nothing of significance, that is.”

– E. Martin Schotz, “History Will Not Absolve Us: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy”

OilEmpire.us: Disinformation Distracts and Discredits - a field guide to how disinformation is used by the government

One means that Empires use to deflect effective criticism of their crimes is to control both sides of a debate. As the United States population has become more savvy about official conspiracies against democracy, especially with the rise of the internet, efforts to misdirect government and corporate critics have also accelerated. This page links to discussions that describe this tactic.

No Planes on 9/11: hoax history

Mark Rabinowitz, OilEmpire.us: The Complete “No Planes on 9/11″ Timeline

The “no Boeing hit the Pentagon” claim is the most important and widespread 9/11 hoax. It was probably set up before the event since government agents seized surveillance camera videos within minutes of the crash (which is tentative evidence for foreknowledge, but not for “no plane”). It is extremely likely that the conspirators who allowed (and assisted) 9/11 would have created misdirecting hoaxes before the “attack,” since they are aware that segments of the population would have suspicions about the events and therefore they would “need” to disrupt skeptical inquiry with red herrings, hoaxes, false dichotomies, etc.

The “no plane” claim is based on misrepresentation of photos taken shortly after the crash, ignoring of physical evidence and documented reports from hundreds of eyewitnesses who saw the plane.

There is NO credible, verifiable evidence in support of ANY of the many and varied “theories” pretending that Flight 77 did not crash into the Pentagon, and therefore, 9/11 was an inside job. . . .

Gammel, men: The Perplexing Puzzle of the Published Passenger Lists

Gary North: The Perplexing Puzzle of the Published Passenger Lists

Maybe you like puzzles. I hope so. I don’t like them. I regard them as a challenge, not a game. I avoid them because, when I cannot find a solution, my mind won’t stop working on them. Then I get very frustrated. So, I avoid magic shows, crossword puzzles, and similar brain- twisters.

Yet I am also a historian with a Ph.D. Historians are trained to solve puzzles with insufficient pieces. Historians never have all of the evidence that they would like in order to come up with a coherent explanation of what happened. They always want another piece in the puzzle before they go into print. (Of course, once they go into print, they will tend to reject any newly discovered piece that messes up their version of the completed puzzle.) At some point, they are supposed to come to a conclusion. They are supposed to make a judgment about what happened. I am presently stuck. So, I am sending out this report. Maybe there is someone my list who can get me unstuck.

Years ago, I saw a movie, “My Cousin Vinnie.” Vinnie was studying to be a lawyer. He wasn’t a good classroom student, but he had a unique ability. He could figure out how things fit together. Show him a magic trick, and he could tell you how the magician did it. Tell him a story with a missing link, and he could identify where the missing link was, and maybe what it was. He could solve puzzles. I am trying to locate Vinnie. This puzzle is no game.

The United States has gone to war on the basis of one solution to this puzzle. We have not yet been told what this solution is. The puzzle begins with the crash of four airliners. We must work our way backward from this. To do this, I decided to begin with official information that was published 16 days after the attack. To work my way backwards, I first leaped forward. . . .

John Judge: Extra Pieces of the Puzzle of 911 Published Passenger Lists

John Judge: Extra Pieces of the Puzzle of 911 Published Passenger Lists

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If there were 19 in the plot, perhaps only one in each plane knew they were all to die. You can get a pilot to kamikaze, we know that much. But a whole crew? I know, for the “greater glory of Allah against the infidels”, or for a preacher in Guyana, or for a UFO cult in California, or for a sun cult in France. Right. Just don’t check the details. Which leaves two unexplored options: mind control or remote control. But those are “conspiracy theories” aren’t they. Sorry, I forgot. Is bin Laden and his thugs a conspiracy theory? Does it require a modicum of proof?

The secret evidence was viewed by foreign leaders, who are more qualified than the American public, and even they called it “circumstantial” and “not enough to take into court” but they agreed it was “sufficient” to go to WAR. Probably true, the first casualty of war is always the truth, and you don’t need much “evidence” to get a war going. Ask Goering. But you can’t even get the secret evidence to work if you can’t put the suspects on the planes now can you? It’s tough. You can’t put Oswald on the 6th floor of the Book Depository either, or James Earl Ray in the bathroom window, or Sirhan’s bullets into RFK; not if you pay attention to details anyway.

Oh, dear, have I revealed that I am not a “coincidence theorist”? Let’s just stick to the evidence, it will lead us where we need to go if we ever get to see it. For now the lack of it is enough for me. Good luck on a great puzzle. As my old pal Penn Jones used to say, “Take any one piece and research the hell out of it. It will eventually show you the whole“.

Thanks for thinking - John Judge

Pentagon - Why the no-757 crowd is making an ass out of itself

Joël van der Reijden: Pentagon - Why the no-757 crowd is making an ass out of itself

This author used to run Revelations 9/11, a website that discussed all the anomalous aspects of 911. However, the 911 Truth movement has been subject to so much mis- and disinformation that we are further than ever from getting an idea of what actually happened. Most researchers bring nothing new to table and when they do, it almost always turns out to be something highly questionable. For me, in case of 911, it has been much more rewarding to find out how the truth seekers have been completely misled about some of the key aspects of 911. Therefore I dumped my site and will only share one or two articles that prove that the one thing you can trust even less than the government’s official line, is the stuff promoted by the average conspiracy researcher.

What ever happened to the famous line ‘Think for Yourself’? Always look at the sources and keep a large ‘grey box’.

THE USA PATRIOT ACT — An Expanded Deja Vu

Bruce Elison, The USA Patriot Act — An Expanded Deja Vu

…the provisions of the Patriot Act which give me the most pause and fear are the ones clearly designed to criminalize the free speech and association rights of people determined to challenge the policies and actions of the government and its corporate masters.

Complete 911 Timeline: Al-Qaeda in Spain, 9/11 Commission’s Investigation of NSA, Torture - Additions as of April 27, 2008

Complete 911 Timeline: Al-Qaeda in Spain, 9/11 Commission’s Investigation of NSA, Torture - Additions as of April 27, 2008

Many of this week’s new entries deal with al-Qaeda in Spain and the collection of informants and surveillance targets that performed the 2004 Madrid train bombings. Spanish authorities first began monitoring the main al-Qaeda cell in Spain in 1995, later linking it to the Hamburg cell that provided three of the alleged 9/11 pilots, and watching it commit an interesting variety of crimes. The Spanish learned the cell was sending recruits to al-Qaeda training camps, and found out that al-Qaeda had established a camp in Indonesia, but did not bother to tell the Indonesian authorities about it.

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In torture, Justice Department lawyer John Yoo said the military could ignore a raft of irksome laws in 2003, and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice permitted harsh tactics to be used on a detainee a couple of months later. President George Bush recently admitted he knew about such high-level approvals of the harsh techniques, and an al-Qaeda leader arrested in 2002 has never emerged from the archipelago of black sites.

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911: USA dropper anklagene mot den såkalte 20. kapreren

NIFS: 911: USA dropper anklagene mot den såkalte 20. kapreren

Bush-administrasjonen har blitt nødt til å droppe anklagene mot ‘the 20th hijacker’; Mohamed Mani Ahmad al-Kahtani - en saudi-araber som har sittet fengslet på Guantanamo Bay siden 2002. Al-Kahtani ble siktet for medvirkning sammen med seks andre i februar, men sies å være ‘unprosecutable’ på grunn av avhørsmetodene som ble brukt. . . .

Norman Solomon: War Made Easy

Norman Solomon, Truthout.org: War Made Easy

When The New York Times published its explosive “Pentagon Pundits” story on April 20, the result was a wave of criticism directed at the Defense Department for manipulating TV news coverage of the Iraq war. Critics also faulted the networks for failing to scrutinize the conflicts of interest of the “military analysts” who went on the air. Many of those retired military officers were being coached by the Pentagon to mislead the public, and many had personal financial stakes in corporations with major Pentagon contracts.

Routinely lost in the current uproar is the extent to which media managers have gone out of their way to suck up to the Pentagon. Top network executive Eason Jordan - who ran CNN’s news operation during the invasion of Iraq - is a case in point. He repeatedly asked the Pentagon for approval of the “military analysts” who were under consideration for on-air roles.

The documentary film “War Made Easy,” based on my book of the same name, shows the pervasive and long-running partnership between key news outlets and high-ranking warmakers in Washington. This video excerpt from the movie puts the “Pentagon Pundits” story in a broad and chilling context. . . .

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War Made Easy

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.

“For Blackwater It’s Business as Usual”

The New York Times / Truthout.org: Iraq Contractor in Shooting Case Makes Comeback

Last fall, Blackwater Worldwide was in deep peril.

Guards for the security company were involved in a shooting in September that left at least 17 Iraqis dead at a Baghdad intersection. Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater’s ouster from the country, and led to a criminal investigation by the F.B.I., a series of internal investigations by the State Department and the Pentagon, and high-profile Congressional hearings.

But after an intense public and private lobbying campaign, Blackwater appears to be back to business as usual. . . .

AUDIO: Senator Karen Johnson on the Charles Goyette Show 2008-05-08

Source

Senator Karen Johnson was interviewed this morning on the Charles Goyette Show regarding the recent hit pieces by the Arizona Republic and the demolition of the Twin Towers and Building 7. Charles took calls from the audience.

http://www.archive.org/details/CharlesGoyetteInterviewsArizonaStateSenat…

Direct Link: http://www.archive.org/download/CharlesGoyetteInterviewsArizonaStateSena…

Charles Goyette has a history of asking poignant questions (Davin Coburn / Popular Mechanics - MUST HEAR):
http://www.911podcasts.com/display.php?cat=6&med=0&ord=Name&strt=0&vid=1…

Hvorfor er 9/11 så viktig? …

… undres mange.

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U V I K T I G ? ? ?

… undres jeg.

En pussig skrue

Kommentar unødvendig. Forhåpentligvis.

To viktige Pentagon-spørsmål

“A honey pot, in intelligence jargon, is a tempting source of information or ‘dangle’ that is set out to lure intended victims into a trap. Ultimately the honey pot is violently and maliciously discredited so as to destroy the credibility of anything stuck to it by association”

–- Michael Ruppert

. . . to create a honeypot to easily blow us out of the water when it becomes necessary with one fell swoop — just play the video of AA77 hitting the Pentagon all over the news stations over and over and over, and combine it with clips of notable members claiming a plane never could have hit there. . . .

– Victronix

Mange liker mentalgym av det spekulative slaget. Hvilket ikke bare er unyttig. Faktisk er spekulasjon avgjørende for å komme frem til en teori. Man spekulerer frem en teori på basis av (alle) tilgjengelige empiriske data. Passer alle data teorien, er den god. Passer de ikke, er den dårlig. Spekulativ.

Teorier om hva som traff - eller ikke traff - Pentagon er i stor grad basert på spekulasjon. Av det unødvendige slaget. Og nesten bare det. Har man ikke forstått det nå - i 2008 - kan et par runder i de indre topplokkgemakker være en fin ting.

Synsinger rundt angrepet har en tendens til å drukne (minst) to viktige spørsmål.

1. Hvordan kunne noe i det hele tatt treffe Pentagon? Verdens heftigste militærmakt kan ikke forsvare sitt eget hovedkvarter? Grunnet tilfeldighet eller inkompetanse??
2. Hvorfor vil Bush-administrasjonen at vi skal tro at de skjuler noe? Hvorfor kan de ikke frigi video som viser AA77 treffe Pentagon? Vi vet de har film. Vil de at vi skal spekulere?

“They have spent $13 trillion tax dollars since the end of WWII on this military/intelligence complex, and it cannot protect its own headquarters?… How were they allowed to come into the most restricted air space in the world with no challenge or defense? That is the question that answers both when Bush knew in advance and begs any rational response.”

–John Judge

“…making 9/11 complicity dependent on the no-plane claim was a brilliant tactic to discredit the real evidence for people inside the Beltway (Washington DC), both for the majority who vote against Bush and the political / military elites (especially the military officers who saw the plane crash or the plane debris)”

- OilEmpire.us om Pentagon

Michael Moore: Vis oss filmene!

• Sofistikert psykologisk operasjon, eller fantastisk tryllekunst?

Psykologisk operasjon:

Planlagt operasjon hvor nøye utvalgt informasjon plantes hos spesifikke [utenlandske] mottakere med henblikk på å påvirke deres følelser, motiver, sunne fornuft, og i siste instans hvordan myndigheter, organisasjoner, grupper og individer forholder seg.

Vi trenger ikke ingen-fly-ved-Pentagon for å bevise innsidejobb. Det er bortkastet å spekulere over ting som ikke fører noensteds hen. Og som fjerner energi og fokus fra andre langt viktigere tema. For eksempel ordentlige bevis.

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John Judge er fra Washington DC - “inside the Beltway” - og burde kjenne topografien i Pentagonområdet bedre enn folk utenfor DC. Hvorfor topografien er viktig? Vel, er det nær på paddeflatt og åpent, ville f.eks. et missil istenden for AA77 være nokså risky butikk. PentaCons overflyvningsteori også. Det er flatt og åpent i DC-området. Et menneske med fotoapparat på rett sted til rett tid, og løgnen hadde vært avslørt. Sannsynlig risiko å ta? Neppe.

Judge har også bekjente som var vitner til hendelsen.

Noen gode Judge-artikler:

• Flight of Fantasy: Flight 77 Didn’t Hit the Pentagon [http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/f77FoF.html]

• The Pentagon Attack and American Airlines Flight 77 [http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/PAandAAF77.html]

• Pentagon and P-56 Preparations and Defenses and the Stand-Down on 9/11
  [http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/P56A.html]

My father, John Joseph Judge was a WWII Army Air Corps veteran and had been a cryptographer assigned overseas. He worked as a civilian at the Pentagon after his return from the war until his death in 1965. My mother and my aunt both worked there as civilian employees beginning in 1943 until they retired. I grew up visiting the offices of my parents, and spending time at the Pentagon library. When the weather was nice, we would all often arrange to buy some food at the canteen and walk outside into the central courtyard area to sit and eat lunch together. When I was 10 or 11, to the best of my memory, which means 1957 or 58, I recall going outside and sitting down on a silver metal box. My father told me to get off of it. When I asked why he said it was a surface to air missile. (I could be off by 2-3 years on this recollection, but it was certainly before 1961). (Emphasis added)

As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don’t know
We don’t know.

– Donald Rumsfeld, Feb. 12, 2002,
Department of Defense news briefing

Pentagon/Flight 77: Sofistikert psykologisk operasjon, eller fantastisk tryllekunst?

. . . Intelligence agencies have had decades of experience doing duping and manipulating people, and countless unwitting suspects to experiment on using everything imaginable. That’s a lot of data with which to keep a cover-up alive and well.

My guess — and not just mine — is that much of the Pentagon scam functions in these ways:

1) to distract from the powerful and provable evidences so activists and researchers will fight, instead of publish and document.

2) to excite people into believing a “magic show” went on and “everyone was fooled” into bizarre states of mind where no one notices jetliners flying over their heads, no one can identify one plane (even as they can identify the next one perfectly) etc. This also makes the Pentagon and it’s workers seem invincible and capable of any feat. And pretty soon we have “PentaCon” where all the items on the lawn and in the path were “fake” and “planted” and everyone was essentially “hypnotized.” This is the nonsense stuff they want us to spread all over the internet to tank us as credible people.

3) to lure people into promoting the idea that AA77 didn’t hit to keep us sidelined to the DC families, to local DC activists, etc., the people who *saw* the plane or know someone who did.

4) to create a honeypot to easily blow us out of the water when it becomes necessary with one fell swoop — just play the video of AA77 hitting the Pentagon all over the news stations over and over and over, and combine it with clips of notable members claiming a plane never could have hit there. . . .

– Victronix

SCOTT RITTER: The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets of Their Own Military

Scott Ritter, Truthdig.com: The Pentagon vs. the U.S.: How Americans Have Become Targets of Their Own Military

America is a country at war with itself.

VIDEO: Continuity of the US government … TOP SECRET!

Continuity of the US government … TOP SECRET!

Rep. Peter DeFazio gives a speech on the house floor to fellow members discussing the fact that Bush Administration has denied the entire Dept of Homeland Security Committee access to the so called detailed plans that the White House has drafted to ensure the continuity of government in case of a major terrorist attack.

Transcript

Article:

DeFazio Asks, But He’s Denied Access
Classified info - The congressman wanted to see government plans for after a terror attack

VIDEO: War Made Easy

War Made Easy

War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of successive presidential administrations.

Gammel, men: «Morsomt» å drepe

Yohan Shanmugaratnam: «Morsomt» å drepe

Det private sikkerhetsselskapet Blackwater Security syns det er morsomt å skyte mennesker, går det fram av internt notat. . . .

Fler Blackwater-artikler på norsk.

360 Post-9/11 Workers Have Died, Including 80 Of Cancer, Says State

“Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink.”

- Christine Todd Whitman

nydailynews.com / Jon Gold’s Blog: 360 Post-9/11 Workers Have Died, Including 80 Of Cancer, Says State

More than 360 workers who dealt with the aftermath of the World Trade Center disaster have died, state health officials said Wednesday.

Officials have determined the cause of death of 154 of the responders and volunteers who toiled at Ground Zero, the blocks nearby and at the Fresh Kills landfill, where debris from the site was taken.

Of those, 80 died of cancer.

“It’s the tip of the iceberg,” said David Worby, who is representing 10,000 workers - 600 with cancer - who say they got sick after working on rescue and recovery efforts. . . .

Jason Leopold: Lost E-Mails Obscure ‘Plame-gate’

Jason Leopold, Consortiumnews: Lost E-Mails Obscure ‘Plame-gate’

Earlier this week, the White House disclosed that it could not recover lost e-mails from emergency backup tapes for the period covering the invasion of Iraq and the U.S. failure to find Iraq’s alleged WMD.

This new gap – from March 1, 2003, to May 23, 2003 – also may have wiped out evidence of how George W. Bush and his top aides reacted to the emerging criticism from former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson that the White House had sold the war using false claims about Iraq seeking uranium from Niger in Africa. . . .

Amy Goodman: America’s War on Journalists

Forsøker Goodman å fortelle mer enn det åpenbare? Les mellom linjene og hint-hint?

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Amy Goodman, Alternet: America’s War on Journalists

The Bush administration has engaged in assault, intimidation, and imprisonment to limit the ability of journalists to do their jobs.