NIST: “… we are unable to provide a full explanation of the total collapse.”
C O L L A P S E ? ?
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COVERUP AT GROUND ZERO:
Fire Engineering has good reason to believe that the “official investigation” blessed by FEMA and run by the American Society of Civil Engineers is a half-baked farce that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests, to put it mildly, lie far afield of full disclosure. --Bill Manning, Fire Engineering Magazine
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"They showed us many fascinating slides" [Eaton] continued, "ranging from molten
metal which was still red hot weeks after the event, to 4-inch thick steel plates sheared
and bent in the disaster". --Structural Engineer, 3. september, 2002, s. 6
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"Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel." --Alison Geyh, PhD
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Molten Metal Flows at Ground Zero (video)
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Extremely hot metal at ground zero (video)
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Molten Metal Pours from South Tower
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Eyewitness accounts: Molten metal
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"The condition of the steel in the wreckage of the WTC towers (i.e., whether it was in a molten state or not) was irrelevant to the investigation of the collapse since it does not provide any conclusive information on the condition of the steel when the WTC towers were standing." --NIST, Answers to FAQ, pt. 13
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“...we are unable to provide a full explanation of the total collapse.” --NIST
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"... the official conclusion that NIST arrived at is questionable." --James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of the Fire Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
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"Steven Jones’ call for a “serious investigation” of the hypothesis that the WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down . . . through the use of pre-positioned cutter-charges” must be the rallying cry for all building design experts to speak out." --Max Ayres
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Architects & Engineers calling for a new investigation
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"When everyone is to blame . . . no one is to blame."
“[The] American people shared the blame for 9-11 for underestimating the terrorist threat.” --Condoleezza Rice
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The 9/11 Whitewash: Blaming No One
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"Du kan kalle meg
konspirasjonsteoretiker, hvis du
kaller alle andre
tilfeldighetsteoretiker. Jeg
foretrekker å si at jeg er en
alternativ historiker.”
--John
Judge
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Afghanistan? Bevis som legitimerer krigen, takk.
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Powell/Blair-dossieret: "This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law."
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George Bush, Jr., September 11th and the Rule of Law--Professor Francis Boyle
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NO WAR AGAINST AFGHANISTAN!--Professor Francis Boyle
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"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
"I wouldn't call it fascism exactly, but [an American] political system nominally controlled by an irresponsible, dumbed down electorate who are manipulated by dishonest, cynical, controlled mass media that dispense the propaganda of a corrupt political establishment can hardly be described as democracy either."
--Edward Zehr
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“The more status someone has in this society, the harder it is for them to listen to suggestions that there is something illegitimate about the power structure in which they have that status.” --Peter Dale Scott
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“Individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience. Therefore [individual citizens] have the duty to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring” –-Nuremberg War Crime Tribunal, 1950
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"No people can be both ignorant and free."
--Thomas Jefferson
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‘The theory of a free press is that truth will emerge from free discussion, not that it will be presented perfectly and instantly in any one account.’ -- Walter Lippman
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Interrogations American Style: Først skal du si det vi vil. Så skal du holde kjeft. For alltid.
Fredsnasjonen Norges krigskamerater …
Godt vi tilhører “den siviliserte delen av verden”. Godt vi tar avstand fra overgripere og folk som forbryter seg på internasjonal lov og menneskerettigheter. Godt våre politikere ikke er noen tvetungede hyklere.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) released documents of forty-four autopsies held in Afghanistan and Iraq October 25, 2005. Twenty-one of those deaths were listed as homicides. The documents show that detainees died during and after interrogations by Navy SEALs, Military Intelligence, and Other Government Agency (OGA).
“These documents present irrefutable evidence that U.S. operatives tortured detainees to death during interrogation,” said Amrit Singh, an attorney with the ACLU. “The public has a right to know who authorized the use of torture techniques and why these deaths have been covered up.” . . .
Produced and directed by Irish filmmaker and former BBC producer Jamie Doran, the film tells the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US military’s Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. According to the film, some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison. When the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, killing many of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds. . . .
“Now the Taliban will pay a price” vowed President George W. Bush, as American and British fighter planes unleashed missile attacks against major cities in Afghanistan. The US Administration claims that Osama bin Laden is behind the tragic events of the 11th of September. A major war supposedly “against international terrorism” has been launched, yet the evidence amply confirms that agencies of the US government have since the Cold War harbored the “Islamic Militant Network” as part of Washington’s foreign policy agenda. In a bitter irony, the US Air Force is targeting the training camps established in the 1980s by the CIA.
The main justification for waging this war has been totally fabricated. The American people have been deliberately and consciously misled by their government into supporting a major military adventure which affects our collective future.
by Michel Chossudovsky
Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), Montréal
Posted at globalresearch.ca 9 October 2001
Confronted with mounting evidence, the US Administration can no longer deny its links to Osama. While the CIA admits that Osama bin Laden was an “intelligence asset” during the Cold War, the relationship is said to “go way back”. Most news reports consider that these Osama-CIA links belong to the “bygone era” of the Soviet-Afghan war. They are invariably viewed as “irrelevant” to an understanding of present events. Lost in the barrage of recent history, the role of the CIA in supporting and developing international terrorist organisations during the Cold war and its aftermath is casually ignored or downplayed by the Western media.
Yes, We did support Him, but “He Went Against Us”
A blatant example of media distortion is the so-called “blowback” thesis: “intelligence assets” are said to “have gone against their sponsors”; “what we’ve created blows back in our face.”[1] In a twisted logic, the US government and the CIA are portrayed as the ill-fated victims:
The sophisticated methods taught to the Mujahideen, and the thousands of tons of arms supplied to them by the US - and Britain - are now tormenting the West in the phenomenon known as `blowback’, whereby a policy strategy rebounds on its own devisers.[2]
The US media, nonetheless, concedes that “the Taliban’s coming to power [in 1995] is partly the outcome of the U.S. support of the Mujahideen, the radical Islamic group, in the 1980s in the war against the Soviet Union”.[3] But it also readily dismisses its own factual statements and concludes in chorus, that the CIA had been tricked by a deceitful Osama. It’s like “a son going against his father”.
The “blowback” thesis is a fabrication. The evidence amply confirms that the CIA never severed its ties to the “Islamic Militant Network”. Since the end of the Cold War, these covert intelligence links have not only been maintained, they have in become increasingly sophisticated. Les resten av dette innlegget »
OK. You can call me a Conspiracy Theorist if you call everyone else a Coincidence Theorist. But n-o-o-o-o, only conspiracies are “theories”, well. that and Evolution. Ya, right, if this is Intelligent Design, what is a BAD idea? I keep seeing all these so-called journalists barking at Conspiracy Theorists who think anything the government or the rich do could be less than benign. You might get away with criticizing the government for stupidity or incompetence, but if you even hint at intent or intelligent design on their part, you’re ONE OF THEM – a Conspiracy Theorist!
Of course you could just take recent headlines and imagine saying them, say, even a year before they broke in the New York Times or the Washington Post, and who would have believed you then? There you are before 9/11 saying: The President is deliberately manipulating intelligence reports to sell a war with lies. The President has asked the NSA to start wiretapping citizens getting or making calls with someone suspect of being a terrorist abroad, and won’t reveal the mechanism that allows the NSA to find such people, that’s Top Secret.
The President and the intelligence agencies have the names of some potential terrorists; they suspect they are “suicide hijackers”. They know their method of attack is using planes as weapons and the specific terrorist targets . . .
. . . Colin Powell has told all the surrounding countries that the US would invade Afghanistan that October back in July, 2001, before any terrorist attacks have happened.
I know, by now I’m sounding like a madman and grabbing your collar ”You HAVE to listen!” Another conspiracy nut, right? But in real fact every sentence above is based on hard truth and people were blowing those whistles even back then. (Emphasis added throughout/uthevelse tilføyet)
Det er trist å se hvordan Den norske stat og Angrepet behandler sine hjemkomne helter. Intet nytt. Dessverre. Har selv beskuet uhumskhetene på tildels nært hold.
Det er fint å se norsk presse gjøre jobben sin. Keep up the good work. Aldri så liten *kremt*.
Konklusjon:
Full skjærpings over hele linja. Dette er regelrett SKAMMELIG! … og takk til TV2.
Irreversible handlinger bør overveies grundig før de begås. Muligens(?) hjelpes de som er aller minst, som det omtrentlig ble ytret i NERVEKRIGEN, men samtidig hjelpes de som er aller størst. Sånne som ikke tjener sine kroner når krigen opphører - for eksempel.
The Military-Industrial Complex and the Rise of Neo-Conservatism
Today, and in fact, for much of our recent history, our governments in the Western world have been controlled by an unseen hand. Most of us have been aware of some aspect of this hidden hand, but cannot identify who moves its fingers and controls its actions. This hidden hand goes by many names; among the more prominent being the shadow government, the iron triangle or, more accurately, the military-industrial complex. So it is necessary to now take a look back at the history and role that the military-industrial complex has played in all our lives, and continues to play today. . . .
Samt kunnskap og samvittighet. Mener bare å være oppriktig, ikke hoven eller belærende. Misforstå meg rett.
Noen ganger kan det være fint med en påminnelse.
Tenk om vi kom dithen at ressursene som idag brukes på krig og drapsvåpen - eller fredsvåpen som det vel heter i vår ny-Orwellianske tidsalder - heller hadde blitt brukt på FRED.
Punktum.
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10. desember 2001:
3,500 Civilians Killed in Afghanistan by U.S. Bombs
. . . Professor Herold has been gathering data on civilian casualties since October 7 by culling information from news agencies, major newspapers, and first-hand accounts. “I decided to do the study because I suspected that the modern weaponry was not what it was advertised to be. I was concerned that there would be significant civilian casualties caused by the bombing, and I was able to find some mention of casualties in the foreign press but almost nothing in the U.S. press,” said Herold. . . . (Emphasis added/uthevelse tilføyet)
Krigens skitne lille hemmelighet er at soldatene tar krigen og drepingen med seg hjem. Forsvaret, eller rettere sagt Angrepet, skrur på drapsinstinkt, men ivrer ikke etter å skru det av.
Resultatet er tikkende bomber i våre gater. Resultatet er at heltene som ofret seg for vår “sikkerhet” må leve store deler av sine resterende liv med psykiske og sosiale problem.
Posttraumatisk stress-lidelse. Angst. Depresjon.
Hvor er Moder Norge da? Hvor er de teflonbefengte tvetungene som vaker rundt på Tinget med 100% moralimmunitet? Fredselskerene som ikke trenger bevis før drepingen iverksettes. Filantropene som hauser frem demoniseringen av enorme befolkningsgrupper. Beklager språkbruken. Arg. Les resten av dette innlegget »
The government’s explanation of precisely who is the enemy has never been buttressed with facts that would stand up in a court of law. In the 2002 edition of his book The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence, Could The U.S. War On Terrorism Go Nuclear? Professor Francis Boyle describes how “the accounts provided by the United States government [of those responsible for the 9-11 bombings] simply do not add up.”
The Facts
The October 3 edition of the New York Times recounted the definitive briefing by a US ambassador to NATO officials on the alleged facts as follows:
One Western official at NATO said the briefings, which were oral, without slides or documents, did not report any direct order from Mr. Bin Laden, nor did they indicate that the Taliban knew about the attacks before they happened.
A senior diplomat for one closely allied nation characterized the briefing as containing “nothing particularly new or surprising,” adding: “It was rather descriptive and narrative rather then forensic. There was no attempt to build a legal case.”
In other words, there was no real case against Al Qaeda, Bin Laden, and the Taliban government of Afghanistan. Such was the conclusion of senior diplomats from friendly nations who attended the so-called briefing.
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. . . Our U.S. intelligence agencies, funded annually for decades with increasingly extravagant budgets, claim they were unable to prevent the 9-11 bombings due to the lack of correlated intelligence gathered. Yet within the span of less than a day, these same agencies asserted the identity of those responsible with such certainty as to preclude any serious investigation of other possible perpetrators. Whose interests are truly served by such investigations and their near instantaneous conclusions? (Emphasis added throughout/uthevelse tilføyet)
Tajik authorities have claimed repeatedly that neither the US nor NATO exerts any pressure on the drug warlords inside Afghanistan. “There’s absolutely no threat to the labs inside Afghanistan,” said Avaz Yuldashov of the Tajikistan Drug Control Agency. “Our intelligence shows there are 400 labs making heroin there, and 80 of them are situated right along our border … Drug trafficking from Afghanistan is the main source of support for international terrorism now,” Yuldashov pointed out last year.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. The Meta-Group, the Russian 9/11, and Kosovo
Violence and the Political Requirements of the Global Drug Traffic
A Digression: Drugs, Meta-Groups and the Compradorial Revolution
The “Russian 9/11″ in 1999: Bombings and Plans for War
The Meeting in Khashoggi’s Villa, July 1999
Khashoggi’s Interest in Chechnya
Dunlop’s Redactions of His Source Yasenev
The Khashoggi Villa Meeting, Drugs, and Kosovo
II. The Meta-Group, Drugs, Salafist Islam, and America
The Role of Anton Surikov: The Dunlop and Yasenev Versions
Surikov, Muslim Insurrectionism, and Drug Trafficking
Allegations of Drug-Trafficking and Far West, Ltd
Far West, Ltd, Halliburton, Diligence LLC, New Bridge, and Neil Bush
The U.S. Contribution to the Afghan-Kosovo Drug Traffic
How the U.S. Restored Narco-Barons to Power in Afghanistan, 2001
III. The Meta-Group, the War on Terror, and 9/11
U.S. Geostrategic Goals and Chechnya
The Meta-Group’s Geostrategic Goal: Maintain the War of Terror
Concluding Question: The Meta-Group and the United States Government
The False Dilemmas of 9/11 Theories
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Revidert, men oppstykket versjon (revised update):
KEAN-KOMMISJONEN om al Qaida, bin Laden og narkohandel:
While the drug trade was a source of income for the Taliban, it did not serve the same purpose for al Qaeda, and there is no reliable evidence that Bin Laden was involved in or made his money through drug trafficking. (s. 171)
4. oktober 2001 offentliggjorde 10 Downingstreet “The Powell/Blair White Paper” (som legitimerte invasjonen av Afghanistan, men som ikke “purport to provide a prosecutable case against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law.”) hvor følgende kan leses:
“Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida have been based in Afghanistan since 1996, but have a network of operations throughout the world. The network includes training camps, warehouses, communication facilities and commercial operations able to raise significant sums of money to support its activity. That activity includes substantial exploitation of the illegal drugs trade from Afghanistan.
Usama Bin Laden’s Al Qaida and the Taleban régime have a close and mutually dependent alliance. Usama Bin Laden and Al Qaida provide the Taleban régime with material, financial and military support. They jointly exploit the drugs trade. The Taleban régime allows Bin Laden to operate his terrorist training camps and activities from Afghanistan, protects him from attacks from outside, and protects the drugs stockpiles. …” (Uthevelse tilføyet)
CIA Director George Tenet tells a Senate committee in open session that (…) “There is ample evidence that Islamic extremists such as Osama bin Laden use profits from the drug trade to support their terror campaign.” (Uthevelse tilføyet)
… As you recall, Secretary of State Colin Powell said publicly they were going to produce a white paper documenting their case against Osama bin Laden and their organization Al Qaeda. (…) What happened here? We never got a white paper produced by the United States government. Zip, zero, nothing.
What did we get instead? The only statement of facts that we got from an official of the United States government was Secretary of State Colin Powell himself. And let me quote from Secretary Powell. This is the October 3 edition of the New Speak Times: “The case will never be able to be described as circumstantial. It’s not circumstantial now.” Well, as a lawyer, if a case isn’t circumstantial, it’s nothing. … (Uthevelse tilføyet)
Could it be that the American military in Afghanistan is involved in drug trafficking? Yes, it is quite possible, according to Russia’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov.
Commenting on reports that the United States military transport aviation is used for shipping narcotics out of Afghanistan, the Russian envoy said there was no smoke without fire.
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“The Americans are working hard to keep narco business flourishing in both countries,” says Mikhail Khazin, president of the consultancy firm Niakon. “They consistently destroy the local infrastructure, pushing the local population to look for illegal means of subsistence. And the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] provides protection to drug trafficking.”
U.S. freelance writer Dave Gibson recalled in an article published in American Chronicle in December what a U.S. foreign intelligence official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told NewsMax.com in March 2002 of the CIA’s record of involvement with the international drug trade. The official said: “The CIA did almost the identical thing during the Vietnam War, which had catastrophic consequences – the increase in the heroin trade in the USA beginning in the 1970s is directly attributable to the CIA. The CIA has been complicit in the global drug trade for years, so I guess they just want to carry on their favourite business.”
The Bush administration is preparing to significantly increase US troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to quell growing popular hostility to the US and NATO occupying forces. It is doing so with full confidence that it will face no significant opposition from the Democratic-controlled Congress.
On the contrary, much of the criticism from leading Democrats of the administration’s conduct of the war in Iraq has been based on the charge that the US preoccupation with Iraq has diverted troops and resources from what they claim is the real center of the “war on terror”—namely, Afghanistan. Leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination such as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have pledged, if elected, to increase US troop levels in Afghanistan.
The entire American political establishment supports an indefinite US presence in the country, which occupies a critical geo-strategic position bordering Iran and Pakistan.
These preparations were underscored at a press conference held December 21 by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright. Gates insisted, “NATO’s efforts to rebuild and secure [Afghanistan] must be sustained and expanded into next year and beyond.” He indicated that about 7,500 more troops were needed to bolster the occupation. Les resten av dette innlegget »
The Taliban in Afghanistan destroys their entire opium crop in January of 2001.
The United States bombs, attacks and has occupied Afghanistan since Oct 2001.
Now Afghanistan is the top heroin producer…
Hmmm…it’s not about controlling drug profits, or is it?
Britain’s new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown announced a ‘war on poverty’ at the United Nations on 31st July, aiming to: ‘..eradicate the great evils of our time - illiteracy, disease, poverty, environmental degradation and underdevelopment’. This from the man who failed to mention exactly that, which he had been responsible for, in Iraq and Afghanistan’s invasions - for which, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he had written the cheques for the UK’s involvement, in the total decimation of all which can be called normality. Those elephants in the Bush-Brown meeting at Camp David and at Brown’s UN., foray, were seemingly un-noticed; the horrors air-brushed out.
Brown of course stayed silent, both in opposition and since becoming Chancellor in 1997, at one of ‘the great evils of our time’, the silent holocaust which was the thirteen year embargo on Iraq - and there has not been a squeak from him over what one could be forgiven for thinking has become a genocide since the 2003 illegal invasion. What else can describe a possible million dead and four million displaced and one third of the country in absolute poverty? There has not been a glimmer of compassion from a man who suffered the agony of watching a baby of his own lose her fight for life, not a spark of empathy of the searing grief of others, from a man whose small son suffers a serious health condition - for whom he can demand the best treatment, whilst in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine, parents watch in helpless heartbreak and trauma, because little or none is available. Les resten av dette innlegget »
Just a little over two years ago, at a White House press conference on May 23, 2005, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said his country’s poppy crop was shrinking and, “if this trend continues, we’ll have no poppies, hopefully, in Afghanistan in another five or six years.”
“That’s a promise we have given to the world and to the Afghan people,” Karzai added, “and that’s a promise that we will deliver on. Hold us accountable on that.” President Bush chimed in that President Karzai was “very forthcoming” about the desire to eradicate the poppy, the raw ingredient of heroin.
Yet, far from reducing, much less eradicating, the poppy crop, and in defiance of U.S. and NATO military pressure, Afghan farmers planted about 400,000 acres of opium poppies last year, a 59% increase over 2005, while the war swirling around the opium harvest has also grown — in intensity. Looking back, the Bush-Karzai conference turns out to be just one more pipedream.
According to author Jon Lee Anderson in the July 9th “The New Yorker” magazine, “The debilitating and corrupting effects of the opium trade on the government of President Karzai is a significant factor in the Taliban’s revival.” Another factor aiding the Taliban is the rise in U.S. and NATO air strikes. Reuters reported July 7th that in Farah province the district leader lamented an air attack in Bala Boluk that killed 108 civilians. Reuters said, “Western unwillingness to accept casualties among their own soldiers and a shortage of ground troops means commanders often turn to air power to beat the Taliban, and that almost inevitably leads to civilian deaths.”
The situation in Afghanistan is reminiscent of U.S. and British air strikes against Nazi targets in occupied France during World War II. These killed an estimated 70,000 French civilians, so many the Nazis put up posters of a smirking President Roosevelt dropping bombs on a small French girl clutching a doll. The French resistance begged to be allowed to take out German targets from the ground. Les resten av dette innlegget »
Dette er ingen konspirasjonsteorivideo, så “anti-KTere” kan også ha “glede” av å se den - uten å sette kaffen i vranga.
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Beskrivelse:
CIA covert operations and US military interventions since World War II. A video compilation of footage and speeches recorded in the 1980s and 1990s. What you didn’t learn in school and don’t hear on the mainstream media. Featuring a speech by Martin Luther King junior, a speech by John Stockwell, “Coverup: Behind the Iran Contra Affair”, “School of Assassins”, “Genocide by Sanctions” (about Iraq), a speech by Philip Agee, a speech by Amy Goodman about the genocide and ethnic cleansing in East Timor, “The Panama Deception”, a speech by Ramsey Clark, and a speech by S. Brian Willson.The War Against the Third World: What I’ve Learned About U.S. Foreign Policy
“There was a time when ignorance made our innocence strong.”
For egen del håper jeg ignoransens tidsalder snart opphører, for verdens fremtidige ve og vel.