Jon Gold: The Environmental Impact Of 9/11

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Jon Gold: The Environmental Impact Of 9/11

This is an issue that needs to be promoted at every opportunity. Period. This destroys the argument that they would never kill 2973+ people because they were MORE than willing to let the heroes of 9/11 become sick and die.

If you want to help, please go to the FealGood Foundation, and donate whatever you can.

Thank you.

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Et vanlig arguments bortgang: BushCo hedrer 9/11-helter med død og alvorlige helseproblemer, samt FOR LITE MINUS 77%

The Yirmeyahu Review: Stort researcharkiv med MSM-artikler

Stort researcharkiv med MSM-artikler på The Yirmeyahu Review:

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Cheney wants surveillance law expanded

Wiredispatch.com: Cheney wants surveillance law expanded

Vice President Dick Cheney prodded Congress on Wednesday to extend and broaden an expiring surveillance law, saying “fighting the war on terror is a long-term enterprise” that should not come with an expiration date.

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“The intelligence community doesn’t have the facilities to carry out the kind of international surveillance needed to defend this country since 9-11. In some situations, there is no alternative to seeking assistance from the private sector. This is entirely appropriate,” Cheney said.

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You’re Damn Right I’m Angry. Why Isn’t Everybody?

David Michael Green, CommonDreams.org: You’re Damn Right I’m Angry. Why Isn’t Everybody?

I regret doing so very much. Believe it or not, I really don’t like spewing venom, sarcasm and rage all over my computer keyboard.

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But I don’t intend to change, and I don’t intend to stop making the arguments contained in my rants. I’m angry for a very good set of reasons, and I’m angry because I care about my country just the way conservatives claim to. I’m angry, in short, because I’m a patriot and defender of the ideas that America is supposed to stand for. And what I really want to know is why those on the right aren’t equally outraged?

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Bhutto Buried As Pakistan Unrest Spreads

Ashraf Kahn, The Huffington Post: Bhutto Buried As Pakistan Unrest Spreads

“We have the evidence that al-Qaida and Taliban were behind the suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto,” Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said.

Red. anm.: Så fint for “Krigen mot Terror”, BushCo og alle nikkedukkene…

Pakistan Is ‘Central Front,’ Not Iraq

Robert Parry, Consortiumnews.com:Pakistan Is ‘Central Front,’ Not Iraq

Benazir Bhutto is the latest victim of the deadly mix of George W. Bush’s wishful thinking and his obsession with Iraq. U.S. officials encouraged the former Pakistani prime minister to return to her homeland to help counter Islamic extremists when there was no way the over-stretched U.S. intelligence agencies could give her much protection.

Bush and the Neocons: When you know the Truth, the facts don’t seem so important.

Chris Pepus, Chicago Reader: Bush and the Neocons: When you know the Truth, the facts don’t seem so important.

Craig Unger, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair, garnered national attention with his previous book, House of Bush, House of Saud. Michael Moore cited it as a key source for Fahrenheit 9/11, and the film popularized the author’s reports on Saudi investments in Bush family enterprises. In The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America’s Future, Unger turns his attention to neoconservative officials and theorists. At times he focuses so closely on neocon tactics that he misses other forces driving Bush-Cheney policies. Even so, the book offers a vivid account of the use of disinformation to promote extremism.

Se og hør Jason Leopold (Truthout.org) intervjue Craig Unger om Ungers bok “House of Bush, House of Saud” (øverst på siden).

Military Evangelism Deeper, Wider Than First Thought

Jason Leopold, Truthout.org: Military Evangelism Deeper, Wider Than First Thought

For US Army soldiers entering basic training at Fort Jackson Army base in Columbia, South Carolina, accepting Jesus Christ as their personal savior appears to be as much a part of the nine-week regimen as the vigorous physical and mental exercises the troops must endure.

That’s the message directed at Fort Jackson soldiers, some of whom appear in photographs in government issued fatigues, holding rifles in one hand, and Bibles in their other hand.

Media Is the Key to Democracy

Consortiumnews.com: Media Is the Key to Democracy

A new Democratic reason for not holding George W. Bush and Dick Cheney accountable is that the Washington press corps would react to impeachment with hostility and ridicule. While no excuse for their timidity, the Democrats do have a point: the careerist U.S. news media has become a threat to the Republic.

Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead

Artikkel av Stephen Lendman på Global Research: Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead

The post 9/11 scheme was to ignore the law, go to war and destroy our civil liberties…

Year end is a good time to look back and reflect on what’s ahead. If past is prologue, however, the outlook isn’t good, and nothing on the horizon suggests otherwise. Voters last November wanted change but got betrayal from the bipartisan criminal class in Washington. Their attitude shows in an October Reuters/Zogby (RZ) opinion poll with George Bush at 24% that tops Richard Nixon’s worst showing of 25% at his lowest 1974 Watergate point. And if that looks bad, consider Congress with “The Hill” reporting from the same RZ Index that our legislators scored a “staggering 11%, the lowest (congressional) rating in history,” but there’s room yet to hit bottom and a year left to do it. Why not with lawmakers’ consistent voter sellout and failure record that keeps getting worse.

It’s been that way ever since 9/11 with both sides of the aisle complicit with the administration. This article looks back at the record, and year end is a good time to review it. It’s hard imagining another as bad with a President defiling the law and once telling Republican colleagues the Constitution is “just a goddamned piece of paper.”

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Co-Chair of Congressional 9/11 Inquiry and Former Head of Senate Intelligence Committee Confirms White House Cover Up

Hentet fra George Washington’s Blog

Co-Chair of Congressional 9/11 Inquiry and Former Head of Senate Intelligence Committee Confirms White House Cover Up

The Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, revealed that the White House refused to let the 9/11 inquiry interview one of the most important witnesses imaginable:

Senator Bob Graham, the Florida Democrat who is a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, accused the White House on Tuesday of covering up evidence that might have linked Saudi Arabia to the Sept. 11 hijackers.

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The accusation stems from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s refusal to allow investigators for a Congressional inquiry and the independent Sept. 11 commission to interview an informant, Abdussattar Shaikh, who had been the landlord in San Diego of two Sept. 11 hijackers.

In his book “Intelligence Matters,” Mr. Graham, the co-chairman of the Congressional inquiry with Representative Porter J. Goss, Republican of Florida, said an F.B.I. official wrote them in November 2002 and said “the administration would not sanction a staff interview with the source.” On Tuesday, Mr. Graham called the letter “a smoking gun” and said, “The reason for this cover-up goes right to the White House.”

This isn’t some fresh-face kid talking. This is a consummate insider: the former head of senate intelligence and co-chair of the congressional 9/11 inquiry.

If the White House refused to allow an interview of a government informant who was landlord to two of the hijackers — one of the most valuable leads it could possibly pursue — what other investigations did it spike? And if the White House killed an investigation to, allegedly, protect its Saudi friends, how much more motivated would the White House have been to kill investigations into areas which implicated elements of the U.S. government itself?

More Media Disinformation? FCC Proposes Greater Media Consolidation

by Stephen Lendman

Global Research, December 13, 2007

On October 17, FCC chairman Kevin Martin proposed lifting the 1975 media cross-ownership rule that forbids a company from owning a newspaper and television or radio station in the same city even though giant conglomerates like Rupert Murdock’s News Corp. and the (Chicago) Tribune Company already do. On November 13, he expanded on his earlier plan claiming changes will only allow cross ownership “in the largest markets where there exists competition and numerous voices.”

That’s not how Free Press.net’s policy director, Ben Scott, sees it in his statement on the same day saying: “Chairman Martin’s lofty rhetoric talks about saving American newspapers and ensuring a diversity of voices. But the devil is in the details. His new rules appear to be corporate welfare for the (media giants) in the biggest cities (and) most worrying….the proposed rules appear to contain a giant loophole that could open the back door to runaway media consolidation in nearly every market (in) another massive giveaway to Big Media.”

If the ban is ended, that’s what will happen, and the trend author and journalist Ben Bagdikian documented since 1983 will continue unimpeded. He did it in six editions of his landmark book, “The Media Monopoly,” plus his newest 2004 update titled, “The New Media Monopoly.”

Since 1983, the number of corporations owning most newspapers, magazines, book publishers, recorded music, movie studios, television and radio stations have shrunk from 50 to five “global-dimension firms, operating with many of the characteristics of a cartel” - Time-Warner, Disney, News Corp., Viacom and Bertelsmann AG based in Germany. Also large and dominant are companies like cable giant Comcast and corporate behemoth GE with its NBC television and radio operations. (Uthevelse tilføyet)

Gary Webb’s Enduring Legacy

Interessant artikkel fra Consortiumnews.com: Gary Webb’s Enduring Legacy

Three years ago, investigative reporter Gary Webb committed suicide after his U.S. press colleagues helped destroy his career for daring to tell the truth about the Reagan administration’s protection of cocaine trafficking by the Nicaraguan contras. In this special report, Robert Parry looks at this personal tragedy and its enduring legacy. (Uthevelse tilføyet)

Wikipedia om Gary Webb.

Bush’s Reaction to the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) reveals him as World Warmonger No. 1

by Sherwood Ross

Global Research, December 10, 2007

So, just how much are the American people supposed to take? Here we’ve got a president who lied us into making war on Iraq and who, despite a new National Intelligence Estimate(NIE), is stubbornly trying to lie us into another war against Iran.

President Bush today is telling Iran to “come clean” when he’s nose deep in what comes out of the hind end of a Texas Longhorn.

Our commander-in-chief is so fanatical for war against Iran that, as investigative reporter Seymour Hersh wrote earlier this year in The New Yorker, there’s a special planning group under the Joint Chiefs of Staff organized to plot one. Hersh quotes a former intelligence official stating the group is “charged with creating a contingency bombing plan for Iran that can be implemented upon orders from the President, within 24 hours.”

So it’s clear why Bush pushed Congress last September for his warmongering Iran resolution that Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.), former Secretary of the Navy, labeled “a de facto authorization for use of military force against Iran.” Bush is rarin’ to attack! The wonder is why the Senate would give this liar anything but the boot?

Arabesque: US-myndighetenes 9/11-inkompetanse leder til forfremmelser

Meget godt stykke fra Arabesque: 9/11 Truth

Cui Bono? The 9/11 Promotions

By Arabesque, December 2, 2007

The 9/11 official story is a tale of outlandish incompetence. We are led to believe that Al Qaeda successfully evaded a multi-billion dollar defense establishment, NORAD air defenses, standard FAA intercept procedures, US airbases, [1] the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, international intelligence agencies, etc. without any significant or effective resistance. While any serious investigation of the 9/11 attacks was blocked by President Bush and Dick Cheney for more than a year, [2] a theory of systematic and incredible incompetence emerged: Al Qaeda got “lucky”. Mindy Kleinberg, of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee in an opening address to the 9/11 Commission criticized this notion:

“It has been said that the intelligence agencies have to be right 100% of the time. And the terrorists only have to get lucky once. This explanation for the devastating attacks of September 11th, simple on its face, is wrong in its value, because the 9-11 terrorists were not just lucky once. They were lucky over and over again. When you have this repeated pattern of broken protocols, broken laws, broken communication, one cannot still call it luck. If at some point, we don’t look to hold the individuals accountable for not doing their jobs, properly, then how can we ever expect for terrorists to not get lucky again?”[3]

What happened to those who “failed”, and what exactly were their “failures”?

Former Senator Gary Hart observes that, “in terms of accountability, I think this is one of the great mysteries of the last three or four years. Three thousand Americans died three years ago, and no one lost his or her job over it. A president who says that he is a strong president, and those around him say he is, did not fire anyone. Either he was misled, in which case, somebody should have been fired. Or he misled us, in which case he should be fired.”[4] Senator Charles Grassley similarly noted that “I can’t think of a single person being held accountable anywhere in government for what went on and what went wrong prior to Sept. 11, it seems that nobody in government makes any mistakes anymore.”[5] According to testimony given to Congress these statements are accurate; not one single individual within the CIA, FBI, and NSA has been reprimanded, punished, or fired for the events of 9/11.[6]

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Karzai, Bush pledges to reduce Afghan Poppy turn out to be just one more Pipedream

by Sherwood Ross

Global Research, July 8, 2007

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.

No matter the reasons we went to Iraq

by Ed Haas

August 2, 2007 – Does it matter why the United States invaded Iraq? According to Senator Lindsey Graham, it does not. In his editorial titled U.S. should move ahead in Iraq, which appeared in the July 24, 2007 edition of Charleston, South Carolina’s daily newspaper, the Post & Courier, Graham wrote:

No matter the reasons we went to Iraq and regardless of the mistakes made along the way, I passionately believe Iraq is part of a global struggle affecting our national security. Iraq is the central battlefront in the war on terror and we must prevail.

Les videre på Muckraker Report.

Ny Sibel-artikkel…

…av Lukery, Daily Kos: FBI, Congress: Sibel Edmonds case ‘unclassified’

Washington’s Consensus Al Qaeda Deception

Denne artikkelen skal egentlig inneholde flere lenker, men de var allerede “døde”. Oppdaterer så snart det er mulig.

Al Qaeda: “stronger than ever” — or not?

by Larry Chin

Global Research, July 19, 2007

The “war on terrorism” is a foreign policy weapon favored by an elite and ironclad Anglo-American consensus, supported equally by Washington’s political factions. The surge of “Al-Qaeda” covert operations and “terrorism” propaganda over the past three weeks, and reports of “renewed Al-Qaeda power”, marks the beginning of intensified false flag deception.

Al-Qaeda: “stronger than ever” — or not?

It is not clear if the new crescendo of “Al-Qaeda” signals intent by the Bush-Cheney covert operations machine to inflict their long-planned “next 9/11″ before relinquishing power in 2008, or if this noise is routine political maneuvering by rival Washington factions engaged in election-year posturing. Nevertheless, a most perfect of perfect storms is being whipped up, with major players on all sides regurgitating and reinforcing the same bombastic assertions.

The initial wave of US fear mongering was triggered by the latest National Intelligence Estimate (produced by Bush-Cheney intelligence) declaring that “Al-Qaeda” has regrouped to “pre-9/11 levels”. This was quickly followed by new “terror” tapes of “Al-Qaeda” masterminds Osama bin Laden and il-Zawahiri, each demonstrating, according to Bush-Cheney, that “Al-Qaeda is even more high-tech and sophisticated than ever imagined”.

The initial “Al-Qaeda stronger than ever” blast was then followed by rounds of equivocation and backpedaling. Reports from Washington reporters, such as Rowan Scarborough, quoted “unnamed counterterrorism officials” who say that Al-Qaeda has rebuilt cells in the tribal areas of Pakistan (an old and familiar claim), but “is not at the same strength exhibited in Afghanistan before Sept.11”—and taking issue with how the National Intelligence Estimate was initially spun.

Plan Iraq - Permanent Occupation

by Stephen Lendman

Global Research, July 16, 2007

Congress is back from its July 4 break and with it more bluster and political posturing on changing course to keep things the same, including everything not working in place. It’s the same old scheme, back again, to fool enough of the people all the time and most all of them long enough to move on to the next change of course mission shift starting the whole cycle over again. Even the blind can see the hopelessness of staying the course in Iraq. Aside from its lawlessness and immorality, pushing on with a failed effort qualifies as a classic definition of insanity - continuing the same failed policies, expecting different results.

The only sensible, honorable option is a full, speedy withdrawal along with providing multi-billions for Iraqis to rebuild what we destroyed and have no intention restoring now or ever beyond what’s needed for permanent occupation. The only other honorable option is owning up to what no one in Washington or the major media will do - that the Iraq and Afghan conflicts are illegal wars of aggression making those responsible for them in the administration and Congress war criminals warranting prosecution for their crimes.

That won’t happen nor will the administration and Congress do anything more substantive than say one thing and do another. It’s been an unbroken pattern since 9/11, and especially on Afghanistan and throughout the run-up to the Iraq invasion. Both wars were sold through lies and deceit. They’re based on a fictitious “outside enemy” threat without which no “war on terrorism” could exist, and no imperial foreign wars could be waged.

They’re possible only by scaring the public enough to believe the threat is still real, and “Enemy Number One” Osama bin Laden (recruited through Pakistan’s ISI as a CIA asset in the 1980s) and Al-Queda represent it. So with Saddam gone and no WMDs found, staying the course is vital to the nation’s security even when, in fact, the truth is the opposite, crying wolf’s wearing thin, and selling snake oil solutions get harder to do. But schemers keep trying with complicit Democrats as much part of the scam as Republicans and Bush loyalists, dwindling down to a precious hard line few but still around in key positions making noise.

Opium - en samling artikler

Oversettelse av John Golds artikkel Opium

Her er alle artiklene jeg har samlet om opiumsproduksjon i Afghanistan etter vår invasjon. Flere har spekulert i om opiumsproduksjon var en av hovedårsakene til at vi invanderte Afghanistan. Tanken er at det hvitvaskes en stor mengde narkopenger gjennom det usamerikanske banksystemet, såvel som gjennom Wall Street. Senator Carl Levin uttalte engang:

“Current estimates are that $500 billion to $1 trillion in illegal funds are laundered through banks worldwide each year, with about half going through U.S. financial institutions.“

I tiden rundt vår invasjon var opiumsproduksjonen i Afghanistan på et bunnivå fordi Taliban hadde klart å ødelegge en stor andel av opiumsavlingene.

Mullah Omar sa imidlertid at om USA invanderte, ville bøndene få lov til å dyrke opium.

Så heldig for usamerikanske finansinstitusjoner.

Jeg anbefaler Peter Dale Scotts arbeid om narkohandelen.

White House/U.S. Gov’t Presiding Over ‘Narcotics State’

Karzai Rejects Criticism Over Opium Trade

U.K. Under Fire Over Afghan Opium

Study Proposes Opium Licensing For Afghanistan

US Justice ties abuse of power to the events of September 11, Patriot act and “persistent fear mongering”

Artikkel hentet fra Arabesque: 9/11 Truth

US Justice ties abuse of power to the events of September 11, Patriot act and “persistent fear mongering”

by Arabesque, July 10, 2007

A “longtime attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice” says that “I have never been as ashamed of the department and government that I serve as I am at this time,” calling it “inappropriate, unethical and indeed unlawful.”

John S. Koppel, US department of Justice:

“The public record now plainly demonstrates that both the DOJ and the government as a whole have been thoroughly politicized in a manner that is inappropriate, unethical and indeed unlawful. The unconscionable commutation of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s sentence, the misuse of warrantless investigative powers under the Patriot Act and the deplorable treatment of U.S. attorneys all point to an unmistakable pattern of abuse.”

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“In the course of its tenure since the Sept. 11 attacks, the Bush administration has turned the entire government (and the DOJ in particular) into a veritable Augean stable on issues such as civil rights, civil liberties, international law and basic human rights, as well as criminal prosecution and federal employment and contracting practices. It has systematically undermined the rule of law in the name of fighting terrorism, and it has sought to insulate its actions from legislative or judicial scrutiny and accountability by invoking national security at every turn, engaging in persistent fear mongering, routinely impugning the integrity and/or patriotism of its critics, and protecting its own lawbreakers. This is neither normal government conduct nor “politics as usual,” but a national disgrace of a magnitude unseen since the days of Watergate — which, in fact, I believe it eclipses.”

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I realize that this constitutionally protected statement subjects me to a substantial risk of unlawful reprisal from extremely ruthless people who have repeatedly taken such action in the past. But I am confident that I am speaking on behalf of countless thousands of honorable public servants, at Justice and elsewhere, who take their responsibilities seriously and share these views. And some things must be said, whatever the risk.

John S. Koppel has been a civil appellate attorney with the Department of Justice since 1981.

http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_6308408

British “Terror Plot”: Dumb “Al-Qaeda” Doctors

by Kurt Nimmo

Global Research, July 7, 2007
Another Day in the Empire

Neurologist Mohammed Asha, and his lab technician wife Marwah, threw away their baby, Anas, in order to join “al-Qaeda,” the CIA-ISI database. Sure they did. And I have a bridge for sale.

If we believe the corporate media, the dark undercurrent of Islamic extremism, and that of the “al-Qaeda” database, is so strong it was able to sweep up promising neurologist Mohammed Asha, who became a would-be terrorist apparently more adept at brain surgery than cooking up bombs.

According to the cheesy British tabloid the Mirror, however, Asha and his wife, Marwah, are your garden variety Palestinian terrorists, the sort who throw away their lives, including an infant son, Anas, due to a self-destructive “hate against the West over Palestine…. The couple, from Palestinian families, blamed Britain and the US for backing Israel’s ‘occupation’, relatives said.” According to Asha’s father Yunis Dana, the couple “aren’t the type to be interested in political Islam,” so it remains a mystery why they would team up with so-called Muslim radicals. As well, Marwah was radicalized because people made fun or her veil.

For some reason, though, Mohammed Asha assisted people he supposedly hates. “Dan Robinson, 61, a retired museum keeper, said Dr Asha visited his home in Newcastle-under-Lyme when his 83-year-old mother suffered leg problems,” reports the Daily Express. “Dr Asha was a good neighbor. My mother thought he was great. We can’t get our heads round it,” Robinson told the newspaper. Asha senior “said his son arrived in London in 2004 with his lab technician wife Marwah, 27. They settled in well in Britain and were happy with their lives,” but apparently not happy enough, as they supposedly conspired to kill Brits, never mind they did not know the first thing about bomb-making.