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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CIA arms, money, and disinformation enabled Corsican criminal syndicates in Marseille to wrestle control of labor unions from the Communist Party. The Corsicans gained political influence and control over the docks — ideal conditions for cementing a long-term partnership with mafia drug distributors, which turned Marseille into the postwar heroin capital of the Western world. Marseille’s first heroin laboratories were opened in 1951, only months after the Corsicans took over the waterfront.{3}
Early 1950s, Southeast Asia
The Nationalist Chinese army, organized by the CIA to wage war against Communist China, became the opium barons of The Golden Triangle (parts of Burma, Thailand and Laos), the world’s largest source of opium and heroin. Air America, the CIA’s principal airline proprietary, flew the drugs all over Southeast Asia.{4}
1950s to early 1970s, Indochina
During U.S. military involvement in Laos and other parts of Indochina, Air America flew opium and heroin throughout the area. Many GI’s in Vietnam became addicts. A laboratory built at CIA headquarters in northern Laos was used to refine heroin. After a decade of American military intervention, Southeast Asia had become the source of 70 percent of the world’s illicit opium and the major supplier of raw materials for America’s booming heroin market.{5}
Outed covert CIA officer Valerie Plame in an in-depth interview on her new tell-all memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House; and Plame’s co-author, Laura Rozen, fills in the blanks after CIA censors leave half the pages redacted.
In nineteen hundred forty-nine
China was won by Mao Tse-tung
Chiang Kai Shek’s army ran away
They were waiting there in Thailand yesterday
Supported by the CIA
Pushing junk down Thailand way
First they stole from the Meo Tribes
Up in the hills they started taking bribes
Then they sent their soldiers up to Shan
Collecting opium to send to The Man
Pushing junk in Bangkok yesterday
Supported by the CIA
Brought their jam on mule trains down
To Chiang Mai that’s a railroad town
Sold it next to the police chief’s brain
He took it to town on the choochoo train
Trafficking dope to Bangkok all day
Supported by the CIA
The policeman’s name was Mr. Phao
He peddled dope grand scale and how
Chief of border customs paid
By Central Intelligence’s U.S. aid
The whole operation, Newspapers say
Supported by the CIA
He got so sloppy and peddled so loose
He busted himself and cooked his own goose
Took the reward for the opium load
Seizing his own haul which same he resold
Big time pusher for a decade turned grey
Working for the CIA
Touby Lyfong he worked for the French
A big fat man liked to dine & wench
Prince of the Meos he grew black mud
Till opium flowed through the land like a flood
Communists came and chased the French away
So Touby took a job with the CIA
The whole operation fell in to chaos
Till U.S. intelligence came in to Laos
Mary Azarian/Matt Wuerker
I’ll tell you no lie I’m a true American
Our big pusher there was Phoumi Nosavan
All them Princes in a power play
But Phoumi was the man for the CIA
And his best friend General Vang Pao
Ran the Meo army like a sacred cow
Helicopter smugglers filled Long Cheng’s bars
In Xieng Quang province on the Plain of Jars
It started in secret they were fighting yesterday
Clandestine secret army of the CIA
All through the Sixties the dope flew free
Thru Tan Son Nhut Saigon to Marshall Ky
Air America followed through
Transporting comfiture for President Thieu
All these Dealers were decades and yesterday
The Indochinese mob of the U.S. CIA
Operation Haylift Offisir Wm Colby
Saw Marshall Ky fly opium Mr. Mustard told me
Indochina desk he was Chief of Dirty Tricks
“Hitch-hiking” with dope pushers was how he got his fix
Subsidizing the traffickers to drive the Reds away
Till Colby was the head of the CIA
In August of 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published a three-part investigation by Gary Webb into the U.S. government’s links to the trade in crack cocaine in South Central Los Angeles. Webb’s investigation uncovered links between the Central Intelligence Agency’s covert war against Nicaragua and convicted Los Angeles drug dealer “Freeway” Ricky Ross, whom the Los Angeles Times in 1994 had dubbed the “one outlaw capitalist most responsible for flooding Los Angeles’ streets with mass-marketed cocaine.” (20 December 1994 p. A20)
The (admittedly sensationalized, but basically accurate) story generated much controversy, and heated denials from the mainstream media (in particular the local paper of record, whose editor Shelby Coffey III couldn’t bear the thought of someone else beating his paper out on a major story in his own backyard). This vehement denegation, however, is largely inconsistent with the historical record (some of which has been, and continues to be, reported in these same papers).
This web site is part of a long-standing research project of mine. As a scholar working at the interstices of speech communication and cultural studies, I have been investigating the public discourse surrounding the “war on drugs” as an exercise in disciplinary social control. This site is a database of information, evidence, and other resources that have helped guide me in this research project, and will hopefully help others working along the same lines.
Så du Iran-Contra-filmen jeg nylig postet en peker til, vil du gjenkjenne flere av personene Gary Webb og Martha Honey beretter om i denne videoen. En slags “kjøtt på beinet”-oppfølger, på en måte.
John Yoo and some other Bush administration lawyers who built the legal framework for torture are now out of the U.S. government, but one still holds a Cabinet-level rank – Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
In the summer of 2002, Chertoff, then head of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, offered assurances to the CIA that its interrogators would not face prosecution under anti-torture laws if they followed guidelines on aggressive techniques approved by the Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, where Yoo worked.
(…)
“Those techniques were implemented under the supervision and guidance of Secretary Rumsfeld and the commander of Guantánamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller. These methods included, but were not limited to, 48 days of severe sleep deprivation and 20-hour interrogations, forced nudity, sexual humiliation, religious humiliation, physical force, prolonged stress positions and prolonged sensory over-stimulation, and threats with military dogs.”
More material has been added covering the NSA’s surveillance of Ahmed al-Hada, father-in-law of alleged Pentagon hijacker Khalid Almihdhar. Both President Bush and Vice President Cheney used the non-exploitation of calls between his phone in Yemen and the hijackers in the US to justify the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping program in January 2006. Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell attributed the failure to trace the calls to a 1981 executive order earlier this year, and Mukasey bizarrely then claimed that one of the calls was between the US and Afghanistan, rather than Yemen. This confused the media somewhat, and a group of congressmen asked Mukasey for an explanation. (…)
Svært tankevekkende. Fra 1988. Med blant annet Peter Dale Scott. Denne må ses!
Liten kuriositet: Legg merke til Oliver Norths reaksjon da COG (Continuity of Government) blir bragt på banen (1:02:30).
Lyden er litt lav. Headset fikser biffen.
An extremely well-done, powerful video about the Iran-Contra scandal, and subsequent coverup. Includes interviews with former CIA analyst David MacMichael; Former U.S. Ambassador Robert White; Barbara Honegger, formerly a key Reagan/Bush ‘80 campaign worker; former Iranian President Bani-Sadr; Former contra Eden Pastora; Former contra directorate member Edgar Chamorro; Peter Dale Scott, co-author of The Iran-Contra Connection. Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era; quite a few, surprisingly candid government officials, including Rep. Henry Gonzales and Rep. Jack Brooks; Tony Avirgan and Martha Honey; the Christic Institute’s Daniel Sheehan; etc. (…)
President says he knew his senior advisors approved tough interrogation methods.
(…)
“Well, we started to connect the dots, in order to protect the American people.” Bush told ABC New s White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. “And, yes, I’m aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved.”
Gammel, men interessant. Og, for å spekulere litt med fingrene, det å ha kunnskap om Iran-Contra-affæren og dens aktører, kan være nyttig for å forstå mer av 9/11-terroren.
Stikkord: Reagan, Clinton, Oliver North, CIA, narko, Contras … Og selvfølgelig Papa Bush lurkende i kulissene.
WASHINGTON — It should be clear by now that for 12 years, from 1981-1993, the United States was governed by political leaders who merged the power of the state with criminality to a degree possibly unmatched in modern American history. That disturbing reality was underscored again this past month by an exhaustively researched series by Gary Webb in The San Jose Mercury-News. . .
But a wealth of other evidence, collected by federal drug agents and congressional investigators during the 1980s, corroborated that the Reagan-Bush administrations knew about the drug trafficking and mounted a determined cover-up to protect the contras from exposure. Senior administration officials apparently shared Enrique Bermudez’s situational ethics. After all, President Reagan had hailed the contras as the “moral equivalent of the Founding Fathers.” They could not be unmasked as drug dealers. . .
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned.
The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a series of meetings where CIA interrogation methods, including waterboarding, which simulates drowning, were discussed and ultimately approved.
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The meetings were held in the White House Situation Room in the years immediately following the Sept. 11 attacks. Attending the sessions were Cheney, then-Bush aides Attorney General John Ashcroft, Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
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“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 »
An organized crime ring fronted by a former Republican operative, who claims to have learned the ‘art’ of money laundering as part of the Iran-Contra operation, was behind a massive drug move two years ago this week which ended with a DC9 airliner from St. Petersburg Fl busted in Mexico carrying 5.5 tons of pure cocaine, the MadCowMorningNews has learned.
The crime ring backing the flight of the DC9 was led by self-described Iran Contra insider Marc Harris, whose associates number at least three convicted drug traffickers of note.
This article published in the Pakistani daily The News on September 10, begs the question: What was the Chief of Pakistan’s Military Intelligence (ISI) Lt. General Mahmoud Ahmad doing in the United States in the days prior to the attacks?
As I reported in the summer of 2003, US and British newspapers briefly alleged that the paymaster for the 9/11 attacks was a well-known agent of the Pakistani intelligence service ISI, Mohammed Sheikh Saeed. There was even a brief period in which it was alleged that the money had been paid at the direction of the then ISI Chief, General Mahmoud Ahmad.[1]
. . . Mohammed Omar Saeed Sheikh, a notorious kidnapper raised in England, and widely reported as a probable agent of ISI, the Pakistani military intelligence service.[3] . . . he may even have been a double agent, recruited inside al-Qaeda and ISI by the CIA.[4]
Subsequent newspaper stories reported on the undisputed relationship of Saeed to ISI, to FBI claims that he wired $100,000 to Atta’s bank account,[5] to a CNN report that these funds came from Pakistan,[6] and the uncontested statement that “Mustafa Ahmed,” having concluded his 9/11 financial business in Dubai, flew on September 11 to Pakistan.[7]
These alarming charges are ignored in the Report. . . .
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The head of the main US spy agency has warned that Al-Qaeda is training operatives who “look western” and could enter the United States undetected to conduct terrorist attacks.
Central Intelligence Agency Director General Michael Hayden also said the terror network, which over the past 18 months has established a “safe haven” in Pakistan’s tribal areas along the Afghanistan border, has shed its operational reliance on mastermind Osama bin Laden.
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Hayden also stressed that while he was confident Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden was still hiding out near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, the Saudi-born fighter no longer has operational control over the terror network.
This now lies with Egyptian militants, he argued, although he said bin Laden remains an “iconic figure,” and the CIA is making “every effort to kill or capture” him along with his Al-Qaeda lieutenants. (Emphasis added throughout)
Er det virkelig noen som tror at CIA og USA gjør hva de kan for å få has på bin Laden? Hvor vanskelig kan det være, med ressursene de har for hånden? Absurd-Orwelliansk …
Carol Rosenberg, McClatchy Newspapers: Military Charges Accused Embassy Bomber Despite Civilian Indictment
The Pentagon announced Monday that it will seek to try a Tanzanian man for war crimes in the 1998 East African embassy bombings - a decade after he was indicted in New York in the case and four years after he was taken into U.S. custody.
The decision to bring Ahmad Ghailani before a military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rather than before a civilian federal court was immediately denounced by the Center for Constitutional Rights, whose lawyers represent dozens of the 280 or so detainees at Guantánamo.
“The only reason the government is now militarizing these criminal acts is to hide what the CIA is doing in its interrogation program behind the secrecy of the commissions,” it said in a statement. . . .
9/11: The BCCI Connection
The story goes that BCCI was founded by Pakistani financier Aga Hassan Abedi. In truth, it was mostly a British intelligence operation using Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates as fronts, while C.I.A. elements allied with George H. W. Bush used the banking network to conduct a number of under-the-table operations throughout the ’80’s. Before it went under, BCCI served as the cardiovascular system for a global criminal milieu, its laundered arteries servicing the needs of various drug lords, arms dealers, fraudsters, dictators, corrupt politicians, terrorists, and intelligence agencies seeking loose cash for their extra-legal activities.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP311A.html
Gary Webbs historie viser hvordan US-media kan behandle sine journalister, om de - måtte gudene forby - skulle finne på å gjøre jobben sin. Webb tok sitt eget liv i 2004.
Det finnes mange gode grunner til å ikke være altfor sint på journalister…
Gary Webb, just in case you’ve already forgotten him, was the journalist who, in a well researched, understated article entitled “The Dark Alliance,” linked the CIA supported Contras to cocaine and weapons being sold to a California street gang and ended up literally being hounded out of journalism by every mainstream news
