[cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: 9/11 debate Monday on DemocracyNow

2006-09-09 Thread muckblit
The video link didn't work for me.

The debunk is coming from Popular Mechanics. That must mean that the
Avery usually emphasizes the physical mechanical aspects, which are not
as important as PNAC we need another Pearl Harbor, Porter Goss full
circle from hijackers smuggling Pak intel's Afghan heroin to Porter's
hometown, or thereabouts, to pay for 911 op, with Saudi intel in town
with Zacarias Moussaoi and a money laundry, then Porter talks to the his
homeboy hijackers through Pak intel General Mamud Amad. Amad is
documented as funding Porter's homeboy Mohamed Atta. Amad commanded
WTCbomb ringleader and 911 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 911
moneyman Amed Omar Saeed Sheikh, Sheikh linked by funding Atta and to
another hijacking and several kidnappings including that of DANIEL
PEARL(what do you want? what does it take? a 666 tattoo on Porter Goss'
forehead?).  Then Porter Goss, after meeting with Amad in Pakistan in
August 2001, has breakfast with him in DC the morning of 911. What did
Porter Goss and Richard Armitage(also in Pakistan talking to 911 op
tactical managers) know and when did they know it? Daniel Hopsicker also
found lead hijacker Atta in Porter's hometown in August 2001, long after
FBI said Atta had left permanently, and that Atta had close cordial
relations with CIA front men in Porter's hometown as late as August
2001.

Popular Mechanics? Dead end non sequitur setup.

-Bob

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 if amy goodman conforms to her patten on these dabates which she has
demonstrated in the past with mike ruppert, david ray griffin and
others, then dylan avery will be in for a last minute surprise.
 maybe chip berlet will show up.

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 Date: September 8, 2006 7:46:45 AM PDT
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 Subject: 9/11 debate Monday on DemocracyNow




 Folks,


 Amy Goodman, host of DemocracyNow, the largest independent
broadcast media program in the US, on over 500 stations (WBAI in NYC,
http://democracynow.org) announced today that on Monday Sept. 11 she
will host a debate about what REALLY happened on 9/11/01, with:


 *Dylan Avery, 24-yr-old producer of Loose Change, the best
documentary showing all the holes in the official government version of
what happened on 9/11.


 You can see it free with a high-speed connection by clicking:



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501q=loose+chan\
ge


 (My father, who made a living producing and directing
documentaries in NYC in the 60s and 70s, and who believes the
government, agrees that it is well done. It is already available in
German, French, Polish and Korean editions.)


 *David Dunbar, editor of Popular Mechanics, which has issued the
book Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand up to the
Facts. You can read their special edition at:


 http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html


 Was 9/11 engineered from a cave in Afghanistan or an undisclosed
location closer to home? Was it an attack by people who hate our
freedom or a false-flag inside job like the 1933 burning of Germany's
Reichstag, blamed on Communists and Jews, but likely engineered by the
Nazis? Or could it be both? You decide.


 Interestingly, Monday Sept 11 is also the 100th anniversary of
Gandhi's Satyagraha movement, dedicated to Truth. Ghandhi's grandson
Arun appeared on DemocracyNow today.


 Please forward this to your email lists. We can't fight terrorism
unless we know who the terrorists are.


 Evan


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[cia-drugs] Re: New Hubris book, Senate report, blast Bush Iraq war lies.

2006-09-09 Thread muckblit
Poof goes the neocon stand-off armor around the nazis, and top cabinet
officials even if nazi are not fourth generation Bush Warco who backed
Hitler from the 1920's and set up the little hitler factory which
brought us hitlers from Reza Pahlavi to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin
Laden and the Taliban and muslim brotherhood al-CIA-duh.

Armitage admits to outing Valerie Plame to Robert Novak, but not to
knowing she was Real CIA. Blame division, how slick, couldn't have been
planned? And Armitage hides in jail from the streetfight there, as these
superficial 911 public confidence stories make the rounds of Warco-owned
media, begging the questioning of Armitage on what he and Porter Goss
were talking to 911 tactical managers in August and September 2001,
before 911. There could be a whole separate Congressional committee just
investigating Armitage by himself for his role in Coup 2K, 911, and
Niger Yellowcake aka Plame outing.

-Bob

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   Bush has to go before we can make any sustainable progress in the
USA.
 Only public opinion and/or a Democratic Congress can stop funds for
Iraq.
 The new book Hubris, and the Senate report that just came out, blow
   Bush's Iraq war lies right out of the water. Many more details:


   ---start. Please forward widely. Please register to vote.
Emphasis added.--

   http://www.davidcorn.com/archives/2006/09/hubris_the_pres.php

 September 06, 2006  HUBRIS: The Press Release

   HUBRIS: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the
Iraq War starts arriving in bookstores today--though it may take a day
or two to reach all the stores (given that the release date was pushed
up). Below is a copy of the press release that is being sent out by
Crown. It teases just some of the revelations in the book. As for the
boilerplate language hailing the book, the Crown PR team is responsible
for this. But, of course, it's all true.

   **

   Hubris is a bold and provocative book that will quickly become an
explosive part of the national debate on how we got involved in Iraq.
-- Tom Brokaw

   The selling of Bush's Iraq debacle is one of the most important-and
appalling-stories of the last half-century, and Michael Isikoff and
David Corn have reported the hell out of it. -- Hendrik Hertzberg,
Senior Editor, The New Yorker

   March 2003: The United States invades Iraq.

 September 2006: The world finds out why.

   HUBRIS
 The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War

 by Michael Isikoff and David Corn

   What was really behind the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq? As George W.
Bush steered the nation to war, who spoke the truth and who tried to
hide it? HUBRIS: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of
the Iraq War (Crown, September 8, 2006) takes us behind the scenes at
the Bush White House, the CIA, the Pentagon, the State Department, and
Congress to answer all the vital questions about how the Bush
administration came to invade Iraq. HUBRIS, a gripping narrative, is
filled with new revelations. The book disclosures include:

   * President Bush was driven by a visceral hatred of Saddam Hussein,
which he privately demonstrated in expletive-laden tirades against the
Iraqi dictator. In May 2002--months before he asked Congress for
authority to attack Saddam-Bush bluntly revealed his ultimate game plan
in a candid moment with two aides. When told that reporter Helen Thomas
was questioning the need to oust Saddam by force, Bush snapped: Did you
tell her I intend to kick his sorry mother fucking ass all over the
Mideast? In a meeting with congressional leaders, the President angrily
thrust his middle finger inches in front of the face of Senator Tom
Daschle to illustrate Saddam's attitude toward the United States.

   * As part of an aggressive prewar covert action program--codenamed
Anabasis (after an ancient text about a botched invasion of
Babylon)--the CIA was authorized by the White House in the winter of
2002 to blow up targets in Iraq and engage in direct action (an agency
euphemism for assassination) to weaken Saddam's regime and to prepare
for his ouster by the U.S. military. For Anabasis, the agency smuggled
Iraqi exiles to a top-secret site in the Nevada desert and trained them
in sabotage and explosives. The Iraqi force, known as the Scorpions, was
being trained to seize an isolated Iraqi military post-in order to
create a provocation that could trigger a war with Iraq.

   * When Bush was first briefed that no WMDs had been found in Iraq,
he was totally unfazed and asked few questions. I'm not sure I've
spoken to anyone at that level who seemed less inquisitive, the briefer
told the authors.

   * Colin Powell remains intensely bitter and angry about his UN
Security Council Speech, during which he presented the case for war.
After it became clear that much of his speech was wrong, he refused to
have anything to do with CIA director George Tenet. It's 

[cia-drugs] The Unslammed Phone - MAUREEN DOWD - Path to 9/11; Waiting for Al Qaeda - JOHN TIERNEY +

2006-09-09 Thread MA PA



  The Unslammed Phone - MAUREEN DOWD - Path to 9/11; Waiting for Al Qaeda - JOHN TIERNEY +By MAUREEN DOWD, JOHN TIERNEY - New York Times - Saturday, Sep. 09, 2006   - Dowd: Unslammed Phone - Why do presidents and filmmakers dealing with the most stunning events in recent American history feel the need to go beyond facts? - PLUS: Who funded $40m 'slanderous' 9/11 docudrama asks DNC Chair Howard Dean. - PLUS: Tierney: Terror Industry - The terrorist threat is still small — it’s the terrorism industry that got bigger and more  OP-ED COLUMNIST The Unslammed Phone By MAUREEN DOWD Published: September 9, 2006 Sandy Berger is lucky they didn’t show him stuffing government documents into his
 bra. After all, cinematic license is cinematic license. Regarding ABC’s tarted-up 9/11 movie that sparked a furor among Clintonites who felt they were unfairly blamed for the rise of Osama, I hate to be so quaint as to defend reality. There’s not much point. It’s as dead as dial-up. In Hollywood, reality comes with quotation marks around it, as in fixed and scripted “reality” shows. In New York, hybrids of fiction and nonfiction are lavishly rewarded; publishers want the reality part to sell the fiction part and the fiction part to enhance the reality part. In Washington, the Bush team is on a cynical and dangerous new pre-election push to present its fantasies about Iraq as reality, accusing reality-based critics of “moral or intellectual confusion,” as Rummy put it. Continued http://mparent.livejournal.com/12182766.html Who funded $40m 'slanderous' 9/11
 docudrama asks DNC Chair Howard Dean. For the answer: http://mparent.livejournal.com/12182252.html Waiting for Al Qaeda - JOHN TIERNEY - Terror Threat Small - Terror Industry Huge OP-ED COLUMNIST Waiting for Al Qaeda By JOHN TIERNEY Published: September 9, 2006 John Mueller has an awkward question for those of us in the terrorism industry, which is his term for the journalists, politicians, bureaucrats and assorted “risk entrepreneurs” who have alarmed America about terrorism. For five years, we’ve been telling Americans that Sept. 11 changed everything. “It will always be a defining moment in our history,” President Bush says in this year’s Patriot Day proclamation. We declared it a harbinger of a new clash of civilizations, a global ideological struggle — World War III, in
 Newt Gingrich’s words. We reported intelligence estimates of thousands of Al Qaeda terrorists and supporters in “sleeper cells” in America. Continued: http://mparent.livejournal.com/12181851.html And More on Today's Newswire http://mparent.livejournal.com/2006/09/09/ MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent.livejournal.com/ Homepage http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/14409 Archived http://www.dailykos.com/user/ccnwon Archived  
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[cia-drugs] Fwd: Worse Than You Thought (As Usua!)

2006-09-09 Thread RoadsEnd


Begin forwarded message:From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: September 9, 2006 12:44:53 AM PDTTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Worse Than You Thought (As Usua!)  Bush is Hiding  the TRUE National Debt.  It's Worse Than You've Heard.  MUCH Worse.  Thu, 09/07/2006 http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/alerts/105  Though the Bush Administration's official budget lists the national debt and deficit as being incredibly high, they are actually far worse than reported, according to Rep. Jim Cooper (D-TN). But don’t just take his word for it, even if Cooper is a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Law graduate. The following figures appear in the official U.S. Financial Report, released by the Treasury Department:  The true national debt is $49 trillion, not the $8.3 trillion Bush reported   That's $156,000 for every citizen, or    $375,000 for every working American  This figure has more than doubled in the past five years  We paid $327 billion last year on interest alone The true 2005 deficit was $760 billion, not the $318.5 billion Bush reported  This is 6.2% of the GDP, not 2.6% It's all getting worseWhat accounts for the huge discrepancy? Unlike businesses, the government uses "cash" instead of "accrual" accounting. This means that the government does not report future spending promises like Medicare and Social Security, or even future spending guarantees like veterans' benefits and federal employee pensions."Cash accounting tells you what's in your bank account. Accrual accounting tells you what's in your bank account and what's on your credit card statement," Cooper told BuzzFlash in an interview. "Whether you're promising to buy a road or something at Target, you need to know what you promised to buy. That should be a binding obligation of the government. We've made a world of promises to folks that we need to keep."But wait, there's more! The U.S. Financial Report does not mention that if Medicare and Social Security are factored into the equation (which the Treasury Department did not), the true deficit was actually a whopping $3.3 trillion last year, over ten times more than Bush claims. And when Social Security projections are adjusted to reflect current life expectancies instead of the old 75-year mark, Cooper said the true national debt is "probably closer to $65 trillion."Worried that a new Democratic majority in the House would be blamed for the higher numbers in the future, Cooper has taken it upon himself to make it clear that the problem has already been created by Bush's failed economic policies. "This has to be announced on their watch, using their voice," he said. "There's a great urgency about this: we only have two months left to educate all Americans about how the Bush deficits are literally destroying America's credit.""I think [the report] is the most powerful critique of the Bush Administration" because they produced it, Cooper added. "No Republican can deny this attack."In order to get the word out, Cooper reprinted the entire U.S. Financial Report in a book with his own explanatory introduction and a warning on the cover reading, "The Official Report the White House Does Not Want You To Read." He said the measure was necessary because the Administration tried to hide the report by distributing it to fewer than 20 members of Congress in the midst of the Christmas holiday season with no accompanying press release or media announcement.According to Cooper, conservatives won’t touch the issue because it would make Bush look bad, liberal newspapers think it's too confusing, and liberal politicians are worried the ensuing chaos from the higher numbers would limit social program spending. "The way we're going, we're going to have to eliminate programs," Cooper retorted. "Isn't it better to embarrass Bush while we can with his own words and to get Democrats in control?"Cooper said he is determined to do everything he can to add honesty to the federal budget. He gave the first copy of his book to House Democrat Leader Nancy Pelosi and has introduced legislation directing the president to use accrual accounting in his reports. A similar measure was recently lost in the Senate after passing in the House.The only compensation Cooper is receiving for the book are three complimentary copies.
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Re: [cia-drugs] Fwd: 9/11 debate Monday on DemocracyNow

2006-09-09 Thread palcat






Within the last couple of weeks Amy Goodman was on location somewhere
and mentioned they
were in the Reuters studio. I thought, isn't Reuters owned by
Rockefeller? If so, then no matter
what, something is wrong with this picture. I agree with Vigilius and
expect the same.


Vigilius Haufniensis wrote:

  
  
  
  if amy goodman conforms to her
patten on these "dabates" which she has demonstrated in the past with
mike ruppert, david ray griffin and others, then dylan avery will be in
for a "last minute surprise." 
  maybe chip berlet will show up. 
  
  
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Begin forwarded message:


  From: Evan Daniel Ravitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Date: September 8, 2006 7:46:45 AM PDT
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: 9/11 debate Monday on DemocracyNow
  
  
  
  
  Folks,
  
  
  Amy Goodman, host of DemocracyNow, the
largest independent broadcast media program in the US, on over 500
stations (WBAI in NYC, http://democracynow.org)
announced today that on Monday Sept. 11 she will host a debate about
what REALLY happened on 9/11/01, with:
  
  
  *Dylan Avery, 24-yr-old producer of
Loose Change, the best documentary showing all the holes in the
official government version of what happened on 9/11.
  
  
  You can see it free with a high-speed
connection by clicking:
  
  
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501q=loose+change
  
  
  (My father, who made a living producing
and directing documentaries in NYC in the 60s and 70s, and who believes
the government, agrees that it is well done. It is already available in
German, French, Polish and Korean editions.)
  
  
  *David Dunbar, editor of Popular
Mechanics, which has issued the book Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why
Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand up to the Facts. You can read their
special edition at:
  
  
  http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/defense/1227842.html
  
  
  Was 9/11 engineered from a cave in
Afghanistan or an "undisclosed location" closer to home? Was it an
attack by people "who hate our freedom" or a "false-flag inside job"
like the 1933 burning of Germany's Reichstag, blamed on Communists and
Jews, but likely engineered by the Nazis? Or could it be both? You
decide.
  
  
  Interestingly, Monday Sept 11 is also
the 100th anniversary of Gandhi's Satyagraha movement, dedicated to
Truth. Ghandhi's grandson Arun appeared on DemocracyNow today.
  
  
  Please forward this to your email
lists. We can't fight terrorism unless we know who the terrorists are.
  
  
  Evan
  
  
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[cia-drugs] Whatever Happened to the America of 9/12? - FRANK RICH Path to 9/11 Coverage

2006-09-09 Thread MA PA



  Whatever Happened to the America of 9/12? - FRANK RICH  Path to 9/11 Coverage  By FRANK RICH - The New York Times Saturday Sep 9th, 2006   - Rich: The U.S. of 9/12 - The destruction of post-9/11 unity, both in this nation and in the world, is as much a cause for mourning on the fifth anniversary as the attack itself. - PLUS: Second Clinton Path to 9/11 Letter to ABC Requesting Cancellation - PLUS: Robert Fisk: How Middle America made me feel safer and more  OP-ED COLUMNIST Whatever Happened to the America of 9/12? By FRANK RICH Published: September 10, 2006 “THE most famous picture nobody’s ever seen” is how the Associated Press photographer Richard Drew has referred to his photo of
 an unidentified World Trade Center victim hurtling to his death on 9/11. It appeared in some newspapers, including this one, on 9/12 but was soon shelved. “In the most photographed and videotaped day in the history of the world,” Tom Junod later wrote in Esquire, “the images of people jumping were the only images that became, by consensus, taboo.” Five years later, Mr. Drew’s “falling man” remains a horrific artifact of the day that was supposed to change everything and did not. But there’s another taboo 9/11 photo, about life rather than death, that is equally shocking in its way, so much so that Thomas Hoepker of Magnum Photos kept it under wraps for four years. Mr. Hoepker’s picture can now be found in David Friend’s compelling new 9/11 book, “Watching the World Change,” or on the book’s Web site, watchingtheworldchange.com. It shows five young friends on the waterfront in Brooklyn, taking what seems to be a lunch or bike-riding break, enjoying the radiant
 late-summer sun and chatting away as cascades of smoke engulf Lower Manhattan in the background. Continued: http://mparent.livejournal.com/1225.html Hollywood Reporter on Path to 9/11: 'Artistic License Theater' http://mparent.livejournal.com/12210563.html Robert Fisk: How Middle America made me feel safer http://mparent.livejournal.com/12210399.html Second Clinton Path to 9/11 Letter to ABC Requesting Cancellation http://mparent.livejournal.com/12209791.html And More on Today's Newswire http://mparent.livejournal.com/2006/09/09/ MARC PARENT CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS http://mparent.livejournal.com/ Homepage http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/14409 Archived http://www.dailykos.com/user/ccnwon Archived  
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[cia-drugs] Paulson sizes up Wall St disaster defences

2006-09-09 Thread Vigilius Haufniensis





http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14738551/

Paulson sizes up Wall St disaster defences



By David Wighton and Paul Taylor in New 
York

 

Updated: 11:12 p.m. CT Sept 8, 2006


Concerns about Wall Street's 
ability to withstand a terrorist attack, natural disaster or flu pandemic have 
prompted Hank Paulson, the new US Treasury secretary, to launch a review of 
disaster-planning for the financial markets.
In one of his first acts in the 
post, the former Goldman Sachs chief executive has asked the president's working 
group on financial markets to assess the improvements made since September 11 
2001. This comes amid continued Wall Street concerns – five years after the 
World Trade Center attacks – about the resilience of power and 
telecommunications services. 


September 11 exposed weaknesses in 
the industry's disaster planning and closed the equity market for four days. 

Experts say financial services 
companies in New York and London have improved the resilience of their 
operations. But some senior Wall Street figures are concerned that the 
utilities, on which the financial markets depend, have made less progress. There 
is also greater focus on the impact of a flu pandemic.
Scott Parsons, US deputy assistant 
Treasury secretary, said the utilities had made "tremendous improvements" but 
added: "We remain concerned about how to provide better resilience in 
telecommunications, which is the financial sector's single biggest 
dependency."
Wall Street firms blamed many of 
their problems in 2001 on the damage to one of Verizon Communications' five 
switching centres in lower Manhattan. 
Some Wall Street disaster planners 
believe more pressure needs to be put on the utilities by their regulators. They 
are encouraged by the early interest taken byMr Paulson, who was involved in the 
issue at Goldman Sachs. 
Recently, many financial services 
companies and regulators have focused on their ability to operate in the event 
of a flu pandemic when many staff would want to work from home. 

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