Covering 9/11
Hard to believe, but the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is next Tuesday.
We’re considering how to mark the anniversary. In the past six years we’ve written stories about people who had some brush with the terrorists when they came to Maine; we’ve looked at how 9/11 has changed people’s lives; and we’ve traced the millions of dollars in homeland security grants that Maine received.
Last year, for the fifth anniversary, we talked to people who relocated to Maine from New York after 9/11 to start new lives or get a change of scenery. One of our graphic artists, Jeff Woodbury, wrote a first-person account about watching the destruction of the World Trade Center towers from the rooftop of his Brooklyn apartment.
So the question now is: What story should we do to mark the anniversary? We’re asking our reporting staff to see what they think, but I’d like to weigh those against ideas that you – our readers – may have. If you have one, leave a comment. Or if you don’t want everyone to see it, e-mail it to me at arussell@pressherald.com.
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Exposing the Carlyle Group.....
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO....
Check this VIDEO out on the internet! (Something you will NOT hear on Fox news….)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.htm
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Exposed: The Carlyle Group
Shocking documentary uncovers the subversion of Americas democracy.
I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government.
Note: The first one minute forty seven seconds of this program is in broadcast in Dutch, The remainder is in English.
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Translation of the first one minute forty seven seconds of this program.
"The war in Iraq does not seem to be over al all, but in the meantime the rebuilding has already started. This has unleashed fierce competition for contracts, which are mainly awarded to American (ed: U.S.) companies.
What is remarkable about these companies, is that they have people on their payroll from American politics and the military. Is this a conflict of interest, or is this the new global way of doing business?
[text in the screen at this time reads: 'the iron triangle']
One of the companies that operates in this manner is the Carlyle Group."
On their payroll are people like : George Bush (Sr.), James Baker III and old premier John Major.
The Carlyle Group is a private investment bank which doesn't come to the publics attention very often but it is one of the biggest American (ed: USA) investors of the defense industry, telecom, property and financial services.
What is the Carlyle Group? Who are the people behind the name? And how much power does Carlyle have?
This program was broadcast on VPRO Netherlands TV:
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Posted by
GlobalSeptember 5, 2007 03:16 AM
Andrew,
What do over 100 senior military, intelligence service, law enforcement, and government officials, as well as over 200 engineers and architects, 50+ pilots and aviation professionals, and over 150 scholars and academics all have in common? Names in this list include diverse folks, such as: Ron Paul, contender for the Republican presidential nomination; Col. Robert Bowman, PhD, Director of Advanced Space Programs Development under Ford and Carter; General Wesley Clark, US Army (ret), former Commander of the US European Command; Major General Albert Stubblebine, US Army (ret), former Commanding General of US Army Intelligence and Security Command; Melvin A. Goodman, PhD, former Division Chief and Senior Analyst at the Office of Soviet Affairs, CIA, as well as Senior Analyst in the State Department; Curt Weldon, former Republican Congressman from Pennsylvania; Louis Freeh, former Director of the FBI; Dennis Kucinich, Democratic presidential contender.
There are architects, civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, structural engineers, material scientists, current and former commercial airline pilots, fighter pilots, a military accident investigator, a Labor Department chief economist for George W. Bush, prosecutors, Justice Department officials, presidents of foreign countries, former ministers of foreign countries, diplomats, and members of parliament on this list.
These 500 or so folks, representative of positions across the broad spectrum of political thought in this country and the world, have all come to a single conclusion, in most cases completely independently of those who compiled the list. They are not “ravers,” conspiracy theorists, irresponsible or illogical people. Some have asked to be added to the list in the past few weeks. But what they all have in common are public statements that question the accuracy and thoroughness of the 9/11 Commission Report, the official account of the events of 9/11.
Major General Stubblebine said, for instance, “One of my experiences in the Army was being in charge of the Army’s Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and Technical Intelligence during the Cold War. I measured pieces of Soviet equipment from photographs. It was my job. I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. And I said, ‘The plane does not fit in that hole’. So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What's going on?”
Capt. Russ Wittenberg, US Air Force (ret), former fighter pilot with over 100 combat missions, and 30,000+ commercial airline piloting hours under his belt said, “The government story they handed us about 9/11 is total B.S. plain and simple…” Wittenberg argued that a 757, structurally, with amateur pilots, had absolutely no possibility of having "descended 7,000 feet in two minutes, all the while performing a steep 270 degree banked turn before crashing into the Pentagon's first floor wall without touching the lawn."
Judy Wood, BS CE (Structural), MS Eng Mechanics, PhD Materials Eng Science said, “So, for the [WTC tower] to be collapsed in about 10 seconds, the lower floors would have to start moving before the upper floors could reach them by gravity alone. Did we see this? I believe it's pretty clear in some of the videos. The "wave" of collapse, progressing down the building, is moving faster than free-fall speed. This would require something like a detonation sequence... In conclusion, the explanations of the collapse that have been given by the 9/11 Commission Report and NIST are not physically possible. A new investigation is needed to determine the true cause of what happened to these buildings on September 11, 2001.”
Paul Craig Roberts, PhD, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury under Reagan, and former editor of the Wall Street Journal said in 2006, “We know that it is strictly impossible for any building, much less steel columned buildings, to "pancake" at free fall speed. Therefore, it is a non-controversial fact that the official explanation of the collapse of the WTC buildings is false.”
Some of the people quoted in this list, which can be viewed at www.patriotsquestion911.com, state explicitly that they don’t know why the available evidence has been neglected, uninvestigated, or buried. Others are very clear about why.
Wayne Madsen, former US Naval Intelligence Officer, assigned to the NSA and State Department said in 2006, “After five years of talking to many individuals in the intelligence community, in the military, foreign intelligence agencies, and a whole host of other people, people from the air traffic control community, the FAA, I came to the conclusion that after five years what we saw happen on that morning of September 11, 2001, was the result of a highly-compartmentalized covert operation to bring about a fascist coup in this country.”
Robin Hordon, former commercial pilot, trainer, and FAA Air Traffic Controller in the Boston Control Center said, “I knew within hours of the attacks on 9/11/2001 that it was an inside job… There is absolutely no way that four large commercial airliners could have flown around off course for 30 to 60 minutes on 9/11 without being intercepted and shot completely out of the sky by our jet fighters unless very highly placed people in our government and our military wanted it to happen… It is important for people to understand that scrambling jet fighters to intercept aircraft showing the signs of experiencing "in-flight emergencies" such as going off course without authorization, losing a transponder signal and/or losing radio contact is a common and routine task executed jointly between the FAA and NORAD controllers… This type of "immediate, high speed, high priority and emergency" scramble had been happening regularly approximately 75 - 150 times per year for ten years.”
Morgan Reynolds, PhD, Chief Economist US Labor Department under George W. Bush in 2006 said, “I first began to suspect that 9/11 was in inside job when the Bush-Cheney Administration invaded Iraq… We can prove that the government’s story is false.”
We have just marked the sixth anniversary of 9/11. The official story stands, has given rise to two wars, the Patriot Act, torture as policy, the loss of habeas corpus, nearly 4000 service people’s deaths, and over one million civilian deaths in Iraq. Call me a conspiracy theorist, if you will. If so, I feel I am in good company. I honestly don’t know what happened that day, but I do know the evidence sealed or destroyed by the Bush Administration, and Mayors Guilliani and Bloomberg, with the many questions uninvestigated and unreported by the 9/11 Commission, implies the existence of a version of events very different than what we have been given to believe.
There is a very real potential for a false flag operation between now and Nov 2008, the imposition of a state of emergency, suspension of elections. Just saying, it's possible. And if the above is true, perhaps even likely.
Lynn Margulis, AB, MS, PhD – Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. Former Chair, National Academy of Science's Space Science Board Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution. Recipient of the National Medal of Science, America's highest honor for scientific achievement.
She said of this:
"The 9/11 tragedy is the most successful and most perverse publicity stunt in the history of public relations. I arrive at this conclusion largely as the result of the research and clear writing by David Ray Griffin in his fabulous books about 9/11. I first met him when he was a speaker at a scholarly conference unrelated to 9/11. He immediately impressed me as a brilliant, outstanding philosopher - theologian - author, a Whiteheadian scholar motivated by an intense curiosity to know everything possible about the world.
On the plane home and for the next two days I did little else but read Griffin’s first book about 9/11, The New Pearl Harbor. From there I went on to read his even more disturbing account of the bogus 9/11 Commission Report, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, which provides overwhelming evidence that the official story is contradictory, incomplete, and unbelievable.
It is clear to me that David Ray Griffin and his fellow critics are correct: the 9/11 "new Pearl Harbor" was planned in astonishing detail and carried out through the efforts of a sophisticated and large network of operatives. It was more complex and far more successful than the Allende assassination, the US bombing of our own ship the "Maine" that began the Spanish-American war (and brought us Guam, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Philippines), the Reichstag fire that was used to justify the suspension of most civil liberties in Germany in the 1930's, and even Operation Himmler, which was used by Germany to justify the invasion of Poland, which started World War II.
Whoever is responsible for bringing to grisly fruition this new false-flag operation, which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on research, education, and civil liberties, must be perversely proud of their efficient handiwork. Certainly, 19 young Arab men and a man in a cave 7,000 miles away, no matter the level of their anger, could not have masterminded and carried out 9/11: the most effective television commercial in the history of Western civilization.
I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken."
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sdemetriSeptember 16, 2007 01:25 PM
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