Saturday, April 20, 2013

A small 9/11 Victory for 9/11 Justice

9/11 Victory for 9/11 Justice
(Just a tiny bit of justice, but it's a start) 
8 min. video
 
It is Widely Known that the BBC Reported the Collapse of World
Trade Center Building 7 Over 20 Minutes Before it Occurred.
UK Man Wins Court Victory Over BBC for 9/11 Coverup Broadcast
 
Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the
BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks,
he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the collapse
of World Trade Center Building 7 over 20 minutes before it occurred.
WTC 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by a plane on
9/11 but collapsed at free-fall speed later that day.
 
Here is the broadcast where the BBC announced the collapse of
WTC 7 while it was still standing behind the reporter:
 
 

So Rooke said the BBC had to have had prior knowledge to a terror
attack making them complicit in the attack. He presented the BBC
 footage to the judge along with a slew of other evidence, and the
judge agreed that Rooke had a reasonable case to protest. Rooke
was found not guilty and he was not fined for failure to pay the
 licensing fee.

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Fwd: New articles at the Journal of 9/11 Studies

We would like to announce the publication, in the Journal of 9/11 Studies, of Matthew Witt's article, "Morewell than Orwell: Paramilitarization in the United States post-9/11". Matthew Witt is well known as a member of the group of scholars that has encouraged the study of "State Crimes Against Democracy" (SCAD). In this article he looks, not at the events of 9/11 themselves, but at the crisis of legitimation that the U.S. state faces and the way it has, since 9/11, chosen to respond to this crisis. The Occupy Wall Street movement is taken as the central example of state response and repression.


As we announce this publication we also want to announce our intention to broaden the scope of the Journal. The historical importance of the Journal lies in detailed, critical examination of the events of the day of 9/11, and we have no intention of abandoning this focus, but there are many disciplines we would like to invite into the conversation and we would like to include studies of the context and meaning of 9/11. We are aware that there are other journals that attempt to deal with these issues, but with few exceptions these journals accept the official narrative of 9/11 and tend to exclude the writings of authors with a critical perspective. In our view this means that the interpretations of 9/11 developed in these journals are bound to be faulty. We want to create a space where researchers working in the humanities, such as John McMurtry, whose recent article on the moral decoding of 9/11 has drawn a good deal of attention, and Matthew Witt can write without the usual pressure to adhere to flawed accounts of 9/11. In this process we also hope that people who have not traditionally read our Journal will find themselves drawn to it and to its critical perspective on recent history.


Please post links to these articles on all relevant websites so that we can invite as many people as possible into a dialogue on these important events.


Kevin Ryan and Graeme MacQueen


Monday, March 18, 2013

Fw: new 9/11 petition

A friend of our movement has started a new White House petition asking to reinvestigate the collapse of WTC Building 7 on 9/11.

 

If you wonder what this is about, please see this 6 second video clip of the building collapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj487RNAi14

 

Yes, this 47 floor skyscraper came down in only 6 seconds, and the US goverment said it happened because of office fires. But engineers say never before has a steel frame building collapsed like this. I am no engineer, but I can tell this building is not collapsing due to fire. So I think they should reinvestigate the collapse of WTC-7. What do you think?

 

Please sign the petition, and forward to your friends and family: http://www.whitehouse.gov/AbjB

 

Many thanks,

 

PS. you may also want to see this investigation by a high school teacher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVCDpL4Ax7I

 

 

 


TUESDAY: Medea Benjamin talks about Building Peace in the Age of Drone Warfare

"Building Peace in the Age of Drone Warfare"
A Talk by Medea Benjamin

Tuesday, March 19, 2013
7:00 p.m.

First Christian Church (in the Great Hall)
205 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, Indiana

 
On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, join us in listening to and talking with renowned Peace activist, organizer, and author Medea Benjamin in Bloomington, Indiana.

Time for questions and answers will follow Medea Benjamin's audio-visual presentation. Copies of Medea's book Drone Warfare will be available for purchase. A reception with refreshments and book signing will conclude the evening.

Benjamin is co-founder of the women's peace group Code Pink and the international human rights organization Global Exchange and has authored or co-authored nine books.

Benjamin's latest book, Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control was published in 2012 and is the main subject of her talk in Bloomington. She is one of the world's experts on — and opponents of — drone warfare. She has recently visited families whose lives have been shattered by U.S. drone strikes in Pakistan and will speak about these experiences during her talk.

Benjamin contends that drone warfare — which the Obama administration has expanded in its war against Al Qaeda and others — is illegal, immoral and counter-productive. "Sometimes the target is killed and sometimes the intelligence is faulty and a sleeping family or a wedding party bears the brunt of miscalculation. At all times, however, the Taliban [and other U.S. opponents] capitalize on the ensuing mayhem and gain new recruits," she writes in her book, Drone Warfare. Secret legal findings by the Obama administration permit the intelligence agencies to target even U.S. citizens.

Medea Benjamin's talk in Bloomington is free and open to the public. Donations accepted.

Co-sponsored by Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, Bloomington branch; Just Peace Task Force of the Unitarian Universalist Church, Bloomington; and Bloomington Peace Action Coalition.

More about Medea Benjamin and her work can be found at:
http://www.codepink.org/article.php?id=51
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea_Benjamin



Monday, February 11, 2013

Forgetting Torture: Lee Hamilton, John Brennan, and Abu Zubaydah‏

The pervasive news surrounding the confirmation hearing of John Brennan, Obama's nominee for CIA director, is paralleled by another, related story that has been largely ignored by the U.S. media.  That is the story of the man called Abu Zubaydah, whose alleged torture testimony, obtained by the CIA while Brennan was the head of the agency's Terrorist Threat Center, built the foundation for the official account of 9/11.  This week I spoke to Lee Hamilton, former vice-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, about the serious problems that the government's new stance on Zubaydah creates for the 9/11 Commission Report.
 
http://digwithin.net/2013/02/10/forgetting-torture/

KR

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The Case Against Ralph Eberhart, NORAD’s 9/11 Commander‏

I'm still hard at work on my upcoming book, Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects.  My new blog entry linked below is an excerpt from a chapter. 
 
http://digwithin.net/2013/01/12/eberhart/
 
This blog article describes why USAF General Ralph Eberhart, who led NORAD at the time of the 9/11 attacks, should be brought up on charges for lying to Congress. It also details many other reasons to investigate Eberhart. 
 
Many thanks to Matthew Everett, for his outstanding research on 9/11 with regard to the hijacked flights and the military.  Thanks also to Erik Larson, who worked to make many documents available at the 911 Document Archive
 
KR

Friday, January 4, 2013

Black 9/11: Money, Motive, Technology, and Plausible Deniability

I came across an interesting YouTube video dealing with an economic motive behind 9/11.  ~ B.B.

Black 9/11: Money, Motive, Technology, and Plausible Deniability

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsDtvu2uTuA


MoDOT Approves "9/11-Truther" Group's Adopt-A-Highway Application

This blog article is comparing 9/11 Truthers to the KKK and neo-nazis. Since when is asking questions and demanding the truth, (about 9/11) not the same as demanding real justice for all the victims, of 9/11? Demanding true justice does not equal hate speech!
 
excerpt:
The latest entrant into MoDOT's tense fight between free speech and hate speech, organizes itself through meetup.com, a site that brings people with common interests and similar zipcodes together. The St. Louis 9/11 Questions Group describes itself thusly:
We are residents of the Greater St. Louis Area (and other areas) concerned about the many disturbing aspects of the 9/11 attacks and interested in finding out more about those events. We have many disagreements, but we agree that 9/11 is worth inquiring into. We are inclusive as opposed to exclusive. Generally, we believe that when gravity causes an object to move, the object goes down, not upwards and outwards in an arc.
 

MoDOT Approves "9/11-Truther" Group's Adopt-A-Highway Application

By Leah GreenbaumFri., Dec. 14 2012 at 7:30 AM

Friday, December 14, 2012

9/11 Flight School Operator Rudi Dekkers Arrested for Drug Trafficking

FINALLY! Rudi Dekkers Behind Bars for Drug Trafficking

 

The long run of Rudi Dekkers, 56, the Dutch national who first passed out bunks to Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi when they arrived in the United States to enroll at Huffman Aviation in Venice, Florida, ended last week when he was arrested for drug trafficking in Houston.(read the criminal complaint .pdf)

Before relating the details of 'what went down in Houston,' a little 'back story' on Dekkers, who is an historically important figure:

In the aftermath of the 9/11 attack, it was Rudi Dekkers' running account of the character and personality of Mohamed Atta and the other terrorists which transfixed a nation and the world. He was everywhere on television.

Even though it seemed to many observers that he was making it up as he went along, Dekkers fixed an image of the hijackers that changed remarkably little in the years that followed.

Marwan was the jolly one. Atta was rude. Dekkers' didn't like him, he asserted, ever more emphatically. He just didn't.

"I just had this funny feeling"

On the day after the attack, Dekkers had denied to reporters that he's ever talked to Atta or Al-Shehhi, There were dozens of foreign students at the school. He was a very busy man. But his memory very shortly seemed to improve. Later, the operations manager at the second flight school (in Naples) told me someone she thought was an FBI agent had been coaching him behind the scenes.

Full story: http://www.madcowprod.com/2012/12/14/finally-rudi-dekkers-behind-bars-for-drug-trafficking/

 

 


Thursday, December 13, 2012

Military judge allows total blackout of 9/11 plotters’ torture testimony

The 9/11 coverup continues... ~ B.B.

Military judge allows total blackout of 9/11 plotters' torture testimony

By Stephen C. Webster
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 14:43 EST

A military judge presiding over the trials of the accused 9/11 plotters decided last week that any and all testimony relating to their treatment by U.S. personnel shall be censored, according to a ruling released Wednesday.
In a statement sent to reporters, the American Civil Liberties Union made it clear that they are deeply troubled by the judge's ruling.
"The government wanted to ensure that the American public would never hear the defendants' accounts of illegal CIA torture, rendition and detention, and the military judge has gone along with that shameful plan," ACLU attorney Hina Shamsi said in an advisory.
Full story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/12/military-judge-allows-total-blackout-of-911-plotters-torture-testimony/

Sunday, December 9, 2012

CNN airs hotel surveillance video of explosion at Pentagon

CNN recently aired a surveillance video from a hotel in Arlington, Virginia of an explosion at the Pentagon that had originally been confiscated by the FBI. According to CNN it shows a explosion "after the crash," but no airplane.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5SeMtoUsXY&feature=player_embedded#

The video was recently made public in response to a lawsuit.  The video which was published on YouTube on November 26, 2012, is of poor quality.  It may have been shot from the opposite side of the Pentagon, but that's not clear.  Because of the poor quality of the footage this probably won't settle the issue of whether or not a plane struck the Pentagon.  This is the first I've seen of the video.  I don't know the name of the hotel, its location in regards to the Pentagon, or any details about the lawsuit.  Those would be important details to know.

Bob


Friday, November 30, 2012

New Documents: Al Qaeda's Pentagon Dinner Guest Was Part of 'Catch And Release' Program

Anwar al-Awlaqi and his son, both of whom were American citizens, were allegedly killed in separate drone strikes ordered by President Obama and a secret committee operating within the National Security Council that conducts extra-judicial assassinations.  Although this is just speculation, Al-Awlaqi's history of 'catch and release' raises the intriguing possibility that he and his son might not have actually died and are instead living in a witness protection program somewhere.  Al-Awlaki was the Imam for the San Diego and Falls Church mosques that several of the 9/11 hijackers and the Fort Hood shooter attended. ~ B.B.

New Documents: Al Qaeda's Pentagon Dinner Guest Was Part of 'Catch And Release' Program 

Judicial Watch lawsuit reveals evidence Bush, Obama operated shady deals with terrorists

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
Nov 29, 2012

Documents obtained by accountability group Judicial Watch have confirmed that US-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaqi, said to be the former leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was arrested and held in Yemen at the behest of the U.S. Embassy before being released again.

The documents also reveal that the terrorist chief, who previously dined with top brass at the Pentagon, was officially invited to the US embassy in Yemen on March 24, 2011, just six months before his supposed assassination by US drone strike.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the U.S. State Department for materials pertaining to al-Awlaqi's activities and his death in Yemen last year.

On its website, the watchdog group notes that the heavily redacted documents it obtained include two "Privacy Act Release Forms" issued by the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen. Both documents were signed by al-Awlaqi. One was dated November 14, 2006, and the other July 2, 2007. Judicial watch notes that this confirms the al qaeda terrorist was under official detention for a period of at least eight months.

The documents corroborate reports that suggested al-Awlaqi had indeed been arrested around that time in connection with an al-Qaeda plot to kidnap a U.S. government official. However, press at the time indicated he had been arrested in August 2006 and released in December 2007, without facing trial following lobbying by senior members of his tribe.

The newly uncovered documents do not indicate how long al-Awlaqi was detained or why he was released. According to previous reports, he was interviewed around September 2007 by two FBI agents with regard to the 9/11 attacks and other subjects.

Full Story: http://www.infowars.com/new-documents-al-qaedas-pentagon-dinner-guest-was-part-of-catch-and-release-program/

 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Osama bin Laden Myth

With the major motion picture film "Zero Dark Thirty" set for release this December, it's important that the 9/11 Truth Movement set the record straight.  ~ B B.

The Osama bin Laden Myth

Paul Craig Roberts
Infowars.com
November 26, 2012

The interview below with Osama bin Laden was conducted by the Karachi, Pakistan, daily newspaper, Ummat and published on September 28, 2001, 17 days after the alleged, but unsubstantiated, al Qaeda attack of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center twin towers and Pentagon. The interview was sensational. The alleged "mastermind" of 9/11 said that he and al Qaeda had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack. The British Broadcasting Corporation's World Monitoring Service had the interview translated into English and made public on September 29, 2001.


Osama bin Laden's sensational denial was not reported by the US print and TV media. It was not investigated by the executive branch. No one in the US Congress called attention to bin Laden's refusal of responsibility for the greatest humiliation ever inflicted on a superpower.

To check my memory of the lack of coverage, I googled "Osama bin Laden's interview denying responsibility for 9/11." Some Internet sites reproduced the interview, but the only mainstream news source that I found was a 1 minute YouTube video from CNN in which the anchor, after quoting an al Jazeera report of bin Laden's denial, concludes that "we can all weigh that in the scale of credibility and come to our own conclusions." In other words, bin Laden had already been demonized, and his denial was not credible.

The sensational news was unfit for US citizens and was withheld from them by the american "free press," a press free to lie for the government but not to tell the truth.

Full Story: http://www.infowars.com/the-osama-bin-laden-myth/


Sunday, November 25, 2012

Revealed: Military emails show that NO U.S. sailors witnessed Osama bin Laden's secret burial at sea

Below, is a story from the Daily Mail, which raises more suspicions about the alleged death and burial at sea of Osama bin Laden.  Interestingly, the account of Osama bin Laden's preparation for burial, according to "Islamic procedures," was provided in an email by Rear Admiral Charles Gaouette.  Gaouette would later be relieved of command of the U.S.S. Stennis Carrier Strike Group last October for " inappropriate leadership judgment." http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/10/navy-replaces-admiral-leading-mideast-strike-group-because-of-ongoing-investigation/  His firing, followed the September 11th, 2012, terrorist raid on the CIA compound in Benghazi, Libya that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens. ~ B.B.

 

Revealed: Military emails show that NO U.S. sailors witnessed Osama bin Laden's secret burial at sea

  • Emails describe how Osama bin Laden's body was washed, wrapped in a white sheet and slid into the sea after religious remarks in Arabic
  • Defense Department says it cannot find any images or videos of bin Laden's aboard USS Carl Vinson
  • Pentagon failed to produce autopsy report, death certificate or results of DNA tests
  • Military officials referred to bin Laden's body as 'package' in coded missives
  • Release of emails mark first public disclosure of information about bin Laden's May 1, 2011 death

By Daily Mail Reporter

PUBLISHED:19:17 EST, 21 November 2012| UPDATED:19:17 EST, 21 November 2012

Internal emails among U.S. military officers indicate that no American sailors watched Osama bin Laden's burial at sea from the USS Carl Vinson, and traditional Islamic procedures were followed during the secret ceremony.

The emails, obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, are heavily blacked out, but are the first public disclosure of government information about the al-Qaida leader's death. The emails were released Wednesday by the Defense Department.

More: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2236617/Revealed-Military-emails-NO-U-S-sailors-witnessed-Osama-bin-Ladens-secret-burial-sea.html