source ... more evidence .. US torture google images

History of the above victim: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manadel_al-Jamadi

(As you all know, this is but the tip of the iceberg)

A Question of 'Compromise'

McCain's deal on prisoners means White House lawlessness rolls on

by Nat Hentoff October 1st, 2006 9:18 PM

Our government is the potent, omnipresent teacher of the whole people by its example. . . . If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law. —Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, dissenting in the first wiretap case, Olmstead v. U.S., 1928

The civil war between three Republican senators and the president over his treatment of imprisoned suspected terrorists has resulted in a public break with George W. Bush's own former secretary of state, Colin Powell. But in all these stories about Powell's mutiny, I've seen no mention of an angry, prophetic memorandum he wrote on January 25, 2002, protesting the administration's pending decision to scrap the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners in Afghanistan.

Preparing for the next mass murder in a far-away land...

01/10/2006 11:05:41

Naval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya

The probability of another war in the Middle East is high. Only time will tell if the horrors of further warfare is to fully materialize. Even then, the shape of a war is still undecided in terms of its outcome.

If war is to be waged or not against Iran and Syria, there is still the undeniable build-up and development of measures that confirm a process of military deployment and preparation for war.

The diplomatic forum also seems to be pointing to the possibility of war. The decisions being made, the preparations being taken, and the military maneuvers that are unfolding on the geo-strategic chessboard are projecting a prognosis and forecast towards the direction of mobilization for some form of conflict in the Middle East.

In this context, people do not always realize that a war is never planned, executed or even anticipated in a matter of weeks. Military operations take months and even years to prepare. A classical example is Operation Overlord (popularly identified as “D-Day”), which resulted in the Battle of Normandy and the invasion of France. Operation Overlord took place on June 6, 1944, but the preparations for the military operation took eighteen months, “officially,” to set the stage for the invasion of the French coast. It was during a meeting in Casablanca, Morocco in January, 1943 that the U.S. President, F.D. Roosevelt, and the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, outlined a strategy to invade Normandy.1

FIJI has done it.

It has been demonstrated that it *can* be done...

Abolishing the secret service. Shut down the intelligence agencies.

Over the years there have been many voices saying
DEMOCRACY survives DESPITE the spy agencies.

Seems that in the USA that is no longer the case.

Abolishing the CIA will be the only way to return to accountability,
to the rule of law.

The CIA, simply put, is unlawful. In other words... you can choose.. either CIA or democracy. Both is not possible.

PS:

Military Commissions Act of 2006

Any alien unlawful enemy combatant engaged in hostilities or having supported hostilities against the United States is subject to trial by military commission as set forth in this chapter.

US representatives LEGALIZE crimes against humanity.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/28/AR2006092801763_pf.html

Congress LEGALISES crimes retroactively!

Hmm ... Bush mentioned EXPLOSIVES .. (see my previous blog entry), so things are desperate for his scriptwriters (the perps). Soon more US warships will arrive in the gulf.. Late October .. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=LIN20060928&articleId=3355 ...
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061009/lindorff ... http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/where.htm

Just in time for the Nov 7 elections http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_elections,_2006

Killing thousands and making the earth radioactive FOR POLITICAL GAIN? I think its more a case of TO AVOID GETTING HANGED.

As always.. the ENEMY will "attack unprovoked" .. and "we" are "just" defending us.

Remember the Gulf of Tonkin? ... http://www.google.com/search?q=gulf+of+tonkin

The Navy has recovered from the 9/11 wiping-out of their electronic warfare technicians inside the pentagon... maybe now they can make the Iranians fire a missile into a US warship.

The recent CONSILLIATORY BUSH RETHORIC towards Iran will be brandished as proof that nobody wanted that war...

two honest articles about US torture plans:

http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2006c/092906/092906s.htm

http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=9740

Whacko christian is a 911 truther.

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=111593&ran=56921

Chomsky news:

Chomsky Addresses Crisis in Middle EastAlive and Well, Professor Emeritus
Speaks to Packed Audience in Kirsch Auditorium

http://www-tech.mit.edu/V126/N41/41chomsky.html

Bush TELLS of planted EXPLOSIVES INSIDE THE WTC!
500kB mp3 audio snippet (broadcast quality, wink, nod, prod, hint)

For Immediate Release -- Office of the Press Secretary -- September 15, 2006 -- Press Conference of the President -- The Rose Garden -- President's Remarks -- 11:15 A.M. EDT

Blah blah ...we need to torture, because...

Bush: For example, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed described the design of planned attacks of buildings inside the U.S. and how operatives were directed to carry them out. That is valuable information for those of us who have the responsibility to protect the American people. He told us the operatives had been instructed to ensure that the explosives went off at a high -- a point that was high enough to prevent people trapped above from escaping.

Bush HESITATES twice and gives away more than he is saying... he uses REVERSE LOGIC.. if the explosives are planted HIGH in the building.. there are LESS floors above where people can get trapped. i.e. If the OPERATIVES wanted to MINIMIZE the bloodbath they would WANT TO plant explosives HIGH in the building.

Why the Pentagon?

assuming that it is INCORRECT that ARABS who flew a passenger jet into the pentagon, it is likely that:

The Pentagon was hit intentionally, and precisely to kill the "right" people:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/pentagon.victims.html

Lets start with SENIOR people:

Gerald P. Fisher, 57, Potomac, Maryland, Booz-Allen & Hamilton Inc.
Confirmed dead, Pentagon, at/in building

Booz Allen is unique among elite strategy consulting firms in having a large government business—a business that goes back to work Ed Booz conducted for the U.S. Navy in 1940.
Historically, we’ve kept our commercial and government work separate. This is changing, and will change even more, this year and beyond. Our government clients want the benefit of commercial “best practices,” while our corporate clients want the special expertise we’ve developed through our government work—in areas as diverse as information security, space, wargaming, transportation, and ... source

Re: Impact Holes ... WTC TOWER aeroplane silhouttes ...

DO YOU SEE THE WHITE EXPLOSION CLOUD IN THE LEFT TOWER?

Please leave comments and tell me what your observations / conclusions are.

To me nothing of the visual evidence really makes sense. See PlaneImpact and Damage. I suggest that China or Russia (or Iran, or France) recreates 20 floors worth of World Trade Center, and then flies a 767 into it... Only then we will know what the effect looks like. My guess is that it looks VERY different.

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My favourite photo still is the one that you see on the left, it's history is told here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=handschuh+photo+wtc

Another version:

http://wtc10048nyc.free.fr/120.html

Apart from the MISSING PLANE DEBRIS and the weird explosion it shows the simultaneous explosions IN THE OTHER TOWER (north tower).

(the biggest and best) German Internet Magazine TELEPOLIS reports:

Inside job?

Haiko Lietz 11.09.2006

Five years after the attacks from 11 September 2001 in the USA a considerable grass root movement developed, which makes circles of the own government directly responsible for the disaster
Four of ten Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was involved personally into the planning of the notices from 11 September 2001. Each third believes to pull that circles of the US Government are involved into the notices directly or did consciously nothing to stop her in order political profit from the situation. How can that be done together? The shock, which population of US suffered before five years, is to be still felt. In addition, the paradox is the product of a gigantic propaganda machine, which feeds the population with the information, until it does not know many no more that they are to believe. America is extremely distrustful. The popularity values of the government are in the cellar. Increasingly it loses the interpretation sovereignty over 9/11. In order to counter this trend, the State department the arguments of the critics on a particularly furnished web page tries to weaken. Who are the critics and which are their arguments? A report over the “New York 9/11 Truth” - movement.

9/11 Debate: Loose Change Filmmakers vs. Popular Mechanics Editors of "Debunking 9/11 Myths"

Monday, September 11th, 2006

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/11/1345203

September 11, 2001 - five years after the attacks many people are asking questions about what happened on that day in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania. Websites, articles, books and documentaries have put forward a variety of alternate theories to the government's account of what happened. The most popular of these is a documentary called "Loose Change." Now, a book dealing with many of these theories has just been published by the magazine Popular Mechanics, it's called "Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts." In a Democracy Now! national broadcast exclusive, we host a debate between the filmmakers of Loose Change and the editors of Popular Mechanics on 9/11. [includes rush transcript]

We continue with our 9/11 coverage today on this fifth anniversary of the attacks. Last week we heard from New Yorkers calling on the federal government to stop ignoring the health effects of the attacks on the World Trade Center. A major new study of 9/11 finds that nearly seven out of every ten first responders at Ground Zero now suffer from chronic lung ailments. We also spoke with a man whose brother was killed at the World Trade Center and is now spearheading a movement against President Bush's war on terror. And we looked at September 11th 100 years ago, when Gandhi launched Satyagraha, the modern non-violent resistance movement that continues to this day.

Wednesday, 13 September 2006

Conspiracies Abound

Questioning everything about 9/11

By Kurt Brighton

“The Terror Conspiracy: Deception, 9/11, And The Loss Of Liberty”

By Jim Marrs, published by The Disinformation Company

The unthinkable happened five years ago on a balmy day in September, and reams of paper as well as thousands of terrabytes have been devoted to the subject. And when something unthinkable happens, people start to look outside of the realm of the thinkable.

In addition to triggering an instantaneous clamp-down on civil liberties, the expansion of domestic spying programs unheard of since the COINTEL program of the ’60s and ’70s, billions of dollars in increased Pentagon spending, billions of dollars dumped into private defense contracts, an ongoing war against a nebulous enemy that can never be shown to have been decisively defeated, and an ongoing war in a country that had little or nothing to do with the attacks, the events of 9/11 also spawned a surfeit of conspiracy theorists.

Funny thing is, once you get past the knee-jerk dismissal of alternative theorists as wild-eyed crackpots colluding in mom’s basement while wearing tinfoil hats, there’s a lot that doesn’t add up about the government’s official story. A whole lot.

According to the US dept of energy Iraq contains 112 billion barrels of proven oil reserves, the second largest in the world (behind Saudi Arabia) along with roughly 220 billion barrels of probable and possible resources. Iraqâ??s true potential may be far greater than this, however, as the country is relatively unexplored due to years of war and sanctions. Deep oil-bearing formations located mainly in the vast Western Desert region, for instance, could yield large additional oil resources (possibly another 100 billion barrels), but have not been explored.

That makes 432 billion barrels times todays oil price per barrel, 67 dollars - something like 29 trillion dollars

Trillions in oil revenues is not the only money to be made from the invasion of iraq - the cost of the Iraq war to the taxpayerswas is budgeted at over 318 billion dollars . All of the weapons, uniforms, bases, vehicles, fuels, food and its preparation - all are purchased from private corporations. According to the national priorities project, an non proit that analyzes where federal dollars are spent - more than 28 billion of the total will be paid by the people of New York State - that 28 billion is enough to convert 93,743,138 homes to renewable electricity - according to the 2000 census, there were 105,480,101 occupied housinf units in the united states - just the money paid for the Iraq war by the people of New York state in enough to convert around 90 percent of Amwerican homes to renewable energy.

Enough of the 9/11 Conspiracies, Already
By Matthew Rothschild
http://progressive.org/mag_wx091106

Another lefty who is not patient enough to properly observe,
and then QUICKLY makes up his mind... cocksure.

Maybe they all have slow internet and cannot
download footage that SHOWS the explosions etc etc.

But they are hardly alone. Even convinced conspiracy
theorists ..amazingly, they all have seen the
second plane that buttered into the south tower
... and they ALL think that this footage is authentic.

Simply ridiculous.

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COMIC RELIEF...

Stan Cox: 9/11 - Based on a True Story
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Tue, 09/05/2006 - 2:00pm. Guest Contribution
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/391

RECOMMENDED READING ....

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Unbearable HUMAN INTEREST story
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/15490848.htm
weaves the official version into the picture...

a jet VANISHES into the soft earth... HOW RIDICULOUS..

but they still print this rubbish...

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Ultra right wingers also have UNANSWERED QUESTIONS
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24314
reprints Unanswered Questions of September 11

Is American Democracy Too Feeble To Deal With 9/11?

By Paul Craig Roberts, September 10, 2006

http://vdare.com/roberts/060910_911.htm

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Under the title:
Debunking 9/11 -- It's time to finally put the conspiracy theories to rest.
by Sonny Bunch
the prestigious magazine
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/665awcva.asp
lets Philip Zelikow tells us about conspiracy theories:
"Our worry is when things become infectious, as happened with the [John F. Kennedy] assassination. Then this stuff can be deeply corrosive to public understanding."

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... Loose Change is filled with utter horseshit.
http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=7586
LOOSE BRAINS 09.11.06 By Devin Faraci
... a movie that serves as a meticulous piece of propaganda for stupidity...

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The EVER SO INFORMATIVE http://wsws.org with a very readable
article:
Five years since 9/11: A political balance sheet
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/9111-s11.shtml

What is known about the events of 9/11?

The so-called 9/11 Commission was nothing more than a cynical and mendacious exercise in politically-expedient cover-up, organized with the more or less explicit purpose of blocking a real criminal investigation and preventing the discovery of evidence that 1) linked the 9/11 terrorists to US intelligence agencies, and 2) exposed criminal complicity on the part of elements within the state in facilitating and abetting the success of the 9/11 conspiracy.

Shooting down the best of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories

Updated Sun. Sep. 10 2006 1:49 PM ET

Michael Stittle, CTV.ca News

The first strike was a surprise, but when the second jetliner struck the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, dozens of cameras recorded the explosion. The world's major news organizations, alerted after the first plane hit, watched carefully. But in the chaos it was difficult to make sense of the attack, or even know that an attack had occurred.

Details emerged slowly. Structural engineers and other experts started investigating how the towers fell, until conjecture became fact: fuel heated the buildings' steel support columns, weakening the beams until the floors sagged and collapsed.

Yet five years after the terrible event, some believe there is more to the story -- that the official version of events is wrong. Just days before the anniversary, Steven Jones, a professor of physics at Brigham Young University in Utah, was suspended on paid leave because he argued explosives brought down the towers.

Conspiracy theories, many accusing the United States government of orchestrating the attacks, grew in popularity. A documentary called Loose Change, collecting these theories and stating them as the truth, became a underground hit on Google's online video website and YouTube.com.