Monday, December 1 2008   -   Other Important News

November 29, 2008
by Sherwood Ross
Global Research

In violation of its pledge to the United Nations not to recruit children into the military, the Pentagon "regularly target(s) children under 17," the American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) says.

The Pentagon "heavily recruits on high school campuses, targeting students for recruitment as early as possible and generally without limits on the age of students they contact," the ACLU states in a 46-page report titled "Soldiers of Misfortune."

This is in violation of the U.S. Senate's 2002 ratification of the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

 

Monday, December 1 2008   -   9/11 Consequences

December 1, 2008
Reporting by Zaa Nkweta
RealNewsNetwork.com

Bruce Fein: Army to deal with potential domestic "civil unrest and crowd control"

Watch this brief news video at TheRealNews.com. Transcript below.

The US federal government has made strong preparations for "continuity of government" in the event of a national catastrophe. A full army brigade is now on active duty within domestic borders, and the Bush administration has issued a directive which allows the president to coordinate all three branches of the federal government in such an event. The Real News spoke to Bruce Fein.

 

Sunday, November 30 2008   -   Fear Factors

November 29, 2008
by Kevin Ryan
AmericanBuddhist.net

Learning about self-deception is important for all people today. That's because many of our problems, both as individuals and as a society, are rooted in self-deception, and many of the ways in which others abuse us relate to our inherent tendency to self-deceive. We can overcome these problems, and have a decent chance at long-term survival as a species, only if we learn about such limitations, and strive to control them. One great way to rapidly learn about self-deception, and other forms of deception, is to learn about the events of September 11th.

It's easy to see widespread self-deception with regard to 9/11. For one thing, most people don't know the actual official story, given by the 9/11 Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This is despite the fact that everyone, at least in the US, has invested essentially their entire future in that story, whether they know it or not.

 

Saturday, November 29 2008   -   Get Involved

Hello Janice,

We wanted to send you a note about an idea you recently voted on in the Ideas for Change in America competition titled "Conduct a new, independent investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001"

We support calls for truth and transparency in our government on every subject and welcome you to directly petition the new administration about this matter, which you can do at http://change.gov/page/s/ofthepeople. However, this is unfortunately outside the scope of the Ideas for Change in America project, which aims to offer specific policy solutions rather than investigations into past government action. As such, it is not eligible to enter the second round of the competition. (Continues below...)

 

Saturday, November 29 2008   -   Other Important News

By Ray McGovern
November 26, 2008

Consortiumnews.com Editor's Note: An underlying factor in the national security crises confronting the United States has been the corruption of the U.S. intelligence process, with analyses tailored to fit the desires of the policymakers and with laws bent to permit torture and other abuses.

In this guest essay, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern reflects on what went wrong and what now needs to go right:

The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) must be a person whose previous professional performance has been distinguished by unimpeachable integrity and independence. The director must have the courage of his or her own convictions.

Without integrity and courage, all virtue is specious, and no amount of structural or organizational reform will make any difference.

 

Saturday, November 29 2008   -   Research/Evidence

October 28, 2008
by John-Michael Talboo
Debunking the Debunkers

John-Michael Talboo (JMT)-Q:

So Stewart, let's jump right into our shared passion of debunking the so-called 9/11 debunkers shall we? You have put together some great videos on the subject including, 9/11 Debunking for Dummies, History Exposed - Critique of History Channel's documentary "9/11 Conspiracies- Fact or fiction", 9/11 Cheney Connection, as well as putting out, 9/11 Cheney Connection rebuttal, where you address the small amount of debunking that was attempted in regard to the piece, and most recently you explained, Why Debunkers Make Lousy Cops! :)

I love your work because while you tackle the physical anomalies surrounding 9/11, you also put much focus on the non-scientific issues. I believe these issues get brushed to the side far too much by "debunkers" for the simple reason that so many of them are just plain public knowledge and un-debunkable. I have often pointed out that even if the 9/11 truth movement were to concede the issue of controlled demolition, for arguments sake, the case for complicity is still very strong.

 

Saturday, November 29 2008   -   9/11 A/V Galleries

by John-Michael Talboo
November 28, 2008
Debunking the Debunkers

David Ray Griffin talks about Popular Mechanics' 9/11 debunking at a 9/11 Truth Conference in Osaka, Japan on November 1, 2008. For more information on the conference, please visit the homepage at: http://2nd911.globalpeace.jp/english. To listen to David Ray Griffin's full speech, please visit The Corbett Report:

The 2nd International 9/11 Truth Conference came to Japan this week, with sessions in Akita, Kobe, Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. The Corbett Report was in Osaka to report from the event and has obtained audio and video of the keynote speech by David Ray Griffin, as well as interviews with the conference organizer and attendees.

 

Friday, November 28 2008   -   9/11 Consequences

US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are being exposed to toxic chemicals that pose serious health risks

November 11 2008
by Nora Eisenberg
guardian.co.uk

What does a war injury look like? In the case of Iraq, we tend to picture veterans bravely getting on with their lives with the help of steel legs or computerised limbs. Trauma injuries are certainly the most visible of health problems – the ones that grab our attention. A campaign ad for congressman Tom Udall featured an Iraq war veteran who had survived a shot to his head. Speaking through the computer that now substitutes for his voice, Sergeant Erik Schei extols the top-notch care that saved his life.

 

Thursday, November 27 2008   -   Open Letters

Five years ago tomorrow the 9/11 Visibility Project began, in Kansas City and Seattle, holding weekly vigils asking America to support the 9/11 Families in their efforts to demand an investigation of the events of 9/11. For the next 18 months, Kansas City was in the streets every single weekend with signs, flyers, outrage, and courage as we watched the families' success in forcing the creation of the Commission turn to deception upon deception. City after city began to join us, the Eleventh of Every Month campaign kicked off with monthly actions, national groups like Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, Lawyers for 9/11 Truth, Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, We Are Change, and so many others came to life. As we came to realize we were never really going to "reform" the media, we became the media instead, through radio shows, independent newspapers, public access tv productions, dvd, book, and flyer creation, and perhaps most importantly, person to person communication of real truths their corporate media was not telling them.

We have succeeded much more than we usually recognize. In spite of our government "catapulting the propaganda" and their media minions continuing to assist in making sure the lies are disseminated thoroughly, we know (through our last national Zogby poll) that a majority of Americans do not believe the government propaganda narrative of 9/11. We are rejecting, as a people, the fear mongering hatred continuously heaved upon us. We're asking, "What role do I play in this? If this is being done in MY name, what responsibility do I have to stop the carnage?" And in answer, we the people are overwhelmingly seeing with new eyes the real state of the union. And of the world. And we will NOT be silent.

 

Thursday, November 27 2008   -   Other Important News

22 Nov 2008 15:40:47 GMT
Source: Reuters
PRISTINA, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Germany declined to comment on Saturday on reports that three Germans arrested on suspicion of throwing explosives at an EU office in Kosovo were intelligence officers.

The explosive charge was thrown on Nov. 14 at the International Civilian Office (ICO), the office of EU Special Representative Pieter Feith, who oversees Kosovo's governance, but caused only minor damage. The men were detained on Thursday.

A spokesman for the German foreign ministry in Berlin confirmed that three Germans had been arrested, but declined to make any further comment as an investigation was under way.

 

Thursday, November 27 2008   -   9/11 Consequences

JURIST Contributing Editor Mary Ellen O'Connell of Notre Dame Law School and panel colleagues at a recent Washburn University School of Law symposium on "The Rule of Law and the Global War on Terrorism" offer their consensus on the appropriate way forward on critical issues in international law and policy that will confront President Barack Obama's Administration when it takes office on January 20, 2009...

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Within hours of the attacks of 9/11 the Bush Administration decided to treat the attacks as part of a worldwide war--a new kind of war that would free the Administration to re-write the rules. A "global war on terrorism" was declared and new rules for the targeting, detention and trials of persons suspected of acts of terrorism or membership in terrorist organizations were created. Seven years later, upon the election of a new president, there is an intense debate under way in the United States as to what to do about the "global war" and the laws and institutions resulting from it.