First and foremost, on August 26, Alex Jones reported that 9/11 Heroes will not be Welcome at Ground Zero. In Jones’ own fiery words, “First Responders–including police, fire fighters, EMTs and others–have been barred from attending the ceremony commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.” No one wants to see or hear about the scars. Continue reading
The environmental group Friends of the Earth, has offered up a fistful of startling facts to take a swing at the Canadian oil and gas company, TransCanada: TC hopes to start building a new crude oil pipeline that would run close to 2,000 miles from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. If constructed, the poisonous pipeline, known as the Keystone XL, will carry one of the world’s dirtiest fuels: tar sands oil. Along its route from Alberta to Texas, this snaking pipeline could devastate ecosystems and pollute water sources, jeopardizing public health. Continue reading
Good luck, Lloyd. You’ve had a hell of a run. Should I remind readers that this story was reported in the LA Times? I’ll remind them also that Goldman Sachs and the other big investment banks got $1.2 trillion in easements in 2008 and that profits soared subsequently, along with bonuses. In short, we the people rescued the same guys that crashed the system and did practically nothing for the homeowners who were gamed and lost their homes and money and are still suffering foreclosure. Continue reading
Even though rebels are claiming victory in Libya and mainstream media reports that Colonel Gaddafi is no longer the leader of his country, the story is not over with the shouting. And even though John McCain told reporters that “meeting these guys [the rebels] was one of the most inspiring moments of his life,” it brought back the battle of lies called our last presidential election. Brasscheck TV still claims The Libya story is Total BS. But there is a battle between “rebel forces” and the Libyan military. But it’s an ornate scenario with many “rebels and extras” provided. Continue reading
No, this isn’t a review of the recent film, which is an original story set in today’s San Francisco, where man’s own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. Continue reading
What the story? Last year Verizon made $12 billion in profits, got $1 billion in government subsidies and paid zippo, zero in taxes. But instead of sharing this windfall with the working people who make the company successful, Verizon has the audacity to demand their workers take pay and benefit cuts of $20,000 a year. This at the same time that Verizon’s four top executives have pocketed over $258 million (a quarter of a billion) in the past four years, which is obscene. Continue reading
In an article quoted by fundamentalanalyst.com from Naked Capital back on March 12, 2008, in the middle of the unwinding financial disaster, said article highlighted the ongoing ratings scams that Moody’s and S&P perpetrated back then. So, does S&P have a short memory or does it just enjoy playing the ‘pot calling the kettle black’ when it went ahead and downgraded the US government’s credit rating from AAA to AA+ to create more havoc? Click below for the tale . . . Continue reading
I wouldn’t/couldn’t believe my eyes when I read the OpEdNews headline, Rep. Conyers: Obama Demanded Social Security Cuts—Not GOP. Continue reading
The so-called “Super-Committee,” which will be formed when the debt ceiling vote is passed, is intended to seek ways to cut $2 trillion in government spending over the next 10 years, which is a sore point for Republicans holding fast to Bush tax cuts, resisting any attempts at tax hikes to raise revenue. To “streamline” the process, the Super-Committee will have only12 members (six Republicans and six Democrats), only straight “up and down votes,” and no room for full Congressional debates, amendments, or filibusters. Somehow it sounds unconstitutional, if not a knee-jerk, punitive reaction to the debt ceiling debacle. Continue reading
Veterans Today reported that Dr. John Howard, director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, said, “There are inadequate published scientific and medical findings that a causal link exists between September 11 exposures and the occurrence of cancer in responders and survivors. The decision forms part of the first periodic review of what the James Zagroda 9/11 Health and Compensation Act will provide.” Continue reading
Watching Russia Today this past weekend (Times-Warner Cable Channel 135) in New York City, as a respite from mindless not-news mainstream US corporate media, I was shocked to see the scenes over and over again of Anders Behring Breivik (or whoever it was dressed like a cop) in a camp full of young people who had gathered on its island to rally for the Norwegian Labor Party. These were kids ranging in age from 11 to 19, the children of party members, who would be a new generation of leaders. Continue reading
While the Koch Brothers, ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) and their corporate allies plan to privatize government, they have gone one step further and fired a shot across the bow of democracy and the Constitution. The shot took the form of giving a pre-produced bill to be presented by Florida State Representative Chris Dorworth, (R—Lake Mary), HB2101, to influence legislation in the state legislature. Continue reading
Perhaps it is the sheer number of lies that US government officials have to remember from the War on Terror playbook, or was it just foot-in- mouth disease that led our newly appointed defense secretary to tell US troops in Baghdad last week that “9/11 was the reason they were in Iraq.” Argh! Continue reading
My dear friend and neighbor, Shelly, a septuagenarian like myself, and the wife of my good friend and neighbor Dave, died Friday, July 1. This occurred after her hopeless battle with Alzheimer’s disease which had slowly turned this beautiful woman into a ghostlike presence, blind, barely recognizing the sounds of our voices. Yet we still have nothing but placebos for this dreadful illness that eats away at the brain with tangles and plaque, slowly devouring the brain and its functions. Continue reading
If anything symbolized the ascendency of America in advanced technology and human imagination, it was the NASA space shuttle. Now in its historic last mission, after soaring to the sky as nearly one million people watched, it will rendezvous with the International Space Station. Atlantis will be the 135th shuttle mission after 30 years of flying to deliver supplies and spare parts to the orbiting space lab. Continue reading
So says none other than the XXXL Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, the widest politician since President William Taft, who signed a bill this week that silences 500,000 state workers—firefighters, police officers, and other public employees—from collectively bargaining over their health rights and benefits. Continue reading
Fresh from writing Wall Street and the Fed’s stranglehold on America, based on A Study of the Federal Reserve and Its Secrets by the legendary Eustace Clarence Mullins, I thought it would be of great value to follow the money (in this case the gold) in the FED’s 1925 scheme to take down the stock market to cast the U.S. into the havoc of the Great Depression. This is all the more to increase the value of Mullins’ book and readers’ awareness of this nefarious act and organization. Continue reading
Whether it is Europe’s PIGS [Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain] or the United States of America’s crazies, unlike them all Iceland’s populace chose not to bailout foreign or domestic domination of their would-be banksters. And that is laudable, an existential act of choosing freedom, i.e., life versus financial strangulation under outrageous debt and usurious interest. Continue reading
A few days ago, I came upon a New York Times article, Obama Seeks to Win Back Wall St. Cash. The lead-in read, “A few weeks before announcing his re-election campaign, President Obama convened two dozen Wall Street executives, many of them longtime donors, in the White House’s Blue Room.” It wasn’t just to say hello. Continue reading
Number one, America isn’t broke. The problem is that the top 10 percent of Americans now earn around 50 percent of our national income. If you want a 90 percent figure, here it is. The top 1 percent owns 42.7 percent of all wealth, while the next 19 percent owns 48.4 percent of the wealth. This means the top 20 percent owns 93 percent of the wealth pie and leaves the remaining 80 percent of the population to fight over the remaining 7 percent of the crumbs. Continue reading
The war between fiat paper money and precious metals continues as the price of gold keeps going through the roof and the US paper debt-currency submerges. Continue reading
In this eye-opening NY Times article, Obama Sees ’67 Borders as Starting Point for Peace Deal, it was the first time a US president stated personally that Israel’s withdrawal of former Palestinian real estate claims must move back to 1967, and that whatever properties it felt must remain close-in could be negotiated in swapping for lands that Palestine disputed in Israel. Their border, in essence, could be worked out anew by the two states mutually, which came as a jolt to Israel. Continue reading
Well, here are a variety of examples picked from the tales from the Internet’s terror crypt: Al-Qaeda threatens Obama’s grandmother in Kenya. Forget about the ‘terrorble’ fact that Obama killed an unarmed Osama in the dark of night, shot him in the head twice and once in the body in the presence of his family. Why would a laid-back homey like Obama do that if not to spike his sagging popularity and tough-on-terror image, both of which did spike. And did Grandma care? No, she was okay with it. Continue reading
As the president’s ratings were sinking, his approval for four wars diminishing, and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner continued to push for a rise in the 14 billion plus national debt ceiling, Wall Street speculation was still driving up gas and food prices. What better time for Barack Obama to announce the assassination of Osama bin Laden by a team of Navy Seals. It’s a home-made bomb of good news to wipe away all the bad. Continue reading
As the president’s ratings continue to sink, his approval for four wars diminishes, and there is a rise in the 14 billion-plus national debt ceiling being pushed by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, all with Wall Street speculation driving up gas and food prices, what better time for Barack Obama to announce the assassination of Osama bin Laden by a team of Navy Seals. It’s a homemade bomb of good news to wipe away all the bad. Continue reading
The Guantanamo files recently released by WikiLeaks to the New York Times offer a Dossier that Shows A Push for More Terror Attacks after 9/11. This is ground we have been over before, and whose Muslim participants ended up in Guantanamo Bay or other prisons. The focus this time is on Sailfullah Paracha, “a successful businessman and for years a New York travel agent, [who] appears to be the oldest of the 172 prisoners still held at the Bay Prison. His dossier is among the most chilling [itals mine].” I wonder if he’ll ever get to collect his Social Security. Continue reading
Well, there’s young Tim again, trim and handsome little devil, as reported in the Washington Post, claiming that even if he uses “’extraordinary measures’ to prevent the United States from defaulting on its obligations, lawmakers will need to raise the legal limit on government borrowing by July 8. Continue reading
Fade in: the montage of a man and woman’s bodies embracing, covered with a silicate that glimmers like the radiation it contains. Beyond the memory of the silver screen, stark black and white, it’s 1960. I’m 22, holding my girlfriend’s hand in a Greenwich Village movie theater. The memory fades in, out, the pieces of story, the French actress, the Japanese architect, both married, the fleeting affair, the film titled Hiroshima Mon Amour, the seeming voyage into memory returning to these bodies, faces, two people, trying to climb from a sandy memory hole, looking for love in self-forgiveness, connecting through trust and flesh. But is it too late? Continue reading
Noon, Saturday, April 9, 2011, New York City: the kick-off time for the “Bring the Troops Home Now” rally, gathering in Union Square for a march down Broadway to Foley Square. Continue reading
As pointed out in 911jobforums, as the death toll of first responders nears 1,000, local politicians are demanding that autopsy standards be developed to pinpoint the causes. The number of Ground Zero first responders has risen past 916 to date, yet oddly no one knows what really killed them. Continue reading
Ellen Brown is most recently the author of Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money System and How We Can Break Free (2007, 2010). And from this amazing book, I derived my article The Fed’s War on America’s People. Continue reading
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9/11 Truth splits its impact
Posted on September 9, 2011 by Jerry Mazza
I don’t know whose bright idea it was to take some of the best minds of the 9/11 Truth Movement and go to Toronto to conduct International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001. Its linked position paper reads like a statement restating the now obvious findings of the last decade. Or was this just a reason to get out of the country to say the unsayable or to visit that same Canada now trying to shove the poisonous Keystone XL pipeline down our gullets? Continue reading →