Monthly Archive for February, 2007

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9/11 Truth Now: A Call to Action – from TruthAction.org

February 8, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Remember remember, the eleventh of September,
The government’s treasonous plot!
I see no reason why the government’s treason
Should ever be forgot!

On the Eleventh Day of Every Month

We Unite in Action for Truth

Polls demonstrate that 84% of the American public rejects the official account of what happened on September 11th 2001. Polls in Europe, Canada and the Islamic world have yielded similar results. Numerous prominent officials from around the world have gone on record expressing profound disbelief of the official narrative. Rapidly growing numbers are convinced that members of the Bush administration were not only grossly negligent in the days and months leading up to 9/11 but active participants in the attacks themselves.

We are in the midst of a mass awakening.

Like the Warren Commission before it, the Zelikow commission – appointed to investigate the pivotal event that “changed everything” – has proved a whitewash, a cover-up of a mass murder that reeks of official complicity. Millions of citizens have joined the family members of the victims in calling for a new investigation. Dying first responders – cynically exploited in the aftermath of the attacks and now cast aside as political liabilities – have pleaded for justice. Their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

9/11 is the foundational myth upon which the entire neocon agenda is predicated. Every civil liberty curtailed, every passage hacked from the Bill of Rights, every torture camp built by Halliburton, every child murdered in Iraq – all of these have but one justification: 9/11.

Yet leaders of the peace movement have avoided the truth about 9/11, forfeiting the one issue capable of putting a stop to this madness.

And Democratic leaders, for their part, have not only assisted with the cover-up but embraced the War on Terror myth with vigor, threatening to outflank the neocons from the far right.

Our leaders have promised us a hundred year war.

We are promising them that they will not succeed.
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Pro 9/11 Truth article from AlterNet

February 6, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , .

9/11: The Case Isn’t Closed

By Sander Hicks, AlterNet. Posted February 2, 2007.

No matter what you believe about who was responsible for 9/11, and how it went down, we’re all amazed at how much political capital the events of that day produced for this administration: A bipartisan consensus on torture; an era of permanent war; detentions without trial; “no fly” lists for activists; the Bill of Rights gone with the wind, and a cowed professional media willing to self-censor and suppress pertinent information. The 9/11 “America Attacked” story has distracted us from the natural outrage we should feel over illegal wiretaps, stolen elections, hundreds of billions of dollars missing at the Pentagon, war profiteering, Enron and Cheney’s secret energy policy.

But with Bush’s popularity at a record low, a Zogby poll shows that over 40 percent of Americans now think there has been a “coverup” around 9/11. A more recent poll conducted at the Scripps-Howard/University of Ohio found more than a third of those asked said it was likely that “people in the federal government either assisted in the 9/11 attacks or took no action to stop the attacks because they wanted the United States to go to war in the Middle East.”

So, it’s probably no surprise that the propaganda mills of the State Department have recently been cranking out attack websites, targeting 9/11 skepticism. And it’s not a shocker that the normal channels of media have followed suit (Time, New York Times, etc.) What’s weird is how similar the attacks sound in the hallowed halls of “respectable” left political opinion. A recent column on AlterNet by the Progressive‘s Matthew Rothschild matched the recent bromides of Counterpunch‘s Alexander Cockburn. In both pieces, the way 9/11 has been questioned was attacked, with no alternatives suggested. Instead, questioning 9/11 at all was belittled with sweeping generalizations.

“The Left should be leading this 9/11 movement, not taking potshots from outside.”

What happened to critical thinking? I thought “the Left” believed that the system’s power is based on lies, exploitation and a media controlled by its own culture of overly cautious professionalism. The Left should be leading this 9/11 movement, not taking potshots from outside. Unfortunately, some of the movement’s theories, like “the towers came down through a controlled demolition” sound esoteric at first blush. The “No Plane Hit the Pentagon” theory is a loose thread in a maze going nowhere.

The Left has no right to ignore or insult people for trying to assemble the puzzle that is 9/11.

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Bush submits $2.9 trillion budget

February 5, 2007 0 Comments Tags: , , .

What a surprise. He’s cutting domestic programs (though they like to use the term “savings” instead of “cuts”), giving even more to defense, and claiming this is all in our country’s best interest.

What a perfect example of why I’m fighting this fight, our country is being dismantled and starved, piece by piece, a little more taken every day when people aren’t looking. The success of the 9/11 Truth Movement would change all of this. Suddenly there would be no War on Terror to fund and we could actually focus on our country.

Let me say this again: the War on Terror is a lie and our children will be the ones paying for it. $700 billion more to the military? When our defense budget is already more than the rest of the world’s combined? Who do you think puts that in their pockets? Follow the money. How are people still not making the connection?

WAKE UP AMERICA. Forget Iraq. Forget Afghanistan. The real terrorist is the one who just submitted this budget.

US President George W Bush has submitted a $2.9 trillion budget to Congress including almost $700bn in new military spending.

Much of the money is earmarked for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The 2008 budget also sets out plans to curb domestic spending, including $66bn savings over five years from Medicare.

It is the first budget Mr Bush has presented to a Congress dominated by Democrats, who have been strong critics of his fiscal policies.

“(The budget) reflects the priorities of our country at this moment in its history, protecting the homeland and fighting terrorism.”
- President Bush

If congress did approve the request, the US would have spent $661.9bn on combat in Iraq and Afghanistan since the war began, the administration said.

Another area of spending was oil – with $168m to be spent filling strategic stockpiles of crude.

As well as the cuts to Medicare – the health insurance program for 43 million retirees and disabled people – Mr Bush’s proposed savings also include $12bn from reducing eligibility to Medicaid – a health program for children and the poor.

“My formula for a balanced budget reflects the priorities of our country at this moment in its history, protecting the homeland and fighting terrorism, keeping the economy strong with low taxes and keeping spending under control,” Mr Bush said in a statement.

He predicted a deficit in the year to October 1 2007 of $244bn and said the country could be in a surplus by 2012.

Senate Budget committee chairman Kent Conrad, a Democrat, was sceptical of the projections.

“The president’s budget is filled with debt and deception, disconnected from reality, and continues to move America in the wrong direction,” he said.

“This administration has the worst fiscal record in history and this budget does nothing to change that.”

Now that the budget has been presented, it will be debated by Congress at length, and is likely to face many changes.

This Federal budget covers spending from 1 October 2008; but in many past years, Congress has failed to reach agreement on the budget before that date.

From BBC News