An astounding video uncovered from the archives today shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows a BBC reporter talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head.
2008 is just around the corner. Already, the field of presidential candidates is growing. We have Richardson, Clinton, Obama, Romney, Hunter, Biden, and Edwards declared. We have at least McCain and Giuliani preparing. There's no incumbent. There's no vice president heir apparent. It's shaping up to be a tough, expensive race with huge stakes. The good news is that it will be decided by the ballot box. But is that system still safe and fair? Can we trust the election results? Author Steve Freeman believes that we cannot. We'll examine his findings and his claim that the way U.S. elections are conducted threatens democracy.
“Nemesis is a five-alarm warning about flaming militarism, burning imperial attitudes, secret armies, and executive arrogance that has torched and consumed the Constitution and brought the American Republic to death's door. Johnson shares a simple, liberating, and healing path back to worthy republicanism. But the frightening and heart-breaking details contained in Nemesis suggest that the goddess of retribution will not be so easily satisfied before ‘the right order of things’ is restored.”
—Karen Kwiatkowski, retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
It began as a tiny internet film attacking the 'lies' surrounding 9/11. Now, millions of people have heard its message. Like it or loathe it, you can't ignore Loose Change, says Ed Pilkington in the British Guardian Newspaper.
"Sy Hersh tells us that the echos of Iran Contra weighed heavily in Negroponte's decision to resign his post and is claiming that Bush is funneling money without authorization or oversight that has ended up in the hands of Sunni jihadist groups.
The President is taking his notion of executive privilege to the extreme—-running covert operations, using money that's not authorized by Congress…Negroponte is too ethical for Cheney…"
Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter, Washington
"SOME of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly placed defence and intelligence sources."
A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the Bush administration’s behest that makes it easier for a president to override local control of law enforcement and declare martial law.
Iraq: The Hidden Story
By: Nicole Belle @ 2:50 PM - PST
What the media isn't showing in Iraq: (h/t Hardliner)
It's a gut-wrenching 49 minutes, but worth your time. Americans, these actions are being done in our name. This is our legacy.
My hope is that showing videos such as this one and bringing you the information that the traditional media downplays or hides that it propel you to take action. Call your elected officials, even if they are Republicans. Demand that they stand by their actions in the face of reality, instead of White House spin. Write them. Email them. Call news organizations and demand the same.
The Beltway media and politicians are insulated and isolated. It's going to take a huge tidal wave from outside the Beltway for them to wake up.
Please, please …email this to every person you know, no matter what side of the war/occupation they fall in.
Zbigniew Brzezinski statements. It would, he suggested, involve "Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a 'defensive' US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan." [Emphasis added].
I refer all to the Libretto from the Naulahka by Kipling and Balastier:
"Now, it is not good for the Christian’s health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: ‘A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.’"
It is our epitaph
straight shooter | 02.17.07 - 7:43 pm
Misdirection
Texas First State To Require HPV Vaccinefirst state to require girls entering the sixth grade to receive the HPV vaccine, beginning in September 2008. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Gardasil, a vaccine that prevents several strands of the sexually transmitted disease human papillomavirus (HPV), in June 2006. Gardasil is approved for women ages nine-26 to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18.
By: Nicole Belle on Monday, February 5th, 2007 at 1:09 PM - PST
Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) on Friday issued an executive order that made Texas the
