Critical Thinking in Critical Times

Taken from for911aintright 's Blog at Myspace

Election Day looms near and the politicians hit the trails in full force in trying to sway the voters to back their respective parties. The platforms vary from smear tactics, taxes, economy, environment, support of the never ending war on terror (which is like the war on drugs; no defined enemy and no end to the prosecutable... a circular argument), integrity, racial and religious embraces etc. etc, same ole same ole as far as the presented issues go, but how many campaign on the seedier side of government?

Apparently, any issue is fair game except for those issues that might tend to shed light on the immorality of war, the apathy towards life, 911, the hidden agenda's, in essence anything that casts them in an unfavorable stance as viewed by the people.

Those who do raise these or other unfavorable issues apparently wind up "in harms way" and in effect are muzzled. John F. Kennedy wanted changes and five days before that fateful day he had as much as stated that he would "tear down the CIA brick by brick". He also wanted out of Asia.

However, the motorcade route was re-routed at the last minute to swing through Dealey Plaza. The Warren Commission's report never did sit well with the American public and was re-opened in the 70's with the same outcome, the all too puzzling magic bullet. Corporate influenced war is big business.

If any of you have the opportunity, a good question to raise which is one I strongly feel should be asked of every politician:

Should government pensions be either granted or revoked at the end of term by vote?

I just want to know how close they toe the line "of the people, by the people, for the people". They should answer yes, shouldn't they?

911 was a horrific day, not some "wonderful reminder" as Donald Rumsfeld contends his display of plane debris upon his coffee table is. He has his trophy, we have our scars.

Did they look the other way and allow 911 to happen?

DEFINITELY! I knew we were under attack when the first plane hit. I read the book by Josseff Bodansky who was on the Republican's Terrorism Task Force. It was called Target America and was published in 1993.

Sen. McCollum (R) Florida even wrote the forward in which he stated quite succinctly that the American people should be made aware of the threats posed by Muslim extremists. Mr. Bodansky had written several books pre and post 911. He wrote the Bin Laden book days after 911 but it was obvious that our leaders knew well in advance we faced a threat and specifically the WTC. If they didn't stop them, wouldn't that put them with the terrorists? 911 is such a pivotal moment in world history a thorough investigation is a necessity.

Did they benefit? Unquestionably! Did they plan it? Now this is the mother of all questions and knowing the government think-tanks look forward, PNAC implicates itself in desiring methodology to facilitate change.

PNAC mentions that only another Pearl Harbor would rally the people to the expenditure of their desired increase in military budgeting.

There are also many instances of what are called "false flag" operations within the CIA but for brevity's sake I won't delve into that dark world. Exposing the "Family Jewels" scares them all. It scares us. Isn't that terror?

The hypocrisy within the administration is so rampant; duplicity in meaning is likely a private joke. They can hardly restrain their glee. Those "catch phrases" like "We want a lasting piece in the Middle East". Watch their facial expressions. Do I know this for certain? No, but it isn't any stranger a fiction than 911.

If on the other hand our elected officials didn't see 911 coming (which is highly doubtful since Intel from many sources pointed directly at it) then they at the very least are all grossly incompetent for not "waking up and smelling the coffee".

The flip side is what leaves so many people seeking the truth. Conspiracy theorists and I am proud to proclaim that I am amongst them in this case, see ourselves as true Patriots, asking painful questions, seeking justice for victim's as well as searching for a justification for two wars and gearing up for a third.The Eisenhower strike group is expected to be off the coast of Iran Oct 21st with PTDO's "prepare to deploy orders".

Those of us seeking the truth amid the lack of evidence are labeled as domestic terrorists ourselves under the vagueness contained within the Patriot Act. It should also be mentioned that this Act was passed by a congress that hadn't even read it which is why one Republican refused to sign it. I'd grant him his pension! ... Well, maybe not, whether he signed it is the issue.

I seek the truth because there are too many holes in the official explanation, however, for brevity's sake and considering that thesis alone would take volumes to present I will leave it there except for a few of the more compelling points.

The question most commonly asked in criminal activity investigations is Qui Bono. Who stands to gain?

In seeking evidence to either prove or disprove one comes across a barrage of information, It is so polluted with misinformation that sifting through the volumes is tedious at best and futile at worst. This is the result of non-public disclosure. But the truth is out there even if you can't see the forest through the trees. Bringing this house of cards down will end it all.

Who what when where why and so many questions...

Stock puts on the airlines.

Of the 100 billion in gold under the WTC, only 280 million was recovered ... already loaded on a truck.

On Sept 10th it was widely reported that the Pentagon was missing 2.3 or 3 trillion dollars (either way a sizeable amount) which irony of ironies the audit was taking place in the same place struck by the Arab terrorists from Saudi Arabia; armed with box-cutters (who somehow managed to beat our entire air defense due to an "exercise" and "stand down orders").

The anomaly of later that day was WTC7, approximately half the height of the towers; it received more damage than other possible candidates that were in closer proximity to the towers themselves. Not much video evidence exists of this anomaly since most of the media outlets were filming the rubble pile of the WTC's themselves, and subsequently collapsed around 5:20 that afternoon. Considering that Larry Silverstein recently acquired the WTC lease to a tune of millions and the insurance payoff was in the billions... but I digress.

WTC7 housed a number of federal agencies; the SEC is the only one I will comment on. All records were destroyed... some 3000 investigations into stock fraud, insider trading etc. that included (to name one) Enron. If you recall, many people lost their pensions and something like 1.1 billion was in question. My figure might not be entirely accurate, I'm doing this from memory and there is a lot of info out there.

As if these weren't motive enough, we have the Military Industrial Complex with no bid contracts, conflicts of interest, the Caspian pipeline, and Iraq. Oil seems to be prominent in reasoning here.

If our trusted government was complicit of the events of 911 they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

They broke just about every law in the book... if proven guilty that is. There is always plausible denial. Such an argument might be raised if it were necessary to manipulate a global scenario for the future security of the Nation.

The moral question, that thin line in the sand of killing a few to save many; the "collateral damage" of any war is justified ... to them. It is a life, regardless of callous attitudes that declare it a statistic. Once you shake hands with the devil you become good friends.

Taking a life shouldn't be easy so what could possibly compel a government to do so in vogue, with high tech weaponry that ongoing Research and Development pumps out in increasing numbers?

Does the morality of "where all are created equal with inalienable rights" only apply to what side of the line you stand on?

This is hypocrisy of the highest order to those on the other side of the line. The security has just increased in magnitude at a cost of both arms and lives, which is also proportional to the increase in those who would return the favor in thanks.

This is the immorality of 21st century man. You're either with us or against us.

Jesus must be scratching his head wondering what is it about love one another we fail to understand. He'd describe us all as being in the same boat all paddling in the same direction but the boat is round and we fools never saw it.

But again, I digress.

Apparently, destruction of evidence is acceptable and there is no accountability. We the people have in effect put our trust in a man who knows what is best for us and how much we should know.

I'd call that Faith. We were let down.

The chain of evidence from any crime scene is crucial to prosecution, which follows a thorough investigation. There is nothing to investigate we are told. America has become the land where Justice is blind and for sale. The land where truth is a flavor and the media we trust to keep us informed is nothing more than a commercial, pitching us the flavor of the day.

The great Nation "America" ...once was; is now seen as the bullies on the block to the global community. We push democracy on foreign soils while failing miserably at home. We should be ashamed since "of the people, by the people, and for the people" makes us all guilty by association.

The only way to salvage world trust is to "clean house". Election Day draws near and by responsibility one must vote.

The problem is, with a tri-party system and the leading two parties undesirable and the third party lacking support being ineffectual - in fact the third party was probably instilled to be a "split vote", we find ourselves by necessity of voting the lesser of two evils.

I once heard it said that a Democrat will hurt you but a Republican will kill you. Apparently the affluent potential is there. I heard somewhere else "do not vote your conscience and vote Democrat, we need to stop them and deal with the Democrats later." and this sounded desperate. Has Green ever won? Perhaps the third party should be for times as these as a refuge?

Can anyone of moral integrity cast such a vote in good conscience? I for one, being a resident alien (coming to this country thinking it was the best the world had to offer - from Canada no less) am not even granted a vote yet until I become a citizen.

Does taking the pledge of Allegiance, abiding by the Constitution and "defending the country from enemy either foreign or domestic" mean that I should question egregious abuses or should I wait until the Constitutional rights of free speech, right to assemble etc. are revoked/rewritten? <>

The moral dilemma is either speaking out against ones government which is in essence treasonous, or just watch as the country becomes more and more over time, impotently victimized. Should I stand in apathy since there are few willing to stand on the issue? Can anything even be done?

Only those with knowledge can make a difference. Only when they have a strong foundation of support beneath them will they come forward.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Like the Warren commission this will be forgotten in time. That is what they hope anyway. It's like Billy Krystol who sat at the head of PNAC said "is it that big a deal". Such callousness towards those on this side of the line shows a drastic policy change. I guess with so many lines its hard to know where you drew that line to begin with.

Do I even have a right to vocalize my concern? For the sake of humanity I hope so. Would I be defending you if I allowed it to happen given what I know about the events of 911?

Under the pledge of Allegiance I am supposed to.

Am I doing what is best for the country knowing that world opinion of America has pitted at an all-time low? Would I risk indefinite detention without legal representation, possibly being tortured for this country if I didn't care for it? Will I be shot for writing this? Should I leave my wife to protect her? So many questions.

The government could end all this in an instant.

All they have to do is disclose. Give the evidence to the people. Thats all that is needed to end all the conspiracy theories and restore global opinion. It is when there is a void that a speculation occurs. They should know this, why else would it be kept hidden from the peoples view if there were nothing to hide. Many know and fear repercussions.

Many were unaware of the end result in there little part. Once the truth comes out the evidence comes forth. More than likely, the top of the tree is insulated from view by all the branches. Like the impeachment of Nixon, the evidence presented itself. And for those who need to do the impeaching, ask yourself what is right? But that is also assuming that the American people are willing to stand up. And also that there are any of you who aren't in on it.

The problem is, the government is creating this reality. They utilize the media and are fabricating the path from truth. Popular Mechanics ran extensive proof and yet on a radio show in Arizona, Charles Goyette was interviewing Davin Coburn who was caught in a lie. If this whole thing wasn't so tragic it would have been funny. Unfortunately I think we all fell down a notch on the humor ladder.

The troops are becoming demoralized since they too see that there are serious questions surrounding 911. They are sent to secure a foreign Nation and in so doing take lives.

This is a far cry from the Honor Guard that was assigned watch at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier during Hurricane Isabelle and refused the offer to evacuate until the storm passed. The pride of those men in replying "no way, it was the highest honor" and the fact that the tomb is guarded 24/7 is what made this country great. They know what the colors mean.

Will it become PC to burn the flag too or is it already?

It is time for all men to judge themselves. Only through your will can there ever be we the people again.

We live in a schizophrenic world if taken as a sum total of all views. Is it any wonder it is so dysfunctional?

Perhaps a new strategy should be sought? Foreign policy seems to be failing unless you market arms. Perhaps you guys could take a vacation or something? Oh yeah, I forgot that 100 year war.

I wish, no I Pray that there are those within government that would take a stand on these issues. They would be the true Patriots that guide us through sound logic and reasoning... they would get my vote in a heartbeat,... had I a vote to cast. All I can do is Pray, and let Jesus count mine.

Freedom... I do not think that word means what you think it does.

Excerpts from

They Thought They Were Free

The Germans, 1933-45

Milton Mayer

"What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if the people could not understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it."

You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn’t see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk, alone; you don’t want to ‘go out of your way to make trouble.’ Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty."

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, ‘everyone’ is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, ‘It’s not so bad’ or ‘You’re seeing things’ or ‘You’re an alarmist.’"

The sad thing is, they did not have access to outside information like we do. They also did not have a recent historical parallel to compare and contrast their situation with. To a small extent, the naivity of the German people makes their actions excusable. We, contemporary Americans, have no such forgivable ignorance. Our ignorance is willful and malignantly self feeding.

Welcome to the New Normal

"For the last five years the Bush cabal has successfully conditioned the population to its “New Normal,” the new America. It has manipulated both society and laws to accept gross violations of human rights, a suppression of liberties, and an authoritarian paradigm of disturbing wickedness. It is preparing us to incorporate into American law and culture the mechanisms used in totalitarian states. Using the incomprehensible ignorance and apathy of the American people against us, it has clandestinely destroyed the foundation of our principles and virtues. Using its vast power, its legions of authoritarians, its army of stenographers and it great arsenal of tools at its disposal, it has inexplicably made the American people tolerant and even acceptant of torture, rape, humiliation, illegal imprisonment, disappearances and criminal malfeasance, something thought unthinkable just years ago. The New Normal has become a reality, the new America now routinely tortures and inflicts horrible pain and suffering on human beings, all to the indifference and acceptance of the American people..." -Manuel Valenzuela



It is probably too late. By the time most Americans realize there is a problem, it will defintely be too late... Read the rest of the article Valenzuela wrote. America the Tyranny To anyone who frequents Post Apocalyptic, it might seem like old news. Well, I got this off of the Google most popular news articles of the day page. Hopefully this old news is starting to be heard by everyone.

Reality somehow makes the news

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A Nation Redefined... Lost

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History Spins Right Round, Baby! Right 'Round...

Leaving his closed-door meeting with the House GOP caucus, Bush said he "reminded them that the most important job of government is to protect the homeland."

Miene Fatherland Uber Alles? I don't think so. If I recall correctly neither Bush nor any other members of the US Government swore an oath to protect the "Homeland". No, the Oaths they all swore were about protecting and defending the Constitution from all enemies both foreign and domestic. You see it was set up that way because that is what really matters. People die, buildings burn, but liberty is worth the price.

It goes back to the old saying "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees". Patrick Henry said it with perfect simplicity, "Give me liberty or give me death!" I have often paraphrased it like this, "If the price I have to pay for my children to be free, is the possibility that the guy next to me on a plane or bus might blow up and kill me? Deal! No problem. You got it. If it happens, I die free. Oh yeah, and it beats the hell outta cancer!"

Someone needs to remind our devoted representatives that the most important job of our government is protecting and defending the Freedom that cherish. Would you give your life to secure that freedom for your children? Or would you sell your children into slavery for the false sense of security given to you by your new masters?

News From the Other side

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Dirty...

A Post Apocalyptic would like, at this time, to change subjects for a moment and appreciate the arts. Well, just the blues really. I figured I'd share my latest song with you... For those who know me, it may answer a few questions. For those interested in hearing it, you're gonna have to play it for yourself. It is a standard 1-4-5-4-1 Blues in A minor starting on the low E. For the beat, open this page in another window and click the play/start button on the picture.

Enjoy.

The title is

"Dirty"

Cold as hell. Look in your eyes/
That day when you dropped your disguise/
Lookin back why was I surprised/
By a spoiled brat’s two-faced lies?
You did me wrong
You did me mean
you did me dirty

You cut me deep, left these scars/

Sucker punched, I’m still seein' stars/

In love and war, no holds barred/

But you went and took it way too far/
you did me wrong
you did me mean
you did me dirty

Left alone. Left for dead/

With scary thoughts up in my head/

Wonderin’ if the life I'd led/

Was now bein' lived by him instead/
he did me wrong
he did me mean
Your boy did me dirty


All that time. All those years/

Of tellin' you my darkest fears/

Well here's to you. Fuckin’ cheers/

You are the best at faking tears!/
you did me wrong
you did me mean
you did me dirty

Give it up, that no longer works/

Those dead inside can not be hurt/

You tore my heart out through my shirt/

Buried deep. I’m still tasting dirt/
you did me wrong
you did me mean
you did me dirty

Didn't kill me. Made me stronger/

Bet you thought I was goner/

Well princess, you always wrong/

And you ain’t gettin your way any longer/
you did me wrong
you did me mean
you did me dirty

You dealt the cards. The deck was stacked/

You dealt me into hell’s crack/

But guess what. Guess who's back/

You did your best. It’s my attack/
To do ya wrong
To do ya mean
Yeah do ya dirty-

Took my soul and you burned it/

Stuck the knife in and you turned it/

But here's somethin you ain't learned yet/

Revenge is sweet and you've fuckin' earned it
Wanna do ya wrong
Gonna do ya mean
Gotta do ya dirty

You know all about wrong
And you all mean

And you’re dirty

2005 © Blasted Reality

And finally, The Line is Drawn.

"XI. Conclusion
For all of the reasons outlined above, this court is constrained to grant to Plaintiffs the Partial
Summary Judgment requested, and holds that the TSP violates the APA; the Separation of Powers
doctrine; the First and Fourth Amendments of the United States Constitution; and the statutory law.
DefendantsÂ’ Motion to Dismiss the final claim of data-mining is granted, because litigation
of that claim would require violation of DefendantsÂ’ state secrets privilege."


Here's what that means...
If you are an American. If you care one bit for your country, your ancestry, the ideals upon which this Nation was founded... You must read this! This is where the battle for freedom is being fought. This is where the Constitution will make its last stand. What comes next must be the most important discussion in the History of this country.
Will we be a Nation of Law or a Nation of Men? Liberty or Tyranny? The White House will not stop its activities and the POTUS will declare himself above the law of this Court and its decree. If that is allowed to happen, then all every American before us struggledsacrificeded and bled for has been for nothing. Will we as a people give up everything we are in fear? In two hundred years, over two million Americans have laid down there lives to give us this Freedom. How can we trade that for the lives of just you and me?

Right... so where's the bridge you are selling?

Still think that the evidence is all in on 9-11. Hidden in the news today was this little blurb,

"Authorities release 9-11 911 operators calls, sans victims voices."

Confused? Well, the government has released tapes recorded on 9-11 from the WTC, but has decided that after showing the buildings explode, victims pulled from the wreckage, videos of people jumping to their deaths, and every possible scare tactic that they could think of, it would be too hard on the victim's families to hear what the people inside of the towers were witnessing.
Of course, the calls which support the Official Story, which have been proven to be fabrications and or lies, are still there for anyone to hear.

Thought for the day. The FBI has announced that they have absolutely no hard evidence linking Osama Bin Laden to 9-11. But don't they have a copy of the Bin Laden Confession Tape which was found by Coalition Forces in Afghanistan 4 years ago? Yes they do. Therefore, the tape must have turned out to be fake. Well then, who has the capacity to create, plant and exhibit said tape while simultaneously silencing any media outlet wishing to report the hoax? Yeah, another great coincidence I guess.

Abstract and Distract, is Wak that gets That.

Here is the latest revelation about the Conspiracy of 9-11. Wow, NORAD and the FAA lied about their response.

And in other news...
Here is the Abstract from a Keynote Speech and Paper written by one of the guys who first proposed the Pancake Theory. See if you can find any problems with it.

Mechanics of Progressive Collapse:
Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions
Zden·ek P. Ba·zant, F. ASCE, and Mathieu Verdure

Abstract: Progressive collapse is a failure mode of great concern for tall buildings, and is also typical of building demolitions. The most infamous paradigm is the collapse of World Trade Center towers. After reviewing the mechanics of their collapse, the motion during the crushing of one
floor (or group of floors) and its energetics are analyzed, and a one-dimensional continuum model of progressive collapse is developed. Rather than using classical homogenization, it is found more effective to characterize the continuum by en energetically equivalent snap-through. The collapse,
in which two phases crush-down followed by crush-up must be distinguished, is described in each phase by a nonlinear second-order differential equation for the propagation of the crushing front of a compacted block of accreting mass. Expressions for consistent energy potentials are formulated
and an exact analytical solution of a special case is given. It is shown that progressive collapse will be triggered if the total (internal) energy loss during the crushing of one story (equal to the energy dissipated by the complete crushing and compaction of one story, minus the loss of gravity potential
during the crushing of that story) exceeds the kinetic energy impacted to that story. Regardless of the load capacity of the columns, there is no way to deny the inevitability of progressive collapse driven by gravity alone if this criterion is satisfied (for the World Trade Center it is, with an order-
of-magnitude margin). The parameters are the compaction ratio of a crushed story, the fracture of mass ejected outside the tower perimeter, and the energy dissipation per unit height. The last is the most important, yet the hardest to predict theoretically. Using inverse analysis, one could identify
these parameters from a precise record of the motion of floors of a collapsing building. Due to a shroud of dust and smoke, the videos of WTC are useless here. It is proposed to obtain such records by monitoring the precise time history of displacements in different modes of building demolitions.
The monitoring could be accomplished by real-time telemetry from sacrificial accelerometers, or by high-speed optical camera. The resulting information on energy absorption capability would be valuable for the rating of various structural systems and for inferring their collapse mode under
extreme fire, internal explosion, external blast, impact or other kinds of terrorist attack, as well as earthquake and foundation movements.

OK, just for simplicity let us look at the proposed method of acquiring the information which will be used as the base values for; validating events previously theorized to have been progressive collapses, figuring out if an event is a progressive collapse, and predicting the likelihood of any progressive collapse in the future.

It is proposed to obtain such records by monitoring the precise time history of displacements in different modes of building demolitions.

Using inverse analysisis, (backwards scientific methodology?) these guys will utilize information gathered at controlled demolitions to extrapolate the likelihood of a completely disimilar event. Not, mind you, to contrast the differences, but to equate the similarities of the events even though one of them has explosives and the other one does not. I assume that the variable, blew up/ did not blow up, will be a major factor and not just a control group.

One more Defiant Supporter of the Absurd

For fun, let's look at the kinda crap I get constantly,

SnoopySuited wrote:
I would love to have a discussion with you about your video 'Rise', as it contains too many flaws and falacies to mention in the comments section on YouTube.

Blastedreality wrote:
By all means, fire away...


SnoopySuited wrote:
" First, the quotes are hard to read...but that's just semantics."

Hopefully that is all the semantic objections you bring up.

" I'm going to focus on your points that are either misleading or just wrong. You also have a lot of statements that are conjecture, but everyone has the right to their opinions and theories."

Thank you for your brevity.

"2:09 – you state that the 9/11 commission officially declared that the WTC was a collapse. They did not officially declare that. Experts in the field of structural engineering, fire engineering, metallurgy, ect. have said that it is likely that the WTC was brought down by the plane crash and fire. The Commission used that explanation in their report. A lot of people do not understand that the Commissions goal was not to determine what caused the collapse of the WTC, or what hit the pentagon. Rather, the Commission’s job was to find out how the US intelligence failed to see the impending terror strike. They went into their duty with the assumption that the events of 9/11 were the cause of a terrorist attack. It was not their goal to prove an alternative theory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_Commission (I don’t like using wikipedia as a source, but it serves the purpose here)"

From the Commission Homepage-
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.

...to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks,

As to why they failed to include any relevant "circumstances" such as Able Danger, WTC 7, or the actual design of either tower, I can only speculate. But they did state that the destruction of the towers was due to internal collapse and nothing else.

As to the experts... Please name them and show relevant experience in related fields. Eager of MIT, the first and most outspoken proponent of the White House Theory, has a great deal of experience in the field of welding and its usage in the pre-fabrication processes for manufactured homes. If the Towers were trailers, he'd be the man to ask. As is, no relevant expertise.

Why do you not like Wiki? Corrollary- Then why would you referrence it?

" 2:19 –again the 9/11 commission didn’t ‘blame’ anything for the collapse. That wasn’t their role."

See Above


2:37 – I assume you are stating that the explosions are evidence of bombs. It’s not. www.stupidcollege.com/items/electric-transformer-explosion There were several in the world trade center. My point is that presence of explosions is not evidence of the presence of bombs.

I am stating that there is nothing other than explosives that can create the effect seen on the videos. The upper floors tilt begin to topple forward, then disintergrate without any visible external force. No internal force other than explosives can explain the midair destruction. Seen here The destruction waves running down the sides of the Towers, Seen here and here similiarly can not be explained by any known force other than explosives.

"2:57 – Larry Silverstein did not use a demolition term to describe WTC 7. ‘Pull’ is firefighter term. Furthermore, how does the Silverstein statement make sense if we broke it down “We couldn’t control the fire in the building so instead we decided to blow the building up” If WTC was an insurance scam, or some sort of conspiracy, why did Silverstein money to rebuild"

Pull is also a term used in clay pidgeon shooting, but that is not how he used it. Your slanted paraphrasing also does not convey the subtext of his words. Here is what he said. Watch the whole minute and you get what he meant.
Here again you are arguing semantics, badly.
Also, the firemen had already been evacuated from the building long before its destruction. They were evacuated for this reason As show here


"3:20 – Mentions of explosions…see above."
Yep, See above. No wait. What you are saying is that explosions can only be the effect of what? Electrical transformers? Were there a number of them running down each tower, floor by floor? And could they be detonated in a rapid and descending sequence? Hmmm... interesting.

4:23 – Controlled demolition did not remove the remains of the WTC quickly. The effort took months. *notice the date> NewsdayandNewsday"

No, but Controlled Demolition Incorporated did. Noted here

4:56 – Again, it was not the role of the 9/11 commission to come up with a theory to why the buildings fell."

See Above

"5:08 – The ‘official explanation’ as you call it (fire and structural damage to WTC) did not break any laws of physics. PM How Stuff Works PBS"


You are correct. The Official Explanation does not break any rules of Physics. It does as paper and ink usually do. It sits and waits to be read. As for the event explained by the official explanation... Here You go


You have the right to your opinions…but you need to support them with evidence if you are going to present them to a public audience as if they are fact.

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do such. Of course, you did just ask for a fully referrenced and evidence supported rock and roll video. I would be interested in your take on any Tom Petty videos. I think it would be interesting.



I would suggest that you start with WTC 7 and go on to Here before you make up your mind about what happened.

-X

Poetry for P***y

Contested Poems?
Kennedy?
Alas, Lee. I hardly knew ye.

They would never do such a thing... right?

Still busy with my own legal nightmare, here's a little review.

Mind you this is just a timeline for one tiny section of a worldwide false flag operation which used terrorism to create its own situation with its own circumstances. Confusing prepositional phrase. Not to the PNAC . Follow the links to get the whole story. Was huge news somewhere. Anyone heard of Operation Gladio?

A quick chronology of Italy's "strategy of tension"

*1964 Operation Solo.

In 1964, Gladio was involved in a silent coup d'état when General Giovanni de Lorenzo in Operation Solo forces the Italian Socialists Ministers to leave the government ^[9].

*1969 Piazza Fontana bombing.

According to Avanguardia Nazionale member Vincenzo Vinciguerra: "The December 1969 explosion was supposed to be the detonator which would have convinced the politic and military authorities to declare a state of emergency" ^[10]

*1970, Golpe Borghese.

In 1970, the failed coup attempt Golpe Borghese gathered, around fascist Junio Valerio Borghese, international terrorist Stefano Delle Chiaie and P2 headmaster Licio Gelli.

*1972 Gladio meeting.

According to The Guardian, "General Geraldo Serravalle, a former head of "Office R", told the terrorism commission that at a crucial Gladio meeting in 1972, at least half of the upper echelons "had the idea of attacking the communists before an invasion. They were preparing for civil war." Later, he put it more bluntly: "They were saying this: "Why wait for the invaders when we can make a preemptive attack now on the communists who would support the invader? The idea is now emerging of a Gladio web made up of semi-autonomous cadres which – although answerable to their secret service masters and ultimately to the NATO-CIA command – could initiate what they regarded as anti-communist operations by themselves, needing only sanction and funds from the existing 'official' Gladio column (...) General Nino Lugarese, head of SISMI from 1981-84 testified on the existence of a 'Super Gladio' of 800 men responsible for 'internal intervention' against domestic political targets." ^[3]

*May 31, 1972, Peteano massacre.

Vincenzo Vinciguerra confessed in 1984 to judge Felice Casson of having carried out the Peteano terrorist attack, in which three policemen died, and for which the Red Brigades (BR) had been blamed before. Vinciguerra explained during his trial how he had been helped by Italian secret services to escape the police and to fly away to Francoist Spain. However, he was abandoned by NATO as soon as he started talking about Gladio, declaring for example during his 1984 trial:

"with the massacre of Peteano and with all those that have followed, the knowledge should now be clear that there existed a real live structure, occult and hidden, with the capacity of giving a strategic direction to the outrages. [This structure] lies within the states itself. There exists in Italy a secret force parallel to the armed forces, composed of civilians and military men, in an anti-Soviet capacity, that is, to organise a resistance on Italian soil against a Russian army... A super-organization which, lacking a Soviet military invasion which might not happen, took up the task, on NATO's behalf, of preventing a slip to the left in the politcial balance of the country. This they did, with the assistance of the official secret services and the political and military forces..." He then said to The Guardian, in 1990: "I say that every single outrage that followed from 1969 fitted into a single, organised matrix... Avanguardia Nazionale, like Ordine Nuovo (the main right-wing terrorist group active during the 1970s), were being mobilised into the battle as part of an anti-communist strategy originating not with organisations deviant from the institutions of power, but from within the state itself, and specifically from within the ambit of the state's relations within the Atlantic Alliance." ^{[3] [5]}

*November 23, 1973. Bombing of the plane Argo 16.

According to a December 1, 1990 article by The Independent, quoted by Statewatch, "General Geraldo Serravalle, head of Gladio from 1971 to 1974, told a television programme that he now thought the explosion aboard the plane Argo 16 on 23 November 1973 was probably the work of gladiatori who were refusing to hand over their clandestine arms. Until then it was widely believed the sabotage was carried out by Mossad, the Israeli foreign service, in retaliation for the pro-Libyan Italian government’s decision to expel, rather than try, five Arabs who had tried to blow up an Israeli airliner. The Arabs had been spirited out of the country on board the Argo 16.” ^[1]

*1974 Brescia massacre, Italicus Expressen massacre, and arrest of Vito Miceli, chief of the Army intelligence service and member of P2, on charges of "conspiration against the state".

In 1974, a massacre committed by Ordine Nuovo, during an anti-fascist demonstration in Brescia, kills eight and injures 102. The same year, a bomb in the Rome to Munich train "Italicus Express" kills 12 and injures 48. Also in 1974, Vito Miceli, P2 member, chief of the SIOS (Servizio Informazioni), Army Intelligence's Service from 1969 and SID's head from 1970 to 1974, got arrested on charges of "conspiration against the state" concerning investigations about Rosa dei venti, a state-infiltrated group involved in terrorist acts. During his trial, he revealed the existence of the NATO stay-behind secret army.

*1977. Reorganization of Italian secret services following Vito Micelli's arrest.

In 1977, the secret services were thus reorganized in a democratic attempt. With law#801 of 24/10/1977, SID was divided into SISMI (Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Militare), SISDE (Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica) and CESIS (Comitato Esecutivo per i Servizi di Informazione e Sicurezza). The CESIS was given a coordination role, led by the President of Council.

*1978's murder of Aldo Moro.

Prime minister Aldo Moro was murdered in May 1978 by the Second Red Brigades (BR) in obscure circumstances. The head of the Italian secret services, accused of negligence, was a P2 member. The so-called "historic compromise" between the Christian-Democracy and the PCI was abandoned:

"As the conspiracy theorists would have it, Mr. Moro was allowed to be killed either with the acquiescence of people high in Italy’s political establishment, or at their instigation, because of the historic compromise he had made with the Communist Party" (The Independent, November 16, 1990, quoted by Statewatch ^[1])

"During his captivity, Aldo Moro wrote several letters to various political figures, including Giulio Andreotti. In October 1990, "a cache of previously unknown letters written by the former Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, just prior to his execution by Red Brigade terrorists in 1978... was discovered in a Milan apartment which had once been used as a Red Brigade hideout. One of those letters made reference to the involvement of both NATO and the CIA in an Italian-based secret service, 'parallel' army", wrote The Irish Times on November 15, 1990 (quoted by Statewatch, ^[1]). "This safe house had been thoroughly searched at the time by Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, the head of counter-terrorism. How is it that the papers had not been revealed before?" asked The Independent on November 16, 1990 ^[1]. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa was murdered in 1982 (see below).

*1980 Bologna massacre.

"The makings of the bomb... came from an arsenal used by Gladio... according to a parliamentary commission on terrorism... The suggested link with the Bologna massacre is potentially the most serious of all the accusations levelled against Gladio, and comes just two days after the Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, cleared Gladio’s name in a speech to parliament, saying that the secret army did not drift from its formal Nato military brief", wrote The Guardian on January 16, 1991 (quoted by Statewatch ^[1]). In November 1995, Neo-Fascists terrorists Valerio Fioravanti and Francesca Mambro were convicted to life imprisonment as executors of the 1980 Bologna massacre, for which Gladio's direct influence was proven during the investigation; Licio Gelli, P2's headmaster, received a sentence for investigation diversion, as well as Francesco Pazienza and SISMI officers Pietro Musumeci and Giuseppe Belmonte. Avanguardia Nazionale founder Stefano Delle Chiaie, who was involved in the Golpe Borghese in 1970, was also accused of involvement in the Bologna massacre ^{[11] [6]}

*1982 murder of General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, head of counter-terrorism.

General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa's 1982 murder, in Palermo, by Pino Greco, one of the Mafia Godfather Salvatore Riina's (aka Toto Riina) favorite hitmen, is allegedly part of the strategy of tension. Alberto Dalla Chiesa had arrested Red Brigades founders Renato Curcio and Alberto Franceschini in September, 1974, and was later charged of investigation concerning Aldo Moro. He had also found Aldo Moro's letters concerning Gladio.

*October 24, 1990. Giulio Andreotti’s acknowledgment of Operazione Gladio.

After the discovery by judge Felice Casson of documents on Gladio in the archives of the Italian military secret service in Rome, Giulio Andreotti, head of Italian government, revealed to the Chamber of deputies the existence of "Operazione Gladio" on October 24, 1990, insisting that Italy has not been the only country with secret "stay-behind" armies. He made clear that "each chief of government had been informed of the existence of Gladio". Former Socialist Primer Minister Bettino Craxi claimed that he had not been informed until he was confronted with a document on Gladio signed by himself while he was Prime Minister. Former Primer Minister Giovanni Spadolini (Republican Party), at the time President of the Senate, and former Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani, at the time secretary of the ruling Christian Democratic Party clamied they remembered nothing. Spadolini stressed that there was a difference between what he knew as former Defence Secretary and what he knew as former Prime Minister. Only former Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga (DC) confirmed Andreotti's revelations, explaining that he was even "proud and happy" for his part in setting up Gladio as junior Defence Minister of the Christian Democratic Party. This lit up a political storm, requests were made for Cossiga's (Italian President since 1985) resignation or impeachment for high treason. He refused testifying to the investigating Senate committee. Cossiga narrowly escaped his impeachment by stepping down on April 1992, three months before his term expired ^[12].

*1998. David Carrett, officer of the U.S. Navy, is put under investigations on charge of political and military espionage and his participation to the 1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, among other events. Judge Guido Salvini also opened up a case against Sergio Minetto, Italian official for the US-NATO intelligence network, and pentito Carlo Digilio. La Repubblica underlined that Carlo Rocchi, CIA's man at Milan, was surprised in 1995 searching for information concerning Operation Gladio, thus demonstrating that all was not over ^[10].

1969 Piazza Fontana bombing, which started Italy's anni di piombo, and the 1974 "Italicus Expressen" train bombing were also attributed to Gladio operatives. In 1975, Stefano Delle Chiaie met with Pinochet during Franco's funeral in Madrid, and would participate afterward in operation Condor, preparing for example the attempted murder of Bernardo Leighton, a Chilean Christian Democrat, or participating in the 1980 'Cocaine Coup' of Luis García Meza Tejada in Bolivia. In 1989, he was arrested in Caracas, Venezuela and extradited to Italy to stand trial for his role in the Piazza Fontana bombing. Despite his reputation, Delle Chiaie was acquitted by the Assize Court in Catanzaro in 1989, along with fellow accused Massimiliano Fachini (as yet no convictions have been made for the attack). According to Avanguardia Nazionale member Vincenzo Vinciguerra: "The December 1969 explosion was supposed to be the detonator which would have convinced the politic and military authorities to declare a state of emergency" ^[10]

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The DSSA, another Gladio ?

In July 2005, the Italian press revealed the existence of the Department of Anti-terrorism Strategic Studies (DSSA), a "parallel police" created by Gaetano Saya and Riccardo Sindoca, two leaders of the National Union of the Police Forces (Unpf), a trade-union present in all the state security forces. Both claimed they were former members of Gladio. According to the DSSA website - closed after these revelations -, Fabrizio Quattrochi, murdered in Iraq after being taken hostage, was there "for the DSSA". According to the Italian investigators, the DSSA was trying to obtain international and national recognition by intelligence agencies, in order to obtain financement for its parallel activities. Furthermore, Il Messaggero, quoted by The Independent, declared that, according to judicial sources, wiretaps suggested Dssa members had been planning to kidnap Cesare Battisti, a former communist activist. "We were seeing the genesis of something similar to the death squads in Argentina" (the AAA groups) the magistrate is reported to have said.

A Letter to an Inspiration

Eric,
I felt compelled to write this. You have been an inspiration to thousands of artists, musicians, web designers and activists. You have taught us all that one voice can rise above the mediocrity and shame of our present condition and sound a clarion call. I understand your wish to quit now. I do not think you understand what you have meant to us all. And I really don't think you understand how vital to the cause you are. You have created the portal to information that so many people have used to become aware of the reality we live within and are responsible for. I will ask you once, at this time, do not give up your fight. Your view of what you do is self deprecated and minimalized. The world needs you. Please, carry on your fight. Win this fight.

-X

A Letter to a Spiritual Leader

Not sure who wrote this, but it is right on the money!!

Dear President Bush, Thank you for doing so much to educate people regarding God's Law. I have learned a great deal from you and understand why you would propose and support a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage. As you said, "in the eyes of God marriage is based between a man and a woman." I try to share that knowledge with as many people as I can. When someone tries to defend the homosexual lifestyle, for example, I simply remind them that Leviticus 18:22 clearly states it to be an abomination. End of debate.

I do need some advice from you, however, regarding some other elements of God's Laws and how to follow them:
1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboring nations. A friend of mine claims that this applies to Mexicans but not Canadians. Can you clarify? Why can't I own Canadians?

2. I would like to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. In this day and age, what do you think would be a fair price for her?

3. I know that I am allowed no contact with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual uncleanness - Lev. 15: 19-24. The problem is how can I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

4. When I burn a bull on the altar as a sacrifice, I know it creates a pleasing odor for the Lord - Lev.1:9. The problem is, my neighbors. They claim the odor is not pleasing to them. Should I smite them?

5. I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly states he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself, or should I ask the police to do it?

6. A friend of mine feels that even though eating shellfish is an abomination - Lev. 11:10, it is a lesser abomination than homosexuality. I don't agree. Can you settle this? Are there 'degrees' of abomination?

7. Lev. 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear reading glasses. Does my vision have to be 20/20, or is there some wiggle-room here?

8. Most of my male friends get their hair trimmed, including the hair around their temples, even though Lev. 19 expressly forbids this. How should they die?

9. I know from Lev. 11: 6-8 that touching the skin of a dead pig makes me unclean, but may I still play football if I wear gloves?

10. My uncle has a farm. He violates Lev. 19:19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton/polyester blend). He also tends to curse and blaspheme a lot. Is it really necessary that we go to all the trouble of getting the whole town together to stone them? (Lev. 24: 10-16). Couldn't we just burn them to death at a private family affair, like we do with people who sleep with their in-laws? (Lev. 20:14)

I know you have studied these things extensively and thus enjoy considerable expertise in such matters, so I am confident you can help. Thank you again for reminding us that God's word is eternal and unchanging.

$385 million for Halliburton to build detention centers?

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemller

When they came for the Muslims,
I said something.
When they came for the poor in New Orleans,
I said something.
When they came fothe disruptersrs, Protesters and Activists,
I said something.
When they came for Users, Choosers, and Losers,
I said something.
When they come for you, their supporters,
What would you like me to say?

-X

The Noble Cause in all Its Glory

The Airways to War. Fake Planes Anyone?

No One is Above the Law

Articles of Impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts: 1) Seizing power to wage wars of aggression in defiance of the U.S. Constitution, the U.N. Charter and the rule of law; carrying out a massive assault on and occupation of Iraq, a country that was not threatening the United States, resulting in the death and maiming of over one hundred thousand Iraqis, and thousands of U.S. G.I.s. 2) Lying to the people of the U.S., to Congress, and to the U.N., providing false and deceptive rationales for war. 3) Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties were unavoidable. 4) Instituting a secret and illegal wiretapping and spying operation against the people of the United States through the National Security Agency. 5) Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently changing its government by force and assaulting Iraq in a war of aggression. 6) Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. 7) Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks. 8) Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community. 9) Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant." 10) Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense. 11) Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government. 12) Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief. 13) Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry. 14) Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials. 15) Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime. 16) Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist." 17) Engaging in criminal neglect in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, depriving thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and other Gulf States of urgently needed support, causing mass suffering and unnecessary loss of life. 18) Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity. 19) Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions. 20) Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and rescission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.

Notes for the Consideration of Impeachment

V is for Vendetta...911

Your finger is in the hole, Thomas!

OK, The MSM will never cover this, but here is the preliminary report, from one of the smartest men in the world, about the facts behind 911. Watch the whole damn thing. You owe it to your country. Click the picture. This is real. This is really what happened. There is no longer a reasonable doubt as to the validity of the "Official 911 Report". The Nature of Information has always been and will always be infectious. Spread the disease, baby!

The Power of One

"Hitler induced a confused and frightened Hindenburg to sign a decree euphemistically called, 'For the Protection of the People and State,' suspending all of the basic rights of citizens and imposing the death sentence for arson, sabotage, resistance to the decree, and disturbances to public order. Arrests could be made on suspicion, and people could be sentenced to prison without trial or the right of counsel. The suspension was never lifted throughout the entire period of Nazi rule, and the decree of February 28th destroyed fundamental guarantees under the Weimar democracy."

Now why would I bring up this little bit of History?

SEC. 605. THE UNIFORMED DIVISION, UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE.

(a) In General- Chapter 203 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 3056 the following:

`Sec. 3056A. Powers, authorities, and duties of United States Secret Service Uniformed Division

`(a) There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the `United States Secret Service Uniformed Division'. Subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division shall perform such duties as the Director, United States Secret Service, may prescribe in connection with the protection of the following:"

And there is more:

From the ACLU Overview:

"The Department of Justice (DOJ) has been drafting comprehensive anti-terrorism legislation for the past several months. The draft legislation, dated January 9, 2003, grants sweeping powers to the government, eliminating or weakening many of the checks and balances that remained on government surveillance, wiretapping, detention and criminal prosecution even after passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, Pub. L. No. 107-56, in 2001.

Among its most severe problems, the bill

Diminishes personal privacy by removing checks on government power, specifically by

• Making it easier for the government to initiate surveillance and wiretapping of U.S. citizens under the authority of the shadowy, top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. (Sections 101, 102 and 107)
• Permitting the government, under certain circumstances, to bypass the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court altogether and conduct warrantless wiretaps and searches. (Sections 103 and 104)
• Sheltering federal agents engaged in illegal surveillance without a court order from criminal prosecution if they are following orders of high Executive Branch officials. (Section 106)
  

Diminishes public accountability by increasing government secrecy; specifically, by

• Authorizing secret arrests in immigration and other cases, such as material witness warrants, where the detained person is not criminally charged. (Section 201)
• Threatening public health by severely restricting access to crucial information about environmental health risks posed by facilities that use dangerous chemicals. (Section 202)
• Harming fair trial rights for American citizens and other defendants by limiting defense attorneys from challenging the use of secret evidence in criminal cases. (Section 204)
• Gagging grand jury witnesses in terrorism cases to bar them from discussing their testimony with the media or the general public, thus preventing them from defending themselves against rumor-mongering and denying the public information it has a right to receive under the First Amendment. (Section 206)

Diminishes corporate accountability under the pretext of fighting terrorism; specifically, by

• Granting immunity to businesses that provide information to the government in terrorism investigations, even if their actions are taken with disregard for their customers' privacy or other rights and show reckless disregard for the truth. Such immunity could provide an incentive for neighbor to spy on neighbor and pose problems similar to those inherent in Attorney General Ashcroft's "Operation TIPS." (Section 313)"

And so much more. Read the whole thing.Then go read the whole Patriot Act

Now comes the big question of the day... What can one person do about this? What can you do about this? Let us never forget the power of one person.

• One person fired the shot that started WWI.
• One person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
• One person refused to give up her seat on a bus.
• One person resisted British Imperialism in India with a hungerstrike.

A little over a year ago I was arguing with an ex-girlfriend of mine about the state of the Nation and the World. She posed the same question that I pose here.

"What can one person do about it?" I responded, "I don't know, but I am going to find out."

It has been a year. 100's of thousands of people have seen my work in the last year. The videos, banners, and of course, the writings that I have put here have reached a great many people. Have I done anything that has resulted in any real change? I honestly don't know. But a year ago my email was filled with hate letters and insults. Now I get a few thank you's and a lot of tips to information I haven't covered yet. I've done all that you have seen at Blasted Reality
and here at A Post Apocalyptic by myself. One person was able to touch a 100,000+ people in a year and spread the truth to them. Now for the best part. I am only getting started.

What can you do? There is no limit to that question. You can run for office. Get involved in local groups. Set up your own alt media website. Write letters to your local paper. Call your Representatives. The list goes on forever, all that matters is that you do something. It is not too late to fix this country. It is only to late to fix it from your couch while watching tv. If you don't do something now it will be too late to fix it peacefully. MAlcolm X talked about the "Ballot or the Bullet". Well, we are there now and the balllot has become corrupted. We either repair that recourse or we must accept that the alternative is the only option. I hope we can repair rather than revolt. But it isn't up to me... It's up to you.

The Effect of P.S.S.

An Invitation to the Dance

IT's finally Summer, Twenty-ought-six.
Welcome to the Apocalypse.
Brought to you by an evil mix
Of Corporate Christian hics and dicks.
Who's the guy on their Crucifix?
Why's their Heaven across the River Styx?
Only one way for a fix
Gas the jars, light the wics!

The shot clock's going to expire
Got no heroes, they been retired.
By the beast and his Sire.
Dont say shit, cuz we all wired.
Sheep climbing onto the Pyre
or sinking into that quagmire.
Hell Yeah I'll yell, "Bush is a liar!"
Sent from God? He'd be on Fire!

To protect/defend is what he swore.
Then the Constitution hit the floor.
The GAO said "Fraud 2004!"
But the media would say no more.
Cover Ann Coulter the Crack Whore
Not a word about the World War
both 3 and 4 are at the door.
Ain't no peace for us in store
Count it up. What's the score?
Of the Human Race? Nevermore!

As hope is turned into despair
and hopelessness fills the air.
with lost souls and lost stares.
the cowards warn "Beware! BE SCARED!"
The masses seem to be impaired.
They see the truth but they don't care!
who will Rise up? Who will Dare?
Who ain't feelin safe in the Viper's lair.
Raise the flag, light the flare.
Stand up and fight like you got a pair!

It's time to kill the debate.
We simply can't afford to wait
Tomorrow will be too late.
Now or never. Mark the date.
We took control of our fate
Warred for life, not for hate.
To them the pawns never rate.
But Pawns take King. Checkmate!

And now for something else completely different...

Now that we pretty much have to face the coming apocalyptic doom with nothing but alcohol, seretonin reuptake inhibitors, tranquilizers and an epidemic amount of methamphetamines to take the edge off that other crap, I thought it was about time for something not completely depressing. Ok, go watch this video. Belinda Bedakovski. Yes, there will be humping and straddling. Oh yeah, and damn speedy fingering too.

Think about this...

A Personal Decision

By Kevin Ryan
June 9th 2005

Have you ever found yourself caught between several hundred million people and their most cherished lies? After writing a letter to a government scientist, pleading with him to clarify a report of his work, I found myself in just that situation. The letter was circulated on the internet and for a brief time I became a reluctant celebrity. Of course I stand behind what I wrote, although it was originally intended as a personal message, not an open letter. Since many have asked for clarification, here is my message to all.

[For background to Kevin Ryan's personal story see� UQ Wire: Underwriter Speaks Out On WTC Study & UQ Wire: 9/11 Whistleblower Kevin Ryan Fired - UQ Wire Editor.]

To me, the report in question represents a decision point, not just for the US, but for humanity as a whole. We're at a point where we must decide if we will live consciously, or literally give up our entire reality for a thin veneer of lies. In the US these lies include cheap propaganda that passes for journalism, police-state measures that promise security, and mountains of debt that paint a picture of wealth. Additionally we've adopted many implicit self-deceptions, like the idea that we'll always enjoy a limitless share of the world's resources, no matter where these are located or who might disagree.

All people lie to themselves. It's one of the most important things we have yet to accept about our own nature. We lie to ourselves to justify our past actions, to protect our self-image, and to promote ourselves relative to others. This lying is at the root of many of our problems (e.g. nationalism and racism). Until we see this, and strive to understand if not control it, the resulting problems will continue unchecked and the outcome will be certain. Any organism or society that makes self-deception its modus operandi will make many bad, and ultimately fatal, decisions. The day will come when we are collectively fooling ourselves in such a way that we essentially trade everything we have for what's behind our fantasy curtain. It appears that day is near.

The official conspiracy theory of 9/11 is a key part of our current self-deception. More importantly, this story may be our last chance to see just how critical our situation is so that we can all stop, and begin working together to solve the real problems we face. These problems, for the US and the world as a whole, amount to a growing storm of factors including environmental changes, resource depletion, and growth in resource usage.[1,2] Undoubtedly the secret Energy Taskforce report of May 2001 would verify this, and help us to understand that our government is responding to some of these threats with a carefully laid out plan. This plan assumes that people cannot rise above their own natural, ego-based self-deception, and therefore few of us will survive the coming storm. In essence, they're betting against us.

Anyone who honestly looks at the evidence has difficulty finding anything in the official story of 9/11 that is believable. It's not just one or two strange twists or holes in the story, the whole thing is bogus from start to end.[3] In my previous job I was in a position to question one part, the collapse of three tall buildings due to fire. But this isn't really a chemistry or engineering problem, and may be best approached initially through statistics.

The three WTC buildings in question weren't all designed the same way and weren�t all hit by airplanes. The only thing they seemed to have in common were relatively small and manageable fires, as indicated by the work of firefighters right up to the moment of collapse. From the government's report we know that only a small percentage of the supporting columns in each of the first two buildings were severed, and that the jet fuel burned off in just a few minutes.

To follow the latest "leading hypothesis", what are the odds that all the fireproofing fell off in just the right places, even far from the point of impact? Without much test data, let's say it's one in a thousand. And what are the odds that the office furnishings converged to supply highly directed and (somehow) forced-oxygen fires at very precise points on the remaining columns? Is it another one in a thousand? What is the chance that those points would then all soften in unison, and give way perfectly, so that the highly dubious �progressive global collapse� theory could be born? I wouldn't even care to guess. But finally, with well over a hundred fires in tall buildings through history, what are the chances that the first, second and third incidents of fire-induced collapse would all occur on the same day? Let's say it's one in a million. Considering just these few points we're looking at a one in a trillion chance, using generous estimates and not really considering the third building (no plane, no jet fuel, different construction).

How convenient that our miraculous result, combined with several other trains of similarly unlikely events, gives us reason to invade the few most strategically important lands for the production of oil and natural gas. As I said, this is not about chemistry or engineering. Our continued dependence on this highly improbable story means that we have a desperate need to believe it. It is, in fact, a psychology problem.

Solving the problem is a personal challenge, and involves at least three-steps. First, we have to admit we were wrong, and that we were fooled. This is not easy for most people, but congratulations to the neo-cons for noticing that their political opponents seem to be least able to admit they were wrong on any significant issue. Secondly, we have to see that terrorism is actually much worse than we feared because the terrorists are in charge. Such a pause on a national scale would be dramatic to say the least. If we get to the third step we begin to realize the scope of change necessary to move forward in a conscious manner. Obviously the US government must be substantially changed and/or forgiven. New cooperative, multinational agreements would need to be implemented immediately.[4]

If you make it through step one and care enough about people to work for step three, you may face ridicule and isolation. You may lose your income and some friends, but if we continue down the same path there's a real chance you're going to lose those anyway. On the upside you may be able to hold on to some sense of integrity. The only thing you can be certain of is that we're all in this together. No matter how you voted, what credentials or positions you hold, or what faith you have in people, you will face the consequences of our collective self-deceptions. Now is the time for each of us to decide between a stormy reality and what�s behind the fantasy curtain.

FOOTNOTES:
1. http://www.energybulletin.net/primer.php
2. http://www.worldwatch.org/press/news/2005/05/12/
3. http://www.septembereleventh.org/newsarchive/2005-05-22-571pglie.php
4. http://www.peakoil.net/uhdsg/UppsalaProtocol.html

Video Killed the...

Well, I can't believe no one had anything to say about the last article. Good, then the whole world agrees with... Nevermind. First off, New stuff-

1. To mark the One Year Anniversary of the first Blasted Reality Video Release, Rise. I have posted it over at the Huffingtonpost. It has been a year now since I first put the words Thermodynamics and Physics into a Flash presentation. Any effect? I'm not saying this Video began the Intellectual Re awakening that we have just experienced, but in the last 12 months, multiple Physicists, Engineers, Mathematicians and Experts in fields relevant to the events of 9-11 have come forward with Peer Review Papers disproving the Official Theory. That prolly should have made the News. Hmm.
2. Actual Police Video from the 2002 Portland Police Riot finally found its way out into the publics eyes. Not only does it show the level of scrutiny the Police believe is appropriate for everyone, it also show just how biased/prejudiced/primed they are against the Average Citizen. If you think for a second that they have a "For the Community. To protect and serve..." Attitude or nature, watch this video. They filmed it themselves. You can hear them talk about normal everyday citizens as if they were enemy combatants. Watch as they set up, then brutally take down and beat a protestor. Normally you only see the action after it has started they can claim anything about the victim they want, but since they knew they were going to do it, the camera man had the whole scene from beginning to end. Approach, flop, assault, arrest, drag away!! And last, but certainly not least : You get to see the preparation and planning that went into the ""Fearing for their lives, the police were forced to defend themselves against an angry and bottle throwing crowd of belligerents." full on assault of the peaceful protesters. The "Official Story" says that the crowd became violent and the police were assaulted by bottles and had to defend themselves. On these tapes you get to watch the
   Police plan their attack, coordinate with each other and then in a military fashion, assault and subdue the assembled US cititzens who were exercising their right to gather peacefully and express dissent with their illegitimate government and its illegal plans to invade Iraq. For those wanting concrete evidence that wqe have truly become a Fascist Nation with no regard for American Ideals like Freedom, Democracy and liberty, Here you go. The Portland Police following orders to enforce a policy which is illegal under the Constitution. The Rights of 1,000's of Americans were ignored in a frenzy of beating and pepper spraying for no reason other than to remind the People that their Government is tougher than they are. Every Officer who willingly followed those orders should face the same Justice that their predecessors, the Nazi's faced for their crimes against humanity.With great power comes great responsibility. No one who's ever read the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights can claim ignorance of Right or Wrong in this situation. Yes, the Police have hard jobs. On that day in 2002 they took it upon themselves to make their jobs a lot harder. They were the attackers. They reveled in their crimes. They have no business being Cops.
   
3. Just finished a flash titled Release that had been mothballed since the 1st week in March. I had forgotten even starting it, but recently discovered it and I really like the song. It is amazing that it was less than 3 months ago... For anyone familiar with what happened, thank you for your support. Never forget, your whole world can change in the blink of an eye. Whether good or bad, it can just happen. One day you are a father, husband, care-giver with two babies and a Wife whom you have shared everything and trust implicitly and the next day be homeless, penniless, hopeless, alone and destroyed. But that which does not kill us... Is a mistake.