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Iran Attack * September Surprise * Sicko +


29 August 2007

Sooner or later, everyone sits down to
a banquet of consequences.


- - Robert Louis Stevenson

1) Report: US Has Plans to Attack Iran
- - The Kennebunk Warning
- - Rep. Conyers' Latest on Impeachment
- - Are Bush & Co. Gearing Up to Attack Iran?
- - Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11
- - National Guard Troops from Florida Deploy To Nation's Capital
- - UN reports record production of opium in Afghanistan
2) The Truth About 9/11 Is Rising to the Surface
- - Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9/11 Investigation
- - Thunder Bay, Ontario's only daily newspaper covers 9/11 truth
- - Evidence Suggests CIA Purposefully Spiked Investigations
- - 9/11/07 Global Day of Action & Letter from Donna Marsh O'Connor
- - Police provocateurs caught 'rock-handed' at SPP meeting in Canada
- - Robert Fisk--Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
- - Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review
- - 9/11 First Responders Benefit & Rally
- - Behind 9/11 Demolition Work, Obscure Name and Slim Record
- - Who Owns the Media and Can the People Can Take It Back?
3) Nuke Malfunction – Sicko Investor – Anthrax – Global Warming
- - Vermont Yankee Nuke Tower Malfunction
- - SICKO Torpedoed by a Wealthy Medical Investor
- - Source Disclosure Ordered in Anthrax Suit
- - Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness
- - North Pole icecap melts as global warming increases
4) Human Rights Violations – Jose Padilla – Iron Thunderhorse
- - Paul Craig Roberts on the Padilla conviction
- - How U.S. Interrogators Destroyed the Mind of Jose Padilla
- - Chief Iron Thunderhorse Needs Our Support

Editor’s Notes:

Good luck in dealing with this unusually intense issue of Flyby News. Please make sure you check out the last three articles in the first item; especially the one on the financial markets indicating a September Surprise. Stock put options are at the highest levels since those events of September 11, 2001. Note too the humongous opium crop coming out of Afghanistan. More proof of the wars for terror and corrupt governments and economy. Item two has some relatively positive information: very distinguished people are coming forth with the courage to claim that 9/11 was a false flag operation. Okay, this isn’t that uplifting, but could be critical in stopping or respond intelligently to the current call by Bush/Cheney to attack Iran. Please take action, bring 9/11 into the awareness of those calling for Impeachment and sign the petition - Don't Attack Iran!

The third item contains information on the Vermont Yankee nuke plant's malfunction. You can also learn about a medical investor possibly sabotaging the wide distribution for Michael Moore’s Sicko movie; plus, the Anthrax cover-up issue; revisiting global warming, while the North Pole is melting for the first time in 55 million years. And for all the 9/11 truthers, who still believe global warming is a hoax, I posted Craig Hill's article at 911blogger - “WARMING: The bigger, more urgent reason to bring down the perps of 9/11.”

Item four is on human rights concerns and that of the US Constitution with the (sic) prosecution of Jose Padilla, and the inhumane treatment of Chief Iron Thunderhorse. When will it end? This September 15th marks the fourth year of the incarceration of Sitcha, Richard, of Cameroon. His freedom was taken away after receiving political asylum in the US, with no due process of habeas corpus, based on post 9/11 fascist immigration laws. I am sorry for all this bad news, but it could get worse!

Courage is not the absence of fear;
it is the making of action in spite of fear;
the moving out against the resistance
engendered by fear into the unknown
and into the future.


-- M. Scott Peck

The Road Less Traveled



1) Report: US Has Plans to Attack Iran

- - The Kennebunk Warning
- - Rep. Conyers' Latest on Impeachment
- - Are Bush & Co. Gearing Up to Attack Iran?
- - Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11
- - National Guard Troops from Florida Deploy To Nation's Capital
- - UN reports record production of opium in Afghanistan

Report: US Has Plans to Attack Iran
Posted on AfterDowningStreet.org - By David Swanson

Detailed Pentagon plans for a military attack on Iran are far more extensive than has been reported in the U.S., according to top British military analysts. There have been occasional news reports on various strategic bombing options - both conventional and nuclear - but this is the first comprehensive look at the full range of Pentagon plans.

A new report obtained by RawStory.com concludes that the United States has made major preparations to attack Iran, and that such an attack will likely target much more than just weapons or nuclear facilities.

Raw Story's article breaking this story and including expert responses to the report is HERE.

The report as a PDF is HERE.

The authors are Dr Dan Plesch and Martin Butcher. Dr Plesch is Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies’ Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy. Martin Butcher is an international consultant on security politics.

Excerpts:

The study concludes that the US has made military preparations to destroy Iran’s WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order. The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely. The US retains the option of avoiding war, but using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping Iran’s actions.

Any attack is likely to be on a massive multi-front scale but avoiding a ground invasion. Attacks focused on WMD facilities would leave Iran too many retaliatory options, leave President Bush open to the charge of using too little force and leave the regime intact.

• US bombers and long range missiles are ready today to destroy 10,000 targets in Iran in a few hours.
• US ground, air and marine forces already in the Gulf, Iraq, and Afghanistan can devastate Iranian forces, the regime and the state at short notice.
• Some form of low level US and possibly UK military action as well as armed popular resistance appear underway inside the Iranian provinces or ethnic areas of the Azeri, Balujistan, Kurdistan and Khuzestan. Iran was unable to prevent sabotage of its offshore-to-shore crude oil pipelines in 2005.
• Nuclear weapons are ready, but most unlikely, to be used by the US, the UK and Israel. The human, political and environmental effects would be devastating, while their military value is limited.
• Israel is determined to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons yet has the conventional military capability only to wound Iran’s WMD programmes.

Article posted:
www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/26199

Sign the Petition - DontAttackIran.org


U P D A T E - From The Sunday Times - 2 September 2, 2007

Pentagon ‘three-day blitz’ plan for Iran

by Sarah Baxter, Washington

THE Pentagon has drawn up plans for massive airstrikes against 1,200 targets in Iran,
designed to annihilate the Iranians’ military capability in three days, according to a national security expert.


Alexis Debat, director of terrorism and national security at the Nixon Center, said last week that US military planners were not preparing for “pinprick strikes” against Iran’s nuclear facilities. “They’re about taking out the entire Iranian military,” he said. Debat was speaking at a meeting organised by The National Interest, a conservative foreign policy journal. He told The Sunday Times that the US military had concluded: “Whether you go for pinprick strikes or all-out military action, the reaction from the Iranians will be the same.” It was, he added, a “very legitimate strategic calculus”.

Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2369001.ece

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- - THE KENNEBUNKPORT WARNING

To the American people, and to peace loving individuals everywhere:

Massive evidence has come to our attention which shows that the backers, controllers, and allies of Vice President Dick Cheney are determined to orchestrate and manufacture a new 9/11 terror incident, and/or a new Gulf of Tonkin war provocation over the coming weeks and months. Such events would be used by the Bush administration as a pretext for launching an aggressive war against Iran, quite possibly with nuclear weapons, and for imposing a regime of martial law here in the United States.

We call on the House of Representatives to proceed immediately to the impeachment of Cheney, as an urgent measure for avoiding a wider and more catastrophic war. Once impeachment has begun, it will be easier for loyal and patriotic military officers to refuse illegal orders coming from the Cheney faction. We solemnly warn the people of the world that any terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction taking place inside the United States or elsewhere in the immediate future must be considered the prima facie responsibility of the Cheney faction. We urge responsible political leaders everywhere to begin at once to inoculate the public opinion of their countries against such a threatened false flag terror operation.

(Signed) A Group of US Opposition Political Leaders Gathered in Protest at the Bush Compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, August 24-25, 2007

CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, FORMER U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN, GEORGIA

CINDY SHEEHAN, CANDIDATE FOR U.S. CONGRESS, CALIFORNIA

ANN WRIGHT, COLONEL US ARMY RESERVE, FORMER US DIPLOMAT

JAMILLA EL-SHAFEI, ORGANIZER OF KENNEBUNKPORT PEACE DEMONSTRATION ,
KENNEBUNK PEACE DEPARTMENT

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Commentary on the above by David Swanson

not that i was asked, but i wouldn't sign this as written

i agree with and applaud the thrust of it, but without changing the wording, especially of the first sentence, it seems misleading

i would sign something more like

Media reports, executive orders, and recent legislation combine to make clear that there is a serious danger of the current administration launching an aggressive attack on Iran, and a danger that either in combination with that attack or in response to a catastrophe in the United States the White House will declare martial law here at home. Other remedies have been exhausted. We call on the House of Representatives to proceed immediately to the impeachment of Vice President Richard B. Cheney. Launching an impeachment effort, regardless of its ultimate success, will immediately make it easier for loyal and patriotic military officers to refuse illegal orders.

Obviously I would cut out the stuff prejudging where an attack came from before it's even happened, which I would never sign onto.

Solidarity,
David Swanson

[FN ed. – Swanson got the go ahead for a rewrite by the author of the
Kennebunk Warning – and hopefully David will see the wisdom for
uniting with 9/11 evidence in the case for Impeachment, too!]

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- - Rep. Conyers' Latest on Impeachment
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/26203

Transcript from Democracy Now!
[Commentary added in brackets by David Swanson]

AMY GOODMAN: Congressman Conyers, it was interesting to see you at this major rally in Newark on Saturday. About more than a thousand people were there. It was the largest demonstration against war and violence at home for decades in Newark. Now, you spoke at the rally. Interestingly, people were there who had been arrested in your office, the forty-five in July who had been arrested because they were calling for you to continue to back the call for impeachment of President Bush. What is your response?

REP. JOHN CONYERS: Well, my response is that we have several things to do in -- I begin this part of our conversation by indicating that I have nothing but the highest regard for Cindy Sheehan. But the question of how we orchestrate moving a congressional schedule forward of accomplishments -- we’re pretty proud of what we’ve done in eight months after having no control over the agenda for twelve years. We also are trying to make sure that we don’t bring resolutions or hearings that would put the election in jeopardy. We could close down the Congress -- I have been in more impeachment hearings than anybody in the House or the Senate. And our legislative attempts to reverse so many things would come to a stop. And it is doubtful if we wouldn’t go into an election with not one, but at least two attempts to remove the top executive officers in the country, I don’t think that that can happen.

[Proud of 8 months of accomplishing...WHAT? Seriously, what? Put an election in jeopardy? Are you serious? With 80% of Democrats and 55% of Americans wanting impeachment before you even start? With the post-Nixon and post-Reagan election results known to you? With your own book in the stores arguing that the Constitution is in jeopardy? Legislative attempts to reverse things??? People don't want another 18 months of staged "attempts" while knowing that any good bill will be vetoed, and knowing that you know it, and knowing that you know that we know that you know it. You have 18 months. Nixon took 3. Clinton took 4 with a Senate trial included. Gonzales took only the threat.]

For this complete article, see:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/26203

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- - Are Bush & Co. Gearing Up to Attack Iran?
By Ray McGovern, AlterNet
Posted on August 23, 2007, Printed on August 24, 2007
http://www.alternet.org/story/60493/

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- - Market Crash Forecast Suggests New 9/11
Mystery trader bets on huge downturn that could only be preceded by catastrophe

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, August 27, 2007

A mystery trader risks losing around $1 billion dollars after placing 245,000 put options on the Dow Jones Eurostoxx 50 index, leading many analysts to speculate that a stock market crash preceded by a new 9/11 style catastrophe could take place within the next month.

The anonymous trader only stands to make money if the market crashes by a third to a half before September 21st, which is when the put options expire. A put option is a financial contract between two parties, the buyer and the writer (seller) of the option, in which the buyer stands to benefit only if the price of the asset falls.

"The sales are being referred to by market traders as "bin Laden trades" because only an event on the scale of 9-11 could make these short-sell options valuable," reports financial blogger Marc Parent. Dow Jones Financial News first reported on the story.

The trader stands to make around $2 billion from their investment should an event trigger a market crash before the third week in September.

Such a cataclysmic jolt could only happen as a result of two factors, China dumping its vast dollar reserves in reaction to the sub-prime mortgage collapse, which it has threatened to do, or a massive terror attack on the same scale or larger than 9/11.

9/11 itself was foreshadowed by unprecedented put options that were placed on United and American Airlines. Though the Securities and Exchange Commission refused to reveal who placed the options, private researchers traced the investments back to the Deutsche Bank owned Banker's Trust, which was formerly headed by then Executive Director of the CIA, Buzzy Krongard.

Put options on Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch, two of the World Trade Center's most prominent occupants, also spiked in the days before 9/11.

News of the suspicious trades is dovetailed by the comments of Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers yesterday, who told ABC News that the risk of a recession in the U.S. was greater that at any time since 9/11.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2007/270807_market_crash.htm

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for related comments on this issue, see:
www.tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?post=4669

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- - National Guard Troops from Florida Deploy To Nation's Capital

"They are ordered by the president to the nation's capital, where they will operate high-tech weapons systems against any potential air threat."

For article, see:
www.wesh.com/news/13949580/detail.html

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- - UN reports record production of opium in Afghanistan
By Masood Haider

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 27: Opium production in Afghanistan has hit a record $3 billion this year, accounting for more than 90 per cent of the world’s illegal output, a United Nations report said on Monday.

The production concentrated mainly in the strife-torn south of the country, where the Taliban, who once banned poppy cultivation, now profited from the drug trade, the report alleged.

The UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) showed that the area under opium cultivation rose to 193,000 hectares from 165,000 in 2006, while the harvest soared by more than a third to 8,200 tons from 6,100 tons.

The amount of Afghan land used for growing opium was larger than the total under coca cultivation in Latin America, it said.

No other country has produced narcotics on such a scale since China in the 19th century, the report said.

Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.dawn.com/2007/08/28/top16.htm



2) The Truth About 9/11 Is Rising to the Surface

- - Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9/11 Investigation
- - Thunder Bay, Ontario's only daily newspaper covers 9/11 truth
- - Evidence Suggests CIA Purposefully Spiked Investigations
- - 9/11/07 Global Day of Action & Letter from Donna Marsh O'Connor
- - Police provocateurs caught 'rock-handed' at SPP meeting in Canada
- - Robert Fisk--Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
- - Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review
- - 9/11 First Responders Benefit & Rally
- - Behind 9/11 Demolition Work, Obscure Name and Slim Record
- - Who Owns the Media and Can the People Can Take It Back?

- - National Academy of Sciences Member Calls for New 9/11 Investigation
Posted at 911Truth.org

Official Explanation a “Fraud”

August 27, 2007 – World renowned scientist, Lynn Margulis, Ph.D., today severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation, “I suggest that those of us aware and concerned demand that the glaringly erroneous official account of 9/11 be dismissed as a fraud and a new, thorough, and impartial investigation be undertaken.”

One of America’s most prominent scientists, Dr. Margulis is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts - Amherst. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and served as Chairman of the Academy’s Space Science Board Committee on Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution. In 1999, President Bill Clinton presented Dr. Margulis with the National Medal of Science, America's highest honor for scientific achievement, "for her outstanding contributions to understanding of the development, structure, and evolution of living things, for inspiring new research in the biological, climatological, geological and planetary sciences, and for her extraordinary abilities as a teacher and communicator of science to the public."

In her statement on PatriotsQuestion911.com, Dr. Margulis referred to 9/11 as “this new false-flag operation, which has been used to justify the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as unprecedented assaults on research, education, and civil liberties”. She compared 9/11 to several self-inflicted attacks that had been used in the past to arouse people’s fear and hatred and justify war, including the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor, the Reichstag Fire, and Operation Himmler, which Germany used to justify the invasion of Poland, the trigger for World War II.

Dr. Margulis credited “the research and clear writing by David Ray Griffin in his fabulous books about 9/11” for providing much of the information that formed her opinion about 9/11. She specifically lauded The New Pearl Harbor and The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, “which provides overwhelming evidence that the official story is contradictory, incomplete, and unbelievable.”

Internationally acclaimed for her ground-breaking scientific work, Dr. Margulis is an elected member of The World Academy of Art and Science, an organization of 500 of the world’s leading thinkers, chosen for eminence in art, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities. And in 2006, she was selected as one of “The 20th Century's 100 Most Important Inspirational Leaders” by the editors of Resurgence magazine.

Dr. Margulis’ full statement can be read at PatriotsQuestion911.com. More information about Dr. Margulis’ career can be found at www.sciencewriters.org

This article with additional links posted at www.911truth.org/article.php?story=2007082682539691

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- - Thunder Bay, Ontario's only daily newspaper covers 9/11 truth
& upcoming Barry Zwicker speech at Lakehead University


Official version of 9/11 challenged
By JIM KELLY
Sunday, August 26, 2007

Is there something more to 9/11 than the official version?

Did the Bush administration have anything to do with the attacks
on the World Trade Center?

That‘s one of the theories Canadian author and left wing peace and environmental activist Barrie Zwicker will discuss during a lecture at Lakehead University on Sept. 7.

For article, see:
www.chroniclejournal.com/stories.php?id=61344
also posted at http://911blogger.com/node/10907

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- - Evidence Suggests CIA Purposefully Spiked Investigations
Posted at 911Truth.org - August 26 2007

There is a pattern here that cannot be adequately explained by charges of 'systemic failure' or incompetence. As Kristen Breitweiser has suggested, something else is going on, and the repeated missed opportunities (she has documented 7) and blocked communications suggests something "purposeful" on the part of authorities. The IG Report says 60 agents reviewed the Intel about the two.

read more
www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20070826205430475

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- - 9/11/07 Global Day of Action & Letter from Donna Marsh O'Connor
Posted at 911Truth.org - August 25 2007

As we approach the sixth anniversary of 9/11, a wide variety of events and actions are being planned by 9/11 truth activists worldwide (click the banner link). 911Truth.org has compiled a list of all of these, to be updated as more information is submitted. We encourage everyone to participate in and promote these plans by posting this banner link (or the one to the right in our Upcoming Events block) to your own sites, and include the URL in email signatures. With the Zogby results from last year showing 70 million Americans distrust the official story about 9/11, results of a brand new national poll to be released shortly, and the cross-issue coalitions coming to fruition lately, we know the numbers of people looking for this information will be even higher this year. It's important to remind ourselves, and others, that we are NOT the disempowered "fringe element minority" media would have us believe. We are millions and millions of patriotic, thinking, aware Americans and citizens of countries worldwide. Standing together on 9/11/07 is an important opportunity to recognize and build on our own strength, commitment, and power. Thanks for helping with that.

Donna Marsh O'Connor, mother of Vanessa Lang Langer who was killed in WTC Tower II, 93rd floor, has written the following Open Letter. Please help distribute this with the listings of events.
— Ed.

This September 11 will be the sixth anniversary of the day I had my last chance to talk to my daughter, Vanessa Lang Langer. ... The most important thing then is be certain that as we ask for an investigation or for impeachment we are conscious that we are asking for what may constitute our only hope to get out of this alive.
read more
www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20070823235456194

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- - Police provocateurs caught 'rock-handed' at SPP meeting in Canada
Posted at 911Truth.org - August 25 2007

This video at youtube, combined with these pictures (note the shoe comparison on images 49 and 50), make a compelling case that the masked men at the SPP protest in Montebello, QC last week were in fact police agent provocateurs (which Canadian police now admit is accurate). The true protesters quickly figured out who they were, and the bizarre behavior of the supposed 'anarchists' (shuffling toward, not away from, the police line once suspicions about their identities were made, the discussion one seems to behaving with police before they were apprehended, and of course the amazing coincidence of the fact that these anarchists and the police happen to be wearing identical boots, right down to the tread patterns and company logo) make any other conclusion difficult to make.

read more
www.911truth.org/article.php?story=2007082600224417

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- - Robert Fisk--Even I question the 'truth' about 9/11
Robert Fisk a truther? YES!
Posted at 911Truth.org - August 25 2007

Robert Fisk, award winning journalist, for the Independent in London; described by the NY Times as "the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain"; frequent contributor to Amy Goodman's Democracy Now, a man so famous he has become a verb in his own lifetime, and he's is a 9/11 truther!

In this article, Fisk complains about the ill-behaved 9/11 truthers who shout out questions about the 9/11 cover up at various speaking venues, but this complaint may be just to give himself some cover. Without that shield, he would be immediately denounced and marginalized, (he may be anyway) but he goes on to mention the dirth of plane parts at the Pentagon, the debris field at Shanksville, the melting point of steel and other issues which clearly identify him as a truther. And even in his complaints about the "ravers" there is the unstated implication that they are right, they are frustrated, and they have every right to be.

From one of the last few surviving real investigative journalists; the true human being whose soul-wrenching reporting on the horrors in Lebanon last year caused this editor to embark on a long fast for the innocents of Lebanon because 'experiencing' the truth there, as Fisk is so incredibly good at making us do, was just too much ... Bravo, and gratitude, to him for looking past behaviors to see the truth. And for now publicly acknowledging he, like we, "would like to know the full story of 9/11, not least because it was the trigger for the whole lunatic, meretricious "war on terror" which has led us to disaster in Iraq and Afghanistan and in much of the Middle East."

Thank you, Mr. Fisk. Next?
— Ed.

But – here we go. I am increasingly troubled at the inconsistencies in the official narrative of 9/11. It's not just the obvious non sequiturs: where are the aircraft parts (engines, etc) from the attack on the Pentagon? Why have the officials involved in the United 93 flight (which crashed in Pennsylvania) been muzzled? Why did flight 93's debris spread over miles when it was supposed to have crashed in one piece in a field? Again, I'm not talking about the crazed "research" of David Icke's Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster – which should send any sane man back to reading the telephone directory.

I am talking about scientific issues. . .
read more
www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20070825194457845

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- - Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review
Posted at 911Truth.org - August 24 2007

Former Chief of NIST's Fire Science Division Calls for Independent Review of World Trade Center Investigation

Many readers are aware that the History Channel has enthusiastically joined the government apologist choir in attempting to convince the fearful, media-reliant public there's nothing of substance to back our demands for 9/11 truth through an independent investigation. In spite of their best efforts, however, more and more scientists and former agency officials of various stripes (including many conservative Republicans) are stepping forward to add their voice to the other choir, the reality-based one, that's publicly questioning and criticizing the government version of events. (Check the growing list linked at the end of this article.)

Now, here's an interesting review of the NIST WTC investigation from a real expert (unlike the History Channel's "variety of experts in the fields of engineering, intelligence and the military." Do they mean the one who was recently a high school sports writer, or the former movie reviewer, now suddenly turned "experts"? See extensive discussion of this at freedomisforeverybody.blogspot.com). Particularly interesting is to note that Dr. Quintere is included in Popular Mechanics' list of 'experts' consulted for their book, but not one of the experts whose opinion was included in this History Channel piece. Perhaps this quote, from his recent address to the World Fire Safety Conference, didn't fit their plot line: Dr. Quintiere also expressed his frustration at NIST’s failure to provide a report on the third skyscraper that collapsed on 9/11, World Trade Center Building 7. “And that building was not hit by anything,” noted Dr. Quintiere. “It’s more important to take a look at that. Maybe there was damage by the debris falling down that played a significant role. But other than that you had fires burning a long time without fire department intervention. And firefighters were in that building. I have yet to see any kind of story about what they saw. What was burning? Were photographs taken? Nothing!”

Nope, nothin' to see here, folks. Move along. Trust us to protect you ...
— Ed.

By Alan Miller
August 21, 2007

James Quintiere, Ph.D., former Chief of the Fire Science Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has called for an independent review of NIST’s investigation into the collapses of the World Trade Center Towers on 9/11.

Dr. Quintiere made his plea during his presentation, “Questions on the WTC Investigations” at the 2007 World Fire Safety Conference. “I wish that there would be a peer review of this,” he said, referring to the NIST investigation. “I think all the records that NIST has assembled should be archived. I would really like to see someone else take a look at what they’ve done; both structurally and from a fire point of view.”

... Dr. Quintiere is one of the world’s leading fire science researchers and safety engineers. He served in the Fire Science and Engineering Division of NIST for 19 years and rose to the position of Chief of the Division. He left NIST in 1990 to join the faculty of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland, where he still serves.
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www.911truth.org/article.php?story=2007082201012280

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- - 9/11 First Responders Benefit & Rally

On September 11, 2001, 403 first responders lost their lives as they selflessly hurried to save thousands trapped in the World Trade Center. In all, 343 FDNY firefighters and paramedics, 23 NYPD officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers met their demise during the rescue efforts. Over 40,000 first responders rushed to Ground Zero in search of survivors however as days became weeks the rescue effort became a search for the fallen.

On October 31, 2001, $230 million in buried gold was recovered from a vault belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia and within 24 hours the efforts by FDNY to locate the remains of the deceased were abruptly cut short. Hundreds of firefighters marched on Ground Zero and City Hall in an effort to reopen the resume the recovery shouting, “do the right thing!” however the transition from “recovery and cleanup” to “scoop and dump” was already decided by Mayor Giuliani’s administration. The remnants of Ground Zero were disposed of at Fresh Kills Landfill and admittedly used to fill potholes!

Many more lives have been claimed since 9/11 due to the failure of the federal, state, and local governments to offer adequate respiratory protection to rescue workers during the cleanup at Ground Zero. Now with 6 years hindsight we can see the EPA declaration that, “the air is safe to breathe” only 7 days after that tragic day sealed the fate of thousands of rescue workers. Horrible enough is the above however what makes it intolerable is that fact that firefighters, police officers and paramedics suffering from respiratory conditions consequential of their work at Ground Zero are receiving little to no aid. It is estimated that over 60% of the 9/11 rescue workers are currently afflicted with varying levels of illness from their work at Ground Zero.

To date no one has been held liable for the death sentence given to these heroic men and women. The Federal Government has refused to answer over 70% of the victims family members’ questions under the auspices of the 9/11 Commission Report. We must seek justice and accountability for the crimes which have occurred on and since 9/11. Please join us on 9/9/07 to raise needed funds for our dying heroes and to seek justice and accountability on 9/11/07 at a mass gathering at Ground Zero.

6th Anniversary First Responders Benefit and Rally Flyer: www.911blogger.com/node/10879

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- - Behind 9/11 Demolition Work, Obscure Name and Slim Record
By Charles V. Bagli, David W, Dunlap, and William K. Rashbaum
Published: August 23, 2007 - NYTimes

The John Galt Corporation of the Bronx, hired last year for the dangerous and complex job of demolishing the former Deutsche Bank building at 130 Liberty Street, where two firefighters died last Saturday, has apparently never done any work like it. Indeed, Galt does not seem to have done much of anything since it was incorporated in 1983.

Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/nyregion/23company.html?th&emc=th

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- - Who Owns the Media and Can the People Can Take It Back?
Comment posted to Common Dreams by Jonathan Mark

Who Owns the Media and How the People Can Take It Back
by Megan Tady
Published on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 by Toward Freedom
This article is posted at: www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/08/28/3463/

[The following are comments by Jonathan Mark, submitted to Common Dreams
8/28/07, which was not posted by this ‘progressive news website. – No Surprise]

The proof of media censorship and manipulation can be best revealed by exposing the greatest media hoax of all time - on what took place on September 11, 2001 and ongoing wars for terror. The unprecedented collapse of steel-framed buildings from fire (that never happened before and after 9/11/01) was even reported by the BBC 20-minutes before the third building collapsed that day.

An astounding uncovered video 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 archive footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head!

Isn't that bizarre, but meanwhile even Common Dreams did not report on this peculiarity. It is a sad time for democracy when one has to wait for Rosie Odonnell to point out such oddities in the media. However, when Rosie was about to present the hero of 9/11 William Rodriguez, and Dylan Avery of Loose Change, on ABC TV's live program, "The View," the show was preempted by a "special" no-news Bush press-war conference. The next day we hear Rosie quit.

But the saving grace may come from the freedom of the Internet, while it is still free and neutral. It is where someone like myself can still post real information on a low budget, and citizen journalism is alive and well, but when will the 'progressive news' services like Common Dreams expose the real hypocrisy of 9/11 fake news reporting and disinformation?

Look for 911Truth.org and my site - FlybyNews.com for more information on this and other suppressed critical issues - for life's survival in the 21st Century, before it is too late!

For more on this issue, and what you can do, visit:
Campaigns for reclaiming a lost USA democracy



3) Nuke Malfunction – Sicko Investor – Anthrax – Global Warming

- - Vermont Yankee Nuke Tower Malfunction
- - SICKO Torpedoed by a Wealthy Medical Investor
- - Source Disclosure Ordered in Anthrax Suit
- - Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness
- - North Pole icecap melts as global warming increases

- - Vermont Yankee Nuke Tower Malfunction
VY cuts output after cooling failure
By BOB AUDETTE, Reformer Staff
Brattleboro Reformer
Wednesday, August 22

BRATTLEBORO -- Structural problems in one of the banks of cooling fans at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant forced operators to dial back on the facility's power output.

Though the cause for the failure of one of the plant's 22 cooling towers has not yet been determined, said a spokesman for the power plant, he assured the public that shutting down 11 of the fans doesn't affect safety.

"Vermont Yankee is coming down to 50 percent to investigate and repair damage to one of the 11 sections in one of our two river water cooling towers," said Rob Williams, spokesman for Vermont Yankee. "The river water cooling tower is constructed with wooden beams and some of these beams and the river piping in that section failed."

Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.reformer.com/headlines/ci_6685658
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VY tower collapse, union press release prompt calls for further safety review
By BOB AUDETTE, Reformer Staff
Tuesday, August 28

BRATTLEBORO -- A press release from unions representing nuclear power plant workers at Vermont Yankee and Pilgrim Station
has prompted one local anti-nuclear group to request an independent safety assessment of the nuclear power plant in Vernon.

Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.reformer.com/ci_6737563?source=most_emailed

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The following comments by Sally Shaw.
in the 10-mile inevacuable zone.

Dear friends:
One of New England Coalition's contentions in its legal intervention before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on uprating VY was whether the cooling towers could withstand an earthquake. As with most of the safety or environmental concerns under its jurisdiction, NRC finessed away any responsibility for safety of the environment or its human inhabitants. Vermont Yankee, 34 year-old white elephant of the earliest reactor design, has provided better evidence than NEC could ever dig up from NRC files that it is corroded, dangerously obsolete, and is an accident waiting--not for an earthquake, just for normal corrosion and embrittlement--to happen. If you haven't been involved heretofore, now is the time to say NO to the continuing experiment in Vernon--an experiment that has our lives and health at stake. See Attached photos. Support NEC's legal intervention by sending money to New England Coalition, PO Box 545, Brattleboro, VT 05302.

Another way of taking action: Write to VT Governor James Douglas,
Governor Jim Douglas
109 State Street, Pavilion
Montpelier, VT 05609-0101
or email him at www.vermont.gov/governor/contact.html
and demand that he insist on closing the reactor until an independent safety assessment is completed,
including in-depth physical and diagnostic inspection of all components, systems and operations.
Sally Shaw

For more information visit the New England Coalition

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- - SICKO Torpedoed by a Wealthy Medical Investor?

SICKO'S Wide Release Torpedoed by a Wealthy Medical Investor?

August 23, 2007
Health Care Investor Bought 33.4% of Lions Gate Shares 1 Week before the Release of Michael Moore's SICKO
By Leslie Hayes

Mark H. Rachesky, M.D. purchased 33.4% (over 40 Million) shares of Lions Gate stock one week prior to the scheduled opening
of Michael Moore's controversial film "Sicko" which happens to be distributed by Lions Gate and the Weinstein Co..

Truncated, for complete article, see: www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_leslie_h_070823_health_care_investor.htm

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- - Source Disclosure Ordered in Anthrax Suit
August 14, 2007, Washington Post

Five reporters must reveal their government sources for stories they wrote about Steven J. Hatfill and investigators'
suspicions that the former Army scientist was behind the deadly anthrax attacks of 2001, a federal judge ruled.

For this article, see:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/13/AR2007081300991.html

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- - Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness
posted at 911blogger.com by Jonathan Mark

This is an article that I solicited from Craig Hill, former US Senate candidate from Vermont and 9/11 truther. I asked Craig to write this article from heated debates on the 9/11 Boston Tea Party listserve. Some 9/11 truthers, like Alex Jones, advocate that Global Warming is a hoax. However, like 9/11 as a false flag operation, the evidence for man-made global warming is overwhelming.

This article was originally posted in Flyby News on June 20, 2007 Global Warming Crises & 9/11 Awareness - item 3 – Building Coalitions - Warming and 9/11 Related Danger Zones.

WARMING:
The bigger, more urgent reason to bring down the perps of 9/11 ~~
By Craig Hill
For the article posted at 911blogger, see:
http://911blogger.com/node/10922

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- - North Pole icecap melts as global warming increases
Big thaw hits the North Pole
Published by
Copyright 2000 Times Newspapers Ltd. - August 20 2000
Jonathan Leake, Environment Editor

THE North Pole is melting for the first time in 55m years.
Researchers have found that the icecap at the top of the world
has turned into a mile-wide patch of open ocean.

For article, see: www.climateark.org/articles/2000/3rd/npicecme.htm


For FN's resource page on this issue, see:
Mounting Evidence of Extreme Global Warming



4) Human Rights Violations – Jose Padilla – Iron Thunderhorse

- - Paul Craig Roberts on the Padilla conviction
- - How U.S. Interrogators Destroyed the Mind of Jose Padilla
- - Chief Iron Thunderhorse Needs Our Support


- - Paul Craig Roberts on the Padilla conviction

A Grave Blow to the Constitution

Padilla Jury Opens Pandora's Box

Paul Craig Roberts, CounterPunch, August 20, 2007
www.counterpunch.org/roberts08202007.html

Jose Padilla's conviction on terrorism charges on August 16 was a victory, not for justice, but for the US Justice (sic) Department's theory that a US citizen can be convicted, not because he committed a terrorist act but for allegedly harboring aspirations to commit such an act. By agreeing with the Justice (sic) Department's theory, the incompetent Padilla Jury delivered a deadly blow to the rule of law and opened Pandora's Box.


The "Padilla Jury" has opened Pandora's Box. Unless the conviction is overturned on appeal, American liberty died in the "Padilla Jury's" verdict.

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- - How U.S. Interrogators Destroyed the Mind of Jose Padilla
Democracy Now! EXCLUSIVE: An Inside Look at
How U.S. Interrogators Destroyed the Mind of Jose Padilla

In a Democracy Now! national broadcast exclusive, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Angela Hegarty speaks for the first time about her experience interviewing Jose Padilla for 22 hours to determine the state of his mental health. Padilla is the U.S. citizen who was classified by President Bush as an enemy combatant and held in extreme isolation at a naval brig in South Carolina for over three-and-a-half years. His case is now before a Florida jury.

"What happened at the brig was essentially the destruction of a human being's mind," said Dr. Hegarty. "[Padilla's] personality was deconstructed and reformed." She said the effects of the extreme isolation on Padilla are consistent with brain damage. "I don't know if he's guilty or not of the charges that they brought against him," said Dr. Hegarty. "But, already - before he was ever found guilty - he's paid a tremendous price for his trip to the Middle East."

Listen/Watch/Read
www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/16/1416242

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- - Chief Iron Thunderhorse Needs Our Support

Once again I come to FN for help in supporting Thunder Ironhorse. Our hope is for people to write and/or fax the following addresses. Please let thee people know that their inhuman and illegal tactics are being watched and reported. I know there are still many out there who haven’t been tainted by the “torture mentality” that seems to have gripped our country.- WANISHI! {May your path be beautiful!}

Subject: Iron Thunderhorse, TDCJ-CID #624391, Polunsky Unit; Elderly Special Needs & Chronic Care Patient Desperately Needs a Transfer to A Regional Medical Facility with Handicap Cell and Access to Cardiology and Sleep Disorder Clinics OR SHOULD BE RELEASED ON MEDICALLY INDICATED PAROLE ASAP.

Send following letter to:
CONTACT LIST

Taken from www.tdcj.state.tx.us
Offices of TDCJ - Texas Department of Criminal Justice

OFFICE OF OMBUDSMAN
Arthur Adams
P.O. Box 99
Huntsville, TX 77342
Phone: 936 – 437 - 6781
Fax: 936-437-6668
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OMBUDSMAN – PAROLE
Marilyn Theis
P.O. Box 13401
Austin, TX 78711
Phone: 512 – 406 – 5795
Fax: 512 -406-5858
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HEALTH SERVICES LIAISON
Phyllis McWhorter, RN
3009A Hwy. 30 West
Huntsville, TX 77340
Phone: 936 – 437 – 3598
Fax: 935-437-3599
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HEALTH SERVICES DIRECTOR
Lannette Linthicum, MD
3009A Hwy 30 West
Huntsville, TX 77340
Phone: 936 – 437 – 3542
Fax: 936-437-3541
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Offices of TCOOMMI (Texas Correctional Office
on Offenders with Medical or Mental Impairments)
Dee Wilson
8610 Shoal Creek Blvd.
Austin, TX 78757
Phone: 512 – 406 – 5406
Fax: 512-406-5416
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TCOOMMI
Denise Geredine
8610 Shoal Creek Blvd.
Austin, TX 78757
Phone: 512 – 406 – 5406
Fax: 512-406-5416
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OPERATIONS TCOOMMI
Dana L. Collins
8610 Shoal Creek Blvd.

Austin, TX 78757
Phone: 512 – 406 – 5406
Fax: 512-406-5416
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TCOOMMI-HUNTSVILLE OFFICE
Kelly Davis
2503 Lake Road, Suite #6
Huntsville, TX 77340
Phone: 936 – 437 – 5016
Fax: 935-437-5024
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Dear

I am writing to alert your office to the current condition of Iron Thunderhorse, TDCJ-CIC #624391, who is imprisoned at the Polunsky Unit. He is 63 years old and suffers from a number of handicaps and serious medical conditions which are rapidly growing progressively worse at the Polunsky Unit.

Mr. Thunderhorse is legally blind, has moderate to severe hearing loss, has several sleep disorders, chronic hypertension and lipidemia, arthritis, limited mobility of right upper extremities, shingles, allergic rhinitis, sebbhoric dermatitis, and neurological brain damage. His medication includes a Beta-Blocker, diuretic, ACE inhibitor, lopid statins, as well as meds for acid reflux/gastrointestinal distress, allergies, artificial tears for corneal dystrophy, and NSAIDs daily for constant pain.

His blood tests and symptoms indicate that he is in HEART FAILURE. Although he has been treated for chronic heart-related problems by TDCJ-UTMB for 25 of the 30 years he’s been in TDCJ, he has never been taken to the UTMB Cardiology Clinic. Although he has suffered from and reported his chronic SLEEP disorders, he has NEVER been referred to the Sleep Disorder Clinic, even though these disorders have become extremely severe!

Medical personnel at Polunsky are incompetent as evidenced by the fact that recent blood tests show his LIVER is malfunctioning, but they continue to prescribe medications known to cause liver damage. After these blood tests, Thunderhorse himself had to ask for Hepatitis A, B, and C tests. All Hepatitis tests were negative, so it must be the meds. TDCJ-UTMB has a limited formulary, so he cannot get proper medication.

Iron cannot walk without VERITGO problems. He’s been in Polunsky Administrative Segregation (Ad Seg is housed with Death Row), for over two (2) years, where he is constantly exposed to air pollutants which aggravate his respiratory problems. He is currently on Level One and has had no disciplinary for over a year. He was supposed to have been seen by SCC (State Classification Committee) in July!

Segregation at Polunsky is supposed to be a temporary assignment and the Segregation Plan indicates that any inmate who is NOT a member of a STG [Security Threat Group] must be released after two (2) years. Iron is NOT a member of any STG..

On August 11, 2007, Iron became extremely ill and it took Security ONE HOUR to get medical and a supervisor to his cell. Thunderhorse NEEDS to be transferred to a handicap cell at E2-RMF-HS (Regional Medical Facility – Estelle Unit) and then released to the Geriatric Facility at Estelle or, in the alternative, he should be released to a halfway house/nursing home for proper medical attention.

In the event that he cannot be released to a nursing home right away, Thunderhorse should be referred to John Sealey Hospital – Galveston, to the Sleep Disorder and Cardiac Clinics IMMEDIATELY.

This is NOT a request for medical records, nor is it a prelude to more one-sided responses from Correctional Managed Care, whose disclaimers and lack of accountability only exacerbate and underscore the problems.

Should these transfers and referrals fail to take place, this is legal notice that complaints to State Licensing Boards and litigation will swiftly ensue.

Iron Thunderhorse has 30 years flat time served plus 30 years good time (and, under pre-70th Legislature should have been credited 30 additional years) on a minimum-of-5-maximum-of-99-year term. He is a threat to no one and, in his condition, has trouble with daily chores. He has to shower in his cell by sitting backwards on the commode and filling up his sink. He is forced to endure excruciating pain to his crippled right arm and shoulder, caused by Polunsky’s refusal to observe the front handcuff pass procedure authorized continuously since 1992 by qualified Medical Doctors and specialists. He’s had to survive the damage done to his liver by purchasing vitamins and herbal supplements at commissary, when he and his wife are virtually financially destitute.

I ask you to take personal accountability and make certain that Iron Thunderhorse gets proper care immediately.

Sincerely,

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For more information and background, see:
SaveIronThunderhorse.com

Also for FN’s updated page, see:
Human Rights & A Nation Behind Bars


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