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Martin Luther King * RFK * Mumia * 911 Lie


03 April 2008

"He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despair, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. "


-- Agamemnon


This was quoted by Robert F Kennedy in his speech announcing the
assassination of Martin Luther King on 4 April 1968; and the epitaph
his family inscribed on his grave marker in Arlington National Cemetery.

1) FREE AT LAST- Day after Martin Luther King, Jr. died
- - An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King
- - Martin Luther King: 40 years on
- - Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
- - Book Review Excerpt on Tom Brokaw’s ‘Boom!’
- - A media blackout on Winter Soldier
- - Howard Zinn: Empire or Humanity?
2) RFK 2nd gunman – Malcolm X – Mumia Abu-Jamal
- - New evidence suggests second shooter killed RFK
- - The Assassination of Malcolm X: A Riddle Unraveled
- - US: Death sentence postponed for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- - Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition - Pam Africa Statement
3) A Lie Called 911, Timeline Update, Fence EcoTrash, Wright
- - Why A Federal Grand Jury Must Indict Bush And Cheney
- - Former Governor Jesse Ventura: WTC Collapse A Controlled Demolition
- - Cooperative Research's 9/11 Timeline and Others Significantly Updated
- - Lucky Larry wants $12.3 billion more for 9/11, by Jerry Mazza
- - Martin Luther King, Jr. ties into the 911 TRUTH Movement
- - Rev. Wright in a different light
4) Will Al Gore Help Shut the Nuke Power Loophole?
- - Obama suggests cabinet post for Gore if elected U.S. president
- - Environmental Rules Waived for Mexican Border Fence

Editor’s Notes:

This 4 April 2008 marks forty years since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. This is significant especially since the renowned human rights attorney, William Pepper, and author of An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King, has agreed to serve on an independent 9/11 Commission. Hopefully we will have a referendum vote this November 4th in New York City. "Dr. Pepper was a friend of Martin Luther King in the last year of his life. He represented James Earl Ray, attempting to get him the trial that he never had. Dr. Pepper then represented the King family in a wrongful death civil trial King family vs. Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators. During a trial that lasted four weeks he produced over seventy witnesses. The jury took less than an hour to find in favor of the King family."

But this issue actually begins with my article from an experience forty years the day after Martin Luther King was killed at Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, NY. It takes many bumps on the way to awaken to the awesome-deep corruption in the US government. In junior high President John F. Kennedy was shot, four years later, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and in two months, Robert F. Kennedy, presidential candidate. I sure hope Obama has a living will in place, recorded on multiple DVDs and distributed with trusted representatives. In this YouTube age it makes sense to invest in such a living document. Had Senator Paul Wellstone recorded his advice in the event something happened to him, he could have trumped the media-political spin that led to a Republican majority in the Senate, following his and family’s suspicious airplane accident. Obama, are you listening?

Also, please read the article in item 4 by Harvey Wasserman, “Will Al Gore Help Shut the Nuke Power Loophole?” This is especially important due to the following article, “Obama suggests cabinet post for Gore if elected U.S. president.” The connection with dealing with global warming without going nuclear can lead to an abolition of all nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, as well as getting really serious about developing sustainable technologies, improving conservation, population education, and conserving-appreciating clean air, water, food, and biodiversity.

In the second item, note updates on the RFK-1968 “conspiracy-cover-up” assassination. Also, check the updates on Mumia Abu-Jamal; and on environmental rules waived for the Bush-Mexican border fence. Item three has some important 9/11 research updates, too. The elephant in the living room is too big to miss, even if it took Jesse Ventura a while to notice 9/11 building demolitions. But are we ready for the next false flag action?

One way to get ready, and help others is to highlight the superb work of Steve Alten, mixing fact and fiction into a story that you become part of each character. Ashley “Ace” Futrell takes us on a journey into the darkest places, while exposing truth on 9/11 and what was behind it, energy-terror-wars. Listen to Alten's interview on National CBS Radio that aired on nearly 200 stations nationwide. It takes 5 minutes to listen; and spread the word on the campaign to break 9/11 truth into mainstream awareness. The Shell Game "Week of Truth Buy-In" April 16-22nd, buy two books where it can be counted for the NY Times weekly best-seller list, and you have invested in our future big time. But spread the word, call everyone you know to join The Shell Game to a point of no return; it is far better being scared by a fiction-fact tale than another, escalating, false flag invasion.


"We must all learn to live together
as brothers or we will all perish together as fools.
We are tied together in the single garment of destiny,
caught in an inescapable network of mutuality. And
whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. "


-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speech in Memphis, April 3, 1968,
the day before his departure from his death.



1) FREE AT LAST- Day after Martin Luther King, Jr. died

- - An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King
- - Martin Luther King: 40 years on
- - Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
- - Book Review Excerpt on Tom Brokaw’s ‘Boom!’
- - A media blackout on Winter Soldier
- - Howard Zinn: Empire or Humanity?

FREE AT LAST- Day after Martin Luther King, Jr. died
By Jonathan Mark

Publisher of FlybyNews.com
[Last edited 30 May 2008]

April 5th 1968 was a strange day. I felt in a fog going along Ocean Parkway to Church Avenue to take the bus to school. The fleeting memories of trolleys were now replaced by puffs of diesel smoke; we all have to learn to hold our breath sometimes I figured. My mind rambled along with the bus with images blurred by television news. The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. reminded me of the JFK assassination. What was going to happen now to the debate between Malcolm X and Reverend King, and with the Vietnam War escalating, it could make any kid uncertain about a future.

School seemed too normal at first, but before long fire bells rang, which sprung us into action; we were quickly led out of school. While passing through campus word spread faster than fire - a smoke bomb was detonated in the ventilation system. We wondered if school would resume, but something unusual occurred. On the same side of Flatbush Avenue as the school remained only Black students, all other races, crossed the street. It was hard to resist; I reluctantly crossed, but yearned to convey my feelings of loss to my friends and football teammates.

Across the street I found that I did not belong there either. Some racist remarks (half under breath) were all I needed to take off, and crossed the Avenue diagonally to give myself space from both groups. I found a comfortable car to lean on, and was thankful to be alone with thoughts drifting on the nonviolent struggle. When I looked up I saw an enormous group rounding the corner. It was another mass of students coming in my direction. At first I thought they must be coming from the Bedford Avenue side of campus, but the numbers were too great. An army of students approached, I did not know what to do. A wrong move could spark violence. I stayed where I was by the curb, which was about five yards from where the marchers passed in front of me. Some were astonished, curious, smiling, seeing me there. I noticed BOYS high lettering on some jackets. We played this team from Bedford-Stuyvesant and got crushed to put it simply. But to me it made sense to hold a demonstration at our multiracial school the day after a special civil rights leader and Reverend was assassinated.

Thousands passed with no incident, but then one student arched in my direction. I didn’t want to resist, so I closed my eyes as he came upon me, his right arm crossed my face, but with my adrenaline pumping I felt no pain; but great relief to see my assailant continue strolling down the sidewalk. But then, I almost jumped out of my skin; this big black guy from my side grabbed my arm. Wow, it was Kenny Wright, my football team captain and best tackling linebacker I ever knew, and a friend. He seemed urgent in asking me what happened, did I do anything? "No" and before I could say another word, he pulled me and said to follow him. I was so thankful for being with a friend that I was slow in realizing the danger I was entering. Ken walked quickly leading into the large group of accumulating students in front of the Erasmus Hall gates. I started having my doubts, especially when thousands closed in around us. There was a strange silence that took over.

With Ken at our sides I faced the same student who struck me. I could see the look of his surprise, shock, and curiosity. After a pause, with tension building, Ken simply said, ‘He’s an okay dude.’ We sustained eye contact. I felt humble, open, and empty. After a while his eyes brightened, he relaxed, and put out his hand. I slapped him five and a burst of relief "all right" sounds rippled through us all. I went around the inner part of this circle sharing fives, feeling elated, tension broken, and when I came around to Ken, he said it would be best if I left. I understood there was a need for this group to unite in its own identity. I thanked Ken and headed home. Nothing violent followed from what I heard, while many cities erupted into violence that day. At Erasmus Hall the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. was with us. Kenneth Wright graduated that year and the next season his brother Frank and I were co-captains of the team. It was our best year too, 6-wins 1-loss, and we learned from a coach that often told us that what we learned on the football field could be used throughout life.

Recently I learned that on the night of 4 April 1968, Robert F. Kennedy addressed a crowd in Indianapolis, Indiana. He said, "My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote: 'In our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.' What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black."

FREE AT LAST

Can a seed wither into the dust of despair
and if truth than be neglected, then tell me, why?
Can a man speaking out with righteousness really die;
was not Martin Luther King Jr. wise?

My life is inspired by a few and to these I congratulate and continue
to breathe the air and receive its gifts, nourishing the cells with a spiritual lift.

But when confusion enters into the night
we must go to the center of love not fright,
for in ideals of freedom we will last forever, in realms of wisdom,
loving one another.

Life is thus, a series of attitudes, bringing peace war or feuds,
but by keeping the dignity of what is right,
we cannot be discouraged by a brother's soulful flight.

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- - An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King

The following is a link of William Pepper speaking on the release of his book,
An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King (Verso, 2003).

[EXCERPT]

This story actually begins with Vietnam in 1966. As a very much younger person I was there as a journalist and didn't publish anything whilst I was there, but waited until I got back to the United States. Then I wrote a number of articles. One of them appeared in a muckraking magazine called Ramparts, that had its home in this city, published by Warren Hinckle in those days. It was called "The Children of Vietnam." That is what started me down the slippery slope of the saga of Martin Luther King; his work during the last year, and his death. And then an investigation which has gone on since 1978.

When Martin King saw the Ramparts piece he was at a -- there are different stories of actually where he was -- but I think he was at Atlanta Airport on his way to the West Indies and he was traveling with Bernard Lee, his bodyguard. They were having a meal and he was going through his mail, according to Bernard, and he came upon this issue of Ramparts, January 1st, 1967. It had in it the piece that I wrote called "The Children of Vietnam." Bernard said as he started to thumb through it he stopped and was visibly moved. He pushed his food away. Bernard said, "What's the matter Martin, aren't you hungry? Is there something wrong with the food?" And he said, "No. I've lost my appetite. I may have lost the ability to appreciate food altogether until we end this wretched war."

Then he asked to meet with me and asked me to open my files to him that went well beyond what was published in the Ramparts piece in terms of photographs. Some of you probably saw, if you're old enough to remember, a number of those photographs. Portions of them used to appear on lampposts and windows of burned and deformed children. That was what gave him pause. He hadn't had a chance to read the text at that point but it was the photographs that stopped him.

The introduction of the article was by Benjamin Spock. It resulted, ultimately, in a Committee of Responsibility bringing over a hundred Vietnamese children, war-injured children to this country and our placing them in hospitals around the nation. This was so that people would have a chance to see first-hand what their tax dollars were purchasing.

Truncated, for the complete transcript, and more, see:
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WFP020403.html

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An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King
Book Review
by David T. Ratcliffe
20 January 2003
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKactOstate.html

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- - Martin Luther King: 40 years on
By Matt Roper Matt.Roper@Mirror.Co.Uk

[EXCERPT]

Dr King, a charismatic baptist minister, had arrived in Memphis a day before to lead a protest of sanitation workers. His entourage had checked in to the only hotel that would accept blacks.

His arrival was met with ecstasy by the segregated black majority. Thousands packed the Mason Temple to hear him say God had "allowed me to go up to the mountain, and I've looked over and I've seen the Promised Land," before adding: "I may not get there with you."

His voice trembling with conviction, King told the crowd: "I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything.

I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

The following day he met black politicians, among them Jesse Jackson, to discuss protest plans, including a march of the poor on Washington.

Then a single shot rang out, King crumpled and American history changed forever.

A sniper's bullet, fired from across the street, had entered King's right cheek, smashed his jawbone, then hit his spinal cord.

He was pronounced dead at St Joseph's Hospital at 7.05 pm. He was 39.

King's assassination triggered race riots in cities across the US that claimed 37 lives. A week after his death President Johnson signed a law banning racial discrimination in the sale and rent of housing.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/29/a-dream-that-would-not-die-89520-20366172/


HIS WORDS

'When we let freedom ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

'He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really co-operating with it.'

'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.'

'If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.'

'Hate cannot drive out hate - only love can do that.'


www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/29/a-dream-that-would-not-die-89520-20366172/

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- - Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
By Rev. Martin Luther King
4 April 1967

Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
on April 4, 1967 at Riverside Church in New York City

[EXCERPT]

Then came the buildup in Vietnam and I watched the program broken and eviscerated as if it were some idle political plaything of a society gone mad on war, and I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

Perhaps the more tragic recognition of reality took place when it became clear to me that the war was doing far more than devastating the hopes of the poor at home. It was sending their sons and their brothers and their husbands to fight and to die in extraordinarily high proportions relative to the rest of the population. We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools. So we watch them in brutal solidarity burning the huts of a poor village, but we realize that they would never live on the same block in Detroit. I could not be silent in the face of such cruel manipulation of the poor.

My third reason moves to an even deeper level of awareness, for it grows out of my experience in the ghettoes of the North over the last three years -- especially the last three summers. As I have walked among the desperate, rejected and angry young men I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through nonviolent action. But they asked -- and rightly so -- what about Vietnam? They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today -- my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

For the complete transcript of this speech,see:
www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html
also posted:
www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKapr67.html

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- - Book Review Excerpt on Tom Brokaw’s ‘Boom!’

[EXCERPT]

But one reads the Vietnam War sections of Brokaw’s book with a growing sense of amazement, disbelief and, ultimately, profound sadness. For Brokaw has, incredibly, managed to compile a lengthy book about the 1960s that barely mentions the central event which created and shaped it. A reader of “Boom!” would have no idea that U.S. leaders pursued a war that killed enormous numbers of Indochinese civilians and that this mass murder was the single most important factor prompting the various domestic convulsions we now call “The ’60s.”

www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080328_fred_branfman_on_tom_brokaws_boom/

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- - A media blackout on Winter Soldier
www.socialistworker.org/2008-1/668/668_02_WinterSoldier.shtml

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- - Howard Zinn: Empire or Humanity?

What the classroom didn't teach me about the American empire
By Howard Zinn

With an occupying army waging war in Iraq and Afghanistan, with military bases and corporate bullying in every part of the world, there is hardly a question any more of the existence of an American Empire. Indeed, the once fervent denials have turned into a boastful, unashamed embrace of the idea.

For article, see: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article19663.htm



2) RFK 2nd gunman – Malcolm X – Mumia Abu-Jamal

- - New evidence suggests second shooter killed RFK
- - The Assassination of Malcolm X: A Riddle Unraveled
- - US: Death sentence postponed for Mumia Abu-Jamal
- - Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition - Pam Africa Statement

- - New evidence suggests second shooter killed RFK
by David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published by Raw Story - March 26, 2008

Forty years after Democratic rising star Robert F. Kennedy was killed at a Los Angeles hotel during his presidential run, new evidence suggests the man serving a life sentence for his murder did not fire the shots that killed the charismatic senator.

Forensic scientists met at a conference in Connecticut this week to discuss their independent findings that cast serious doubt on the Kennedy assassination. Sirhan Sirhan is serving a life sentence in Kennedy's death, but the conference presenters argue he could not have fired the fatal shot that killed Kennedy.

One investigator, Dr. Robert Joling, has studied the Kennedy assassination for nearly four decades. He determined the fatal shot came from behind Kennedy, while Sirhan was four to six feet in front of the senator and never got close enough to shoot him from behind, an NBC affiliate reports.

Analysis by another forensics engineer, Philip Van Praag, of a Canadian journalists tape recording, known as the Pruszynski recording, determined that 13 shots were fired while Kennedy was killed, although Sirhan's gun only held eight bullets, according to the NBC reporter. This suggests that a second shooter was involved in the assassination.

Van Praag's analysis led him to conclude that a second gun that was fired matched a type owned by one of the security guards in Kennedy's entourage.

"When that security guard was asked about owning that gun at first he admitted, 'Yes I owned that kind of gun but I got rid of it two months before the assassination.'" correspondent Amy Parmenter said on MSNBC Wednesday. "It turns out upon further investigation, in fact, he did not get rid of that gun until five months after the shooting. Of course, you can see where we're going with this. ... That security guard, was in fact behind Senator Kennedy when the fatal shot was fired."

For original article and other resources, see:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Scientists_Multiple_shooters_in_RFK_assassination_0326.html

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- - The Assassination of Malcolm X: A Riddle Unraveled

Coalition of political Assassinations Anniversary Event with John Judge, Baba Zak Kondo, Cynthia McKinney, Jared Ball, A. Peter Bailey. Moderator Mark Matsimla Thompson. At The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial & Educational Center, New York, NY on 2/21/08

Via the COPA website: www.politicalassassinations.com/

Article and video link: http://911blogger.com/node/14679

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- - US: Death sentence postponed for Mumia Abu-Jamal
www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/jama-m29.shtml

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- - Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition - Pam Africa Statement

FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL COALITION
P.O. Box 16, College Station
New York, NY 10030
Hotline: (212) 330-8029
www.freemumia.com
STATEMENT FROM PAM AFRICA
Coordinator of the International Concerned
Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
(March 29, 2008):

Last week's court decision was not a victory. While we obviously prefer to have Mumia alive, instead of executed, life in prison without parole is an unacceptable sentence for an innocent man that was convicted with a blatantly unfair trial. Further, there is still no guarantee that he will not be executed. Also, even if the overturning of the death penalty is eventually finalized, there is no guarantee that he will be moved into the general prison population, because the government has always found ways to make "exceptions" for political prisoners like Mumia.

Once again the courts have held Mumia's case to different standards than other cases. At the 1982 trial Prosecutor McGill used 10 of his 15 peremptory strikes to remove otherwise acceptable black jurors, yet the court ruled that there was not even the appearance of discrimination against just one of these black jurors!

Judge Thomas Ambro has noted this blatant double-standard with the court's rejection of the "Batson" claim regarding racist jury selection, and he states in his dissenting opinion that the court's ruling "goes against the grain of our prior actions…I see no reason why we should not afford Abu-Jamal the courtesy of our precedents."

We have absolutely no faith in the judicial system, but if Mumia does have a court proceeding, we will continue to mobilize to pack the courtroom and the streets in support of Mumia, just like we have always done whenever there was a courtroom proceeding for Mumia, whether he was present or not. However, we know that if Mumia gets justice, it will not come from the courts, but only from the pressure generated by the people.

Therefore, we will take to the streets with a mass-demonstration in Philadelphia on April 19 demanding Mumia's release based on the evidence of both innocence and judicial misconduct from the City of Philadelphia all the way up to the federal level. In response to the recent court decision, numerous demonstrations have already been organized internationally and inside the US. On April 19, with the media spotlight on Pennsylvania's Presidential Primary Election, supporters from around the world will gather in Philadelphia to take a constitutional stand and show our outrage with this unjust court decision.



3) A Lie Called 911, Timeline Update, Fence EcoTrash, Wright

- - Why A Federal Grand Jury Must Indict Bush And Cheney
- - Former Governor Jesse Ventura: WTC Collapse A Controlled Demolition
- - Cooperative Research's 9/11 Timeline and Others Significantly Updated
- - Lucky Larry wants $12.3 billion more for 9/11, by Jerry Mazza
- - Martin Luther King, Jr. ties into the 911 TRUTH Movement
- - Rev. Wright in a different light

A Lie Called 911: Why A Federal Grand Jury Must Indict Bush And Cheney
by Len Hart;
Published by opednews.com 29 March 2008

It's time to drive a stake through the heart of an evil beast --Bush's official conspiracy theory of 911. We are expected to believe that 19 Arab hijackers brought down the twin towers and damaged the Pentagon by flying hijacked airliners into them. Proof that the story is a lie is, at the same time, probable cause to indict Dick Cheney, George W. Bush and others in this criminal administration for the crimes of mass murder and treason.

Moreover, there is now evidence that 'flight manifests' were 'revised' --after the fact --to shore up the holes in Bush's official conspiracy theory. The original 'official flight manifests' were released in response to an FOIA request. What is found on pro-government websites may be called "official' but they are not! They are, however, easily proven to be lies.

Truncated, for the complete article, see:
www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_len_hart_080329_a_lie_called_911_3a_wh.htm

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- - Former Governor Jesse Ventura: WTC Collapse A Controlled Demolition

Navy veteran and movie star savages official story, says media covering up truth about attacks
April 2, 2008
by Paul Joseph Watson

Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura vehemently savaged the official 9/11 story on a syndicated national radio show today, saying the WTC collapsed like a controlled demolition and was pulverized to dust as he also highlighted the impossible 10 second free fall speed of the towers.

Appearing on The Alex Jones Show, Ventura said that his initial reaction to 9/11 was much like most people at the time, and he accepted the official story outright, a response he now regrets because he was in a position of power and could have used it to raise a lot of pointed questions.

For the complete article, see:
www.prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/040208_jesse_ventura.htm
also posted:
www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20080402205204289

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- - Cooperative Research's 9/11 Timeline and Others Significantly Updated

Wednesday, April 2 2008 - Resources and Materials
Cooperative Research's 9/11 Timeline and Others Significantly Updated

Post@ 911truth.org
If you are not familiar with Cooperative Research, definitely have a look. This update notice points to a number of the different Timelines that have now been created there. Paul Thompson and team began with the 9/11 Timeline, which documented events leading up to, on, and after 9/11/01 with media-published links. Eventually, they expanded, creating similar timelines on a long list of subjects (listed in full at end of this article).

These timelines are a remarkably useful research tool, not to mention pretty amazing reading. Similar to the expansion of 911truth.org's focus--beyond narrowly 9/11 research-focused articles to include more about consequences, precedents, responses, and related issues, Cooperative Research offers an opportunity to review a big-picture framework or to narrow in on specific aspects of a single event. We appreciate the great work being done by this team!
— Ed.

History Commons Projects, Update on April 2, 2008

Significant new material was added to three projects this week: 9/11, Loss of Civil Liberties, and Watergate.

The entries added to the 9/11 Timeline range from the 9/11 Commission and attempts to get it to come down in favor of an Iraq-al-Qaeda link, an al-Qaeda cell in Italy that was closely monitored by the authorities, and the 9/11 hijackers, who were profiled as high-risk potential banking clients due to their terrorism links. There is also more on BCCI, terrorism finance in general, and two CIA employees – bin Laden unit chief Rich B and contractor Billy Waugh. In addition, there is a new category dealing with internal US security after 9/11.

Read more

www.911truth.org/article.php?story=2008040281320222

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- - Lucky Larry wants $12.3 billion more for 9/11, by Jerry Mazza
onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_3135.shtml

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- - Martin Luther King, Jr. ties into the 911 TRUTH Movement

For article, see:
www.911blogger.com/node/13460

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- - Rev. Wright in a different light
By William A. Von Hoene Jr.
March 26, 2008
www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0326trinitymar26,0,2414760.story



4) Will Al Gore Help Shut the Nuke Power Loophole?

- - Obama suggests cabinet post for Gore if elected U.S. president
- - Environmental Rules Waived for Mexican Border Fence

Will Al Gore Help Shut the Nuke Power Loophole?
by Harvey Wasserman
Published April 2, 2008 by CommonDreams.org

Today Al Gore is unveiling a massive campaign to fight climate chaos.

But the hugely funded atomic power industry has jumped on global warming with the Big Lie that its failed reactors can somehow help. It’s a sorry replay of the 1950s promise that atomic power would be “too cheap to meter.”

Just before the 2000 election, as senior advisor to the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, I wrote then-Vice President Gore asking that he help delete from the Kyoto Accords any reference to nukes as a possible solution to global warming. On November 3, 2000 (the letter is posted at the NIRS web site) Gore wrote back:

Thank you for your recent inquiry regarding nuclear energy and the Kyoto Protocol. Let me restate for you my long held policy with regard to nuclear energy. I do not support any increased reliance on nuclear energy. Moreover, I have disagreed with those who would classify nuclear energy as clean or renewable. In fact, you will note that the electricity restructuring legislation proposed by the [Clinton] Administration specifically excluded both nuclear and large scale hydro-energy, and instead promoted increased investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy. It is my view that climate change policies should do the same.

Nukes were soon deleted from the Kyoto Accords as a “solution” to global warming.

The reactor industry claims, probably correctly, that it releases fewer greenhouse gases/kwh than fossil fuels. But it also says nukes compare with renewables in avoiding CO2 emissions. Here Gore’s words ring especially true.

It’s well-known that mining, milling, ore transport, enrichment and deployment of radioactive fuel for atomic reactors comprise a major source of CO2 emissions. Radon gas emissions also have significant environmental and public health impacts.

When it’s “spent,” used reactor fuel must cool in energy-intensive cooling ponds, then sit in dubious “dry casks,” which are essentially large boxes with ventilating holes. If the rods are eventually moved to a central repository, tens of thousands of shipments on trucks and trains will be required.

Meanwhile, the mere construction of a nuclear plant consumes huge quantities of fossil fuels. Manufactured materials used to build reactors demand years of efficient operation just to break even in terms of net energy. The reactors also emit heated — often chemically treated — steam into the atmosphere, and hot water into lakes, streams and the oceans. Reactors in France, Alabama and elsewhere have been forced shut because global-warmed streams have become too hot to cool the reactors, and emissions would raise waters downstream beyond acceptable levels (in some cases, over 90 degrees Farenheit).

Meanwhile, nukes are enormously expensive. Some first-generation US reactors came in as much as 25 times over their original budget. Small wonder Wall Street “won’t be burned again.”

There has been much hype about a “standardized design,” but the US industry has not settled on one, and continues to fiddle with essential structural changes even as the licensing process draws near.

As for France, its atomic industry is a form of national socialism. The reactors are primarily state-funded and immune to the kinds of cost-accounting that would force a normal industry to actually pay for itself. France’s 60-odd reactors are loss-leaders for a nation hoping to export large numbers of them. But a “new generation” French-designed reactor under construction in Finland is already two years behind schedule and $2 billion over budget.

Even if reactors could help solve the climate crisis, the mere act of licensing and building them requires a decade or more. The two reactors projected for Turkey Point, Florida, are dubiously targeted to open in 2018 and 2020. They are slated to cost a total of $24 billion. But that price tag is likely to soar, and that money invested now in efficiency and renewables could meanwhile be solving the climate crisis. The Rocky Mountain Institute estimates that every dollar invested in increased efficiency can save some 7 times as much energy as can be produced by a dollar invested in nuke power.

Throw in “ancillary” problems like apocalyptic catastrophe by terror and error, or atomic weapons proliferation, or human health and environmental impacts from “normal” emissions, and much more, and it’s easy to see why not a single major national environmental organization now advocates building new nukes to solve the climate crisis.

The reactor pushers admit that they can’t proceed without massive taxpayer handouts. Last fall, led by US Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) the industry slipped a $50 billion loan guarantee package into the Energy Bill. Thanks to a national and grassroots campaign (see www.nukefree.org) and strong leadership from Congressional Democrats, those guarantees were defeated.

But $18.5 billion did sleaze into descriptive language for last year’s Appropriations Bill. The upcoming Lieberman-Warner Global Warming Bill will be laden with radioactive pork. And the industry is now working on state utility commissions to grant Construction Work in Progress, a boondoggle forcing ratepayers to fund new reactors as they are being built. They’ve already succeeded in Florida.

Without stopping all that, Gore’s much-welcomed initiative cannot succeed. Nuke power is the Achilles Heel that can doom all attempts to save this planet.

Thirty years ago, as thousands of demonstrators marched onto reactor construction sites at Seabrook (NH), Diablo Canyon (CA), and elsewhere, we shared the Solartopian vision of a green-powered earth, a planet entirely free of nuke and fossil fuels.

That vision has now become a tangible possibility, technologically and economically. If this new push to stop global warming supports grassroots citizen action, and helps stop taxpayer funding for new reactors, we just might succeed.

Harvey Wasserman is senior advisor to the Nuclear Information & Resource Service, and has been fighting the reactor industry since 1973. He is senior editor of Freepress.org, and author of SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH (www.solartopia.org).

www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/02/8035/

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- - Obama suggests cabinet post for Gore if elected U.S. president
People’s Daily Online - April 03, 2008

[EXCERPT]

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama suggested on Wednesday that he would consider offering former Vice President Al Gore a cabinet-level post should he be elected president.

Asked by a female attendee to a campaign rally in Pennsylvania whether he would recruit Gore in his administration, Illinois Senator Obama said that he would tap the vice president who narrowly lost the 2000 presidential race to George W. Bush for his cabinet or even higher level office to address the global warming issue.

"Not only will I, but I will make a commitment that Al Gore will be at the table and play a central part in us figuring out how we solve this problem," he said, adding he consulted with Gore on a regular basis.

Gore, who has refused to come back to the presidential race, committed to the climate change course that earned him a Nobel Prize in 2007. So far, he has not officially endorsed any Democratic presidential candidate.

Source: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/6385955.html

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- - Environmental Rules Waived for Mexican Border Fence
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/02/8050/


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