Flashback: Aaron Brown of WTC 7 Footage Fame: Broadcaster says serious news at riskThe anchorman whose boss once characterized him as ice compared with his successor's fire was anything but chilly in the impassioned speech he delivered Tuesday at The Society of the Four Arts.
"Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news," said Aaron Brown, whose four-year period as anchor of CNN's NewsNight ended in November, when network executives gave his job to Anderson Cooper in a bid to push the s... (more)
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Open Letter of Conditional Surrender in the War on TerrorOn behalf of all people under the dominion of aggressor states who believe in the principle of reciprocity, non-aggression, the Golden Rule, justice and mercy, we hereby announce this conditional surrender.
We surrender all our state officials, politicians, and bureaucrats who pushed for this war, who caused the massive slaughter of thousands or millions of innocent lives and trivialized the crime with the term “collateral damage.” We surrender... (more)
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Report: Many CIA 'ghost prisoners' still 'disappeared' A report released yesterday by Human Rights Watch revealed that at least thirty-eight men detained in the Central Intelligence Agency's secret prisons are still unaccounted for. The report's lead author, Joanne Mariner, said in an interview with RAW STORY that it was time for Congress to boost its oversight in order to "monitor and police the abuses" that were suffered by these detainees.
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch released, Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in ... (more)
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New Light Shed on CIA's 'Black Site' PrisonsOn his last day in CIA custody, Marwan Jabour, an accused al-Qaeda paymaster, was stripped naked, seated in a chair and videotaped by agency officers. Afterward, he was shackled and blindfolded, headphones were put over his ears, and he was given an injection that made him groggy. Jabour, 30, was laid down in the back of a van, driven to an airstrip and put on a plane with at least one other prisoner.
His release from a secret facility in Afghanistan on June 30, 2006, was a surpri... (more)
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Why the FBI got away with the first WTC bombingOn February 26, 1993, a gray snowy day in Manhattan like the one I write on 14 years later, the FBI and US government failed to stop the van-bomb explosion in the World Trade Center’s basement garage, just as NORAD and the US government failed to stop the airliner blitz on the Twin Towers and Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
I remember crowds fleeing from the Towers in ’93, choking with smoke, exhaustion, and disbelief. But as James Bovard points out in FBI Blunders... (more)
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The Really Big Lie About Autism About six months ago I wrote an OpEd piece called "The Really Big Lie About Autism" in which I described the persistent yet illogical claim that all the autistic kids filling speech therapy sessions, classrooms, and even whole schools, are the result of "better diagnosing and greater awareness" on the part of doctors. In other words, autism has always been ... (more)
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Research supports mercury-autism link It was reported repeatedly in 2006 that the link between mercury-containing vaccines and autism has been disproven. Yet if one looks at the most recent research coming from some of our major universities, one may draw the opposite conclusion.
What we have learned in the last couple of years is that the underlying medical condition of autism is neuroinflammatory disease. In a study conducted at John Hopkins University, brain tissue from deceased autistic p... (more)
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Drivers face £600 bill for an in-car road pricing black boxMotorists face a potential bill of more than £600 to fit a black box needed to make a full pay-as-you-drive road pricing system work, Whitehall documents have revealed.
A blueprint drawn up by the Department for Transport showed it could cost £62 billion to set up and £8.6 billion a year to run.
Every motorist could end up paying nearly £300 just to cover the expense of collecting the charge
Every motorist could end up payin... (more)
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What U.S. Interrogators Learned from TV Feb. 27, 2007 - Jack Bauer, the fictional federal agent in the hit American TV show "24," gets what he wants—and does whatever it takes to get it. Whether he must beat, suffocate, electrocute, drug or engage in psychological abuse, he will unravel whatever terror plot imperils the United States. He's even used torture on his own brother. Less well known, however, is how TV series like these have captured the imagination of American soldiers in Iraq.
According to the New York... (more)
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Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling.
A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change.
In a report requested by the United Nations and partially paid for by the ... (more)
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Canada rejects anti-terror laws The Canadian parliament has voted against renewing two controversial anti-terror measures that had been adopted after the 11 September attacks.
The measures allowed suspects to be detained without charge for three days and could compel witnesses to testify.
The minority Conservative government accused the opposition Liberals of being soft on terror.
The vote comes days after the Supreme Court revoked a law allowing foreign susp... (more)
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Stock market suffers worst day since 9/11After the stock market's worst performance in more than five years, market watchers at the Shore on Tuesday said the decline was a much-needed correction in what had been an overheated market.
Experts said they had been awaiting a downturn, but they were caught slightly off-guard by its magnitude. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 416.02, or 3.3 percent, the seventh-worst loss when measured by points.
"It's very significant," said Robert Giunco Jr., vice preside... (more)
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EFF Lawsuit Seeks Release of Secret Court Orders on Electronic SurveillanceThe Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice, demanding records about secret new court orders that supposedly authorize the government's highly controversial electronic surveillance program that intercepts and analyzes millions of Americans' communications.
When press reports forced the White House to acknowledge the program in December of 2005, the administration claimed that the massive program could be conducted with... (more)
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German cops and spooks prep own spywareGermany's police and secret services are pushing for a legal basis for "online house searches" – carried out without the knowledge of suspects, using spyware similar to a Trojan.
The German public learned of the practice in November last year, when a magistrate of the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal High Court) ruled that there is no legal basis for such measures as part of police inquiries.
Magistrate Ulrich Hebenstreit argued that house searches... (more)
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Another Smoking Gun? Now CNN Jumps the Gun: On 911 CNN Announced WTC 7 "Has Either Collapsed or is Collapsing" Over an Hour Before it FellIn an amazing redux, new video has been unearthed of a CNN report on the day of 911 in which a CNN anchor announces they have received word that WTC 7 is on fire and "has either collapsed or is collapsing." The problem with this is that WTC 7 is clearly visible behind the anchor.
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BBC Responds to Building 7 Controversy; Claim 9/11 Tapes LostThe BBC has been forced to respond to footage showing their correspondent reporting the collapse of WTC 7 before it fell on 9/11, claiming tapes from the day are somehow missing, and refusing to identify the source for their bizarre act of "clairvoyance" in accurately pre-empting the fall of Building 7.
Here is the BBC's response to the questions about the footage that was unearthed yesterday, with my comments after each statement.
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US funds terror groups to sow chaos in IranAmerica is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.
In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions.
The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movement... (more)
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Brit Newspaper: U.S. Organizing Terrorism Against IranCult members of Monafiqeen-e-Khalq. According to the Pentagon and the CIA, these women will help bring down the mullahocracy in Iran. Of course, the truth of the matter is quite different, as these poor deluded women will likely become yet another group of neocon victims along the road to a “clash of civilizations.”
William Lowther and Colin Freeman, writing for the Sunday Telegraph, tell us what we knew more than a year ago: the United States is fomenting t... (more)
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THE REDIRECTION: Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? A STRATEGIC SHIFT
In the past few months, as the situation in Iraq has deteriorated, the Bush Administration, in both its public diplomacy and its covert operations, has significantly shifted its Middle East strategy. The “redirection,” as some inside the White House have called the new strategy, has brought the United States closer to an open confrontation with Iran and, in parts of the region, propelled it into a widening sectarian conflict between Shiite and Sunni ... (more)
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Inside Navy's secret brigOfficials at the Navy's brig in Hanahan developed elaborate plans to dodge public scrutiny of its operations to detain enemy combatants, plans that include destroying "critical info," scrubbing public Web sites, and warning brig staff about the temptations of "high priced offers from news agencies," a Navy report shows.
The 17-page document also describes how, with relatively short notice, the Naval Consolidated Brig created an expensive prison-within-a-prison, in part to prevent ... (more)
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America’s death marchLast month, I touched on a fraction of February’s forgotten history vis-à-vis America’s long history of global brutality. Here’s a small taste of March madness.
1945
In WW II’s Pacific theater -- cheered on by the likes of Time magazine, which explained that “properly kindled, Japanese cities will burn like autumn leaves” -- U.S. General Curtis LeMay’s Twenty-first Bomber Command laid siege to the poorer ar... (more)
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