"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us, "Universe," a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest -- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

: Albert Einstein - (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.

"Can't you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. " When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."


............................................................................Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland"


Now I ask you, what is more impossible? Believing in only what you see?
Or believing in all that actually is, seen or not?

www.rense.com/general72/size.htm

"I hope you are finding your own ways to share in the joys that being a deliberate creator brings to you...I'm honoured to be with all of you, we're all specially chosen for this earthly mission, our memories are coming back to us, as we learn to harness our powerful collaborations with the Universe, hold your vibrations in joy, knowledge, peace, appreciation and love....tell the Universe what you desire, and watch.....watch, create, allow and respond in your highest frequencies. I hope that you are called at some point to free yourself from the resistance within, and allow yourself to have new belief systems that will serve your greatest and most profound desires." -Dieter Braun

Love, Dieter
Indian in the machine
I am a spiritual being having a physical experience, and so are you.
www.indianinthemachine.com

Star Being Activation
www.vimeo.com/656424/

"If you can just get your mind together
Uh-then come on across to me
Well hold hands and then well watch the sunrise
From the bottom of the sea
But first, are you experienced?
Uh-have you ever been experienced-uh?
Well, I have
(well) I know, I know, youll probably scream and cry
That your little world wont let you go
But who in your measly little world, (-uh)
Are you tryin to prove to that youre
Made out of gold and-uh, cant be sold
So-uh, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced? (-uh)
Well, I have
Uh, let me prove it to you, yeah
Trumpets and violins I can-uh, hear in the distance
I think theyre callin our name
Maybe now you cant hear them,
But you will, ha-ha, if you just
Take hold of my hand
Ohhh, but are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful"
~~~~~~~~~~Jimi Hendrix~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." -- Anais Nin

Buddhism may be good for your mental health.

Scientists say they have evidence to show that Buddhists really are happier and calmer than other people. Tests carried out in the United States reveal that areas of their brain associated with good mood and positive feelings are more active. The findings come as another study suggests that Buddhist meditation can help to calm people.

Researchers at University of California San Francisco Medical Centre have found the practise can tame the amygdala, an area of the brain which is the hub of fear memory.

There is something about conscientious Buddhist practice that results in the kind of happiness we all seek They found that experienced Buddhists, who meditate regularly, were less likely to be shocked, flustered, surprised or as angry compared to other people.

Paul Ekman, who carried out the study, said: "The most reasonable hypothesis is that there is something about conscientious Buddhist practice that results in the kind of happiness we all seek."

Brain activity

In a separate study, scientists at the University of Wisconsin at Madison used new scanning techniques to examine brain activity in a group of Buddhists.

Their tests revealed activity in the left prefrontal lobes of experienced Buddhist practitioners. This area is linked to positive emotions, self-control and temperament. Their tests showed this area of the Buddhists' brains are constantly lit up and not just when they are meditating. This, the scientists said, suggests they are more likely to experience positive emotions and be in good mood.

"We can now hypothesise with some confidence that those apparently happy, calm Buddhist souls one regularly comes across in places such as Dharamsala, India, really are happy," said Professor Owen Flanagan, of Duke University in North Carolina. Dharamsala is the home base of exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama.


Last Updated: Wednesday, 21 May, 2003, 21:50 GMT 22:50 UK
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3047291.stm
The studies are published in New Scientist magazine.

PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER
patti smith / Dream of Life
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I was dreaming in my dreaming
Of an aspect bright and fair
And my sleeping it was broken
But my dream it lingered near
In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry
That the people have the power
To redeem the work of fools
Upon the meek the graces shower
It's decreed the people rule

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Vengeful aspects became suspect
And bending low as if to hear
And the armies ceased advancing
Because the people had their ear
And the shepherds and the soldiers
Lay beneath the stars
Exchanging visions
And laying arms
To waste in the dust
In the form of shining valleys
Where the pure air recognized
And my senses newly opened
I awakened to the cry

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

Where there were deserts
I saw fountains
Like cream the waters rise
And we strolled there together
With none to laugh or criticize
And the leopard
And the lamb
Lay together truly bound
I was hoping in my hoping
To recall what I had found
I was dreaming in my dreaming
God knows a purer view
As I surrender to my sleeping
I commit my dream to you

The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power
The people have the power

The power to dream to rule
To wrestle the world from fools
It's decreed the people rule
It's decreed the people rule
Listen. I believe everything we dream
Can come to pass through our union
We can turn the world around
We can turn the earth's revolution

We have the power
People have the power

PLEASE BOOKMARK THIS SITE AND VISIT IT FREQUENTLY
www.theanimalrescuesite.com

Update Oct. 2009: With the current economy, many beloved pets are ending up in shelters, because their owners have lost their homes, their jobs, or because, like me, they no longer have full-time jobs, and cannot afford to feed a pet any more. At no cost to you, please take a moment to help care for so many pets in need! Your click counts on many levels.

The Animal Rescue Site receives donations every time you click on the purple button on their site. Please click on it daily to help them meet their quota of getting free food donated every day to abused and neglected animals, and homeless shelter pets. It takes less than a minute (How about 20 seconds) to go to their site and click on the purple box 'fund food for animals' for free.

>>>>>This doesn't cost you a thing!<<<<<

Their corporate sponsors/advertisers use the number of daily visits to donate food to abandoned/neglected animals in exchange for advertising. below is the web site! Pass it along to people you know. Last year, visitor clicks funded the value of 67,054,500 bowls of food for animals sheltering in sanctuaries (up from 37,284,227 in 2007!). Purchases at The Animal Rescue Site store funded the value of an additional 10,836,314 bowls of food (up from 5,440,086 in 2007!).

What can we accomplish together in 2009?

Go to: www.theanimalrescuesite.com

Then click on the purple button to make your click count!

Results — How You're Helping

Your clicks count!

The tables below show the daily, monthly and yearly results from your clicks — along with those of other visitors — on the "Click Here to Give - it's FREE" button.

Each year, your caring actions at The Animal Site funded the value of bowls of food for animals in need.

What can we accomplish together in 2009?

Results : Daily and Monthly
www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clic...faces
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Date Clicks Bowls of Food Kilograms Metric Tons Pounds
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Sep.2009 10,836,376 6,501,826 1,475,914 1,475.9 3,250,913
Aug.2009 11,271,069 6,762,641 1,535,120 1,535.1 3,381,321
Jul.2009 11,662,695 6,997,617 1,588,459 1,588.5 3,498,808
Jun.2009 11,495,346 6,897,208 1,565,666 1,565.7 3,448,604
May.2009 10,891,185 6,534,711 1,483,379 1,483.4 3,267,356
Apr.2009 10,379,948 6,227,969 1,413,749 1,413.7 3,113,984
Mar.2009 10,295,295 6,177,177 1,402,219 1,402.2 3,088,588
Feb.2009 9,445,886 5,667,532 1,286,530 1,286.5 2,833,766
Jan.2009 9,882,813 5,929,688 1,346,039 1,346.0 2,964,844
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Dec.2008 9,323,524 5,594,114 1,269,864 1,269.9 2,797,057
Nov.2008 9,402,206 5,641,324 1,280,580 1,280.6 2,820,662
Oct.2008 10,152,739 6,091,643 1,382,803 1,382.8 3,045,822
Sep.2008 9,040,521 5,424,313 1,231,319 1,231.3 2,712,156
Aug.2008 9,129,438 5,477,663 1,243,429 1,243.4 2,738,831
Jul.2008 8,838,654 5,303,192 1,203,825 1,203.8 2,651,596
Jun.2008 8,896,247 5,337,748 1,211,669 1,211.7 2,668,874
May.2008 9,502,412 5,701,447 1,294,229 1,294.2 2,850,724
Apr.2008 9,239,089 5,543,453 1,258,364 1,258.4 2,771,727
Mar.2008 9,368,368 5,621,021 1,275,972 1,276.0 2,810,510
Feb.2008 9,516,760 5,710,056 1,296,183 1,296.2 2,855,028
Jan.2008 9,347,543 5,608,526 1,273,135 1,273.1 2,804,263
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Results : Yearly

ANNUAL:
Date.Clicks.Bowls of Food.Kilograms.Metric Tons.Pounds
2008 111,757,501 67,054,501 15,221,372 15,221.4 33,527,250
2007 62,140,644 37,284,227 8,463,520 8,463.5 18,642,114
2006 48,176,957 29,723,566 6,747,249 6,747.2 14,861,783
2005 50,950,876 30,570,525 6,939,509 6,939.5 15,285,262
2004 52,587,337 31,576,589 7,167,886 7,167.9 15,788,294
2003 39,948,086 23,968,850 5,440,929 5,440.9 11,984,425
2002 11,328,962 10,734,549 2,436,743 2,436.7 5,367,274

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"Remember, we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another. Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act." - Ram Dass

"Will future generations know our time as the Great Unraveling, when profligate consumption exceeded Earth's capacity and led to an accelerating wave of collapsing environmental systems, violent competition for resources, and a dramatic dieback of the human population? Or will they look back on the time of the Great Turning, when their forebears turned crisis into opportunity, and learned to live in creative partnership with one another and Earth? Empire organizes by domination, brings fortune to a few, and condemns most to misery and servitude. Earth Community organizes by partnership, unleashing human potential for creative cooperation, and shares resources and surpluses for the good of all. The future is in our hands... We have the power. We are the ones we have been waiting for." - David Korten
www.davidkorten.org

Galactic Prayer to the 7 Directions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From the East, House of Light
May wisdom Dawn in us
So we may see all things in clarity

From the North, House of Night
May Wisdom Ripen in Us
So we may know all from within

From the West, House of Transformation
May Wisdom be transformed into right action
So we may do what must be done

From the South, House of the Eternal Sun
May right action reap the harvest
So we may enjoy the fruits of Planetary being

From Above, House of Heaven
Where star people and Ancestors gather
May their blessings come to us Now

From Below, House of Earth
May the heartbeat of her crystal core
Bless us with harmonies to end all war

From the Center, Galactic Source
Which is everywhere at once
May everything be known
as the light of mutual Love

Oh Yum Hunab Ku Evam Maya E Ma Ho

All Hail the Harmony of Mind and Nature!

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Knowledge is Power. Inform yourself. Consider it a Patriotic Duty.
(Wow! I am inspired by the number of people waking up to this disturbing Truth!)

INTRODUCTION
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Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News
www.911blogger.com

This site has been active for quite some time. No site has a more comprehensive array of links to 911Truth sites, and a wealth of carefuly researched information. Not a traditional debate thread, but a intelligently moderated place to post information and add comments to support the initial post. Visit this site as your first stop on the way to unlimited learning on the topic. 911blogger.com/tracker

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RECOMMENDED BLOGS:

Reprehensor
www.911blogger.com/blog/5
website: www.911blogger.com
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John Doraemi
crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/
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George Washington
www.blogger.com/profile/10...31441055038
Investigation into Whether America Is Still a Constitutional Government

"This website is intended to be an easy-to-read, fully-sourced resource for
Congress members, Senators, reporters, and others who wish to discover
the current legal status of the United States of America.
The United States has been in a declared state of emergency from
September 2001, to the present..."
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Arabesque: 9/11 Truth
"We're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality."
www.arabesque911.blogspot.com/

December 30, 2008
A 9/11/2008 Resolution: Start Your Own 9/11 Blog!
(If you are fed up with the silent Corporate Media)
arabesque911.blogspot.com/2008/...g.html
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History Commons
hcgroups.wordpress.com/

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NEWS UPDATES (See websites for more information)
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Dec. 27, 2008
Gatekeeper Cockburn (CounterPunch) is at it again
www.911blogger.com/node/18932
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Dec. 25, 2008
The Truth About It
by John Parulis

This is the music video portion to an upcoming video documentary about the creation of a nearly 2 ton steel sign that was an art installation at Burning Man 2007. The Piece was designed to draw attention to the evidence of the steel-melting incendiary, thermite, found at ground zero, World Trade Centers, by Professor Steven Jones. The film will raise questions about the "official" story and delve into the realms of "belief" regarding difficult to assimilate truths.

Native American artist, Jeremy Goodfeather, sang and composed the title song.
profile.myspace.com/index.cfm

More at: 911truthburn.blogspot.com
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Dec. 12, 2008
The Obama-Biden Transition wants to hear from you.
www.911blogger.com/node/18792
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Free Lunch:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cay_Johnston
www.amazon.com/Free-Lunch...t/dp/159...

David Cay Johnston (born 1948) is an investigative journalist and author. Until April 2008, he was a senior reporter with The New York Times but now works as an independent author and reporter. He is the author of best-selling books on tax and economic policy, the most recently published of which is Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, about hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and corporate socialism. It follows his earlier book Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else, a New York Times bestseller.[1]

Perfectly Legal:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfectly_Legal
www.amazon.com/Perfectly-.../1591840198
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Nov. 5, 2008
Lawyers for 911Truth
www.911blogger.com/node/18420
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October 13, 2008
Deep Events and the CIA's Global Drug Connection
by Peter Dale Scott
August 17, 2008
911truth.org/article.php
This is a lengthy but fascinating research article by one of the 9/11 Truth community's heavy hitters.

THE TOP 40 REASONS TO DOUBT THE OFFICIAL STORY
OF SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001
... An outline in simple talking points ...
www.911truth.org/article.php
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October 6, 2008
The Ultimate 9/11 'Truth' Showdown: David Ray Griffin vs. Matt Taibbi
www.911blogger.com/node/18066
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Sept. 17th, 2008
Infowars: Key Witness to WTC 7 Explosions Dead at 53
911blogger.com/node/17808
Emergency coordinator and 9/11 witness Barry Jennings has passed away with controversy about WTC7 still hot– as the BBC hit piece and NIST report have been released to counter Jennings’ exclusive testimony of explosions inside Building
Emergency coordinator and 9/11 witness Barry Jennings has passed away with controversy about WTC7 still hot– as the BBC hit piece and NIST report have been released to counter Jennings’ exclusive testimony of explosions inside Building 7 during his escape. His death was not immediately reported, and the cause of death remains obscured, as there were no obituaries, and no one is talking.

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WeAreChangeBoston End the 9/11 Media Blackout Banner on News
911blogger.com/node/17812
Sept. 16, 2008
Jason Bermas gave me the banner. Thank you!
Check out his new movies Fabled Enemies and Loose Change Final Cut.
www.LC911.com
www.youtube.com/watch
I also have some great footage from this event:
An ACLU Constitution Day conversation with:
aclum.org/events/index.php
Eric Alterman, The Nation
Ellen Hume, MIT Center for Future Civic Media
Callie Crossley, Program Manager for the Nieman Foundation
for Journalism, Harvard University
Emcee: Barry Nolan, veteran TV journalist tonight (9-16-08) from
an ACLU event at the Boston Public Library

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2 Films American Networks DARE Not Show
by John Gold
911blogger.com/node/17813

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911 Email of Truth
911blogger.com/node/12547
Sept. 15, 2008
Scientists, Scholars, Architects & Engineers respond to NIST
911blogger.com/node/17794
Sept. 15th, 2008
AE911Truth Challenges NIST's WTC 7 Floor 12 Fire Analysis
911blogger.com/node/17781
Sept. 15th, 2008

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September 11, 2008
Open Thread #2
911blogger.com/node/17689
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August 26, 2008
at 911blogger.com

Mother Jones magazine, September/October 2008 issue, pp.95-97
The Truth Is Out There
In search of intelligent life in the world of 9/11 conspiracy theories
BY DAVE GILSON
911blogger.com/node/17367

(Reposting by Reprehensor for purposes of critique.)

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August 26, 2008
The Reflecting Pool director, Jarek Kupsc, responds to Mother Jones:

Paging Terry Gilliam, or Why Mother Jones Can’t Have It Both Ways
By Jarek Kupsc - Writer/Director of The Reflecting Pool
www.911blogger.com/node/17368

------------------911blogger.com thread from August 24, 2008------------------------

On Disinformation and Damaging Associations
Submitted by Reprehensor on Sun, 08/24/2008 - 1:33pm.
(Reprehensor is 911blogger.com's moderator)

"Nearly seven years out from 9/11, and disinformation remains a persistent problem within the 9/11 Truth movement. Part of the problem has been that sites like 911blogger.com have been slow to label blatant disinformation as such. Back in April, I noted that certain topics would no longer be tolerated here. In the interim, two of these topics were introduced in a U.S. District Court in New York, setting a poor benchmark for future 9/11 Truth-related cases in New York. It's now time for a firmer, (and admittedly glaringly late), stance on Fakery, DEW, and "SBHT" syndrome, here at 911blogger."

Full thread:
911blogger.com/node/17206

thread excerpts:
* Independent researcher Aidan Monaghan 911blogger.com/blog/2074 has been having an extremely difficult time even finding out if normal aircrash protocols were followed by the NTSB or FBI which would have verified the plane parts as the specified 9/11 hijacks. His effort continues.

** Greg Jenkins and Arabesque

*** Lots of worthwhile material relating to the topic(s) at hand at Hoffman's site:
911review.com/infowars.html

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Further reading:

A Critical Review of WTC 'No Plane' Theories by Eric Salter
journalof911studies.com/volume...ter.pdf

Rebuttal of Ace Baker's "Chopper 5 Composite" Analysis by Eric Salter
journalof911studies.com/letter...tal.pdf

Interpreting the Boeing-767 Deceleration During Impact with the WTC Tower: Center of Mass Versus Tail-end Motion, and Instantaneous Versus Average Velocity by Gregory S. Jenkins, PhD
journalof911studies.com/letter...ers.pdf

Three Amigos - Reynolds, Wood and Fetzer's assault on 9/11 Truth by Jeremy Baker
drkprnts.wordpress.com/33/

Arabesque's blog.
arabesque911.blogspot.com/

Michael Wolsey's Special Report on COINTELPRO.
visibility911.com/reports-c...lpro01.php

Related video:

William Schaap's expert testimony on the history of disinformation:
www.youtube.com/view_play_list


-Reprehensor

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70 Disturbing Facts About 9/11
crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/200...html

John Doraemi publishes Crimes of the State Blog
crimesofthestate.blogspot.com/

johndoraemi -- at --yahoo.com.

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Good move Rep. We are offering them fewer places to sell their garbage.

Jules

International Truth Movement
www.truthmove.org

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coljennysparks.blogspot.com/
truthaction.org/forum/
www.911blacklist.org/

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Are these reports faked too?"
arabesque911.blogspot.com/2007/...1.html

September Clues, TV Fakery: Debunked
arabesque911.blogspot.com/2007/...d.html

A 9/11/2008 Resolution: Start Your Own 9/11 Blog
arabesque911.blogspot.com/2008/...g.html

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911 Prayer For Transformation
Submitted by John_Parulis on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 1:53pm.
www.911blogger.com/node/17229

The person who turned me on to 911blogger.com is John Parulis:

- 911TruthBurn 911truthburn.blogspot.com/
www.911blogger.com/node/10445
- ae911truth www.ae911truth.org/
- john parulis www.911blogger.com/user/2779
- Prayer / Spiritual Mind Treatment www.911blogger.com/node/17229

This man's intentions are pure. I salute you, John.

In other venues and out in the world, John Parulis, like many visionaries and gifted healers, takes a LOT of flack over his unwavering quest to help bring Truth to Light, including, but not limited to, personal attacks via name-calling, hackers, death threats, and an on-going campaign to categorize and defame his many accomplishments, art & video creations, and journalistic expressions, through systematic criticism and derision.

Yet, he remains passionate, in complete integrity, wholeheartedly dedicated to this cause, undaunted by the narrow-minded and naysayers. He is an activist of the highest caliber.

We have in him a great ally and cmassachusetts.tribe.net/templa...ntry.vm healer, whose experiential understanding of alchemical creation tools make him an inadvertent but powerful leader in our movement to bring Truth to Light.

I trust this man with my life.


Submitted by PhoenixFireNectar on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 12:17pm.

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World Trade Center 7 and the NIST Report
by William Helbig
August 23, 2008 www.opednews.com
www.911blogger.com/node/17322
Submitted by Joe on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 10:30pm

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AE911Truth Press Conference
Thursday 8/21/08 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
Critical Response to NIST Final Report
on the Mysterious Collapse of WTC Building 7
www.911blogger.com/node/17252
Submitted by Reprehensor on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 11:58am.

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REPEAT BROADCASTS & ARCHIVES COMING

www.noliesradio.com/
Repeat Broadcast for both news conferences Thursday, August 21st --- 7:30pm Pacific - 10:30pm Eastern - 2:30 GMT

Repeat Broadcast for both news conferences Saturday, August 23rd --- 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern - 18:00 GMT

Both will be archived here after the broadcasts.
www.noliesradio.com/

If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody hears it, did it really fall? I once heard a giant redwood fall in Muir Valley, from the overlook above...I couldn't see it, but the thundering noise went on for at least 15 seconds, which is a long time...

So it would follow that since the building fell, there was noise, which in the panic and confusion, may have become unclear as to what noises were heard when. Detonation would first garner attention, then witnesses would turn to see the collapse already in progress.

Submitted by PhoenixFireNectar on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 3:53pm

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Film: ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11
Start: 2008-09-04 19:00 or purchase on line.
Timezone: US/Eastern

ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11, has one central thesis - that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 can not be true. This brand new feature documentary from Italian production company Telemaco explores the latest scientific evidence and reveals dramatic new witness testimony, which directly conflicts with the US Government's account.

Featuring presentations from intellectual heavy weights; Gore Vidal, and Noble Prize winner Dario Fo, the film challenges assumptions surrounding the attacks. In the words of the Italian daily newspaper, Il Corriere de da Sera, "What results is a sequence of contradictions, gaps, and omissions of stunning gravity."

The importance of this film can not be overstated. If its thesis is correct, the justification for going to war in Iraq is built on a series of outrageous lies.

You can get this film at www.zero911movie.com
or contact: Zero 9/11 Movie
116 Pleasant Street, Suite 328
Easthampton, MA 01027
tel: 413.282.1000
fax: 413.282.1099
email: info@zero911movie.com

Prior to the film at 6:00 PM Valley 9/11 Truth will meet to discuss next week's event at the Media Education Foundation space on September 11, 2008. Plus, following the film we will discuss the film with the audience.

Before the meeting (Wednesday 4 September) please inquire and contact local colleges and universities to find any organizations that will help us hold events on campus.

This event is sponsored by www.Valley911truth.org
and also by www.FlybyNews.com

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August 21, 2008
AE911Truth Press Conference
Thursday 8/21/08 9am PDT / 12pm EDT
Critical Response to NIST Final Report
on the Mysterious Collapse of WTC Building 7

Join the 430 Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth for an important live (audio) Press Conference. The subject is the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 which was a 47-story, steel-framed, fire-proofed high-rise — the 3rd tower to fall straight down symmetrically at nearly free-fall speed on 9/11/01 with numerous reports of explosions and several tons of molten metal found in the basement carrying the "thermite fingerprint".

The AE911Truth tele-conference will follow immediately after the NIST (National Institute for Standards & Technology) slide presentation and Q&A of their WTC 7 Final Report which will be Webcast beginning at 8am PDT / 11am EDT. See the NIST webcast announcement & details here.

In our AE911Truth response we will be documenting major flaws in the NIST report as well as the most serious omissions such as the collapse features of WTC 7 and the scientific forensic evidence of its explosive controlled demolition.

Listeners:
The Tele-Conference Dial-in # for listeners is (712) 432-1001
and the access code is: 442-618-649#
Call in at 12pm EDT
(Note that you will not be able to speak during the call)

(Panelists — you have been given a different access code)

You may also listen live to both press conferences at
www.NoLiesRadio.com and possibly at WBAI Radio — NY.

After the August 26th rebroadcast, these shows will be archived at No Lies Radio.

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August 20, 2008
We Are CHANGE Boston Confronts Chris Matthews

Chris Matthews, while speaking at Harvard, states that he is unwilling to interview William Rodriguez because he and Mark of We Are Change Boston are conspiracy theorists. He also denies any knowledge of the BBC and CNN's reporting of the collapse of WTC7 on 9/11/01 before the event had actually occurred.

www.youtube.com/watch


We C.H.A.N.G.E RI and Boston make the news

At an Obama rally in Boston.

www.youtube.com/watch

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August 19, 2008
September 11, 2008 Day of Prayer: Asking for Guidance for the Next Step

"9/11 Truth is a very important issue with the power to bring lasting change to our country."
~ William Sloane Coffin, clergyman & international peace activist

Greetings to the 9/11 Truth Community and All Concerned Citizens

We invite activists and citizens from all countries to join us on September 11, 2008 for quiet moments of meditation and reflection.

Join us in creative acts of inspiration and prayer! Add your prayers and send us your photos from your remembrance.

Some activists are arranging local 9/11 Truth Memorials, and these words of inspiration are for all who are moved to take a moment of thoughtful remembrance of that day seven years ago and the unfolding of events since then.

We honor and remember not just those who lost their lives or a family member, but also the many who have dedicated ourselves to the cause of exposing 9/11 truth and other governmental cover ups as a road to profound societal change.

We remember for a living reason. We are moved by our desire to live in a kinder more peaceful world and we are sustained by our vision of a better future.

-Jason King

The 9/11 day of prayer is a personal initiative of Mia Hamel of Tampa 9/11 Truth and Jason King of Boston 9/11 Truth. To add your supporting statement of this initiative please contact: prayers@911dayofprayer.org
Please take a moment and visit our website
911dayofprayer.org/ and add your prayers and inspirations.

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Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth
www.mujca.com/

Thousands of our brothers and sisters have been killed, many have been tortured, and American civil liberties have been negated based on a story that has been challenged by hundreds of highly credentialed technical experts and scholars. We, of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth during these trying times, execute the principles of our combined faiths:

"What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your God." (Micah 6:8), "God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and love." (2nd Timothy1:7), "Say what is true, although it may be bitter and displeasing to people." (Prophet Muhammad: Hadith: Baihaqi)

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July 12, 2008
9/11 third tower mystery 'solved'
July 4, 2008, BBC News
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7485331.stm

The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center. The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after the twin towers. Investigators are expected to say ordinary fires on several different floors caused the collapse. Conspiracy theorists have argued that the third tower was brought down in a controlled demolition.

Unlike the twin towers, Tower Seven was not hit by a plane. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, based near Washington DC, is expected to conclude in its long-awaited report this month that ordinary fires caused the building to collapse.

-->That would make it the first and only steel skyscraper in the world to collapse because of fire.<--

See World Trade Center 7's location and structure:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/ameri...stm#graphic

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's lead investigator, Dr Shyam Sunder, spoke to BBC Two's "The Conspiracy Files":

"Our working hypothesis now actually suggests that it was normal building fires that were growing and spreading throughout the multiple floors that may have caused the ultimate collapse of the buildings."

'Smoking gun'

However, a group of architects, engineers and scientists say the official explanation that fires caused the collapse is impossible. Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth argue there must have been a controlled demolition.

The founder of the group, Richard Gage, says the collapse of the third tower is an obvious example of a controlled demolition using explosives.

"Building Seven is the smoking gun of 9/11 A sixth grader can look at this building falling at virtually freefall speed, symmetrically and smoothly, and see that it is not a natural process."

"Buildings that fall in natural processes fall to the path of least resistance", says Gage, "they don't go straight down through themselves."

Conspiracy theories

There are a number of facts that have encouraged conspiracy theories about Tower Seven.

* Although its collapse potentially made architectural history, all of the thousands of tonnes of steel from the skyscraper were taken away to be melted down.
* The third tower was occupied by the Secret Service, the CIA, the Department of Defence and the Office of Emergency Management, which would co-ordinate any response to a disaster or a terrorist attack.
* The destruction of the third tower was never mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report. The first official inquiry into Tower Seven by the Federal Emergency Management Agency was unable to be definitive about what caused its collapse.
* In May 2002 FEMA concluded that the building collapsed because intense fires had burned for hours, fed by thousands of gallons of diesel stored in the building. But it said this had "only a low probability of occurrence" and more work was needed.

But now nearly seven years after 9/11 the definitive official explanation of what happened to Tower Seven is finally about to be published in America.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has spent more than two years investigating Tower Seven but lead investigator Dr Shyam Sunder rejects criticism that it has been slow.

The collapse of Tower 7
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/progr...7481413.stm

"We've been at this for a little over two years and doing a two or two and a half year investigation is not at all unusual. That's the same kind of time frame that takes place when we do aeroplane crash investigations, it takes a few years."

With no steel from Tower 7 to study, investigators have instead made four extremely complex computer models worked out to the finest detail. They're confident their approach can now provide the answers. Dr Sunder says the investigation is moving as fast as possible.

"It's a very complex problem. It requires a level of fidelity in the modelling and rigour in the analysis that has never been done before."

Other skyscrapers haven't fully collapsed before because of fire. But NIST argues that what happened on 9/11 was unique.

Steel structure weakened

It says Tower Seven had an unusual design, built over an electricity substation and a subway; there were many fires that burnt for hours; and crucially, fire fighters could not fight the fires in Tower 7, because they didn't have enough water and focused on saving lives.

Investigators have focused on the east side where the long floor spans were under most stress.

They think fires burnt long enough to weaken and break many of the connections that held the steel structure together.

Most susceptible were the thinner floor beams which required less fireproofing, and the connections between the beams and the columns. As they heated up the connections failed and the beams sagged and failed, investigators say.

The collapse of the first of the Twin Towers does not seem to have caused any serious damage to Tower Seven, but the second collapse of the 1,368ft (417m) North Tower threw debris at Tower Seven, just 350ft (106m) away.


Tower Seven came down at 5.21pm. Until now most of the photographs have been of the three sides of the building that did not show much obvious physical damage. Now new photos of the south side of the building, which crucially faced the North Tower, show that whole side damaged and engulfed in smoke.

Location of the World Trade Center 7 building, New York


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FIND OUT MORE...

The Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - The Third Tower is on BBC Two on Sunday 6 July at 2100 BST
or Visit The Conspiracy Files website
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/progr...default.stm

or catch up using the iPlayer
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ck4jd

Q&A: The collapse of Tower 7
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/progr...7434230.stm

Timeline: WTC 7
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/progr...7437516.stm

The BBC and the 'missing' tape
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theed...ies_iii.html

SEE ALSO:

9/11 - The Third Tower
19 Jun 08 | Conspiracy Files
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/progr...7433017.stm

The evolution of a conspiracy theory
04 Jul 08 | Magazine
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_ne...7488159.stm

BBC denies 9/11 conspiracy
02 Jul 08 | Conspiracy Files
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/progr...7483700.stm


RELATED INTERNET LINKS:

National Institute of Standards and Technology
www.nist.gov/

Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
www.ae911truth.org/

Federal Emergency Management Agency
www.fema.gov/

9/11 Commission
www.9-11commission.gov/
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites

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Note: For a two-page summary of some unanswered questions about what really happened on 9/11, and more links, click here: www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up

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June 26, 2008
Gov't says FBI agents can't testify about 9/11
June 19, 2008, International Herald Tribune/Associated Press
www.iht.com/articles/ap/...-Lawsuits.php

Government lawyers say the ongoing investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks could be compromised if the airline industry is allowed to seek more information from the FBI to defend itself against lawsuits brought by terrorism victims. The government urged a judge to block aviation companies from interviewing five FBI employees who the companies say will help them prove the government withheld key information before the 2001 attacks. The lawyers said it would be impossible to interview the employees without disclosing classified or privileged material that could "cause serious damage to national security and interfere with pending law enforcement proceedings." The largest investigation in FBI history has resulted in 167,000 interviews and more than 155,000 pieces of evidence and involved the pursuit of 500,000 investigative leads, the lawyers wrote. The airlines and aviation companies are defending themselves against lawsuits seeking billions of dollars in damages for injuries, fatalities, property damage and business losses related to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The companies filed separate lawsuits against the CIA and the FBI last August to force terrorism investigators to tell whether the aviation industry was to blame for the Sept. 11 attacks. Meanwhile, lawyers for the victims of the attacks ... recounted in court papers numerous hijackings and attacks aboard planes before Sept. 11 that they said should have put the airline industry on notice that a disastrous attack could occur.

Note: For a two-page overview of many unanswered questions about what really happened on 9/11, click here.
www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up

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See also:
What happened to building 7?
June 6, 2008, Financial Times
www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7d17...ac,s01=1.html

A new groundbreaking paper by former Clemson University
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dr Judy Wood, on Hurricane Erin on 9/11
has been published on her personal website:
www.drjudywood.com/articles/erin/

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June 23, 2008
From "PEERS: WantToKnow.info Email List". This message is available online at
www.WantToKnow.info/080607ft.911_truth

Financial Times on 9/11 Truth
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The Truth is Out There
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By Peter Barber
Published: June 7 2008 01:22

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d66...77b07658.html

When Cynthia McKinney speaks the words of Martin Luther King Jr, they resound through the church with some of King’s cadence. “A time comes,” declares the former US congresswoman from Georgia, “when silence is betrayal.” The congregation answers with whoops and calls of “That’s right!” King was talking about America’s war in Vietnam. More than 40 years later, before the packed pews of the Immanuel Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, McKinney is speaking of the American government’s war on its own people. The shock and awe phase of this conflict, we had been told earlier, began on September 11 2001, when the Bush administration launched attacks on New York and Washington, or at least waved them through.

According to a show of hands that February afternoon, several hundred people in the immaculate church believe this to be true. Some came in T-shirts bearing the words “9/11 was an inside job”. One wore a badge demanding that you “Examine your assumptions”. Quite a few bought the DVDs on sale in the foyer, most of which bore photographs of the Twin Towers spewing smoke. They had all come to hear the message of Architects, Engineers & Scientists for 9/11 Truth, one of the dozens of groups across the US which campaign to persuade us that everything we think we know about 9/11 is wrong.

Marion Cotillard, [Emmy-award winning] actress

“There was a tower in Spain which burnt for 24 hours. It never collapsed”

Last winter, “Investigate 9/11” banners seemed to be popping up all over the place. Bill Clinton was heckled by “truthers” in Denver while campaigning for his wife. Truthers picketed the Academy Awards in LA – despite this year’s winner of the best actress Oscar, Marion Cotillard, reportedly being one of them. But then, she’s French. Literature lovers in that country pushed Thierry Meyssan’s L’Effroyable imposture (The Appalling Fraud) – which asserts that 9/11 was a government plot to justify invading Iraq and Afghanistan and increase military spending – to the top of the bestseller list in 2002.

Country music star Willie Nelson [see Fox News article available here] is assuredly not French, but a week or so before the Oscars he described as naive the notion that the “implosion” of the Twin Towers was caused by crashing jets. Meanwhile the European Parliament screened the Italian documentary Zero, in which Gore Vidal, Italian playwright Dario Fo, and Italian MEP Giulietto Chiesa blame the US government, not al-Qaeda, for 9/11. The following month, Japanese MP Yukihisa Fujita raised his own doubts about the official story at a seminar in Sydney. A busy season for the “9/11 Truth” movement.

The events of 9/11 were recorded in many thousands of images, from crisp agency photographs to amateur camcorder footage. Every recorded trail of smoke, every spray of sparks is pored over by an army of sceptics, collectively described as the 9/11 Truth movement. They believe that the key to the mystery is hidden somewhere within the pictures, just as some people think that clues are contained in the Zapruder film which captured the moment of John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Allied against them is a smaller group of rival bloggers who have taken it upon themselves to debunk what they claim are dangerous conspiracy theories.

Gore Vidal, writer

“If there ever was great cause for impeachment, it would be over 9/11”

There is some evidence that the truthers are swaying the rest of us. A New York Times/CBS News poll in 2006 revealed that only 16 per cent of Americans polled believed the Bush administration was telling the truth about 9/11. More than half thought it was “hiding something”. This is not the same as believing the government actually launched the attacks, but a Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll the same year found that more than a third of those questioned suspected that federal officials assisted in the attacks or took no action to stop them so that the US could go to war.

The truthers certainly believe that they are on a roll. The crowd in the Immanuel Presbyterian Church seemed electrified. As the donated sound system pumped out angry rap, a giant video screen showed images of protesters demanding a new investigation into 9/11. The symbols and the language were borrowed from the civil rights struggle, but the truthers are an eclectic group, including anti-Bush, anti-war liberals and anti-government libertarians. A young man in a “Vote Ron Paul” T-shirt scuttled through the hall, filming us as we took our seats on wooden pews.

First up was Richard Gage, a San Francisco architect who founded Architects, Engineers & Scientists for 9/11 Truth, which now claims to have 379 professional members. Gage told us that the collapse of the Twin Towers could not have been due merely to gravity, the impact of the airliners and the resulting jet fuel fires – which would not have been hot enough to weaken the steel sufficiently. Behind him on the video screen was the south tower of the World Trade Center. Smoke poured from its upper floors. A respectful silence fell over the audience, followed by gasps as the building appeared to dissolve before our eyes.
What happened to building 7?

While I have seen this footage countless times, it seems that I had clearly never understood what I was seeing. The destruction of the Twin Towers, along with the collapse of the nearby 47-storey World Trade Center 7 building, had all the hallmarks of controlled demolition, according to Gage. They all came straight down, almost at the speed of a free-falling object, right into their own footprints. Steel-framed buildings had never collapsed because of fires before. On this day three did, one of which, “Building 7”, was not even hit by an aircraft.

Gage, who had worked himself into a fever, exhorted the audience to stand up and be counted: “A country is at stake.” Then he welcomed on to the stage the star of the evening, Steven Jones. A softly spoken physicist, Jones is the movement’s designated martyr and seems to promise what the truthers so desperately need: scientific credibility.

Jones entered into truther lore in 2006 when he was put into early retirement by Brigham Young University in Utah after giving public lectures on his paper “Why indeed did the WTC buildings collapse?”, which he published on the website of the university’s physics department. Jones contended that the towers were demolished by cutter charges which had been placed throughout the buildings, probably involving an incendiary called thermite. BYU’s College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and the structural engineering faculty, followed by the university administration, disowned him.

Still, Jones is no fool. He has published more than 50 scholarly papers, including pieces on cold nuclear fusion in journals such as Scientific American and Nature. He invented a cooker which uses solar power and has donated models to poor families in the developing world. Jones tells us he believes laboratory testing of dust from Ground Zero will reveal residue from a thermite reaction.

As soon as the seminar is over, Jones is mobbed by people asking him to pose for photos and offering their own views on the 9/11 plot, as well as others such as the presence above our heads of chemtrails (deadly toxins sprayed by unidentified aircraft, which some believe are part of a secret global depopulation programme). This is the world Jones now inhabits – it seems a long way from a Utah physics department. I ask him later by phone if he has any regrets about publishing that fateful paper: “No regrets. I’ve thought of Galileo a few times. He got a little worse than I did, I suppose.”

Jones is typical of many 9/11 researchers in that the subject has taken over his professional life. Down the coast in Santa Barbara is another of the movement’s luminaries. On the beach at Isla Vista, one of the most expensive real-estate spots in the US, lives David Ray Griffin, a former theology professor. As his dogs scratch excitedly on the sliding door, Griffin explains that America’s primary faith is not Christianity, but nationalism. “Other countries do really terrible things. Our leaders never would. And that [belief] has been the biggest impediment to getting people to look at the evidence, because they just know a priori that that is ridiculous.”

Michael Meacher, UK politician

“It is clear the US authorities did little or nothing to pre-empt the events of 9/11”

Griffin now thinks the evidence to the contrary is incontrovertible. Until 2002, he had busied himself far from the rancour of public controversy writing rather obscure philosophical books and teaching philosophy of religion at the Claremont School of Theology. But the course of his research changed abruptly when he heard a visiting British theologian question the official account of 9/11. Two years later, Griffin’s The New Pearl Harbor, with a foreword by British MP Michael Meacher, became a touchstone in the 9/11 Truth movement. He has since written others, including one detailing the “omissions and distortions” of the 9/11 Commission, the report of which fits the definition of “conspiracy theory” neatly, he says. “They started with the conclusion that al-Qaeda did it and didn’t even consider the alternative that it was an inside job.”

Griffin was a script consultant on Loose Change Final Cut, part of the internet phenomenon that set off the current explosion of low-budget 9/11 DVDs. The previous version was viewed more than 10 million times on Google Video, according to Vanity Fair. In 2002, armed only with a laptop and off-the-shelf video production software, Dylan Avery, an 18-year-old resident of Oneonta, New York, set about making a fictional film about discovering, with his friends, that 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government. At some point in his research, Avery had a “Dude, this shit is real!” moment and Loose Change entered the realm of agit-prop documentary. Final Cut makes a bold new allegation: the Twin Towers were packed with deadly asbestos, which would have cost billions to clean up. “If you bring down the buildings,” says Griffin, “not only do you not have to pay ... to clean them up, somebody is going to make billions of dollars on the insurance.”

September 11 as insurance job? This seems to expand the circle of conspirators somewhat. Griffin ventures another possible explanation: the psychological impact. “You had these massive explosions, which rather looked like a nuclear blast,” he says. “That’s always been the deep fear of America. In the run-up to the Iraq war, that’s what they were talking about – we cannot wait until we have a nuclear cloud.”

Griffin offers one further speculation, this time on a question which is controversial even among 9/11 sceptics: what hit the Pentagon? Thierry Meyssan was the first to claim that it was not Flight 77 – an American Airlines 757 carrying 64 passengers – but a cruise missile that hit the west wall of the Pentagon at 9.37am on September 11. Websites have followed suit, pointing to the apparent lack of plane debris on the Pentagon lawn and the fact that the hole left in the outer ring of the building looks too small to accommodate the wingspan of a 757. Retired US Air Force captain Russ Wittenberg from Pilots for 9/11 Truth asserted that no inexperienced pilot could have performed the manoeuvre the 9/11 Commission concluded that al-Qaeda conspirator Hani Hanjour pulled off that morning: a 330° turn, 2,200ft descent, a full-throttle dive and then a 530 miles per hour plunge at ground level into the Pentagon. Call it “the magic plane theory”: doubters believe that, just as the bullet that killed Kennedy appeared to defy the laws of physics, so the plane that struck the Pentagon was like no other in existence.

And just as Nasa was forced to counter claims the moon landings were faked, these and other claims have forced the US State Department into the debunking business. Its Identifying Misinformation website states that debris from Flight 77 was indeed recovered, as were the remains of passengers and crew. Many witnesses saw the plane come in, and a number of passengers made phone calls to their loved ones telling them their flight had been hijacked.

There is also another obvious problem: if a missile hit the Pentagon, what happened to Flight 77? “There was a rumour that an airliner had gone down on the Ohio/Kentucky border and that was taken very seriously early on by the Federal Aviation Authority,” says Griffin. It later rejected the story. But Griffin claims the only evidence that Flight 77 was aloft after that was an alleged phone call from Barbara Olsen to Ted Olsen, the solicitor-general of the United States.

So how does he explain that phone call? Ted Olsen is a Bush administration insider, he says. Another possible answer, though, is “voice-morphing technology”. This would also explain the flurry of phone calls from United Airlines Flight 93, which, as the official story has it, crashed in a Pennsylvania field after passengers revolted against their hijackers.

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No-planers
People who claim that it wasn’t an aircraft, but a missile, that hit the Pentagon on September 11 2001. Some have taken it a step further and argued that no aircraft hit the twin towers, either. What the world saw that day, these sceptics argue, was either video trickery or cruise missiles disguised through image technology as aircraft.

Mihops
Truthers who believe the US government “Made it happen on purpose”, “it” being the destruction of September 11.

Lihops
A more moderate strain of truther who believe the government “Let it happen on purpose”.

Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Started by James Fetzer, the group advocates looking at all possible explanations of what happened on September 11, no matter how improbable.

Scholars for 9/11 Truth and Justice *****(note: this is one of our "go-to" guys due to his methodology)*****
The more moderate splinter group of Scholars for 9/11 Truth, led by Steven Jones. Endorses an “evidence-based approach” to questioning the 9/11 story.

It’s not just supporters of the official story who roll their eyes at these claims. They put Griffin in the camp of the “no-planers”, at least as far as the attack on the Pentagon is concerned. The no-planers enrage the rest of the truthers, who accuse them of sabotaging the credibility of the movement. The claim that no plane hit the Pentagon is a Trojan horse, they say – disinformation that serves the conspirators. Some – such as former MI5 whistleblower David Shayler – have even asserted that no planes, but missiles disguised by “cloaking technology”, hit the Twin Towers. Shayler, incidentally, proclaimed himself the Messiah last year.

If the 9/11 truth movement is fighting a kind of asymmetric war against official sources of knowledge, it is also battling itself. As the movement morphs into an international activist group, it recognises that if it is to convince middle Americans, it must distance itself from its exotic fringe. Once, it was the Mihops versus the Lihops. These factions, who sound like warring species from an H.G. Wells story, are those who believe the government Made It Happen On Purpose and those who think it Let It Happen On Purpose. The Mihops are in the ascendancy.

The genesis of all this can be traced back to a schism that followed the first real attempt to bring scholarly credibility to the 9/11 sceptics. In 2005, Steven Jones was invited to form a group called Scholars for 9/11 Truth by James Fetzer, a professor in the philosophy department at the University of Minnesota and the author of some 20 books on the philosophy of science and artificial intelligence. Fetzer teaches critical thinking, and is nothing if not critical. He has been campaigning for more than a decade to prove that the Zapruder film is a hoax perpetuated by the same government intelligence agencies that orchestrated JFK’s assassination.

But within a year, Jones had written to all members of Scholars announcing that he and others no longer wanted to be associated with Fetzer, who was, in the rebels’ opinion, holding them up to ridicule. Fetzer had backed a theory by Judy Wood, a former assistant professor in mechanical engineering at Clemson University, proposing that the Twin Towers were brought down by a “directed energy” weapon developed as part of the US government’s Star Wars programme. It prompted a stampede to a new group, Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice, headed by Jones. Confusing the two groups would be like mistaking Monty Python’s Judean People’s Front for the People’s Front of Judea: this was a major doctrinal split.

Fetzer’s view is that any serious inquiry into what happened on 9/11 should look at all possibilities. Supporters of the directed energy hypothesis keep popping up at 9/11 Truth lectures to heckle what Python fans might call the “splittist” thermite theorists. Among the advocates of the Star Wars theory is Morgan Reynolds, perhaps the first prominent US government official to claim that 9/11 was an inside job. At the time of the attacks, Reynolds was chief economist at the US Department of Labor.

Some Star Wars supporters, in turn, accuse proponents of the thermite hypothesis of being government shills. One, on CheckTheEvidence.com, alleges that Jones’s public denunciation of Star Wars theories is actually a Trojan horse; he notes that Jones once worked at Los Alamos, where directed energy weapons are researched. This line of conjecture also entangles Norman Mineta, US transportation secretary on September 11 2001. Mineta was the man who grounded all civilian aircraft on that morning. But he was also once vice-president of Lockheed Martin, a founding member of the Directed Energy Professional Society ... In this outer reach of the blogosphere, no one is ever more than six degrees of separation from the heart of the conspiracy.

Jones did, in fact, do post-doctoral research at the Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility for the University of Wyoming, but he says it was peaceful and non-weapons-related. He says the more out-there theories, including those of the no-planers, are harming the movement. “First, they discourage others who are trying to do serious work, and they tend to be quite vocal about their heckling,” he says. “More serious is that when we’re really trying to look at an evidence-based approach, we get lumped in with these people and then dismissed as a whole.”

Two days before Jones’s lecture in LA, his erstwhile colleague was taking his own campaign on the road on the other side of the country. After addressing Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth in New Hampshire, Fetzer was off to that seat of academic respectability, Yale University. To prepare for our meeting, I watched a DVD of a 9/11 symposium he held in his new hometown of Madison, Wisconsin last year. The star of this show was Alfred Lambremont Webre, a judge on former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad’s alternative international War Crimes Tribunal in Kuala Lumpur and co-author of the Space Preservation Treaty. He delivers what might be the most momentous opening line in the history of town hall seminars. “Fellow Citizens... 9/11 was a false flag operation by an international war crimes racketeering organisation to provide a pretext to engage in a genocidal and ecocidal depleted uranium bombing of central Asia, Afghanistan and Iraq in order to secure vast oil and uranium reserves; to roll out a terror-based national security state system worldwide and ... to implement the final stages of a world depopulation policy.” There are two more “false flag” operations in the pipeline, he says. The first is the war against asteroids, the second the “war against the evil aliens”.

Hearing this, you either experience the thrill of revelation or the sinking feeling that the person you are listening to is having some kind of breakdown. Within 30 minutes, Webre has folded into the 9/11 plot the Skull & Bones society at Yale University – or the “Brotherhood of Death”, as he calls it – neocon think-thank the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rothschilds, the Queen and the City of London. I wondered how all these conspiracies could be maintained without the whole conceit unravelling.

The answer, of course, is that there is only one conspiracy. Pearl Harbour, the moon landing, JFK, 9/11, the Illuminati, the Black Helicopters, Skull & Bones, chemtrails: all faces of the same demon. The plot goes all the way to the top, and all the way back in time. You could come to believe that it involves everyone except yourself – at which point it’s all over for you. And as I listened, I just waited for him to say the Word. And, inevitably, Webre brought it all back to the “international neo-Zionist organization”.

I asked Fetzer about this as we sat in a cafe across from Yale, home of the Brotherhood of Death: how did he keep his scholars on message? “It’s obvious to me that you have to consider all the possible alternatives,” he says. “You can’t exclude any, lest, as you proceed in your investigation and eliminate hypotheses, you eliminate the true hypothesis because you’ve never allowed it to be considered.”

Fetzer’s talk later that night does not go well. A Yale student had promoted the lecture on Facebook Events, but fellow students had apparently been unwilling to add their names, which anyone can see, perhaps for fear of ridicule. Only six show up. When it becomes clear that Fetzer is implicating some kind of Star Wars weapon, the two next to me begin scrolling distractedly through their mobile phone messages. Within 10 minutes, they have left.

Lewis Lapham, journalist

“Americans are very good at dreaming up these scenarios”

The conclusion of the 9/11 Commission – the official story – is that the 2001 attacks got through because those charged with protecting America had not truly conceived of the threat: in its author’s evocative phrase, they had suffered a “failure of imagination”. After trawling the internet in search of 9/11 Truth, it seems to me the American imagination is strong. “Americans are very good at dreaming up these scenarios,” says Lewis Lapham, the former Harper’s magazine editor and a prominent critic of the Bush administration post-September 11. “We are open to all kinds of magical theories,” he says, citing the continuing fascination with the assassination of JFK. “We are also good at creating religions.” Lapham thinks the theory that 9/11 was an inside job follows in this long tradition, but also reflects cynicism among Americans towards their government. He does not accept that the Bush administration planned 9/11 or even allowed it to happen. Nonetheless, he thinks a new investigation is warranted. In 2004, Harper’s ran a trenchant piece describing the 9/11 Commission as a “whitewash” and a “cheat and a fraud” for downplaying evidence that warnings of the al-Qaeda threat were ignored. Such flaws allowed space for alternative theories to develop, Lapham says.

In this, there are shades of the Warren Commission into the assassination of President Kennedy, which served merely to deepen popular distrust. But if we have seen the likes of the 9/11 Truth movement before, it also represents something new. “With the Kennedy assassination, pretty soon after the events themselves there were fairly significant questions being raised by people of all types and stripes about what actually happened,” says Mark Fenster, a University of Florida law professor and author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture. “But whereas then it was a generalised, amorphous kind of response, the amount of organisation – politically and through alternative media – is far more striking now than it was back then.”

Fenster thinks that the 9/11 Truth movement is in some ways a typical American response to a surprising and traumatic event. But it also represents a step change in its use of telecommunications technology. “One of the interesting things, particularly in the beginning of this movement, was the extent to which there were a lot of local groups in different cities organising protests ... and they could co-ordinate and create a national and international movement,” he says. “Whether that translates into more people actually believing in the conspiracy theory is a completely different question.”

Fenster believes the few published polls on the subject, rather than showing any real depth of suspicion about 9/11, demonstrate declining trust in the Bush administration generally. The author of one of the most rigorous of the websites that aim to debunk the conspiracy theories, Debunking911.com, notes that the most recent Zogby poll on attitudes towards 9/11 found only 4.6 per cent of Americans believe the Bush administration blew up the Twin Towers. “If you follow the website hits, you’ll find that since Debunking911 came into existence, conspiracy sites have been losing readership,” he says via e-mail. “I think all they needed was someone to fill in the parts conspiracy theorists left out of the conspiracy story and their numbers begin to shrink.”

Perhaps the 9/11 Truth movement is what one would expect in the dying days of an unpopular administration, and with no end in sight to a costly war. Whether it can maintain momentum when that government leaves office next year is anyone’s guess. In the meantime, some on the left accuse it of letting the leaders they so vehemently distrust off the hook. “They make a mockery of [civil rights] causes by associating their nonsense with genuinely important issues, and by diverting a large number of people who should know better into a unicorn hunt,” says British writer and activist George Monbiot. Monbiot is regularly heckled by 9/11 truthers at public events after accusing them in The Guardian of undermining genuine political opposition. His first column on the truthers prompted a near-record number of postings on the paper’s Comment Is Free website – 777 – many accusing him of being part of the conspiracy.

“It’s very interesting to see,” he says, “particularly in the United States, how the anti-war movement has been largely co-opted in many places by the 9/11 Truth movement. And we desperately need an active anti-war movement, because there is a lot of reckoning to be done.”

Peter Barber is the FT’s deputy comment editor

www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8d66...077b07658.htm

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2008

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911 AMATEUR part1
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Join Us at the 2008 National AIA Convention
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Fellow AE911Truth Supporters:

1. We are going to attend and be active at the 2008 National AIA Convention in Boston, MA in force! Join us as we bring the 9/11 Truth to the 25,000 architects that the AIA expects, all collected in one place (of course for the purpose of being woken up to the truth about the destruction of the 3 WTC high-rise "collapses" on 9/11!). You can get your free pass to the concourse here.

2. We will gather May 15, 16, and 17th at the Boston Convention Center and commence to pass out leaflets inside and outside of the concourse. We will also have mini-presentations and Q&A upstairs in the hotel room at 10am, 12pm, 2pm, and 4pm to invite the architects to. We will also get attention by being filmed on large video cameras on the exhibit concourse with hundreds of architects passing by and wondering, "What's all the fuss?". You will hand them leaflets to quell their curiosity! The leaflets will tell them about AE911Truth, the mini-presentation schedule and the large AE911Truth event at MIT. The event starts Thursday morning and goes until Saturday afternoon.

3. Our first Annual East Coast AE911Truth Member Meeting will be held on Thursday night at 5:30pm at the Barking Crab restaurant (1 1/2 blocks from the Boston Convention Center). We will discuss where we've been and where we want to go, strategies for success, national organization, the slide show presentation, and get organized.

4. We will host a small group of MIT and other faculty in a 2 hour colloquium on Campus at 12:00pm on Friday in a classy, smaller room. (Only college professors are invited to this one)

5. There will be a large AE911Truth Speaking Event "9/11: Blueprint for Truth – The Architecture of Destruction" at MIT Friday night at 7pm in the auditorium in Bldg 54, Rm 100. Tell everyone you know in the area to come! The room holds 300. Help us poster all around Boston including MIT and Harvard!!

6. Architects for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) hosts the "Lewis Mumford Awards". A Free event on Saturday May 17th at 6pm - 9pm at the McCormick Gallery at Boston Architectural College, 320 Newbury Street, Boston. Come and speak to the professionals in a different setting.

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Autumn 2008
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Latest update: 9/21/08
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Sept. 21, 2008 A change of Season...

[photo: Mike Ruppert (and Rags) June 2008, who contrary to popular belief, is still alive and kicking]

People like Michael C. Ruppert in particular (of fromthewilderness.com and its' mirror site, copvscia.com fame) advised years ago, that in 2008 we would hit "Peak Oil" --and there will be a crisis in this country, bank failures, insurance industry failures, transit costs gone sky-high, food prices soaring and food shortages...potential economic collapse, the resulting desire for "them" to declare Marshall Law (or more so to postpone the election). He ALWAYS stressed the need to garner community, to store food, water and weapons to get through the temporary dark challenges ahead. He is the guy who inadvertently broke the Iran Contra drug scandal when he was an LA cop
video.google.com/videoplay

In 2006, his offices were vandalized again in a final attempt to shut him up, I mean they SMASHED all his computers, everything. He has been to hell and back several times and is now retired in LA. The site, along with it's amazing archives, is used only for occasional updates, but he is no longer in the game.

Michael Ruppert literally gave his life to inform us about what is going on in our world, and what we can do about it. If you don't know about him and From the Wilderness, it is high time you did. Because the Time is Now.

Love, Phoenix,
who loves Truth and Freedom Fighters.

Please see links at bottom of story.
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NOW IS THE TIME -- THERE IS HOPE

Michael C. Ruppert
Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 7 P.M. PDT - Let me paraphrase something I once saw George H.W. Bush say: "Everything I am; everything I have accomplished; and everything I hope to accomplish I owe to David Rockefeller." Today I saw something I never thought possible. I saw a Rothschild endorse a fundamentally Rockefeller candidate -- John McCain. DNC Platform Committee Member Lynn Forester de Rothschild quit her post to endorse McCain as she also ended her longstanding role as a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. The Clintons also have strong Rockefeller "lineage" so I'm guessing that Hillary understands the move perfectly with a wink and a nod. I'll give you the punch line now, without making you read further.

If Rothschilds and Rockefellers are taking the same side it is because the entire economic paradigm is threatened. There is good reason to believe it. The Dow has lost almost 10% in just two days. The bail outs are lining up at the door before the Fed goes bankrupt; before our government goes bankrupt. Lehman was ten times bigger than Enron. AIG was much bigger than Lehman. Still to come are Washington Mutual, Goldman, J.P. Morgan, the automakers and the airlines, to name a few. Not all are going to be saved.

There is only one run on the bank taking place. This time it's the Federal Reserve and we know who will get screwed. The Fed and our Treasury are being looted at the one moment in time when we most need them to be full.

All of this has everything to do with Peak Oil. For those of you who have followed my work -- and the work of everyone who was FTW -- this is exactly what we said would happen, and were trying to prevent. The fact that we are going to have a fast crash now is the best possible outcome because it has given us a unique and perhaps fleeting moment -- a window -- to change things. There is plenty left to salvage.

There are other signs of a fast crash. For months now the prices of oil and gold have been ruthlessly suppressed. Oil reached $147 a barrel and broke demand so badly there was not even a dead cat bounce in demand at $100 a barrel. Energy is the economy. Money is useless without energy. There is no credit available to finance renewed demand and get some cash circulating. It is interesting to note that narcotics seizures are at all time highs. Cocaine shipments in the thousands of tons are being seized on almost a daily basis. That is taking enormous amounts of cash out of the system. There's just one problem with that cash. It must circulate through many hands to multiply before Wall Street gets it. That takes time and they can't wait.

One would think that illegal drugs would be cheap now to lubricate the wheels of a nation in panic. But this is beyond that. Enron was in drugs. It operated several hundred subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands. Its bankruptcy was $63 billion. Lehman all by itself was $632 billion. The last time I estimated the total amount of cash generated by the drug trade it was only $600 billion a year. Lehman was just one bankruptcy. Add in Fannie and Freddie and Bear Stearns; soon Washington Mutual (which I suspect may be allowed to fail) plus all the rest -- and anything the drug trade could do is vastly overwhelmed.

This is the derivatives bubble popping. That bubble is now in excess of $450 trillion dollars. I warned about it when I returned from Moscow in 2001 and again in our first-ever economic alert on September 9, 2001. There isn't enough cash in the world to cover the "monthly minimum payments" on $450 trillion. If I had to speculate, my guess would be that Wall Street wants people to pay their bills right now. All of Wall Street needs quick cash flow. That's what put AIG in a bind because AIG was so deeply connected to money laundering. That's how desperate they are; just as desperate as the United States is for energy. When people don't spend money on drugs they pay their bills instead, is the government's hope. The U.S. is now seizing a lot of drug cash and other properties through asset forfeiture. So my guess is that the U.S. government is acting like a drowning man.

If I had serious debts to major banks and credit companies now I would be seriously thinking about not paying them at all. I might decide to put my money into gold or things that might help me endure the crises that are coming. A lot of those walking carcasses won't be around soon and why should I give them money that may save my life? I am already in the right position. Although it was a monumental effort I did what I was begging people to do back in 2005. I got out of debt.

This is exactly what I spent all these years trying to warn people about.

What we are watching being taken away, right in front of our eyes, is the money -- the wherewithal -- to prepare for the now-certain energy shortages that are coming very quickly. Today gold saw it biggest one-day price jump ($70) in history. And it's still the best bargain in town... although CNBC won't tell you that.

Hurricanes Gustav and Ike were remembrances from the planet that there are some things the markets cannot control. This is what I warned about in New York in May of 2006 and I am not at all surprised by how sparse the reporting has been on oil and gas infrastructure damage since they struck. I am only seeing unsupported cliff notes. What is very clear is that the populations of Houston and Galveston are devastated and in dire need of help.

But there's a run on the Fed and their money's going out the door too.

There is no victory until the paradigm is broken. Until we change the way money works, we change nothing. Right now, the entire economic paradigm of infinite growth is vulnerable, weak, and exposed. The dribble being offered by Obama and McCain only exposes the fact that everything is broken; that the system itself is the enemy.

Now, we who have labored so long and paid such prices to warn have a real shot at breaking public consciousness.

Now, we who understood all this and who have been marginalized, have authority to stand up and command the floor.

Now, we who cried as voices in the wilderness, have a chance to actually reach the minds of those we love but who have refused to listen.

We can do all this because the elephant in the living room has started to trample people.

Now, it is clear that under the current economic paradigm, people themselves will and must become the disposable resources to keep corporations alive.

Now, is the time that we can force the mainstream media to choose between its audience and its sponsors; between corporate masters and neighbors and families.

So many in the Peak Oil movement have burned out, given up.

Now is the time to get off your asses and get back in the fight. People are listening. Quit goofing off!

I am just finishing my second book. It's title: "A Presidential Energy Policy". It will be a short book, maybe 130 pages or so. That's all that is needed to make the case now. In writing this book and in sticking my head up on the blog I have broken an unspoken, but very real agreement that I would not be harassed anymore by the government if I stayed retired. I paid a serious price to get Pat Tillman's story researched, written, edited and published but we did it. And we took down nine general officers and a Secretary of Defense in the process.

It is no coincidence then that a two-and-a-half year old sexual harassment claim against me in Oregon was just reactivated and scheduled for a hearing in November. It was just lying fallow. I have wanted this hearing from the start. I did nothing wrong. I was set up. I can prove that in a fair hearing but the State of Oregon's political machine has not played fair since Day One. The Ashland Police Departments has apologized to me and my attorney for grossly mishandling the investigation of the burglary of our office in June 2006. I have accepted that apology.

But the Oregon State Labor Department has made many procedural errors and treated me from the start as if I were a criminal, a lunatic and a nutcase. It looks as though I am being denied due process. It has demonstrated bias on the part of the complainant and treated me in a personally demeaning manner when all I have ever done is to respond quickly to anything they ask for. I'm tired of apologizing for what I believe in.

I am not afraid of the outcome if I get a fair hearing. But given everything I have documented over many years that may not be likely.

It doesn't make any difference. Now is the moment to go for it. To stand up and stop being defensive. For all of you who remained so loyal for all these years; for all of you who continue to send the letters and emails of support -- if I can get a fair hearing in Oregon we will all be vindicated.

Just this week a two-and-a-half year old sales tax bill turned up; a sales tax bill that was inflated by about 60% with interest and penalties and had supposedly been handled by the same employee who we know smashed our computers. I'm taking that one on too. California admits they didn't count one of two full quarters that was paid two years ago.

So I am standing up again and that's what I ask you to do as well. Now is the time to start talking again about Peak Oil.

Now is the time for everyone who knows the map to dust off their copy of Rubicon or back issues of FTW. Take the risk and start talking again.

Now is the time to buy a copy of "Rubicon" and send it to someone you love or want to teach. Tell them, "It's not about 9-11. It's about what's happening today, right now. It's the story of how we got here."

Now is the time to start pointing again at all of our great leaders: the Colin Campbells, the Richard Heinbergs the Matt Simmonses, the Julian Darleys, the Ken Deffeyeses, the Jim Kunstlers, the Matt Savinars, the Jenna Orkins, the Megan Quinn-Bachmans, the Mike Kanes, the Mark Robinowitzes, the Dmitri Orlovs, the Barry Silverthorns, and so many more. Mention their names. Shout their names.

Start now to organize meetings and seminars. As you "market" them tell people that this is the explanation for everything that is happening around them. Show the record. Show our predictions. It is certain to make sense and resonate -- if for no other reason than because nothing else anybody is saying is.

Now is the time when we can break the back of infinite growth and stumble our way to a steady-state economy that we can use to help prepare for Peak Oil. We can do this before the moment in time comes when (as I wrote in "GlobalCorp") the last CFO of the last corporation, after the last merger, says to himself, ‘Hooray we did it!" -- as he turns out the last light on all of us.

Today a Rothschild sided with a Rockefeller... They are scared. And John McCain will loot the Fed faster than Barack Obama will. The old paradigm is trying to cash out with our money.

Neither candidate will do a damn thing for us. We must do it for ourselves.

"It is a good day to die."

Now is the Time -There Is Hope
Sept. 17, 2008
www.fromthewilderness.com/nowis....shtml

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Who is Michael C. Ruppert?
www.fromthewilderness.com/about.shtml

on wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ruppert

old:
www.fromthewilderness.com/

new:
mikeruppert.blogspot.com/
information about the currrent state of the states...
(As goes the US, so goes the World)

history:
Michael Ruppert - CIA and drug running (1997)
video.google.com/videoplay

The Truth and Lies of 9/11
video.google.com/videoplay

The September 11 X-Files
posted by David Corn on 05/30/20
www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames

Retrospective 2008 March 24, 2008
www.fromthewilderness.com/retro....shtml

Now is the Time Sept. 17, 2008
www.fromthewilderness.com/nowis....shtml

If "CROSSING THE RUBICON" were a novel set in the near future... it would be "THE SHELL GAME"! -- NY Times best-seller Steve Alten hits one out of the park.
www.fromthewilderness.com/sg.shtml

Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire
at the End of the Age of Oil
By Michael C. Ruppert,
forward by Catherine Austin Fitts, fromthewilderness.com contributing writer
books.google.com/books
The attacks of September 11, 2001 were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. 'Crossing the Rubicon' discovers and identifies key suspects -- finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government -- by showing how they acted in concert to guarantee that the attacks produced the desired result. Crossing the Rubicon is unique not only for its case-breaking examination of 9/11, but for the breadth and depth of its world picture -- an interdisciplinary analysis of petroleum, geopolitics, narco-traffic, intelligence and militarism -- without which 9/11 cannot be understood. The US manufacturing sector has been mostly replaced by speculation on financial data whose underlying economic reality is a dark secret. Hundreds of billions of dollars in laundered drug money flow through Wall Street each year from opium and coca fields maintained by CIA-sponsored warlords and US-backed covert paramilitary violence. America's global dominance depends on a continually turning mill of guns, drugs, oil and money. Oil and natural gas -- the fuels that make economic growth possible -- are subsidized by American military force and foreign lending. In reality, 9/11 and the resulting 'War on Terror' are parts of a massive authoritarian response to an emerging economic crisis of unprecedented scale. Peak Oil -- the beginning of the end for our industrial civilization -- is driving the elites of American power to implement unthinkably draconian measures of repression, warfare and population control. This is more than a story. It is a map of the perilous terrain through which, together and alone, we are all now making our way.
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"Now is the time to buy a copy of "Rubicon" and send it to someone you love or want to teach. Tell them, "It's not about 9-11. It's about what's happening today, right now. It's the story of how we got here." - MCR

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God Bless and protect Michael C. Ruppert!
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August 2008
Global Public Media - Peak Oil & Links
Peak Oil: an introduction

'Peak oil' is a term used to describe the scenario when crude oil production for a region - often referring to the entire world - reaches a maximum, from which it inevitably declines.

Most people are aware that oil is a finite resource, but the general presumption is that "we have x years of oil left", where x is a suitably large number (often around 40) to project any accompanying problems many years in the future. But this presumption fails to account for the geophysics of oil.

In the 1950s a prominent geophysicist M King Hubbert observed that oil production in the US was following the path of a bell-shaped curve. Production would have a 'peak' and following that peak, oil production would decline.
globalpublicmedia.com/content/peak_oil


(Original Post Winter - Early 2008)

www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com This is a good site to watch (especially if you have investments) during turbulent times, with links to many more resources. Please pass the information on to others. I have compiled links to sites related to peak oil & sustainability at the bottom of the page, and will be adding new articles to the bottom of the list on occasion. While I think it is important to remain positive during trying times, it is equally important to be informed and to be prepared, as much as possible. While some changes will be gradual, others may be sudden. Knowledge is power.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes,
fighting the good fight continues on Mike Ruppert's blogspot:
www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com
www.mikeruppert.blogspot.com

Who is Michael C. Ruppert? www.fromthewilderness.com/about.shtml
From The Wilderness: Information on Peak Oil, Sustainablility, and ...Events since Sept 11, 2001 have shown that FTW has been ahead of the curve in predicting the current energy crisis and Peak Oil. www.fromthewilderness.com
Michael Ruppert's infamous website www.fromthewilderness.com ARCHIVES STELLAR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM from 1998-2006. He offered cutting edge articles about the impending peak oil crisis and forecast economic collapse until his offices were vandalized yet again in 2006, thus shutting him down for good, computers, etc. smashed (not stolen -somebody wanted to shut him up). They did, and with all he's been through in his life -this time they nearly killed him, or at least they dampened his spirit down to the ethers for a while there. He succumbed to the stress of carrying the knowledge, the loss of FTW and his financial problems, but once again, he is coming out of it on the other side.

This man has enlightened millions to the true agenda of the Neocons and the looming oil and financial crisis we are now experiencing. He is accepting donations to preserve the From the Wildnerness archives as well as to cover his extensive medical care for PTSD and subsequent related physical ailments. The life of a whistleblower going up against the government -well that has taken it's toll. Read about the archives and click on the Paypal button if you can donate to this worthy cause.
www.fromthewilderness.com/archive.shtml

A post FTW statement & appeal:
www.fromthewilderness.com/me_to....shtml (worth reading to the end)

From The Wilderness Journalism Milestones and Achievements – Six Years of History
www.fromthewilderness.com/achie....shtml

Post- peak guidelines
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/...l#post

Events surrounding 911 - timeline
www.fromthewilderness.com/free/...y.html


Crossing The Rubicon and Denial Stops Here...

Get your copy of Crossing The Rubicon

CROSSING THE RUBICON: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil - by Michael C. Ruppert"Crossing the Rubicon": One of the three best-selling books about the 9/11 attacks after the Kean Commission report.

AND

Denial Stops Here: From 9/11 to Peak Oil and Beyond

Mike Ruppert's first original DVD since the landmark Truth and Lies of 9-11!

Pick up the Denial Stops Here DVD


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see also:

Life After The Oil Crash:
Deal With Reality or Reality Will Deal With You
www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net

Financial Sense: Uncommon News & Views for the Wise Investor
www.financialsense.com/editor...09.html

Carolyn Baker: Speaking Truth to Power
carolynbaker.net/site
carolynbaker.net/site/cont...iew/379/3/
"After two years of managing the Truth To Power website and subsequent to many more years of researching domestic and geopolitical events and trends, it is chilling to witness so much of what "prophets" like Mike Ruppert, Matt Savinar, Catherine Austin Fitts, Richard Heinberg, Matt Simmons, Dmitry Orlov, myself, and many others have been forecasting for nearly a decade or longer. We are no longer prophets but truly historians..." from FOOD, FUEL AND FASCISM: THEIR ELECTION OR YOUR LIFE? March 13, 2008

The Oil Drum: Discussions About Energy and Our Future
www.theoildrum.com/tag/update
www.theoildrum.com

The Mountain Sentinel
www.mountainsentinel.com
"While it is time to recognize that our childhood is over, that does not mean that life is at an end. If we can make a successful transition, then we will begin to embrace the full creativity of being. It is time to begin composing our masterworks, in a community of compassion, quality and commitment." -Dale Allen Pfeiffer

FTW - dozens of reccommended links:
www.fromthewilderness.com/links.shtml

The Dance of the Oil Fairies by Kelpie Wilson
www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040208R.shtml
Wednesday 02 April 2008

Posted Thursday April 17, 2008
Economists Debate Link Between War, Credit Crisis
April 15, 2008, Washington Post
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...39.html

For House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the connection between the Iraq conflict and the U.S. economic downturn is simple: "The president has taken us into a failed war," [she] said recently. "He's taken us deeply into debt, and that debt is taking us into recession." Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who wrote the new book The Three Trillion Dollar War, contends that the connection is real. Even with a growing energy demand from China, the United States and elsewhere, oil traders anticipated before the war that the price of oil would remain about $25 a barrel. Instead, it has soared to more than $100 a barrel. Iraqi oil production has not risen with demand, in part because investment in the Middle East has been stunted by war-related unrest. Those price increases are self-perpetuating, Stiglitz argues. Oil-rich Persian Gulf states are so awash in money that they are not sure what to do with it all. That cash, through state-owned sovereign wealth funds, has flowed into stocks, bonds and other investments, creating incentives for lenders to offer low-interest loans, many of which have now gone sour. But that is only one factor, by Stiglitz's accounting. The federal government has sunk deeply into debt, first with tax cuts, then with accelerating war expenditures that have easily topped half a trillion dollars. So the Federal Reserve Board used low interest rates and the free flow of money to keep the economy growing. Cheap credit sparked rash loans, a housing bubble and the current crisis. "The war played a very important role," Stiglitz said. The analysis is politically powerful because people believe it. A CNN poll last month found that 71 percent of Americans say government spending in Iraq is a factor in the economic downturn.
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5/9/08
Some things from WillBeatHippieRaver's personal lists group
(He taught at U.C. Santa Cruz and has generations fo friends and connections)
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May 8, 2008
The Oil Bubble, Self-Organized Criticality, etc.
paul.kedrosky.com/archives/...ubble.html

May 7, 2008
Oil Just Out-Bubbled the Tech Bubble by Paul Kedrosky
paul.kedrosky.com/archives/...utbub.html

www.kedrosky.com/docs/bio.htm

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Fuel from Trash Will Power California Garbage Trucks
Written by Sarah Lozanova
Published on May 8th, 2008
cleantechnica.com/2008/05/0...t-in-2009/

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Any vehicle that runs on gasoline can run on ethanol. And now the patent-pending technology in the EFuel100 MicroFueler™ makes home ethanol distillation possible, cost-effective, and safe.
Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup
By MICHAEL FITZGERALD
Published: April 27, 2008
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27...7proto.html

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DOE goes cave hunting to pump carbon underground
Posted by Martin LaMonica
May 7, 2008 7:47 AM PDT
www.news.com/8301-11128_...7986-54.html

New Greenpeace report exposes CCS as a dangerous distraction
May 05, 2008
www.greenpeace.org/usa/news...t-exposes
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August 3,2008

Peak Moment: Calm Before the Storm
19 Jun 2008 | |
globalpublicmedia.com/peak_mo...he_storm
View all related to Civilization | collapse | Overshoot | Peak Moment Television | Peak Oil | resilience | Sustainability
View all related to Richard Heinberg
Read this article in: English
Richard Heinberg, author of “Peak Everything”, reviews the accelerating events since mid-2007, including the credit crunch and fossil fuel price volatility, noting that we’ve missed most of the best opportunities to manage collapse. He asks, “how far down the staircase of complexity will our global civilization have to go until we’re sustainable?” His answer: when managed properly, with deliberate simplification, not as far as we might otherwise. In addition to long term efforts to relocalize our economies, he advocates developing community “resilience” to withstand short-term catastrophic events like food shortages or extreme weather. Noting that healthy fear can move us into action, he encourages an attitude of clarity, concern and informed action in this “calm before the storm” that he feels is soon coming to an end. Episode 115. With transcript.

Business Matters: Surviving the Oil Crisis

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12 Jul 2008 |
View all related to Peak Oil | post carbon cities
View all related to Matt Simmons | Daniel Lerch
Summer is here and with it comes high gas prices. However, when the pumps are already maxing out consumers' pocketbooks, what can anyone do except grin and bear it? We'll speak with Matthew R. Simmons, CEO of one of the largest investment banking firms serving the energy industry and Daniel Lerch, Program Manager for the Post Carbon Institute’s Post Carbon Cities program, in search for life after oil, and get the scoop from those inside the industry who have faith that we're still stocked for the future. For more information about and other episodes of the Business Matters program, see their website.
AudioBusiness Matters: Surviving the Oil Crisis (audio) (length 0:48:23):

globalpublicmedia.com/busines...l_crisis

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Reality Report: David Holmgren and FutureScenarios.org (Part 1)

14 Jul 2008 |
View all related to Energy | horticulture | Permaculture | Reality Report
View all related to David Holmgren | Jason Bradford
The Reality Report interviews David Holmgren. David co-invented permaculture over 30 years ago and has been a practitioner and teacher ever since, both at his home in Australia and as a consultant around world. In 2002 he published the book Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability that reviewed permaculture in the context of peak energy. More recently, David created a web site called Future Scenarios, see www.futurescenarios.org. This interview is based on that web site and was recorded on July 14, 2008.
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Reality Report: David Holmgren and FutureScenarios.org (Part 1)
14 Jul 2008 |

The Reality Report interviews David Holmgren. David co-invented permaculture over 30 years ago and has been a practitioner and teacher ever since, both at his home in Australia and as a consultant around world. In 2002 he published the book Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability that reviewed permaculture in the context of peak energy. More recently, David created a web site called Future Scenarios, see www.futurescenarios.org. This interview is based on that web site and was recorded on July 14, 2008.

The complete interview is nearly two hours long and is therefore broken into two segments. In this first installment, we discuss a broad view of history as related to ecology, energy and societal complexity. The development of permaculture in the context of 1970s economic woes is reviewed. David explains why he created FutureScenarios.org as an alternative to the predominant beliefs in either business as usual or a smooth steady state transition towards “sustainability,” as well as the simplistic notion of a “Mad Max” type collapse. The second installment (to be posted) covers four “energy descent” scenario groups that correspond to potential variation in the severity of both peak oil and climate change.

globalpublicmedia.com/reality...g_part_1

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Welcome to ASPO International
www.peakoil.net/
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2002-09-28 13:26.

ASPO is a network of scientists and others, having an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of the world's production of oil and gas, due to resource constraints. Read more.

On this page you will find news related to ASPO International, or any of its national organizations. For more news related to Peak Oil, see the News section on our links page.


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mikeruppert.blogspot.com

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In Service,
Phoenix Fire Nectar

When you see a new trail, or a footprint that you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing." -Grandmother of Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux

We never gain new knowledge or new experience unless we are willing to take risks. It's good to be curious. Also, it pays to be cautious. Walk in balance. The path of the Warrior is filled with opportunities to seek new knowledge. As we travel down the Red Road, we will run into trails of opportunity. Down each of these trails are experiences from which we will learn. Experience plus action is the beginning of knowledge.

Great Spirit,
help me to make good
choices in choosing only
the trails you would have
me take. -Don Coyhis

www.manataka.org/~manataka/page1546.html