On October 7, 2008, Naomi Wolf was at Vroman’s bookstore in Pasadena, California to give a talk and sign her new book “Give Me Liberty.” Stewart Howe, of WeAreChangeLA, was on hand and asked Ms. Wolf to give a message to the truth and accountability movement.
After admitting that she had no theory about what actually happened on 9/11, Ms. Wolf stated that no question should be off the table in a free society and saluted the movement’s desire to seek truth and accountability.
She said that, being that the 9/11 Commissioners had disavowed some of their findings because much was based on information gained from torture, there should be a new investigation. Her experience as a resident of Lower Manhattan with the EPA’s lies about the toxic environment after 9/11 showed her that this administration is capable of hurting American citizens.
She finished by stating that, while in Seattle, she had met a firefighter who started http://firefightersfor911truth.org and that the existence of firefighters questioning 9/11 gave great credibility to these questions.
A cross-border raid into Syria by U.S. forces in Iraq, and a subsequent stonewalling by U.S. officials unwilling to divulge details, has led to rampant speculation among U.S. analysts about the origins and meaning of the attack.
“So the question is: Why?” wrote geo-strategic analyst and journalist Helena Cobban on her blog, wondering if the raid could have been pulled off without explicit permission from the highest levels of the President George W. Bush administration.
“So why now at the end of the Bush administration, with Washington trying to play nice with Damascus and tensions easing throughout the region, would U.S. forces stage such a gambit?” echoed Borzou Daragahi on the Babylon and Beyond blog at the Los Angeles Times website.
A chain of nurseries is to require parents to use fingerprint scanners before collecting their children, it emerged yesterday.
Fifty nurseries run by kidsunlimited, a national group catering for children aged three months to five years, will phase in the technology over the next few months.
Six, including those in Cambridgeshire, Wilmslow in Cheshire and Notting Hill, West London, already operate the system. At least 100 other private or voluntary nurseries are already thought to be using scanners.
Lee Pearson, kidsunlimited chief executive, said: ‘We aim to remain at the forefront of innovative childcare and to challenge traditional views of the sector.’
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was asked if she supports a new investigation into 9/11 called for by the victims’ family members. This was her answer.
Coalition forces in Afghanistan have “now reached their limit”, according to General Sir Michael Rose, former commander of UN forces in Bosnia.
He said Nato forces should consider forming local tribal militias to help stabilise the country.
Gen Rose warns there are not enough combat troops to continue the momentum against the Taliban.
He made his comments when writing for the military think-tank, the Royal United Services Institute.
Gen Rose, who has recently returned from Afghanistan, says while the international community is clearly committed to a victory there, serious operational problems remain which could still undo NATO’s mission.
IN AN EXCLUSIVE interview with Willie Nelson on his world famous tour bus, former Gov. Jesse Ventura and Alex Jones probe Willie to expound on his 9/11 comments.
“It’s not a clear cut situation; never was to me,” Willie commented about 9/11. But, “Is there a reason to investigate?” he said. “Hell yeah.”
For Nelson himself, it was never a question after seeing the buildings collapse on 9/11.
He humbly proclaimed, “Those buildings were blown up internally; I’m not a smart guy, but I can see that.”
(Burlington, Vermont: October 24, 2008) Shortly before a public lecture presented at Champlain College, I sat down with Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies at New York University, to ask him a number of questions regarding stolen elections-a subject Miller has researched and written about extensively. Greg Palast, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Bev Harris, Steve Rosenfeld, Bob Fitrakis, and Lynne Landes, have provided monumental contributions to the subject of election fraud, each with their own unique styles and methods of targeting the issue. Mark Crispin Miller’s 2005 book Fooled Again, impeccably documents the stealing of the 2004 election, and Loser Take All, a 2008 collection of essays on stolen elections incorporates the research of other investigators of election fraud such as Robert Kennedy, Jr; Bob Fitrakis, and Steve Rosenfeld.
Generously, Professor Miller gave me both time and disturbing insights regarding the upcoming election of 2008.
CB: In progressive circles there are countless issues that attract people, and I’m curious about what drew you to fight for clean, legitimate, democratic elections in the United States as opposed to some other issue.
Two Parties, One Imperial Mission: The US Empire will Survive Bush
Arno Mayer
Uruknet (Source: mondediplo.com)
Oct 29, 2008
The United States may emerge from the Iraq fiasco almost unscathed. Though momentarily disconcerted, the American empire will continue on its way, under bipartisan direction and mega-corporate pressure, and with evangelical blessings.It is a defining characteristic of mature imperial states that they can afford costly blunders, paid for not by the elites but the lower orders. Predictions of the American empire’s imminent decline are exaggerated: without a real military rival, it will continue for some time as the world’s sole hyperpower.
But though they endure, overextended empires suffer injuries to their power and prestige. In such moments they tend to lash out, to avoid being taken for paper tigers. Given Washington’s predicament in Iraq, will the US escalate its intervention in Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia or Venezuela? The US has the strongest army the world has ever known. Preponderant on sea, in the air and in space (including cyberspace), the US has an awesome capacity to project its power over enormous distances with speed, a self-appointed sheriff rushing to master or exploit real and putative crises anywhere on earth.
A cameraman was arrested as he attempted to film one of the unnamed marksmen who shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes, police said.
Officers held the man after he ignored warnings to stop filming vehicles leaving the inquest into the Brazilian’s death.
The arrest took place minutes after the officer, known only as C12, finished giving evidence of his role in the shooting.
Scotland Yard has gone to great lengths to ensure C12 and his colleague C2, who also fired fatal shots and is giving evidence today, are not identified.
The specialist firearms officers have been brought to the inquest in guarded people carriers with blacked-out windows.
The entrance has been closed off as the men are ushered into a waiting room, flanked by police officers, before giving evidence from behind screens.
A “presumption in favour of exclusion” is being introduced to make it easier to prevent extremists entering the UK, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has said.
Ms Smith said it would now be up to the individual concerned to prove they would not “stir up tension” in the UK.
For the first time a list of the names of those excluded – including so-called “preachers of hate” – will be published and shared with other countries.
Since 2005 230 people have been barred from entering the UK.
About 80 of them are religious extremists.
Ms Smith said: “Through these tough new measures I will stop those who want to spread extremism, hatred and violent messages in our communities from coming to our country.
