Luke Ryland
Mon Aug 18, 2008

dailykos.com

Last week, Scott Horton interviewed (audio) investigative journalist Joe Lauria. Lauria was one of the co-authors of the three-part (1, 2, 3) series on the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds for the UK's Sunday Times.

In the interview Lauria discusses the Sibel Edmonds case, the state of the US media, and the Military Industrial Complex in the context of his new book with presidential candidate Mike Gravel: "A Political Odyssey: The Rise of American Militarism and One Mans Fight to Stop It"

*** Agency Will Hold Public Webcast on August 21 ***

Gaithersburg, Md. -- The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a media briefing and live public webcast on Aug. 21, 2008, in Gaithersburg, Md., on the findings and recommendations from its building and fire safety investigation of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7). WTC 7 was a 47-story building that fell nearly seven hours after the World Trade Center (WTC) towers collapsed following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

“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.

THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF 9-11
Edited by Paul Zarembka

From publisher SevenStories.com:

Information tends to flow centripetally, from the margins to the center, and not vice versa, in the same way as sensations travel from our finger tips to our brain and central nervous system. Paul Zarembka's Hidden History of 9-11, doesn't subscribe to any one conspiracy theory, but it argues, persuasively, that familiarity with the fault lines of the official story opens a reader to a fundamental and necessary awareness. We may never know the full story of 9-11, in the same way that we may never know the full story of the Kennedy assassinations, but the awareness that we do have following these events provides us at the very least with a healthy skepticism and a willingness to entertain the possibility of there being counter-narratives that cannot be dismissed.

How much insider trading occurred in the days leading up to 9-11? How compromised is the evidence against the hijackers? Why were there no military interceptors? To what extent does the testimony of more than five hundred firefighters differ from the official reports of what happened at the World Trade Center buildings that day? How inseparably connected are Western covert operations to al-Qaeda? How is Islamophobia used to sustain American imperialism? What was the 9-11 Commission?

If you're in the DC area, feel free to join us for a very informed evening of discussion, Q&A with 9/11 filmmakers and research experts, as well as the DC Premiere of the dark levity and film noir 40s detective style of the 9/11 film, ABLE DANGER. abledangerthemovie.com.

Opening the evening's film series will be the film TERRORSTORM at 6pm followed by a question and answer session wth a series of short videos. At 9:11pm, we will then present the screening of the DC premiere ABLE DANGER.

Special guest Sander Hicks will be the featured speaker, in a discussion of the crimes of 9/11, within the heart of the District of Criminals. Sander is the founder of VoxPop café on which the film is based, and author of The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistleblowers, and the Cover-Up. The film, Able Danger, is the story of A Brooklyn 9/11 Truther who falls into a noir pastiche when a mysterious Eastern European beauty arrives at his bookstore-café with irrefutable proof of American secret intelligence involvement in the planning and execution of 9/11.

Aug. 15, 2008
by Les Jamieson

Petitioners for the NYC 9/11 Ballot Initiative have now gathered in excess of 27,000 signatures of NY City registered voters who are in favor of the creation of a new, independent investigation into the 9/11 attacks. Anyone who has participated in a petition drive will recognize that reaching this number is a monumental accomplishment. Approaching the general public with the controversial questioning of 9/11 makes it even more so. However, since a minimum of 30,000 valid signatures is required plus an extra margin of several thousand is recommended, it appears that time has run out to meet the Sept. 4th deadline for getting this public referendum onto the Nov. 2008 ballot. Even if another 10,000 signatures were to come in by that date, the City Clerk as well as NY City Council would have needed time to review the petitions and deliberate.

Although this is a great disappointment to the dozens of dedicated people working on the Initiative, they have also accepted that it may be a blessing in disguise. The presidential race would have drawn so much media attention as to overshadow this effort to establish a new, independent, and impartial “truth commission”. Also, more time to educate the public about the faults of the official account and shortcomings of the government’s investigation will be beneficial.

August 15, 2008
Jon Gold

You may have noticed that lately I've been making movies that "force" people to go to www.historycommons.org (www.cooperativeresearch.org). I'm hoping people will see just how important a tool it can be.

They Wanted War, And They Got It

A 911blogger user named Orangutan writes:

"I didn't understand the concept of linking an article in multiple places means higher search ranking. That makes sense."

This is an important concept. How does a Google search actually work? How do they determine what websites get higher rankings in search results? Well it turns out that they invented a mathematical formula to determine website rankings. Wikipedia explains:

"PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E)."

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

St. Paul, Minnesota -- August 12, 2008 -- Impeach for Peace (IfP), along with others looking to demonstrate at the Republican National Convention (RNC), filed a lawsuit Friday with the help of the ACLU of Minnesota in Ramsey County District Court demanding our right to free speech. Plaintiffs include: Jodin Morey and Mikael Rudolph of Impeach for Peace, Colleen and Ross Rowley, and Ron Deharporte.

Impeach for Peace is a grassroots, nonpartisan organization based in Minnesota with chapters in twelve states throughout the country working to achieve the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and holding them and future elected officials fully accountable under the Rule of Law.

Congratulations, you folks can take a share of credit in bringing about the congressional committee hearings on Bush's abuses of powers (watch the video here).

Now, it's time to move to full blown impeachment hearings. Please call John Conyers to thank him for holding a preliminary hearing, but insist that now it's time to start official impeachment hearings. When a hearing is held in congress for impeachment, the president cannot claim executive privilege, and will have to testify. If he fails to, that IN AND OF ITSELF becomes an impeachable offense.

We're almost there! Call Conyers AND your representative:

email: john.conyers@mail.house.gov
Phone: 202-225-3951
Fax: 202-225-0072

Your Rep (just give switchboard your zip):
1-800-828-0498.
Email/Fax

--
Jodin Morey
Cofounder: Impeach for Peace

Please join us tonight, Thursday, August 14, 2008, at 9pm Eastern / 6pm Pacific, for a conversation with Green Party Presidential Nominee, Cynthia McKinney. Please forward this information to your contact lists now, if you have not already done so.

Call-in number to listen live via telephone: Phone number: 712-432-1001, Access Code: 433027266#

Alternatively, you can listen live at NoLiesRadio.org, where the call will be rebroadcast Saturday, August 16th at 11am Pacific - 2pm Eastern - 18:00 GMT.

For more details and information about Rep. McKinney, see the article previously posted at 911truth.org here. Audio of the call, with a summary transcript, will be posted here as soon as possible.

If you did not receive an email invitation to this event and would like to receive occasional emails from 911truth.org, please enroll for emails here.

By Kathy Sanborn

13/08/08 "ICH" -- - Sanborn: When I read your article, "Marching Off Into Tyranny," I was impressed by how you were able to concisely sum up one of the most important issues that we face as Americans, namely, the erosion of our civil liberties, mostly due to fabricated terrorism such as the anthrax scare and the attacks on 9/11. You talk about the Florida university professor, Al-Arian, who continues to be victimized by the Feds although a jury has cleared him of any terrorism charges. [As of August 8, 2008, the Associated Press states, "U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema postponed the trial indefinitely, questioning whether the government was overeager in filing charges." –KS]

What was your wake-up call, Dr. Roberts, to the fact that the current administration was determined to take away the civil liberties of Americans?

Roberts: When they responded to 9/11 with the Patriot Act. That document was thick, and it would have taken months and months to prepare it, yet it came out shortly after the 9/11 attacks.

Dear Friends,

On August 1st, I delivered to Speaker Nancy Pelosi; a petition bearing the names of over 100,000 Americans that, like us, feel that the President must be held accountable for abusing executive power and disregarding his Constitutional obligations.

Your voices have been heard and your support continues to send a powerful message to lawmakers. That is why I call on you again to help us in a new effort to deliver 1 Million signatures to Speaker Pelosi on September 10, 2008.