Archives of Activist Update
From January 2002 through December 2006
Or "Carol Brouillet's Blog"December 18, 2006
I added more photos and links to video clips, including links to the local television news clip of the-
San Francisco Tea Party for 9/11 TruthIt is heartening to see the video clips and photos from Boston, D.C., Philadelphia, Milwaukee, (still hope to see something from St. Louis), and I think people will be inspired to join us in January when we are mobilizing so many forces to push Congress in a different direction. I hope we can improve our giant replica of the flawed Commission Report for the upcoming rallies and demonstrations and not let Pelosi beef up the Intelligence agencies and Homeland Security for the benefit of the criminals who did and went along with 9/11 and the cover-up in their quest for global domination.
I hope that I have time to do a real write up about December 16th before the family demands my complete attention. Low tide was about 3 pm on the 233rd Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, and it just felt like the entire Earth, all of nature was sending this loud, clear message that the tide was turning in favor of the people over tyrants, in favor of truth over lies, in favor of peace over war, in favor of hope, joy, light over terror, fear, despair... This is a magical time of year, the shortest days, when the season begins to turn and I remain hopeful that courage, love, and humanity will prevail.
December 16, 2006
233rd Anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, in solidarity with Boston 9/11 Truth who organized a huge Tea Party for 9/11 Truth, we held a San Francisco Tea Party for 9/11 Truth. We had a great time! I just updated the webpage with some of the details and a link to an article that Cam posted at Indymedia.org entitled San Francisco 9/11 Truth Tea Party Dumps Official Whitewash in the Bay which has some great pictures. There were lots of photographers there, plus the local television station, KPIX, and KPFA got sound and interviews for their nightly newscast, and I gave an update on Tarpley's radio show, but I was up til late last night, and up very early this morning- so can't write or do more tonight.
December 15, 2006
We've been very busy- building replicas of the 9/11 Report, finding costumes, bells, writing and sending out press releases, praying for good weather. Finally there is a promising weather report with "late afternoon showers possibility 30%" in the forecast. I got a call from the manager of the Hilton Hotel at Fisherman's Wharf, asking if we needed rooms and saying he hopes to come to the party. Good to know the word is out and that there is support coming from all quarters. Scott picked up 5000 cards to distribute tomorrow and we hope to arrive in SF at 10 am, to set-up and do some outreach, and have some fun with our props and costumes before the press and larger public turn up.
We'd like to meet around 10 am near Hyde Street Pier and set up a home base- awning, table with all the free literature/props, etcetera, but we need help to manage/mind the table throughout the day- or it won't work. Please let me know if you can volunteer to do a shift. (650-857-0927).
There are still lots of details to attend to. I can't update this website, but there is a page at 911blogger.com that details the multiple Tea Parties that will be happening tomorrow. We'll try to call in to Webster Tarpley's radio show and give a report in the afternoon.
December 10, 2006, Human Rights and Impeachment Day
While I was working on my Impeachment speech on Friday, unbeknownst to me, Representative Cynthia McKinney was introducing Articles of Impeachment and gave a speech on the floor of Congress.
On Saturday, we set up the table at the KPFA Crafts fair despite the bad weather forecast, and Veteran's for Peace kindly lent us an awning. I spent most of the time at a big War Resister's event (couragetoresist.org) at the War Memorial Building, followed by a rally and procession with war resistors and their parents. It was very moving, and heartening; there were also outstanding speakers and musicians, plus the Brass Liberation Orchestra, and David Solnit with his beautiful, awesome puppets and a giant bird. There was some television coverage, as well as a film maker working on a documentary. The Veterans are the real backbone of the anti-war/peace movement. Unfortunately, it started pouring when I returned to the table and it was an ordeal packing up. Brian and I managed a quick bowl of soup to warm our chilled bodies before a 5 pm antiwar organizing meeting, which drew 40-50 people.
I think I found out about McKinney's action and speech very late last night, and didn't have time to completely rewrite my speech- but I modified it somewhat spontaneously at today's rally.
I was up very early this morning, baking cookies, and bread for the rally, and the family, reloading the car, printing out my speech. I was late leaving the house. We had hoped to get to San Francisco by 11 am for the action against the Military Commissions Act at Union Square, but the weather was bad, and we picked up the awning again, and had just an hour to join the leafletting/action at Union Square before heading for UN Plaza.
We barely had the awning up, before the rains started falling. The turnout was pretty small, but the press did come. Peter Phillips and others spoke very well and there was some great music, as well. The Declaration of Human Rights was born out of the founding of the United Nations and the documents were actually signed in the War Memorial Building.
There is an obelisk at UN Plaza honoring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which reads, in part:
"Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services."
UN Plaza is also where the homeless gather, and those who really suffer from the problems due to the abundance of drugs on the street, the lack of available medical care, come up to the activists to enlist them in their struggles. (An elderly woman told me that of all the dozen or so doctors she saw, none would accept Medicare and refused her healthcare.) I have a hard time explaining why I can't take on every issue to people who are suffering. The cookies were popular (with the homeless, the well-fed, and the hungry). We saw lots of old friends, and passed out Deception Dollars, and flyers for the San Francisco Tea Party for 9/11 Truth.
Two speakers didn't show up, so I actually was able to say a few extra words about the Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance, the Deception Dollar, our action, and our demand for a real investigation. Brian noted that I got the best audience response when I was speaking spontaneously about 9/11 and that if we had a real investigation of 9/11 the Administration would fall from power, as well as those who aided and abetted them in the cover-up, but I didn't write it down, so here's the slightly modified written part of my speech:
A great peace activist, John Galtung, when asked about the difference between Russians and Americans, replied “In Russia, when people hear the party line, they know it is the party line. In America, they don’t.”
After the rally, we went to another organizing meeting with World Can't Wait. It would have been nice to join everyone after the meeting for dinner, but I had to get home and feed the kids. My husband and kids set up the Christmas tree, today, and the evening meal and a game afterwards was all the time we spent together as a family the whole weekend. At least they know me well, and tolerate my activism (as long as they are well fed).As children, we are taught to revere our presidents, and the founding ideals of this country, the idea of a government “of, by and for the people.” We don’t learn in school that our original government was ratified by a small voting minority. The Founding Fathers knew that their winning slogan wouldn’t work so well if they said, “a government of, by, and for “the rich, the white, the male, the propertied few.”
History is the story of the struggle between vested interests, and social justice for the bulk of humanity, who have been killed, enslaved, exploited for so long. All social gains-- representative government, ending slavery and monarchy, laws protecting children and the environment—come from raising human consciousness about injustices, and forcing institutional changes, or the ousting of tyrants. History is slanted to legitimize the powerful and and celebrate their role, and rarely do the people get the credit. The politicians seeking to avoid “revolution” and “dismissal via the ballot box,” who only reluctantly concede to public pressure, usually like to pat themselves on the back, later, for being “visionary leaders.”
As far as I am concerned, all members of the 109th Congress who opposed impeachment, should have been ousted in the recent election, especially Nancy Pelosi. The exception being Cynthia McKinney, who bravely submitted articles of impeachment on Friday, and she was ousted from Congress this year. Perhaps we should run her for President in 2008. Please try to imagine if Congress does do the right thing, and opens real investigations into the blatant crimes of the Administration. Imagine if Congress follows through with impeachment and indictment, should the credit go to the people?
The people, who have marched and rallied in the rain, forced the issues into the press, deconstructed the lies, deceptions and crimes this Administration has committed against the US and the world, and disseminated the information via the internet, community access television, radio, film, art, music, and all the myriad ways humans can communicate with other humans. The people should get credit for stopping this Administration, and reversing its horrendous domestic and foreign policies. However, if Madame Speaker Pelosi or Congress wants to take credit for impeaching Bush and reversing his policies, few of us would be really bent out of shape about it.
What worries me is that Congress might not impeach him, but try to divert our attention elsewhere. Or that Congress might “Impeach him” for some trivial charge, and merrily carry on with the Bush/Cheney’ horrendous policies, the bogus war on terrorism, beefing up Homeland Security, ceding the destruction of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the institutionalization of torture, the Military Commissions Act. We cannot allow them to toss out habeas corpus, bring back the Inquisition, where secret evidence, tyrannical whim, could condemn innocent people to death.
It is clear to us that the real terrorists have hijacked our country and they are occupying the White House. They have stolen at least two presidential elections, and they have no legitimacy. We know that they lied and covered up the truth about 9/11 and Katrina, and that those lies cost the lives of thousands of people. We know that the worst conspiracy theory about 9/11 is the one that Cheney and Bush used to sell the war on Iraq. We know they spent billions of dollars on propaganda to sell that lie and that 85% of the soldiers in Iraq were tricked into believing that Saddam had something to do with 9/11. This could not have been accomplished without the complicity of Congress and the press. They supported the lies, they failed to ask the hard questions, and they deserve much of the blame for the enormous suffering and loss of life of these past five years.
The country is starting to wake up--a slow, painful process that I know well. I came from a Republican family. I missed the rallies against the first Gulf War in 1991. My own outrage at the government’s actions and lies—and the media’s silence--began in 1992 when I began doing research on the CIA. More and more people are waking up to the lies, and distrusting official sources. More and more people are learning from one another, and organizing, in self defense, to keep the rights we still have, and to exercise some control over a government that poses a greater and greater threat to them and the world.
We need to help the country wake up. We need to force our elected officials to uphold our Constitution and rein in an Executive Branch that claims the divine right of kings. We need to become the media and force the mainstream media to address the vital issues. Or perhaps, we might have to follow the example of Venezuela, who elected Chavez despite opposition from the corporate press. We have plenty of work before us. I believe that all of us, as Americans, have a responsibility to hold our government accountable for its actions. The Bush Administration has flagrantly violated our Constitution, trashed the Bill of Rights, launched illegal, immoral wars, lied about matters of utmost importance to the American people. Bush, Cheney, are, truly, the most dangerous terrorists in the world. It is up to us, the people, to force our elected representatives to recognize and adhere to their duty and hold top officials accountable for their heinous crimes, that means impeachment," It is our best hope to redeem ourselves as a nation. Impeachment, regime change, should begin and end at “home.”
Scott was able to speak about the San Francisco Tea Party on Webster's radio show last Saturday, and I am now hearing that there are more Tea Parties for 9/11 Truth scheduled - for DC, the Mississippi River, Lake Michigan. We'll have to revise the press release this week. Lots of people are excited about it, and I hope we have a good turnout- and good weather!!!! It's such a challenge in the rain...
December 6, 2006
I've been super busy- working on our upcoming San Francisco Tea Party for 9/11 Truth action. We finally worked out the details, so I can post the webpage, the press advisory, the updated calendar, and (soon) a pdf. of the new flyer. I also was on a conference call for the Arizona 9/11 Accountability- Strategies and Solutions Conference, and did my regular Listening Project in Downtown Palo Alto, today. I also need to get a statement on Impeachment to the Green Party for a press release, and write a short speech for the Impeachment Rally in San Francisco this Sunday. I won't be able to get out Press Advisories tonight- because we also have a local Impeachment meeting. I doubt if I'll get that Christmas letter out by Christmas at this rate!
December 4, 2006
On Saturday, Brian and I tabled at the 25th Annual Holiday Peace Fair in San Jose. It was a wonderful event! There was lots of food, drink, music, dancing, tabling by activist groups; I knew lots of people and got to see old friends, as well as make some great new connections with activists, and a professor at San Jose State University- who can and will arrange for us to get rooms there- for 9/11 Truth events! We also gathered over a hundred dollars in donations and recycled some of the money into other groups- like the African Women Refugee's Group, whom we purchased two beautiful handmade tablecloths from to upgrade the dying blue plastic ones that we have used tabling for the past few years.
On Sunday, we went to San Francisco for the all day Strategy/and regular meeting. The space was a bit tight for the group, but we all enjoyed the day and accomplished something. The morning was spent doing introductions using the circle process (without a timekeeper) and I believe we each got to share what was most important to us, and to know each other better.
We broke for lunch and had a feast, Brian made a huge vegetarian lasagna, Kyle cooked curried lentils, I brought fresh baked bread and cookies, and everyone else contributed chips, crackers, goodies, fruit to the meal.
When we reconvened, Kai quickly facilitated us through our regular meeting process. We voted $200 towards our Solidarity Boston Tea Party Action on December 16th. Brian, Bill, and possibly Becky and I plan to table next weekend in SF during the KPFA Crafts Fair- and there might be an Impeachment event at UN Plaza, as well.
The Boston 9-11 Truth group sent me their media list (which they paid $300 for) and they want a $20 donation to other 9/11 Truth groups that also use it.
There was one new person at the meeting, David from Santa Cruz, who was told about the meeting by Gabriel, and has jumped into mass producing 9-11 Truth DVDs and passing them out. He was also a businessman and very interested in getting out 9-11 Truth kits to the legislators and the press. Since he had lots of business experience, as well as organizing experience from grassroots environmental groups to Toastmasters, I asked him if he wanted to facilitate the strategy session. Despite the fact that it was an all day strategy meeting- we actually only spent one and a half hours going over a fraction of the proposed agenda items on strategy and gave an hour and a half to Richard Gage to practice/and improve his public presentation on 9/11.
What we did cover-
*Successes of the 9/11 Truth Movement over the years, and in particular, this past year-
We discussed in detail who to target within the press- nationally and locally and our experiences dealing with politicians.More Celebrities speaking out on 9/11 Truth (Charlie Sheen)
9/11 Truth Movement being taken seriously.
Great support and momentum of the 9-11 Truth Movement at the grassroots level.
The weakness of the repetitious, fallacious debunking attacks upon us, mostly generated at a couple sites which are easy to rebuke.
Media empowered "tide is changing" in our favor.
Recognizing that politicians or high profile people need to feel "safe and comfortable" to "show leadership- speak-out on 9/11 Truth" and it is up to us to create a parade which the more high profile folk will either try to lead or get trampled by.
We want to force the media to be on the "right side" of history.
There is consensus in the 9-11 Truth movement for a genuine investigation- and the release of documents, evidence that the government has been withholding.
We see signs of fear amongst the ruling elite- Zelikow's resignation, attacks upon one another (instead of just us!)
With technological innovations, we are overcoming corporate/Left Gatekeepers through the internet, DVD, and creative/artistic/literary/musical means...
We reiterated the amazing resources that those in the room had to offer to the 9/11 Truth Movement and the importance of improving our internal communications to improve the networking within the movement.
Richard did a great job presenting his multimedia show, but with the wealth of informed activists in the room- he got lots of valuable corrections, suggestions, new info to improve his show.
Chuck also wrote a couple of great pieces which he passed out to the group- one might be very good to reformat and publish as a pamphlet. He also improved his powerpoint/slideshow- which is a great resource for all 9-11 Truth Activists online at www.truememes.com.
We went over time- still managed a closing circle, and a good number of us ended up going out to a Thai Restaurant after the meeting to continue to socialize and also refine our plan to do a San Francisco Solidarity Action with the Boston 9/11 Truth Tea Party event. As soon as we nail down the details, I will post them. Anyone who wants to get involved and help- please contact me cbrouillet@igc.org 650-857-0927- we're still working on the timetable/route and plan on building a giant Commission Report with giant holes in it, parading in colonial costume through Fisherman's wharf and tossing the thing in the Bay, with appropriate speeches- and filming the event. We have a flute player and could use a drummer... and as many people as possible wishing to come in costume and help.
December 1, 2006
I spent most of yesterday phoning and emailing trying to find a location for our Strategy Meeting. Our options were paying $20 an hour for Cellspace from 5 pm to 10 pm or holding the meeting in someone's home from 10 am to 6 pm, and we opted for the home meeting/either that or cancel the meeting. Since we haven't had much lead time on this, it is questionable how many people can come- hopefully not 75 like last year, but it would have been nicer to have more space, but oh well, we couldn't find a better place.
The meeting will be from 10am to 6pm. If you want to bring food (ala potluck) that would be welcome. Here's the proposed agenda for the strategy meeting:
Assess (and celebrate) the 9/11 Truth Movement's (and our) achievements, over the years, this year in particular, and where we are now. Look at our current situation, politically, the obstacles, opportunities, threats, before us now.
Determine what our resources our, where are passions and energies can be directed for the benefit of Movement needs, and our personal needs/hopes. Brainstorm short, medium, long term goals.
Consider how we can be more effective, what our our internal weaknesses, how can we improve our communications within the group, and getting our message out to the public.
How can we support, encourage, inspire one another, and grow the movement?
My suggestion is to use a circle process, unless we are in pure "brainstorming mode." Rotate facilitators, during the day, if needed.
We can also flesh out a more precise agenda on Sunday, when people show up.
We want to be able to have the thoughtful discussions that we don't have time for at our regular meetings, but since this meeting will replace our usual San Francisco, first Thursday meeting, we will try to cover our regular business, as well. One reason we chose to have the meeting this weekend is so that those who wanted to do a solidarity action with the December 16th Boston Tea Party 9/11 Truth event- would have a bit of time to connect and plan an action.(Logistics are posted under Events and Bay Area Events)
November 30, 2006
I can't believe how hard it has been to find a place to hold our strategy meeting this weekend. I'm hoping to hear back from several people because we must decide whether to try to have one or cancel by tonight. Life keeps interfering with "Politics" and vice versa. There are a number of events political and otherwise already in the works for this weekend. On Tuesday night there was a conference call on the proposed national conference in Arizona, but it is still "in the air," "no contracts" "no genuine committee" "no secured domain name/website" and time slipping away. It's almost impossible to do much in December because of the holidays. We also have our trip to Memphis and the National Media Reform Conference in mid January- so I can't commit to shouldering too much, myself. Simple things, like baking cookies, adding links to a website, reviewing movies, making phone calls, just take TIME. Penny Little sent me copies of her new DVDs- Electile Dysfunction and 911 Dust and Deceit at the World Trade Center. Since I've seen many films on the stolen elections, "Electile Dysfunction" wasn't a tremendous shock or eye-opener. It is a very good one for those who haven't looked into the stolen elections. 911 Dust and Deceit was an excellent look at the lies about the health hazards at and generated by the collapse of the WTC buildings. What I didn't realize was that there was a major media cover-up of that, and the treatment (or lack of treatment) of those sick and dying from their exposure to the "dust." I should have known that! However, I remembered that stories had appeared, in fact a new one just came out the other day in the Village Voice, but Penny documented how the paper, that first broke the story, had the writer and editor ousted and replaced. The ousted writer went on to write a book on the subject.
I think the way the whole propaganda system works is that "a little truth" can appear, no big deal. However, "too much truth" is not allowed, so writers, editors, publications, sources are bought up, axed, discredited to help "disappear a story, info, topic." Sometimes, perhaps, a person may resign from a visible post, to quell public outrage, and prevent further investigations into the scandal. Who knows why the whistleblower on the Moscow apartment buildings (the Soviet Union's 9/11) was poisoned recently, but probably it is in part a message to whistleblowers- shut up. Alexander Cockburn just did a hit-piece, several actually appeared in Counterpunch recently, on the 9/11 Truth Movement. If I had time, I'd refute him on every point, but I can't do everything, and some things are more important than arguing. I did greatly appreciate, however, Kevin Ryan, taking the time to lay bare the brunt of the attack, although I doubt if readers of the Counterpunch hit piece will ever figure out who Kevin is or have access to his excellent work in debunking NIST and the Bush Science used to further a political agenda and obscure reality.
I was flattered and happy to receieve warm compliments on the radio yesterday, and via email from my 9/11 truth colleagues, but I was also sobered by an email that said-
"you were getting dissed tonight on kpfk at 12:30am, by a guy named daniel something or other
Does anyone know if Daniel Hopsicker was the guy on KPFK? He has attacked me before. It does seem like there are elements within the 9/11 truth movement that are spending more energy on attacking one another than those who did 9/11. John Albanese is working on a film looking at Cointelpro efforts to destroy the movement. I guess we should be flattered that we are succeeding and having so much impact that we actually merit being fought "tooth and nail."
he said you were getting paid to put out disinformation!"The more serious threat, sadly, comes from Hollywood, where big names and big producers are churning out "CIA Propaganda."
My friend called me today and urged me, and others to lobby Oliver Stone to not do the proposed CIA flick (Here is the email she sent me awhile back...)
Dear friends of Afghanistan,
November 28, 2006Beginning in 1992 we've worked with Oliver Stone to develop an Afghanistan story based on our experience and research. There is nobody in Hollywood who has been better briefed on the deep complexities and American responsibilities than Oliver surrounding the Afghan story. Rather than take on the challenging and complex story that every American needs to know, Oliver has chosen to make his Afghanistan film based on Jawbreaker, a book by a CIA officer who helped topple the Taliban. It's particularly tragic that Oliver should choose this story given that the Taliban are on the rise again!
We've included below the letter Sima Wali sent to Oliver... Please send your own letter and feel free to pass this information along.
Thanks,
Paul & Liz______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Oliver Stone
IXTLAN
1207 4th Street PH 1
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Fax: 310-395-1536November 7, 2006
Dear Mr. Stone,
I was shocked to read that you have chosen to make a film about Afghanistan based on Gary Bernsten’s Jawbreaker. The world does not need another film from the perspective of the intelligence operatives who set this tragedy in motion in the first place. In Robert Dreyfuss's Devil’s Game How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam, the truth of the US role in creating Afghanistan’s travail today is laid bare. "In Afghanistan, we made a deliberate choice," says Cheryl Benard, a RAND Corporation expert on political Islam, who is married to Zalmay Khalilzad, who served as U.S. ambassador in Kabul. "At first, everyone thought, There's no way to beat the Soviets. So what we have to do is to throw the worst crazies against them that we can find, and there was a lot of collateral damage. We knew exactly who these people were, and what their organizations were like, and we didn't care," she says. "Then, we allowed them to get rid of, just kill all the moderate leaders. The reason we don't have moderate leaders in Afghanistan today is because we let the nuts kill them all. They killed the leftists, the moderates, the middle-of-the-roaders. They were just eliminated, during the 1980s and afterward."
I understand that Tom Hanks is in production for Charlie Wilson’s War, a telling that lionizes the wild-west fantasy world of the Mujihadeen freedom fighters. Robert DeNiro has the rights to former CIA Station Chief in Pakistan during the Reagan Administration Milt Bearden’s book The Main Enemy that continues to glorify these operatives while revealing nothing of the role of their puppeteers.
As I work to resurrect Afghanistan from the ashes of the Cold War that destroyed my homeland, I’ve come to realize it is the ignorance of the US role by Americans that is my biggest obstacle. These films will set an understanding of the atrocity to the Afghan people back a century.
I ask you to please not use your great talent to add to the misery of my people.
Sincerely,
Sima Wali, President
Refugee Women in Development (RefWID), Inc. www.refwid.org
Many people have been asking me for a campaign report and an update on my thinking- after the election. This article contains the gist of it (although it probably leaves out even more than it says, but that is part of the "description process" when one draws a line around an experience- separating it from the larger whole).
Running in Circles:
2006 9/11 Truth/Impeachment Congressional Campaign Report
From Beginning to End, and Where Next?
by Carol Brouillet
November 28, 2006
Click on image to go to the complete article.An excerpt:
Recently I was invited to join a “circle” and I couldn’t resist the invitation, because circles can be very powerful experiences. Native Americans have traditionally formed circles, passing a talking stick and speaking from the heart, to draw from the collective wisdom of the group to solve problems. Circles respect everyone’s ability to contribute and participate meaningfully. The most productive, meaningful gatherings that I’ve participated in have used circle processes; when they grow large, sometimes they give birth to many new circles. I see the spread of circles--concentric, overlapping circles everywhere--as people make more and more connections between the personal and the political, as the unconscious becomes conscious, and as light is cast upon the darkest shadows of our collective experience.
November 27, 2006We are needed to midwife the transition from a dying “dominator paradigm,” where large institutions and governments hold power and legitimacy, to the “peaceful paradigm” where individuals and small groups with courage, integrity, truth, and heart will begin to shoulder greater responsibility for pointing a way through the rapids of change, to avoid the rocks, the whirlpools of economic collapse, endless war, and the unleashing of the latest wave of bio-terrorism attacks.
Did the anti-war movement win the recent election? Is the Baker/Iraq study group just a mask for the fascists to hide behind, as they lick their wounds and retreat? The proposal to create a North American Union--a more draconian expansion of NAFTA that asserts control over Mexico’s energy resources--allows for the super-exploitation of labor and the environment and guarantees profits to the major players with the costs to be borne by people and planet. A few Congressmen have put forward a resolution condemning and drawing attention to the plan. The idea will be vigorously opposed at the grassroots level. After a suspicious election, the legitimacy of the Mexican government remains questionable. Repression, rebellion, and murder in Oaxaca have sparked solidarity protests in many American cities and other countries as well. The Global Justice movement, set back by the events of September 11th, is reviving and again challenging the most visible dominant institutions that exercise the most obvious power over most countries.
Thanksgiving, the kids, have kept me busy, but I have had time to review a couple of DVDs, and finish a couple of books, and received the book version of Global Outlook's #11, today. (It's very impressive!) I feel, again, like the bottleneck of an hourglass- and could spend the whole night, just adding links to this website and catching up on the abundant news. However, I did spend most of today working on an article, which I hope to post tomorrow with lots of links.
I did find a very interesting online tool/website for activists entitled www.issuecrawler.net which maps out networks working on various issues- such as media reform. I thought it would be interesting to see how the 9/11 Truth Movement looked on an internet map and tried to create one. It works with Internet Explorer, but not well with Firefox. It was my first try, and I think I need to redo the inputs and parameters, and depth, but it does certainly show how the 9/11 Truth Movement has grown over the years (Another way to see that is by going to Google trends and typing in 9/11 Truth). The websites that I fed into the search were those that were on the Deception Dollar. Today a new 9/11 Truth Europe Website was launched, in conjunction with an effort to create a European 9/11 Citizens Jury.
Tonight I received a phone call from Malcontent X (whose website I host on this site- September 11-Unanswered Questions) and we spoke about our current projects, and remembered what it was like when we had our first telephone conference calls- when there were only a few 9/11 Truth websites. We're both still working on 9/11, but feel that there are enough of us now, that the weight isn't quite as heavy as it used to be on our shoulders. He is working on a 9/11 Rock Opera, and I've seen how creative projects need time, and lots of inputs to mature, and get produced. I still can't get more than 2% of what I'd like to do finished on any given day.
We still haven't found space, yet for our Strategy Meeting which we hope to hold next weekend in San Francisco. I also have been brushing up on some issues for an upcoming radio show-
November 22, 2006
- Radio Malaspina, CHLY 101.7 FM, presents 9/11 Truth Show: An Exercise in Speaking Truth to Power
Wednesday evenings from 6:00 to 7:00 pm
Nov. 29 2006.Confirmed Guest:
Raymond wrote:
Nov. 29 Carol Brouillet - 9/11 Truth activist.For reading, website and documentary movie lists, questions, and comments contact producer/host Raymond Geisler at radioshowfor911truth@hotmail.com.
Listen online at www.chly.ca
"For this interview/discussion I would like to focus on the 9/11 Truth movement itself, and your seemingly tireless energy in it, as well as the consequences for Canadians citizens and their government, the North American Union, for example...(his blurb for the show)
The September 11, 2001 terror attacks, conducted by elements within the US government, awakened in this researcher the desire to learn a more comprehensive version of U.S. military and economic history than corporate/financial elite and complicit governments make begrudgingly available. This expose on 9/11 and the resulting War on Terror, with particular regard for Canadian content and consequences, began as a counter argument to the well-intended but misinformed citizens trapped within an artificial reality created by decades of patriotic propaganda. However, research exposes something equally frightening; documented plans for the creation of an integrated North American Police State with the US government that will forfeit Canadian independence to the greed of Wall Street and the military might of the Pentagon. Our governments are doing this by creating a climate of fear and counting on our continued ignorance. Our concerns and actions must become political before our democratic process becomes the charade it has for our southern neighbours.
On this day, in 1963, President John F. Kenndy was assasinated. The details of the murder, the cover-up, the why behind it have been obscured by the press, the government for decades, but most people realize now that Kennedy was not the victim of a lone deranged gunman, but the victim of a conspiracy that reached high into our own government. My research into the CIA and special operations, and 9/11 were sparked by that murder.
This morning, I was delighted to learn that C-Span will finally be airing 9/11 and American Empire- Intellectuals Speak Out, the event held in Berkeley last September, which I had hoped would have been aired before our October 27th premiere with Peter Dale Scott, but oh well, better late than never...
I also added a new link to a Petition to urge Congress to try Bush/Cheney for treason for their role in 9-11.
I also went to Downtown Palo Alto for my usual Wednesday Listening Project, and I am glad that I was there. Lots of people came to help, and we had some great conversations with the passerbys, some of whom had never thought to question the official story before. We passed out lots of Deception Dollars, and moved a few articles, books, bumper stickers, as well. A friend came by to tell me he was passing out 900 copies of the David Ray Griffin cover story that appeared in the Metro last September. Slowly but surely, it is beginning to feel like we are winning.
November 21, 2006
I've been working on an article, and trying to catch up on household stuff, including provisions for the holidays, and tomorrow's demo. Impeachment has been the topic floating around the 9/11 lists, as well as a new banner, which I can't find a jpg image of- but it says "Impeach- Bush Cheney, 9/11 Was an Inside Job." I agree that we should include 9/11 amongst the impeachment charges. Craig Hill wrote:
"...the Green Party of Vermont became the first political party in the US if not the Western Hemisphere to insist impeachment of Bush/Cheney be based first and foremost on the greatest crimes they committed, as opposed to the kitchen sink everyone else has been throwing at them, most of which they would be able to wriggle out from under in a real courtroom. Treason, which consists of making war against one's own country, not only puts them quickly in the clink but, as we know, is so heinous it will go beyond that to destroy the entirety of the system that put them in office. This not only makes plain the value of 9/11 in the impeachment process, as you nailed it, it validates the value of impeachment as the vehicle to expose those crimes in legal, public hearings. Which as a movement i feel should be our primary focus:
I'm proud to be a Green Party member! I wish the California Green Party could show the same courage as they show in Vermont! (Hopefully, they will someday!)
Green Party of Vermont The Vermont Green Party reaffirms its 2003 resolution that President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard Cheney should be impeached. The President continues to commit crimes against peace and humanity, assuming the powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law, and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, and violating the civil rights of U.S. citizens and people of other nations. Further, the complicity of the Bush administration in the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the massive nationwide election fraud of 2004 must be be put in the forefront of the overall drive toward impeachment. Since we issued our original impeachment resolution of 2003, the situation has greatly worsened with almost 2,400 U.S. military dead, more than a hundred thousand Iraqis killed, and untold numbers from both countries injured and maimed in an illegal war. At this time we call on the Vermont Legislature to request that the U.S. Congress begin the impeachment process.
Historic Resolution of April 23 2006----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Comments delivered at the press conference of May 4 2006 in the Cedar Creek Room of the Vermont Statehouse in Montpelier ~~~As stated in its historic resolution of April 23 2006, the Green Party of Vermont is the first political party in the known world to stress that the impeachment process can best and only come to its desired goal by exposing, for all Americans to see, the greatest impeachable crimes of all which the chief executives of this country, who hold our very futures hostage, have committed: Their complicity in the attacks of 9/11 and the massive nationwide election fraud of 2004.
It is with deepest frustration with the supposed opposition party which refuses to oppose that we make this this announcement today, May 4, in this hallowed room of great Vermont and national historic significance, the Cedar Creek Room of the Statehouse in Montpelier. Were the Democratic Party to allow its own frustrated grassroots lead it, this nation today would in such a whirlwind of pressure to impeach both Bush and Cheney, there would be no time for them to prepare for the nuking of Iran for the time they'd be spending preparing their defense for their trials. Were the Democratic Party to unleash the pent-up anger, if not hatred, of this administration, Bush's polls would be in the single digits and he and Cheney would be nearing the end of their occupation of the White House and control of OUR government.
WE, the people, are the sovereign. We are the master of our servant, government. Not the other way around, as the servant has fooled some of its masters into believing. We are NOT to be spied on by our servant to quite possibly become its future detainees for politically opposing our servant's madness. Our servant has repeatedly lied us into paying for unprovoked wars it initiates with our blood. The mushroom cloud Condeleeza Rice claimed Saddam Huessin was threatening us with is in fact a mushroom cloud her bosses are including in their plans to attack Iran and which would doom us all. That our servant is threatening us was proven for anyone with the curiousity to discover the facts of their orchestration of 9/11, and so should not come as a surprise, but as a confirmation. They are criminally mad, and must be removed from power as immediately as possible before they kill us all.
That's why the impeachment drive is so important. That's why there is a special place in global warming hell for those of the beltway leadership of the supposed opposition party who have continually thwarted any sincere real opposition to the administration they, by their inaction and silence, protect. Silence is consent, not dissent. Votes are deeds, not mere hot wind fooling constituencies into thinking they oppose when they do not. The removal from power of the thugs among our servants is of such importance we have no time to waste. It is up to the people to support impeachment as the first priority of the planet at this moment. Greens proactively urge citizens from each jurisdiction in each town in Vermont, and beyond, to step forward to oppose those who will not oppose Bush in the state legislature, the governor's office, and in Washington DC. The Green Party of Vermont has a ballot line waiting for many of you to fill who are frustrated and frightened of the future the monsters occupying the White House have in mind for us all.
~ /s/ John Darc
Secretary, GPoVNovember 19, 2006
Every year there is an action in Fort Benning, Georgia, to shut down the School of the Americas, which has been been training soldiers on how to torture and terrorize people for decades. This year over 22,000 people were there.
"Thousands of people took part in simultaneous events calling for the closure of the School of the Americas throughout Latin America this weekend -- in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Paraguay and Peru.
I have never actually gone to Georgia myself, but I certainly support all the efforts to shut the place down, and to eliminate torture and terrorism. It is outrageous that the US could continue to operate such a place and declare a "War on Terrorism" at the same time (and institutionalize torture)."The SOA/WHINSEC, a military training facility for Latin American security personnel, made headlines in 1996 when the Pentagon released training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and execution. Despite this shocking admission and hundreds of documented human rights abuses connected to soldiers trained at the school over its 60-year history, no independent investigation into the training facility has ever taken place."
See www.soaw.org for a report on all the activites.
If the Democrats don't do anything to investigate or shut the place down, then I think they certainly should lose all their credibility as "champions of the people." I have almost zero faith in Democrats, but I know they would like people to believe that they are "protecting us" rather than aiding to construct the Global Police State.
On the SOAW website, they say-
November 2006 : Midterm Elections Update
Certainly we should put as much pressure on Congress, as possible, to do the right thing- Impeach the criminals in the White House, Repeal the Patriot Act, End the Bogus War on Terrorism, Get out of Iraq completely, Dismantle Homeland Security, Overturn the Military Commissions Act, Close the School of the Americas, Redirect the Military Budget towards something Constructive (serving people and planet- rather than enshrine corporate dominance at tremendous human and environmental expense).Dear Friends in the Struggle,
Yesterday’s midterm elections results represent a victory for all grassroots activists working to hold the U.S. Congress accountable for failed policies and misplaced priorities. Over 20 of our opponents of the June 2006 amendment have lost their seats in the House surpassing the 15 vote margin we need to win a vote in Congress. With this new and more favorable Congress, we expect a successful vote on the SOA/ WHINSEC. The next few months will be a crucial time for SOA Watch as we work to connect with these new Members of Congress, educate them about this important issue, and urge them to support closure of the school.
Today, I also received a link to a very interesting interview with Jürgen Elsässer: “The CIA recruited and trained the jihadists” by Silvia Cattori- Here's the opening:
The Yugoslav Caldron (This is the same theme as Michel Chossudovsky's work, although he doesn't mention Chossudovsky and has different sources of information). More and more is coming to light on this, although slowly it seems, his book has only sold 6,000 copies.
In his latest book, “How the Jihad Came to Europe”, German journalist Jürgen Elsässer unravels the Jihadist thread. Muslim fighters recruited by the CIA to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan were used successively in Yugoslavia and Chechnya, still supported by the CIA, but perhaps sometimes out of its control. Basing himself on diverse sources, mainly Yugoslavian, Dutch, and German, he reconstructed the development of Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants at the side of NATO in Bosnia-Herzegovinia.
Silvia Cattori: Your investigation into the actions of the secret services makes a frightening report. We discover that since the 80’s the United States has invested billions of dollars to finance criminal activities and that by means of the CIA they are directly implicated in the attacks attributed to the Moslems. What is the contribution of your book?
Jurgen Elsässer: It is the only work that establishes the tie between wars in the Balkan of the 90’s and the attack of September 11, 2001. All the large attacks, in New York, in London, in Madrid, would never have taken place without the recruitment by the American and British secret services of these jihadists who have been blamed for the attacks. I bring a new light on the manipulations of the intelligence agencies. Other books than mine have noted the presence of Ossama Ben Laden in the Balkans. But their authors presented the Moslem fighters in the Balkan as enemies of the west. The information that I collected from multiple sources, demonstrate that these jihadists are puppets in the hands of the west and are not, as one pretends, enemies...
I also received an order for Deception Dollars, along with some very nice cards promoting the website www.theblackpacket.com.
I'm not a great fan of Woodrow Wilson, and this quote is rather hard to read, but I agree wholeheartedly with the line-
"The history of liberty is the history of resistance."
In Chicago I learned that the flag upside down means the country and Constitution are under distress.
Today, I also attended a 4 hour meeting on "conspiracies," and suggested the need to expose globally how "false flag operations" worked. Someone suggested calling the effort- "True Flag." National flags carry so much symbolic, karmic, emotional weight- one can hardly begin a discussion of their meaning without provoking empassioned argument.
November 17, 2006
Another incredibly busy day, with no time to write aticles, or even update the calendar of events.
At last night's Oakland Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance meeting, there were some new faces, committed activists who had just quit their jobs to work full time on 9-11. Seven people were interested in going to the National Conference on Media Reform whose early-bird registration fee ends tonight. We voted $2000 to get an exhibition space and help with airfare to those willing to go, shlup stuff in their luggage and share the tabling work. We also voted gifts (cases) of Deception Dollars to Boston and Arizona 9-11 Truth Groups in appreciation, and support of their upcoming events.
Boston is organizing a-
Boston Tea Party for 9/11Truth (from their website:): On December 16th, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party we come together as American Patriots, and Citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to demand the Truth of the events of 9/11. We reject the Kean Commission's failure to address the numerous, critically important outstanding questions of 9/11. The Commission's failure deliberately obscures the truth of 9-11-01. In addition The Joint Congressional Intelligence Committee Investigation - itself was held in secret - with poor access to official documents - was then heavily redacted and censored. The Kean commission's "evidence" was built on classified reports, while whistle blowers' testimony was never entered, family steering committee questions were ignored and Commission Director Zelikow's conflicts of interest were not addressed.
For these and many more reasons, we cast this book of DECEIT into the Boston Harbor. Join us in carrying out our patriotic duty to REJECT THE TYRANNY OF LIES AND OMISIONS. We deem this work to be TREASON INK!: The 9/11 "Omission" Report is not worthy of respect, not worthy of the founding ideals of our nation and therefore it should be drowned in the mighty sea of Truth!
Join us for the Boston Tea Party for 9/11 Truth!
Saturday, December 16th, 2006
Gather at 11:30AM Sam Adams Park
12 noon — Proclamation, addresses
1:50 pm — Parade to Boston Harbor
3:30PM — press conference
Dumping of the 9/11 Commission ReportFor more details visit- boston911truth.org/teaparty
Some folks suggested solidarity theatrical actions- like tossing effigies of Bush and Cheney off Golden Gate Bridge, but we will have to work out details at the all day strategy meeting which we would like to hold the first weekend in December, if we can find some meeting space... (Anyone have great ideas- please let me know.)
It seems like I've been on the phone most of the day, and packing up and mailing stuff, doing the errands/bookkeeping. New films are coming out, a new major European 9-11 truth event is in the planning stages. We're hoping to get 9/11 Press for Truth shown in Memphis. Organizing takes twice as long as one anticipates, I appreciate and understand what an ordeal and how much work goes into conferences, and even all day events, or film screenings.
At our meeting on Thursday, the group voted to formally, publicly apologize for inconveniencing or disappointing the public about the SF screening of 9/11 Press for Truth that didn't happen. (I did at- http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/14/18329780.php?show_comments=1#18330619.) Kai suggested that to make up for it that we organize our own screening, but no one stepped forward to do the work- We'd already burned ourselves out promoting the Oakland, Palo Alto shows. Brian wanted to get it shown on all the campuses in the US. Great idea, but way beyond our physical capacities.
And to top that off I got a letter today attacking "9/11 Press for Truth" and 9/11 Truth and me for promoting it.
I'd post it now, but need to get some sleep tonight, and I think the attacks- just drain our strength and energy when there is so much useful work we can do.
Bob Banner from HopeDance has done a whole issue on 9/11 and sent me a link to the pdf at http://www.hopedance.org/cms/ and printed lots of extra ones which he wants to sell to activists. He wrote: I only charge $25 per bundle of 50 (58 pagers) plus postage (depending on how fast people want them)..[His email is info@hopedance.org and his phone number is 805 544 9663] Ken brought one to Thursday's meeting to share and there was immediate demand for 150 of them. I think the cover, alone is worth 50 cents. He did include a short article that I wrote, which was somewhat mangled and included (without acknowledgement) half of Bill Veal's speech (at our Impeach the Terrorists! 11/9/2006 Rally). Oh well... Click on the cover to see the pdf and the full contents:
I was glad that he also included art from our 9/11 Truth for Peace and Justice Art Contest. 
Kai told me I should post that Ed Rippy's Educational Event will be Thursday, December 28th, 2006, but I hesitate to post the next Oakland meeting and the event, until we get the new key for the building- apparently the one we all have- no longer works! It's the little details, like having the right key to open the door, that organizers have to worry about and make sure of before they go ahead and publicize events.
November 16, 2006
My apologies to anyone who tried to see 9/11 Press for Truth last night in San Francisco. I just heard from Brian and apparently the organizer (whom I've never met) only briefly showed up and disappeared and the film was never shown. I should have guessed she was unreliable and flakey by the poor communications on the details of the venue- but I couldn't have imagined it to be so disastrous that the film was never even shown!
November 15, 2006
Yesterday was a bit crazy, trying to get word out for the change of venue for the San Francisco showing tonight of 9/11 Press for Truth. I have it posted in 6 places on this website, at indymedia.org, at 911Truth.org, tried to post it to the events list, all the while getting inadequate details from the main organizer... like full name of room, building, street address which dribbled into me over the course of 24 hours, but hopefully the main correct details are posted now. Brian and Bill will be tabling at the event (I have a different event to go to at Stanford tonight.) Communications seems to be our biggest hurdle on every level.
Fortunately, Gabriel told me about some lower airfares (I gave up yesterday when the cheapest fare I could find was $500!), so I was able to get a ticket to Memphis and plan on attending the National Conference on Media Reform, and I hope other 9-11 Truth Activists will join us there! I have been asked to write another strategy article, and I would like to, but I've been too busy to get to it, and I'm still trying to figure out "where we are now." There was an amazing piece posted yesterday about the abrupt changes in the Bush Administration- the spanking W got from Daddy and Baker, but I can't find it now, rushed as I am to load the car and head for my Weekly Listening Project.
November 13, 2006
We obviously must become the media. Thursday and Friday, I worked on and sent out press releases to draw the press to the Lifting the Fog Conference at UC Berkeley. Victoria had sent out press advisories in mid-October, and one person was doing follow-up phone calls, but there didn't seem to be much press outreach, and none of the mainstream press (that I am aware of) came to the event. Apparently the live webstream of Jones' talk worked, and it was videotaped, and hopefully will be edited and made available to the public.
On Friday, Janette organized a dinner party at her house for the presenters, and many of the organizers. Friday was also a day of preparation, made more challenging by the UC Berkeley building maintenance folk and fire regulations. I wasn't sure that I'd be able to table, and brought along a bookcase- just in case. I didn't have room in my car for Brian, who valiantly made tons of copies of Steven Jones paper, Jim Hoffman's work and other handouts. I also baked cookies (and brownies) for the conference and the half dozen teenagers who showed up at my house to play with my kids (friends of my son at Oberlin, on break from their UC campuses).
The party was a great time to relax and for people who hadn't met to get to know one another, and for others to catch up. Diane and I spent the night, and I think we should have tried to get to bed before 1 am, because it was hard to get up the next morning at 7 am to set up before the 10 am morning session (which actually didn't start until 10:45 am).
Photos and a detailed description of the day were posted on the local indymedia site at Lifting the Fog on 9/11: Experts Present Scientific Evidence at UC Berkeley. I thought everyone did a great job, although I really was feeling pretty ill much of the day and missed out on some of the presentations.
Bonnie (Guns and Butter), Peter Phillips (Project Censored) and I (with Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance) were able to table, and Brian did bring lots of free literature- all the bookcases were loaded with free handouts and we had a good turnout for a 12 hour marathon event. There were fewest people in the morning (about 160 for the morning session), but the afternoon and evening sessions were pretty packed (at least 3-400). I was so glad that so many activists were there and helped to table (and bring me food) during the course of the day.
Peter Phillips missed the party because he spoke in San Jose the night before.
I have the highest respect for Peter Phillips and his work, but I told my friend, Robert Livingston (who did post the article) that back in March 2004, Project Censored wanted to be a part of the San Francisco International Inquiry into 9-11 and back then, I was still so angry at the Left and at Project Censored for failing to connect (what seemed to me to be the obvious dots) that I said "no" and probably did the 9-11 Truth Movement more harm than good.
It was much later, when Peter Phillips spoke at the Foundation for Global Community in Palo Alto, that I realized my mistake and began to collaborate with him and Project Censored, who have become the staunchest allies we have in getting this information out, not only to the mainstream press, but to the "independent" "Left" press. Peter has also taken a lot of heat from his brave stand on 9-11- like having Professor Jones keynote at the Media Accountability Conference. (Norman Solomon resigned over it- and persuaded Jeff Cohen (of FAIR) to not speak, as well).
Peter and Project Censored are doing a study of the "Left/Independent" media's coverage of 9/11, the impeachment movement, stolen election coverage and will be presenting it at the next major media reform conference in Memphis, Tennessee this January. I'd like to go, but it is a long way from California, and unfortunately the airfares are sky high right now. I would need help from Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance, to be able to go.
Today, I need to deposit money in the bank (we did take in 1200 in donations, as well as for books and DVDs, on Saturday), but I also have to write a bunch of checks- for books, DVDs, the honorariums we ok'd but didn't send out, and the $ we voted to support the Conference. I meant to do some of that on Saturday, but I forgot completely.
One thing, I think we should do, is think out a short, medium and long range strategy, for our group and also for the movement. I think Janette said that the national 9-11 Truth Conference (still in planning) hopes to call itself the 9/11 Accountability Conference and figure out a two year strategy- to expose and hold the criminals behind 9-11 accountable. Pretty ambitious! I certainly don't think we want to spend the rest of our lives on this, but recognize that if we can expose this in a timely fashion, we can help to redirect the future of the planet and get it off this suicidal trajectory.
A member of the audience mentioned yesterday that some unique work had been done, just prior to 9-11 on the elevator shafts of the WTC buildings. We need lots of citizen investigators to help us figure out the details of what should be known as "the crime of the century" and redefine the event, so that we can end the bogus "war on terrorism" (which the current crop of Democrats are embracing at this point). It will take a thoughtful, and enormous grassroots movement to reframe the issue.
November 9, 2006
I'm glad to see that many people aren't buying the "Democrats are in power- all is well!" facade. Instead they are organizing more pressure to really turn the tide, including massive demonstrations and actions to force "Impeachment" upon a reluctant Congress. See ImpeachforPeace.org. There will also be an Impeach Beach photo op this Saturday where they are trying to get 1000 people to spell Impeach Bush on the beach- to be photographed by a helicopter to send a message to the folks in DC and the world.
There are also some very good criticisms about Gates and hopefully his confirmation as a replacement for Rumsfeld will be stopped. I passed on some research about Nancy Pelosi's links to organized crime to her green Congressional opponent, who never used them, and I wonder how much leeway Pelosi has to act. She is so crooked that she could go to jail, too- if she steps out of line, so I doubt if she will show much courage or be a champion of truth, peace, or justice.
I really think we should have ousted all the incumbents, but at least the machines told us "that didn't happen." So we will have to mobilize more people to get more than cosmetic changes.
I did enjoy, just taking a nice three mile walk this morning- a luxury that I've denied myself, because I have been so busy these past couple of months. I also had to pick up the remainder of issue #9 of our Deception Dollars from the printers, and ship a couple of cases. I had car trouble, and that interrupted my plans to get out a press release on the Conference this weekend. I hesitate to send it out without the approval of the organizers- my spin might not suit the tone they want to project for the conference. I'm looking forward to it, and glad that I didn't have to do any of the real work, pulling it together.
Kevin Barrett sent out a "tongue in cheek" press release on their DC event this weekend entitled-
War on Terror Over!
Bush Concedes Defeat: “Terrorists Have Won!”
“Enemy Combatant” Barrett Heads to DC to CelebrateMUJCA co-founder Kevin Barrett, the 9/11 truth activist deemed a potential “enemy combatant” and terror sympathizer by Fox News, is heading to Washington, DC to celebrate the victory of “The Terrorists” over Bush-Cheney’s Axis of Good. Barrett will be high-fiving with fellow Constitution-supporters...er, terrorists...including Webster Tarpley, Wayne Madsen, Daniel Abrahamson, and J. Michael Springmann at George Mason University, Arlington Campus, this Saturday, 11/11/06.
A shame Barrett couldn't have beaten Pelosi in the last election! Maybe he'll beat Hillary in '08. Change just doesn't happen that quickly (for the better), and we must keep working to get out the truth, and encourage and inspire people to create the future we all want to see.DC Event Announcement: 911blogger.com/node/4220.
Former CIA clandestine services officer and Tarpley fan Robert David Steele announces he’ll be there! 911blogger.com/taxonomy/term/1756Last week’s Washington Post article headlined “Bush Says 'America Loses' Under Democrats” begins: “President Bush said terrorists will win if Democrats win and impose their policies on Iraq...”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103000530.htmlIn the 1960s we had a war on poverty—and poverty won. In the 1980s and 1990s we had a war on drugs—and drugs won. That’s why we ended up with an alcoholic cokehead in the White House.
And now the War on Terror is over. The “terrorists”—i.e. the Democrats—those wimps who had better grow some gonads real fast—have won. The 9/11 “New Pearl Harbor”-triggered Iraq war has been soundly repudiated by the voters. Exit polls show a huge majority was voting against war and the fascism it has brought. Now it’s time to cash in our victory chips by impeaching the bastards, trying them for 9/11 high treason, and either (a) hanging them by the neck until dead, or (b) offering a truth-for-leniency deal along the lines of the South African truth-and-reconciliation act. It is time to let our elected representatives know that if they don’t work overtime to impeach and expose 9/11 high treason, THEY WILL ALSO FIND THEMSELVES IN THE DOCKET as collaborators in the ongoing treasonous coverup. Call or write your reps NOW and tell them to impeach or get ready for revolution.
November 8, 2006
Yesterday, I began catching up on normal life, and attended Tian's Election Night Party. I received (so far- not all absentee and provisional-paper ballots are in, yet- and those who voted on paper are more likely to vote Green) 3,662 votes (over 2%) in an election that drew less than half the registered voters. From an article posted on Indymedia:
In a state of 27 million adults, almost 7 million voted. In San Francisco, with 600,000 adults, 170,000 voted. Those totals may go up to 8 million and 200,000 respectively when the provisional ballots are counted within the next 30 days. This means that not only did the usual 50% of adults not vote as they are not registered, mostly the workingclass, but many registered voters did not vote. A high voter turnout is 13 million in California and 300,000 in San Francisco. With that in mind, the totals for the Green Party and Peace and Freedom Party demonstrate that their anti-death penalty, anti-corporate and pro-peace message is being heard. Only a mass movement can increase the totals for these two parties.
I think I did the best I could, considering my personal circumstances (my family being opposed to me winning- being reluctant to ask for any money, and just finding it easier to champion issues than push myself as a candidate). I am glad that I ran for Congress, and I did learn a lot and meet some wonderful people in the process. I do know that I need to organize myself better (I never did get out a letter to friends/family telling them that I was running or asking for money, support, endorsements, usually step one in a campaign).Yesterday, I posted a short article on Indymedia Vote for Impeachment, Vote for 9-11 Truth.Peter Dale Scott did say that I didn't have to win an election to have an effect, and I wonder how the 9-11 Truth Movement is having an impact on the press, the government, "the Powers that be." I was glad to hear that Rumsfeld is out and that Bush will probably go along with the Democrats (just to avoid getting impeached- I bet!!!), but I'm still concerned that there isn't going to be substantial policy changes and that the bogus war on "terrorism" and the war on Iraq will both continue.
I think we still need to wake up more people and get them involved and offer a better solution than the Demo-publican Corporate War Party. I think if Bush is on the defensive now, we might have some breathing space to think more strategically and long-term.
I received e-mails about protests at Pelosi's on Thursday and nation-wide civil disobedience on Friday, but can't find more on Indymedia, so wonder how well developed such plans are.
Perhaps getting the right people to attend the conference in Berkeley on Saturday might be a more productive use of my time. I've been to busy to do anything for the event until now.
It does feel like we need to get more of a presence on schools, and in the press. I did speak to a local reporter last night, at the party, who was quite interested in 9-11, but knew his editor would not let him touch it. I would like to educate a whole bunch of reporters, eventually the story should break.
November 6, 2006, 7:24 pm
For those of you also concerned about Brian (who disappeared yesterday)- he is back! His mom just called me. He was out putting up signs all over my district, and slept in his car last night, finishing the job today. I just wish he had phoned- so we wouldn't have worried so much about him.
November 6, 2006
Carol Wolman wrote an article about the Impeachment Rally at Feinstein's office: The Duty of Christians- expose Bush!, and ANG Newspapers will finally publish my "opinion" on the need for impeachment- this Thursday- after the election! San Jose Mercury News has endorsed Anna Eshoo and omitted mention of anyone else challenging her in the 14th District.
Unfortunately, in the paradigm of fear versus the paradigm of love, hope, cooperation, I feel really at a loss today, as my key ally in my election campaign and the 9-11 truth work has disappeared. He's also my treasurer and chief sign maker, and was supposed to be working on signs with me yesterday and today. He never got home last night and his mom is worried sick and ready to call the police. I'm worried, too.
This morning I bicycled to do the usual errands and put up another sign in a major transportation corridor on Page Mill Road, keeping an eye out for Brian, and any sign that he had been putting up signs (he had said that he wanted to target Central Expressway). I also received a really nice email from Dr. Steven Jones who wrote:
" I spoke very highly of the Colorado 9/11 Visibility group and conferences at my visit to Sonoma State University last Friday-Saturday, and on the air with Jim Fetzer last Saturday. You are doing great work and are to be commended. I especially appreciate your efforts to put "caring" far above "scaring" (as I also support this critical distinction in the 9/11 Truth movement)."
This is the paradox. Fear is what corrupts, silences, immobilizes people. It is love and courage which propel us to speak out, forge ahead and explore alternative possibilities, imagine a better world and try to help birth it into existence. What is it that gives me strength and energy and hope? It's the love of my husband, my kids, my friends, but more than that- it is my larger community- the network of activists that I have met over the years, all struggling towards the larger goals of peace, justice, a better world for all. Each time I think of each of the individuals who I have been pirvileged to meet, and know, and work with, it just gives me an internal burst of warmth, a wave of gratitude, joy,and the energy and strength to keep on with the work that I am doing. Conversely, there are events, like the death of Rachel Corrie, and more recently the death of Brad Will, and the launch of each war against so many countries that cause physical and emotional pain, as one's heart goes out to the good, the brave, the innocent victims.We often take people for granted, or are oblivious to their existence, until Death shocks us into realizing who has been lost and we mourn, not just for them, but for ourselves, our individual and collective loss.
I was planning on putting up signs, banners, doing something with Brian, today, and I feel paralyzed by his sudden, mysterious absence. I just hope he is ok, and that we will hear from him, soon.
November 5, 2006, Guy Fawkes Day, World Peace Week
Late last night I posted Guy Fawkes Day- World Peace Week November 5th- November 11th on Indymedia.org. It was too late to do a press release and rustle up help for an action.
I would have liked to don Guy Fawkes mask and done something dramatic, today, but I never was able to find a decent mask and the family wanted my attention. Jeremy, in particular, wanted me to make chicken curry for 20 people at lunchtime- for the dress rehearsal of Shakespeare in Hollywood, the production he is working on at Gunn High School. Between grocery shopping, delivering the food, washing dishes, picking up the pots after the meal, that ate up much of my time.
It was such a beautiful day, I wanted to do something outside, so I finally got out the paintbrushes and made a few signs for my Congressional Campaign. (I know I should have made them ages ago, along with campaign literature, but between the failure of Blaine to finish the Conception Dollar, the loss of my list of volunteers [and 30,000 email adresses] and all my other activities- like trying to break 9/11 Truth into the press- I just never got around to really focusing on my campaign). I would have gone to Project Censored's Media Accountability Conference this weekend, had I not felt somewhat morally obliged to do some actual campaign work. I am better at promoting causes than "myself."
I do enjoy making signs and banners, however, and for what it is worth- these signs are made out of reused materials. (Also the rain has stopped). Better that they are recycled, reusable, real...
This one I put up on El Camino which gets lots of traffic:
A couple volunteers are also working on signs. I'm just so mad at the San Jose Mercury News and the Palo Alto Daily for ignoring the 14th District Congressional Race in their election coverage. I did get a five minute statement on Channel 2 today, but I suspect that will only be seen by George Bush fans and not win me very many votes.
I'm just glad that there hasn't been another 9/11 False flag operation, and that the US has not nuked Iran. It feels like we live under a cloud of fear. I hope that courage, truth, from the grassroots up will dispel it. I'd love to see most of the incumbents ousted from office come Wednesday.
Just got this from Tim Boyle in Colorado:
There have been two articles in the University of Denver press this week sparked by our Scholars for 9/11 Truth event last weekend. (I wonder if there were any articles in the CU press--was anyone in Boulder watching?)
We tested it on El Camino during rush hour last night (as soon as I can post the photos we took- I will) and we drew quite a bit of attention - including that of a police officer, whom I invited to the show, and gave her cards to give out to her colleagues.One of them was by Tess Cromer, a student and member of Amnesty International and one of the two students who helped us reserve Davis Auditorium. It appears on p. 9 of the 20-page current (October 2006) issue of "[dis]claimer", a student newspaper that appears in print only, no web version, and is published every two or three months I think. [dis]claimer consists of thoughtful student writing. The current issue has the theme "Identity: Veins of Existence" and has articles on personal identity, racial identity, discrimination, corporate greed, fair trade coffee, human rights, and a variety of local and global issues....and thanks to Tess, 9/11 Truth. Tess's article consists of seven long paragraphs and while there are a couple of minor factual errors (such as the fact that Kevin Ryan was not actually involved in the steel testing at UL), overall it is a great article. She starts by asking the reader to keep an open mind. She acknowledges Loose Change, and then goes into the appearance on campus of the scholars for 9/11 Truth and the scientific evidence they presented. She goes into detail on how there were three collapses and how they all showed characteristics of controlled demolition. She quotes both Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan from their essays in "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out", refers to Barrie Zwicker and paraphrases from "Towers of Deception" on how the government appears to have known about the 9/11 attacks in advance, explains about PNAC and their statement about "a new Pearl Harbor", and also mentions Kevin Barrett. I'm getting it typed up by a volunteer (Nancy Hall) and I'll send it to you later this week in electronic format once that is done. Excellent article and it is so heartening to see this information getting into public view on a college campus.
The other article appeared in the DU campus newspaper "The Clarion" which comes out weekly and is more your standard student newspaper, with sections on News, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Editorial, etc. It appeared on page 2 of the 12-page print edition dated 10/31/2006. This article is not quite as detailed as Tess Cromer's but it gives great exposure to the issue and also helps to get this information into public view where it belongs. Since it is available online (at www.duclarion.com- WTC attacks questioned)... This article also mistakenly associates Kevin Ryan with the steel testing (he was manager of the UL water testing lab, not the fire testing lab) and says that Steven Jones developed cold fusion which was then questioned by others, which I believe is an incomplete and inaccurate characterization since while Dr. Jones did do scientific work on cold fusion, it was two other scientists Pons and Fleischmann who came in for strong criticism for their work.
FYI If you want to learn more about Steven Jones's work with cold fusion, check out the entry on Steven E. Jones in Wikipedia. Here are two quotes from that entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_E._Jones):
"His research includes nuclear fusion and solar energy. In the 1980s Jones popularized the term cold fusion, but his experimental work was significantly different from the more controversial cold fusion experiments of Pons and Fleischmann. "
"A New York Times article says that while peer reviewers were quite critical of Pons and Fleishchmann's research they did not apply such criticism to Jones' much more modest, theoretically supported findings. Although critics insisted that his results likely stemmed from experimental error, most of the reviewing physicists indicated that he was a careful scientist. Other research and experiments confirmed his findings."
(I guess that's a diplomatic way of saying that the criticism of Pons and Fleischmann was well deserved but the criticism of Jones was disproven when his findings were confirmed.)
Tim
If you look at the article by Philip Pauli, there are a number of errors in it. There is also a poll beside it asking students whether they believe the WTC towers were brought down by planes or controlled demolition (no mention of bldg #7)- Currently 82% are believing the official version.
This reminds me of my experience as a child dealing with the press. They couldn't even get simple stuff right- like the facts about our local 4-H meetings. I guess it really is up to us to "become the media." If I hadn't agreed to run for Congress, I might have been able to work this year on a 9/11 documentary. I'm glad to see that there is actually a fair amount of competition to make better and better documentaries on the subject. We have such a wealth of information and analysis, it is a matter of making it understandable to the general public (and the journalists).
November 4, 2006
I worked at the computer all day yesterday, and wish I could do something more physical- like making banners or doing actions this weekend, but the weather is threatening. There was an awful hit piece on Dr. Jones and Project Censored in Santa Rosa's Press Democrat- There's that other theory on 9/11- SSU hosts discredited academic who says U.S. could have planned attack that appeared today. I think we will continue to be ignored and attacked, until we can exercise some control over the political system.
I tried to just post messages on the forums of the local papers- to let the people know that I am a candidate and why I'm running for office and I have just received nasty attacks to my posts. The most shocking discovery was that the San Jose Mercury News has completely omitted even mention of the California 14th District Race in its Election coverage- ignoring the 650,000 people who might be wondering who is going to represent them in DC.
A woman called me yesterday to inform me that "I had already been elected" - at least in spirit, by the Earth, and those who care about the future. Sometimes, I feel that "yes, I have already taken the burden of responsibility upon my shoulders," simply by becoming an activist, and doing what I can to solve, what strike me as, the most urgent problems. After all- the word "responsibility- means the ability to respond." People constantly come to me with information and problems, in hopes of getting me to help them with all sorts of issues. I often feel overwhelmed, or like the bottleneck of an hourglass, unable to process and deal with everything that comes my way. I received a phone call from a guy who told me about a scientist who had forewarning about 9-11. He's quite a scientist and has written a book called Project Day Lily (www.projectdaylily.com), exposing the illegal testing of Biological Weapons in Texas hospitals, nursing homes and prisons. It's chilling information. He wrote to me yesterday confirming this:
"This is all that I can tell you. In August before 9/11 my wife and I were visiting Tunesia after speaking at an international conference in Malta on Bioterrorism and Biological Warfare Agents. While there we were secretely visited by a North African head-of-state who happened to be a former patient of ours (because of patient confidentiality, I cannot give his name).
Foreknowledge of 9-11 is amply documented in Sander Hicks book The Big Wedding and Paul Thompson's work. It's not nearly as damning as the use of explosives to bring down the buildings, but it is another important bit of evidence."We were told quite pointedly that there was going to be a terrorist attack on the Pentagon in the second week of September, and we were warned to stay away from Washington and New York during the second week of September. We were not told of the exact date or of the method of attack. This information was passed on to the Inspector General of the Dept. of Defense, the Asst. Undersec. of Defense for Policy, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Joint Special Operations Unit (Delta 1) at Fort Bragg. There was no follow-up on this information to our knowledge."
What also concerns me is the fact that so many top scientists who have been working on biological weapons, diseases, vaccines have died under mysterious circumstances. The scientist says of his book:
Project Day Lily is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Fred Conrad (Colonel, USAF, retired) and five other academic colleagues who died under mysterious circumstances while investigating aspects of the alleged illegal testing of Biological Weapons in Texas hospitals, nursing homes and prisons. This book is also dedicated to the men and women of our Armed Services and their family members who were put in harm’s way and were never properly warned about the dangers of Biological Weapons, and to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice personnel and its prisoners and to the people of the Great State of Texas who were betrayed and lost their health and loved ones to a vicious agenda in the name of ‘National Security’.
I wrote back to him:I will get a copy of your book, Project Day Lily, and do what I can to raise awareness about this issue. I can't help feeling that the 9-11 events are connected with the impending biological warfare that could be unleashed anytime against our country and others. I was horrified to read about Erik Pianka's standing ovation at a scientific conference in Austin where he advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth's population by airborne Ebola (March 2006 www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-07/feature1p/ ).
Locally I cringe when the mayor and my Congresswoman, and the press push the Bird Flu scare and they conduct experiments locally on developing new vaccines. It feels like I'm in the belly-button of the beast and people "want to trust the medical community to safeguard not threaten their health."I have tried to speak out and organize rallies and marches to draw attention to Model Emergency Health Powers Act and the undesirability of "testing dangerous vaccines" on the public, and the likelihood of the money being spent to "prevent bird flu," being used to create a life threatening disease. It's hard to tackle these issues and overcome the psychological resistance to grasping our dire political situation.
I do have hope that there are good people with courage and integrity within the scientific community, and the government to blow the whistle on what is happening, and to put a stop to it...together we can strengthen the Truth Movement which I believe will triumph over those who seek power regardless of the human and environment cost.
I've been invited to speak on Webster Tarpley's radio show this afternoon, and should call him now.
November 3, 2006
Yesterday, I worked on an essay entitled "Crashing the Party" which I hope will get posted on websites beyond the choir.
We had our regular Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance meeting with a few new faces, including a high tech newbie who posted my 3 minute candidate statement on the internet last night at 3 am:
He also has created a website called- www.BelieveYourOwnEyes.com
We're so lucky to have such talented people working with us!
Ken Jenkins reported back on his successful trip to oregon where they showed his new film on David Ray Griffin: 9-11 the Myth and the Reality. Ken also had copies of the new DVD of the September 24th KPFA event- 9/11 and American Empire" (I don't know when C-Span will air it.)
Ed Rippy gave us a new essay he wrote on the history of False Flag Operations. Hopefully, this information about State Sponsored terrorism throughout history will come out, in an uncconcenterted effort to wake people up. Alex Jones' new film "Terrorstorm" which is all about this is climbing in popularity on google.
Another victory reported is that "9-11 Mysteries" has been accepted to the Sundance Film Festival.
Janette was back from New York with gifts- their cool Investigate 9-11 T shirts (we had sent them a case of the new deception Dollars.
Kent Knudson visited on his way to the Project Censored Media Accountability Conference where Dr. Jones will give the keynote speech tonight. His Arizona 911truthaz.org group is organizing a big national 9-11 Truth Conference in February- the 22nd-24th, though the details aren't posted anywhere, yet.
Chuck passed around copies of his excellent powerpoint presentation which can be found online at www.truememes.org
I reported on our 9-11 Press for Truth event and passed out copies of the Stanford Daily with our 9-11 cover story. (I forgot to mention the banner that we made, but I did post a photo of it on the wepage of the event). The group voted to cover the financial loss (I went over budget about $400) and to give honorariums to our speakers- Paul Thompson and Peter Dale Scott. We also voted $1000 for the upcoming Lifting The Fog Conference, November 11, 2006 which will feature Dr. Steven Jones. The Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance also agreed to abide by the tabling restrictions.
November 1, 2006, 3:30 pm
Today, as I was at the Listening Project, a friend of mine came by with a stack of the Stanford Daily's Halloween Edition, I was amazed to see that the article they did on 9-11 was the headline/cover story, complete with graphic. So, I scanned in the graphics and posted them on the webpage about the Palo Alto Premiere of 9/11 Press for Truth. It will take more than a couple of headline stories, I'm afraid, to wake the country up on this issue- before November 7th, but it is a hopeful sign.
November 1, 2006
Yesterday the Stanford Daily published
911 call on 9/11 response
Honest search for the truth or yet another conspiracy theory?It is a flawed article, with quite a few mistakes, but it did prompt quite a response, including one from me.
Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of my weekly Listening Project, unfortunately, I don't have time for a press release, as I had my hands full yesterday with the Impeachment Rally in San Francisco, and Halloween. Since I lent my car to Brian to table in SF at the anti-war rally last weekend, it is a total mess and I need to sort things out for my demo today.
We had so much press at the Impeachment rally yesterday in San Francisco, I just can't believe that I can't find any coverage online. I had a chance to speak, and also went in costume- black, with a Guy Fawkes mask and handed out 200 leaflets with the new Deception Dollars.
This is the text of the 1/2 sheet leaflet:
We passed them out to the choir and the Federal employees, who worked in the building, one of them said to me as she took a flyer that most of the employees agreed with us.
2006 marks the 5th anniversary of 9/11 & the 401st anniversary of state-sponsored false-flag terrorism or synthetic terror in the English-speaking world: Guy Fawkes Day on November 5th. We hope to unmask these state sponsored terrorist attacks, devised by those wishing to terrifying populations into supporting wars which serve imperial agendas. Unmask State Sponsored Terrorism!
Impeach the Terrorists!
No to War, No to the War Profiteers!
Even now, few understand the original plot: Guy was a dupe ensnared by the chief minister himself in a madcap scheme to blow up King and Parliament. The real plot was royally successful: to invent a pretext for war with Spain. This fraud was the foundation of the British empire.
In 1898, the American century was ushered in by a similar anti-Spanish hoax: the bombing of the USS Maine in Havana harbor. On 9/11/2001, plotters embedded in the US government, working on a Project for a New American Century, faked the pretext for a Clash of Civilizations - and a neo-fascist world order.
Webster G. Tarpley uncovered the Bush family’s key role in launching Hitler, and the fascistic P2 lodge behind the false-flag Red Brigades terrorists.In his book- Synthetic Terror- Made in the USA, he wrote about the granddaddy of False Flag Operations…(abbreviated excerpt):
THE classic case of strategic terrorism is the Gunpowder Plot of November 5, 1605. In 1605 James I Stuart, was considering a policy of accommodation with the Spanish Empire, the leading Catholic power. James was also considering some measures of toleration for Catholics in England, where the majority of the landed gentry in the north of the country was still loyal to Rome. An influential group in London, backed by Venetian intelligence from abroad, wanted to push James I into a confrontation with the Spanish Empire, from which they hoped among other things to extract great personal profit. They also thought it was politically vital to keep persecuting the Roman Catholics. Chief among the war party was the royal chancellor, Lord Robert Cecil. Cecil set out to sway James I to adopt his policy, by means of terrorism.
Behind the scenes, Cecil cultivated some Catholics, one of them Lord Thomas Percy, and used them as cut-outs to direct the operations of a group of naïve Catholic fanatics and adventurers, among them a gullible man named Guy Fawkes. Thomas Percy was supposedly a Catholic fanatic, but in reality was a bigamist. This group of Catholic fanatics hatched the idea first of tunneling into the basement of the Houses of Parliament from a nearby house, and then renting the basement of the Houses of Parliament, in order to pack that basement with explosives for the purpose of blowing up King, Lords, and Commons when James I came to open the Parliament that November. Instead Guy Fawkes was caught going into the basement the night before the crime. Fawkes and the rest of the plotters were tortured and hanged, and several Catholic clergy were also scapegoated. James I put aside his plans for toleration of Catholics, and England set out on a century of wars against the Spanish and Portuguese Empires, from which the British Empire was born. Guy Fawkes Day became the festival of “no popery” and hatred of Spain.
Concerning the Gunpowder Plot, Cecil either found means to instigate the conspirators to undertake their enterprise, or, at least, being, from an early stage of the undertaking, fully aware of what was going on, nursed the insane scheme till the time came to make capital out of it. The conspirators, or most of them, meant to strike a great blow and their guilt should not be excused, but they were unwittingly playing the game of plotters more astute than themselves
The conspiracy was, and must have been, known to those in power, who, playing with their infatuated dupes, allowed them to go on with their mad scheme, till the moment came to strike with full effect.
This can also be applied to 9/11.
(James I does not seem to have been aware of the operation in advance. The plot was not directed against him; it rather intended to push him in a specific policy direction. After the event, James I does appear to have realized what Cecil’s role had been, at least to some extent. Thomas Percy, Cecil’s agent in the Gunpowder Plot, was called a “tame duck employed to catch the wild ones.” The fact that he was Cecil’s agent did not prevent Percy from being killed as part of the cover-up after November 5. At the risk of mixing metaphors, we can cite the opinion of a contemporary observer that Cecil, once he had secured the game birds he was seeking, hanged the spaniel who had actually caught them for him, “that its master’s art might not appear.” It is time to expose these schemes to the light of day.)
Let us declare Global Peace Week from November 5th, Guy Fawkes Day to November 11th, Veterans Day which commemorates the end of WWI on 11/11/1917. To end these wars, we have to awaken people to both the knowledge of how the war party incites war, and to sympathy for the fallen.
October 31, 2006, Halloween 2006
I'm trying to pull things together for the Impeachment Rally in SF at Pelosi's office today, but just got this from Tim Boyle on our media coverage from the Colorado events. My hats off to the local group in Colorado for their successes in breaking that mainstream barrier!!!!:
Congratulations on outstanding appearances in Denver and Boulder last weekend. We are hearing great feedback from those in attendance and we have even gotten much better media coverage for 9/11 Truth than ever before from the corporate news outlets in this area. Thanks also to Carol who lent her articulate special magic to the occasion.
The Denver Post, the largest paper in Denver, published an article on the front page on Monday, above the fold, left hand column: http://www.denverpost.com/newsheadlines/ci_4572518 I was flabbergasted to see this on the front page, not because these scholars don't deserve front-page coverage (they absolutely do) but I was assuming they would bury it in the back somewhere like corporate media usually do. It has a few flaws and we're posting a commentary on the article on our website (see below). But on the whole, positive.
The Boulder Daily Camera, the largest paper in Boulder, published this: http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2006/oct/30/panelists-raise-doubts-over-911/. I am unsure what page it was on, as I found it online. We have no problems with this one, it is good although brief journalism.
This kind of coverage, although some of it is imperfect, is the best we have seen from these particular newspapers and is a testament to the effectiveness of your presentation. I believe you had an effect on the reporters themselves and they could no longer fall back on old conspiracy dismissals.
Below is some copy that we will probably put on our website today (Tuesday). Please let me know of any corrections or suggestions you may have regarding this.
Tim
-------------------
Colorado 9/11 Visibility and www.911truth.org were pleased to host three Scholars for 9/11 Truth (Steven E. Jones, Kevin Ryan, and Kevin Barrett) at the University of Denver on Saturday Oct 28 and at the University of Colorado at Boulder on Sunday Oct 29. The highly successful events were attended by 300 in Denver and 250 in Boulder. The speakers focused on the research they have done into "Why the Official Story Can't Be True" regarding the collapses of the World Trade Center towers on 9/11.
The event was videotaped and we hope to make a dvd recording of all the sessions available at a nominal cost in the near future.
Media coverage
Local newspaper coverage following the events was significant and we offer the thoughtful public the following comments and corrections on the coverage.
Regarding the front-page article in the Denver Post on Monday, Oct 30
Backers hail 9/11 theorist's speech:
1) This article drew attention to the work of Dr. Jones but it failed to mention the other two speakers. It was particularly unfortunate that the article failed to report on Kevin Ryan's scientific challenges to the NIST report. An article seeking to inform the public about the claims and counterclaims of this vitally important topic should have acknowledged Kevin Ryan's contributions.
Regarding the October 30 article in the Boulder Daily Camera-2) The article quoted Brent Blanchard of Protec Documentation Services, a New Jersey firm that documents building demolitions. In his presentation, Kevin Ryan mentioned Brent Blanchard as a spokesman who often lacks substance but speaks with much "bluster", and these statements appear to fit that pattern. In the article, Blanchard gave two reasons why criticisms of the official story are "out-of-control allegations" that "could not be true".
a) The first was that controlled demolitions are initiated at the base of a building, whereas these collapses were initiated at the point of the airplane impacts. He failed to mention that WTC Building 7, which was not hit by a plane, fit the model of a conventional demolition perfectly, imploding neatly and accompanied by the traditional series of visible detonations from bottom to top. Regarding the twin towers, he failed to acknowledge considerable witness testimony of explosions during the time the buildings stood burning, particularly in subfloor areas where victims were burned and extensive blast evidence was observed. Although the collapses (and the accompanying detonation sequence) did appear to progress in an uncharacteristic way, top to bottom, the previous basement explosions played a key role in the success of the demolition and it clearly merits further study.
b) Blanchard's second point was that pre-planted explosives could not have survived the plane crashes and subsequent fires without detonating prematurely. While this may be true of some explosives, Dr. Jones has noted in his paper at journalof911studies.com that "It is important to note that initiating the thermite reaction requires temperatures well above those achieved by burning jet fuel or office materials -- which is an advantage of using thermite charges over conventional monomolecular explosives such as TNT, RDX and PETN." In his talks in Denver and Boulder, Dr. Jones stated that in his own experiments, he was unsuccessful at igniting thermite with a propane torch.
Panelists raise doubts over 9/11
Speakers at CU say government deceiving citizensThis was an accurate brief article and we commend the Camera on their coverage of this controversial topic.
The speakers
Kevin Barrett, PhD, instructor in Islamic Studies, gave historical context to the day with a discussion of "false-flag events", attacks executed deceptively and then blamed on a chosen enemy, which have been used for centuries as a technique of governments to gain popular support for war. The events of 9/11 appear to fit the pattern.
Kevin Ryan, chemist and whistleblower, told the story of his firing from Underwriters Laboratories for questioning the "Bush science" used in the engineering report by NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He gave a detailed analysis of the changing "official story" of the WTC collapses over the last five years as it has evolved in four separate official investigations to date, culminating in the NIST study of 2005. The NIST study abandons previous explanations such as the "pancake theory" and appears to rely on questionable "tweaking" of parameters in a computer simulation after reconstructed floor assemblies did not fail in physical testing. The computer simulation is not available to the public. Among the many problems with all four studies are changing explanations, conflicts of interest, destruction of evidence, and the withholding of evidence from the public.
Steven Jones, PhD, internationally renowned physicist, further explored problematic aspects of the official story. It is universally acknowledged that office fires aren't hot enough to melt steel, yet molten metal was found in the rubble pile and observed streaming from windows of the buildings during the collapses. Laws of physics such as the conservation of momentum tell us that the 47 core columns and 240 perimeter columns in each of the twin towers would have slowed down the collapses considerably from their observed near-freefall speed of collapse, or caused toppling to one side or another, unless all vertical supports for the building were simultaneously eliminated as in a controlled demolition. Building 7 of the World Trade Center also collapsed at near-freefall speed, although it was not hit by a plane and had only small fires. Other phenomena that were ignored by the official explanations but exhibit the characteristics of controlled demolition are the explosive phenomena visible in video of the collapses and the presence of demolition accelerators such as sulfur, zinc, and managanese in the dust that coated Manhattan and in steel residue obtained from 9/11 memorials. Dr. Jones is calling for other scientists to review the contributions being published at journalof911studies.com and to join in the research effort. The current membership of Scholars for 9/11 Truth stands at approximately four hundred and they hope to have papers extensively peer-reviewed and published in major scientific journals in the future.
We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the writings of the Scholars for 9/11 Truth at Journalof911Studies.com and in their recent book, "9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out" (Olive Branch Press). (Colorado 9/11 Visibility has this book available for sale at their monthly meetings.) Please share this important work with your friends and colleagues. While the implications of this research are devastating to those of us who have trusted our government to protect us, we must have to courage to follow the truth wherever it leads. As Dr. David Ray Griffin said in a recent speech, together we can do this, because "we have the truth, and we have each other."
Kevin Ryan wrote this to the organizers:
"Those of you in CO may not remember, but a Boulder Weekly article in October 2004 was instrumental in “pushing me to the edge”, so to speak. It was the NIST draft of that same month, along with the courageous example provided by your group (and some nonsense from Hyman Brown), that inspired my letter to NIST. Bob McFarland was kind enough to save an original copy for me."
Every action by every local group inspires others, and I think the Colorado group has done us all a tremendous service in helping to raise consciousness. I am so grateful to them, as well as to the speakers for their work... it sure was great to be there last weekend!
October 30, 2006
After pouring so much effort into the Friday premiere, I must say that I was a bit disappointed to realize that I had scheduled the event- during the football game betwen rival Palo Alto High School and Gunn- so we just didn't get any of those students. I learned that there was also a rare progressive law conference happening that weekend at Stanford, plus the UN Film Festival. Still we had a respectable audience- between two and three hundred who appreciated the film, and Peter and Paul's discussion afterwards. We also had a couple members in the audience who had been at the White House on the morning of 9-11 and one woman shared how they were told that Bush Sr.and Barbara were there, that W would be arriving via helicopter shortly, and basically "la te da" business as usual... They didn't realize what was going on that day until they were well clear of the White House. (She's in the online video).
I just found an article that appeared online in the Paly Voice- a student online newspaper entitled New film raises questions about 9/11. Peter found a 31 minute video posted online with the Q & A Unfortunately (for me), I did exceed the budget that I received from the group, and we probably lost several hundred dollars on the event- just because the theater and insurance alone cost $1270 and we only took in $900 from the sale of tickets, $1000 from tabling, but the publicity was an additional $1000.
Brian used my car the next day to get to the anti-war rally, where activists did gather and table, which helped a bit- we received another $390 in donations. At least we are still in the black, so I hope the group will accept the loss and not force me to cover it all (though I will, if I have to).
I didn't get to bed until 1 am that night and had to be up very early to get to the airport. Mike Berger and Chris Emery met Steven Jones and I in Denver and we had some great conversations and pizza on our way to the University where the "Research on 9/11: Why the Official Story Cannot Be True" event was held. About 300 people came to it, and the hall was quite full. Despite the lack of sleep, I was thrilled to be there, to meet the folks who organized it, and to see the Kevins and Dr. Jones, and the others again. It was a great weekend!!!! We had a fabulous Middle Eastern dinner together prepared by a wonderful family in a little restaurant, not far from where I was staying with Fran Shure, one of the main organizers.
It was a joyous luxury to be able to sleep in, and actually feel coherent and intelligent on Sunday when we went to Boulder. An article had been published in the Style Section of the Denver Post that morning- 9/11 theorists are either silly or shrewd and another article appeared later in the Denver Post: Backers hail 9/11 theorist's speech. It's so strange to see the coverage, after having spent some time with Jones and hearing all the lectures twice- noting how much the attack article failed to say.
I have the deepest respect, admiration and love for Kevin Barrett, Kevin Ryan and Steven Jones for their intellect, their work, their integrity, their courage, their sense of humor, their dedication to truth and the common good. They each gave brilliant talks and with the exception of the reporter fro the Denver Post, I don't see how they could have failed to win over any honest, intelligent person to their position on 9-11, when all their lectures were combined.
Actually our biggest problem was the sound system, the michrophones, and I just hope that the sound and the DVD will come out ok (but I have my worries).
In Boulder Ellen Mariani and Joseph Calhoun (Whose running on the Green Party ticket in that District) came. Actually, the only problem with the event, was not being able to meet everyone who was there- there were hundreds of people in Boulder, too, including a guy who is walking from Denver to DC to wake up evangelical Christians to the truth of 9-11 (and doing a documentary, too).
I was lobbying people for John Leonard's (Petition) World Peace Week idea- to expose state sponsored terrorism from November 5th to Veteran's Day, and I tossed that idea out with the other "what we can do suggestions" during announcements before the Q & A. One women later expressed how horrific the indoctrination of people was in the U.K. every Guy Fawkes Day- where people still haven't realized the truth about that world shaping event.
I hope that Kevin Barrett will post his talk online. He went over false flag operations, but he did far more than that, looking at the paradigm shift needed to go from a culture where people and the earth are treated as "its" to be controlled and manipulated by very powerful interests to a Copernican sized revolution of spirit where people and the Earth are treated with respect in truthful dialogue for the benefit of all life.
I still have a very warm feeling, and joy inside when I think of all of those in the 9/11 truth community who do share this deep committment towards this shift in consciousness and moving us from the war economy to a life serving system.
I did get a book- A New America- An awakened future on our horizon, as a gift recently, which maps out the shift in human consciousness that is underway and strategies and hopes to help nurture a positive transformation. Mike Berger was complaining that the "9-11 Truth Movement wasn't doing anyone a favor by exposing the horror of our situation without offering positive steps, strategy and vision for a way out, but I think all of us are consciously moving in the direction towards global enlightenment, which I believe is our best hope.
In Colorado, I did get to do a 10 minute intro to the events and Kevin Barrett, and put in my two cents. Here's my little speech (after "thanks to the organizers and volunteers"):
I am deeply honored to be invited, given an opportunity to speak, and help introduce heroes of the 9/11 Truth Movement.
I just wish there had been more time. We hurried out after the Q &A on Sunday, without even saying good-bye to everyone. The consoling grace was that Steven Jones and I had a whole hour after check-in, so we were able to have dinner together (my first and only meal of the day) before we flew home.When we marched on our legislators demanding an investigation of 9/11, Bush and Cheney asked Daschle to limit the investigations to the “failures of the Intelligence Agencies to prevent the attack.”
Official statements, the destruction of evidence, the actions taken by the administration in the wake of 9/11, the absence of a genuine investigation are indications of a cover-up and criminality at the highest level of government.
The first Senate/House Joint Inquiry was steered by CIA insiders, including Porter Goss and Bob Graham, both of whom should have been questioned for their breakfast meeting with the “money man” behind 9/11 (Pakistan ISI’s General Mahmoud Ahmed) on the morning of the attacks.
There was great resistance to creating the 9/11 Commission. The initial appointment, of Henry Kissinger, to head it was another major red flag that a cover-up was taking place. Indeed, if the media had simply stated some of the basic facts about 9/11 years ago, the administration, the rubber-stamp Congress could not have gotten away with the “bogus war on terrorism” the invasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, the attack on our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Habeus Corpus, the regression back to the pre-Magna Carta Era when “divine rights” permitted kings to judge, label, and execute people.
The 9/11 Commission was directed by the author of the “Pre-Emptive War Doctrine,” a member of the Bush National Security Team, Philip Zelikow. Zelikow's area of expertise is the creation and management of "public myths" which he defines as "beliefs (1) thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty), and (2) shared in common within the relevant political community." He has a special interest in what he has called "'searing' or 'molding' events [that] take on 'transcendent' importance and retain their power over time." In 1998, Zelikow co-authored “IMAGINING THE TRANSFORMING EVENT”
Here are two excerpts:
“…an act of catastrophic terrorism would be a watershed event in American history. It could involve loss of life and property unprecedented in peacetime and undermine America's fundamental sense of security, as did the Soviet atomic bomb test in 1949. Like Pearl Harbor, this event would divide our past and future into a before and after. The United States might respond with draconian measures, scaling back civil liberties, allowing wider surveillance of citizens, detention of suspects, and use of deadly force. More violence could follow, either further terrorist attacks or U.S. counterattacks. Belatedly, Americans would judge their leaders negligent for not addressing terrorism more urgently.
“ The danger of weapons of mass destruction being used against America and its allies is greater now than at any time since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. It is a national security problem that deserves the kind of attention the Defense Department devotes to threats of military nuclear attack or regional aggression. The first obstacle to imagination is resignation.”
If you haven’t actually read the 9/11 Report or heard Zelikow speak in person, in his talks and the report, he has the audacity to blame 9/11 on a “Failure of Imagination” and push the idea that the innocent Administration was taken utterly by surprise by the cunning evildoers. The report omits mention of the collapse of Building #7, the mulitple wargames being conducted on 9/11, Cheney's role in the command center where he was issuing orders that morning. It also states "who financed 9/11 was of little or no importance."
At Stanford University, Zelikow was invited to speak by an Institute which had just been awarded a hefty contract to improve “counter-terrorism exercises.” We had been protesting all the 9-11 Commission members coming to the Bay Area, with the theme “Blow the Whistle on the 9-11 Cover-Up!” actually blowing whistles at them and shouting out the questions that they quietly ignored in a series of presentations where they lied outrageously and ignored any questions which fell into the “conspiracy theory category.”
At Stanford, a friend of mine blew the whistle on Zelikow and was hustled out by security forces. That’s when I walked into the auditorium, forewarned by a security officer that if I blew a whistle I would be arrested. I assured him that I wouldn’t. However, I was offended to the core of my being that Zelikow could lie so blatantly, that I couldn’t sit quietly, but rose and challenged him verbally until Security took me away.
The Commission's real job was to sell the official story, justify the creation of "Homeland Security" and the transformation of the military. Just as Pearl Harbor was used to justify the National Security State, 9/11 is being used to construct a Global police State/or Empire.
The 9/11 Truth Movement has blossomed thanks to those who have questioned authority, the researchers, the activists, the artists, musicians, filmmakers, the courageous journalists, and those who have been forced to become the media to get out information to the public, despite the mainstream press.
Unlike Professor Jones, Kevin Ryan or Kevin Barrett, I cannot be fired for my political views because I am a mother and do not work for a large prestigious institution or corporation. In Barrie Zwicker’s book- Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11, Barrie noted that most 9/11 truth activists were self-employed. It is much harder to speak out when the truths we champion could shatter the system, which hangs onto legitimacy through the smoke and mirrors of the press and by atomizing resistance.
I must admit that I studied the arts, rather than the sciences, and dropped out of college to write a book. To understand precisely the nature of the collapse of the World Trade Center buildings and the flaws in the NIST and other reports, the general public and I need the explanations of real scientists, those of integrity, who actually can study and understand the data, conduct experiments, explain the results. The contributions of Steven Jones and Kevin Ryan to our understanding of 9/11 are profound. Humanity is in their debt. I just wish that the institutions and corporation that they each worked for shared their courage and commitment to truth and supported them.
One of my dearest friends teaches “Holistic Health”at San Francisco State University. He has invited me a few times to speak to his classes on various topics, but in the Spring of 2002 he allowed us to participate in a “Teach-In on 9/11” which nearly cost him his job.
Since 9/11 it has been much harder for me, and activists in general, to organize at schools, as well as get permits for rallies, marches, although the barriers have simply slowed us down and not stopped our efforts. What has given us courage is the triumphs of other activists, in different states, to break through in their schools, on their campuses, in their local newspapers. Every voice, every act of courage, helps pull us all forward.
Scholars for 9/11 Truth has helped to encourage everyone, and now there are new groups forming including- architects, engineers, and pilots for 9/11 Truth, each contributing their pieces to understanding a complex event.
So here we are to hear brave souls who have risked their careers and livelihoods to share with us their research on 9/11, and why the official narrative cannot be true, looking at the evidence, the cover-up, and the attacks upon academic freedom. Our first speaker is one of my favorite 9-11 Truth heroes, the delightful, wickedly brazen, and humorous-Kevin Barrett. The greatest tools that we hold in face of the rise of the most terrifyingly powerful empire the world has ever seen are our sense of humor, courage and the truth. Besides being very courageous and funny, Kevin has mastered the art of doing his homework and putting those who attack him to shame with his grasp of history, the facts surrounding 9-11, and the larger context of this complex moment in human history. Kevin, in addition to earning his Ph.D. in African Literature and Arabic, holds M.A.s in English and French Literatures. He has taught English, French, Arabic, American Civilization, Humanities, African Literature, Folklore, and Islam at colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay area, Paris, and Madison, Wisconsin.
He grew up in a family of lapsed Unitarians and reverted to Islam in 1993, a move that gradually impressed upon him the gravity of the moral choices we make in this life.
He is also the author and illustrator of the cult classic A Guide to Mysterious San Francisco, published under the pseudonym of “Dr. Weirde.”(Allah forgive him)
He became a 9/11 Truth activist in 2004 after reading David Griffin¹s The New Pearl Harbor. That summer he founded 9/11 Truth Squad, a local group based in Madison, Wisconsin.
In July, he rejected a plum post-doc at the University of California because it was funded by the 9/11-disinformation-sponsoring CIA-linked Ford Foundation.
He has led several 9/11 Truth Teach-Ins at the University of Wisconsin. The lecture he organized with David Ray Griffin that was broadcasted on C-Span significantly helped to increase the visibility and strength of the 9-11 Truth Movement. A founder of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, www.mujca.com, (a great website, which has been added to the latest, 9th edition of the Deception Dollar, along with Scholars for 9-11 Truth, and Journal of 9-11 Studies). He is co-editor of 9/11 and the American Empire: Christians, Jews and Muslims Speak Out published by Interlink, this year and author of Truth Jihad: My Epic Struggle Against the 9/11 Big Lie to be published by Progressive Press in 2007. Please join me in welcoming Kevin Barrett.
I'm so glad that Colorado Visibility thought of inviting me- it was such a joy to be there and get to know some of my favorite people better.
My Kids favorite comic does 9-11:
(Click for full sized original)October 25, 2006
It's been very hectic, trying to get out press releases, follow-up with the media, get ads placed, put up posters, flyers, give out postcards for the upcoming events, with some nice surprises, and a few disappointments along the way.
We have also tried direct outreach to students, and Brian designed a huge 20' by 6' banner- which one kid thought was a pirate ship- because it is rigged like a sail and moves on wheels. My son, Daniel, had fun helping Brian with the grommets, drilling holes... while I mainly helped by painting the message-
A film- 9-11
PRESS FOR TRUTH
Friday, October 27, 7 pm
GUNN HIGH
And on one side I added the quote-
"They lied.
They all lied."Patty, 9/11 widow
I also visited the local Fire Station and invited the firemen- and I told the police officer and the firemen- that our policy is to admit students, firemen, policemen for free to the event. We really do want the police and fireman to see this film.
I also received a copy of Mike Berger's new film- Improbable Collapse which I couldn't resist viewing. (And I also gave copies of 9-11 Press for Truth and Improbable Collapse to the Fireman to review and to pass on the review and invitation to other firemen.) Improbable Collapse includes a bonus piece on the failure of the radios- which are still in use and costing lives. If our film screening goes well on Friday, the next film I want to show is this one- it is very well done and focuses on the colla
