By JIM BENSMAN
I was sitting at home on July 31st when the phone rang and the caller ID said Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI wanted to know if they could come to my place and talk to me. So I asked what he wanted to talk to me about.
It all started a few days earlier when I went to a public hearing on the Army Corps of Engineers proposal to build a fish bypass for a dam by me on the Mississippi River.
The Army gave a powerpoint presentation. They showed the initial (…)
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How I Was Targeted as a Terrorist: My Adventures with the FBI
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Banned in Washington - Where’s the Free Speech?
14 September 2006by Ann Wright
So much for free speech in the nation’s capital and capitol. On July, 11, 2006 I was arrested for offering a citizen’s voice in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing against the nomination of one of the Bush administration’s architects of torture, William Haynes, former Department of Defense General Counsel (chief civilian lawyer) for a life-time appointment to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Yesterday, September 7, I appeared in the Criminal Division of the Superior (…) -
Twenty Gandhis
14 September 2006by Robert Koehler
As the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, many of the nation’s values — tolerance, forgiveness, personal freedom, perhaps even courage itself — remain trapped in the wreckage.
It may take another anniversary, another 9/11 — Sept. 11, 1906, to be precise — simply to remind us of what lies buried beneath the fear and cynicism, the ignorance and politics; and, even more importantly, to wake us up to the urgency of reclaiming those values and healing as a nation.
Led (…) -
On 9/11, New Yorkers faced the fire in the minds of men
14 September 2006Hollywood’s attempts to mark the 2001 attacks ignore their political context and the return to history they symbolise
by Slavoj Zizek
Two Hollywood films mark 9/11’s fifth anniversary: Paul Greengrass’s United 93 and Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center. Both adopt a terse, realistic depiction of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. There is undoubtedly a touch of authenticity to them and most critics have praised their sober styles and avoidance of sensationalism. But it is the (…) -
IDF commander: We fired more than a million cluster bombs in Lebanon
14 September 2006By Meron Rappaport
"What we did was insane and monstrous, we covered entire towns in cluster bombs," the head of an IDF rocket unit in Lebanon said regarding the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous shells during the war.
Quoting his battalion commander, the rocket unit head stated that the IDF fired around 1,800 cluster bombs, containing over 1.2 million cluster bomblets.
In addition, soldiers in IDF artillery units testified that the army used phosphorous shells during the war, (…) -
BREAKING NEWS: FBI DIV 5/MKULTRA LINKED TO MONTREAL SHOOTING
13 September 2006http://cloakanddagger.de/
NEWS BREAKING NEWS
FBI DIV 5 MKULTRA now linked to today’s Canadian Columbine in Montreal, Quebec. Three weeks before this incident six major compromised FBI Div #5 Informants fled the Denver, Colorado area for British Columbia, Canada and Montreal Quebec.
It can now be reported that they immediately located and met with British Intelligence Mi-6 contact cells in both Vancouver and Montreal.
It is no coincidence that both one month ago that British (…) -
*** POLITICAL REALITY CHECK ***
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IDENTIFY THE ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND ANNIHILATE THEM.
by Tom Heneghan
September 13/06
POLITICAL REALITY CHECK
Alleged U.S. News Media is once again in embedded Bushfraud mode.
Subject Nov./06 Elections - Suddenly out of nowhere the oil-soaked spy riddled U.S. News Media is reporting that the Republican Generic Poll numbers are improving.
One must examine why this is happening.
Fact Not Fiction #1 - A bogus Terror Internet scare was (…) -
Syria Says US Behind Attack On Own Embassy
13 September 2006Syria Says US Behind Attack On Own Embassy
Senior Syrian government official have accused the US of being behind Tuesday’s assault on its own embassy in downtown Damascus.
A Baath party official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told WorldNetDaily, "We in the government are 100 percent sure America was behind this attack, which is not the same as other attacks by Islamic groups."
He explained, "Only the Americans can succeed in carrying out an attack just 200 meters from (…) -
Two Axioms of 9/11
13 September 2006Taken from: www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
Axiom One: November Fears
With government and corporate media propaganda echoing the traumatic memories of five years ago, from sea to shining sea, enveloping the airwaves and print media of the nation with a clenched fist of wall to wall coverage, Americans have again been bombarded with the exploitation of the mass murder of 3,000 human beings, their death once more serving the political interests of the Bush cabal as well as the (…) -
BREAKING: NIGHTLY SHOCK NEWS
13 September 2006IDENTIFY THE ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND ANNIHILATE THEM.
by Tom Heneghan
September 12/06
NIGHTLY SHOCK NEWS
Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary, gave away a secret of 9-11 today in his own words. And I quote:
“There was no operational link between Saddam Hussein and 9-11." (aka Al Qaeda Bin Laden.)
We should remember that both Bush and Rumsfeld wanted both Udday Hussein and Saddam Hussein targeted on September 11, 2001 right after the WTC was (…)