September 11- Unanswered Questions (good overview with links!)
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A delegation of people met with Senator Feinstein's and Senator Boxer's staff, to raise our concerns, demand a Congressional Inquiry, raise these questions, offer copies of (some of) the articles listed to draw public attention to these issues which concern us and the entire world.
I represented myself as a member of
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
The questions-
On January 15th activists marched to Congresswoman Anna Eshoo’s office to submit documents and demand an inquiry of 9-11, the event was covered by Channel 2 and broadcast on local television.
Details were posted as an
article at the sf.indymedia website.
Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth- Calling for Congress to have a full independent investigation of the collapses of the three World Trade Center Buildings
New York City Coalition for Accountability Now!
New York City voters have the power to legally mandate the formation of a new investigation with subpoena power by petitioning to place a referendum on the ballot in the November 2009 General Election. Only New York City residents can sign the petition, but all of us can support the effort financially and in other ways. (Pass on this link to survivor Janette MacKinlay's plea for support of this effort- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWmhJ51WPyA
Formally- Petition to the Senate to Investigate Oddities Involving 9/11 Terrorist Attacks (over 30,000 signatures so far!)
Scholars Call for Release of 9/11 Information (Over 20,000 signatures so far).
Support Ellen Mariani who wants to hold those most responsible accountable for the death of her husband all all those others who lost their lives. (Over 17,000 signatures)
Toward a New Criminal Investigation into the Events of September 11, 2001.
A PETITION OF SOLIDARITY with New York legislators, first responders, victim families, and millions of NY citizens calling for a new investigation of unsolved 9/11 crimes, and the full prosecution of those found responsible. (Over 16,000 signatures, so far.)
Here's another petition - Calling for an INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATION (not the obvious government sanctioned cover-up commission).
Repeal the Patriot Act- (over 17,000 signatures)
Release of Classified DOJ-IG Report on FBI Cover-Up (on behalf of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds) (over 15,000 signatures)
A petition, created by the women appearing in the documentary, 9-11 Press for Truth (over 17,000 signatures)
9/11 Call for Truth, a petition created to draw attention to 9/11 Truth Candidates
The SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 TREASON INDEPENDENT PROSECUTOR ACT, A petition urging Congress to try Bush/Cheney for treason for their role in 9/11.
Repeal the Torture Law
The Military Commissions Act of 2006 not only constitutes an assault on habeas corpus, it has effectively legalized the use of torture by the United States government. Of this act, George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley has said, "What the congress did and what the president signed essentially revokes over 200 years of American principles and values."
Oppose Blackwater's Plans for a Training Facility in California
Increasingly corporate, mercenary armies are being created which are unaccountable and make mega-bucks for corporate cronies. Blackwater needs to be exposed and stopped nationally. Check out Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
by Jeremy Scahill to learn of this new threat against Americans and the world under the guise of the "bogus war on terrorism."
July 2, 2009
I know it was good for me to be in Downtown Palo Alto on June 11th, to do my usual Listening Project, despite the hectic demands of that day, following the High School Graduation Ceremony and the frantic preparations for Jeremy's Eagle Scout Ceremony. We were deluged by people, particularly young people celebrating the last day of school and I was delighted to have the company of my friend Chuck, who had just returned from Ecuador. It is the love of family and friends which helps us through periods of depression, when the pain of life or death knocks us off our feet.
On Monday, Jean-Luc went back to work; Daniel had left for summer camp, and I had just begun to get caught up on household chores when I got a call and an invitation to lunch from an activist from the East Coast who was visiting Palo Alto. We had a leisurely, wonderful, five hour lunch/conversation in The Grieving Garden. I can't say how good it was to connect with kindred spirits, nor how inspiring and informative the afternoon was. I had brought my usual cookies, dollars, DVDs, and was treated to a real feast, given a very special book by an extraordinary librarian, Nancy, and we had to keep notes of the book titles and references to not lose the nuggets of wisdom, insight tossed back and forth, covering a wide range of issues, ideas, history. Ignacio bemoaned the lack of a guitar, and I was able to loan them Jean-Luc's unused guitar. (We love the guitar and piano and have both instuments, but have never yet found the time to learn how to play them, so I was glad that the guitar, at least, was able to be enjoyed). David also gave me an assignment- to write an essay on one of Gandhi's ideas of "sin":
So much does come my way, and I can't give attention to everything at every moment; I am often overwhelmed into dazzled silence, digesting huges amounts of information and revelations, unable to begin to process and share what I have experienced and learned. At other times, I can't resist writing and I am frustrated by my own incapacity to share more than the tip of an iceberg of what I wish I could convey.
On Monday, I also received a review copy of Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive?, I read it in less than 2 hours, and posted a short review. Ignacio was an old friend of David Ray Griffin, and reminded me that I should be working again on the next Film Festival and getting a new meeting spot. I just spoke with Ken Jenkins and it doeas look like we might have a good new location for the Oakland meetings and I am hoping he will be able to persuade David Ray Griffin to speak at the Film Festival.
June 25, 2009
Since the suicide of Sonya Raymakers, our whole family has been in disarray, as well as the Theater Department, the High School, the community... the larger world was already messed up...
Jeremy and I spent some time with Sonya's family and friends. Jeremy graduated from Gunn with many awards, but his whole class was shaken by the suicides of both Sonya and JP, who within a month of one another, deliberately ended their lives on the train tracks at the crossing nearest to our house, which we pass by nearly each day. Sonya was a gifted costume designer. She made her own clothes and her signature style included wearing a tape measure as a bowtie and lots of safety pins, which she could magically apply to solve any costume crisis. At graduation, kids wore safety pins, in her memory. Jeremy, also wore a chain, awarded to him and others on the Gunn Robotics Team.
I also prepared lots of food for the reception following Jeremy's Eagle Scout Ceremony on June 15th. Jules returned from college for the ceremony. Jean-Luc took two weeks off and after the ceremony, the whole family plus friends went to a beautiful cabin in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for a much needed vacation- swimming, kayaking, hiking, backpacking, feasting, playing. We just returned last night.
I haven't had time to read all 1000 emails that piled up in my IN box. I missed the last Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance meeting and stopped working on the 9/11 Film Festival when we couldn't decide on a date.
Maria Gilardin, of TUC Radio, just posted two radio shows and a video of Stephen Zarlenga entitled Nationalize the Federal Reserve - Remove the Power of Banks to Create Money
Unfortunately, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance has lost its meeting place in Oakland and we have yet to decide on a new meeting place, so I'm unable to post details of our next meeting right now. I still have a million things to do- including laundry, feeding the family, replenishing our groceries...
June 3, 2009
My kids came down with the flu last week and I succumbed to it on Sunday. Unable to even read yesterday, I decided to watch a couple of films that I hadn't "had time" to see before. One of them was Nanking, inspired by Iris Chang's book The Rape of Nanking. The very well made documentary, winner of numerous awards, was also a heart rendering chronicling of the Japanese assault on Nanking in 1937. A handful of foreigners, bravely took it upon themselves to create a safety zone within the city for those in the hospital, those who couldn't leave, the poor. Although they couldn't save everyone, they saved thousands of lives, but witnessed innumerable atrocities. Their courage exacted a heavy toll, including the eventual suicide of Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary.
I was reading an article Historian Iris Chang won many battles - The war she lost raged within that appeared in the SF Chronicle years ago, detailing her suicide.
I've known too many beautiful, intelligent, young women who have wanted to or tried to commit suicide.
Then I got an email informing me of the death of a young, talented girl, a student at the local High School, a friend of my son, Jeremy. Jeremy was up until 5 am last night working on school projects.
The kids just came home. Sonya committed suicide on the train tracks last night. It is just heartbreaking.
May 29, 2009
I must admit that although I love my husband, the kids, life, my friends and family; I still "fall in love" again and again with my colleagues who continue to impress me with their heroic efforts to challenge the dominent paradigm. Anthony J. Hall (author of The American Empire and the Fourth World- The Bowl With One Spoon) just sent me a revised paper on his remarks at a recent public event in Canada entitled:
And I was also moved by a short interview that Alex Jones did with the late Aaron Russo where Aaron candidly speaks about how Rockefeller told him about the 9/11 Fraud months before it happened and what the general plans were. Aaron said the same thing to live audiences when he was premiering his film America: Freedom to Facsism. Although I disagreed and argued with Aaron on monetary reform, I have great respect for him, his courage, and his work. I'm very sorry that he is no longer with us.
May 27, 2009
My friend Evan Ravitz, the moving force behing the National Initiative for Democracy, who came up with the 9/11 Truth and Cookies idea just constructed a website called 911truthandcookies.org.
Yesterday, I also was moved by an article by Tony Vigorito posted on Reality Sandwich entitled:
The article ends with these words...
"Courage is locating oneself in the heart rather than the head, and the expansiveness of the heart -- in contrast to the constriction of the ego -- this is love, and this is the space we truly share in common. Hammered out of boundaries and convinced it is alone, the ego can only blink stupidly at the grace, the immensity, and the magic of the heart's experience.
"Love, by the way, is not all hugs and backrubs. Primarily, I think, love is a prank. To borrow a theme I'm developing in my third novel: Love is a prank played on the ego by the spirit to teach the ego the one thing that it does not want to learn. In my own life, I've been scalded by love, and I've even been so tough boots as to believe that I needed to protect my heart. But as a result of my accidental contemplation of courage, I realized -- or I remembered -- that the heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the cowardice of ego would presume that it requires protection. Actually, love is the only force capable of overcoming the ego, and so the ego would naturally like to avoid this prank, never having to learn to give up control. Courage is simply allowing this vulnerability, embracing the uncertainty, accepting that we may be hurt, yes, that it won't always be easy, and that not only can we take it, but that we actually have no idea how much we can take. In this "Age of Uncertainty," courage necessarily means being true to one's heart, stepping towards a future uncertain rather than securing oneself to a predictable past. Courage is without caution, it is passion, it is a fleeing from security and into synchronicity. A flower growing through a crack in a rock, courage abandons the familiar and secure shell which protects us -- and limits us -- and dares us to emerge, to grow, and to trust that life will nurture us despite its challenges.
"This expansion of consciousness is necessarily the reduction of ego, and is there anything more expansive than the feeling of love? It is not uncommon for lovers to recount the synchronicities of their meeting, to recognize a strangely inevitable magic in their rendezvous, and such magic is only the beginning, a dim glimmer of a spectacular sunrise, patient as we find our courage, tender as we surrender, daring us to give, to forgive, to reside more fully in our heart, to remember that we are never alone, and ultimately to realize that we are nothing if we are not servants to one another. It is love that erodes our ramparts, that relieves us of our armor, that tames the teeth protecting our trauma, and it is love that will heal us all the moment we have the courage to face the magic.
"This is what I believe more than anything, and this is what gives me hope.
"May you be ever overwhelmed by how many people you love."
May 25, Memorial Day
Last week, Paul and Liz (authors of Invisible History - Afghanistan's Untold Story spoke about Afghanistan and had basically three major policy recommendations:
I couldn't agree more and I deeply appreciated their work to cast light on the story of Afghanistan and the US's abysmal actions there over the past several decades.
On Thursday night, the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance met and we voted $200 to support the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now's efforts to get an initiative on the November ballot. Richard Gage gave an update on the success of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth's activities, including the big AIA Conference in San Francisco and shared his public letter to AIA asking for their official support for ae911Truth.org petition to Congress to demand a truly independent investigation with subpoena power in order to uncover the full truth surrounding the events of 9/11/01 - specifically the collapses of the World Trade Center Towers and Building 7. Richard will be going to Australia in November and Japan in December. We all applauded his work and efforts.
I need to get to work on the 9/11 Film Festival which we will be holding on September 10th in Oakland at the Grand Lake Theater, but I have been very busy, myself on my other political work. On Saturday, I led a discussion after the film screening of The Monopoly Men in Fremont. It was well attended and a lively discussion followed. Afterwards I was invited to drop by the home of a 9/11 Truth activist/supporter who gave a generous unsolicited donation of $300 to the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. He also gave me some DVDs that I could table, including Occupation 101, an outstanding award winning documentary on the history of the occupation of Palestine, and Life in Occupied Palestine which is a DVD of a very compelling presentation by Anna Baltzer. I must admit that while I knew roughly that the situation in Palestine was bad; I wasn't aware of all the historical details or the more precise means by which the Israeli government, with the financial support of the American taxpayer, has been trying to rid the beautiful country of Palestine of its indigenous population.
I always wish that I could do more than I can in the course of every single day, but I think I will make more of an effort to speak out publicly on the unjust, illegal, immoral occupation of Palestine, and I'll try to get these documentaries on the local community access television stations.
On a brighter note, a friend lent me a set of 4 dvds called Crossing the Event Horizon featuring Nassim Haramein, an inspiring narration of his journey and insights moving us towards a more comprehensive "Unified Field Theory" which explains the phenomena of reality from the micro to the macro level. I think his work will help raise consciousness on many levels and has practical implications into solving the energy problem and recognizing the ancient wisdom that should help guide humanity's evolution, if we want to survive as a species.
I have been looking for and finally found Jim Tucker's report on the recent Bilderberg Meeting. I think it is a healthy sign that the UK press finally acknowledged the reality and the threat of the Bilderbergers, who can really only get away with their agenda, if people don't know what they are up to. Exposing the manipulations, criminality, collusion amongst those in the highest criminal class will undermine their power and help us overturn the most tyrannical structures of governance that are doing the most harm to the most people.
May 15, 2009
Last Monday, May, 11, 2009, Chuck and I both were in downtown Palo Alto with the Listening Project.
Janette and her son, on Mothers' Day, produced a very good video to help promote the New York Ballot Initiative-
Officially, the senior counsel to the 9/11 Commission has stated in his new book that the government agreed to lie about 9/11. His new book, The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America's Defense on 9/11 is supposed to be released in September. It makes me think of Cheney's belief, "You don't have to suppress the truth, just delay it until it doesn't matter." I hope that the information still might reach mainstream consciousness, before it is too late to get us off the warpath. Rick Rozoff warns "Pentagon Preparing For War With The Enemy: Russia while the banksters and Congress facilitate the looting of the country.
May 9, 2009, Mother's Day
I finally finished writing a review of the film-
May 6, 2009
Today, I received a link to articles written by EP Heidner - Collateral Damage (Part 2): The Subprime Crisis and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11 2001 and an earlier article entitled Collateral Damage U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11 2001. His thesis covers a lot of ground, including decades of criminal activity by the CIA/banking/political NEXUS that handled the loot from the Axis gold stashes in the aftermath of World War II (well chronicled in Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold by Peggy and Sterling Seagrave), and used it to install corrupt dictatorships throughout the world. The author speculates that the same players who used the loot to launch a financial attack on Russia, looting and privatizing that country are doing the same thing now to the US. He also believes that one of the main reasons for the 9/11 attacks was to destroy the documents, investigations, witnesses who might have uncovered aspects of the various crimes, as well as providing the opportunity to provide a cover for the injection of 240 billion into the US through the Bank of New York, in collusion with the Federal Reserve. Certainly, he points fingers at the major players who held key positions in crimes and the cover-ups, who bear more scrutiny.
Ironically Jay Rockefeller, spoke to one of the committees in Congress today, almost regretfully wishing that "there wasn't an internet" because of all the cyberattacks upon the US government..."The greatest threat to the nation..." I think "The Truth" is what they fear the most- being exposed for the criminals that they are- murderers, torturers, and robbers.
Ken Jenkins also wrote a good article entitled The Truth is Not Enough: How to Overcome Emotional Barriers to 9/11 Truth. I still run up against those barriers on a daily basis. It's a challenge to remember how difficult it is for people to have their comfortable worldviews shattered and how gentle and compassionate we need to be, if we are to empower people and not paralyze them with fear.
May 5, 2009
With multiple events happening simultaneously, I missed Steven Jones and Richard Gage's recent presentations. I did help pass out flyers, for Richard's presentation in San Francisco, at the AIA Convention, as it was breaking up. We were told, at some point, that we could not be within sight of the buildings or Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth would not be able to get a booth next year, basically violating our basic first amendment rights, as we were simply on the public sidewalks. It is amazing how limited our "free speech rights" are due to political/social pressure which views truth as "heresy" or a major "threat" to the system.
Saturday was a busy day for me. I baked a huge organic coconut cake for the Green Party "Spaghetti Dinner" (which I was originally asked to MC), and I went directly from San Francisco to the dinner with the cake/sound system/organic chocolate chip cookies/some tabling stuff still in my car. Knowing that I had to leave early, I didn't try to table for Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance. I left at 7 pm to hear Stephen Zarlenga give his Monetary Seminar presentation in Palo Alto.
I am still in the process of writing a review on Stephen Zarlenga's excellent book- The Lost Science of Money- The Mythology of Money- The History of Power and a new film- Life on the Edge of a Bubble- Blowing the American Dream. They complement one another well, but I haven't had time to finish and post the review in a timely fashion, due to all the other demands on my time. We had invited both Stephen Zarlenga and Steve Walsh to spend the night Saturday, join us for a waffle breakfast on Sunday, before the San Francisco Monetary Seminar. My dearest friend, Maria Gilardin, who produces TUC Radio arrived Saturday to record Zarlenga's presentation and to interview him the next morning. Breakfast turned into brunch, and I went up to San Francisco to hear the presentation again, and spend more time with both Stephens. I do think Zarlenga has the best grasp of the history of money, the concept of money, a systemic solution to solve the current crisis. He is doing a great job to educate people through his book, seminars, writings, interviews, but I think the job of raising public conssciousness, generating/organizing enough pressure for change in policies and power holders, movement building requires the participation and involvement of a much larger number of people, groups, as well as approaches. I had spoken with him at length, over the phone before, and sent him a copy of Doing Democracy- The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements, but he hadn't read it. He was pushing for people to send the American Monetary Institute's materials to their representatives. I suggested that he encourage people, who thought that their representatives were corrupt/criminal to run against them on a Monetary Reform platform to raise the issue and let people know what the monetary solution looks like.
Naomi Klein just did an interview noting that 'The Wall Street Bailout Is the Greatest Heist in Monetary History'. I think that is where 9/11 Truth and the Monetary issue overlap - breaking the American Myth about those running the country for private profit/power at the expense of most Americans/humanity. Teaching about money/economics was so hard in the 90's, but now with the crisis it is becoming obvious to most people, who are hungry for a solution. I guess Obama did say to the bankers "I'm Standing 'Between You and the Pitchforks", but he must be feeling pressure from behind, as well, or he wouldn't be shielding them, and rewarding them, and helping them pull off the heist.
At some point, I hope, we will be organized and powerful enough to have a real change in policies, power holders, and some accountability- not just a token jailed crook. If we don't have those changes, and they reinflate the bubble, the next crisis will be even worse. The Swine Flu Scare does not bode well for the lengths that the powers that be will go to stay in power.
April 27, 2009
I posted a short Report with a few photos on the End the Fed Rally in San Francisco, Saturday, April 25, 2009 on Indymedia. The guy from PBS was there again, filming, and interviewed me. He still hasn't done anything with the 9/11 materials that I gave him, but he is definitely on our side, and gets it, and up to date on the latest scientific findings by Steven Jones. This Tuesday, Joseph McCormick will be in San Francisco hosting a Transpartisan Leadership Potluck. Stephen Zarlenga will be coming this weekend to the Bay Area and I want to hear him on Saturday, and am wiggling out of being the MC for the Green Party Spaghetti Dinner/Benefit that night, but I have committed to bringing the sound system and dessert- I plan on making organic chocolate chip cookies (lots of them!) and a huge coconut cake. I want to leave by 7 pm, though for the Stephen Zarlenga Money Seminar at World Centric. I also have committed to helping pass out flyers for Richard Gage, AIA, founder of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth on Saturday to the 24,000 architects leaving the Moscone Center in the afternoon. Richard will be giving a presentation at a nearby hotel at 4 pm. Steven Jones will also be in Sacramento and Davis, but I don't think I can make it to his presentation, too.
There is so much going on this week that deserves publicity and attention. I did a radio interview for KPFK last evening on the "Emerging Pandemic"- which I suspect is politically driven, as politicians get more and more desperate to scare the population into going along with their agenda, and avoiding serious jail time. Last night I was so busy, I even forgot to wash dishes before I had to pick up my husband and Jeremy from the airport. So now I'm under more pressure to clean the house, do laundry, shopping, cooking, gardening- and there isn't enough time to do the political work- though I am committed to tabling for the Green Party at Santa Clara State University on Wednesday (which is also my husband's birthday). Life is an endless balancing act.
An excellent article entitled Are Members of Congress (and Maybe Even the President) Being Blackmailed? hints at the fact that our supposed "elected officials" are controlled by fear and other forces, and are not necessarily serving the public interests. I do hope that there is an awakening soon, and that we can mitigate the fearful reaction of those wishing to maintain power, fearful of the backlash against them, should the truth about the many, many harmful deceptions and assaults upon the public be exposed to the light of day.
April 23, 2009
Yesterday, Earth Day, I tabled with Tian at San Jose State University. I had great conversations with people who enjoyed the Conception Dollars and were also still interested in the Deception Dollars. Life is more demanding than ever, and I still haven't figured out how to post all the events on this website. There are some which I cannot "legally" post, such as the Friendly Favors events, which are by invitation only and people are supposed to RSVP, but Tom Greco, author of many books on money (His latest is- End of Money and the Future of Civilization) will be speaking in Petaluma (May 5th - Tuesday, at 6:00 PM at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) - 101 San Antonio Rd. in Petaluma). Tom is an old friend of mine and let me know, if you want to be invited... Other friends will also be speaking at another Friendly Favors event on May 19th - Tuesday, at 6:00 PM. They also spoke at the SF International Inquiry into 9/11 about Afghanistan which has been their issue for decades... ELIZABETH GOULD & PAUL FITZGERALD - Veteran journalists and authors of: Invisible History - Afghanistan's Untold Story. They were the first American journalists in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in the 70s.Their new book was published by City Light and they will also be speaking there in San Francisco on Thursday, May 21, 2009, at 7:00 P.M. and in Palo Alto on Wednesday, May 20th, at 7:30 P.M. at the Fellowship Hall, First Baptist Church, 305 N. California Avenue.
I need to work on a speech for the End the Fed Rally this Saturday in San Francisco and figure out logistics for those who want to come and volunteer. There are also lots of upcoming events/film showings on Money and Alternative Economics which I need to post on the website, as well as a gathering for the Transpartisan Alliance next Tuesday in San Francisco with Joseph McCormick. There are so many events happening this weekend, in addition to the rally. A friend of mine is organizing an event at SFSU- Facing Global Crises & Re-Inventing the World - An 'Open Space Conference' w/ Bay Area 'Thought Leaders’: Using this time of crisis as a window of opportunity… Awaking to a new world. Exploring Core Values & Issues, Transpartisan Thinking & Action Steps (Saturday, April 25, 9:30am-4pm, Jack Adams Hall, Student Center). I still haven't figured out how to be in more places than one simultaneously- always a challenge.
I have also neglected keeping up with all the important local and national developments in the 9/11 Truth Movement- at least on this blog. I was in Oakland for the last meeting where we did vote to support the NY Ballot Initiative and to work on what to do with the website. I volunteered to help pass out flyers on May 2nd when Richard will be giving a presentation in San Francisco and we hope to intercept the 24,000 architects who will be leaving the big AIA Conference at the Moscone Center. I also am supposed to make organic dessert for a Green Party dinner that night (and be Mistress of Ceremonies) and it is the one night Stephen Zarlenga of the American Monetary Institute, author of the excellent book- The Lost Science of Money- The Mythology of Money - The History of Power will be speaking in Palo Alto.
It is forever a challenge to balance my life- meet the family needs (and now the demands of the garden/plants), the organizations I'm involved with, the needs of more than one movement, and stay healthy (spiritually, mentally and physically).
April 12, 2009 - Easter Sunday
I don't think that I'll ever catch up with all the work I should do- on the website, my e-mail, my Christmas letters. I worked very hard on a few articles for the California Green Party newspaper and then caught the cold which everyone in my family has succumbed to that Jeremy brought home from his trip back east. I also had the bright idea of tabling organic seeds and seedlings for the Green Party and received a huge shipment of seeds. So I have been spending a lot of time planting seeds, preparing a garden and mixing soil, compost, mulch, and moving the seedlings into larger containers for us to table. I'm lucky to be able to keep up the calendar for the 9/11 events and get out the events list in a timely manner. Kai gave me a day's warning before our last meeting in San Francisco (I hadn't thought it would happen, but he secured the space, so I did announce it, although only half a dozen of us went, but we did have a good discussion- although no one kept notes and we didn't make any major decisions.)
Janette hosted Ted Walter, the Executive Director of New York City Ballot Initiative, the new mobilization to get more signatures on petitions, and legally mandate the formation of a new investigation with subpoena power to look into 9/11, (See nyccan.org) last Thursday at her home. I meant to go, but I was too weak, coughing and sneezing, and didn't want to get everyone else sick. I'm sorry I missed meeting him, and hearing more details about the effort.
I did turn down a family trip to Southern California (to see more colleges for Jeremy and Daniel) in order to do my Listening Project on the 11th.
Chuck came and took a couple photos with his little cellphone. He was also a bit sick, and we both talked so much that we really wore out our voices. It was a gorgeous day and the table was very popular- we had a hard time leaving and stayed hours longer than usual because so many people wanted to speak with us.
This month there are many 9/11 events, but also a lot of other things going on- film screenings and rallies on money and abolishing the Federal Reserve, plus the Green Party has tabling opportunities around Earth Day on numerous campuses.
March 24, 2009
My kids have kept me busy the past couple of weeks, especially with their extra-curricular activities- the school musical and the Gunn Robotics Team's regional tournaments, plus all the scholarship/awards applications and organizing visits to prospective colleges and universities. Jeremy was accepted to Carnegie-Mellon (where Ken Jenkins graduated) and he took a red-eye flight there last night, accompanied by two of his friends from school who were also accepted there.
Last Friday, I took a break from baking for the kids to bake cookies for the anti-war rally. I couldn't load all the stuff I needed into my car, and was very glad that Camille agreed at Thursday's meeting to carry the bulk of the banners, signs, handouts to Justin Herman Plaza. Chuck carried the new awning. David volunteered to make 25 picket signs. Cosmos said he'd be at Justin Herman Plaza at 10:15 am with the great 9/11 Truth for Peace banner. Our biggest challenge was the less than favorable weather report. Camille took some great photos which inspired me to write a short report to post on indybay.org and 911blogger.com
It is still very painful for me to sit at the computer, so it is very hard for me to keep up the calendar, and process my email, let alone tackle more ambitious work such as long articles. It is heartening to see so much criticism surfacing in the mainstream press of the total criminality of the financial machinations that are being forced down everyone's throats. More and more people are hungrily awaiting alternatives to the dying system, which reminds me that I was supposed to come up with a workshop proposal yesterday for an October conference on The Economics of Peace- Transforming Money - Rebuilding Community - Redefining Wealth. I'm still drowning in work that needs to be done, and struggling to find my own balance and health. I missed the attempt to arrest Giuliani in San Jose today. Sleep, survival, and replenishing food and milk for my family took priority.
March 11, 2009
Illness, plus all the demands of the family, and endless meetings/work/phone calls have kept me too busy to keep up the website and the calendar. There are multiple efforts going on now to arrest people like Bush, Giulani, Rice. At our last Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance meeting, Doug MacKenzie, a lawyer, came to lobby for our support. Logistically it is a challenge to catch these guys and do a citizen's arrest. I sent a letter to the multiple organizers working on arresting/challenging the most obvious war/9-11 criminals saying:
I just want to throw out an idea that we used in September 2004 in New York City where the Republicans were holding their convention, and in San Francisco where the 9/11 Commissioners were giving speeches. Our theme was "Blow the Whistle on the 9/11 Cover-Up! Blow the Whistle on Cheney!!!!" (See one of the ads we ran at www.septembereleventh.org/documents/sfadvert.pdf & a video of some of the actions at vodpod.com/watch/206571-911-inside-job-blow-the-whistle )... We did pass out whistles and encouraged people to blow them, and to challenge the war criminals when they had the opportunity. We did have some impact- some media coverage, and I suspect the actions inspired some groups like We Are Change...
At a recent meeting, we discussed the challenges of trying to do a citizens' arrest in the enormity of the Cow Palace, and how hard it would be for people to "speak out and list the crimes of Rudy Giuliani." Whistles- especially very loud ones, convey a very strong message, I could see students wearing them on Stanford Campus and blowing them each time they see Rice... or whistles in a large crowd when these characters are speaking...
This might be a small meme, but I can see it spreading. One of my favorite encouraging lines for activists is- "If you think you are too small to be effective- you have never been in bed with a mosquito." Let us make it easy for many mosquitoes to swarm those criminals, to dissuade further criminality by those most visible in our societies...
Anthony Hall is working on a citizen's arrest of Bush (www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12586 ) along with a number of lawyers (www.peoplevbush.ca ) when Bush is scheduled to speak in Calgary on March 17th. 9/11 Truth activists, and lawyer Doug MacKenzie would like to do a citizens' arrest of Guiliani on March 24th when he is scheduled to speak in San Francisco as well as San Jose. Students, faculty and community members have been trying to prevent Condi Rice from returning to Stanford (however she is already back- right now she is scheduled to speak at a fundraising event this Friday the 13th- where people are asked $2500 per seat to attend siepr.stanford.edu ).
My kids are demanding much of my time these days as their theatrical production is opening this Friday and Jeremy's Robotic Team is participating in a regional match in San Jose beginning very early tomorrow morning. In addition to feeding my kids- I'm signed up to bring desserts for their big Gala, and have been bringing a ton of food to the 90 or so kids working on the show. Daniel just asked me to bring vegan food for the poor kids who won't be able to eat the big pizza dinner scheduled for tomorrow...
Today, between baking and delivering props to school, I also went to downtown Palo Alto for the monthly Listening Project/9-11 Truth Visibility Action. It was the first time I saw and was able to use the new banner-
At least one person told us that the banner induced him to stop, park his car, and come to our table- and it was because of the bold 9-11 TRUTH - not for the cookies (though he did try one!) Actually it was a beautiful, sunny, warm, day and there was a fairly good turnout of regulars, and lots of dialogues.
I'm still having trouble speaking with Blaine to iron out what to put on the next issue of the Deception Dollar and my "Perception Dollar"... everything takes time and I still can't accomplish more than 5% of what I'd like to do on any day.
February 23, 2009
I've been working on an article about the Denver Citizens' Summit which I hope to post tomorrow. I'm also working on a new Perception Dollar and Issue #11 of the Deception Dollar. I'd like to be able to get the art done and have them published in time for distribution before the next big anti-war rallies on March 21, 2009. I must admit, however, that I am deeply concerned by the increasing polarization that I see in the rhetoric on the internet. The right-wing is attacking Obama fiercely. I'm not a great fan, by any stretch of the imagination, of Obama nor Congress, nor the looting of the country with the bailouts and the latest stimulus bill. Obama is still using 9/11 as a pretext for war on Afghanistan and does not seem inclined to go after the truth in any significant way, nor end torture, renditions... At the same time, I don't want to heap more fuel on the right-wing's fire and I would like to be able to wake up the hard core Democrats who are also being mobilized to rush to Obama's support. My idea for issue #11 was a man holding an Obama Mask, flanked by Bush and Cheney in the background. I don't know if Blaine could pull that off, but a friend just sent me a link to Alex Jones' latest film which has a great graphic, which I've asked permission to use on our bill:
At last Thursday's meeting, there was a mixed reaction to my Deception Dollar idea from the group. Janette suggested making all of our 9/11 Truth graphics more attractive and even running with the "9/11 Truth and Cookies" banner idea that came out of the Denver Summit. (At the meeting, we also voted $300 for the graphics and freeway banner that Camille designed which includes the Obama, UFW (and Hitler's slogan) "Yes We Can!" + Investigate 9-11-01!
I was thinking of doing a Perception or Transpartisan Dollar to emphasize or point towards solutions, but I got a "red light" on the "Transpartisan Idea" and I must say it is hard to find good solution/positive/inspiring websites- especially ones that are not polarizing. It does feel like the country is being set up for civil war and martial law. I do think that we need the transpartisan tools/ideas/processes urgently to get us through the coming upheavals.
February 6, 2009
Cooking for all the hungry teenagers on my son's robotics team made it impossible for me to attend Richard Gage's well attended talk/luncheon in Marin last Friday. That evening Loose Change Final Cut premiered with a new improved soundtrack and Dylan Avery and 200 people attended, which filled the room. Despite lots of chatter/discussion on the email list from armchair experts, only half a dozen people attended last night's Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance meeting, so we never came up with an agenda or voted on topics raised, because no one who cared particularly about those topics actually came to the meeting. We did have an intense discussion however, and Chuck and I didn't leave San Francisco until 11 pm. Scott, a new member, who has lots of experience in communications, fund raising and is enthused about working on the 9/11 Film Festival which we voted to have this year, came to the meeting. Last year, it felt like I did much of the Film Festival work and got a lot of flak for my "decision making" efforts, and I must admit I was feeling discouraged about moving forward without anyone else volunteering or interested in helping (besides Ken Jenkins who didn't support any of my ideas for improving the Film Festival). I'll try to get together with Scott when we return from Colorado to move forward with the event.
Much of our discussion was about assessing the current situation and questioning outreach strategies and our goals under a new administration, and acknowledging the new focus of people's attention on the unfolding economic crisis. I have been reading, watching films, talking with people about the monetary crisis and possible reforms/solutions, but have yet to write any decent reviews or articles on the subject. I'm experiencing "writers block" and can't even find the energy to finish and get out my annual Christmas newsletter. My husband, the kids and I have also been sick which is another excuse for not writing, that and the sharp pain in my lower back every time I sit at the computer.
January 23, 2009
On Inauguration Day I baked cookies, loaded up the car with our tabling stuff, and lots of art, banners, signs, and set out for Berkeley and the Ding Dong the Bush Is Gone Celebration at Ashkenaz. I had never been there before, and was greatly impressed by everyone who was there, and cooperatively helped lug stuff inside, and set up the room. At least 200 to 250 or more people showed up for the 4 bands, the great singers, speakers and the Bush Shoe Toss. Dana, Bill, Camille, Janette helped table and Vic Sadot also dropped in. Camille had printed a bundle of the 9/11 Truth Inauguration pamphlets that the DC 9/11 Truth group designed. For the most part, people were cheery and hopeful, but encouraged to continue to act and push for truth, peace, justice... As one of the last to leave, I didn't get home until 2 am, which made it particularly challenging the next day, Wednesday, to get up in time to cook enough for my son's Robotics' Team (parents take turns during the big robot building stage to provide meals for the kids who spend their afternoons, evenings, weekends designing and building a robot for national competitions.) Afterwards in the evening, I had hoped to go to raise questions at a youth center in Los Altos where an intelligence officer was supposed to speak, but a flat tire thwarted me.
Only today was I able to begin to catch up on the mail, the banking, at least I did the taxes yesterday (We were required to set up electronic tax filing). I am still behind on writing reviews of the new books and films that have come my way.
January 12, 2009
I am still trying to catch up unsuccessfully with many people and issues clamoring for my attention. Despite technical difficulties (being locked out of the Green Party office in San Francisco where the strategy/retreat was to be held on January 3rd and having to chase down the key), the meeting was productive and we voted to do another 9/11 Film Festival this year and support Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth at the upcoming Architects Conference, which will draw 25,000 architects to San Francisco. AE911Truth.org will have a booth on the inside!
Unfortunately Richard Gage broke his leg skiing, and I hope he'll be out of his cast for the trip to Denver next month where Ken Jenkins, Richard and I (representing Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance and Fran Shure representing the local Colorado 9/11 Truth group) will have a booth, and be delegates at the American Citizen's Summit.
I have also been attending other meetings (for the Santa Clara County Green Party) and working on other events, not directly related to 9/11. There is a flurry of organizing going on beneath the surface, as well as above the surface. A youth was shot dead on New Year's Eve at BART, and there is no police accountability. Peace rallies in support of the Palestinians, who are under brutal assault from Israel are drawing thousands of people. David Ledesma, who has been doing peace vigils every weekend in San Jose for years, had two thousand people suddenly show up a week ago (I'm not sure what the turnout was yesterday and the day before as the 10th was a National/International Day of action and I went to the rally in San Francisco.)
The police were awful at the rally in San Francisco and would not let me hang up any of our banners. They can make it really difficult for protestors to exercise their first amendment rights. We ended up draping our large Deception Dollar banner over the chairs. A lot of Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance came in support of the Palestinians and to help with the tabling and flyering. The public, as usual supported our presence, we received lots of donations, and also moved a lot of materials- books, DVDs, Rock Island Free Press newspapers.
I came home right after the rally, cooked dinner for the family and baked cookies for my Listening Project. On the 11th, I had to repack the car, and set up in downtown Palo Alto. An incredibly nice homeless veteran helped me set up and break down; it was a beautiful day, very quiet after the intensity of the day before. I picked up groceries on the way home, made dinner and was asked again to bake cookies for Jean-Luc, and Daniel... Between the meetings, rallies, the kids' theater groups, the Gunn Robotics Team, I seem to spend a good chunk of each day baking cookies/food/bread rolls for varying numbers of people.
We returned from Canada at 2 am this morning, so I haven't quite been able to catch up on my sleep (laundry, grocery shopping, email... news), but we do have the Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance Strategy Meeting/Retreat tomorrow- which I'm sure will be productive. One of the questions I'll have to raise is whether we should reprint the Deception Dollars, I think all of us (who have been distributing them for years) are running out finally...
December 21, 2008, Winter Solstice
I've been very busy the past few days working out some of the logistic details for Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance's participation in the upcoming American Citizen's Summit, in Denver, Colorado, February 11th-15th. David Ray Griffin and Cynthia McKinney are invited speakers and the 9/11 Truth Movement and issue is welcome at the conference- which is really moving towards "Truth and Reconciliation" and acknowledging the shadow side of our country.
At our last meeting/celebration, we voted $1200 to send Ken Jenkins, Richard Gage, and I to the Summit. Fran Shure and the Colorado activists have generously offered to host us. We have yet, to work out all the details, and I'm afraid we will have a hard time persuading David to attend in winter. He is also under deadline to finish a book. I hope that they will include Richard Gage, AIA, as a speaker... but we will have to wait and see.
December 12, 2008
Given the changes that are taking place on the political landscape, I'm not the only one re-evaluating the current situation, trying to figure out where to put my time, energy, resources. I've been to six organizing meetings/events in the past 9 days and have received two new books on Money and Monetary Reform.
Yesterday, I was in downtown Palo Alto, at my usual spot, for the now monthly Listening Project/ 9/11 Truth Action. Although I received a camera for Christmas last year (just so I could get photos of events/rallies that I attend or organize that otherwise might not get photographed), I still haven't read the manual or had time to figure out the new camera. Chuck Millar who often comes and takes photos, didn't make it.
One of the passerbys whom I questioned was an artist and told me about his art, now on display, that incorporated some of the deception dollars into an art collage about 9/11 and "how it was used as a tool to help subvert our rights" which is part of an exhibit that will be up until Dec. 29th. It was a pleasure to meet him, a young man, Michael Denning (Heart of Chaos Director and Juvenile Hall Art Teacher) who also told me that the first 9/11 Truth event that he attended was the premeire of "The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw- The Great Conspiracy" at the Guild Theater in Menlo Park (With Barrie Zwicker, Peter Phillips, Webster Tarpley, Michael Kane) back in March 2005 that I had organized. He mentioned that he had been working at Trader Joe's Market and saw 14 of his regular customers at the event- each one wondering "What are you doing here?" Obviously, the event had some impact, and he incorporated lots of our outreach materials into his collage.
Details of Michael Denning's collage
I do feel very lucky to live in a place where I have been able to exercise "Free Speech." As I wash dishes, cook for the family, engage in the mundane tasks, enjoy the simple, normal pleasures of life, I am glad that I have chosen the path of "challenging empire" rather than "unconsciously supporting empire through material acquisition"... In the video, True News 13: Statism is Dead - Part 3 - The Matrix, the methods of control to domesticate and control people, while maintaining an illusion of "freedom" are examined. I also received a link the other day to a lecture Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making with author: David Rothkopf
In the first video, the "rulers" certainly conspire to maintain their power and control over humanity. In the second video, Rothkopf, who jokes that he would like to sign up for such a global conspiracy, if it were an option, and makes fun of how he "doesn't belong to the "Superclass" that he describes in his book, also talks about his interview with the Federal Reserve chairman and his visits to Davos for the World Economic Forum. While he notes the incredible concentration of wealth, and the networks that connect the "Superclass" he dismisses a conscious intention to "rule the world," but says that when they act in unison that they can determine a "global agenda." This is their great power he says, neglecting to mention the consolidation of the media into very, very fews hands, the media's ability to omit, distort key information, perpetuate self-serving lies. He also quietly threw in the Al Qaeda myth in his talk, framed the need for a global governance structure to refrain the "bad actors," bashed "nationalism" (Hugo Chavez) and stated that the vast majority would never be in control, that only one group of elites might replace another under the guise of "serving humanity"... I can only hope that he is wrong, if we are to avoid totalitarian rule by the most corrupt, ruthless, wealthiest, deceptive people on the planet.
December 8, 2008
More on Pearl Harbor -- I was really moved by Admiral Kimmel's grandson's presentation on how they broke the Japanese code prior to the attack (at the Toronto International Inquiry into 9/11, which is corraborated by Stimmet's book and other sources. Today I received a link to this article-
Advance Warning?
The Red Cross Connection
By Daryl S. Borgquist
Naval History, June 1999
It details how the Red Cross did receive emergency medical supplies and warning prior to the attack and how they kept that information quiet.
Additionally here is another link to an article- Misallocated Infamy, by Srdja Trifkovic with a compelling timeline of the events leading up to the attack.
My own article will probably be forever buried on this website, as I was horribly unsuccessful at posting this in a timely manner.
December 7, 2008 - Pearl Harbor Day
Sixty-seven years ago, on Sunday, December 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, killing over two thousand people and wounding over a thousand. The attack enabled FDR to enter World War II, and prompted huge numbers of Americans to volunteer for military service. In the book Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor (2000), Robert Stinnett unveiled a memo outlining an 8 point plan to provoke Japan into attacking the US.
Admiral Kimmel, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, was removed from office and demoted, taking the blame for the losses at Pearl Harbor soon after the attacks. Researchers, over the course of many years, believe that critical information was withheld from Kimmel and that he was unjustly punished. One of those researchers was his grandson, Manning Kimmel IV, who persuaded the U.S. Senate in 1999 to pass a nonbinding resolution exonerating Admiral Kimmel and Army Lieutenant General Short.
In addition to shifting public opinion and gaining popular support for the US entry into World War II, Pearl Harbor was the justification for the passage of the National Security Act of 1947; the creation of the National Security Council, the CIA, and the Department of the Air Force; and the reorganization of the Department of War and the Department of the Navy into the Defense Department. Manning Kimmel IV, who worked for the FBI and the CIA, noted that emblazoned on the CIA’s walls is the reminder that the CIA was created “To Prevent Another Pearl Harbor.”
Philip Zelikow, author of the US “Pre-Emptive War Doctrine,” has studied and written about the use, and misuse, of history in policymaking, including “beliefs thought to be true (although not necessarily known to be true with certainty)”…“Searing events that take on 'transcendent' importance and, therefore, retain their power even as the experiencing generation passes from the scene.” In 1998 he co-authored the article Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy, which speculated that if the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center had succeeded,
Zelikow, as the Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission, was able to control the “investigation,” write an outline for the contents of the report prior to the investigation, omit or distort facts, and edit the final report (much of it based upon confessions derived by torture). Amazingly, he and the 9/11 Report blamed the attacks upon a “failure of the imagination” on the part of the US government to even conceive of using airplanes as weapons. (This false statement, contradicted by innumerable reports and facts, was unquestioned and repeated by the mainstream press.)
In 1944 George Orwell wrote:
The failings of the official 9/11 Report were clearly chronicled by David Ray Griffin in his books-- The New Pearl Harbor- Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration Volume I, and his latest book- The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé Volume II-- and in many documentaries, including 9/11: The Myth and the Reality. However, the report was accepted by the press uncritically. Congress accepted the official narrative and used it to justify the creation of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center, and to pass the most dramatic change since 1947 with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, which created a new Director of National Intelligence reporting directly to the President, determining and directing the budget of all the national intelligence agencies.
The Project for a New American Century, founded in 1997, advocated for American “leadership” throughout the world, including the extension and reorganization of the military. Their document, entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century,” states:
Immediately following 9/11, the military received substantially more funding and was expanded to fight the “war on terror,” a war that was not expected to end in our lifetimes. “Pearl Harbor” was the “code word or concept” behind the preamble and the aftermath of the event. For nearly a year prior to 9/11, “Donald Rumsfeld routinely stated that the inevitability of surprise was a guiding principle of the Bush administration's national security strategy and handed out or recommended Roberta Wohlstetter's 1962 book, Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision.” [1] The Hollywood film, Pearl Harbor, which was released in May, 2001, conveniently maintained the popular myth and served psychologically as a recruitment tool. On 9/11 Bush, himself, very publicly wrote in his journal, “The Pearl Harbor of the 21st century took place today.”
On 9/11, in response to the horrific attacks on our country, we entered into “Continuity of Government,” but, unbeknownst to most of the American people, a shadow government has been in place ever since. Cheney and Rumsfeld worked on the plans for Continuity of Government for decades prior to 9/11, the provisions of which have been shrouded in secrecy. Even members of the Homeland Security Oversight Committee are not allowed to see its classified plans, but apparently Congress is an expendable entity when Continuity of Government is declared. While the country is in a declared “State of Emergency,” the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are ignored. In this context, the recent financial crisis, the Military Commissions Act, and the deployment of 20,000 US troops trained to respond to civil unrest as well as terrorist attacks within the US are less than reassuring.
Although time and public opinion appear to be sweeping the now unpopular Bush and Cheney from the Oval Office, their policies and legacy remain. There has been no accountability for the “intelligence failures” leading up to 9/11, nor for the “failure to intercept the hijacked planes.” In a report released last August, NIST claimed that for the first time in modern history, fires felled a 47-story steel-framed building, World Trade Center 7, even though it exhibited all the characteristics of a controlled demolition. An earlier report claimed that fires plus two airplanes brought down the twin towers, ignoring the witness testimony and physical evidence that explosives were used.
Zelikow is allowed to praise the incoming Obama cabinet on National Public Radio. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates, after expanding upon Zelikow’s pre-emptive strike doctrine to include nuclear first strikes upon nations who might develop nuclear weapons, is retained by Obama as Defense Secretary. The winners might change, but the lies remain the same, as well as the direction of US foreign policy.
Napoleon believed that
The rulers seem particularly afraid of the internet, the information technologies which allow people to communicate directly, bypassing corporate and government control, the erosion of faith in government and the media, the challenges to their tenuous claims to be the legitimate elected representatives of the people or the titans of industries which serve humanity. The promised "endless wars" provoke endless "protests" and increasing repression to quell the rising tide of dissent.
Just as Pearl Harbor was encouraged and used by FDR as a pretext for war, 9/11 has been an equally deceptive new Pearl Harbor used to expand the National Security State into a Global Police State, where torture, pre-emptive war, surveillance, curtailment of civil rights, the Rule of Fear dominates the Rule of Law. As we remember the tragedy of Pearl Harbor, and we should educate and remind our fellow citizens that it was encouraged and allowed to happen by FDR as a pretext for war. Incidents since then- the Gulf of Tonkin, the story of babies thrown out of incubators during the invasion of Kuwait, were fabrications to trick the American people into supporting war. While the best historical parallel to 9/11 is the Reichstag Fire, used by Hitler to criminalize the communists and pass the Enabling Act (which bears a striking resemblance to the PATRIOT Act), Pearl Harbor and 9/11 both have been used to make the most sweeping military reorganizations within the US possible. Both events have served the powerful interests of genuine terrorists who have used the events to deceive the public, recruit soldiers, launch wars.
Only by shattering the myths, exposing the lies, uncovering the truth about Pearl Harbor, our history, 9/11, the new Pearl Harbor, can we genuinely prevent the rush towards totalitarianism, a militarism based on fear, terror, disregard for truth, justice, human rights. Difficult though it may be, it is time to challenge the "War on Terror," expose the hand of intelligence agencies in incidents designed to launch new wars, before a nuclear Pearl Harbor obliterates the possibility of redirecting humanity onto a path towards peace and prosperity for all.
[1] http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2007/07/before-911-donald-rumsfeld-was.html
November 30, 2008
I received a well formatted copy of an excellent article entitled Summary of Evidence of Controlled Demolition at the World Trade Center posted at firefightersfor911truth.org. As I read it, this particular bit of info jumped out at me-
And, as we say in the Citations section:
"There are 3 witnesses to the statement from F.D.N.Y. Chief of Department Peter Ganci, who was also killed in action on the morning of 9/11. All 3 witnesses were on-scene at the time and all 3 substantiate the statement, separately from the others, in virtually the same words and meaning."
David Ray Griffin replied:
Ooops... I felt badly about bothering him with something that he already knew about, and for forgetting that I had seen it before- since I did read 9/11 Contradictions An Open Letter to Congress and the Press. On the other hand, every once in a while, I am astonished that great writers and researchers aren't aware of key info that others have dug up, and have passed on to me, and I'd rather be little embarrassed, than not convey critical info which might be extremely useful to our best spokespeople.
Luckily, most people do send their info directly to David Ray Griffin. He is very good at judging it, and placing it in context in his own writings, speeches. The most difficult challenge that we all have to face is the abundance of evidence, and trying to sort it out, and convey the most compelling facts that we know to open the press, politicians, and public's minds to the improbablity and impossibilities within the official narrative. No one can keep up with all the research, evidence, continually bubbling to the surface. I think we need a new 9/11 Fact Sheet to incorporate some of the more compelling evidence produced in the past year. Tomorrow I need to drive to Oakland to pick up 10,000 new Patriots Question 9/11 cards that we just had printed.
I've had to borrow the latest version of the Deception Dollar from Gabriel Day and I wonder, if we will reprint them. The latest bombings in India, "India's 9/11," have CIA and MOSSAD fingerprints all over them. With the global economy in shambles, I'm afraid that The Powers Will Be will do what they can to distract folks with new wars, economic hardships, and false flag operations to boost recruitment.
I did finish reading The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé and learned that Interlink has published it as a set, along with a reprint of The New Pearl Harbour and it is meant to be read in conjunction with the first book (if you haven't read it before- as a supplement or update). For those who read it years ago and are familiar with the topic, the book is very readable, engaging, with new information (maybe not all the information that has been unearthed in the past few years- but the most significant facts and evidence that David Ray Griffin chose to include). I do recommend it highly! And so does Publisher's Weekly which put it at the top of its list for Pick of the Week.
November 25, 2008
I cannot keep up with all the work and still need to write-up and post the minutes from last Thursday's Northern California 9/11 Truth Alliance Meeting... but I was working on the speech for the rally to End the Fed until 1 am on Friday night. It's hard to access this computer because my son's computer is broken and he keeps bumping me, so he can do his homework and college applications. In fact, I just got bumped again, so I posted the write-up on the rally here, but won't be able to post it elsewhere til later.
November 18, 2008
Time flies by. Last week I started working on the local San Francisco End the Fed Rally/March. Gary Franchi, who I worked with to organize the 9/11 Truth Rally/March in Chicag
