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Rosie 9/11 View * Evidence * Chavez & Coal


03 April 2007

"Have governments ever faked incidents or
incited incidents in order to get them into war?"


-- Rosie O'Donnell

1) Debunking 9/11 Debunking and the Evidence

- - Courageous Rosie is out in view on The View
- - 9/11 Families Petition For Pertinent 9/11 Documents
- - Developments In The 911 Truth Grassroots Movement
- - 9/11 & “The Reflecting Pool”
2) Chavez turns away coal mines from indigenous land
- - Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
- - Failed Venezuelan coup d’etat 5th Anniversary

Flyby News presents a special free screening of the film:
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
Common Ground Restaurant on Friday, April 13, 2007 at 9:00 PM
25 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, Vermont; Telephone - (802)257-0855.
Plus John Coster and friends will be performing, and open music jam, dancing, following film
Celebrating the fifth Anniversary of failed coup d'etat of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez

Editor's Notes:

The first item includes an article by Paul Craig Roberts on David Ray Griffin's Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory. This book will be released in May, but FN suggests pre-ordering from 911Truth.org. More truth is rising to the surface. Please lend support to Rosie O'Donnell, and check out the synopsis of an exciting new 9/11-film, “The Reflecting Pool.” The second item has more on the democratic direction of Venezuela, and care for our habitat. Also, note this FN festival update:

SolarFest 2007 - July 14 & 15 - Renewable Energy Fetival - On a beautiful July weekend in Vermont, several thousand people come to SolarFest, a weekend community, inspired by art and technology, by the talent and ability of all the diverse individuals who make the festival a place where learning and fun thrive. Here are some of the reasons people come: Two stages of diverse music, bonfire art. Woodland art. The annual rain (and rainbow!). Dancing and singing late into the night. Discovery through world class workshops. Fabulous food. Meeting happy people. Networking. Communicating. Energizing. As usual Flyby News will be contributing publicity for SolarFest, and in return receives networking opportunities. This year FN will share its space with NorthEast 9/11 Truth. Nature is an incredible inspiration and teacher for balance and beauty. For more information, visit SolarFest.org

I hope you join us in July for sustainable energy and 9/11 truth networking. But also, most importantly, please support the first 9/11 truth northeast USA tour. In the tradition of documentary films such as Karl Grossman’s “Nukes in Space”, Mike Berger’s “Improbable Collapse: The Demolition of our Republic” deals with evidence based on science, common sense, and integrity. The first night of the tour is co-sponsored by WWUH Public Affairs at the University of Hartford ~ Wilde Auditorium, 7:00 PM on April 10, 2007. You can link to details of each event from FN – and find PDF files for downloading color posters and in black and white. Let friends and family know what is happening in the northeast USA from April 10-23! The time for truth is upon us.

“..Griffin points out that the reader’s choice is between two conspiracy theories:
One is that Muslim fanatics, who were not qualified to fly airplanes, defeated the security
apparatus of the US and succeeded in three out of four attacks using passenger jets as weapons.
The other is that security failed across the board, not merely partially but totally,
because of complicity of some part of the US government.”


-- Paul Craig Roberts



1) Debunking 9/11 Debunking and the Evidence

- - Courageous Rosie is out in view on The View
- - 9/11 Families Petition For Pertinent 9/11 Documents
- - Developments In The 911 Truth Grassroots Movement
- - 9/11 & “The Reflecting Pool”

- - Debunking 9/11 Debunking and the Evidence

The latest book by David Ray Griffin, "Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory" is due to ship in May, according to the publisher, and can be preordered here. Paul Craig Roberts joins former CIA official Larry Christison and Howard Zinn with praise for the book.
~ 911truth.org ~ Ed.

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9/11 and the Evidence
By Paul Craig Roberts March 30, 2007

Professor David Ray Griffin is the nemesis of the official 9/11 conspiracy theory. In his latest book, Debunking 9/11 Debunking, Griffin destroys the credibility of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Popular Mechanics reports, annihilates his critics, and proves himself to be a better scientist and engineer than the defenders of the official story.

Griffin’s book is 385 pages divided into four chapters and containing 1,209 footnotes. Without question, the book is the most thorough presentation and examination of all known facts about the 9/11 attacks. Griffin is a person who is sensitive to evidence, logic, and scientific reasoning. There is no counterpart on the official side of the story who is as fully informed on all aspects of the attacks as Griffin.

At the outset, Griffin points out that the reader’s choice is between two conspiracy theories: One is that Muslim fanatics, who were not qualified to fly airplanes, defeated the security apparatus of the US and succeeded in three out of four attacks using passenger jets as weapons. The other is that security failed across the board, not merely partially but totally, because of complicity of some part of the US government.

Griffin points out that there has been no independent investigation of 9/11. What we have are a report by a political commission headed by Bush administration factotum Philip Zelikow, a NIST report produced by the Bush administration’s Department of Commerce, and a journalistic account produced by Popular Mechanics. Various scientists who work for the federal government or are dependent on government grants have issued speculative statements in behalf of the official conspiracy theory, but have not produced meaningful evidence in its behalf.

The relevant skeptics of the official story are approximately 100 independent researchers consisting of experts and professors whose careers have required them to deal with evidence and its analysis. Their individual contributions to 9/11 analysis can be found online.

Griffin has undertaken to absorb the arguments and evidence for the official account and the arguments and evidence against it. In his latest book, which has just been released, he presents the case for the official account and its evidential failure.

Polls show that 36% of Americans do not believe the official story. Setting aside the 25% of the public that is so uninformed or uninvolved as to believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the 9/11 attack, leaves 39% of the public who believe the official story. However, this 39% is essentially relying on the mainstream media’s endorsement of the official story. Griffin believes, perhaps naively, that truth can prevail, and it is his commitment to truth that has motivated him to shoulder the enormous task.

Everyone who believes in the integrity of the US government or the Bush administration will find Griffin’s book to be disturbing. Readers will have to confront such issues as why US authorities seized the forensic evidence resulting from the destruction of the three World Trade Center buildings, the attack on the Pentagon and the crashed airliner in Pennsylvania and prevented any forensic examination of any part of the 9/11 attacks.

Despite widespread belief that Osama bin Laden was responsible for the attack, the evidence we have is a suspect video declared to be “bogus” by Bruce Lawrence, perhaps the leading American expert on bin Laden. The US government has never produced the promised report on bin Laden’s responsibility. When the Taliban offered to hand over bin Laden on presentation of evidence, the US government had no evidence to deliver; thus the invasion of Afghanistan.

The fragility of the NIST report is astonishing. The report succeeded because people accepted its assurances without examination.

Griffin shows that the Popular Mechanics report consists of special pleading, circular reasoning, appeals to the authority of the NIST report, straw men, and internal contradictions in the report itself.

There is not space in a review to present the evidence Griffin has mustered. A few highlights should suffice to alert readers to the possibility that the Bush administration has lied about more than Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.

The two WTC towers did not collapse. They blew up and disintegrated, as did WTC 7. There is an enormous energy deficit in every account that rules out the use of explosives. Gravitational energy is insufficient to explain the pulverization of the buildings and contents and the severing of the 47 massive center core steel columns in each of the towers into convenient lengths to be picked up and loaded onto trucks; much less can gravitational energy account for the pulverization of the top floors of the towers and ejection of steel beams hundreds of feet horizontally just prior to the disintegration of the floors below.

Damage caused by airliners and short-lived limited fires cannot explain the disintegration of the buildings. The massive steel skeletons of the towers comprised a gigantic heat sink that wicked away whatever heat the limited fires produced.

NIST’s final report stated that of the steel available to it for examination, “only three columns had evidence that the steel reached temperatures above 250 degrees Celsius” (482 degrees Fahrenheit). The self-cleaning ovens in our home kitchens reach temperatures higher than this, and the ovens do not melt or deform.

Steel begins to melt at 1,500 degrees C or 2,800 degrees F. Temperatures of 250 degrees C would have no effect on the strength of steel. The explanation that the buildings collapsed because fire weakened the steel is speculative. Open air fires do not produce temperatures sufficient to deprive steel of its structural integrity. Steel framed buildings have burned 22 hours in raging infernos, and the steel skeletons remained standing. The WTC fires in the towers lasted about one hour and were limited to a few floors. Moreover, it is impossible for fire to account for the sudden, total and symmetrical disintegration of powerfully constructed buildings, much less at free fall speeds that are obtainable only with controlled demolition.

Griffin provides quotes from firefighters, police, and tenants, who heard and experienced a series of explosions prior to the disintegration of the towers. Such witness testimony is generally ignored by defenders of the official conspiracy theory.

Molten steel was found in underground levels of the WTC buildings weeks after the buildings’ destruction. As everyone agrees that the fires did not approach the melting point of steel, a possible explanation is high explosives used in demolitions that produce 5,000 degree temperatures. The possibility that explosives were used remains unexamined except by independent researchers.

Contradictions in the official conspiracy theory leap off the pages and hit the reader in the face. For example, the evidence that Flight 77, a Boeing 757, crashed into the Pentagon is the government’s claim to have obtained from the wreckage enough bodies and body parts to match the DNA for each person on the passenger list and flight crew. Simultaneously, the absence of passenger luggage, fuselage, wing and tail sections--indeed the absence of a 100,000 pound airliner--is attributed to the vaporization of the airplane due to the high speed crash and intense fire. The incompatibility of vaporized metal but recovered flesh and blood stood unnoticed until Griffin pointed it out.

Another striking inconsistency in the official conspiracy theory is the difference in the impact of airliners on the Pentagon and the WTC towers. In the case of the Pentagon, the emphasis is on why the airliner caused so little damage to the building. In the case of the WTC towers, the emphasis is why the airliners caused so much damage.

Perhaps it is merely a coincidence that just prior to 9/11 Cathleen P. Black, who has family connections to the CIA and Pentagon and is president of Hearst Magazines, the owner of Popular Mechanics, fired the magazine’s editor-in-chief and several senior veteran staff members and installed James B. Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff, a cousin of Bush administration factotum Michael Chertoff. It was Meigs and Benjamin Chertoff who produced the Popular Mechanics report that Griffin has eviscerated.

In his conclusion Griffin reminds us that the 9/11 attack has been used to start wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, to plan an attack on Iran, to curtail constitutional protections and civil liberties in the US, to radically expand US military budgets and the power of the executive, and to enrich entrenched vested interests. Griffin is definitely correct about this regardless of whether a believable case can ever be made for the government’s version of the 9/11 conspiracy.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

Source URL: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17422.htm

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More praise...

"David Ray Griffin's Debunking 9/11 Debunking is a superb compendium of the strong body of evidence showing the official U.S. Government story of what happened on September 11, 2001 to be almost certainly a monstrous series of lies. Tragically, the entire course of U.S. foreign and domestic policies since that date has grown out of these almost certain falsehoods. This single book could (and should) provide the basis for the United Nations' International Court of Justice, or some specially constituted global body (independent of the U.S.) to investigate with highest priority, and publicly report its findings about, the charge that unknown elements within the U.S. Government, and possibly some individuals elsewhere closely allied to the U.S., caused or contributed to causing the events of September 11 to happen."--Bill Christison, (former senior official of the CIA.)

"Considering how the 9/11 tragedy has been used by the Bush administration to propel us into immoral wars again and again, I believe that David Ray Griffin's provocative questions about 9/11 deserve to be investigated and addressed."--Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States.

www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20070331161836243

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- - Courageous Rosie is out in view on The View

"Have governments ever faked incidents or
incited incidents in order to get them into war?"

Brasscheck TV recent clip, check it out!

Support Rosie’s truth to power - freedom of speech

Comments can be submitted to ABC TV via phone by dialing (818) 460-7477;
then press #2 - then press # 4 (for Daytime shows) then press #849 (for The View)

Also: Barbara Walters is the Executive Producer (and 50% owner) of the View.
She's receiving tremendous heat to drop Rosie from the show. Here's the URL to email:
http://abc.go.com/daytime/theview/index.html .

Please send a few words of support for Rosie's free speech,
after all - it's her VIEW and that of millions of other people.

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- - 9/11 Families Petition For Pertinent 9/11 Documents

On October 14th, 2006, Monica Gabrielle, Lorie Van Auken, Mindy Kleinberg, and Patty Casazza started a petition that calls for, "the immediate declassification and release of all transcripts and documents relating to the July 10, 2001 meeting that took place between former CIA Director George Tenet and then National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice" as well as "the declassification and release of both the redacted 28 pages of the Joint Inquiry Into The Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001 (JICI) and the CIA Inspector General’s report, "CIA Accountability With Respect To The 9/11 Attacks".

Sign the online Petition = www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?july10

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- - Developments In The 911 Truth Grassroots Movement
Posting to International Wire of Scoop
Press Release: www.UnansweredQuestions.org
Date: Wednesday, 28 March 2007
Time: 11:35 am NZT

Developments In The 911 Truth Grassroots Movement
911Truth.Org - BREAKING NEWS!

Rep. Kucinich Publicly Acknowledges Need for 9/11 Investigation

"Kucinich brings hard-nosed arguments"

In an article published today at TimesUnion.com Kucinich said that as chairman of a House subcommittee on domestic policy, he plans to launch an investigation of "a narrow portion" of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He offered few details, but said his subcommittee would be looking at "a few, specific discrepancies in the public record." The 9/11 Commission that published its final report in 2004 never resolved some conflicting facts, Kucinich said. He announced his own look at 9/11 in answer to a question from an audience member. The man complained that the 9/11 Commission was too tied to the Bush administration to offer an unbiased report, and Kucinich agreed.

We encourage readers to share this information with your lists, and to contact Rep. Kucinich with a note of support at kucinich.us/contact.
You might also wish to express gratitude to this TimesUnion reporter, Dan Higgins, by e-mail at dhiggins@timesunion.com.

Secondly, Rep. Kucinich is asking blog readers, "Impeachment: I'm asking you. Do you think it's time?"
Please take a moment and reply to Rep. Kucinich's question at that page ... and please include Articles of Impeachment
for criminal negligence and obstruction of justice arising from the crimes of September 11th, 2001."

The complete press release is posted at: www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0703/S00532.htm

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- - 9/11 & “The Reflecting Pool”

“The Reflecting Pool”
SYNOPSIS

An investigation of the 9/11 events by a Russian-American journalist and a father of a 9/11 victim implicate the US government in the attacks.

ALEX PROKOP (JK Baltazar), a successful journalist, receives a rare 9/11 video tape revealing missile-like bursts of light on the hijacked planes as they hit the Twin Towers. The footage was sent by PAUL COOPER (Joseph Culp), a driven researcher, whose daughter died on 9/11. Sensing a good story, Prokop travels with Cooper to New York and Washington, DC, where they uncover suppressed information implicating the US Government in the attacks. As Cooper introduces Prokop to key eye-witnesses, the façade of the "official story" begins to crumble. Prokop hears accounts of underground explosions in the Twin Towers moments before their collapse, and learns of mysterious "engineers” who rendered the WTC security systems inoperative the weekend before 9/11. To his astonishment, he discovers that the firm providing WTC security was run by immediate family members of the President.

We follow Alex and Cooper as they investigate the inexplicable collapse of the 47-story WTC Building Seven, disprove the implausible airliner "attack" on the Pentagon, and uncover the illegal destruction of physical evidence from Ground Zero.

The pressure builds as the FBI intimidates Alex's editor, McGUIRE, (Lisa Black) to reveal key sources – while the magazine's corporate investors threaten to kill the entire story. Plagued by the ghosts of his Communist childhood and trying to uphold the independence of American journalism, Alex's search for the truth leads to a dangerous and shocking realization!

www.reflectingpoolfilm.com/reflectingpoolsynopsis.htm



For FN’s archives, see:
The Bush Conspiracy and 9/11 Investigative Reports,
looking into the unanswered questions.



2) Chavez turns away coal mines from indigenous land

- - Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
- - Failed Venezuelan coup d’etat 5th Anniversary

Chavez turns away coal mines from indigenous land
by Paula Palmer, Executive Director

Celebrate this wonderful victory with our campaign partners, the indigenous peoples and environmental organizations of Venezuela!

After more than a year of intense pressure, on March 21 President Chavez issued a Presidential Decree that no new coal mines will be built in the Sierra de Perija, and no expansion will be permitted in existing coal mines. “By saying today ‘Not one more mine in Zulia state,’ president Hugo Chavez brings back hope for the future of the indigenous peoples of the Sierra de Perija and for life itself,” said the Wayuu and Yukpa communities in a press release.

The Sierra de Perija along Venezuela’s northwestern border is home to Wayuu, Yukpa and Bari indigenous peoples who have vigorously protested explorations in their territories by multinational coal companies. The indigenous communities rejected collective land titles offered by the Chavez administration because the titles excluded the sites of new mines slated for development this year.

In January 2006, I was among thousands of participants in the World Social Forum who marched with people from the Sierra de Perija through the streets of the capital, under banners that read “NO AL CARBON” (No to Coal). I visited their remote communities and, with the help of the environmental NGO Homo et Natura, developed a Global Response campaign to internationalize their struggle (see www.globalresponse.org/gra.php?i=1/06)

Muchisimas gracias to everyone who wrote a letter to president Chavez for this campaign. Pro-Chavez people told us we shouldn’t campaign against his policies. Anti-Chavez people told us he would never respond to international pressure. We campaigned for the rights of the indigenous peoples and for protection of a magnificent, biologically rich forest ecosystem, as we do all around the world. The indigenous communities kept up constant protests against the mines until yesterday – when they won! It is very sweet to celebrate this victory with them!

Paula Palmer, Executive Director
Global Response
Tel. 303 444-0306 ext. 103

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- - Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
For article by Jeff Cohen, see:
www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm

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- - Failed Venezuelan coup d’etat 5th Anniversary

Flyby News presents a special free screening of the film:
THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED
Common Ground Restaurant on Friday, April 13, 2007 at 9:00 PM
25 Elliot Street, Brattleboro, Vermont; Telephone - (802)257-0855.
Plus John Coster and friends will be performing, and open music jam, dancing, following film
Celebrating the fifth Anniversary of failed coup d'etat of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez


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