Sunday, 18 August 2013
To: Deborah Hersman, Chairwoman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
TWA Flight 800 was a commercial 747 aircraft that exploded in midair and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1996. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a missile, or some kind of streaking object, in the sky at the same time as the explosion. However, the FBI still insisted that the crash was initiated by a mechanical failure and prevented any eyewitness from testifying otherwise.
Many of the investigators from the original National Transportation Safety [NTSB] board investigation have now broken their silence; they are saying that they didn’t find any evidence in the wreckage to suggest that the explosive forces came from inside the center fuel tank.
All signs point to a government cover-up and we want answers.
That’s why family members of crash victims, former airline crash investigators, and concerned scientists have banded together and submitted a request that you reopen the case for investigation.
The original investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 was seriously undermined and led to a "probable cause" of the crash that is not supported by the forensic evidence.
Evidence was altered and tainted by FBI investigators (including Ricky Hahn) as well as by David Mayer of the NTSB. The CIA's Randy Tauss oversaw the production of a fraudulent animation to discredit eyewitnesses that members of his team knew were fraudulent. The NTSB's own expert aviation accident investigators, as well as other NTSB-approved parties to the investigation, were not able to properly carry out or complete their work.
We're asking for you help to make sure that the six former members of the official crash investigation who have blown the whistle to expose major malfeasance need your support. These investigators, who directly handled the forensic evidence, can also correct the record on what happened to the plane.
Those who engaged in tainting and altering evidence and those who engaged in perpetrating a fraud on the American people to cover up the actual cause of the crash should be identified and held accountable--no matter who they are or how high up in the government they may have been at the time.
Because so many people came, and are coming forward to blow the whistle on the original crash investigation, with your support, enough pressure can be brought to bear to reopen the TWA Flight 800 investigation.
When that happens, a line in the sand will finally have been drawn warning those in government who would corrupt investigations or carry out illegal activities that they will be held accountable--no matter how long it takes.
SIGN PETITION HERE
Source:
http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20130814153811542
TWA Flight 800 was a commercial 747 aircraft that exploded in midair and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1996. Eyewitnesses reported seeing a missile, or some kind of streaking object, in the sky at the same time as the explosion. However, the FBI still insisted that the crash was initiated by a mechanical failure and prevented any eyewitness from testifying otherwise.
Many of the investigators from the original National Transportation Safety [NTSB] board investigation have now broken their silence; they are saying that they didn’t find any evidence in the wreckage to suggest that the explosive forces came from inside the center fuel tank.
All signs point to a government cover-up and we want answers.
That’s why family members of crash victims, former airline crash investigators, and concerned scientists have banded together and submitted a request that you reopen the case for investigation.
The original investigation into the crash of TWA Flight 800 was seriously undermined and led to a "probable cause" of the crash that is not supported by the forensic evidence.
Evidence was altered and tainted by FBI investigators (including Ricky Hahn) as well as by David Mayer of the NTSB. The CIA's Randy Tauss oversaw the production of a fraudulent animation to discredit eyewitnesses that members of his team knew were fraudulent. The NTSB's own expert aviation accident investigators, as well as other NTSB-approved parties to the investigation, were not able to properly carry out or complete their work.
We're asking for you help to make sure that the six former members of the official crash investigation who have blown the whistle to expose major malfeasance need your support. These investigators, who directly handled the forensic evidence, can also correct the record on what happened to the plane.
Those who engaged in tainting and altering evidence and those who engaged in perpetrating a fraud on the American people to cover up the actual cause of the crash should be identified and held accountable--no matter who they are or how high up in the government they may have been at the time.
Because so many people came, and are coming forward to blow the whistle on the original crash investigation, with your support, enough pressure can be brought to bear to reopen the TWA Flight 800 investigation.
When that happens, a line in the sand will finally have been drawn warning those in government who would corrupt investigations or carry out illegal activities that they will be held accountable--no matter how long it takes.
SIGN PETITION HERE
Source:
http://911truth.org/article.php?story=20130814153811542
The information that Bradley gave to the public has been a catalyst for pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, exposed the unjust detainment of innocent people at Guantanamo Bay, shown us the true human cost of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and changed journalism forever.
http://iam.bradleymanning.org/
Top Ten Ways Bradley Manning Changed the World
IN FOCUS, 5 August 2013
by Juan Cole, Informed Comment – TRANSCEND Media Service
Bradley Manning will be sentenced today [31 Jul 2013], having been found guilty of 20 counts on Tuesday [30 Jul 2013], including espionage (despite the lack of evidence for intent to spy and the lack of evidence that his leaking ever did any real harm). Whatever one thinks of Manning’s actions, that we deserved to know some of what he revealed and that his revelations changed the world are undeniable.
1. Manning revealed the Collateral Murder video of a helicopter attack in Iraq on mostly unarmed non-combatants (though some of those struck may have been armed), including two Reuters journalists, whose cameras were taken for weapons, and children. The army maintains that the video does not show wrongdoing, but the killing of unarmed journalists is a war crime, and the callousness of video gives an idea of what was going on in Iraq during the years of the US occupation. When the Bush administration asked the Iraqi parliament for permission to keep a base in the country, the parliamentarians said, absolutely not. The US military was forced to withdraw from Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011.
2. Manning revealed the full extent of the corruption of Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidin Ben Ali, adding fuel to the youth protest movement of late 2010, which translated the relevant US cables into Arabic. Manning contributed to the outbreak of powerful youth movements demanding more democratic governance in the Arab world.
3. Manning revealed to the US and Yemeni publics the secret drone war that Washington was waging in that country. That the cables show then dictator Ali Abdallah Saleh acquiescing in the US strikes on his country probably played into the movement to remove him as president, which succeeded in early 2012.
4. He revealed that then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ordered US diplomats to spy on their United Nations counterparts. The UN spy requests included cables that “demanded detailed intelligence on the UN leadership including forensic detail about their communications systems, including passwords and personal encryption keys,” foreshadowing later revelations of extensive US spying on even allies like Germany via the NSA.
5. His leaks show that then Senator John Kerry pressed Israel to be open to returning the Golan Heights to Syria as part of a peace negotiation. This item suggests that Kerry might be more of an honest broker in the current negotiations than some observers give him credit for.
6. Revealed that Afghanistan government corruption is “overwhelming”. This degree of corruption, which has shaken the whole banking system and caused US funds to be massively misused, is still a factor in our decision of whether to stay in Afghanistan in some capacity after December 2014. The US public is in a better position to judge the issue with these documents available.
7. Manning revealed the degree of authoritarianism and corruption of the Egyptian government of Hosni Mubarak, which was subsequently swept away.
8. Manning revealed that hard-nosed realist, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, was against striking Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities because it would only slow their program down slightly, but would inevitably cause Iranians to be angry and mobilized in the aftermath.
9. Manning revealed that the Israeli authorities had a secret plan to keep the Palestinian population of Gaza on the brink of food insecurity and poor health, in among the creepiest military operations in history: “Israeli officials have confirmed to Embassy officials on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy functioning at the lowest level possible consistent with avoiding a humanitarian crisis.”
10. Manning’s act of courage encouraged hackers to leak the emails of Bashar al-Assad and his wife, showing their jewelry buys in Europe and gilded style of life while al-Assad’s artillery was pounding Homs and other cities with no regard for the lives of noncombatants. In fact, Manning inspired numerous leakers, including some who blew the whistle on PLO corruption and willingness to give away most of Jerusalem to Israel, and, likely, Edward Snowden, who revealed to us that our government has us all under surveillance.
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Juan Ricardo Cole is a public intellectual, prominent blogger and essayist, and the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
http://www.transcend.org/tms/2013/08/top-ten-ways-bradley-manning-changed-the-world/
Bradley and Wikileaks Exposed the Rape of Children and Detainees
While politicians and media decry rape at home (even when they do little about it) cables released by Bradley Manning through Wikileaks show that there was an extensive, officially sanctioned cover-up of rape and other sexual violence in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The rapes often were of children.
These cables and logs also revealed the existence of “Frago 242,” an order from the US military issued in 2004 not to investigate allegations of abuse, including rape, by Iraqi government officials. Cables reveal that the US Government was aware that some of the abuse included the rape and sexual torture of prisoners of both sexes in US custody. Many of those subjected to rape in custody were in fact children.
Wikileaks also provided further insight into the rape and murder of a 14 year old girl and her family in Haditha by members of the US 101st Airborne. The worst of the offenders was later released with an honorable discharge into the US civilian population. Only after protests first in Iraq and then in the US, were he and four others finally arrested, tried, and found guilty of murder.
Bradley and Wikileaks exposed the use by private military contractors of “dancing boys” in Afghanistan, a practice which even the State Department describes as a ‘culturally sanctioned form of male rape’. One of the contractors, DynCorp, had also been used by the US Government in Bosnia where they were involved in the systematic rape of girls, some as young as 12. The released cables show that the US Government was specifically notified and asked to cover up what was going on for fear of the reaction by the local population would be to the use of the contractors.
“The anti-rape movement internationally is indebted to Bradley Manning and Wikileaks for helping to expose the extent of rape and torture, including of children, and its systematic cover up under occupation.”
Women Against Rape
http://globalwomenstrike.net/content/june-1-defend-bradley-manning-who-exposed-rape
Bradley Manning has been acquitted of the most serious charge, Aiding the Enemy, but has been found guilty of 19 other charges. We must protect this whistleblower - Sign the petition to demand that Bradley Manning walk free!
https://apps.facebook.com/causes/?fb_source=reminders&request_ids=163181343871945&ref=reminders
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Sunday, 11 August 2013
JRE #381 - Abby Martin
YouTube: http://youtu.be/zbjrwJG54XA?a
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#ONNIT http://tinyurl.com/ajd2k38
Abby Martin Calls Out Rachel Maddow For Painting 9/11 Truthers As Potential Terrorist
Published on Aug 9, 2013
August 09, 2013 Russia Today News http://MOXNews.com
http://911blogger.com/news/2013-08-09/abby-martin-calls-out-rachel-maddow-painting-911-truthers-potential-terrorist
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Honor Vets, End War
Conspiracy Reality | Think Tank
Michael Isikoff To Rachel Maddow: Obama Has 'More Elastic' Concept Of Imminent Threats
Friday, 9 August 2013
Published on Aug 5, 2013
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For further information about the 9/11 Truth Teleconference, write Ken Freeland at: diogenesquest@gmail.com
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Tuesday, 6 August 2013
Pat Curley of Screw Loose Change writes:
Psychological Study of Truthers and Debunkers Online
Worth a read...
I do have an alternate explanation for this observation:Yeah, have us cold on the important issues do you, Pat? Issues like whether the NORAD stand-down, various whistleblowers, and physical evidence centered around the destruction of the 3 World Trade Center Buildings in New York, makes a strong enough case that the attacks involved substantial inside help, as to warrant a new investigation? Your trotting out of 9/11 Commission staffer Miles Kara's suggestion, that "the erroneous assertion that the military found out about Flight 93 long before they did," was due to erroneous log books, as a plausible reason for absolution of NORAD's "Lies", fails in the face of the minutiae, those "small and often not important details." But how could one know of the importance level of those details without knowing of them at all? Really though, it is no minor detail that that the initial report about Flight 93 is supported by statements from two NORAD commanders that they were already tracking the flight when it changed direction at 9:36. As noted on HistoryCommons.org:We also found that hostility was higher in persuasive arguments made by conventionalists than in those by conspiracists. As 9/11 conspiracism is by and large a minority viewpoint in the West (WorldPublicOpinion.org, 2008), this makes sense: conventionalists, rather than focusing on presenting novel information, instead attempt to enforce conformity to the majority viewpoint (Latané, 1981).There's an element of truth in that; keeping people in line lends itself more to denigrating the opposition, whereas converting people requires gentler persuasion. But there's another dynamic as well. In general, Truthers know a great deal more of the minutiae of 9-11 than those debating them. I have been at this for over 7 years now, and I'll freely admit that many if not most Truthers know more about that day than I do (although on the important issues I have them cold). This is probably true for most conspiracy theories for an obvious reason; if you are into a conspiracy theory you are going to spend a lot more time studying up on the event than if you believe in the conventional explanation.
But of course, what happens when a conventionalist without a lot of background knowledge runs up against a conspiracy theorist who can provide a lot of detail? He gets frustrated and angry; he knows he's right, but he cannot provide the evidence to support his opinions and hence tends to lash out. There's an old joke about how lawyers work: When you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. When you have the law on your side, pound the law. When you have neither, pound the table.
Before 9:36 a.m. September 11, 2001: Officials Claim NORAD Is Monitoring Flight 93As Kevin Ryan recently put it, "credible explanations were never given for throwing out the years of testimony and evidence that supported entirely different timelines." The original timelines would have been strong evidence for complicity, because as Ryan notes, even NORAD’s 9/11 Commander Ralph Eberhart stated that, "if NORAD had been in the loop as the FAA said it was, his people would have been able 'to shoot down all three aircraft — all four aircraft.'"
According to one account given by NEADS Commander Robert Marr, some time before around 9:36 when it changes direction, while it is still flying west, Flight 93 is being monitored by NEADS. Marr describes how, “We don’t have fighters that way and we think [Flight 93 is] headed toward Detroit or Chicago.” He says he contacts a base in the area “so they [can] head off 93 at the pass.” Not only does NORAD know about the flight, but also, according to NORAD Commander Larry Arnold, “We watched the 93 track as it meandered around the Ohio-Pennsylvania area and started to turn south toward DC.” (This change of direction occurs around 9:36 a.m.) [Filson, 2003] This account completely contradicts the 9/11 Commission’s later claim that NEADS is first notified about Flight 93 at 10:07 a.m. [9/11 Commission, 6/17/2004]
And NORAD lied, AKA committed perjury, period. The Washington Post reported on August 2, 2006 that:
Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, according to several commission sources... "We to this day don't know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us," said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. 'It was just so far from the truth. . . . It's one of those loose ends that never got tied."Kean admitted they were lied to and he did not know why. He can think that the 9/11 Commission's story of outlandish incompetence is correct all he wants, but the fact remains that his report failed to tie up “those loose ends" and prove that ineptitude is all that was at hand. Another such loose end that cannot be debunked was noted in the 2004 Complaint & Petition to the NY Attorney General (Spitzer at the time) for a new criminal investigation into 9/11:
Also necessary would be data on cases of errant planes or unknowns in which no scramble orders were issued. Of special interest would be the prior performance within NORAD’s Northeastern Air Defense Sector (“NEADS”), which is headquartered at Rome, New York. Such a cumulative analysis–with special attention to cases when passenger planes deviated from course in the air-traffic control zones within which the 9/11 attacks occurred–would provide indispensable context for serious research into the subject of air defense response on September 11. This data is currently unavailable to the public, and there is no indication such an analysis was undertaken by the Kean Commission.Regarding whistleblower accounts of prior-knowledge indicating complicity, there is mucho importante minutiae, AKA corroborating evidence, for the whistleblower's statement to 9/11 family member Patty Casazza that "the government knew the exact day, the type of attack, and the targets," whereas Pat is just brushing it aside based on his world view which dictates it had to be "some con man" she was speaking to.
As Fran Shure at colorado911visibility.org pointed out to me, Casazza's account corroborates an earlier account by David Schippers, former Chief Investigative Counsel for the US House Judiciary Committee and head prosecutor responsible for conducting the impeachment against former president Bill Clinton. Schippers stated that at the behest of several FBI agents he had attempted multiple times to warn US Attorney John Ashcroft, along with other federal officials, of the impending attacks weeks before they occurred, only to be stalled and rebuffed in each attempt.
As summarized in the books The War on Freedom and The War on Truth by Nafeez Ahmed, who personally corresponded with Schippers, "According to Schippers, these agents knew, months before the 11th September attacks, the names of the hijackers, the targets of their attacks, the proposed dates, and the sources of their funding, along with other information."
The FBI command, however, cut short their investigations threatening the agents with prosecution under the National Security Act if they publicized this information.
Ahmed has stated, "In The War on Freedom, I merely laid out facts and lines of inquiry for an official investigation. The book was the first read by the Jersey Girls, informing their work with the 9/11 Family Steering Committee, and is part of the 9/11 Commission Collection at the US National Archives (a collection of 99 books, copies of which were provided to each Commissioner)."
Despite this fact, the account of David Shippers is nowhere to be found in The 9/11 Commission Report.
Jesse Ventura's book American Conspiracies recounts another similar warning passed along to John Ashcroft, Ventura writes:
Dr. Parke Godfrey, an associate professor of computer science at Toronto's York University, said under oath in a New York courtroom that a longtime associate of his, Susan Lindauer, warned him several times and as late as August 2001 "that we expected a major attack on the southern part of Manhattan, and that the attack would encompass the World Trade Center," an attack "that would involve airplanes and possibly a nuclear weapon." Lindauer, who says she was a CIA asset, claimed to have made an attempt to inform John Ashcroft at the Justice Department, who referred her to the Office of Counter-Terrorism.Dismissal of this as corroborating evidence doesn't debunk the fact that we will never know if any of these individuals are pulling off an unpaid con job unless we have an investigation willing to investigate their accounts.
Commenting on Jon Gold's book, Pat has wrote:
The "ignored and censored whistleblowers" include Patty Cassazza's mysterious roadside informant who claimed that the US government knew everything about the attacks including the date and method. Gold bitterly notes that I "debunked" that claim by saying that Patty was duped by a conman. But note the oddball response from the Truthers to that particular claim. Sibel Edmonds comes up with the LIHOP faction's dream witness and what happens? Complete and utter lack of curiosity about him or her. If I were a Truther, I'd be asking Patty about this person--was it a man or a woman? How old? Did he say what branch or agency of the government he was in? Can we get him on tape?As Gold points out in his "Facts Speak..." article, Cassazza stated that most whitleblowers did not come forward because they were not subpoenaed by the 9/11 Commission, which in doing so would ensure them not being retaliated against like FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was, as detailed in the ACLU article, "Sibel Edmonds: A Patriot Silenced, Unjustly Fired but Fighting Back to Help Keep America Safe." So shame on the 9/11 Commission, not truthers. In an open letter to the 9/11 Commission, Edmonds reported that there was "specific information regarding a terrorist attack being planned by Osama bin Laden," that mentioned major cities, airplanes, approximate timeframe, and operatives already in place in the US. This was reported by FBI agents to Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism Thomas Frields at the FBI Washington Field Office, but was subsequently ignored.
In 2011 Edmonds reaffirmed these points as factual and provided the testimony of the agent who first raised them. As Debunking the Debunkers blog contributor Scootle Royale wrote, "Pat Curley is confident that if we were to ever see the unredacted testimony, it will bear no resemblance to what Sibel posted. Well, how about supporting the truth movement in a quest for a new investigation so we can maybe see it unredacted then? No? Didn't think so."
Lastly, were explosives used? No debunking the fact that if the 9/11 probers hadn't skipped key forensic tests we might have settled that issue long ago. I'm still working on getting it laid to rest once and for all with the campaign I'm helping spearhead at MarkBasile.org, if you want to help out! No use looking for what's not there the government investigators said. A circle back to them retort, no way to know unless we look. F-ing simple!
Again, no shortage of missed "minutiae" on this topic by Pat.
I might be wrong about where I suspect this all leads, but you are wrong that we shouldn't have an investigation that gives credible explanations for contradictions, investigates whistleblower claims, and conducts forensic tests. If 9/11 didn't have an inside element, what's to stop such a scenario from taking place in the future when we get investigations like this?
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