FTW - October 9, 2001 - Although uniformly ignored by the mainstream U.S. media, there is abundant and clear evidence that a number of transactions in financial markets indicated specific (criminal) foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the case of at least one of these trades -- which has left a $2.5 million prize unclaimed -- the firm used to place the "put options" on United Airlines stock was, until 1998, managed by the man who is now in the number three Executive Director position at the Central Intelligence Agency.
What should we do? Vast numbers of Americans ask this child's question, and find no answer. They can no longer formulate an answer, their own answer, because they are incapable of engaging in critical thought, of asking related but pertinent questions whose answers frame the bigger answer. Perhaps they do not feel the need to ask any questions. The big people have made a decision and that's that. The big people are always right - they must be right - they're big people.
"Who would believe that a libertarian who is calling for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from not only Iraq but from all of the Middle East has a large following among younger voters?"
"Who would believe that a man calling for a return to the gold standard and who favors no entangling alliances would be raising a good deal of money on the Internet?"
"Why do people drive five hours to hear him speak as they did for his speech at Johns Hopkins and why do people hand him books on the gold standard to autograph?"
Congressman Paul says, "Young people like my non-intervention policy and they like my personal liberty views as well."
This number is even higher than that derived from the so-called "Lancet study" of Gilbert Burnham et al that last summer found about 650,00 total excess deaths from violence and deteriorating health conditions. The Lancet study has been subjected to relentless attack by the American and British governments, by Iraq Body Count, by those alleging that its methodology had a "main street bias,"and by others.
Meanwhile, our soldiers and Marines remain mired in a slow-moving civil war whose casualties can be measured not only in the dead and wounded but in the dispossessed, by the hundreds of thousands. Where the Pentagon claims that measurable violence has diminished, especially in Baghdad, the underlying reason is often that either Shia or Sunni families have been forced to flee by death squads or militias.
BUSH SAID:
Progress in Iraq, including improvement in the performance of the Iraqi army, led to Petraeus' recommendation that "we have now reached the point where we can maintain our security gains with fewer American forces."
Bush said there is still work to be done to improve the Iraqi national police.
FACT CHECK:
A new White House report on Iraq shows slim progress, moving just one more political and security goal into the satisfactory column.
Our troops are stuck between a president without a plan to succeed and a Congress without the courage to bring them home.
I opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. It was a flawed strategy that diverted attention and resources away from hunting down Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. And since then, too often, the President's Iraq policies have worsened America's security. Hundreds of billions have been spent. Our military is strained. Over 27,000 Americans have been wounded, and over 3,700 of our best and brightest have been killed.
For instance, Bush asserted that "Iraq's national leaders are getting some things done," such as "sharing oil revenues with the provinces" and allowing "former Baathists to rejoin Iraq's military or receive government pensions."
Yet his statement ignored the fact that U.S. officials have been frustrated that none of those actions have been enshrined into law - and that reports from Baghdad this week indicated that a potential deal on sharing oil revenue is collapsing.
Providing a sharp retort to President Bush's Iraq war update speech on Thursday, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei laid into Bush for his war policy and his administration's aggressive stance toward Iran during Friday prayers, opining that Bush will be tried in an international court for his part in the Iraq debacle.
WARE: Absolutely and if by the&.if the President means by ordinary lives families essentially living locked up in their homes in almost perpetual darkness, without refrigeration or perhaps constantly struggling for ever more expensive gas to run generators, if he means waiting in their homes wondering if government death squads will drag them off and torture them and execute them, if he means living in sectarian cleansed neighborhoods where people who were your friends have had to flea, if he's talking about living in communities that are protected by militias, then yeah, life's returned to ordinary.
...the best way to truly understand where a candidate stands on issues is to look at who is putting up the money that funds their candidacy. It's pure commonsense, no group or corporation is going to fund anyone unless it is in their best interests.
We, the American people, thanks to our Popish, prostitute Press, have been hoodwinked into fighting this war even as we were deceived into fighting the Pope's war against the Japanese People during World War II, the consummation of the Jesuit General's Second Thirty Years War waged from 1914 to 1945. For the attack on Pearl Harbor was no surprise to the nation's most visible Shriner Freemason, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, even as the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was no surprise to the nation's most visible Skull and Bones member, the wicked and evil mass murderer, President George W. Bush.
The truth to who caused 9/11 leads right to the doorstep of the Vatican and Jesuit Order. According to an inside source, members of the New York Rotary Club, The Knights of Malta, Opus Dei and Sons of Italy need to be investigated.
Conspicuously absent from yesterday's hearing and from the Brown's trial: any victims of the alleged crimes - 'cause there just ain't one.
"When Human Rights Watch recently released two investigations of the 2006 Israel/Lebanon war, the New York Times found the group's documentation of unlawful attacks against Israel to be far more newsworthy than unlawful attacks committed by Israel."
Klein, in his book "Schmoozing with Terrorists", reveals that Muhammad Abdel-Al, spokesman and senior leader of the Popular Resistance Committees terror organization, has threatened to kill the two singers if he ever comes across them.
Then charges back out again
The world's biggest record label is touting a scheme that would permit internet users to swap DRM-free music under a blanket license, according to a report. Universal Music Group's "TotalMusic" program would allow customers of ISPs who signed up to the program to exchange files freely - but only if the ISP signed up.
Non-English speaker Matej Kus, 18, took the spill during a race in the UK. Paramedics were stunned when he came round and asked where he was - in perfect English.