Saturday, June 11, 2005

BlondeSense: A Most Unusual Event (House Judiciary Committee)

BlondeSense: A Most Unusual Event: "BlogThis!BlondeSense
Now with patriotic color scheme


ANTI-BLONDE JOKE
He: 'Shall we try swapping positions tonight?'
She: 'That's a good idea... you stand by the ironing board while I sit on the sofa and fart.'

Friday, June 10, 2005

Memo on 9/11 Plotters Blocked

Memo on 9/11 Plotters Blocked

Something Rotten in Ohio

Something Rotten in Ohio

Bush nominee hits US weakness in explaining goals for Iraq - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - World - News

Bush nominee hits US weakness in explaining goals for Iraq - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - World - News: "''I can tell you, senator, that I know from President Bush, I know from our other senior officials, that there is no US plan for permanent military bases in Iraq or plans for usurping Iraqi resources,' Khalilzad said."

The Foxnewsified Bush Interview

The Foxnewsified Bush Interview

KRT Wire | 06/09/2005 | Biden calls on Bush to `level with the American people' about Iraq

KRT Wire | 06/09/2005 | Biden calls on Bush to `level with the American people' about Iraq: "Biden calls on Buh to `level with the American people' about Iraq"
BG: Biden the Clueless....

'Good and honest' Iraqis fighting US forces

gulfnews.com: Region

911 NEWS & ANALYSIS - STRATEGIC DECEPTION DESK (OLD)

911 NEWS & ANALYSIS - STRATEGIC DECEPTION DESKBG: Just ran across and thought was post-worthy

Grant Zebra


Grant Zebra
Originally uploaded by Life Through A Lens.
Pick for Fun

Report Shows FBI's Missed Sept. 11 Chances - Yahoo! News

Report Shows FBI's Missed Sept. 11 Chances - Yahoo! News

Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers�Collapse? by Morgan Reynolds

Why Did the Trade Center Skyscrapers�Collapse? by Morgan Reynolds

9/11 Radio Transmissions of WTC 2 Firefighters

9/11 Radio Transmissions of WTC 2 Firefighters

O'REILLY: CUT IT OUT | Air America Radio | The Al Franken Show

O'REILLY: CUT IT OUT | Air America Radio | The Al Franken ShowSo much O'Reilly, so little time. This one is particularly egregious. The Spark Notes summary: O’Reilly took video from Senator Joe Biden’s Sunday appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, edited it to misrepresent what Biden said, then advocated his now edited-out position (all the while criticizing him).

Essay: Outrageous Conspiracy Theories :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the official story of 9/11

Essay: Outrageous Conspiracy Theories :: 9/11 CitizensWatch :: We are concerned citizens challenging the official story of 9/11

TV show depicts 9/11 as Bush plot - The Washington Times: World - June 09, 2005

TV show depicts 9/11 as Bush plot - The Washington Times: World - June 09, 2005: " As ludicrous as it may sound to most Americans, the tale has resonance in Germany, where fantastic conspiracy theories often are taken as fact. "

Thursday, June 09, 2005

C-Span / David Ray Griffin Post from 911truth.org ( Real Video)

911Truth.org ::::: The 9/11 Truth Movement
If you want 12 minutes of highly energizing proof that 9/11 truth is still spreading on the ground,
watch the May 26 Washington Journal excerpts at http://911truth.org. 9/11 Commission Co-chair Lee
Hamilton was on to flack for upcoming “hearings” to be held by the post-Commission
“Public Discourse Project” which are supposed to grade the government for implementation of Commission recommendations. To his surprise, Hamilton found most callers giving him flunking grades for the Report itself, and accusing his commission of cover-ups on every front. He bobs, weaves and dodges most serious questions, but finally challenges the skeptics to present their own evidence “in the public arena.” Since the host was C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb, he himself can
begin to open that arena to 9/11 truth spokespeople so we ask you all to write him and courteously request that chance.

The NarcoSphere || U.S. Outburst at OAS Meeting: Chavez and the Bolivian Crisis

The NarcoSphere || U.S. Outburst at OAS Meeting: Chavez and the Bolivian Crisis

Germany expels 9/11 suspect despite acquittal - Yahoo! News

Germany expels 9/11 suspect despite acquittal - Yahoo! News: "The case led to tensions between Germany and the United States because of Washington's refusal, on security grounds, to allow captured al Qaeda leaders to testify. The chief federal prosecutor described U.S. behavior as 'incomprehensible.'"

Deep Throat's tale revealed -- timesunion.com

Deep Throat's tale revealed -- timesunion.com

Daily Show: "This Abu Crib puts the Fat in Fatwa"

Crooks and Liars: " Daily Show: 'This Abu Crib puts the Fat in Fatwa' "

Rosie O'Donnell is going on Hannity's Radio Show Wed.

Crooks and Liars: "Tuesday, June 07, 2005


Rosie O'Donnell is going on Hannity's Radio Show Wed.
Can anyone record the audio and I'll host it?
It might be fun if indeed she does bring facts to support her arguments.

11:14:12 PM Comments (40) trackback [0] permalink





Daily Show: 'This Abu Crib puts the Fat in Fatwa' "

CNN: Did Bush/Blair blatantly lie about Downing Street Memo?

Crooks and Liars

t r u t h o u t - John C. Danforth | GOP Now "Political Arm of Conservative Christians"

t r u t h o u t - John C. Danforth | GOP Now "Political Arm of Conservative Christians"

BUSHFLASH: Flash about Fascism!

BUSHFLASH

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

US Secretary of State wants reform in Latin America - PRAVDA.Ru

US Secretary of State wants reform in Latin America - PRAVDA.Ru

BG: Prava Unaware that Washington did cause 911......

AP: Gitmo Teens Say Taliban Stole Youth - Yahoo! News

AP: Gitmo Teens Say Taliban Stole Youth - Yahoo! News

Propaganda Website gets it wrong...

Update ... 6/7 10:30 pm

The email I sent 45 minutes ago was returned to me undelivered saying mail box inbox is full (which is par for this course)...

UPDATE.... 6/7 10:00 pm
From:
Date: 06/07/05 22:00:26
To: info@september11news.com
Subject: Request for Correction


Dear Sir:

In your books page of you web site you list a reference to the best / worse books about 911 (to Wit):
by David M. Kusumoto, Director of Media Relations at amazon.com.
I have a good bit to write about how poor I think this list is. However, the issue that we shouldn't have a bit of trouble agreeing on is that Mr. Kusumoto says in his about me area:

I am a director of media relations at a big marketing agency in San Diego.

Do you see the problem here?

===========================




I use a tool with my blog called Extreme Tracker (http://extremetracking.com). It's free (there are enhanced versions for a cost, I think).


Just today, I noticed based on extreme tracker info, that if one types in:

09/11/2001

into google, then...
bgtruth.blogspot.com is ranked at #10 on the list. Woo hoo!

Out of curiosity, I looked at what was #1 on the google search list: www.september11news.com/AttackImages.htm

.... and how predicable it is....

NOTHING ABOUT 911 TRUTH.

As shown above, on one page at this site, it does a link to Amazon: The Best and Worst Books about 911. Wow, I thought, this could be interesting... here's what I found...

First the ranking is based on the personal input of the gentleman with the title of: Director or Media Relations for Amazon.com.

Let's see what Mr. David M. Kusumoto's comments are to justify ranking of 911 Media.(this example comes from the worse ranked item):
Awful, low grade production, a true "rush to market" product, unneeded narration and music, GIULIANI isn't even MENTIONED, F.

Is Ruppert's book listed? Are David Ray Griffin's books listed? Check out the url used to generate the list (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=zooisleafunonall&path=tg/listmania/list-browse/-/FJ1XVT7VK8J0/qid=1013651045/sr=5-2) and you'll see why.

Hmmmmm.... wonder what Joseph Goebbels could have accomplished with tools like this.....

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Worker-owned SAIC says it may go public

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Metro -- Worker-owned SAIC says it may go publicBG: "Sure seems like this would help sweep past actions under the carpet and let a lot of the culpable cash out..."

BG: "If you are getting bad PR when you are caught beating your spouse and children, time to move to a different town, I s'pose"

NewsGuantanamo

Tuesday, June 07, 2005

9/11 panel faults lack of FBI progress

9/11 panel faults lack of FBI progress
BG: What about being taken aback at the 911 Commission Cover-up
sept11

Hillary: Not a solution....

Left I on the News

2004: RESPONSE TO CHIP BERLET’S REVIEW OF THE NEW PEARL HARBOR

PublicEye.org - Website of Political Research Associates

News Hounds: Hannity Tells Lefties To Shut Up About Gitmo

News Hounds: Hannity Tells Lefties To Shut Up About Gitmo

TOTAL 911 INFO Flight 93

TOTAL 911 INFO

TOTAL 911 INFO: Garofalo on Air America

TOTAL 911 INFO

TOTAL 911 INFO: CSPAN Hamilton....

TOTAL 911 INFO

London Conference Calls for 9/11 International Truth Commission

Mathaba News Service - News

Newly uncovered documents from both American and Polish archives show that President John F. Kennedy and the Soviet Union secretly sought ways to find a diplomatic settlement to the war in Vietnam, starting three years before the United States sent combat troops.

THE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN CONTINUES: �CIVIL LIBERTIES CHICKEN LITTLES�

THE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN CONTINUES: �CIVIL LIBERTIES CHICKEN LITTLES�

BlondeSense: Playtime is the Right�s Time

BlondeSense: Playtime is the Right�s Time

Sunday, June 05, 2005

Beware the Holy War

Beware the Holy WarBG: I understand the criticism (in the linked article), but saying "Power of Nightmares" gets it wrong in places doesn't mean that there aren't psyops going on....

Waging peace for humanity

Waging peace for humanity

Daily Howler: Okrent didn't get anything right. But so what! Manjoo kiss-kissed him

Daily Howler: Okrent didn't get anything right. But so what! Manjoo kiss-kissed him

Still Deeper - A few things you don't know about Mark Felt. By Inigo�Thomas

Still Deeper - A few things you don't know about Mark Felt. By Inigo�Thomas

$1B spent on Baghdad embassy, $1.3B to go :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

$1B spent on Baghdad embassy, $1.3B to go :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

Them Stars And SwipesThe US probe on the Iraq 'oil-for-food scam' has exposed its own duplicity :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

Them Stars And SwipesThe US probe on the Iraq 'oil-for-food scam' has exposed its own duplicity :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - it

Saturday, June 04, 2005

The Kennedy Assassination

The Kennedy Assassination
Hat tip to Blondesense

'Deep Throat' case not closed - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com

'Deep Throat' case not closed - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com

portland imc - 2005.05.29 - AudioOnDemand: hour long inetrview of Michael Ruppert from KBOO 9-10 am Fri May 27th

portland imc - 2005.05.29 - AudioOnDemand: hour long inetrview of Michael Ruppert from KBOO 9-10 am Fri May 27th

Your daily two minutes of hate: HUSTLER INTERVIEWS GRIFFIN, "WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT 9/11 WAS WRONG?"

Your daily two minutes of hate: HUSTLER INTERVIEWS GRIFFIN, "WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT 9/11 WAS WRONG?"

portland imc - 2005.06.02 - Griffin interviewed by HUSTLER

portland imc - 2005.06.02 - Griffin interviewed by HUSTLER

Senator John Edwards is video blogging, and audio blogging. He is pleasant, seemingly a wonderful husband and father, Sadly, I can't imagine that he is such a sad exponent for anything about dealing with the current out of control US Govt. ... I even wonder if he is being honest with us. Perhaps I'm judging him too harshly and he is molding his presentation based on direction from some worthless advisors.

Cover-up: September 11th

Cover-up: September 11th

Video: "I was disgusted how they [the 9-11 Commission] were yawning, closing their eyes, looking around...they didn't care to be there."

Link to Village Voice

Whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds speaks with Daniel Ellsberg

Video From Village Voice

Reply to Scientific American's Attempted Debunking of 9/11 Skeptics

Reply to Scientific American's Attempted Debunking of 9/11 Skeptics

Link to Other Shoddy Work by Michael Shermer

Religion, suicide terrorism link disputed

Top News Article | Reuters.com

Ezra Klein: Gulag Gulag Gulag

Ezra Klein: Gulag Gulag Gulag

Another Day in the Empire » Killing Samir Kassir: Another Chapter in the Bushcon Plan for Total War

Another Day in the Empire » Killing Samir Kassir: Another Chapter in the Bushcon Plan for Total War

Residents of Beslan don't believe the investigators, but they're ready to believe the terrorist

Kommersant - New Russia's First Independent Newspaper

The Left Coaster: Why is it a surprise??

The Left Coaster: Why is it a surprise??Kevin Drum has expressed puzzlement at why liberals on TV almost always appear overmatched by their conservative counterparts [via TDH]. I'm not sure why this is perplexing to Kevin. The reasons are blindingly obvious.

60 Minutes Sunday -- Military Lawyers Denounce Show Trials for Guantanamo Bay Suspects

AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth

It's the Manpower, Stupid - The president's recent speech about "military transformation" makes no sense. By Fred�Kaplan

It's the Manpower, Stupid - The president's recent speech about "military transformation" makes no sense. By Fred�Kaplan

The Rude Pundit: All the President's Gates:

The Rude Pundit

Friday, June 03, 2005

Pic from Flickr: HelThom


HelThom
Originally uploaded by adrocker.
Doing the best she can to challenge the Junta

Fun Pic from Flickr: DSCN3064


DSCN3064
Originally uploaded by dualist.

Overthrow Of American Republic - Bob Woodward Coverup

Overthrow Of American Republic - Bob Woodward Coverup

News Hounds: The War is Going Well - Say the Profiteers

News Hounds: The War is Going Well - Say the Profiteers

Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killing spree - Yahoo! News

Israeli troops admit 'eye for eye' killing spree - Yahoo! News

Andy Warren quits GOP (phillyBurbs.com)

Andy Warren quits GOP (phillyBurbs.com)

The one politician I have the most respect for is [Georgia Democratic Congresswoman] Cynthia McKinney. She�s uncompromising in her views. She says what needs to be said. She represents the disillusioned and the disenfranchised, and she�s a sister in this system that seems to be hell-bent on the reduction of civil liberties and rolling the clock back decades for people of color and anybody other than the rich, white, corporate elite.

The Power of Nightmares,

BG: Iraq: It's just so sad....

BG: I know I shouldn't believe anything Kissinger says, but I'm inclined to believe this....

A U.S. Gulag by Any Name

A U.S. Gulag by Any Name: "A U.S. Gulag by Any Name"

Netctr.com - 911 Exposed

Netctr.com - 911 Exposed

Refusing the 9/11 Evidence

Refusing the 9/11 Evidence

Ezra Klein: Sigh [Blog Auther: This is about David Brooks Edit. in NYT today]

Ezra Klein: Sigh

For Iraq, "The Salvador Option" Becomes Reality by Max Fuller

For Iraq, "The Salvador Option" Becomes Reality by Max Fuller

Thursday, June 02, 2005

More questions than answers - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com

More questions than answers - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com

Condi Serenade (Video)

Today's right wingloon blind as a bat pundit is James S. Corum.

Cheney Invokes 9/11, Lauds Air Force Grads - Yahoo! News

Cheney Invokes 9/11, Lauds Air Force Grads - Yahoo! News

Chicago Tribune | The sobering reality of the Iraq war

Chicago Tribune | The sobering reality of the Iraq war

Woodward / Deep Throat

Top News Article | Reuters.com

Edward Jay Epstein: Is "Deep Throat" a Fictoid?

Edward Jay Epstein: Is "Deep Throat" a Fictoid?

Deep Throat Cover Blown
Washington Post Still Sucks

Deep Throat Cover Blown
Washington Post Still Sucks

POLITICS-U.S.: Security Whistleblowers Demand End to Retaliation

POLITICS-U.S.: Security Whistleblowers Demand End to RetaliationPOLITICS-U.S.:
Security Whistleblowers Demand End to Retaliation
William Fisher

NEW YORK, May 11 (IPS) - Fifty current and former employees of U.S. national security agencies are demanding that Congress end government retaliation against those who expose national security blunders.

Leaders of the new group, known as the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), have stepped up their efforts to win protection since testifying late last month before Congressional committees in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.

They called on congress to take action to permit whistleblowers to sue government retaliators in their personal and official capacities and to bring suit against agencies for failure to rectify misdeeds by employees or provide sufficient safeguards against whistleblower retaliation.

The group is led by Sibel Edmonds, who has been trying to sue the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for firing her in 2002 after she blew the whistle on agency employees. Edmonds said she was fired from her job as a wiretap translator because she told superiors she suspected a co-worker was leaking information to targets of an ongoing FBI probe. The FBI said it fired her because she committed security violations and disrupted the office.

''In recent years the number of national security whistleblowers has grown exponentially, so has the level of retaliation and harassment against these whistleblowers by the government,'' Edmonds testified.

''The careers, marriages, lives, and physical and mental well-being of these conscientious patriots have been destroyed for doing the right thing, for fulfilling their first and foremost duty, protecting our nation,'' she said. ''AgenciesâÇÖ retaliation tactics follow the same blueprint, as if there is a government agency manual for retaliation against whistleblowers, truth tellers. They yank our security clearances, they force us to take polygraphs, they engage in humiliation, demotion, threats and the list goes on.''

Polygraphs also are known as lie-detector tests.

Currently, Edmonds said, ''we have no system in place that applies direct, individual accountability when it comes to retaliation against whistleblowers. Thus, there exists no deterrence for those who engage in government waste, fraud, and abuse, and criminal activities that jeopardise our nation's security, interests, and well being.''

Even when a whistleblower's complaints are confirmed, wrongdoers generally remain in their positions and many are promoted and rewarded, she said.

The new Coalition includes current and former employees of the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA), and the National Security Agency (NSA).

Veterans of whistleblower protection campaigns backed the new group's demands.

''Given the tremendous stakes and the huge national investment, the American public need credible but non-official sources of information. These whistleblowers are in a position to authoritatively give the lie to official overstatements. In addition, these experts can be critical catalysts in sparking both open and informed public dialogue,'' said Jeff Ruch, executive director of the civil service support group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

''If these whistleblowers function as watchdogs on our security agencies, they will perform an invaluable and irreplaceable public service,'' Ruch told IPS. ''The members of this coalition work for agencies where the legal climate for workers is, shall we say, unique. The stark absence of whistleblower rights in security, intelligence and military agencies is a growing vacuum that requires dedicated efforts to address.''

Members of the new coalition include a number of high profile whistleblowers such as Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defence Department official who in 1971 leaked the ''Pentagon Papers'' to the press, showing that the U.S. public had been deceived about the causes of and U.S. decision-making in the Vietnam War.

Other members include Coleen Rowley, the former Minneapolis FBI agent who reported to seniors, before the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, that a known Islamist extremist, Zacarias Moussaoui, had paid some 8000 dollars in cash for lessons to fly a Boeing 747. The agency ignored her report. Moussaoui pleaded guilty Apr. 22 to six counts of conspiring with the hijackers in the Sep. 11 plot.

Edmonds said she is weighing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of reviving her suit against the government. John Ashcroft, the U.S. attorney general until earlier this year, had quashed Edmonds's case by persuading a lower court that the state secrets would be revealed if the action went forward.

Previously however, a report by the Justice Department's inspector general (IG) criticised the FBI's handling of the matter and arguments by Ashcroft that her lawsuit could expose intelligence-gathering methods and disrupt diplomatic relations with foreign governments.

The FBI falls under the Justice Department, over which the attorney general presides.

The IG report concluded that the FBI did not adequately investigate the allegations and that Edmonds was retaliated against for speaking out.

”We found that many of Edmonds's core allegations relating to the (espionage allegation) were supported by either documentary evidence or witnesses other than Edmonds,'' the report said. It added that Edmonds's whistleblower allegations were ''the most significant factor'' in the FBI's decision to terminate her.

Whistleblowers at government agencies tasked with protecting the U.S. security have been excluded from the protections afforded the rest of the federal workforce. Employees at other agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may seek protection under the Whistleblower Protection Act, but that law has been crippled by a series of judicial interpretations.

In her congressional testimony, Edmonds said that ''there has never been a determination or an accurate estimate of the millions of dollars expended by the government in misguided actions to first retaliate against whistleblowers and then to resist with extraordinary vigour the attempts by whistleblowers to clear their names, get their jobs back, and expose agency wrongdoing.''

She called on congress to direct the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a congressional watchdog agency, to undertake a study calculating the costs in time, taxpayer money, and lost opportunities for diverted resources in retaliating against whistleblowers and defending against whistleblower claims for the years 2000-2005.

Jurors recently awarded 2.1 million dollars to a former employee of the top-secret Lawrence Livermore Laboratory after finding that she was illegally fired eight years ago chiefly because she was going to be a witness in a sexual-harassment case against the nuclear weapons lab.

Meanwhile, Edward Markey of Massachusetts, a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives committee on homeland security, said he plans to introduce a bill to protect national security whistleblowers, including those in agencies that have not had such protections, from retaliation.

The legislation would apply to all federal employees, contractors, and private sector workers who report homeland security or national security flaws, threats to public health and safety, violations of laws or regulations, or waste, fraud and mismanagement to their employer or to the Government Accountability Office, a government agency, or Congress.

The bill also would criminalise retaliation against whistleblowers, with a punishment of up to 10 years in prison. (END/2005)

(First Link is Great Video from British Press) Awaken the MSM: Downing Street Memo [added by this blogger: Minutes!] Alert (6/1)

Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.

Thinking Unthinkable Thoughts
Theologian Charges White House
Complicity in 9/11 Attack

One America Committee: Speech In London

One America Committee: Speech In LondonFrom John Edwards Website
BG: Is Edwards worthless for not taking on the Bush / Blair Juntas?

Big Brass Blog

Big Brass BlogThis latest information on the covert way in which the Bush Administration may have pushed the world towards war is based on a new report from Rupert Murdoch's London Times which reported over the weekend that "despite the lack of an Iraqi reaction, the air war began anyway in September [of 2002] with a 100-plane raid."

In fact, the original Downing Street Memo/Minutes mention that "The Defence Secretary said that the US had already begun 'spikes of activity' to put pressure on the regime."

:::Mo(nu)ments::: ©Ine Dehandschutter: Haim Yavin takes a stand.

:::Mo(nu)ments::: ©Ine Dehandschutter: Haim Yavin takes a stand."Since 1967, we have been brutal conquerors, occupiers, suppressing another people," Yavin says in "Yoman Masa," or "Diary of a Journey," which he filmed over the past two and a half years with a hand-held video camera in the West Bank and Gaza. In the documentary, Yavin addresses settlers, Palestinians and soldiers.

Another Day in the Empire » Deep Throat: COINTELPRO Spook and All-American Hero

Another Day in the Empire » Deep Throat: COINTELPRO Spook and All-American Hero

Powderburns Home Page

Powderburns Home PageWelcome to the official website of retired DEA Agent Celerino "Cele" Castillo III. Cele Castillo served for 12 years in the Drug Enforcement Administration where he built cases against organized drug rings in Manhattan, raided jungle cocaine labs in the amazon, conducted aerial eradication operations in Guatemala, and assembled and trained anti-narcotics units in several countries.