We had 16 attendees, from our county, Kendall, and two other counties, Kerr and Bexar. We discussed the current health care system and took a head count of those who have private health insurance. There were 3 who had private health insurance. The others are covered by Tricare for Life, Medicare and a federal retiree program. Those were not subject to health insurance programs (employer based, non Medicare), were very concerned that their family members did not have insurance, as well as the fact that a large number of local families, who are not retirees, are uninsured. The overwhelming thought was that we need SINGLE PAYER healthcare, covering everyone.
Obviously we saw the benefits of single payer health care as a way to decrease national cost, cover everyone in the nation, and make our nation more competitive with most of the cilvilzed world, where their populations are covered by national health care.
In addition, we discussed the myth of "socialized medicine" and discussed the benefits of healthcare in other countries, as we were fortunate to have attendees who were originally from other nations and could speak to their health care experiences. In addition, our foreign diplomats (retired) also spoke on their experiences.
We decided to have an event that would hopefully include local Republican health care providers who have seen the difficulties billing for health care reimbursement (ethically speaking) and others that are single payer advocates. We are to seek out the single payer advocates, inviite them to speak June 27th, and invite the South Texas Blood and Tissue Center for blood donations, and teh American Red Cross to discuss CPR/AED. We are not sure if we can accomplish this, but we will try to do so.
Organizing for Austin-Central Texas held our healthcare kickoff meeting tonight and it went very well. Our 15 attendees began the planning process for a health care day of service on the weekend of June 27/28. We decided that the main problem here in Texas is that we have the highest number of uninsured children. We decided to use this as an umbrella over all our service projects in Central Texas. This way, we can volunteer at Children's Hospital (rock the babies), do something with free immunizations, do a baby food/forumula/diaper drive, etc. Our group members are setting up an event to create a resource list for uninsured children to distribute at several locations around town. Anyone will be able to print this document and take part where ever they'd like to help. They will be putting information up at barackobama.com if you'd like to help with this event. I encourage all clubs and Austinites to create your own child centered service project for the weekend of June 27/28 to highlight this national day of service. Of course, if you'd rather do something not child-centered, please do! The point is for us to do a healthcare day of service for whatever needs you are moved by.To schedule your service event on mybo, go here:http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/service There is still time to get a group together to plan your own service event, please do this with your friends, neighbors, colleages and family by next Wednesday.To schedule to host your own healthcare kickoff to start planning, go here:http://my.barackobama.com/hcok-mybo Thank you for all you do!--Lainey Melnick
OFA Austin Regional Leader
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This Memorial Day please keep the family of Bobby Enloe in your thoughts & prayers. This family has been searching for answers about their loved one for too many years.
“Bobby's family is searching for information to put things to rest. In 1951 A plane went down off the coast of Alaska, in a chain of Islands. My brother was supose to be on that plane. It took almost two weeks to find the plane and it's passengers. At that time the Navy personel informed us that my brother was the Radio Man on that plane. That they had all deceased. At the same time the Alaskan Times News Paper Published a report that Two flares were seen, on two different occations, From that crash sight. Proving somebody was alive. The Navy denied that this was true. They sent the sealed casket with an honor guard, Inssisting that his body was in there. My father managed to pull strings to open this casket. Finding only a uniform layed out, and his cap: Absolutly no physical body to be seen. This has left us wondering if he had been the one too had sent the flares up, at the sight of the crash. Three months before this all had happened. He had been on leave. Visiting with the family. My father was in question of what was going on, due to his behavior. The morning he left, to return to duty. He told my mother he would not be back. Raising more concern about what was going on. At that time my father asked him about UFO'S , and what he knew. His responce was; I can't tell you, But if I could. It would curl your hair! If anyone has any information on these events or can lead me to the truth. It would change a great deal for my family. I have filed a Freedom of Information Act. And Was led to a dead end. His files no longer existed. As if he never were to exist.”
http://www.myspace.com/472680008
I am the wife of a Veteran who watched as her husband loose his VA Disability Pension & was forced to repay six months of benefits. I wrote too many unanswered letters to authorities. I found the story above heart wrenching and I have taken up their cause. They can be contacted through the website mentioned.
Thank You & God Bless You All For Fighting For Our Freedom!
Tomorrow there will be a Senate hearing on a number of bills before this year's legislative session that effect veterans. Below please find the bills being discussed. The hearings start at 1330hrs in the Betty King Committee Room, 2E.20. (See the specific bills and links below the main post.)
If you have time please come to the hearings to support these bills. If not please contact your state legislators and ask them to support these bills. SB1538 in particular is designed to actively recruit veterans to attend our state educational institutions. It is appalling how few of our veterans actually use their educational benefits and it is a shame that we are not educating our returning vets. Not only are we losing the economic asset that an educated veteran becomes but the Federal VA dollars that could be going into our state educational institutions.
Chris Frandsen
Co-Chairman, Texas Veterans for Obama
This Saturday, 28 March 2009 Lee Leffingwell, a candidate for Mayor here in Austin, TX will be holding a forum on Veterans' issues. Any veterans in the area are welcome to attend. The meeting will be at Mr. Leffingwell's campaign headquarters, 700 North Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX at 1700hrs.
While this event is at a campaign headquarters it is worth noting that Mr Leffingwell is a sitting council member who is in a position to take action on veterans' issue today.
Please come and bring issues to discuss.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/message/145 Part I
There is a summary of the number of cases/investigations at then end of this part two.
Its hard being in a red state and even though Barack lost Texas which was expected, I told people if he wins more than 40% that its a victory for us. He got 44%!!
Also just to note on how WELL he did in Texas
He won big cities like....
Houston 51-49
Dallas 57-42
San Antonio 52-47
El Paso 66-33
Austin 64-35
Beaumont 51-49
This is incredible!!
Anyways im running on a couple of hours sleep and Im still FIRED UP AND READY TO GO!
I woke this morning to a beautiful Tx Hill Country fall day, the leaves have just turned orange on our native plum tree and the red was starting on the top of our big tooth maple tree, and Obama is now the President-elect, what more could anyone ask for?
I am a West Point graduate and a Vietnam Vet. I am also an avid support of Barack Obama for the Presidency.I have been having on-going discussions with my classmates about this election. Some of these exchanges have become heated. I am posting a letter that I sent to one of my close friends from those days. We have communicated little during the years since graduation and these online debates have reestablished our connections which now seem to be threatened. Below is my last attempt at explaining my positions. It is a heart felt plea, done as best I could. I thought that I would share it as it does capture my beliefs about the importance of this election.
Nuclear power is not “clean and green,” as the industry claims, because large amounts of traditional fossil fuels are required to mine and refine the uranium needed to run nuclear power reactors, to construct the massive concrete reactor buildings, and to transport and store the toxic radioactive waste created by the nuclear process. Burning of this fossil fuel emits significant quantities of carbon dioxide (CO2)—the primary “greenhouse gas”—into the atmosphere. In addition, large amounts of the now-banned chlorofluorocarbon gas (CFC) are emitted during the enrichment of uranium. CFC gas is not only 10,000 to 20,000 times more efficient as an atmospheric heat trapper (“greenhouse gas”) than CO2, but it is a classic “pollutant” and a potent destroyer of the ozone layer.Thousands of tons of solid radioactive waste are presently accumulating in the cooling pools beside the 103 operating nuclear plants in the United States and hundreds of others throughout the world. To compound this problem, the global supplies of usable uranium fuel are finite. If the entire world’s electricity production were replaced today by nuclear energy, there would be less than nine more years of accessible uranium.Meanwhile, every billion dollars spent on the supremely misguided attempt to revivify the nuclear industry is a theft from the production of cheap renewable electricity. Think what these billions could do if invested in the development of wind power, solar power, cogeneration, geothermal energy, biomass, and tidal and wave power, let alone basic energy conservation, which itself could save the United States 20% of the electricity it currently consumes.You would believe how many almost nuclear accidents have occurred. Fission Stories Nuclear Power's Secretshttp://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/article/id2165/pg1/index.htmlJoining the ROE caucuses We have started a Running on Empty (ROE) caucus of Washington State Democrats . We have also started a national ROE caucus. The goal of this caucus is to bring more emphasis by our Party to the coming end of cheap oil and natural gas which will result in an extreme disaster. To become a member of our caucus we require some more information from you. If you agree or basically agree with the following statements and you are a Democrat, then we will accept you into our caucus. 1. There are no sustainable energy sources that will rescue us at our current population levels. 2. Population reduction must be a part of any plan to rationally deal with peak oil (the end of cheap oil, natural gas, and coal), global climate change, biological/species decline, and natural resource depletion. 3. Global climate change will only be mitigated with extremely stringent emissions policies that reduce consumption rates and this must be done before fossil fuels are depleted.4. Absent immediate attention to peak oil, our government and/or political system have no chance whatsoever to react soon enough to help us.James Kunstler The Long EmergencyRichard Heinberg The Party's OverRichard Heinberg Power down WORLD IS FACING A NATURAL RESOURCES CRISIS October 29, 2008The world is heading for an "ecological credit crunch" far worse thanthe current financial crisis because humans are over-using the naturalresources of the planet, an international study warns today.The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% moreresources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading todeforestation, degraded soils, polluted air, and water, and dramaticdeclines in numbers of fish and other species. The problem is also getting worse as populations and consumption keepgrowing faster than technology finds new ways of expanding what can beproduced from the natural world. For the first time the report also contains detailed information onthe "water footprint" of every country, and claims 50 countries arealready experiencing "moderate to severe water stress on a year-roundbasis." It also shows that 27 countries are "importing" more thanhalf the water they consume -- in the form of water used to producegoods from wheat to cotton -- including the U.K., Switzerland,Austria, Norway, and the Netherlands. Based on figures from 2005, the index indicates global biodiversityhas declined by nearly a third since 1970. In the 1960s most countries lived within their ecological resources.But the latest figures show that today three-quarters of the world'spopulation live in countries which consume more than they canreplenish. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/29/climatechange-endangeredhabitats
3. Global climate change will only be mitigated with extremely stringent emissions policies that reduce consumption rates and this must be done before fossil fuels are depleted.4. Absent immediate attention to peak oil, our government and/or political system have no chance whatsoever to react soon enough to help us.
WORLD IS FACING A NATURAL RESOURCES CRISIS
October 29, 2008The world is heading for an "ecological credit crunch" far worse thanthe current financial crisis because humans are over-using the naturalresources of the planet, an international study warns today.The Living Planet report calculates that humans are using 30% moreresources than the Earth can replenish each year, which is leading todeforestation, degraded soils, polluted air, and water, and dramaticdeclines in numbers of fish and other species.
The problem is also getting worse as populations and consumption keepgrowing faster than technology finds new ways of expanding what can beproduced from the natural world.
For the first time the report also contains detailed information onthe "water footprint" of every country, and claims 50 countries arealready experiencing "moderate to severe water stress on a year-roundbasis." It also shows that 27 countries are "importing" more thanhalf the water they consume -- in the form of water used to producegoods from wheat to cotton -- including the U.K., Switzerland,Austria, Norway, and the Netherlands.
Based on figures from 2005, the index indicates global biodiversityhas declined by nearly a third since 1970.
In the 1960s most countries lived within their ecological resources.But the latest figures show that today three-quarters of the world'spopulation live in countries which consume more than they canreplenish.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/oct/29/climatechange-endangeredhabitats
Great Video with Ron Howard, Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler
Mccain accuses Barack of being a socialist. If he is one then McCain is also. they both voted for the bank
and AIG bailout bill. In exchange for the bailout the Federal govt now owns a piece of all the companies bailed out. Also, they both voted for the feds to completely take over Fannie and Freddie Mac. That is socialism.
Unfortunatly it had to be done.
This is a huge day. We have been waiting for this for 4 years and now the time has finally and painfully come. My father is a life long democrat and is 73 years old. He served in the Korean and Vietnam wars respectfully. I will be watching it with him and my mom on election night. This is like a Superbowl of some sorts. My mother plans to make us goodies to eat while we watch the elections unfold. My wife plans to bring some finger foods as well. I cant wait for this day. It seems like it was only a couple of months ago that I attended an Obama rally right here in San Antonio back on February the 29th...yup that was leap day! I got to shake his hand on that day as the song "City of Blinding Lights" started. I will never forget volunteering for his campaign either. Calling people in my city and in other states! What an experience I had to be a precinct captain.
I have a video of that day on youtube. As you could see I totally forgot to keep the camera on Obama cause I was so excited to shake his hand!
US Department of Justice covered-up drug trafficking
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NewsViewsnolose/message/573
SOME UNKNOWN HISTORY OF THE U.S. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SomeUnknownUSHistory/
A Zogby poll from 2006 found that in America , 42% of respondents believed the US government and 9/11 Commission "covered up" the events of 9/11. That is some tens of millions of Americans don't believe anything close to the official account offered by the 9/11 Commission.
Examine the three possibilities you offer as to what happened at the Pentagon. Immediately after 9/11 -- before Hanjour had been identified as the pilot -- said that "the unidentified pilot executed a pivot so tight that it reminded observers of a fighter jet maneuver," and that another story said, "Investigators are particularly impressed with the pilot who , just before [slamming into the Pentagon], performed a tightly banked 270-degree turn at low altitude with almost military precision." You are also presumably aware that Hanjour was said to have been a terrible pilot by several instructors, one of whom said, "he could not fly at all," and that another instructor, in the summer of 2001, refused to go up with Hanjour a second time.
And yet you believe that one of the likely possibilities is that "Hani Hanjour got lucky and pulled off a highly-skilled maneuver." Let's see what some men with more expertise say. Former Navy and Pan-American Airlines pilot Ted Muga said: "I just can't imagine an amateur even being able to come close to performing a maneuver of that nature." Former fighter and airline pilot Russ Wittenberg called it "totally impossible." Former 757 pilot Ralph Omholt said: "The idea that an unskilled pilot could have flown this trajectory is simply too ridiculous to consider.
"The other possibility you endorse is that "some other [Muslim] suicidal terrorist" flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon. The government has told us that there were five members of al-Qaeda on the plane. If Hanjour was not the pilot, it had to be one of the other four. Do you have a theory as to which one was up to the task? Muga, Wittenberg , and Omholt all doubt that anyone, including themselves, could have flown the reported trajectory in a 757. They are certain that no amateur could have done it, and any of the other men would have been amateurs with regard to 757s or any other "big birds" (as pilots call them).
Sept. 21, 2001: CBS) Radar evidence obtained by CBS News strongly suggests that the hijacked jetliner which crashed into the Pentagon hit its intended target. Eight minutes before the crash, at 9:30 a.m. EDT, radar tracked the plane as it closed to within 30 miles of Washington. Sources say the hijacked jet continued east at a high speed toward the city, but flew several miles south of the restricted airspace around the White House. At 9:33 the plane crossed the Capitol Beltway and took aim on its military target. But the jet, flying at more than 400 mph, was too fast and too high when it neared the Pentagon at 9:35. The hijacker-pilots were then forced to execute a difficult high-speed descending turn. Radar shows Flight 77 did a downward spiral, turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet in two-and-a-half minutes. The steep turn was so smooth, the sources say, it's clear there was no fight for control going on. The jetliner disappeared from radar at 9:37 and less than a minute later( the Pentagon was hit by something). http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/national/main310721.shtml
Sept. 21, 2001: CBS) Radar evidence obtained by CBS News strongly suggests that the hijacked jetliner which crashed into the Pentagon hit its intended target. Eight minutes before the crash, at 9:30 a.m. EDT, radar tracked the plane as it closed to within 30 miles of Washington. Sources say the hijacked jet continued east at a high speed toward the city, but flew several miles south of the restricted airspace around the White House.
At 9:33 the plane crossed the Capitol Beltway and took aim on its military target. But the jet, flying at more than 400 mph, was too fast and too high when it neared the Pentagon at 9:35. The hijacker-pilots were then forced to execute a difficult high-speed descending turn.
Radar shows Flight 77 did a downward spiral, turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet in two-and-a-half minutes. The steep turn was so smooth, the sources say, it's clear there was no fight for control going on. The jetliner disappeared from radar at 9:37 and less than a minute later( the Pentagon was hit by something). http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/national/main310721.shtml
NOTE: The US war game exercise Vigilant Warrior simulated exercises that placed "false blips" (radar injects indicating virtual planes) on FAA radar screens. So how do we know a real 757 made such a skill fighter jet type of diving turn from 7,000 feet to ground level?
All aircraft produce what is referred to as "ground effect" when landing, or at low altitude [within about one/half lengths (0.5) of wingspan or 60 feet]. So if "the pilot" was trying hard to push the airplane down as close to the ground as possible [at a VERY high speed, in fact], the craft would have encountered this increase of lift and decrease of drag experienced by ALL low-wing aircraft. This effect makes it very difficult to land an airplane until all excess speed has been "bled off" [by flaring the plane at landing, using flaps and spoilers], and if these "pilots" were following the same "full throttle" kamikaze attack as their "twin tower" comrades, this would have been an absolutely impossible feat of flying. Not one of the alleged hijackers was even able to master flying a 1500 pound Cessna 150, let alone a 100 tonne state-of-the-art twin engine commercial aircraft!!
Let it suffice to say that it is physically impossible to fly a 200,000-lb airliner 20 feet above the ground at 400 MPH [.......]
In other words, if this were a Boeing 757 as reported, the plane could not have been flown below about 60 feet above ground at 400 MPH. (Such a maneuver is entirely within the performance envelope of aircraft with high wing-loadings, such as ground-attack fighters, the B1-B bomber, and Cruise missiles-and the Global Hawk.)
What of the other possibility you offer -- "that thousands of witnesses who saw a plane hit the Pentagon were wrong." I wonder where you got that number. Even Popular Mechanics, which I had always considered the gold standard for reckless statements in support of the official theory, claims only that "hundreds of witnesses saw a Boeing 757 hit the building." The most extensive list of alleged witnesses of which I am aware contains only 152 people, and only some of them claim to have seen an airliner hit the Pentagon.
A study of these, moreover, found that only 31 of them provided "explicit, realistic and detailed claims," that 24 of these 31 alleged witnesses "worked for either the Federal Government or the mainstream media," and that 21 of these testimonies contained "substantial errors or contradictions." Witness testimony, therefore, cannot establish the claim that Flight 77 or any airliner struck the Pentagon.This is especially the case when we add the testimony of witnesses from inside the Pentagon. Captain Dennis Gilroy, the acting commander of the Fort Myer fire department, "wondered why he saw no aircraft parts." Captain John Durrer thought, "Well where's the airplane, you know, where's the parts to it? You would think there'd be something." Army officer April Gallop, who escaped from the building after being injured, said: "I don't recall at any time seeing any plane debris. I walked through that place to try to get out before everything collapsed on us . [S]urely we should have seen something?" ABC's John McWethy reported: "I got in very close . I could not, however, see any plane wreckage.
"You say: "[W]e know this much: somebody piloted a jet liner into the Pentagon." I'm puzzled as to how you think you know this. The word "knowledge" means "justified true belief," so you cannot know something unless (1) it is true and (2) your belief that it is true is based on sufficient evidence. You ask what "hard evidence" I have for the view that the official story is not true. I provided a lot of this in Chapter 3 of Debunking 9/11 Debunking. Assuming that you place the same demands on the official conspiracy theory as you do on the alternative theory, what hard evidence is there for the claim that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon?The authorities could have provided such evidence by showing reporters the various airplane parts that have unique serial numbers, including the flight data recorder, but they did not. They could have shown some of the 85 videos from cameras trained on the Pentagon, which the Justice Department admits having, but they have refused. One of the pieces of evidence offered by Rumsfeld in the first week was that the nose of Flight 77 was sticking out of the hole made in the Pentagon's C ring. But this claim, being ridiculous (the fragile nose could not have survived the impact with the reinforced outer wall), has been quietly dropped. In light of all this, plus the reported absence of airliner debris, I'm puzzled as to what hard evidence you believe exists. If you cite the DNA evidence, the truth is that we have no evidence that the bodies of the passengers actually came from the Pentagon (as I explain in Debunking 9/11 Debunking). Even if an airliner had hit the Pentagon, moreover, it might have been controlled remotely. So you do not know that someone piloted a plane into the Pentagon.
As to what really happened, I do not know. I am quite certain, however, that the official story, according to which Hani Hanjour (or some other al-Qaeda hijacker) piloted Flight 77 into the Pentagon, is false. There is no credible evidence to support it and a lot of evidence against it. One part of this evidence is the fact that Wedge 1 would have been, for several reasons, the least likely spot for Muslim terrorists to have struck. Another part of this evidence is the fact that the primary targeted area was the first floor of the Pentagon (92 of the 125 victims were on that floor ), which would have been impossible for a 757 to have hit -- especially without even scraping the Pentagon lawn (photographs showed that it was undamaged). I do not, therefore, merely "raise questions." I state that the official story is a lie.
Another problem with Wedge 1 was that it was the only part of the Pentagon that would have presented physical obstacles to an attacking airplane. why al-Qaeda would have attacked that particular part of the Pentagon. Wedge 1 was only sparsely occupied. They would have wanted to kill Rumsfeld and the top brass, but Wedge 1 was as far removed from their offices as possible. And finally, given the fact that the pilots were amateurs, the planners would have had the pilot simply crash into the roof of this building, which, covering several acres, even a poor pilot might have managed
In chapter 21, David Ray Griffin writes about the "white jet," which was circling Washington when flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. The "white jet" in question was an E-4B, the Air Force's most sophisticated command and communications aircraft (often called a "flying Pentagon. The failure to evacuate cost 125 lives. The fact that the recent revelation of the E-4B's presence is embarrassing to the Pentagon is shown by the fact that, incredibly, its officials have denied that the plane over the White House was a military plane, even though there can be no doubt about this. if the official story were true, they would have known this -- or at least that some airliner was approaching. We don't know when the plane went up (we know only the time of the first reported sighting). The Pentagon clearly won't tell us, since it won't even acknowledge that the plane belonged to it. The day before 9/11, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld stated at a press conference that the Pentagon was missing $2.3 trillion dollars; second, one of the most damaged areas was the Army's financial management/audit area. This combination of facts has led one 9/11 researcher, citing evidence that the "attack" began with explosives going off inside that area, to ask: "Were the auditors who could 'follow the money,' and the computers whose data could help them do it, intentionally targeted?" The authorities could have provided such evidence by showing reporters the various airplane parts that have unique serial numbers, including the flight data recorder, but they did not. They could have shown some of the 85 videos from cameras trained on the Pentagon, which the Justice Department admits having, but they have refused. Given the FBI's report that Tom Burnett did not use a cell phone to call his wife, why did she report seeing his cell phone number on her Caller ID? Given its report that Barbara Olson did not complete any calls from Flight 77, did Ted Olson lie or was he, like Deena Burnett, deceived by someone? The EPA was going to issue a warning that the air was unsafe to breathe (asbestos levels of four times the safe level had already been reported). The White House, however, ordered the EPA to declare that the air did not contain "excessive levels of asbestos" and was otherwise "safe to breathe." Over 50,000 of the workers have respiratory problems, over 350 have died, 600 more have cancer, and there are predictions that the deaths will far exceed those that occurred on 9/11 itself. why some of the buildings' steel melted, even though the fires could not have gotten within 1,000 degrees F of the requisite temperature; why steel from the buildings had been thinned because of oxidation and sulfidation (which the New York Times called "perhaps the deepest mystery uncovered in the investigation"; There is scientific evidence that "the Towers could not have collapsed as a result of the plane crashes [and ensuing fires] alone," and that they were instead brought down by explosives, then the government's story, supported by the 9/11 Commission and NIST, is false. If dust from Ground Zero shows signs of thermite reactions (which physicist Steven Jones has shown to be the case ), this provides additional physical evidence -- on top of the evidence that steel melted and all the testimonial evidence of explosions going off in the buildings -- that explosives were used. You asked for evidence of murder by forces within our own government. That is some of it.The Bush administration, after promising to provide proof that Osama bin Laden was behind the attacks, reneged.
9/11 commission lies:
The 9/11 Commission claimed that the military "first received a call about United 93 at 10:07," four minutes after it had crashed. But General Larry Arnold, the head of NORAD's Continental region, had testified that the military had been aware of the flight for over 20 minutes before it crashed. He and many other officials -- including Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz -- even said that the military was tracking Flight 93 and was in position to shoot it down. Hardly a minor discrepancy, especially given the evidence that the military did shoot the plane down. The 9/11 Commission Report, made no mention of Mineta's testimony and claimed that Cheney did not get down to the bunker until almost 10:00. Definitely not a minor discrepancy. Many witnesses, including Richard Clarke and Cheney's photographer, said that it was not long after 9:00 that Cheney went down to the bunker under the White House to assume control of events. One of these, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, testified that when he got down there at 9:20, Cheney was already there. Mineta then told the Commission about a conversation between Cheney and a young man, which occurred about 10 minutes before the Pentagon was attacked. Although Mineta did not thus interpret it, the conversation is most naturally understood as Cheney's confirmation of a stand-down order.
9/11 has been used to justify a new doctrine of preemption
The public didn't even know about this deal. And even if it had known about it, it wouldn't have understood it. And even if it had understood it -- extremely unlikely -- it wouldn't have been organized enough to do anything about it. In March, for instance, the federal government quietly agreed to subsidize JP Morgan's acquisition of troubled Bear Stearns, shelling out $29 billion in taxpayer money to prop up a hornet's nest of bad mortgage-backed securities and other investments. Forget about a public outcry over this move to bail out the irresponsible wealthy using yours and my tax money -- the public didn't even know about this deal. But there weren't four people marching against the Bear Stearns deal.This same public -- the same public that stood meekly by when its manufacturing economy was exported overseas, that cheered when our government pledged to "get tough" with China by demanding that it allow us to weaken our currency vis a vis the Yuan This is the public you think George Bush and Dick Cheney needed to blow up downtown Manhattan for, in order to get them on board with a war against Iraq, the Patriot Act, and whatever else. Can you give me any reason why any of the discrepancies you're describing shouldn't be laid at the feet of pure political self-interest? Why is a cover-up of garden-variety incompetence less likely than a cover-up of criminal involvement? The entire direction of your investigatory enterprise implies something far more sinister than base-level incompetence. If you accuse someone of murder, you need real evidence, and you don't appear to have any. making it hard for readers to see how monstrous and offensive your arguments are
Paul Krugman recently wrote: "[M]any of the people who throw around terms like 'loopy conspiracy theories' are lazy bullies who [as one observer put it] want to 'confer instant illegitimacy on any argument with which they disagree.' Instead of facing up to hard questions, they try to suggest that anyone who asks those questions is crazy." http://www.alternet.org/story/100688
There were at least 15 drills in progress that day... four of which were specifically designed to stand down attacks of hijacked aircraft by military interceptors and involved "live fly" aircraft.
The war games & terror drills played a critical role in ensuring Cheney was managing multiple war games and terror drills on 9/11 that paralyzed U.S. Air Force response. On May 8, 2001 - four months prior to 9/11 - the president placed Dick Cheney in charge of "[A]ll federal programs dealing with weapons of mass destruction consequence management within the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal agencies…" This included all "training and planning" which needed to be "seamlessly integrated, harmonious and comprehensive" in order to "maximize effectiveness." This mandate created the Office of National Preparedness within FEMA, overseen by Dick Cheney. The morning of 9/11 began with multiple training exercises of war games and terror drills which Cheney, as mandated by the president, was placed in charge of managing.
War games & terror drills included live-fly exercises (operation code-named Vigilant Warrior) with military aircraft posing as hijacked aircraft over the United States, aircraft under US control that was posing as a hijacked airliner. as well as simulated exercises that placed "false blips" (radar injects indicating virtual planes) on FAA radar screens. o Warrior = JCS/HQ NORAD sponsored FTX, or field training exercise (live-fly). 17 o
o That means that the Vigilant Warrior drill conducted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff involved at least one real commercial aircraft in the skies, intended to simulate exactly the kind of airliner hijack emergency presented on 9/11. ·
o This was further supported by an April 18 2004 USA Today article titled, "NORAD had drills of jets as weapons." The report cited NORAD officials who confirmed live-fly drills were conducted using hijacked airliners originating from the continental United States used as weapons crashing into targets including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The specific drill USA Today referred to was "planned in July [2001] and conducted later" - likely on 9/11 itself.
General Arnold of NORAD didn't pull out of the war game titled Vigilant Guardian until reports of flight 93 being hijacked were coming in. That was at 9:16 VIGILANT GUARDIAN, was designed to test national air response systems, which incidentally involved hijacking scenarios. One exercise titled NORTHERN VIGILANCE pulled Air Force fighters up into Canada simulating a Russian air attack, leaving very few fighters remaining on the east coast. An unknown individual or command center referred to by Major Don Arias of NORAD as the "maestro" coordinated the war games. It is possible there was more than one maestro, but no one will name names. FTW has asked this question of everyone in relevant government and military positions, to no avail. Our investigation has found the maestro was either Dick Cheney, General Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, or both.
Whoever was coordinating the Air Force war games was under the management and direction of Dick Cheney, who was also in charge of managing a terror drill being set up on the West Side of downtown New York on 9/11 titled Tripod 2 (a FEMA exercise or a biowarfare exercise was a joint New York-Department of Justice exercise). This exercise set up a command and control center on 9/11 that was configured exactly like the one lost that morning in WTC 7. It was the perfect command center to respond to the crisis, and it was under Dick Cheney's management before the hijackings occurred. How convenient. The Tripod II drill became the command & control emergency response center on 9/11. The New York City command center in WTC 7 was reportedly evacuated by 9:30 on 9/11, but Tripod II provided a new command center organized just as the original was.
How convenient. Northern Denial (recently confirmed by an Assistant Editor at Harper's magazine) and an unnamed National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) drill for a plane crashing into NRO headquarters at precisely the time of an actual crash in New York. A simulation of a plane crash into the NRO headquarters (sort of a fire-drill) (near Dulles Airport, Virginia) - this was not a "terrorism" exercise but a one to simulate… a small corporate jet would crash into one of the four towers at the agency's headquarters building after experiencing a mechanical failure. http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/09/18/1499851.php
but it did result in the evacuation of most NRO employees just as the "real" 9/11 was taking place, making it more difficult for the nation's spy satellites to be used to track the hijacked planes. The NRO claims as soon as the real world events “began to unfold” the drill was called off and most of the 3,000 people who work at agency headquarters were sent home, save for some essential personnel. (UPI, Aug 22, 2002)
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2002/09/18/1499851.php
Why was the NRO sending home personnel during what was likely the biggest military crisis on American soil in recent history?
The one time the "war games" were mentioned during the official 9/11 Commission hearings (on the final day of the hearings). What role did Secretary Rumsfeld & Richard B. Meyers play in any of the multiple war game scenarios on the morning of September 11, 2001? What briefings did they receive about these war games before, during and after the morning in question? These are the questions that must be addressed by the 9/11 Commission, and yet they have not been mentioned even once http://www.oilempire.us/wargames.html
It is possible that Phillip Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, has classified certain wargames running on 9/11 so the Commission can’t address them publicly.
AMALGAM VIRGO 01 military exercise, June 1 - 2, 2001 Amalgam Virgo is a joint-service, cruise-missile defense exercise at Tyndall AFB. Fast, low-flying cruise missiles are hard to detect. was a scenario involving a cruise missile launched by "a rogue (government) or somebody" from a barge off the East Coast. To practice their part in defending the U.S. from these missiles, members of the 513th Air Control Group deployed to Florida for the "Amalgam Virgo" cruise missile defense exercise. The multi-service exercise tested the defense and response capabilities to a cruise missile attack on Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla., June 1-4, 2001.
Dick Cheney was one of the main government officials deciding that such extensive war games would take place on 9/11.
Secret Service has the legal authority to take supreme command over all agencies in the United States in time of a national emergency on U.S. soil. Even the Air Force recognizes Secret Service supremacy. Secret Service has the highest technological communication systems of any agency in the U.S. - as it should.
On 9/11 Secret Service had the technology to see FAA radar screens in real time.
Secret Service was in the decision-making loop as early as 8:15am on 9/11, no later than 8:45am. Everything was in place on 9/11 for the Commander in Chief to have full supreme control of the Air Force via the Secret Service communication systems and legal mandate to take supreme command.
Dick Cheney was the acting Commander in Chief on 9/11 and Secret Service was the supreme command. Bush was not in the role of Commander in Chief at critical times on 9/11.
Source: Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/011805_simplify_case.shtml#bulloppase.shtml
We know for a fact that it had been war against Afghanistan was war-gamed by the Pentagon going back to 1997.
Right around September 11, two US Aircraft carrier task forces conveniently arrived in the Persian Gulf right at the same time on "rotation." Obviously, preplanned. Just before September 11, the UK had put together what was billed as the "largest armada since the Falklands War" and had it steaming towards Oman, where now 23,000 UK troops are on maneuvers. This had been planned for at least 3 years. Also, the US "Bright Star" operation is currently going on in Egypt. 23,000 US troops plus an additional 17,000 from NATO and its associates. This had been planned at least two years ago. Finally, NATO just landed 12,000 troops into Turkey. This had been planned for at least two years. It is obvious that we are seeing an operational War Plan being executed here that had been in the works for at least the past four years. September 11 is either a pretext or a trigger or both." Retired Army Special Forces Master Sergeant Stan Goff - who taught military science at West Point – stated: "I can't help but conclude that the actions we are seeing put into motion now are part of a pre-September 11th agenda. I'm absolutely sure of that, in fact. The planning alone for operations, of this scale, that are now taking shape, would take many months. And we are seeing them take shape in mere weeks."
--- Witnesses See Molten Metal in the Remains at Ground Zero September 12, 2001-February 2002:
Witnesses See Molten Metal in the Remains at Ground Zero In the weeks and months after 9/11, numerous individuals report there being molten metal in the remains of the WTC at Ground Zero. Ken Holden, who is involved with the organizing of demolition, excavation and debris removal operations there later describes to the 9/11 Commission, "Underground, it was still so hot that molten metal dripped down the sides of the wall from Building 6." <9/11 Commission hearing, 4/1/03> Leslie Robertson, the structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, describes fires still burning and molten steel still running 21 days after the attacks. Alison Geyh, who heads a team of scientists studying the potential health effects of 9/11, reports, "Fires are still actively burning and the smoke is very intense. In some pockets now being uncovered, they are finding molten steel." Ron Burger, a public health advisor who arrives at Ground Zero on September 12, says that "feeling the heat" and "seeing the molten steel" there reminds him of a volcano. According to a member of New York Air National Guard's 109th Air Wing, who is at Ground Zero from September 22 to October 6, "One fireman told us that there was still molten steel at the heart of the towers' remains. Firemen sprayed water to cool the debris down but the heat remained intense enough at the surface to melt their boots." New York firefighters later recall in a documentary film, "heat so intense they encountered rivers of molten steel." As late as five months after the attacks, in February 2002, firefighter Joe O'Toole sees a steel beam being lifted from deep underground at Ground Zero, which, he says, "was dripping from the molten steel." Physics professor Steven E. Jones later claims this molten metal is "direct evidence for the use of high-temperature explosives, such as thermite," used to deliberately bring down the WTC towers. He says that without explosives, a falling building would have "insufficient directed energy to result in melting of large quantities of metal." http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.phpaz=view_all&address=125x62529
A consultancy agency with government and police connections was running an exercise for an unnamed company that revolved around the London Underground being bombed at the exact same times and locations as happened in real life on the morning of July 7th.
Mathematicians have calculated the odds of NORAD running the exact same "drills" as those that occurred real life, and they are better than trillions to one..... So what would you think if a similar pattern emerged in the 7/7 London Bombings?
The same statement also made it clear that the Citgo gas station tape also did not capture anything. This statement was apparently proven to be true last month when that video was released. 9/11 Gas Station Video Released - Does not show Flight 77 September 15 2006 The long sought after and much hyped Citago gas station video from 9/11 has finally been released Remember that there are another 84 tapes that the FBI is withholding. The gas station had several security cameras aimed in the direction of the pentagon. Flight 77 flew directly over the gas station at an altitude of roughly 50 feet, less than 3 seconds from impact. If this is all the footage from the gas station then why was it retained under national security laws for five years? It remains a mystery why the FBI confiscated the gas station and Doubletree hotel security videos within minutes of the crash and why they did not release these videos for five years, given that they say they show nothing. http://infowars.net/articles/november2006/031106Doubletree.htm May 17 2006The FBI is withholding at least another 84 surveillance tapes that were seized in the immediate aftermath of the attack on the Pentagon. There is an ongoing lawsuit to get these tapes released via the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI has admitted in a statement to attorney, Scott Hodes, that they have these tapes, that they have already analyzed them and are still keeping them under lock and key. http://www.infowars.net/articles/may2006/170506Pentagon_videos.htm
A 757 has an estimated 5 ft of engine is below fuselage level
Evidently, however, they neglected to notice the fact that the wheel found at the pentagon has only 8 spoke holes, while the wheels used on the above pictured 757 have 10. http://www.bcrevolution.ca/911_part_ii.htm
"Conspiracy" just means, more than one person being involved in something
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Everyone living in or close around San Antonio (Bexar County), please take advantage of early voting which starts this monday,October the 20th and runs through Friday October 31st.
You also can vote by mail.This service is available to any voter who has difficulty walking or standing for long periods. Please call ahead to notify the early voting clerk that you want to vote from your car. The election official will bring your ballot to your car outside the polling location.
Q:Where are early voting sites?
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Texas Senator Carlos Uresti and the Bexar County Veterans Coalition are hosting a breakfast forum on Veterans Issues in San Antonio on Thursday 23 October at VFW Post 9186. Rick Noriega will be attending.
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