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Below are one-paragraph excerpts of important news articles you may

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website listed at the link provided. If any link fails to function,

These news articles include revealing information on 9/11

deception and other 9/11 media news, police spies infiltrating

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9/11 Panel Suspected Deception by Pentagon

August 2, 2006, Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/01/AR2006080101300.\

html

Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded

that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 2001

terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead

the commission and the public. 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. Staff members and some

commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough

probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials

violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the

commission. Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor

who led the commission [said], " It was just so far from the truth. " In

an article scheduled to be on newsstands today, Vanity Fair magazine

reports aspects of the commission debate...and publishes lengthy

excerpts from military audiotapes recorded on Sept. 11. ABC News aired

excerpts last night. For more than two years after the attacks,

officials with NORAD and the FAA provided inaccurate information about

the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances.

Authorities suggested that U.S. air defenses had reacted quickly, that

jets had been scrambled in response to the last two hijackings and

that fighters were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 if

it threatened Washington. In fact, the commission reported a year

later, audiotapes from NORAD's Northeast headquarters and other

evidence showed clearly that the military never had any of the

hijacked airliners in its sights.

 

A Skeptic on 9/11 Prompts Questions on Academic Freedom

August 1, 2006, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/01/education/01madison.html

Kevin Barrett ticked off a few examples of what he saw as evidence

that the Sept. 11 attacks had been an " inside job. " Mr. Barrett, 47,

described how some news orgainzations...had reported that an agent

from the Central Intelligence Agency visited with Osama bin Laden two

months before the attacks. He also said fires could not have caused

the collapse of the World Trade Center towers at free-fall speed, as

reported by the special Sept. 11 commission. " The 9/11 report will be

universally reviled as a sham and a cover-up very soon, " said Mr.

Barrett, who has been a teacher's assistant or lecturer on Islam,

African literature and other subjects at the University of Wisconsin,

Madison, since 1996. " The 9/11 commission has its conspiracy theory,

and we have ours. " Mr. Barrett's views, which he described on a

conservative radio talk show in June, have outraged some Wisconsin

legislators and generated a fierce debate about academic freedom on a

campus long known as a haven for progressive ideologies and student

activism. Mr. Barrett, a co-founder of a group called

Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance for 9/11 Truth, argued that he had

never presented his personal opinions in class and that he was free to

offer those opinions on his own time outside the classroom. Mr.

Barrett and [university of Wisconsin] Chancellor Wiley both said the

controversy might actually be helping provide Mr. Barrett with a

larger platform to voice his ideas.

 

Senate panel probes ways super-rich can avoid taxes

August 1, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle/New York Times

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/01/MNGO6K8OI41.DTL

So many super-rich Americans evade taxes using offshore accounts that

law enforcement cannot control the growing misconduct, according to a

Senate report that provides the most detailed look ever at high-level

tax schemes. Cheating now equals about 7 cents out of each dollar paid

by honest taxpayers, as much as $70 billion a year, the report

estimated. " The universe of offshore tax cheating has become so large

that no one, not even the United States government, could go after all

of it, " said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., whose staff ran the

investigation. The report details how the Quellos Group, a tax shelter

boutique based in Seattle, " concocted a tax shelter " using $9.6

billion " worth of fake securities transactions that were used to

generate billions of dollars of fake capital losses. " When

investigators asked for trading records, Levin said, they were first

told the trades were private, over-the-counter transactions. He said

investigators asked for trading tickets or other evidence of who owned

the $9.6 billion worth of stock and were told the stocks were never

owned by the parties involved. " They just wrote down numbers on paper

and claimed losses, " he said. " It was just like fantasy baseball,

except the taxes not paid were for real. "

 

Note: Up to $70 billion is lost to the U.S. Treasury each year, yet

law enforcement " cannot control " the problem. Hmmmm. If just $10

million were directed to stop the losses, I suspect things might

change and the investment would be paid back many fold. Could pressure

from high places be preventing such an investigation?

 

September 11th Terrorist Attacks

July 29, 30, August 1, 2006, C-SPAN

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram & record=54\

6878176

Panelists talked about the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World

Trade Center and Pentagon. Among the issues they addressed were

various theories concerning the origins of the attacks, charges of a

government and media cover-up of key facts, the results of

investigations into the attacks, and public perceptions of the events

of September 11, 2001. Participants...called on citizens to question

official versions of the terrorist attacks, examine independent

sources of information, and conduct grassroots education campaigns to

change public opinion. Following their presentations they answered

questions from the audience. The two-day event, " American Scholars

Symposium: 9/11 and The Neo-Con Agenda, " was held in the ballroom of

the Sheraton Los Angeles Downtown.

 

Note: This 105-minute program was aired on C-SPAN four times over the

course of four days! Click on the links to see the schedule: July

29th, 8:00 PM, July 29th 11:00 PM, July 30th, 3:18 PM, and Aug. 1st,

6:11 PM. To view the program on C-SPAN's website as broadcast, see

rtsp://video.c-span.org/60days/ap072906_theories.rm or see

http://www.911blogger.com/2006/07/cspans-coverage-of-american-scholars.html.

We express gratitude to C-SPAN for their courage in broadcasting this

program and helping people to question what really happened on that

fateful day.

 

Custom-Built Pathogens Raise Bioterror Fears

July 31, 2006, Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/30/AR2006073000580.\

html

In 2002, [a] German-born molecular geneticist startled the scientific

world by creating the first live, fully artificial virus in the lab.

It was a variation of the bug that causes polio. The virus was made

wholly from nonliving parts, using equipment and chemicals on hand.

The most crucial part, the genetic code, was picked up for free on the

Internet. The new technology opens the door to new tools for defeating

disease and saving lives. But today, in hundreds of labs worldwide, it

is also possible to transform common intestinal microbes into killers.

Or to resurrect bygone killers, such the 1918 influenza. New

techniques...allow the creation of synthetic viruses in mere days.

Hardware unveiled last year by a Harvard genetics professor can churn

out synthetic genes by the thousands, for a few pennies each. The U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has declined so far to

police the booming gene-synthesis industry. " It would be possible --

fully legal -- for a person to produce full-length 1918 influenza

virus or Ebola virus genomes, " said Richard H. Ebright, a biochemist

and professor at Rutgers University. " It is also possible to advertise

and to sell the product. " Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the

federal government budgets nearly $8 billion annually -- an 18-fold

increase since 2001 -- for the defense of civilians against biological

attack. Billions have been spent to develop and stockpile new drugs,

most of them each tied to a single, well-known bioterrorism threat,

such as anthrax. If successful, [each] drug is a solution for just one

disease threat out of a list that is rapidly expanding to include

man-made varieties.

 

Note: The government research lab at Fort Detrick, Maryland, has been

secretly developing this technology for decades. For serious questions

on the role of secret government projects in deadly disease creation

and dissemination, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/resources#emerging

or

 

Police spies chosen to lead war protest

July 28, 2006, San Francisco Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/07/28/SURVEILLANCE.TMP

Two Oakland police officers working undercover at an anti-war protest

in May 2003 got themselves elected to leadership positions in an

effort to influence [a] demonstration. The department assigned the

officers to join activists protesting the U.S. war in Iraq...a police

official said last year in a sworn deposition. [At the] demonstration,

police fired nonlethal bullets and bean bags at demonstrators who

blocked the Port of Oakland's entrance in a protest. Dozens of

activists and longshoremen on their way to work suffered injuries

ranging from welts to broken bones and have won nearly $2 million in

legal settlements from the city. In a deposition related to a lawsuit

filed by protesters, Deputy Police Chief Howard Jordan said activists

had elected the undercover officers to " plan the route of the march

and decide I guess where it would end up and some of the places that

it would go. " Oakland police had also monitored online postings by the

longshoremen's union regarding its opposition to the war. The

documents...were released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties

Union, as part of a report criticizing government surveillance of

political activists since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Jordan...noted that " two of our officers were elected leaders within

an hour on May 12. " The idea was " to gather the information and maybe

even direct them to do something that we want them to do. " The ACLU

said the Oakland case was one of several instances in which police

agencies had spied on legitimate political activity since 2001.

 

Big Oil's enormous profits ignite suspicion of gouging

July 28, 2006, Denver Post

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_4105814

As motorists continue to pay more at the gas pump, two of the nation's

largest oil companies on Thursday reported second-quarter profits of

nearly $18 billion. The huge profits come at a time when refiners are

marking up wholesale gas prices to levels seen during the weeks after

Hurricane Katrina, reigniting concerns about the possibility of price

gouging. Exxon Mobil Corp. said Thursday that its second-quarter

profits increased 36 percent to $10.36 billion, the second-largest

quarterly profit ever for a U.S. publicly traded company. Royal Dutch

Shell, which operates 155 gas stations in Colorado, reported earnings

of $7.32 billion, up 40 percent from a year ago. Including earnings

from BP and ConocoPhillips, which reported earlier this week, four of

the nation's five largest oil companies netted more than $30 billion

in profit during the second quarter. National gross profit margins for

refiners have hovered around $21 a barrel this week, compared with

about $12 a barrel a year ago. Amid outcry from lawmakers about its

profits, the oil industry this week paid for advertisements in 14

newspapers - including The Denver Post, The New York Times and The

Washington Post - that insist oil companies' earnings are not

exorbitant. The national average price of regular unleaded gasoline is

$3 a gallon this week, according to AAA. The price would be about

$2.60 a gallon, factoring in taxes and transportation and other costs,

if the refiners' gross profit margin had remained at the same levels

from a year ago.

 

Note: At the bottom of this article is an excellent, revealing graph

showing the extent of profit margins for oil refiners since January

2005. Very few other major media have been willing to show the hard

data in this article.

 

U.S. Prison Study Faults System and the Public

June 8, 2006, Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/07/AR2006060702050.\

html

Not only are America's prisons and jails largely failing the 13.5

million adults who pass through them each year, but the American

public is also failing the prisons and jails. Politicians have passed

laws dramatically increasing the inmate population to 2.2 million on a

given day without understanding life behind bars or funding programs

likely to help prisoners return home and not commit more crimes. Even

the data that would help specialists make sense of U.S. crime and

punishment are lacking. " We should be astonished by the size of the

prisoner population, troubled by the disproportionate incarceration of

African-Americans and Latinos, and saddened by the waste of human

potential, " [a] panel said in a report to be presented to Congress.

The recent boom in imprisonment has not always made Americans safer.

Each year, the United States spends an estimated $60 billion on

corrections. The report...finds too much violence and too little

medical and mental health care, as well as a " desperate need for the

kinds of productive activities that discourage violence and make

rehabilitation possible. " Studies...suggest that the most accurate

indicator of a successful return to society is the inmate's connection

to family. The panel described the high-security segregation of

inmates as " counter-productive, " often leading to greater prison

violence and more serious crimes upon release.

 

Note: Certain elite groups are making large profits on the dramatic

increase in numbers of prisoners across the nation over the past two

decades. The prison-industrial complex sadly draws very little media

attention.

 

9/11 Media Articles in Various Publications

 

As many of you have expressed a strong interest in the 9/11 cover-up,

I am including here a number of media articles in addition to the

articles above which I've come across in the past week on this topic.

Some of them are incredibly revealing.

Vanity Fair - 9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes - Issue which hit newsstands

on 8/2/06

http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/060801fege01

 

Chicago Tribune - Teacher's 9/11 views irk lawmakers - 8/2/06

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0608020178aug02,1,6377633.sto\

ry

 

Christianity Today - Official Presbyterian Publisher Issues 9/11

Conspiracy Book - 7/31/06

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/131/12.0.html

 

Capital Times - Why Won't Right Wing Refute Barrett's 9/11 Views With

Facts' Of Their Own? - 7/29/06

http://www.madison.com/archives/read.php?ref=/tct/2006/07/29/0607280435.php

 

New York Daily News - 'Secret' 9/11 lies? (Air hazards covered up) -

7/28/06)

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/438649p-369566c.html

 

St Louis Riverfront Times - Cadre of Missourians stand at the vanguard

of the 9/11 truth movement - 7/26/06

http://www.rftstl.com/Issues/2006-07-26/news/feature.html

 

Salt Lake Tribune - What Really Happened? (Opinion piece promotes

Loose Change) - 7/26/06

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4099454

 

Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) - What makes Kevin Barrett tick? -

7/22/06

http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/index.php?ntid=92026 & ntpid=0

 

Wisconsin Channel 3 WISC TV - For The Record (23 minutes with Kevin

Barrett) - 7/21/06

http://www.c3ktogo.com/video-player.php?id=4688 or click here

 

New York Times - CIA involvement in overthrow of Shah of Iran:

" Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed

religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a

campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against

Mossadegh's government. "

http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html

 

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