Dr. Bob Bowman's "Patriots Tour" at Reynolds Auditorium

Dr. Bob Bowman
will be speaking at Duke University Reynolds Auditorium in the Bryan Center.
7-10 pm, Friday August 3rd.
Doors open at 6:30 for 'Meet & Greet'

Dr. Bowman's "Patriot Tour", is not just a 9/11 truth event (The symptom of an even larger problem), but is a rally for all activists, regardless of issue preference, to come together in solidarity to confront the domestic problems we all face. If not familiar with the event or the man, his slogan is "Follow the Constitution, Honor the Truth, Serve the People". More info is here at ThePatriots.US including his home page letter to Patriots.

Bio: Dr. Bob Bowman , Lt. Col., USAF, ret. is President of the Institute for Space and Security Studies, Executive Vice President of Millennium III Corporation, and retired Presiding Archbishop of the United Catholic Church. The recipient of the Eisenhower Medal, the George F. Kennan Peace Prize, the President's Medal of Veterans for Peace, the Republic Aviation Airpower Award, the Society of American Military Engineers' ROTC Medal of Merit (twice), the Air Medal with five oak leaf clusters, and numerous other awards, he is one of the country's foremost authorities on national security. Dr. Bowman spent several years as an unpaid "People's Lobbyist" to Congress. Colonel Bowman flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam and directed all the DoD "Star Wars" (Space Defense Initiative) programs under presidents Ford and Carter. He has been an executive in both government and industry, and has chaired 8 major international conferences. Professor Bowman taught at 5 colleges and universities, serving as Department Head and Assistant Dean. His Ph.D. is in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Cal tech. He has lectured at the National War College, the United Nations, Congressional Caucuses, the Academies of Science of six nations, and the House of Lords.

Despite his involvement with space programs and defense, he emerged as an early public critic of the Strategic Defense Initiative during the Ronald Reagan administration. On The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, he called it "the ultimate military lunacy, easily overwhelmed and vulnerable". Bowman publishes Space & Security News (1983) (ISSN 1071-2569), and authored two books on the subject of SDI. He is also a critic of an outgrowth of the SDI program, the Bush administration's proposed National Missile Defense.

Dr. Bob Bowman ran for President in the Reform Party in 2000 and was the Democratic candidate for the US Congress from the 15th Congressional District of Florida in 2006, receiving 43% of the vote in the 15th district. Bob and his wife of 51 years, Maggie, have 7 children and 21 grandchildren.

$5 suggested donation at the door, more would be most welcome

Another Wake-up Call

Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq
http://whtt.org/index.php?news=2&id=1613

A Wake-up Call
By Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18037.htm

US Preparing Domestic Clampdown?
TBRN News7-18-7
Green Zone Follies
BAGHDAD -- "Yesterday, one of my good friends from another office was telling me they were going to start issuing armored vests to us office types because of the growing danger from mortars. We are being shelled daily and, like everything else, casualties are way underreported . But more important than the flak vests was a file he had copied out and which he gave to me to smuggle out of the country. As I have said, we have strict censorship here on all incoming and outgoing snail mail, email, phone calls and so on. This report is so serious I am making a précis of it and am even now sending it around to various news outlets, both Stateside and elsewhere. I have my sources and believe me, the CIC people here are so stupid they couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the directions were on the bottom.
http://www.rense.com/general77/clamp.htm

This is Amazing to watch the Excuses
Generation Chickenhawk: the Unauthorized College Republican Convention Tour

The Drum beat is getting Louder

Former Reagan Official: Bush May Stage False Flag Events To Reinstate Draft

"Would a government that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging "terrorist" attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda?" asks Roberts
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration Paul Craig Roberts has gone further than ever before, warning that the Bush administration could be about to stage false flag events and terror attacks in order to reinstate the draft, announce a dictatorship and attack Iran.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2007/170707falseflag.htm

Archive for the 'false flag operations' Category
Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of “executive orders” that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might expect a series of staged, or false flag, “terrorist” events in the near future.http://mrspickles.wordpress.com/tag/false-flag-operations/

Conference

911
What is the Real Truth?
Examine the evidence
A video presentation and discussion

When: Thursday, July 12
6:30pm -meet and greet

7:00pm -- 9:00pm film and questions and answers.
Where: Durham Public Library –
Downtown Branch.
300 North Roxboro Rd Durham.

Festival for the Eno

I wanted to remind everyone about the "Festival for the Eno"
July 4, 7 & 8
http://www.enoriver.org/festival/
This is an art and music festival.
Lots of fun, and a great opportunity to spread the word about 911.
The downtown Durham Public Library has been reserved for
Thursday July 12 at 6pm
so we can have a follow up presentation.

I hope we as a group can get behind this and do what we can to spread the word
and awaken as many as we can.
We will work with the people at the "Impeach Bush" booth.
They said they would be willing to hold some supplies for us.
We will get some flyers to their booth if you want to pick some up

Bush Directive for a "Catastrophic Emergency" in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran?
"Another [9/11 type terrorist] attack could create both a justification and an opportunity that is lacking today to retaliate against some known targets" (Statement by Pentagon official, leaked to the Washington Post, 23 April 2006)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6134

"A Rabbit Hole a Day Keeps the Mind Control Away!"

If you have been following the events surrounding 911 you have quite probably been down several "rabbit holes". What you may have been uncovering can be quite frightening. It is important to learn what the truth is because " The Truth will set you Free"

'Military plan against Iran is ready'

Predicting that Iran will obtain a nuclear weapon within three years and claiming to have a strike plan in place, senior American military officers have told The Jerusalem Post they support President George W. Bush's stance to do everything necessary to stop the Islamic Republic's race for nuclear power.
Bush has repeatedly said the United States would not allow Iran to "go nuclear."
http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jpost.com%2Fservlet%2FSatellite%3Fpagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull%26cid%3D1181228588702

Is US Military Command
Being Readied For Iran Attack?
Using the old tactic of releasing controversial news just before the weekend in the hope minimising attention as people set off to enjoy a weekend break, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Friday afternoon that "he will advise President Bush to replace Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” The reason? According to Gates he feared that a contentious renomination hearing in the Senate would focus too heavily on six years of war. "I have decided that at this moment in our history, the nation, our men and women in uniform, and Gen. Pace himself would not be well-served by a divisive ordeal in selecting the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff," said Gates. Apparently President Bush took Gate’s advice.
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=6704

The Pentagon shakeup, tough talk on Iran, and....look everybody, it's Paris Hilton!
The Web is buzzing tonight with new tough talk on Iran and a possible attack by the United States and/or Israel. The latest bombshell, so to speak, comes from the Jerusalem Post and is highlighted on the Drudge Report:
A high-ranking American military officer told the Post that senior officers in the US armed forces had thrown their support behind Bush and believed that additional steps needed to be taken to stop Iran.
http://www.attytood.com/2007/06/the_pentagon_shakeup_tough_tal.html

Bush’s ‘Plan B’ and Bush Anoints Himself

Hoagland: Bush’s ‘Plan B’ May Be Attacking Iran, Overthrowing Maliki
http://www.rawstory.com/showarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2F2007%2F05%2F20%2Firan-plan-b%2F

Also Check this out

Bush Anoints Himself as the Insurer of Constitutional Government in Emergency
by Matthew Rothschild
May 18, 2007
http://progressive.org/mag_wx051807With scarcely a mention in the mainstream media, President Bush has ordered up a plan for responding to a catastrophic attack.

In a new National Security Presidential Directive, Bush lays out his plans for dealing with a "catastrophic emergency."
Under that plan, he entrusts himself with leading the entire federal government, not just the Executive Branch. And he gives himself the responsibility "for ensuring constitutional government."
He laid this all out in a document entitled "National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51" and "Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20."
The White House released it on May 9.
Other than a discussion on Daily Kos led off by a posting by Leo Fender, and a pro-forma notice in a couple of mainstream newspapers, this document has gone unremarked upon.
The subject of the document is entitled "National Continuity Policy."
It defines a "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government function."
This could mean another 9/11, or another Katrina, or a major earthquake in California, I imagine, since it says it would include "localized acts of nature, accidents, and technological or attack-related emergencies."
The document emphasizes the need to ensure "the continued function of our form of government under the Constitution, including the functioning of the three separate branches of government," it states.
But it says flat out: "The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government."
The document waves at the need to work closely with the other two branches, saying there will be "a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government." But this effort will be "coordinated by the President, as a matter of comity with respect to the legislative and judicialbranches and with proper respect for the constitutional separation of powers."
Among the efforts coordinated by the President would ensuring the capability of the three branches of government to "provide for orderly succession" and "appropriate transition of leadership."
The document designates a National Continuity Coordinator, who would be the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism.
Currently holding that post is Frances Fragos Townsend.
She is required to develop a National Continuity Implementation Plan and submit it within 90 days.
As part of that plan, she is not only to devise procedures for the Executive Branch but also give guidance to "state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector owners and operators of critical infrastructure."
The secretary of Homeland Security is also directed to develop planning guidance for "private sector critical infrastructure owners and operators," as well as state, local, territorial, and tribal governments.
The document gives the Vice President a role in implementing the provisions of the contingency plans.
"This directive shall be implanted in a manner that is consistent with, and facilitates effective implementation of, provisions of the Constitution concerning succession to the Presidency or the exercise of its powers, and the Presidential Succession Act of 1947 (3 USC 19), with the consultation of the Vice President and, as appropriate, others involved."
The document also contains "classified Continuity Annexes."

Smoking Gun?

The 9/11 Whistle-Blowers
How much more proof does one need, before one accepts that the US government is run by a bunch of murderous thugs; whose purpose is criminality and evil, and has an agenda contrary to the best interest of America.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1956542165192088795&hl=en

John Kerry: WTC Building 7 Was a Controlled Demolition

John Kerry: WTC Building 7 Was a Controlled Demolition
2004 Presidential Candidate Says Weakened Building Was Brought Down Based on Danger Posed to Surroundings
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/220407_kerry_wtc7.html

Some Newspapers are giving coverage to 911 truth

Jeff Long & David Arquette

L.A. Times

Until recently I had never watched "The View," a spirited little gabfest on ABC that is, apparently, trying to destroy America. Of course, I'm referring to co-host Rosie O'Donnell's remarks suggesting there was some sort of conspiracy behind the collapse of World Trade Center 7 on 9/11 and that the British—in an incident involving the detainment of 15 of its sailors by Iranian forces—might have intentionally been trying to provoke Iran as a prelude to some larger action, a la the Gulf of Tonkin. "Google it," Rosie told her viewers.
You know, I'm pretty sure I don't have to. The Gulf of Tonkin incident involved cooked American intelligence suggesting North Vietnamese forces had launched an unprovoked attack on two American vessels in August 1964. The incident, or President Lyndon Johnson's understanding of it, led to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the president the authority to conduct military operations against North Vietnam without a formal declaration of war. And then we were off to the races.
Whatever else you might think about Rosie, you have to grant she has the advantage of unsympathetic enemies. First it was Donald Trump, who, stung by Rosie's mocking over the Miss U.S.A.-Tara Conner episode, went after Rosie like an irate New York cabbie, calling her fat, ugly, a loser and various shades of crazy. Trump, I think it's fair to say, got the worst of the exchange. In the most recent dust-up, Bill O'Reilly said Rosie was a "fanatical leftist" who was actively supporting Iran against her own country. Rosie's legions of detractors—just Google "Rosie" and "traitor"—were even less kind. Fox News' John Gibson called Rosie a "fat lesbian vampire bat bully," which is probably my favorite insult of all time.
Yet when I watch "The View," I don't see a morning talk show hijacked by seditionists, wearers of tinfoil hats or Revolutionary Guard partisans. Anything but. The show couldn't possibly be more conventional TV—the well-lit stage and sweeping camera booms, the eager Middle American applause, the endless roundelays about relationships and movies and kids. These people are making Easter egg figures with bits of yarn, for heaven's sake. The doyenne of "The View" is Barbara Walters, who is nobody's idea of an anarchist. Am I to understand that "The View" is a seething bed of anti-Americanism? If so, why are there so many commercials?
"The View," by accident or design, has an almost eerie calibration to the public at large. For example, only one of the four co-hosts—the game and reasonable Elisabeth Hasselbeck, who deserves some kind of medal—is a supporter of President Bush. In other words, 25% of the cast has a favorable opinion of Bush, pretty much in line with Bush's approval ratings nationally. Likewise, last year a Scripps Howard poll found that 36% of the U.S. public believes the government was somehow complicit in the 9/11 attacks. I estimate Rosie constitutes 36% of the cast.
I realize only people of the most serious mind read this column, so I'll explain: Why does pop culture matter? Because it reveals, in its turbulence of shared neuroses or distractions or antagonism what is really on our minds. And what's on our minds lately is reasonable doubt.
It was reported late last month that actor Charlie Sheen was onboard to narrate a new version of the online 9/11 conspiracy documentary "Loose Change," with distribution by billionaire Mark Cuban's Magnolia Pictures. We're not talking about a couple of flaky moonbats in an Oakland basement. Cuban owns the Dallas Mavericks. Dallas is in Texas.
Sydney Pollack will direct a film about the 2000 election called "Recount"—any guesses as to its theme? And just about everywhere you look, official narratives are coming unglued: The blue-on-blue death of Pat Tillman, for example, or the firing of eight federal prosecutors. The abduction of British sailors in what Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed was indisputably Iraqi territorial waters has proved to be quite disputable, according to Craig Murray, former head of the Foreign Office maritime section. The ex-British ambassador claims the map used by the Ministry of Defense to support its case is a fake.
Gulf of Tonkin, anyone?
I suppose I should declare myself. I am not a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. I don't believe shadow agents of the government perpetrated an American Reichstag fire. At the same time, I'm certain we don't know all there is to know about those events, and I don't believe its giving comfort to ask for better answers.
The mainstreaming of 9/11 conspiracy thought is less about the temperatures of melting structural steel or the smell of cordite at the Pentagon. It's about a generalized and corrosive cynicism that makes people despair of ever hearing the truth again. The data stream has been so thoroughly corrupted. Weapons of Mass Destruction. Abu Ghraib. The silencing of climate scientists. It's hard for the ministries of Washington to make an appeal to authority when they have been proven so unreliable.
When people can't believe everything their government says, they'll believe anything.

Edmonton Sun - Scholars debate 9/11 findings

An unbiased observer doesn't need to look beyond what's happening on the ground today in Iraq and Afghanistan to conclude the War on Terror has been a brutal, manipulative means to a transparently self-serving end.
None of this is news, however, to proponents of "9/11 Truth," a worldwide movement that seems to keep growing despite an unofficial media blackout on their questions and investigations. So what are these "Truthers" saying?
Many people were quick to declare 9/11 a possible "inside job" based on the visible facts themselves, in particular the blanket failure of air defense, which even former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura said defied all logic and precedent. They also seized on the history (largely unknown in North America) of Pentagon-linked "false-flag" terrorist attacks in Europe during the Cold War, and CIA involvement with al-Qaida operations.
http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/2007/04/18/4055871-sun.html

Giuliani Lies about Asbestos exposure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK4nsQOi3bA&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eprisonplanet%2Ecom%2Farticles%2Fapril2007%2F160407Giuliani%2Ehtm

Celebrities on 911

Bill Maher: New Rules For Bush and Cheney

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWhy-hhoBkA

Is He about to come out on 911 also because of this comment on Bush and the 7 min. pet goat?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfrF8QhQndI

The only possible explanation for Bush not to have been whisked off in a flash by the

"Secret Service"
was because they knew he was not in danger. It was well publicized as to where he was.

Cuban Resolute Against Neo-Con Intimidation

Billionaire remains determined to bring Loose Change to big screen in face of threats
Dallas Mavericks owner Cuban quotes JFK in citing the necessity of giving an open forum to controversial subjects.
"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
Bill O'Reilly warned Cuban as well as Charlie Sheen who is set to narrate the movie, that he would be "looking out" for them and that Sheen's career would be "finished" if he went ahead with the project.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/290307cubanresolute.htm

Rosie O'Donnell Goes Public On 9/11

After going public this week with her skepticism over the official story of 9/11, Rosie O'Donnell has continued to address the issue in a Q&A with her readers on her website.
We reported yesterday that O'Donnell, who has for weeks now been tentatively trying to raise the issue of 9/11 truth on her ABC show The View, wrote a blog entry encouraging her readers to research 9/11, in particular the building 7 demolition.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/170307Rosie.htm

TODAY MARCH 29:

Rosie O'Donnel went public on the View today about 9/11 and WTC7

O'Donnell 9/11 Rant Reaches 30 Million Viewers
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2007/290307odonnellrant.htm

The original Hero & Patriot

Charlie Sheen's comments about 9-11-01 and the aftermath

http://www.technoslavery.com/documentary/default.asp

CNN Announced WTC 7 Collapsed Before it Fell

Another Smoking Gun? Now CNN Jumps the Gun: On 911 CNN Announced WTC 7 "Has Either Collapsed or is Collapsing" Over an Hour Before it Fell
In an amazing redux, new video has been unearthed of a CNN report on the day of 911 in which a CNN anchor announces they have received word that WTC 7 is on fire and "has either collapsed or is collapsing." The problem with this is that WTC 7 is clearly visible behind the anchor.
http://www.informationliberation.com:80/index.php?id=20521

Will America Face the Truth About 9/11?

By Mark H. Gaffney
02/24/07 "ICH" -- - -In June 1, 2001 the US Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a new order regarding cases of aircraft piracy, i.e., hijackings. The new order (CJCSI 3610.01A), signed by Vice Admiral S. A. Fry, Director of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, canceled the existing order (CJCSI 3610.01) that had been in effect since July 1997. When I learned about this, recently, I became intrigued. The date of the new order, just three months prior to 9/11, seemed too near that fateful day to be mere coincidence. I should mention that I have always been skeptical of the official 9/11 narrative. The June 2001 order was like a red flag drawing attention to an insistent question: Why did the US military alter its hijack policy a few months before 9/11? Why, indeed?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17162.htm

More Truth Comes Out

Ground Zero EMT: We Were Told Building 7 Was to Be "Pulled"

A New Jersey EMT has gone public on how emergency workers were told that Building 7 was going to be "pulled," before a 20 second demolition countdown broadcast over radio preceded its collapse.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/080207building7.htm

More Ground Zero Heroes On The Record: Building 7 Was Deliberately Brought Down

Testimony of multiple rescue personnel that they were told Building 7 was going to be imploded means FEMA, NIST, Silverstein Properties and federal government all lied, revelations demand immediate grand jury inquiry into insurance fraud, vindicates call for new independent 9/11 investigation

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/090207broughtdown.htm

Letter From a New Jersey Emergency Medical Technician

I was a NJ EMT for 6 years. I was in NY at the WTC before, during, and after the collapse. I ran from the falling towers. I hid behind a plexi-glass bus stop panel, as if that would have helped me if anything large came hurtling in that direction. My lungs are full of dust and I can barely breathe without holding back a cough and the ever-present faint taste of blood in the back of my throat. I wake up gasping for air. Those towers fell, and I was there. I don't know why the "official story" of what happened isn't questioned more than it is. Nobody listens to the people who KNOW. The 9/11 commission was made up of puppeteers, and the tesimony was given by the puppets. It's so obvious. It was a failure. If the things I, and hundreds of other people saw, felt, and heard didn't make it into that attrocious failure called the 9/11 Commission Report, then there is no other con clusion than accepting the fact that the whole thing was a whitewash.

http://911truthnc.blogspot.com/2007/02/letter-from-new-jersey-emergency.html

http://www.improbablecollapse.com/

Improbable Collapse thoroughly reviews the evidence for WTC demolitions from a scientific perspective. Michael Berger who is one of 911Truth.org founders, directed and co-wrote with Rebecca Cerese, this exciting documentary.

Rebecca Cerese who lives here in the Triangle will be on hand and Michael Berger will be in North Carolina for these 2 events: They will be screening the film at Duke University February 20th at 7pm.
Also Improbable Collapse has been accepted for screening in the Carolina Film Festival On Wednesday, February 21, 2007 5:00 PM In Greensboro.

Rosie O'Donnell Endorses John Conner's Work & Impersonates Him by Saying "911 Was An Inside Job" on "The View"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIhqGxW6vdU&eurl=

Scenes from DC

Did our nations leaders hear the cry of the people!!

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Senes from Iran they don't show you on TV

http://www.lucasgray.com/video/peacetrain.html

World War III has already begun, says Israeli spy chief

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3357552,00.html

More Good News?

Gingrich's '24' scenario: US, Israel face potential 'second Holocaust' which could lead to 'greater dictatorial societies'
Ron Brynaert
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/Gingrichs_24_scenario_US_Israel_face_0124.html

Fayetteville Peace Rally
March 17, 2007
http://www.fayetteville-peace-rally.org/

9/11 Accountability:Strategies and Solutions Conference
Crown Plaza San MarcosChandler, Arizona - February 23-25, 2007
http://911accountability.org/accountability/

2 election workers convicted of rigging
'04 presidential recount
1/24/2007, 5:30 p.m. ET
By M.R. KROPKO The Associated Press

CLEVELAND (AP) — Two election workers in the state's most populous county were convicted Wednesday of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election recount so they could avoid a more thorough review of the votes.
A third employee who had been charged was acquitted on all counts.
Jacqueline Maiden, the elections' coordinator who was the board's third-highest ranking employee when she was indicted last March, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were convicted of a felony count of negligent misconduct of an elections employee.
Maiden and Dreamer also were convicted of one misdemeanor count each of failure of elections employees to perform their duty. Both were acquitted of five other charges.
Rosie Grier, assistant manager of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board's ballot department, was acquitted of all seven counts of various election misconduct or interference charges.
The felony conviction carries a possible sentence of six to 18 months.
There was a gasp in the courtroom gallery, which included some relatives and friends of the defendants, when a "not guilty" verdict was announced on the first charge. The courtroom went silent when a "guilty" verdict was returned.
The defendants sat near each other silently as the 21 verdicts were read.
Ohio gave Bush the electoral votes he needed to defeat Democratic Sen. John Kerry in the close election and hold on to the White House in 2004.
Special prosecutor Kevin Baxter, who was brought in from Erie County to handle the case, did not claim the workers' actions affected the outcome of the election — Kerry gained 17 votes and Bush lost six in the county's recount.
But Baxter insisted the employees broke the law when they worked behind closed doors three days before the public Dec. 16, 2004, recount to pick ballots they knew would not cause discrepancies when checked by hand so they could avoid a lengthier, more expensive hand recount of all votes.
Ohio law states that during a recount each county is supposed to randomly count at least 3 percent of its ballots by hand and by machine. If there are not discrepancies in those counts, the rest of the votes can be recounted by machine. A full hand-count is ordered if two random samples result in differences.
Grier, the worker who was acquitted, was the only defendant who commented following the verdicts.
"It has all been very stressful," said Grier, 54. "Yes, I'm very relieved. But, none of us should have been in this courtroom today. These charges should not have been brought against any of us."
Defense lawyer Roger Synenberg said in his closing argument that the 2004 presidential election was the most publicly observed ever in Cuyahoga County and the workers were simply following procedures as they understood them.
Baxter said he intends to speak with Maiden and Dreamer before their scheduled sentencing on Feb. 26 to see if they wish to make any statements that might influence the sentence.
"We'd like to listen to them if they had anything to say, if anyone else was involved with this. We still haven't been able to determine that," he said.
A message was left Wednesday with elections board director Michael Vu.
The board released a statement saying the convictions highlight the importance of changes it has made since 2004 "and the critical need to aggressively pursue additional reforms."
"The board's goal is to fully restore the public's confidence in the election process in Cuyahoga County," the statement said.
Maiden's attorney, Robert Rotatori, said he expects appeals will be filed for his client and Dreamer.
The case comes as elections have fallen under greater scrutiny since the 2000 presidential election. That's when recounts of paper ballots in Florida dragged on for weeks and the U.S. Supreme Court became involved. Cuyahoga also has been under the microscope following numerous problems with elections in bellwether Ohio.
Cuyahoga County is a Democratic stronghold where about 600,000 ballots were cast in 2004.
Statewide, Bush won by about 118,000 votes out of 5.5 million cast. Green Party candidate David Cobb and Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik sought the recount and complained about its procedure.

Impending Police State in America

12/23/06 "CRG" --- - Alex Jones was joined on air this week by a leading American professor, practitioner of and expert on international law to discuss his detailed knowledge of the cover up of the 2001 anthrax attacks, which he is adamant were perpetrated by criminal elements of the US government in an attempt to foment a police state by killing off opposition to hardline post 9/11 legislation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15983.htm

Saddam, another American Atrocity
http://www.ericblumrich.com/thanks.html


New TV show on 911 Truth.

"You ÇAN Handle the Truth" makes it's debut appearance tonight on Raleigh Television Network.
You ÇAN Handle the Truth is a 60 minute weekly series exploringdark truths.
Time Warner Cable 10, Raleigh Television Network
Tuesday 7PM
Wednesday 11:30PM
Sunday 11:30PM
truth-tv.org is the new website launched to support the production.


Some of the truth about Gerald Ford
Let's see. Kept Kissinger on board, instead of firing Nixon's chief-architect of Vietnam mass murder. Elevated Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld onto the road to war-criminal power. Set a precedent that might mean post-White-House George W. Bush won't have to head to Paraguay after all, that presidents are not accountable for breaking the law.

Let's hear it for Gerald Ford, and the New Yok Time's hurrah hurrah, just like when Reagan died: no facts, no real history, just flag-waving hagiography because after all, it doesn't matter what his real legacy is.
As a member of the Warren Commission > http://www.jfklancer.com/pdf/fiction.pdf

Daddy Bush Attacks JFK "Conspiracy Theorists"
Former President triumphs Warren Commission at Ford's funeral; Are the Bush's breaking down?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/030107daddybush.htm

Olbermann: Special Comment on “Sacrifice”

Christmas and the Bomb?

The Pentagon has announced plans to move additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region to be within striking range of Iran. The aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its strike group entered the Persian Gulf on Dec. 11. Another aircraft carrier, the Stennis, is expected to depart for the Gulf within the next month.
Scott Ritter sees parallels to the invasion of Iraq: "We have told the Iranians it is their responsibility to prove to the international community beyond a shadow of a doubt that there is no nuclear weapons program in Iran. How can you prove a negative?"
Another parallel is the brutal Christmas Bombing of North Vietnam by Richard Nixon in 1972. James Carroll described it as "a final venting of frustration and rage by a superpower faced with ignominious defeat." Will Bush bomb Iran out of frustration with failing to "win" in Iraq?
Sign the petition:http://www.dontattackiran.org/
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Parallels between 9/11 and New Orleans 2005

Brasscheck TV: 9/11 and New Orleans: Ominous Parallels

I'm surprised so few people see the parallels between 9/11 and New Orleans 2005. Here are nine similarities that come to mind right away:

1. Warnings from a highly sophisticated tracking and early
warning system were ignored by government officials In the case of 9/11, NSA intercepts, FBI investigative reports and radar imagery were ignored. In the case of New Orleans, meteorological data which predicted the severity of the storm was actively ignored by the government

2. An expensive system which was designed to protect citizens failed catastrophically In the case of 9/11, the air defence system designed and maintained at a lifetime cost exceeding one trillion dollars failed. In the case of New Orleans, levees COLLAPSED ("topping" was never more than a minor problem for the city.)

3. Nothing was done to mitigate the effects of the catastrophe In the case of 9/11, fighter jets sat on the ground and were even ordered to stay away when in the air. In the case of New Orleans, nothing was done to evacuate people without cars or even clearly inform people that an evacuation was necessary.

4. Immediately after both incidents, the government claimed that no one could have predicted it In fact, in both cases numerous detailed government studies predicted the very thing that happened.

5. Relief efforts were non-existent In the case of 9/11, there was no plan on the books to deal with the need for a mass evacuation from Manhattan. It was only a spontaneous armada of private ships directed by a local mariner that saved the day. Over 500,000 were evacuated from Manhattan in less than 12 hours. In the case of New Orleans, not only did the government not provide relief efforts, it also actively interfered with them. The non-relief efforts extended for days - even weeks and months after the incident.

6. The "solution" to the problem involved glorifying military might and removing traditional legal limits on its use 9/11 became the justification for a series of illegal and pointlessly vicious wars that have resulted in the death of well over 600,000 innocent civilians. New Orleans has become the justification to use military force in the US any time without traditional legal restraints.

7. The victims continue to suffer - largely untreated - in spite of billions of dollars spent "to help" In the case of 9/11, first responders and relief workers are dying of lung and other ailments and are being refused help with their medical expenses. In the case of New Orleans, the list of government malfeasance is almost too long to cite, but one glaring example is that the working poor, who bore the brunt of the catastrophe, are being victimized again as storm damage is being used as an excuse to bulldoze public housing.

8. The exact cause of the system collapse that made the catastrophe possible is still not clear In the case of 9/11, the "official" engineering report as to why the towers collapsed simply does not make physical sense. In the case of New Orleans, many residents say they heard explosions that preceded several of the levee collapses. The AP reported a "shoot out" in the vicinity of one of the levees which collapsed. The story was pulled and never run again. At the time, there was no looting reported anywhere in the city and this area was completely free of looting. (It's kind of hard to loot a levee.) http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20050913&articleId=941 http://www.arcticbeacon.com/11-Jan-2006.html

9. Both catastrophes have proven to be massive financial windfalls for contractors who are allied with the Bush White House http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=21843 Final observation: 9/11 became the justification for a massive oil grab in Iraq. Did you know there is oil and gas under the ground in many of the New Orleans area communities that were devastated by the levee failures? Previously, drilling for oil and gas in these areas was unthinkable because they were so densely populated. Now, oil and gas drilling are already getting fast tracked in St. Bernard's Parish. More to come I'm sure.... http://www.sbpg.net/cannizaro080206.html - Brasscheck Visit http://www.brasschecktv.com/ for videos about:

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Has it occurred to anyone that what is happening in Iraq is exactly what this Cabal had planed to happen. Civil War. This Government never intended for there to be an orderly government in Iraq. That would not be conducive to controlling OUR OIL that happens to be in their country. Our special forces blew up Masques and set the people against each other. Interesting that you have not heard a word about the oil fields. You can bet that they are secure. Bush now wants to bring in more troops; We are going to escalate, but not to bring order, but to widen this war. There will come another "False Flag" operation here in this country and blamed on Iran to give excuse to attack. Oh but you say we don't have the military power? This time it could very well be nuclear.

Debunking 911 Myths?

THE HIDDEN HAND OF THE C.I.A.AND THE 9/11 PROPAGANDA OF POPULAR MECHANICS
A brutal purge of the senior staff at Popular Mechanics preceded the publication of last month's scandalous propaganda piece about 9/11. Pulling the strings is the grand dame of Hearst Magazines and behind the scene is her obscure husband a veteran propaganda expert and former special assistant to the director of the C.I.A.The Reichstag fire, a key event in German history, and the steps that followed en suite leading to the Nazi dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, provide remarkable precedents for what occurred in the United States on 9/11 and since.The fire that consumed the German parliament building on the night of February 27, 1933, is "widely believed," according to Encyclopedia Britannica, to have been contrived by the newly formed Nazi government to turn public opinion against its opponents and allow it to assume emergency powers.The day after the burning of the Reichstag, the government headed by Adolf Hitler enacted a decree "for the Protection of the People and the State." Hitler's emergency decree dispensed with all constitutional protection of political, personal, and property rights.Likewise, a month after 9/11 the U.S. Congress passed, without even reading, similar emergency legislation: the Bush administration's USA PATRIOT Act of 2001. The pre-prepared massive security act's long title is "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism."Within a month of the Reichstag fire, on March 23, 1933, the parliament passed the Enabling Act, whereby its legislative powers were transferred to Hitler's Reich Cabinet. This act, passed by a vote of 444 to 94, legally sanctioned the Nazi dictatorship,Another parallel is seen in the way George W. Bush and Hitler came to power. Bush obtained the presidency in 2001 through a Supreme Court decision after a flawed and un-counted election, while Hitler secured the German chancellorship through elections in November 1932 in which the Nazi Party failed to win an outright majority.Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, is thought to have let arsonists into the parliament building through a tunnel leading from the official residence of Hermann Goring, Reichstag president and Hitler's chief minister. Goring then presided over the official investigation, which blamed the communists. In a similar manner, the Bush administration openly opposed an independent investigation of 9/11 and fixed blame on Osama Bin Laden and 19 Arab terrorists. Based on this official, but unproven, explanation for 9/11 the United States has invaded and occupied two Middle Eastern nations."DISINFORMATION AND DECEPTION""Ninety-five percent of the work of intelligence agencies around the world is disinformation and deception," Andreas von Bulow, former parliamentary official responsible for the budget for Germany's intelligence agencies, told American Free Press in December 2001.Like Nazi Germany of 1933, American newsstands today carry a mainstream magazine dedicated to pushing the government's "truth" of 9/11 while viciously smearing independent researchers as "extremists" who "peddle fantasies" and make "poisonous claims."The magazine pushing the government's 9/11 propaganda, Popular Mechanics (PM), is published by the Hearst family. Its March cover story, "Debunking 9/11 Lies," has been exposed by credible researchers to contain numerous distortions and flawed conclusions.American Free Press revealed that Benjamin Chertoff, the 25-year-old "senior researcher" who authored the 9/11 article, is related to Michael Chertoff, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The PM article illustrates how a propaganda method, used by dictatorships, is now being employed by the U.S. government: controlling mainstream media outlets to promote its version of 9/11.The actions of Michael Chertoff concerning the events of 9/11, the non-investigation that followed, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the propaganda being disseminated in PM, are strikingly similar to actions attributed to the Nazi ministers Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goring.While Chertoff is the "czar" of DHS, he is not sovereign at PM or Hearst Magazines, its corporate parent. The president of Hearst Magazines, one of the world's largest publishers of monthly magazines with 18 U.S. titles and more than 100 international editions, is Cathleen P. Black, a 60-year old native of Chicago. Black oversees the publication of 175 titles around the world including Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, and Popular Mechanics.Black is a former president and publisher of USA Today. In 1983, Black was made president of the new newspaper published by Gannett. The following year she was made publisher and soon became a member of Gannett's board of directors."Despite her efforts," her biography reads, "USA Today did not show an operating profit in the eight years that Black was there." The newspaper's non-profitability notwithstanding, Gannett paid Black $600,000 a year for her efforts. USA Today reportedly had a circulation of 1.8 million when Black left in 1991. USA Today is often given away free of charge.Black left USA Today to become president and chief executive of the nascent Newspaper Association of America (NAA), formed on June 1, 1992. She then became the leading spokesperson and lobbyist for the nation's newspaper industry. Black's position at the NAA carried "considerable political heft," Paul Farhi of The Washington Post wrote, "given that the 1,400 members of her organization control the nation's editorial pages."In 1995, for an annual salary reported to be "in excess of $1 million," Black was hired by Hearst Corp. to head its magazine division.Named by Fortune magazine as one of the Most Powerful Women in American Business, Black sits on the boards of Hearst Corp., the Advertising Council, IBM, and Coca-Cola. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.It is often said that USA Today is controlled by the CIA, which, like the paper, is based in McLean, Virginia. The little-known fact that Black is married to Thomas E. Harvey, an obscure lawyer who became a White House Fellow in 1977 and served as "special assistant' to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), provides substance to these rumors. Black's corporate biography does not mention her husband.President Jimmy Carter made Harvey a White House Fellow in May 1977. "In that capacity," Harvey's biography reads, he "served as special assistant to the Director of the C.I.A. Following that he held senior appointed positions within the Department of Defense."The DCI at the time was Stansfield Turner, who had replaced George H.W. Bush.Prior to serving the CIA, Harvey worked at the New York law office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. The international law firm, co-founded by Morris Hadley, a 1916 member of Yale University's secret society Skull & Bones, has ties to the CIA and lists William H. Webster, DCI from 1987-1991, as a senior partner. Webster also serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council.In the 1980s, Harvey served as General Counsel and Congressional Liaison of the U.S. Information Agency, the former external propaganda arm of the U.S. government. Harvey also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Army and Navy. In 1992, Harvey was personnel director for the Bush-Quayle '92 Campaign. Calls to the offices of Black and Harvey for the purpose of this article went unanswered.THE COUP AT POPULAR MECHANICSIn the months leading up to the Chertoff article in PM, a brutal take-over occurred at the magazine. In September 2004, Joe Oldham, the magazine's former editor-in-chief was replaced by James B. Meigs, who came to PM with a "deputy," Jerry Beilinson, from National Geographic Adventure. In October, a new creative director replaced PM's 21-year veteran who was given ninety minutes to clear out of his office.A former senior editor at PM, who is forbidden from openly discussing the coup at PM, told AFP that the former creative director was abruptly told to leave and given severance pay of two weeks wages for every year spent at PM. "Three or four" people have been similarly dismissed every month since, he said. He said he was astounded that the coup at PM had not been reported in the mainstream media.PM has long been a supporter of the U.S. military. The magazine ran a full page ad in support of the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan in May 2003. Since the purge last September, however, PM readers have noticed that government propaganda has replaced scientific writing. A letter to the editor in the current issue says, "I think you guys are just another tool in the government's propaganda machine."

Actor James Brolin Latest Celebrity To Publicly Doubt 9/11

Actor James Brolin Latest Celebrity To Publicly Doubt 9/11 Follows in footsteps of David Lynch on same day
Paul Joseph WatsonPrison PlanetWednesday, December 6, 2006
Actor James Brolin, the husband of Barbara Streisand, has today become the latest celebrity figure to publicly question the official story behind 9/11, after he encouraged viewers of a top rated ABC talk show to check out a 9/11 truth website.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/061206actorbrolin.htm