Official story of 9/11 "almost entirely untrue"

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Saturday May 16, 2009 · 1:09 AM PDT

2009/05/16 · 01:09

Now, before you get your panties in a bunch, this is about a new book, titled "The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America's Defense on 9/11".

And before you get all outraged (The FAQ! The FAQ!), here is the author of the book, John Farmer:

John Farmer served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, where his areas of responsibility included assessing the national response to the terrorist attacks and evaluating the current state of national preparedness for terrorist attacks and natural disasters, he also served as attorney general of New Jersey (1999-2002), as chief counsel to Governor Whitman, and as a federal prosecutor. He recently served as a subject matter/rule of law expert on security to the special envoy for Middle East regional security. He is currently a partner of a New Jersey law form and an adjunct professor of national security law at Rutgers University Law School. His editorials and articles have appeared in "The New York Times" and elsewhere

And my diary title are the words of Farmer's publisher, Houghton Mifflin.

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Thursday May 14, 2009 · 1:13 AM PDT

2009/05/14 · 01:13

"I'll put it to you this way: you give me a waterboard, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."
-- Jesse Ventura

As Jed Lewison reported here a while back, we now know that they tortured to justify Iraq war.

We also know that they destroyed dozens of tapes that were made documenting the torture.

We also know, as Jesse Ventura makes crystal clear in his statement above, that torture gives you bogus information.

But something that is quite little-known is that a great deal of the 9/11 Commission's report was based on information obtained through torture.

So just how accurate is the 9/11 Commission report?

Inky99

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Monday May 11, 2009 · 1:02 PM PDT

2009/05/11 · 13:02

Okay, the Pentagon is having a REALLY hard time keeping their stories straight these days.

On the one hand, American bombs blew up scores of civilians the other day, causing a massacre that resulted in two tractor trailers full of body parts to be delivered to a provincial governor's office to prove that the strikes occurred. The Pentagon responded by claiming that it was the "terrorists" who did this, throwing grenades into houses in order to blame the atrocities on the United States.

Then, yesterday, in a moment of high weirdness, General Petraeus came out and said that Al Qaeda is No Longer Operating in Afghanistan.

Gee, do you think someone's lying here?

Inky99

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Thursday May 07, 2009 · 10:48 PM PDT

2009/05/07 · 22:48

Our tax dollars at work under Bush:

Our tax dollars at work under Obama:

Can you spot the difference?

Inky99

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Thursday April 30, 2009 · 10:30 PM PDT

2009/04/30 · 22:30

Well, wouldn't you know it. Smithfield Farms, and the industrial pork industry in general, is flexing its muscle everywhere it can. First, pressure from the dead-pig industry led the W.H.O. to cease calling Swine Flu the Swine Flu ("to protect pigs" the headlines read. Protect them from what? Getting eaten? WTF?) And now they're managing to get the quite possible connection to their filthy swamp of pig shit in Mexico, from where many people believe this virus originated to be labelled a "conspiracy theory", just another wild internet rumor.

"Swine Flu Source Spawns Wild Theories" claims the headline.

This is a classic PR and propaganda tactic, designed to confuse the truth in people's minds with actual "wild" theories. It's a very effective way to mislead people into thinking that certain stories are false, an indirect strawman, if you will.

Inky99

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 10:26 PM PDT

2009/04/29 · 22:26

I know the hysteria is hard to shake off, but the WHO came out today and said that only eight people have actually died of this "swine flu" thus far.

Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO

Vivienne Allan, from WHO's patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths - all in Mexico - and 79 confirmed cases of the disease.

Inky99

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Sunday April 26, 2009 · 12:45 AM PDT

2009/04/26 · 00:45

In a stunning act of hypocrisy, Texas Governor Perry apparently has decided to change his mind, realizing that Texas actually can't take care of itself:

Perry Requests Antiviral Medications From CDC

AUSTIN (April 25, 2009)—Gov. Rick Perry Saturday asked the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 37,430 courses of antiviral medications from the Strategic National Stockpile as a precaution after three cases of swine flu were confirmed in Texas.

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Friday April 24, 2009 · 3:04 PM PDT

2009/04/24 · 15:04

The right-wing loves the whole notion of waterboarding = torture. Because they can easily spin that into something it's not. O'Reilly talks of "dunking a guy in some water" to save lives. The term itself, something it never used to be called (it used to be called, accurately, water torture) conjures up, at least subliminally, images of some kind of sport, like snowboarding, only with water! It's like calling a Prisoner of War a "detainee" to get around the rules covering P.O.W.'s.

So now Scumbag Hannity is volunteering for it. That's to be expected from the Propaganda Department of the Republican Party. But water torture is just the tip of the iceberg.

I'm here to demand that Hannity volunteer to have his penis sliced with a razor blade. For 18 months. In a Moroccan prison. Why? Because that's what Uncle Sam (our country, in our name, with our tax dollars) did to people in the last eight years or so. If he wants to go down that road, well, that's where it leads.

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 12:12 AM PDT

2009/04/21 · 00:12

Only Monsanto could figure out a way to profit from its self-created disasters. But that is exactly what Monsanto is doing in the Southeastern United States, where a "superweed" known as Palmer amaranth pigweed is ravaging cotton and soybean fields, often leaving them completely unfit for further cultivation. And it's spreading like, well, a true superweed. Tens of thousands of acres of farmland are simply being abandoned as farmers simply give up the war with this weed.

This strain of weed has been created by the overuse of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide, and the attendant use of its patented Roundup-resistant genetically modified organisms (GMO's).

This new strain of pigweed, resistant to Roundup (chemical name glyphosate), can only now be battled by applying even more cocktails of herbicides, containing many toxic, and even banned, ingredients. And how did Monsanto respond to this? Why, by knowing this disaster was coming and patenting the "new" recipes of herbicide cocktails which now must be used!

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 1:42 AM PDT

2009/04/16 · 01:42

Monsanto is, arguably, the most evil corporation on the face of the earth (more on that later). But what is even more troublesome is that Monsanto, a corporation, might be more powerful than the nation of Germany!

Germany has banned the cultivation of GM corn, claiming that MON 810 is dangerous for the environment. But that argument might not stand up in court and Berlin could face fines totalling millions of euros if American multinational Monsanto decides to challenge the prohibition on its seed.

So let me get this straight. A nation cannot simply ban Monsanto's product, even after said nation decides that it's bad for the environment? Even though EU law says that they, indeed, can ban such things? Wow.

Inky99

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 10:30 PM PDT

2009/04/13 · 22:30

We all know there's plenty of blame to go around as far as the destruction of the American economy. Unregulated banks-gone-wild, turning the financial system into a huge international casino, deliberately issuing bad loans ... we're all familiar with that by now.

But I stumbled across yet another reason the economy is in such bad shape, and, unlike these other things, it's not being addressed, at all and, if left alone, it will profoundly affect the economic future of us all.

It was an interview on Democracy Now with Thomas Geoghegan, a lawyer, author, and author of many books and articles, including a new one on this very subject for "Harper's".

The jist of his argument is this: That without usury laws, and caps on interest rates, capital (money) is drawn, on a massive scale, into the lucrative world of making loans, and away from actually making stuff, which has a much lower return on investment.

Follow over the bump ....

Inky99

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Thursday April 09, 2009 · 12:22 PM PDT

2009/04/09 · 12:22

Wow, what a difference a day makes!

Today, as a Recommended diary by soros, tells us, the NY Times is reporting that insiders are claiming that banks are in better shape than they thought they "might" be, and that all 19 major banks should pass their stress tests, even though they'll probably have to get bailed out even more down the road.

How odd that on Tuesday, Reuters reported that the results of the stress tests would be put off, so that the news wouldn't affect earnings season! And that, and I quote, "The last thing Treasury wants to do is set off a panic."

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