July 2009

July 22, 2009I am writing to endorse the www.nyccan.org initiative. It is shocking that one of the greatest mass murders in the history of the United States has not yet received an adequate investigation. The limitations and shortcomings of the 9/11 Commission have now been widely recognized, and even its two chairmen have acknowledged that the commission was “set up to fail.” Meanwhile this country continues to live under major legal and even constitutional changes flowing from an event which we still do not adequately understand. It is not too much to say that the future of America as an open society will depend in large part on whether it can find the political will to determine what happened on that fateful day.

Peter Dale Scott

Paul
Zarembka will be interviewed today on his excellent 9/11 book, The
Hidden History of 9/11. The one-hour broadcast will aired on Bonnie Faulkner’s
KPFA program ‘Guns and Butter: The Economics of Politics’, where she has given
considerable attention to 9-11 on her program for many years..
The interview can be heard at 4 p.m. Eastern/1 p.m. Pacific, available at http://www.kpfa.org/
It will also be available as an archive thereafter at http://www.kpfa.org/node/34
More on The Hidden History of 9/11:
Information tends to flow centripetally, from the margins to the center, and
not vice versa, in the same way as sensations travel from our finger tips to
our brain and central nervous system. Paul Zarembka’s Hidden History of 9-11,
doesn’t subscribe to any one conspiracy theory, but it argues, persuasively,
that familiarity with the fault lines of the official story opens a reader to
a fundamental and necessary awareness. We may never know the full story of 9-11,
in the same way that we may never know the full story of the Kennedy assassinations,
but the awareness that we do have following these events provides us at the
very least with a healthy skepticism and a willingness to entertain the possibility
of there being counter-narratives that cannot be dismissed.

From Kevin Ryan
July 21, 2009
A new paper is available at The
Journal of 9/11 Studies. This is from Professor Graeme MacQueen, and is
called “Did the Earth Shake Before The South Tower Hit the Ground?”
Here is the abstract:

“In the debate over the collapses of the Twin Towers on 9/11, the shaking
of the earth that accompanied these collapses has played an important role.
This shaking registered clearly on seismographs. Less clear, however, are
its causes and the times it began. The National Institute of Standards and
Technology emphasizes the role of the debris from the collapsing buildings
in producing the seismic signals. In assessing NIST’s hypothesis I focus
on the collapse of the South Tower and attempt to determine the time the collapse
began, the time the debris from the Tower struck the ground, and the temporal
relation of these events to the shaking of the earth that accompanied the
collapse. I consider both the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s seismic
evidence and the evidence provided by a less studied form of seismic instrument,
the video camera. I also draw on witness testimony. I conclude that key statements
by NIST are false. Major shaking of the earth, and corresponding seismic signals,
started well before the debris hit the ground. In fact, it seems certain that
the shaking of the earth started before visible signs of building collapse.
This evidence is incompatible with the official NIST hypothesis of the cause
of the collapse of the Towers.”

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GUNS AND BUTTER with Bonnie Faulkner
Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? — David Ray Griffin
Interview with David Ray Griffin about his new book, “Osama bin Laden Dead
or Alive?”. We examine all the evidence, both that indicating bin Laden
died, and that suggesting he is still alive; the important bin Laden videos
and audio recordings, the significance, if any, in the timing of their release;
statements by significant political and intelligence figures; and why the hunt
for bin Laden must proceed.

Twenty-Five Ways To Suppress Truth: The Rules of Disinformation (Includes The
8 Traits of A Disinformationalist) by H. Michael Sweeney
copyright (c) 1997, 2000 All rights reserved
(Revised April 2000)
Posted July 18, 2009
911blogger.com
Built upon Thirteen Techniques for Truth Suppression by David Martin,
the following may be useful to the initiate in the world of dealing with veiled
and half-truth, lies, and suppression of truth when serious crimes are studied
in public forums. This, sadly, includes every day news media, one of the worst
offenders with respect to being a source of disinformation. Where the crime
involves a conspiracy, or a conspiracy to cover up the crime, there will invariably
be a disinformation campaign launched against those seeking to uncover and expose
the truth and/or the conspiracy. There are specific tactics which disinfo artists
tend to apply, as revealed here. Also included with this material are seven
common traits of the disinfo artist which may also prove useful in identifying
players and motives.
The more a particular party fits the traits and is guilty of following the
rules, the more likely they are a professional disinfo artist with a vested
motive. People can be bought, threatened, or blackmailed into providing disinformation,
so even “good guys” can be suspect in many cases.
A rational person participating as one interested in the truth will evaluate
that chain of evidence and conclude either that the links are solid and conclusive,
that one or more links are weak and need further development before conclusion
can be arrived at, or that one or more links can be broken, usually invalidating
(but not necessarily so, if parallel links already exist or can be found, or
if a particular link was merely supportive, but not in itself key to) the argument.
The game is played by raising issues which either strengthen or weaken (preferably
to the point of breaking) these links. It is the job of a disinfo artist to
interfere with these evaluations… to at least make people think the links
are weak or broken when, in truth, they are not… or to propose alternative
solutions leading away from the truth. Often, by simply impeding and slowing
down the process through disinformation tactics, a level of victory is assured
because apathy increases with time and rhetoric.