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Saturday, August 30, 2008 |
Newsday: "Smoldering debris from one of the fallen Twin Towers ignited flames at nearby World Trade Center Building 7, and the intense heat - not explosives - caused the skyscraper to collapse, according to a federal report."
It is amazing what 'scientists' will do for money nowadays.
WTC7 was brought down by a controlled and prepared demolition, there is no doubt about that.
Watch this satirical video.
"Do you work in a large office building? Then you should know about this recently discovered flaw in ALL EXISTING BUILDING CODES AND FIRE REGULATIONS that could cause the complete collapse of your office building."
More.
Another interesting fact in this respect:
EmbassyLaw: "Seven Saudi Arabian defendants who may have played a critical role in the 9/11 terrorist attacks cannot be sued in the United States, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. On August 14, 2008, the Second Circuit ruled that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act renders the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, four Saudi princes, a Saudi banker, and the Saudi High Commission for Relief to Bosnia and Herzegovina immune from litigation in U.S. courts."
11:48:54 AM 
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EUObserver: "The Warsaw Pact is dissolved, but despite promises, NATO remains and expands rapidly. Moreover, it maintains its right to pre-emptive use of nuclear weapons.
The Clinton administration begins a huge US military expansion programme in 1992, building bases, positioning advisers and infiltrating ministries with 'advisors' and people from mercenary firms in Eastern Europe, including Yugoslavia, and all around Russia. Russia's protests about its 'near abroad' are ignored.
NATO's bombing of Serbia and Kosovo violates all international law, takes place without UN Security Council mandate and leaves a thoroughly destroyed country behind. Russian arguments for a negotiated solution are ignored.
And now we are seeing the imposition of Ballistic Missile Defence, BMD, which is not a defensive system at all, but instead allows US territory to be protected against retaliation if the US launches a nuclear attack on another country. Russia thinks it is a bad idea - as bad as a similar system set up by the Russians across the border in Mexico would appear to the Americans.
As a show of respect for democracy, the deal has been made with Poland despite a full 90 percent of the people against BMD being situated on their territory. Russian worries about the system are repeatedly ignored. The system is supposed to protect us against rogue actors such as Tehran, but when Moscow offered to site the BMD on its territory closer to Iran, the US declined the offer, confirming Russia's fears that BMD is in fact aimed at her instead.
Then this year, the US and most EU member states decide that Kosovo shall be an independent state. All substantial Russian arguments for a negotiated compromise and predictions of that secession stimulating secession elsewhere are ignored.
Russia- is increasingly being seen as the great new threat from whom NATO will protect us, despite the country having military expenditure that is roughly five percent of that of NATO, seven percent of that of the United States, and 13 percent of that of the EU.
To diffuse this crisis, there needs first to be at least a little consideration of history. Next, some little empathy with non-US and non-EU actors. There must also be recognition that Western actions are not always innocent in their consequences. We must understand the utter counter-productivity of militarisation and its psycho-political effects.
Additionally, it would be helpful if Western mainstream media would stop re-cycling the Cold War stereotypes of an ever-aggressive Russia and disseminating, Pravda-style, only what Western militarist elites say.
Above all, we must remember that negotiations are far superior to threats and fear-mongering.
The Russians have now said: This far, but no longer. It would be wise of the West to listen to the warning. It is not in its own best interest to continue bullying and humiliating Russia."
The West has in the past decade betrayed Russia in the most indecent way. With a propaganda drive that exceeds that ever seen historically, the West is going imperialist again. All its advertised concern about human rights, progress and democracy is a lie. The scam has been exposed. The West is led by hypocrites and warmongers. Now is the time to stop and return to reason and common sense.
MoonofAlabama: "The Russians really, really fear U.S. troops at their boarder. Never, ever forget: They lost 20 million people in their last big fight.
In their mindset they assume that if the Russian Federation would look weak now, the neocon nuts in the U.S. might feel free to use the recent capacity build up to retake the now independent areas and, after that, place a direct U.S. presence in the Caucasus. The U.S. empire at the soft belly of the Russian sphere.
The RF strategy to avoid that situation is to now look strong and decisive. Make sure that the U.S. understands that this will escalate if such plans get implemented.
This is the really, really serious signal. The Russian Federation can go nuclear if needed."
LetMeTellYou: "The Kremlin had a clearly defined plan and was prepared to stand alone. By attacking South Ossetia Saakashvili set this plan in motion and it appears Russia was ready for everything the West could throw at it. And Medvedev made it perfectly clear that Russia will match any hostile move by the West, regardless of how far the situation escalates. Where this plan leads is another matter."
11:38:01 AM
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Guardian: "Britain is facing 'arguably the worst' economic downturn in 60 years which will be 'more profound and long-lasting' than people had expected, Alistair Darling, the chancellor, tells the Guardian today.
In the government's gravest assessment of the economy, which follows a warning from a Bank of England policymaker that 2 million people could be out of work by Christmas, Darling admits he had no idea how serious the credit crunch would become."
Bloomberg: "Finance officials from the U.S., Japan and Europe in mid-March drew up plans to strengthen the U.S. dollar following troubles at Bear Stearns Cos., Nikkei English News reported, citing unnamed sources.
The intervention designed by the U.S. Treasury Department, Japan's Finance Ministry and the European Central Bank called for the central banks to purchase dollars and sell euros and yen, with Japan providing the yen needed for the currency swap if the greenback's value dropped significantly, the news service said."
Japan and Europe have no long-term interest in supporting the dollar. It will have a negative effect on their own economies.
11:20:48 AM
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BBC: "Scottish police had information that might have changed the outcome of the Lockerbie bombing trial, a BBC TV programme has learned.
The information could have affected the credibility of key evidence, but was not passed to the defence team.
Libyan national Abdelbaset ali Mohmed al-Megrahi is serving life for killing 270 people in the 1988 bombing.
A prosecution witness had seen a picture linking al-Megrahi to the bombing before he identified him.
The Conspiracy Files: Lockerbie will be broadcast on Sunday, 31 August, 2008 at 2100 BST on BBC Two."
Newsnight.
More here.
The next scam would be to blame Syria or Iran. The West always uses this kind of thing to blame their enemies. The most logical possibility is that the bombing was specifically planned to blame Libya.
11:02:32 AM
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ACLU: "In a decision issued late Thursday, a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) judge denied a motion from the American Civil Liberties Union seeking to bring a measure of transparency to the court's legal review of the Bush administration's new spying law.
On July 10, less than two hours after the president signed the FISA Amendments Act (FAA) into law, the ACLU filed legal papers asking the FISC to ensure that any proceedings it might conduct relating to the scope, meaning or constitutionality of the FAA be open to the public to the extent possible. The ACLU also asked the secret court to allow it to file a brief and participate in oral arguments, to order the government to file a public version of its briefs addressing the law's constitutionality and to publish any judicial decision that is ultimately issued. The FISC oversees intelligence surveillance, typically operates in secret and hears arguments only from the government."
ACLU: "For years, the Bush administration illegally intercepted the emails and phone calls of millions of Americans. Rather than rein in this abuse of power, lawmakers on Capitol Hill caved in to the administration and gave the National Security Agency (NSA) even more expansive powers to spy on Americans than it had under the illegal warrantless wiretapping program President Bush secretly authorized in 2001."
10:35:56 AM
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