1. “Judge’s Order Could Keep Public From Hearing Details of 9/11 Trials
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The military judge overseeing proceedings against five of the men accused of planning the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks signed an order designed to protect classified information that is so broad it could prevent public scrutiny of the most important trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, according to lawyers and human rights groups.
The protective order, which was signed on Dec. 18 by Judge Stephen R. Henley, an Army colonel, not only protects documents and information that have been classified by intelligence agencies, it also presumptively classifies any information “referring” to a host of agencies, including the CIA, the FBI and the State Department. The order also allows the court in certain circumstances to classify information already in the public domain and presumptively classifies “any statements made by the accused.”
Three of the accused, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, are defending themselves and, under the order, anything they say during the course of the trial could be shielded from the public.
“These rules turn the presumption of openness on its head, making what is perhaps the most important trial in American history presumptively closed to the public and the press,” said Jennifer Daskal, senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch. “If these rules applied in all cases, there would be no such thing as an open trial in America.”
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Daskal, however, said: “These rules seem little more than a thinly disguised attempt to classify evidence simply because it might be embarrassing or unlawful. These five men are known to have been tortured and severely mistreated during their years in CIA custody, including the acknowledged waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The claims of torture should be investigated rather than concealed.”
…Kangaroo court proceedings classified, of course.
Where is:
Hijacker fingerprints upon aircraft controls?
Eyewitnesses to hijackers behind controls?
Positively confirmed confessions by hijack pilots behind controls?
Instead:
Only radio and phone transmission “evidence” that could have been faked and might not even be sufficient to convict a purse snatcher.
Bottom line:
The technology to precisely self-navigate the 9/11 planes became available just 1 year before 9/11 and evidence used to support the official version of events is dubious:
Of course they are making great efforts to keep these “trials” secret because they have nothing on these guys related to 9-11, except, perhaps, something that will incriminate the U.S. government. So the front line is the issue of making these trials public. I would say they might even kill these prisoners in a fire if things don’t go their way, because from their perspective, it is absolutely necessary that these trials never see the light of day.“
http://www.911blogger.com/node/19011
2. “Home Secretary Jacqui Smith tests our readiness to enter the full Orwellian nightmare by announcing Private firm may track all email and calls, The Guardian, 31 December 2008.
The former Director of Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken Macdonald commented:
“The tendency of the state to seek ever more powers of surveillance over its citizens may be driven by protective zeal. But the notion of total security is a paranoid fantasy which would destroy everything that makes living worthwhile. We must avoid surrendering our freedom a
s autonomous human beings to such an ugly future. We should make judgements that are compatible with our status as free people.”
“This database would be an unimaginable hell-house of personal private information… It would be a complete readout of every citizen’s life in the most intimate and demeaning detail. No government of any colour is to be trusted with such a roadmap to our souls.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/19008
3. “The political/media establishment consensus views:
1. Authoritarianism=patriotism.
2. Government officials always act in good faith.
3. People who question the findings of authority figures are a)unpatriotic b)conspiracy nuts c)mentally ill d)all of the above.
4. Everything classified is for good reason or merely to cover up embarrassing conduct–conduct that is in no way criminal.
5. Implied national unity. Suggesting that the government and the public are on the same page.
I recently read the book Nation of Secrets: The Threat to Democracy and the American Way of Life by Ted Gup. OKC and 9/11 could not be better examples that support the author’s thesis.
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[So Oklahoma City was also a controlled demolition, just like the WTC, not a truck bomb:]
Many critics of the official explanation point to a blast effects study published in 1997, utilizing test results from the Eglin Air Force Base, which concluded that “it is impossible to ascribe the damage that occurred on April, 1995 to a single truck bomb containing 4,800 lbs. of ANFO” so that the damage to the Murrah building was “not the result of the truck bomb itself, but rather due to other factors such as locally placed charges within the building itself.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/19005
4. “Gaza and Energy Geopolitics
The military occupation of Gaza is intent upon transferring the sovereignty of the gas fields to Israel in violation of international law.
What can we expect in the wake of the invasion?
What is the intent of Israel with regard to Palestine’s Natural Gas reserves?
A new territorial arrangement, with the stationing of Israeli and/or “peacekeeping” troops?
The militarization of the entire Gaza coastline, which is strategic for Israel?
The outright confiscation of Palestinian gas fields and the unilateral declaration of Israeli sovereignty over Gaza’s maritime areas?
If this were to occur, the Gaza gas fields would be integrated into Israel’s offshore installations, which are contiguous to those of the Gaza Strip. (See Map 1 above).
These various offshore installations are also linked up to Israel’s energy transport corridor, extending from the port of Eilat, which is an oil pipeline terminal, on the Red Sea to the seaport – pipeline terminal at Ashkelon, and northwards to Haifa, and eventually linking up through a proposed Israeli-Turkish pipeline with the Turkish port of Ceyhan. “
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=11680
5. “Whatever the motives, for America to blindly support Israel’s self-destructive and unjustified behavior does not serve Israeli interests and — most importantly — does not serve America’s. Blind support isn’t “friendship,” nor is enabling someone else’s destructive behavior. It’s subservience. And few things are as harmful or as unjust as the cowardly, lockstep behavior of both major American political parties when it comes to Israel.
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That same mentality — that if the President orders it, then it’s deemed legal, even if it’s a crime — was also the basis for the
sole “concern” expressed by Nancy Pelosi when told that the NSA was spying on Americans without the warrants required by law: ”I am concerned whether, and to what extent, the National Security Agency has received
specific presidential authorization for the operations you are conducting.” And that same “just-following-orders” defense was the prime basis for immunizing lawbreaking telecoms who “did what they were told” by The Leader.
This was Sen. Kit Bond’s perfectly illustrative rendition of this mentality when explaining why telecom immunity was justified:
I’m not here to say that the government is always right, but when the government tells you to do something, I’m sure you would all agree that I think you all recognize that is something you need to do.
A more collective explicit embrace of the ”just-following-orders” defense is hard to imagine. If the President orders it, you do it, and it’s legal and right.
Then again, if you examine virtually any of the various arguments made by our political and media elites as to why investigations and prosecutions of Bush officials should not be pursued, you’ll find an explicit repudiation of at least one — and probably more than one — of the four above-listed core international law principles that were universally adopted in the wake of Nuremberg. There’s probably something healthy about that. A nation is defined not just by its actions but also by the principles it affirms and rejects. And the only way to argue that Bush officials shouldn’t be held accountable for the crimes they ordered and authorized is to make clear that one does not actually subscribe to these core principles of Western justice. There’s value in having our political establishment be forced to declare that so openly.“
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
6. http://pushjelly.blogspot.com/2009/01/windows-7-to-be-more-infuriating-than.html
“Windows 7 To Be “More Infuriating Than Ever”
Microsoft Promises 85% Increase In Blood Pressure
During his speech at the CES, Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer announced that members of the public will be able to scream at Beta versions of Windows 7 from January 9th when it will be available to download from a fiddly and often-unavailable site.
Ballmer stated “In today’s difficult economic climate, we feel that what the computing public really needs is a hideously expensive operating system riddled with bugs that can only be properly used on the sort of computers that are usually busy challenging the Grand Masters of chess.”
Key features of Windows 7 looks set to include:
An updated media player that doesn’t play any file known in this or alternate universes, takes half an hour to start and makes any film the user is lucky enough to get to work look like it’s being viewed through a thick pair of women’s tights.
A new version of the infamous Word Paperclip. In Windows 7, an animated Rottweiler will constantly take a steaming shit on, or try to chew up, any document you’re trying to work on. Ballmer has promised that complex algorithms have ensured this feature cannot be switched off. Sound recognition programs in Windows 7 will guarantee that weeping entreaties from the user will start the Rottweiller chuckling like Muttley from Wacky Races.
Anti-piracy measures will mean that any illegally-copied versions of Windows 7 will cause a pistol to appear from the user’s keyboard and unload eight rounds of copper-jacketed death into their faces. Windows 7 will then set fire to the user’s house and leave their decapitated head on a pike outside the burnt shell of the building as a warning to others.
A whole new range of fascinating and utterly incomprehensible error messages await the users of Windows 7. These will include “Error 90210 – parameters smell like mice”, “Fatal Incident 42: Get out of the house, this thing’s going to blow.” and “You press the Ctrl key. A silver dragon appears and burns you alive. Please turn back to page 72.”
Ballmer also promised that all drivers installed into Windows 7 will have the half-life of Polonium 214, the operating system will have all the compatibility of a Palestinian/Jewish mixed-race marriage and will have a product activation code longer than Pi. “Oh, and all the buttons will be in completely different places on all the programs too.” he added.
Anonymous sources claim that after his speech, Ballmer stated “To be honest, 99% of people just want a computer that they can use without having to have an engineering degree. Because we promise to deliver that, we can make the damned thing as temperamental as we want. In fact we’ve added a feature that pops up a massive photo of my saggy nut sack if the user tries to uninstall Windows 7. Why? Because we can.”
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