1. “9/11 Defense Lawyer Condemns NYC Illegal Show Trial
Fenstermaker says he will not be the attorney to any of the defendants, even if they asked him, because he believes the proceedings will eventually be material for an international war crimes tribunal, and judges and anyone else involved could be charged, the proceedings are so flawed.
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This is a very important interview that should receive wide distribution within and beyond the 9/11 Truth community. It sheds light on exactly what the government is doing with these show trials and precisely what we should expect in terms of how the media represents our movement. I was thinking after reading it about the Niemöller “First they came for the Communists” poem. In this instance they’re going after the alleged terrorists. They’ve rounded them up, imprisoned them, tortured them for years and now they are putting on both civilian and military show trials — and the American people and the people of the world are allowing them to get away with this.
The question is, who is next? We already know how close WE are to being labeled “terrorists”. Just as 9/11 was pulled off in broad daylight, cameras at the ready, this, too, will be an event staged to underscore the validity of the 9/11 narrative. If we allow this to stand, all of us are doomed. I’m not being theatrical but quite serious.
It may be that these show trials are thought necessary precisely because of the effectiveness of the Truth movement. True we are still very much a minority but we are a growing minority. The establishment is working over time to keep their narrative in place and they do this by acting as if any questions about it are not even worthy of discussion. The government and media’s most effective tool is silence. The one thing we can be certain is that these trials will not allow the introduction of ANY evidence that might contradict this prevailing narrative. If they succeed at this the establishment believes (I think) they will have shot the Truth movement out of the water and sealed their version of history for all time.
This must not be allowed to happen. If it does, it will be the ‘go ahead’ for the full-on fascist state that is waiting in the wings. All it will need is a ‘provocation’ to justify it in the minds of the masses.”
http://www.911blogger.com/node/22090
Even Obama Understands He Doesn’t Deserve this Award
But in the end, a Nobel Prize cannot change the nature of a man, and a Peace Prize will no more turn a hawk into a dove than a Nobel Prize in Mathematics would turn an uneducated man with no mathematics background into an insightful genius. It may perhaps serve as a lesson to the selection committee, that these awards are best left to people who have actually accomplished something in their field instead of trendy faces that they hope to co-opt to their own agenda.
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Then, in what must’ve been one of the least humble and least appropriate speeches ever given before the Nobel Committee, Obama declared non-violence to be impractical and insisted that the “limits of reason” meant that the American military would continue to have to be used for “moral” reasons.
In extolling the virtues of war while accepting what was supposed to be a prize for radical advocates of peace, President Obama had what could only be called one of the quintessential jerkass moments of American history, an embarrassing exhortation to the advocates of peace to accept violence as the one true way of solving the world’s problems.”
http://news.antiwar.com/2009/12/09/nobelprize/
3. Actually, the Pentagon, along with US, its military, and the mainstream media, is acting in contempt of every human on the face of the planet:
“Judge finds Pentagon in contempt in Gitmo case”
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/12/10/judge-finds-pentagon-in-contempt-in-gitmo-case/
4. I wish every soldier would snub his civilian commanders by refusing to kill anymore civilians for any reason:
“Gordon Brown snubbed by soldiers’ ‘curtain’ protest”
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6945976.ece
5. I wonder if we could convince anyone to reward us monetarily for informing the world that the real conspirators are sitting in government/military offices, and working for all levels of mainstream media, all over the world.
Not only is the existence, and size, of these payments for contributing to a fictional narrative absurd, but they quote a ‘man’ named Sims. Ludicrous.
“$100K reward for Moussaoui tipster; 2nd in case
Gov’t gives $100K reward to 2nd tipster in Moussaoui case; far smaller than 1st $5M award”
http://wire.antiwar.com/2009/12/09/100k-reward-for-moussaoui-tipster-2nd-in-case-2/
6. “Top Things that would Redeem Obama’s Peace Prize
2. Resist calls for Iran to be bombed. Such a raid would guarantee that Iran would start a crash program to develop a nuclear weapon, and there would be no way to stop it short of full-scale war.
3. Stop allowing the CIA to operate drones with which to assassinate people. It is illegal and shameful.
4. Get the Palestinians a state by the end of 2011, even if by unilateral recognition. Palestinian statelessness is the biggest human rights scandal in the world, since citizenship is the right to have rights.”
7. “Political Linguistics in America The American Kleptocratic “Necrocracy”: A “Democracy” that Kills
The democracy being promoted and made safe is not the one of rule by the people. It is a kleptocratic necrocracy that kills so that it can scavenge the carcasses of the dead and dying so that America can continue to be the largest consumer of the world’s resources. Such is the democracy that the youth of Western nations are being asked to fight and die for, and it is made possible by the ambiguity in the word democracy what has made the term meaningless.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16469
8. “Israel’s Notorious Hannibal Procedure Army directive behind shooting of mental patient
The fatal shooting by Israeli soldiers of an Israeli man earlier this week as he tried to scale a fence into the Gaza Strip was reportedly part of a drastic procedure the army was supposed to have phased out several years ago.
The Israeli media reported that Yakir Ben-Melech, 34, had bled to death after he was shot under the “Hannibal procedure”, designed to prevent Israelis from being taken captive alive by enemy forces.
One critic, Uri Avnery, a former Israeli legislator and leader of Gush Shalom, a small radical peace group, defined the procedure as meaning: “Liberate the soldier by killing him”.”
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16479
9. “Why don’t the powerful get grilled like this?
As superb and skillful as this demolition was, and as heinous as people like Richard Cohen are, I’m more impressed when relentlessly adversarial interviews like this are targeted at people who are genuinely powerful and well-regarded by our political establishment (as Rachel has done before). When it’s obscure, stigmatized nobodies who are subjected to this treatment — easy targets — I’m less moved. After all, even Beltway power-worshiping sycophants like Chris Matthews have shown a willingness in the past to expose a guest’s ignorance with relentless questioning to the point of humiliation — as long as the guest was some obscure, fringe figure who had no real standing in the power circles Matthews reveres.
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If you watch a typical establishment television reporter conduct an interview with someone who is already marginalized and despised by All Decent People, you’ll often see them suddenly become very aggressive and scrutinizing in a way that they would never dare do if they were interviewing a top political official or respected Washington Wise Man.
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The point in which I’m interested here is how rare it is for interviews like this to be conducted by establishment journalists with people who have real power. Could one even imagine, for instance, Tim Russert’s having questioned Dick Cheney this way prior to the Iraq war, or any of the standard array of pompous, blowhard Senators being treated to an interview like this by any standard Sunday morning TV host?
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Just imagine how much better things could be if our political leaders were routinely subjected to the kind of surgically probing, lie-exposing interrogation which Rachel imposed on her homosexual-converter guest. But the reasons they almost never are speak volumes about our media stars and their true function.”
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/
10. “US Terrorizes Iran
The briefest explanation is unless a nation can justify its military use as self-defense from armed attack from a nation’s government that is “instant, overwhelming, and leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation,” all other acts of war are unlawful. The legal definition of “self-defense” ends when the attackterminates. In general legal definition, no party is allowed use of force under the justification of “self-defense” if the law can be applied for redress and remedy. “
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24154.htm
11. “US Cutting Gaza Lifeline
Making an American ‘Impenetrable Underground Wall’ the Laughing Stock of the World—Leave It to the People of Gaza
One more time, the American government and the Obama administration has been an active participant in the continued inhumane treatment of the people of Gaza and should be held accountable, along with Israel and Egypt for violations of human rights of the people of Gaza.”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24155.htm
