Tag: 9/11
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falling equipment hits 2 at wtc building
from ap: Part of the scaffolding surrounding a condemned skyscraper at the World Trade Center site fell… injuring two firefighters, fire officials said. It was the same building where two other firefighters died in a blaze last week. The demolition work on the former Deutsche Bank skyscraper had been suspended after Saturday’s fire, but workers…
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skeptic’s corner
A so-called “9/11 truth activist” sets up in PDX as the anniversary of the terror attacks approaches.from willamette week: Portland International Airport’s main terminal may not leap to mind as a likely place to encounter organized 9/11 conspiracy theorists. Even less likely is the notion that U.S. airport administrators or even – gasp! – airport…
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cia didn’t do enough to stop 9/11
from new york times: Gen. Michael V. Hayden, the C.I.A. director, just released a public summary of the agency’s internal post-mortem on its performance before the Sept. 11 attacks. In a news release paired with the document, the C.I.A. chief explained that he preferred to keep the document secret, urging “that we keep our focus…
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history channel’s 9/11 special is straw man hit piece
Documentary set up bias straw man arguments, ignored key evidence, afforded debunkers overwhelming majority of time – so-called “experts” Popular Mechanics are on the same corporate payroll as the History Channel itself, which is owned by Disney, GE and Hearst Publishing from paul joseph watson: Initial reaction to last night’s two hour History Channel Special…
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‘jfk, 9/11 & war’
from peter dale scott: In American history there are two types of event: ordinary events which the information systems of the country can understand and establish. There are also deep events, or meta-events, which the mainstream information systems of the country cannot digest. I mean by a “deep event” an event in which it is…
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ground zero blaze kills 2 firefighters
from new york times: Two firefighters were killed yesterday battling a blaze in the Deutsche Bank skyscraper, a vacant relic of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack that was in the process of being dismantled. The firefighters were among hundreds who poured into ground zero all afternoon to fight the high-rise fire, which was finally brought…
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9/11 workers outraged by new rudy claim
from aftermath news/newsday: Rudy Giuliani drew outrage and indignation from Sept. 11 first-responders yesterday by saying he spent as much time – or more – exposed to the site’s dangers as workers who dug through the debris for the missing and the dead. Speaking to reporters at a Cincinnati Reds ballgame he caught between fund-raisers,…
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cia report on 9/11 due by labor day
from total411/the hill: The CIA has been ordered to release by Labor Day a declassified summary of an internal report on the agency’s performance prior to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, possibly shedding light on whether senior officials made fundamental lapses in judgment. Under the 9/11 bill that President Bush signed into law…
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boeing teams with 5 airlines in 9/11 lawsuit against cia & fbi
from ny1: Five airlines and airline-maker Boeing have filed 9/11-related lawsuits in Manhattan Federal Court against the CIA and the FBI. The airlines say they need the agents’ testimony to defend themselves against lawsuits which say they were to blame for the 9/11 attacks. Forty-one cases were filed on behalf of 42 victims, because some…
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july clearinghouse
ron paul’s quixotic campaign confuses career pols gonzales’s truthfulness long disputed california city to transform red light cameras into spy cameras US agrees to $30bn defence aid deal with israel flying robots of destruction support our robots k-what? unbuilt maui tv station lands questionable call letters US army eyes truck-mounted laser captured & killed al-qaeda…
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mckinney sues atlanta newspaper for libel
from atlanta progressive news: Former US Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) has sued the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper for libel, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. The lawsuit was filed on July 26, 2007, in State Court of Fulton County, according to a copy of the court filing obtained by Atlanta Progressive News. The lawsuit focuses on what…
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news on the march
no evidence of enemy fire in tillman deathfrom ap: Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman’s forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player’s death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press… No…
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hero 9/11 rescue dog dies of cancer
from nbc5: A black Labrador that burrowed through smoking debris after Sept. 11 and flooded rubble after Hurricane Katrina in search of survivors has died of cancer. Owner Mary Flood had 12-year-old Jake put to sleep Wednesday after a last stroll through the fields and a dip in the creek near their home in Oakley,…
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garofalo on conan: 9/11 was an inside job
from blacklisted news: Janeane Garofalo used an opportunity on Late Night with Conan O’Brien (july13) to discuss her wish to hold up a puppy to offset discussion of ‘controversial’ political issues, saying ‘9/11 Was an Inside Job’ and naming Bush as the ‘worst president of all time.’
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ellison compares bush to hitler
from men’s news daily/wikinews: Freshman Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN), the only Muslim in U.S. Congress, has caused controversy after comparing President Bush to Adolf Hitler, and suggesting that the Bush Administration may have been complicit in the terror attacks of 9/11. Speaking to a group of atheists in his home district in Minnesota, Ellison equated…