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Bob McIlvaine, Treason in America Conference, 03/06/10
9/11 Victim family member speaks at the Treason in America Conference in Valley Forge, PA.
Full Presentation:
YouTube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s37iXYENQ3Y
Many WTC responders show early signs of heart woes
Many WTC responders show early signs of heart woes
By MARILYNN MARCHIONE,
Ap Medical Writer – Sat Mar 13, 8:20 am ET
ATLANTA – Law enforcement officers who worked near ground zero after the World Trade Center attacks seem to show early signs of heart problems at a higher rate than would be expected for their age, a new study suggests.
Nearly half of about 1,200 law enforcement workers who went to Mount Sinai Medical Center's program in New York to monitor medical effects from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack showed some impaired heart function on ultrasound tests. The study was released Saturday at an American College of Cardiology conference.
"This is the first study to suggest a potential link between exposure to ground zero and early preclinical heart abnormalities," said Dr. Lori Croft, who led the work. Inhaling dust particles that can cause lung and heart disease may be to blame, she said.
The finding has many caveats. Researchers did not verify workers' presence at the site, and they do not know how many may have had pre-existing heart problems. Nor is there any comparison to other New Yorkers, or to police in other urban areas exposed to pollution and similar job stress.
"This could be an occupational find, or I might even have this problem because I live in New York City," Croft said.
Sicker workers also are more likely to seek testing than others who feel fine, making the portion found to have heart problems seem bigger than it may really be. The study was funded by the Fraternal Order of Police, which has encouraged workers to get suspected health issues checked.
The exams were done from January 2008 through June 2009. The study was limited to workers 40 to 50 years old because heart problems become more common after 50, Croft said. Workers with high blood pressure or heart valve problems were not included.
Among the rest, 47 percent had some degree of diastolic dysfunction — meaning the main pumping chamber of the heart does not relax properly between beats, so the heart can't fill with blood as it should. Only 7 percent of people in their 40s in the general population have this problem, Croft said.
"People that are 40 years old shouldn't have diastolic dysfunction. It means something. I don't know what it means," she said.
Previous research tied exposure to dust at ground zero to lung problems, asthma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jeffrey Hon, World Trade Center health coordinator for the New York City Health Department, said a city-appointed panel regularly reviews published research on health effects attributed to the attack. A registry kept by the city and the federal government is tracking the health of 71,000 people exposed to dust from the disaster.
"We're interested in looking at all studies," but each has strengths and limitations, he said.
The study follows Thursday's announcement of a settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 ground zero rescue and recovery workers. To collect, workers would need to prove they had been at the site or other facilities that handled debris, and give medical records backing their illness claims.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100313/ap_on_he_me/us_med_attacks_health_study
NYC CAN: "Building What?"
Fellow Advocates:
Today, March 15, 2010, we begin channeling the energy and strength of our movement into one voice to help the New York City Council become aware of the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.
Believe it or not, many New York City officials are only vaguely aware that a third building collapsed on September 11th, if they are aware at all. Our only purpose for contacting them is to politely ask that they take measures to investigate the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.
Therefore, there are two simple rules for participating in this campaign:
1) Talk only about World Trade Center Building 7
2) Be courteous and respectful
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NYC CAN will inform the council members’ offices that anyone who is disrespectful, or who mentions other aspects of 9/11, is trying to sabotage the legitimate call for a proper investigation into the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. But to ensure that opponents of truth do not undermine our effort, we will need each and every one of you to get involved and drown out their vitriolic voice with courtesy, clarity and honesty.
The Script
We have three points to make:
1) A third building called World Trade Center Building 7 also collapsed on September 11th. This building housed the Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operations Center.
2) The federal government issued a report saying that office fires caused this building to collapse, however, there is overwhelming physical and testimonial evidence that this building was brought down with the use of explosives.
3) In response, 1,100 architects and engineers have signed a petition calling for a new investigation because the federal government’s report is deeply flawed and unscientific.
Translated to a phone call:
• Hello, my name is _________. I would like to leave a message for Council Member ______ to ask that he/she take measures to investigate the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. Who should I speak with?
You will either be transferred to someone else, or the receptionist will say, “you can speak with me”, or the receptionist will say, “Thank you, we will let the council member know”. If you are given time to elaborate on your message, you say:
• I would like to inform the council member that:
i. A third building called World Trade Center Building 7 also collapsed on September 11th. This building housed the Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operations Center.
ii. The federal government issued a report saying that office fires caused this building to collapse, however, there is overwhelming physical and testimonial evidence that this building was brought down with the use of explosives.
iii. In response, 1,100 architects and engineers have signed a petition calling for a new investigation because the federal government’s report is deeply flawed and unscientific.
• Be sure to thank the person you are speaking with.
Translated to a fax (feel free to copy/paste this exact text):
March 15, 2010
Dear Council Member ___________,
I am writing to ask that you take measures to open an investigation into the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7.
World Trade Center Building 7 was the third building to collapse on September 11th when it came down at 5:20 in the afternoon. This building housed the Office of Emergency Management’s Emergency Operations Center.
An agency of the federal government called the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a report in 2008 saying that office fires caused this building to collapse, however, there is overwhelming physical and testimonial evidence that this building was brought down with the use of explosives.
In response, 1,100 architects and engineers have signed a petition calling for a new investigation because the federal government’s report is deeply flawed and unscientific. To learn more, please go to the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth website, AE911Truth.org.
You can watch footage of World Trade Center Building 7 collapse by googling "WTC 7".
Thank you very much for looking into this important matter.
Sincerely yours,
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Today’s Council Members
Council Member Maria del Carmen Arroyo
Phone: (718) 402-6130
Fax: (718) 402-0539
Council Member Charles Barron
Phone: (718) 649-9495
Fax: (718) 649-3111
Council Member Fernando Cabrera
Phone: (347) 590-2874
Fax: (347) 590-2878
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Because this is Day 1, we kindly ask you to email us at info@nyccan.org if you contacted all three council members so that we can get a rough estimate of how many people are participating. Also let us know if you learned anything interesting from your phone calls - we need your feedback to steadily improve our message.
Thank you for helping with this important effort.
Thinkers think and talkers talk. Patriots ACT.
www.NYCCAN.org
John Albanese, Treason in America Conference, 03/07/10
Activist and Filmmaker John Albanese speaks at the Treason in America Conference in Valley Forge, PA.
Full presentation:
YouTube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lbitsh9rM0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsAR-95m4Rc
Jon Gold on Peace of the Action's CAMP OUT NOW
Friends,
On Monday morning, we are setting up Camp OUT NOW on the lawn of the Washington Memorial. I have chosen to partake in this because for 9 years we have tried to use the "system" to bring truth and accountability for the 9/11 attacks, and the "system" does not work.
I don't know if you've noticed or not, but 9/11 is not being allowed in the courts. So I don't know what option is left. Part of 9/11 Truth is being anti-war. That's part of the reason we do what we do... or at least I've always thought it to be the case. That we are trying to end the "9/11 wars" by exposing the truth. I can't think of a better place for 9/11 Truth to be than an event designed to end the wars. Knowledge is, after all, power. So... I will be using my knowledge of 9/11 to help end these hideous and illegal wars. We have too much blood on our hands to do nothing.
I hope that you will tell your friends and family to support what it is we are trying to do. 9/11 Truth will be represented at Camp OUT NOW. Cindy has already told me I will be speaking. Please come if you can, but more importantly, don't let people forget we are out there. Please.
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Jon Gold
Charles Giles, Treason in America Conference, 03/06/10
9/11 First Responder Charles Giles speaks at the Treason in America Conference in Valley Forge, PA.
Full Presentation:
YouTube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3_Aiv_WSqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n38REnwAtow
3/14/10: A Message from Bob McIlvaine ....
Hello all:
Bob Mcilvaine asked me to post this statement:
"As many of you may already know, Cindy Sheehan and Jon Gold are in Washington protesting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They, along with many other anti-war activists, are camping out at the Washington Monument.
It surely is not easy to “keep the flame of protest’ when the media and special interest groups fight us at every juncture. But, as Cindy and I both know all too well, life is precious and we have lost too, too many young lives already.
Cindy and Jon, I cannot be with you, but I am truly there in spirit. May God keep you safe."
Bob McIlvaine
father of Bobby McIlvaine
Thank you,
Betsy
Cynthia Mckinney and Dr Nafeez Ahmed discuss 9/11 in UK Parliment
On the 8th of March 2010 Cynthia Mckinney (a former US Congresswoman and 2008 Green Party Presidential nominee) and Dr Nafeez Ahmed (best selling author and political scientist) address a meeting of Members of Parliament on the subject of the need for an independent investigation into the events of September 11th 2001.
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Congressman Rush Holt Urges Independent Anthrax Investigation
U.S. Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12) succeeded in including language in the 2010 Intelligence Authorization Bill that would require the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community to examine the possibility of a foreign connection to the 2001 anthrax attacks. The amendment was added less than a week after the FBI arbitrarily closed its investigation.
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The Anthrax Attacks Remain Unsolved: The FBI disproved its main theory about how the spores were weaponized.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575011421223515284.html
The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 24th, 2010
Guest Opinion: A thousand architects and engineers demand we open our eyes on 9/11- Ashland Daily Tidings
By Ron Hertz
Guest opinion
March 13, 2010
"Shutter Island," Martin Scorcese's nightmarish tale of a hospital for the criminally insane, has become America's favorite movie. The hospital's patients — or convicts — are in a state of denial, refusing to recognize the reality of their gruesome crimes. When it comes to the crimes of 9/11, America seems like "Shutter Island."
At a 9/11 conference held Feb. 19 in San Francisco, the consensus view presented was that those who swallow the government's view of the attacks are denying reality. Several speakers at the gathering, organized by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, explained with powerful evidence and images how the three World Trade Center towers most certainly collapsed with the aid of explosives.
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More:
http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100313/OPINION03/3130303/-1/NEWSMAP
About the newspaper:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashland_Daily_Tidings
Keep hammering them with such OP-ED's!
Challenging Stephen Colbert
by JF Ranger
World911Truth.org
Public Challenge to Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report.
Dear Stephen,
I am publicly challenging you, sir, to invite Mr. Richard Gage, AIA to your show for an interview.
Mr. Gage is a member of the American Institute of Architects and founder of the “Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth” organization. Over 1,100 professional architects and engineers support his call for a new 9/11 investigation. He is also supported by NYCCAN, the coalition of family members, survivors, first responders and others as well as the Jersey girls, who are in big part responsible for the creation of the first investigation.
To learn more about the man, you can watch his presentation “9/11 Blueprint for Truth: The Architecture of Destruction”, the most popular documentary on our website.
Full article available at http://world911truth.org/challenging-stephen-colbert
READERS IN COUNCIL - An interview that ran off the track --- by Yukihisa Fujita
Title: An interview that ran off the track
Source: The Japan Times
Published: Sunday, Mar. 14, 2010
Url: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/rc20100314a2.html
By YUKIHISA FUJITA
Member of the House of CouncilorsTokyo
As a member of the Diet's Upper House and as director general of the Democratic Party of Japan's International Department, I wish to comment on the circumstances of The Washington Post editorial "Poisonous thinking in Japan," which The Japan Times published on this page March 10. [The editorial referred to my ideas about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as "bizarre."]
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On March 3, Washington Post editorial writer Lee Hockstader visited me for an interview — requested through the Foreign Press Center — on Japan's attitudes toward immigration. The requested interview time of one hour was spent discussing the current situation relating to Japan's response to immigration and my opinions on this issue. Hockstader typed my comments into his laptop computer as he had requested.
After the interview ended and Hockstader closed his laptop, he mentioned that he had noticed from my resume that I had raised the issue of the 9/11 terror attacks in a Diet committee and asked whether I had some doubts about this issue. In response, I explained the circumstances that had led me to become involved in the 9/11 issue and pointed out a number of points that remained unexplained about the events of that day. I assumed that this question was separate from the interview just ended.
Although this was an informal chat regarding 9/11, at no point did I draw the conclusion that 9/11 was a conspiracy. I clearly stated I had never concluded that the collapse of the Twin Towers had been a result of a controlled demolition. Rather, my speech in the Diet had emphasized that it was necessary to investigate the origins of the "war on terror" from the perspective of assisting the relatives of 9/11 victims, and in relation to the war in Afghanistan and the provision of humanitarian assistance.
I have worked for many years to serve as a bridge between Japan and the United States, including by providing assistance to former American POWs held captive by Japan. I currently serve as senior director of the Research Committee on International Affairs and Global Warming Issues in the Upper House, but I was introduced in the editorial as "head of the Research Committee on Foreign Affairs." The editorial also describes me as a "Brahmin in the foreign policy establishment" of Japan when, in fact, I am not involved in policy matters.
I find it regrettable that this kind of biased article should be published in The Washington Post.
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The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer's own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times.
Rahm Emanuel Helped GOP Sink 9/11 Trial
From Consortium News: http://consortiumnews.com/2010/031110b.html
WH Chief Helped GOP Sink 9/11 Trial
By Jason Leopold
March 11, 2010
White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has collaborated behind the scenes with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham to oppose the Obama administration’s plans to use federal civilian courts, not military commissions, to try alleged Islamic terrorists, according to sources and press reports.
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Emanuel’s back-room dealings with Graham represent a little-noticed element of President Barack Obama’s gradual retreat from promises to rely on traditional civilian and military courts as the best way to bring alleged terrorists to justice and to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.
Though Emanuel’s defenders insist that he has been loyal to the administration’s decisions once they’ve been made, some evidence suggests that he continued to encourage Graham to resist politically sensitive judgments, such as Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to try five alleged 9/11 plotters in civilian court rather than before military commissions. ....
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Coleen Rowley, Treason in America Conference, 03/07/10
FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley speaks at the Treason in America Conference in Valley Forge, PA!
YouTube links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQDgVUFPTsc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg0xlsn0a-c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL552H0IVmk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnISPCQavIw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90Ne3FwriDY
Will Lee Hamilton examine the evidence?
This week, ABC's Nightline televised an excerpt from an interview with Lee Hamilton, former vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission. The purpose of the interview excerpt was to suggest that those who produced the official reports of what heppened on 9/11 are willing to openly examine all evidence related to those crimes. Since I've met with Mr. Hamilton privately before, I exchanged a few messages with him to follow-up on my previous attempts to get him to examine the evidence in a public forum.
Due to the critical nature of this question, I'm posting the exchanges here for the record.
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From: kncryan@msn.com
To: lee.hamilton@wilsoncenter.org
Subject: Follow-up letter
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 16:21:45 -0400
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Dear Mr. Hamillton,
Thanks again for taking the time to meet with us a few weeks ago. Attached is a letter with the questions you requested, and an invitation to join us at our next event.
We look forward to continuing this important discussion with you.
Sincerely,
Kevin Ryan
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From: Kevin Ryan [mailto:kncryan@msn.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:26 PM
To: lee.hamilton@wilsoncenter.org
Subject: RE: Follow-up letter
Dear Mr. Hamilton,
We now have dates and locations for our upcoming events. We're hoping you can arrange to join us for one or both of these.
On Thursday August 28th, our group will be presenting at the Monroe County Public Library, at approximately 7 PM in the auditorium. Speakers to date will include attorney Mick Harrison and Prof. Byron Bangert. We would be glad to give you half an hour or more, and include you on a Q&A session.
On Monday September 1st, the author and 9/11 Truth movement leader David Ray Griffin will speak at the Buskirk Chumley theater, again at approximately 7 PM. There will be a Q&A session at that event as well.
Please let us know if you care to join us, and if you would have any requests or conditions for doing so. We would do our best to accomodate you.
Best wishes,
Kevin Ryan
9/11 Working Group
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From: [email snipped - Mr. Hamilton's assistant]
To: kncryan@msn.com
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:41:35 -0400
Subject: RE: Follow-up letter
Kevin,
Lee asked that I thank you for your invitation to these two events but unfortunately his schedule will not permit attendance at either one.
Best,
Vicky
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From: kncryan@msn.com
To: lee.hamilton@wilsoncenter.org
CC: [email snipped - Mr. Hamilton's assistant]
Subject: Request for a follow-up meeting
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 11:15:39 -0400
Dear Mr. Hamilton,
Thank you again for meeting with members of our local 9/11 group last May. We really appreciated the chance to discuss the ongoing search for answers about 9/11.
You might have heard that there is new compelling evidence concerning what happened at the World Trade Center. Can we meet again to follow-up on our previous discussion, and to review new evidence with you?
Please let me know if and when you have time to meet.
Sincerely,
Kevin R. Ryan
Bloomington
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From: kncryan@msn.com
To: lee.hamilton@wilsoncenter.org
CC: [email snipped - Mr. Hamilton's assistant and ABC's Nightline]
Subject: FW: Follow-up letter
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:50:13 -0500
Dear Mr. Hamilton,
Last Monday, March 8th, you were portrayed on the television show ABC Nightline. In that show, you were quoted in this way:
Reporter's voice over: "...that Truthers are better at producing theories than evidence."
Hamilton: "When they bring these theories about what happened forward, the
appropriate question is; what evidence do you have of that and if they
have evidence then let's examine it in the court of public opinion."
I'm writing today to agree wholeheartedly with you, and to remind you that you have been invited to examine the evidence in the court of public opinion but you actually declined several opportunities. Please see the messages below [now above] for confirmation of that fact. Hopefully you remember our meeting, in May 2008, in which three of my fellow citizens and I personally gave you evidence that the official reports on the events of 9/11 fall far short of the truth. This evidence included a peer-reviewed paper published in the Open Journal of Civil Engineering, as well as the book "9/11 Contradictions" by David Ray Griifin.
Now that you have publicly claimed your desire to discuss the evidence in public, I would once again like to offer you the opportunity to have such an open discussion with me. I've been looking into the evidence for nearly seven years, and feel that I can represent the "truthers," as some people call us, very well. With your participation, you would help to ease the growing public apprehension that our government cannot share the truth about 9/11 with the American people.
My background uniquely qualifies me to have this public discussion with you. Not only am I a member of the 9/11 Working Group of Bloomington, located in the largest city in the congressional district where you served for many years, but I'm also co-author of several scientific papers on the subject, co-editor of The Journal of 9/11 Studies, a board director at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and a founding member of other groups including the forthcoming Scientists for 9/11 Truth.
Please consider this offer. To make sure that you and others have seen this request, I will post it publicly and submit it in letter form to the Bloomington Herald-Times.
Thank you for your consideration.
Kevin R. Ryan
Bloomington, IN
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:24:04 -0500
From: Lee.Hamilton@wilsoncenter.org
Subject: Re: FW: Follow-up letter
To: kncryan@msn.com
Dear Mr. Ryan,
Thank you for your email. Since you believe that the official reports on the events of 9/11 fall far short of the truth, presenting your arguments in public, with the strongest available evidence, and through multiple media outlets is probably the best path forward for you.
Best wishes,
Lee Hamilton
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From: kncryan@msn.com
To: lee.hamilton@wilsoncenter.org
CC: [email snipped - local media representatives]
Subject: RE: Follow-up letter
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:50:47 -0500
Dear Mr. Hamilton,
This week you said to the American people, on ABC Nightline, that if evidence was available -- "let's examine it." Now you're saying that you will not examine the evidence. Why the sudden change, and will you correct your comments for all to hear? Will you make it clear that you have been presented with multiple opportunities to examine the evidence publicly but have declined in each case?
As FBI agent Coleen Rowley told ABC last weekend, belief has nothing to do with it. If it did, then the attached list of over 1,000 licensed architects and engineers, who are calling for a new investigation into the destruction of the WTC buildings, would be enough. There are more building industry professionals on this petition than were involved in creating the NIST report, and these people are risking their careers instead of getting paid as was the case with NIST and the 9/11 Commission.
I've spent years presenting information in public only to find that mainstream media sources defer to the opinions and beliefs of authoritiative people like yourself. For example, two years after I was fired for publicly questioning the NIST draft report, you did an interview with CBC and said that the reason the WTC buildings fell was due to "the super-heated jet fuel melting the steel superstructure." This explanation was not only completely wrong, but was several false stories behind the curve. When authoritative opinions and beliefs about 9/11, like your own, are found to be egregiously wrong, the public is directed to another explanation that also turns out to be false. Meanwhile the many American citizens that are crying out for answers (over one third of the nation according to a 2006 Scripps-Howard poll) are ignored or ridiculed, and many Americans continue to die in the "War on Terror."
Won't you please reconsider and take the opportunity to meet with me publicly? As two lifelong Hoosiers who have spent years on this issue, and who both have deep concern for our own people, we owe it to our community to seriously and openly examine the evidence.
Sincerely,
Kevin R. Ryan
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:19:09 -0500
From: Lee.Hamilton@wilsoncenter.org
Subject: RE: Follow-up letter
To: kncryan@msn.com
Dear Mr. Ryan,
As a point of clarification, nowhere in our correspondence have I expressed an unwillingness to examine evidence.
Sincerely,
Lee Hamilton
Washington Post publishes Yukihisa Fujita's Letter to the Editor
What do you know.
The Washington Post actually published it.
And thankfully, he does not disavow 9/11 truth in this letter, just the ad hominem nature of the hit piece against him.
An inflammatory and partial view of a Japanese statesman
I would like to correct the erroneous stance taken by your The Post's March 8 editorial "Poisonous thinking in Japan."
First of all, I am not the head of the foreign affairs committee in the House of Councillors, as the editorial suggests, but one of the six directors (not the head) of the ad hoc Research Committee on International Affairs and Global Warming Issues. Nor am I responsible for policymaking in my capacity as director-general of the International Department of the Democratic Party of Japan, as The Post implied.
Furthermore, I agreed to talk to The Post's writer in my personal capacity, regarding the agreed-upon topic of Japan's response to immigration, and he agreed that the opinions I expressed were my own and not party or government policy. I find it disturbing that the writer chose to use our informal chat after the interview in such an inflammatory way.
Above all, I strongly protest The Post's statement that my views exhibit a "profound distrust" of the United States and "reflect a strain of anti-American thought" in my party and the Japanese government. I have many American friends and have spent many decades endeavoring to serve as a bridge between the two countries..
I believe I am owed an apology for this attempt to damage my credibility by painting me with "poisonous thinking," "conspiratorial views," "intellectually bogus," "lunatic fringe" and "reckless and fact-averse," despite the fact that I had never stated "conspiracy" as such.
Yukihisa Fujita, Tokyo
The writer is a member of Japan's House of Councillors.
Three Day in-depth report on 9/11 truth with Gary Null on Progressive Radio Network with record amount of listeners
http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-gary-null-show-wnye/
http://www.garynull.com/
Record Breaker! This week we broke the record for the amount of live listeners twice. Congratulations to Gary Null on breaking the record and thank you all for your continued support.
Here are the three radio-shows:
Today’s guest is Ian Henshall and he is a British based investigative journalist and author, whose book “9/11 Revealed: The New Evidence” has raised a lot of voice across Europe.
Also on the today’s program, is Professor Niels Harrit and he is an associate professor in the Chemistry Department at th University of Copenhagen, Denmark - where he has taught for the past 35 plus years.
Also on today’s program, is Professor Steve Jones and he is a professor emeritus in physics specializing in catalyzed fusion or cold nuclear fusion at Brigham Young University.
http://www.garynull.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/GaryNullShow030910.mp3
Today’s guest is Richard Gage and he is a San Francisco based architect and a member of the American Institute of Architects.
Also on today’s program, Erik Lawyer, a veteran firefighter with the City of Seattle and founder of the Firefighters for 9/11 Truth, a non-partisan association of firefighters who demand re-investigating the official 9/11 stories for the benefit of all the rescue workers who suffered injury and illnesses and died.
http://www.garynull.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/GaryNullShow031010.mp3
Today’s guest is Professor David Ray Griffin and he is a retired professor of the philosophy of religion and Process theology, who has taught at the University of Dayton and Claremont Graduate University in California.
http://www.garynull.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/GaryNullShow031110.mp3
Ventura: ‘You’re not allowed to ask’ about 9/11
This video from RT was posted at YouTube on March 12, 2010.
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/ventura-youre-allowed-ask-911/
By Muriel Kane
Friday, March 12th, 2010
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Former Minnesota governor and one-time professional wrestler Jesse Ventura has run afoul of the Huffington Post's no-conspiracy-theory policy, and he's not happy about it.
"I can't believe the Huffington Post today will practice censorship," Ventura says in astonishment. "I've got news for them. ... I won't ever write for 'em again."
Ventura had posted an item on Tuesday which took note of a recent conference at which "more than one thousand architects and engineers signed a petition demanding that Congress begin a new investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers on 9/11." He also quoted a few paragraphs from his new book, American Conspiracies, to explain why some of those experts see signs of controlled demolition.
The item was featured on the front page of Huffington Post when it first went up, but after a few hours it vanished. All that appears now at its original location is an editor's note saying, "The Huffington Post's editorial policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits the promotion and promulgation of conspiracy theories -- including those about 9/11. As such, we have removed this post."
The note is followed by three pages of comments, enthusiastically arguing the pros and cons of controlled demolition and other 9/11 theories, that were posted during the couple of hours before the entry was deleted and comments were closed.
Huffington Post's own guidelines for its bloggers state, "We must -- and do -- reserve the right to remove objectionable, inaccurate, or inflammatory material and, if necessary, suspend or revoke blogging privileges. This also includes propagating conspiracy theories and blogging about behind-the-scenes housekeeping issues that are not of interest to the general public."
Anastasia Churkina, a correspondent for RT, interviewed Ventura about the controversy. "He's a man who doesn't mince his words too much," she reported on Thursday. "He was pretty blunt."
"I can't believe the Huffington Post today will practice censorship," Ventura told her angrily. "They asked me to be a contributing editor and they said, 'Write about anything you want.' So it was the second time I did something -- and they removed it?"
"Well, I've got news for them," he continued. "I won't ever write for 'em again. ... I won't do a thing for the Huffington Post because I don't like it when people censor what I have to say."
"All I do is ask questions!" he exploded. "That's what bugs me about 9/11. 9/11 is an event you're not allowed to ask a question about. ... Clearly they don't want any questions on it."
Ironically, Ventura had to go to RT, the English-language version of a Russian news channel, to tell his story. Although polls show that large numbers of Americans believe in a broad range of conspiracy theories, and a majority entertain doubts about the official story of 9/11, few of those questions ever appear in the mainstream media.
As Raw Story recently reported , "In November of 2007, an online article noted, 'Nearly two-thirds of Americans think it is possible that some federal officials had specific warnings of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but chose to ignore those warnings, according to a Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University poll.' A national survey of 811 adult residents of the United States conducted by Scripps and Ohio University found that more than a third believe in a broad smorgasbord of conspiracy theories including the attacks, international plots to rig oil prices, the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the government’s knowledge of intelligent life from other worlds. The high percentage is a manifestation, some say, of an American public that increasingly distrusts the federal government."
Even liberal websites, however, discourage questions about 9/11, to the point where BooMan of the Booman Tribune had to preface a post at Daily Kos in 2005 by writing "I know this touches on verboten conspiracy theories, but this is a front-page NYT article."
"It's kind of hard to tell whether or not a new investigation will be launched," Churkina concluded. "Many people don't think this is going to be happening any time soon, even with such public figures, like Jesse Venture and other, calling for it."
Message From Bob McIlvaine: Join the “Building What?!” Campaign
“Building What?!” is a phone and fax campaign aimed at helping the New York City Council become aware of the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7, The Salomon Brothers building, and amplifying the request from more than one thousand architects and engineers that a new investigation be opened into the destruction of this building.
To make this campaign a success we will need your involvement and the involvement of every American who refuses to stand for the unscientific report on WTC 7 handed down by NIST. For 17 business days starting on Monday, March 15, we will channel the energy and strength of our movement into one voice to ensure that every member of the New York City Council will no longer be oblivious to the mysterious collapse of World Trade Center Building 7. Each morning, NYC CAN will send out an action alert asking you to phone or fax three city council members for that day until we reach all 51 council members. Thousands of phone calls and faxes will reinforce and pave the way for NYC CAN’s ongoing meetings with individual council members.
Go to the Building What?! page to learn more.
Please also consider donating a manageable amount of $25 to help NYC CAN fund a new Zogby opinion poll and to support our ongoing work with the New York City Council, the Vote For Answers ballot initiatives, and other important efforts. With the significant increase in media coverage, it is time for a new opinion poll to bolster our message to elected officials. It is only because of your tremendous support that we are able to continue our work.
Richmond, New Hampshire Passes Resolution For New 9/11 Investigation
On March 9, 2010 voters in the town of Richmond, New Hampshire became the second town in the United States to pass a resolution calling upon Congress to open a new investigation into the events of September 11, 2001. The first resolution of this kind was passed by the voters of Lincoln, Vermont in 2007.
The Vote For Answers resolution instructing New Hampshire’s congressional delegation “to pursue a new and independent investigation to address thoroughly all of the evidence and unanswered questions related to the event of September 11, 2001” passed 48 to 45 in Richmond (52% in favor).
To our disappointment seven other towns voted down the resolutions, though the overall percentage of votes in favor (in towns where exact results were recorded) was 23%. In referendums on social issues that depend more on values than awareness of the facts, 77% to 23% might be a landslide. However, because of the painful implications of 9/11 not being what we were told, and the media blackout on critical examination of the official 9/11 account, about 1 in 4 voters calling for a new 9/11 investigation is an accomplishment we can be proud of – it shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that questioning 9/11 is anything but fringe.
Among the four towns that have yet to vote, Barnstead will vote on Saturday, March 13, and Peterborough, Stoddard and Hanover will vote on May 11.
In addition to passing the resolution in Richmond and getting nearly 1 in 4 voters to vote in favor, Vote For Answers New Hampshire has garnered unprecedented local media coverage. The Keene Sentinel, Union Leader, Valley News, Brattleboro Reformer and Concord Monitor all published entire articles on the campaign prior to the campaign – with more coverage sure to emerge following the results. It has also been mentioned in countless other articles and letters to the editor throughout the region, including these articles in the Concord Monitor and Now! Hampshire.
Moving Forward
While devoting intense effort to getting the remaining resolutions passed in Barnstead, Peterborough, Stoddard and Hanover, the dedicated activists in the Monadnock 9/11 Truth Alliance and other parts of New Hampshire will use the foundation they have built to begin pursuing three new endeavors: 1) working with the Keene City Council and other City Councils to pass similar resolutions, 2) working with State Representatives to introduce a similar resolution in the State House of Representatives that would be voted on in early 2011, and 3) organizing to expand Vote For Answers New Hampshire to several dozen towns in 2011.
On the national front, NYC CAN will push forward with ballot initiatives in other states where voters can petition for non-binding resolutions to be on the ballot. In states where laws prevent voters from petitioning for non-binding resolutions, we will work with supportive elected officials to place resolutions on local ballots directly, without petitioning, or for city councils to pass resolutions on their own.
NYC CAN’s top ballot initiative priority is Boston, where a feasible sum of 3,600 signatures will allow for non-binding “public policy questions” to be placed on ballots in all 18 Massachusetts House of Representatives Districts located in Boston (200 signatures are needed per district). There are also opportunities to petition for resolutions in Detroit and in cities throughout Wisconsin, and a number of cities across the country present opportunities for city councils to place resolutions directly on the ballot.
If you are interested in doing a ballot initiative where you live, or if you have friends on local boards and city councils who would be able to place a resolution on the ballot – or better yet, pass a resolution on their own – please contact us about getting a campaign started.
To everyone who contributed to the campaign, NYC CAN and the Monadnock 9/11 Truth Alliance thank you for helping us bring our message to countless thousands of New Hampshire residents.
Election Results
Town Passed/Not Passed Percentage Count Chesterfield No Not Recorded Not Recorded Exeter No 22% - 78% 381-1377 Harrisville No 37% - 63% 35-60 Hollis No 23% - 77% 33-109 Marlborough No Not Recorded Not Recorded Nelson No Pass Over - Richmond YES YES 48-45 Swanzey No 29% - 71% 270-9451) http://www.americanbuddhist.net/node/4868
2) http://voteforanswersnh.com/sentinelarticle.html
3) http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=NH+group+cites+need+for+new+9%2F11+probe&articleId=c2822a9b-f0c3-4f03-b8c3-09c3e0765b2f
4) http://www.vnews.com/02202010/6401650.htm
5) http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_14481447?source=rss
6) http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100219/FRONTPAGE/2190302/1004/COMMUNITY
7) http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100207/OPINION/2070330&template=page3
8) http://www.nowhampshire.com/2010/02/21/van-jones-911-%E2%80%98truther%E2%80%99-to-visit-school-tied-to-dem-state-senator/