posted May 13, 2008 11:17 PM            

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n-nT-luFIw&feature=related

Bombs, explosions, secondary explosions, explosive devices....how many more times do we need to hear these words being said by 9/11 witnesses before we start asking questions about what really happened on that awful day?

This video shows that many actual 9/11 witnesses heard and saw explosions going off inside the towers, long before they actually fell. These witnesses include police, firemen and mainstream media reporters.

And what is even more shocking is the fact that all of this has been ignored by the mainstream media.

posted May 14, 2008 12:38 AM            

I'm trying to get through to people as quickly as possible.
John Lennon used billboards, and I use youtube videos,
because there is a lot of information here,
and I know you wont read any verbose "leftist" manifestos.

On the scene footage is on the scene footage.

This is video from ground zero, of eye-witnesses, dozens of them, saying they heard multiple explosions at the base of the towers.

Some people made billions of dollars off of this. Why was this not investigated?

posted May 14, 2008 11:50 AM            

Do you have the guts to at least give it a chance?

I think you're terrified of what you might learn.

Its much easier to make crass jokes and wage distracting personal attacks, isnt it?

What you dont realize is how utterly typical your cynicism is,
and how it has been manufactured for you by your beloved government.
They want you to roll your eyes at the mere mention of the word "conspiracy".
They want it to conjure up images of science fiction and schizophrenics.
The system has been designed to prevent you from questioning authority,
and to encourage you to dismiss, label, and persecute anyone who does exactly that.
They've carefully prepared you to respond indignantly to threads like this.
And you jump like a puppet on a string, to post your cartoons,
and pat yourself on the back for having followed the herd.
There's nothing more frightening to you than the possibility of being duped,
and being thought of by others as a duped individual.
So you have swallowed the official stories, hook, line, and sinker.
What you dont know is that you are one of the biggest dupes of all.
You just bob along with the current administration,
unconsciously carried by the current administration,
and distributed into the little slot that they have prepared for you.
You never question it, you just smile and cheer and say "God Bless America"
when they send your loved ones to kill and die for their greedy interests.
You are lightyears away from being conscious of the political realities of this world,
and your ridicule doesnt surprise me in the least, it just makes me a little sorry for you.

posted May 14, 2008 02:20 PM            

Let's pull the curtain back and have a good look at Democracy Now and the leftist radicals who infest the organization.

Radical radio and television weekday news show and tax-exempt entity
Created in 1996 at Pacifica Radio in New York City
Main anchor is co-founder and radical Amy Goodman

Democracy Now! is a morning weekday newscast that, according to its website (as of April 2006), can be heard on approximately 219 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada, and on a number of additional stations in Europe, Australia, Mexico, and South America. It also produces a television version of each newscast, which its website (as of April 2006) says can be seen and heard on approximately 182 cable TV systems, mostly on public access channels, and on subscriber satellite TV systems Direct TV and DISH network. Democracy Now! is also a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization.

Democracy Now! was created in 1996 by WBAI radio news director Amy Goodman, Pacifica anchor Larry Bensky, Juan Gonzalez, Salim Muwakkie and Julie Drizin. Its aim was to provide "perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media," i.e., the views of radical and foreign journalists, left and labor activists, and ideological foes of capitalism. The popular hard-left show soon began airing not only in New York City but also on the other Pacifica-owned stations in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, D.C.

Key figures at Democracy Now!, such as radio producer Mike Burke and television producers Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press and John Hamilton, all have backgrounds in Indymedia. Nogueira also has written for Z Magazine.

In 2000 Democracy Now! departed from WBAI's facilities amid internal battles over control of Pacifica Radio. It has broadcast ever since from studios in a converted firehouse renamed the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) in New York City's Chinatown. It continues to air on Pacifica-owned and affiliated stations. It is satellite-uplinked via the Pacifica Satellite System, but also via the taxpayer-subsidized Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS). Stations can also receive the program over the Internet as broadcast-quality MP3 computer files.

Serious questions have arisen about how Democracy Now!, begun and developed with the resources of Pacifica Radio and grants from the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the J.M. Kaplan Fund and others, suddenly became independent and the effective property of Amy Goodman without recompense to Pacifica. This transfer apparently included valuable assets such as trademarks, ownership of years of archived programs, affiliate station access, and more.

In a contract that remains secret, Amy Goodman is also receiving $1 million per year for a five-year period that began in 2002, according to Pacifica Treasurer Jabari Zakiya, to continue doing what has become Pacifica's flagship morning news program. This is more than double Goodman's officially stated stipend of $440,000 per year from Pacifica Radio.

Democracy Now! receives indirect funding from George Soros, and direct funding from Soros' Open Society Institute, the Glaser Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Public Welfare Foundation, the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, and other left-leaning foundations.
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6891

posted May 14, 2008 02:22 PM            

Co-anchor of Democracy Now! radio and television show
Co-creator of Democracy Now! at Pacifica Radio in New York City
Co-author of the book The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them

Amy Goodman is co-host of Democracy Now!, a weekday newscast that can be heard on more than 225 radio stations in the U.S. and Canada and on the shortwave station Radio for Peace International. The show also produces a television version of each newscast, which can be seen and heard on many cable TV systems -- mostly on public access channels and on the subscriber satellite television systems DIRECTV, Free Speech TV, and DISH network.

Amy Goodman was born in 1957 in Bayshore, New York. "Goodman grew up a movement child, the daughter of radical parents," wrote reporter Michael Powell in the March 10, 2003 Washington Post. "Her father, a physician, was featured in a poster for nuclear disarmament, the image of a mushroom cloud in his stethoscope. (Going further back, she is descended from prominent Hasidic rabbis, although she counts herself a secular Jew.)"

After graduating from Harvard-Radcliffe in 1984 with a degree in anthropology, Goodman found work at WBAI, the New York City station owned by the Pacifica Radio network.

Also in 1984, her brother David Goodman traveled to South Africa as an activist. Out of his experiences there he co-authored the book Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa. He is a "Contributing Writer" at Mother Jones magazine, and his freelance articles have also appeared in the Washington Post and The Nation. He is co-author with sister Amy of the 2004 book, The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media that Love Them.

In 1985 Amy Goodman became news director of WBAI, a position she would hold for a decade. In 1990-91 she and New Left Review editor Allan Nairn traveled to East Timor, where they witnessed Indonesian troops gun down 270 people. Their documentary, "Massacre: The Story of East Timor," won the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton award. Goodman's approach to journalism, she said in a prize acceptance speech, is: "Go where the silence is and say something."

In 1996 along with veteran Pacifica broadcaster Larry Bensky, Juan Gonzalez, New Times columnist Salim Muwakkie, and Julie Drizin, Goodman founded the news program Democracy Now! Its aim was to provide "perspectives rarely heard in the U.S. corporate-sponsored media"; i.e., the views of radical and foreign journalists, left activists, labor activists, and ideological foes of capitalism.

The popular show soon began airing not only in New York City but also on the other Pacifica-owned stations in Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston and Washington, DC.

In 1998 Goodman and producer Jeremy Scahill went to Nigeria to film their anti-corporate documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, which won the George Polk Award.

The following year Goodman trekked to Peru to interview radical activist Lori Berenson, whose collaboration with Peruvian terrorists landed her in jail.

In November 1999 Goodman covered the "Battle in Seattle" as radical demonstrators smashed store windows and caused mayhem as part of a protest against the World Trade Organization and multinational business. Goodman, as usual, reflected the leftwing views of the radicals.

Goodman is a hardcore radical who detests both of the established major U.S. political parties. She perceives the politicians of both parties, as well as the dominant liberal media, as corrupted and controlled by a corporate ruling class, and from this perspective attacks them all (albeit from a place on the political spectrum much closer to leftwing Democrats than to Republicans). Because she commonly condemns the allegedly hidden capitalist conspiracies that rule Americans, Goodman is a very attractive figure to the far left.

After being interviewed for 30 minutes on Election Day 2000 by Goodman and WBAI's Gonzalo Aburto, President Bill Clinton called Goodman "hostile," "combative," and at times "disrespectful." She had, among other things, pressed Mr. Clinton to pardon a jailed radical.

Key figures around Goodman such as radio producer Mike Burke and television producers Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, and John Hamilton all have backgrounds in Indymedia, an Internet movement steeped in the views of Goodman's close friend and ideological comrade, professor Noam Chomsky. Nogueira has written for the Chomskyite Z Magazine.

Goodman is also a close friend of Professor Norman Finkelstein, while Professor Cornel West calls himself a great admirer of Goodman.

"Amy Goodman is an extraordinary journalist, in the grand American tradition of Lincoln Steffens, Heywood Broun, I.F. Stone," said Howard Zinn, a Marxist historian and frequent guest on Democracy Now! "Her contribution to our culture is unique, bringing information and ideas to her listeners which they cannot see in the major media."

In 2000, Democracy Now! departed from WBAI's facilities amid internal battles over control of Pacifica Radio. It has broadcast ever since from studios in a converted firehouse renamed the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) in New York City's Chinatown.

In June 2002, Democracy Now! became a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization independent of Pacifica Radio. It continues to air on Pacifica-owned and affiliated stations. It is satellite-uplinked via the Pacifica Satellite System, but also via the taxpayer-subsidized Public Radio Satellite System (PRSS). Stations can also receive the program over the Internet as broadcast-quality MP3 computer files.

"Democracy Now! is funded entirely through contributions from listeners, viewers, and foundations," says its website. "We do not accept advertisers, donations from corporations, or donations from governments. This allows us to maintain our independence."

But serious questions have arisen about how Democracy Now! -- which developed with the resources of Pacifica Radio and grants from the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, J.M. Kaplan Fund and others -- suddenly in 2002 became independent and the effective property of Amy Goodman without any recompense to Pacifica. This transfer included valuable assets such as trademarks, ownership of years of archived programs and interviews, affiliate station access and more.

From 2002-2007, Goodman was paid $1 million per year, according to Pacifica Treasurer Jabari Zakiya. She also has been able to use her tax-exempt radio program and taxpayer-subsidized public radio satellite transponder to promote what her for-profit book and other lucrative activities.

In a 2005 interview, Goodman linked the Abu Ghraib (Iraq) prison scandal with what she views as the deeply embedded racism of American culture generally. She said: “I think that the whole Abu Ghraib prison scandal began long before the first low-level soldier laid a finger on the Iraqi prisoners. I think it started here at home with an administration that demonizes whole populations. African Americans have always been targeted, and now Arab Americans, Muslims, people of South Asian descent are being targeted as well.”

posted May 14, 2008 02:34 PM            

Multi-billionaire funder of leftwing causes and groups
Founder of the Open Society Institute
Stated that defeating President Bush in the 2004 election "is the central focus of my life"

George Soros is a Hungarian immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1956, at age 26, and made his fortune as an international financier. His father, who was born into an Orthodox Jewish family, changed the family name from Schwartz to Soros in 1936 - a move that enabled the Soros family to conceal its Jewish identity and thus survive the Nazi Holocaust. In 1947 the family emigrated from Hungary to England, where an event occurred that greatly influenced the development of George's personality and worldview. He broke his leg and was cared for by England's National Health Service, free of charge, while the Jewish relief agencies of that era did not offer him the help he believed they owed him. In that convergence of events was born Soros' favorable opinion of Democratic Socialism, and his negative view of many Jewish groups.

In 1956 Soros started life in America with very little money but a well-developed knowledge of investing, thanks to his education at the London School of Economics and his experience working for a London stockbroker. He transformed his meager seed money into a huge fortune by becoming one of the world's leading hedge fund investors and currency traders. In 1969 he started his enormously successful Quantum Fund, which, over the ensuing three decades, yielded its long-term investors a four thousand-fold increase on their initial 1969 investments. During his career, Soros has orchestrated some extremely risky, ethically questionable deals. For instance, in a $10 billion 1992 deal whose success was contingent upon the devaluation of the British Pound, he earned himself a $1 billion profit and the title, "the man who broke the Bank of England." Over the years, he has amassed a personal fortune of some $7 billion.

In 1979 Soros founded the Open Society Fund, and since then has created a large network of foundations that give away hundreds of millions of dollars each year, much of it to individuals and organizations that share and promote his leftist philosophy. He believes that in order to prevent right-wing fascism from overrunning the world, a strong leftist counterbalance is essential. Asserting that America needed "a regime change" to oust President Bush, Soros maintained that he would gladly have traded his entire fortune in exchange for a Bush defeat in the 2004 election. In a November 2003 interview with the Washington Post's Laura Blumenfeld, he stated that defeating President Bush in 2004 "is the central focus of my life". . . "a matter of life and death." "America under Bush," he said, "is a danger to the world, and I'm willing to put my money where my mouth is." Claiming that "the Republican party has been captured by a bunch of extremists," Soros accuses the Bush administration of following a "supremacist ideology" in whose rhetoric he claims to hear echoes from his childhood in occupied Hungary. "When I hear Bush say, 'You're either with us or against us,' " he explains, "it reminds me of the Germans. It conjures up memories of Nazi slogans on the walls, Der Feind Hort mit (The enemy is listening). My experiences under Nazi and Soviet rule have sensitized me."

Soros pledged to raise $75 million to defeat President Bush in the 2004 Presidential election, and personally donated nearly a third of that amount to anti-Bush groups (see The Shadow Party). He gave $5 million to MoveOn.org, the group that produced political ads likening Bush to Adolf Hitler. He also contributed $10 million to a Democratic Party 2004 get-out-the-vote initiative called America Coming Together, whose directors include representatives from the AFL-CIO, the Sierra Club, the Service Employees International Union, and EMILY's List. He further pledged $3 million to the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think-tank headed by former Clinton chief-of-staff John Podesta.

PBS broadcaster and Schumann Center for Media and Democracy President Bill Moyers is a trustee of the Open Society Institute's Board of Directors. The network of Soros foundations - the most prominent of which is the Open Society Institute - supports a wide array of leftist groups and causes.

In August 2006 Soros wrote a Wall Street Journal piece titled "A Self-Defeating War." The article's premise is that "the war on terror is a false metaphor that has led to counterproductive and self-defeating policies." "Five years after 9/11," Soros elaborates, "a misleading figure of speech applied literally has unleashed a real war fought on several fronts -- Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Somalia -- a war that has killed thousands of innocent civilians and enraged millions around the world. Yet al Qaeda has not been subdued."

According to Soros, "[T]errorism is an abstraction. It lumps together all political movements that use terrorist tactics. Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Sunni insurrection and the Mahdi army in Iraq are very different forces, but President Bush's global war on terror prevents us from differentiating between them and dealing with them accordingly. It inhibits much-needed negotiations with Iran and Syria because they are states that support terrorist groups." "The war on terror," adds Soros, "emphasizes military action while most territorial conflicts require political solutions. ... [It] drives a wedge between 'us' and 'them.' We are innocent victims. They are perpetrators. But we fail to notice that we also become perpetrators in the process; the rest of the world, however, does notice. That is how such a wide gap has arisen between America and much of the world. Taken together, these ... factors ensure that the war on terror cannot be won. An endless war waged against an unseen enemy is doing great damage to our power and prestige abroad and to our open society at home."

In December of 2006, Soros met with Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama in his New York office. Soros had previously hosted a fund-raiser for Obama during the latter's 2004 campaign for the Senate. On January 16, 2007, Obama announced the creation of a presidential exploratory committee, and within hours Soros sent the senator a contribution of $2,100, the maximum amount allowable under campaign finance laws. Later that week the New York Daily News reported that Soros would back Obama over Senator Hillary Clinton, whom he had also supported in the past. Soros's announcement was seen as a repudiation of Clinton's presidential aspirations, though Soros said he would support the New York senator were she to win the Democratic nomination.

In early January 2007, Soros was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer of CNN. Blitzer began the interview by asking Soros about the following quote that appears in Soros's newly published book, The Age of Fallibility: "The Bush administration and the Nazi and communist regimes all engaged in the politics of fear. Indeed, the Bush administration has been able to improve on the techniques used by the Nazi and Communist propaganda machines by drawing on the innovations of the advertising and marketing industries." When Blitzer asked him to defend that assertion, Soros replied:

"You actually picked out the most incendiary part of the book, and I am very careful to draw a clear distinction between the Nazi regime and our open society, because we are a democracy. But there are some similarities in the propaganda methods, which I pointed out. ... I think there are some serious arguments about our open society being endangered by the policies followed by the Bush administration. The war on terror, which does not have an end, changes, it leads to an undue extension of executive powers. It has stifled debate. Criticizing the president is considered unpatriotic, and as a result, we have been following policies which endanger our traditional [unintelligible]."

"A lot of people will agree with you on that," said Blitzer. "But where they will starkly disagree is to then bring in the whole Nazi and Communist comparison." Soros replied: "Actually, it's a valid point, and maybe I did go over the line, but I think that on the whole my assessment is a balanced one. And frankly, when President Bush said, 'you are either with us or you are with the terrorists,' that's when I was reminded. But I should have probably kept it to myself."

While criticizing the Iraq War for the benefit of reporters at the January 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Soros unburdened himself of the view that Nazis were now running the United States government. "America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany," Soros explained. "We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process." Lest there be doubts that Soros was actually likening his adoptive country to the Third Reich and the Bush administration to the Nazi nomenklatura, a Soros spokesman, Michael Vachon, moved quickly to dispel them. "There is nothing unpatriotic about demanding accountability from the president," he said of Soros's appeal for de-Nazification. "Those responsible for taking America into this needless war should do us all a favor and retire from public office."

In the April 12, 2007 issue of the New York Review of Books, Soros penned an article titled "On Israel, America and AIPAC," wherein he derided the Bush administration for "committing a major policy blunder in the Middle East" by "supporting the Israeli government in its refusal to recognize a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas, which the U.S. State Department considers a terrorist organization." In Soros' calculus, "This precludes any progress toward a peace settlement at a time when progress on the Palestinian problem could help avert a conflagration in the greater Middle East." "Israel," said Soros, "with the strong backing of the United States, refused to recognize the democratically elected Hamas government and withheld payment of the millions in taxes collected by the Israelis on its behalf. This caused great economic hardship and undermined the ability of the government to function. But it did not reduce popular support for Hamas among Palestinians, and it reinforced the position of Islamic and other extremists who oppose negotiations with Israel. … [Hamas] was not willing to go so far as to recognize the existence of Israel but it was prepared to enter into a government of national unity which would have abided by the existing agreements with Israel. … But both Israel and the United States seem to be frozen in their unwillingness to negotiate with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas. The sticking point is Hamas's unwillingness to recognize the existence of Israel; but that [recognition] could be made a condition for an eventual settlement rather than a precondition for negotiations. … The current policy of not seeking a political solution but pursuing military escalation—not just an eye for an eye but roughly speaking ten Palestinian lives for every Israeli one—has reached a particularly dangerous point."

posted May 14, 2008 03:06 PM              

Good work.

I know it gets frustrating at times.

posted May 14, 2008 05:35 PM            

And a close personal friend of Noam Chomsky?!

Sounds like my kind of girl alright.

Thanks, Jwhop.

posted May 14, 2008 06:07 PM            

Could it all be propaganda? None? A little bit of both?

posted May 14, 2008 06:25 PM            

A lying, America hating, leftist/socialist/communist with ties to every other lying, America hating leftist/socialist/communist in America.

That would include your hero the phony Noam Chomsky who doesn't practice what he preaches.

That would include the money man for the leftist set, the convicted felon, George Soros and his band of far left radicals going under various organization names.