[BBC] The final mystery of 9/11 will soon be solved, according to US experts investigating the collapse of the third tower at the World Trade Center.
The 47-storey third tower, known as Tower Seven, collapsed seven hours after the twin towers.
Investigators are expected to say ordinary fires on several different floors caused the collapse.
Well, it’s all […]
Associated Press - July 1, 2008:
Taking a page from President Bush, Democrat Barack Obama said Tuesday he wants to expand White House efforts to steer social service dollars to religious groups, risking protests in his own party with his latest aggressive reach for voters who usually vote Republican.
I still don’t understand how President Stupid managed […]
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are asking a federal court to order the U.S. Department of Justice to turn over records about the agency’s tracking of mobile phone users.
Yeah, I know, I’m paranoid. I made it all up. I even put up a fake website with the facts […]
A new study by a nonpartisan research group shows that lawmakers’ stock holdings in various companies doing business with the Defense Department totals more than $196 million, earning the congress critters millions in profits individually since the start of the war in Iraq.
I believe that this is what’s referred to as a conflict of interest. […]
I just read this online. It seems to have a ring of truth about it. That having been said, I’d ask you to read it critically and do some investigating for yourself. It is a fact that we were not told the truth about 9-11. I suspect there’s enough […]
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran has discovered an oilfield within its southwestern Farsi oil block, an oil official said on Saturday, without giving details of estimated reserves.
Uh-oh… I hear in the distance the subtle swell of the drums of war… in DC they’re frantically trying to come up with any plausible-sounding reason to invade. This […]
The U.S. has given Pakistan nearly $6 billion to pursue terrorists since the Sept. 11 attacks, but with little to no proof that the money has been used for that purpose, an independent audit has found.
The assessment by the Government Accountability Office, released Tuesday, angered members of Congress who say they are concerned that Pakistan […]
The CIA’s Torture Teachers, psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen [see Eban and Mayer for a reminder of their work], are in the news again. In a front page New York Times article on the interrogation of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, it is mentioned that the subject of the story, Deuce Martinez is now employed by […]
via LewRockwell.com Blog by Daniel McCarthy on 6/24/08
In his Boumediene dissent, which warned that the decision to grant habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainees “will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed,” Antonin Scalia claimed that “At least 30 of those prisoners hitherto released from Guantanamo have returned to the battlefield.” Scary, huh? But it’s […]
One of my coworkers just completed a long, painful task involving an HP computer. Whenever he has to call HP, you can actually hear his intestines twisting on top of each other, in addition to that resigned sigh that says `ok, I’ll order my own coffin now.’
He just received notice that HP is […]
