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"One of the Eeriest Moments Amid the Carnage of
9/11"September 12, 2007, CNNhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0709/12/acd.01.html
JOHN
KING: Today, six years after 9/11, a mystery endures about just what
happened in the skies over the White House that terrible day. A plane
flew
right over it, but why, and what was it? For conspiracy theorists, the
image is a gold mine. It appeared overhead just before 10 a.m., a four-
engine jet ... in the nation's most off-limits airspace. On the White
House grounds and the rooftop, a nervous scramble. And still today, no
one
will offer an official explanation of what we saw. Two government sources
familiar with the incident tell CNN it was a military aircraft. They say
the details are classified.
This comparison of the CNN video and
an official Air Force photo suggests the mystery plane is among the
military's most sensitive aircraft, an Air Force E-4B. Note the flag on
the tail, the stripe around the fuselage, and the telltale bubble just
behind the 747 cockpit area. MAJ. GEN. DON SHEPPERD (RET.), U.S.
AIR FORCE: There are many commercial versions of the 747 ... that look
similar, but I don't think any of them that have the communications pod
like the ... Air Force E-4 does behind the cockpit. KING: The E-4B is a
state of the art flying command post, built and equipped for one reason:
to keep the government running no matter what, even in the event of a
nuclear war, the reason it was nicknamed the doomsday plane during the
Cold War. Ask the Pentagon, and it insists this is not a military
aircraft, and there is no mention of it in the official report of the
9/11
Commission. [In] sum: the lack of any official explanation feeds an
ominous
conspiracy. This is from an online discussion about the plane on the web
site 911blogger.com. "I have always
thought these planes were exactly that, mission control for the 9/11
attack on our country."
Note:For many other anomalous major media reports which collectively suggest
that the official story of 9/11 may be a cover-up, click here.
Review: Slavery's shockingly alive and well
todaySeptember 16, 2007, USA
Todayhttp://www.usatoday.com/money/books/2007-09-16-nobodies_N.htm
A
globalized world that could bring down the Berlin Wall, and deliver fresh
fruit in the middle of the coldest winter months, wasn't supposed to
foster one of the darkest of human practices — slavery. This version of
the world was supposed to make life for everyone, everywhere, better.
Better medicine, better prices, better democracies. Not so, says John
Bowe
in his incredible book,
Nobodies:
Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global
Economy. Not only is slavery a reality, but how we've executed
this rush toward globalization may have created the very conditions
necessary for slavery to gain a toehold in the modern world.
Nobodies is investigative, immersion reporting at its best. The
line between observer and participant blurs, and the reality of time,
place and subject come crashing out in full detail. Bowe is a master
storyteller whose work is finely tuned and fearless. When the time is
appropriate, he goes so far as to question his own assumptions, ideals
and
practices without holding back. "Go out into this newly globalized world
you're profiting from," he writes, "go visit the people being 'lifted'
out
of poverty, the workers who are making your products. Go live in their
huts, eat their rice and plantains, squat on their floors, and listen to
their babies cry. Sniff some glue and pray with them. Try to get justice
from their police if someone hurts you. And then come back and let's talk
about freedom."
There's a chill in the air when he writes: "If
you
can read this page, you are on top of the world and billions of people
are
beneath you. Your ignorance and your lack of a program will likely equal
the squalor of your grandchildren's existence." An Opportunity for Wall St. in China’s
Surveillance BoomSeptember 7, 2007, New York
Timeshttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/business/worldbusiness/11security.html
Li
Runsen, the powerful technology director of China’s ministry of public
security, is best known for leading Project Golden Shield, China’s
intensive effort to strengthen police control over the Internet. But last
month Mr. Li took an additional title: director for China Security and
Surveillance Technology, a fast-growing company that installs and
sometimes operates surveillance systems for Chinese police agencies,
jails
and banks, among other customers. The company has just been approved for
a
listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s listing and Mr.
Li’s
membership on its board are just the latest signs of ever-closer ties
among
Wall Street, surveillance companies and the Chinese government’s security
apparatus. Wall Street analysts now follow the growth of companies that
install surveillance systems providing Chinese police stations with
24-hour video feeds from nearby Internet cafes.
Hedge fund money
from the United States has paid for the development of not just better
video cameras, but face-recognition software and even newer
behavior-recognition software designed to spot the beginnings of a street
protest and notify police. Executives of Chinese surveillance
companies say they are helping their government reduce street crime,
preserve social stability and prevent terrorism. They note that London
has
a more sophisticated surveillance system, although the Chinese system
will
soon be far more extensive. Wall Street executives also defend the
industry as necessary to keep the peace at a time of rapid change in
China. They point out that New York has begun experimenting with
surveillance cameras in Lower Manhattan and other areas of the city.
Spy Satellites Turned on the
U.S.September 6, 2007, ABC
Newshttp://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=3567635
Traditionally, powerful spy satellites have been used to search for
strategic threats overseas. But now the Department of Homeland Security
has developed a new office to use the satellites to [monitor the US
itself]. [DHS] officials ... faced extensive criticism [in Congress]
about
the privacy and civil liberty concerns of the new office, called the
National Applications Office. [House Homeland Security] Committee members
expressed concern about abuse of the satellite imagery, charging that
Homeland Security had not informed the oversight committee about the
program. "What's most disturbing is learning about it from The Wall
Street Journal," said Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.
The
lawmakers also expressed concern about using military capabilities for
U.S.
law enforcement and Homeland Security operations, potentially a violation
of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the military from serving as a law
enforcement body within the United States. Committee members said that in
addition to not being informed about the National Applications Office
program, they had not yet been provided with documents defining the
limits
and legal guidance about the program. [They] sent a letter to Homeland
Security saying,
"We are so concerned that ... we are calling for
a moratorium on the program. Today's testimony made clear that there is
effectively no legal framework governing the domestic use of satellite
imagery for the various purposes envisioned by the
department."Defense Dept. pays $1B to outside
analystsAugust 29, 2007, USA
Todayhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-08-29-dia_N.htm
The
Defense Department is paying private contractors more than $1 billion in
more than 30 separate contracts to collect and analyze intelligence for
the four military services and its own Defense Intelligence Agency,
according to contract documents and a Pentagon spokesman. The disclosure
marks the first time a U.S. intelligence service has made public its
outside payments. Intelligence payments to contractors have climbed
dramatically since the terror attacks in September 2001, but none had
been
made public, according to a report filed in April by the Office of the
Director of National Intelligence. Outside contracting ... places
critical
security tasks and sensitive information in the hands of private parties,
says Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy specialist at the Federation
of American Scientists, a Washington privacy group.
"Private
contractors don't have to undergo congressional oversight or justify
their
budgets to appropriators," Aftergood says. "We're starting to create a
new
kind of intelligence bureaucracy, one that is both more expensive and
less
accountable (than government's own intelligence agencies)." Most
of the contracts, which extend up to five years, pay for analysis of
intelligence data and for related services, such as translation and
interpretation of photo and electronic intelligence. A small fraction,
which [a Pentagon spokesman] declined to specify, pay for private spies.
Private contractors often hire former intelligence officers, sometimes
leasing them back at higher salaries to the agencies that first recruited
and trained them.
Possible Energy Source: Burning
SeawaterSeptember 10, 2007, CBS News/Associated
Presshttp://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/09/10/tech/main3246430.shtml
An Erie
cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention
that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water
science
discovery in a century. John Kanzius happened upon the discovery
accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-frequency
generator he developed to treat cancer. He discovered that as long as the
salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies it would burn. The
discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using salt water, the
most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel. Rustum Roy, a Penn State
University chemist, has held demonstrations at his State College lab to
confirm his own observations.
The radio frequencies act to weaken
the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the
hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is
exposed to the frequencies, he said. The discovery is "the most
remarkable
in water science in 100 years," Roy said. "This is the most
abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it
burn gives me the chills." Roy will meet this week with officials from
the
Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to try to obtain
research funding. The scientists want to find out whether the energy
output from the burning hydrogen - which reached a heat of more than
3,000
degrees Fahrenheit - would be enough to power a car or other heavy
machinery. "We will get our ideas together and check this out and see
where it leads," Roy said. "The potential is huge."
Note:For an exciting survey of major media reports of new energy inventions,
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