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Boise State welcomes UNLV to Mountain Cove Softball Field Friday through Sunday, for the Broncos' first conference series as a member of the Mountain West. First pitch Friday is scheduled for 3 p.m., with the Saturday and Sunday tilts slated for 1 p.m.
Boise State (26-13) enters the conference opener having played just once in the past two weeks- a 7-6 comeback victory April 4, at Idaho State. The Rebels (19-18) dropped two games against Southern Utah Wednesday, in their final tune up before league action.
UNLV was picked to finish second in the conference after a runner-up finish in the Mountain West a year ago. The Broncos were tabbed third in the preseason coaches' poll.
Fans can get into Saturday's game free of charge by showing their "Beat Coach Pete" t-shirt at the gate.
Live audio and live stats will be available free of charge for each game at BroncoSports.com. Live video will be available Friday and Sunday, and requires a subscription to BroncoVision. The Friday and Sunday games will also be aired on tape delay on The Mtn., beginning Tuesday, April 18, at 3:30 and 8 p.m. (MT). Check your local listings for channel information and additional air times.
Stay current with all of the happenings in Boise State Softball by following the official twitter account of the Broncos @BroncoSportsSB.
About the Broncos
Boise State softball is in its fourth season and first in the Mountain West. Head coach Erin Thorpe and the Broncos return 13 letterwinners and nine starters from the 2011 squad that finished 33-20 and second in the Western Athletic Conference.
The Broncos welcome back the bulk of last season's production at the plate and in the circle. Returning is 93.5 percent of the Broncos' hits in 2011, 89 percent of the runs scored, 96.4 percent of the home runs and 96.8 percent of the innings pitched.
After a 15-10 start on its season-opening 25-game road swing, Boise State won its first eight home games. The 26-13 record is the best 39-game start in school history and the 2012 squad did it against the toughest schedule yet. The Broncos have played 10 games against teams ranked in the top 20 of both major top-25 polls. Fifteen games featured opponents returning from the 2011 NCAA Tournament, including five games against 2011 WCWS teams.
Seniors Aubray Zell and Allie Crump anchor the pitching staff for yet another year. Zell is a four-time Mountain West Pitcher of the Week after winning the weekly award three times last season in the WAC. She is 16-8 on the year with a 1.84 ERA and a school-record 145 strikeouts. Crump is 5-2 this season with a 2.78 ERA.
Crump is also a standout at the plate with six homers, four doubles and a team-best 26 RBI. Sophomore Devon Bridges and senior Christina Capobianco continue to be among the biggest power threats for the Broncos. Bridges leads the team with eight homers. Capobianco has parked five and has 25 RBI, while Bridges is hitting .327 with 23 driven in.
Boise State's top producer with the bat is at the top of the order. Sophomore transfer Tara Glover is hitting .434 and leads the team with a .612 slugging percentage thanks in large part to a school-record three triples. Glover has used her speed to score 33 runs and steal 11 bases, both team highs. A native of Grants Pass, Ore., Glover transfered to Boise State from Utah, where she started all 51 games for the Utes as a freshman in 2011.
Zell and freshman Kenzie Cole have combined for two historic pitching performances this season. Against Cal Poly (Feb. 24) Cole started and pitched 3.2 hitless innings. Zell finished the game and kept the combined no-hitter in tact. Against Alcorn State (March 9) the roles were reversed. Zell struck out 14 in six innings before Cole finished the game with two punchouts to set the team record at 16.
Scouting Report
About UNLV
The Rebels are starting to find their bats, hitting .398 in their last four games after acheiving a .241 clip through the first 33 contests. Reigning MW Player of the Week Jaexie Balilea has raised her average 50 points in the span. Still, UNLV has hung its hat on pitching for much of the season, namely Amanda Oliveto. Oliveto, a two-time MW Pitcher of the Week this season, is 12-11 with a 2.27 ERA. The sophomore tossed a three-hit shutout against Boise State last season. The Broncos and Rebels have faced 10 common opponents. Boise State is 10-1 in those games, while UNLV is 8-3.
All-Time Series
The Rebels and Broncos have met twice previously, once in each of the past two seasons. UNLV leads the all-time series 2-0, winning 11-3 Feb. 18, 2010, in Las Vegas and taking a 9-0 decision Feb. 25, 2011, in Riverside, Calif. The 2011 meeting was a turning point in the Broncos' season. The loss sent Boise State to 2-8 and was the second-consecutive shutout. The Broncos won their next 12 games, scoring 92 runs and posting a 1.77 ERA as a staff during the stretch.
Boise State in Conference Openers
The Broncos have started their conference seasons off right every year. Boise State scored three-game sweeps in league openers in each of the program's first three seasons. The Broncos opened Western Athletic Conference play during their inaugural 2009 season with three road wins at Utah State. In 2010, Boise State welcomed New Mexico State to Mountain Cove Softball Field by taking all three games. Last year, the Broncos swept Nevada in Boise, during Devon Bridges' coming-out party. Bridges went 5-for-7 with four home runs and 10 RBI against the Wolf Pack.
Home Sweet Home
Boise State is riding a 23-game home win streak after eight wins over two tournaments at Mountain Cove Softball Field March 15-25. It is the second-longest active streak in the country. The last time the Broncos lost at home was May 1, 2010, in the first game of a doubleheader against San Jose State.
Top of the Mountain
Sophomore Tara Glover ranks first in the Mountain West in batting average (.434), hits (56), triples (3) and stolen bases (11). In 2011, while at Utah, Glover led the league in triples and ranked in the top five in runs and hits. Senior Aubray Zell leads the MW in earned run average (1.84), opponent batting average (.192), wins (16), shutouts (4), strikeouts (145), innings (152), starts (23) and complete games (15).
Broncos in the RPI
Boise State fell one spot to No. 54 in the latest Ratings Percentage Index. The Broncos peaked at No. 72 last season before finishing 79th. New Mexico leads the Mountain West with a No. 41 rating. The RPI will be released every Monday, through May 7.
USA Softball 'Watching' Bridges
Devon Bridges became the first player in school history to be named to the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Watch List prior to this season. She is the only student-athlete from the Mountain West on the list and one of just eight sophomores, nationally, to make the cut. Bridges is the third player from current MW schools to be named to the watch list in the 11-year history of the award.
Crump in the Clutch
Four of Allie Crump's six home runs this season have come in the sixth inning or later. Crump hit the third walk-off home run in school history with two outs in the bottom of the seventh March 16, against Portland State. She also hit a game-winning blast April 11, at Idaho State with two outs in the top of the ninth. Crump's solo shot against the Bengals was the first extra-inning home run in school history.
Been Here Before
Boise State's senior class has combined for 819 career starts in the batting order. Of the 205 games played in program history, seniors Allie Crump and Aubray Zell have combined to start 177 of them in the circle. Kellie Caplan leads the position players with 199 games played and 191 starts. Zell has pitched in 110 games, starting 91 of them, both school records.


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As far as superheroes go, nobody is more associated with World War II than Captain America. He was created by Joe Simon and Jack Fucking Kirby in 1941 for Timely Comics, the publishing house that would eventually become Marvel Comics, the publishing house that would eventually take lots of my money. Like SPY SMASHER before him, Cap was created primarily to fight Nazis during World War II. Unlike Spy Smasher, however, people still know about him. Whether he was intended to be a propaganda tool from conception is debatable, but he was hugely popular during the war. Then, when the fighting ended, he faded into obscurity until the Avengers found him frozen in a block of ice in 1964. But we'll get to that.
I'm never sure what superhero origin stories are known to non-nerds, and I sincerely doubt any non-nerds would be reading an article like this, but for the sake of completion, I'm going to briefly go over it. Steve Rogers was a skinny, sickly little bastard who really wanted to serve his country in the war. After being rejected over and over again, he volunteered to take the super soldier serum, which basically just enhanced him. So, where BATMAN is the most a man can be on his own, CAPTAIN AMERICA is more than that. No matter how hard you train, you'll never be as strong or as fast as him, but it's not like he's SUPERMAN or anything. He's just more than a man can hope to be under his own power. And, of course, he also has a shield that he throws around.
None of this, by the way, is relevant to Republic's CAPTAIN AMERICA serial.
After SPY SMASHER and the racist propaganda of the BATMAN serial, I was looking forward to seeing the CAPTAIN AMERICA serial. I mean, this thing was made during World War II. How cool would it be to watch Captain America fighting Nazis in a contemporary setting?
Well, this wasn't Captain America. There was no shield, no Steve Rogers, no Nazis, no acknowledgement of the war. Other than his costume and that people call him "Captain America," there's nothing to distinguish him as the comic book character. They might as well put him in a scarlet shroud and call him "Mr. Scarlet."
As it so happens, a popular theory is that this was originally crafted as a serial for another Fawcett Comics character named Mr. Scarlet. For whatever reason, they ended up using Cap instead, and they just tossed him in there without doing anything to reflect the popular comic book character. What a waste. But, this lends credibility to my theory about ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, which was that it wasn't written for Captain Marvel at all, they just shoehorned him in there. Apparently, Republic didn't let anything go to waste.
So, it's a little weird watching one of Cap's adventures that took place in and was made in 1944, during World War II, and yet, there's no mention of the war. But, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt as long as they tell me a good story. And… well, it's only okay, so no. I can't forgive them for this ridiculous missed opportunity.
If this were a story about any other superhero, I would like the opener. Three men are mind-control into committing suicide by someone calling himself the Scarab. I like that kind of shit. It sets up a good mystery right away. Who is the Scarab? Why is he doing this? How is he doing this? Well, instead of making us wonder and surprise us with twists and turns over the next fifteen episodes, they decide fuck that, and just go ahead and tell us everything over the next couple of scenes.
First off, a reporter informs us that this spree is known as "The Purple Death Murders," and that the victims are found with poison in their systems and clutching a jeweled scarab. Okay, so we're starting with everybody already knowing these aren't suicides, but murders. Then, the reporter tells us that all the victims are connected to a recent expedition into some Mayan ruins. Ah, so maybe it's a curse. Hey, wait a second, this is starting to sound a lot like ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, isn't it? Uh-oh. That's not a good sign.
Cut to D.A. Grant Gardner as he visits Police Commissioner Dryden and Mayor Randolph to discuss what they're going to do about all this. Captain America has helped them solve cases before—if only they could contact him now, darn it! I guess I should go ahead and address the fact that this Grant Gardner fella is Captain America. Yeah. Instead of a super-soldier, he's a chubby D.A. It boggles the mind.
Cut to the Drummond Museum of Arts & Sciences, where we meet the monocle-wearing, pencil-thin-moustache-having Dr. Maldor, talking to a colleague of his named Lyman. Lyman worries that Maldor might be in danger of the Purple Death, since he was on the Mayan expedition, too, but Maldor says he can't be in danger from the Scarab, because he is the Scarab. He's all pissed off because everyone else on the expedition got rich and famous, and he got stuck as curator of this crummy museum. Bit of a drama queen, there, huh, Maldor? I mean, Jesus, dude. So he mind-controls Lyman with the fumes from a cigar and gets him to tell him about a…um…well, they call it "the Dynamic Vibrator." Okay, I know this is a different era, but it's really hard not to smile when they talk about this thing. I feel like a fifth grader, but I can't help it. That shit is funny. Anyway, this particular vibrator can be used to disintegrate anything. And whatever. I feel like I'm being bombarded with information right now, though, and a lot of it is ridiculous. Oh well. Anyway, Lyman writes down the combination to the safe where he keeps the plans for the vibrator, then Maldor calls in his henchmen, Matson and Gruber. He has Gruber kill Lyman and sends Matson to go get the plans, arming him with some Purple Death bombs in case he needs them.
Matson and another thug go to Lyman's house, but…Captain America shows up. With no shield. He's got a gun, though, which is probably a more practical weapon, anyway. He's also got a pretty big gut. Anyway, since this is a Republic serial, we know what comes next, right? Yep, a big ol' fight. It's pretty good, as expected. They really knew how to make entertaining extended fight sequences. Anyway, Matson gets away, but the other guy gets shot. Cap finds the bombs, then calls Commissioner Dryden, where we learn that Lyman has been found dead. Dryden hangs up and calls the D.A.'s office, but Gail Richards, the interchangeable girl of this serial (seriously, in all 4 of the serials I've watched so far, the girls are exactly the same), tells him that Gardner isn't there right now, which serves to show us that Gail's in on Gardner's secret. She immediately calls Cap on the radio and he tells her to get some guy named Davis over to the office to analyze the Purple Death bombs.
We learn that it's distilled from a flower, so Gardner and Gail come up with a plan. Basically, she takes a fake version of the extract to a bunch of florists until she finds someone who's afraid to smell it. Pretty clever, I guess, if a little less than cinematic. When she finds the guy, he pulls a gun on her and ties her up in a back room. It never ceases to amaze me how the men of these serials always put women in danger. But if they didn't, it'd be hard to rescue them, and Gardner shows up and does that here.
Now that the secret of the poison is out, Maldor is getting a little squirrelly. And there's another problem. Gardner's going to see a demonstration of the, um, the Dynamic Vibrator (snicker), and Maldor doesn't want anyone else to know how it works. So, Maldor wants to destroy the Vibrator and kill Lyman's assistant. But first, they have to make sure Captain America is out of the picture. They know he gets his info from the D.A., so they set a trap. They trick him into going to a motel where a thug is waiting for him. Okay, not the most inventive of traps, but I suppose it can work. Nah. Cap shows up, fights him and takes his gun, then sort of "Russian Roulettes" the guy into spilling his guts.
Meanwhile, Gail and some other guys show up at the lab for the…(heh-heh) vibrator demonstration. Pay close attention, Gail. Gardner doesn't seem like he'd be the world's most generous lover. During the vibrator demonstration, some thugs sneak in, take everyone prisoner and set the vibrator to full power with the intent of bringing the whole building down.
Cap races to the scene and fights the thugs, throwing one guy out the window to his death. Meanwhile, the power of the vibrator keeps mounting. And building. Nearing climax slowly, but ever so surely. Yes, it may take a while, but it's going to deliver fantastic results. You can bet your sweet ass on that. While the vibrator does its work, everyone but Cap manages to get out of the building. But the massive tower can't take the strain anymore. It's pusating, throbbing, becoming impossible to contain any longer…TO BE CONTINUED.
Huh. This one has the extended opening for Chapter Two as well. That's different for Republic. Used to be you only got the character intros on the first episode. Anyway, the resolution to the cliffhanger is fine. Cap wasn't buried in the rubble as it seemed, but it's not a cheat. He ends up jumping out of the building before it crumbles, onto a rooftop.
Later, Grant meets with Commissioner Dryden and Mayor Randolph to discuss what they're gonna do about the Scarab. Sadly, they're done with the vibrator, but there's another plan for another weapon out there, some sort of electric pulse thing that can cut through steel and concrete.
Back at the Museum, the Scarab is trying to decode the plans for that weapon, but they can't crack it. They need Lyman's assistant, Dodge, but he's under police protection, so they decide to get to him through Gail. Maldor goes and meets her, shaking her hand and poking her with a poison needle attached to a ring. It's weird that he does it this way, because there's no stealth to it. No one's around. Why didn't he just jab her with the needle instead of bothering with the subterfuge? Maldor seems to like to do things in an openly complicated manner. What's the point of the whole Scarab identity, anyway? Well, it doesn't matter. It puts her under his spell and he tells her to call the cop guarding Dodge and tell him that two men are coming over and he should let them in. Gardner arrives at the office just as Gail is coming out of her stupor with no memory of what happened. He drives them to his apartment, then goes inside and runs into one of the thugs. Apparently the other one already kidnapped Dodge and left. Not sure why they didn't show that, but whatever. The thug takes Gardner's gun away and shoots him, then puts the gun back in his hand to make it look like a suicide. Unfortunately for the thug, Gardner always loads the first chamber with a blank to be fired as a warning shot. So he was just playing possum. This leads to an office shootout which Gardner wins. He gets the operator to trace a call the thug made and finds out where they took Dodge.
Dodge is being interrogated in a barn, but he won't give up the code. Not until they threaten to drive a tractor over him, anyway. They untie him so he can show them the code in writing. While he's doing that, Gardner gets there, changes into his Captain America duds, then busts in. Big fight, then Cap gets knocked out. The thug starts up the tractor and escapes as the unmanned mechanical executioner heads for him…TO BE CONTINUED.
Eh. He just wakes up and gets out of the way, then unties Dodge and learns that he gave up the code.
Later, we learn that the Scarab and his buddies have been busy with their new toy, breaking into vaults and stealing all sorts of shit. Apparently, Dodge has been working on some sort of locating device, and he calls Gardner and tells him the it's ready. However, the Scarab has his phone tapped, so that can't be good.
Gardner goes to pick up the locator so he can take it to a lab so some tubes can be put in it or some shit (I don't know, and who cares, really?). While he's there, the Scarab's thugs tamper with his car, basically turning it into a bomb. Gail sees this from the window and runs out to warn him, but Gardner drives off before she gets out. So she shoots the thug and steals his car. Go Gail.
There's a pretty good bit where he sees that he's being followed, so he radios the cops and tells them to stop the car and detain the driver. But that's Gail and she's trying to help you, you idiot! Well, the cop stops Gail, but she explains what's up. The cop calls in dispatch to warn Gardner, and he bails out just as it explodes. Whew!
Gardner has a fake story printed, saying he was injured in the explosion but the locator was destroyed, so Scarab will think it's safe to use their vault-cutter-thing.
Well, the Scarab's men use the thing and Dodge uses the locator to find them, then Captain America goes after them.
I've complained before about the treatment of secret identities in these things, but this serial's particularly lazy about it. They let Gail be in on the secret, but supposedly nobody else knows. But like here, Gardner and a cop leave together to go after the crooks, but only Captain America shows up to deal with it. Kinda lame. Anyway, big fight. Cap and one of the thugs fall into this giant crate and while they're fighting in there, one of the other thugs uses the ray-gun thing to set the crate on fire. Guess killing Captain America's worth the life of his buddy. Anyway…TO BE CONTINUED.
Why was that episode called "Scarlet Shroud?" There was nothing either scarlet or shrouded. Seems to be pretty damning evidence against this originally being meant for that Mr. Scarlet character.
This one's not bad. He knocks out the thug, then has to shoot out the braces that hold the crate together, then he knocks a wall down. It's all on fire at the time, so it's pretty good stunt work. Nice. One of my favorite stunt sequences so far.
Matson goes back to the museum to report to the Scarab. He doesn't really care about the ray gun, but he wants some sort of robot-controlled arm that must've been there, too and got confiscated by the cops. No idea what they're talking about.
Later, Gardner calls Maldor to tell him that Professor Lyman's will is going to be read and he should be there for it. At the reading, Dodge is awarded Lyman's house while Maldor gets everything in the museum except for some jewels that Lyman wanted sold to finance another Mayan expedition. Maldor promises to deliver the jewels tomorrow, then goes to the museum and talks to Matson about how they could kill Dodge easily if only they had their robot-controlled truck (Oh, I see, it's the truck that's robot-controlled).
Meanwhile, Gardner has the truck investigated and finds out it's robot-controlled while Maldor and company spy on them. It's not clear how they're watching them since the view seems to be from somewhere outside the truck, but let's not get technical. Gardner comes up with a plan to hide inside the truck so that when the bad guys robot-control it back to their hideout, he'll be there. They know what he's up to, but they do it anyway. They take it to a garage. They want Gardner alive, which is fortunate, I guess. They pull him out of the truck and tie him up. Then they put some explosives in the truck so they can blow up Dodge. Gardner escapes, but the truck has already left. There's a fight, of course, and after he kills everyone, Gardner changes into Captain America, steals a motorcycle and goes after the truck. It's a pretty decent chase scene. He ends up jumping on the roof of the truck, then climbing into the cab. He disables the robot control, but ends up crashing into the house and blowing up, anyway…TO BE CONTINUED.
Exactly what you expect. He just bails out. I'm not sure whose house blew up, though, because Dodge is fine. He calls Maldor and tells him he's going to South America to try and get away from the Scarab. He asks for the jewels before he goes and Maldor agrees, but of course, he's got a plan. Maldor brings the jewels over, and Gardner's there. As soon as Maldor and Gardner leave, one of Maldor's thugs sneaks in and kills Dodge, then steals the jewels back and sneaks onto a truck. Gardner finds Dodge's body and chases after the truck, but the thug already escaped.
Gardner finds out the fingerprints on the trunk the dude escaped in belong to a guy named Lefty Harper, but the Commissioner tells him Lefty was found dead an hour ago. Some basic detective work leads them to a box company. Gail goes there and rigs a phone so Gardner can listen in. Then the thugs grab her and threaten to put her in a paper cutter. It's basically a high-powered guillotine, which we know Republic loves. They tie her up under the thing as Captain America races over. Bit of a suspense sequence here, and it's pretty good. The blade drops and Gail keeps silent, but the bad guys stop the blade before it cuts her in half. That dame's got a lot of nerve. Captain America shows up and there's a fight. Naturally, the guillotine gets triggered again. As the blade comes down…TO BE CONTINUED.
Cap stops the blade just in time.
Matson escapes and goes back to the museum to report to Maldor. He says either Gardner and Cap are one and the same, or they're working together. So he's not stupid. Gardner's really not too careful with his secret identity. I'm kinda wondering why he bothers. Anyway, Maldor's moving on, ready to take on another member of the expedition, a petroleum magnate named Henley. He sent Henley an extortion note that Henley has shown to Gardner, so Maldor has arranged for Gardner to come to the museum and sends Matson to bug his apartment. You know. Typical stuff. These serials really rely on the same sort of mechanics, don't they?
Anyway, the plan works and Matson gets out of there just as Gardner arrives. The bug is hilarious, by the way. It's about the size of a toaster oven. It's not a very suspenseful sequence, but it takes a long time. Anyway, wouldn't you know it, the second Gardner gets inside, Gail calls him, telling him that Henley is in the office and all worked up about the extortion note he just got. She also tells him that she's been trying to call for the past ten minutes, but his line was busy. Hm.
Well, I can't say I'm a fan of taking five minutes to tell us, then go through with all that stuff. One or the other would've been fine, I think. Oh well.
Gail and Henley come to Gardner's place and show him the note. Gardner says that they'll pay off the ransom, but he'll have Gail make the drop, using a briefcase with a transmitter in it so they can track down the Scarab. Of course, Maldor hears about it, but Gardner was bullshitting, anyway. He found the bug and was setting a trap for the Scarab.
He's still fine with putting Gail in harm's way, so he sends her off to make the drop. Captain America shows up and fights some bad guys. It's a pretty good one, ending with the bad guy being tossed off a cliff. Cap grabs the bad guy's sniper rifle, steals his car and follows the other bad guys who took the case into their cave hideout. There's another fight and Cap falls down a mineshaft. The bad guys drop some rocks on him…TO BE CONTINUED.
He just rolled out of the way. I wonder how he survived that fall, though. Even the real Captain America would be banged up. Oh well.
Back at the museum, Matson arrives with the money, but the immediate newspaper publication that must have been prevalent in those days (judging from these serials) tells them that the money's marked, so it's useless to them. He decides to go after Henley to punish him.
Henley shows Gardner the new threatening note that was just slipped under his door. He doesn't want to help anymore, but Gardner talks him into it. Apparently, he found a business card on one of the men at the mine leading them to a used car lot. Fine.
Gardner goes there and finds out the manager sold him a truck the other day. He gives him the details and license tag and we learn it was delivered to a garage, but he doesn't know which one. He can find out when he talks to the night manager.
Later at Gardner's office, the guy calls and tells him and tells him the name of the garage. It's the most useless scene ever. Nothing happens between him telling Gardner he doesn't know, then telling him he does. Ridiculous.
At the garage, the bad guys are loading a bomb onto their truck. It drives off right before Gardner arrives. They try to get rid of him, but he finds the license tag, so they all start shooting at each other. Gardner kills everyone, then finds enough evidence to figure out what's going on. He tells Gail to call the cops, then drives to the oil company.
He's in his Captain America outfit when he gets there and finds the thugs hooking the bomb up. Big fight, then the place explodes (the explosion is awesome, by the way)…TO BE CONTINUED.
It's pretty much a cheat. He just runs out before it blows. He also managed to turn a valve so only that one building got blown up instead of the whole thing.
Maldor and his men listen to the bad news on the radio. They decide to get their Mayan friend to kill him with a blowgun.
Henley tells Gardner he needs to get back to business and Gardner agrees to let him go as long as he brings some bodyguards. The Mayan guy is on the roof and shoots the blowgun, but Gardner sees him first and shoots him with a regular gun.
Maldor reads about the failure in the newspaper, but isn't too worried about being found out. Just then, Gardner arrives with the blowgun and shows it to him. They keep talking about a guy named Grayson who's an expert on blowguns, but he died a couple years ago. Gardner says he contacted his family to see if they know anyone who can help.
Gardner leaves and gets a shine from Maldor's shine boy (who keeps a phone in his shoeshine box). Gail shows up and tells Gardner that she just heard from the Grayson fella's grandson. He says he'll be able to tell him who owned the gun (okay, I guess). Anyway, they need to fly him out. They leave and the shine boy tells Maldor. Their solution is to put a bomb on the plane.
Gardner gets to the airport with Gail and the blowgun. Apparently, everyone knew how to fly a plane back then, because Gail can do it. Gardner wishes her a safe trip and watches her take off. Then, he finds a mechanic the bad guys tied up. He changes into Captain America and, you know, fights the bad guys. Meanwhile, Gail's plane blows up…TO BE CONTINUED.
This is the biggest cheat yet, because they change the time frame. Well before the plane blows up, Cap finishes off the bad guys and rescues the mechanic. Last episode, he was fighting them right until the plane exploded. Cheap. Anyway, the mechanic tells him about the bomb, he radios her and she bails out before it blows. Horrible.
Well, the blowgun was destroyed in the explosion, but they spread a fake story that they made an exact duplicate of the gun and Grayson can identify the owner from that. Maldor takes the bait and Gardner and the Commissioner set a trap at a hotel. The bad guys try to rig a bomb to kill Grayson…look, this is all really convoluted. The way it works out is that Gardner shows up with the fake blowgun and Matson and another thug gas him, then steal the fake blowgun. Matson leaves with the blowgun and leaves the other guy to kill Gardner. Cue the fight. It's a short one, though. Gardner knocks him out a window and he falls to his death. Meanwhile, Gail follows Matson, then Gardner follows Gail, changing into his Captain America clothes.
We end up at a barn. Gail goes in and pulls a gun on Matson and another guy, but they turn the tables and knock her out. They decide to blow up the barn, but Cap gets there and starts a fight. It's the kind of thing that while they're fighting, there's a blowtorch next to a trail of gunpowder that could ignite at any time. Gail wakes up just as the gunpowder ignites. Matson escapes, then the barn blows up. Lots of shit blows up in this one…TO BE CONTINUED.
I like that they have "Avenging" in there. Nice future-telling there, guys. Anyway, this one's another cheat. Cap knocks out the bad guys, grabs Gail and they escape before the barn blows.
Later, Gardner reads in the newspaper about Dr. Lyman's brother, who has invented a device that can bring people back to life. That's pretty impressive. He's going to demonstrate the device and Gardner and Gail go to watch him try to bring a dead dog to life. Maldor will be there too, and of course that's something he wants, so he comes up with a plan.
It's funny, because there's a lot of attention called to the fact that the Humane Society is involved in the experiment. I wonder if Republic had gotten in trouble with them before. Anyway. They put the dead dog next to the machine, then Lyman begins his demonstration. He injects the dog with something, then turns on the machine and the dog wakes up. It jumps out a window, then the Scarab's men come in and hold everyone at gunpoint. They steal the machine, then there's a shootout which Gardner wins.
He hops in his car and chases after the guy with the machine, who drops a few grenades on the road to slow Gardner down. Eventually, he blows up a bridge, so Gardner has to turn around and go back. When he gets there, he finds everyone is tied up and gagged (including Maldor), but Lyman was kidnapped.
Later, the bad guys leak some info to send Captain America to some shack (that I think was used in SPY SMASHER), which they've rigged to blow up. He brings Gail along as well, for some reason.
Anyway, you know how this is going to play out. First, there's a fight, then the shack gets blown up with Gail inside…TO BE CONTINUED.
She just runs out. You know how these things work by now. Matson is hurt but alive so they take him to the hospital.
Maldor discusses his next idea with Gruber, whom we haven't seen too much of, but he's in the opening credits. I suppose if Matson is Maldor's right hand man, Gruber's his left. Anyway, Maldor's plan is basically to wait for Matson to die, then steal his body and reanimate it with that machine they stole.
The Commissioner calls Gardner to tell him that Matson is dead and the morgue is coming to pick up the body. Gardner and Gail decide to go to the hospital to see if maybe Matson made a "delirious remark" that will help them find Dr. Lyman (pretty thin, but whatever).
Lyman doesn't want to bring Matson back to life, and besides, he needs one million volts of electricity. Well, it's a good thing Maldor has some device that generates a lot of power. And if Lyman refuses to bring Matson back to life, they'll toss him in there.
Maldor's men stop the hearse while Gardner and Gail decide to go to the morgue just in case Matson's friends try to steal the body. Good instincts. Anyway, they take the body and shoot the morgue guys, but one of them stays alive long enough to write the car's license plate in the dirt. Gardner and Gail happen by, see the note, then call it in.
They bring the body to Maldor and Lyman starts the reanimation.
Gardner gets the info about the car, changes into his Captain America outfit and heads over to stop them. Just as Lyman's about to injects him with the serum, Cap busts in and starts punching everyone. While he's fighting, Matson revives. He's a little groggy, but surprisingly lucid for a zombie. Lyman smashes the machine, so Maldor kills him, then escapes out the window with Matson. Cap's fight takes him into that generator thing. Another thug flips the switch, apparently frying Cap and the guy he was fighting…TO BE CONTINUED.
Yet another cheat. He jumps out just in time.
Later, Maldor, Gruber, and the newly revived Matson hang out at the museum. Matson's not a zombie at all. He's perfectly normal and surprisingly relaxed for a guy who just came back from the dead. Anyway. They're concerned about Dirk, the one survivor of the events of last episode, and whether he'll talk to the D.A.
Gardner and the Commissioner discuss Dirk, who hasn't cracked yet. The problem is the only witness is Captain America, and he can't testify. Gail witnessed Lyman's abduction, but that won't be enough. But Gardner knows there was another witness and calls Dr. Maldor and asks him to come over and identify Dirk. Maldor talks to his lawyer and devises a plan.
At Gardner's office, after a little song and dance, Maldor positively identifies Dirk. Gardner says he'll let him plea down if he identifies the Scarab. Dirk says okay and says the Scarab was Dr. Lyman. They don't buy it, but they send Maldor home to talk to Dirk some more. Dirk says there's proof at Lyman's house, so they go there.
Once they get there, Matson jumps out, kills Dirk and has a shootout with Gardner. That turns into a fight, and that turns into a chase. Maldor was waiting in the car, and he and Matson drive off. Gardner chases in his own car and after some driving and shooting, Gardner's car goes over a cliff…TO BE CONTINUED.
Unsurprisingly, he bails out before the car goes over.
Later, Hillman, one of the backers from the Mayan expeditions calls Gardner, saying that he he found some map to a lost city. By the way, it's hilarious how these people pronounce "Mayan." No two pronunciations are ever the same. Gardner suspects the Scarab will stop at nothing to obtain the map, and apparently, Maldor has another piece of it.
Gardner calls Maldor and tells him about the map. Maldor goes to him and tells him his piece of the map was stolen. He gets Gardner to leave the office, then plants a bug in his desk. Through this, he learns where Hillman is being kept.
Later, Gail heads off to meet Hillman, while Gardner goes back to his office to retrieve some documents to the Commissioner. He catches one of Maldor's men retrieving the bug and has a shootout with him, killing him. He calls Hillman and warns him, then heads over there.
Matson and another thug get there first. They use the old room service trick to get inside the room. They tie up Gail and the cop guarding them and stick them in the closet. Hillman refuses to help until they threaten to shoot Gail, so he opens the safe to retrieve the map. Gardner arrives, finds the real room service guy dead in a closet, so he changes into Captain America. Big fight, ending with Matson throwing Cap out a window. As he takes the skyscraper plunge…TO BE CONTINUED.
He lands in a laundry truck, which is not bad as these cliffhanger resolutions go. Matson and his buddy kidnap Hillman while Cap climbs back up. He rescues Gail and the cop in the closet.
At the museum, Matson wonders how Captain America found out where they were.
At Gardner's office, they find the bug and have it analyzed.
Maldor reveals his Scarab-ness to Hillman, telling him he wants to know where the lost city is. He'll kill Hillman if he doesn't decipher the plaques. Naturally, Hillman refuses, so Maldor ties him up and whips him with a cat o' nine tails.
They find a fingerprint on the bug which leads them to a shady character named Graham, who calls the Scarab to warn him. Hillman gets tired of being whipped, so he says he'll talk, but when they cut him loose, he runs for the phone. Like he's going to make a really quick call or something. Anyway, they knock him out, but he breaks the phone. Maldor's not happy about either of those things, so he leaves.
Gardner had the phone company tracking Graham, so they know the address of the place he called. Gardner goes back to Graham and grills him. Graham pulls a gun on him, but Gardner kicks his ass and takes it. He cuffs him and goes off to check out the farm. Luckily for the Scarab, Gardner cuffed Graham close enough to a secret radio he has, and he calls Gruber and gives him the skinny. Unfortunately, the phone at the farm is broken, so he can't warn him. He radios Maldor and tells him the situation. Maldor decides to go get his plane and drop a bomb on the farm.
Captain America arrives at the farm and fights the guys. Meanwhile, Maldor flies above them, dropping bombs. He misses a couple times, but connects with the third.
Yet another cheat. They change the timeline again. Cap and Hillman are well clear of the place when it blows.
Maldor finally deduces that Gardner is Captain America and devises a plan to deal with it. They kidnap Gail and take her to the museum. Maldor reveals himself to her as the Scarab and uses his poison on her (that he must've forgotten about when dealing with Hillman). He's altered it though. It'll never wear off and she'll go insane. Gail stalls and gives him some information. There's a brain surgeon coming to fix Hillman's noggin, so she gives Maldor that name.
Maldor has one of his men go to Gardner's office pretending to be the doctor and learn the location of the hospital Hillman's at. It was all a trap, though. Gardner knew he was an imposter, so he gave him the name of the wrong hospital, then has the call traced. He goes over there and has a shootout with Matson, then a fight. He wins and ties him up. Gardner explains to him that Gail used a code to warn him. She said the name of the doctor was Rodlam Baracs, which, when spelled backwards is Scarab Maldor. Quick thinking, Gail! Can't believe Maldor didn't see through that, but it's clever for its time.
The fake doctor calls Maldor and Gruber to warn them about the trap. Apparently, he just barely managed to escape the hospital, where the cops were waiting for them. Maldor and Gruber go to Gail and…well, they're going to turn her into a mummy by putting her in a glass case (don't worry about it).
Gardner has a shootout with some of the Scarab's men, then changes into Captain America and confronts Maldor. While they're fighting, Gruber tries to turn Gail into a mummy with some gas or something. It's not a bad suspense sequence, but they really should've introduced the gas idea earlier. Oh well. Anyway, Cap somehow manages to overpower the old man he's fighting and save Gail in time.
Later, we learn that the Scarab was executed in the electric chair and that Captain America's identity is now well-known.
This one has screenplay credits at the end, which I don't think any other Republic serial has done before. For posterity's sake the writers are Royal Cole, Ronald Davidson, Basil Dickey, Jesse Duffy, Harry Fraser, Grant Nelson and Joseph Poland.
Well, in some ways, except for the fights and lack of racism, that was even worse than the BATMAN serial. And boy did they get the hero wrong.
Apparently, Timely wasn't too happy with Republic's interpretation. And this would begin about fifty or sixty years of Marvel heroes looking like shit onscreen. Oh well. Time to freeze Captain America and thaw him out in sixty years or so.


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Although Ghost of Sparta won't be released until this fall, the Irvine, California-based Ready at Dawn is already making the sort of staff cuts that usually follow the completion of a project. In an announcement on its official Web site, the company lamented the move, which it says is the nature of the indie-development beast.
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APPENDIX E STATEMENT OF TASK The National Academy of Sciences / National Research Council will organize a workshop to examine the following: current capabilities to characterize and quantify the benefits ("ecosystem services") provided by trees and forest canopy cover within a metropolitan area - including air pollution mitigation; water pollution mitigation; carbon sequestration; UHI mitigation; reduced energy demand from shading of buildings. The discussions may also consider benefits to public health and well-being. key gaps in our understanding, and our ability to model, measure, and monitor such services; and improvements that may be needed to allow tree planting to be sanctioned as a "creditable" strategy in official regulatory control programs (i.e. for air quality, water quality, climate change response). current capabilities for assigning quantitative economic value to these services, and strategies for improving these capabilities (in order, for instance, to allow for rigorous cost/benefit analyses, and for policies that compensate land owners for good forestry conservation and planting practices). the challenges of planning/managing urban forests in a manner that optimizes multiple ecosystem services simultaneously (e.g. synergies, tradeoffs in selecting tree species, determining planting locations) opportunities for enhancing collaboration and coordination among federal agencies, academic researchers, and other stakeholders. 63
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Monday, September 28th, 2009 — 2:45 pm RawStory.org
UPDATE (at bottom): City's law department tells RAW STORY that a new 9/11 investigation is 'not a proper subject to be placed before the voters' '
A lead actor from the popular FX television show "Rescue Me" joined a large group of 9/11 activists and survivors on Sunday in a march from New York City's Battery Park to city hall.
During an afternoon rally in the park, Daniel Sunjata, who plays the role of Franco Rivera in the firefighter drama featuring actor Dennis Leary, took the stage with an impassioned call for a new investigation.
The march was held to support the NYC CAN coalition, which is currently engaged in a court battle with city hall over the legality of their ballot measure calling for a new 9/11 investigation.
The group has gathered over 80,000 signatures from New Yorkers in support of its ballot initiative, and even won a recent legal skirmish over a challenge to the validity if its petition's signatures. The city's challenge to the initiative's legality continues, however, with a court referee recently advising the judge to find for the city.
An NYC CAN media advisory , which refers to the 9/11 Commission Report as a "disgrace," notes that the group's lawyers were to file a motion for reconsideration on Monday, Sept. 28.
"We have received, for our efforts, a slap in the face and a kick in the mouth," said Sunjata, speaking at the NYC CAN rally on… Continue reading
New Organization Formed, 9/11/09
Welcome to JOMP911T
Thank you for your interest in discovering and reporting the truth. We are
a non-partisan organization whose goals are to inspire, organize and unite media
professionals to first uncover and then report on what really happened on September
11, 2001. These efforts, along with those of other professional organizations,
will ultimately lead to the convening of a real investigatory body where seeking
the truth will be the guiding principle, not political expediency.
The importance of the media as a prime mover is encapsulated in the quotes
We invite you to browse our website, read the materials, and, hopefully, sign
our petition of support for a new 9/11 investigation. With your time and effort
a new investigation will be increasingly likely. We sincerely appreciate your
Mission Statement
Journalists and Other Media Professionals for 9/11 Truth (JOMP911T) is an
international organization of journalists and other media professionals who
have, unlike the mainstream (corporate) media, been reporting information that
challenges the official account of 9/11.
We seek an independent investigation, unfettered by political constraints,
which has full subpoena powers and examines all of the evidence relevant to
determining what happened on 9/11. To date, virtually all of the evidence that
conflicts with the official account has been ignored by the mass media.
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We are a group of 5 diverse New England citizens. A number of common interests
drew us together and this website is the result.
We passionately… Continue reading
by James Ridgeway
First published in his blog Unsilent Generation on 10 September 2009
Truth was obviously censored and ncomplete in the original 9/11 Commission's report. If anyone deserves the opportunity to press on for answers, it is the people of the City of New York. The next few weeks will tell whether they are at long last given that opportunity.
In the five years since the 9/11 Commission released its studious but timid report, Americans of all political stripes have advocated for a new investigation into the attacks of September 11, 2001. Since Obama seems intent upon putatively pardoning the Bush Administration for all of its crimes and misdemeanors, such an investigation will clearly not take place at the federal level. But a New-York based organization has been pursuing a local effort–and on the eve of the eighth anniversary of the attacks, it has achieved what could be an important step toward its goal. The New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), which describes itself as "a group comprising 9/11 family members, first responders, and survivors," has gathered signatures to place a referendum for a new 9/11 investigation on the November ballot in New York City.
The Bloomberg administration fought the effort by claiming that only about 26,000 of the 52,000 signatures submitted by NYC CAN were valid, leaving the group some 4,000 short of the requirement for a ballot measure. After the New York courts appointed a "referee" to review the tossed-out petitions, NYC CAN… Continue reading
NYC CAN Breaking News Bulletin – FORWARD WIDELY September 10, 2009
City of New York Concedes 9/11 Coalition Has 30,000 Valid Signatures To Put Referendum For 9/11 Investigation on November Ballot
New York — In a last minute decision, lawyers for the City of New York have conceded that the New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN), a group comprising 9/11 family members, first responders and survivors, indeed did submit over 30,000 valid signatures to put the referendum for a new 9/11 investigation before the voters of New York City this November.
In an earlier letter from the City Clerk dated July 24, 2009, the City had claimed only 26,003 signatures were valid, 3,997 short of the requisite 30,000. The City's concession that over 30,000 of the 52,000 signatures submitted were in fact valid paves the way for lawyers from both sides to argue the legality of petition.
Asked whether he thought NYC CAN could overcome the City's challenge to the legality of the petition, legal counsel to the petitioners, Dennis McMahon, said, "Absolutely. Although the City has an incredibly successful record of shooting down ballot initiatives, we will be arguing from a fresh perspective that reflects the unprecedented events of 9/11. We believe the courts will see how critical an issue this is, and be persuaded with our legal reasoning and point of view." A final determination on the legality of the petition will be reached in time for the referendum to be included on the November… Continue reading
AE911Truth with Richard Gage, AIA
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TONIGHT, Tuesday, September 8 starting at 5:45PM Pacific
An important event for the 9/11 truth movement will occur on Tuesday night
in San Francisco when Richard Gage, AIA, speaks at the oldest public forum in
the nation, The Commonwealth
Club in California. Architects & Engineers For 9/11 Truth will webcast
this event live on the Internet from our website AE911Truth.org.
We follow in the footsteps of the great David Ray Griffin, who first broke
the 9/11 Truth barrier at the Commonwealth Club last year. In just under 40
minutes we will present the scientific evidence for the explosive controlled
destruction of the 3 World Trade Center high-rises on 9/11. We will examine
the behavior of these buildings as well as the explosive evidence found in the
debris. More evidence may be found on our website
and DVD.
A screening of this historic moment will be presented in New York City at 56
Walker Street. Also, everyone is encouraged to tune in on your own computer
as Mr. Gage explains why the official conspiracy theory put forth by NIST is
not supported by the evidence, and that explosive controlled demolition is,
very unfortunately, the only viable explanation for the WTC destruction in New
York City on September 11, 2001.
Pre-register! If you are local and coming please make sure to get your tickets
today as it might be sold out.
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Issued September 4, 2009
Numerous media outlets have contacted 911truth.org, asking us to "make
sense" of Van Jones' "strange" behavior. We have issued the following
As the eighth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, what doesn't make sense to
us is that media outlets choose to impugn the character of the signatories
rather than carry out your responsibility as watchdogs to call attention to
the as yet unanswered questions raised in the 2004 statement. Five years later,
we challenge you to finally print those same unanswered questions and pursue
their answers with the same vigor with which you pursue the signatories.
We are overwhelmed by all the messages of support that we have received in the last 24 hours. We apologize that we can not possibly respond to each individual message, but please know we do read each one and are grateful for your support. For those of you asking what you can do to help, we encourage you to use the questions of this 2004 Statement as talking points for calls to your local media outlets and national call-in programs, and letters to the editors. Perhaps with your help, we can finally get answers to these lingering questions. Thank you.
For readers' convenience, following is the actual Truth Statement signed onto
by Van Jones in 2004, currently being discussed in the media.
The Statement
We Want Real Answers About 9/11
On August 31, 2004, Zogby International, the official North American political polling agency for Reuters, released a poll that found… Continue reading
Debates at Lolita Bar: "Should NY Reopen the 9/11 Investigation?"
Wednesday, September 2, at 8pm, with:
Sander Hicks, author of The Big Wedding, arguing yes.
Saul Devitt, computer programmer and skeptic, arguing no.
(And the group NYC CAN is fighting in court, meanwhile, over whether to make it a ballot initiative question, making the topic timely again.)
Hosted by Todd Seavey and moderated by Michel Evanchik.
Free admission, cash bar. Basement level of Lolita Bar at 266 Broome St. (New York City) at the corner of Allen St. on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one block south
and three west of the Delancey St. F, J, M, Z subway stop.
This is, in effect, our second of three debates on "conspiracy"-related
topics — bring all the skeptics, watchdogs, truth-seekers, or debunkers you
know. And the audience gets to vote on the question at the end.
The Silence of the Antiwar Movement is Deafening
Cindy Sheehan's Lonely Vigil in Obamaland
By JOHN V. WALSH August 26, 2009 Counterpunch.com
A funny thing has happened on Cindy Sheehan's long road from Crawford, Texas, to Martha's Vineyard. Many of those who claim to lead the peace movement and who so volubly praised her actions in Crawford, TX, are not to be seen. Nor heard. The silence in fact is deafening, or as Cindy put it in an email to this writer, "crashingly deafening." Where are the email appeals to join Cindy from The Nation or from AFSC or Peace Action or "Progressive" Democrats of America (PDA) or even Code Pink? Or United for Peace and Justice. (No wonder UFPJ is essentially closing shop, bereft of most of their contributions and shriveling up following the thinly veiled protest behind the "retirement" of Leslie Cagan.) And what about MoveOn although it was long ago thoroughly discredited as principled opponents of war or principled in any way shape or form except slavish loyalty to the "other" War Party. And of course sundry "socialist" organizations are also missing in action since their particular dogma will not be front and center. These worthies and many others have vanished into the fog of Obama's wars.
Just to be sure, this writer contacted several of the "leaders" of the "official" peace movement in the Boston area — AFSC, Peace Action, Green Party of MA (aka Green Rainbow Party) and some others. Not so much as the courtesy of a reply resulted from this effort – although the GRP at least posted a notice of the action.…Continue reading
NYC CAN News Bulletin – FORWARD WIDELY August 24, 2009
On Monday, August 10, NYC CAN began a comprehensive review of the nearly 26,000 signatures invalidated by the New York City Board of Elections and City Clerk. With 26,003 signatures accepted as valid by the City, at least 3,997 additional signatures were needed to exceed the threshold of 30,000 signatures. 10 days, 50 volunteers and 1,000 man-hours later, we are thrilled to report we have so far discovered 6,924 signatures we will argue were wrongly invalidated.
In addition, the Court has granted an extension allowing us to complete our review of 6 unfinished volumes. We anticipate having well over 7,000 additional valid signatures once the review is complete. The 50+ individuals who helped conduct the review take great pride in knowing their work has stopped the silencing of 7,000 New York City voters and allowed their voices to be heard.
On Friday, August 28, we must serve a Bill of Particulars listing all signatures we argue should be deemed valid by the Court. Special Referee Louis Crespo will begin a line-by-line review of the disputed signatures on Tuesday, September 8, and is scheduled to complete his review by Friday, September 18.
Pending the outcome of the Court's review of the disputed signatures, lawyers for NYC CAN and the City will begin arguing the legality of the petition's proposed amendment to the City Charter.
Looking ahead, NYC CAN will submit an additional… Continue reading
By Brad Knickerbocker
August 20, 2009
The Christian Science Monitor
For those who had their doubts about the politics behind the Bush administration's "war on terrorism," Tom Ridge's new book will fuel long-held suspicions.
The former Republican governor of Pennsylvania, who was the first head of the Department of Homeland Security, says two top Bush officials — Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft — pressured him to up the terror alert level before the 2004 election, according to promotional materials by publisher Macmillan.
"Ridge also charges that he was often 'blindsided' during daily morning briefings with Bush because the FBI withheld information from him, and says he was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings," reports AFP.
Former Bush officials have been quick to push back on Ridge's revelation.
Frances Frago Townsend, who coordinated homeland security matters at the National Security Council under President Bush, said Ridge is "absolutely wrong" in his allegation. "Politics played no part in any discussion" of the Homeland Security Council, Ms. Townsend insists in The Atlantic.
Not surprisingly, Ridge's news has ricocheted around cable TV, radio talk shows, and the blogosphere.
Kansas City Star columnist Yael Abouhalkah says Ridge's "serious charges" are "scathing."
"An abuse so gross — if Ridge is right — shows, among other things, what a powerful influence on the all-important tracking polls terror alerts must have had," writes Ben Smith on Politico.com. "And it suggests that Obama's efforts to keep terror arrests out of… Continue reading
August 13, 2009
Nearly one year ago, on August 19, 2008, 53 year old Barry Jennings died, two days before the release of the NIST Final Report on the collapse of WTC7. Jennings had bee serving as Deputy Director of Emergency Services Department for New York City, including on September 11th, 2001, when he saw and heard explosions BEFORE the Twin Towers fell, while attempting to evacuate the WTC7 Command Center with NY Corporation Counsel Michael Hess. Jennings publicly shared his experiences with reporters on the day of 9/11/01, as well as in a lengthy 2007 video interview with Dylan Avery, a small clip of which was the released; subsequently his job was repeatedly threatened and he asked that the taped interview not be released. However, after an interview with Jennings was broadcast by the BBC in their program The Third Tower ostensibly refuting what he had previously stated to Avery, Avery felt compelled to release the full original video interview to show the distortions made by the BBC. The cause of Jennings' death has not been made public, and a private investigator hired by Avery to discover the cause and circumstances surrounding his death abruptly ended his investigation. (More detail on all of this is available at jenningsmystery.com.) In spite of the significance of Jennings' position with NYC on 9/11 and his controversial eyewitness testimony regarding the collapse of WTC7, the media has not investigated or reported on his death, nor reported on his statements.
Widespread public action… Continue reading
by Kevin R. Ryan
Scoop Independent News
See also… http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0907/S00124.htm
Kevin R. Ryan: Demolition access to the WTC Towers
Who could have placed explosives in the World Trade Center (WTC) towers? This is the second essay in a series that attempts to answer that question. The first installment began by considering the tenants that occupied the impact zones and the other floors that might have played a useful role in the demolition of the WTC towers. [1] The result was a picture of connections to organizations that had access to explosive materials and to the expertise required to use explosives. Additionally it was seen that, in the years preceding 9/11, the impact zone tenants had all made structural modifications to the areas where the airliners struck the buildings.
The management representatives of these tenant companies were seen to be secretive and powerful. Through these powerful people, the tenants were connected to organizations that benefited greatly from the 9/11 attacks, including the defense contractors Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Halliburton, and Science Applications International Corp (SAIC). The tenants also had strong connections to the Bush family and their corporate network, including Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) and UBS, and to Deutsche Bank and its subsidiaries, reported to have brokered the insider trading deals. There were also links between these tenant companies and the terrorist-financing Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
Throughout this review we should keep in mind that, according to 2009 estimates, the membership of Al Qaeda's conspiracy network is… Continue reading
9/11 survivors call for renewed probe as 8th anniversary approaches
Posted by Bob Braun/Star-Ledger Columnist August 09, 2009
NJ.com: Blog.nj.com
The eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks is a month away and some survivors
of those lost believe it's a good time to renew an investigation into the events
of that disastrous day. New York City disagrees.
"We know we never have learned the truth, it's as simple as that," says
Lorie Van Auken of East Brunswick, one of the most ardent supporters of the
creation of the 9/11 commission in 2002. It was headed by former New Jersey
governor Thomas H. Kean.
"Members and staff of the 9/11 commission have said many of the questions
raised by the attacks have never been answered."
Van Auken was a founding member of Sept. 11 Advocates, originally a group of
four New Jersey widows whose husbands were killed that day. The group, informally
called "the Jersey girls," successfully lobbied for the creation of the
The four women formed the core of a "steering committee" that was
loosely attached to the panel, and then became lobbyists for enactment of the
commission's recommendations and critics of many of its findings after the panel's
report was published almost exactly five years ago.
Van Auken is now affiliated with an organization called NYC-CAN — New York
City Coalition for Accountability Now — that has spent the last few months
collecting signatures on a petition designed to require New York's city council
to place the creation… Continue reading
9/11 Family Members and Survivor File for Re-validation of Citizens'
Signatures with New York State Supreme Court, following rejection of NYC CAN
petition by the City Clerk and Board of Elections
New York City — On Wednesday, several 9/11 victim family members and a
survivor took the first step in challenging the City Clerk's rejection
of the NYC CAN petition for a new investigation in New York City. The group
filed a Verified Petition/Order to Show Cause with the Supreme Court of the
State of New York requesting a review of Board of Election documentation and
a 'special referee' appointed to re-validate the over 52,000 signatures
filed by NYC CAN on June 24th.
The NYC CAN petition was rejected by the City Clerk on Friday, July 24th, a
week ago, certifying less than the minimum of 30,000 qualified signatures of
electors. This benchmark, according to the Clerk's office, was not met.
A "qualified elector" is a registered New York City voter who was
eligible to vote in the last election. According to the letter sent by the Clerk
to the City Council, the NY Board of Elections validated 26,003 signatures and
invalidated 24,664, leaving 1,333 that were not certified.
At a hearing scheduled for Monday, August 3rd, before a Supreme Court Justice,
the plaintiffs, representing tens of thousands of concerned New Yorkers who
support a new 9/11 investigation, will formally raise their request for an independent
review of the Board of Elections findings. If granted by the… Continue reading
July 27, 2009
SEVENTY THOUSAND New Yorkers signed the NYC CAN petition, raising their voices
in support of NYC CAN's demand for accountability. They have chosen to
place the decision to create a new 9/11 investigation — a REAL 9/11 investigation
— exactly where it belongs: before the voters of New York City this November.
The voices of SEVENTY THOUSAND Americans who believe in democracy and believe
that government exists to serve the people — and not the other way around
— have been GAGGED by ONE so-called "PUBLIC SERVANT" —
The New York City Clerk — who denied the petition and the voice of the
Welcome to America. Democracy denied.
Did you REALLY expect those in halls of power to honor the WILL OF THE PEOPLE?
Did you expect this demand for accountability to go uncontested by those who
have forgotten the very meaning of the word? Perhaps this obstruction of democracy
would go unchallenged in THEIR America. Not in OUR America.
9/11 family members, first responders and survivors expected nothing less than
business as usual and ARE NOT HAVING IT. They are preparing to take the City
of New York to court to challenge the wrongful denial of our right to decide
on the creation of a new 9/11 investigation.
Friends, your determination and generosity have brought us to this crucial… Continue reading
John Albanese
July 23, 2009
New York City
70,000 signatures. A groundswell of endorsements from some of the most prestigious
and well-respected names in and out of the 9/11 Truth movement, anti-war movement,
government and military officials, and, most importantly, the victim's
Whether one agrees or disagrees with the underlying language, history and personalities
of those involved, it cannot be disputed that NYC CAN represents perhaps the
most unified and historic groundswell of public support for a 9/11 investigation
in the history of the 9/11 Truth movement. We cannot turn our backs on the self-evident
nature of this historic collaboration.
For this reason I can no longer withhold my endorsement.
I am well aware of the problems inherent in this initiative. As one of the
last few holdouts in the 9/11 Truth community, I too was deeply concerned with
various aspects of this initiative. But, in many respects the widespread attention,
and unifying character of the many endorsements, and the community outreach
associated with the initiative, makes this not just a referendum on the events
of 9/11, but also a virtual referendum on the nature of the 9/11 Truth movement
With so much widespread support and exposure NYC CAN will once and for all
create a high-profile platform for an open and honest dialogue — not just
about the events of 9/11 — but about OURSELVES – and our ability to maintain
our dignity and credibility as a movement in the face of what will invariably
be organized… Continue reading
July 14, 2009
For years now, New Yorkers, Americans in general, and millions around the world
have been plagued with deeply troubling questions about what really happened
on September 11th, 2001. Let down and betrayed by the non-findings of the farcical
911 Commission and its white-washed "report", victim's family members
and patriotic citizens have taken matters into their own hands by using the
peaceful and democratic means of the New York State Constitution to resolve
the issue.
The New York City Coalition for Accountability Now (NYC CAN) has filed a petition
containing 52,000 signatures calling for a referendum on the creation of a New
York City independent commission to begin an investigation with power of subpoena.
Unlike the 9/11 Commission, this one will not simply support the least inconvenient
conclusions using cherry picked evidentiary findings. Instead it will carefully
examine ALL of the evidence, including that which suggests that explosive, controlled
demolition was the true cause of the high-rise collapses witnessed that day.
This is a historic opportunity to make real progress towards accountability
and justice in the single most relevant, unresolved event of modern times. It
is an opportunity for REAL change, and it is one that America cannot afford
to waste. In order to override City Council if the referendum is vetoed, NYC
CAN needs only 20,000 more signatures, which would virtually ensure that the
voice of the people not be muted or ignored in this matter. If NYC CAN gets
these 20,000 signatures, the referendum WILL go on the ballot, and New York
City will be able to vote for justice!…
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