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moreThis accessible textbook offers students the opportunity to explore for themselves a wide range of sociolinguistic issues relating to the French language and its role in societies around the world. It is written for undergraduate students who have a sound practical knowledge of French but who has little or no knowledge of linguistics or sociolinguistics. It combines text with practical exercises and discussion questions to stimulate readers to think for themselves and to tackle specific problems.
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This is one of those useless 'would you be willing to help save the life of a child - yes or no' polls, which appeals to a modicum of basic decency possessed by even our most ethically-challenged members of society, where the respondent is free to 'envision' the extent or degree of the costs/consequences that would be required of them.
Now ask them if they would still be willing to save the life of a child if it meant giving up a kidney.
OK, now ask them if they would still give up a kidney after explaining all of the potential risks and complications.
OK, now ask them if they would still give up a kidney after explaining they would be unable to work for a month with no compensation.
OK, now ask if they would still give up a kidney if it might not be not covered by insurance and could cost them $20,000 out-of-pocket to pay for their end of the procedure.
So on and so forth...until we get to a more realistic number like 10% of respondents who still feel so altruistic when confronted with the reality of what its going to cost them.
I'm surprised the number was not closer to 90% who responded they are ready to change their lifestyle for the sake of the planet, so long as they are free to envision what "change my lifestyle" would encompass (i.e. any change that would not be uncomfortable for me).
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I never noticed this until today. I have run my HIDs for just over 3 years/just under 50K miles now. Mine were fine the first couple of years. Had some light "misting" on the glass of the headlight about a year back which looks like it's on the outer surface as much as the inside. This didn't appreciably affect the light's performance and it was still light years ahead of stock.
I used to ride predominantly at night on empty(ish) roads, so had full beams on a lot of the time.
A couple of weeks ago, I noticed condensation on the inside of the high beam lense for the first time. Could be the weather we're having here, but I've never had it in winter before, even in snow. This evening I was checking my bike over in prep for a rally and looking at the high beam again, I noticed the reflector (silver surface) inside the head light unit of the main beam appeared to have flaked off in places, showing black plastic behind. It's not that well illuminated in the garage, so I'll take a closer look outside tomorrow, but it looked pretty bad.
I like my bike because I can overtake 4x4s down farm tracks with a week's worth of shopping on the back.
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Eggheads: The Secret Source of Democratic Campaign Success
Sasha Issenberg is the author of The Victory Lab, a book about the increasing use of social science experiments to improve the effectiveness of political campaigns. The first big-name politician to really make use of this was Rick Perry, but since then it's been almost exclusively a Democratic phenomenon. Dylan Matthews asks why:
ISSENBERG: The reason Perry developed that partnership is that he made them an unusual offer, which is that they could publish their work. Most campaigns want to keep it proprietary, so the academics who are willing to work with them are often people who are aligned with their political goals, and not necessarily in it for research purposes.
Hmmm. According to Issenberg, Democrats faced a crisis in 2004 that motivated them to figure out how to run their campaigns better. But that's not all. They also found it pretty easy to find plenty of eager help within academia:
The left has been way better than the right at engaging the political scientists and economists who use these techniques to measure real-world cause and effect. You just have dozens of professors and graduate students who want to work with Democratic campaigns, women's groups and labor groups, and very little of that on the right.
....The fact that Republicans lost so overwhelmingly in 2008, I think, delayed an awareness of the technical gap between the two sides....For the sake of innovation on the Republican side, the best thing that could happen to them is that they lose narrowly on Tuesday, that the story becomes how Obama and his allies ran a mechanically superior campaign.
....That's the first step. The second step is finding social scientists who want anything to do with the Republican party in the 21st century, and that probably won't be solved on Tuesday one way or the other. That's a bigger cultural problem.
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Securities Class Action Settlement Dollars Increase 46 Percent in 2013 According to Cornerstone Research Report Larger Settlements Capture Major Share While Median Drops WASHINGTON, D.C., March 27, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via PRWEB - Total settlement dollars from securities class actions rose by 46 percent in 2013, according to Securities Class Action Settlements--2013 Review and Analysis, a new report issued today by Cornerstone Research. The 67 settlements in 2013, up from 57 in 2012, marked the first year-over-year increase since 2009. Six mega settlements (defined as those at or above $100 million) pushed settlement dollars up in 2013, accounting for 84 percent of total settlement dollars--the second highest proportion in the last decade. "In 2013, total settlement dollars, at $4.8 billion, reached the highest level since 2007, driven by both the increase in the number of settlements overall, as well as the increase in extremely large settlements," said report coauthor Laura Simmons, a senior advisor in Cornerstone Research's Washington, DC, office. "The largest settlements in 2013 were associated either with pharmaceutical firms or financial institutions involved with subprime credit crisis allegations." In contrast, median "estimated damages," a key measure of investor losses, declined 48 percent from 2012. Since "estimated damages" are the most important factor in determining settlement amounts, this decline was likely a major factor contributing to the substantially lower median settlement amount of $6.5 million in 2013. The report also notes that the landscape for securities class actions and their settlements may shift dramatically depending on the outcome of Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, currently pending in the U.S. Supreme Court. "If the ruling in Halliburton severely limits investors' ability to get large-scale class actions certified, the future of such cases is up in the air," said Joseph Grundfest, director of the Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse. "This past year's data also represent the fading echoes of the financial crisis, as some of the largest settlements resolve claims of fraud surrounding transactions in mortgage-backed securities. These lawsuits won't be around in the coming years to drive aggregate settlement values." More Highlights *Total settlement dollars in 2013 were 60 percent above the average for the prior five years. *The proportion of settled cases in 2013 involving accounting allegations dipped to a ten-year low, but the settlement as a percentage of "estimated damages" for these cases was much higher than for cases not involving such allegations. *The median settlement in 2013 for cases with a public pension as a lead plaintiff was $23 million, compared with $3 million for cases without a public pension as a lead plaintiff. *Cases reaching more advanced stages of litigation were associated with median "estimated damages" of more than three and a half times the median for cases settling in an early stage. *Settlements of $50 million or lower were far less likely to involve accompanying SEC actions or public pensions as lead plaintiffs. *In 2013, 32 percent of settlements less than $10 million were for cases involving Chinese reverse mergers. About the Authors Laarni T. Bulan and Ellen M. Ryan are managers in Cornerstone Research's Boston office. Laura E. Simmons is a senior advisor in Cornerstone Research's Washington, DC, office. About Cornerstone Research For more than twenty-five years, Cornerstone Research staff have provided economic and financial analysis of complex issues arising in commercial litigation and regulatory proceedings. The firm has four hundred fifty staff who work with a broad network of testifying experts to bring specialized knowledge and experience to each assignment. http://www.cornerstone.com Twitter at @Cornerstone_Res This article was originally distributed on PRWeb. For the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/03/prweb11709331.htm CONTACT: Cornerstone Research Susan Wittner email@example.com +1 212-605-5002
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After trying to send a small 50mm lens to Scotland and discovering it would cost $75-100 shipping, I would like to request CONUS only if that's ok, I can't take a risk of that it worse. That's ok right.
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Karyn White Artist Bio and Lyrics
Born Karyn Layvonne White in Los Angeles, California, the youngest of five children, Karyn White would grow up to become a renowned '80s artist. Her career was launched when she got a gig singing on the Jeff Lorber single "Facts of Love."
After graduating from Howard University, White's eponymous debut album was released in the year 1988. That album contained such well known songs as "The Way You Love Me," "Superwoman," "Secret Rendezvous," and "Love Saw It," a duet with Babyface, who produced the album.
White's next album, Ritual of Love, was released in the year 1991. It featured several songs that were produced by the winning team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. That album featured the hit song "Romantic," which made it to the top of the charts in the United States. Other well known songs from that album include "Do Unto Me," The Way I Feel About You," and "Walkin' the Dog."
In the year 1994, White's album Make Him Do Right was released. While it featured two well known songs, "Hungah" and "Can I Stay With You," the album did not sell very well. After having dropped out of the public eye for a while, White is currently working on her first solo album in over twelve years.
The albums of Karyn White include Karyn White, Ritual of Love, Make Him Do Right, Sweet & Sensual, Rhino Hi Five: Karyn White, Action Fighter, and Superwoman: The Best.
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Impressive. Plain water and lot's of spotting is sound better by the moment...
"1:1:1 Trichlor has been banned for some time now by International Treaty for film cleaning and Perchloroethylene has replaced it (at least in some parts of the USA), but that appears to be on the way out as well. The reason for banning is that it is a ozone depleting chemical and for its' toxicity.
Perc (for short), better known as dry-cleaning fluid and used in motion picture wet gate printing operations for base scratch abatement, has been pressed into service as the next active solvent for motion picture cleaning, but we found it less effective than Trichlor as it has a higher volatilization point.
You probably shouldn't use this at home even if you can find it, as you need Perc resistant gloves, an organic vapor cartridge air mask and protective eye wear, as well as an semi-annual blood test to screen for blood disorders and cancer.
The thing about Perc, and even more so Trichor, is its amazing de-fatting capabilities; dip your finger in it and it will turn white instantly as the liquid evaporates, as all the fat from the first few layers of skin are instantly removed. The liquid also instantly goes into your blood stream and you can pass out from over exposure in about 10 minutes of use in a improperly ventilated room.
If you have to use it, and I would advise you don't, do so outside and very sparingly. "
Perc is mostly a problem as a Ozone reducing chemical. It is used in Motiion picture wet gate printing, where it hides film base scratches as it has almost the same index of refraction as the film base.
The movie folks will rewash Film to get rid of emusion side scratches, but the total wet time is much less than an Hour. I understand that some labs will just rerun the ECN-2 process for colour negatives, and run B&W through their B&W negative process. (running B&W through B&W reversal or ECN-2 would be a disaster of course.)
The ozone wory means that the Perc vapor should be trapped so that it does not get anywhere near where you might breathe, or out into the atmosphere. Carbon Tet was a REAL poison.
Trichlor replaced carbon tetrachloride as the electronic equipment cleaner of choice. Then it was discovered it was very hard on your liver. Avoid it big time.
And wetgate printing with (yet another?) fluid. I guess that's what you mean. That did work.
I usually remove water spots with a micro fiber and 91% alcohol. Sometimes I just use my breath. I have never had good luck with cleaning chemicals. I will use Pec-12 on the surface of prints. If you have embedded dust in the emulsion then rewashing is the way to go.
I recently cleaned a friend's Polaroid 55 negs, which he had set down on a towel when wet, with a cotton ball under water. They came out fine and I couldn't see any damage when I scanned them.


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Suns going back to square one with GM search, but Lance Banks may be the frontrunner
Jul 30, 2010, 1:20 PM EDT
Here's the conventional wisdom, the perception out there — new Phoenix president of basketball operations Lon Babby will be calling the player personnel shots for the Suns, the general manager will be the guy doing the leg work.
It was reported by Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski that Cleveland's front office man Lance Blanks is in line to do that leg work.
Babby told the Arizona Republic none of that is true.
"It's not a horse race," Babby said. "There are no frontrunners. We're going to have a thorough and systematic process, and it'll be at the end of that process that we'll move to evaluations.
"I've committed to myself and the candidates that I wouldn't move forward to a decision until I've completed the interviews. Therefore, there can't be a frontrunner."
This is what Babby has to say, he has to spin and talk about the process. But this is like a horserace in one key way — someone is going to win. They may well be in the backstretch right now so who is out in front of the pack may well not be the one that crosses the line first, but someone will.
What it sounds like is Babby is going to take his time with this. He likely will go with a guy who is strong in player evaluations — a guy from the basketball background side. Which could be Blanks (a former NBA player), but could be a number of guys. Sit back and get comfortable, this likely will not end soon.
- givetheballtopaul - Jul 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM
Whoever it is, hopefully they're smarter than whoever made the decision not to pay Amare, and then take on Turdaglu's contract.
- Sunsfan4Life - Jul 31, 2010 at 1:32 AM
Ya hopefully smarter than the idiot who decided to give way too much money to a 30 year old washed up point guard…oh wait didn't that 30 year old go on to win 2 MVP awards? Hmm…Turk's only 31 and seemed pretty effective in Orlando when paired with a strong defender in Josh Howard and an undersized PF/SF in Rashard Lewis. I could be wrong but I've got a really good feeling about the best and deepest TEAM in Basketball PHX suns going all the way.
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John Armstrong
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John Armstrong
by Samuel William Reynolds, after Sir Joshua Reynolds
mezzotint, (1767)
6 1/2 in. x 4 3/4 in. (164 mm x 119 mm) plate size; 11 3/8 in. x 9 in. (290 mm x 230 mm) paper size
Given by Sir Herbert Henry Raphael, 1st Bt, 1916
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and only 31 percent had a parent at home (estimated from Bureau of the Census, 1992d: Tables 56, 67, 618, 620). While only a fraction of families with both parents (or the only parent in the work force) pay out of pocket for child care, the estimated share of their income that is spent on child care can be significant. Thus, in 1987, one-third of all employed mothers and almost three-fifths of employed mothers with a child under age 5 paid for child care. The average amount they spent accounted for 7 percent of their total family income. Of employed mothers with family income below or near the official poverty line, one-quarter paid for child care, and the average amount they spent accounted for 22 percent of their total family income (O'Connell and Bachu, 1990: Table 7).
In order to more appropriately characterize the poverty status of working versus nonworking families, we propose to deduct weekly out-of-pocket child care costs from the income of families with both parents or the only resident parent in the work force, for each week worked in the year. We further propose to limit the deduction to the earnings of the parent with the lower earnings or to the value of a cap that is adjusted annually for inflation, whichever is lower (see below).
To make this adjustment to income in the March CPS requires imputing child care expenses because the survey does not ask about expenditures, whether for child care or other items. However, information is available on the numbers and ages of children and on the work status of parents with which to make a reasonable imputation. In contrast, SIPP has regularly asked about child care costs, either as part of a detailed child care module or as a single question in one of the other modules. Indeed, we used SIPP data to impute child care costs to the March CPS to analyze the effects on poverty rates of implementing the proposed measure (see Chapter 5).
On the question of how high to set the cap for child care expenses, one possibility is to set it at a percentage of median expenditures, following the procedure that we recommend to derive the food, clothing, and shelter component of the poverty thresholds. Data from the 1990 SIPP indicate that median weekly child care expenditures for working families with such expenses were $44 for families with one child and $51 for families with two or more children.32 However, amounts that are below these medians may be too low to serve as a cap, particularly for larger families, for several reasons. For example, they do not make allowances for such factors as the age of the children, and child care expenditures for children under 5 are considerably higher than for school-age children (see O'Connell and Bachu, 1990: Table 7). Indeed, the relatively low median expense by families with two or more children relative to families with one child is undoubtedly because more families in the former group have older children.


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May 22, 2012
We have been asked to post notice of the following petition, originally posted May 7, 2012, which has a goal of being delivered to the National Institute of Standards and Technology:
Avaaz Community Petitions has made available this petition, which at this time has 745 signatures. For more information about the organization, please see Avaaz.org/about.
Wording of petition:
Why this is important
Building 7 of the World Trade Center, a 47 story building, contained offices of the CIA, the Secret Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) several financial institutions and then-Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management.
Despite never being hit by an airplane, Building 7 was reduced to a pile of rubble in about 7 seconds at 5:20 p.m. on September 11, 2001. After 9/11 this fact has been widely covered up by the U.S. mass media and was even omitted from the 9/11 Commission Report.
NIST, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (a U.S. government agency) was authorized by Congress to determine "why and how WTC 7 collapsed." NIST produced a preliminary draft of their final report in August, 2008 omitting the fact that Building 7 fell at free fall acceleration for part of its descent. After a physicist challenged NIST on this point the final report, in November 2008 admitted free fall acceleration for 105′ or 2.5 seconds.
NIST wrote, "A more detailed analysis of the descent of the north face found . . . (2) a freefall descent over approximately… Continue reading
March 25, 2012
Guest Post by Kevin Ryan, former Site Manager for Environmental Health Laboratories, a division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). Mr. Ryan, a Chemist and laboratory manager, was fired by UL in 2004 for publicly questioning the report being drafted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on their World Trade Center investigation. In the intervening period, Ryan has completed additional research while his original questions, which have become increasingly important over time, remain unanswered by UL or NIST.
The U.S. Secret Service failed to do its job on September 11, 2001 in several important ways. These failures could be explained if the Secret Service had foreknowledge of the 9/11 events as they were proceeding. That possibility leads to difficult questions about how the behavior of Secret Service employees might have contributed to the success of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Answering those questions will require the release of existing interview transcripts as well as follow-up questioning, under oath, of a few key people within the agency.
The most glaring example of Secret Service failure on 9/11 was the lack of protection for the President of the United States after it was well known that the country was facing terrorist attacks on multiple fronts. The interesting thing about this was that it was not a consistent approach. That is, the president was protected by the Secret Service in many ways that day but he was not protected from the most obvious, and apparently the most imminent, danger.…Continue reading
by André Rousseau
January 20, 2012
[Updated 1/21/12 to correct figures 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b and 2c, originally uploaded without study author's notations.]
When major shocks occur at the Earth's surface or at depth, waves of different types, magnitudes and speeds may move out from the source location. Such waves can be detected by seismometers located at recording stations, and the data from the recordings can be analyzed to learn many details of the source events. Seismic signals were recorded at stations in New York and four neighboring states on September 11, 2001 during the period when the North and South Towers (WTC1 and WTC2, respectively) were struck by airliners and collapsed, as well as during the collapse of Building 7 of the WTC, which had not been hit by a plane.
Data from the Palisades, NY recording station, located 34 km north-north-east of Manhattan, published by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University (LDEO), provide the most detailed seismic waveforms for analysis, particularly for the determination of the locations (aerial, surface, or subsurface) and timing of the events that created the seismic waves.
Seismologists have been puzzled in their analysis of signals recorded for the events at the World Trade Center, as the contradictions are significant. They are particularly intrigued by the presence of seismic "peaks" before the collapses. This text focuses on the study of the seismic signals from Palisades. The new interpretation presented here renders the assertions of the seismic analysis of the events at… Continue reading
Former 9/11 commission director talks at lecture
By Travis Alford
The Daily Cougar
As the crowd of students, professors and Houstonians brushed off the cold, Philip Zelikow stepped to the podium in The Honors College Commons on Thursday to discuss the US government's defense against terrorism.
Zelikow, the executive director of the 9/11 Commission, an executive on the President Intelligence Advisory Board and a history professor at the University of Virginia, focused his lecture, "The Twilight of War," on America's resiliency and his experience with the horrific events of 9/11.
"It's my job to make meaning of 9/11," Zelikow said.
During the lecture, Zelikow spoke of his personal experiences on the scene during Sept. 11.
"I can still smell the sulfur, it stands out," Zelikow said. "It was as if the terrorist opened up a special path to hell."
"After the attack, the event entered popular culture," Zelikow said. "9/11 opened up our eyes to zealousy."
In the days following the attack, President Bush labeled Osama bin Laden as America's enemy and the ringleader of 9/11.
"I disagreed with President Bush when he openly pointed the finger at bin Laden," Zelikow said.
"It made Osama glorious and that's what he wanted, to be glorified. These people think we are important and they develop complexes about us, so for our President to recognize one of them was a big deal."
Since Sept. 11, officials have charged Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in connection with the attack, labeling him as the mastermind. Mohammed is… Continue reading
by Brian Romanoff
News of the Saudi Crown Prince passing in the U.S. and his new successor to the post warrant a refresher on the attempts to name them in 9/11 lawsuits years ago.
Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the Crown Prince to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, died just a weeks ago in a New York hospital due to ill health. The world's largest oil-exporting nation has quickly found an heir to the Crown Prince, a position directly under the most powerful of the King. The new Crown Prince has been named as Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, brother of the deceased Crown Prince Sultan. Both were half-brothers to the current King of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah, and both are a part of the powerful Sudairi Seven.
Photo, left: The recently deceased Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz
The old Crown Prince Sultan is the father of Prince Bandar. Bandar is known to many in the world as "Bandar Bush" for his extremely close relationship with the Bush family. Bandar served as the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the U.S. from 1983 until 2005. The Royal family's relationship with the Bush family goes back even further.
Photo, right: "Bandar Bush" and Condoleezza Rice join the Saudi King and Bush at Bush's Texas property.
Prince Bandar has a history of involvement in scandals, undoubtebly we only know so much. A biography of Prince Bandar was written by William Simpson… Continue reading
by Kevin Ryan
When Underwriters Laboratories fired me for challenging the World Trade Center (WTC) report that it helped create with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), it said "there is no evidence" that any firm performed the required fire resistance testing of the materials used to build the Twin Towers. Of course, that was a lie.
With this experience in mind, I checked to see how many times the 9/11 Commission Report used the phrase "no evidence," and noted in particular the times the Commission claimed to have "found no evidence" or that "no evidence was uncovered." I discovered that the phrase "no evidence" appears an amazing 63 times. An example is the dubious statement — "There is no evidence to indicate that the FAA recognized Flight 77 as a hijacking until it crashed into the Pentagon (p 455).
Of these 63 instances, some variation of "we found no evidence" appears three dozen times. This seems to be an unusually high number of disclaimers begging ignorance, given that the Commission claims to have done "exacting research" in the production of a report that was the "fullest possible accounting of the events of September 11, 2001."
The number of times these "no evidence" disclaimers appear in the report is doubly amazing considering how infrequently some of the most critical witnesses and evidence are referenced. For example, the FAA's national operations manager, Benedict Sliney, who was coordinating the FAA's response that day, appears only once in the narrative (and twice in the notes).…Continue reading
By Rory O'Connor and Ray Nowosielski
October 14, 2011
A growing number of former government insiders — all responsible officials who served in a number of federal posts — are now on record as doubting ex-CIA director George Tenet's account of events leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Among them are several special agents of the FBI, the former counterterrorism head in the Clinton and Bush administrations, and the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, who told us the CIA chief had been "obviously not forthcoming" in his testimony and had misled the commissioners.
These doubts about the CIA first emerged among a group of 9/11 victims' families whose struggle to force the government to investigate the causes of the attacks, we chronicled in our 2006 documentary film "Press for Truth." At that time, we thought we were done with the subject. But tantalizing information unearthed by the 9/11 Commission's
final report and spotted by the families (Chapter 6, footnote 44) raised a question too important to be put aside:
Did Tenet fail to share intelligence with the White House and the FBI in 2000 and 2001 that could have prevented the attacks? Specifically, did a group in the CIA's al-Qaida office engage in a domestic covert action operation involving two of the 9/11 hijackers, that — however legitimate the agency's goals may have been — hindered the type of intelligence-sharing that could have prevented the attacks?…Continue reading
September 21, 2011
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Despite threats of prosecution from the CIA, the makers of 9/11: Press For Truth have released their new documentary podcast Who Is Rich Blee?
Punitive Actions Are Once Again Being Taken Against the Wrong People
In Boiling Frogs Post's recent interview with Ray Nowosielski and John Duffy, Sibel Edmonds questioned the timing of former Counter-Terrorism Czar, Richard Clarke's willingness to speak out about alleged 9/11 hijackers, Nawaf al Hazmi and Khalid al Mihdhar, and the CIA's knowledge of their whereabouts after the January 2000 Malaysia "terrorist summit." Sibel asked Ray and John, " why now? " We would like to note that the interview with Clarke was actually recorded two years ago, in October 2009. As such, the "why now" question should actually be posed to Ray and John. The real questions for Clarke should be, " why then?… Continue reading
While producing our investigative podcast "Who Is Rich Blee?", intended to be released on Sunday, our team managed to deduce the likely identities of two CIA employees at the heart of a notorious failure in the run up to the September 11th tragedy.
Savvy internet searches based on minimal background details helped us determine candidates for the two CIA employees. When the names were used by our interviewers repeatedly during interviews and never corrected by the interviewees, we began to feel more certain. Ironically, it was the response from CIA that provided final confirmation.
On Thursday, we submitted our script to CIA along with a request to interview the two employees. We wanted to be fair in giving them a chance to tell their sides of the story. Instead, the Agency sent us a message threatening that if we went forward with the names included in the piece that it would be a potential violation of federal criminal law.
A prominent civil liberties attorney has advised us that the law cited, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, has never been used to convict a journalist. The law pertains to government employees who violate their security clearances, certainly not those who find "classified information" in open-source materials posted on the Net.
The threat of prosecution under this act may be a baseless attempt by CIA to intimidate journalists exposing wrongdoing by their employees. Or it may announce an intention by the U.S. government to dangerously expand precedent in the application… Continue reading
KPFA Special Broadcast for September 11, 2011
911's Footprint on America ten years later – September 11, 2011 at 3:00pm
KPFA — Hour One of debate — moderator Peter Phillips 911 Commission Report
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911's Footprint on America ten years later – September 11, 2011 at 4:00pm
KPFA –Hour Two of debate — moderator Mickey Huff on The Science around the Twin Towers collapse.
Browse other online episodes of this show More information about this show …Continue reading
By Kevin Fenton
Although the story of the CIA's actions in the run-up to 9/11 is complicated, at a fairly early point in any examination of them it becomes clear the agency committed multiple failures, and that these failures enabled the attacks to go forward. The key issue that remains in dispute ten years on is whether these "failures" were deliberate or simply the product of overwork and incompetence. Making an informed judgment means taking the time to look at all the failures, put them in order, and analyze what it all means.
Perhaps the most comprehensible problem is the scope of the CIA's failings. There was not one error by some lowly neophyte, but a massive string of failures. As Tom Wilshire, one of the key CIA officials involved in the withholding of the information commented to the Congressional Inquiry, "[E]very place that something could have gone wrong in this over a year and a half, it went wrong. All the processes that had been put in place, all the safeguards, everything else, they failed at every possible opportunity. Nothing went right."
In addition, some of the failures were extremely serious. For example, the alleged failure by Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, to inform CIA Director George Tenet that Flight 77 hijacker Khalid Almihdhar was in the country in August 2001 is simply beyond comprehension. Added to this, the failures were committed by a small group of intelligence officers, centered on Wilshire and his… Continue reading
by: Jeffrey Kaye and Jason Leopold
Senior Pentagon officials scrubbed key details about a top-secret military intelligence unit's efforts in tracking Osama bin Laden and suspected al-Qaeda terrorists from official reports they prepared for a Congressional committee probing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, new documents obtained by Truthout reveal.
Moreover, in what appears to be an attempt to cover up the military unit's intelligence work, a September 2008 Defense Department (DoD) Inspector General's (IG) report that probed complaints lodged by the former deputy chief of the military unit in question, the Asymmetrical Threats Division of Joint Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC), also known as DO5, about the crucial information withheld from Congress, claimed "the tracking of Usama Bin Ladin did not fall within JFIC's mission."
But the IG's assertion is untrue, according to the documents obtained by Truthout, undercutting the official narrative about who knew what and when in the months leading up to 9/11.
Much of JFIC's work on al-Qaeda and Bin Laden remains shrouded in secrecy and has not been cited in media reports revolving around pre-9/11 intelligence, which has focused heavily over the past decade on CIA and FBI "intelligence failures." Only a few details about the military intelligence unit have surfaced since then, notably in two previous reports published recently by Truthout.
JFIC was the intelligence component of United States Joint Forces Command (JFCOM). In 2005, it was renamed the Joint Intelligence Command for Intelligence. Last month, JFCOM was shuttered, reportedly due to Pentagon budget cuts,… Continue reading
THE PROJECT CENSORED SHOW ON PACIFICA RADIO – Friday, September 9, 2011 – 8-9am Pacific time
Hosts Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff welcome Tony Hall and Kathy McGrade and will discuss the history of the 9/11 truth movement, among other topics.
Friday, September 9, 2011 –
Related from Project Censored:
Release of Censored 2012 in September Celebrates 35 Years of Project Censored.
Unanswered Questions of 9/11: 911 Prewarnings, Building 7 Collapse, Flight 77 and the Pentagon, Israeli Involvement, United Airlines Put-options, War games, Atta and the $100,000, 9/11 Terrorists Still Alive
See also:
911 Footprint 10 Years Later – Special Broadcast, September 11, 2011
Pacifica Radio's Memorial Broadcast Explores the Human Story of 911's Impact
Produced by Verna Avery-Brown in cooperation with Pacifica Radio Archives, Democracy Now! KPFA, KPFK, KPFT, WBAI and WPFW. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, Houston, Washington DC, New York )
Listen on your local Pacifica station and streamed here on Pacifica.org from:
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When terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Centers and the Pentagon on Sept.…Continue reading
By Stephen C. Webster
Newly published audio this week reveals that Vice President Dick Cheney's infamous Sept. 11, 2001 order to shoot down rogue civilian aircraft was ignored by military officials, who instead ordered pilots to only identify suspect aircraft.
That revelation is one of many in newly released audio recordings compiled by investigators for the 9/11 Commission, published this week by The Rutgers Law Review. Featuring voices from employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and American Airlines, the newly released multimedia provides a glimpse at the chaos that emerged as the attack progressed.
Most striking of all is the revelation that an order by Vice President Dick Cheney was ignored by the military, which saw his order to shoot down aircraft as outside the chain of command. Instead of acknowledging the order to shoot down civilian aircraft and carrying it out, NORAD ordered fighters to confirm aircraft tail numbers first and report back for further instructions.
Cheney's order was given at "about 10:15″ a.m., according to the former VP's memoirs, but the 9/11 Commission Report shows United flight 93 going down at 10:06 a.m. Had the military followed Cheney's order, civilian aircraft scrambling to get out of the sky could have been shot down, exponentially amplifying the day's tragedy.
Far from sending fighters to chase after the hijacked aircraft, as Bush administration officials have repeatedly said they did, the new audio tapes paint a picture of bedlam and unpreparedness.
The… Continue reading
by Michael Collins
(Washington, DC) Stratfor Global Intelligence just published an essay announcing that the nation's rulers have conducted a "successful war" on terror following the events of 9/11. The author, CEO and Stratfor founder, George Friedman, dressed up the standard Bush – Cheney justification for the past ten years of foreign misadventures and domestic decline:
"One of the most extraordinary facts of the war that begin on 9/11 was that there have been no more successful major attacks on the United States." George Friedman, September 6
That's the argument pure and simple.
How do you counter that?
First, the statement excludes the most important fact about 9/11. It was a "successful major attack on the United States." The event caused human tragedies accompanied by the shock that the most powerful nation on earth left its centers of governance and finance unprotected.
Friedman and those he defends have one overriding imperative in discussing 9/11, exclude the event itself as a topic of discussion. Move on as though history starts after the successful attacks. Never ever let the topic focus on Bush administration's command negligence surrounding 9/11.
Second, keep in mind that the rhetorical imperative of the successful war argument requires that the following question is rarely asked and never considered at any length. How on earth could these attacks have been planned and executed without discovery? That question must be excluded at all costs. If asked, the clear answers obliterate claims for a successful war that supposedly followed 9/11.… Continue reading
By Paul Craig Roberts
August 24, 2011 Information Clearing House — — -In a few days it will be the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. How well has the US government's official account of the event held up over the decade?
Not very well. The chairman, vice chairman, and senior legal counsel of the 9/11 Commission wrote books partially disassociating themselves from the commission's report. They said that the Bush administration put obstacles in their path, that information was withheld from them, that President Bush agreed to testify only if he was chaperoned by Vice President Cheney and neither were put under oath, that Pentagon and FAA officials lied to the commission and that the commission considered referring the false testimony for investigation for obstruction of justice.
In their book, the chairman and vice chairman, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, wrote that the 9/11 Commission was "set up to fail." Senior counsel John Farmer, Jr., wrote
that the US government made "a decision not to tell the truth about what happened," and that the NORAD "tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public." Kean said, "We to this day don't know why NORAD told us what they told us, it was just so far from the truth."
Most of the questions from the 9/11 families were not answered. Important witnesses were not called. The commission only heard from those who supported the government's account. The commission was a controlled political operation,… Continue reading
by Kevin Fenton
Published at 911truth.org
Following the airing of allegations by former counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke that the CIA deliberately withheld from him information about Pentagon hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, former CIA director George Tenet, former CIA Counterterrorist Center chief Cofer Black and Richard Blee, a mid-level agency official who occupied two key counterterrorist positions before 9/11, have responded with a joint statement.
Clarke said that information about the two men was deliberately withheld from him in January 2000, at the time of a key al-Qaeda meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, which the CIA monitored. Clarke alleged that, based on his knowledge of how the CIA works, Tenet authorised the deliberate withholding. Clarke added that the information was clearly important in the summer of 2001, when the CIA knew that Almihdhar was in the country and, in the words of one of Blee's former deputies, was "very high interest" in connection with the next al-Qaeda attack. However, the CIA continued to withhold some information from both Clarke and the FBI.
Mark Rossini, one of Blee's former subordinates at Alec Station, the CIA's bin Laden unit, has previously admitted deliberately withholding the information from the FBI. According to Rossini, in early January 2000 he and a colleague, Doug Miller, knew they should notify the FBI that Almihdhar had a US visa and presumably intended to soon visit the US. Miller even drafted, but did not send, a cable informing the FBI of Almihdhar's visa. However, Rossini says he… Continue reading


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For those who love the game, golf is addictive. For those who don't, it's pretty boring. And it seems a lot of people fall into the latter category.
Twenty-four of the world's top golfers are on display in Ireland this weekend, battling for the Ryder Cup -- raw emotion as Tiger Woods and the Americans take on Europe's finest.
But in the buildup to the Ryder Cup, the players have been given short shrift in the press. Most of the headlines have been about their wives.
They are known as WAGs -- that's wives and girlfriends. Or WABs -- that's wives and birdies. Get it? Yes, it's pretty bad.
Even the stuffy Daily Telegraph of London ran a double-page spread that put the wives in the spotlight, while their diligent husbands toiled on the practice ground.
"I tell you exactly what it says about us," spat Daily Telegraph columnist writer Rachel Johnson. "This is a society obsessed by personality rather than content."
And the smutty British tabloids have not been as kind as the good old Daily Telegraph. Elin Nordegren, wife of Tiger Woods, has suffered the indignity of fake naked shots splashed across tabloid covers. An irate Tiger fumed at a press conference when he should really have been talking about his game. "It's just that sometimes they just don't let the facts get in the way of a good story," he mused philosophically when the steam stopped pouring out of his ears.
The so-called American WAGS have made quite an impression in Ireland, with their match designer costumes, coiffed hair and dazzling gems. Remember, two of them have modeled before and another tried her hand as a pop singer.
"They are what we call in England 'fit looking birds' and they've made the most of it," Rachel Johnson concedes, once the steam stopped coming out of her ears.
But where does this misogynistic WAG label -- which defines a woman solely by what her husband does -- come from? It started in earnest during last summer's soccer World Cup. While England's players floundered on the field, their wives took center stage as they shopped and partied. The press took more interest in the wives than the players.
Rachel Johnson believes the WAG phenomenon is a media invention to get more women to watch sports. "Women tuned in to the World Cup because they wanted to see Colleen legless outside some bar," she says. The Colleen she refers to is Colleen McLoughlin, girlfriend of potato-faced sensation Wayne Rooney. McLoughlin is arguably Queen WAG, although she faces stiff opposition from David Beckham's wife, Victoria, the artist formerly known as Posh Spice.
McLoughlin has reaped the rewards. Now she's fronting television commercials for a clothing line. And between those commercials on British TV, there's a TV show not even about fictional soccer players, or footballers, as they call them over here. The show is called "Footballers' Wives."
But back to the field of play: Remember, these women are in the limelight because they are supposed to be supporting their husbands and partners in the sports arena. Do WAGs help or hinder performance on the field?