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The watches and jewellery brand Diesel TimeFrames is launching a global campaign, by Crispin Porter & Bogusky, that inspires people to make the most of the time they are alive. A TV ad is supported by an online survey that calculates the number of days users have to live. It was written by Emma Penz, art directed by Martin Jon Adolfsson and Philip Sinclair, and directed by Anthony Dickenson through Pulse.
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The results presented here show the ability of fully coupled method to take into account the exact free surface conditions and to solve the kinematic condition near the hull in spite of the singularity of equations at free surface and hull intersection. However the finest grid size seems too coarse to compute well free surface elevation, pressure velocity field and especially turbulent quantities.
The continuation of this work will consist in perform calculation with finer mesh to obtain grid independency results (perhaps around 500 000 or 600 000 nodes). After this step it will be possible to consider the problem of turbulence modelisation and the influence of various schemes.
Short-dated study will concern comparisons between k-ε and k-ω turbulence model. Calculations on yawed hull and turning hull will be the long-dated work.
The authors express their thanks to the french Direction des Recherches et Etudes Techniques (DRET) of the Délégation Générale pour l'Armement (DGA) and the Institut du Développement et des Ressources en Informatiques Scientifique (IDRIS) of the CNRS which are supporting this work.
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2. B.ALESSANDRINI, G.DELHOMMEAU, "Numerical calculation of three-dimensional viscous free surface flow around a Series 60 CB=0.6 ship model", CFD WORKSHOP, Tokyo, March 1994.
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I just borrowed my brothers Wii and it has Wii key(Latest if I remember right)
I burned monster hunter at the slowest 1x using a Verbatin dvd -r and ImgBurn.
Everything worked good, made the character and so-so.
Saw the intro movie. Fishermens in weird underwear. And then the movie completes
And the screen goes dark and a white text pops up saying" The disc could not be read, please refer~"
I retry playing again by starting it up again, choosing my character, but bam...nothing just the same text and "Now loading" background stopped"
As I have no experience with Wii's, I'm wondering what I should do as there seem to be no one having this problem.
And all the topics I've found is about their screen going black and making a noise, which
mine does not
Also the verison on the Wii is 3.1E
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O-Ther added a post in a topic Rival Review - Atlanta FalconsAll their draft picks will contribute simply because they had such a crappy roster last year. Their lines still suck and I'm not buying into Jake Matthews and Rashede Hageman becoming sophomore season All-Stars after being rookie season failures like most Falcon nuthuggers are.
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O-Ther added a blog entry in Black Paws & Blue ClawsQuestions at OTA media day"Coach Rivera, how was Cam able to bypass security and leave no trace evidence or fingerprints behind at the Blank mansion when he stole those diamond-encrusted iPads?"
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Upledger Foundation and The Ricky Williams Foundation Launches Concussion Program.
Five former professional football players, including Ricky Williams, recently participated in the five-day intensive manual therapy concussion program and preliminary pilot research project at the Upledger Institute Clinic in Palm Beach Gardens. The intensive program was designed for football players with a predisposition to Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE).
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"Not the same old Harry Bosch"
I would, but only because I have read and listened to many by Michael Connelly. I was not impressed by the reader at all.
The reader made it all seem very flat.
Again, the reader made it seem flat, not interesting. I simply could not get into the plot.
This was a disappointment based upon my previous experience with Michael Connelly,
"Good story, Bad narrator..."
Michael Connelly: Absolutely!Michael McConnohie: NO!
No.Maybe because I had listened to most of the other Harry Bosch novels and enjoyed them all, but this narrator did not do a good job at all.
I was so disappointed I couldn't stand to listen to but a few chapters before I downloaded the book to my IPad so I could just read it.
The book was a very good read, but I will try not to listen to anything further by this performer.
Not a follow-up on the Black Box, but more Harry Bosch, or perhaps his daughter becoming a police officer. I'm sure that is in the future?!!!
Very good plot. I always enjoy Harry doing what he thinks is right.
"I like Harry Bosch"
Michael Connelly knows how to write. His characters are genuine, realistic and lasting. His plots are solid. His descriptions put the reader "into the picture". I enjoyed this tale immensely for those reasons.
Yes - he is consistenly good.
"Classic Bosch"
Fun read for Bosch fans. Probably not the best place to start the series.
"The story lacks credibility."
The kidnapping of a suspect with a subsequent coerced confession has to be totally revised. This part of the story is the core of the entire book and surely does not do justice to Harry Bosch. Almost as incredible is causing a pilot to crash a helicopter by firing a few shots in the air.Michael Connelly must have gotten lazy on this one. He must have been under pressure to get another book out quickly.The author who has provided such great entertainment in the past needs to be given a mulligan for this lapse. His fans will want him to try again.
I have read all of Michael Connelly's novels and this is by far the most disappointing. This is the first Bosch novel that I have listened to but I think the poor quality of the story is much more significant than the narration which I consider satisfactory. I love the Bosch novels and would love to read/listen to another if the author can come up with some new ideas. It appears to me that Harry's daughter is being groomed to take over when Bosch and Mickey Haller move on.
Reggie Banks.
As long as there are murder mysteries hopefully Connelly will continue to walk the beat.
"Great Bosch; not so great narrator"
If you like Harry Bosch, you'll like this book. It's a well laid out police procedural. There is also some time spent with police politics which I think belongs there and also more information about his daughter. If you aren't into Bosch it's a waste, but if you've been following the series, it certainly belongs.
I actually thought the narrator was ok... not great, but acceptable... until the last portion of the book.
This is sort of an inside baseball comment, but I live in the area in which the climax of the book takes place. The narrator mispronounces most of the locations in the area. It's clear that Connelly visited but the narrator didn't do his homework, and it was continuously jarring. For someone who doesn't live in this area, I suppose this would be unnoticed, but it was a constant irritation for me.
"I liked the Narrator"
Many people didn't like the Narrator and I was hesitant to buy the audiobook because the Narrator is a big part of the success of an audiobook for me. I am a big Harry Bosch fan so I took a chance and was pleased that I actually like the Narrator.
"Love Harry Bosch!"
Good read, seemed to be a little shorter story line, but as always Michael Connelly draws you in for another turn in Harry's life!
"Bosch is Back looking for the "Black Box" in a 20"
As in all of Connelly's books, the conclusion becomes a page turner and the pace grows faster and faster...
Earlier narrators have done a better job with dramatic reading than this one. It is a given that a dramatic reading with several characters and different genders is difficult. Too much emphasis can make the reading obnoxious; too little make it boring. This one was not boring but was less of an intensive reading than earlier books.
Harry Bosch always will need a followup. I think I know where Connelly is going and will allow him a new main character (Bosch's daughter). I guess I identify with his age and know he is headed some sort of conclusion, a write out or down.
Connelly has toyed with redemption in many of Bosch's failures. He returns to the same aspects of his personality that harm his relationships and standing with his piers and superiors. I long for one of Connelly to pull one of his characters out of a longing life of loss into redemption of personality, history, relationships, and the soul.
"Love Harry Bosch novels"
I enjoy listening to the novel on the way home from work. The story is interesting and a good mystery. I am a fan of Michael Connelly and have loved almost all his novels. It is a great listen.


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At first, looking at the way the managed the poster and all..I thought
this would just be another copy-cat movie (well, we had to admit,
neighboring countries cinema are way earlier in successfully creating
such motion pictures)
All the fighting scheme, supporting casts, location, technicalities...this movie is surely one helluva fresh breeze into Indonesian Cinema.
Last night, I was literally stunned and amazed by especially the actions and plot this movie had brought.
The spirit of Nationalism, Humanism and Martial Artistry is carried out at its best!!
Can't believe my own two hands when I clapped them together with the whole theater last night...
Surely, one step toward a better cinema for Indonesia..
I agree with Valen's Shadow completely. (See his review here:
I'm a Martial artist myself (7th Dan in Tae Kwon Do and I practice both Wu-Shu and Aikido - recently into Muay Thai and Thai swordplay) and I know that Iko Uwais, if given a chance, will come through as a great new martial arts star and if nothing else, he will add to the Asian martial arts team than strip it. It's ridiculous to compare Uwais to Jaa like most do. The film Merentau with its plot was very much like Ong Baks, so if you review the movie in its whole - it's a bit downfall on the synopsis. However, the fighting was brilliantly realistic. The film did not portray Uwais's role as a ''master'' in Silat - it in fact portrayed him as a 'young', 'innocent' newbie exposed to the dangers outside his village, and because he was skilled in the arts of fighting and defending - he managed to save a young girls life. It was believable in the end. Those that regard this film a lame martial arts film - are not into martial arts at all, and last but not least they don't understand it. In real life, exercising martial arts in a real combat is far from appealing like depicted in the Hollywood pictures such as Kill Bill or whatever. This film was so realistic that it's hard for me to believe that they used any special effects or stunt-men at all in any of the fighting scenes. I give Merentau plot 5/10 - while the fighting scenes and especially the new star an 8/10. In other words - a great film for martial arts lovers (introduces a new style of fighting to the International audience which is always two thumbs up), while not so good for those into ''storylines'' and ''acting'' etc.
Watch it with a clean heart and mind and don't compare it to something else, and I will guarantee you that those almost two hours of your time will not be wasted.
Rejoice action fans over this region! South-east Asia has a new action
hero hailing from Indonesia, and his name is Iko Uwais. We've already
got Tony Jaa showcasing Thailand's Muay Thai, and now we've got Uwais
to introduce a different brand of Silat which we have been exposed to
thus far, thanks to the SEA Games but that's more like a Wushu event,
which is more exhibition. It's still quite amazing to see what is
usually seen on TV as executed in exhibition pace, to take on an
entirely different form when in combat mode. Merantau - and Singapore
has to add a "Warrior" to the title so that we know it's an action
film, duh - is a well executed, entertaining film as far as actioners
are concerned.
Uwais stars as Yuda, a coming of age young adult who has to leave his village and go through a rites of passage in a Merantau, which is something equivalent of an Australian aboriginal walkabout. He sets his sights on Jakarta and has plans to set up a Silat school, only for his contact to go missing with nary a trace. Bumming around while figuring out his next course of action, he chanced upon the siblings of Adit (Yusuf Aulia) and Astri (Sisca Jessica), the latter whom is picked up by gangsters to be part of a sex trafficking ring, and thus begin his discovery of his destiny and calling as the unofficial protector against the meek and weak.
Yes the storyline isn't much to behold naturally, though as far as action films go, this one satisfies its own cursory, flimsy tale to hold all the spectacular action sequences together, giving it some reason to have Uwais go on a rampage, showcasing personal prowess, and to add Silat as a martial arts of choice amongst so many that have its fair share of a cinematic outing, from Ip Man's Wing Chun, to Ong Bak's Muay Thai. It's hard hitting silat harimau here, which has its distinctive low centre of gravity positioning, sweeping leg motions to unbalance the opposition, and very direct and hard hitting palming aimed squarely at the opponent's chest to literally knock the wind out of.
What also worked here is the action cinematography. We all remember how Jaa smashed into the scene with its repetitive action sequences cut from different camera angles, done ad nausem. Here, the filmmakers had good sense in working a very wonderfully designed, and common sensical presentation in not relying on quick edits and jump cuts, allowing the action to flow naturally, and presented in its full glory. I particularly enjoyed moments where a revolving 360 degree view gets employed, especially when Yuda has to tackle opponents all round.
And Yuda is no one man superman too, which worked well for the story, having to see his fair share of failures, as well as shortcomings in his rookie fish-out-of-water situation. While there are moments inserted for dramatic breathing space, the action sequences aren't forgotten and got interspersed adequately within the first few acts, until the last one which became a non-stop, adrenaline pumping finale that was reminiscence of old Hong Kong action flicks, or even Bruce Lee ones, where the protagonist go up against incredible odds, and one on one (or two) situations against Caucasian villains, who are portrayed here in quite over-the-top fashion in need of a good hard kick up the arse.
Granted this is no perfect film with a number of continuity errors spotted, the set action pieces were a sight to behold despite some moments being wire-obvious, mixing things up with components other than Silat all the way, with a few which stood out as campy fun. Keep your eye out for that towel scene, and one of my personal favourites was one that involved a bamboo pole which the trailer included. Uwais also proves that he's quite comfortable with the sickle and metallic staff / batons which got used quite frequently here by hero and villains alike.
Action junkies will do yourselves no favour if you miss Iko Uwais maiden cinematic outing on the big screen. It may not be perfect, but it mattered for what it set out to do establish a new action hero from our region, and to promote the form of martial arts in Silat.
As my comment's title says "exceed my expectation", first, here's my
expectation : It's been more than 15 years that no martial arts movie
is made in Indonesia. Especially the one that bring traditional 'pencak
silat' style. So, my expectation in this movie is to see some good
fights along the story plot. Same expectation when I go to watch Tony
Jaa's Ong Bak 1/2 or the Protector.
However, this film deliver more then expected. Iko Uwais is good fighter and really can act. Well-pace (a bit slow at start), solid action, nice camera work, brave-stunts, and the hero is just a human after all.
The director surely know a lot about pencak silat and how to show it's beauty to audience. The 'street fight' style really gives new air to this martial art. Since pencak silat choreography I have ever seen is more like a group dance.
Of course there are some flaws, but I was surprise that it was way less than expected. So, I give it 8/10 for a martial art film. If you want to see a fresh martial arts move with quite decent story and acting, go see this one.
For The Past ten years or so ever since the matrix came out and dazzle
our eyes with fancy moves and dashing kicks, all MA movies tried to
copy it out from small punches to the high kicks but they forgot that
MA is more than CGI ,Flying and impossible jumps. Mernatu came after
25years or so dry spell from Indonesia and you might be thankful for
The movie plot and story simple in alota ways with subplot about life,parenthood,love and the underworld. what makes this movie so good is that the action is action no fakes or flaps, when they slug out they do slug it out, they use every kind of weapon near by, the hero get hit and hit back (that's what seems to allude others as the hero is untouchable even the Chinese and Asian movies falls in this pit recently)
In the end Merantau is A solid film, I enjoy and am sure others will enjoy it MA fan or not. I've never heard of Silat before this film but I can feel it's little more than a form of fighting rather than a way to explore one soul.
Of course I have to see this movie.
This is the first Indonesia martial arts movie after for years we, Indonesian people, didn't have any like this. And of course, we so tired with all ghosts and unclear sex comedy movies.
Oh my God.
Im just speechless.
This movie is so good, make me sit comfortable in theater, even though the theater have many trouble while playing this movie. But, all forgivable when you see how Good this movie is.
First hour, seems just like action movie fans not interested, because just so many drama. Next, u will blow up, because the action is just so great. And you know what, Iko Uwais is a bad-ass. Really, really bad-ass.
He play better than Tony Jaa. He can fight and amazingly can act. Very well. He make a debut acting with great charisma and camera just loves him so much.
Several actor play quite well. Especially for our mother, Christine Hakim, she is great. She is the mother of act.
The technical side is great. The lighting was good, sound effect and music score was great, editing was quite good. Slow for drama and really fast for fighting scene.
But, i really like the cinematography. It's just, GREAT.
Merantau becoming a different sensation when you see in cinema. I mean, for a while you never got this genre. And second, it's great. And that's making me just like having some multiple orgasm.
And one more thing, I'm officially Iko Uwais fans right now.
See you other time, fellas.
Action for the guys and drama for the girls, what more can you ask from
a movie? I just cannot say enough good things about this movie and I
really could not fathom how it could garner a negative review at all. I
watched Merantau some months ago and I just finished watching it a
second time. I had forgotten it a bit, but as soon as it started I
remembered everything and how amazingly good it is. I was noticing that
part of it at the end reminded me a little of Tony Jaa at the end of
Protector, but I do not think it was a copy of it at all. Another thing
is that even though the Indonesians are right to praise this new movie
of theirs, and Iko Uwais did show us some really great acting and
martial arts skills, I still would not go as far as to say that Iko is
better at either one than Tony, especially since the latter has more
films under his belt (more experience, hello?). Tony Jaa has joined the
ranks of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Donnie Yen, and Jet Li as
the greatest martial arts movie heroes. If you are a martial arts movie
fanatic as I am and you analyze Ong Bak 2 then you cannot argue with
this statement. Iko Uwais is also really awesome and I see good things
happening for him. He might join those ranks one day, we'll wait
eagerly to see what he does next.
The fighting choreography I thought was really fantastic. I really thought Iko added a lot of feeling into his actions and I liked how it made me feel that it was realistic in the way that people who get punched and kicked a lot start to stagger a bit even when they're fighting for their lives. The actress who played the mother character was also really great even though her role wasn't too long. I was preparing to steel myself to the agony of watching the two Americans doing their super cliché way that they are always portrayed in any Asian film, but I was pleasantly surprised in their commitment to character and they made convincing bad guys. Lots of good acting and directing all around. The camera, sound, lighting, and editing were all very fine. The music was especially good in places. The script is so good that this time I shed some tears. I almost never cry, especially during my action movies, but this one is so good. Great plot! The entire story ties itself together really well from beginning to end and is told in the traditional way of the ancient storytellers. What transpires between the hero and the bad guys' main bounty hunter is truly one of the best parts of the movie. There are other places where philosophy and political statements are blatantly obvious, but it really shines between these two warriors on opposite sides of the battlefield. I really think many young people, the ones who have to struggle through this often harsh world and suffer terribly when there is no one to help them, would really sympathize and feel a connection for the story and the main character who looks quite young himself. It irritates me very much that millions of action fans in my home country in the United States have never seen or heard of this movie. Needless to say I am also extremely upset about many really great foreign films not seeing the light of day here especially when many of them outshine the awful vomit Hollywood spews in my face on a constant basis.
Being an ardent lover of martial art flicks and all its heroes- Jet Li,
Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen and Tony Jaa, to name my favourite ones- I have
been waiting for a long time to have the hero of my own country,
Indonesia; of our own martial art tradition, Silat.
My long wait is over now. Here comes Iko Uwais in his first movie, Merantau. It's hard not to compare the movie with Ong Bak, and Iko Uwais with Tony Jaa. Not only because the two movies come from the same region and introduce us to the new generation of martial art actors, but also because the vague similarities in their faces. But admitting bias as I am, I would say Merantau is a much better movie than Ong Bak and Iko Uwais is a much better actor than Tony Jaa.
Merantau story is quite simple and almost cliché. About this guy named Yuda, played by Iko Uwais, in his journey of Merantau, a tradition still very much in practice by the young males of Minang tribe in West Sumatera, in which they have to prove themselves worthy to be called a real man by migrating to other place and surviving against all odds in the new place, gaining new experience, new skills that will benefit their hometown or their village. Before going on Merantau, they usually prepare themselves with certain skill that would support their survival in the new place. Yuda's skill is Indonesian traditional martial art called Silat, or Silek in Minang language, of the Sumateran Tiger (Harimau) style. He wishes to establish a Silat school in Jakarta.
But in Jakarta, fate brings Yuda's journey to the life troubles of a stripper, Astri and her pickpocket brother, Adit. His goody country boy nature made Yuda can't let injustice happens to those siblings, although he has his own problem to be solved. Can Yuda help them? Will he survive in his new place and prove to people back home that he is a real man? You have to watch the movie by yourself and I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
Merantau gives a balanced combination of drama and action. Instead of watching a purely action movie, I feel like watching a drama whose main protagonist happens to be a really good martial artist. Supported by excellent casts, combining first time actors and the more experienced ones, the acting look natural. I can feel the anxiety, loneliness and despair of Adit when he was forced to hide when his sister was chased by the thugs. I can feel the rage and determination of Yuda when he broke into the strip club to safe Astri, and I become misty-eyed when Yuda's mother waves goodbye to Adit.
Iko Uwais proves himself to be a capable actor, despite the fact this is his first acting experience ever and he has to play the role of a guy from different ethnic group, with different accent and language and different Silat style. For those uninformed, during the first part of the movie some of the language used is Minang language, that I, an Indonesian of Betawian descent (just like Iko), has to read the subtitle to understand what it means. Iko is blessed with great camera presence and natural facial expression. He is able to give a sweet smile (he has wonderful smile indeed) and brutal angry face with enough convincing acting. A very good start for a new movie star whose last occupation was a truck driver for a telecom company.
However, what sell most from Iko's skills in the film is his fighting skills. The choreography team, led by Silat Harimau master, Edwel Datuk Rajo Gampo Alam (acts as Yuda's silat master in the movie) is smart enough to put Iko's skills in the combination style of Tony Jaa's brutality, Jet Li's fluidity and Jackie Chen's environmentally-inspired acrobat. Without using much tricks and less wire-fest than most current martial art movies, the films is able to show great fight scenes, that left me "Ouch, that must hurt so bad" uncountable times during the film. Numerous times the audience give big applause after the glorious fight scenes. Some of the scenes should also go into the "martial art cinematography history" as creative and mind-blowing. The laundry pole scene left many jaws dropped, while 'don't take my towel' scene led the audience into hilarious laughter (the small kid few rows in front of me couldn't stop laughing for quite a long time).
In short, Merantau is a movie you should not be missed if you're an action junkie. If you're a drama type junkie, Merantau offers enough drama with strong characters and profound meaning of what it means to be doing your best for your survival and for your society. Gareth Evans is not Zhang Yi-Mou nor Ang Lee with their colossal wire fest kungfu fantasy, but he has proved that even modern realistic martial art cinematography can look this good and mean this deep.
4 out of 5 stars.
i can divide this movie into two parts first 15 minutes, the drama
part, here we see the background story of the movie. we'll be introduce
to the main character, too bad i can understand "bahasa Padang" but
there is an English subtitle ( which sometime is not accurate)
second part the FIGHT part this what i like..... fight, fight, and more fight the martial art choreography is pretty much similar to tony jaa but....i don't care, this Iko can really kick ass
though this movie is not perfect, but i recommend this movie to all of action martial art movie mania
This film is filmed fantastic. Fantastic scenes and optic and a deep
view into indonesian life.
It HAS a story (what Ong Bak does not have) and the characters are all good accept of the 2 western actors. They act like wood. Absolutely bad. Accept of that the film is great.
The fighting technique is called Silat. It's not invented to look good. It was made to kill the opponent. It is fast and brutal. So the film is rated for adults in Germany, what is good.
The film dos not come with old fashioned and much too long talking, like much Chinese films. It is modern and realistic.
Every fan of martial arts should see this film. It is great.
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April 21, 2009
by George Washington
5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said "my interest is to hit Saddam".
He also said "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
And at 2:40 p.m. on September 11th, in a memorandum of discussions between top administration officials, several lines below the statement "judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [that is, Saddam Hussein] at same time", is the statement "Hard to get a good case." In other words, top officials knew that there wasn't a good case that Hussein was behind 9/11, but they wanted to use the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to justify war with Iraq anyway.
And yet, the government knew that Al Qaeda and Iraq were not linked. For example, "Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the [9/11] attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda".
And a Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary issued in February 2002 by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency cast significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy.
And yet Bush, Cheney and other top administration officials claimed and continue to claim that Saddam was behind 9/11. See this analysis. Indeed, Bush administration… Continue reading
By Peter Duveen
PETER'S NEW YORK, Saturday, April 18, 2009–U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer
(D-NY) said yesterday that while he was positively disposed toward a new investigation
into the events of 9-11, his support for such a probe would depend on the form
it would take.
Schumer, who was attending the launch of the Tour of the Battenkill annual
bicycle races in Cambridge, New York, responded to a question regarding efforts
in New York City to establish a new 9-11 investigation.
"I think it's not a bad idea," Schumer said. "You know, you've
got to do it in a good way, but yes, I'd be for it."
Schumer qualified his remarks by noting that his support would depend upon
the manner in which the investigation was structured. "I'd have to see
the parameters of the investigation and all that," he said. He briefly
mentioned "finding body parts," which may have referred to the discovery
in 2006 that the roof of the Deutsche Bank building near the former site of
the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center was strewn with human remains from
A report sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology maintains
that the Twin Towers were brought down entirely due to fire and mechanical damage
from the two airliners that collided with them on 9-11. A similar report by
the same government agency asserts that the sudden and rapid collapse that same
afternoon of a third office tower, the 47-story Building 7, was caused… Continue reading
By Christopher Beam
April 8, 2009
Photo: Daniel Sunjata as Franco Rivera in 'Rescue Me'
In the new season of the FX drama Rescue Me, firefighter Franco Rivera espouses the belief that 9/11 was "an inside job." According to a Sunday New York Times article, the show's writers added this assertion because actor Daniel Sunjata is a "truther"; but the real firefighters on set–who work as script advisers–were offended by his allegations. This got the Explainer wondering: Do any firefighters believe in 9/11 conspiracy theories?
Yes. There's no evidence that firefighters buy into 9/11 conspiracy theories at higher rates than the rest of the population. (A 2007 Zogby poll found that 26 percent of Americans believe the government "let it happen." A 2006 Scripps-Howard poll found it was more than a third.) But some firemen do believe the government was behind 9/11 and use their status as first responders to draw attention to their statements.
The most common conspiracy theory held by firefighters is that the Twin Towers–as well as a third building, 7 World Trade Center–collapsed not because planes crashed into them but due to a "controlled demolition." On Sept. 11, an NBC reporter quoted New York Fire Department Chief of Safety Albert Turi as saying he believed there were explosives planted in one of the towers. After the attacks, the New York Fire Department interviewed firefighters to create an oral history of 9/11. These tapes–which were not released until 2005–contain numerous references to… Continue reading
The bipartisan panel that investigated the terrorist attacks was widely praised.
But did its final report rely on suspect information?
Philip Shenon
From the magazine issue dated Mar 23, 2009
Powerful Democrats on Capitol Hill are clamoring for creation of a bipartisan
"9/11 style" commission to investigate the legality of the Bush administration's
antiterrorism tactics–especially its use of harsh interrogation techniques.
President Obama has been notably cool to the idea. But the case for a "truth"
commission was bolstered by the disclosure this month that the CIA had destroyed
92 videotapes of the interrogations and confinement of Al Qaeda suspects. A
dozen showed the use of "enhanced" techniques routinely described
by human-rights groups as torture.
Lawmakers say the obvious model for such an inquiry would be the 9/11 Commission–an
independent bipartisan body praised for its authoritative account of the attacks.
But as a reporter who covered the commission from start to finish and later
wrote a history of its investigation, I wonder if Congress understands the deep
irony of establishing a "new 9/11 Commission" on these issues. Former
commission investigators have acknowledged to me over the past year that the
panel had a serious blind spot on questions about torture.
The commission appears to have ignored obvious clues throughout 2003 and 2004
that its account of the 9/11 plot and Al Qaeda's history relied heavily on information
obtained from detainees who had been subjected to torture, or something not
far from it.
The panel raised no public protest over… Continue reading
by Mickey S. Huff and Paul W. Rea
They say goldfish have no memory
I guess their lives are much like mine
and the little plastic castle
is a surprise every time
and it's hard to say if they're happy
but they don't seem much to mind.
–Ani DiFranco, Little Plastic Castles
For the past eight years, American culture has seen an outburst of media-driven mythmaking. Corporate mainstream media organizations, the pundits they sponsor, and politicians from both major parties have formed a new contextual chorus singing the same refrain: "On September 11th, 2001, everything changed." From cable TV to AM radio, from the blogosphere to the town-hall meeting, Americans repeatedly hear that "this is a post-9/11 world."
Although there is some truth to this platitude of pivotal change, independently minded citizens may also wonder whether such mass media messages have become self-fulfilling prophecies. This provides an interesting point of debate about what has or has not changed in America since 9/11.
This chapter concerns itself with the ongoing phenomena of media mythmaking and how, like many Americans surmised just after 9/11, everything has not changed. 1 Corporate mainstream media have resurrected powerful myths from America's past to shape public perception in the present. Through the prism of 9/11, one can see how the corporate mass media are in fact doing more mythmaking than news reporting. Here, the authors will examine central historic American myths the corporate media and even much of the alternative independent media have extended into the… Continue reading
February 24, 2009 – An alliance of doctors, dentists, nurses, therapists,
researchers, and other medical professionals today announced the formation of
Medical Professionals for 9/11 Truth and its petition calling for a new investigation
into the events of 9/11. The group's website is at http://MP911Truth.org.
"As medical professionals, we are dedicated to the service of humanity; to
alleviating suffering, to improving health, preventing disease, and to preserving
life," said co-founder Jonathan Weisbuch, MD, MPH. "We are horrified by the
terrorist acts of 9/11 and the senseless suffering and loss of life resulting
from them."
"However," he continued, "as medical professionals, we are trained in science
and logical reasoning. We are appalled by the lack of scientific rigor and the
substantial omissions and blatant distortions in the official account of 9/11
as embodied in the 9/11 Commission Report and related government documents."
Dr. Weisbuch is a prominent public health physician and administrator and
previously served as the Chief Health Officer for the States of Wyoming and
North Dakota, as well as Los Angeles County, CA, and Maricopa County, AZ (Phoenix,
Mesa, Scottsdale).
Co-founder Barry Komisaruk, PhD, added, "The official account of the events
of 9/11 is so riddled with contradiction and implausibility that an objective
re-examination is necessary to set the record straight. We need to know who
was really behind the events and bring them to justice to prevent them from
striking again. We can no longer afford to allow our government to use deadly
force in our name… Continue reading
February 7, 2009
George Washington's Blog
Counter-terrorism experts presumably have some insight into terrorism, right?
In fact, numerous high-level counter-terrorism experts question the government's investigation of – and explanation for – 9/11.
For example:
"The best I could say about it is they really botched the job by not really going into the real failures. … At worst, I think the 9/11 Commission Report is treasonous."
The idea of such an attack was well known [and] had been
wargamed as a possibility in exercises before September 11.
– Professor John Arquilla of the Naval Postgraduate
School, Monterey, California
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks, senior U.S. government and military officials repeatedly claimed that what happened that day was unexpected. In May 2002, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said, "I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon; that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." [1] Two years later, President Bush stated, "Nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale." [2] General Ralph Eberhart, the commander of NORAD on September 11, said, "Regrettably, the tragic events of 9/11 were never anticipated or exercised." [3]
Yet these claims were untrue. Not only had the U.S. military and other government agencies discussed the possibility of such attacks, they also conducted numerous training exercises in the year or two before September 11 based around scenarios remarkably similar to what occurred on 9/11. As John Arquilla, a professor of defense analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, said, "No one knew specifically that 20 people would hijack four airliners and use them for suicide attacks… Continue reading
January 17, 2009
DC 911Truth has produced an attractive new brochure to be distributed at the
Obama Inauguration and surrounding events. On the cover, President Obama is
asked to "help America learn the truth about 9/11," but the interior
aimed at general audiences who may not be aware of problems with the
official account, or who may be quick to dismiss any questions as conspiracy
In a concise and straightforward way, the brochure presents the many facts
that challenge the 9/11 Commission Report (including doubts expressed by
Co-Chairs Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton themselves), as well as
contradictions in the accepted narrative about air defense, the alleged
hijackers, the destruction of the World Trade Center, and the anthrax
attacks. Only statements that could be verified in mainstream news sources
were included and carefully footnoted, so as to maximize the credibility of
the piece.
At the end, readers are asked to face a difficult reality: 9/11 could not
have occurred without high-level complicity from inside the U.S. government.
They are urged to learn the truth and tell others-especially the media and Congress-with the goal of opening a new, truly independent investigation.
The brochure can be downloaded and printed on the front and back of a letter-size sheet of paper (8.5 x 11in.), folded and distributed by mail or as a handout.
The DC Truth group considers this brochure an effective communication tool and will soon release another version not geared to the Obama Inauguration.
For more information, visit dc911truth.org and RockCreekFreePress.com.
Kevin Fenton
January 14, 2009
Posted at History Commons Groups
The National Archives today released a set of records the 9/11 Commission gave it. It did so today because the commission told it it had to wait until 2009 to do so, presumably on the off chance that people would have forgotten about it all by then. The records are in two groups, Memorandums for the Record (MFR), which are available online, and other records, which are not available online.
Editor's Note: The National Archives 9/11 Commission Records URL's have been updated.
Kevin Fenton, who wrote this blog entry today, is one of the great researchers working with Paul Thompson and so many other fine people at HistoryCommons.org (formerly known to most of us as CooperativeResearch.org) to document our history. Not just about 9/11, but about aspects of our lives so appallingly rewritten by media and textbooks. The work underway at HistoryCommons is absolutely invaluable, and we encourage readers to get involved and otherwise support that work.
I have been trawling through the ones that are available online and I have learned a few things of interest.
(1) Stacks of the MFR are not actually available. Either they have not been reviewed yet (pending), or have been withdrawn because they are very classified, or they have been made available, but have had the bejesus redacted out of them.
(2) Two of the two key MFR, of interviews of Tom Wilshire, a CIA officer involved in just about everything… Continue reading
From The National Archives Legislative Branch – The Center for Legislative Archives
January 14, 2009
FAQs on the 9/11 Commission Records
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, known as the 9/11 Commission, was an independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress. The Commission's mandate was to provide a "full and complete accounting" of the attacks of September 11, 2001 and to provide recommendations as to how to prevent such attacks in the future. The Commission, extant from 2003 – 2004, held hearings, conducted interviews, and produced a report.
When the 9/11 Commission closed on August 21, 2004, it transferred legal custody of its records to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Commission encouraged the release of its records to the fullest extent possible in January 2009. Because the Commission was part of the legislative branch its records are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Approximately 35% of the Commission's archived textual records are now publicly available. Due to the collection's volume and the large percentage of national security classified files, NARA staff was unable to process the entire collection by January 2009. Review and processing focused on the portion of the collection that contains unique documents created by the Commission and those that reveal the most about the scope of the investigation and the internal workings of the Commission and its staff.
Read more about the Commission Records…Continue reading
Stephen C. Webster
A career Army officer who survived the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, claims that no evacuation was ordered inside the Pentagon, despite flight controllers calling in warnings of approaching hijacked aircraft nearly 20 minutes before the building was struck.
According to a time-line of the attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration notified NORAD that American Airlines Flight 77 had been hijacked at 9:24 a.m. The Pentagon was not struck until 9:43 a.m.
On behalf of retired Army officer April Gallop, California attorney William Veale has filed a civil suit against former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney and former US Air Force General Richard Myers, who was acting chairman of the joint chiefs on 9/11. It alleges they engaged in conspiracy to facilitate the terrorist attacks and purposefully failed to warn those inside the Pentagon, contributing to injuries she and her two-month-old son incurred.
"The ex-G.I. plaintiff alleges she has been denied government support since then, because she raised 'painful questions' about the inexplicable failure of military defenses at the Pentagon that day, and especially the failure of officials to warn and evacuate the occupants of the building when they knew the attack was imminent" said Veale in a media advisory.
Gallop also says she heard two loud explosions, and does not believe that a Boeing 757 hit the building. Her son sustained a serious brain injury, and Gallop herself was knocked unconscious after the roof collapsed onto her office.
The suit also named… Continue reading
In this supplement to The NORAD Papers , I shine the spotlight on The 9/11 Commission Report's assessment of NORAD in relation to the defense organization's "air sovereignty" mission on 9/11. To accomplish this task, I compare the report's view of NORAD's air sovereignty capabilities before and on 9/11 with that of the historical record as provided by articles published before September 11, 2001.
The 9/11 Commission Report is correct when it affirms that, "NORAD is a binational command established in 1958 between the United States and Canada. Its mission was, and is, to defend the airspace of North America and protect the continent. That mission does not distinguish between internal and external threats…;" 1 The report becomes addled however when it explains NORAD's seemingly poor performance on 9/11, "…;but because NORAD was created to counter the Soviet threat, it came to define its job as defending against external attacks [see Addendum]." 2
The statement that NORAD "define[ed] its job as defending against external attacks" 3 due to the Soviet threat, and that is why NORAD was taken off-guard on 9/11 is nonsensical on its face. The Soviet threat was the reason that NORAD was mandated to provide "surveillance and control of the airspace of Canada and the United States" in the first place. Soviet bombers, missiles or other aerospace vehicles breaching North American borders was just as much of a concern to the political leadership of North America, if not more of a concern, than Soviet bombers, missiles… Continue reading
By William R. Woodward
On Dec. 7, 1941, our country was attacked by Japan. What do our children know of the economic and political reasons for this tragic event?
Robert Stinnet's book "Day of Deceit. The Truth about FDR and Pearl Harbor" reveals that Franklin Roosevelt not only let the attack on Pearl Harbor happen, but provoked it over a period of 14 months. At the time, the public was only 17 percent in favor of intervention against Germany. Roosevelt secretly had an eight-point plan drawn up to lure Japan into an act of war. The fleet was left exposed, and Japan's oil supplies were cut off. Roosevelt even conspired to prevent the available intelligence from reaching the admiral in charge. In historical hindsight, it turns out to have been a PsyOp, a psychological operation to turn the public into support of a World War against the Axis powers Germany, Japan, and Italy. Two days after Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Congress declared war.
The author is a UNH professor who sparked a controversy in September 2006 when he was quoted in a newspaper story as saying "government elites orchestrated 9/11″ while summarizing literature on the subject. The university defended his academic freedom and he chose to let the firestorm subside. Now, he breaks the silence with his first opinion piece on the topic.
This book flies in the face of a complacent ideology that the U.S. leaders occupy the moral high ground. In fact, false… Continue reading
The nearly 40% of American people who doubt the official account regarding
the September 11, 2001 attacks will be gratified to learn that their misgivings
have become recommended reading by a pillar of the book trade, Publishers
The leading starred review on PW's "Web
Pick of the Week" is Dr. David Ray Griffin's newly released The
New Pearl Harbor Revisited (Interlink/Olive Branch press, 2008).
In its November 24, 2008 online issue, PW writes:
Griffin "addresses many points in exhaustive detail, from the physical
impossibility of the official explanation of the towers' collapse to
the Commission's failure to scrutinize the administration to the NIST's
contradiction of its own scientists to the scads of eyewitness and scientific
testimony in direct opposition to official claims.
"Citing hundreds, if not thousands, of sources, [Griffin's] detailed
analysis is far from reactionary or delusional, building a case that, though
not conclusive, raises enough valid and disturbing questions to make his call
for a new investigation more convincing than ever."
Weekly reviews from this trusted and prestigious publisher have guided the
book trade, including booksellers, publishers, librarians, and literary agents,
for 136 years.
Dr. Griffin's book can be found at good bookstores or purchased at a discounted price from 911Truth.org.
The review is copied below.
Elizabeth Woodworth
Professional Librarian
Victoria, BC, Canada
Web Pick of the Week
The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé
David Ray Griffin. Interlink/Olive Branch, $20 (386p) ISBN 9781566567299
Author and professor Griffin (9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press) knows his work is referred to by officials and the media as conspiracy theory, and he has a rebuttal: "the official theory is itself a conspiracy theory." In this companion volume to 2004's The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11, Griffin provides corrections, raises new issues and discusses "the two most important official reports about 9/11," the 9/11 Commission Report and the National Institute of Standards and Technology report on the Twin Towers, both "prepared by people highly responsive to the wishes of the White House" and riddled with "omission and distortion from beginning to end." Griffin addresses many points in exhaustive detail, from the physical impossibility of the official explanation of the towers' collapse to the Commission's failure to scrutinize the administration to the NIST's contradiction of its own scientists to the scads of eyewitness and scientific testimony in direct opposition to official claims.…Continue reading
Monday's New York Times reported that former Deputy A.G. and 9/11
Commissioner Jamie Gorelick was a candidate for Attorney General in the new
Obama Administration. Five-time Emmy winning investigative reporter Peter Lance
details a shocking, but little known story about Gorelick involving the loss
of a key al Qaeda operative. This is an excerpt from his 2006 HarperCollins
book TRIPLE CROSS soon to be published in trade paperback.
On December 16th, 1994, agents in the FBI's San Francisco office made
an extraordinary seizure. Mohammed Jamal Khalifa (MJK) Osama bin Laden's
brother-in-law and former roommate, was captured at a Holiday Inn in Morgan
Hill, California. If this arrest had been fully investigated by the FBI and
the Justice Department, it might have led to the seizure of 9/11 "mastermind"
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, and stopped "planes as missiles" plot dead
in its tracks. But what followed was series of missteps and bad decisions at
the highest levels of the State and Justice departments that had a catastrophic
impact on America's ability to cut short bin Laden's jihad against
At the center of the decision making at the time, was Deputy Attorney General
Jamie Gorelick.
Even if the Feds were savvy enough to see the value in questioning him, however,
they never got the chance. On January 5, 1995, a decision was made by Secretary
of State Warren Christopher and supported by Deputy A.G. Gorelick, that arguably
ranks as one of the most profound intelligence errors committed by any U.S.…
By Matt Taibbi and David Ray Griffin
October 6, 2008
A poll of 17 countries that came out September of this year revealed that majorities in only nine of them "believe that al Qaeda was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States." A Zogby poll from 2006 found that in America, 42% of respondents believed the US government and 9/11 Commission "covered up" the events of 9/11. It's safe to say that at least tens of millions of Americans don't believe anything close to the official account offered by the 9/11 Commission, and that much of the outside world remains skeptical.
Over the years, AlterNet has run dozens of stories , mostly critical, of the 9/11 Movement. Matt Taibbi has taken on the 9/11 Truth Movement head on in a series of articles, and most recently in his new book, The Great Derangement .
In April, I asked Taibbi if he would be interested in interviewing David Ray Griffin, a leading member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice , Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at Claremont School of Theology and Claremont Graduate University and author of seven of books on 9/11 , about his recent book, 9/11 Contradictions . After months of back and forths between them and some editorial delays, I'm pleased to share their written exchange — all 24,000 words of it. What we have here are the preeminent writers on both sides of the 9/11 Truth argument; a one-of-a-kind debate.… Continue reading
By Tod Fletcher
September 11, 2008
In THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED , David Ray Griffin provides a brilliant and much-needed companion to his path-breaking and movement-building book on 9/11, The New Pearl Harbor (NPH; 2004). Now, on the occasion of the seventh anniversary of those horrific events, Griffin surveys in detail all the main lines of evidence against the official account of 9/11 to have emerged during the last four years. THE NEW PEARL HARBOR REVISITED (NPHR) has been designed as volume 2 of a two-volume set with NPH as volume 1; together they provide a thorough and up-to-date case against the official conspiracy theory (they can be bought separately, of course).
Griffin has already published four other books that provide in-depth analysis of most of the evidence to have emerged since 2004. NPHR's main purpose is to provide an easily accessible survey of all of the new evidence, so that it is now possible for a beginner to the subject (including journalists and members of Congress) to master its enormous complexity simply by reading two books. NPHR is structured identically to NPH; each chapter in NPHR comments and builds on the corresponding chapter in NPH. Much of the content is entirely new; there are many facts and analyses in NPHR which Griffin presents for the first time, and which literally make the book an up-to-the-minute statement of the case.
In the Preface, Griffin explains why he undertook to "update" The New Pearl Harbor . In the Introduction he… Continue reading


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So many designers are men and they don't know what a muffin top is! No one ever makes stuff that accounts for these things, so that was my whole ethos behind the collection; making women feel good!
My inspiration for the collection was figure fixers and in case of emergency outfits. They're reliable, they're not trend based, they're clothes you use again and again and again, summer or winter, for the rest of your life, even. They don't discriminate against age or size, it's a very simple collection, I wasn't trying to prove myself as this great designer, I just wanted to make clothes that you can rely on and actually wear.
My fave piece I'm wearing the red maxi dress I'm wearing now, because I think everyone needs a show stopper. I think it's great to wear to a wedding, or to a party where you know your ex boyfriend is there and you show him what he's missing! I came up with the pattern myself. I sketched everything and did watercolours for the whole collection. Shingai from the Noisettes is wearing it tonight!
I went a bit crazy with the creative process. They said to bring in a few pictures from magazines and I turned up with 25 sketches that I'd done in watercolour and laminated! I had moodboards… I really freaked them out! I've always been really into painting and stuff so this was my chance to go crazy. I didn't want to take the credit for someone else's designs. If everyone told me they hate the collection, I didn't want to be able to blame someone else. And if they liked the collection, I would've felt like a total fraud accepting the praise for that. So I hope people like it and even if they don't, I'll learn from it… I'm just really chuffed because Very.co.uk are a company that I really believe in and really like and I've always been a high street girl.
When I was designing the collection, I was thinking about what every woman would feel beautiful in – all women. I hate the sleeves that accentuate your bingo wings. All women are included, all sizes, all shapes, all ages and all colours – nothing about it is exclusive.
I wanted figure fixers, I wanted clothes that women can rely on. I wanted the clothes that you don't need to think about before you put them on and the clothes you don't have to think about while you have on – you can just breathe, god damn it! That's all I wanted. I wanted to play it quite safe with my first collection because I didn't know how it would turn out
I get really inspired by street style, especially in Britain. I love street style blogs like Face Hunter. I just don't think anywhere compares to the UK - we are so avant-garde and brave and sometimes stupid, but I really admire street style and that's where I get my inspiration from.
I've had plenty of cringe moments! I'm out of control with that in my Company column… farting on a treadmill, seriously?! In terms of fashion cringe moments, I wore an outfit and one magazine described it as looking like I was a clown smuggling my friends in my trousers! That was an error…
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My schedule is crazy, and to fit everything in - I just don't sleep! I last slept in 2009! There are 24 hours in a day, so it can be done!
I'm terrified with the thought of being a style icon! I'm worried people are going to eat me alive when they see this collection as they might have thought I was going to come up with something really out there and OTT but I'm not trying to prove myself as a designer, I just want to make clothes that women feel pretty in.
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