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Wednesday, October 08, 2008

9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008

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Subject: [Gators-911] Re: 9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace
Prize 2008
To: Gators911truth@googlegroups.com
Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 6:39 PM


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From: Harold Saive <harold.saive@...>
Subject: [Gators-911] 9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
2008
To: "T2-NEWS" <town-square-news@googlegroups.com>
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Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 2:26 PM

9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008
by Torstein Viddal
Tuesday Oct 7th, 2008 9:29 PM

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/10/07/18543360.php
Dr. David Ray Griffin and everyone involved in the 9/11 truth
movement have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The recipient
of the Peace Prize will be announced this Friday, October 10.
From Torstein Viddal [1];

Dear friends,

this is the auto-translated Google English version of the story
currently heading our truth site 9/11 Truth Norway.

http://www.911truth.no/ [2]
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%
2Fhttp://www.911truth.no%2F2008%2F10%2F911-truth-nominert-til-nobels-
fredspris-2008%2F&sl=no&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8[3]

9/11 Truth nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2008 [4]
4 October 2008

Reason for the nomination of
David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement to the Nobel Peace
Prize 2008
Supported by 10 professors, or current or former MPs

The wars of the 21st century – what the U.S. President has
called 'The global war on terror' - are justified with a tragic
event: the attacks against New York and Washington 11 September 2001.
This event would come to justify pre-emptive war on enemies who
seemed to be everywhere and nowhere. From 2001 terrorism was
presented as the biggest threat to Western society, and the foremost
evidence of this threat, we were told, were the events of 11
September.

In recent years, however, the 9/11 Truth Movement and their
outstanding academic David Ray Griffin presented strong evidence that
the attacks of 11 September were not carried out by Islamist
terrorists, as we have been told, but by a U.S. 'war lite' as an
excuse to go to war against Afghanistan and Iraq (wars that were
already approved). David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have
presented convincing evidence showing that this 'war elite' carried
out these attacks to establish a new enemy after the Cold War, and to
start wars in line with their economic and political interests. We
believe the most important contribution to peace in the 21st century
is the disclosure of these elite political games and the removal of
the false reasons for its aggressive wars. This Griffin and the 9/11
Truth Movement have done in an excellent way. If the attack on 11
September was a U.S. 'false flag operation' to justify wars in the
Middle East, the disclosure of
that fact should be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. We therefore
nominate this David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement to share
the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008.

Since 2001, the major mass media - the major newspapers, TV channels
and news agencies - have been instruments of war propaganda. While
more and more academics, military officers and intelligence analysts
presented a growing amount of evidence that 9/11-angrepene against
New York and Washington were carried out by people inside the United
States system, not mainstream media reported this information.
Despite the fact that almost 50% of the U.S. population is skeptical
of the official version of 11 September, the mass media has not
presented the background for this skepticism. The regular mass
media's inability to safeguard their democratic responsibilities have
forced the 9/11 Truth Movement to put their information on the
Internet. Despite the corruption in the regular mass media David Ray
Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have been able to present
significant information that could have turned war to peace. This, as
we understand it made them the
most worthy candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The 9/11 Truth Movement began as a marginal group of activists and
academics who questioned the official version of the 11 September
events. Today, this movement includes about 100 professors, over 200
architects and engineers, 100 former military officers and
intelligence analysts, over 60 pilots and 200 survivors or etterlatte
after 11 September (see below). The 9/11 Truth Movement also includes
former European government members. It includes a former CIA division
chief, a former national Etterretningsoffiser and director of the
CIAs Office of Regional and Political Analysis, a former Chairman of
the National Intelligence Estimates, a former head of the president's
daily update (PDB), a former intelligence leader at the Pentagon, a
former the leader of the Star Wars program, a former sjefsøkonom for
President George W. Bush and a former Deputy Finance Minister and
Chief of Wall Street Journal. Many of these people have praised David
Ray Griffin's
books. The 9/11 Truth Movement has evolved into a larger movement of
dissidents who are trying to change the world.

Today we have a peace movement with hundreds of thousands of
activists who have turned against the lies, like 'global war on
terror'. A significant part of this movement of students, professors,
intelligence analysts and military officers protest not only against
the war. They have also shown that the United States 'war elite' has
stood for acts of terrorism as an excuse for their own wars. It is
about an old tactic of 'false flag operations' that have been used as
long as wars have demanded reasons for initiation: It allows a secret
military force or terrorist attack force one's own military forces or
one's own people for an attack war to work as a 'response'.
Historically speaking, false flag operations have been used by the
British, Germans, Americans, Israelis and even the Swedes. USA
started the Spanish-American War in 1898 by attacking their own
warships USS Maine in Cuba. In 1962, the U.S. military leadership in
a secret document to implement a
similar attack against its own warships at Guantanamo in Cuba, as
well as to bomb their own marinebase, which would look like a Cuban
attack. The document suggested the U.S. terrorist attacks with bombs
that explode in American cities and Cuban forged documents to put the
blame on Cuba and justify a war against Cuba. President John F.
Kennedy approved the plan and was not considered to be unacceptable
for the 'war elite'. Two years later, however, was a counterfeit
North Vietnamese bomb attack against the U.S. Destroyer USS Maddox in
the Tonkin Bay justify war against North Vietnam. A year ago, former
U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski spoke in the
Senate, and he said that the United States Government through
adopting a 'provocation in Iraq or a terrorist attack in the United
States attributed to Iran' may attempt to justify a U.S. military
attack against Iran. Justification of war is particularly necessary
in more or less democratic
countries, and false flag operations are the standard technique to
justify aggressive attack. All new evidence of what happened on 11
September shows that this attack was a false flag operation. When
David Ray Griffin published the book The New Pearl Harbor -
Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 in 2003-
2004, he could point out precisely this fact. Soon the 9/11 Truth
Movement was born, and it was a global phenomenon. In book after
book, video after video and on site by site, the U.S. 'war elite' has
been undressed and revealed by Griffin and his colleagues.

The 9/11 Truth Movement has pointed to the U.S. official statements
that the administration was taken by surprise on 11 September, while
a large amount of evidence shows that the Egyptian, Jordanian,
Israeli, German, French, British, Russian and U.S. intelligence
services in advance informed the U.S. lead on an imminent attack on
U.S. soil. Some of these were specific about the airlines intervened
in September against U.S. landmarks as the World Trade Center. Senior
Agents from the FBI and CIA informed their superiors about the
impending attack, but to his great surprise was the top management is
not interested in more information. U.S. officers said no one could
imagine that terrorists could fly passenger airliners into buildings
in such a large scale, while the evidence now point to the fact that
U.S. Air Force and other U.S. agencies had trained for such attacks
for months. In the months that led up to 11 Sept. they conducted
several military
exercises with the aircraft that crashed into the World Trade Center
and Pentagon. The official story is not credible.

The 9/11 Truth Movement has also been able to show that the World
Trade Center towers were removed with explosives of military type,
and bombs planted in buildings. The 47-stories tall Building 7 was
removed without it being hit by any aircraft. Over 100 firefighters
are talking about explosives in the buildings. Many witnesses are
talking about huge explosions in the building's basement. Garage
floor in the basement of the North Tower disappeared in an explosion
already when the first plane hit the building. Firefighters talked
about 'rivers of molten steel'. When the towers were collapsing,
the 'volcanoes' of molten steel,' as lava ', under the destroyed
towers, and the melting steel was not cold until months later.
Experts have said that 'it even burned fires and cream melted steel
21 days after the attack'. Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that the
underground fires 'lasted one hundred days'. For several months cream
large amounts of molten steel at Zero
point on the World Trade Center, suggesting much higher temperatures
than the actual melting point (1,560 ° C). Regular fires carbon and
oxygen poor carbon fires, as we clearly saw the TV pictures from the
World Trade Center towers, will not be near these temperatures. The
fact that the molten steel whipped around in the months can only be
explained by the massive use of explosives by the military type, or
non-conventional weapons. Video and photographs showing massive
explosions and molten steel. Specialists point out that steel
evaporated. A typical carbon fire can not reach temperatures of over
1000 ° C. To evaporate steel need temperatures above 3000 ° C. The
9/11 Truth Movement has given a great contribution through collecting
the evidence. They know now that the attack on 11 September was a
mission conducted by a professional military, and the disclosure of
this fact is probably the absolute most important contribution to
peace in the 21st
century, and the most important motivation for giving the Nobel
Peace Prize in 2008 to David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Certain groups in the West has not only been skeptical, but also
dismay of the fact that the United States' war elite'could be able to
sacrifice thousands of American lives in Washington and New York to
create the pretext for wars in the Middle East, and to replace the
Soviet enemy with a new enemy after the Cold War. Why would the
United States 'war elite' sacrifice American lives, they ask. These
groups in the West, said no U.S. elite could be as cynical and
cunning. But to replace the Cold War order with a global war on
terror has been considered essential for these people. Today we also
know that thousands of rescue workers after the World Trade Center
towers' collapse has breathed the toxic dust, which has tragic
consequences. Far more people actually die of the toxic dust than by
the fires and collapse. We know also that the White House instructed
EPA pollution audit to give people misleading information - they told
the new yorkers that the air was
safe to breathe, even though they knew the air was toxic. The White
House offered with the knowledge and the willingness of thousands of
newyorkere by forcing the EPA to present inaccurate information.

The disclosure of the 11 September events as an 'inside job'
interferes not only with the justification of the U.S. aggressive war
in the oil-rich Middle East and Central Asia, it is also a damper
Islamists for the justification of terrorist attacks against Western
targets, as Griffin and the 9/11 Truth movement's disclosure of the
U.S. 'inside job' can force the Islamist activists or insurgents to
understand their own role as pieces in the game of the U.S.
authorities. These Islamists will understand that they have been used
as useful idiots of the United States 'war elite', which needed these
terrorist acts to justify their wars. The contribution from David Ray
Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement is not only a blow to America's
aggressive wars, these contributions are also a very important blow
against an Islamist terrorism that has provoked forward or been used
to justify the U.S. war against Muslim countries.

In that era the U.S. administration called 'The global war on terror'
David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have provided the most
significant contribution to peace, and for this they should be given
the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008.

[For more info - contact 9/11 Truth Norway at the address 'press at
911truth.no'.]
[PS: The final decision of the Norwegian Nobel Institute is announced
on October 1oth.]


Links:
[1] http://viddal.wordpress.com/
[2] http://www.911truth.no/
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fredspris-2008%2F&sl=no&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
[4] http://www.911truth.no/2008/10/911-truth-nominert-til-nobels-
fredspris-2008/

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Oct. 1st Military starts Martial Law Mission

Oct. 1st Military starts Martial Law Mission
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Financial Terrorism?

I wonder if AIG was the selected company for bailout because of its relationship to the U.S. intelligence community and what others would discover if AIG's books were opened in an audit. The last person to get close to AIG and its shady operations was Eliott Spitzer.- -from a Cynthia McKinney speach
http://www.counterpunch.org/mckinney09192008.html

I think she's on to something
FTW has also conducted an extensive investigation into AIG and its predecessors, including the C. V. Starr Insurance Companies, revealing deep connections to US intelligence dating back to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in World War II.

These connections include documented CIA operatives connected to drug smuggling from Southeast Asia and a current board member, Frank Wisner, Jr., whose father was a key figure in the creation of the CIA. History, as well as AIG's current operations, suggest that these relationships continue unabated today.
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ciadrugs/part_2.html

Building on Scott's research, Michael C. Ruppert's investigation "AIG" (From The Wilderness, August 14, 2001) exhaustively deconstructed Hank Greenberg
(Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberger Group, the Trilateral Commission) and the Heritage Foundation, a former candidate for CIA director (1995), Bush family crony, and high-level functionary for all US presidents stretching back to Kennedy) and AIG, exposing continuing connections to covert operations, narcotrafficking, money laundering, and AIG's central role in the Wall Street/Washington power nexus.

In addition to explaining how "insurance" is used in intelligence operations, Ruppert tracked down then-AIG employee Coral Talavera, the wife of Medellin Cartel co-founder Carlos Lehder. The questions raised by Ruppert regarding AIG's connection to Lehder and millions in drug money (laundered between 1987-1992) remain unanswered, and the dark realities about the conglomerate, studiously ignored.
http://www.copvcia.com/free/ww3/070105_target_aig.shtml
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

#16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11

#16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11 in Top 25 Censored Stories for 2008
Source: The Muckraker Report, June 6, 2006, and Ithaca Journal, June 29, 2006 Title: “FBI says, ‘No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11’” Author: Ed Haas http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html
Student Researcher: Bianca May and Morgan Ulery Faculty Evaluator: Ben Frymer, Ph.D.
Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” poster. On June 5, 2006, author Ed Haas contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters to ask why, while claiming that bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 1998 bombings of US Embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, the poster does not indicate that he is wanted in connection with the events of 9/11. Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI responded, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Osama bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Tomb continued, “Bin Laden has not been formally charged in connection to 9/11.” Asked to explain the process, Tomb responded, “The FBI gathers evidence. Once evidence is gathered, it is turned over to the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice then decides whether it has enough evidence to present to a federal grand jury. In the case of the 1998 United States Embassies being bombed, bin Laden has been formally indicted and charged by a grand jury. He has not been formally indicted and charged in connection with 9/11 because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.” Haas pauses to ask the question, “If the US government does not have enough hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11, how is it possible that it had enough evidence to invade Afghanistan to ‘smoke him out of his cave?’” Through corporate media, the Bush administration told the American people that bin Laden was “Public Enemy Number One,” responsible for the deaths of nearly 3,000 people on September 11, 2001. The federal government claims to have invaded Afghanistan to “root out” bin Laden and the Taliban, yet nearly six years later, the FBI said that it had no hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11. Though the world was to have been convinced by the December 2001 release of a bin Laden “confession video,” the Department of Defense issued a press release to accompany this video in which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said, “There was no doubt of bin Laden’s responsibility for the 9/11 attacks even before the tape was discovered.” In a CNN article regarding the bin Laden tape, then New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said that “the tape removes any doubt that the US military campaign targeting bin Laden and his associates is more than justified.” Senator Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee said, “The tape’s release is central to informing people in the outside world who don’t believe bin Laden was involved in the September 11 attacks.” Shelby went on to say “I don’t know how they can be in denial after they see this tape.” Haas attempted to secure a reference to US government authentication of the bin Laden “confession video,” to no avail. However, it is conclusive that the Bush Administration and US Congress, along with corporate media, presented the video as authentic. So why doesn’t the FBI view the “confession video” as hard evidence? After all, notes Haas, if the FBI is investigating a crime such as drug trafficking, and it discovers a video of members of a drug cartel openly talking about a successful distribution operation in the United States, that video would be presented to a federal grand jury. The participants identified in the video would be indicted. The video alone would serve as sufficient evidence to net a conviction in a federal court. So why, asks Haas, is the bin Laden “confession video” not carrying the same weight with the FBI? Haas strongly suggests that we begin asking questions, “The fact that the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Osama bin Laden to 9/11 should be headline news around the world. The challenge to the reader is to find out why it is not. Why has the US media blindly read the government-provided 9/11 scripts, rather than investigate without passion, prejudice, or bias, the events of September 11, 2001? Why has the US media blacklisted any guest that might speak of a government-sponsored 9/11 cover-up, rather than seeking out those people who have something to say about 9/11 that is contrary to the government’s account?” Haas continues. “Who is controlling the media message, and how is it that the FBI has no ‘hard evidence’ connecting Osama bin Laden to the events of September 11, 2001, while the US media has played the bin Laden-9/11 connection story for [six] years now as if it has conclusive evidence that bin Laden is responsible for the collapse of the twin towers, the Pentagon attack, and the demise of United Flight 93?” UPDATE BY ED HAAS On June 6, 2006 the Muckraker Report ran a piece by Ed Haas titled “FBI says, ‘No hard evidence connecting bin Laden to 9/11.’” Haas is the editor and a writer for the Muckraker Report. At the center of this article remains the authenticity and truthfulness of the videotape released by the federal government on December 13, 2001 in which it is reported that Osama bin Laden “confesses” to the September 11, 2001 attacks. The corporate media—television, radio, and newspapers—across the United States and the world repeated, virtually non-stop for a week after the videotape’s release, the government account of OBL “confessing.” However, not one document has been released that demonstrates the authenticity of the videotape or that it even went through an authentication process. The Muckraker Report has submitted Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI, CIA, Department of Defense, and CENTCOM requesting documentation that would demonstrate the authenticity of the videotape and the dates/circumstances in which the videotape was discovered. CENTCOM has yet to reply to the FOIA request. After losing an appeal, the FBI responded that no documents could be found responsive to the request. The Dep