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  • Reply to: Bush Threatens to Bomb Media, Blair Gags It   18 years 4 months ago

    I doubt very seriously that bush would even think about bombing anywhere or anything in his Saudi buddies country that bush conspired with in the attacks of the World Trade center.

    If the 911 WTC attack wasn't an inside job then tell me how 19 Arabic nitwits, 15 of them Saudi Arabian citizens defeated a half trillion dollar air/missile defence system that had to totally, all at once, all of a sudden, on that one particular day, FAIL!

    After the first plane hit the first tower...red flags would have been flying all over the east coast. All the overlapping civilian/military raday systems had to have failed or they would have painted blips of every aircraft in the area making any irregular moves and not responding to radio.

    After the first plane hit the first tower, fully armed jet interceptors already in the air and others on standby launched.

    After the first plane hit the first tower, Washington D C the most protected city in the world, having one of the most sophisticated air/missile defence systems on Earth cordend around D C would have went active, and put on full war alert.

    Yet an airliner that should not have gotten within five miles of the Pentagon "supposedly" crashed into the Pentagon.

    I say supposedly because of the parking lot security camea that shows the explosion but not one picture frame of an aircraft approaching the Pentagon. I say supposedly because of total lack of evidence of a single piece of that aircraft like huge landing gears, internal jet engine parts that could not have possibly evaporated into thin air has never been produced. Not one tiny piece much less hardened aircraft jet engine parts that operate at several thousand degrees farenheit during flight. Not one piece of the airplane's aluminum skin bounced away from the building at impact. Not even one of the "Black Boxes." But the government sure spent plenty of money on televising computer graphically produced reinactments "on their version" of the crash into the Pentagon and how it was possible for an entire aircraft and all the people on it, bones and all it just vaporized!

    We are told we are supposed to believe all the crapola bush, his administration, and other responisble arms of the government tell us.

    We are supposed to believe the impossible, hardened steel evaporates, a half trillion dollar air/missile defence system fails all of a sudden, that a security camera pointed right at the building at the point of impact never shows a single frame of an aircraft pre impact approaching.

    Are we that gullible? Do we believe that all these expensive to tax payer human/machine defence systems failed all of a sudden on that one particular day..911?

    I surely don't. Not for one nanosecond.

    Tom Pearson

  • Reply to: The Man Who Sold the War   18 years 4 months ago

    The Rendon Groups posted a [http://www.rendon.com/letter.php letter-to-the-editor] on its website claiming the firm had "no role whatsoever in making the case for the Iraq war, here at home or internationally." The firm also lists several bullet points of "corrections" to Bamford's story. Bullet point number two states, "... Mr. Bamford incorrectly writes that TRG worked for the controversial Defense Department Office of Strategic Influence. The former director of that office himself has publicly confirmed in the Chicago Tribune that the Rendon Group had nothing to do with the Office of Strategic Influence as Mr. Bamford falsely asserts."

    [http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/003117.html War and Piece]'s Laura Rozen writes, "In fact, if you read that bolded line closely, you'll see, this is not a denial at all. It is a statement that someone else has issued a denial. (Hey, Rendon doesn't get paid $300 an hour for nothing). It's also worth noting that that someone else who issued a denial, [[Douglas Feith]], no longer works at the Pentagon and his office's activities are now the subject of a DoD Inspector General investigation."

  • Reply to: The Man Who Sold the War   18 years 4 months ago

    James Bamford who wrote the Rolling Stone article on Rendon was interview on [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/21/1516257 Democracy Now!].

  • Reply to: The Public's Right To Know What Industry Wants To Tell   18 years 4 months ago

    The changes to TRI that EPA is proposing have been pushed by several industry associations including the small business administration. It's telling that the best spin that EPA could put on the proposals is that they are to provide relief to companies for the paperwork they must fill out under the TRI program. The proposals so clearly only benefit polluting companies that the agency can help but at least partially acknowledge that the changes are being made for them. But the TRI program is supposed to be about communities and informing them about the toxic pollution that is being released around them.

    It seems to me that filling out a five page form is the least a company should have to do if they release thousands of pounds of a toxic chemical into the air or water.

    Public interest groups, including environmentalists, unions, good government groups, socially responsible investors and others, are coordinating efforts to oppose the EPA plans. If people would like to submit comments to EPA they can use OMB Watch's action alert at www.ombwatch.org/protecttri

    Additional information on this issue can also be found at the TRI Resource Center (www.ombwatc.org/tricenter) being developed to provide advocates with materials to oppose these dangerous changes to the TRI.

  • Reply to: A Kinder, Gentler Microsoft   18 years 4 months ago

    I had transposed the two names; thanks for catching it.
    - Diane

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