Archive for April, 2009

April 19th, 2009

Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

The momentum seems to be growing, not diminishing, at Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
Some six hundred engineers and architects, led by Richard Gage, of the American Institute of Architecture.

They put out a two-hour film last year.  Conclusion: Demolition of WTC 1, 2 and 7 beyond a reasonable doubt.  Here’s the trailer:

People able to believe their eyes.

Obama would be risking his life and administration to open a 9/11 investigation.  The Congress should do it.   But Congress … is dead.

April 14th, 2009

I Spy +
Heart of Darkness =
Apocalypse Now

Watch this episode — “The Warlord” — from I Spy, the late 60s show, then please comment as to whether it may have inspired (along with the Conrad) FF Coppola’s masterpiece a few years later.

The credits say that the episode was written by Robert Culp — the actor sharing the spotlight with Smokin’ Bill Cosby.

And at the very end one discovers the name of the actor playing the Warlord …

Also please comment on how it could be that television departed from this place circa 1969 (when The Name of the Game was airing “The White Birch” about the collapse of the Prague Spring) and ended up where it is today, where international affairs are treated in comic-book video-game fashion on the vile 24.

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April 12th, 2009

Israel’s Wall & Lost Hippies

Posted in Israel by ed

From a piece in the New York Review of Books (our finest periodical):

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And now I’m sitting having tea in the al-Kasaba cinema in Ramallah. It’s the only working cinema on the West Bank. Mostly it shows Egyptian comedies. It’s run by George Ibrahim, who’s laughing, as he usually is.

“At the moment we are all enjoying jokes about the Western economy going to pieces because we can laugh and say, ‘It won’t affect us because Palestine doesn’t have an economy….’”  His friend the playwright Salman Tamer joins in.

“What is so shocking about Israel is that these days it doesn’t even have a protest movement. In the old days, there were peaceniks on the streets and long-haired students. Now they have almost no peace movement at all. What can you say? A country which loses its hippies is in deep trouble.”

George drinks his tea and smiles. “The wall is not around us. It’s around them.”

April 11th, 2009

Confirmation? Thermite high explosive at the WTC on 9/11

From the Spring 2009 issue of a two-year old but peer-reviewed online chemistry journal.  The authors include Kevin Ryan and Steve Jones, the engineer and physicist (who announced other thermite results 2 years or so ago) behind the 9/11 Online Journal.

I guess they pub’d this here instead for the peer certification.  I hope the latter is genuine.

But all that aside, yes, bleed and peep, read and weep.

It’s hard to tolerate Obama’s concession of the National Security Apparat’s program in Afghanistan when the world knows that our invasion there was on the books by midsummer 2001 and that what happened on 9/11 is not what the MM say happened.

Most of this happened before, when JFK was shot.  It’s happening again.

April 11th, 2009

Local Color

Posted in Movies, New York City by ed

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Dem wuz da daze …

April 11th, 2009

Ralph Nader’s
Recent History Reading List

Posted in Geopolitics, Money, Reading by ed

People who were on the money about big money.

April 11th, 2009

Daily Telly’s Pritchard
re IMF’s new (old) paper

Posted in China, Money by ed

Some call it a global currency.

On the heels of the recent Chinese call for something such.

I imagine Peking’s not thinking the IMF however.

April 11th, 2009

This is the War Room

You can’t fight in here …

I’ve been told this peek into the dungeon of the Obamarama is not visible.

Here’s the scorecard

And Neil Young’s parently permanently pissed.  Note the AP 4/9 piece about Army suicides continuing to spike.  General Freakley must be freakin’ out.

April 7th, 2009

Addington, Yoo,
Gonzalez, Feith …

The NYker reports stirrings overseas, where the only hope of prosecuting Bush-Cheney war criminals resides.

A friend here made the point, outlining possibilities, last year.

It seems all the more important given Obama’s unwillingness to release Justice Dept investigations re same.  He has been told (the old song) it would be bad for morale to prosecute the cops, and has punted.  It’s a universal political problem, which he seems to have decided, as most pols do, to Look Away From.

The march of the US from something like a republic to something like a police state has been stepwise and rather clear.  When opportunities present themselves to escort the monsters to the gallows, one must muster the will.

April 7th, 2009

Total Recall

Posted in Frankenstein's Monster by ed

A drug that effectively erases targeted memories.