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Shadows in Motion: The Mass Murder of 9/11 & the Political Struggle in the 21st Century (With Video)
"Only after one understands how freedom and rights are being suppressed by the managers of imperial states — even as they preach peace, freedom, justice, rights, and majority rule to their citizens to maintain their beliefs in the morality of their society, and thus assure the continued support of the masses for inflicting such violence upon the world — can one write honest history. If one does not understand that process, one is almost certain to write a history in which, unbeknownst to the author, the background and documentation have been carefully created to give Managers of State the freedom to suppress other people's rights and transfer their wealth to the imperial center through unequal trades."
— J.W. Smith, Economic Democracy; The Political Struggle for the 21st Century, (M.E. Sharpe, 2000), p.95
Over the years we have come to associate September 2001 and more specific the 11th date, as one of the most significant date in modern history. No doubt it is. As a youngster who was born, using social historians William Strauss and Neil Howe, in the Millennial Generation (or Millennials) or more specific Generation Y –after 1982 –it was to signal the beginning of the shaping of my intellectual and scholarship on global issues.
I became an avid reader of any news items, particular the newspaper and anything that brought newsworthy items they where like my new best friends. Even more so surprising was that I was still in high school and a few months from being enrolled in my Freelance Journalism courses with the Manchester, England based Writer's Bureau College of Journalism. And then the ill-fated, September 11 attacks (also referred to as 9/11 or September 11th) happened, catapulting my interest; it was like the perfect seasoning added to an uncooked meal.
In the media in the days and weeks that follow all attention was focus on the 9/11 attacks. Who was responsible for the act, why now, and how were it to benefit that party or parties; were only some of the questions that swirled around in the young brain of mine as I sat glued. Like most persons outside of the United States that evening into the night as I watched footage showing the crumbling of buildings and people holding hands jumping through windows (avoiding death perhaps), as two commercial passenger jet airliners crashing into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; a third airliner into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C; and a fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Pennsylvania. In each case there were no survivors.
George W. Bush, the President of the United States of America, at that time was in a school in Florida reading to some children. When presented with the news he remained unruffled as if the first on soil attack of his country wasn't happening right at that given moment; a terrorist attack, he would later say. In fact of concern to news reporters and political commentators was that the President was allowed by the Secret Services to remain at the school for over half hour, some say without a concern if his life was at risk before attempting to take the reigns as military leader of his country; it was perhaps this action that would later give rise to many conspiracies view and solidified the view this was not an Islamic terrorist attack as Bush would later want us to believe .
In analyzing the attack many views came out. The US government was perhaps the most priced and which many media houses around the world and most importantly the American people and other nationalities in that country, who had family who were in the World Trade Center or the hijacked planes, waited for some explanation. The world was told that al-Qaeda was responsible for the series of coordinated suicide attacks on the US soil that killed nearly 3,000 victims along with the 19 hijackers. I had no knowledge of whom or what al-Qaeda was; even more confusing to me was when the name Afghanistan, a country that had largely been unknown to me before 9/11, was added.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events in the mid-20th century, leading his country through worldwide economic crisis and a world war once said: "In politics nothing happens by accident if it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
So who was truly responsible for the 9/11 attacks then?
Conspiracy theorist have allege that the 9/11were either intentionally allowed to happen or were a false flag operation orchestrated by what some have described as "a Government within a Government" inside the United States government. This reference is believed to be that of the Project for New American Century (PNAC) members who made up the Bush Administration of Dick Cheney, Vice President; Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; and Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense.
As a student of history at the University level, looking back to September 11, it is not hard to see that that what was happening was the beginning of a "new game". A game where there would be a fight against Asian economies and more precise Islam. In supporting this I cite the work of Historian, Dr. Sultana Afroz in The New Great Game in Asia:
"With the demise of the Soviet Union, consequent to the Soviet defeat in the hands of the "mujahedeen" in Afghanistan, Islam became the rising terror to the West. Much of the resources essential to the survival of the developed West, i.e. oil and gas are also in lands belonging to the Muslims in Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. Added to this fear over the Islamic control of oil and gas are the new challenges from China and India as the emerging world economic powers. As Afghanistan began to emerge as a stronghold of Islam with the Taliban in power, its strategic location vis-à-vis the resources in Central Asia and China, and its Islamic faith gained credence in a new emerging US foreign policy for the 21st century in the late nineteen-nineties. Pakistan, considered to be an ally of the West during the Cold War and a frontline state during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, is once again in the global chessboard in the so-called 'War on Terror" and faces a threat to its territorial integrity. India not only conveniently uses the "War on Terror" to label the people of Indian Occupied Kashmir as terrorists but is also positioning herself as a counterbalance to the growing economic and military power of China. In these complexities, Afghanistan, currently, is occupied by a coalition of 41 countries headed by NATO forces under the command of US General David McKiernan."(1)
While these are only "Words of wisdom that break through the fog of lies created by the shadows that cower in the depths" I implore you to watch the documentary embedded below of the untold stories of PNAC and how every major war in the US history was base on fraud with actual insiders themselves admitting it. The film you're about to watch:
"Shows how the first film theaters in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War… [it shows] the white papers of the oil company Unocal which called for the creation of a pipeline through Afghanistan and how their exact needs were fulfilled through the US invasion of Afghanistan. This film shows how Halliburton under their "cost plus" exclusive contract with the US Government went on a mad dash spending spree akin to something out of the movie Brewster's Millions, yet instead of blowing $30 million they blew through BILLIONS by literally burning millions of dollars worth of hundred thousand dollar cars and trucks if they had so much as a flat tire."(2)
After watching the video I must say I realize a number of things and as such though it was good to share through this blog, through reflection my journey when I first took interest in this issue in high school. As a student now majoring in History & Social Policy at the University level the chilling details documented in this film shows exactly how power & propaganda can be used especially when you stand at the helm of Government. I'm sure this is going to be a source of debate amongst some of my friends who will be reading, as well as my Twitter followers who follow me at http://www.twitter.com/lgrandison
Enjoy life and the pursuit of happiness.
1. Afroz, Sultana, The New Game in Central Asia http://izenjero.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-new-great-game-in-central-asia/
2. The New American Century http://tiny.cc/NewAmerica
For Readings on the Alternative Theories of the 9/11 Attack: http://stj911.org/hypotheses/alternative.html

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The United States began to abandon the technology of manned lunar exploration by late 1967, nearly a year before the first Apollo astronauts reached space on board an Apollo spacecraft (Apollo 7, 11-22 October 1968). Abandonment of the moon began with deep cuts in theApollo Applications Program(AAP), NASA's planned successor to the Apollo moon program. Ambitious two-week stays on the moon were among the first AAP missions to feel the budget-cutters' blades.
By late 1970, NASA was hard at work returning Apollo to its roots. From its conception in late 1959 until President John F. Kennedy's 25 May 1961 call for a man on the moon by 1970, NASA had seen Apollo primarily as an Earth-orbital spacecraft. NASA intended to use Apollo in the second and third phases of its 1960s piloted space program. The first phase, characterized by brief sorties, would be accomplished using one-man Mercury capsules. In the second, three astronauts would live and work on board Apollo spacecraft for longer periods. They would use a pressurized Orbital Module attached to their spacecraft as a small space station. The third phase would see Apollo spacecraft deliver crews and supplies to separately launched Earth-orbiting space stations. An Apollo circumlunar mission - a flight around the moon without capture into lunar orbit - was considered likely no earlier than 1970.
Following six-month studies, General Electric (GE), The Martin Company, and Convair in mid-May 1961 submitted Apollo spacecraft designs that accommodated NASA's three-phase plan. In the event, none flew; after Apollo was promoted to the role of NASA's lunar landing spacecraft, the agency funded new studies and selected North American Aviation (NAA) as its Apollo spacecraft contractor.
Initially, NASA intended to land NAA's Apollo on the moon atop a descent stage with landing legs. In July 1962, however, the space agency opted for the Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LOR) mode for its moon landing. NAA's Apollo Command and Service Module (CSM) spacecraft became strictly a lunar-orbital spacecraft, and to Grumman's bug-like Lunar Module (LM) went the honor of landing on the moon.
As flown, the CSM, which measured a little more than 11 meters long, comprised the conical Command Module (CM) and the drum-shaped Service Module (SM). The Orbital Module of the GE, Martin, and Convair designs was judged to be unnecessary for lunar landing missions. In fact, some perceived that the LM had replaced the Orbital Module. The CM's nose carried a probe docking unit, and at the aft end of the SM was mounted the Service Propulsion System (SPS) main engine. Interestingly, the SPS remained sized for CSM launch from the lunar surface, which made the engine more powerful than was necessary for CSM insertion into and escape from lunar orbit.
The CM also included the pressurized crew compartment, crew couches, flight controls, rendezvous aids, a bowl-shaped heat shield for Earth atmosphere reentry, and parachutes for descent to a gentle splashdown at sea. The SM, which was discarded before atmosphere reentry, included hydrogen-oxygen fuel cells for making electricity and water, propellant tanks, four attitude-control thruster quads, heat radiators, a high-gain radio antenna, and room for a side-mounted Scientific Instrument Module (SIM) Bay.
In general, piloted Apollo Earth-orbital missions launched atop two-stage expendable Saturn IB rockets; the single exception was Apollo 9 ( 3-13 May 1969), which used NASA's fourth Saturn V. All Apollo lunar missions left Earth on three-stage Saturn V rockets.
A decade after Kennedy's call, NASA was busy readying itself for Skylab A, its first Earth-orbiting space station. Skylab A would receive at least three Apollo CSMs bearing three-man crews. The agency also studied independent CSM missions in Earth orbit and CSM missions to Earth-orbiting stations other than Skylab A.
On 27 August 1971, Philip Culbertson, director of the Advanced Manned Missions Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC, dispatched a letter to Rene Berglund, Manager of the Space Station Project Office at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, Texas. In it, he outlined five Earth-orbital CSM missions that were "still under active consideration" at NASA Headquarters. Culbertson explained that his letter was meant to "emphasize the importance" of statements he had made in a telephone conversation with Berglund on 19 August.
Culbertson referred to an unspecified new contract MSC had awarded to CSM contractor North American. He told Berglund that, in "the early stages of your contract. . .you should concentrate on defining the CSM modifications required to support each of the [five] missions and possibly more important defining the effort at North American which would hold open as many as possible of the [five] options until the end of the [Fiscal Year] 1973 budget cycle." U.S. Federal Fiscal Year 1973 would end on 1 October 1973.
The first and simplest of the five missions was an "independent CSM mission for earth observations." The mission would probably use a CSM with a SIM Bay fitted out with remote-sensing instruments and cameras. At the end of the mission, an astronaut would spacewalk to the SIM Bay to retrieve film for return to Earth in the CM.
The second mission on Culbertson's list was an Apollo space station flight unlike any envisioned in the year before Kennedy diverted Apollo to the moon. It would have seen a CSM dock in Earth orbit with a Soviet Salyut space station.
Salyut 1, the world's first space station, had reached Earth orbit on 19 April 1971. The 15.8-meter-long station remained aloft as Culbertson wrote his letter, but had not been manned since the Soyuz 11 crew of Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov had undocked on 29 June 1971, after nearly 24 days in space (a new world record). The three cosmonauts had suffocated during reentry when their capsule lost pressure, so the Soviet Union had halted manned missions while the Soyuz spacecraft underwent a significant redesign.
The third Earth-orbital CSM mission on Culbertson's list combined the first two missions into a single mission. The CSM crew would turn SIM Bay instruments toward Earth before or after a visit to a Salyut.
Culbertson's fourth CSM mission would see the Skylab A backup CSM (CSM-119) with a crew of three dock first with a Salyut for a brief time, then undock and rendezvous with the dormant Skylab A Orbital Workshop. After docking with 26-meter-long Skylab A, the CSM-119's crew would live and work on board for an unspecified period. NASA planned that, during the three missions to Skylab A in the basic Skylab Program, CSM-119 would stand by as a rescue vehicle capable of carrying five astronauts(Commander, Pilot, and the three rescued Skylab A crewmen). The Salyut-Skylab A mission, which would include no rescue CSM, was planned to begin 18 months after Skylab A reached orbit, or about nine months after the third Skylab A mission returned to Earth.
The fifth and final Earth-orbital CSM mission was really two (or, possibly, three) CSM missions. A pair of "90 day" CSMs would dock with the Skylab B station while a rescue vehicle modified to carry five astronauts stood by. Beginning in 1969 (that is, at the same time it started Skylab A funding), NASA had funded assembly of Skylab B as a backup in case Skylab A failed. Culbertson gave no date for the Skylab B launch, which would have required one of the two Apollo Saturn V rockets made surplus by the September 1970 cancellation of the Apollo 15 and 19 missions(the Apollo 20 mission had been cancelled in January 1970 to make its Saturn V available to launch Skylab A).
Of the five missions Culbertson declared to be on the table in August 1971, not one flew. Skylab A, re-designated Skylab I (but more commonly called Skylab), reached orbit on 14 May 1973 on a two-stage Saturn V. It suffered damage during ascent, but NASA and its contractors pulled it back from the brink. In August 1973, with Skylab I functioning well in Earth-orbit, NASA began to mothball its backup. Several plans for putting Skylab B to use were floated in the 1973-1976 timeframe, but Space Shuttle development had funding priority, so NASA's second space station wound up on display in the National Air and Space Museum.
The three CSM missions to Skylab spanned 25 May-22 June 1973, 28 July-25 September 1973, and 16 November 1973-8 February 1974, respectively. Leaks in attitude control thrusters on the second CSM to dock with Skylab caused NASA to ready CSM-119 for flight; the leaks stopped by themselves, however, so the rescue CSM remained earthbound.
In early April 1972, shortly before finalizing its agreement with NASA to conduct a joint Apollo-Salyut mission, the Soviet Union declared the concept to be impractical and offered instead a docking with a Soyuz. At the superpower summit in Moscow on 24 May 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin signed the agreement creating the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).
Apollo CSM-111 was the ASTP prime spacecraft, while CSM-119 was refitted to serve as its backup. In the event, the backup was not needed. CSM-111, officially designated "Apollo" (but sometimes informally called Apollo 18), docked with Soyuz 19 on 17 July 1975. CSM-111 did not include a SIM Bay. The last CSM to fly in space undocked on 19 July and, after a period during which its crew performed experiments in the CM, returned from Earth orbit on 24 July 1975, six years to the day after Apollo 11, the first moon landing mission, returned safely to Earth.
Letter, Philip E. Culbertson to Rene A. Berglund, 27 August 1971.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is recommending that military commanders be largely stripped of their ability to reverse criminal convictions of service members, a move that comes in response to a congressional uproar over an Air Force officer's decision to overturn a guilty verdict in a sexual assault case, the Pentagon said Monday.
Hagel has asked his staff to draft legislation that would require that cases go through the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, and that senior officers no longer have the authority to set aside guilty findings, except in limited, minor offenses that ordinarily don't warrant a court martial. The commanders, however, would retain their ability to participate in plea bargains and to reduce sentences, but they would have to defend the lesser sentence in writing.
In a written statement Monday, Hagel said that, if enacted by Congress, the changes "would help ensure that our military justice system works fairly, ensures due process and is accountable. These changes would increase the confidence of service members and the public that the military justice system will do justice in every case."
The change requires congressional action, but lawmakers have already begun looking into the matter in response to a furor over a recent Air Force sexual assault case. Hagel said the new recommendations have the full support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the service secretaries.
Lt. Gen. Craig Franklin, commander of the 3rd Air Force at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, overturned the conviction against Lt. Col. James Wilkerson, a former inspector general at Aviano Air Base in Italy. Wilkerson had been found guilty last Nov. 2 of charges of abusive sexual contact, aggravated sexual assault and three instances of conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman. The incident had involved a civilian employee.
Wilkerson was sentenced to a year in prison and dismissal from the service, but after a review of the case Franklin overturned the conviction. His decision triggered outrage among senators and calls for a new look at the military justice system.
"This decision has turned the military on its ear," said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., during a hearing last month. She added that Franklin's decision sets the Air Force "all the way back to Tailhook." The 1991 Tailhook scandal rocked the military as Navy pilots were accused of sexually abusing female officers at a Las Vegas convention.
Hagel ordered a review of the issue, but he does not have the sole authority to either change the law or the reverse Franklin's ruling.
On Monday, senior defense officials explained the change, saying that once their review of the matter began it became quickly evident that no one was pushing back against the change. They said that the authority to set aside convictions was more suitable years ago, but the military justice system now has additional checks and balances to assure fairness.
The officials who were involved in the review spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the change publicly.
Senators heralded Hagel's move, with McCaskill calling it a "big win for survivors of sexual assault" in the military. And the House Armed Services Committee promised to give the change serious consideration.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who heads the personnel panel on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said she and several colleagues are drafting a bill to address the problem and strengthen accountability in the military justice system.
Anu Bhagwati, executive director of Service Women's Action Network, said that she commended the change to the post-trial decision-making. She added, however, that similar attention must be placed on the authorities of commanders during pre-trial decisions affecting the investigation and prosecution of offenses so that the judicial process more closely mirrors the civilian system.
At the same time, Hagel acknowledged that the Pentagon is still struggling to address the problem of sexual assault in the military. He said he's reviewing other ways to strengthen the department's prevention and response efforts.
Air Force officials have argued that overturning the results of a military court martial and granting clemency is rare — amounting to roughly 1 1/2 percent of the caseload. In the past five years, senior commanders have overturned 40 guilty verdicts out of the 3,713 courts martial that were tried. Of those, the Air Force said that 327 involved sexual assaults and just five of those convictions were reversed.
Defense officials said that the other military services have reported similar percentages, but their exact numbers were not available.
Under the current law, if an accused service member is found guilty and sentenced, the findings are not final until they are approved or disproved by the convening authority. The convicted service member can request clemency and the general officer — usually a major general or lieutenant general — seeks legal advice, reviews the trial record and considers information submitted by the accused.


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MELBOURNE - A damning report into doping in Australian sport has "torpedoed" the country's identity as a nation of fair play and investigators must quickly name the athletes and teams involved, according to former prime minister Kevin Rudd.
A government report released on Thursday said the use of performance-enhancing drugs was "widespread" among professional and amateur athletes in Australia but officials declined to provide specific details, citing continuing investigations.
Rudd said investigators needed to put a number on the cases involved.
"The core challenge now is to establish the facts," Rudd, prime minister from 2007-10, told a breakfast show on local broadcaster Channel Seven on Friday.
"We all know... how central sport is to the Australian identity. Why's that? It's not just because we're a physical mob. It's because we believe in fair play and that's part of who we are. That is now being torpedoed at mid-ships by this report.
"The key thing now is to establish the facts - which players, which clubs, because I'm a bit concerned, too, about every person out there who we've all watched, admired, spoken with in changerooms, everything else, are now walking around today with a total cloud over their heads."
The release of the report, the result of a year-long probe by Australia's top criminal intelligence organization, was described as the "blackest day" in the country's sporting history by the former head of the national anti-doping agency.
The report has prompted sports administrators of Australia's top professional codes to launch probes into competitions and teams, with promises to toughen anti-doping regimes.
Joe Hockey, shadow treasurer for Australia's conservative Liberal Party, said the report had left people with the impression that the vast majority of professional sportspeople were involved in the wrongdoing.
"If I were the authorities I would be getting it out there as quickly as possible about exactly how far this goes rather than tarring the brush across every professional sportsman in the country," he told the breakfast show.
"It is a very, very, broad brush that has been used over the last 24 hours and I think people need to take a bit of a breath and have a look at whether it really is as broad."


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Are you following the Mariners on Pinterest?
The Mariners have 26 Boards including one for the Mariners Hall of Fame. It's got great shots of Dan Wilson and Randy Johnson in their playing prime and in the community. Good times.
As long as you're there, check out the other Board such as Fan Favorites (Cammy, Griffey, Gar, Joey), Bucket List, Hair (great moments in hair styles over the years), Safeco Field Eats (Mmmm, BBQ beef brisket sandwich), etc. There are even Boards for King's Court members and fans to post their Safeco Field photos.
You know what Pinterest is, right? That site with all those photos of food you shouldn't eat with recipes you'll never prepare anyway, vacation destinations you won't go to, tiny dresses and skinny jeans that would look terrible on you, DIY projects you don't have the skills or the tools for. But hey, there's that tutorial on how to fold a fitted sheet.
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DE PRADA-SAMPER, José Manuel. The forgotten killing fields: "San" genocide and Louis Anthing's mission to Bushmanland, 1862-1863. Historia [online]. 2012, vol.57, n.1, pp.172-187. ISSN 2309-8392.
Mohamed Adhikari's book The Anatomy of a South African Genocide is a synthesis of the research on the extermination of the San peoples of South Africa and aims to establish that such extermination must be considered genocide. Unfortunately, the book is based exclusively on published sources, and especially with regard to the nineteenth century, fails to consider archival and other sources that throw much light on the fate of the San, most notably the corpus of documents on the mission that the resident magistrate and civil commissioner of Namaqualand, Louis Anthing, undertook in 1862 to investigate reports of massacres of San bands in Bushmanland. Adhikari's book also suffers from the fact that he refers to "the San", while it is methodologically more correct to distinguish clearly between the different San populations and to address the history of specific groups in specific areas of southern Africa. Another major weakness is his placement of almost exclusive blame for the extermination of the San on "Dutch-speaking pastoralists", downplaying sources that point to the heavy involvement of Baster, Griqua and Khoi groups in the destruction of the hunter-gatherer bands. The case study of Louis Anthing's mission to Bushmanland, which proves that there was indeed genocide in Bushmanland in the second half of the nineteenth century, is presented in detail to show that an engagement with archival sources is essential to grasp the tragedy of the San in all its complexity.
Keywords : Anthing, Louis; Baster; Bushmanland; Cape Colony; genocide; Griqua; historiography; Kenhardt; Korana; San; |Xam.


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The AA has released an app that allows you to enter a location and get a map showing where you'll find parking bays, be they free or not. Street parking options appear to have been omitted, however.
And to save you from driving to your chosen car park only to find it full, alongside the opening times and charges the app will, where it can, tell you how many available spaces there are. You can help keep the database up to date, by reporting space availability yourself.
The AA said the app will also guide you straight to the selected car park.
Early feedback on the iTunes App Store suggests the app's not half bad at listing car parks outside the major metropolises.
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