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Is the 9/11 "Pentagon Hole" a Psyop to Distract from Real Questions?

It's understandable some believe "no 757" hit the Pentagon due to the heavy promotion of that idea, but there's no actual evidence. The theory is being used to mock and discredit the 9/11 Truth Movement, & to give Congress and the media a reason to avoid real questions about 9/11. The military drilled for 9/11-style attacks, & they came after years of warnings that Al Qaeda intended to hijack planes for missiles.

2007 Ulley reservoir danger could have led to a "breakdown in social cohesion"

Chris | 30-06-2008 19:22 | Climate Chaos | History | Sheffield

Interesting article in the Independent today, "MI5: revealing areas at mercy of collapsing dams is a terror threat"

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/mi5-revealing-areas-at-mercy-of-collapsing-dams-is-a-terror-threat-854325.html

Some extracts follow, basically if the damn had burst last year Sheffield would have had no electricity for "an indefinite period" and also the "main 42-inch gas main serving Sheffield" would have been taken out.

9/11, Deep State Violence, and the Hope of Internet Politics

The Deep State and 9/11

The unthinkable — that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians — has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. A seminal example was in French Algeria, where dissident elements of the French armed forces, resisting General de Gaulle's plans for Algerian independence, organized as the Secret Army Organization and bombed civilians indiscriminately, with targets including hospitals and schools. [1] Critics like Alexander Litvinenko, who was subsequently murdered in London in November 2006, have charged that the 1999 bombings of apartment buildings around Moscow, attributed to Chechen separatists, were in fact the work of the Russian secret service (FSB). [2]

Genoa 2001 films and discussion

Tuesday 3rd June 8pm.
The Common Place, Leeds

Peer-reviewed paper on the structural failure of the 3 skyscrapers on 9/11

One rebuff that has been used by many people who oppose the theory that the twin towers and the 47 story World Trade Centre 7 might not have collapsed due to the impact of the two jets and the subsequent fires is that nothing challenging the official story has been published in a peer reviewed journal, for example Noam Chomsky has said:

I am not persuaded by the assumption that much documentation and other evidence has been uncovered. To determine that, we'd have to investigate the alleged evidence. Take, say, the physical evidence. There are ways to assess that: submit it to specialists -- of whom there are thousands -- who have the requisite background in civil-mechanical engineering, materials science, building construction, etc., for review and analysis; and one cannot gain the required knowledge by surfing the internet. In fact, that's been done, by the professional association of civil engineers. Or, take the course pursued by anyone who thinks they have made a genuine discovery: submit it to a serious journal for peer review and publication. To my knowledge, there isn't a single submission.

And of course this point has has also been raised on Indymedia before and now there has finally has been a paper published in a peer-reviewed journal, The Open Civil Engineering Journal, 2008, 2, 35-40, a PDF of the article is attached and a text version follows.

See also the World Trade Centre Building 7 section of the 2006 Sheffield Indymedia feature on 11th September 2001 and the interview with Architect Richard Gage and Professor Steven Jones conducted by Chris Burnett, one of the founders of Indymedia in February 2008.

The Real Tibet?

The students of Sheffield (mainly from Sheffield university gathered to voice their views and opinions on the recent China-Tibet discussions that are currently going on within the media.

Ilan Pappé: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

Attached is a recording of Ilan Pappé addressing a public meeting entitled The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and the Current Situation which was organised by the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign and took place in Sheffield on 13th March 2008.

Flashback: F15 2003 - London Anti-War Demo

Photos from the 15th February 2003 No War on Iraq demo in London.

Nafeez Ahmed: The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed speaking on The Hidden Holocaust — Our Civilizational Crisis at a public meeting held on 20th November 2007 at Imperial College, London.

See also the notice of the meeting and the first three parts of a four part write-up of the talk:

The Hidden Holocaust -- Civilizational Crisis, Part 3: The End Of The World As We Know It?

Part three (see part one and part two) of an article by Nafeez Ahmed on the history of imperial genocide follows, the subject of this article was the subject of recent public meeting, The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis.

The Hidden Holocaust--Our Civilizational Crisis Part 2: Exporting Democracy

Part two (part one) of an article by Nafeez Ahmed on the history of imperial genocide follows, the subject of this article was the subject of recent public meeting, The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis.

The Hidden Holocaust--Our Civilizational Crisis Part 1: The Holocaust in History

Part one of an article by Nafeez Ahmed on the history of imperial genocide follows, the subject of this article was the subject of recent public meeting, The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis.

A veteran of the Great War remembers:

alice collins | 18-10-2007 17:56 | Anti-militarism | History | Sheffield

Sons of Paradise is new play about the fictional last surviver of WW1. He is offered a state funeral but feels his body is to used, as it was 90 years previously, for political ends.

An old Zionist dream: the partition of Iraq

Finally the Imperial Senate calls for Iraq's partition.

Sons of Paradise

alice | 26-09-2007 14:04 | Anti-militarism | History | Sheffield

'Sons of Paradise' is a new play based on characters who join the Sheffield Pals Battalion to fight in World War One.

Peter Tatchell: 9/11 – The big cover-up?

The following article was submitted to the Guardian's "Comment is Free" site by Peter Tatchell for 11th September 2007, they didn't run it, comment is not free in the mainstream media.

Guns and Butter: 9/11 Blueprint: The Architecture of Destruction

Interview with Bay Area architect Richard Gage, AIA, about the organization he has formed, "Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth". Outreach to architects and engineers; presentations to the public and to professionals; the physical evidence of controlled demolition of the World Trade Center twin towers and building seven. Visit his website at

http://ae911truth.org/ .

London Sound Posse presents:"Creating Terror: Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed"

Summary:
Education. Education. Education.
Erudite lecture from author and scholar Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed on the real source of "al qaeda" & the current wave of terror attacks. Surprises in store for those who haven't yet "woken up"

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 9

The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.

The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the ninth of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The last seminar has taken place and will be posted to the site when the audio is available.

This seminar, recorded on 15th May 2007 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 44 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.

The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:

A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.

Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.

Previous parts of this series:

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 2 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 4 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 5 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 6 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 7 | mp3 | doc
Empire as a Way of Life, Part 8 | mp3 | doc

The Deep State and 9/11

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