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Cheers, mate!In reply to this comment by geo321:
Well done.

It's a playlist of 11 parts. *long>> ^Trancecoach:

notlong length=6:48

It's actually a playlist that is over 50 minutes long.

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*notlong length=6:48

>> ^geo321:

Thanks ghark!
I think you might like this...
Chris Hedges & Amy Goodman on Charlie Rose on OWS (October 24, 2011)
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11961#http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hulu.com%2Ffeed%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3Damy%2Bgoodman%26sort_by%3Drelevance%26st%3D0

If you sift it I'll promote it...
yt part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACVHfGdR1c8
yt part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXvijFSI_a0
or
yt part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJHuZNi7oyQ
yt part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJSQ2baIGRE
In reply to this comment by ghark:
great find Geo321!



Oooh I watched those the other day, really good talk, I assumed it would already be sifted - I just sifted them now, very generous of you!

>> ^marinara:

quality
I love Robert Greenwald's stuff. Too bad he's a believer in the global warming sham science.


Thanks man!

*quality

I love Robert Greenwald's stuff. Too bad he's a believer in the global warming sham science.

From www.washingtonsblog.com:

... Dick Cheney was in charge of all counter-terrorism exercises, activities and responses on 9/11. See this Department of State announcement; this CNN article; and this essay.

In fact, 5 war games were scheduled for 9/11, including games that included the insertion of false radar blips onto air traffic contollers’ screens. Specifically, on the very morning of September 11th, five war games and terror drills were being conducted by several U.S. defense agencies, including one “live fly” exercise using REAL planes.

Then-Acting Head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force General Richard B. Myers, admitted to 4 of the war games in congressional testimony — see transcript here or http://www.spiegltech.com/media/McKinney2.rm">video here (6 minutes and 12 seconds into the video).

Norad had run drills for several years of planes being used as weapons against the World Trade Center and other U.S. high-profile buildings, and “numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft”. In other words, drills using REAL AIRCRAFT simulating terrorist attacks crashing jets into buildings, including the twin towers, were run. See also http://www.mdw.army.mil/news/news_photos/Contingency_Planning_Photos.html">official military website showing 2000 military drill, using miniatures, involving a plane crashing into the Pentagon.

Indeed, a former Los Angeles police department investigator, whose newsletter is read by 45 members of congress, both the house and senate intelligence committees, and professors at more than 40 universities around the world, claims that he obtained an on-the-record confirmation from NORAD that on 9/11, NORAD and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were conducting a joint, live-fly, hijack exercise which involved government-operated aircraft posing as hijacked airliners.

On September 11th, the government also happened to be running a simulation of a plane crashing into a building.

In addition, a December 9, 2001 Toronto Star article (pay-per-view; reprinted here), stated that “Operation Northern Vigilance is called off. Any simulated information, what’s known as an ‘inject,’ is purged from the screens”. This indicates that there were false radar blips inserted onto air traffic controllers’ screens as part of the war game exercises.

Moreover, there are indications that some of the major war games previously scheduled for October 2001 were moved up to September 11th by persons unknown.

Now here’s where it gets interesting … Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta testified to the 9/11 Commission:

“During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President … the plane is 50 miles out…the plane is 30 miles out….and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president “do the orders still stand?” And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said “Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!?”

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfdOwt2v3Y]

(this testimony is confirmed here and here).

So even if 9/11 wasn’t foreseeable before 9/11, it was foreseeable to Dick Cheney – who had been attacking democracy for nearly 40 years – as the plane was still 50 miles away from the Pentagon.

Must-read articles:

New York Times: Attorney General of N.Y. Is Said to Face Pressure on Bank Foreclosure Deal
Glenn Greenwald @ Salon: Obama administration takes tough stance on banks
Matt Taibbi @ Rolling Stone: Obama Goes All Out For Dirty Banker Deal
Yves Smith @ naked capitalism: Corrupt Obama Administration Pressuring New York Attorney General to Support Mortgage Whitewash

http://www.salon.com/news/wikileaks/?story=/opinion/greenwald/2011/04/23/manning

Greenwald said it better than I can and verbosely.

Whether or not Manning Broke the law or not shows that this president has neither the capacity nor the forethought to even state himself a Constitutional Lawyer.

While the presumption of innocence is not in the constitution it, has been, a long standing fundamental right of all people.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence

If the POTUS is passing his judgment so quickly then he is, as I have always suspected, a walking suit who cares not for the rights of the people.

If the President's pre-trial verdict had any real meaning, which it might given that Manning is under the UCMJ, the United States would be in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presumption_of_innocence#The_fundamental_right

It matters not what crime was committed everyone has the presumption of innocence, even the most egregious criminals. To say otherwise is to betray one's true moral standing, that of a fascist and a hypocrite.

Glenn Greenwald commented on it, elaborating on the three disturbing issues I mentioned yesterday as well.

Glen Greenwald on Rendition (which often results in torture). The president should not have the power to unilaterally render anyone foreign or domestic to another country for any reason.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/02/09/state_secrets

It is not the presidents place to strike down Habeas Corpus or reinstate it is left up to the SCOTUS to interpret whether the writ can be removed or not. How that relates to the consensus of the people I still don't understand.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2008/06/12/boumediene

Whether or not the Executive Branch actually abides by the writs of the constitution is another thing entirely. The branches can do whatever they wish until another branch or the people file complaint against them and the checks and balances actually take place.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2009/04/11/bagram

The above links and points are merely my interpretation of things evident during Obama's presidency they are wholly my opinion and therefore could be wrong. He inherited power and did not return it which is typical of any one holding the POTUS, and appears to be using that power (see any number of Greenwald's articles on Obama and Civil Liberties).

Everyone, all US citizens need to stop believing shit and actually use some critical thought. Belief without thorough review of evidence is faith, and faith is much more fallible than evidentiary claims. Even if those evidentiary claims are interpreted wrongly, which mine might be.

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:

Obama went into office with the intention of ending torture, restoring Habeas Corpus, ending the patriot act, ending the war in Iraq and creating public health care system.

My government decided to stay out of this mess for the time being, but just like the Turkish, they are already on the verge of joining the party. I was suprised -- and baffled, really -- by the enormous amount of pro-intervention articles by the media, both progressive and conservative, and the lack of hard information therein. The most commonly named reason for supporting the intervention was international standing and diplomatical reliability -- and they don't even realize what fucked up reasoning that truly is.

And the political odour of this entire activism by Sarkozy and Cameron, it just smells like the gents at the pub I was last week: both have serious domestic problems, so one can't help but think of Maggie Thatcher's eagerness about the Falkland War. Fukushima certainly didn't help those two either, both are strong proponents of nuclear power.

Laughland mentioned Kosovo. Remember how the war criminal Slobodan Milošević was removed from power by supporting the UÇK? What a merry band of democrats that was, Hashim Thaçi certainly is one hell of a posterchild. Carla Del Ponte, former prosecutor for the ICTY, published some very insightful articles about it over the years, but the ones I have at hand are in German. Despicable shit.

As for the intervention in Libya: Al Jazeera had some informative op-eds about it, eg. "The drawbacks of intervention in Libya" and "Libya intervention threatens the Arab spring". And, as usual, Greenwald: "The manipulative pro-war argument in Libya".

I had five more paragraphs of personal opinion, but I decided to remove that block of biased rambling.

Glenn Greenwald had a piece on the presidential authority last week.

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