From the second quotation, one might well be forgiven for assuming that the paper in question drew stronger conclusions than it actually did. In reality, it was far more reserved. Here are some further quotations qualifying the issue:

Despite the views expressed by the popular media, leading academics, and option market professionals, there is reason to question the decisiveness of the evidence that terrorists traded in the option market ahead of the September 11 attacks...

On the basis of the statements made about the links between option market activity and terrorism shortly after September 11, it would have been tempting to infer from this put-call ratio that terrorism probably was the cause of the November 12 crash. Subsequently, however, terrorism was all but ruled out...

[T]he article notes that the heaviest trading in the AMR options did not occur in the cheapest, shortest-dated puts, which would have provided the largest profits to someone who knew of the coming attacks. Furthermore, an analyst had issued a "sell" recommendation on AMR during the previous week, which may have led investors to buy AMR puts. Similarly, the stock price of UAL had recently declined enough to concern technical traders who may have increased their put buying, and UAL options are heavily traded by institutions hedging their stock positions. Finally, traders making markets in the options did not raise the ask price at the time the orders arrived as they would have if they believed that the orders were based on adverse nonpublic information.

the 9/11 Commission:

"A single U.S.-based institutional investor with no conceivable ties to al Qaeda purchased 95 percent of the UAL puts on September 6 as part of a trading strategy that also included buying 115,000 shares of American on September 10, the Commission said. Similarly, the Commission said, much of the seemingly suspicious trading in American on September 10 was traced to a specific U.S.-based options trading newsletter, faxed to its subscribers on Sunday, September 9, that recommended these trades"





article published in The Journal of Business in year 2006 provides with statistical claims of unusual option market activity days before 9/11:


" A measure of abnormal long put volume was also examined and seen to be at abnormally high levels in the days leading up to the attacks.
Consequently, the paper concludes that there is evidence of unusual option market activity in the days leading up to September 11 that is consistent with investors trading on advance knowledge of the attacks."

http://www.business.uiuc.edu/poteshma/research/poteshman2006.pdf

I think the comedy element comes from the fact they can't recall the month/year of the event, which is named by it's date. Especially because it's known as "September 11" just as much as 9/11.

I'll never forget this day mostly because it was the day global political accountability died and Dick Cheney got promoted to President.

Jerry Falwell, in his own words...

"The Bible is the inerrant... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc."

"There is no separation of church and state. Modern U.S. Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution."

"We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today... our battle is with Satan himself."

"You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops and I am for the President — chase them all over the world, if it takes ten years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord."

"Since Jesus came to the earth the first time 2,000 years ago as a Jewish male, many evangelicals believe the Antichrist will, by necessity, be a Jewish male. This belief is 2,000 years old and has no anti-Semitic roots. This is simply historic and prophetic orthodox Christian doctrine that many theologians, Christian and non-Christian, have understood for two millennia"

"Labor unions should study and read the Bible instead of asking for more money. When people get right with God, they are better workers."

"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve."

"The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this."
On responses to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

"Homosexuals want to come into churches and disrupt church services and throw blood all around and try to give people AIDS and spit in the face of ministers."

"If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being."

Ahem.

Let me break it down for you in ways you can understand. This goverment and this administration supports free market economies that support the free movement of labor. This is the administrations stance and it's the stance of both the Federal Reserve and Wall Street. This means that NO deportation of illegal immigrants will occur any time soon. Sorry, but American business interests outweigh the dissent voices of xenophobic people like you. Conservatives have noticed that new citizens even those who were previously considered illegal usually have conservative views in politics. So they are not willing to attack the issue vehemently. Bush fought to capture the immigrant vote.

Professor of Law Francine Lipman writes in a 2006 paper in the peer-reviewed journal Tax Lawyer of the American Bar Association Section of Taxation that the belief that undocumented migrants are exploiting the US economy and that they cost more in services than they contribute to the economy is "undeniably false". Lipman asserts that "undocumented immigrants actually contribute more to public coffers in taxes than they cost in social services" and "contribute to the U.S. economy through their investments and consumption of goods and services; filling of millions of essential worker positions resulting in subsidiary job creation, increased productivity and lower costs of goods and services; and unrequited contributions to Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance programs."

Furthermore regarding your issue with zee evil terrorists invading our shores via Mexico, it's best to know that:

Vice Chair Lee Hamilton and Commissioner Slade Gorton of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States has stated that of the nineteen hijackers of the September 11, 2001 attacks, "Two hijackers could have been denied admission at the port on entry based on violations of immigration rules governing terms of admission. Three hijackers violated the immigration laws after entry, one by failing to enroll in school as declared, and two by overstays of their terms of admission." Six months after the attack, their flight schools received posthumous visa approval letters from the INS for two of the hijackers, which made it clear that actual approval of the visas took place before the September 11 attacks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_United_States#Impact

But don't delude yourself thinking that is something its not.

I put it in this collective primarily for the images used in this video.

It features the band performing in the desert, while reflecting on a variety of social issues including stem cell research, pollution, global warming, racism, Nazism, famine, wars, deforestation, drug addiction, obesity, destruction, and other crimes committed by humanity. The video also features short views of important historical figures, such as Mother Teresa, Buddha, Fidel Castro and Mahatma Gandhi.

Notable clips from the video
Adolf Hitler
Auschwitz concentration camp
Buddha
Benito Mussolini
Citizens of the world's least developed countries.
Fidel Castro
Josef Stalin
Ku Klux Klan
Lincoln Memorial
Civil Rights Demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama
Mother Teresa
Mahatma Gandhi
Mao Zedong
Nuclear testing
Pollution and global warming clips
The Egyptian Pyramids
Saddam Hussein
Sultan Ahmed Mosque
The Vitruvian Man
The September 11 terror attacks
John F. Kennedy

Tags changed from "conspiracy, skepticism" to "conspiracy, skepticism,september 11 2001" by gold star member Fedquip.

No justiianrex, "choking the bowl" means clogging the toilet....The toilet, that incidentally, is ALL network media in this fucking country.....and it is becoming more like youtube every day......

Real news in this day and age, should be every man, woman, and child's commission to report. The only way to get information that is not tainted by an agenda, devolutioary thinking, or big money......

You folks think you know a story, because you hear it from so many sources, sucking on the same teat???? Wake up and kill yer television, you been hoodwinked!!!!

Oh yeah and 3 buildings came down free-fall in New York City on September 11, 2001, because of debris and fire......

"Never underestimate, the predictability of stupidity."
Bullet-toothed Tony,- "Snatch"

theo - I stood, I watched it happen.

I watched as my friends, as my clients, as my coworkers, died.

I don't "buy assertions" but I do know what happened. For the next two weeks after it happened, I tried to supply as many of the volunteers, military, and contractors with supplies, as I could.

But, on the first day I was there - on September 11 - there was no reason for WTC 7 to fall - other buildings that were closer - others that had literally had tons of wreckage fall on them, and burn, did not fall.

One of them, we used as a makeshift NYPD station, even - one that was closer than WTC 7. Noone - not the NYPD, not the FDNY, expected it to fall, even though it was burning for the better part of one week after, in certain parts - but WTC7 fell the same day, and I was in there an hour before it did fall. I didn't see any fires, and I had to walk through the basement and first floors of it to try to shut the power off.

I don't know what happened, but I know what didn't. I know that WTC7 was not brought down by fire alone, and I know that it takes weeks to plant explosives for demolition - just to plant them. To plan where those explosives should be placed takes even longer. I learned that from having been in the U.S. Army, myself.

As that is the case, and any fires could not have brought down WTC7, as I was in it, prior, well then, any explosives in that building must have been planted prior to 9/11.

And that means that someone destroyed it, intentionally.

And that's why I'm interested - no "conspiracy" involved.

This has to be one of the finest things ever staged for the sake of Shiva.....Oh, and look, it fell in a convenient little pile, straight down, like all good implosions should, oh and those other 3 buildings that happened to all do this on the same day in New York City, September 11, 2001, because they were on fire.........
(that last little reminder courtesy of one motherfucker, who does not buy the bill of goods sold to monkies and sheeple, Goyim and putties....)

The American goverment would like us to believe that 9/11 was a result of massive inter-agency intelligence failure regarding the threat of a terrorist attack on US soil. The American goverment would also like for you to believe that despite the given massive intelligence failure, the entire cause and nature of the attack was worked out in a mere 72 hours of investigation. Primarily because of one key piece of evidence that implicated everyone else in the plot.

"# FBI Director Robert Mueller insisted officials had no idea this kind of attack could happen when in fact the FBI had been investigating the possibility of EXACTLY this kind of attack for almost TEN YEARS. Numerous previous attempts at using planes as weapons, intimate knowledge of terror plans called Project Bojinka, and knowledge of suspicious characters attending flight schools who were being monitored by the FBI make his utterance a clear lie on its face.

In the weeks before 9/11, the U.S. received warnings from all over the world that an event just like this was about to happen, but FBI investigations into suspected terrorists were suppressed and those warnings were deliberately disregarded.

# The names of the alleged hijackers, all ostensibly Muslims, were released to the public only hours after the attacks, despite Mueller saying we had no knowledge this would happen. This is an impossible twist of logic. If he didn't know of a plan to strike buildings with planes, how would he know the names of the hijackers? Various artifacts were discovered in strategic places to try to confirm the government's story, but these have all been dismissed as suspicious planting of evidence. Since that time several names on that list have turned up alive and well, living in Arab countries. Yet no attempt has ever been made to update the list. And why were none of these names on the airlines' passenger lists?"

# The Patriot Act was presented in the days after the tragedy supposedly as a response to it, yet it was clear that this heinous act, drafted to nullify provisions for freedom in the U.S. Constitution, was put together long before 9/11. In addition, testimony by Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) revealed that most members of Congress were compelled to vote for the bill without even reading it. This was a vote to eliminate the Constitutional Bill of Rights, which has defined American freedom for 200 years, and it was accomplished when legislators voted for the bill without even reading it.

# The invasion of Afghanistan was presented as an attempt to pursue the alleged perpetrators of 9/11, yet it had been discussed for years prior to the tragedy and actually planned in the months before the attacks on New York and Washington. Statements by Zbigniew Brzezinski and the Republican-written Project for a New American Century have stressed that America needed a formidable enemy to accomplish its aggressive geopolitical aims. The supposed enemy we attacked in Afghanistan was a diverse group of men from all over the world who were initially recruited, encouraged and supported by the American CIA.

http://www.serendipity.li/wot/911_a_hoax.htm

"In 1992 Rick Rescorla warned the Port Authority (owner of the World Trade Center) about the possibility of a truck bomb attack on the pillars in the basement parking garage, but was ignored. When Islamist terrorists used this method in the 1993 attack, Rescorla was instrumental in evacuating the building, and was literally the last man out. He and Dan Hill then prepared a report that warned of another attack, this time from a commercial aircraft crashing into the complex, but he was again ignored.

Rescorla recommended to his superiors at Morgan Stanley that the company leave Manhattan. Office space and labor costs were lower in New Jersey, and the firm's employees and equipment would be safer in a proposed four-story building. However, this recommendation was not followed as the company's lease at the World Trade Center did not terminate until 2006. At Rescorla’s insistence, all employees, including senior executives, then practiced emergency evacuations every three months."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rescorla

* Who benefited from the suspiciously high numbers of put options purchased prior to September 11 for shares in companies whose stock prices subsequently plummeted, on the supposition that whoever was behind the hijacking was also behind most of the purchases of these put options? And what was the role of the new executive director of the CIA, Buzzy Krongard, who handled these transactions?

* Why was the debris from the collapsed Twin Towers removed from the site with no forensic examination? Why was almost all of it sold to scrap merchants and shipped abroad where it would not be available for scientific examination?

* Why does the government refuse to release any transcripts of communications or any records at all relating to signals of any form transmitted by those jets?

* Why do all the major U.S. media continue to act as if none of these questions is legitimate or relevant?

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

Sorry to re-open an already discussed topic (I missed the Saddam discussion). All I was doing was promoting an event on the anniversary (or close to it), and felt it was important. If we pull Challenger, what's next? Pearl Harbor? September 11? People died in these vids as well, but since it's not shown implicitly I thought it was OK.

Born as Dolgorsuren Dagvadorj on September 27, 1980 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, Asashoryu is the first sumo wrestler (rikishi) from Mongolia to reach the rank of yokozuna, the highest sumo rank. After his debut in 1999, it took Asashoryu only 24 tournaments to win his first top division championship, the quickest achievement of this since the sport adopted its current format of six championships a year in 1958. He is also currently (as of 2007) the only active yokozuna and is considered one of the greatest sumo wrestlers in history.

Unlike his Hawaiian predecessors Akebono and Musashimaru, Asashoryu was relatively lightweight at 129 kg in 2001, he began bulking up to 131 kg in 2002, 140 kg by 2004, and is now about 148 kg (326 pounds), right on average. He has successfully relied on speed and technique to compete against his, often much heavier, opponents, though lately he has begun confronting those opponents head on with the intention of out-muscling them. His lightning speed has suffered somewhat with the extra weight though he is still a lot faster than most of his opponents. He famously dumped the 158 kg Kotomitsuki with a "lifting body slam" (tsuriotoshi), a feat of tremendous strength, normally accomplished on much smaller and weaker opponents.

On January 30, 2003 Asashoryu was granted the title of yokozuna, the highest rank in sumo. While his first championship as yokozuna ended in a disappointing 10-5 record, he has since won a total of eighteen tournaments. Combined with his two yusho as an Ozeki, he has twenty career championships. The highlights of his career to date include two consecutive perfect 15-0 tournament wins (zensho yusho) in January and March of 2004 with a streak of 35 unbeaten bouts in total. Nobody had attained zensho yusho since 1996; yet Asashoryu has gone on to add three more such titles since 2004, for an impressive career total of five. On November 27, 2004, Asashoryu became the first wrestler to win five tournaments in a year since Chiyonofuji achieved the feat 18 years ago, and won his ninth Emperor's Cup.

He continued to dominate Sumo in 2005, winning all six honbasho (sumo tournaments) and losing only six bouts all year (0-1-0-2-2-1). One of those rare losses came on September 11, 2005 at the start of the Aki Basho when he dropped his first Shonichi (Day 1) bout during his tenure as Yokozuna. On November 26, 2005 a visibly emotional Asashoryu wept after winning his eighty-third bout of the year (a new record) and clinching the tournament at the same time. The six victories of 2005 combined with his victory from the final tournament of 2004 has set a new record run of seven consecutive tournament victories, including two more 15-0 wins in January and May of 2005. The great Yokozuna Taih_ Koki achieved the feat of six consecutive tournament victories twice, but never in a calendar year. Asashoryu now stands alone with seven, cementing his place as one of the best ever. As of January 20th, 2007 Asashoryu has posted a 13-1 record, thus capturing his 20th career title, and fourth straight since returning from injury. Many believe he will go on to break the record of 32 tournament wins held by Taiho Koki.

Asashoryu has been criticized for infractions of the strict code of conduct expected of top sumo wrestlers. The most severe of his transgressions was his disqualification in the July tournament in 2003. He pulled on Kyokushuzan's mage (traditional Japanese top knot) during their bout on Day 5 of the tournament, resulting in an immediate hansoku-make, or disqualification. This caused a furor among Japanese fans, who already had a distaste for the foreign yokozuna. Some irate fans even called him a cheat ("hansoku") during the weeks and months following this act. His other divergences from the norm include being photographed in a suit (instead of a traditional Japanese costume), complaining to judges after losing a decision, and refusing to adopt Japanese citizenship. He has also been accused of breaking the mirror of a rival's car.

News from Al-Jazeera English, recorded at 20:00 hrs on January 11, 2007. Reaction to George Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, Afghanistan events, Bangladesh events, intervention in Somalia.

Al Jazeera (Arabic: الجزيرة‎, meaning "The Island", is a television network headquartered in Doha, Qatar. Al Jazeera initially launched as an Arabic news and current affairs satellite TV channel of the same name, but has since expanded into a network of several specialty TV channels.

The original Al Jazeera channel's willingness to broadcast dissenting views, including on call-in shows, created controversies in autocratic Arab Gulf States. The station gained worldwide attention following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when it broadcast video statements by Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders.

In 1999, New York Times reporter Thomas L. Friedman called Al-Jazeera "the freest, most widely watched TV network in the Arab world." The station first gained widespread attention in the west following the September 11, 2001 attacks, when it broadcast videos in which Osama bin Laden and Sulaiman Abu Ghaith defended and justified the attacks. This led to criticism by the United States government that Al Jazeera was engaging in propaganda on behalf of terrorists. Al Jazeera countered that it was merely making information available without comment, and indeed several western television channels later followed suit in broadcasting portions of the tapes.

On 25 March 2003, two of its reporters covering the New York Stock Exchange had their credentials revoked. NYSE spokesman Ray Pellechia claimed "security reasons" and that the exchange had decided to give access only to networks that focus "on responsible business coverage". He denied the revocation has anything to do with the network's Iraq war coverage.

While prior to September 11th, 2001, the United States government lauded Al Jazeera for its role as an independent media outlet in the Middle East, US spokespersons have since claimed an "anti-American bias" to Al Jazeera's news coverage. In 2004 the competing Arabic-language satellite TV station Al Hurra was launched, funded by the U.S. government.

On January 30, 2005 the New York Times reported that the Qatari government, under pressure from the Bush administration, was speeding up plans to sell the station.

On November 22, 2005, the UK tabloid The Daily Mirror published a story claiming that it had obtained a leaked memo from 10 Downing Street saying that U.S. President George W. Bush had considered bombing Al Jazeera's Doha headquarters in April 2004, when U.S. Marines were conducting a contentious assault on Fallujah.

In light of this allegation, Al Jazeera has questioned whether it has been targeted deliberately in the past — Al Jazeera's Kabul office was bombed in 2001 and a missile hit its office in Baghdad during the invasion of Iraq, killing correspondent Tariq Ayoub. Both of these attacks occurred despite Al Jazeera's provision of the locations of their offices to the United States.

Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al Hajj was detained while in transit to Afghanistan as an "enemy combatant" in December 2001, and is now held without charge in Camp Delta at Guantánamo Bay.

- More @ <ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_jazeera">Wikipedia. http://english.aljazeera.net/News.

Here's the Audio for the Spot....."On September 11, 2001, The United States was faced with a dillemma: "How do we stop an enemy that came from a country, that hasn't had a middle ages, that we have armed to the teeth and let in our backdoor through blind inattention to citizenship laws and leniency, and still remain true to the ideals and principals of our Forefathers? "We Can't!" So the next best thing, is more diversion in the form of meaningless scheduled elections, race-baiting to stir up dissent amoung the citizenry, and plenty of organized sports and low gas prices, to insure that we can keep the attention whwre it really needs to be, and away from us, the ones who can'not be named.
....rest assured, as soon as it looks like "you the people" are on to us....we'all will create yet another diversion for your apparatus, and for our amusement.
Now, Get out and Vote! What??! Are you un-American???