Visibility 911: A dozen Questons about Flight 77 from Kevin Ryan
Visibility911.com There are many questions to be answered about the events at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Here are a dozen such questions that, if answered, might help to bring about justice. Exactly how was Flight 77 hijacked, considering, among other things, that the alleged hijackers were said to be identified as security risks [...]
Pentagon backtracks after Gates ‘admits’ Blackwater operating in Pakistan
Daniel Tencer | RawStory.com The Pentagon has gone into damage control mode after Defense Secretary Robert Gates appeared to confirm that security contractor Blackwater is operating in Pakistan. The admission, quickly denied by Defense Department officials, has set fire to long-simmering rumors inside Pakistan about the involvement of for-profit contractors in the war against the Taliban. [...]
Obama Expands Federal Power Over the States with Executive Order
Kurt Nimmo | InfoWars.com Read the entire executive order here (in PDF format). Obama has issued another executive order, this time establishing a so-called “Council of Governors.” The order, signed on January 11, further diminishes the sovereignty of the states and builds on a framework for possible martial law. The executive order was completely ignored [...]
Obama asks for $1B to add to Army manpower
David Rogers | Politico.com The White House formally asked Congress late Thursday to shift at least $1 billion within next year’s defense budget to expand the Army’s active duty forces by another 15,000 troops in 2010. This would be the first installment toward Defense Secretary Robert Gates decision last month to seek 22,000 more active [...]
Microwave weapon will rain pain from the sky
David Hambling | NewScientist.com THE Pentagon’s enthusiasm for non-lethal crowd-control weapons appears to have stepped up a gear with its decision to develop a microwave pain-infliction system that can be fired from an aircraft. The device is an extension of its controversial Active Denial System, which uses microwaves to heat the surface of the skin, [...]
US lawmakers pass Pentagon budget, ignore veto threat
AFP | Yahoo.com Defying a possible presidential veto, the USHouse of Representatives on Thursday approved a 2010 defense spending bill that would continue to fund a weapons program targeted by the Obama administration. Lawmakers voted 389 to 22 to pass the 550.4-billion-dollar measure, despite veto warnings from the White House unless a provision to build more F-22 stealth jet fighters is [...]
Obama Orders Pentagon to “Rejuvenate Contingency Plans” for Iran Attack
PressTV.ir As Washington gets updates on Israeli plans to strike Iran, US President Barack Obama orders the Pentagon to rejuvenate contingency plans for the use of military in Iran. Despite the prospects of diplomatic engagement with Tehran over its nuclear program, Defense Secretary and Pentagon chief Robert Gates said Friday that the White House has [...]
Pentagon may have been ordered to cover up investigations, columnist says
David Edwards and Muriel Kane | RawStory.com Video @ RawStory.com Last year, The New York Times revealed the existence of a secret Pentagon program which used retired officers who served as military analysts on television news programs to disseminate Bush administration talking points. The Defense Department inspector general’s office issued a report this January attempting [...]
Obama’s new budget for military expense is just as large as it was under Bush. No change there, either.
Fred Kaplan | Slate.com Much remains unknown about the shape of President Barack Obama’s debut defense budget. Details won’t be announced—several key decisions won’t be made—until April. But from the broad numbers released this morning, two things seem clear: First, it is larger than it appears to be at first glance. Second, not counting the [...]
Senate confirms ex-lobbyist as Pentagon No. 2
Jim Wolf | GlobalResearch.ca The U.S. Senate approved William Lynn, a former Raytheon Co lobbyist, to be deputy secretary of defense after he received a special White House waiver from strict new rules meant to close a “revolving door” between government and big business. Lynn, the Pentagon’s chief financial officer from November 1997 to January 2001 [...]
Career Army Specialist sues Rumsfeld, Cheney, saying no evacuation order given on 9/11
Stephen C. Webster | RawStory.com A career Army specialist who survived the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, claims that no evacuation was ordered inside the Pentagon, despite flight controllers calling in warnings of approaching hijacked aircraft nearly 20 minutes before the building was struck. According to a time-line of the attacks, the Federal Aviation Administration [...]
Lloyde England & His Taxi Cab – The Eye Of The Storm
Pentacon.com This follow-up presentation to “The First Known Accomplice?” is a surreal, intense, and disturbing personal experience with the famous taxicab driver Lloyde England who claims his cab was hit by a light pole that was allegedly hit by the plane that allegedly hit the Pentagon on 9/11. The physical impossibility of Lloyde’s story is [...]
9/11 Truth in New Video About Bailout
The Corbett Report has created a new video explaining why people should be angry about more than just the proposed $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. One reason, of course, is the $2.3 trillion missing from the Pentagon the day before 9/11, when the Pentagon’s Budget Analyst Office was destroyed. Watch the video below:
U.S. pushing through dozens of foreign weapons deals
By Eric Lipton Published: September 14, 2008 WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is pushing through a broad array of foreign weapons deals as it seeks to re-arm Iraq and Afghanistan, contain North Korea and Iran, and solidify ties with onetime Russian allies. From tanks, helicopters and fighter jets to missiles, remotely piloted aircraft and even warships, [...]
David Ray Griffin Quotes Seattle 911 Truth
Tim Russert, Dick Cheney, and 9/11 During an informal interview in 2007, incidentally, Mineta reaffirmed that Cheney was already there when he arrived in the PEOC, saying “absolutely.” When he was told that the Commission had said that Cheney did not arrive until 9:58, Mineta expressed surprise and said: “Oh no, no, no; I don’t [...]
Pentagon Audit Faults Payments to Contractors in Iraq
International Herald Tribune.com A Pentagon audit of $8.2 billion in American taxpayer money spent by the U.S. Army on contractors in Iraq has found that almost none of the payments followed federal rules and that in some cases, contracts worth millions of dollars were paid despite little or no record of what, if anything, was [...]
Pentagon, TV Networks, Fear Debating Iraq Propaganda Scandal
John Stauber | Center For Media and Democracy This Sunday’s stunning, front-page New York Times revelations of the Pentagon military analyst program have been met with a wall of silence and cover-up on network television news. America’s TV networks — ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN and FOX — are where most Americans get most of their news, and they are the main culprits in allowing [...]
Lee Hamilton Confirms Norman Mineta’s Testimony?
Jon Gold | 911blogger.com As we all know, Norman Mineta’s testimony was never investigated or mentioned in the 9/11 Report. You would think that the “young man” that was involved in such an important moment during the 9/11 attacks would be named, and brought before the 9/11 Commission. He was not. This clip is from [...]
No Direct Link Between Sadaam and al Qaeda, End of Story.
ABC News | Jonathan Karl The Bush Administration apparently does not want a U.S. military study that found no direct connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda to get any attention. This morning, the Pentagon cancelled plans to send out a press release announcing the report’s release and will no longer make the report available online. [...]
