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BuzzFlash Review:
The Five Unanswered Questions About 9/11
What the 9/11 Commission Report Failed to Tell Us
by James Ridgeway

In essence, the 9/11 Commission was a set-up job to protect those responsible for not making a serious effort to stop 9/11 from happening; it was not a Commission that was empowered to go wherever the truth took it. In fact, it set up as one of its primary goals not to “point fingers at” anyone for the failures that led to 9/11 or hold anyone responsible. The Commission was very clear about this: “Our aim has not been to assign individual blame.”

So, the Bush Administration has used the 9/11 Commission as a convenient tool to absolve the White House of any malfeasance in letting 9/11 happen. But, as BuzzFlash has noted ad nauseam, Bush and Rice were notified in August of 2001 of imminent likely Al Qaeda hijackings in the United States. And they did nothing — we repeat, once again — nothing to prevent such hijackings from occurring. If they had acted (instead of Bush going off on a month-long vacation), then 9/11 might have indeed been prevented from occurring.

TNS Weekend
December 4, 2005

Media Analysis:
Corporate Journalists View Economy Through Bosses’ Lenses

by Brian Dominick

You could barely turn a page or channel last week without hearing some pundit disguised as a reporter or anchorperson beaming about how great the US economy is doing this holiday season. Indeed, recent indicators have offered a delightful early Christmas present to the privileged classes, who define economic health according to corporate profits and volumes traded in various markets.
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The 9-11 Public Discourse Project site is a resource for follow-up on the “official story” of 9-11 including links to the Kean Commision report and related documents.

The ten members of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (known as the 9-11 Commission) have initiated a nationwide public education campaign for the purpose of making America safer and more secure. In so doing, the commissioners will give people throughout America the opportunity to participate in a debate that has been limited largely to those inside the Washington Beltway.

BuzzFlash has excerpts from Ultimate Sacrifice by Thom Hartmann and Lamar Waldron.

Seventeen years ago, Thom Hartmann and I [Lamar Waldron] began writing a book about the battles of President Kennedy and his brother, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, against the Mafia and Fidel Castro. Drawing on new information and exclusive interviews with those who worked with the Kennedys, in addition to thousands of recently declassified files, we discovered that John and Robert Kennedy had devised and were executing a secret plan to overthrow Fidel Castro on December 1, 1963.

In response to feedback from the grass/netroots, we made some phone calls about placing billboards in locations with greater traffic (ie. Cincinnati). Then this morning, we got a call from Lamar Advertising’s Cincinnati district informing us, “I don’t like negative ads.” It wasn’t any more than twenty minutes later that the phone rang again, this time it was Lamar’s district office responsible for the ad in Portsmouth, Ohio. The message? They were going to deny placement of the billboard because the content was negative. Kos item.

Note Lamar was owned by Clear Channel until after the DoJ demanded divestiture in 2000. There are still plenty of Clear Channel billboards in the Chicago area keeping the discourse nice and safe.