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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Mourning News

Posted by on Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:00 AM

The ninth death at Guantanamo: The name has yet to be released, but he was allegedly a prisoner with "a record of disciplinary infractions." Two of the previous Guantanamo deaths were said to be from natural causes, the rest suicides.

Three of those suicides were supposedly protesting the very idea that the US government could perpetually detain someone without any legal cause or process. (Fuck the "moral hazard" of forgiving student debt that we debated in yesterday's Morning News comments thread—let's talk about the moral hazard of democracies indulging in perpetual detention.) Anyway, we don't know how he died yet. An autopsy is scheduled. We also don't know how many people are detained at Guantanamo, but reporters guess around 167.

Speaking of student debt: "Consumer debt declines, even as student loans grow."

It's 9/11: "Both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney plan to take down their negative ads in honor of the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Neither planned to appear at overtly political events, although Election Day is never far from their agendas."

Speaking of 9/11: "It was perhaps the most famous presidential briefing in history... On Aug. 6, 2001, President George W. Bush received a classified review of the threats posed by Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, Al Qaeda... The CIA prepared an analysis that all but pleaded with the White House to accept that the danger from Bin Laden was real." So... all that talk about how our security apparatus failed to predict the attacks—necessitating the creation of the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, etc.—wasn't actually true? Huh. Weird.

The Chicago teachers' strike goes national: LA teachers' unions have some of the same issues (whether they should be held responsible for failing schools) and, as the LA Times notes: "The walkout happens at an inconvenient place and time for Obama — his hometown eight weeks before election day. His former chief of staff, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is leading the standoff with teachers. These factors ensure the president will be under pressure to weigh in, which could put him in the position of having to pick sides between his former top aide and a key Democratic constituency."

Seattle-Chicago train was zero percent on time in July: We really need a better nationwide passenger rail system.

Seattle's city council reaches a tentative arena deal: "The deal, sources say, addresses objections by the Port of Seattle [see Goldy's thoughts about that here] and manufacturing interests, who complained that traffic generated by an arena would choke already clogged Sodo streets, jeopardizing maritime industries and jobs. 'This may be the deal that gets us to where we need to be,' said Dave Gering, head of the Manufacturing Industrial Council, which represents 60 businesses in Sodo, including the Port of Seattle and BNSF Railway."

The "A" word hits Broadway: "THE ANARCHIST, a new play written and directed by David Mamet starring Patti LuPone and Debra Winger, will be presented on Broadway at the newly refurbished Golden Theatre (252 West 45th Street)... One woman has been put away for life, and the other is making sure she stays there in the world premiere of this explosive new play by David Mamet." Mamet (the world's only chest-thumpingly conservative playwright) on an imprisoned American anarchist? I cannot fucking wait to read that script.

Why aren't there more black ballet dancers? A British dance critic thinks about it.

Etymology of the day: "Conspire," and "conspiracy," come from the Latin "to breathe together."

Speaking of breathing together: Here is an oddly beautiful and provocative bit of French radicalism, Et la guerre est à peine commencée... It is technically by "anonymous," but is tied to Tiqqun, a French philosophical journal that was started in 1999 and dissolved just after the 9/11 attacks.

 

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matt 1
Keep yr volume low on that video, friend.
Posted by matt on September 11, 2012 at 8:17 AM
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe 2
Ryan Reynolds married...is that a day of mourning for the SLOG community?
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe http://www.you-read-it-here-first.com on September 11, 2012 at 8:45 AM
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thanks for putting effort into the morning news
Posted by Swearengen on September 11, 2012 at 8:50 AM
biffp 4
@1, video doesn't work after thar ear-splitting ad.

@2, Canadians rule - other than the 9/11 movie they had on CBC Friday about Newfies feeding people on the grounded planes after the attack. Way to make it about you Canada. Can't believe that was made and/or aired.
Posted by biffp on September 11, 2012 at 9:52 AM
Sir Vic 5
@3 Grow up.
Posted by Sir Vic on September 11, 2012 at 10:01 AM
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The Facts Remembered


When the BCCI investigation reached closer to President Geo. H.W. Bush's White House back in the late '80s, early '90s, Bush appointed Robert Mueller III to be the chief of the DOJ's Criminal Division to manage the BCCI probe --- or more accurately, to deflect it away from the Bush administration and narrow the scope of the investigation.

Four days prior to 9/11/01, President Geo. W. Bush appoints Robert Mueller III to be director of the FBI -- perfect timing and what a pedigree Mueller possesses.*

One day prior to 9/11/01, the Pentagon's comptroller announces that $2.3 trillion cannot be accounted for.**

Six to seven hours prior to the events of that 9/11 morning, sometime between 2:00 AM and 3:00 AM (EST) a group email is transmitted to the DIA's financial management staff to attend an emergency meeting that very morning at their Pentagon offices --- located at the Pentagon's west wall. One staff member will fortuitously oversleep, viewing the email late and consequently arrive late -- just in time to view from afar the plane crashing into the super-reinforced west wall, severely injuring or killing almost the entire financial management group of the DIA, and those computer systems involved with discovering said missing funds; apparently data backups aren't the order of the day?

That very same morning on 9/11/01, the National Reconnaissance Office's (NRO) ops center would be evacuated due to an exercise simulating an attack by suicide aircraft flying into that facility. (Sound vaguely familiar?) Therefore, no one was on hand to manually task their recon satellites on the airspace above NYC and the Pentagon.

Thanks to further expansion of the Web over the Internet (2003 - 2005), cached pages of dramatically increased data transmission and EFTs, originating from three firms residing in the two WTC towers to offshore locations, could be accessed.

Shortly after 9/2001, in early 2002, an explosive growth occurs in offshore hedge funds.

Background research on those unfortunate passengers aboard the involved airliners (victims who were certain to die that day) indicated that some of the pax fall into three unique groups, along with three unique individuals aboard.

The three groups: (1) developers of remote piloting hardware and software; (2) individuals involved in the creation of a terrorist scenario remarkably similar to that which occurred on 9/11/01 (among that group of victims was an Israeli counterterrorist expert and one of the airliners' pilots, a former career Naval officer); and, (3) some of the individuals involved with the investigation into Flight 800's demise.

The three individuals: (1) wife number three of the solicitor general, who would quickly move on to wife number four once the insurance settlement came through (death by opportunity?); (2) a lady attorney, rumored to be involved with a senior married partner of the conservative and politically-connected law firm which successfully defended Fox News on several cases of fictionalizing the news (death by opportunity?); and, (3) a physicist with the Naval Surface Warfare Center's Directed Energy Section.

[We are not suggesting any of these victims were aware of the events to transpire on 9/11 --- this appears to be a highly compartmentalized operation.]

Intensive pattern analysis, link analysis, and link and group analysis indicates the five principal players involved: the Blackstone Group, Veritas Capital, AIG, the office of the VP, and the office of the SecDef.

Some time prior to 9/11/01, a financial news announcement would explain an investment by AIG in the Blackstone Group (source document of transaction, along with hard copy source documents of thousands of ongoing SEC investigations resided in the destroyed WTC Building 7 – no source docs, case closed!). The amount of AIG’s investment was approximately the final insurance payout amount to the property management/RE firm for the WTC destruction (classic paper money false transfer and money laundering scheme, relatively simple --- for a far more circuitous, and commonplace, accounting scheme, please see Retirement Heist, by Ellen Schultz, p. 209 on “leveraged ESOPs”).

The mortgage owner of record for WTC Building 7: the Blackstone Group.

The firm awarded the $1 billion captive insurance fund management contract by Bush’s FEMA, for settlement with WTC victims’ families: the Blackstone Group.

The firm which negotiated the largest and quickest real estate deal in NYC history, the WTC lease transfer from the Port Authority of NY and NJ to Silverstein Properties and Westfield America, Inc.: the Blackstone Group.

During the week prior to 9/11/01, the fiber optic installation firm, EurekaGGN, installed dark fiber in the top floors of the two WTC towers (they had the contract for cabling the entire WTC), utilizing a method to pump the fiber optical cables through existing HVAC vents running beneath each floor.

[To reiterate: the west wall of the Pentagon had been reinforced, according to Structure Magazine, which also posed the question as to why only one wall and a plane crashes into it. Fiber optic is being installed, but never verified as to being operational, in the WTC towers, and planes crash into them --- access, access, access!]

Technical details not widely known: two of the four airliners involved didn’t appear on the FAA Flight Registry which logs all commercial flights, per standard procedure, as they were reserved as DoD Special Charters, meaning that each plane must seat those reserved for DoD personnel, and must depart at the schedule time, but any remaining seats may be filled commercially.

Aircraft pointedly flew to shadow zones – where radar coverage was obscured due to topography and ATCC limitations – where the transponders were then powered down – normally, they would have triggered ATCC radar indicators. Highly doubtful those Saudi Arabian hijacker cutouts would have known these recondite details; and recovered black box data, obtained through FOIA requests, give no indication of any hijacking taking place (and yes, there does exist a governmental database of black box hijacking data for comparison purposes).

There were over 1,000 other “coincidences” which took place that morning, all tracking back to the five principal players.

Recap: $2.3 trillion announced unaccounted, and DIA’s financial management group is almost entirely wiped out, along with involved computer systems, dramatically increased data transmissions and EFTs out of WTC towers in preceding 12 hours, and people and computer systems involved are killed and destroyed, with explosive growth in offshore hedge funds occurring shortly thereafter.

Veritas Capital, purchaser and owner of former Raytheon subsidiary which employed those remote piloting hardware and software developers and subcontractors aboard some of those airliners involved in 9/11, and Veritas Capital makes some incredibly prescient defense industry investments shortly prior to 9/11/01.

[Containment process: Immediately after the first Anthrax attack, DynCorp's Dynport Vaccine Company was awarded an Anthrax government contract -- therefore any possible future investigation would logically turn up Anthrax. Dynport Vaccine Company was located right by Ft. Detrick, probably point of origin of weaponized Anthrax, but Detrick didn't possess the required lab equipment to weaponize, while Dynport did. (Dynport was owned by DynCorp, government contractor and private military company, later cited for human trafficking crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq -- and was purchased by Veritas Capital, and later sold.)

Recovered disk drives in WTC Towers were strangely -- given their classified and sensitive nature -- sent overseas to a German data recovery firm, Convar, recently purchased by Kroll (and not to the NSA as one would obviously assume???). A spokesman for Convar publicly stated that some data had been recovered, but said data and drives were delivered to the FBI HQ in D.C., where they promptly disappeared.]

*Robert Mueller III, FBI director, is the grandnephew of Richard Bissell, one of the three top CIA types who President Kennedy fired. Mueller’s wife is the granddaughter of Charles Cabell, another of those three CIA people JFK had fired (the third was Allen Dulles, who would later manage the Warren Commission!

**
http://www.financial-edu.com/history-of-…

2002-Rise of Hedge Funds: Number of funds increases from 4000 in 2002 managing $2 trillion to 8000+ managing $4 trillion. This creates intense demand for new structured products with higher yields.
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Posted by sgt_doom on September 11, 2012 at 10:27 AM
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@6 TL;DR
Posted by madcap on September 11, 2012 at 10:34 AM
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Hopefully, Obama and his team are smart enough by to weigh in on the Chicao teachers' strike. The best he can say is that he hopes the parties come to a mutual agreement soon, and then sidestep it with some abstract words about supporting teachers throughout the nation, and helping keep schools funded.

Meanwhile, Romney will continue to try to portray Obama as taking the union's side (as opposed to the Chicago government allegedly filled with Obama's corrupt political goons, but cognitive dissonance has not been a problem for Republicans of late). Because if there's one thing the Republicans stand for, it's making all local issues national.
Posted by madcap on September 11, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Will in Seattle 9
@4 grow up.

Nobody cares what Comrade Mitt says, @8.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on September 11, 2012 at 10:56 AM
biffp 10
@9 shut up. black flag operation, whatever.
Posted by biffp on September 11, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Bauhaus I 11
Mourning is right. Saddest (and most horrific) day in my lifetime. And I'm still a little afraid to go anywhere public on this day. Maybe...just maybe....those who would consider doing something like this in the future will take note and realize that this brought about a great deal more ill-will towards the attackers than satisfied some revenge fantasy.

To all the families - peace on Earth, everyone and everywhere.
Posted by Bauhaus I on September 11, 2012 at 12:32 PM
Ipso Facto 12
Thanks for doing the news today Brendan!
Posted by Ipso Facto http://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/voterocky/pages/602/attachments/original/1348622109/fbcomic_copy.png?1348622109 on September 11, 2012 at 2:14 PM
Free Lunch 13
The train from Seattle to Chicago takes 48 hours. How concerned with punctuality can these passengers be?
Posted by Free Lunch on September 11, 2012 at 3:29 PM
venomlash 14
@8: Nice prediction. The President did just that. +10 Internets to you.
Posted by venomlash on September 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM

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