After years of pretending World Trade Center Seven never existed and never collapsed, the BBC headlines an article 9/11 third tower mystery ’solved’. As is typical of 9/11 white-washers, they allow some 9/11-truth-seeker ideas:
-the super-efficient removal and melting-down of debris before it could be investigated
-WTC 7’s occupation by several secretive federal agencies
-unprecedented collapse of a steel-framed structure because of fire (which can’t melt steel)
-the sudden, violent, uniform collapse
-WTC 7’s omission from 9/11 Commission Report

The revelation by so-called ‘experts investigating the collapse’ seems to be nothing more than a reassertion of the boilerplate explanation that fire weakened the steel structure and caused the building’s collapse.

As noted on georgewashington.blogspot.com, this explanation is refutable in one sentence:

Partly EVAPORATED Steel Beams Were Found At WTC 7, but normal office and diesel fires are not nearly hot enough to evaporate steel. (See NY Times article)

Nor does the BBC’s sudden acknowledgment of WTC 7’s collapse explain or even acknowledge their reporting of WTC 7’s collapse BEFORE it happened. Let me say that again: They reported the collapse of WTC 7 BEFORE it happened.

The reassertion of fire causing the collapse also contradicts Larry Silverstein’s infamous pull it remark.

So, you see, the big holes in the official story are still agape, despite BBC’s claim that “the definitive official explanation of what happened to Tower Seven is finally about to be published in America.” We will judge its definitiveness ourselves, thank you.

“Last week, Michael Reagan outrageously called for the murder of 9/11 truth activists and specifically Mark Dice. On Reagan’s nationally syndicated radio show he told more than four million daily listeners, ‘I will pay for the bullets’ to murder truth activists. Later during his rant he said, ‘How about you take Mark Dice out, and put him in the middle of the firing range. Tie him to a post, don’t blindfold him, let it rip and have some fun with Mark Dice.’ After a conciliatory interview with Mark Dice yesterday, Reagan failed to retract his order for listeners to shoot truth activists or Mark Dice.”

Read more from nationalexpositor.com

SEE ALSO:
-Canadian MP Libby Davies reads 9/11 petition in Parliament
-Truth Rising, part 1

This great webpage shows the heartbreaking lies and deceptions that occurred around the Great Depression. News is written by wolves for consumption by sheep.

“We will not have any more crashes in our time.”
- John Maynard Keynes in 1927

“There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.”
- Irving Fisher, leading U.S. economist , New York Times, Sept. 5, 1929

“This crash is not going to have much effect on business.”
- Arthur Reynolds, Chairman of Continental Illinois Bank of Chicago, October 24, 1929

“The Wall Street crash doesn’t mean that there will be any general or serious business depression… ”
- Business Week, November 2, 1929

“Stabilization at [present] levels is clearly possible.”
- Harvard Economic Society Oct 31, 1931

“All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed… and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.”
- President F.D. Roosevelt, 1933

Read more from gold-eagle.com

-Recession is “mental” and America is a “nation of whiners.” Everything is fine, and patriots do not question what Television tells them!

-Raise retirement age to 70. For the good of the state, those who can work must work!

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The wife of McCain’s economic adviser is a rich former Enron executive, and proud of it.

Yahoo News: Rivals hide immigration similarities

I agree with this post on campaignforliberty.com:

“McCain and Obama basically agree on immigration, says an amazed Yahoo. What’s the big surprise? They basically agree on monetary policy, fiscal policy (John 100-Years-In-Iraq-Is-A-OK McCain is not credible here), global warming, and much more. Even foreign policy doesn’t really separate the candidates: Obama gives us a lot of boilerplate about how this is no time to retreat into ‘isolationism,’ etc., and has grown hawkish on Iran.

This is why third parties can never be allowed into the debates: the game would be up when the two ‘major’ candidates were shown up for the clones they always are. (Oh, and did I say ‘third’ party? A second party would be a good start.)”

“The Telegraph has learned that the former president’s rage is still so great that even loyal allies are shocked by his patronizing attitude to Mr Obama, and believe that he risks damaging his own reputation by his intransigence.” (read more at telegraph.co.uk)

I’ve always resented the popular appeal enjoyed by this draft-dodging womanizer. Few people seem to notice stories like this one, where he shows he true colors. For a real troubling look at his early political career, and a body count of Clinton lovers, associates, bodyguards, etc., see The Clinton Chronicles.

Read more at ynetnews.com.

Netanyahu will do anything*** for peace.

(*** except end the military occupation of Arab lands, or impede their continued colonization)

Happy 4th of July.

A few years ago, Congressman Ron Paul wrote this brief essay clarifying some of George Orwell’s “meaningless words.” My paraphrase:

Freedom: The absence of government coercion. Our Founding Fathers understood this, and created the least coercive government in the history of the world. The Constitution established a very limited, decentralized government to provide national defense and little else. All government action is inherently coercive. If nothing else, government action requires taxes.

Democracy: The word “democracy” is found neither in the Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, a tyranny of the majority, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. James Madison: “[under a democratic government] there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual.” John Adams argued that democracies merely grant revocable rights to citizens depending on the whims of the masses, while a republic exists to secure and protect pre-existing rights. A truly democratic election in Iraq, without U.S. interference and U.S. puppet candidates, almost certainly would result in the creation of a Shiite theocracy.

Liberalism: Liberalism once stood for civil, political, and economic liberties, but has become a synonym for omnipotent coercive government. The political left equates freedom with liberation from material wants via a large and benevolent government that exists to create equality on earth. To modern liberals, men are free only when the laws of economics and scarcity are suspended, the landlord is rebuffed, the doctor presents no bill, and groceries are given away. But philosopher Ayn Rand (and many others before her) demolished this argument by explaining how such “freedom” for some is possible only when government takes freedoms away from others. In other words, government claims on the lives and property of those who are expected to provide housing, medical care, food, etc. for others are coercive – and thus incompatible with freedom.

Conservatism: The political right equates freedom with national greatness brought about through military strength. Like the left, modern conservatives favor an all-powerful central state – but for militarism, corporatism, and faith-based welfarism. Unlike the Taft-Goldwater conservatives of yesteryear, today’s Republicans are eager to expand government spending, increase the federal police apparatus, and intervene militarily around the world. “Conservatism,” which once meant respect for tradition and distrust of active government, has transformed into big-government utopian grandiosity.

We must resist any use of the word “freedom” to describe state action. We must reject the current meaningless designations of “liberals” and “conservatives,” in favor of an accurate term for both: statists. Every politician on earth claims to support freedom. The problem is so few of them understand the simple meaning of the word. Read more from lewrockwell.com

“. . . man is not free unless government is limited. There’s a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.” ~ Ronald Reagan

This is old news, but we’ll be feeling the effects for a long time to come. Read more about Helicopter Ben at the Ludwig von Mises Institute.

“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” – John Maynard Keynes

“Congress just passed a new law that will stop your capital — or at least a good portion of it — at the border, should you decide not to be a U.S. citizen anymore. Is it, perhaps, in preparation for the possibility that Americans might rebel at the debt and taxes incurred by their government by leaving for lower-tax locales?

You probably didn’t notice this little provision inserted into the Heroes Act of 2008, passed by Congress on June 17. The headlines in the press release about the law were about the increased benefits for veterans and families of deceased military.

But Richard Kohan of Price WaterhouseCoopers drew my attention to one section of the act, which states that anyone voluntarily giving up his or her citizenship will be taxed on all of his assets as if he or she had sold them — paying capital gains on assets that have increased in value, even though they have not been sold.

That’s right. While everyone in the media is focused on keeping aliens out of America, Congress has voted to lock its citizens – or at least a good portion of their assets — into America! Maybe they’re thinking that patriotism won’t be enough to keep the smart money from recognizing the coming increases in the tax burden.”

Read more from mainstreet.com

I think they’re bracing for the bad times on the horizon. Locking us in, so we tax-payers can continue to pay the government’s debt.

-Worst June Dow Jones performance since Great Depression
-Intimations of a July banking collapse rumbled though the Internet this weekend while mainstream news orgs like The New York Times and CNN pulled their puds over swift boats and Amy Winehouse’s performance technique. Something is happening, and you don’t know what it is, do you Mr. Jones…? to quote the master. Read more from jameshowardhunstler.typepad.com

“Militants killed more U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan in June than in Iraq for the second straight month, a grim milestone capping a run of headline-grabbing insurgent attacks that analysts say underscore the Taliban’s growing strength.” Read more from dailytexanonline.com

Whitehouse: “It’s evidence that things are going swimmingly in Iraq.”
Dick Cheyney: “The insurgency is in its death throes.”
Bush: *blink,blink* (waiting for teleprompter)
Rice: “You must take into account recent troop-increases in Afghanistan.”
Pentagon: “It’s because we’re pushing into their traditional strongholds.”
CNN: “Should Obama wear a flag lapel pin?”
MSNBCBSABC: “Authorities save the day by catching serial child molester.”
MSNBCBSABC: “Angelina Jolie heads to French hospital where she expects to give birth to twins”
MSNBCBSABC: “Search for missing girls leads to charges for stepfather.”
FoxNews: “MUSLIM TERRORISTS!!!!”