Obama Recession / No End In Sight

OBAMA RECESSION / NO END IN SIGHT

This is definitely now Obama's great Recession and his top down decision to bail out Wall Street , at the expense of Main Street, has left millions of Americans in an economic free fall with no real end in sight: Allen L Roland

AP reveals that the top-earning 20 percent of Americans ~ those making more than $100,000 each year ~ received 49.4 percent of all income generated in the U.S., compared with the 3.4 percent earned by those below the poverty line, according to newly released census figures. That ratio of 14.5-to-1 was an increase from 13.6 in 2008 and nearly double a low of 7.69 in 1968.

Off The Charts' Chuck Marr puts the income gap in even starker terms: "This great income shift means the average middle-income American family had about $9,000 less after-tax income in 2007, and an average household in the top 1 percent had $741,000 more, than they would have had if the 1979 income distribution had remained ... Each year the average millionaire gets about $125,000 from the Bush tax cuts, according to the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. Now seems to be a good time to say enough is enough. "

The international Gini index, found U.S. income inequality at its highest level since the Census Bureau began tracking household income in 1967. The U.S. also has the greatest disparity among Western industrialized nations ~ but the Mainstream Press continues to ignore this great Obama Recession in this mid-term election year.

Here's a typical letter I received after my post of 9/26 ~ LIVING ON THE EDGE OF POVERTY. http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/living-on-edge-of-poverty.html

Dear Allen,
Arizona is the second poorest state in the nation, but also the second most expensive for health care. I am hoping I can apply for the government "pre-existing" insurance pool in November. My company ended group coverage last April ~ couldn't afford the 1500.00 per month per employee premiums anymore...luckily I have no health problems, just can't get coverage because I've had 2 small basal cell carcinomas on my face and have arthritis. Don't even take any prescriptions! Unbelievable !
My sister in NJ and her teenage son are now homeless. She lost her job due to health problems ~ has to call in sick quite a bit but is not bad enough to get disability. All the shelters and programs Salvation Army, churches, etc. there are full. My brother told me there are tent cities springing up in several locations.
If Republicans get back majorities, well, I look for unemployment to double, foreclosures to escalate, and millions to be hitting the streets, especially seniors. Welcome to America, a third world country. There's nothing to be hopeful about anymore.
Sylvia

So what's really going on as America sinks deeper and deeper into a major Depression ?

A new paradigm has arrived in politics and it doesn't matter who wins the next elections ~ it's no longer Democrats versus Republicans ~ it's you and I against the Corporations and , unfortunately, President Obama answers to Wall Street and the Corpocracy ~ and obviously not to Main Street.

Shamus Cooke has written an excellent must read article on ICH ~ HOW CORPORATIONS OWN CONGRESS ~ where he explains how corporate money flows from party to party, so that the same goals are achieved: higher profits for corporations.

But here's an excerpt from another excellent artricle on the very same subject ~ " For a long time, American politics has been defined by a Left/Right dynamic. It was Liberals versus Conservatives on a variety of issues. Pro-Life versus Pro-Choice, Tax Cuts vs. More Spending, Pro-War vs Peaceniks, Environmental Protections vs. Economic Growth, Pro-Union vs. Union-Free, Gay Marriage vs. Family Values, School Choice vs. Public Schools, Regulation vs. Free Markets....The new dynamic, however, has moved past the old Left Right paradigm. We now live in an era defined by increasing Corporate influence and authority over the individual. These two “interest groups” ~ I can barely suppress snorting derisively over that phrase ~ have been on a headlong collision course for decades, which came to a head with the financial collapse and bailouts. Where there is massive concentrations of wealth and influence, there will be abuse of power. The Individual has been supplanted in the political process nearly entirely by corporate money, legislative influence, campaign contributions, even free speech rights. .... This may not be a brilliant insight, but it is surely an overlooked one. It is now an Individual vs. Corporate debate ~ and the Humans are losing. " http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/09/you-vs-corporations/

On top of all this ~ we have the absurdity of a panel of economists declaring this month that the Recession came to an end in July of 2009 and then we have the equally out-of-touch and wishful thinking VP Joe Biden prophetically saying about the mid-term elections ~ " If we allow this to be a referendum on whether people are happy where they are now, we'll lose."

Is the Obama Administration aware that less than 35% of the American public feel that the Federal Stimulus helped the economy ? ( Rasmussen Polls )

So the recession technically ended for corporations last year because they got bailed out by Washington, outsourced their labor needs and taxes, cut back their expenses and employees and improved their profit margins ~ but that was just a sign in a black tunnel for millions of Americans who are falling headlong into poverty and have lost the debate with Corporations for an effective voice in the political process.

Welcome to America ~ a third world country, as Sylvia says, "There's nothing to be hopeful for anymore... "

That is unless Americans find their voice, take to the streets and demand their place at the political table.

Allen L Roland

http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/obama-recession-no-end-in-sight.html

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Living On The Edge Of Poverty

LIVING ON THE EDGE OF POVERTY

















Poverty in the U.S. today has many faces. For a homeless man on the streets of Los Angeles, it means not knowing where he will spend the night or where his next meal will come from. For a child in rural Alabama, it means going without breakfast and wearing tattered hand-me-down clothes. For millions of seniors, living from one social security check to the next, it means living on the edge of poverty.

In 2009, 4 million people fell into poverty which brings the total to over 43 million. Nearly 44 million Americans ~ one in seven ~ lived last year in homes in which the income was below the poverty level ~ and it's getting worse: Allen L Roland

Living on the edge of poverty is a far to common experience, particularly for seniors . In 2010, many seniors, including myself, are fed up with an Obama administration who evidently still feels that a top-down stimulus for Wall Street will eventually reach a down and out Main Street.

Geographically, southern and rural states tended to have the most poverty, with Mississippi faring the worst with 23.1 percent of people in poverty, with New Hampshire having only 7.8 percent.

Make no mistake about it , the current creeping so called economic recovery has been articifially induced by bailout funds while, in reality, we have been experiencing a full blown depression which will become obvious to all after the mid-term elections.

25.5 percent of consumers ~ nearly 43.4 million people ~ now have a credit score of 599 or below, marking them as poor risks for lenders. It’s unlikely they will be able to get credit cards, auto loans or mortgages under the tighter lending standards banks now use, according to AP.

As Christine Vestal writes in ICH ~ " More than 15 million Americans are unemployed, homelessness has increased by 50 percent in some cities, and 38 million people are receiving food stamps, more than at any time in the program’s almost 50-year history.. According to Richard Bavier, a former analyst for the federal Office of Management and Budget, already available data about employment rates, wages and food stamp enrollment suggest that an additional 5.7 million people were officially poor in 2009. That would bring the total number of people with incomes below the federal poverty threshold to more than 45 million. The poverty rate, Bavier expects, will hit 15 percent ~ up from 13.2 percent in 2008, when the Great Recession first started to take its toll."

Living on the edge of poverty numbs the spirit and replaces hope with fear ~ for millions of Americans are either living pay check to pay check or Social Security payment to Social security payment and an accident or major illness would take them over the edge into destitution.

This is Main Street reality and what politician is concerned about this and taking action ? Very few for Big money runs this country and Obama answers to them ~ not Main Street.

Allen L Roland

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Mid Term Elections May Be Obama's Last Supper

MID TERM ELECTIONS MAY BE OBAMA'S LAST SUPPER

President Obama's sinking approval ratings are directly related to his inability to be the agent of change American elected him to be. His fleeing Progressive and Independent base are growing proof that the mid term elections may well be his last supper: Allen L Roland

I was recently interviewed on Iranian TV regarding my recent article QURAN BURNING / RATIONALIZED ISLAMOPHOBIA and I explained how much of Islamophobia reinforces 9/11 fear mongering ~ which, in turn, is used to justify our continuing illegal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. As I explained to my Iranian interviewer ~ all of this must also be seen in terms of the 2010 mid term elections. See youtube video ~ 4 minutes http://www.youtube.com/user/saharTV#p/c/6F4FA1C6C815CED2/0/DVcMKlWCzUI

But Obama himself is also guilty of using fear mongering by refusing to prosecute the political and moral abuses of power by the Cheney/Bush administration as well continuing many of their policies to this day. Not to mention his refusal to entertain the re-opening of the 9/11 Investigation despite the fact that the majority of Americans ~ as well as the members of the Commission itself ~ feel a cover up is obvious. See THE 9/11 COVER UP IS AMERICA'S GREATEST BAMBOOZLE ~ http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/911-cover-up-is-americas-greatest.html

Of course, America's second greatest bomboozle could well be Obama's CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN Main Street campaign which hoodwinked millions of Americans ~ whereas newly elected President Obama promptly reaffirmed his allegiance to Wall Street, the status quo and the financial elite at the expense of progressives and his main street base.

And perhaps the third greatest bamboozle is the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declared the longest recession since the last World War to be over ~ 14 months after the fact and a month and a half before the mid-term elections.

Obama arrogantly and narcissistically still feels Americans voted for him as their savior and president ~ not realizing that the vast majority, including myself, voted for CHANGE and himself as a determined agent of that change.

By selling out to Wall Street, the Health Care Industry, and the military/Industrial complex ~ many of his loyal disciples have fled the table and Obama still does not realize ~ that HE is the problem because he has not delivered what he promised.

The predominant feeling among Progressives and Independents is anger and betrayal and, unfortunately our eternally pragmatic President still doesn't get it ~ unless he begins to read the polls.

Poll numbers indicate the migration of Independents away from the Democrats and towards the Republicans. Recent Gallup research has shown that Republicans, and conservative Republicans in particular, have given much more thought than Democrats to the upcoming congressional elections, another key measure of turnout used in Gallup's likely voter modeling. Conservative Republicans currently score at a historically high level on this measure.

The Tea Party is taking full advantage of this anger, as we see in the stunning wins over the GOP establishment in contests for House and Senate seats from Delaware, the governor's mansion in New York, and possibly a Senate seat from New Hampshire, capping off a tumultuous summer of intra-party clashes. And then Ultra-conservative insurgent Christine O'Donnell won a surprise victory in the Republican Senate primary in Delaware .

As such, Obama must remove his self serving halo and start delivering true change ~ particularly to the Middle Class and Seniors ~ or the Mid Term elections may well be seen as his last supper ~ leaving him as a lame duck president between now and 2012.

Allen L Roland

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BOTTOM UP CHANGE / A SONOMA VALLEY EXAMPLE

Four years ago the leveroni winery in Sonoma Valley, California halted an ambitious hospital board, who wanted to build an expensive new hospital as well as exercise Eminent Domain on their property, by enlisting engaged community members, including myself, who proved that bottom up change can indeed happen: Allen L Roland

Every time I drive by the vast pristine Leveroni pasture on 5th Street West, I smile to myself ~ for if a small group of enraged vineyard owners, citizens and environmental activists had not teamed together to stop an environmental injustice ~ a half built 148 million dollar white elephant hospital would be sitting in the middle of this verdant pasture as a constant reminder of arrogance and misplaced priorities.

Pat Stornetta and Joe Leveroni, a sister-brother team, are winegrowers on the 570-acre Home Ranch with its 250 acres of vineyard and the family’s dairy of 500 milking cows. They continue a four-generation tradition of farming and conservation that has preserved this historic site since 1886. Their Estate grown award winning wines include an exceptional Merlot, exquisite Pinor Noir, a lush Chardonnay and a crisp and fruity sauvignon Blanc.

I'll never forget the morning I stood with a small group of Sonoma Valley grape growers, farmers and residents as Joe Leveroni stood on a small stage, in a local mobile home park, and shared how unfair it was for the hospital to attempt to take away his precious land through eminent domain ( Yes on Measure C ).

I was moved to action as I raised my hand and said ~ Joe, you are the face of the No on Measure C campaign and we support you 100%.

And support him we did ~ to the extent that within two months the Yes on Measure C campaign collapsed through public pressure and a costly and unneccessary misadventure was avoided.

The dagger in the heart of Sonoma Valley's controversal Measure C $148 million million bond issue was not just the unfair annexing through Eminent Domain of the Leveroni property ~ it was the NO recommendation to the voters of the district by the Sonoma County Taxpayers' Association ~ who thoroughly reviewed both sides of the measure and found the measure was not only unjustified but that its costs were misleading.

It made me realize that the bottom-up power of the people ~ once they know the truth ~ can be an awesome force where all pretense and hypocrisy can be quickly swept away and replaced with honesty and integrity.

That's why my column is dedicated to the truth and especially the truth regarding the abuses of power by the Cheney/Bush administration, the 9/11 cover up and the continued shocking revelations regarding our illegal wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Not only did that bottom up local fight against injustice bond me with my community but it set the stage to tackle greater injustices throughout the world ~ and in particular, the United States.

It was Robert Kennedy who said ~ " Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope ~ and, crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."

That's bottom up change ~ and it starts locally.

Allen L Roland
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Quran Burning / Rationalized Islamophobia

QURAN BURNING / RATIONALIZED ISLAMOPHOBIA

The scripted threat of burning Qurans keeps alive the perception of America's hostility toward the Muslim World ~ thus reinforcing 9/11 fear mongering along with the rationalization for our ongoing illegal wars and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan: Allen L Roland

Note the timing of our latest bout with Islamophobia, the 9th anniversary of America's greatest bamboozle ~ the 9/11 cover up. See details ~ http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/911-cover-up-is-americas-greatest.html

As Lamis Andoni, Al Jazeera, rightfully points out on September 12th ~ Why does the US government think burning Qurans is less civilized than drone attacks on civilian Muslim populations?

Excerpt: " General David Petraeus, the US commander in Afghanistan, warned that burning the Quran could endanger the lives of US troops who might become the target of retribution. But why do Obama and Petraeus think that burning the Quran is any less civilized or more dangerous than their use of unmanned drones to target suspected Taliban or al-Qaeda fighters and the subsequent civilian casualties these attacks often entail? Terry Jones, the pastor behind the planned Quran bonfire, may be insane, as some, including his own daughter, have suggested. But what excuse do sane and sophisticated people like Obama, Petraeus, and Robert Gates, the US secretary of defence, have? But in an atmosphere of 'Islamophobia' ( fed by a mistrust and ignorance of Islam ) and US wars against Muslim countries, the suggestion of a Quran-burning day becomes something much more significant. It also reflects the general dehumanization of Muslims and Arabs - particularly those who have been the victims of American and Israeli bombings - that has taken root, allowing some of the US public to become immune to the crimes committed by their own government or with their government's backing.... In the words of Kathy Kelly, an American peace activist who is currently facing trial for 'trespassing' in a drone-manufacturing plant during an anti-war protest, the mainstream media "does little to help ordinary [Americans] ... understand that the drones which hover over potential targets in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen create small "ground zeroes" in multiple locales on an everyday basis". http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article26346.htm

So there you have it, another Islamophobia smokescreen on the 9th Anniversary of 9/11 which conveniently covers up our own responsibility and a much needed re-investigation of this obvious false flag operation ~ while once again demonizing Islam. A recent Washington Post poll found that a plurality of Americans now have an unfavorable view of Islam, "the most negative split on the question" since Oct. 2001.

Mark Morford nails it ~ " America needs its demons. We need our enemies, our menacing and dark-eyed nemesis, that foreign and terrifying thing we do not understand and against which we must rally and wail, push and pull, fight and destroy." Certainly Fox News needs these demons ~ as it continues to feed Islamophobia to its angry, fearful and largely Republican right wing viewers.

Jon Stewart offers the most appropriate picture of this fear mongering with his Islamophobiapalooza / Terry Jones heeds God's call to not burn Korans, and Imam Rauf's reasonable answers sound like a threat to Fox News. Video ~ http://www.thedailyshow.com/

I rest my case ~

Allen L Roland

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Cartoon courtesy of Tom Toles / Washington Post

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The 9/11 Cover Up Is America's Greatest Bamboozle

THE 9/11 COVER UP IS AMERICA'S GREATEST BAMBOOZLE











New York Post 9/11 human remains map

The most dispicable act of American treason was the 9/11 false flag operation and carefully orchestrated cover up which continues to this day. The Obama administration is determined to keep this bamboozle covered up and is, as such, complicit in hiding the truth of 9/11: Allen L Roland

The New York Post recently published a 9/11 macabre human remains map in trying to determine the physical scope of ground Zero as well as the human deaths, which includes the over 200 Trade Tower jumpers ~ along with the falling man, Jonathan Briley.
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/symbol-of-911-is-falling-man-not.html

This map is inadvertantly a graphic illustration of the human cost of that day for each red dot is a human being who was loved and cherished by someone and became an unnecessary victim of the most treasonous act in American history.

It was Carl Sagan who wrote ~ " One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge ~ even to ourselves ~ that we've been so credulous. So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise."

The 9/11 cover up is America's greatest bamboozle and many Americans are apparently no longer interested in finding the truth ~ for it would indeed be too painful to acknowledge.

But here are some facts to ponder on the 9th anniversary of 9/11 ~

The 9/11 Commission's co-chairs said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements (free subscription required)

9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says "I don't believe for a minute we got everything right", that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue "

9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said "We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting"

9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up"

9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that "There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ." He also said that the investigation depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were physically coerced into talking.

And the Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - recently said "At some level of the government, at some point in time...there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened". He also said "I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described .... The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true." And he said: "It's almost a culture of concealment, for lack of a better word. There were interviews made at the FAA's New York center the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened"

If even the 9/11 Commissioners don't buy the official story, why do you?

Senior intelligence officers:

Former military analyst and famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said that the case of a certain 9/11 whistleblower is "far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers". He also said that the government is ordering the media to cover up her allegations about 9/11. And he said that some of the claims concerning government involvement in 9/11 are credible, that "very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand and how much involvement there might have been", that engineering 9/11 would not be humanly or psychologically beyond the scope of the current administration, and that there's enough evidence to justify a new, "hard-hitting" investigation into 9/11 with subpoenas and testimony taken under oath (see this and this)

A 27-year CIA veteran, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials (Raymond McGovern) said “I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke”

A 29-year CIA veteran, former National Intelligence Officer (NIO) and former Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis (William Bill Christison) said “I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe (and see this)

A number of intelligence officials, including a CIA Operations Officer who co-chaired a CIA multi-agency task force coordinating intelligence efforts among many intelligence and law enforcement agencies (Lynne Larkin) sent a joint letter to Congress expressing their concerns about “serious shortcomings,” “omissions,” and “major flaws” in the 9/11 Commission Report and offering their services for a new investigation (they were ignored)

A decorated 20-year CIA veteran, who Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh called "perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East”, and whose astounding career formed the script for the Academy Award winning motion picture Syriana (Robert Baer) said that "the evidence points at" 9/11 having had aspects of being an inside job ."

The Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs, who served as Senior Analyst from 1966 - 1990. He also served as Professor of International Security at the National War College from 1986 - 2004 (Melvin Goodman) said "The final [9/11 Commission] report is ultimately a coverup"

If even our country's top intelligence officers don't buy the official story, why do you?

Congressmen:

According to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House (confirmed here)

Current Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said "The two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"

Current Republican Congressman Ron Paul calls for a new 9/11 investigation and states that "we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"

Current Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich hints that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11

Current Republican Congressman Jason Chafetz says that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11

Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel states that he supports a new 9/11 investigation and that we don't know the truth about 9/11

Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee endorses a new 9/11 investigation

Former U.S. Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg doesn't believe the official version of events

Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee Curt Weldon has shown that the U.S. tracked hijackers before 9/11, is open to hearing information about explosives in the Twin Towers, and is open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job

If there is bipartisan questioning of the official story, why aren't you questioning it?

Other government officials:

U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, decorated with the Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart (General Wesley Clark) said "We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time"

Former Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Warning under Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Morton Goulder), former Deputy Director to the White House Task Force on Terrorism (Edward L. Peck), and former US Department of State Foreign Service Officer (J. Michael Springmann), as well as a who's who of liberals and independents) jointly call for a new investigation into 9/11

Former Federal Prosecutor, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan; former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and currently a widely-sought media commentator on terrorism and intelligence services (John Loftus) says "The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defense of incompetence"

The Group Director on matters of national security in the U.S. Government Accountability Office said that President Bush did not respond to unprecedented warnings of the 9/11 disaster and conducted a massive cover-up instead of accepting responsibility

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan (Col. Ronald D. Ray) said that the official story of 9/11 is "the dog that doesn't hunt"

The former director of the FBI (Louis Freeh) says there was a cover up by the 9/11 Commission

If top government officials are skeptical, why aren't you?

Numerous other politicians, judges, legal scholars, and attorneys also question at least some aspects of the government's version of 9/11.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/09/anniversary-of-911.html

David Ray Griffin, perhaps the leading scholar in the 9/11 Truth movement, made a plausible case in July in a 183-footnote open letter (http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9849/) for the view that "Among scientists and professionals in the relevant fields who have studied the evidence, the weight of scientific and professional opinion is now overwhelmingly on the side of the 9/11 Truth Movement."

And finally, all the misinformation that became the 9/11 official story was laid down by the US news media within minutes after the attack. Here's the ten minute Video with those complete details: http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/92.html

Every abuse of power by the Cheney/Bush administration can be traced to the 9/11 false flag operation and cover up and we, as a nation, will not be free until we open that Pandora's Box and uncover the evidence of America's greatest bamboozle ~ which we can no longer deny regardless of how painful it may be to acknowledge.

Allen L Roland
http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/911-cover-up-is-americas-greatest.html

This weblog is sustained through donations from people like yourself. Please send check or Money Order to Allen L. Roland, PO Box 1221, Sonoma,CA 95476 Also accept Visa, MasterCard and Discover .

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Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on http://www.conscioustalk.net/

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The Symbol Of 9/11 Is The Falling Man / Not Falling Towers

THE SYMBOL OF 9/11 IS THE FALLING MAN / NOT FALLING TOWERS

















Photo Credit: Richard Drew, AP

There came a moment for Jonathan Briley, as he clung to those windows high above the streets of New York, with the unbearable heat and smoke drawing near ~ that he chose to jump, versus burn to death or suffocate , and in that moment of complete surrender he became a graceful sacred angel returning to source . His image captured by Richard Drew continues to shock and demand justice for those who perpetrated or allowed this crime : Allen L Roland

I watched again last night the brilliant and moving (70 minute) video THE FALLING MAN which has still not been released in the U.S. and which can be seen by clicking on ~ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17405.htm .
Note also in this video at the 23:48 minute mark ~ detonation flashes are clearly seen below the smoke as the North Tower begins its collapse.

Very little has been written about the over 200 people who jumped to their deaths from the World Trade Towers on 9/11 and instead the press has stressed the heroism and patriotism of the time ~ but I maintain that the jumpers were also heroes as well as graphic reminders that justice must be served on those who either perpetrated or allowed this tragedy to occur.

The mainstream press purposely covered up and air brushed from our view many photos, including this one, of those jumpers of 9/11 ~ but now the falling angels are crying out for justice but it's no longer an externalized justice but an internalized justice against the Cheney/Bush administration who most likely used 9/11 as a justification for their immediate and resultant abuses of power ~ while they may very well have condoned, facilitated if not expedited the attack itself.

Tom Junod, who is featured in this video, wrote an extraordinary piece for Eqsuire in September 2003 on "The Falling Man," offering several possibilities of who was the falling man. His piece ended with this very moving story about Jonathan Briley ~ who is most likely the falling man of 9/11.

As such, the human face of 9/11 most likely is Jonathan Briley who is a constant reminder of man's inhumanity to man and who now cries out for the real truth behind this evil atrocity.

THE FALLING MAN
Tom Junod / ESQUIRE / SEPT 2003

Excerpt: " Jonathan Briley worked at Windows on the World. Some of his co - workers, when they saw Richard Drew's photographs, thought he might be the Falling Man. He was a light-skinned black man. He was over six five. He was forty-three. He had a mustache and a goatee and close-cropped hair. He had a wife named Hillary.
Jonathan Briley's father is a preacher, a man who has devoted his whole life to serving the Lord. After September 11, he gathered his family together to ask God to tell him where his son was. No: He demanded it. He used these words: "Lord, I demand to know where my son is." For three hours straight, he prayed in his deep voice, until he spent the grace he had accumulated over a lifetime in the insistence of his appeal.
The next day, the FBI called. They'd found his son's body. It was, miraculously, intact.
The preacher's youngest son, Timothy, went to identify his brother. He recognized him by his shoes: He was wearing black high-tops. Timothy removed one of them and took it home and put it in his garage, as a kind of memorial.
Timothy knew all about the Falling Man. He is a cop in Mount Vernon, New York, and in the week after his brother died, someone had left a September 12 newspaper open in the locker room. He saw the photograph of the Falling Man and, in anger, he refused to look at it again. But he couldn't throw it away. Instead, he stuffed it in the bottom of his locker, where ~ like the black shoe in his garage ~ it became permanent.
Jonathan's sister Gwendolyn knew about the Falling Man, too. She saw the picture the day it was published. She knew that Jonathan had asthma, and in the smoke and the heat would have done anything just to breathe. . . .
The both of them, Timothy and Gwendolyn, knew what Jonathan wore to work on most days. He wore a white shirt and black pants, along with the high-top black shoes. Timothy also knew what Jonathan sometimes wore under his shirt: an orange T-shirt. Jonathan wore that orange T-shirt everywhere. He wore that shirt all the time. He wore it so often that Timothy used to make fun of him: When are you gonna get rid of that orange T-shirt, Slim? "
( Note ) When Tom Junod finally saw the out takes of the tumbling falling man ~ one of them clearly showed an Orange T-shirt beneath his white shirt.
" But when Timothy identified his brother's body, none of his clothes were recognizable except the black shoes. And when Jonathan went to work on the morning of September 11, 2001, he'd left early and kissed his wife goodbye while she was still sleeping. She never saw the clothes he was wearing. After she learned that he was dead, she packed his clothes away and never inventoried what specific articles of clothing might be missing.
Yes, Jonathan Briley might well be the Falling Man. But the only certainty we have is the certainty we had at the start: At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky ~ falling through time as well as through space. The picture went all around the world, and then disappeared, as if we willed it away. One of the most famous photographs in human history became an unmarked grave, and the man buried inside its frame ~ the Falling Man ~ became the Unknown Soldier in a war whose end we have not yet seen. Richard Drew's photograph is all we know of him, and yet all we know of him becomes a measure of what we know of ourselves. The picture is his cenotaph, and like the monuments dedicated to the memory of unknown soldiers everywhere, it asks that we look at it, and make one simple acknowledgment ~ That we have known who the Falling Man is all along. "

The fall of the World Trade towers on 9/11 could well represent the fall of America from its once proud pinnacle of moral integrity to its present position of failed moral leadership in a rapidly interconnected world.

But the human symbol of that infamous day is now Jonathan Briley ~ the falling man of 9/11 who, after nine long years, still lives in the hearts of those who knew and loved him but also lives in the conscience of millions of Americans who seek justice for perhaps the most treasonous act in American history. http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11cover-up

Now we have hard evidence found of explosive demolition at world Trade center on 9/11 ~ http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20100907/pl_usnw/DC60870

Re-open the 9/11 investigation with an independent investigator ~ A 2005 Zogby Poll reported that 66% of New Yorkers wanted the 9/11 investigation re-opened. Moreover, it found that 49% thought that VIP's in the government knew and did nothing.Those numbers would be much higher today with hard evidence of an explosive demolition.

Allen L Roland http://allenlrolandsweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/symbol-of-911-is-falling-man-not.html

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