9/11 mobilisations

[Wayne Hall]

UQ Wire: Emergency Truth Convergence, July 22-24

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ANNOUNCING THE DC EMERGENCY TRUTH CONVERGENCE, JULY 22~24,
2005

End the Fear Here!
Publicize the Master Lies
Behind the Endless War

TRUTH, VETERAN & MEDIA ACTIVISTS

Come Help Build a Breakthrough Campaign to Expose and Explode
the Seamless Deceit behind 9/11, Resource Wars, Troop Betrayal
and Constitutional Jeopardy

DC LAUNCH: JULY 22~24, 2005 An unprecedented event series conjoining
the power veteran/victim groups, key truth movements and the
Indie Media to out the deadly coup now underway and launch a
thousand Paul Reveres.

Featuring: the first National Press Club press conference exclusively
for indie media & international journalists, Capitol Hill events,
a Lafayette Park 911-war deceit rally/march, entertainment, new
documentary films & presentations, a Lafayette Park 911-war deceit
event, entertainment, and a strategy summit at American University
between leaders from diverse truth, p&j and veteran movements
as well as the independent and foreign press.

PLANNING ADVISORS AND PARTICIPANTS

afterdowningstreet.org, Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, Libertarian presidential
candidate Michael Badnarik, Dr. Bob Bowman of Veterans for Peace,
FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, former HUD Asst. Secretary Catherine
Austin Fitts, Dr. David Ray Griffin, Rep. Charles Key of the
Oklahoma City Bombing Commission, CIA veteran Ray McGovern, Sunny
Miller of Traprock Peace Center, Depleted Uranium authority Dr.
Leuren Moret, Jenna Orkin of WTC Environmental Action, Peter
Philips of Project Censored, former Bush Labor Dept. Economist
Morgan Reynolds, velvetrevolution.us, and many more.

PURPOSE

Whenever citizens working on Iraq lies, 9/11, troop abuse, stolen
elections and/or the 'missing' government trillions gather and
compare notes, potent insights emerge into the corporate coup
d'état we face. This DC Convergence presumes that we now have
enough dangerous truths, damning facts, and populist media to
deliver the evidence of treachery nationwide. It's now time to
forge a strategy, join with veterans & victim families, and assist
media activists in spreading the truth throughout the land.


Everything We Need to SUCCEED - We Now Have
. The facts and evidence from truth movement researchers
. Enduring inspiration from courageous whistleblowers and victim
families
. The support of respected leaders across the political spectrum
. A nationwide communications network in independent media
. A country gradually waking up to the desperate need for truth


All That's Missing is A SHARED STRATEGY
- Come to DC and Help Create it . . .

www.truthemergency.us

EVENT SCHEDULE -- July 22-24

Friday, July 22: FIRST BIRTHDAY of THE 9/11 COVER-UP REPORT
A.M. and Afternoon:
National Press Club and Capitol Hill Events
- details soon at official website: www.truthemergency.us

6:00 - 9:00 PM: Reception & movies at American University Tavern

Saturday, July 23: 3RD ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOWNING STREET MEMO

11:00 ~ 2:30 PM: Lafayette Park, Speakers: Family members, whistle-blowers,
spokespeople for major truth, veteran and media groups (see
followed by a Beyond Downing Street
event.

7:00 - 10:00 PM: AU Tavern: Dance with bands from Justice Through
Music

Sunday, July 24 STRATEGY SUMMIT

9:00-12:00: Workshops -- 3-4/hour to choose from. Growing list
of specifics at www.truthemergency.us (Plenary Session
1:30~6:00 PM) BRAINSTORMING and DISCUSSION on the Most Powerful
Ways to COLLABORATE

CONVERGENCE COSTS

Capitol Hill, National Press Club & Lafayette Park Events: FREE

Saturday Night American U Truth Concert: $5 w/drink
Sunday - Workshops & Strategy Summit: $25 (or $15 w/ discount
below)

$10 FINE PRINT DISCOUNT

Since we really are trying to achieve something here and prepared
participants will contribute a lot more to the mix, we are offering
a $10 Sunday discount to all of you who watch at least 7 of the
following videos before you arrive. Since the only proof we can
ask for is your solemn word, you can obviously lie your ass off
to get in cheap. We just pray you see the irony of lying your
way into a truth rescue event.

The Power of Nightmares
The Great Conspiracy
Ken Jenkins' "Perspective on 9/11"
Hijacking Catastrophe
Griffin's C-SPAN speech: "9-11 & American Empire"

Orwell Rolls in His Grave
Weapons of Mass Deception
Beyond Treason
The Doctor, Depleted Uranium, and the Dying Children

Waco: Rules of Engagement
Loss of Liberty
Counting on Democracy
Unconstitutional
Arsenal of Hypocrisy

(Tapes/DVDs available from peaceproject.com and elsewhere
on the Net.)

LODGING

Cheap rooms available at American University Fri, Sat, Sun nights
for early registrations. Triples: $35/bed; Doubles: $48/bed;
Singles $70/bed For Reservations/More information call: 205-344-2372

Contact
Phone: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Online Discussion/Suggestion/Campaign Building List at ...

lists.riseup.net/www/info/dctruthemergency

GET INVOLVED

If you sympathize but cannot attend, please help out by passing
along this invitation, contributing a little bread, and, best
of all, holding a local truth convergence of your own. See www.truthemergency.us
for details.

TRUTH PAINT THE STREETS

Also please help spread around Truth Convergence flyers and hand-outs
here: digitalstyledesigns.com/pages/downloads.htm

**********

[Wayne Hall]

UQ Wire: The DC Emergency Truth Convergence

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CALLING ALL INDIMEDIA ACTIVISTS TO
THE DC EMERGENCY TRUTH CONVERGENCE
At the National Press Club, Lafayette Park & American University
JULY 22~24, 2005

Come Help Build a Breakthrough Campaign
to Expose and Explode the Seamless Deceit
behind 9/11, Resource Wars, Troop Betrayal
and Constitutional Jeopardy

DC LAUNCH: JULY 22~24, 2005: An unprecedented event series joining the power of veteran/victim groups, key truth movements and the indimedia to halt the deadly coup now underway and launch a thousand Paul Reveres.

Everything we need to succeed - we now have:
- The facts and evidence of betrayal from truth movement researchers
- The support of respected leaders across the political spectrum
- A nationwide communications network in independent media
- Enduring inspiration from whistleblowers, veterans & victim families
- A country gradually waking up to the desperate need for truth

All that's missing is a shared strategy
- Come to DC and help create it....

RALLY SPEAKERS*** AND WORKSHOP LEADERS

"War on Freedom" author Nafeez Ahmed***, Libertarian presidential candidate Michael Badnarik, Colonel Robert Bowman***, John Brunes***
of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Steve Cobble of afterdowningstreet.org, Dr. David Ray Griffin***, Jim Hoffman of wtc7.net, Rep. Charles Key*** of the Oklahoma City Bombing Commission, CIA veteran Ray
McGovern***, Depleted Uranium authority Leuren Moret***, Gael Murphy*** of Code Pink, Jenna Orkin*** of WTC Environmental Organization, Don Paul, Peter Phillips*** of Project Censored,
"Weapons of Mass Deception" producer Danny Schechter***, "Terror Timeline" author Paul Thompson***, Celeste Zappala*** of Gold Star Families for Peace, "Great Conspiracy" producer, Barrie Zwicker, and many more.

LATEST SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, JULY 22nd (first birthday of the 9/11 Commission Report)

The first National Press Club briefing specifically for the independent media The 9/11 Commission Cover-up and the Toll of Media Complicity

1:00 - 2:30 PM, Holeman Lounge, National Press Club Briefers:
Peter Phillips of Project Censored, 9/11 family members, Dr. David Ray Griffin, Danny Schechter, producer of Weapons of Mass Deception, and Celeste Zappala of Gold Star Families for Peace.

SATURDAY, JULY 23rd (third anniversary of the Downing Street Memo) Lafayette Park Rally against the Reign of Lethal Deceit

11:00 ~ 2:00 PM, Lafayette Park (in front of the White House)

3:00 ~ 4:00 PM, American University "War on Freedom" author, Nafeez Ahmed introduces his new book, The War on Truth

4:30 ~ 6:30 PM, American University Beyond Downing Street Town Hall Meeting

7:30 - 10:30 PM, American University Truth Rock Concert/Dance

SUNDAY, JULY 24

9:00 AM ~ 1:00 PM, American University Solutions-focused workshop sessions on publicizing and defusing the most lethal lies of modern history, building new media truth networks, mobilizing new constituencies, developing new media, legal and political tactics to launch honest truth commissions, etc. See

www.truthemergency.us/
for latest details.

2:00 ~ 6:00 PM, American University Collaboration strategy brainstorm among truth movement leaders, veteran & victim family groups, indimedia activists and foreign journalists.

OVERALL PURPOSE

Potent insights into the coup d'état we face emerge whenever citizens working on Iraq lies, 9/11, troop abuse, stolen elections and/or the "missing" government trillions gather and compare notes. This DC Emergency Truth Convergence presumes that we now
have enough dangerous truths, damning facts, and populist media to deliver the evidence of treachery throughout the land. It's now time to clarify that vision, join with veterans and victim families, and assist media activists everywhere in reenacting Paul Revere.>

THE CHALLENGE TO INDIMEDIA ACTIVISTS

Truth Math 101: In 2004, 70% of Karl Rove's red voters still believed Saddam had WMD and trysts with Al Qaeda. 70% of Americans who knew the truth voted blue. According to Zogby, most New Yorkers reject the official 9/11 story. The blues carried New York by
over one million votes and NYC by 81%. Do the math. Truth matters. Truth matters more when the country's in crisis. Truth matters most when thousands are dying without a clue. This is the challenge facing our independent media. Leaders selling war, repression
and corporate rule could fool a lot less people a lot less of the time if indimedia flooded the streets and airwaves with badly needed truths. Today's bloody liars are red. Tomorrow's may be blue. Only grassroots media vigilance and collaboration can thwart their propaganda and reverse their corporate coup.
George Orwell taught us, "in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." Multiply that act by a thousand street zines, blogs, and community broadcast outlets and we can finally overthrow this coup.

Please come to DC and
END THE FEAR HERE!
Publicize the Master Lies
Behind the Endless War

See www.truthemergency.us for details.
Contact: Janice Matthews @ 707-616-7939
Email sharethe911truth(at)yahoo.com

[Wayne Hall]

UQ Wire: The Mineta Testimony

Distribution via the Unanswered Questions Wire
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9/11 Commission Report - one year later…
The Mineta Testimony: 9/11 Commission Exposed
By Gregor Holland
Original online version (with video download links) at www.911truthmovement.org.

One year after the release of the 9/11 Commission Report, serious
questions that were raised before and during the Commission proceedings
remain unanswered. For many, the Commission Report raised more
questions than it answered. Not the least of these has been posed
by Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. McKinney recently questioned
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Chair of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff Myers ' about the four war games that were taking place
on September 11 and how they may have impaired our ability to
respond to those attacks.'[1] McKinney got a partial answer
a week later[2] . In the first on-the-record acknowledgement
that there were four war games underway on 9/11/01, Myers told
her that all battle positions were manned because of the drills…
'..so it was an easy transition from an exercise into a real
world situation. It actually enhanced the response.' This answer
echoed one provided by General Ralph Eberhard during the final
9/11 Commission hearing. The question to Eberhard, posed by Commissioner
Roemer, was coerced by hearing attendees who interrupted the
hearing, forcing the issue by yelling 'What about the war games?'

The failure of air defenses to respond on that morning does
not support the given answer by Myers and Eberhard. In addition,
the drill being conducted at the National Reconnaissance Office[3]
on 9/11 simulating a plane crashing into that building, and
the existence of bioterror drill Operation Tripod[4] on the
ground in lower Manhattan have had no illumination. As with the
recent London Bombings, co-incident training drills[5] have
not been treated as pertinent to the investigation.

Then there is the collapse of WTC Building 7, the 47 floor structure
that collapsed neatly into its own footprint at 5:20 p.m. on
9/11. NIST has released 10,000 pages worth of draft report describing
how WTC 1 & 2 collapsed. But an investigation of Building 7,
unmentioned by the 9/11 Commission has been 'decoupled'from that
report. Why? Likely it is because from the beginning the collapse
of building 7 has been impossible to explain. It was not hit
by either plane, and the fires in the building were localized.
And of course the statement of leaseholder Larry Silverstein,
who, interviewed about the WTC7 collapse said[6] :

'I remember getting a call from the Fire Department Commander
telling me that they were not sure they were going to be able
to contain the fire. I said, you know we've had such terrible
loss of life. Maybe the smartest thing to do is ‘pull it'. And
they made that decision to pull. And then we watched the building
collapse.'

Americans who rely solely on mainstream media might easily be
under the assumption that the 9/11 Commission Report put the
questions about what happened on 9/11 to rest. Despite relentless
harping on the issues above and by some counts over one hundred
others by a legion of writers, researchers and activists, the
mainstream media has avoided thoughtful analysis of the Commission
Report like the plague. The best explanation for this might be
that the 9/11 Commission Report is essentially a house of cards.
As soon as you touch it, it falls apart completely. As David
Ray Griffin aptly pointed out in his book '9/11 Commission Report:
Omissions and Distortions', the most obvious example of the infidelity
of the Report can be found when comparing the testimony of Secretary
of Transportation Norman Mineta to the findings of the Commission.



The hearings of May 22-23, 2003 were the second public hearings
of the Commission and the first to focus on the actual events
the day of 9/11. Secretary Mineta recounted to the Commission
his experience on the morning of 9/11 from the time he was notified
of the first plane hitting the WTC, to his experience at the
Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) along with Vice
President Cheney and staff. Unlike Rumsfeld who claimed to be
'out of the loop', and Myers who was not disturbed from breakfast
with Max Cleland, Mineta was able to provide a full account of
his experience that morning. Mineta testified that he arrived
at the PEOC at 9:20 a.m. and that Vice President Cheney was already
present with his staff. The 9/11 Commission Report states that
Cheney himself arrived at the PEOC at 9:58, a stunning 38 minute
contradiction to Mineta's testimony.

Mineta's PEOC testimony was also edited out of the 9/11 Commission
video archive[7] .

When questioned about this, representatives at the National
Archive stated that the video may have been lost because of a
‘snafu'. Following is a brief summary of the scrubbed video along
with links to recently obtained C-SPAN video for online readers.

Clip #1: Lee Hamilton questions Mineta
(video clip available at

Mineta responds to an opening question by Commissioner Hamilton
about the PEOC and an alleged shoot down order. He describes
a conversation between Cheney and a young man:

Mineta: 'During the time that the airplane was coming into the
Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to
the Vice President…the plane is 50 miles out…the plane is 30
miles out….and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out,
the young man also said to the vice president 'do the orders
still stand?'And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck
around and said 'Of course the orders still stand, have you heard
anything to the contrary!??'

Mineta explains that while he had not known it at the time, he
had surmised that the standing order the young man asked about
must have been a shoot down order. Hamilton seeks clarification
about which flight the conversation was regarding, and Mineta
once again clarifies that it is the flight that hit the Pentagon
at 9:37 a.m. on September 11.

There was good reason for the quizzical expression on Hamilton's
face. Secretary Mineta had thoroughly trashed previous accounts
of the PEOC activities that had been published in the press.

In a CNN piece dated 9/11/02, the timing of events had been represented
differently[8] . According to CNN:

'After the planes struck the twin towers, a third took a chunk
out of the Pentagon. Cheney then heard a report that a plane
over Pennsylvania was heading for Washington. A military assistant
asked Cheney twice for authority to shoot it down.'

In the CNN piece Cheney aid Josh Bolton describes the same exchange
between Cheney and the young man that Mineta did, but Bolton
ties the exchange to 'a report that a plane over Pennsylvania
was heading for Washington'. This is the official White House
legend, the one adopted in the White House produced[9] 9/11
Commission Report, the one exposed by Mineta.

Hamilton follows with a question about Flight 93:

Hamilton: 'With respect to flight 93, what type of information
were you and the Vice President receiving about that flight.'


Mineta: 'The only information we had at that point, was when
it crashed.'

Chairman Kean then stresses that the Secretary's time is limited.
He moves to Commissioner Roemer, who, immediately prior to his
questioning appears to be receiving counsel.

Clip #2: Tim Roemer seeks to discredit Mineta
(video clip available at

Mineta responds to a condescending greeting by Commissioner Roemer
by giving a timeline for when he arrived in the PEOC (9:20),
and an estimate of when the conversation between the young man
and the vice president occurred (9:25-26). Roemer paints a picture
of chaos and conflicting decision making between the functioning
of the Situation Room and the PEOC and proposes a confused scenario
of how a shoot down order might have transpired, to which Mineta
replies:

Mineta: 'That would be speculation on my part as to what was
happening on that day.'

At this point Roemer appears to attempt to discredit Mineta and
imply that he, like Rumsfeld, was 'out of the loop':

Roemer: 'I know. Because you had been conducting official business
and I'm sure you were hurriedly on your way over there…'

Mineta: 'As I was listening!'

Thwarted, Roemer then tries to clarify how the order played out.

Roemer: 'Would your inference be that they scrambled the jets
to shoot down the commercial airliner, it failed, and the commercial
airliner then crashed into the Pentagon?'

Mineta: 'I'm not sure that the aircraft that were scrambled
to come up to the D.C. area...were under orders to shoot the
airplane down…'

Mineta ultimately expressed the obvious, that the standing order
was an open question only Cheney could answer. The fact that
the 9/11 Commission Report discarded his testimony has never
been explained. Secretary Mineta did not respond to an open letter[10]
addressed to him. It is not known whether the letter got past
his spokesman Robert Johnson, who did not respond to multiple
messages. It might be worth noting that Johnson was formerly
the spokesman of Arizona Congressman Jon Kyl, who was meeting
the morning of 9/11 with Porter Goss, Bob Graham and at the time
Pakistan ISI Intelligence Chief Mahmood Ahmed.[11] Ahmed was
linked to the wiring of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta.[12]

If Mineta's testimony is to be taken into account, and there
is no apparent reason why it should not be, questions about the
timing of events the morning of 9/11 come into focus. Most obvious
is the one, if the standing order given by the Vice President
prior to the aircraft hitting the Pentagon was not a shoot down
order, then what was it? Perhaps it was the danger of this question,
and the danger that Cheney would have had to commit perjury to
uphold the timeline reported in the mainstream press, that caused
the Vice President to testify to the Commission along with the
President in closed session, with no transcript, no witnesses,
and no public accountability.

Today, multiple serious investigations are underway as to the
evidence used by the Bush administration to justify the war in
Iraq (Plame/Wilson incident), and when the administration actually
decided to invade Iraq (Downing Street Memos[13] ). In fact,
it is widely known that Bush declared his desire to invade Iraq
to an official biographer in 1999[14] , even before he was appointed
President by the Supreme Court. Given what is known today about
the deceiving of the American public in order to justify the
invasion of Iraq, and given what is known about the 9/11 Commission
Report and the unanswered questions surrounding the attacks of
9/11. Is there not sufficient reason to include 9/11 in the overall
inquiry into possible criminal actions of the Bush-Cheney administration?

REFERENCES
1. www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/030105_mckinney_question.shtml
2. www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031505_mckinney_transcript.shtml
3. www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-08-22-sept-11-plane-drill-_x.htm
4. www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/other/sub_news_pages/tripod05_22_02.html
5. www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2005/090705bombingexercises.htm
6. www.whatreallyhappened.com/cutter.html
7. www.9-11commission.gov/archive/hearing2/index.htm
8. edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/11/ar911.king.cheney/
9. www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-04-04-terror-report_x.htm
10. www.911truthmovement.org/dear_secretary_mineta.html
11. dir.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/09/14/human_spies/index.html
12. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?xml=0&art_id=1454238160
13. www.afterdowningstreet.org/
14. www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=761