Archive for September 17th, 2009
Geoff Vasil
Infowars
Muhammad Atta, the alleged ringleader of the 9/11 hijackings, told witnesses the crypto-fascist evangelical group known as the Family donated at least $200,000 to the cause of flying jets into the Twin Towers.
The information surfaced during the abortive FBI investigation right after the events of 9/11 and were duly ignored by federal investigators, but not by the local press in the retirement community of Venice, Florida.
Investigative reporter Daniel Hopsicker has been investigating ties between 9/11 and the local Venice airstrip since the Twin Towers collapsed and has uncovered that the facility was used for decades by the CIA and other clandestine organizations to run drugs and arms, drop assets into the Caribbean—and to train at least 3 of the alleged 9/11 hijackers how to fly.
Hopsicker tracked down witnesses to an argument between Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi less than six weeks before September 11 over finances at the Pelican Alley Restaurant in Venice, Florida.
Renee Adorna and her husband Tom own the restaurant, and she recalled that Atta yelled at Marwan: “We’re talking $200,000! We’ve got to answer to the Family!” Further, she said: “And I could have sworn that the one guy was wearing a cross, you know, the big gaudy gold cross on the chest. But I’m not sure now. But I know he had a big watch on.”
According to the account, there was a third, unidentified Egyptian-looking man in their party as well.
The Family is a quasi-fascist evangelical cult with tentacles around the world. Some of its members include Americans from the highest echelons of government, including former attorney general Ed Meese, who resigned amidst controversy during the Reagan over arms and cocaine shipments to Iran and Nicaragua, and also personally profited from the government’s theft of PROMIS software developed by the INSLAW group. The Family was the subject of the book “The Family – The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power” by Jeff Sharlet, a recent guest on the Alex Jones Show on July 28th, 2009. It is also the subject of earlier research by Wayne Madsen, another frequent guest on the show.
All of the leads developed by Hopsicker, including agents now involved in the recent drugs, arms and embezzlement scandals in the Turks and Caicos islands , not to mention an assassination attempt on George W. Bush on the morning of 9/11 in Florida by alleged Arabs posing as journalists in a white van, have been ignored by all federal investigators.
Just as in the Kennedy assassination, the best source of information on what really happened remains eye-witness reports collected by independent journalists. Not coincidentally, the 9/11 conspiracy shares a number of features with the Kennedy murder, including multiple Attas/Oswalds, suppression and destruction of evidence, and a packed investigating panel led by conspirators able to push prefabricated conclusions on other members, who in turn push the lie on the press and the public.
The biggest parallel with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11 was the fact that they were so explicit—they happened in plain sight. The public was asked to ignore their own common sense in both cases. On 9/11 we were supposed to believe that the perfect demolition-style fall of the Twin Towers was due to jet fuel fires corroding steel, although it was obvious while it happened that they were brought down by internal explosives.
And that answers the nagging question about the Atta and Marwan incident in Venice, Florida in August of 2001: why would two native Arabic-speakers (Atta was supposedly from Egypt and Marwan the United Arab Emirates) have a loud argument in a very public place in English?
The answer is they staged the argument. Was the Family even involved with the sum in question? Who knows. It fits in with them leaving significant details of the plot in plain sight, to taunt the public.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hopsicker’s latest article, written with Texan lawyer and researcher Linda Minor ( Big Safari, the Kennedy Assassination and the War for Control of the Venice Airport), finds deep connections between the Venice airport, the Kennedy assassination, Iran/Contra and the Clinton/Bush cocaine smuggling operation through Mena, Arkansas, as well as the 9/11 patsies at flight schools around Florida.
Says Waitress of Terror Pilots: “I Thought They Were Mafia!”
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Richard Beeston
Times Online
President Medvedev gave the first hint yesterday that Russia was prepared to perform a significant policy U-turn and support US moves for sanctions against Iran.
Speaking in Moscow, the Russian leader went out of his way to be more conciliatory with the West before his visit this month to the US where he will attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York and the G20 summit of economic powers in Pittsburgh. A key issue on the agenda will be efforts by America, Britain and France to impose economic sanctions against Tehran if the regime does not agree to curb its nuclear programme.
It is widely expected that President Ahmadinejad of Iran, who will also be in New York, will reject any pressure from the international community. Russia has previously refused to support the imposition of sanctions on Iran, not least because it enjoys strong trade relations with the country.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The House of Representatives approved an amendment Thursday that calls for halting government funding to the community organizing group ACORN.
The measure, added to a larger bill on reforming student loans that won House approval, follows a provision passed earlier in the week by the Senate that would halt Housing and Urban Development grants to ACORN.
Both measures would have to have their differences reconciled in Congress to take effect.
ACORN’s chief executive officer says that the group gets most of its money from members and other supporters and that its operations would continue even if it is cut off from government grants.
However, approval of the House and Senate measures demonstrated the political fallout against ACORN after the recent release of videos that appeared to show the agency’s employees condoning illegal actions.
The videos were secretly taped by two individuals posing as a prostitute and a pimp. They show ACORN employees in four of the agency’s offices suggesting or condoning a series of illicit actions as the couple sought advice on setting up a brothel with underage women from El Salvador. 
Watch more on the videos »
On Wednesday, ACORN CEO Bertha Lewis announced administrative steps to respond to the videos.
“We have all been deeply disturbed by what we’ve seen in some of these videos,” Lewis said. “I must say on behalf of ACORN’s board and our Advisory Council that we will go to whatever lengths necessary to re-establish the public trust.”
The steps announced include an immediate halt in hiring for all ACORN offices, an immediate training program for all front-line staff and selection of an independent auditor by the end of this week.
Also Wednesday, FBI Director Robert Mueller signaled a potential federal investigation of the organization.
In response to a description of the highly publicized videotapes by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, Mueller told a congressional hearing that he had just learned of the matter.
“Clearly, given what you have said, it’s something in consultation with the Department of Justice that we would look at,” Mueller said.
At least 11 states have been investigating ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — amid claims of voter registration fraud stemming from the general election in 2008.
The videos by filmmaker James O’Keefe and colleague Hannah Giles have caused ACORN to fire four employees shown on the tapes.
The videos were shot in ACORN offices in New York; Baltimore, Maryland; Washington; and San Bernardino, California. ACORN claims that the film team also attempted but failed to “trick” employees in several other cities to make incriminating statements.
On its Web site, ACORN, which was founded in 1970, describes itself as “the nation’s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities.”
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