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9/11 – World Swirling in Volcano of Lies

by Dennis Cimino with Jim Fetzer

Veterans Today, 14 February 2014

BREAKING NEWS: We have found a resolution that validates and integrates three apparently inconsistent positions (on the use of big nukes, small nukes and nanothermite) from respected experts on 9/11.

The contentious debate over how the Twin Towers were destroyed has pitted those favoring large (“basement”) nukes against those identifying small nukes distributed in the elevator shafts throughout the buildings against those promoting thermite (or “nanothermite”).

Some of the most interesting and important research on the mode of destruction of the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11 has come from “the Anonymous Physicist”, who has endorsed the use of mini or micro nukes but has also suggested that a mix of devices was employed.

Having devoted several articles to the destruction of the Twin Towers and perhaps also of WTC-7 (“Building 7″) using mini or micro nukes, I regard it as of scientific value to review the bidding from time to time, in case something significant may have been overlooked.

The Anonymous Physicist has drawn a parallel between the efforts that have been made to obfuscate and confound the public about the death of JFK, which has been comparable to what has been done in relation to 9/11. As he observes,

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2014/02/14

Henry Jenkins: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture – Media Education for the 21st Century

Academia, Civil Society, Ethics, Media

WHITE PAPER: 72 Pages

Executive Summary

According to a recent study from the Pew Internet & American Life project (Lenhardt & Madden, 2005), more than one-half of all teens have created media content, and roughly one-third of teens who use the Internet have shared content they produced. In many cases, these teens are actively involved in what we are calling participatory cultures.

A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices. A participatory culture is also
one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created). Forms of participatory culture include:

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2014/02/04

SchwartzReport: US Media Blacks Out Snowden Video

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Media, Military

The self-censorship in American corporate media, as well as the deliberate obfuscation that arises from focusing attention on the meaningless and ephemeral, in my mind, is a trend that is becoming a major issue. It is almost impossible to get the level of news required for an informed electorate from mainstream sources.

Media Blacks Out New Snowden Interview the Government Doesn't Want you to See
JAY SYRMOPOULOS – B Swann

Phi Beta Iota: Below is the video in question, available here since it was first offered.

Berto Jongman: German TV Interview of Edward Snowden in Russia – 30-Minute Blockbuster BLACKED OUT by US Media

See Especially:

Berto Jongman: How Edward Snowden Went From Loyal Right Wing NSA Contractor to Whistleblower Extraordinare — Advance Extract from “The” Book

See Also:

Snowden @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/02/012014/02/16

Berto Jongman: How Edward Snowden Went From Loyal Right Wing NSA Contractor to Whistleblower Extraordinare — Advance Extract from “The” Book

Corruption, Government, Media

The best account available to date.

UPDATE 16 FEB 14: Glenn Greenwald considers the book complete bullshit.

How Edward Snowden went from loyal NSA contractor to whistleblower

He was politically conservative, a gun owner, a geek – and the man behind the biggest intelligence leak in history. In this exclusive extract from his new book, Luke Harding looks at Edward Snowden's journey from patriot to America's most wanted

Luke Harding

The Guardian, Friday 31 January 2014

Read full article.

Phi Beta Iota: This is quite an extraordinary account — the detail is compelling. The extract from the new book has been very well chosen, this may become one of the most read Guardian articles in relation to the Snowden matter.

See Also:

NSA @ Phi Beta Iota

Snowden @ Phi Beta Iota

2014/01/282014/01/28

Jim Dean: CNN & Amanpour – Lacking Integrity?

Corruption, Media

Did CNN Knowingly Hype an Intel Psyop Atrocity Report?

Geneva II – CNN throws a Curveball Just before Summit

… by Seth Ferris, … with New Eastern Outlook, Moscow

[ Editor's note: Corporpate media earned some new stripes in the past week for being in the bag 0f someone's intelligence agency when they want to herd the rest of us like lemmings to the sea.

The attempt to tag Assad with an anonymous single source mega-atrocity is being laughed at worldwide.

Intelligence people are wondering how could CNN have been suckered into to this when they had to know that the story was just unbelievable.

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2014/01/20

Penguin: US Media Disinformation on Ecuador

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Media, Peace Intelligence

What is the U.S. Media up to in its Coverage of Ecuador?

By William K. Black

New Economic Perspectives, 17 January 2014

If the Obama administration wanted to improve relations with Latin America the most obvious move would be to seek closer ties with Ecuador. Ecuador has been transformed into a nation with a stable political system, a head of state reelected by enormous margins in free elections, substantial economic progress, and a pragmatic development program. That program embraces policies that even the Washington Consensus praised that focus government expenditures on health, education, and infrastructure. The policies also champion an idea most identified with the conservative economist Hernando de Soto – making it far easier for entrepreneurs to start new businesses. President Correa is the leader who continues to surprise his friends and foes by taking steps that make economic sense even if they are identified with the “right” while keeping a relentless focus on the needs of the poor. That focus on the poor comes from Correa’s Catholic social justice beliefs that the Pope has recently been returning to centrality.

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2014/01/192014/01/19

Chuck Spinney: Denial & Ignorance in America

Civil Society, Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, Idiocy, Media

For America, Denial Is a River in Iraq

by JP Sottile, Antiwar.com, January 18, 2014

Americans don’t know much about geography.

In 2006, three years into the bloody War on Iraq, 63% of Americans aged 18-24 couldn’t find the “target-rich” nation on a map.

To be fair, only half could find New York State on a map, so it is unsurprising that, in spite of its then-dominance of the news cycle, they couldn’t locate the principal fixation of American foreign policy on a map that still brims with U.S. military bases and deployments.

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