statism watch

Flashback: Has Osama Bin Laden been dead for seven years – and are the U.S. and Britain covering it up to continue war on terror? | American dissenters urge: “Stop the 9-11 cover-up” | Charlie Sheen Requests Meeting With Obama Over 9/11 Cover-Up | A Sibel Edmonds Bombshell – Bin Laden Worked for U.S. Until 9/11 | Ex-FBI Agent: Why I Support a New 9/11 Investigation | Professor fingers Thermite charges as responsible for 9/11 demolition | Obama Administration Shuts Down 9/11 Families Lawsuit | Memo: 9/11 Commission Witnesses Were Intimidated By Government “Minders” | 9/11 Commission Counsel: Government Agreed to Lie About 9/11

Subhajit Banerjee, The Telegraph
September 12, 2009

Actor Charlie Sheen has sent a video message urging President Barack Obama to reopen the investigation into the 9/11 attacks.

Sheen had earlier written an open letter to the President in which he claimed that there was cover-up by the Bush administration over the 2001 attacks that claimed the lives of several thousand people.

The six-and-a-half minute video – released on the eighth anniversary of the disaster – opens with news reports and footage of the incident with Sheen’s voiceover: “The questions Mr President, the questions.”

He then runs through the various “unanswered questions” such as World Trade Center workers and rescuers claiming the building imploded after the collision (as if with detonations), sections of the media supposedly reporting the collapse before it actually happened and FBI translator Sibel Edmonds claiming Osama Bin Laden was working for the CIA up until 9/11.

The Two and a Half Men actor is then seen sitting in a garden as he addresses Barack Obama: “Good afternoon Mr President, I come to you today representing the families of the victims of September 11th as well as millions of my fellow Americans.”

“Hopefully by now you’ve had a chance to read my letter to you – Twenty Minutes with the President – and if not at least had its contents brought to your attention.”

The letter addresses 20 key points that Sheen feels need to be answered by a truly independent investigation.

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Flashback: Obama tries to save health-care overhaul on primetime broadcast | Canadian defends anti-medicare ad | ABC Turns Programming Over To Government to Promote State Healthcare Agenda

Update (2009/9/14): The Daily Mail has memory holed the original text of the article (without the customary correction note) and revised their numbers downwards to ‘up to one million’. There’s a big fight going on over these numbers, with the American media acting as a bloc and stating a few thousand showed up. Whatever the exact numbers, ‘thousands’ is patently false and a clear case of political manipulation of the news as the time lapse video of the streets around the Capitol makes clear. A Parks official reported that this was the largest event ever held in the Capitol. In any case, no amount of spin can obscure the fact this protest was epic. Below is the original text.

David Gardner, The Daily Mail
September 12, 2009

Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as “Obamacare makes me sick” as they protested the president’s health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.

The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

People were chanting “enough, enough” and “We the People.” Others yelled “You lie, you lie!” and “Pelosi has to go,” referring to California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.

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What institutions collect the interest on Canada’s debt? Qui bono?

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Steven Chase, Globe and Mail
September 12, 2009

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty speaks to reporters before delivering a speech in Vancouver on Aug. 30, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Plan belies Tory pledge not to balance budget by raising taxes, economist says

Flashback: UK Parents Need Government Permission to Kiss Children

James Slack, Matthew Hickley, Daily Mail
September 12, 2009

Millions of Britons will be placed on a new database to prevent a repeat of the Soham murders in 2002, where Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were killed

A massive vetting system set up to safeguard children and the elderly has come under fire from Sir Michael Bichard – the man whose report into the Soham murders led to its creation.

One in four adults in Britain will have to be screened by the Independent Safeguarding Authority when it goes live next month, before they are allowed to work in any job involving access to children.

It could even cover those who do no more than give neighbours’ or friends’ children lifts to sports or club events.
As opposition to the massive expansion of state vetting of ordinary people grew yesterday, children’s minister Baroness Morgan claimed the plans would help protect children from a repeat of ‘the very tragic events with the murders in Soham.

But within hours Sir Michael Bichard, the former Whitehall mandarin who conducted the inquiry into the Soham killings, called for a review of the ISA’s rules, suggesting the new restrictions on millions of ordinary adults were a disproportionate response to the threat posed by paedophiles.

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