1 month ago
deusx : Olbermann apologizes for RNC showing graphic video of September 11, Twin Towers falling - "Yes, John Mccain actually used the video of the Twin Towers getting hit and falling tonight. No decency whatsoever."
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1 month ago
deusx : The death of a taboo - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com - "One of the most enduring taboos in American politics, the airing of graphic images from the September 11 attacks in a partisan context, died today. It was nearly seven years old. The informal prohibition, which had been occasionally threatened by p
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9 month ago
deusx : Cloverfield Review: Nevermind the Monster -- Cloverfield Is All About 9/11 - "ut when the movie's images of a destroyed New York fallen into chaos haunt you for days afterward, you'll start to realize that Reeves and his twangy-ass monster have given the U.S. its first great movie about 9/11."
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12 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : 9/11 Is Over - “Our government has been exporting fear, not hope: ‘Give me your tired, your poor and your fingerprints.’” ∞
deusx : 9/11 is Over - "We can’t afford to keep being this stupid! We have got to get our groove back. We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy."
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17 month ago
deusx : Wolf Blitzer interviews Ron Paul (Scripting News) - "Paul is right, of course -- and Blitzer is wrong. Paul is the only candidate of either party with the guts to cut through the nonsense and say what's obviously true. And Blitzer is the one that owes us an apology, for carrying the lies for so long.
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17 month ago
deusx : Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' | Special reports | The Observer - "Online document: the full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people", reported in today's Observer. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic and has since been translated and circulated by Islamists in Britain.&qu
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17 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: TSA donates potentially explosive liquids to homeless - "Could it be that the FAA ban on liquids is really a plot to rid the country of homeless people, through the use of explosive liquids?"
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18 month ago
deusx : When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? | steve-olson.com - "When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? When did we cross the line from courage to cowardice?"
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20 month ago
deusx : Turner Broadcasting "regrets" Boston security scare - Yahoo! News - "Turner Broadcasting apologized on Wednesday for a marketing campaign that sparked Boston's biggest security scare since the September 11, 2001, attacks -- closing bridges, shutting major roads and putting hundreds of police on alert. "
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20 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: UPDATED: Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED art shuts down Boston - "Even if it was just something random, it sort of shows the folly of our security-obsessed world when a fictional martian can set a major city on high alert."
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21 month ago
deusx : Was 9/11 really that bad? - Los Angeles Times - "a messy, difficult, long-term struggle against exceptionally dangerous criminals who actually like nothing better than being put on the same level of historical importance as Hitler — can you imagine a better recruiting tool?"
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21 month ago
plasticbag : New York is going to make it so that its 911 and 311 emergency and irritation lines can accept images and video - I love this idea, if they can effectively hook it together so that images and phone calls are effectively matched together. The idea of taking a picture of a criminal and sending it with your call, or of the wound of a car crash victim. Very smart...
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25 month ago
deusx : Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice - washingtonpost.com - "Afterward, Tenet looked back on the meeting with Rice as a tremendous lost opportunity to prevent or disrupt the Sept. 11 attacks. Rice could have gotten through to Bush on the threat, but she just didn't get it in time, Tenet thought."
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25 month ago
deusx : 9/11 Toxic Dust Whistleblower Raided By SWAT Team - "Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up"
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25 month ago
deusx : Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Bush: Saddam not responsible for 9/11 - "The admission that Saddam had no connection to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon was a departure for a president who is famously averse to any expression of regret."
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25 month ago
Nelson Minar : Olbermann video - via Peter
deusx : Crooks and Liars � Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you - "Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have."
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26 month ago
deusx : Wired News: Refuse to be Terrorized - "The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act."
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