Prof. Kevin Howley Notes “Changing Journalistic Attitudes” Toward 9/11 Questions

Prof. Kevin Howley Notes “Changing Journalistic Attitudes” Toward 9/11 Questions

Prof. Kevin Howley Notes “Changing Journalistic Attitudes” Toward 9/11 Questions

Original article here: http://www.depauw.edu/news/?id=24962

March 8, 2010, Greencastle, Ind. — “If the Tea Party movement is the spoiled stepchild of the American news media, then the 9/11 Truth movement is the mad woman in the attic of U.S. journalistic culture,” according to Kevin Howley, associate professor of communication at DePauw University. His Bloomington Alternative column examines a new study out of Canada which suggests that “news reports that bring up troubling questions about the official story surrounding the events of Sept. 11, 2001, are gaining traction in the international press.”

The professor notes, “Significantly, these news narratives no longer frame the 9/11 Truth movement as so much conspiracy theory. Rather, independent, commercial and public service news organizations the world over are giving serious consideration to allegations that challenge the veracity of the official story that emerged in the days and weeks following the 9/11 attacks.”

According to Dr. Howley, “One story in particular seems to have created an opening for subsequent reports that challenge the official story: the April 2009 publication of a peer-reviewed study appearing in Open Chemical Physics Journal. The journal article presents the findings of an examination of dust from the site of the World Trade Center. The dust sample revealed traces of nano-thermite, a highly explosive substance that has been linked to classified military research.” That work led to coverage by several mainstream news organizations, Howley reports.

Citing other examples, the professor writes, “For instance, in a story pegged to the anniversary of the attacks, the Sept. 11, 2009, edition of London’s Daily Mail draws on the work of Dr. David Ray Griffin whose book Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? suggests that bin Laden died of kidney failure — in December 2001. Griffin goes on to challenge the authenticity of audio messages attributed to bin Laden since that time. Soon thereafter, Griffin — one of the leading spokespeople for the 9/11 Truth movement — was named one of ‘The Fifty People who Matter Today’ by Britain’s New Statesman. In November 2009, Griffin joined other prominent truthers on the Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s award-winning series The Fifth Estate. The report, aptly titled ‘The Unofficial Story,’ explores a number of inconsistencies in the dominant media narrative surrounding 9/11.”

The column concludes, “Changing journalistic attitudes toward the 9/11 Truth movement is a welcome and long overdue development. We also owe a debt of gratitude to international news workers who have shifted the terms of the debate away from conspiracy theory to a legitimate scientific debate worthy of public scrutiny.” Howley maintains that “news media are the lifeblood of social movements. In the absence of thorough, substantive and accurate reporting of social movements, taboo subjects and uncomfortable truths remain out of sight and out of mind.”

Read the complete text at the weekly newspaper’s Web site.

Kevin Howley is the editor of the recently published textbook, Understanding Community Media. Read the companion piece to his latest essay in this recent story.

The Road to Armageddon

The Road to Armageddon
February 25, 2010By Paul Craig Roberts opednews.com The Washington Times is a newspaper that looks with favor upon the Bush/Cheney/Obama/neocon wars of aggression in the Middle East and favors making terrorists pay for 9/11. Therefore, I was surprised to learn on February 24 that the most popular story on the paper’s website for the past three days was the "Inside the Beltway" report, "Explosive News," about the 31 press conferences in cities in the US and abroad on February 19 held by Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, an organization of professionals which now has 1,000 members. I was even more surprised that the news report treated the press conference seriously.How did three World Trade Center skyscrapers suddenly disintegrate into fine dust? How did massive steel beams in three skyscrapers suddenly fail as a result of short-lived, isolated, and low temperature fires? "A thousand architects and engineers want to know, and are calling on Congress to order a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and Building 7," reports the Washington Times. The paper reports that the architects and engineers have concluded that the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Institute of Standards and Technology provided "insufficient, contradictory and fraudulent accounts of the circumstances of the towers’ destruction" and are "calling for a grand jury investigation of NIST officials." The newspaper reports that Richard Gage, the spokesperson for the architects and engineers said: "Government officials will be notified that "Misprision of Treason,’ U.S. Code 18 (Sec. 2382) is a serious federal offense, which requires those with evidence of treason to act. The implications are enormous and may have profound impact on the forthcoming Khalid Sheik Mohammed trial."

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine exposed

The ethnic cleansing of Palestine exposed
A Palestinian family stands in the remains of their house, demolished by the Israeli authorities in the Beit Hanina neighborhood, 13 July 2009. More images here. Tonight TNRA welcomes Michael Shaik, spokesman for Australians for Palestine. As detailed in their mission statement, Australians for Palestine is committed to dispelling the myths and disinformation about Palestine in Australia. “It [...]

Tonight TNRA welcomes Michael Shaik, spokesman for Australians for Palestine.

As detailed in their mission statement, Australians for Palestine is committed to dispelling the myths and disinformation about Palestine in Australia. “It seeks to communicate the Palestinian narrative from a historical perspective, as well as through the current political developments impacting on Palestinians wherever they are, the Middle East region, and the world at large.”

Michael is an Australian who worked as a media coordinator in Gaza for the International Solidarity Movement.  In 2003 he was jailed and deported for “unspecified security reasons”.

During the interview we examine several facets of the problem of Israeli and Palestininan relations.

We look at the historical origins of the Jewish state, the failures of the recent United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict, the Mossad passport controversy and double standards exhibited by our media and government in relation to documented crimes against humanity perpetrated by the State of Israel, such as the use of white phosphorous shells during the 2009 incursion into Gaza.

A very important show - don’t miss it!

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Source: www.truthnews.com.au

Introducing the Australian Pirate Party

Introducing the Australian Pirate Party
Is downloading of copyrighted content theft? Should we reform the concepts of digital and intellectual property? Do new technologies like BitTorrent really require new criminal statutes or should record companies change their business models? Is the criminalisation of file sharing really just protecting the interests of mega corporations? Tonight we welcome to the show David Crafti, [...]

Is downloading of copyrighted content theft? Should we reform the concepts of digital and intellectual property? Do new technologies like BitTorrent really require new criminal statutes or should record companies change their business models? Is the criminalisation of file sharing really just protecting the interests of mega corporations?

Tonight we welcome to the show David Crafti, President of the Pirate Party of Australia to discuss these and more questions.

What is the Pirate Party all about? From the pp website:

Real property is something that you can touch. In simple terms, if one person possesses it, another person cannot possess it at the same time. Intellectual property is information. If a person makes a copy of a song, the person who owns the original is not deprived of the song.

The Pirate Party is dedicated to protecting civil liberties with an emphasis on reform of copyright law, freedom of speech and protection of privacy. Other policy areas include opposition to internet censorship, support for an R18+ rating for games and providing parents with software tools to manage access to the internet.

The Australian Pirate Party has affiliations with movements around the world which are rapidly gaining in popularity.

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Source: www.truthnews.com.au

Kevin Ryan at Keene State College on Controlled Demolition of World Trade Center Towers

Kevin Ryan at Keene State College on Controlled Demolition of World Trade Center Towers

China, Iran and the new axis of evil

China, Iran and the new axis of evil
We lead tonight with news that Google is pulling out of China, amid renewed threats from top US military figures against Iran. We analyse these developments with an eye to the bigger picture of geoplitical strategy and note that this is bound to strengthen ties between China and Iran, as the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear [...]

We lead tonight with news that Google is pulling out of China, amid renewed threats from top US military figures against Iran. We analyse these developments with an eye to the bigger picture of geoplitical strategy and note that this is bound to strengthen ties between China and Iran, as the stand-off over Iran’s nuclear capability heightens.

We also bring you an excerpt from Gerald Celente’s trend forecast for 2010.

In the second half we take a look at some Australian stories, including new laws banning alcohol on Australia day, and government bans on “smoko breaks”.

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Source: www.truthnews.com.au

The Dam Bursts - Australian media blockade on 9/11 truth broken!

The Dam Bursts - Australian media blockade on 9/11 truth broken!
With the publication today of a half page spread in Sydney’s leading broadsheet newspaper, we can finally announce that the eight year blackout on reportage of the worldwide movement for truth and justice known as the 9/11 Truth Movement, has finally ended. This is a very important day for all of us who have fought to [...]

With the publication today of a half page spread in Sydney’s leading broadsheet newspaper, we can finally announce that the eight year blackout on reportage of the worldwide movement for truth and justice known as the 9/11 Truth Movement, has finally ended.

This is a very important day for all of us who have fought to bring this information to light, whether through street activism, blogging, or even just trying to convince our friends and family that this is real and important.

Today there are two stories in the Sydney Morning Herald:

Utzon’s son signs up for September 11 conspiracy theory

Fire, not a government plot, felled third tower

In tonight’s edition of Truth News Radio Australia we discuss these stories with a very courageous hotelier who can justly take some credit for Jan Utzon’s “conversion” to the 9/11 truth movement.

No evidence of explosions ..?

A selection of firefighter and rescue worker statements consistent with explosive demolition:

At that time I started walking back up towards Vesey Street. I heard three explosions, and then we heard like groaning and grinding, and tower two started to come down.
–PARAMEDIC KEVIN DARNOWSKI Date: November 9, 2001

Somewhere around the middle of the world trade center there was this orange and red flash coming out. Initially it was just one flash. Then this flash just kept popping all the way around the building and that building had started to explode. The popping sound, and with each popping sound it was initially an orange and then red flash came out of the building and then it would just go all around the building on both sides as far as could see. These popping sounds and the explosions were getting bigger, going both up and down and then all around the building.
– CAPTAIN KARIN DESHORE  Interview Date: Novermber 7, 2001

I looked back. You see three explosions and then the whole thing coming down.
–FIREFIGHTER FRANK CAMPAGNA  Interview Date: December 4, 2001

The next thing I know, we heard a little bit of a rumbling, and then white powder came from the first collapsed building. I thought it was an explosion initially. We got hit with the powder. We tried to run. We got hit with the powder. It took a few minutes to clear.
…
After that, I still thought it was an explosion. I thought it was some kind of thermal explosion where I’m either going to get burnt — and I had kind of ideas that it was going to be something like Hiroshima where all this heat was coming at me and we were going to get burnt — or if the heat didn’t burn me, I thought that all the parts coming out of this building, the windows, metal, all the things like that, that I might be severed in half.
–LIEUTENANT GEORGE J. DeSIMONE  Interview Date: October 22, 2001

.. for some reason I thought that when I looked in the direction of the Trade Center before it came down, before No. 2 came down, that I saw low-level flashes. In my conversation with Lieutenant Evangelista, never mentioning this to him, he questioned me and asked me if I saw low-level flashes in front of the building, and I agreed with him because I thought — at that time I didn’t know what it was. I mean, it could have been as a result of the building collapsing, things exploding, but I saw a flash flash flash and then it looked like the building came down.

Q. Was that on the lower level of the building or up where the fire was?

A. No, the lower level of the building. You know like when they demolish a building, how when they blow up a building, when it falls down? That’s what I thought I saw. And I didn’t broach the topic to him, but he asked me. He said I don’t know if I’m crazy, but I just wanted to ask you because you were standing right next to me. He said did you see anything by the building? And I said what do you mean by see anything? He said did you see any flashes? I said, yes, well, I thought it was just me. He said no, I saw them, too.
–ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER STEPHEN GREGORY  Interview Date: October 3, 2001

Source: www.truthnews.com.au

Aliens are nothing but Jinns/Demons/Evil Spirits……Period 3 - 3

Aliens are nothing but Jinns/Demons/Evil Spirits……Period 3 - 3
Author: TheOutworldish Keywords: Conspiritus 9 Added: December 30, 2009
Source: youtube.com

International Trailer

International Trailer
In this follow-up to the worldwide hit “Alien vs. Predator,” the iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises ever, wage war in an American Midwestern town — with the residents caught in the middle.
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Welcome to the Nanny State

Welcome to the Nanny State
Tonight we cover a variety of local and international news stories, with the common theme being the increasing stranglehold of government on every aspect of our lives. It appears that the new paradigm of government is that the people must be influenced by any any all means to follow the wishes of the rulers, including, but [...]

Tonight we cover a variety of local and international news stories, with the common theme being the increasing stranglehold of government on every aspect of our lives.

It appears that the new paradigm of government is that the people must be influenced by any any all means to follow the wishes of the rulers, including, but not limited to the use of  “behavioural modification” techniques from applied psychology.

We ask the question: is this in any way compatible with a free society?

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To cheer you up, here’s a clip of Sarah McLachlan and a bunch of kids singing John Lennon’s Happy Xmas (War is Over):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWqbv6NdqXs

Source: www.truthnews.com.au

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