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Barbara Lee’s Lone Vote on Sept. 14, 2001, Was as Prescient as It Was Brave and Heroic

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:07:28 +0000

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Barbara Lee’s Lone Vote on Sept. 14, 2001, Was as Prescient as It Was Brave and Heroic

Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:07:28 +0000

Tags: #911 #politics #war

Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:39:25 +0000

The best memorial to the victims of 9/11, in Schneier’s view, would be to forget most of the “lessons” of 9/11. “It’s infuriating,” he said, waving my fraudulent boarding pass to indicate the mass of waiting passengers, the humming X-ray machines, the piles of unloaded computers and cell phones on the conveyor belts, the uniformed T.S.A. officers instructing people to remove their shoes and take loose change from their pockets. “We’re spending billions upon billions of dollars doing this—and it is almost entirely pointless. Not only is it not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to do.”

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The death of a taboo - 2008 Presidential Campaign Blog - Political Intelligence - Boston.com

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:01:15 +0000

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Olbermann apologizes for RNC showing graphic video of September 11, Twin Towers falling

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:59:50 +0000

"Yes, John Mccain actually used the video of the Twin Towers getting hit and falling tonight. No decency whatsoever."

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Cloverfield Review: Nevermind the Monster -- Cloverfield Is All About 9/11

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:18:25 +0000

"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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9/11 is Over

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:28:41 +0000

"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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Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America' | Special reports | The Observer

Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:11 +0000

"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."

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Wolf Blitzer interviews Ron Paul (Scripting News)

Thu, 17 May 2007 15:26:38 +0000

"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. He's

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Boing Boing: TSA donates potentially explosive liquids to homeless

Sun, 13 May 2007 19:22:12 +0000

"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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When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? | steve-olson.com

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 23:13:10 +0000

"When did America become a nation of frightened wimps? When did we cross the line from courage to cowardice?"

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MAKE: Blog: UPDATED: Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED art shuts down Boston

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:56:21 +0000

"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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Turner Broadcasting "regrets" Boston security scare - Yahoo! News

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:48:55 +0000

"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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Was 9/11 really that bad? - Los Angeles Times

Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:54:19 +0000

"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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Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice - washingtonpost.com

Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:33:45 +0000

"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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