14 ingenieros estructurales desafían públicamente la explicación oficial de la destrucción de las Torres Gemelas

No hay explicación científica de cómo se derribaron las Torres, si no se incluye el concepto de "demolición controlada". Tan simple como eso. La explicación oficial de los ataques del 11/9 es una enorme mentira, quizás la más grande en la historia.

Two professors of structural engineering at a prestigious Swiss university (Dr. Joerg Schneider and Dr. Hugo Bachmann) said that, on 9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition (translation here)

Kamal S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California, says:

"Photos of the steel, evidence about how the buildings collapsed, the unexplainable collapse of WTC 7, evidence of thermite in the debris as well as several other red flags, are quite troubling indications of well planned and controlled demolition"

Ronald H. Brookman, structural engineer, with a masters degree in Engineering from UC Davis, of Novato California, writes:

"Why would all 110 stories drop straight down to the ground in about 10 seconds, pulverizing the contents into dust and ash - twice. Why would all 47 stories of WTC 7 fall straight down to the ground in about seven seconds the same day? It was not struck by any aircraft or engulfed in any fire. An independent investigation is justified for all three collapses including the surviving steel samples and the composition of the dust."

Continúan los vuelos clandestinos de la CIA a prisiones secretas

Y por supuesto, los "enemigos combatientes" que son secuestrados y llevados a las prisiones secretas en Egipto, Polonia, Jordania y varios otros países, son torturados por meses o años e incluso desaparecidos o muertos. Esta es la "democracia" al estilo americano en el siglo XXI. Fascismo puro.

FOUR CIA jets, two of which were identified last year in a special EU report into the practice of extraordinary rendition, have landed at Shannon Airport in recent days, leading to renewed calls for the Government to ban aircraft suspected of participating in the practice.

Extraordinary renditions are operations to apprehend terrorists abroad and transport them to another state for interrogation, usually without the knowledge of the host government. The procedure was developed by the CIA in the mid-1990s.

At least four suspect aircraft landed at Shannon over the past week. Last Wednesday, one of the jets, registration N475LC, made a refuelling stop lasting half-an-hour. Another plane, N478GS, made a similar stop at the airport on Saturday afternoon. One man, believed to be a US government agent, was seen observing the refuelling process.

The planes, operated by Centurion Aviation Services, a shelf company for the CIA, were identified in the EU report on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, which was published in November 2006. Despite this, both jets continue to stop at Shannon.

Late last Sunday night, two more aircraft, N71PG and N54PA, were due in Shannon. Records show that both jets visited numerous airforce bases in the US in recent weeks. However, flight records for N475LC and N478GS are no longer accessible online...

...In recent weeks, it has been revealed that the US government transported prisoners through the British territory of Diego Garcia without apparently informing the British government, and in spite of US government assurances that no prisoners were transported through British territory.

"Even more serious is the statement in the past few days by Manfred Nowak, UN torture investigator, that Diego Garcia was actually used to imprison prisoners captured by the US in Afghanistan or Iraq."

■ Cheney: la guerra contra Irán y la baja del petróleo

El vicepresidente Richard Bruce Cheney, el verdadero poder tras el trono en Washington donde Baby Bush figura como marioneta, es un hombre sumamente ambicioso pese a sus infartos en el miocardio y, quizá, en el que pudiera representar el último periplo de su vida pretende buscar la cuadratura del círculo al desear simultáneamente desatar la guerra contra Irán y la baja del petróleo.

Se trata de dos objetivos incompatibles, ya que una guerra contra Irán desembocaría en el cierre del Estrecho de Ormuz, que pudiera disparar el precio del oro negro a más de 200 dólares el barril.

La congruencia no es el fuerte del régimen torturador bushiano, catalogado hoy como el peor de la corta historia de Estados Unidos, ya que el contenido de su pensamiento es poco sofisticado y asemeja lineal y maniqueamente a los reflejos condicionados pavlovianos de los invertebrados. El Medio Oriente es mucho más complejo en su estructura mental y difícilmente los nueve días del extenso periplo de Cheney puedan hacer cambiar el parecer de los mandatarios de la región, quienes en su conjunto se han percatado de la decadencia del imperio estadunidense cuyo símbolo mayúsculo, el dólar, vale menos que una acción bursátil del insolvente banco Bear Stearns.

Irak: El nuevo fascismo

Esta guerrra contra el terrorismo es falsa

Pero... Pero... Pero la "guerra" calderónica contra el narco es verdadera, ¿cierto? ¿cierto?

In fact, 9/11 offered an extremely convenient pretext to put the PNAC plan into action. The evidence again is quite clear that plans for military action against Afghanistan and Iraq were in hand well before 9/11. A report prepared for the US government from the Baker Institute of Public Policy stated in April 2001 that "the US remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma. Iraq remains a destabilising influence to... the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East". Submitted to Vice-President Cheney's energy task group, the report recommended that because this was an unacceptable risk to the US, "military intervention" was necessary (Sunday Herald, October 6 2002).

Similar evidence exists in regard to Afghanistan. The BBC reported (September 18 2001) that Niaz Niak, a former Pakistan foreign secretary, was told by senior American officials at a meeting in Berlin in mid-July 2001 that "military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October". Until July 2001 the US government saw the Taliban regime as a source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of hydrocarbon pipelines from the oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean. But, confronted with the Taliban's refusal to accept US conditions, the US representatives told them "either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs" (Inter Press Service, November 15 2001).

Turquía invade Irak por el norte

10,000 soldados turcos invadieron la región kurda de Irak ayer. Y muchos más están esperando en la frontera. Esto se pondrá muy mal antes de mejorar.

A new crisis has exploded in Iraq after Turkish troops, supported by attack planes and Cobra helicopters, yesterday launched a major ground offensive into Iraqi Kurdistan.

The invading Turkish soldiers are in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas hiding in the mountains. They are seeking to destroy the camps of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) along the border between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan. "Thousands of troops have crossed the border and thousands more are waiting at the border to join them if necessary," said a Turkish military source.

EU mata al séptimo "3ero. de Al-qaeda"

La "guerra contra el terrorismo" es tan falsa como la "guerra contra el narco" calderonista. Una falacia total. Como lo indica el artículo, esta es la séptima ocasión que se reporta que el "3o. de Al-qaeda" es eliminado por el ejército americano.

This is certainly welcome news. I'm curious, though, if anyone has a list of al Qaeda #3s who've been captured or killed recently. I was keeping a list for a while, and I think al-Libi is the seventh, following Hamza Rabia, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Saif al-Adel, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed, and a senior operational leader identified in court documents as "C-2."

La OTAN "no está ganando" en Afganistán

Lo que el editor quiso decir... Es que la OTAN está perdiendo en Afganistán. Nada de qué sorprenderse, ya que el último en conquistar esa región fue Alejandro Magno, hace 2,500 años.

NATO forces in Afghanistan are in a "strategic stalemate," as Taliban insurgents expand their control of sparsely populated areas and as the central government fails to carry out vital reforms and reconstruction, according to an independent assessment released yesterday by NATO's former commander.

"Make no mistake, NATO is not winning in Afghanistan," said the report by the Atlantic Council of the United States, chaired by retired Gen. James L. Jones, who until the summer of 2006 served as the supreme allied commander of NATO.

Faluya, una ciudad destruída, un crímen de guerra enorme

Faluya, una ciudad destruída por EU, después de 3 años no cuenta con agua potable, electricidad o medicinas. Lo dicho, hay fascismos "buenos" y EU pone el ejemplo.

Fallujah is more difficult to enter than any city in the world. On the road from Baghdad I counted 27 checkpoints, all manned by well-armed soldiers and police. "The siege is total," says Dr Kamal in Fallujah Hospital as he grimly lists his needs, which include everything from drugs and oxygen to electricity and clean water.

The last time I tried to drive to Fallujah, several years ago, I was caught in the ambush of an American fuel convoy and had to crawl out of the car and lie beside the road with the driver while US soldiers and guerrillas exchanged gunfire. The road is now much safer but nobody is allowed to enter Fallujah who does not come from there and can prove it through elaborate identity documents. The city has been sealed off since November 2004 when United States Marines stormed it in an attack that left much of the city in ruins.

El Congreso de EU aprueba un presupuesto de defensa de US$700,000 millones

Un país que gasta ese volumen de dinero en "defensa", ha dejado de ser democrático. EU gasta más de 5 veces lo que todos los demás países del mundo JUNTOS gastan en la industria militar. ¿Cómo puede entonces EU declarar que otros países u organizaciones son una amenaza a su seguridad? Repito, el gasto de EU para el siguiente año fiscal será de US$700,000 millones de dólares.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a defense policy bill on Wednesday that would authorize $696 billion in military programs, including $189 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

El Congreso de EU ignora el reporte de Inteligencia sobre Irán, lo declara una amenaza nuclear

EU necesita urgentemente otra guerra, para sostener el gigante peso de la crisis de solvencia y el nivel de vida al que los americanos han estado acostumbrados durante varias décadas. Y mientras más tiempo pasa y menos tiempo le queda a Bush en la presidencia, más peligroso se volverá para Irán.

Iran poses a nuclear weapons threat to the United States and its allies, according to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 H R 4986 passed 369-46 by the US House of Representative yesterday, even though the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that that Tehran abandoned its atomic weaponry ambitions in 2003.

EU: Los ex-prisioneros de Guantánamo NO son "legalmente" personas

No sólo eso, sino que la Corte decide que la tortura es el resultado previsible de la detención por el ejército de los "enemigos combatientes". Si esto no es fascismo, no sé qué puede ser. Creo que ni Hitler fue tan descarado al tratar de justificar las injusticias cometidas en su tiempo.

In a 43-page opinion, Circuit Judge Karen Lecraft Henderson found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a statute that applies by its terms to all “persons” did not apply to detainees at Guantánamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law. The Court also dismissed the detainees’ claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the Geneva Conventions, finding defendants immune on the basis that “torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants.” Finally, the Court found that, even if torture and religious abuse were illegal, defendants were immune under the Constitution because they could not have reasonably known that detainees at Guantánamo had any constitutional rights.

El crimen organizado y sus causas

El ambiente nacional se encuentra estremecido por el combate entre militares y delincuentes que ocurrió antier en la localidad fronteriza de Río Bravo por la posterior agresión –al parecer perpetrada por sicarios del narcotráfico– contra agentes de la Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI) en Reynosa, en la que dos efectivos murieron y otros tres fueron lesionados, y por los intensos despliegues de elementos castrenses y de policías en grandes zonas del territorio nacional. Con ese telón de fondo ayer se reunió el Consejo de Seguridad Pública. Allí y en otros ámbitos, las voces del oficialismo, encabezadas por el titular del Poder Ejecutivo, clamaron por unidad, cohesión y hasta por unanimidad para enfrentar a la delincuencia; reiteraron su confianza en la posibilidad de derrotarla, y demandaron –en diversos tonos– que todo el país comparta las premisas desde las cuales la actual administración se ha embarcado en una confrontación cada vez más violenta con los cárteles de la droga.

No hay quien no comparta la necesidad axiomática de perseguir, capturar y presentar ante instancias judiciales a quienes infringen las leyes, especialmente a quienes lo hacen de manera violenta y concertada para consumar negocios prohibidos. La delincuencia organizada causa un grave daño al país, a sus habitantes y a sus instituciones; genera inseguridad y zozobra, y pervierte casi todos los ámbitos de la vida nacional, incluidos, por supuesto, el desempeño económico y el quehacer institucional.

Rabino agradece a Bush por la guerra de Irak

Bush es una rara mezcla de fanatismo cristiano, sionismo y militarización descarnada. Cree que habla con dios y éste le ordena hacer cosas. Nunca la religión y la política han sido buena mezcla, y en el caso de GB ha sido desastrosa. Su apoyo incondicional a Israel (en realidad al sionismo racista y genocida) ha sido la principal causa del desastre en Irak y posiblemente próximamente en Irán.

During a short verbal exchange Wednesday at the Ben-Gurion Airport Terminal, Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger thanked President George W. Bush for the US's military intervention in Iraq.

"I want to thank you for your support of Israel and in particular for waging a war against Iraq," Metzger told Bush, according to the chief rabbi's spokesman.

Bush reportedly answered that the chief rabbi's words "warmed his heart."

Bush promete a Israel: Bombardearemos Irán con armas nucleares

Sólo para que no haya duda de los estúpidos esquizofrénicos y genocidas que detentan el poder ahora.

US President George W. Bush promised Israel's opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu that the United States will join the Jewish state in a nuclear strike against Iran, Israel Radio reported today.

Former Prime Minister Netanyahu, opposition Likud party's hardline chairman who opposes the US-backed Annapolis peace process, reiterated to President Bush his stance, that a pre-emptive nuclear strike against Iran's nuclear installations was the only way to stop the Islamic nation's nuclear weapons ambitions.

"I told him my position and Bush agreed," Netanyahu told Israel Radio.

During their 45-minute meeting at King David hotel in Jerusalem Netanyahu also told Bush that "Jerusalem belongs to the Jewish people and will remain under Israeli sovereignty for eternity."

President Bush issued a stark warning to Iran over Strait of Hormuz incident, saying that "all options are on the table to protect our assets."

EU: La "grabación" de voces puede no haber sido de lanchas iraníes

Eu necesita otra guerra para prolongar su agonía económica, cuya muerte llegará tarde o temprano (más temprano que tarde). Y está provocando una confrontación para tener un pretexto para atacar. La masacre en Irak comenzó así. Con una gran mentira de Bush, Blair y Aznar.

Just two days after the U.S. Navy released the eerie video of Iranian speedboats swarming around American warships, which featured a chilling threat in English, the Navy is saying that the voice on the tape could have come from the shore or from another ship.

The near-clash occurred over the weekend in the Strait of Hormuz. On the U.S.-released recording, a voice can be heard saying to the Americans, "I am coming to you. You will explode after a few minutes."

The Navy never said specifically where the voices came from, but many were left with the impression they had come from the speedboats because of the way the Navy footage was edited.

Today, the spokesperson for the U.S. admiral in charge of the Fifth Fleet clarified to ABC News that the threat may have come from the Iranian boats, or it may have come from somewhere else.

No culpan a Al Qaeda, culpan a Musharraf

Musharraf es un dictador con todo el apoyo de EU. Esa es la realidad. Por eso, cualquier "condena" de EU de este asesinato suena hueca. Y la población en Pakistán lo sabe.

Qué raro, ¿verdad? La forma en que rápidamente nos presentan la narración. Benazir Bhutto, la valerosa lideresa del Partido Popular de Pakistán (PPP), es asesinada en Rawalpindi, lugar pegado a la capital, Islamabad, donde vive el ex general Pervez Musharraf, y George W. Bush nos dice que sus asesinos eran “extremistas” y “terroristas”. Bueno, eso sí que no se puede refutar.

Pero la implicación del comentario de Bush era que islamitas están detrás del asesinato. Fueron nuevamente los locos talibanes, esa araña de Al Qaeda que atacó a esta mujer, sola y valiente, quien se atrevió a pedir democracia para su país.

Desde luego, dada la pueril cobertura de esta tragedia atroz, e independientemente de lo corrupta que pudo haber sido la señora Bhutto, no nos hagamos ilusiones de que esta valiente dama es ciertamente una verdadera mártir. No es sorpresa que el viejo caballito de batalla de “el bien contra el mal” sea expuesto de nuevo para explicar la carnicería en Rawalpindi.

A juzgar por lo que informaron el jueves la BBC y CNN, quién se hubiera imaginado que los dos hermanos de la ex primera ministra, Murtaza y Shahawaz, secuestraron un avión comercial paquistaní en 1981 y lo llevaron hasta Kabul, donde Murtaza exigió la excarcelación de prisioneros políticos de Pakistán. En el episodio, un oficial militar a bordo de la nave fue asesinado. Había estadunidenses entre los pasajeros, lo cual probablemente explica por qué todos los prisioneros fueron liberados.

Turcos bombardean localidades kurdas en el norte de Irak

Y la región se desestabiliza más todavía.

TUNCELI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.

The Turkish military said the offensive against outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas inside Turkey and across the border in northern Iraq would continue.

"Turkish Air Force warplanes struck important targets of the PKK/KONGRA-GEL terror group in northern Iraq ... between the hours of 14:25-15:00 (7:25 a.m. - 8 a.m. EST)," the General Staff statement, posted on its website, said.

"The PKK will understand through experience that northern Iraq is not a safe place and they will understand once again that they have no chance against the Turkish military," it said.

Turkey says it has the right to use force to combat separatist rebels who shelter in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq and mount attacks in which they have killed dozens of Turkish troops in recent months.

But the United States and the European Union fear a further escalation in tension could destabilize the region.

Jóvenes pakistaníes: Osama es una creación de la CIA

Ninguna sorpresa aquí. Osama ES una creación de la CIA. Y la "guerra" contra el terrorismo, un espejismo para controlar a las poblaciones a través del miedo.

Obermann: Bush es un mentiroso descarado

...Después de que los aparatos de inteligencia americanos se rebelaron contra su plan de invadir y bombardear Irán. Y todas las demás mentiras brutales de su gobierno -y todos los demás gobiernos, en particular los de línea de ultraderecha.