August 31, 2014

911 Redacted: 28 Ways You Can Build the 28 Pages Movement

Press Conference on H.Res 428 with Reps Thomas Massie, Walter Jones and Stephen Lynch


Whether you want to take your first step toward helping declassify the 28-page finding on foreign government assistance to the 9/11 hijackers, or you’re looking for even more ways to chip in than you already have, here are 28 ways you can help us build the movement.

1. Call your U.S. representative at 202-225-3121. Our Tips for Calling Congress make it easy.

2. Call the White House at 202-456-1111 and ask the president to keep his pledge to 9/11 families. Our Act page comes in handy for this one.

3. Follow @28Pages on Twitter.

4 and 5. Call your two U.S. senators at 202-224-3121 to ask them to introduce legislation similar to H.Res.428. Here’s what to say.

6. Use #declassify when discussing the subject in social media.

7. Make and then share a YouTube video like this



8. Contact your favorite reporter, columnist, TV host, blogger or podcaster and ask them to explore the issue.

9. Write a letter to the editor of your newspaper.

10. Call in to a radio or TV talk show.

11. Bring up the 28 pages using the “comments” feature found under articles on many news and other websites and include a link to an informative page about the 28 pages.

12. Educate yourself about SR400, a little-known way the Senate can declassify the 28 pages without the President’s signature.

13. Post a comment on an elected official’s Facebook page urging them to help declassify the 28 pages and include a link to an article or video on the topic.

14. Tweet a link to 28Pages.org or other educational content.

15. Start a discussion thread about the 28 pages on any message board.

16. Like 28Pages.org on Facebook.

17. Share a 28Pages.org Facebook post.

18. Invite some friends to like 28Pages.org on Facebook.

19. Call any member of the Senate intelligence committee and ask them to use SR400 to declassify the 28 pages without need for presidential approval.

20. See if you can get a Twitter user with a large following to retweet you on the topic.

21. Explain the issue to some friends or family.

22. Visit your Congressional representative’s local office in person.

23 and 24. Visit each of your senators’ local offices in person.

25. Email your friends a link to a video of Rep. Thomas Massie’s memorable remarks on his experience of reading the 28 pages.

26. Choose any H.Res. 428 cosponsor and call to thank them for their stand.

27. Make a 28 pages bumper sticker or t-shirt (extra points for showing us your final product via social media)

28. Help us out—add your own activism idea in the comments below!

http://28pages.org/2014/08/28/28-ways-you-can-build-the-28-pages-movement/



"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear"

August 30, 2014

Interview: William Binney– Former NSA Technical Director

William Binney is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA) who, after more than 30 years of service, resigned in 2001 and became a whistleblower exposing the NSA’s unconstitutional programs.

He is also a recent signatory of AE911Truth’s petition calling for a new investigation into the destruction of the Twin Towers and WTC 7 on 9/11. In this interview he talks with Andy Steele about why he signed the petition, the NSA’s spying program, and offers some words of advice to the 9/11 Truth movement on how to pursue justice through official channels.

Listen to the interview with William Binney on 9/11 Freefall with Andrew Steele- at noliesradio.org

This show was broadcast August 28, 2014
http://noliesradio.org/archives/87674

William Binney: The NSA’s Ultimate Goal is Total Population Control

One of the highest-level whistleblowers to emerge from the National Security Agency, William Binney, spoke out recently about the NSA’s “totalitarian mentality,” and the fact that the agency’s intelligence controls the entire cyber network across the globe, making their global reach omnipresent.

As a former crypto-mathematician for the NSA, Binney was a leading code-breaker against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He resigned from the NSA after September 11, when he noticed, and was repulsed by the country’s move towards mass surveillance.

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While Binney did not take any documents with him upon his departure, the way Edward Snowden did. He told The Guardian that taking any concrete evidence of illegal spying would have been invaluable.

“At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the US,” Binney said. “This is no accident and allows the US to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the US. The NSA lies about what it stores.”...
http://benswann.com/william-binney-the-nsas-ultimate-goal-is-total-population-control/

William Binney and Glenn Greenwald on Democracy Now



William Edward Binney[2] is a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency (NSA)[3] turned whistleblower who resigned on October 31, 2001, after more than 30 years with the agency. He was a high-profile critic of his former employers during the George W. Bush administration.

Binney continues to speak out during Barack Obama's presidency about the NSA's data collection policies, and continues interviews in the media regarding his experiences and his views on communication intercepts by governmental agencies of American citizens. In a legal case, Binney has testified in a affidavit that the NSA is in deliberate violation of the U.S. Constitution...

...Binney was a Russia specialist and worked in the operations side of intelligence, starting as an analyst and ending as Technical Director prior to becoming a geopolitical world Technical Director. In the 1990s, he co-founded a unit on automating signals intelligence with NSA research chief Dr. John Taggart. Binney's NSA career culminated as Technical Leader for intelligence in 2001. Having expertise in intelligence analysis, traffic analysis, systems analysis, knowledge management, and mathematics (including set theory, number theory, and probability), Binney has been described as one of the best analysts and code breakers in the NSA's history (source)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney U.S._intelligence_official



Attention Peanut Gallery: Please be extra creative when sliming Mr. Binney- you can't call him stupid...

Oh and keep in mind that Binney is fairly popular on the rest of DU
http://www.google.com/search?q=william+binney&sitesearch=democraticunderground.com

August 30, 2014

Henry Kissinger on the Assembly of a New World Order

The concept that has underpinned the modern geopolitical era is in crisis
By Henry Kissinger Wall St. Journal Aug. 29, 2014

The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis, writes Henry Kissinger. Above, a pro-Russian fighter stands guard at a checkpoint close to Donetsk, Ukraine in July. European Pressphoto Agency

Libya is in civil war, fundamentalist armies are building a self-declared caliphate across Syria and Iraq and Afghanistan's young democracy is on the verge of paralysis. To these troubles are added a resurgence of tensions with Russia and a relationship with China divided between pledges of cooperation and public recrimination. The concept of order that has underpinned the modern era is in crisis.

The search for world order has long been defined almost exclusively by the concepts of Western societies. In the decades following World War II, the U.S.—strengthened in its economy and national confidence—began to take up the torch of international leadership and added a new dimension. A nation founded explicitly on an idea of free and representative governance, the U.S. identified its own rise with the spread of liberty and democracy and credited these forces with an ability to achieve just and lasting peace. The traditional European approach to order had viewed peoples and states as inherently competitive; to constrain the effects of their clashing ambitions, it relied on a balance of power and a concert of enlightened statesmen. The prevalent American view considered people inherently reasonable and inclined toward peaceful compromise and common sense; the spread of democracy was therefore the overarching goal for international order. Free markets would uplift individuals, enrich societies and substitute economic interdependence for traditional international rivalries.

This effort to establish world order has in many ways come to fruition. A plethora of independent sovereign states govern most of the world's territory. The spread of democracy and participatory governance has become a shared aspiration if not a universal reality; global communications and financial networks operate in real time.

The years from perhaps 1948 to the turn of the century marked a brief moment in human history when one could speak of an incipient global world order composed of an amalgam of American idealism and traditional European concepts of statehood and balance of power. But vast regions of the world have never shared and only acquiesced in the Western concept of order. These reservations are now becoming explicit, for example, in the Ukraine crisis and the South China Sea. The order established and proclaimed by the West stands at a turning point....
Full Article:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/henry-kissinger-on-the-assembly-of-a-new-world-order-1409328075

Many times people that talk about a "New World Order" are called conspiracy kooks and scorned. "It's just 3 words strung together". So Henry K is now a conspiracy theorist. And so is Biden, Kerry, Clinton and Bush.

August 28, 2014

MIT Tech Review: Germany and Canada Are Building Water Splitters to Store Renewable Energy

Kevin Bullis MIT TechnologyReview.com August 27, 2014

Improving technology is making electrolysis a viable way to store excess renewable energy.

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Gas power: A Hydrogenics electrolysis system in Falkenhagen, Germany, can absorb two megawatts of excess renewable energy and store it in the form of hydrogen.[/center]

Germany, which has come to rely heavily on wind and solar power in recent years, is launching more than 20 demonstration projects that involve storing energy by splitting water into hydrogen gas and oxygen. The projects could help establish whether electrolysis, as the technology is known, could address one of the biggest looming challenges for renewable energy—its intermittency.

The electrolyzer projects under construction in Germany typically consist of a few buildings, each the size of a shipping container, that consume excess renewable energy on sunny and windy days by turning it into an electric current that powers the water-splitting reaction. The resulting hydrogen can then be pumped into the storage and distribution infrastructure already used for natural gas and eventually turned back into electricity via combustion or fuel cells. It can also be used for a variety of other purposes, such as powering natural-gas vehicles, heating homes, and making fertilizer.

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Power down: This new mini-fridge-size electrolyzer from Hydrogenics can produce as much hydrogen as 12 conventional ones.[/center]

Germany isn’t the only country investing in hydrogen energy storage. Canada is getting in on the action, too, with a major demonstration facility planned for Ontario.

Electrolysis has advantages over some other energy storage options. It can be deployed almost anywhere, it can store vast amounts of energy, and the hydrogen can be used to replace fossil fuels not only in electricity production but also in industry and transportation, which account for far more carbon emissions...
Full Article: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530331/germany-and-canada-are-building-water-splitters-to-store-renewable-energy/

Germany is concentrating on energy self sufficiency while the US is trying to figure out how to bomb Syria. GO 'Murika

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August 27, 2014

Cheaper, Cleaner, and Safer: How Hydrogen Could Replace Oil

Sam Becker Wall Street Cheat Sheet August 26, 2014

Scientists have been taking cues from nature for years, but few breakthroughs are potentially this important. In an effort to seek out clean, renewable energy sources, a team from the Australian National University has successfully duplicated one of the more crucial steps in photosynthesis — the process in which plants actively turn sunlight into energy — which could ultimately open the door to harnessing the process for energy cultivation.

If scientists are able to successfully take the photosynthesis process and apply it to industrial biological systems, sunlight could be used to manufacture hydrogen, which could then be used as fuel. Hydrogen is already used as a fuel in many instances, and if applied on a large scale, it could serve as a replacement for petroleum products — all the while contributing no new carbon to the atmosphere. Not only are the two main components required for photosynthesis available in wide abundance, but they are also cheap.

“Water is abundant and so is sunlight. It is an exciting prospect to use them to create hydrogen, and do it cheaply and safely,” Dr. Kastoori Hingorani, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis in the ANU Research School of Biology told Science Daily.



Not only that, but the process itself is sustainable for the long-term. Since there is no shortage of water or sunlight, photosynthesis — if completely harnessed — could provide energy indefinitely. “That carbon-free cycle is essentially indefinitely sustainable. Sunlight is extraordinarily abundant, water is everywhere — the raw materials we need to make the fuel. And at the end of the usage cycle, it goes back to water,” said co-researcher professor Ron Pace. “It’s the beginning of a whole suite of possibilities, such as creating a highly efficient fuel, or to trapping atmospheric carbon.”...
Full Article:
http://wallstcheatsheet.com/business/heres-how-a-photosynthesis-breakthrough-could-change-the-world.html/

Related: Artificial photosynthesis hits milestone in producing cheap, clean hydrogen from water
http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164465-artificial-photosynthesis-hits-milestone-in-producing-cheap-clean-hydrogen-from-water

HyperSolar
http://hypersolar.com/

Hydrogen Trivia: There are 22 LITRES of Hydrogen in ONE Tablespoon of water



Thus: Fracking is obsolete

August 25, 2014

Live debate: Are AE911Truth, J911S & Kevin Ryan limited hang-outs? on Dr.Kevin Barrett’s Truth Jihad

Excellent debate and Dr. Kevin Barrett, PHD is an example of what used to exist in the Media before it was consolidated into the 4 or 5 orgs (Thanks Bill Clinton!) that now control everything that gets shoved down the typical listeners throat.

This show was broadcast on August 23, 2014.

Guest Dennis Cimino, along with Jim Fetzer, recently published an article arguing that Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, the Journal of 9/11 Studies, and Kevin Ryan are all pushing limited hang-outs.

I disagree. Though I concur with many of their assertions about where the 9/11 evidence leads, I think Dennis and Jim are mistaken about the concept of “limited hang-out.” That concept applies to situations where the bad guys admit a half-truth in order to prevent the established institutions (mainstream media, judicial system, congress, etc.) from facing truths that would result in prosecutions/ruined careers of the most powerful; radically changed policies; new laws; and other major changes in the power structure.

AE911Truth and the Journal of 9/11 Studies, whether or not they are right about nanothermite; and Kevin Ryan, whether or not his Another 19 exhausts the list of suspects, are all pushing 9/11 truth toward the mainstream institutions – where it can make a difference. Their cautious approach, for the most part, is not a limited hang-out, but a defensible strategy.

Listen to the debate here:
http://noliesradio.org/archives/87332

More nolies radio 911:
http://noliesradio.org/archives/category/911

About Dr. Kevin Barrett, PHD:

I'm the author of Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters; Truth Jihad; A Guide to Mysterious San Francisco; and editor of 9/11 and American Empire v.2, and have taught Arabic, Islamic Studies, French, American Civilization and others subjects. Widely regarded as the world's leading Muslim 9/11 truth activist (for what that's worth) I spent 2006-2008 as the only talk show host featured on all three leading patriot radio networks (GCN, RBN, and WTPRN). I ran for Congress in Wisconsin's 3rd District in 2008. Currently I'm working on a couple of book projects..
http://truthjihad.blogspot.com/

2008: Professor Kevin Barrett Interviewed on Wisconsin TV (Part 1)

August 23, 2014

Toyota FCV puts hydrogen fuel cell twist on ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Sebastian Blanco Autoblog.com Aug 22nd 2014

You've probably seen your fair share of Ice Bucket Challenge videos online this week, which are meant to raise money to fight amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often called "Lou Gehrig's Disease." Hopefully, you've seen ours. We've watched a lot of these videos, but haven't seen one that makes an alt-fuel point quite like a new video from Toyota.

Julie Hamp, the CCO of Toyota North America, lost a sister-in-law to ALS last year, so for her the cause is personal. Instead of just dumping icy-cold water on her head, Hamp uses water from the FCV fuel cell vehicle parked next to her. Because, of course, a hydrogen fuel cell car emits nothing but water vapor...MORE
http://green.autoblog.com/2014/08/22/toyota-fcv-puts-hydrogen-fuel-cell-twist-als-ice-bucket-challenge/

Julie Hamp, CCO of Toyota North America Takes on the #IceBucketChallenge for ALS

August 23, 2014

Scientists develop water splitter that runs on ordinary AAA battery

Mark Shwartz, Stanford University 8/22/2014

In 2015, American consumers will finally be able to purchase fuel cell cars from Toyota and other manufacturers. Although touted as zero-emissions vehicles, most of the cars will run on hydrogen made from natural gas, a fossil fuel that contributes to global warming.

Now scientists at Stanford Univ. have developed a low-cost, emissions-free device that uses an ordinary AAA battery to produce hydrogen by water electrolysis. The battery sends an electric current through two electrodes that split liquid water into hydrogen and oxygen gas. Unlike other water splitters that use precious-metal catalysts, the electrodes in the Stanford device are made of inexpensive and abundant nickel and iron.

"Using nickel and iron, which are cheap materials, we were able to make the electrocatalysts active enough to split water at room temperature with a single 1.5-V battery," said Hongjie Dai, a professor of chemistry at Stanford. "This is the first time anyone has used non-precious metal catalysts to split water at a voltage that low. It's quite remarkable, because normally you need expensive metals, like platinum or iridium, to achieve that voltage...

...The promise of hydrogen
Automakers have long considered the hydrogen fuel cell a promising alternative to the gasoline engine. Fuel cell technology is essentially water splitting in reverse. A fuel cell combines stored hydrogen gas with oxygen from the air to produce electricity, which powers the car. The only byproduct is water—unlike gasoline combustion, which emits carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas...>

Full Article: http://www.rdmag.com/videos/2014/08/scientists-develop-water-splitter-runs-ordinary-aaa-battery

Hydrogen Trivia: There are 22 LITRES of Hydrogen in ONE TABLESPOON of water

August 22, 2014

China pulls plug on genetically modified rice and corn

Dennis Normile Sciencemag.org 20 August 2014

"GMO corn Yellow Springs, Ohio" by Lindsay Eyink from San Francisco, CA, USA - Research field. Licensed under CCbySA 2.0

China’s Ministry of Agriculture has decided not to renew biosafety certificates that allowed research groups to grow genetically modified (GM) rice and corn. The permits, to grow two varieties of GM rice and one transgenic corn strain, expired on 17 August. The reasoning behind the move is not clear, and it has raised questions about the future of related research in China.

The ministry, with much fanfare, had approved the GM rice certificates in August 2009. The permits enabled a group at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan to produce two varieties of rice carrying a gene from the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) bacteria that provides pest resistance. At the same time, the ministry approved production of a corn strain developed by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences' Biotechnology Research Institute in Beijing. Researchers had altered the corn so that kernels contain phytase, a livestock feed additive that boosts absorption of phosphorus, which enhances growth. All of the certificates were valid for 5 years.

Since the certificates were issued, however, public skepticism about the benefits of GM crops has grown in China. Some scientists conducting GM plant research have been attacked when giving public lectures...

...Others believe agricultural economics also influenced the decision. China has nearly reached self-sufficiency in producing rice using conventional varieties, so the ministry has decided there is no need to commercialize Bt rice in the near future, says Huang Jikun, director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy. He says that with commercialization off the table, there was no point in renewing the certifications. Huang says "rising public concerns [about the] safety of GM rice" likely also played a role...MORE
http://news.sciencemag.org/asiapacific/2014/08/china-pulls-plug-genetically-modified-rice-and-corn

From the comments:

Tyler Hurson • 14 hours ago

Thanks liberals, you've effectively starved China of a tool for combating widespread food insecurity. And you people claim to be the saviors of the working class?
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"China has nearly reached self-sufficiency in producing rice using
conventional varieties, so the ministry has decided there is no need to
commercialize Bt rice in the near future, says Huang Jikun, director of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy."

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First Officer • 2 days ago

I predict China's grain imports to rise significantly over the coming years. Most will be GM. Then China will change course.
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"China has nearly reached self-sufficiency in producing rice using
conventional varieties, so the ministry has decided there is no need to
commercialize Bt rice in the near future, says Huang Jikun, director of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy."

August 18, 2014

Kevin Ryan : On Why NIST's 9/11 WTC Reports are False and Unscientific

Kevin Ryan, former site Manager for the environmental
testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL)

Published on Saturday, 16 August 2014

In 2002, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was tasked by the US Government with "determin(ing) why and how WTC 1 and WTC 2 collapsed following the initial impacts of the aircraft and why and how WTC 7 collapsed." After years of work, the final reports were released (in 2005 and 2008 respectively) with the conclusion that all three had collapsed primarily due to fire. But just how "meticulous, exhaustive, and very realistic" was this research? Had it really answered all the questions and provided a trustworthy explanation that supported the official narrative of 9/11?

This week we welcome to the programme once again Kevin Ryan, co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies and author of the book Another Nineteen, who joins us to share with us his assessment of the NIST reports, and why he believes them to be "false and unscientific."
http://themindrenewed.com/interviews/2014/526-int-059

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The Mind Renewed Interview Notes
Kevin Ryan

Kevin Ryan's work as Site Manager for the environmental testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL) led him to begin investigating the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. UL fired him in 2004 for publicly asking questions about UL’s testing of the structural materials used to construct the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings as well as UL’s involvement in the WTC investigation being conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Since 2006, he has been co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies and a founding member of both Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice and the 9/11 Working Group of Bloomington. He has served as a board director at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth and co-authored several books and numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles on the subject. Kevin Ryan gives public presentations and interviews and continues his research into the crimes of 9/11, in order to help people come to a better understanding.
Kevin Ryan's Blog (http://digwithin.net/)

Items mentioned in (or otherwise relevant to) the interview
High Rise Safety Initiative (http://highrisesafetynyc.org/)
Kevin Ryan, "Another Nineteen : Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects", The Mind Renewed interview (February 2014)



http://www.amazon.com/Another-Nineteen-Investigating-Legitimate-Suspects/dp/1489507833/ Amazon Rating 4.4/5 stars 82 reviews

"Final Reports from the NIST Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster," 2005 & 2008, N.I.S.T. (U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Kevin Ryan, "Why the N.I.S.T. World Trade Center Reports Are False," a testimony given at The International Hearings on the Events of September 11, 2001.
Kevin Ryan, "Why the NIST WTC Report on the Towers is False," Dig Within (05 September 2013)
Kevin Ryan, "Why the NIST WTC 7 Report in False," Dig Within (09 July 2011)
Zdenfk P. Bažant and Mathieu Verdure, "Mechanics of Progressive Collapse: Learning from World Trade Center and Building Demolitions", (2006/7) (External PDF)
Dr. Frank Legge, "What Really Hit the Pentagon on 9/11?", The Mind Renewed interview (May 7 2014)
Video of WTC 7 falling on 9/11
Audio of David Coburn's words can be heard in TMR 008: "9/11 and People of Faith" (January 2013)
Dr. Shyam Sunder words: "But truthfully, I don’t really know. We’ve had trouble getting a handle on building No. 7", in "The Ground Zero Grassy Knoll", New York Magazine
Link to James Millette's work on nanothermite (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=231314)
Dr. Niels Harrit, "Nanothermite & 9/11", The Mind Renewed interview (November 2012)
Niels H. Harrit et al, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe",The Open Chemical Physics Journal, 2009, 2, 7-31
Kevin Ryan, "Are Tall Buildings Safer as a Reuslt of the NIST WTC Reports?", Dig Within (07 September 2012)
Kevin Ryan, "The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites", (external PDF) Journal of 9/11 Studies (02 July 2008)

NIST's 2009 refusal to supply information in response to Ron Brookman's FOIA request, "justified" on the grounds that to do so might "jeopardize public safety" (External PDF: http://cryptome.org/nist070709.pdf )