What Putin Has to Say to Americans About Syria

Recent events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies.

Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international organization - the United Nations - was then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

Interview with author Kevin Ryan on Guns and Butter radio show


The best book on the people around (and perhaps behind) 9/11: Another 19 by Kevin Ryan.

The "other 19" is group of insiders who have been running together for decades, some of them going as far back as the Nixon administration.

They're specialists in things like "continuity of government", coups, advanced demolition techniques, arms smuggling, covert military operations, news media manipulation, money laundering, covert dealings with Middle Eastern terrorists, security systems for the World Trade Center, and air defense systems.

They're proven killers, liars, and thieves who have demonstrated they'll do just about anything to get what they want.

As a group, these 19 actually ran US air defense system AND security for the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. They also managed the clean up and the (laughable) investigation, set post-attack military plans, and explained it all - including the "need" to invade Iraq to the press.

They were involved in things like the Phoenix Program, drug running in Vietnam, Iran Contra, the First Gulf War...

All in all a very experienced group - with close ties to the Bush family and its cronies - that was more than capable of pulling 9/11 off. See more here.

Boston - The Massachusetts Port Authority conducted a drill Wednesday morning involving smoke and fire on the runway.

The drill involved what appeared to be a plane on fire. Boston Logan Airport tweeted the smoke and fire was part of a drill.

Heavy black smoke could be seen drifting over the airfield.

The tweet sparked several other tweets asking why authorities would choose September 11 to conduct a drill involving a plane on fire.

Dozens of people also took to Boston Logan Airport's Facebook page to complain about the poor timing.

Washington has been at war for 12 years. According to experts such as Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, these wars have cost Americans approximately $6 trillion, enough to keep Social Security and Medicare sound for years. All there is to show for 12 years of war is fat bank balances for the armament industries and a list of destroyed countries with millions of dead and dislocated people who never lifted a hand against the United States.

The cost paid by American troops and taxpayers is extreme. Secretary of Veteran Affairs Erik Shinseki reported in November 2009 that "more veterans have committed suicide since 2001 than we have lost on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

" Many thousands of our troops have suffered amputations and traumatic brain injuries. At the Marine Corps War College Jim Lacey calculated that the annual cost of the Afghan war was $1.5 billion for each al-Qaeda member in Afghanistan. Many US and coalition troops paid with their lives for every one al-Qaeda member killed. On no basis has the war ever made sense.

Washington's wars have destroyed the favorable image of the United States created over the decades of the cold war. No longer the hope of mankind, the US today is viewed as a threat whose government cannot be trusted.

The wars that have left America's reputation in tatters are the consequence of 9/11. The neoconservatives who advocate America's hegemony over the world called for "a new Pearl Harbor" that would allow them to launch wars of conquest. Their plan for conquering the Middle East as their starting point was set out in the neoconservative "Project for the New American Century." It was stated clearly by Commentary editor Norman Podhoretz and also by many neoconservatives.

Australia's indigenous peoples were not the only ones to be subjected to the scientific depredations of the United Kingdom and Australian governments between 1956 and 1957. That particularly noxious venture yielded seven atomic tests in the desert sands of Maralinga, South Australia. The British record on the subject, along with Australian complicity, is a fetid one. Officials have taken cover behind a wall of inaccessible documents and unwavering secrecy.

A year before the area around Maralinga was euphemistically 'rehabilitated' under the UK Ministry of Defence's Operation Brumby (1967), chemical tests using Agent Orange were supposedly being conducted on rainforest at Gregory Falls, near the North Queensland town of Innisfail. The area in question was a local water catchment area. Researcher Jean Williams, who has made a name for herself in matters of veterans' affairs, stumbled across documents while ferreting around in the Australian War Memorial's archives. Her discovery has precipitated outraged queries from the residents in the area.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes.


Transcript and References

Was 9/11 really an inside job? After reviewing this documentary, and checking the evidence, I think the answer will be clear to you.

Special thanks to Michael C. Ruppert, Mark H. Gaffney, and Kevin Ryan for solving the crimes of 9/11 with their amazing research. This video is a compilation of evidence they have uncovered.

China is imposing new measures with regard to its residents' online activities, a move that tightens its ever-increasing restrictions on Internet usage and one that might raise a few more eyebrows.

According to a report from Reuters, state media reported that Internet users in the country who spread irresponsible online rumors will be charged with defamation if proven that what they shared online was viewed by 5,000 Internet users or reposted more than 500 times. A violator can be sentenced up to three years in jail.

In a news conference organized by the People's Daily, a spokesman from China's top court Sun Jungong described using the Internet to spread rumors and defame people as "criminal activities" and acts that deserve "serious punishment," adding that "no country would consider the slander of other people as freedom of speech."

Did you know that a 3rd building fell on 9-11? That bill board is today over Times Square. It was placed there through donations to a campaign called Rethink 9/11.

In fact, that group has placed posters and signs across the world, from Australia, to Canada, from San Francisco to right here in New York City.

So what is Rethink 9/11? Wouldn't only a fringe group of people would still question 9/11? Perhaps not, because today we will tell you about new polling that shows a majority of those polled either question the official 9/11 story or don't believe it at all. Is that possible?

The first step toward truth, is to be informed.

CBS news reporter Charlie Rose interviewed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Sunday September 9, 2013.