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Man on Wire Hero Will Teach You Tightrope Walking for $1,200

Philippe Petit, the tightrope walker whose 1974 escapades between the World Trade Center towers were chronicled in the Academy Award-winning documentary Man on Wire , this week taught his first-ever class of students in New York City. For the low, low price of $1,200, pupils received two days of instruction on balance, poise, and, finally, traversing a seven-foot-high wire in security harnesses. Alas, learning to Oscar-balance on one’s chin is an even more prohibitively expensive lesson reserved for the advanced class. [ NYT ]

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9/11 Truth Billboard in California

In what may be the first of it’s kind in the nation, a group of 9/11 Truth activists organized, designed and paid for a commercial billboard in which 1,200 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth invite the public to “Examine the Evidence.” The 24’ (w) x 12’ (h) billboard was installed sometime Thurs. afternoon, Aug. 5, 2010 on South Higuera, just south of Elks Lane. The activists who have brought this matter to the people of SLO County who drive by this area realize that the evidence we are attempting to share is difficult to digest. Many simply cannot bear to question 9/11, knowing somewhere deeply in the collective unconscious that the truth may be more than we can stand. In order to understand the facts regarding the collapse of 3 modern, high rise buildings one has to free ourselves from our preconceived notions. Of course to investigate 9/11 carries with it the burden of doing something about it. While this is true, no one is asking any one of us to save the world single-handedly. It does not take long to get educated (just go to http://www.ae911truth.org/ ). The volumes of evidence presented include a peer reviewed paper published by an international team of scientists that positively found unignited thermite in all 4 samples of World Trade Center dust they tested. There has been no coverage of this paper in any of the mainstream press, including the so-called “Left media.” For more details about this highly charged issue, which we need to remember was the “reason” we went to war in the Middle East, please visit: http://www.ae911truth.org/ We Are Change.org August 7, 2010 added by: rodstradamus

9/11 Truth Billboad in California

In what may be the first of it’s kind in the nation, a group of 9/11 Truth activists organized, designed and paid for a commercial billboard in which 1,200 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth invite the public to “Examine the Evidence.” The 24’ (w) x 12’ (h) billboard was installed sometime Thurs. afternoon, Aug. 5, 2010 on South Higuera, just south of Elks Lane. The activists who have brought this matter to the people of SLO County who drive by this area realize that the evidence we are attempting to share is difficult to digest. Many simply cannot bear to question 9/11, knowing somewhere deeply in the collective unconscious that the truth may be more than we can stand. In order to understand the facts regarding the collapse of 3 modern, high rise buildings one has to free ourselves from our preconceived notions. Of course to investigate 9/11 carries with it the burden of doing something about it. While this is true, no one is asking any one of us to save the world single-handedly. It does not take long to get educated (just go to http://www.ae911truth.org/ ). The volumes of evidence presented include a peer reviewed paper published by an international team of scientists that positively found unignited thermite in all 4 samples of World Trade Center dust they tested. There has been no coverage of this paper in any of the mainstream press, including the so-called “Left media.” For more details about this highly charged issue, which we need to remember was the “reason” we went to war in the Middle East, please visit: http://www.ae911truth.org/ We Are Change.org August 7, 2010 added by: rodstradamus

Porn film shot in London hospital

A “big budget” porn film has been shot in a London hospital, one of it's wards was hired out to a film company. Tory MP Penny Mordaunt said the movie generated “substantial income” for the hospital NHS Kensington and Chelsea said the incident occurred before 2002 when the primary care trust formed. Penny Mordaunt stated, “When I was director of Kensington and Chelsea Council, I discovered that one of our local hospitals was hiring out one of its closed – but fully-equipped wards – to a film company to use as a film set,” “To add insult to injury, the movie was a pornographic one. “Although I cannot claim to have seen the final picture – as I understand, these things are no longer claimable on parliamentary expenses – it was a big-budget affair and generated substantial income for the hospital.” “But apart from cheering up a few of the in-patients, it cannot be said to be contributing to the objectives of the primary care trust.” – BBC Kensington and Chelsea council have not commented on the story http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1292427/NHS-hospital-ward-closed-film-bi… added by: sarahmatilda

10 Reasons To End The Wars Now

The long wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been back in the news recently, and we just had the bizarre spectacle of the Republican National Committee Chairman saying he didn't like Obama's war in Afghanistan, while the DNC chastised him for failing to support the troops. Here are ten reasons to end the wars now. I hope you'll take a look at some of the links. 1. American military and contractor casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. 2. Iraqi and Afghanistan civilian and military casualties. 3. These wars are a tremendous waste of taxpayer money in a time of extreme deficits, high unemployment and a falling stock market. 4. Invading and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq feeds terrorism. 5. Osama Bin Laden and his co-conspirators who attacked the World Trade Center were Saudi Arabian. 6. As Congressman Ron Paul recently said: “In Afghanistan, we are fighting the Taliban, those dangerous people with guns defending their homeland. Once they were called the Mujahideen, our old allies, along with bin Laden, in the fight to ou http://www.lp.org/blogs/staff/lp-monday-message-10-reasons-to-end-the-wars-now added by: shanklinmike

Is the BP Oil Spill Really the US’s Energy Policy 9/11? Hopefully It’s Much More Than That

photo: slagheap via flickr If you’ve paid attention at all to the headlines today, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that during his latest trip to view the BP oil spill clean-up efforts President Obama likened the changes this disaster could have in energy policy to the way 9/11 changed US security policy . I’ve been sitting with this comment all day, wondering if it’s accurate or just evocative rhetoric. The thing is, transforming the way we use energy is even more complex than changi… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Proposed Mosque at Ground Zero draws protests

A proposed mosque and community center at Ground Zero continues to draw protest from the right wing fringe. Sunday, close to a thousand angry, uninformed Americans gathered in lower Manhattan to demonstrate against plans to build the mosque and community center near the site of Ground Zero, where the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed by Islamic hijackers on September 11, 2001. Opponents of the proposed mosque call it “offensive” and “demeaning”. Their angry and perverse paranoia willfully transforms a gesture of good will and community spirit into an insult to Americans and a celebration of Muslim fanaticism. http://www.examiner.com/x-10853-Portland-Humanist-Examiner~y2010m6d8-Proposed-Mo… added by: unimatrix0

Jay-Z To Play 9/11 Benefit

Superstar Jay-Z plans to play a charity gig on 9/11 in Madison Square Garden. To honor the tragic day’s eighth anniversary, the rapper will perform the gig on the day that thousands were killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001.

U.S. defeats China in crucial media trade case

GENEVA – The United States has defeated China in a wide-ranging ruling at the World Trade Organization that could provide massive market opportunities for American makers of everything from CDs and DVDs to music downloads and books. The verdict Wednesday finds definitively against China for forcing American media producers to route their business in China through Chinese state-owned companies. It could also set a larger precedent for others such as U.S.

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