PEACE, music, traveling.....
I want to meet as many people as I possibly can....
I love just about all kinds of music....The Beatles....
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.Isaiah, II:4
• September 11, 2001: In what the government describes as a bizarre coincidence, a US intelligence agency (the National Reconnaissance Office or NRO) was all set for an exercise at 9 AM on September 11th in which an aircraft would crash into one of its buildings near Washington, DC. [AP, 8/22/02] Four war-games were also in progress at the time of the attacks. [C-SPAN Congressional Testimony, 3/11/05] • September 11, 2001: New York’s Twin Towers are knocked down, along with a small section of the pentagon, resulting in the deaths of nearly 3,000 people. • December 13, 2001: The United States government releases a video of Osama Bin Laden proclaiming his responsibility for the terrorist attacks of September 11. • Sept 14, 2001: The two black boxes for Flight 77 are found. [PBS, 9/14/01] FBI Director Robert Mueller later says Flight 77's data recorder provides altitude, speed, headings and other information, but the voice recorder contains “nothing useful.†[CBS, 2/23/02] Yet they refuse to release the recordings • Jan 4, 2002: An editorial in the respected trade magazine Fire Engineering states that there is good reason to believe that the "official investigation," blessed by FEMA, into the WTC collapse is a "half-baked farce" that may already have been commandeered by political forces whose primary interests are clearly not full disclosure. Respected members of the fire protection engineering community are beginning to raise red flags, and a resonating theory has emerged: The structural damage from the planes and the jet fuel inside of them were not enough to bring down the towers. [Fire Engineering, 1/02] • Mar 13, 2002: Bush says of bin Laden: "I truly am not that concerned about him." [White House, 3/13/02] Military chief Myers states: "the goal has never been to get bin Laden." [CNN/DOD, 4/6/02] • May 15, 2002: For the first time, the White House admits that Bush was warned about bin Laden hijacking aircraft and wanting to attack the US in Aug 2001. It is unclear why they waited eight months to reveal this. The Press Secretary states that while Bush had been warned of possible hijackings, "the president did not receive information about the use of airplanes as missiles by suicide bombers." Yet the August memo left little doubt that the hijacked airliners were intended for use as missiles and that US targets were intended. [New York Times, 5/16/02, Washington Post, 5/16/02, Guardian, 5/19/02] • March 26, 2003: Though the investigation into the space shuttle Columbia tragedy cost $50 million and the Ken Starr investigation of Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky ran $64 million, the White House balks at increasing funding beyond $3 million for the 9/11 Commission's investigation into the worst terror attack ever. The latest effort to curtail funding has angered victims of the attacks. "The White House decision was another in a long line of efforts to water down or shrink the panel's role." [Time, 3/26/03, MSNBC, 9/20/06] • March 18, 2003: the United States begins military operations in Iraq. • April 9, 2003: a statue of Saddam Hussein collapses in Firdos Square in central Baghdad. News stations report that joyous Iraqi civilians toppled the structure to symbolize their new freedom. However, in the official army report, it is discovered that it was in fact a Marine colonel—not Iraqi civilians— that decided to topple this statue.[News Center 7/3/04] • December 14, 2003: Saddam Hussein is found and captured. • January 22, 2004: CIA officers in Iraq are warning that the country may be on a path to civil war, current and former U.S. officials said Wednesday, starkly contradicting the upbeat assessment that President Bush gave in his State of the Union address. [Knight-Ridder, 1/22/04] • September 16, 2004: When pressed on whether he viewed the invasion of Iraq as illegal, he said: “Yes, if you wish. I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN charter from our point of view, from the charter point of view, it was illegal.†[BBC, 9/16/04} • NOVEMBER 2, 2004: Bush wins re-election [Washington Post, 11/4/04] • March 19, 2006: On the eve of the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion, President Bush yesterday promised to “finish the mission†with “complete victory,†urging the American public to remain steadfast but offering no indication when victory may be achieved. [Washington Post, 3/19/06] • April 23, 2006: A former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller, reveals evidence that Bush was told before the war by a high-level Iraqi informant that Iraq did not possess WMD’s. As of February, 2007, the war in Iraq has resulted in the deaths of 3,123 U.S. troops [www.antiwar.com/casualties] and over 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths [British medical journal Lancet estimation]. Over 365 billion U.S. tax dollars have been spent on this war [www.costofwar.com].It has been suggested by news journalists that if our troops are not withdrawn soon (by the end of the year at the latest), we will not be able to leave until at least 10 years from now. The war in Iraq was in direct violation of international law (United Nations). The people of the United States (the people of all countries involved in this war, in fact), have never been given a definite reason for the bombings and killings in the sovereign nation of Iraq. This is a sick, sick war.
music in general and PEACE goers!......