Flobots - Stand Up With Lyrics. Obama Proposes Replacing AMT with Millionaire’s Minimum Tax. In tomorrow’s deficit speech, the President will propose a replacement structure for the alternative minimum tax, which would create what he will call “the Buffett rule.” It will set a minimum tax for individuals earning over $1 million a year. President Obama on Monday will call for a new minimum tax rate for individuals making more than $1 million a year to ensure that they pay at least the same percentage of their earnings as middle-income taxpayers, according to administration officials [...]Mr. Obama will not specify a rate or other details, and it is unclear how much revenue his plan would raise. But his idea of a millionaires’ minimum tax will be prominent in the broad plan for long-term deficit reduction that he will outline at the White House on Monday.Mr. Obama’s proposal is certain to draw opposition from Republicans, who have staunchly opposed raising taxes on the affluent because, they say, it would discourage investment.
Mr. Dengue on the rise: Over 1,958 cases reported. AIMC principal says govt is quoting wrong figures, actual number of cases is higher. AIMC principal says govt is quoting wrong figures, actual number of cases is higher. KARACHI: The dengue fever epidemic spirals out of control in Punjab as hundreds of cases are being reported in Lahore daily, Express 24/7 reported Friday. One hundred and forty two cases have been reported in Punjab, out of which 132 have been confirmed in Lahore. The total number of cases reported has risen to over 1,958. Eight new cases have been reported from Faisalabad, whereas, one case has been Bahawalpur and Multan each.
According to sources, 32 patients are getting treatment in Mayo Hospital, seven in Services Hospital, while others are being treated in Ganga Ram Hospital, Jinnah Hospital, Sheikh Zayed Hospital and Doctors Hospital. The Principal of AIlama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) Dr Javed Akram expressed dissatisfaction over the figure of dengue patients which is provided by the government. NY1: First Responders Need Seamless Communication - Kirsten Gillibrand.
National Archives sits on 9/11 Commission records. National Archives sits on 9/11 Commission records By Scot J. PaltrowReuters Sep 8, 2011 Ten years after al Qaeda’s attack on the United States, the vast majority of the 9/11 Commission’s investigative records remain sealed at the National Archives in Washington, even though the commission had directed the archives to make most of the material public in 2009, Reuters has learned. The National Archives’ failure to release the material presents a hurdle for historians and others seeking to plumb one of the most dramatic events in modern American history. The 575 cubic feet of records were in large part the basis for the commission’s public report, issued July 22, 2004. In a Reuters interview this week, Matt Fulgham, assistant director of the archives’ center for legislative affairs which has oversight of the commission documents, said that more than a third of the material has been reviewed for possible release.
(Editing by Michael Williams and Claudia Parsons) Ten Years Later, It’s Time to ‘Broaden the Context’ It’s time for Americans to grow up and have a mature conversation about 9/11 and uncomfortable truths. Clearly, many schools are afraid that 9/11 is too touchy a topic, and that no matter how educators might address it, they would inevitably face parental ire. Ten years ago this week, I, like many living in Washington at the time, was fleeing my office building. In those minutes of mayhem, I knew only what the police were screaming: Get out fast, because we’re being attacked by terrorists. In the years since 9/11, we’ve learned a lot about that awful day—and about ourselves. We’ve learned, for instance, about the attack’s mechanics—we know which particular terrorists orchestrated it and how many lives those mass murderers tragically destroyed.
Yet, despite all of this new knowledge, we still don’t know how to explain 9/11 to the next generation. Thus, we arrive at the implicit challenge of this week’s 9/11 anniversary: to grow up. The Years of Shame. Is it just me, or are the 9/11 commemorations oddly subdued? Actually, I don’t think it’s me, and it’s not really that odd. What happened after 9/11 — and I think even people on the right know this, whether they admit it or not — was deeply shameful. The atrocity should have been a unifying event, but instead it became a wedge issue.
Fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. A lot of other people behaved badly. The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. I’m not going to allow comments on this post, for obvious reasons. The $1.2 Trillion Trap: What America Gave Up For 10 Years Of War Since 9/11. By Zaid Jilani on September 11, 2011 at 8:00 am "The $1.2 Trillion Trap: What America Gave Up For 10 Years Of War Since 9/11" Today is September 11th, the tenth anniversary of the horrific and inhumane Al Qaeda-led terrorist attacks that killed approximately 3,000 innocents. As Americans pause and reflect on how these attacks changed our country and the world, we should reflect upon one of deceased terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden’s primary goals: bankrupting America. In an audio tape from 2004, Bin Laden explained that Al Qaeda had adopted a “policy” of “bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy” through provoking it into engaging in perpetual warfare in the Middle East and South Asia.
Nearly ten years after the United States sent our military forces into Afghanistan, our country has spent $1.2 trillion engaging in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to the National Priorities Project (NPP). These numbers reflect only the monetary costs of the wars. The 9/11 Decade: Reflections - The 9/11 Decade. Winning at a high moral cost. New Documents Suggest DoD Watchdog Covered Up Intelligence Unit's Work Tracking 9/11 Terrorists. Senior Pentagon officials scrubbed key details about a top-secret military intelligence unit's efforts in tracking Osama bin Laden and suspected al-Qaeda terrorists from official reports they prepared for a Congressional committee probing the 9/11 terrorist attacks, new documents obtained by Truthout reveal. Moreover, in what appears to be an attempt to cover up the military unit's intelligence work, a September 2008 Defense Department (DoD) Inspector General's (IG) report that probed complaints lodged by the former deputy chief of the military unit in question, the Asymmetrical Threats Division of Joint Forces Intelligence Command (JFIC), also known as DO5, about the crucial information withheld from Congress, claimed "the tracking of Usama Bin Ladin did not fall within JFIC's mission.
" But the IG's assertion is untrue, according to the documents obtained by Truthout, undercutting the official narrative about who knew what and when in the months leading up to 9/11. Vice Adm. Richard A. Clarke: What We’ve Learned From 9/11. His laser-like focus once brought him medals, but on Day 22 of the South African’s murder trial, it was clearly undermining his case—and highlighting his testimony’s inconsistencies. True to state prosecutor Gerrie Nel’s warning to Oscar Pistorius last week, it appears Nel isn’t going away anytime soon. Known in South African legal circles as the Bulldog—or Bull Terrier, or Pitbull, depending on your source—Nel has grilled the accused Paralympian mercilessly for six days now at the Pretoria High Court, to the point where some citizens have approached the South African Human Rights Commission with complaints that Nel’s questioning has bordered on psychological torment.
There are whispers that it could be another full week before Nel lets Pistorius out of the witness box, from which the defendant has cried, screamed, cursed, prayed, contradicted, and victimized himself on more than one occasion, sometimes all at once. “I shot out of fear. Solidarity Squandered. The day began in a dull civic deadness. It was an election day, the second Tuesday in September, in one of the world's most political cities. The weather was perfect: a cloudless Indian-summer day. The polls opened at six in the morning. But no one was showing up. Did it even matter who governed? Seven and a half months earlier, a Republican had become president and the sky had not fallen. Until the hot issue was mooted when the center was transformed into twin, acrid clouds of debris and incinerated human flesh, and everything, as we used to say, changed. How did September 11 change America? In Brooklyn, we poured out into the streets, desperate to confirm that others were feeling what we were feeling.
Many of us were on our way to the hospital, where lines ran all the way around the block (until we were told to go home; there'd be too few survivors to require blood donations). I remember Friday, September 14, even more indelibly. Then it was gone. America had changed. Advertisement. 9/11 Truth: How conspiracy theorists react to apostates like Charlie Veitch. - By Jeremy Stahl. The man who created the single most influential piece of propaganda about the 9/11 conspiracy is now ambivalent about the movement he helped make popular.
"There's a certain thing called tact that you need when you're dealing with the public," says Dylan Avery, director of the film Loose Change, released in 2005 and since viewed tens of millions of times online. "And I think that is a certain approach that a lot of people lack. " Avery should know. He has been accused of being a traitor, a spy, or—slightly more charitably—just plain "sloppy. " According to 9/11 conspiracy proponent Michael Ruppert, the movement has been hurt by its acceptance of some of the (relatively speaking) more absurd notions that were featured prominently in the early versions of Loose Change, notions that he says were planted as disinformation by those looking to discredit conspiracists. "That's one of many reasons why I completely cut myself off from the 9/11 Truth movement in 2004," Ruppert says.
Human Time Bombs - By Adam Lankford. There were four terrorists piloting the hijacked airplanes on 9/11. And four sets of personal problems. Mohamed Atta, who crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center, never wanted to leave his home country in the first place. Marwan al-Shehhi, who flew the second plane, told his family that he had been going through a tough time, but could see a light at the end of the tunnel. Hani Hanjour, who crashed into the Pentagon, was described as meek and timid: "a little mouse around the house ... he would pretty much stay holed up in his room. " Ziad Jarrah, who intended to strike the Capitol building but crashed outside Shanksville, Pennsylvania, spoke repeatedly of suicide long before the planning of 9/11.
A decade after the deadliest attack on the most powerful nation in human history, most people still do not know the whole truth about 9/11. Most glaringly, they insisted that suicide terrorists are unusual because of their actions, but not psychologically abnormal. Ten years after 9/11, Saudi Arabia slowly modernizing. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Abdulaziz Al Rabah remembers it was a Tuesday. The call to evening prayer was echoing across his hometown of Hafr-al-Batin, and bearded religious police had shooed him and his friends off the neighborhood soccer pitch.
“Have you seen what happened to America?” A wide-eyed friend asked the 13-year-old. Racing home, Al Rabah joined his mother to watch the satellite television newscasts of America’s agony unfolding on September 11, 2001. “I remember she was sad to see two guys jumping to the ground,” he recalled. His family felt sympathy for the United States, Al Rabah said, and a few days later, shame, when they learned that 15 of the 19 suicide hijackers were Saudi.
“The most important thing is that the country started to open up. ~Abdulaziz Al Rabah, Saudi journalist Al Rabah is now a 23-year-old journalist with Shams newspaper in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. For him, as for many other Saudis, what comes next is unclear. “People will never go back,” he said. Extreme Measures. The abuse of the Constitution that followed September 11, 2001, was neither surprising nor inevitable. It was not a surprise, because it wasn't the first time in American history—but the sixth, by my count—that fundamental rights had been violated during spasms of fear over national security. It was not inevitable, because prominent voices might have called the country back to its principles. There is no telling whether such appeals would have stood against the tide, but one man's words did make a difference in the emergency command center at FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue several hours after the attacks.
The voice belonged to James Ziglar, then commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, who thinks of himself as a Goldwater Republican. Ziglar objected: "I was the only guy in the room who raised his hand and said, 'Wait a minute. His reminder brought hostility from some of his colleagues, silence from others. The next surge of violations came with World War II. Was 9/11 an Inside Job? Did the U.S. government plan and execute the 9/11 attacks? Does one internet video hold the shocking evidence?
What does this man... ...Have to do with this man? If you own a computer, odds are you have seen Loose Change, a slickly-produced viral internet video making the case that the U.S. government planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. No, I don't know why it's called "Loose Change. " If you haven't seen it yet, you will soon. How viral videos are spread And most of the people who watch it, come away convinced. The film is a rapid-fire collection of video clips set to techno music, attempting to prove that: No plane hit the Pentagon - it was a cruise missile;The hijacked planes didn't bring down the World Trade Center, the buildings were wired with explosives ahead of time;Flight 93 didn't crash in Pennsylvania and in fact landed safely elsewhere.
They've sold more than 100,000 copies of this thing on DVD. But is it bullshit? 1. Here's how it started. There was a teenager named Dylan Avery. Or. A Decade After 9/11: We Are What We Loathe. Falling Man, 9/11, 2001 AP/Richard Drew I arrived in Times Square around 9:30 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. A large crowd was transfixed by the huge Jumbotron screens. Billows of smoke could be seen on the screens above us, pouring out of the two World Trade towers. Two planes, I was told by people in the crowd, had plowed into the towers. The south tower went down around 10 a.m. with a guttural roar. I headed toward the spot where the towers once stood, passing dazed, ashen and speechless groups of police officers and firefighters.
Scores of people, perhaps more than 200, pushed through the smoke and heat to jump to their deaths from windows that had broken or they had smashed. The images of the "jumpers" proved too gruesome for the TV networks. The "jumpers" did not fit into the myth the nation demanded. Reporters in moments of crisis become clinicians. There would soon, however, be another reaction.
"The people with the really big flags are the really big a**holes," I told him. Ten Years Later: Will We Ever Hold Torturers Accountable? Ten years of anti-terror laws - 9/11 Remembered - Ten Years On. AFTER 9/11: TEN YEARS OF WAR. New Docs Detail How Feds Downplayed Ground Zero Health Risks. New evidence links Saudi Arabia to 9/11 hijackers: Graham.