"In an historic act of civil disobedience, members of the Santa Cruz City Council have invited the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM), raided last week by the Drug Enforcement Administration, to distribute medical marijuana to patients in the City Hall courtyard on Sept. 17. During the action, scheduled for 3:00 p.m. PDT, members of the council will stand with WAMM members in an act of solidarity. This dramatic event, which WAMM lawyer Ben Rice calls "our Boston Tea Party," comes in the midst of a national wave of outrage at the DEA's latest raids, including new calls for Congressional action."

"...But the base, named K2, is a powerful symbol of the United States' arrival in a region that was once better known as a theater of operations for armies led by Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. In fact, the U.S. troops here are the first Western soldiers to operate in this corner of the world since Alexander, who passed nearby in 329 B.C."

The strike against domestic dissent was a preemptive one, since most progressives were too stunned, traumatized, and confused by the September 11 attacks to dissent anyway. But Susan Sontag was targeted for a right-wing stoning for an article in the New Yorker, and Bill Maher for not being politically correct. Vice President Cheney's wife helped monitor college classrooms for dissenting voices. Rapid articles appeared in the New Republic. Intimidating full-page ads by William Bennett announced plans to expose anyone who "blamed America first."

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer added an official warning when he crafted an "offhand" remark that Americans should "watch what they say." Chief Republican political strategist Karl Rove proposed that his party's candidates make the war on terrorism an election issue. Senate Republican leader Trent Lott accused Democratic Senator Tom Daschle of being soft on Saddam Hussein (because Daschle opposed Arctic oil drilling). The chairman of the Republican House Campaign Committee declared that all questioners were "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."

AS PRESIDENT BUSH demanded action from the United Nations against Iraq, a US emissary was lobbying for support in Russia, the one member of the UN Security Council that might block approval for the use of force. John Bolton, the Undersecretary of State, was officially in Moscow to discuss non-proliferation, but officials said privately that Iraq was at the top of his agenda. A Russian veto would force the United States and Britain to reconsider their plans to oust President Saddam Hussein or to wage a lone military campaign against Iraq.

Press Release: CYBERSPACE - September 13, 2002:
LibertyForum (http://www.libertyforum.org), a web-based political discussion forum, has emerged from an intensive 1 year beta-testing phase and has opened its electronic doors to the general public. During its testing period, a group of approximately 400 dedicated users logged over 200,000 individual posts to test LibertyForum?s PHP based forum software, considered by reviewers to be one of the best implementations of web-based discussion on the Internet.

"What if Osama bin Laden sent squads of armed men into U.S. cities to attack medical facilities? What if those terror squads stormed clinics, stole confidential medical records and literally took medicine from the sick and dying?
That is precisely what the Drug Enforcement Administration is doing in California.

The DEA and the White House want the public to believe that drugs are inherently connected with terrorism, and that anyone who uses illegal drugs supports terrorists. In fact, it is the "War on Drugs" that promotes terrorism, and the DEA and its law enforcement allies regularly commit terrorist acts: They take medicine from the seriously ill, jail their caregivers, and murder innocent, unarmed people with no evidence and no trial.

This exhibit examines the deadly connection between the "War on Drugs" and terrorism, the often-symbiotic relationship between drug warriors and terrorist drug cartels and the personal impact those relationships have on the average American."

So, in the face of our media's shameless propaganda campaign, we have taken it upon ourselves to intuit what the intentions and goals of this war truly are. In what is surely a departure from our traditional NewsVideo format, GNN presents S-11 Redux: (Channel) Surfing the Apocalypse. Culled from over 20 hours of television footage recorded over a one month period and across 13 networks, S-11 Redux is a sound-bite blitzkrieg that challenges the messages we have been fed from our mainstream media and the government it serves. Be warned - this video moves quickly and will require at least two viewings to digest its full impact. You may never be able to look at the coverage of S-11 and its post-impact coverage the same way, ever again.

"White House and network reporters as well as U.S.-based foreign journalists are using national security leaks to pursue proposed stories about George W. Bush's reputed relationship with a male sex-mate since his college days up to now. So contends the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in a Justice Department request to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act secret court that met in sound-proof facilities in the Justice Department Building, Washington, D.C.

The Bush reputed male sex-mate details have enabled Red China, perceived by some as a sworn enemy of the U.S., and others reportedly to blackmail or otherwise unlawfully compromise the current occupant and resident of the White House, causing the disclosure of U.S. industrial, financial, and military secrets. Various reporters, including those of British Broadcasting Company, BBC, and Canadian Broadcasting Company, CBC, have, on their own, verified and corroborated the exclusive stories by this reporter as to the Bush relationship causing a breach itself by Bush of national security."

How does it work?

Active Denial Technology uses a transmitter to send a narrow beam of energy towards an identified subject. Traveling at the speed of light, the energy reaches the subject and penetrates less than 1/64 of an inch into the skin, quickly heating up the skin's surface. Within seconds, an individual feels an intense heating sensation that stops when the transmitter is shut off or when the individual moves out of the beam.

Despite the sensation, the technology does not cause injury because of the low energy levels used. It exploits a natural defense mechanism that helps to protect the human body from damage. The heat-induced sensation caused by this technology, is nearly identical to the sensation experienced by briefly touching an ordinary light bulb that has been left on for a while. Unlike a light bulb, however, active denial technology will not cause rapid burning, because of the shallow penetration of the beam and the low levels of energy used. The transmitter needs only to be on for a few seconds to cause the sensation.

"Are you the kind of person who believes that attaching a plastic American flag to your SUV makes a major patriotic statement? If so, you're no doubt anticipating the looming anniversary of the September 11 attacks with the enthusiasm of a nine-year-old on Christmas morning.

Then there's the rest of us.

Don't get the rest of us wrong. We love America too. But we are understandably tense as we approach what is likely to be the greatest orgy of cheesy sentimentality, naked political opportunism and rank corporate necrophilia in this country's history. Well before the millennium, we Americans had already created a consumer and political culture so simultaneously compelling and appalling that other people wanted to kill us. To that tawdry tradition add the self-pity, sanctimoniousness and self-congratulations that have characterized the last year, filter them through the cynical minds of a fiendish array of politicians and corporate marketers looking to capitalize on the television event of the century, and we're set for a world class schmaltzfest.

By the end of 9-11-02, you may wish Osama had killed you."

"The phone rang at Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership in December 2001. A caller ordered dozens of Gran'pa Jack Bill of Rights booklets. Nothing unusual in that. But this caller wasn't a gun-rights activist, a conservative, or a libertarian.

She was an avowed political liberal whose main cause was election reform in the wake of Al Gore's presidential defeat. She was organizing a rally whose theme was "Awake for the Bill of Rights." And as she said, "It's all for one and one for all. You can't separate the Bill of Rights and say, 'I want this part, but not that part.''"

?Why is Noelle Bush sitting in a rehab center while other drug-law violators are rotting in prison?? asked Ron Crickenberger, Libertarian Party political director. [editor: when she has crack and others have pot]

?The answer is obvious: Because her father happens to be a hypocritical governor who believes in one standard of justice for his family and another standard for yours.?

" ...Their stated objectives are not their true objectives... A dollar of 1913 today, will purchase about 9 cents worth of goods. And , the government; the banking cartel got ALL of that money, multiplied by ALL of those dollars..."

"The evidence is now compelling - the twin towers were BLOWN off their feet. The plane crashes and fires were but secondary distractions to the main event.

The towers were literally ?blasted? off their footings at the beginning, and during the first phase, of their respective collapses.

The fact that the towers were seen "jumping" immediately before the collapse is documented on film by a helicopter camera that witnessed that event.

Massive explosions deep in the basements of the WTC towers clearly lifted ? and dropped ? the massive structures from their bases 70 feet below the surface.

The basement explosions that detached the central support columns from the bed rock, and dropped the towers, left extremely hot pools of molten steel (1535+ degrees Celsius), which persisted for days in the lowest basements (-7 level), and clear seismic tracks ? that have yet to be explained.

"Deep within a television ad for Klinskoye beer lurked a split-second message for another thirst-quencher: Pepsi.

An image of Palmolive Fruit Essentials soap was there and gone in a blink on NTV. Young viewers of MTV unconsciously absorbed marketing messages for Secret deodorant, the New Musical Express newspaper and the Red Hot Chili Peppers album, "By the Way."

In fact, according to scientists, subliminal television advertising, although illegal, is strewn across the Russian airwaves."

"A recent "threat assesment" issued by the FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center has identified global justice activists as a potential terrorist threat.

The memo, entitled "First Anniversary of the September 11th Attacks And Other Dates of Interest," notes that "there are several notable events scheduled in the near future which warrant heightened awareness."

It lists the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; upcoming United Nations meetings in New York City; and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, DC, during the period September 25-29th.

The bulletin, which has attracted mainstream media attention, goes on to contend that "prior protests against the IMF and WB in Washington, D.C. were disruptive and resulted in limited clashes with police...historically, tiny contingents of individuals associated with the protests belonged to violent groups."

"So I guess this war-in-Iraq thing pretty much commenced Friday with the big bombing runs. Worst Case Scenario: US trooops in Iraq, Iraq launches chemical Scuds into Israel as promised. Israel goes apeshit, nukes everybody else in the Middle East. India and Pakistan get tense, go nuclear. China gets excited, rolls over Taiwan. North Korea figures nobody'll notice, goes for it too. Oops, game over. Oh, then the Nazis emerge from their sekrut arctic bases and pummel the rest of the planet. Then the aliens return and start harvesting human organs (spleens! hungry 4 spleenz!) on a huge scale. Wow, that would be bad."

"The normally gung-ho Stratfor reports that the war in Afghanistan is not going well. [Link courtesy of Afgha.com, since Stratfor stories go subscription-only after a week.]

More groups are joining the fight against the US; recent attacks, most recently last week's car bomb and assassination attempt may signal the start of an al-Qaeda offensive. And the war may not have been going so well to begin with.

Officially, 42 US personnel have been killed in the war. According to Stratfor, an Afghan government source reports 110 missing in action, and Russian and Indian intelligence sources estimate 300 to 400 Americans killed."

"President Bush has said from the outset that the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks hated America because "they hate our freedoms."

But the available evidence does not support this explanation. Bin Laden's own statements and the personal histories of participants in the Sept. 11 plot suggest there are more specific reasons for the terrorists' hatred.

They include American support for regimes that they detest in the Arab world; American bases on Arab territory, especially in Saudi Arabia; and American support for Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory and for Israel's military campaign against the Palestinians. Psychological alienation from modern Western culture and a radical interpretation of Islam add spice to this deadly stew."

Here is Ari Fleischer's actual quote, from a Sept. 26, 2001, press conference, televised by CNN (as well as by various other networks):

"There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say."

Fleischer's comment, inappropriate as it was, hardly resembled a threat -- he didn't say "better," he said "need," and there was no "or else." Nor was it directed at the press -- he didn't say "you," he said "Americans," and he was responding to a request for reaction to comedian Bill Maher's Sept. 17 assertion that U.S. bombardiers were "cowards" compared to the brave Islamic terrorists who rammed jumbo jets full of civilians into the bustling World Trade Center. Two days later, in fact, Fleischer added:

"It is always the right, and forever will be, of an American to speak out. It is always the right of an American to be wrong."

"The announcement is the first clear indication that the Bush administration intends to put substantial financial support behind its response to severe criticisms of an earlier federal study that suffered from a lack of resources and authority."