Sunday, August 02, 2009

Project Censored - Ignored Stories

As much as I love commenting on political commentary and opining on opinion, there are some that dedicate themselves to exposing things that are in plain sight, even if just for a moment. This is where Project Censored comes in, presenting "the news that didn't make the news." Check out their site. In the meantime, check out some clips from the most recent newsletter:

American School Segregation
For example, current research indicates that public schools in the United States are more segregated today than they have been in more than four decades. According to a new Civil Rights report, published at the University of California, Los Angeles, schools in the US are 44 percent non-white, and minorities are rapidly emerging as the majority of public school students in the US. Latinos and blacks, the two largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty years ago. Millions of non-white students are locked into “dropout factory” high schools, where huge percentages do not graduate. The most severe segregation in public schools occurs in the Western states, including California—not in the South, as many people believe. Most non-white schools are segregated by poverty as well as race. Schools in low-income communities remain highly unequal in terms of funding, qualified teachers, and curriculum.


1 Million Dead Civilians in Iraq - Confirmed
Other taboo stories include civilian death rates in Iraq and questions on 9/11. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University and a professional survey company in Great Britain, Opinion Research Business (ORB) report that the United States is directly responsible for over one million Iraqi deaths since our invasion six and half years ago. In a January 2008 report, ORB reported that, “survey work confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003…. We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been of the order of 1,033,000.” A 2006 Johns Hopkins study confirmed that US aerial bombing in civilian neighborhoods caused over a third of these deaths and that over half the deaths are directly attributable to US forces. Iraqi civilian death levels in the summer of 2009 likely now exceed 1.2 million.


9/11 Called Back Into Question
Former Brigham Young University physics professor Dr. Steven E. Jones and some 700 scientific professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, and physics have now concluded that the official explanation for the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings is implausible according to laws of physics. Especially troubling is the collapse of WTC 7, a forty-seven-story building that was not hit by planes, yet dropped in its own “footprint” in 6.6 seconds in the same manner as a controlled demolition. To support this theory, Jones and eight other scientists conducted chemical research on the dust from the World Trade centers. Their research results were published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal Open Chemical Physics Journal, Volume 2, 2009. The authors write, “We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples. The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.” Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide, which produces an aluminothermic reaction known as a thermite reaction and is used in controlled demolitions of buildings.


3 comments:

Cal's Canadian Cave of Coolness said...

I both love and hate stories like this. I love them because they confirm my most paranoid beliefs that we are always lied to and never given the full truth. I hate them for the exact same reason. They have just enough missing information that we can never be sure. Its like the UFOs. If I believe in them I am a nutcase so I try to look for explanations. But as we all know the simplist explanation is most likely always the truth and the most likely explanation for all the sighting is that they DO exist. When I hear the term 'in its own footprint' in relation to building 7 I am taken right back to the place in my brain that refuses to let the 911 questions die. You can see I am a very mixed up fellow.

Ricky Shambles said...

Calvin - you, sir, are not in odd company here. At least not at CFC. Many, many stories resonate to me in the same way. I can't prove the existence of "otherworldly," but I've got some great stories. Some personal. But never anything solid.

In a weird way, I guess it's a form of religion. I feel it because it feels right but I have no proof. I guess the differentiation is that I am actively seeking proof on either side just so the discussion is ended.

But I ramble. Feel free to continue a longer, meaningful conversation at rickyshambles at gmail.com.

Randal Graves said...

I caused 9/11 on behalf of George for $500. Don't you all go telling everyone now.