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The War Prayer by Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts ...

It's been about 24 hours since the attacks against the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers. There has been a lot of news reporting, some of it accurate, and some of it wildly speculative. But there is one item conspicuously absent from the news reportage. There has not been a single report that any armed hijacker was arrested on the way TO an airplane yesterday morning. Think about that. We are being told that four teams of at least three armed hijackers each got past all the security at three modern airports, and not one of them was detected. ...

Ray Lahr has made public the following email discussion related to his efforts to force the government to show the equations and formulas used in the creation of the animations which showed a noseless 747 climbing thousands of feet, this climb being what the government claims hundreds of witnesses mistook for a missile rising up from the surface of the ocean. Ed - Your climb simulation is great news. I am sending it to everyone on my list. Graeme Sephton, on behalf of FIRO (Flight 800 Independent Research Organization), just sent in another FOIA request to the NTSB related ...

Well, it looks like the shills managed to trick JimRob into yanking most of the threads about TWA 800 and the not-from-terrorist missile by junking them up with personal attacks. This is getting to be a well worn trick on their parts. Now, ignoring for a moment that the missile that hit TWA 800 not only climbed 2 1/2 iles high but tail chased a 747 for 6 miles downrange, the claim keeps getting made by the "the Navy didn't do it, honest" crowd that one of the Stingers given to the Afghani troops and never returned could have ...

The WABC broadcast has signaled the end of the government's campaign to disavow a missile as the cause of the destruction of TWA 800. There are simply too many witnesses who are talking, and the government has painted itself into a hopeless corner with the claim that a noseless 747 with a broken wing box can climb 3000 feet. However, as the WABC program showed, the fall back position, as it has been ever since Commander Donaldson first showed up on the scene, is to claim that terrorists shot down TWA 800 and that our government felt there was ...

The following is an article regarding the scale of military spending in this nation and the high degree of waste and fraud involved therein. It's relevence to TWA 800 is twofold. First, that weapons systems are often procurred purely on the basis of buying votes, not on whether the system is effective or even works, and second, that there is a huge financial incentive to keep the lid on the TWA 800 shoot down rather than risk a public re-examination of why so much money is spent for systems that do not perform that well. The following should be ...

Let's get a few facts straight. Fact #1. Aegis-CEC was in development in 1994 and by 1996, 5 Navy ships (plus the shore simulators and the airborn platforms) were in existance for testing the networked air defense system. CEC was originally tested near Hawaii in Operation MOUNTAIN TOP. Fact #2. James Kallstrom has admitted in a tape recorded interview with Accuracy in Media's Reed Irvine that the ships closest to TWA 800 that night were in fact Navy ships on a classified exercise. The Navy has admitted to the ships but refuses to identify them on the grounds of ...

"There is a red residue trail. It has nothing to do with a missile. I'm not going to get into it." -- Jim Kallstrom, March 7, 1997, to reporter David Hendrix of the Riverside Press-Enterprise. "One thing I can say categorically is that there is no such thing as a red residue trail in that airplane." -- Dr. Bernard Loeb, NTSB, March 11, 1997, under oath before the House Aviation Subcommittee. Now, one of three cases applies. 1. James Kallstrom is lying. 2. Bernard Loeb is lying. 3. Somewhere between March 7, 1997 and March 11, 1997, the red residue ...

August 2, 2001 Captain Ray Lahr (ret) 18254 Coastline Drive Malibu, CA 90265 Ms. Carol J. Carmody Acting Chairman National Transportation Safety Board 490 L’Enfant Plaza East SW Washington, D.C. 20594 Dear Ms. Carmody: Your response dated July 27, 2001, to my FOIA request # 2001-0048 is sincerely appreciated. I would really like to meet with you and your staff to discuss the hypothetical climb of TWA 800. It is my impression that your staff may have given you some misinformation relating to stalls. Your staff is correct that TWA 800 experienced a high-speed stall immediately after the nose was ...

"M.L. King Murder A Government Plot," Says Former CIA Participant. "I was part of it." "Raoul" Identified as FBI Agent by Pat Shannan - shannapat@worldnet.att.net New evidence has surfaced in the 1968 Martin Luther King murder case. It is supplied by an "insider" who claims to have been part of a "hit team" that had come out of the "Missouri Mafia" headquartered in the town of Caruthersville, a small town in the bootheel section of that state. In a yet-to-be-published book, former County Deputy Jim Green reveals his assigned role in the conspiracy, the name of the actual trigger ...

In a previous post, I pointed out how James Kallstrom, the FBI agent in charge of the TWA 800 investigation, lied to the people of America, the people whose taxes paid his salary and his pension, when he stated on CNN that the red residue found on three rows of seats in the remains of TWA 800 was just seat glue. Kallstrom's statement was a lie because the NTSB had no forensics evidence showing that the red residue was anything at all like the seat glue. In fact, tests run at the FBI had shown the two materials to ...

"The seat cushion residue, reported in the Riverside, California press, of the red residue that someone said was rocket fuel. The truth is the material is contact adhesive. We know the manufactured formula, which is patented, and we know without a doubt - without any doubt whatsoever - that it's the adhesive that holds the back of the seats together. It's not rocket fuel. It's not residue of a rocket, never was, never will be." The above statement was made by James Kallstrom on CNN on November 18th, 1997, during the last press conference he gave before early retirement ...

From The Wilderness Publications P.O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413 (818) 788-8791 (818) 981-2847 fax www.copvcia.com - mruppert@copvcia.com, e-mail July 11, 2001 Dear Friend of From The Wilderness: From The Wilderness, the internationally acclaimed newsletter and web site (www.copvcia.com), read by 16 members of congress and by professors at 11 universities in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain -- staunch critic of the war on drugs and exposer of the CIA's management of the global drug trade to benefit the U.S. economy -- is in peril. Over the last four years FTW has broken major stories, some picked up ...

ITEM 1: The CNN Graphic of the explosive residue The above graphic was broadcast on CNN and made available on their website (briefly) illustrating those seats that were recovered with traces of PETN residue. This residue was initially claimed to be the remains of a bomb detection exercise, but that claim was later discredited and the exercise shown to have been on a different aircraft. It should be noted that the explosive residue is in the same general area where the red residue consistent with the combustion byproducts of an aluminum / ammonium perchlorate solid fuel rocket motor was ...

In recent weeks, questions of whether the government is being truthful and honest with the tax paying public have been increasingly met with accusations of dubious motive. Government supporters, increasingly on the defensive and unable to counter the factual proofs of government deception that continue to surface, have adopted the tactic of attempting to cast doubt on the motives of those who question the official story. These government supporters, or government huggers if you prefer, have tried to portray it as unpatriotic, indeed even treasonous, to not accept the government's version of what happened at face value. These government huggers ...

Exploding hypotheses: Part 2 Editor's note: This is the second installment of a two-part series by Jack Cashill and James Sanders, author of "The Downing of TWA Flight 800," examining the NTSB's claim of an exploding fuel tank bringing down Flight 800. Read Part 1 here. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com There is a well known principle of logic known as "Occam's Razor" – the simplest explanation is usually the best one. Consider its application in the case of TWA 800: Hundreds of witnesses watch streaks of light head towards the plane; FAA radar picks up what appears to be a missile; and ...

Exploding hypotheses: Part 1 Editor's note: This is the first installment of a new two-part series by Jack Cashill and James Sanders, author of "The Downing of TWA Flight 800," examining the NTSB's claim of an exploding fuel tank bringing down Flight 800. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com As we have noted in previous articles, various agencies of government – including elements of the FBI, the Justice Department, the CIA and the NTSB – conspired, knowingly or otherwise, to suppress conspicuous evidence of a missile strike on TWA Flight 800. This included the distortion or denial of eyewitness testimony, the falsification of witness statements, ...

With the argument over the legtimacy of the income tax headed for a showdown in September, it is a good time to renew the examination of just hwo and why our government finds itself in such desperate financial straights that it mst suck so much wealth out of each and every citizen. Over a lifetime, every citizen will pay close to a quarter million dollars in taxes, of which a third is interest in the national debt, placed upon our shoulders without our permission based on a law voted into existance before anyone reading this was born. The United ...

Imaginary flagpoles James Sanders, a former police officer turned investigative reporter, co-wrote this report. Sanders is the author of "The Downing of TWA Flight 800" and "Altered Evidence," among other books. © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com "He said that everything occurred between these two flag poles." – Dr. David Mayer, NTSB, of witness 649. "[H]e was asked to describe how high in the sky above the house he thought that light appeared, and he said it was as if – if you imagine a flag pole on top of the house it would be as if it were on the top ...

Well, well, well. Did you happen to catch the Fox News special today titled “The Tragedy of TWA 800”? If you missed it, it will be repeated tomorrow evening at 9:00 pm EDT (6:00 pm PDT). There was one bit of satisfaction in the program for me. The big three (NTSB, CIA, and FBI) have backed away from their ridiculous zoom-climb scenario. They showed a brief portion of the NTSB animation and the CIA animation. In both cases they stopped short of showing the zoom climb, and they made no mention of the zoom-climb in the program. The NTSB ...