Beverly Eckert, whose husband, Sean Rooney was killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, was one of the passengers aboard the plane that crashed into a house 10 miles from Buffalo, New York, airport late on Thursday. She was a 9/11 activist who had questioned the official account of the attacks, sued the government and consistently lobbied for an Investigative Commission. I have some questions about this plane crash. Does everyone have "short term memory loss" in this country? The initial reports said the crew communicated "no problems" before the crash. Then, later stories said the crew discussed ICE. So, which is it? In all the earlier reports, experts were stupefied as to why a brand new plane crashed and the communications were cut and the crew radioed in no problems. Now, it's the ICE story! How did an NTSB federal official suddenly come up with the story that the crew "discussed ice"? When the first reports said they didn't? The crew discussed ice with WHOM and WHEN and HOW?...oh! And I forgot to tell you! She just met with Obama last week about re-investigating 9/11! Is this a message to/from Obama not to pursue re-investigating 9/11?
We need to know why all the first reports said the crew radioed in no problems, and then a federal official steps in later and says the crew discussed ice! How did he know the crew discussed ice? Did he have a special radio that they called only him on?
These are legitimate questions that reporters are not asking!
So, the crew radioed in "no problems"...and they discussed ice on the wings...
So, the weather was good...and it wasn't...
MIRACULOUSLY, A LONE NTSB SPOKESAGENT ALREADY KNOWS THE DETAILS OF THE PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS IN THE COCKPIT IN THE MOMENTS PRIOR TO THE CRASH, DESPITE THEM NOT BEING TRANSMITTED VIA RADIO, AND DESPITE NOT HAVING YET HEAD THE RECORDINGS FROM THE BLACK BOX, WHICH HAD YET TO BE REVIEWED AT THE TIME OF HIS STATEMENT:
"The crew discussed significant ice buildup, ice on the windshield and leading edge of the wings," said Steve Chealander, an NTSB spokesman. "The crew briefed the weather to themselves in the cockpit and reported that visibility was three miles (4.8 kilometres) with snow and mist in the vicinity."
I want to be CLEAR: I am not debating whether ice can bring down a plane, I want to know why all the initial stories said the crew radioed in "no problems", then the story shifted to a federal official saying "the crew discussed ice", then it changed to "the crew discussed ice on the black box voice recorder - yet the black boxes hadn't been read yet when NTSB spokesman Steve Chealander made his statement that the crew discussed ice on the black box voice recorders!
Beverly Eckert: “I want to know what went so wrong with our intelligence and security systems that a band of religious fanatics was able to turn four U.S. passenger jets into an enemy force, attack our cities and kill 3,000 civilians with terrifying ease. I want to know why two 110-story skyscrapers collapsed in less than two hours and why escape and rescue options were so limited.”
Beverly Eckert: "My Silence Cannot Be Bought" - USA Today - Friday, December 19, 2003
9/11 Activist Who Sued Government Killed In Buffalo Plane Crash
UPDATE: Do planes catch fire before they hit the ground, when there's icing on them???
"I saw the plane a second or two before it hit the ground. You could see it was just starting to catch fire. You could see some flames glowing. Then it just collapsed, just went right down," said Tomasita, Trujillo's 12-year-old daughter.
"The Newark, N.J.-to-Buffalo flight didn't nose-dive into the house, as initially reported by some witnesses, Chealander said (the NTSB federal official who did not witness the crash)."
One witness, who gave his name only as Tony, told a local television station that the plane flew right over his car, "nose down." "Left wing was slightly down, pitched sideways, if you will," he said. "It was on a direct line down."
Plane 'just went right down': Witness to deadly Buffalo crash
Dr. David Ray Griffin - Debunking the 9/11 Myth
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Former Reagan administration official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts.The most obvious indication that there are no terrorist cells is that not a single neocon has been assassinated.
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A real debate with smart people, about Obama's stimulus package.
Robert Kuttner and Michael Hudson on the Obama Administration’s $789 Billion Economic Stimulus Package and $2.5 Trillion Bank Recovery Plans
MICHAEL HUDSON: What’s happened is that this is the greatest transfer of wealth really in American history. It’s doubled the American debt. The closest parallel I can think of is William the Conqueror’s conquest of England. He came with a military band, conquered the land and imposed taxes over the whole land, basing it all on the Domesday Book, what—the rent could be squeezed out. In this case, the rip-off has been non-military. The bankers have done insider dealing to get the government to give them or guarantee them $12 trillion of bad loans they’ve made, many of them fraudulent. And then they’re trying to blame the poor for all this, as if the poor are somehow exploiting the rich by taking out more loans than they can pay.
ROBERT KUTTNER: If you look at Citigroup, the Treasury has put in $45 billion of direct equity capital into Citigroup. It’s guaranteed another $306 billion of toxic assets. You can buy all of Citigroup for about $25 billion. So the taxpayers effectively own it. What the government ought to do is exercise the rights of ownership, go in there, put a majority of public appointees on the board, get rid of existing management.
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Obama's Awful Financial Recovery Plan By MICHAEL HUDSON
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"Coming Home" is a weeklong investigative series on preventable deaths at Fort Carson, a U.S. Army post in Colorado, among troops who have returned from combat tours in Iraq.
Salon national correspondent Mark Benjamin and Colorado-based journalist Michael de Yoanna reviewed more than two dozen incidents of suicide, suicide attempts, prescription drug overdoses and murder involving Fort Carson troops and examined 10 of those cases painstakingly. They interviewed troops, their families and survivors of suicide attempts, studied thousands of pages of medical and Army records and conducted a prison interview with a soldier convicted of being an accessory to the murder of one of his comrades. They learned that much of the violence could have been avoided if the Army did a better job of recognizing and treating the symptoms of PTSD.
(Salon.com) Death in the USA: The Army's fatal neglect
US soldier suicides outnumber combat deaths in January - 24 soldiers committed suicide in January
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