The May issue is on news stands now.
This is our biggest 9/11 issue yet with eight articles relating to 9/11 including articles about; Jesse Ventura, Margaret Cho, Larry Silverstein, and others including a Paul Craig Roberts review of The Shell Game.
This issue also features a huge two page centerfold spread called “10 False-Flag Operations that Shaped Our World”, by Joe Crubaugh. It is a fantastic tableau of false-flag treachery reaching all the way from Nero in ancient Rome, through the Reichstag fire, Operation Northwoods, Tonkin Gulf, to the greatest, most horrendous false flag of all time, the 9/11 attacks of 2001. It is a powerful history lesson for those doubters who say no government would intentionally harm its own citizens.
The Rock Creek Free Press is the only paper in Washington DC that will print the truth about the perilous condition of our republic with stories such as “Torture Directed from White House” and “COINTELPRO Infiltrating the Anti-War Movement.” We print the stories the corporate media refuses to cover.
The Creek also covers health issues. Corporate media won’t tell the truth about dangerous drugs, or fraudulent health scams because they reap huge advertising revenues from the drug companies and the healthcare industry. They won’t tell you “Calcium, not Cholesterol, Increases Coronary Risk” because that would hurt sales of cholesterol drugs. We even occasionally get to report good news such as, “Coffee Consumption Reduces Alzheimer’s Risk.”
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Rice Directed Torture from White House
BY SHEILA CASEY / RCFP
In December 2005, Condoleezza Rice testified to Congress “The United States does not permit, tolerate or condone torture under any circumstances.”
But ABC News has now revealed that during 2002 and 2003, Rice led dozens of meetings to discuss specific torture techniques with the National Security Council Principals Committee in the White House Situation Room. The committee included Vice President Dick Cheney and former Bush aides Attorney General John Ashcroft, CIA Director George Tenet, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell. They approved using the “enhanced interrogation techniques” of sleep deprivation, waterboarding, sexual assault, pushing and slapping.
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Jesse Ventura Comes Out for 9/11Truth
BY AARON DYKES / JONES REPORT
Former Governor Jesse Ventura broke through the media blockade recently, exposing major inconsistencies of the official 9/11 story and holding his own against some of mainstream media’s most disingenuous hosts, including Fox News’ Sean Hannity and Opie & Anthony from XM Satellite radio.
Ventura’s notoriety as a fiercely independent upstart may have kept Hannity, for one, from playing his usual dirty tricks.
As former Minnesota Governor, Ventura may be the highest level official in the United States to take 9/11 truth questions seriously, yet his enduring popularity and success as a celebrity, wrestler, Hollywood star, Navy SEAL and even Harvard professor make him more difficult to diffuse and ignore than celebrities who have previously come forward or Congressmen who have flirted with raising questions.
The Associated Press ran a story about Ventura’s 9/11 comments following an appearance on the Alex Jones Show that has now exploded into a frenzy of coverage as he makes the rounds to promote his book Don’t Start the Revolution Without Me, a title that may prove to be more than just rhetoric.
Full Story
Issue 9, April, 2008 - Is Out!
The April issue of the Rock Creek Free Press is rolling off the press.
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Top Stories:
Vaccines Linked to Autism
InfraGuard: FBI Deputizes Corporations to Enforce Martial Law
FBI Refuses to Document Identity of 9/11 Planes
Winter Soldier: Evidence of War Crimes Presented
Why Bush Justice "Watergated" Spitzer
Abu Grahaib Prisoners Packed in Ice
How Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman Got "Roved"
Gulf War Syndrome: Caused by Drugs Administered by DOD
Who Controls the Media? Soulless Corporations, of Course
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FBI Refuses to Turn Over Documentation
Used to Identify 9/11 Planes
By Matt Sullivan
The FBI claims that federal investigators made no attempt to identify plane wreckage pursuant to the investigation of 9/11. Researcher Aidan Monaghan submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI seeking documents “revealing the process by which wreckage recovered by defendant, from aircraft used during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, was positively identified by defendant . . . as belonging to said aircraft”
In response, Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Rose, representing the FBI, states;. “The identities of the airplanes hijacked in the September 11 attacks was never in question, and, therefore, there were no records generated” pursuant to the identification of the aircraft.
In other words, in the case of the greatest crime in US history, involving the greatest loss of civilian life ever, with nearly 3000 dead, the FBI claims that it made no attempt to formally identify the remains of the murder weapons. This would certainly seem to be a monumental oversight and incompetent blunder if it was true, but the publicly available information suggests that counsel’s statements are false on at least two counts.
First, the identities of the aircraft certainly were in question on 9/11. There was widespread confusion at the FAA and NORAD on the morning of 9/11, caused in part, by the numerous exercises, some involving simulated hijackings, which were also taking place that morning. The aircraft that crashed had different transponder codes from the passenger aircraft and transcripts of flight controller communications indicate a significant level of confusion as to the identity of the flights.
The plane which crashed at the Pentagon is particularly suspect since the FAA made no radar contact with the aircraft on its return flight over West Virginia and did not establish radar contact again until the plane reached Washington, DC, now with a different transponder code.
Secondly, there is ample evidence that serial numbered aircraft parts were in fact collected and identified by the FBI with the assistance of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). For example Carol Carmody, Vice-Chairman of NTSB said in published remarks from February 2002; “I ... assured FBI Director Mueller that we would assist in any way we could ... he called and said, ‘Could you send us some people to help find the black boxes and help identify aircraft parts.’”
The fact that the NTSB did comply with director Mueller’s request was corroborated by her boss NTSB Chairman Marion C. Blakey who testified to the 9/11 Commission that “Over 60 Safety Board employees worked around the clock in Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, and at our headquarters in Washington, DC, assisting with aircraft parts identification”
These statements by NTSB officials make it abundantly clear that the FBI did collect and identify serial numbered parts and should have the data necessary to positively identify the aircraft that crashed on 9/11.
Why do they refuse to release the data?
Additional Information - 9/11Blogger.com
... Doomed to Repeat It...
Toxic Mercury in Fish
by Elaine Sullivan
The New York Times published an article on January 23, 2008 stating that high levels of mercury are found in tuna sushi. Laboratory tests performed on tuna from 20 Manhattan stores and restaurants found so much mercury in tuna sushi that a regular diet of six pieces a week would exceed the levels considered acceptable by the EPA (49 micrograms of mercury a week). Analyzed by Dr. Michael Gochfeld, Professor of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, NJ and Dr. Joanna Burger, Professor of Life Sciences at Rutgers University, the tuna from some of these establishments had mercury levels so high that the FDA could take action to remove the fish from the market.
Mercury in fish is not a new phenomenon. In March 2004 the FDA and EPA teamed up to issue a warning to the public about mercury in fish. The joint advisory stated that although fish and shellfish are important parts of a healthy diet and are good sources of protein and other nutrients, some of us should monitor how much we eat. The FDA and EPA warning states: “…depending on the amount and type of fish you consume it may be prudent to modify your diet if you are: planning to become pregnant; nursing; or a young child.” Full Story
Willy Nelson: 9/11 Truther
by Paul Joseph Watson - Prison Planet
Straight talking American icon Willie Nelson told a national radio show that he thought the Twin Towers were imploded like condemned Las Vegas casino buildings, as the country music superstar voiced his doubts about the official 9/11 story.
Agreeing with host Alex Jones that he questioned the official story, Nelson elaborated, “I saw those towers fall and I’ve seen an implosion in Las Vegas - there’s too much similarities between the two, and I saw a building fall that didn’t get hit by nothing,” added Nelson, referring to WTC Building 7 which collapsed in the late afternoon of September 11.
“How naive are we - what do they think we’ll go for?,” asked Nelson, pointing out that his doubts began on the very day of 9/11.
“I saw one fall and it was just so symmetrical, I said wait a minute, I just saw that last week at the casino in Las Vegas and you see these implosions all the time and the next one fell and I said hell there’s another one - and they’re trying to tell me that an airplane did it and I can’t go along with that,” said Nelson.
Issue 7, February, 2008 - Is Out!
The latest issue of the Rock Creek Free Press is now out on the streets of DC. The Creek is available for free at over 50 locations throughout the city, including all major Metro subway stations.
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Top Stories:
Sibel Edmonds Talks
Japanese Diet Debates 9/11 Truth
Osama Tapes Fake?
Questions about Diebold Voting Machines
Undocumented Workers Targeted for Organ Harvesting
Gitmo Prisoners "Non-persons"
Martin Luther King Assassination Remembered
The Strange Case of the USS Poet
From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Straits of Hormuz
From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Straits of Hormuz
To anyone old enough to remember the Vietnam War, the similarities between the recent Iranian speedboat encounter and the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident are hard to miss. The Navy claimed, in August 1964, that the destroyer Maddox had come under attack by small North Vietnamese gunboats. This “confrontation” was seized upon by war hawks in the Johnson administration and used as the justification for “The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution”, a dramatic escalation of hostilities in southeast Asia. There’s only one problem with the Tonkin incident—it never happened. Full Story
Historic Debate of 9/11 in Japanese Diet
On January 11, extraordinary testimony from Japan's upper house of legislature (Diet) w
as transmitted into Japanese homes and offices nationwide. For over 20 minutes,
Yukihisa Fujita, an opposition party leader of the upper house and member of the
Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, challenged the Prime Minister and cabinet
ministers to justify Japan's continued participation in the US global war on terror.
He questioned the ministers as to what proof, if any, the US has offered as to
the facts of 9/11.Fujita challenged the very premise of the "Global War on Terrorism" saying that, since the Afghani people are the greatest victims of the fight against terror, Japan should be supplying drinking water for the people of Afghanistan rather than oil for US warships. Mr. Fujita then proceeded to put before the ministers, and the people of Japan, a series of unanswered questions and troubling facts which contradict the official 9/11 narrative. His presentation would be familiar to anyone versed in the litany of the 9/11 truth movement: buildings exploding, the lack of air defense, firefighter testimonies, the removal of the physical evidence, and official silence on the strange case of WTC building 7.
The debate was precipitated by the request from George Bush that Japan resume its participation in support of the gulf wars. Japan had been providing naval refueling services in the Indian Ocean in support of the US war effort, but that operation was halted when the upper house voted it down based on the concern that such operations were in violation of the Japanese Constitution which forbids offensive military activities.
Prime Minister Fukuda, was forced to resort to extraordinary parliamentary procedures in order to restart the naval operations. Fukuda managed to pass the war funding bill only after he secured the 2/3 majority in the lower chamber needed to over-ride the block. This procedure is so extraordinary that it has not been used in over 40 years and it puts Fukuda at risk of a no-confidence vote.
Complete coverage of the historic testimony in the House of Councilors in the Japanese Diet inside in the February 2008 issue. Full Story
Are the Bin Laden Tapes Fake?
Kristina Borjesson, BuzzFlash
Late in December 2007, The Associated Press reporter Salah Nasrawi wrote a story about a bin Laden audiotape that had just been released. Headlined "bin Laden Threatens Israel, Warns Iraqis," Nasrawi's piece details Osama's dire threats to expand al Qaeda's jihad in Israel and to "liberate Palestine, the whole of Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the sea," threatening "blood for blood, destruction for destruction."
Then, 11 paragraphs down, Nasrawi writes: "The authenticity of the tape could not be independently confirmed. But the voice resembled that of bin Laden. The tape was posted on an Islamic militant web site where al-Qaeda's media arm, Al-Sahab, issues the group's messages."
If the tape can't be vetted, it shouldn't be used. That's Journalism 101. At the very least, the fact that it can't be authenticated should be mentioned in the story's title and continuously mentioned throughout the story as the quotes are being used. Worse, all the mainstream TV outlets picked up on Nasrawi's story and liberally quoted "bin Laden" without bothering to use the word "purported" or another adjective indicating they had no proof it was bin Laden on the tape. Collectively, what these journalists are doing is worse than outright lying to the public. They are literally helping dangerous people with deadly hidden agendas create a virtual reality by unquestioningly conveying their messages.
Nasrawi didn't just bury the authentication problem in his story. He also referred to earlier, equally questionable "bin Laden" communiqués. "The tape was the fifth message released by bin Laden this year, a flurry of activity after he went more than a year without issuing any tapes. The messages began with a Sept. 8 video that showed bin Laden for the first time in nearly three years. The other messages this year have been audiotapes."
Reporting on unauthenticated bin Laden tapes as if they were real is, shamefully, getting to be an old practice. In November 2002, a "bin Laden" audiotape surfaced and a senior State Department official explained to CNN that the voice on the tape was indeed bin Laden's, but that "we don't know yet whether anybody put it together, spliced or computer-generated it."
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Torture Waffle
Last month, The New Yorker reported that Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell said that "waterboarding would be torture" if used against him. Within a week McConnell appeared to back away from his stance when asked about that comment. "The United States does not engage in torture. We do use enhanced interrogation techniques. ... It has saved lives. And so from my point of view, we've accomplished the mission within the bounds of U.S. law," he said.
The Rock Creek Free Press One Year Anniversary
This edition mark's the one year anniversary of The Creek.
We distributed our first issue on January 23, 2007 at the great anti-war rally on the Mall in Washington. We distributed about 5,000 copies of the paper among the roughly 300,000 in attendance that day. The first year saw just 5 issues go to press; most for special events like the anti-war rally and the September 11 anniversary commemoration.
Next year we will publish monthly, for our growing list of subscribers and to distribute, free of charge, in honor boxes all over Washington, DC. To all the loyal readers, subscribers, contributors, writers, artists and friends whose efforts make this paper possible; Thank you. - editor
The January 2008 Issue. (1.5Mb file)
International Regulation of Dietary Supplements Looms
Over 100,000 Americans die every year from adverse reactions to prescription drugs. Contrast this with
10 deaths in 20 years due to adverse reactions of vitamins. We, of course, have governmental and world agencies to help protect us from such tragedies. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services nd is responsible for the safety regulation of most types of foods, dietary supplements, drugs, vaccines, biological medical products, blood products, medical devices, radiation-emitting devices, veterinary products, and cosmetics.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, (Codex Alimentarius is Latin for "Food Code" ) based in Rome, Italy, and created in 1963, is an international organization jointly run by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) of the United Nations.
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Issue 5, December, 2007 - Here it is!
The Creek Issue 5. (1.2Mb file)
Plane Used by CIA for Rendition Flights
Crashes in Yucatan Filled with Cocaine
On the evening of Sept 24, 2007, a private Gulfstream jet filled with cocaine crashed in Yucatan Mexico. No bodies were discovered at the crash site, but over a hundred military style duffle bags containing several tons of cocaine were pulled from the wreckage. This particular aircraft, N987SA, has a long history of being used by the CIA for Special Rendition flights. It has logged thousands of miles between DC, Connecticut and Guantanimo Bay and to suspected "black sites" in Europe.
Was the plane still being used by the CIA when it crashed? (continue reading)
Is Waterboarding Torture?
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