- (FTW) - On November 28th an estimated 1,000 people came
from as far away as Seattle and San Francisco to Portland State University
to see FTW Publisher/Editor Mike Ruppert give a 2 hour lecture and documentary
presentation on the events surrounding the September 11th attacks and their
aftermath. Starting with an offer of $1,000 to anyone who could show that
any of the sources he cited were not authentic or misrepresented, Ruppert
launched into an display of more than 40 visual exhibits showing government
complicity in and foreknowledge of the attacks.
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- The event was organized by the campus newspaper The Rear
Guard and its editor Dimitris Desyllas. I never expected that we would
have this kind of turnout, Desyllas said. But it is obvious that the
public has very deep concerns about what we are being told and what the
government is doing. We eventually brought in 860 chairs and there were
people all around the walls and on the floor. One of the volunteer videographers
at the event was a Native American spiritual teacher of the Dakota Sioux
nation, Skip Mahawk. Mahawk, then with the 101st Airborne Division, won
the Congressional Medal of Honor at the legendary 1969 Vietnam War battle
known as Hamburger Hill. Mahawk refused to accept the decoration.
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- Ruppert's lecture was full of documentary evidence. After
pointing out - among other things - that the Chief of Pakistani intelligence
(approved for his position by the CIA) ordered a $100,000 wire transfer
to lead hijacker Mohammed Atta; that the Bush family had business dealings
with the bin Laden family through the Carlyle Group, that the U.S. and
British governments had extensive military deployments already in the area
before the attacks, and that the Bush administration had ordered the FBI
to stop investigating two relatives of Osama bin Laden living near CIA
headquarters this January, Ruppert launched into the centerpiece of the
lecture which was a visual presentation of his timeline of events around
September 11th - which left some members of the audience in tears. See:
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- http://www.copvcia.com/stories/nov_2001/lucy.html.
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- Special attention was also paid to a newly resurrected
Unocal pipeline to transport oil and natural gas from the Central Asian
republics to the Pakistani coast for sale to China and Japan. Henry Kissinger
is on both ends of that deal.
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- Audience reaction and anger was strongest as Ruppert
presented selected quotes from The Grand Chessboard, a 1997 book by former
Carter National Security Advisor and member of the Trilateral Commission,
Zbigniew Brzezinski. Those quotes - along with maps of Central Asia - indicated
clearly that the current war had been in the planning stages for at least
four years. Two particular quotes from Brzezinski indicating the need for
a Pearl Harbor-like attack evoked boos and hisses for the intelligence
expert and professor who also served in the Reagan Administration.
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- Ruppert closed the lecture with an analysis of the assault
on American civil liberties since September 11th in the form of the so-called
PATRIOT Act and several unilateral decisions made by President Bush and
Attorney General John Ashcroft which have effectively nullified three amendments
to the Bill of Rights and taken away part of another. He also showed documentary
evidence from Congress supporting his claim that the Bush administration
was going to loot the Social Security Trust Fund.
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- The audience responded to the lecture with a two minute
standing ovation. ___
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- The full story with photographs is available online at
- http://www.copvcia.com/st ories/dec_2001/portland.html
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- -- Mike Ruppert s website and information on his subscriber-based
newsletter From The Wilderness is located at <http://www.copvcia.com./http://www.copvcia.com.
Anyone interested in arranging a 2002 lecture appearance can obtain additional
information by contacting Andrea Shepherd at 818-788-8791 or by emailing
<mailto:service@copvcia.comservice@copvcia.com.
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- Mike Ruppert "From The Wilderness" www.copvcia.com
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