The New York Times profiled old school graffiti artist and documenter DEAL, who has been addicted to the outlaw art form for over three decades now. You may have seen his site: www.at149st.com, one of the most definitive collection of graffiti writers named after the location of the legendary Writer’s Bench in the Bronx. He also put together a book recently with one of the most straight forward titles ever: “Graffiti New York.” |NYT|
Although it totally pisses off the nuclear-armed Pakistanis (and militants), the U.S. continues to send its shadowy drones into the country on assassination missions and this time around three people were killed—hopefully they were the enemy. |Reuters|
If you just can’t bring yourself to believe that President George Bush and his blood thirsty war cronies could be involved in letting the events of 9/11 unfold to rally the citizens under a common cause and set the military industrial complex into overdrive, you might want to read up on “ Operation Northwoods” as outlined in this declassified document: “Justification for U.S. Military Intervention in Cuba.” There couldn’t be a more fitting item to read on the 7th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon, and a field in Pennsylvania. Many like to argue that the government just couldn’t be so evil as to attack its own people, but if you read the plan devised by the CIA, it might give you another perspective to the peculiarities surrounding the 9/11 attacks. Keep in mind, Operation Northwoods isn’t some abstract rogue memo or some Pale Horse styled, Illuminati laden conspiracy theory, it’s an actual document (PDF here) that outlines striking American interests. Read about how planes would be hijacked, shot down, and evidence disappeared. ABC news reported on it a few months before September 11th, 2001 and here’s how journalist James Bamford described the shadowy plot in his book Body of Secrets:
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