Showing posts with label 9/11 poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 9/11 poetry. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Obama's Speechwriters and 9/11 Commission-John Kerry-Digital Promise-Foundation Connections
“Ben Rhodes has been the Deputy National Security Adviser for strategic communications since September 2009. Previously, he served as President Obama's foreign policy speechwriter.
“Prior to joining the Obama campaign, Ben worked as Special Assistant to…Lee H. Hamilton…He worked closely with…Hamilton through his tenure as Vice-Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission)…He is the author, with Hamilton and Thomas H. Kean, of Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.”
--from the Partnership for a Secure America website
“…Jon Favreau, whose grandfather, Robert, was a New Hampshire state legislator and whose uncle, Peter, is a former Manchester police chief, has served as Obama's speechwriter since November 2004…Favreau started in politics by working as a college intern in Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's Washington office in 2002. Upon graduation, he joined Kerry's 2004 White House campaign; within a few months he was promoted to deputy speechwriter…Hired as Obama's lone speechwriter that November, Jon began co-writing rhetoric that four years later would help propel Obama into the Oval Office…”
--from the January 24, 2012 issue of the UnionLeader.com website
“The list of White House salaries…shows that Jon Favreau, President Barack Obama’s speechwriter, is one of the top earners at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave….Favreau’s $172,000 salary puts him right up there with the members of Obama’s inner circle…The only person earning more is Dr. David E. Marcozzi, the director of public health policy, who is paid $192,934 a year….While in college, Favreau was an intern in Sen. John F. Kerry’s Washington office. After graduation, he went to work on Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign as a speechwriter.
“After Kerry’s defeat, Favreau found himself in Washington without a job…[Robert] Gibbs, who was then the communications director in Obama’s senatorial office, recommended that Obama hire Favreau as a speechwriter….Obama offered him the job.
“Favreau is not the only Obama campaign speechwriter who found work at the White House.
“Ben Rhodes is earning $102,000 a year as deputy director of speechwriting. Sarah K. Hurwitz earns $85,000 per year as a senior presidential speechwriter.
“And Adam P. Frankel earns $65,000 per year as a senior presidential speechwriter.
“Like Favreau, Frankel worked on the Kerry presidential campaign as a speechwriter….”
--from a July 6, 2009 News.Muckety.com article
“…With an initial Board of Directors recommended in part by Members of Congress and appointed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Digital Promise was formally launched by President Barack Obama in September 2011 with startup support from the U.S. Department of Education, Carnegie Corporation of New York, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”
--from the Digital Promise website
“Adam Frankel is Executive Director of Digital Promise. Previously, Adam was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Speechwriter for President Obama…”
--from the Digital Promise website
Obama’s Speechwriters and 9/11 Commission-John Kerry-Digital Promise-Foundation Connections
Most U.S. grassroots anti-war activists and anti-war alternative journalists whose anti-war work is not being subsidized by grants from various U.S. power elite foundations have questioned the accuracy of the 9/11 Commission’s official version of what actually happened on September 11, 2001 in Downtown Manhattan. Yet between 2009 and 2012 the Democratic Obama administration has not been eager to order a new and fuller independent investigation of the September 11, 2001 events.
One reason might be that President Obama’s foreign policy speechwriter and White House Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications in recent years, Ben Rhodes, previously worked as a Special Assistant to 9/11 Commission Vice-Chair Lee Hamilton and was the author, with Hamilton and 9/11 Commission Chair Thomas Kean of the “inside story of the 9/11 Commission.”
Other Obama White House speechwriters in recent years have included former speechwriters for the defeated 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and the current executive director of the Obama-launched and Carnegie Corporation of New York and Gates Foundation-subsidized Digital Promise organization.
In his 2010 book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter described the role that 2012 Democratic presidential candidate Obama’s speechwriters played in putting together the speech he read when was first inaugurated as the U.S. president in January 2009:
But the same book also noted that “Obama had carefully choreographed his “Inauguration” and “he selected Rick Warren, pastor of the immense Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, to handle the invocation, a gesture to conservative evangelicals;” although “Warren’s selection was controversial because of some disparaging comments he had made about homosexuals…”
“Prior to joining the Obama campaign, Ben worked as Special Assistant to…Lee H. Hamilton…He worked closely with…Hamilton through his tenure as Vice-Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the 9/11 Commission)…He is the author, with Hamilton and Thomas H. Kean, of Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.”
--from the Partnership for a Secure America website
“…Jon Favreau, whose grandfather, Robert, was a New Hampshire state legislator and whose uncle, Peter, is a former Manchester police chief, has served as Obama's speechwriter since November 2004…Favreau started in politics by working as a college intern in Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry's Washington office in 2002. Upon graduation, he joined Kerry's 2004 White House campaign; within a few months he was promoted to deputy speechwriter…Hired as Obama's lone speechwriter that November, Jon began co-writing rhetoric that four years later would help propel Obama into the Oval Office…”
--from the January 24, 2012 issue of the UnionLeader.com website
“The list of White House salaries…shows that Jon Favreau, President Barack Obama’s speechwriter, is one of the top earners at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave….Favreau’s $172,000 salary puts him right up there with the members of Obama’s inner circle…The only person earning more is Dr. David E. Marcozzi, the director of public health policy, who is paid $192,934 a year….While in college, Favreau was an intern in Sen. John F. Kerry’s Washington office. After graduation, he went to work on Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign as a speechwriter.
“After Kerry’s defeat, Favreau found himself in Washington without a job…[Robert] Gibbs, who was then the communications director in Obama’s senatorial office, recommended that Obama hire Favreau as a speechwriter….Obama offered him the job.
“Favreau is not the only Obama campaign speechwriter who found work at the White House.
“Ben Rhodes is earning $102,000 a year as deputy director of speechwriting. Sarah K. Hurwitz earns $85,000 per year as a senior presidential speechwriter.
“And Adam P. Frankel earns $65,000 per year as a senior presidential speechwriter.
“Like Favreau, Frankel worked on the Kerry presidential campaign as a speechwriter….”
--from a July 6, 2009 News.Muckety.com article
“…With an initial Board of Directors recommended in part by Members of Congress and appointed by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Digital Promise was formally launched by President Barack Obama in September 2011 with startup support from the U.S. Department of Education, Carnegie Corporation of New York, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.”
--from the Digital Promise website
“Adam Frankel is Executive Director of Digital Promise. Previously, Adam was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Speechwriter for President Obama…”
--from the Digital Promise website
Obama’s Speechwriters and 9/11 Commission-John Kerry-Digital Promise-Foundation Connections
Most U.S. grassroots anti-war activists and anti-war alternative journalists whose anti-war work is not being subsidized by grants from various U.S. power elite foundations have questioned the accuracy of the 9/11 Commission’s official version of what actually happened on September 11, 2001 in Downtown Manhattan. Yet between 2009 and 2012 the Democratic Obama administration has not been eager to order a new and fuller independent investigation of the September 11, 2001 events.
One reason might be that President Obama’s foreign policy speechwriter and White House Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications in recent years, Ben Rhodes, previously worked as a Special Assistant to 9/11 Commission Vice-Chair Lee Hamilton and was the author, with Hamilton and 9/11 Commission Chair Thomas Kean of the “inside story of the 9/11 Commission.”
Other Obama White House speechwriters in recent years have included former speechwriters for the defeated 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and the current executive director of the Obama-launched and Carnegie Corporation of New York and Gates Foundation-subsidized Digital Promise organization.
In his 2010 book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter described the role that 2012 Democratic presidential candidate Obama’s speechwriters played in putting together the speech he read when was first inaugurated as the U.S. president in January 2009:
“…Several Obama speechwriters…had worked on the Inaugural Address…Adam Frankel…was writing speeches for a man whose portrait he though would one day likely appear on U.S. currency…Obama’s approach to speechwriting was to begin the process by speaking aloud at length, while [Jon] Favreau or others took notes…Favreau worked on a couple of drafts on his laptop at Starbucks, with help from Ben Rhodes and…Adam Frankel and Sarah Hurwitz. He sent it to [David] Axelrod and Obama after Christmas [in 2008]…Over the weekend of January 10-11 [2008] Obama holed up in the Hay-Adams Hotel where he rewrote more than half the text…”
But the same book also noted that “Obama had carefully choreographed his “Inauguration” and “he selected Rick Warren, pastor of the immense Saddleback Church in Orange County, California, to handle the invocation, a gesture to conservative evangelicals;” although “Warren’s selection was controversial because of some disparaging comments he had made about homosexuals…”
Sunday, September 11, 2011
"More Civilians Died"
They sent their planes to bomb Tokyo
Civilians they defined as their foe
German cities they bombed long ago
The civilian body count, it did grow
For her work on a plane, a small paycheck
For feeding passengers, an early death
An A-Bomb they did drop on Hiroshima
And thousands more civilians were slaughtered
And Nagasaki too, three days later
Became a new graveyard for more civilians
A student so young, sitting on a plane
The Twin Towers appear, the passengers all scream
They sent their jets to bomb Korea
Civilians down below were massacred
Then 8 years they did bomb Vietnam
And millions who were killed: civilians
He worked as a waiter on the top floor
His pay it was so low, but he died in the fire
They sent their jets to bomb Lebanon
And more civilians died on the ground
Refugee camps attacked, filled with Palestinians
More civilians killed for political reasons
She went to work each day in a skyscraper
And died by a computer on the 97th floor
And Baghdad and Belgrade, they did bomb
And more civilians died, while many sobbed
And now they're in a war for Unocal
To build a new pipeline is their goal
To rescue civilians, the firemen ran inside
The tower then collapsed, and they also died
How many more civilians will now be killed
By the ones who rely on terror to rule the world?
It looks like we're all doomed pretty soon
Unless civilians rise up to change the world
The World Trade Center destroyed and thousands died
Victims of conspiracies of the presidents who hide
The rulers of this land rely on fear
But fire can't be fought with more fire
So Civilians let's unite, before it's too late
And build a new world that's free of their hate.
The "More Civilians Died" public domain protest folk song was written in late 2001--before many more questions about the U.S. government and Big Media's official version of what actually happened on 9/11/01 in Downtown Manhattan began to be raised by an increasing number of anti-war 9/11 truth activists during the following 10 years.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Poet Don Paul's `9/11 Is A Big Lie' lyrics
(chorus)
9/11 is a Big Lie (Nine----Eee-lev-on…)
9/11 is a Big Lie
9/11 is Big Lie
And we’re gonna shout-shout-shout it
Loud and high
And we’re gonna shout-shout-shout it
To the skies
(verses)
Airliners off-course across hours of sky
34 minutes between two planes’ hits
Towers exploding into bits
Hundreds thousands tons of concrete
Blown to dust
And tens thousands tons of steel
Brought straight down (chorus)
Oh, they fell so fast, fell straight down
Fell through beams and columns as much as four feet thick
Fell through their cores of steel as fast as dust
Fell with oceans’ roars and volcanoes’ rush
Fell like elevators erupting to the ground
As their victims screamed and we hugged ourselves
Oh what’a—what’a—what’a are we to make of this
Blows that stuck-struck-struck us like a fist
Blows whose shock hid their source
Blows that hammered past our eyes
Blows meant to inflame and galvanize
Blows meant to numb and paralyze
Blows meant to send us into the “Endless War”
That is a Ruling Few’s “New World Order” (chorus)
Giuliani knew South Tower would “collapse”
He fled his post as firefighters died
Jerry Hauer told Dan Rather on CBS
The planes did it under bin Laden’s hands
Cherkasky and Bremer chimed right in,
Sitting on evidence that would indict them,
While Larry and Pete, GMAC and GE,
Raked in profits from insurance plans,
From weapons, oils, and Afghan opium
Like Maurice Greenberg and his sons
They all got richer, oh yes indeed
Like Rockefeller and Rothschilds over hundred years,
They all got richer amid our tears
Like so many killers over hundreds years
They all got richer amid our tears
From blasted Buildings, molten earth,
Victims’ screams and broken dreams
They all got richer amid our tears.
Oh what’a—what’a—what’a are we to make of this
Blows that struck us—struck us-struck us like a fist
Blows whose shock hid their source
Blows that hammered past our eyes
Meant to make us fear, obey, and stand in lines
Under Universal Debt in One Big Bank,
Meant to send us into the “Endless War”
That is a Ruling Few’s “New World Order” (chorus)
Six years now the Official Story has spun
Like the sun around Earth, not the reverse
A Dark Age indeed, one of Kings and serfs
And trusty hacks that are sure to hide the facts—
On FEMA, on NIST, on Times and on Post!—
In the mighty Wurlitzer universe,
Pods and flashes highlit to matter more
Than mass murder from skyscrapers
Brought straight down—
Than Endless War bound to concrete
Blown to dust—
Than a past and future Terror
None can trust
And yet—yet—yet we people of the round,
Truths are there for us to take up
Truths simple but supple like a circle’s hands
Truths that can span all seas and lands
(final chorus)
9/11 is a Big Lie (Nine----Eee-lev-on…)
9/11 is a Big Lie
9/1 is Big Lie
And we’re gonna shout-shout-shout out
What we see!
And we’re gonna shout-shout-shout
The truth free!
(final verse)
We’ll throw back the Cards dealt to us
We’ll refuse to die under torn-out skies
We’ll fight-fight-fight with our tools
We’re gonna fight-fight-fight for this century
Now we have the tools for all to be free
Now we have the tools for all to be free
We’re gonna fight—fight-fight-fight for this century
Now we have the tools for all to be free.
9/11 is a Big Lie (Nine----Eee-lev-on…)
9/11 is a Big Lie
9/11 is Big Lie
And we’re gonna shout-shout-shout it
Loud and high
And we’re gonna shout-shout-shout it
To the skies
(verses)
Airliners off-course across hours of sky
34 minutes between two planes’ hits
Towers exploding into bits
Hundreds thousands tons of concrete
Blown to dust
And tens thousands tons of steel
Brought straight down (chorus)
Oh, they fell so fast, fell straight down
Fell through beams and columns as much as four feet thick
Fell through their cores of steel as fast as dust
Fell with oceans’ roars and volcanoes’ rush
Fell like elevators erupting to the ground
As their victims screamed and we hugged ourselves
Oh what’a—what’a—what’a are we to make of this
Blows that stuck-struck-struck us like a fist
Blows whose shock hid their source
Blows that hammered past our eyes
Blows meant to inflame and galvanize
Blows meant to numb and paralyze
Blows meant to send us into the “Endless War”
That is a Ruling Few’s “New World Order” (chorus)
Giuliani knew South Tower would “collapse”
He fled his post as firefighters died
Jerry Hauer told Dan Rather on CBS
The planes did it under bin Laden’s hands
Cherkasky and Bremer chimed right in,
Sitting on evidence that would indict them,
While Larry and Pete, GMAC and GE,
Raked in profits from insurance plans,
From weapons, oils, and Afghan opium
Like Maurice Greenberg and his sons
They all got richer, oh yes indeed
Like Rockefeller and Rothschilds over hundred years,
They all got richer amid our tears
Like so many killers over hundreds years
They all got richer amid our tears
From blasted Buildings, molten earth,
Victims’ screams and broken dreams
They all got richer amid our tears.
Oh what’a—what’a—what’a are we to make of this
Blows that struck us—struck us-struck us like a fist
Blows whose shock hid their source
Blows that hammered past our eyes
Meant to make us fear, obey, and stand in lines
Under Universal Debt in One Big Bank,
Meant to send us into the “Endless War”
That is a Ruling Few’s “New World Order” (chorus)
Six years now the Official Story has spun
Like the sun around Earth, not the reverse
A Dark Age indeed, one of Kings and serfs
And trusty hacks that are sure to hide the facts—
On FEMA, on NIST, on Times and on Post!—
In the mighty Wurlitzer universe,
Pods and flashes highlit to matter more
Than mass murder from skyscrapers
Brought straight down—
Than Endless War bound to concrete
Blown to dust—
Than a past and future Terror
None can trust
And yet—yet—yet we people of the round,
Truths are there for us to take up
Truths simple but supple like a circle’s hands
Truths that can span all seas and lands
(final chorus)
9/11 is a Big Lie (Nine----Eee-lev-on…)
9/11 is a Big Lie
9/1 is Big Lie
And we’re gonna shout-shout-shout out
What we see!
And we’re gonna shout-shout-shout
The truth free!
(final verse)
We’ll throw back the Cards dealt to us
We’ll refuse to die under torn-out skies
We’ll fight-fight-fight with our tools
We’re gonna fight-fight-fight for this century
Now we have the tools for all to be free
Now we have the tools for all to be free
We’re gonna fight—fight-fight-fight for this century
Now we have the tools for all to be free.
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