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Internet Archive's cache of 24/7 TV footage from 9/11 and beyond
Rick Prelinger sez, "Internet Archive has launched 'Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive,' an online library of 24/7 TV news broadcasts from 20 worldwide channels over the week starting...
View ArticleA thermite reaction on 9/11?
Still think that something other than a mere plane crash brought down the World Trade Center towers? According to a Norwegian materials expert, you may be right. Just ... you know ... not in the way...
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Awlaki's 16-year-old son killed by US drone
Glenn Greenwald rounds up a number of reports related to the killing of al-Awlaki's 16-year-old son by an unmanned aerial drone from the US: Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar...
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Who did the TSA terrorize today? A 4-year-old girl. Why? She hugged her grandma.
PHOTO: Snapshot by Lori Croft of her 4-year-old granddaughter Isabella Brademeyer, in Wichita, Kan., where she was a flower girl at her uncle’s wedding. The child was harassed by TSA goons on the way...
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TSA screeners in LA ran drug ring, took narco bribes
Photo: Reuters. A man is screened with a backscatter x-ray machine at an LAX TSA checkpoint. Four present and past security screeners at LAX took 22 payments of up to $2400 each to let large shipments...
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How cartographers helped clean up after 9/11
This image, made using a laser mapping technology called LIDAR, was taken on September 17, 2001. It shows a 3-D model of the rubble left behind in lower Manhattan following the attacks on the World...
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Arapahoe teacher on survival and resilience
For several years, I've conducted an annual Skype session with the students at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, who read my novel Little Brother as a jumping-off point for a wide-ranging, critical...
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American spies don't need new powers to catch terrorists, they just have to...
In an excellent, well-argued editorial, CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen eviscerates the claim that the NSA's total, global surveillance is necessary for preventing 9/11-style attacks....
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Notable objects in 9/11 museum, and why one reporter was kicked out
The most tasteless thing inside the just-opened September 11 museum in New York City is probably this commemorative cheese plate. One of the most profound and moving objects may be this telephone,...
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Why did the 9/11 'falling man' image disappear?
At Design Observer, a fascinating piece on how photographer Richard Drew's iconic, disturbing image of a man falling to his death from the World Trade Center on 911 has been erased from public view....
View ArticleSmall-town 911 calls can be weird, fascinating and heart-warming
Police blotter sites aggregate only the saddest reports of meth-addled America. A better way to consume local police news: unedited dispatch logs. Dogs are lost, then found a few hours later. Little...
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NYC to assign civilian to monitor NYPD counterterrorism
An independent civilian appointed by New York's mayor will monitor counterterrorism activities of the New York Police Department, the New York Times reports that lawyers said in court documents...
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911 call from NJ postmaster: "I have a carrier that's being attacked by wild...
A New Jersey mail carrier was trapped inside his truck when aggressive wild turkeys surrounded it. His postmaster called 911. From abc7ny.com: When officers arrived, they scared the turkeys away by...
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Congress makes public long-secret 28 pages of 9/11 report that detail...
Congress today publicly released 28 previously secret pages of its 9/11 inquiry that detail possible connections between officials in the Saudi government, and the hijackers who carried out the 9/11...
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Photo of New York City from space on September 11, 2001
On September 11, 2001, this was astronaut Frank Culbertson's view of New York City from the International Space Station. "The world changed today," Station Commander Culbertson wrote the next day....
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5-year-old boy calls 911 to rat out the Grinch stealing Christmas, ends in...
Five-year-old TyLon Pittman of Byram, Mississippi wasn't going to take any chances when he thought the Grinch was going to steal his Christmas. After watching Grinch movies on YouTube on Saturday, he...
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Burglar breaks into escape room but can't break out
A criminal mastermind in Vancouver, Washington thought that he'd help himself to the bounty of – I dunno, locks? doors? finger puzzles? – goods that an escape room business had on hand. He ended up,...
View ArticleWatch: Jon Stewart breaks down while advocating for 9-11 first responders, at...
Comedian, activist, and former late-night TV host Jon Stewart spoke on Capitol Hill today about getting health care and benefits for 9-11 first responders. Jon Stewart is a good man. Watch, listen,...
View ArticleAmazon's secret deals with local cops give them access to realtime 911 data...
Mining the results of public records requests relating to Amazon's secret deals with local law enforcement to promote its Ring surveillance doorbells (more than 200 agencies!) continue to bear fruit....
View ArticleSmart 911 operator realizes a caller asking for a pizza is reporting domestic...
In Oregon, a woman was being attacked by her boyfriend. The woman's daughter called 911 but didn't want the man to know, so she told the operator she wanted a pizza. Here's a transcript of the call:...
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