Article by Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com

Protesters here in Minneapolis have been targeted by a series of highly intimidating, sweeping police raids across the city, involving teams of 25-30 officers in riot gear, with semi-automatic weapons drawn, entering homes of those suspected of planning protests, handcuffing and forcing them to lay on the floor, while law enforcement officers searched the homes, seizing computers, journals, and political pamphlets. Last night, members of the St. Paul police department and the Ramsey County sheriff's department handcuffed, photographed and detained dozens of people meeting at a public venue to plan a demonstration, charging them with no crime other than "fire code violations," and early this morning, the Sheriff's department sent teams of officers into at least four Minneapolis area homes where suspected protesters were staying.

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An article from 911Truth.org:  

We encourage readers to pay close attention to this next week's events in Minneapolis, site of the upcoming Republican National Convention, and be prepared to help activists who may need assistance. Already, activists who have spent two years preparing to express the will of the People during the convention, are being rounded up, personal belongings seized, doors broken down with guns drawn, food from Food Not Bombs taken ... Glenn Greenwald is blogging this at Salon (partial entry below): "[B]oth journalists and lawyers -- in addition to protesters -- have been detained and arrested even though not a single violent or criminal act has occurred. We direct your attention also to Twin Cities Indymedia for moment to moment updates and Indymedia.us and the i-Witness Video Blog for more. As always, we must BE the MEDIA right now. Please pass along this information so that others will be informed, and able to help as it's needed. Information will be posted at these Indymedia sites to clarify what's useful. We are grateful to know that the National Lawyers Guild has sent legal observers, as they have for most actions of dissent in the last many years. (Thanks, NLG!!) At this point, i-Witness has requested, "We are asking the public to contact the office of St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman at 651-266-8510 to stop this house arrest, this gross intimidation by police officers, and the detention of media activists and reporters."

To read the entire article click:   http://911truth.org/article.php?story=2008083133051598

Montreal 9/11 Truth tells city hall that by giving the deal for it’s subway’s security to Verint, the same company that provided security in London during the highly suspicious 7/7 bombings, that they had better make sure nothing happens in Montreal and if something does and it gets blamed on Al Qaeda we will not believe them.

Senator McCain responds to Blair Gadsby's hunger strike and the receipt of a Richard Gage's dvd and David Ray Griffin's 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press.

Richard Gage will be in Minneapolis on Saturday, August 2nd at the Macalester College Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel, 1600 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105.

Government & Science for 9/11 Truth Symposium

In this 20 minute Satellite TV interview, Richard Gage, AIA, of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth lays out all the evidence for the controlled demolition of the 3 WTC high-rises on 9/11 . The next day Vancouver 9/11 Truth had to turn away 50 people in this standing room only venue of 300 at the famous Public Library. Here is the 20 minute power packed video that you can play for your friends, colleagues, and, of course your local A/E's!"

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The issue of the cover-up and overwhelming media silence on the events of 9/11/2001 received modest attention at this year’s National Conference for Media Reform.

WASHINGTON — A new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Late in the day on 9/11, CNN put out a story that began: “Barbara Olson, a conservative commentator and attorney, alerted her husband, Solicitor General Ted Olson, that the plane she was on was being hijacked Tuesday morning, Ted Olson told CNN.” According to this story, Olson reported that his wife had "called him twice on a cell phone from American Airlines Flight 77," saying that “all passengers and flight personnel, including the pilots, were herded to the back of the plane by armed hijackers. The only weapons she mentioned were knives and cardboard cutters.