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The Real Rudy: The Disastrous Command Center Choice and 9/11 [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard at 12:50 PM on September 6, 2007.


Rudy Giuliani continues to distort his handling of 9/11 and its aftermath. He alone decided to put the disaster command center in the World Trade Center and he must be held responsible.
The Real Rudy: The Disastrous Command Center Choice and 9/11 Fallout

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"It's just not possible."

That was the sentence we heard over and over from families who had firefighter sons, brothers, husbands and fathers killed on 9/11, from experts on emergency response, and from investigative journalists. It was just not possible that Rudy could so distort what happened on 9/11 and his role on that terrible day.

These experts, these grieving and furious family members, were united only by the fact that this story had to be told. Republicans, Independents, and Democrats could agree on just one thing: the cold hard facts about Rudy's terrible handling of 9/11 and the aftermath.

And so we went to work. We researched, we read, we interviewed. Jason locked himself in a quiet room. Christopher flew across the country at a moment's notice to interview. Lissette went over and over the footage. Leda kept juggling schedules so we could get the film done. Jimmy worked the phones to try and raise some funds.

And here it is... The REAL Rudy: Command Center. The first of a devastating four-part series.

We need your help. We don't have ad budgets, so like all our videos, we are counting on you to spread these to your email list, to your local paper, to blogs, to websites. We are fortunate that today we have the new technology and ability to reach millions, but it only happens when you send the video with notes to as many people as possible.

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Adam Howard is the editor of PEEK.


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Whilst almost all politicans running are bad "Rudy" is the WORST. He has
Posted by: albrechtkrausse on Sep 6, 2007 2:34 PM   
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documented mob-ties (see the San Gerraro parade issues), corruption and organised crime (his trusted aide Mr.Kerik), profitting from "privatisation" (selling off public things, like freeways and services, to private companies to tollrun), through his old company that helped facilitate privatisation, through his lawfirm Bracewell&Guiliani that advises private hedgefunds and companies into privatisation deals, through his "security consultancy" (profitting from terror-mongering), and even defending some of the politicans caught up in the most recent "DC Madame" prostitution case!! Not to mention that his sole claim-to-fame is profitting from 11-Sept and using fear to aggrandise personal wealth, fame, and fortune. He even visited such varied cities as London and Mexico City to get consulting money (claiming his 'experience' with 11-Sept and 'fighting crime' in NYC made him an 'expert' on crime and terrorism.)
ps: the only election Guiliani should win is for the role in a Hollywood remake of the classic vampire movie Nesferatu. He is the spitting image of the blood-sucking elitist monster!

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The WTC 7 23rd Floor Command Center
Posted by: LeftWright on Sep 6, 2007 3:07 PM   
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was most likely the operations center for the NYC part of the 9/11 False Flag operation. This is clearly why Giuliani insisted that it be located there. The second largest CIA office in the world was located in WTC 7, as well as FBI and Secret Service offices. This is also one of the many reasons the building had to be destroyed by controlled demolition at 5:20 that terrible afternoon six years ago next week. Just one more part of the cover-up by the true perpetrators of 9/11.

Even more telling than this decision is Mayor Giuliani's admission on live tv to Peter Jennings that he received a call warning him that the Towers were going to come down. He did not warn the FDNY. Who called him and how did that person know the Towers would come down?

View the video here:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rx3-oxo1EkE

It's ridiculous and insulting to hear Giuliani promote the myth that nobody knew planes could be flown into buildings. When Bush woke up on the morning of 9/11/01, his hotel was being protected by surface-to-air missiles to prevent just such a thing from happening. Two months earlier, at the Genoa G-8 summit, Bush was also being protected from the threat of planes being crashed into bulidings. The government had been running drills with just this scenario for YEARS before 9/11/01.

These are just a few of the 1000's of questions about 9/11 that remain unanswered six years after the crime. Isn't it time we had a real investigation into the events of 9/11/01?

The more you learn about 9/11, the more you realize that it had to have been an "inside job".

The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.

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Bush had his 'Coalition of the Willing'...
Posted by: Chickensh*tEagle on Sep 7, 2007 5:52 AM   
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...not all of whose members knew they were in it. It would seem Rudy does, too:

Chairmanship is news to fire chief
Giuliani press release names unwitting man

By JOELLE FARRELL
Monitor staff

Lebanon Fire Chief Chris Christopoulos supports Rudy Giuliani for president. But he didn't realize he had been named chairman of "New Hampshire Firefighters for Rudy" until the Giuliani campaign sent out a press release yesterday afternoon.... [complete story here.]

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World According To Garp(Rudy)
Posted by: francomef on Sep 7, 2007 8:26 AM   
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Does anyone remember the movie "The World According to Garp". When the airplane hit the house and Garp bought it. Maybe Rudy is using that logic. You think?

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Coverup
Posted by: astromathman on Sep 7, 2007 10:32 AM   
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Whether or not you think 9/11 was an inside job, what is NOT debatable is that there was an immediate and thorough cover up. Rudy Giuliani kept investigation teams away from the site and immediately started destroying the evidence over public protests. The steel was chopped up and hauled away for melt-down. Standard procedure in an airplane crash is to take the pieces to a large hanger and virtually reassemble the whole plane. In the case of 9/11 the few pieces that were analyzed were pieces rescued from the scrap yard. Giuliani's behavior with regard to the investigation in the weeks following the event need to be publicly investigated. I have collected what I consider to be the best 9/11 analysis links at http://www.911speakout.org.
(I have a physics and math background and look at the collapses from this perspective.)
--David Chandler

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Hank
Posted by: hankgeorge on Sep 8, 2007 3:45 AM   
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For heaven's sake, using WTC 7 was not a mistake; it was by intent. That way all the inciminating information could be pulveriuzed to dust, along with that from the CIA, FBI...and those nasty white collar crime files...when "fire" brought down the building as scripted (and wasn't sharing the script prematurely with BBC a nice touch?).

Let's distinguish between a foolish decision - of which our favorite cross-dresser is more than capable - and a shrewd one, to get rid of all the dirty linen. When do we start calling it as it is? Or shall we wait until 2020 for N.I.S.T's "explanation" of the collapse of WTC-7?

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btw
Posted by: Kryptman40k on Sep 8, 2007 9:12 AM   
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realrudy.org is a dead site.

also, if you want us to spread around this video it would be a good idea to make the embed easier to get to.

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