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Were the Saudis Shielded from Blame?

Dear Editor, The planners of the September 2001 terrorist attack using hijacked airplanes were likely those who carried out the attack. This group of men, mostly from Saudi Arabia, were capable and had plenty of reasons to harbor hostility against the United States Government. The idea for the attack was conceived by four friends who met in Hamburg, Germany and had lived previously in Egypt, Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. These men were comfortable living in a country similar to the United States of America, they were familiar with air travel, and they had experienced the oppression and violence that the U.S. backed monarchies …

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It’s the Psychosis, Stupid

When this paper hits the street, less than 100 hours will remain of the most psychotic political campaign in U.S. history. This would be good news, if only we had some assurance—hell, we’d settle for a hope—that the election on November 3rd might have a curative effect. Nothing will be cured, though, on November 4th, or even on January 3rd, when the winners of the House and Senate races will, one likes to think, take their oaths of office. Naturally, things being as they have been lately, we must take into consideration the possibility that some of the actual winners of the elections will be …

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Volume 271, No. 4

Once again, thanks in large part to our small team of dedicated volunteers, thousands of copies of our conveniently-sized paper—small enough to pocket and pass on to another reader—are now available, for free, here in Portsmouth and environs. If you click here, our latest issue—the whole thing—in digital form, will appear more or less miraculously on the glassy face of whatever gadget into which you’re now peering.

Fri, Oct 30

2018—Murderer and FBI informant “Whitey” Bulger’s corpse is found in his cell, its tongue nearly severed. Prison officials profess surprise. 2017—President Trump’s ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates are arrested on a slew of charges by the FBI. 2016—Sen. Harry Reid [D-Nev.] accuses FBI Boss James Comey of sandbagging the Clinton campaign while covering up for the Trump campaign. 2012—For the first time since the Ice Age, public access to the sea at Sanders Poynt in Rye is cut off by would-be Senator Bill Binnie. 2005—Pastor Kyle Lake, 33, standing in water to perform a baptism before 800 people at a Waco, …

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Thurs, Oct 29

2004—Osama bin Laden explains: 9/11 was retaliation for the U.S. backing Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. 1984—New York City policemen kill African American Eleanor Bumpurs, 66, with two rounds from a 12 gauge. She was behind in her rent. 1981—A British Parliamentarian asks Maggie Thatcher whether European governments were “free to veto [a] push on the final button by that incoherent cretin President Reagan?” 1979—On Wall Street, 1,000 people are arrested for disrupting business on the 50th Anniversary of the Crash. 1970—Gov. R. Reagan’s education advisor Roger A. Freeman warns “We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. … That’s dynamite!” 1969—Chicago 8 defendant …

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Wed, Oct 28

2022—Elon Musk buys Twitter; an online loon attacks the House Speaker’s husband with a hammer; there is no connection between these events. 2016—Disregarding advice from Justice Dept. lawyers, Director James Comey announces that the FBI has re-opened its investigation of the Democratic Presidential candidate 10 days before the election. 2003—Iraq is “a little tougher that I thought it was going to be,” says Sen. Trent Lott [R-Miss.], but “if we have to, we just mow the whole place down [and] see what happens.” 1989—Congress passes a new, improved Flag Protection Act; 227 days later the Court throws it out. 1980—With help from a stolen briefing …

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