The commemoration of the tenth anniversary has become the world’s largest blog essay contest, and, while I cannot hope to succeed in such an outpouring of virtual (and actual) ink, I will say this:

What have we sacrificed in the process of pursuing the ‘War on Terror’? Continuing with our global coverage of the 9-11 anniversary, in this moving article from Sweden’s Sydsvenskan, columnist Heidi Avellan writes that no matter how hard it may be, hatred must be met with love, and our principles mustn’t be sacrificed in the pursuit of vengeance. For Sweden’s Sydsvenskan, Heidi Avellan writes in part: It doesn’t take much empathy to understand that those who lost...

When the second tower was hit, a loved one called and said, “Turn on the TV.” Still holding the phone, I did and said without thinking, “This is the worst day of my life.” It was only much later that I understood that reflexive reaction. Over more than seven decades, there had been other times of being jolted out of the smooth hum of daily life into awareness that the ground under our feet was not as solid as it seemed. Pearl Harbor. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The weekend JFK was killed…...

Today we continue our coverage of the global outpouring in regard to the September 11 anniversary. This article is one of the dozens of stories posted on Worldmeets.US since yesterday. The funk the United States is currently in is of great concern to U.S. allies like Japan, who depend on American influence for their own security and prosperity. This editorial from Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun illustrates the depth of concern in Tokyo, and what, from a Japanese point of view, would result if the...

Here’s the live video feed from MSNBC of the ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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A suicide bomber has attacked a coalition base in Afghanistan injuring 77 people. It appears this attack involved a truck bomb and was almost certainly timed to coincide with the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made for These Times Mis estimados: Do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world right now. It is true, one has to have strong cojones and ovarios to withstand much of what passes for “good” in our culture today. Abject disregard of what the soul finds most precious and irreplaceable and the corruption of principled ideals...

September 11th, 2011 is the tenth anniversary of my eldest daughter Kysa’s first day of preschool.  Ten years ago, Kysa was a very thoughtful, but somewhat shy little four-year old girl.  Today she is still extremely thoughtful.  Her shyness disappeared shortly after entering school.  So far it shows no signs of returning. Being the first child of four, Kysa received a fair amount of extra first child attention.  Firstborn children are often greeted with new parent oversight that vacillates...

While I have referred to the attacks of 9/11 as an intelligence failure that’s not exactly true.  In realty the Bush/Cheney administration ignored intelligence.  This is from an intelligence briefing given to George W. Bush on August 6, 2001. Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World...

September 11 is perhaps the third date in American history requiring no year, July 4 and December 7 being the others. It also is the only of the three that I lived through and like virtually everyone touched by the horrific events of that day, found my life changed forever. That is perhaps a rash statement for someone who was 75 miles from Ground Zero on that gloriously sunny morning and was blithely unaware that the earth had moved until I walked into the mountain retreat where I found my love...

Our post of the day comes from Daryl Cagle, who has a collection of cartoonists looking back on 911 plus their remembrances. Here’s the first one part (it’s a long post): Cartoonists Look Back At 9/11 by Daryl Cagle It’s an understatement to say that the events of September 11 will forever be etched in the minds of millions of Americans. As we commemorate the 10th anniversary of that tragic day, I thought it would be good to ask some of the top political cartoonists to reflect on that...

9/11 And Its Great Transformations by Cliff Schecter On September 11th, 2001, on what was a perfect morning-right up until the very moment a Boeing 767-223-ER slammed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, I stood on the corner of Delancey and Ridge Streets in downtown Manhattan. I was working on an election campaign – it was primary day in New York – and little did I realize that politics, culture and our entire trajectory as a nation was about to change forever. I had been...

We will never forget 911. And neither will future generations. The story, images, and human cost will always conjure up horror and tears — but will also forever be identified with stories of incredible bravery, determination and personal sacrifice.

Long time actor Cliff Robertson has died at the age of 88 (one day after his birthday) Robertson had a long career in both television and movies, playing roles as diverse as Lt. John F. Kennedy to Peter Parker’s uncle in the Spiderman movie. On television he was in shows like Falcon Crest, Batman and The Twliight Zone. More details to follow.

On this anniversary weekend, an old question I used to ask editors and writers who were pitching a story during my working lifetime arises, “Why are you telling me all this?” Starting right after the President’s jobs speech Thursday night, TV and cable news have been saturated with running accounts of two or three possible terrorists planning a U.S. attack on 9/11, with most of the information coming from government sources. In New York, Hillary Clinton announces there was “a specific,...

UPDATE: The BBC reports that Saadi Qaddafi, one of Col. Qaddafi’s sons has arrived in neighboring Niger: Niger’s government spokesman and Justice Minister Marou Amadou said Saadi Gaddafi was in a convoy along with eight others. Mr Amadou said the convoy was on its way to Agadez in northern Niger and that Saadi and his companions were being allowed in on humanitarian grounds. Col. Qaddafi’s whereabouts are still unknown. According to the BBC, he has said that he will die in Libya. While...

Good morning, Tomorrow, on the tenth anniversary of the horrific attacks of September 11, 2001, we will mourn the innocent lives lost, honor the heroic first responders who rushed to the scene, and pay tribute to our troops and military families who have served over the past ten years to keep us safe and strong. But, I also hope you’ll remember how the worst terrorist attack in American history brought out the best in the American people. From giving blood, volunteering time, and donating...

In a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania two former Presidents (Clinton and Bush) and the Vice President of the United States have gathered with thousands of others to dedicate the memorial to the heroes of Flight 93. A wall engraved with the names of the 40 brave souls who, knowing that they had to act, waged the first battle in the war on terror, a battle that they won. Vice President Biden struck a poigniant tone when he told the families of the victims that he knew what it was like to get a call...

This just in on the credible threats. From investigative journalist Andy Borowitz: ‘Credible Threats’ Made to US Government Homeland Security Studying Two-Hour Video from Wednesday Night WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) – The Department of Homeland Security said today that it was studying several “credible threats” made to the United States government in a two-hour broadcast Wednesday night from a location believed to be the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California. Homeland Security spokesman...

After quoting Doug Mataconis and citing the LATimes and Brad Plumer on Michele Bachmann and other conservatives skeptical about the payroll tax cut, Steven L. Taylor at Outside the Beltway concludes: First, opposing cuts to payroll taxes undercuts several key Republican claims in regards to fiscal policy, including the notion that it’s “the people’s money, not the governments” and therefore any time you can let the people keep their money it is an unvarnished good. Second, this then raises...

Did the post-9/11 decade make us stronger? GO HERE for a great roundup.

A new NBC report seemingly brings to reality a development terrorism experts have long warned could be coming: it turns out that two of the three suspects sought in a 911 terror anniversary plot could be Americans: Update 6:40 p.m. ET: NBC’s Pete Williams, citing several U.S. officials, reports that there’s been no major progress in the attempt to run down the intelligence warning of possible car or truck bomb attacks this weekend. Officials say the intelligence source was vague in describing...

At a time when America appears lost, and its leadership continues its reckless bid for global supremacy, it is interesting to recall the story of the only American who participated in India’s freedom struggle and was imprisoned by the British-Indian government. He gave up Western clothes and donned home-spun Khadi dress. A highly impressed Mahatma Gandhi wrote in his Young India: “No Indian is giving such battle to the (British-Indian) Government as Mr. Samuel Evans Stokes Jr. He has veritably...

Best not make decisions late in the day: …decision fatigue can make quarterbacks prone to dubious choices late in the game and C.F.O.’s prone to disastrous dalliances late in the evening. It routinely warps the judgment of everyone, executive and nonexecutive, rich and poor — in fact, it can take a special toll on the poor. Yet few people are even aware of it, and researchers are only beginning to understand why it happens and how to counteract it. Decision fatigue helps explain why ordinarily...

Red-Meat Slam Dance Raging Moderate, by Will Durst A full complement of Republican presidential candidates gathered for the battle royale at the Ronald Reagan Library in Seamy (Simi) Valley, Calif. And though he was only there in spirit, the Great Communicator could easily have supplied the power for the entire proceedings had the networks harnessed him spinning in his grave like a rotisserie chicken in the middle of a power surge. The eight challengers for his mantle didn’t just break the...

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The violence underway currently at the Israeli embassy in Cairo, which was overrun by demonstrators forcing the ambassador and some 70 staff to flee, has so far caused less concern in the major European capitals than the US. The ambassador and his staff are expected to land in Israel in coming minutes but only President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have voiced concern. No other government in Asia or Europe has reacted. The United Nations is also silent so far. Egypt’s top...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana, from Volume One of The Life of Reason, 1905. This Sunday marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks that resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000...

The big news is the feds looking into a “credible threat” of a terrorist plot involving New York City and Washington DC to mark the 10th anniversary of 911 — but The Daily Beast’s John Avlon notes that there is a more reassuring context: since 2001 47 jihadist terrorist plots have been thwarted: As news of a new “credible” threat swept across the nation on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Americans were abruptly reminded that terrorism is always one bad day away from being...

I used to think that “history is what it was” but that really isn’t true. History is what it is, and that “is” is eternally in flux. One of the most popular images of “Custer’s Last Stand” It hung in bars and saloons across Budweiser’s distribution  network Let me give you the most obvious example: when I was a kid, Col. George Armstrong Custer was a venerable American hero, and had been for decades. Errol Flynn and Robert Shaw (neither Americans)...

For anyone coming out of a two-year coma, Barack Obama’s jobs speech to Congress may have looked like the familiar sight of an American President exhorting lawmakers to legislate solutions to a crisis. For the rest of who have had the misfortune to be wide awake, what was striking was Obama’s discovery of the imperative mood in his address. “Pass this jobs bill,” he kept repeating like the mantra of a hypnotist trying to impose his will on assembled Tea Party naysayers. Whatever happens to...

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com WASHINGTON – What a difference one year makes. Last year Sarah Palin was the queen of the midterm elections. This was a long time in coming and much deserved. Sarah Palin’s celebrity tease has made her besotted fans look stupid, which isn’t the worst of it. Live by fan politics, be humiliated by it. So, two powerful conservative women are finally speaking out. “[A]t some point, Sarah Palin has to take some responsibility for her...

A couple of days ago, I wrote about the need for us, Americans, on this 10th anniversary of 9/11, to recommit ourselves to strengthening and bonding our nation from within… An Army chaplain, Major James Key, conducted his final funeral at Arlington National Cemetery a few weeks ago for an active duty soldier who died in combat while serving in Afghanistan. As his eyes “scanned the hallowed stones and granite walls of this sacred place,[he] thought about the day that ultimately put this soldier...

Moody’s chief economist says President Barack Obama’s plan would put 1.9 million people back to work. But that misses the point of what is going on now: ideology, the “we want our political sports team to win this one” attitude, preventing the other sports team from scoring a point, and upcoming elections make it highly unlikely Obama will get enough of this in place to provide relief to a chunk of America’s suffering unemployed. When people say Obama needs to or will...

This morning,Paul Krugman finally has some words of praise for President Obama : I was favorably surprised by the new Obama jobs plan, which is significantly bolder and better than I expected. It’s not nearly as bold as the plan I’d want in an ideal world. But if it actually became law, it would probably make a significant dent in unemployment. Krugman finds much to like about Obama’s plan; but he holds out little hope that it will pass — because of Republican opposition —...

New 911 recordings have been released with the voices of air traffic controlers, a doomed stewardess on one of the flights — and even one of the hijackers:

ABC’s Good Morning America: U.S. authorities are scrambling to sort through information that the CIA developed in the past 24 hours indicating that at least three individuals entered the U.S. in August by air with the intent to launch a vehicle-borne attack against Washington, D.C. or New York around the anniversary of 9/11, according to intelligence officials. Officials say the alleged terror plot was initiated by new al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s successor, who...

Here’s another greatly timely video animation from Taiwan’s Next Media Animation — this time on President Obama’s big jobs speech and reaction to it.

Our political Quote of the Day comes from Ezra Klein, who was always one a must-read blogger when he wrote on a smaller blog and is even moreso as a blogger for the Washington Post. His subject: what was in President Barack Obama’s jobs speech last night and what comes next? Two sections from it: The proposal itself is called “The American Jobs Act” and amounts to about $450 billion worth of ideas that have, at other times, commanded a bipartisan consensus. That’s section one —...

by WALTER BRASCH [EDITOR’S NOTE: Walter Brasch has written dozens of columns, human interest stories, and investigative articles about 9/11 and its effects. He was one of the first to write about the PATRIOT Act violating civil liberties and parts of the Constitution. He was one of the first, using extensive investigation techniques and inside information, to question the statements from the Bush–Cheney Administration about the reasons for the impending invasion of Iraq. This column, written...

Israel and Turkey – Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word by John Daly September promises to be an epochal month, as the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday night told U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a telephone call that he is determined to go to the United Nations to bid for a full membership at the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN General Assembly beginning 20 September, asking the Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state along the pre-1967...

Obama is the Best Republican President Since Lincoln by Tina Dupuy There was a 90 percent top marginal tax rate under President Dwight Eisenhower. Ronald Reagan raised taxes nearly every year he was in office and still managed to quadruple the national debt. Teddy Roosevelt was an anti-business “trust buster” who snatched Yosemite away from private profits. Gerald Ford ended a long pointless war in Vietnam, even though pontificators like Pat Buchanan claim we could have won…eventually....

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Some 3,017 people died in New York, at the Pentagon and in a farm field in western Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001, and save for the hijackers all were heroes in their own way. But Father Mychal Judge and Betty Ann Ong merit special mention. FATHER MYCHAL JUDGE New York Fire Department Chaplain Mychal Judge, or Father Mike, as everyone called the beloved Benedictine, was uptown at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, where he ministered to the wealthy and homeless alike, when the first plane...

I didn’t listen to Obama’s speech – as the Republicans were claiming it was political not governing.  I am not really offended by this – it’s what politicians do when there is nothing else they can do.  Our economic woes are not US economic woes but global economic woes.  In a global economy there is little that a single country can do to remedy the problem.  I suspect that Obama knows this as do at least some of the Republicans – I’m thinking the sane...

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Here is a video of the full speech President Barack Obama gave on jobs before a joint session of Congress. By now you’ve heard analysts tell you what he said – or parts of what he said. Watch the full speech here and give your viewpoint in comments: The Los Angeles Times’ Andrew Malcolm offers the full text of Obama’s speech HERE.

NOTE: Due to a variety of conflicts TMV does not have a post on it yet by any of its writers on President Barack Obama’s jobs speech before a joint session of Congress. Yours truly drove 500 miles today and was unable to post. So here is our Quote of the Day: part of Andrew Sullivan’s take on Obama’s speech from his live blogging. Other posts will likely follow on the speech over the next 24 hours. 7.57 pm. This was also a speech aimed directly at his own party – rallying...

A major blackout has struck Southern California leaving many Los Angeles residents in the dark. According to the latest reports as many as 1.4 million people are in the dark and the power could remain out for up to 20 hours in some areas, though most should be restored more quickly. The blackout has also impacted areas of Arizona and Baja California. Naturally there is speculation as to the cause of the blackout and immediate rumors of possible sabotage and/or terrorism but in all likelihood this...

Has the 2008 economic crisis in some ways corrected for the mistakes America made after September 11? Former Brazil foreign minister and ambassador to the United States Roberto Abdenur writes that the global financial crisis has served to open the United States to greater cooperation with the world – if only the Tea Party would get out of the way. For Brazil’s Folha, former Brazil Foreign Minister Roberto Abdenur writes in part: If terrorism has led the U.S. toward aggressive extroversion,...

Space nerds of the world unite… With all respect to Ms. Maddow… my moment of geek http://www.geekosystem.com/real-picture-saturn/

No apologies here. There will be, of course, because a significant number of Progressives and Morlocks have no conception of the difference between thought and deed, which is THE critical differentiator in law and policy. You can IMAGINE strangling your boss all that you want. It is only when you actually TRY to strangle your boss that there is any moral or ethical problem. click to play What? I am speaking, of course, about the new online flash game “Tea Party Zombies Must Die!” And...

WASHINGTON – Rick Perry failed über Reaganite Peggy Noonan’s basic GOP nomination test: Can you think about watching Perry “for 4 years and it would not make me throw up in my mouth”? “The issue in the book ‘Fed Up,’ governor, is you say that by any measure, Social Security is a failure,” Romney said. “Our nominee has to be someone who isn’t committed to abolishing Social Security, but who is committed to saving Social Security … I...

His debut on the debate scene elicited audience cheers for capital punishment, introducing a potential president more comfortable than any in memory with death as a solution to social problems. Asked if he has “struggled to sleep” over execution of “234 death row inmates, more than any other governor in modern times,” Rick Perry says no, affirming his faith in “ultimate justice” despite a national trend away from capital punishment. But the Texas Governor has to be given points for consistency....