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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=tanstl@aol.com href="mailto:tanstl@aol.com">David Sladky</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 14, 2010 1:51 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Huffington Post Kills Jesse Ventura`s Piece</DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt" size=5><B>Huffington Post Kills Jesse Ventura`s
Piece</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 20pt" size=5><B>on 9/11</B></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=2><I><B>Former Minnesota governor and one-time Jesse Ventura has run afoul
of the Huffington Post`s no-conspiracy-theory policy, and he`s not happy about
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size=2>Mar 12, (rawstory) -- <B>"I can't believe the Huffington Post today will
practice censorship," Ventura says in astonishment. "I've got news for them. ...
I won't ever write for 'em again."</B><BR><BR>Ventura had posted an item on
Tuesday which took note of a recent at which "more than one thousand architects
and engineers signed a petition demanding that Congress begin a new
investigation into the destruction of the World Trade Center skyscrapers on
9/11." He also quoted a few paragraphs from his new book, American Conspiracies,
to explain why some of those experts see signs of controlled
demolition.<BR><BR>The item was featured on the of Huffington Post when it first
went up, but after a few hours it vanished. <BR><BR>All that appears now at its
original location is an editor's note saying, "The Huffington Post's editorial
policy, laid out in our blogger guidelines, prohibits and promulgation of
conspiracy theories -- including those about 9/11. As such, we have removed this
post."<BR><BR>The note is followed by three pages of comments, enthusiastically
arguing the pros and cons of controlled demolition and other 9/11 theories, that
were posted during the couple of hours before the entry was deleted and comments
were closed.<BR><BR>Huffington Post's own guidelines for its state, "We must --
and do -- reserve the right to remove objectionable, inaccurate, or inflammatory
material and, if necessary, suspend or revoke blogging privileges. This also
includes propagating conspiracy theories and blogging about housekeeping issues
that are not of interest to the general public."<BR><BR>Anastasia Churkina, a
correspondent for RT, interviewed Ventura about the controversy. "He's a man who
doesn't mince his words too much," she reported on Thursday. "He was pretty
blunt."<BR><BR>"I can't believe the Huffington Post today will practice
censorship," Ventura told her angrily. "They asked me to be a contributing
editor and they said, 'Write about anything you want.' So it was the second time
I did something -- and they removed it?"<BR><BR>"Well, I've got news for them,"
he continued. "I won't ever write for 'em again. ... I won't do a thing for the
Huffington Post because I don't like it when people censor what I have to
say."<BR><BR>"All I do is ask questions!" he exploded. "That's what bugs me
about 9/11. 9/11 is an event you're not allowed to ask a question about. ...
Clearly they don't want any questions on it."<BR><BR>Ironically, Ventura had to
go to RT, the English-language version of a Russian news channel, to tell his
story. <BR><BR>Although polls show that large numbers of Americans believe in a
broad range of conspiracy theories, and a majority entertain doubts about the
official story of 9/11, few of those questions ever appear in the mainstream
media.<BR><BR>As Raw Story recently reported , "In November of 2007, an online
article noted, 'Nearly two-thirds of Americans think it is possible that some
federal officials had specific warnings of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks
on New York and Washington, but chose to ignore those warnings, according to a
Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University poll.' A national survey of 811
adult residents of the United States conducted by Scripps and Ohio University
found that more than a third believe in a broad smorgasbord of conspiracy
theories including the attacks, international plots to rig , the plot to
assassinate President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and the government’s knowledge of
intelligent life from other worlds. The high percentage is a manifestation, some
say, of an American public that increasingly distrusts the federal
government."<BR><BR>Even liberal websites, however, discourage questions about
9/11, to the point where BooMan of the Booman Tribune had to preface a post at
Daily Kos in 2005 by writing "I know this touches on verboten conspiracy
theories, but this is a front-page NYT article."<BR><BR>"It's kind of hard to
tell whether or not a new investigation will be launched," Churkina concluded.
"Many people don't think this is going to be happening any time soon, even with
such public figures, like Jesse Venture and other, calling for it."
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