The Mountain View retirement community recognizes the hard work of local first responders every year with a block party. Credit: Courtesy Photo
First Responders Block Party. Mountain View Retirement Village is hosting their seventh annual First Responders Appreciation Block Party to honor those that put their lives at risk to save others. Guest speakers at the event will include Oro Valley Mayor Satish Hiremath, Pima County Sheriff Mark Napier and Golder Ranch Fire Chief Randy Karrer. Also in attendance will be the Oro Valley K-9 Unit (dogs!) and the Pima County SWAT and Bomb Squad, members of Border Patrol and the Golder Ranch Fire Department’s ladder trucks (trucks!). The event works to honor those who gave their lives in New York during the tragic events of 9/11, and to celebrate the first responders that keep our communities safe. The event runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 7900 N. La Canada Drive and is open to the public. Details here.
JPride Pound Workout. Let’s start with a few definitions: JPride is a program sponsored by the Tucson J which began in 2005 with the goal of promoting inclusivity for the LGBTQ+ community. The Pound workout is a growing type of group fitness class that combines cardio, strength training and lots and lots of sweating. So, in attending this class, you’re supporting a diversity initiative and bringing yourself one step closer to the set of abs you’ve always wanted (or at least one step closer to feeling justified in eating the plate of nachos you were going to eat tonight anyway). Every second Tuesday of the month. All ages, abilities, identities, genders, sizes and faiths are welcome! 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11. Tucson Jewish Community Center, 3800 E. River Road. Free. Details here.
Token Tuesday. Every Tuesday night you have the chance to finally level up in that game you just can’t beat. The deal is this: free tokens with every drink purchase. So, it all makes sense right? The more you drink the better at gaming you get, therefore you will beat the game! Basic logic. So head on over to Cobra Arcade Bar and plug in. Event runs from 4 to 7 p.m. at 63 E. Congress. Details here.
Events compiled by Emily Dieckman, B.S. Eliot, Ava Garcia and Jeff Gardner.
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911 Revisited: The Five Dancing Israelis
“The FBI came to the conclusion… that the five Israelis arrested in New Jersey last September were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front.” (Forward (A Jewish Magazine) March 15, 2002)
“Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.” (US official quoted in Carl Cameron’s Fox News report (that was later erased from the Fox News website) on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.)
ABC NEWS, June 21, 2002: “…..Israeli and U.S. government officials worked out a deal and after 71 days, the five Israelis were taken out of jail, put on a plane, and deported back home.
While the former detainees refused to answer ABCNEWS’ questions about their detention and what they were doing on Sept. 11, several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return home.
Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy on the morning of Sept. 11, “The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event.”
QUESTION: If Israel knew of the planned Attack, did Israel, our Ally?, inform the US of the imminent 9/11/2001 Attack?
“….Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $124.3 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance….” (U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel,
Congressional Research Service: Jeremy M. Sharp, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, June 10, 2015)
Thanks for that Francis. Carl Cameron has done some great work, but I don’t know what happened to him. Haven’t seen him in years.
911 Revisited: The Five Dancing Israelis
“The FBI came to the conclusion… that the five Israelis arrested in New Jersey last September were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as a front.” (Forward (A Jewish Magazine) March 15, 2002)
“Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.” (US official quoted in Carl Cameron’s Fox News report (that was later erased from the Fox News website) on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.)
ABC NEWS, June 21, 2002: “…..Israeli and U.S. government officials worked out a deal and after 71 days, the five Israelis were taken out of jail, put on a plane, and deported back home.
While the former detainees refused to answer ABCNEWS’ questions about their detention and what they were doing on Sept. 11, several of the detainees discussed their experience in America on an Israeli talk show after their return home.
Said one of the men, denying that they were laughing or happy on the morning of Sept. 11, “The fact of the matter is we are coming from a country that experiences terror daily. Our purpose was to document the event.”
QUESTION: If Israel knew of the planned Attack, did Israel, our Ally?, inform the US of the imminent 9/11/2001 Attack?
http://saittaonline.org/911.png Haaretz cartoon
“….Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $124.3 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance….” (U.S. Foreign Aid to Israel,
Congressional Research Service: Jeremy M. Sharp, Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs, June 10, 2015)
Thanks for that Francis. Carl Cameron has done some great work, but I don’t know what happened to him. Haven’t seen him in years.