Daily Mail: Ground Zero falls silent as hundreds gather to commemorate the 18th anniversary of 9/11 that claimed 2,977 lives
* Hundreds gathered at Ground Zero in New York to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks
* Relatives of the victims were invited to hear their loved ones names read out at the remembrance ceremony
* The memorial and museum were closed to family only during Wednesday morning
* Bells tolled and moments of silence were observed across the nation at approximately 8.46am - the moment Flight 11 struck the north twin tower of the World Trade Center
* President Donald Trump will deliver remarks at a ceremony at the Pentagon memorial Wednesday morning
* Former President George W. Bush, the commander-in-chief at the time of the 2001 attacks, is due at an afternoon wreath-laying at the Pentagon
* Vice President Mike Pence will speak near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where heroic passengers brought down the fourth jet before it could reach Washington
Hundreds have gathered at Ground Zero in New York City on Wednesday to observe the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks that took 2,977 lives and left a scar in the heart of America.
On Wednesday Americans were urged to 'never forget' the terror attacks nor the emergency first responders who lost their lives in their heroic rescue efforts.
Bells tolled across the nation at approximately 8.46am - the moment Flight 11 struck the north twin tower of the World Trade Center. President Donald Trump observed the moment from the White House South Lawn.
Relatives of the victims of the attacks gathered for the ceremony at Ground Zero Wednesday morning where the names of each of the victims were solemnly read out. Some families were seen proudly raising photos of their loved ones in the crowd.
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MIDDLE EAST
Netanyahu Sochi trip to focus on military coordination, after Iran exposé.
Israel strikes Hamas after new Gaza rocket fire: army.
Israel's Netanyahu vows to annex Jordan Valley if re-elected. Netanyahu vows to annex part of West Bank after Israel election.
Palestinians slam Netanyahu's promise to annex territory after election.
Arab leaders denounce Netanyahu’s plan to annex Palestinian territories.
Turkey accuses US of stalling on Syria 'Safe Zone' plans.
Iran says Bolton's departure will not push Tehran to talks with U.S.. Iran cautiously welcomes 'warmonger’ John Bolton's dismissal.
ASIA
Rocket explodes at US Embassy in Afghanistan on anniversary of 9/11 attacks.
Fighting picks up in Afghanistan after talks collapse.
Security tight as election materials land in Afghanistan.
U.S., North Korea nuclear talks are top priority, Seoul says.
Japan PM picks new foreign, defence ministers in reshuffle.
'Electric shocks, beatings': Kashmiris allege abuse by India army.
Hong Kong: Demonstrators boo Chinese anthem at football qualifier.
Three Australian citizens arrested and detained in Iran.
Fukushima: Japan may have to dump radioactive water into the sea, environment minister says.
AFRICA
S.Sudan rivals to keep to deadline for unity government.
Cameroon's president vows 'national dialogue' to ease tensions with anglophone separatists.
Egypt Brotherhood chief, deputy get life for 'spying'.
Nigeria begins to repatriate its nationals from South Africa.
Burkina Faso conflict causing severe child education crisis.
Bumpy ride for Mali as protests persist over bad roads.
Body of Zimbabwe's Mugabe flown out of Singapore for burial.
EUROPE
Russia warns it has 'no expectation' of any improvement in relations with the US after Trump sacked his national security advisor John Bolton.
Scottish court rules suspension of British Parliament 'unlawful'.
Brexit in chaos after court rules PM's suspension of parliament was unlawful.
Socialists and Podemos blame each other for stalemate in Spain.
Separatists to rally in Barcelona on Catalonia's 'national day'.
China summons German ambassador to Beijing.
EU chief under fire over 'protecting way of life' portfolio.
AMERICAS
Trump to mark 9/11 anniversary at Pentagon.
US to commemorate 9/11 as its aftermath extends and evolves.
New York remembers 9/11 attacks, 18 years on.
Mexico 'won't accept US request' for safe third country agreement.
Canada to fire starting gun for October general election.
California passes landmark gig economy workers’ rights bill.
Rescue efforts continue after Hurricane Dorian leaves Bahamas.
Forests in Grand Bahama unrecognizable after Dorian.
TERRORISM/THE LONG WAR
ISIS fanatic, 25, planning 'lone wolf' terror strike on UK military base researched how to use a drone to drop bombs on British troops, court hears.
Pentagon fears Islamic State surge in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Germany: Raids carried out against terror financing suspects.
ECONOMY/FINANCE/BUSINESS
Trump: Fed should get US interest rate 'down to ZERO, or less'.
China grants year-long tariff exemptions for 16 U.S.-made items.
HKEX makes US$36.6 billion surprise bid to take over London Stock Exchange to grow into a global financial marketplace.
5 comments:
If a Democrat had been the president at the time of this attack, morons here would babble non stop about liberals etc
I am a liberal. What took place was in large measure NOT the fault of the president but the usual turf war among and between intel organizations. We get this sort of turn war, no matter what system of govt there is--even Nazi Germany had this--and it is seemingly difficult to fix
Anon, I think another aspect of the attack was that most humans cannot conceive of the depravity of their fellow man. The schools in America; do they tell students of the gas chambers, the deliberate starvation policies of Stalin and chairman Mao, Pol Pot, and who knows how many others?
They didn't when I went to school. Looking at the liberal policies currently in vogue, I doubt they do now.
Carter learned the hard way. The prior occupant of the White House...'nuff said.
Your comments are accurate in my opinion. There certainly could be a larger sense of teamwork between agencies and it would help if this sense of teamwork existed to a greater extent BEFORE disasters befall a nation.
On another topic, I deeply resent the federal reserve's policy of financial heroin addiction, the artificially low interest rate. This is yet another subsidy paid by a large segment of societies that in essence exists because of growing rates of taxation for socialist policies.
Here....we'll give you low or non-existent interest rates on borrowed money to offset our increasing taxation, says the tooth fairy crowd infesting various legislatures. After all it only impacts savers. Impacts who? Savers? How do you spell that?
Once upon a time, if banks and savings and loans wanted more funds to loan, they had to attract those funds by interest rate levels. Ahhhh, but that was then. Now we have the serial interest rate manipulators; Greenspan and Bernanke, and others, who, with their educations, were still too ignorant to see a tech bubble or a housing bubble respectively, that came in part because of their manipulations.
Too big to fail equals "Screw up big, screw up small. We've got your 6."
Methinks we are doomed.
End of rant in response to DJT's interest rate comments.
Roger
Not sure which schools you refer to, ie, public schools or colleges. I ran a 14 week program on the Holocaust and speakers referred to genocides etc worldwide...the program was funded by our state and was free to the public.
1213,
Business Week said the same thing. Before it was Bloomberg's Business Week they had an editorial in the gold pages about 2/3rds of the way toward the back. It was on the the backside of the page.
They said that politicians like to increase taxes so that they had more money to spend. This squeezes people and makes them unhappy. So the offset was to increase the money supply so the dude has some money in his billfold to spend.
They were of the opinion that with the growth of credit that the credit pool was so large that the increasing the money supply would not help the politicians alleviate the squeeze.
There lever would be broken.
But after QE1, QE2, QE3 and twist are suppose to fill that void? It helps banks, but not Everyman.
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