A prominent engineer with 55
years experience, in charge of the design of hundreds of major building
projects including high rise offices, former member of the California
Seismic Safety Commission and former member of the National Institute of
Sciences Building Safety Council (Marx Ayres) believes that the World Trade
Centers were brought down by controlled demolition (see also
this)
Two professors of structural engineering at a
prestigious Swiss university (Dr. Joerg Schneider and Dr. Hugo Bachmann)
said that,
on 9/11, World Trade Center 7 was brought down by controlled demolition
(translation
here)
Kamal S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters
degree in Engineering from UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California,
says:
"Photos of the steel, evidence about how the
buildings collapsed, the unexplainable collapse of WTC 7, evidence of
thermite in the debris as well as several other red flags, are quite
troubling indications of well planned and controlled demolition"
Ronald H. Brookman, structural engineer, with a
masters degree in Engineering from UC Davis, of Novato California,
writes:
"Why would all 110 stories drop straight down to
the ground in about 10 seconds, pulverizing the contents into dust and ash
- twice. Why would all 47 stories of WTC 7 fall straight down to the
ground in about seven seconds the same day? It was not struck by any
aircraft or engulfed in any fire. An independent investigation is
justified for all three collapses including the surviving steel samples
and the composition of the dust."
continued
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A new
article from Sojourners Magazine:
At the Hour of Our Death
Is a proper
burial for World Trade Center victims a justice issue? Diane Horning's vigil
for the conscience of America.
by Rose Marie Berger
Excerpt:
The proper burial
of the dead has been called “the last office of humanity.” The 15th-century
poet-philosopher
Giambattista Vico identified it as among the three characteristics,
along with religion and marriage, of a civilized society. “[From] these
three institutions are the origin of all civilizations and therefore they
must be most devoutly guarded by all,” Vico wrote, “so that the world should
not again become a bestial wilderness.”
IN THE DAYS
FOLLOWING the collapse of the Twin Towers,
firefighters and others began the painstaking task of recovering the
remains of their lost comrades and hundreds of civilians using a “hand and
shovel” digging method. To find and return remains to family members for
proper burial was a matter of honor, dignity, and respect for the dead. But
political expediency took precedence over basic human decency. “[Then-mayor
Rudy] Giuliani wanted to make sure that the Trade Towers were at ground
level before he left office,” Kurt Horning told me, “which is why they went
to the ‘scoop and dump’ method once they recovered the gold.”
According to The London Times, a billion dollar cache of gold
and other precious metals had been buried beneath the Trade Center. “The
Comex metals trading division of the New York Mercantile Exchange kept 3,800
gold bars … worth more than $100 million” in vaults in the basement of one
of the WTC buildings, reported the Times. Comex also held almost
$220 million worth of other companies’ gold and more than $430 million worth
of silver.
On Oct. 30, 2001,
workers at Ground Zero unearthed the cache. With more than 100 heavily armed
federal agents standing guard, police and firefighters were redeployed from
recovery efforts to load up armored trucks with the treasure. Within hours
of finding the gold, Giuliani stopped the recovery effort and pulled workers
off the pile.
The “scoop and
dump” method was for clearing the site, not recovering the dead. Earthmovers
and steam shovels scooped up debris at Ground Zero and dumped it in trucks
that took it to barges. It was floated up the Arthur Kill tidal strait and
then trucked to the Fresh Kills Landfill to be sifted for remains and
personal effects. According to the sworn testimony of workers there, whole
bodies were still in the wreckage. Taylor Recycling’s site supervisor for
the Fresh Kills sifting job, Eric Beck, testified in conjunction with a law
suit the World Trade Center Families have brought against the city of New
York, “I vividly remember our finding a man’s full chest and the full body
of a man still dressed in a suit.” Beck also testified that Department of
Sanitation workers were told to take the fines (the sifted, screened, and
washed soil)—in effect the cremated remains of WTC victims—and use them to
pave roads and fill in pot holes.
Link to article - free
registration required
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Indira Singh with Justice
for 9/11 Steering Committee member Kyle Hence
The
Journey of a Wall Street
Whistleblower
Guns and Butter interview with
Indira Singh:
Part
1 - Her experience as an EMT on 9-11
Part 2 - Down the Ptech rabbit hole
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Interview with Jim LaPenna, 9/11 First Responder
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Breathless Audacity:
How the White House Betrayed the Real Heroes of 911
by Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
The largest
study yet of lung problems among 9/11 rescue workers shows bad
news. "Nearly 70 percent of the rescue and cleanup workers who
toiled in the dust and fumes at ground zero have had trouble
breathing, and many will probably be sick for the rest of their
lives," reports Amy Westfeldt. The study, conducted by the Mount
Sinai Medical Center, monitored the health of nearly 16,000 ground
zero workers. The volunteers who dug through the rubble in search of
survivors inhaled dust laden with asbestos, pulverized concrete,
mercury and toxins that will leave many of them chronically sick for
the rest of their lives.
From
firedoglake.com
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Remains
of 9/11 victims 'to spend eternity'
in city rubbish dump
By Charles Laurence in New York
Telegraph
"The remains of hundreds of victims
of the September 11 attacks are to be permanently buried in the world's
largest rubbish dump, to the consternation of their grieving relatives.
In the aftermath of 9/11, more than half a million tons of dust and ashes from
the Twin Towers were taken to the sprawling Fresh Kills landfill site on
Staten Island.
"More than 100 years' worth of refuse from New York
City had accumulated at the dump before it was finally closed just six
months before the attacks. The rubble from the World Trade Center ended up
covering some 48 acres.
"Relatives were assured that ashes would be
returned after they were sorted, but city authorities have since balked at
the estimated $450 million cost of transferring them again. Instead they
have promised to lay a 2,200-acre park on top of the dump, whose rotting
contents smell strongly of methane, and to erect a memorial to the
victims."
 WTC
FAMILIES FOR PROPER BURIAL
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Mysteries of the Twin Towers:
A Survey
of the Available Evidence
On the Collapse of the
World Trade Center Towers
By
Rodger Herbst, Bachelor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering,
Master of Engineering
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The oceanic conveyor is a complex branching
system of currents that generates the Gulf Stream and
transports immense amounts of heat and moisture to northern latitudes.
The primary force driving this planetary heat pump is the
"subduction" of denser, more saline water as it reaches the North
Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, creating the descending limb of the convection
cell that drives the Atlantic circulation. The warm Gulf Stream water gives up
heat and moisture as it moves north, cooling and becoming more saline.
This cooler water continues to give up moisture, becoming more saline and denser until it begins to
sink through the surrounding water , and this great weight of descending
water makes the whole system possible.
There is now a rapid
increase of fresh water flowing into the North Atlantic regions under
decades-long warming conditions, which will eventually reach the point of
diluting the north-moving waters enough to stop the sinking process (deep
water production) that drives the whole cycle. The best recent Oceanographic
and Paleo-Climatological data indicate that this shutting off can happen
very quickly, on the scale of a single season, and may well be underway as
we speak.
The complex
convection current that makes the northern latitudes habitable has two
stable states, on and off, with violent and chaotic climate regimes during
the transition periods. The ice core record is just now being
recognized as showing many such abrupt togglings of the system, and the next
decade may well give us all the chance to experience the chaotic transition
climate firsthand.
Once in the
"off" state the ocean current system tends to settle into a stable
"off" condition for hundreds to thousands of years - a state much closer to
Ice Age or Little Ice Age conditions than to our current mild and fertile
climate regime. With extremely cold and dry conditions over much of North
America and Northern Europe, civilization as we know it would grind to a
definitive halt.
-Pup
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More on the Oceanic Conveyor
How
Global Warming May Cause the Next Ice Age... by Thom Hartmann
Rapid
Climate Change - from
The American
Scientist Online
Greenland Sea Cold Water Re-Cycling Has Nearly Stopped.
Water-Circulating "Chimneys" Are Nearly Gone
May 11, 2005 Cambridge, England
© 2005 by Linda Moulton Howe
"Normally in the Atlantic Ocean, warm water moves from the Equator up to the British Isles, keeping England and parts of Europe warmer than Labrador which is at the same northern latitude. The warming is caused by a huge convection process called the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation, or North Atlantic Drift. Equatorial warm water is circulated to the Labrador Sea and Greenland Sea, cools off, and then sea ice forms. The ice does not take up the sea salt which is left behind in the ocean and makes the water denser and it sinks. For more than a century, at least a dozen cylinder-shaped columns of cold water have been sinking into the deep ocean and heading back south toward the Equator which has kept the big conveyor belt of warm-to-cold-to-warm water going in the Atlantic Ocean.
But now for the first time, Cambridge University Physicist, Peter
Wadhams, has discovered that those dozen cold water columns in the Greenland Sea have nearly disappeared. Prof. Wadhams is also head of the Cambridge Polar Ocean Physics Group. He reported last week in Vienna at the European Geosciences Union meeting about his field research in the Greenland Sea. With a changing, slowing thermohaline circulation, Great Britain and parts of Europe will become colder over this century as the rest of the planet gets warmer."
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Figure 1. Optical micrograph of
collected dust
particles observed in WTC dust sample 2,
showing shiny metallic and semi-transparent
silicate-rich spherules. (For example, the pill-
shaped droplet at far right is silicate rich.)
Extremely high temperatures during the World Trade Center destruction
Link
to pdf of the original technical paper
from the
Journal of 9-11 Studies -
by Steven E. Jones, Jeffrey Farrer, Gregory S. Jenkins, Frank Legge, James
Gourley, Kevin Ryan, Daniel Farnsworth, and Crockett Grabbe
html version
The office material fires
described by the government's National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) study of the WTC collapses indicate air temperatures no higher than
1100
°C
in highly localized areas. As for analysis of the steel from the
buildings "…using metallographic analysis, NIST determined that there was no
evidence that any of the samples had reached temperatures above 600
°C."
The temperatures required to form the once-molten spheres found in the dust
samples, collected days after the collapses, range from 1000
°C
to 2760
°C.
Iron melts at 1565
°C,
unless in the presence of other compounds under controlled conditions, at
which a "eutectic" of iron and sulfur can melt at 1000
°C.
This"eutectic" was discovered by FEMA, and by fire researchers at Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, and confirmed by this team of physicists and
researchers.
[...]
We emphasize these data because of the extremely high melting temperature of
molybdenum, and the observation of this molybdenum-rich spherule.
Molybdenum is a refractory metal known for its extremely high melting point
. Molybdenum melts at 2,623 °C (4,753 °F)
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New writings from the Pup:
* My YouTube user
page: Plaguepuppy's Channel
* My talk in NYC on 9/11/2004 -
YouTube version
* A
brief response to an
email about the "no-planer" issue,
and some preliminary thoughts about nukes
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Original material from the
old homepage:
*
Who is PlaguePuppy and what's this about being an "MIT Engineer"?
*
"Confronting the Evidence" - Video of talk from NYC 9-11-2004
conference, with annotations
*
Video Archive
*Photo Gallery
*
"Collapse Update" - An early collection of photo/video evidence
with some commentary
*
Some Observations from the Firefighters of Engine 7
*
The Strange Collapse of the Spire
*
The Strange Collapse of the Spire - Part 2
*
The Lone Gunmen - Pilot Episode: Chronicle of a Death Foretold
*
Dust Trails - More puzzling evidence for the disintegration of metal during
the collapse
*
Explosions in the North Tower lobby and basement reported at the time of
first plane crash
*
Nails in the coffin of WTC-7: A rapid series of small squibs near the roof
of WTC-7 at the beginning
of the collapse
*
Expert Opinion Revisited: Van Romero's first unguarded comments on the role
of explosives
*
Physics of the WTC Collapse - Formerly at IndyMedia Ontario, published
September 2002
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118 Witnesses:
The Firefighters’ Testimony to Explosions
in the Twin Towers
"One of the greatest mysteries of September 11, 2001 is the collapse of
the Twin Towers. Claims that explosions contributed to the collapses were
made on 9/11 and have persisted, but studies supportive of the U.S.
government’s account of events have ignored or denied these claims. A great
deal is at stake in this debate. If explosions were critical to the
collapses, the official al Qaeda narrative may need to be radically altered
or abandoned altogether.
"In January, 2006 an article by David Ray Griffin appeared entitled,
"Explosive Testimony: Revelations about the Twin Towers in the 9/11 Oral
Histories." Drawing on a collection of oral histories from the New York Fire
Department (FDNY), Griffin argued the case for controlled demolition of the
towers. I found myself intrigued by the data he had used and impressed by
his method, but I decided there was room for further research.
I wanted answers to two questions:
(1) Are the roughly 31 witnesses to explosions quoted by Griffin the
total of all witnesses to explosions in these sources, or are there others
he does not mention?
(2) Are there witnesses in these sources whose testimony supports the
non-explosive collapse of the Towers—the U.S. government’s perspective?
"I decided to read the primary sources in order to answer these questions.
This paper gives the results of my research. I am interested, in this paper,
in direct perception and immediate interpretation. I want to know what
witnesses saw, heard and thought on 9/11 at the scene of the crime.
"Although I shall discuss briefly the fact that some witnesses later
changed their minds about what they had experienced, this is not my central
focus. I do not claim to have proven that the Towers were brought down with
explosives, but I believe the eyewitness testimony assembled and discussed
here strengthens the argument that explosions were critical to the
collapses."
Graeme
MacQueen's Homepage
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Evidence for Molten Metal
From the
StudyOf911.com's
Video Library
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Extreme Heat/Molten Steel under Ground Zero (2)
Watch now on Studyof911.com (flv file)
Firefighters describe first hand discovering molten steel running under
the pile at ground zero, "like you were in a foundry." |
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Extreme Heat/Molten Steel under Ground Zero (1)
Watch now on Studyof911.com (flv file)
Six weeks after 9/11, orange-hot metal was still being found under
the wreckage of the towers. In this documentary excerpt a clean-up
crew foreman describes some of what was encountered. |
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World Financial Center buildings stand
before the smoldering WTC site in this view from the west, just across the
Hudson River. The
memorial to the
Katyn Forest Massacre in
the
foreground sits at Montgomery Street at Exchange Place in Jersey City, New
Jersey.
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"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the
people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes
stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is
Fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any
controlling private power." -
FDR
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PDF Version DOC
Version
Author(s): Craig T. Furlong & Gordon Ross (Members, Scholars for 9/11
Truth and Justice)
Statement by Craig T. Furlong and Article Discussion Thread
Author(s): "Winston Smith" of Studyof911.com
Article
discussion thread
All Articles...
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9/11 Bombshell:
WTC7 Security Official Details Explosions Inside Building
Says bombs were going off
in 7 before either tower collapsed
Listen to
Excerpt
from interview on the
Alex Jones Show:
[...]We can reveal that the
individual concerned was asked to report to building seven with a city
official after the first attack on the North tower but before the second
plane hit the South Tower and before their eventual collapse, in order to
provide the official with access to different floors of the building.
The city official he was escorting
was attempting to reach Rudy Guiliani, who he had determined was inside
building 7 at that time. According to Avery and Burmas this official now works
for Guiliani partners.
The individual was also asked to
provide access to the Office Of Emergency Management on the 23rd floor of the
building, this was the so called "bunker" that was built inside WTC7 on the
orders of Rudy Guiliani.
When he got there he found the office
evacuated and after making some calls was told to leave immediately.
It was at this point that he
witnessed a bomb going off inside the building:
"We subsequently went to the
stairwell and were going down the stairs, when we reached the sixth floor,
the landing that we were standing on gave way, there was an explosion and
the landing gave way. I was left there hanging, I had to climb back up and
now had to walk back up to the eighth floor. After getting to the eighth
floor everything was dark."
The individual in a second clip
detailed hearing further explosions and then described what he saw when he got
down to the lobby:
"It was totally destroyed, it
looked like King Kong had been through it and stepped on it and it was so
destroyed I didn't know where I was. It was so destroyed that had to take me
out through a hole in the wall, a makeshift hole I believe the fire
department made to get me out."
He was then told by firefighters to
get twenty blocks away from the area because explosions were going off all
over the World Trade Center complex.
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From
Serendipity, one of
the pioneering voices for 9-11 truth:
BF:
This is Guns and Butter. I'm Bonnie Faulkner. Today on Guns and Butter:
Tod Fletcher. Today's show: "9/11 In Context: the Strategy of
Tension Gone Global." Tod Fletcher is a 9/11 researcher and writer.
Under the pen-name Max Kolskegg he has posted online a three-part series
of articles on 9/11 in its historical and political-economic context: After
Genoa: Reform or Revolution?, 9/11:
A Desperate Provocation by U.S. Capitalism and 9/11
In Context: Plans and Counterplans.
Transcript
of the Guns and Butter Interview with Tod Fletcher
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Propping
Up the War on Terror:
Lies about the WTC by NIST and Underwriters Laboratories
by Kevin
Ryan
Excerpt:
At the time of the floor tests, I worked for Underwriters Laboratories
(UL). I was very interested in the progress of these tests, having already
asked some sensitive questions. My interest began when UL's CEO, Loring
Knoblauch, a very experienced executive with a law degree from Harvard,
surprised us at the company's South Bend location, just a few weeks after
9/11, by saying that UL had certified the steel used in the WTC buildings.
Knoblauch told us that we should all be proud that the buildings had stood for
so long under such intense conditions. In retrospect it is clear that all of
us, including Knoblauch, were ignorant of many important facts surrounding
9/11 and did not, therefore, see his statements as particularly important.
Over the next two years, however, I learned more about the issues, like the
unprecedented destruction of the steel evidence and the fact that no tall
steel-frame buildings have ever collapsed due to fire. And I saw video of the
owner of the buildings, stating publicly that he and the fire department made
the decision to "pull"---that is, to demolish---WTC7 that day,16
even though demolition requires many weeks of planning and preparation.
Perhaps most compelling for me were the words of a genuine expert on the WTC.
This was John Skilling, the structural engineer responsible for designing the
towers.17 (The NOVA video, incidentally, gave this credit to Leslie
Robertson. But Robertson, who never claimed to have originated the design, was
only a junior member of the firm [Worthington, Skilling, Helle and Jackson],
and Skilling was known at the time to be the engineer in charge.) In 1993,
five years before his death, Skilling said that he had performed an analysis
on jet plane crashes and the ensuing fires and that "the building
structure would still be there."
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Asbestos Cover-up at Ground Zero
From The book
Fatal Deception
by Michael Bowker
"Monokote, the fireproofing spray
made by W.R. Grace, had been used in at least the bottom thirty-nine floors
- and perhaps as high as the seventy-ninth floor - of the North Tower.
[...]in the days and hours following
the collapse of the WTC, the EPA knowingly allowed outdated dust sample
analysis equipment to be used - equipment that failed to detect the true
levels of asbestos in the dust spread from the WTC throughout the
surrounding area."
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