An ongoing
attempt to come to terms with the realities
behind the events of 9/11
Update and
Apologia:
A Personal Note
6/07/2009
For those of you who have
followed this website and encouraged my
efforts in the past, I would like to apologize for my unexplained neglect
of the Café over the past two years. This does not reflect any loss
of interest, but unfortunately results from a medical problem that
has overtaken me, and my efforts to keep my small medical office open
despite these problems. This condition
was ultimately diagnosed as an atypical form of ALS, a rare disease that
involves the loss of motor neurons, which in turn leads to denervation
atrophy of the muscles.
My
symptoms began insidiously with night sweats and profound fatigue perhaps
as much as seven years ago, well before my talk in New York in 2004, along
with hand numbness that I first took to be carpal tunnel syndrome.
At this point (2002-2005) I was doing a lot of keyboarding in and blamed
the hand problems on overuse. In early 2006 I had arthroscopic
carpal tunnel releases on both wrists, and actually improved for about a
year before abruptly worsening again.
By late 2007 I was getting serious
muscle weakness in the legs, and lost much of the strength and sensation
in my hands. Throughout this time I was still working full time in
the office with my wife Patti, continuing to do non-hospital primary care. She
was an RN when I met her in the late 1980s, when we both worked in the ER
at Visalia Community Hospital, and she completed PA (Physician Assistant)
school a few years ago, after working in the office as nurse/ office
manager since I started my solo practice in Tulare in 1997. Since graduation she has worked as a in
the practice as a full time practitioner, and without her help it would
not have survived my recent difficulties.
By mid 2008 I
had dislocated a shoulder and hip because of muscle weakness, and got two muscle tears with only
minimal trauma, and finally decided to quit working completely in August.
What has happened since then is a long and complex story that I
will not try to explain in detail at this point, except to say that I have found at least some
of the answers to the origins of my disorder, and have been able to alter
the course of the degenerative process enough that it has actually
stabilized and begun a gradual trend of improvement.
In fact there
has been enough improvement that I
have been able to return to the office part time, and I have begun to be optimistic
that the hand numbness is also improving and may eventually disappear.
To be explicit about the measures that seem to have helped (without for
now going into all the implications of these), they include stopping Lipitor,
which I had been taking for several years and which
seems to
cause ALS in susceptible people, along with taking a number of
supplements and herbs to improve mitochondrial function (one of the things
that is damaged by statin drugs like Lipitor) and encourage nerve and
membrane repair.
More recently
I also became aware of the role of a number of "stealth pathogens" in
causing neurodegenerative diseases like ALS and MS, as well as various
autoimmune and other degenerative disorders. These pathogens include species of mycoplasma, the Lyme
disease organism (Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete not unlike the
syphilis organism, and likewise well adapted to attacking the nervous
system - in its time syphilis was called the great imitator), as well as
certain strains of viruses. This gets into some very deep waters
very quickly, as it appears certain that stains of mycoplasma (e.g. M.
frementans) at large in the population have been weaponized in biowarfare labs and were a major
contributor to Gulf War Syndrome.
In viewconsideration of
this, and having seen unidentified bacterial accretions in my blood under
live cell microscopy, I have also started on immune support and
antibacterial/antiviral herbs, including an
Amazon Rainforest formula developed specifically for mycoplasma
developed by Leslie Taylor and used by
Garth
Nicolson in some of his protocols. Since I began using these a
little over a month ago there has been a noticeable improvement in the
stiffness and numbness in my hands, as well as in mental clarity and
physical stamina. Treatment has to continue for months, as
mycoplasma is good at hiding deep in tissues, but early results look
encouraging and the regimen hasn't caused any problems for me so far.
"Testifying before the 9/11 Commission
General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the
commission in response to NORAD’s mission, "I can't answer the hypothetical.
It's more - it's the way that we were directed to posture, looking
outward."1 This is utterly false. As we will see below NORAD, since its
inception, was tasked to monitor and intercept aircraft flying over American
and Canadian air space seven days a week, 24 hours a day." (more)
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."
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.
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.
"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."
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
"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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A
Very Bad Day In Southern Manhattan:
Why Merrill Lynch Employee David Long Thinks
9/11 Was An Inside Job
On May 8, 2009, members of Truth Action Ottawa interviewed Mr. David Long,
who was in downtown Manhattan the morning of September 11, 2001. Mr. Long
recounts everything he saw and heard that morning, including multiple streams
of molten metal pouring from the buildings before they fell, and the sounds of
multiple explosions as the buildings came down.
A re-posting on YouTube of a talk
that I gave in New York City on 9/11/04 at a conference called
"9/11, Confronting the Evidence." The previous most-visited copy
of this talk on YouTube has been taken down, so I am re-posting the
copy I have. Since it runs ~14 minutes I have clipped it at 10 minutes and
will upload the rest of it as a separate video.
A former Air Force medic, Kevin
McPadden was on station just north of WTC-7 up to the time of the collapse,
and actually heard the demolition countdown and explosions as the building
started to fall.
Later in the segment Richard Gage discusses the WTC-7 and twin tower collapses
as controlled demolitions.
This clip is from "9-11
Truth Rising," a documentary about the 9-11 truth movement.
A more detailed interview with him is also
on YouTube
here.
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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.)
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)
"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."
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."
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.
Testimonies and Other Evidence of Extreme Heat
Watch now on Studyof911.com (flv file)
Features multiple testimonies and other evidence of extreme heating and
molten steel under GZ.
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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
[...]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.
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."
"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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